Oh and more sexually active, that probably explains why there seem to be so many Android users on Slashdot.
Wrong,
OK Cupids data only indicates that Iphone users have more sexual partners. Not that they have more sex.
Android user has 1 girlfriend in 3 months, but gets sex four times a week. Iphone user has 7 girlfriends in 3 months but only has sex with each one once.
So instead of concluding that Iphone users have more sex, a more likely conclusion is that Iphone users are sluts who have trouble holding down a relationship.
As a result, they are the most hated and reviled party in Australia.
I'll admit it, I voted Green last election. I did so for two reasons.
1) I'm under 40 with no kids, who in the major parties cares about me.
2) They are the only party in Australia with an interest in rights and freedoms.
The Greens at least have a public friendly agenda and some healthy fear of the electorate.
Now I'm waiting for the inevitable hate barrage from angry Liberal (Big L) supporters. I've got my environmentally friendly flame proof undies on.
So, patient, we cured your cancer but now you have herpes. Feel better?
Considering the fact that once you get Herpes, you have it for life (your body just suppresses the symptoms) and that it's pretty much benign except for a few blisters every now and then.
But dont worry, scientists are working on eradicating the virus with a modified cancer.
Probably because the BBC is trying to hit the right advertising demographic in the US. It's one of the very few scripted shows that the BBC can sell in the US,
Please remember that USA != world. In Commonwealth countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) the BBC sells a lot of programs both in DVD and Syndicated TV. Lets not forget the rest of Europe.
Even in India, you can get a lot of BBC programming. BBC have pay TV channels all over Asia and the BBC's and ABC's (Australian) children's programming is exported the world over. It was a surprise to see Thomas the Tank Engine dubbed in Tagalog (Filipino) on TV in Davao a few years back.
The Android kernel is such a pathetic piece of trash. Every Android phone experiences massive battery problems, especially on standby.
Troll much.
My HTC Desire Z outlasts every Iphone in the office. Most of whom cant got 24 hours without charging, mine goes for 42-48 hours depending on how much I use it. I have to carry an Iphone 3GS for work 1 week out of every 4, it has no data plan (as it constantly pops up and remands me), GPS/Wifi/Bluetooth are always off, all it does is receive SMS's yet it always needs charging every day, sometimes twice a day
The battery drain on any phone is 3G data. I once I took my old HTC Dream (over 2 years old at that point) to Thailand on a 2G network without data, I was getting over 4 days out of one charge.
When it comes to printing on paper, you are so so very wrong. The printer will never go away. Paper provides more than just information. It provides the ability to give it to someone else..
Fixed that for you.
He's also wrong about the desktop. They'll always be around even though laptops will be more popular. I'm not getting a laptop backlash from some clients who dont want a portable computer, not to mention all the businesses that find laptops grow legs too easily.
If we could apply the miniaturization craze to printers that has been used on computers,
I wish, printers weigh half of what my new 13" Asus does (2.06 KG) but take up 3-4 times the desk space which is precisely why I dont have one. I just want a small printer, I dont give a crap if it's A5 and I have to feed the sheets in myself, I use one about once a month to print out a map or something.
Tablets and phones are not an option here as I cant leave them with someone else and it's dangerous (and illegal) to use them whilst driving.
Company tries to prevent sending money to its rivals. Film at 11.
A company like Microsoft will be paying half what you do for Dell's, HP, Asus or almost any other brand. Apple on the other hand will be at almost full retail price, if not at full retail price.
I worked in a company of 100, Dell would give us an instant 10% of any Latitude order, if we ordered 10 or more monitors, another instant 10% off, sometimes 15%. Now that's for an SME of less then 100 people, that's a discount, what MS has is wholesale. Wholesale is an entirely new level of discount entirely as one order at cost + $2 earns more profit then my 5 years of orders at that SME.
Retailers were bending over backwards for the business dollar with all kinds of deals and upgrades, except when it comes to Apple, never once got a discount of a list price, not ever.
