i would venture far to say that china is taking an opposing stance in acta negotiations, and american companies are repositioning themselves, also being tools for the acta negotiators to pressure china to agreement and also therefore threatening other countries. if china doesnt agree with acta, it basically fails. they have 1/7th of world population.
even the mention of this story will upset their pr in dev community A LOT. we web developers, contrary to some who are developing for more closed platforms like ipod, do NOT like being herded, goaded, or ordered about. this will have consequences.
there is no contradiction. for some reason, im not considering the offensive in yugoslavia as blitzkrieg. despite germans have moved on to belgrade as fast as they could, even not surrounding their foes, it still doesnt compute because there was no resistance.
in a situation like this, if french army moved in with their legacy organization and pushed forward, and just let pass by croat forces and half of yugoslav army, wouldnt they march towards belgrade ? would this make what they did blitzkrieg ?
or would they just idiotically stop and try to surround the enemy forces which just let them pass and hailed them as liberators ? surely they wouldnt.
what i cannot make out is, whether i am saying blitzkrieg in yugoslavia failed because there was no blitzkrieg, or rather it would fail due to rugged yugoslavia terrain if yugoslavians resisted. regardless this is an opinion apparently shaped some long time ago. i just cannot make out its roots.
If you are programming scientific, economic analysis, or financial calculations that have to deal with very accurate floats, then you're going to need a good background in math.
still there will be lots of ready made classes, libraries around which would do every calculation you need much more efficiently and precisely than coding them from scratch.
i may have been mistaken there, yet there are strong considerations - the scale and the opponent matters. furthermore, there was little resistance in part of yugoslavs, and they disintegrated very fast because croats and other ethnics were not willing to serve yugoslavia seen as greater serbia - they even mutinied and let them pass unharmed. note:
Formed after World War I, the Royal Yugoslav Army was still largely equipped with weapons and material from that era, although some modernization with Czech equipment and vehicles had begun. Of about 4,000 artillery pieces, many were aged and horse-drawn, but about 1,700 were relatively modern, including 812 Czech 37mm and 47mm anti-tank guns. There were also about 2,300 mortars, including 1600 modern 81mm pieces, as well as twenty four 220 and 305mm pieces. Of 940 anti-aircraft guns, 360 were 15 and 20mm Czech and Italian models. All of these arms were imported, from different sources, which meant that the various models often lacked proper repair and maintenance facilities.[4] The only mechanized units were six motorized infantry battalions in the three cavalry divisions, six motorized artillery regiments, two tank battalions equipped with one-hundred-and-ten tanks, one of which had Renault FT-17s models of First World War origin and the other fifty-four modern French Renault R35 tanks, plus an independent tank company with eight Czech SI-D tank destroyers. Some one-thousand trucks for military purposes had been imported from the United States of America in the months just preceding the invasion.[5]
and because, wisdom and rationale and logic are only conferred to people who go to a scholastic, rigid education institution right ? this is the reason why we had innumerable numbers of self-schooled, or even unschooled geniuses back in 19th century....
sarcasm off.
turning in a nice profit does not mean you cant turn in even more.
you have to fit your business model with the behavior of the people and times. not only your price.
because its logic. because, there is no real shit named 'market'. its just a made up assumption by various field people and academicians. people do not need, and do not have to behave as per how the participants of a 'market' is expected to behave.
and you cant fight people. and lo, photoshop is being pirated. instead of changing their business model to fit the needs of the people, they are just sticking to the old shit, ie behaving like everything that is sold can be classified as 'product' and they are equivalent to selling refrigerators. and then suffer piracy.
market dictates not only prices, but also business models. if you dont update yours and fit the behavior of the people, then you suffer. and there is nobody to criticize but yourself.
yugoslavia wasnt a proper major power. just having bought equipment from this or that major power doesnt enable one as a major power. remember that had french didnt tire their heavy tanks to breakdown in battle of northern france by sending them back and forth, entire world war history might have been different. so even major powers which actually produced their own equipment could have issues with keeping them operational.
