Nobody seems to bring in the law of economics. The reason we have no problems dropping $4 for a coffee is because it's a physical good that costs the producer $ every time they make one for you. Apps, on the other hand, are unlimited. Once an app is created, it costs nothing to make in unlimited quantity. There is no "additional services" provided with most apps that will make people happy to pay for (most apps; some are now free with in-app upgrades).
The point isn't the price. The point is the services, and costs of reproduction: Hey, I have an unlimited quantity of X product that costs me nothing to keep in stock, but you must come down here, yourself, look at the product yourself, find me, yourself, and still pay me to give you the product.... that doesn't sound right. And their reason is just: it costs me $ to make the first initial product.
Same reason we have women's night and men are still forced to pay a price. And lets not forget this discrimination is for *PLAYING A VIDEO GAME* --- hardly on the same level as buying a house or employment. Maybe you should complaining that WoW is PC only and not console - DISCRIMINATION TO PC GAMERS! Or a guy in a wheel chair can't play arcade games... We should start a class action lawsuit!
It doesn't take a triple digit IQ to know the phone didn't have SSH and a terminal, so either you're trolling or really are an idiot if you bought the phone knowing that only to turn around and complain about it.
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Finally, I've had to jailbrake the phone for MobileTerminal and ssh, which is also critical to my job.
If you jailbreak your phone, you can indeed install ssh on the iPhone.
Because I think tethering on an iPhone is more of an open box than other phones. I don't know how other phones work, but I can't see how you would limit tethering on an iPhone with or without a tethering plan.
It seems to be the iPhone tethering is very much an all or none. Especially since the iPhone, unlike other phones, is a pure software driven phone.
I'm not very good at explaining things. However, this is a much deeper question than initially hinted at. In today's world isn't not solely about IP, but about general economics. In the end, economics says the product will reach its replication and distribution costs. For digital medium, once it's created, it's $0.
It's a whole economics between scarce and non-scarce goods.
But, like I said before, I'm very bad at explaining these things. Check out TechDirt (www.techdirt.com) and Mike Masnick's posts. He's covered this in great depth (and even offers personal one to one discussion on the topic) far better than I ever could.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but do please note that the fact you are indeed blind, you will hear and find far more differences with a computer generated voice than anybody of normal sight. This is simply because people of sight do not use their hear as much as you do.
Whether you shouldn't expect to hear a difference in connotations is highly questionable. Companies such as Microsoft, or even Apple, generally do not hire people without sight to bullet proof their software to acute hearing they have generated.
To put it simply; the acute sense you have are in such a minority, it isn't within Microsoft's or Apple's best interest to insure perfect articulation of text at this time.
It's $500 and requires a commitment to a two year contract just for that price
And? I don't see the problem here. Look at the Treo; upto $700 ($650 retail)! You can get up to $150 off, though, ONLY if you agree to a 2yr contract. I don't see iPhone's restriction being any different.
Besides, my point was more about the technology the phone is brining to the market. PDA phones are getting worse, if you hadn't noticed. They are turning into another Windows OS lauded with features the majority don't use, unstable, hidden "commonly accessed" buttons, slow, the list goes on. This phone will be the shift required to finally get phones back on track.
Oh and lets not forget the absolutely slow and poor attempts at combining cameras and players into phones -- Yay! I can play MP3s! What? I have to buy a $100 expansion card? WTF? And the camera. Euro's way ahead of us there, but finally we're catching up.
Then compare it to last year. It's the biggest tech launch announcement even with 2006 in the equation. This phone is truly going to revolutionize how cell phones are made these days -- FINALLY! The US needed this jump in cell phone technology (interface and hardware) for years. This will finally get cellular companies on the ball to create real innovative phones and may finally give Palm a reason to start doing something right.
Wow, Metallica finally learned? Took them long enough. Remember, they were the original artists FOR DRM based music and FOR strict control over their music and even FOR the RIAA. It would seem somebody has changed their tunes. Finally...
The author of the article is just finding an excuse to hit against Vista. I'm no where defending Vista, but we DO need to move into IPv6 and the only way to do that is to overcome this hump.
Sansa(TM) e270 MP3 Player 6GB Price: $279.99 Sansa(TM) e260 MP3 Player 4GB Price: $229.99 Sansa(TM) e250 MP3 Player 2GB Price: $179.99
A bit high there. My music collection won't even fit on their highest end product. Not to mention any videos you might want to load. They do realize it takes a little bit more than direct attacks against "the fad" to gain customers over.
Wiki not gonna hit main stream in cooperations until the Oracle support is streamlined. I have a version at work I got about a month or two ago that has issues with the basic install using Oracle. One mistake and you have to DROP everything it created (providing you can actually figure out what it created). Hasn't MediaWiki dev folks herd of "CREATE OR REPLACE?"
I'd go along with the site if it was a simple ad like Google's site, but it's not. It's a giant obstructing window preveting the user from acessing your site. The very same thing that makes me dispise IE only sites; "You must use IE 5.5 or greater to view this site." Ugh!
