Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 617
Quality be damned hard to sell to a market that's been dumbed down from Mozart to Miley. FTFY
Great, because you connected the two, I'm now wondering what twerking to Mozart would look like...
Quality be damned hard to sell to a market that's been dumbed down from Mozart to Miley. FTFY
Great, because you connected the two, I'm now wondering what twerking to Mozart would look like...
The current version of MacOS has fewer viruses because it is built on a solid foundation that isn't undermined by really stupid ideas about usability.
Which would explain why people use a PC to get actual work done.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier. Or perhaps that it wasn't noticed earlier.
Apparently you've never been mining in high sec...
Don't forget the content creators earn money through those advertisements. Essentially bypassing the ads, rips of the artists directly (if you can call YouTube creators that) and cost Google money directly for streaming for free.
ok....
I can't imagine the RIAA and the MPAA are looking at Microsoft with warm regards at this moment either. This is Napster territory.
Oh please...
Maybe they're just presenting the web site in a different way than intended by the maker. In how far is one obliged to follow the HTML standard when displaying a page? To run all the javascript? Get all third-party bits and pieces (e.g. advertisements)? Many Firefox add-ons change how a page looks like, by adding things, or blocking things. AdBlockPlus is a thorn in the eye of many advertisers, yet it seems they can't do much against it.
Call my argumentation ridiculous - I know it is. But it is that kind of interpretation is what opens up mazes in the law, and if you have your argumentation right, you may very well be within your legal rights.
Not ridiculous at all. If they had to leave out some *features* to get youtube to display correctly on their device in absence of an API, then oh well. "We have no objection to creating an app that will achieve Google's requests, but we simply don't know how. Despite out best attempts at negotiating, Google has thusfar been unwilling to share the details required to achieve their requests. We've simply created a patchwork browser that enables Youtube viewing in the interim."
The only thing I see going against them is the downloading function. That does require extra effort, and was perhaps included as a middle finger against Google...
If you can afford to replace the device being covered, than they don't make sense.
This isn't as simple an equation as you'd like to make it. You need to look at more then just cost of replacement. Look at your use (high-risk? low-risk?) and the terms of their plan (covers all, covers most, covers only slight warping during a full moon?). For instance, there was an electronics retailer that would offer extended service plans on headphones, even the $9.99 variety, for roughly $3.00. The store's policy allowed for items covered by warranty to be simply replaced if they were under a certain cost, say $40. If you treated your headphones immaculately, then the extended warranty is a waste like you say. But if you use them while jogging and destroy headphones monthly (though impact, sweat, etc) then the $3.00 warranty saves ten dollars (after the first instance) each month it's in effect.
It could be made into a flowchart along the lines of:
1: "Am I likely to need one or more replacements within the warrenty period. If yes:
2: Why.
3: Then compare the reasons to the terms of the extended warranty, and the cost of the extended warranty to the number of replacements you're likely to need. If it comes out "close", then you're probably safe in ignoring the extended warranty. If the cost of replacement is a multiple of the extended warranty, then it's a good investment.
4: Also, make sure the warranty isn't a duplication of the manufacturer's warranty, caught a few sales people on that one.
My rule of thumb is that the harder the sales pitch is the more likely it's not a good idea to buy.
I used to hold the same view before I put a couple years in at an electronic retail store. Corporate wanted us to push extended warranties, but often we simply offered them when they showed up on the screen, even though selling them would boost our paycheck.
There were just a few products in the store that I actually pushed the warranty on, simply because I knew the store policy would actually be to replace on the spot, or because I knew the product was prone to failure from past returns. In the second instance, the product were uncommon, very difficult to come by, so there weren't any alternatives, even at competitors.
For these products, I viewed the extended warranty as a good plan, so I did made a harder pitch then I normally would, because I knew the chances were high that the customer would end up using the plan, and then coming back to buy something else because they'd realize I was looking out for them. It was really less about the simple sale, and more about not having to deal with angry/upset customers down the line.
The unfortunate part is that for every salesperson out there who is actually trying to look out for the customer (even though it's motivated by self-interest), there's at least ten sales people who either don't know, or do know and don't care. If you find that one that knows what the hell he's talking about and tells it like it is, get his card and name, and stick to him til he moves on to another job (which he will).
As in Jeff Bridges in TRON? That's what this laser beam thing reminds me of. (but you probably mean the bifrost from Thor)
Note the subject. Light bridges are a common occurrence in many sci-fi/futuristic games.
Just don't load the pink scorpion.
Good advice for anyone in a relationship...
Here's a forum about this with screencaps: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550032 They show that in the first day 6,4% were genuine versions and the rest were pirated copies.
I wonder what's the average conversion rate. Usually not all who pirate buy the game anyway. How about demo downloads versus purchases? It's a neat trick they pulled, but I think some context would be nice.
Context from this example will be useless as it will be offset by people who do download the pirated version simply because of the press it's getting, regardless of actual interest in the game.
"Apache Backdoor in the Wild"
Am I the only one who initially pictured a rear entrance to a teepee in the countryside?
And when those who provide, create and actually work refuse to give those who are lazy and do nothing the fruits of their efforts what then?
You mean the robots? Either they become sentient, rise up and kill us ; or they keep blindly churning out manufactured goods.
You seem to think those outcomes are exclusive of each other...
...We may just end up having to revive the virtually-extinct trades of shoe-shine boys, gas station attendants, bank tellers and so forth, just to have something to do.
But incomes went up.
Yes, but for whom?
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