at this rate, we will come face to face with google apps even we go to take a dump in the loo someday..... "Google wants to dump with you - Google Shit (TM)"
most of programming inevitably consists of creating logic constructs in algorithms. if this happens it has to be that, but also if that happens with that and it also has to be this and that and so on. they constitute the backbone of programming. anyone lacking understanding of logic would have a hard time. the rest, can easily remedied - we have innumerable libraries, classes, frameworks performing many complex mathematical operations. its better to have very strong logic, and make up for the rest with this approach, and efficient. furthermore, you can receive interdisciplinary help, hell, even help from internet in that regard, if you come up with some problem that has to be solved with a math equation. a mathematician can also help you with that. but the rest, the logic part, you gotta be sharp at that.
im not looking for anything. im just describing the picture.
because adobe is already 'the' name anyone gives out to anyone in regard to editing tool on the internet, and noone knows any other tool by name that widespread, any mom anywhere will ask someone else what is the tool for editing pictures and the other will say photoshop. they will see the $600 price, and they will think 'hey, im just going to cut up few photos', and pirate it. and they are right at this ultimate end of the event chain.
this is not a matter of 'target customer base', its not a matter of 'marketing'. its a matter of simple logic, wisdom.
most of the problems we have on this planet are coming up from the shit taught to B.A.s in colleges anyway.
people will STILL pirate photoshop, and use it for cropping their kids' photos.
going with market demands doesnt just apply to price. it also applies to preferences.
ie - in layman's terms, because 'the people' prefer it so, photoshop should create a very basic toolset version and offer it for sale from $10. that would eliminate any need to pirate it with the exception of extreme cases.
a product for 'home user market' is sold from $100. you are gonna buy one, and 3-4 times a year you are going to rotate, crop and apply a few effects to your kids' photos.
man, they made the resolution, which includes the declaration to go to court if it is ignored, with 669 to 13 or so majority. and they all voted in line with their parties in their home countries too.
my point is, even a web designer, or a visual designer doesnt use majority of those functions in photoshop. and those talented software engineers would make much more money, if they sold their product smartly, by giving out only what customers need for a cheaper price, and then offering all features as addons for minimal prices.
rather appallingly, u.s. didnt do enough for those oceans. it had some battleships, many obsolete, and only 2 aircraft carriers. japanese totally outclassed united states in generaly capability.
however pearl harbor didnt do much to prolong the war. actually, by the time it happened, so much construction was put into motion that even if japanese sank every single floating battleship and a/c usa had, they would still be outnumbered 2 to 1 in 1 years' time, and 4 to 1 in 1.5 years' time.
i read a research published on a navy enthusiast website once. it compared manpower and manufacturing power of countries, and found out that u.s. approx tripled all allies, axis combined itself. so the result of the war was a foregone conclusion in that regard.
isnt the way with the software companies these days ? fill a software with innumerable features even professionals will rarely use, and ask $60-100 for 20 to 30 functions/features that people will use, because you also put there 180 or so ones that noone will use.
that's why software is being pirated. noone wants to shell out $60 for 200 functions 20 of which they will use from time to time.
just go fill it. drop that you are an american, and your senators do not listen to you, just ignore you. ask the parliament members to speak on your behalf too.
i assure you it would give great clout to parliament in negotiating with the bastards who were ignoring you.
regardless of how different trademarks are, as can be seen from the apple example in which apple was trying to clamp down on a real chain that sells real apples, because the used a logo of a green apple that was bitten on one side, they also can be abused.
as i came to believe - it is beyond stupid to let anyone have monopoly/ownership of any idea, creation or logical construct.