Technically MS was expecting to release Vista in '06. If the money was indeed used for marketing, why wasn't it accounted for in last year's forecast?
I don't think it has much to do with Vista. I think analysts are right in believing this has to do with an oncoming battle for the online market. MS has been trying for it for several years now. I can see them pushing harder once Vista is (finally) out the door.
Hum, I don't suppose the increase of Rootkits have anything to do with Sony's fupar? Seriously, while rootkits have always been around, I'm pretty sure it's Sony's fubar herd litterally around the world that brought rootkits into the eyes of the masses. So, in reality, you actually blame Sony for their increasing numbers.
I really dislike the scrolling method they're using...It takes over my normal mouse scroll and goes really, really slow. If anything, that would prevent me from using the site.
I hate it when websites feel their users don't know how to use their own input devices and feel they should take over them for you to "assist you".
Queuecraft hurdle is hoping to be alleviated by April. They've recently built a very large rearchitecture of servers which they're going to be putting live for the 1.10 testing phases and hoping to hit the live servers with the 1.10 patch. Rumor has it they are suppose to handle 2-3x the number of users on the current systems.
Oh, I get what the submitter meant. I got stuck on "with the CoH publisher" (implying a third party). I guess they meant was "as the CoH publisher". Yeah, I'm away of their arsenal of published games and small shack of developed games (Lineage, Lineage II). I see from a translation of the site NCSoft NA will be the developers of this game (well, that explains why it's so similar.;)).
Yeah, noticed it said publisher, but Cryptic Studies isn't a publishing company, so I figured they meant Developer.;)
Looking over the sites talking about Dragon Runner and I couldn't find any connection to Cryptic Studios; so I have to question why was CoH even mentioned in the first place. The submitter must not be too keen on the seperations of developer vs publisher.
pretty Perl esque. That even work in PHP? I never would have figured. I've personally kept my Perl etiquettes very sepereate from PHP etiquettes.
Then you have his DB assignment:
$db =& DB::Connect( $dsn, array() );
In PHP5 all objects are passed by reference, making =& an E_STRICT warning.
Linking some form of programming and variable naming convention would have been nice, too. He doesn't have to go into detail, just lay mention to it. Something like "Just fyi, I follow X conventions when naming my classes, variables, etc..."
Then you tack on the complete lack of comments! ^_^
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Nobody seems to bring in the law of economics. The reason we have no problems dropping $4 for a coffee is because it's a physical good that costs the producer $ every time they make one for you. Apps, on the other hand, are unlimited. Once an app is created, it costs nothing to make in unlimited quantity. There is no "additional services" provided with most apps that will make people happy to pay for (most apps; some are now free with in-app upgrades).
The point isn't the price. The point is the services, and costs of reproduction: Hey, I have an unlimited quantity of X product that costs me nothing to keep in stock, but you must come down here, yourself, look at the product yourself, find me, yourself, and still pay me to give you the product.... that doesn't sound right. And their reason is just: it costs me $ to make the first initial product.
Same reason we have women's night and men are still forced to pay a price. And lets not forget this discrimination is for *PLAYING A VIDEO GAME* --- hardly on the same level as buying a house or employment. Maybe you should complaining that WoW is PC only and not console - DISCRIMINATION TO PC GAMERS! Or a guy in a wheel chair can't play arcade games ... We should start a class action lawsuit!
It doesn't take a triple digit IQ to know the phone didn't have SSH and a terminal, so either you're trolling or really are an idiot if you bought the phone knowing that only to turn around and complain about it.
*cough*He said:
Finally, I've had to jailbrake the phone for MobileTerminal and ssh, which is also critical to my job.
If you jailbreak your phone, you can indeed install ssh on the iPhone.
Because I think tethering on an iPhone is more of an open box than other phones. I don't know how other phones work, but I can't see how you would limit tethering on an iPhone with or without a tethering plan. It seems to be the iPhone tethering is very much an all or none. Especially since the iPhone, unlike other phones, is a pure software driven phone.
I'm not very good at explaining things. However, this is a much deeper question than initially hinted at. In today's world isn't not solely about IP, but about general economics. In the end, economics says the product will reach its replication and distribution costs. For digital medium, once it's created, it's $0. It's a whole economics between scarce and non-scarce goods. But, like I said before, I'm very bad at explaining these things. Check out TechDirt (www.techdirt.com) and Mike Masnick's posts. He's covered this in great depth (and even offers personal one to one discussion on the topic) far better than I ever could.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but do please note that the fact you are indeed blind, you will hear and find far more differences with a computer generated voice than anybody of normal sight. This is simply because people of sight do not use their hear as much as you do.
Whether you shouldn't expect to hear a difference in connotations is highly questionable. Companies such as Microsoft, or even Apple, generally do not hire people without sight to bullet proof their software to acute hearing they have generated.
To put it simply; the acute sense you have are in such a minority, it isn't within Microsoft's or Apple's best interest to insure perfect articulation of text at this time.