Come on now, surely you know exactly what's going on from your days in school...
Student doesn't like the teacher for one reason or another, starts looking for the slightest provocations to harm the teacher. Student finds a reason, rants and raves and cries to mom about it, mom rushes to defend her precious snowflake. School administration fearing lawsuits and the PR backlash sides with the parent and fires teacher. Student pockets this victory and starts looking for the next. Keep an eye on this student, they are going to be big in politics or business some day...
The student is not to blame, even if they were looking for a way to strike out at a teacher. The blame here lies in the parent(s) who made the complaints. The parent should have made sure the complaint was legitimate.
This is the problem with parents today. The school system and teachers are trying their best to educate children but they run head first into "golden uterus" syndrome which has infected parents meaning that their child is the most precious thing in the universe and must be protected from anything slightly remotely harmful. This hasn't been helped by society putting kids on a pedestal (ye olde think of the children).
The problem is, as you pointed out that Mum, drives her Mum-Tank into the principals office and demands to know why her child has been punished or is learning something she considers unsavoury. Unfortunately school policy is to appease the parents rather then to defend their position. This is mainly due to the fact that if the parent's dont get their way they'll go on TV with a "shocking report" revealing how schools are damaging our kids.
In Australia it's gotten to the point where the worst thing that can be written on a report card is "Little Johnny needs to pay more attention in class" as threats from parents with no clue and no inclination to punish their little ratbags have become so great. Teachers and principals now live in fear.
I think parent's need to be reined in, it's their responsibility to punish their children when they do something wrong but unfortunately, they punish anyone else who tries to rein in their inconsiderate, illiterate, little crotchspawn. Maybe if we made parents responsible for what their crotchspawns do, but that wont happen until there is a fundamental shift in the way society thinks (society thinks, isn't that an oxymoron).
There are also nuclear-tipped cruise missile Tomahawks, designed for killing subs (the pressure wave crushes them) or above surface targets like ships and planes (ditto). Of course that would be overkill for a drone.;-)
Not when that drone is pirating copyrighted materials, there is no such think as overkill for those dirty pirates.
Look it up.
Fascist = when a Government and Corporations become "Friends With Benefits"
To be more accurate, it's the merger of corporate and state power. "Friends with benefits" describes Nazism's relationship to industry better then classical Fascism does:)
Or to use the old cow analogy,
Fascism = You have two cows, the government takes both and sells you some milk.
Takes all of ten minutes to replace a battery in a current model MacBook Pro. Woop de do..
That's 7 screws too many. My laptop's battery comes out by releasing two catches on the bottom and that operation is done in 10 seconds without having to dissemble everything.
I put an SSD into my Asus the other week, that took 6 screws, 1 holding in the panel, 1 holding the caddy in place and 4 attaching the drive to the caddy. It was a two minute job if you're taking your time. I could rip out and replace half the components in my Asus U46 in the same time it takes you to replace the battery (and with the SSD, it'll have booted before you've even got the 3rd screw back in)
That's how user unfriendly Apple is, replacing a battery should be able to be done by anyone and should not require a screwdriver.
And what does it matter? Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden? How about my car?
You think a refrigerator or washing machine is hard to fix?
Hand in you man card right now.
In the last six months I've replaced a leaky hose on a washer, Re-fixed the compressor on a fridge (it was making that shaking sound all night because it had come loose) and lets not get started on my car. In the last six months I've replaced an actuator in the right rear door (central locking stopped working on the rear RH door), replaced my left wing mirror casing (thanks to some douchebag trying to pass me on the left at 60 and that's a right hand drive and KPH, I live in Oz) and replaced the clutch. The engine my have "no user serviceable parts inside" but the engine is not the entire car and the only reason I dont touch the engine is because I dont know that much about their internal workings.
If you think whitegoods or cars are walled gardens, you clearly dont know much about either of them or walled gardens.
This is the problem people are trying to point out, so much could be repaired but people treat it as disposable, creating waste and wasting money.
