Comment Re:104Mb (Score 1) 85
Is FUD OO? Is there a compiler for Linux? Enquiring minds need to know!
Yeah, I'm rather sympathetic with Samsung here. The actual problem is with idiotic updates that break all the stuff you've finally got fixed from the last time an update broke it.
An update should fix the stuff that's broken, not break the stuff that's fixed.
In the same sense that burglars and their victims have a relationship?
Who wants to be Nate Silver will be able to make sense of the polls?
Maybe Nate Silver?
He has a site fivethirtyeight.com/ that interprets poll results, and other numbers in the news
Your model is basically saying that since the artists already did the work, "they're not losing any money or time" if somebody else gives away their music for free.
Yes, you can say that. After all, why should you ever pay any artist? They already did the work, so they aren't losing any money, right? People are merely using their work for free without paying.
Here's the problem: "recognition" doesn't pay bills. It's nice, it's flattering, it's great for the ego, and the net result is you starve. Apple's business model is that artists should be happy that Apple had decided to give their music away for free in order to promote Apple's new business, and they seem surprised that artists actually would prefer to be paid.
Here's a tip for you, for future reference in case it ever happens to you: when you're being told "you work for free, and maybe sometime later I'll pay you", no matter how good it sounds, the deal is always going to be to the advantage of the corporation getting the free work, and not necessarily for you.
Well, Apple backed down, at least a little. Good for them. Horray for Taylor Swift.
You Windows users are still using the command line? Why not switch to Linux where we have a choice of numerous UI's to suit every taste (and quite a few that propably suit none - fvwm95, anyone?)
You must have an iPhone. X is not the problem. And Google are deeply in the pit of hell as the rest of the problem makers! They, like all the other "high tech" morons, keep bloody reworking the UI.
If Linux is to have a chance, someone has to do a Gnome2/XP like interface, and not keep changing it. Serious users want drop down text menus with meaningful function names. They do not want wierd looking coloured blobs with no inherent meaning that vanish with each new release to be replaced by a completely unrelated, wierd coloured blob, that does something the same, only different. Nor do they want (Google, I am looking at Android Lollipop) something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy and doesn't work - for business!
For most non technical users Its like car manufacturers kept moving the pedals around with every new model. (They used to do that, till the governments stopped them).
You have no idea how many people have to go to classes to learn how to "press the left mouse button". If I were running a large government department, I would mandate "drop down text menus whose location, structure and font will not be changed for the next 20 years" for all software bids.
Who the hell uses "modern touch screen devices" in the workplace other than the McDonalds sales team?
Most workplaces use a PC for
a) Word
b) The Intranet
c) Some businesss specific Access app (probably for their timesheets).
Access to pron^H^H^H^H the internet is only marginally more available than in North Korea, and probably more effectively monitored.
Most workplaces are not doing software develiopment or research. They are doing actual work and that involves lifting and carrying, bending down, walking around and absolutely nothing that involves a computer.
"Most people" do cleaning, care work, cook food, drive trucks, farm, repair stuff (excluding those who do drugs and don't have a workplace at all). There are most certainly more supermarket shelf stackers than software developers. Hell, even primary school teachers barely use a computer, and that is probably still runnng XP in most state schools. Hint: Get out of the damned basement!
Saying that big record labels give artists a lousy deal is not a justification for Apple to want artists to give their work away for free to advertise Apple's music service.
Free trial periods are fairly common and standard though; not just for internet services but in everything from telecoms to consumer products ("If you're not completely satisfied in 30-days return it for a full refund") to drug dealers.
So, does Apple's free trial period have a "if you're not satisfied, return all the music you got for free without paying the artists" clause?
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
