Visual Studio Community Edition is new, free, and supports Extensions including Xamarin. They demoed code running on all three major mobile platforms at once today.
Sorry but that example doesn't seem relevant. The reason MPAA ratings cause movies to "self-sensor" is because they are out to make money, and want to target a demographic (or as large of a demographic as possible).
Which tells you there are a lot of people that like to limit what they watch by the categories the MPAA uses. Wikipedia is going to be less-susceptible to that because there isn't money to be made targeting a demographic.
Is this even the real problem? I see this as the ultimate goal of the cable companies. They offered unlimited bandwidth in the beginning to get people to sign up and limiting how much any other company or municipality wanted to invest in infrastructure, and now that there is so little competition they can start charging more for less and less service. If there was a healthy amount of competition it wouldn't matter if one or the other offered tiered pricing. And on Slashdot non-US commenters have been telling us the right model *is* tiered pricing for years- for mobile and wired internet. If I had any faith in the FCC or competition I don't think tiered pricing would be a bad thing.
You're talking specifically about text books, right? I think there are other market forces at work with text books. For instance, students are required by the school/professor to buy a specific edition of a specific book. That right there eliminates text books from the discussion here doesn't? The suit is about allowing a book seller to buy books at a wholesale price, and then sell them for whatever margin they choose above that. Apple wanted to keep their 30% cut like the app store, and talked the publishers into changing the system to let the publishers set the consumer price, while the seller gets a specific cut of that price. This eliminates an advantage that one seller has over another, because they can't choose to sell at a lower price to draw customers.
Where the problem with textbooks is that the publisher merely has to pressure the state/school/professor to require a new edition for a class. Where you end up buying the book after that deal is made doesn't affect the price that much.
Credit card numbers are stolen and sold all the time now. Wouldn't criminal organizations just put more focus on stealing physical objects or numbers that are not tied to them? I would assume that they have some success in using these stolen cards without getting caught or else it wouldn't be such a common target and hot commodity. So we'd trade a system where the average joe (plus criminals) can remain anonymous, for one where criminals will remain anonymous and the average Joe will be sent purchase history related ads.
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Visual Studio Community Edition is new, free, and supports Extensions including Xamarin. They demoed code running on all three major mobile platforms at once today.
Sorry but that example doesn't seem relevant. The reason MPAA ratings cause movies to "self-sensor" is because they are out to make money, and want to target a demographic (or as large of a demographic as possible). Which tells you there are a lot of people that like to limit what they watch by the categories the MPAA uses. Wikipedia is going to be less-susceptible to that because there isn't money to be made targeting a demographic.
Is this even the real problem? I see this as the ultimate goal of the cable companies. They offered unlimited bandwidth in the beginning to get people to sign up and limiting how much any other company or municipality wanted to invest in infrastructure, and now that there is so little competition they can start charging more for less and less service. If there was a healthy amount of competition it wouldn't matter if one or the other offered tiered pricing. And on Slashdot non-US commenters have been telling us the right model *is* tiered pricing for years- for mobile and wired internet. If I had any faith in the FCC or competition I don't think tiered pricing would be a bad thing.
You're talking specifically about text books, right? I think there are other market forces at work with text books. For instance, students are required by the school/professor to buy a specific edition of a specific book. That right there eliminates text books from the discussion here doesn't? The suit is about allowing a book seller to buy books at a wholesale price, and then sell them for whatever margin they choose above that. Apple wanted to keep their 30% cut like the app store, and talked the publishers into changing the system to let the publishers set the consumer price, while the seller gets a specific cut of that price. This eliminates an advantage that one seller has over another, because they can't choose to sell at a lower price to draw customers. Where the problem with textbooks is that the publisher merely has to pressure the state/school/professor to require a new edition for a class. Where you end up buying the book after that deal is made doesn't affect the price that much.
Credit card numbers are stolen and sold all the time now. Wouldn't criminal organizations just put more focus on stealing physical objects or numbers that are not tied to them? I would assume that they have some success in using these stolen cards without getting caught or else it wouldn't be such a common target and hot commodity. So we'd trade a system where the average joe (plus criminals) can remain anonymous, for one where criminals will remain anonymous and the average Joe will be sent purchase history related ads.