It's $500 and requires a commitment to a two year contract just for that price
And? I don't see the problem here. Look at the Treo; upto $700 ($650 retail)! You can get up to $150 off, though, ONLY if you agree to a 2yr contract. I don't see iPhone's restriction being any different.
Besides, my point was more about the technology the phone is brining to the market. PDA phones are getting worse, if you hadn't noticed. They are turning into another Windows OS lauded with features the majority don't use, unstable, hidden "commonly accessed" buttons, slow, the list goes on. This phone will be the shift required to finally get phones back on track.
Oh and lets not forget the absolutely slow and poor attempts at combining cameras and players into phones -- Yay! I can play MP3s! What? I have to buy a $100 expansion card? WTF? And the camera. Euro's way ahead of us there, but finally we're catching up.
Then compare it to last year. It's the biggest tech launch announcement even with 2006 in the equation. This phone is truly going to revolutionize how cell phones are made these days -- FINALLY! The US needed this jump in cell phone technology (interface and hardware) for years. This will finally get cellular companies on the ball to create real innovative phones and may finally give Palm a reason to start doing something right.
Wow, Metallica finally learned? Took them long enough. Remember, they were the original artists FOR DRM based music and FOR strict control over their music and even FOR the RIAA. It would seem somebody has changed their tunes. Finally...
The author of the article is just finding an excuse to hit against Vista. I'm no where defending Vista, but we DO need to move into IPv6 and the only way to do that is to overcome this hump.
Then create an online file manager, not an entire OS. It's called overkill; "Here's 20 applications, even though you only get value from this 1."
Yeah, I was just noticing that myself, too. I think the site is a nice proof of concept, but I don't see any real value in it.
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Sansa(TM) e270 MP3 Player 6GB Price: $279.99
Sansa(TM) e260 MP3 Player 4GB Price: $229.99
Sansa(TM) e250 MP3 Player 2GB Price: $179.99
A bit high there. My music collection won't even fit on their highest end product. Not to mention any videos you might want to load. They do realize it takes a little bit more than direct attacks against "the fad" to gain customers over.
Okay, so we use them to track humans after Homeland Security said using RFIDs to track humans is a bad idea. Brilliant!
Wiki not gonna hit main stream in cooperations until the Oracle support is streamlined. I have a version at work I got about a month or two ago that has issues with the basic install using Oracle. One mistake and you have to DROP everything it created (providing you can actually figure out what it created). Hasn't MediaWiki dev folks herd of "CREATE OR REPLACE?"
I'd go along with the site if it was a simple ad like Google's site, but it's not. It's a giant obstructing window preveting the user from acessing your site. The very same thing that makes me dispise IE only sites; "You must use IE 5.5 or greater to view this site." Ugh!
Technically MS was expecting to release Vista in '06. If the money was indeed used for marketing, why wasn't it accounted for in last year's forecast?
I don't think it has much to do with Vista. I think analysts are right in believing this has to do with an oncoming battle for the online market. MS has been trying for it for several years now. I can see them pushing harder once Vista is (finally) out the door.
Hum, I don't suppose the increase of Rootkits have anything to do with Sony's fupar? Seriously, while rootkits have always been around, I'm pretty sure it's Sony's fubar herd litterally around the world that brought rootkits into the eyes of the masses. So, in reality, you actually blame Sony for their increasing numbers.
I really dislike the scrolling method they're using...It takes over my normal mouse scroll and goes really, really slow. If anything, that would prevent me from using the site.
I hate it when websites feel their users don't know how to use their own input devices and feel they should take over them for you to "assist you".
Queuecraft hurdle is hoping to be alleviated by April. They've recently built a very large rearchitecture of servers which they're going to be putting live for the 1.10 testing phases and hoping to hit the live servers with the 1.10 patch. Rumor has it they are suppose to handle 2-3x the number of users on the current systems.
Oh, I get what the submitter meant. I got stuck on "with the CoH publisher" (implying a third party). I guess they meant was "as the CoH publisher". Yeah, I'm away of their arsenal of published games and small shack of developed games (Lineage, Lineage II). I see from a translation of the site NCSoft NA will be the developers of this game (well, that explains why it's so similar. ;)).
Yeah, noticed it said publisher, but Cryptic Studies isn't a publishing company, so I figured they meant Developer. ;)
Looking over the sites talking about Dragon Runner and I couldn't find any connection to Cryptic Studios; so I have to question why was CoH even mentioned in the first place. The submitter must not be too keen on the seperations of developer vs publisher.
Please don't tell me Cryptic Studios is developing Dragon Runner? That would be so beneath them to create something with such an utterly blatant copy.
Linking some form of programming and variable naming convention would have been nice, too. He doesn't have to go into detail, just lay mention to it. Something like "Just fyi, I follow X conventions when naming my classes, variables, etc..."
Then you tack on the complete lack of comments! ^_^
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/ 141251 ;)