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i would venture far to say that china is taking an opposing stance in acta negotiations, and american companies are repositioning themselves, also being tools for the acta negotiators to pressure china to agreement and also therefore threatening other countries. if china doesnt agree with acta, it basically fails. they have 1/7th of world population.
even the mention of this story will upset their pr in dev community A LOT. we web developers, contrary to some who are developing for more closed platforms like ipod, do NOT like being herded, goaded, or ordered about. this will have consequences.
there is no contradiction. for some reason, im not considering the offensive in yugoslavia as blitzkrieg. despite germans have moved on to belgrade as fast as they could, even not surrounding their foes, it still doesnt compute because there was no resistance.
in a situation like this, if french army moved in with their legacy organization and pushed forward, and just let pass by croat forces and half of yugoslav army, wouldnt they march towards belgrade ? would this make what they did blitzkrieg ?
or would they just idiotically stop and try to surround the enemy forces which just let them pass and hailed them as liberators ? surely they wouldnt.
what i cannot make out is, whether i am saying blitzkrieg in yugoslavia failed because there was no blitzkrieg, or rather it would fail due to rugged yugoslavia terrain if yugoslavians resisted. regardless this is an opinion apparently shaped some long time ago. i just cannot make out its roots.
If you are programming scientific, economic analysis, or financial calculations that have to deal with very accurate floats, then you're going to need a good background in math.
still there will be lots of ready made classes, libraries around which would do every calculation you need much more efficiently and precisely than coding them from scratch.
i may have been mistaken there, yet there are strong considerations - the scale and the opponent matters. furthermore, there was little resistance in part of yugoslavs, and they disintegrated very fast because croats and other ethnics were not willing to serve yugoslavia seen as greater serbia - they even mutinied and let them pass unharmed. note :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia
Formed after World War I, the Royal Yugoslav Army was still largely equipped with weapons and material from that era, although some modernization with Czech equipment and vehicles had begun. Of about 4,000 artillery pieces, many were aged and horse-drawn, but about 1,700 were relatively modern, including 812 Czech 37mm and 47mm anti-tank guns. There were also about 2,300 mortars, including 1600 modern 81mm pieces, as well as twenty four 220 and 305mm pieces. Of 940 anti-aircraft guns, 360 were 15 and 20mm Czech and Italian models. All of these arms were imported, from different sources, which meant that the various models often lacked proper repair and maintenance facilities.[4] The only mechanized units were six motorized infantry battalions in the three cavalry divisions, six motorized artillery regiments, two tank battalions equipped with one-hundred-and-ten tanks, one of which had Renault FT-17s models of First World War origin and the other fifty-four modern French Renault R35 tanks, plus an independent tank company with eight Czech SI-D tank destroyers. Some one-thousand trucks for military purposes had been imported from the United States of America in the months just preceding the invasion.[5]
and because, wisdom and rationale and logic are only conferred to people who go to a scholastic, rigid education institution right ? this is the reason why we had innumerable numbers of self-schooled, or even unschooled geniuses back in 19th century ....
sarcasm off.
turning in a nice profit does not mean you cant turn in even more.
you have to fit your business model with the behavior of the people and times. not only your price.
So why should Adobe lower the price for her?
because its logic. because, there is no real shit named 'market'. its just a made up assumption by various field people and academicians. people do not need, and do not have to behave as per how the participants of a 'market' is expected to behave.
and you cant fight people. and lo, photoshop is being pirated. instead of changing their business model to fit the needs of the people, they are just sticking to the old shit, ie behaving like everything that is sold can be classified as 'product' and they are equivalent to selling refrigerators. and then suffer piracy.
market dictates not only prices, but also business models. if you dont update yours and fit the behavior of the people, then you suffer. and there is nobody to criticize but yourself.
yugoslavia wasnt a proper major power. just having bought equipment from this or that major power doesnt enable one as a major power. remember that had french didnt tire their heavy tanks to breakdown in battle of northern france by sending them back and forth, entire world war history might have been different. so even major powers which actually produced their own equipment could have issues with keeping them operational.
