Water is a bit different, because (at least in Australia) the price you have to pay is heavily regulated. So water companies do not have the freedom to raise their prices very easily.
With ISPs, which are regulated far less, you just have normal market competition. I.e. an ISP can raise its price if its fixed costs are greater than a declining revenue.
It's basic economics. You have 'fixed costs' - which are the same, no matter how many customers you have (e.g. infrastructure, routers/DSLAMs, rent). Then you have 'variable costs' which are directly related to the number of sales (e.g. bandwidth) in some manner.
If you price for 'X' amount of sales/customers, and your sales FALL, all of a sudden your fixed costs (per customer) increase. This is combated by increasing your prices.
Its directly related to economies of scale - industries with high fixed costs typically have a few number of large players for exactly this reason.
Because you've totally confused the intent of Photoshop Express with a fully fledged image editing tool.
It's not intended to be 'just a free version of photoshop', it's partly an experiment in online applications (doesn't everyone these days keep talking about moving apps online?), and it's aimed at people who (like me) hop computers a lot and get frustrated with the fact they don't have simple image editors on every computer they use.
I don't want to (and on some computers I use, with no Admin access, I can't) install local files. I just want to edit photos so I can email an edited version to a friend, or (etc).
Yes, if I wanted a more feature filled, offline version, I'd go buy Elements or CS, or use GIMP, or some other strategy.
Don't confuse channel strategy - online is a different strategy to offline, and there are benefits to each. You are obviously not the target for the online channel - but that's no need to claim it as redundant.
Personally I just stop breathing until I get red, blue, green, and yellow in the face. There, fixed. Nah, where do you think they got the idea for a blue screen of death from?
That's the problem of the article, as pointed out in (many) other comments.
Parent's point is that the summary, as displayed on Slashdot, is a good summary of the article. It doesn't matter if the article is wrong (responsibility of the author of the article), but rather that the submitter did a good job in creating a summary.
Perhaps you think the submitter should have worked out the difference between copyright and trademark himself? Irrespective of that difference, it's still an interesting article. And to many people (myself included), the semantic difference between the two DOESN'T interest me, rather the general concept - for which trademark & copyright are pretty much the same - is what interest me.
In short, I agree with the Parent - it's a good summary.
Probably because sitting on a train/plane with a case, monitor, keyboard, mouse and portable power supply on your lap is going to be somewhat uncomfortable, methinks.
Each to their own man.
You only want a phone to make phone calls to your Turok friends, good for you!
I want to send emails and surf the net dinasaur hunting, good for me!
Pre-teens who want to turn their phones into an artfully crafted public-transport-torture device, unfortunately good for them!
And people who want to use their phones as music players rather than carry round two devices... is it really that bad?
Damnit, I had exactly the same thought process as you...
Except that I don't have the excuse of my iPod having life in it - my 3rd Gen, 4.5 year old beast is has the battery life of a mouse. A mouse with no batteries.
Because it would take just one 'blind' using a bank account such as a swiss bank account to foil the 'follow the money' approach. International co-operation is never at its best when it involves significant amount of money flowing INTO a country. It's simply not that simple.
Stop it!
Don't you dare bring reasonableness into a typical/. religion bashing!
Don't you know that science "pwns" religion, and the two cannot possibly co-exist? And that anyone associated with religion is a "n00b" deserving nothing less than complete and total flaming?
I live in Melbourne, the 2nd largest city in Australia. Australia has incredibly low population density, yet where the number one issue on everyone - including the everyday mums and dads - is water.
For the last 3-4+ years we've been on water restrictions such as:
Can only water garden between 6 and 8am, only on 2 days a week (depending on street number). Must use a trigger nozzled hose. Cannot water grass. With the exception of One in every FOUR sporting grounds.
Cars cannot be washed at home, only at a commercial venue where they recycle water. Bucket can be used to remove spot corrosion.
Cannot fill new or existing pools or spas. Topping up can be done with a bucket or watering can only.
So you see, when you say you cannot 'waste' water, I wonder what in the world we're doing all this for, because clearly your knowledge is greater than our own.
Yes, the total water amount on this planet may be constant - but only 0.3% of this is accessible fresh water (not counting glaciers, ice caps and ground water). And this isn't where we want it.
Hmm... maybe you're right. Maybe I should leave Australia, and move to some other place, just because our climate patterns have been changing over the last 10 years (gee, I wonder how that happened) such that we now have no water...
One word - Conversations.
I presently have all my email go to my domain POP, my mobile phone's email address, and gmail.
More and more I simply don't use my mail client (I've tried a bunch, am using Thunderbird now), and use gmail instead, and it's all down to conversations.
