No, it's negative publicity what's illegal. If you want people to buy your stuff, promote it. Don't put the others down.
Dude, have you ever seen one of our political campaigns? Any law like that has exactly zero chance of ever getting passed here. Or the politicians would need to actually campaign on their own values and accomplishments and not by trying to manipulate the truth and facts so that no one has any idea of who said what or went where. Plus it would put all the super pacs out of business and also it wou-*... oh....
I agree with some of the posts above, this isn't well thought out
They're also going to have to provide support for the readers they lend out. Some things are pretty straight forward but others are not. Like when you start getting into DRM issues and they need to set up an Adobe account for the epub books. Or if the reader they are lending has special software needed on a PC to download books, unless they will only be pre-loaded. What about the first time someone leaves a book on the reader they just returned and little 8 year old Joey is the next one to use it? Joey's parents may not be too happy with his new vocabulary. How about when they start coming back broken, will they be quick to replace them? How long will their insurance company put up with it?
As others have mentioned it sounds good initially, but a better idea would be a space in the library where people could sit and use a reader to see if they like it. Corporate sponsorship would work well here and give the library a chance to market its ebook collection.
We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a place where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability?
And what does that have to with what happened other than it happened in a school? Or is he trying to say the lack of religion in schools that the shooter attended is the reason he did it.
Sometimes there isn't a reason other than that he was fucked in the head, it doesn't have to be about religion, or gun control, or video games, or getting spanked as a child... maybe he was just nuts.
But people wont accept that, all these people are going to come climbing out of the woodwork now espousing their own private crusade and how if we do what they say everything will be all right.
There are millions of people out there that play violent video games, if they are the cause I would expect to see more things like this happening, same thing with gun owners, people that don't go to church, people that drink alcohol, people that smoke dope, do drugs, like cats more than dogs, and whatever else you want to bring up.
You have to abide laws everywhere in the world. This includes abiding Chinese laws if you want to do business there. China has many gigantic internet companies that tailor their sites and products specifically to Chinese market and they are doing just fine.
Laws? What part of the OP mentioned laws? In what way is any of what you said related to the disruptions?
That, if 10 people are willing to buy the game at $60, 20 would be willing to buy it at $50, 30 at $40, etc.
That's all well and good if they are out to maximize sales, but what they really want is to max out their profit and to get profit you need to take into account the cost to produce the games (and a bunch of other stuff as well). So if the cost to create them is $40 and they sell 10 of them for $60, they've made $200 profit on revenue of $600. If they sell 20 at $50, they made $200 profit on revenue of $1000. If they sell the 30 at $40 then they break even, and it goes down hill from there.
It's easy to say they'll sell more if they lower the price, but without knowing what it costs to create the game you can't know where the optimum price point is. They know what it costs to create and they, and all the other game manufacturers out there, spend boat loads of money figuring out the exact price point to maximize their profits.
Console prices, likewise. Most times they are sold at a loss anyway, but the sales from these lower prices alone would get back considerable lost profits.
Wait... what? Selling more for even less gets back lost profits? No, that might increase revenue, but it would make profits worse.
I agree that prices need to come down but until they stop trying to shove everything into the consoles that they can think of it will never happen. And to a certain extent there is still demand for the absolute best possible console, eventually they'll find the point at which wont want to pay more and the console prices will drop, or at least stop rising, but we haven't hit it yet.
I agree that game prices are too high, my limit was the $40 to $50 range, the $60 ones are not worth it, I'll wait 6 month for them to come down in price, or rent them for a fraction of the price. Again, the problem is that people are willing to fork over $60 for a game so where is the incentive to make them cheaper? Sure, they might sell more, but they seem to be pretty happy with the money their making now.
I didn't even know they had an app store, I guess that's because "store" implies buying and I wouldn't pay for the crap they offer.
One of the first things I tried to do with my phone was get rid of the preloaded stuff they put on it, I didn't want to root it so they had to stay. I can't think of one of them is even half as good as the Google default ones or the vast majority of the ones available in play store.
