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Living Room / Re: Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2011, 10:03 AM »Warp was not necessarily the best option. And this comes from someone who used it quite a bit.
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Right now, Amazon is playing a very dangerous game. In that they are now setting themselves up as business rivals to existing publishers, Amazon could soon find itself out of the book market if all the big players decided to pull and go exclusively with Nook or Apple.-40hz (October 17, 2011, 07:13 AM)
I would like to further elaborate that AS trust becomes a commodity on the internet, the ability for small freeware authors to 'just author' without going through h*ll is lessened, and thus DonationCoder, by offering signing of donationware for donationware authors, could represent a substantially more compelling business model than it does today. You have the inherent trust, earned certificate trust, plus community exposure, as enticements. It would be a great platform from which new donationware could be launched.-db90h (October 16, 2011, 02:03 AM)
I presume this report of IE suggesting deletion of FARR (as it is "not commonly downloaded" lol) would fit in the forum?
FARR not a commonly downloaded program?-tomos (October 15, 2011, 02:51 PM)
No, because it is your fault for not having a digital cert... which costs YEARLY 1/4 of your reported MONTHLY operational costs. It is not 1996 anymore, the reality is every developer should have a cert. Sorry to be so harsh, just telling it like it is.-db90h (October 15, 2011, 07:36 PM)
How much is the cert? Maybe we can hold a special DC fundraiser to cover the cost?-wraith808 (October 15, 2011, 07:31 PM)
Like $79-$100 a YEAR (approx).. there is no reason for anyone not to have one. And no reason to need a fund raiser to get one since this is only 1/4 of the supposed monthly operational costs of DC. But, whatever works for you guys.
Yes, you could go find more expensive certs to buy, but I already told mouser last month where to buy cheap certs.-db90h (October 15, 2011, 07:32 PM)
as then Eclipse was slow and buggy, because of, amongst things, migration to Vista/Win7.Eh, what? I always had the impression it was slow due to being Java based.-Ath (October 13, 2011, 02:01 PM)-f0dder (October 13, 2011, 03:09 PM)
OK so I am confused what is the difference between background tasking and multitasking? On that basis music playing while you do something else is also a background task.Music playing *is* a background task.-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 06:49 PM)
And the iPad can do that (as can the iPhone). I'm actually blurring the terms intentionally, because they do overlap in terms of operational and functional use. Multitasking in terms of actual use is the situation that Renegade describes above, where you have applications open in the foreground and interacting with each other, either directly, or through your actions. There are degrees of this, and that's what fools us in a lot of cases, i.e. you have overlapping windows, and one the window in the back is still running- but I'd still term this a background task for the terms of actual usefulness. The interface is a bit more useful in terms of being able to move around windows- but that to a large extent falls under the reference category I separated above.The key iSpeak to me is:Most applications are not taking up system resources when running in the background and instantly launch when you return to them.
How can a 'multitasking' application use no resources? Ridiculous!-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 06:49 PM)
Example - I get lots of emails so open email app to download latest bunch of crap and then go and do something else while I am waiting - like surf the internet or read a book .....-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 12:37 PM)
But... (you knew that was coming)... If you have say a Word document and a PDF open, and you type in the Word document while reading the PDF, are you "using more than one app at the same time"?-Renegade (October 13, 2011, 10:34 AM)
But other than for reference purposes, or sharing information by drag/drop, no one actually works in more than one program at the same time-wraith808 (October 13, 2011, 10:19 AM)
I think that at the end of the day, we're mostly just quickly switching between applications and that we're never really using multiple applications, no matter what the interface. (Unless it's cybernetic, but then it's still passive...)-Renegade (October 13, 2011, 10:34 AM)
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Most of the cd content is downloadable now, and I scribble on mine, and find it more convenient to have a stack of books on my ipad than a stack of books on the shelf. I have some hardcopies, but they are becoming fewer and fewer. I do wish that more places would sell both for one price, though.Your eyes? I do extended reading all the time, and it's fine for me...-wraith808 (October 13, 2011, 06:15 AM)
Commenting on an earlier comment - I don't believe in eReaders of any type - I like proper books.
The only thing I would convert to eReaders for a time limited dsiposable books such as computer manuals etc. Trouble is this is the one area that all eReaders really stink at becaus the books aren't produced electronically to the same standards and a lots of books that come with CD utilities don't have them included in the eBooks - plus they cost as much as (or on occasions even more than) the hardcopy which is far more convenient to read and scribble on!-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 09:05 AM)
What do you mean by multitask?-wraith808 (October 13, 2011, 06:15 AM)
Actually doing more than one thing at a time (not just allowing you to swap between tasks but have background tasks dormant).-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 09:05 AM)
They are too hard on the eyes for extended reading of eBooks (one of the reasons I have heard people say they buy them).Your eyes? I do extended reading all the time, and it's fine for me...-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 04:06 AM)
Email attachment handiling is seriously brokenUnless you have a handler installed... wait, that's all devices...-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 04:06 AM)
They can't multitask.What do you mean by multitask? Look at things side by side? No... because all apps are maximized. Keep apps in memory and switch between them? I do that all the time...-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 04:06 AM)
Carrying and tethering a data-enabled phone to an iPad contradicts the convenience principle and disturbs the peace of mind, especially when you have to remember to worry about the battery status on your phone every once in a while.-lotusrootstarch (October 12, 2011, 10:37 PM)
I still have my phone that I can do all that stuff on too, so it's not like I'm "stranded".-Renegade (October 12, 2011, 10:15 PM)
But people need to stop thinking of it as a laptop replacement-nosh (October 12, 2011, 09:39 PM)
a little bird told me that these are the daily deals (in no certain order) though Steam/THQ might throw in a twist. the list looks alright, though that MX vs ATV game might be replaced with CoH
- Metro 2033 - today
- Darksiders
- Homefront
- MX vs ATV Reflex
- Red Faction: Guerrilla
- Red Faction: Armageddon
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
-lanux128 (October 10, 2011, 10:56 PM)