Threading on these things is nowhere nearly as powerful as gmail's conversation tool (including sent mail, hiding past messages included in the email, and so on), and when you start having more than one reply each, it makes such a difference. When you have a group of friends who can email around 100+ emails in a single thread in a single day, it's impossible to live without.
That and convenience - I check my email at work, at home, on my phone, on my laptop - yes, I could set aside a bunch of hosting space to archive all my emails and use squirrelmail and the like - but why not use gmail which is free, much slicker, and easier to use!
You should probably be careful using i.e. in a conversation about browsers... be careful not to capitalise.
Unless you mean IE is managing the computers memory and process management. In which case I'm confused - wasn't MS banking against the arrival of the online desktop?:P
It seems every month some new study comes out about bees or ants methods being used to improve routing algorithms - I couldn't be bothered finding the older articles (not being an ant, I failed to leave a scent trail through the internet to the articles - nor being a bee, noone's doing funny little dances to tell me where the articles are), but if there are so many 'breakthroughs'... why don't they just read each other's articles?
You are one hundred percent correct.
We should NOT be contributing our precious *cough*unused*cough* CPU cycles to evil, money grubbing governmental institutions purely so they can further get better profits.
No cure for a disease which causes 13% of all deaths is worth that, not unless I see some money for using my precious CPU cycles!
Actually, it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster who saw her wearing the holy garb, and thus must give up her life of 'teaching' and preach the good word.
So, not for the first time, he noodled the School Board...
Now, I disagree completely with what has happened here, but wanted to clarify some things...
The 'Promoting Underage Drinking' argument isn't about her age, obviously - that's why they didn't block her English degree.
It's because students (you kids can laugh all you want) view teachers as role models - thus if a kid gets on the net, goes 'Hey, miss so-and-so is a drunk!' it changes the perception in their mind slightly that 'drinking is a bad thing'. Hence the promoting-underage-drinking.
Oh, and the article doesn't say this, but I read an article on this (in Australia!?!) a week or three ago, and it mentioned that part of the degree was something to do with 'being of good character'. Which is where their argument, I believe, comes from.
Note: that last paragraph comes from my own, alcohol-abused memory, so it may be slightly off. Lucky I'm not a teacher... oh wait...
Well said!
I'm an Aussie, I've lived in France for about 5 months, have quite a few American friends (but am yet to go there).
In today's world, I'm sorry to all the Americans out there, but they are generally viewed as the absolute height of arrogant. When I was in France, I was often treated rudely, yes... until they realised that I was Australian, not American or English. English, because of the longstanding rivalry between the two countries, American, because worldwide they're pretty famous for their arrogance. In fact, most of my American friends are quite apologetic about it!:P
Feel free to blast me, but I'm just trying to say pot, kettle, black!
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Your comment about this story not interesting you is a fair comment in and of itself - but just ignore the story!
I have no interest in stories on Linux or BSD... so I don't read them. In fact, on the days when/. has nothing but linux stories, I go procrastinate elsewhere *gasp*.
On the other hand, the reason I read slashdot is exactly for stories like this - interesting, if somewhat unfeasible (any time soon) technological advances. I don't care if they're a few months old, but I find them a hell of a lot more interesting and informative than some comment about a new version of KDE.
And hell, if someone wants to pay someone else to bring me interesting stories - I'm all for it!
Wow... Douglas Adams was right!
I'd be careful next time you want to cross the road!
Man then went on to prove that black was white and got killed in the next zebra crossing.
Of course the difference is that realise with an 's' is actually correct spelling in England and Australia, where I suspect the poster is from.
Bad passwords, however, are not correct in England OR Australia, no matter what some people think.
That's the key problem in your logic.
The main reason I find Photoshop so much easier to use is very simple.
When I'm designing/working on photos/whatever, I am constantly changing brush size, hardness and opacity. I.e. every other stroke. This is very easy to do with Photoshop, intuitive, even.
In GIMP, I've spent so much time trying to find a way to simply change the brush size, hardness and opacity - and I'm not talking presets. I mean set these to whatever levels I want, depending on what I'm doing.
Also, when you do want to change things, it seems to me to be most inintuitive - I need to search in three different windows to find the menu I want to get the effects I want? Or if I'm simultaneously getting stock images from the web, or working in a vector graphics program, flicking between the two is for some reason just annoying. I don't know why, but the windowed structure is just poor. Yes, GIMPshop fixes some of these (windowed) problems, but... I shouldn't have to adapt to a program, it should adapt to me.
My impressions of GIMP overall is that whilst it may contain most of the functionality,, it's the usability that is often lacking. There are also layer issues - but it's been too long since I've played properly in either photoshop or GIMP to a full extent that I can't remember what those issues were:S
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Water is a bit different, because (at least in Australia) the price you have to pay is heavily regulated. So water companies do not have the freedom to raise their prices very easily.