My tablet has three real purposes,
1) to hack and play around with Android ROMS.
2) Watching movies on the plane.
3) Acknowledging alerts in the middle of the night.
Seeing as 1 and 3 dont apply to most people, its main purpose is to be a portable media player (wow, like there were none of those years before the Ipad *cough*Cowon D2*cough*).
Really, I couldn't justify the price of an Ipad. I bought an Acer Iconia 500 on special for A$350 and since then have hacked Ice Cream Sandwich on there (without a doubt, the easiest Android hack I've ever done, over in 10 minutes). One thing is for certain, they aren't general purpose computers.
You might as well say you don't like Conroy, but don't like the idea of putting a bunch of dead Englishmen in charge either - it's a strawman. That's not what the OP was saying.
The OP was making a false equivalency to the fall guy for a religious rebellion to freedom.
I challenged that pointing out that Fawkes is not a symbol for freedom at all, he wasn't even the guy in charge, he was the guy who was caught (Catesby and Percy weren't). As a result, my point is not a strawman but rather, the expression of the old saying "better the devil you know". We know Conroy will be controlled.
BTW, pointing out James I was religious is a bit of a strawman, pretty much it's trying to say "It's OK to do something bad because Janey is also bad". That whole period of English history went from Christian Tyranny to Protestant authoritarianism to reformation years ahead of mainland Europe.
besides which what the hell country are you living
Australia, which is clearly very far from your location.
Labor/greens would get absolutely annilated if an election was called anytime soon.
They said that in the last two elections. As long as it's Anyone v Abbott, Labor is practically guaranteed to win.
The liberal policy is to say "No" to everything that Labor does, this will lose them a lot of votes. Its far more likely Abbot would be massacred in any election as Julia Gillard is preferred PM, but as I said before it would just end up like 2010 with the balance of power being held by Greens and/or Independents because Australians are simply sick of the two major parties ruling by fiat for four years.
BTW. look up how polls are done and how inaccurate they are at election time. They go out and ask random people to answer a questionnaire, this is easily biased by going to specific areas. This is why Morgan polls look different to Nielson polls. The only semi-reliable polls are exit polls (basically the same thing, they ask people who they voted for on their way out, hence they are called "exit" polls).
Conroy is not the biggest - he is one of many. Only 30% of the population support Labor (an organisation that can't even spell its own name correctly). A large percentage of the population dispise and detest them. However, short of civil inssurection, how the hell do you get rid of them? The people can't call an election and they have taken away our guns.
This person doesn't live in Oz.
We can call an election, it's just that no-one wants to. We dont need guns to do that, I suspect the GP is not Australian and doesn't realise Aussies can sort out their problems without violence. To get an election called, all we need to do is prove to the Governor-General that the current government is unfit, then she dissolves parliament. The thing is, no-one wants to, elections are a pain in the arse, a waste of a good Saturday and the Liberals are even worse then Labor.
The Labor party is actually preferred over the Coalition in the two party preferred poll, add the popularity of the Greens and they will retain control next election (ALP with the help of the Greens). If anything, I expect more votes to go to Green and independent candidates. The Coalition will never get in because Abbott's just a patsy for the Liberal power brokers and their economic policies are insane ($70 Billion dollar black hole the shadow treasurer cant account for).
It's strange how they know what we shouldn't know. Bunch of UN communist stooges. Bring back Guy Fawkes.
Guy Fawkes was just the fall guy.
The leader of the group was actually Robert Catesby who was a Jesuit who wanted to replace King James and the English government with the 9 year old daughter of King James. Catesby was a bit of a religious extremist himself, described as a crusader by his friends and relatives. Guy Fawkes was a soldier who had fought in the Spanish Netherlands, hence he was tasked with guarding the gunpoweder the rebellion kept in a storehouse under the House of Lords, he was not the core of the Jesuit rebellion. Fawkes may have been historically the most famous, but it was Catesby's head that was put on a pike in front of the House of Lords.