with, Google Valentine (TM)
at this rate, we will come face to face with google apps even we go to take a dump in the loo someday ..... "Google wants to dump with you - Google Shit (TM)"
most of programming inevitably consists of creating logic constructs in algorithms. if this happens it has to be that, but also if that happens with that and it also has to be this and that and so on. they constitute the backbone of programming. anyone lacking understanding of logic would have a hard time. the rest, can easily remedied - we have innumerable libraries, classes, frameworks performing many complex mathematical operations. its better to have very strong logic, and make up for the rest with this approach, and efficient. furthermore, you can receive interdisciplinary help, hell, even help from internet in that regard, if you come up with some problem that has to be solved with a math equation. a mathematician can also help you with that. but the rest, the logic part, you gotta be sharp at that.
im not looking for anything. im just describing the picture.
because adobe is already 'the' name anyone gives out to anyone in regard to editing tool on the internet, and noone knows any other tool by name that widespread, any mom anywhere will ask someone else what is the tool for editing pictures and the other will say photoshop. they will see the $600 price, and they will think 'hey, im just going to cut up few photos', and pirate it. and they are right at this ultimate end of the event chain.
this is not a matter of 'target customer base', its not a matter of 'marketing'. its a matter of simple logic, wisdom.
most of the problems we have on this planet are coming up from the shit taught to B.A.s in colleges anyway.
so ?
people will STILL pirate photoshop, and use it for cropping their kids' photos.
going with market demands doesnt just apply to price. it also applies to preferences.
ie - in layman's terms, because 'the people' prefer it so, photoshop should create a very basic toolset version and offer it for sale from $10. that would eliminate any need to pirate it with the exception of extreme cases.
go post it here :
http://www.star-control.com/community/
the forum at pages of now and forever. 'the' sc 2 place.
valiant effort
you can track it below :
http://votewatch.eu/cx_vote_details.php?id_act=456&lang=en
a product for 'home user market' is sold from $100. you are gonna buy one, and 3-4 times a year you are going to rotate, crop and apply a few effects to your kids' photos.
no wonder it is being pirated.
man, they made the resolution, which includes the declaration to go to court if it is ignored, with 669 to 13 or so majority. and they all voted in line with their parties in their home countries too.
my point is, even a web designer, or a visual designer doesnt use majority of those functions in photoshop. and those talented software engineers would make much more money, if they sold their product smartly, by giving out only what customers need for a cheaper price, and then offering all features as addons for minimal prices.
rather appallingly, u.s. didnt do enough for those oceans. it had some battleships, many obsolete, and only 2 aircraft carriers. japanese totally outclassed united states in generaly capability.
however pearl harbor didnt do much to prolong the war. actually, by the time it happened, so much construction was put into motion that even if japanese sank every single floating battleship and a/c usa had, they would still be outnumbered 2 to 1 in 1 years' time, and 4 to 1 in 1.5 years' time.
i read a research published on a navy enthusiast website once. it compared manpower and manufacturing power of countries, and found out that u.s. approx tripled all allies, axis combined itself. so the result of the war was a foregone conclusion in that regard.
yea it works but you have to supply proper address to get a reply.
they give a patent to someone for "if a => b, and b => c then a => c" ...
isnt the way with the software companies these days ? fill a software with innumerable features even professionals will rarely use, and ask $60-100 for 20 to 30 functions/features that people will use, because you also put there 180 or so ones that noone will use.
that's why software is being pirated. noone wants to shell out $60 for 200 functions 20 of which they will use from time to time.
just go fill it. drop that you are an american, and your senators do not listen to you, just ignore you. ask the parliament members to speak on your behalf too.
i assure you it would give great clout to parliament in negotiating with the bastards who were ignoring you.
regardless of how different trademarks are, as can be seen from the apple example in which apple was trying to clamp down on a real chain that sells real apples, because the used a logo of a green apple that was bitten on one side, they also can be abused.
as i came to believe - it is beyond stupid to let anyone have monopoly/ownership of any idea, creation or logical construct.
because you are in Eu. go fill it.