The gulf between "average independent musician income" and "super rich musician" is astronomically huge.
If you want our culture to have a rich music component, full-time musicians need to make a decent middle-class living. Currently the number that can is vanishingly small.
Very few Independant artists make enough money doing live shows that they host their music for free.
FTFY. And of those very few, the ones who are making a living that's equivalent to even a 1st year helpdesk employee usually had help from a label at one point or another.
My MBP gets pretty damn hot when streaming off ustream.tv, for example, and that's with the power brick being external. I'd rather the fans be a little more powerful and the MBP be a little less ridiculously hot.
Of course, after I hit submit, I realized I should have clarified: while the anime/manga is, of course, drawn art, the "books that people protest/picket" are photo books. Insofar as I can tell, they are not sexual in any way, but, of course, that's from my point of view. The people protesting, apparently, disagree with that assessment.
There are books that have pictures full of naked children that are published by major publishing houses, and there are people who picket and protest national chains who carry them.
Also, when the first wave of popular anime started coming over to the US, they decided they needed to change the age of many of the high-school-aged characters (or older characters who had relationships with high-school aged girls, specifically) because, shockingly, sometimes in literature people do things that not everyone might approve of.
It's not so rosy a picture of free-from-censored-influences with regards to art in the US as you appear to believe it is.
In general I've had the most luck with T-Mobile, even for non-smartphone applications. Their pay-as-you-go plans and their willingness to let you use your own hardware without too much hassle are big pluses, as I see it. Plus their "cheap phones" are actually kinda nice.
Companies like to make people think that once you agree to a contract with ah arbitration clause, that you've got no recourse. Same with companies that have you "sign a release" and other such things.
Fortunately, (and their legal department knows this), that's not necessarily the case.
Yeahhh, but in a variety of situations it was stated that, at least on Earth, they don't use currency, and that accumulation of wealth isn't really necessary anymore because pretty much anything you could want is easily obtainable (hey, I dunno man, ask Picard and Kirk).
It's true that in much of the rest of the galaxy there are various forms of currency, but not everyone is the same as the Earthlings, so *shrug*
I kind of agree with you on this. The blurb quoted basically reads to me as "there isn't an easy alternative that allows me to do almost no marketing in order to have people buy my app."
While I sympathize with the author(s)' feeling that the AppStore's rules border on the completely arbitrary, there *are* alternatives, just not brain-dead, no-work easy alternatives.
re: McDonalds, its possible. I remember hearing/reading that they used to use some sort of bacon flavoring in their seasoning salt for the fries, though, and it started a veggie whargarbl storm.
I don't buy it. That article doesn't quote any of the survey questions, but with a result like that, I'm quite comfortable that the question design anything but impartial.
I don't think the comment system supports strikethrough. I think that, as a result, slashdot is the only forum that still perpetuates the ^H^H^H^H meme.
PHBs will perhaps base their decisions on the shininess of the product rather than the shininess of the brochure. It's a step in the right direction: it gets the PHBs looking at the actual product.
Your reply is one of the few who got the point of my response. I don't think PHBs will qualitatively change any time soon.
I agree with this. You have a responder at this same reply level who has a problem with long term thinking and some issues when it comes to using multipliers and percentages, though;)
Consumer tastes have overtaken the perceived needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.
There, fixed that for you. The day of the PHB making decisions based on the novelty of the promo mugs and pens they just received is coming to an end. Thank god.
That's pretty funny, and it seems like you actually believe it, too.
I'm not sure what the phrase "legitimate customer" means.
Yes you do. They are people who are buying an iPad because they want one, or because they are buying one for someone who does. Not people who are buying them to resell for profit.
How does that make them not "legitimate". It makes no sense.
Nah, you can just give mules Visa gift cards and give them a little money out of your profit margin to buy them for you.
Sure, it makes it harder, but that only stops the small fries from doing it. Anyone with any eye for systematic eBay markups will get around it.
That doesn't matter, it still limits the amount of effect they'll have on legitimate customers. It's like speed bumps. People can still speed, but there can be no doubt that speed bumps will likely decrease the amount of speeding being done in most circumstances.
I still disagree. The folks who do the most reselling are gonna be the folks with the time and resources to get around this sort of thing, not the small operation folks.
That's what I was saying. I wasn't saying that he should have 17 different models, but rather that benchmarking just to end up with (corporate desktop) and (developer desktop) in the end was a waste of time.
Though in reality, most shops end up with a variety of different desktops in the end, even if they're all "Optiplex" line or what not. I don't think I've ever been in a large company where all the users had the exact same model desktop.
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The gulf between "average independent musician income" and "super rich musician" is astronomically huge.
If you want our culture to have a rich music component, full-time musicians need to make a decent middle-class living. Currently the number that can is vanishingly small.
Very few Independant artists make enough money doing live shows that they host their music for free.
FTFY. And of those very few, the ones who are making a living that's equivalent to even a 1st year helpdesk employee usually had help from a label at one point or another.