To be frank, I dont like the likes of Conroy, I like the idea of giving control of the internet to a bunch of religious rebels even less. OK, Conroy is a religious twat as well, but he'll never get his way, the Labor backbench would have a little rebellion of their own, his filter has failed twice before in the house.
On the other hand, success is not guaranteed, and this way at least they won't have to give $30,000 of their money to Apple.
And on the gripping hand, getting to keep 70% of the retail price while spending nothing on an online store, downloads, credit card processing, etc is pretty amazing compared to previous distribution methods where a developer was lucky to see 10-15%. Apple actually greatly leveled the field for the small developer and provides them far more opportunity than anyone else.
It's so cute you believe that. But awaken from your dreamy state and look at who really publishes games on the App Store. It's the same big publishers so developers are no longer lucky to receive 10-15% of 100% of revenue, they are now lucky to receive 10-15% of 70% of revenue.
Wrong. Prior to digital distribution the small independent developer could not do it themselves.
Here's the catch, you said "Apple", not "digital distribution". Consistency counts for a lot.
Thanks to things like Steam, GOG, Impulse before GameStop bought it, independent game developers had a hard time finding a release platform. Steam came about when bandwidth became high enough to support wide scale distribution (2 years ago, it took an entire weekend to download a 8 GB game, now it can be done in a few hours). Valve bottled that market with Steam, prior to steam the best distribution an indie game could get was a flash game in a browser.
Apple on the other hand wants to bottle it back up again. Pandering to larger companies who can afford to spam markets with low quality games.
Apple did not, quote "leveled the playing field" unquote, in fact they are the ones unrevealing it after companies like Valve levelled it.
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Oh and more sexually active, that probably explains why there seem to be so many Android users on Slashdot.
Wrong,
OK Cupids data only indicates that Iphone users have more sexual partners. Not that they have more sex.
Android user has 1 girlfriend in 3 months, but gets sex four times a week. Iphone user has 7 girlfriends in 3 months but only has sex with each one once.
So instead of concluding that Iphone users have more sex, a more likely conclusion is that Iphone users are sluts who have trouble holding down a relationship.
An Aussie political party with some cojones.
As a result, they are the most hated and reviled party in Australia.
I'll admit it, I voted Green last election. I did so for two reasons.
1) I'm under 40 with no kids, who in the major parties cares about me.
2) They are the only party in Australia with an interest in rights and freedoms.
The Greens at least have a public friendly agenda and some healthy fear of the electorate.
Now I'm waiting for the inevitable hate barrage from angry Liberal (Big L) supporters. I've got my environmentally friendly flame proof undies on.
"If people don't like it they can get their news somewhere else or buy a subscription. This is how the market is supposed to work."
Or they could just delete the cookie and read on.
Or they could just go to the BBC, ABC (Australia) or dozens of other, more reputable news sources that aren't asking for money.
So, patient, we cured your cancer but now you have herpes. Feel better?
Considering the fact that once you get Herpes, you have it for life (your body just suppresses the symptoms) and that it's pretty much benign except for a few blisters every now and then.
But dont worry, scientists are working on eradicating the virus with a modified cancer.
Please remember that USA != world. In Commonwealth countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) the BBC sells a lot of programs both in DVD and Syndicated TV. Lets not forget the rest of Europe.
Even in India, you can get a lot of BBC programming. BBC have pay TV channels all over Asia and the BBC's and ABC's (Australian) children's programming is exported the world over. It was a surprise to see Thomas the Tank Engine dubbed in Tagalog (Filipino) on TV in Davao a few years back.
The Android kernel is such a pathetic piece of trash. Every Android phone experiences massive battery problems, especially on standby.
Troll much.
My HTC Desire Z outlasts every Iphone in the office. Most of whom cant got 24 hours without charging, mine goes for 42-48 hours depending on how much I use it. I have to carry an Iphone 3GS for work 1 week out of every 4, it has no data plan (as it constantly pops up and remands me), GPS/Wifi/Bluetooth are always off, all it does is receive SMS's yet it always needs charging every day, sometimes twice a day
The battery drain on any phone is 3G data. I once I took my old HTC Dream (over 2 years old at that point) to Thailand on a 2G network without data, I was getting over 4 days out of one charge.