I don't need the space, but I'd love to see these disappear from my phone, even if I have to take it in to the Verizon store, I'd go in a heartbeat
Notice of intent to build a hyperspace express route is hereby given to the peoples of earth.
Plans and demolition orders may be viewed at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri.
Thank you,
Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council
Aggregate sites do drive viewers to articles, but it may be that they are driving them in a way that is not profitable for the news sites themselves.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there is no difference between one person staying on the site and viewing 10 pages vs 10 separate people viewing a single page each. I'd even be willing to bet that the news sites get more out of it than google does. When I go to google news I usually hit the page one time, scroll through it and click on whatever articles interest me. Those sites all open in another tab/window, the google news page doesn't change or refresh so I'm only giving them a single hit, while the news sites are all getting one. I don't see the inequity.
I'm of the opinion that the vast majority of news articles are pretty much the same across news sites anyway and I really don't care (too much) where I'm reading it from, so I don't go out of my way to remember any specific ones. If they are at the top of the pile on google, well then, they're the one that gets clicked. and if they aren't listed, they'll never get my click. If it weren't for google I wouldn't even know they existed, I'd end up at some small number news sites that I could remember and found reasonably unbiased, odds are it would be one of the big name sites, or more than one just to add a little balance. While that is great for the foxnews and cnns of the world, it is not so good for eastNowhereActionnews. But, hey, if they want to go it without google, more power to them, there are probably a couple of dozen people there that know their url and will visit it.
You're absolutely right, not everyone has the cash to purchase even inexpensive things outright, however, going through the rental companies is an absolutely horrible idea. I've never rented from one myself but was close quite some time ago when my girlfriend of the time and I were thinking of renting one of those cool video cassette player things... Even with their rent to own programs the amount of money you will end up spending is often three or four times the cost of the buying the product outright. Sure it is spread over time but even then the payments are not as low as you may think.
Have you ever seen any of their adds, did you notice how inexpensive it all sounds, a computer rental for $8, a desk for it for $4, even a nice comfy chair for a few bucks more. However, if you look at the small print, these prices are the weekly rates, by the time you total it all up and add in whatever other fees they tack on, I would bet you're at the point where you could save your money for a few months and go buy your own.
They suck you in with the glossy adds and the seemingly low rates, then when you find out the truth your sitting in the store with the shiny new PC in front of you and it's quite hard to turn down. After all, you only need to pay the rental for a year or two and it'll be yours. People that get sucked into these things and the payday loans are just widening the gap you mentioned
You could have the damn things flashing in rainbow colors and it still wouldn't change the fact that the legacy code I'm going over was done by a sloppy piece of shit who never wrote any comments in the first place, or who wrote cryptic/indecipherable comments that would take a linguist 10 years to translate into meaningful English.
Cryptic and indecipherable!? That's terrible, I on the other hand have the luxury of dealing with comments that are completely understandable and where I know exactly what they mean. For example, the stellar programmer that wrote the legacy code I'm dealing with has hundreds of comments scattered about his code. In fact he has commented a majority of his function calls. Oh, here's one now, we call the function named getProductValues and we have helpfully commented it with get the product values - isn't that great?
Now if the function didn't also add the item to the shopping cart and set about 30 session variables (only 2 or 3 of which are ever used), it might actually be useful. That and the fact that those types of comments are the only comments in the code. But when we declare the variable xCrfz do we comment that cryptic piece of crap.... hell no!!
Because, if you're not kidding, I need to pick my jaw up off the floor. You seem to be saying that people can do whatever the majority wants to do...
Your entire argument essentially says that we should only teach what the majority of the people want to be taught. So after we institute your plan we can go to any third grade class in the country and find such interesting subjects as the best Pokemon cards and what is the best show on Disney. When we get to high school we'll need completely separate curriculum for boys and girls since they will never agree on what to study.
I'm sure it never crossed your mind that the purpose of education is to teach people things that they may not know, regardless of whether or not they want to learn them. You're saying that people should not be taught what it basically accepted as true simply because they don't want to hear it? Holy crap, you better not let any fifth graders hear that or they'll riot in math class and demand to be instructed on skateboarding and bike riding.