With ISPs, which are regulated far less, you just have normal market competition. I.e. an ISP can raise its price if its fixed costs are greater than a declining revenue.
It's basic economics. You have 'fixed costs' - which are the same, no matter how many customers you have (e.g. infrastructure, routers/DSLAMs, rent). Then you have 'variable costs' which are directly related to the number of sales (e.g. bandwidth) in some manner.
If you price for 'X' amount of sales/customers, and your sales FALL, all of a sudden your fixed costs (per customer) increase. This is combated by increasing your prices.
Its directly related to economies of scale - industries with high fixed costs typically have a few number of large players for exactly this reason.
Because you've totally confused the intent of Photoshop Express with a fully fledged image editing tool.
It's not intended to be 'just a free version of photoshop', it's partly an experiment in online applications (doesn't everyone these days keep talking about moving apps online?), and it's aimed at people who (like me) hop computers a lot and get frustrated with the fact they don't have simple image editors on every computer they use.
I don't want to (and on some computers I use, with no Admin access, I can't) install local files. I just want to edit photos so I can email an edited version to a friend, or (etc).
Yes, if I wanted a more feature filled, offline version, I'd go buy Elements or CS, or use GIMP, or some other strategy.
Don't confuse channel strategy - online is a different strategy to offline, and there are benefits to each. You are obviously not the target for the online channel - but that's no need to claim it as redundant.
That's the problem of the article, as pointed out in (many) other comments.
Parent's point is that the summary, as displayed on Slashdot, is a good summary of the article. It doesn't matter if the article is wrong (responsibility of the author of the article), but rather that the submitter did a good job in creating a summary.
Perhaps you think the submitter should have worked out the difference between copyright and trademark himself? Irrespective of that difference, it's still an interesting article. And to many people (myself included), the semantic difference between the two DOESN'T interest me, rather the general concept - for which trademark & copyright are pretty much the same - is what interest me.
In short, I agree with the Parent - it's a good summary.
Probably because sitting on a train/plane with a case, monitor, keyboard, mouse and portable power supply on your lap is going to be somewhat uncomfortable, methinks.
Each to their own man.
You only want a phone to make phone calls to your Turok friends, good for you!
I want to send emails and surf the net dinasaur hunting, good for me!
Pre-teens who want to turn their phones into an artfully crafted public-transport-torture device, unfortunately good for them!
And people who want to use their phones as music players rather than carry round two devices... is it really that bad?
Damnit, I had exactly the same thought process as you...
Except that I don't have the excuse of my iPod having life in it - my 3rd Gen, 4.5 year old beast is has the battery life of a mouse. A mouse with no batteries.
Damnit. There goes (AU)$600...
Because it would take just one 'blind' using a bank account such as a swiss bank account to foil the 'follow the money' approach. International co-operation is never at its best when it involves significant amount of money flowing INTO a country. It's simply not that simple.
Stop it! /. religion bashing!
Don't you dare bring reasonableness into a typical
Don't you know that science "pwns" religion, and the two cannot possibly co-exist? And that anyone associated with religion is a "n00b" deserving nothing less than complete and total flaming?
I live in Melbourne, the 2nd largest city in Australia. Australia has incredibly low population density, yet where the number one issue on everyone - including the everyday mums and dads - is water.
For the last 3-4+ years we've been on water restrictions such as:
- Can only water garden between 6 and 8am, only on 2 days a week (depending on street number). Must use a trigger nozzled hose. Cannot water grass. With the exception of One in every FOUR sporting grounds.
- Cars cannot be washed at home, only at a commercial venue where they recycle water. Bucket can be used to remove spot corrosion.
- Cannot fill new or existing pools or spas. Topping up can be done with a bucket or watering can only.
So you see, when you say you cannot 'waste' water, I wonder what in the world we're doing all this for, because clearly your knowledge is greater than our own.Yes, the total water amount on this planet may be constant - but only 0.3% of this is accessible fresh water (not counting glaciers, ice caps and ground water). And this isn't where we want it.
Hmm... maybe you're right. Maybe I should leave Australia, and move to some other place, just because our climate patterns have been changing over the last 10 years (gee, I wonder how that happened) such that we now have no water...
One word - Conversations.
I presently have all my email go to my domain POP, my mobile phone's email address, and gmail. More and more I simply don't use my mail client (I've tried a bunch, am using Thunderbird now), and use gmail instead, and it's all down to conversations.
Threading on these things is nowhere nearly as powerful as gmail's conversation tool (including sent mail, hiding past messages included in the email, and so on), and when you start having more than one reply each, it makes such a difference. When you have a group of friends who can email around 100+ emails in a single thread in a single day, it's impossible to live without.