My MBP gets pretty damn hot when streaming off ustream.tv, for example, and that's with the power brick being external. I'd rather the fans be a little more powerful and the MBP be a little less ridiculously hot.
Enthusiasts call that an "xMac", and Apple has no interest in producing it.
The US doesn't have anything like a "national warranty".
Of course, after I hit submit, I realized I should have clarified: while the anime/manga is, of course, drawn art, the "books that people protest/picket" are photo books. Insofar as I can tell, they are not sexual in any way, but, of course, that's from my point of view. The people protesting, apparently, disagree with that assessment.
There are books that have pictures full of naked children that are published by major publishing houses, and there are people who picket and protest national chains who carry them.
Also, when the first wave of popular anime started coming over to the US, they decided they needed to change the age of many of the high-school-aged characters (or older characters who had relationships with high-school aged girls, specifically) because, shockingly, sometimes in literature people do things that not everyone might approve of.
It's not so rosy a picture of free-from-censored-influences with regards to art in the US as you appear to believe it is.
Not all coastline is beach environment, numbnuts.
In general I've had the most luck with T-Mobile, even for non-smartphone applications. Their pay-as-you-go plans and their willingness to let you use your own hardware without too much hassle are big pluses, as I see it. Plus their "cheap phones" are actually kinda nice.
Not so fast, read the arbitration clause.
Companies like to make people think that once you agree to a contract with ah arbitration clause, that you've got no recourse. Same with companies that have you "sign a release" and other such things.
Fortunately, (and their legal department knows this), that's not necessarily the case.
Yeahhh, but in a variety of situations it was stated that, at least on Earth, they don't use currency, and that accumulation of wealth isn't really necessary anymore because pretty much anything you could want is easily obtainable (hey, I dunno man, ask Picard and Kirk).
It's true that in much of the rest of the galaxy there are various forms of currency, but not everyone is the same as the Earthlings, so *shrug*
Sucks to be you. Don't write for iStuff.
I kind of agree with you on this. The blurb quoted basically reads to me as "there isn't an easy alternative that allows me to do almost no marketing in order to have people buy my app."
While I sympathize with the author(s)' feeling that the AppStore's rules border on the completely arbitrary, there *are* alternatives, just not brain-dead, no-work easy alternatives.
re: McDonalds, its possible. I remember hearing/reading that they used to use some sort of bacon flavoring in their seasoning salt for the fries, though, and it started a veggie whargarbl storm.
I don't buy it. That article doesn't quote any of the survey questions, but with a result like that, I'm quite comfortable that the question design anything but impartial.
I don't think the comment system supports strikethrough. I think that, as a result, slashdot is the only forum that still perpetuates the ^H^H^H^H meme.
PHBs will perhaps base their decisions on the shininess of the product rather than the shininess of the brochure. It's a step in the right direction: it gets the PHBs looking at the actual product.
Your reply is one of the few who got the point of my response. I don't think PHBs will qualitatively change any time soon.
I agree with this. You have a responder at this same reply level who has a problem with long term thinking and some issues when it comes to using multipliers and percentages, though ;)
Consumer tastes have overtaken the perceived needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.
There, fixed that for you. The day of the PHB making decisions based on the novelty of the promo mugs and pens they just received is coming to an end. Thank god.
That's pretty funny, and it seems like you actually believe it, too.
Nonetheless, the OP said "people don't want them". Some "people", however, find them very useful and do want them.
Mainly because general end users don't want a desktop OS in a slate form factor.
There are some domains where a desktop OS tablet is very desirable.
There's some truth to this.
Nope, PETA also euthanizes animals. Info on it is fairly easy to google.
Does anyone really work for an organization that 1) has people who regularly don't get emails and 2) is encouraging people to use email less?
Seems like workflow problems, not email problems.
I'm not sure what the phrase "legitimate customer" means.
Yes you do. They are people who are buying an iPad because they want one, or because they are buying one for someone who does. Not people who are buying them to resell for profit.
How does that make them not "legitimate". It makes no sense.
Nah, you can just give mules Visa gift cards and give them a little money out of your profit margin to buy them for you.
Sure, it makes it harder, but that only stops the small fries from doing it. Anyone with any eye for systematic eBay markups will get around it.
That doesn't matter, it still limits the amount of effect they'll have on legitimate customers. It's like speed bumps. People can still speed, but there can be no doubt that speed bumps will likely decrease the amount of speeding being done in most circumstances.
I still disagree. The folks who do the most reselling are gonna be the folks with the time and resources to get around this sort of thing, not the small operation folks.
That's what I was saying. I wasn't saying that he should have 17 different models, but rather that benchmarking just to end up with (corporate desktop) and (developer desktop) in the end was a waste of time.
Though in reality, most shops end up with a variety of different desktops in the end, even if they're all "Optiplex" line or what not. I don't think I've ever been in a large company where all the users had the exact same model desktop.