I once had a huge wild duck pig-out with a hunter friend of mine.
So you were out with a friend of yours who is a hunter and you had wild duck pig. I've never seen a duck pig, does that mean that 'when pigs fly' isn't far off?
That makes sense, unless of course the problem is that there is no water to be found, untreated or otherwise.
In a lot of the places in question the problem is that they can't treat the water to being with, regardless of what they are doing with it. So a better toilet may help in making the untreated water they have to drink a little more sanitary by removing at least that source of pollution.
I set up an account several years ago. Made a couple of dozen tweets and then realized that, not only did no one care about my tweets, but that there was no one that I could conceivably think of that I would care about that much to want to read everything they did. And for people that subscribe, or whatever it is, to more than one or two others must have no time in their day to do anything but read what is probably mostly drivel that is written by someone else who knows full well that no one really cares about what they writing.
I would even go so far as to say that the more skewed and outrageous the better from their standpoint. News, especially broadcast news has become so centered on ratings that the more wild, outlandish, or seemingly completely unbelievable the story the more likely they are to run it. And not only run but use it in all their commercials for the day, mention it prior to every commercial break during the actual broadcast, then finally air it as the very last thing so that when the viewers find out that is was complete and utter crap, it is too late for them to change channels.
Which is why I can't remember the last time I watched news on tv - instead I get it all from/.:)
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No, it's negative publicity what's illegal. If you want people to buy your stuff, promote it. Don't put the others down.
Dude, have you ever seen one of our political campaigns? Any law like that has exactly zero chance of ever getting passed here. Or the politicians would need to actually campaign on their own values and accomplishments and not by trying to manipulate the truth and facts so that no one has any idea of who said what or went where. Plus it would put all the super pacs out of business and also it wou-* ... oh....
err, Sorry ....
...got carried away
Please carry on with the topic at hand
I hope that the first life on Mars that curiosity finds is a cat, and that it runs it over and kills it ...
I agree with some of the posts above, this isn't well thought out
They're also going to have to provide support for the readers they lend out. Some things are pretty straight forward but others are not. Like when you start getting into DRM issues and they need to set up an Adobe account for the epub books. Or if the reader they are lending has special software needed on a PC to download books, unless they will only be pre-loaded. What about the first time someone leaves a book on the reader they just returned and little 8 year old Joey is the next one to use it? Joey's parents may not be too happy with his new vocabulary. How about when they start coming back broken, will they be quick to replace them? How long will their insurance company put up with it?
As others have mentioned it sounds good initially, but a better idea would be a space in the library where people could sit and use a reader to see if they like it. Corporate sponsorship would work well here and give the library a chance to market its ebook collection.
Yea!! And I'm not an asshole ....
errr ... wait a minute .....
....
damn it
Huckabee:
We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a place where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability?
And what does that have to with what happened other than it happened in a school? Or is he trying to say the lack of religion in schools that the shooter attended is the reason he did it.
Sometimes there isn't a reason other than that he was fucked in the head, it doesn't have to be about religion, or gun control, or video games, or getting spanked as a child ... maybe he was just nuts.
But people wont accept that, all these people are going to come climbing out of the woodwork now espousing their own private crusade and how if we do what they say everything will be all right.
There are millions of people out there that play violent video games, if they are the cause I would expect to see more things like this happening, same thing with gun owners, people that don't go to church, people that drink alcohol, people that smoke dope, do drugs, like cats more than dogs, and whatever else you want to bring up.
The charges will need to be small so first they'll all ring so people are holding them to their heads before they detonate.
You have to abide laws everywhere in the world. This includes abiding Chinese laws if you want to do business there. China has many gigantic internet companies that tailor their sites and products specifically to Chinese market and they are doing just fine.
Laws? What part of the OP mentioned laws? In what way is any of what you said related to the disruptions?
That, if 10 people are willing to buy the game at $60, 20 would be willing to buy it at $50, 30 at $40, etc.