When it comes to printing on paper, you are so so very wrong. The printer will never go away. Paper provides more than just information. It provides the ability to give it to someone else..
Fixed that for you.
He's also wrong about the desktop. They'll always be around even though laptops will be more popular. I'm not getting a laptop backlash from some clients who dont want a portable computer, not to mention all the businesses that find laptops grow legs too easily.
If we could apply the miniaturization craze to printers that has been used on computers,
I wish, printers weigh half of what my new 13" Asus does (2.06 KG) but take up 3-4 times the desk space which is precisely why I dont have one. I just want a small printer, I dont give a crap if it's A5 and I have to feed the sheets in myself, I use one about once a month to print out a map or something.
Tablets and phones are not an option here as I cant leave them with someone else and it's dangerous (and illegal) to use them whilst driving.
Actualy posessed of such gall!
Selling what people want to buy! I can tell you, this does not bode well.
That would be a good excuse if anyone wanted to by Windows Phones. As it stands WP7 sales could easily be mistaken for a rounding error.
Company tries to prevent sending money to its rivals. Film at 11.
A company like Microsoft will be paying half what you do for Dell's, HP, Asus or almost any other brand. Apple on the other hand will be at almost full retail price, if not at full retail price.
I worked in a company of 100, Dell would give us an instant 10% of any Latitude order, if we ordered 10 or more monitors, another instant 10% off, sometimes 15%. Now that's for an SME of less then 100 people, that's a discount, what MS has is wholesale. Wholesale is an entirely new level of discount entirely as one order at cost + $2 earns more profit then my 5 years of orders at that SME.
Retailers were bending over backwards for the business dollar with all kinds of deals and upgrades, except when it comes to Apple, never once got a discount of a list price, not ever.
Come on now, surely you know exactly what's going on from your days in school...
Student doesn't like the teacher for one reason or another, starts looking for the slightest provocations to harm the teacher. Student finds a reason, rants and raves and cries to mom about it, mom rushes to defend her precious snowflake. School administration fearing lawsuits and the PR backlash sides with the parent and fires teacher. Student pockets this victory and starts looking for the next. Keep an eye on this student, they are going to be big in politics or business some day...
The student is not to blame, even if they were looking for a way to strike out at a teacher. The blame here lies in the parent(s) who made the complaints. The parent should have made sure the complaint was legitimate.
This is the problem with parents today. The school system and teachers are trying their best to educate children but they run head first into "golden uterus" syndrome which has infected parents meaning that their child is the most precious thing in the universe and must be protected from anything slightly remotely harmful. This hasn't been helped by society putting kids on a pedestal (ye olde think of the children).
The problem is, as you pointed out that Mum, drives her Mum-Tank into the principals office and demands to know why her child has been punished or is learning something she considers unsavoury. Unfortunately school policy is to appease the parents rather then to defend their position. This is mainly due to the fact that if the parent's dont get their way they'll go on TV with a "shocking report" revealing how schools are damaging our kids.
In Australia it's gotten to the point where the worst thing that can be written on a report card is "Little Johnny needs to pay more attention in class" as threats from parents with no clue and no inclination to punish their little ratbags have become so great. Teachers and principals now live in fear.
I think parent's need to be reined in, it's their responsibility to punish their children when they do something wrong but unfortunately, they punish anyone else who tries to rein in their inconsiderate, illiterate, little crotchspawn. Maybe if we made parents responsible for what their crotchspawns do, but that wont happen until there is a fundamental shift in the way society thinks (society thinks, isn't that an oxymoron).
My server's fans are powerful enough to fly, but the 2U units just aren't light or aerodynamic enough. Plus I cant get an IEC cable long enough.