That and convenience - I check my email at work, at home, on my phone, on my laptop - yes, I could set aside a bunch of hosting space to archive all my emails and use squirrelmail and the like - but why not use gmail which is free, much slicker, and easier to use!
You should probably be careful using i.e. in a conversation about browsers... be careful not to capitalise. Unless you mean IE is managing the computers memory and process management. In which case I'm confused - wasn't MS banking against the arrival of the online desktop? :P
It seems every month some new study comes out about bees or ants methods being used to improve routing algorithms - I couldn't be bothered finding the older articles (not being an ant, I failed to leave a scent trail through the internet to the articles - nor being a bee, noone's doing funny little dances to tell me where the articles are), but if there are so many 'breakthroughs'... why don't they just read each other's articles?
Not sure why the post linked to an appleinsider article... this is a general google maps mobile thing.
:)
Here's a more detailed article from cnet
I can't wait to use it - it looks like they're using the beta to build up a database of towers around the world
Clearly ANYONE who's educated speaks English. If you don't speak English, you are OBVIOUSLY of lower intelligence.
You are one hundred percent correct. We should NOT be contributing our precious *cough*unused*cough* CPU cycles to evil, money grubbing governmental institutions purely so they can further get better profits. No cure for a disease which causes 13% of all deaths is worth that, not unless I see some money for using my precious CPU cycles!
Actually, it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster who saw her wearing the holy garb, and thus must give up her life of 'teaching' and preach the good word.
So, not for the first time, he noodled the School Board...
Now, I disagree completely with what has happened here, but wanted to clarify some things...
The 'Promoting Underage Drinking' argument isn't about her age, obviously - that's why they didn't block her English degree.
It's because students (you kids can laugh all you want) view teachers as role models - thus if a kid gets on the net, goes 'Hey, miss so-and-so is a drunk!' it changes the perception in their mind slightly that 'drinking is a bad thing'. Hence the promoting-underage-drinking.
Oh, and the article doesn't say this, but I read an article on this (in Australia!?!) a week or three ago, and it mentioned that part of the degree was something to do with 'being of good character'. Which is where their argument, I believe, comes from.
Note: that last paragraph comes from my own, alcohol-abused memory, so it may be slightly off. Lucky I'm not a teacher... oh wait...
Well said! I'm an Aussie, I've lived in France for about 5 months, have quite a few American friends (but am yet to go there). In today's world, I'm sorry to all the Americans out there, but they are generally viewed as the absolute height of arrogant. When I was in France, I was often treated rudely, yes... until they realised that I was Australian, not American or English. English, because of the longstanding rivalry between the two countries, American, because worldwide they're pretty famous for their arrogance. In fact, most of my American friends are quite apologetic about it! :P
Feel free to blast me, but I'm just trying to say pot, kettle, black!
Damn straight! It wasn't a bug, it was a feature!
Your comment about this story not interesting you is a fair comment in and of itself - but just ignore the story!
/. has nothing but linux stories, I go procrastinate elsewhere *gasp*.
I have no interest in stories on Linux or BSD... so I don't read them. In fact, on the days when
On the other hand, the reason I read slashdot is exactly for stories like this - interesting, if somewhat unfeasible (any time soon) technological advances. I don't care if they're a few months old, but I find them a hell of a lot more interesting and informative than some comment about a new version of KDE.
And hell, if someone wants to pay someone else to bring me interesting stories - I'm all for it!
I'd be careful next time you want to cross the road! Man then went on to prove that black was white and got killed in the next zebra crossing.
Of course the difference is that realise with an 's' is actually correct spelling in England and Australia, where I suspect the poster is from. Bad passwords, however, are not correct in England OR Australia, no matter what some people think. That's the key problem in your logic.
The main reason I find Photoshop so much easier to use is very simple. When I'm designing/working on photos/whatever, I am constantly changing brush size, hardness and opacity. I.e. every other stroke. This is very easy to do with Photoshop, intuitive, even.
... I shouldn't have to adapt to a program, it should adapt to me. :S
In GIMP, I've spent so much time trying to find a way to simply change the brush size, hardness and opacity - and I'm not talking presets. I mean set these to whatever levels I want, depending on what I'm doing.
Also, when you do want to change things, it seems to me to be most inintuitive - I need to search in three different windows to find the menu I want to get the effects I want? Or if I'm simultaneously getting stock images from the web, or working in a vector graphics program, flicking between the two is for some reason just annoying. I don't know why, but the windowed structure is just poor. Yes, GIMPshop fixes some of these (windowed) problems, but
My impressions of GIMP overall is that whilst it may contain most of the functionality,, it's the usability that is often lacking. There are also layer issues - but it's been too long since I've played properly in either photoshop or GIMP to a full extent that I can't remember what those issues were
This was modded troll? Wtf, mate? Methinks the modder did not read the post he was responding to...