That's all well and good if they are out to maximize sales, but what they really want is to max out their profit and to get profit you need to take into account the cost to produce the games (and a bunch of other stuff as well). So if the cost to create them is $40 and they sell 10 of them for $60, they've made $200 profit on revenue of $600. If they sell 20 at $50, they made $200 profit on revenue of $1000. If they sell the 30 at $40 then they break even, and it goes down hill from there.
It's easy to say they'll sell more if they lower the price, but without knowing what it costs to create the game you can't know where the optimum price point is. They know what it costs to create and they, and all the other game manufacturers out there, spend boat loads of money figuring out the exact price point to maximize their profits.
Console prices, likewise. Most times they are sold at a loss anyway, but the sales from these lower prices alone would get back considerable lost profits.
Wait ... what? Selling more for even less gets back lost profits? No, that might increase revenue, but it would make profits worse.
I agree that prices need to come down but until they stop trying to shove everything into the consoles that they can think of it will never happen. And to a certain extent there is still demand for the absolute best possible console, eventually they'll find the point at which wont want to pay more and the console prices will drop, or at least stop rising, but we haven't hit it yet.
I agree that game prices are too high, my limit was the $40 to $50 range, the $60 ones are not worth it, I'll wait 6 month for them to come down in price, or rent them for a fraction of the price. Again, the problem is that people are willing to fork over $60 for a game so where is the incentive to make them cheaper? Sure, they might sell more, but they seem to be pretty happy with the money their making now.
I didn't even know they had an app store, I guess that's because "store" implies buying and I wouldn't pay for the crap they offer.
One of the first things I tried to do with my phone was get rid of the preloaded stuff they put on it, I didn't want to root it so they had to stay. I can't think of one of them is even half as good as the Google default ones or the vast majority of the ones available in play store.
I don't need the space, but I'd love to see these disappear from my phone, even if I have to take it in to the Verizon store, I'd go in a heartbeat
Actually, it says:
Notice of intent to build a hyperspace express route is hereby given to the peoples of earth.
Plans and demolition orders may be viewed at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri.
Thank you,
Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council
Aggregate sites do drive viewers to articles, but it may be that they are driving them in a way that is not profitable for the news sites themselves.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there is no difference between one person staying on the site and viewing 10 pages vs 10 separate people viewing a single page each. I'd even be willing to bet that the news sites get more out of it than google does. When I go to google news I usually hit the page one time, scroll through it and click on whatever articles interest me. Those sites all open in another tab/window, the google news page doesn't change or refresh so I'm only giving them a single hit, while the news sites are all getting one. I don't see the inequity.
I'm of the opinion that the vast majority of news articles are pretty much the same across news sites anyway and I really don't care (too much) where I'm reading it from, so I don't go out of my way to remember any specific ones. If they are at the top of the pile on google, well then, they're the one that gets clicked. and if they aren't listed, they'll never get my click. If it weren't for google I wouldn't even know they existed, I'd end up at some small number news sites that I could remember and found reasonably unbiased, odds are it would be one of the big name sites, or more than one just to add a little balance. While that is great for the foxnews and cnns of the world, it is not so good for eastNowhereActionnews. But, hey, if they want to go it without google, more power to them, there are probably a couple of dozen people there that know their url and will visit it.
I have always wondered how the Belgians felt about our labeling their dish as "French fries"? If I was Belgian I kind of think that would annoy me.
Yes, but we gave them the credit for those big waffles, so it's all good.
...seven of which weren't previously known to have been zero-days
Aren't all attacks and exploits zero-days, at least on the first day?
You're absolutely right, not everyone has the cash to purchase even inexpensive things outright, however, going through the rental companies is an absolutely horrible idea. I've never rented from one myself but was close quite some time ago when my girlfriend of the time and I were thinking of renting one of those cool video cassette player things... Even with their rent to own programs the amount of money you will end up spending is often three or four times the cost of the buying the product outright. Sure it is spread over time but even then the payments are not as low as you may think.