There are also nuclear-tipped cruise missile Tomahawks, designed for killing subs (the pressure wave crushes them) or above surface targets like ships and planes (ditto). Of course that would be overkill for a drone. ;-)
Not when that drone is pirating copyrighted materials, there is no such think as overkill for those dirty pirates.
Signed,
Your copyright overlords.
Look it up.
Fascist = when a Government and Corporations become "Friends With Benefits"
To be more accurate, it's the merger of corporate and state power. "Friends with benefits" describes Nazism's relationship to industry better then classical Fascism does :)
Or to use the old cow analogy,
Fascism = You have two cows, the government takes both and sells you some milk.
Seven screws is sealed? You expect wingnuts?
Takes all of ten minutes to replace a battery in a current model MacBook Pro. Woop de do..
That's 7 screws too many. My laptop's battery comes out by releasing two catches on the bottom and that operation is done in 10 seconds without having to dissemble everything.
I put an SSD into my Asus the other week, that took 6 screws, 1 holding in the panel, 1 holding the caddy in place and 4 attaching the drive to the caddy. It was a two minute job if you're taking your time. I could rip out and replace half the components in my Asus U46 in the same time it takes you to replace the battery (and with the SSD, it'll have booted before you've even got the 3rd screw back in)
That's how user unfriendly Apple is, replacing a battery should be able to be done by anyone and should not require a screwdriver.
Excuse me, but as an Apple user I find your use of factual information to rebut an Apple Superiority Claim as downright offensive.
I totally refuse to accept your reality, and insert my own.
Unfortunately the current version of iReality does not permit the insert operation.
We suggest you use iNdenial until Apple release an update with that functionality.
You think a refrigerator or washing machine is hard to fix?
Hand in you man card right now.
In the last six months I've replaced a leaky hose on a washer, Re-fixed the compressor on a fridge (it was making that shaking sound all night because it had come loose) and lets not get started on my car. In the last six months I've replaced an actuator in the right rear door (central locking stopped working on the rear RH door), replaced my left wing mirror casing (thanks to some douchebag trying to pass me on the left at 60 and that's a right hand drive and KPH, I live in Oz) and replaced the clutch. The engine my have "no user serviceable parts inside" but the engine is not the entire car and the only reason I dont touch the engine is because I dont know that much about their internal workings.
If you think whitegoods or cars are walled gardens, you clearly dont know much about either of them or walled gardens.
This is the problem people are trying to point out, so much could be repaired but people treat it as disposable, creating waste and wasting money.
My tablet has three real purposes,
1) to hack and play around with Android ROMS.
2) Watching movies on the plane.
3) Acknowledging alerts in the middle of the night.
Seeing as 1 and 3 dont apply to most people, its main purpose is to be a portable media player (wow, like there were none of those years before the Ipad *cough*Cowon D2*cough*).
Really, I couldn't justify the price of an Ipad. I bought an Acer Iconia 500 on special for A$350 and since then have hacked Ice Cream Sandwich on there (without a doubt, the easiest Android hack I've ever done, over in 10 minutes). One thing is for certain, they aren't general purpose computers.
The OP was making a false equivalency to the fall guy for a religious rebellion to freedom.
I challenged that pointing out that Fawkes is not a symbol for freedom at all, he wasn't even the guy in charge, he was the guy who was caught (Catesby and Percy weren't). As a result, my point is not a strawman but rather, the expression of the old saying "better the devil you know". We know Conroy will be controlled.
BTW, pointing out James I was religious is a bit of a strawman, pretty much it's trying to say "It's OK to do something bad because Janey is also bad". That whole period of English history went from Christian Tyranny to Protestant authoritarianism to reformation years ahead of mainland Europe.
Um, pretty much the only growing economy in the western world. An actual plan to deal with deficit.
I suggest you check your facts instead of relying on things like News Limited.
Australia, which is clearly very far from your location.
They said that in the last two elections. As long as it's Anyone v Abbott, Labor is practically guaranteed to win. The liberal policy is to say "No" to everything that Labor does, this will lose them a lot of votes. Its far more likely Abbot would be massacred in any election as Julia Gillard is preferred PM, but as I said before it would just end up like 2010 with the balance of power being held by Greens and/or Independents because Australians are simply sick of the two major parties ruling by fiat for four years.