Have you ever seen any of their adds, did you notice how inexpensive it all sounds, a computer rental for $8, a desk for it for $4, even a nice comfy chair for a few bucks more. However, if you look at the small print, these prices are the weekly rates, by the time you total it all up and add in whatever other fees they tack on, I would bet you're at the point where you could save your money for a few months and go buy your own.
They suck you in with the glossy adds and the seemingly low rates, then when you find out the truth your sitting in the store with the shiny new PC in front of you and it's quite hard to turn down. After all, you only need to pay the rental for a year or two and it'll be yours. People that get sucked into these things and the payday loans are just widening the gap you mentioned
You could have the damn things flashing in rainbow colors and it still wouldn't change the fact that the legacy code I'm going over was done by a sloppy piece of shit who never wrote any comments in the first place, or who wrote cryptic/indecipherable comments that would take a linguist 10 years to translate into meaningful English.
Cryptic and indecipherable!? That's terrible, I on the other hand have the luxury of dealing with comments that are completely understandable and where I know exactly what they mean. For example, the stellar programmer that wrote the legacy code I'm dealing with has hundreds of comments scattered about his code. In fact he has commented a majority of his function calls. Oh, here's one now, we call the function named getProductValues and we have helpfully commented it with get the product values - isn't that great?
Now if the function didn't also add the item to the shopping cart and set about 30 session variables (only 2 or 3 of which are ever used), it might actually be useful. That and the fact that those types of comments are the only comments in the code. But when we declare the variable xCrfz do we comment that cryptic piece of crap .... hell no!!
Most of the women I know are either depressed or angry all the time.
And the common factor is ..... :)
sorry, had to!
Um, a sportbike isn't going to do much damage. That's obvious. Mass matters.
Velocity does too and hurling down the road at 120 mph makes up for a lot of mass
Of course their tablets are skinny, if their half the size then ..... errrr ... nevermind
Because, if you're not kidding, I need to pick my jaw up off the floor. You seem to be saying that people can do whatever the majority wants to do ...
Your entire argument essentially says that we should only teach what the majority of the people want to be taught. So after we institute your plan we can go to any third grade class in the country and find such interesting subjects as the best Pokemon cards and what is the best show on Disney. When we get to high school we'll need completely separate curriculum for boys and girls since they will never agree on what to study.
I'm sure it never crossed your mind that the purpose of education is to teach people things that they may not know, regardless of whether or not they want to learn them. You're saying that people should not be taught what it basically accepted as true simply because they don't want to hear it? Holy crap, you better not let any fifth graders hear that or they'll riot in math class and demand to be instructed on skateboarding and bike riding.
I once had a huge wild duck pig-out with a hunter friend of mine.
So you were out with a friend of yours who is a hunter and you had wild duck pig. I've never seen a duck pig, does that mean that 'when pigs fly' isn't far off?
That's ok, you only need to eat them
That makes sense, unless of course the problem is that there is no water to be found, untreated or otherwise.
In a lot of the places in question the problem is that they can't treat the water to being with, regardless of what they are doing with it. So a better toilet may help in making the untreated water they have to drink a little more sanitary by removing at least that source of pollution.
I set up an account several years ago. Made a couple of dozen tweets and then realized that, not only did no one care about my tweets, but that there was no one that I could conceivably think of that I would care about that much to want to read everything they did. And for people that subscribe, or whatever it is, to more than one or two others must have no time in their day to do anything but read what is probably mostly drivel that is written by someone else who knows full well that no one really cares about what they writing.
It reminds me of this demotivator, it's for blogging but it still applies, http://www.despair.com/blogging.html
I would even go so far as to say that the more skewed and outrageous the better from their standpoint. News, especially broadcast news has become so centered on ratings that the more wild, outlandish, or seemingly completely unbelievable the story the more likely they are to run it. And not only run but use it in all their commercials for the day, mention it prior to every commercial break during the actual broadcast, then finally air it as the very last thing so that when the viewers find out that is was complete and utter crap, it is too late for them to change channels.
Which is why I can't remember the last time I watched news on tv - instead I get it all from /. :)