BTW. look up how polls are done and how inaccurate they are at election time. They go out and ask random people to answer a questionnaire, this is easily biased by going to specific areas. This is why Morgan polls look different to Nielson polls. The only semi-reliable polls are exit polls (basically the same thing, they ask people who they voted for on their way out, hence they are called "exit" polls).
Conroy is not the biggest - he is one of many. Only 30% of the population support Labor (an organisation that can't even spell its own name correctly). A large percentage of the population dispise and detest them. However, short of civil inssurection, how the hell do you get rid of them? The people can't call an election and they have taken away our guns.
This person doesn't live in Oz.
We can call an election, it's just that no-one wants to. We dont need guns to do that, I suspect the GP is not Australian and doesn't realise Aussies can sort out their problems without violence. To get an election called, all we need to do is prove to the Governor-General that the current government is unfit, then she dissolves parliament. The thing is, no-one wants to, elections are a pain in the arse, a waste of a good Saturday and the Liberals are even worse then Labor.
The Labor party is actually preferred over the Coalition in the two party preferred poll, add the popularity of the Greens and they will retain control next election (ALP with the help of the Greens). If anything, I expect more votes to go to Green and independent candidates. The Coalition will never get in because Abbott's just a patsy for the Liberal power brokers and their economic policies are insane ($70 Billion dollar black hole the shadow treasurer cant account for).
It's strange how they know what we shouldn't know. Bunch of UN communist stooges. Bring back Guy Fawkes.
Guy Fawkes was just the fall guy.
The leader of the group was actually Robert Catesby who was a Jesuit who wanted to replace King James and the English government with the 9 year old daughter of King James. Catesby was a bit of a religious extremist himself, described as a crusader by his friends and relatives. Guy Fawkes was a soldier who had fought in the Spanish Netherlands, hence he was tasked with guarding the gunpoweder the rebellion kept in a storehouse under the House of Lords, he was not the core of the Jesuit rebellion. Fawkes may have been historically the most famous, but it was Catesby's head that was put on a pike in front of the House of Lords.
To be frank, I dont like the likes of Conroy, I like the idea of giving control of the internet to a bunch of religious rebels even less. OK, Conroy is a religious twat as well, but he'll never get his way, the Labor backbench would have a little rebellion of their own, his filter has failed twice before in the house.
Damn. Thanks for ruining my day.
/waves hand.
You cant have Jedi powers.
On the other hand, success is not guaranteed, and this way at least they won't have to give $30,000 of their money to Apple.
And on the gripping hand, getting to keep 70% of the retail price while spending nothing on an online store, downloads, credit card processing, etc is pretty amazing compared to previous distribution methods where a developer was lucky to see 10-15%. Apple actually greatly leveled the field for the small developer and provides them far more opportunity than anyone else.
It's so cute you believe that. But awaken from your dreamy state and look at who really publishes games on the App Store. It's the same big publishers so developers are no longer lucky to receive 10-15% of 100% of revenue, they are now lucky to receive 10-15% of 70% of revenue.
Wrong. Prior to digital distribution the small independent developer could not do it themselves.
Here's the catch, you said "Apple", not "digital distribution". Consistency counts for a lot.
Thanks to things like Steam, GOG, Impulse before GameStop bought it, independent game developers had a hard time finding a release platform. Steam came about when bandwidth became high enough to support wide scale distribution (2 years ago, it took an entire weekend to download a 8 GB game, now it can be done in a few hours). Valve bottled that market with Steam, prior to steam the best distribution an indie game could get was a flash game in a browser.
Apple on the other hand wants to bottle it back up again. Pandering to larger companies who can afford to spam markets with low quality games.
Apple did not, quote "leveled the playing field" unquote, in fact they are the ones unrevealing it after companies like Valve levelled it.