The key part you are missing here is ILLEGAL monopoly. IM not going to get into a semantics argument about what level of 'monopoly' Apple holds. But LEGALLY, it is nowhere near a true monopoly in the context of the law. Having a walled garden is not illegal. Please dont confuse mindshare with monopoly status. Apple is in no way anywhere near 'microsoftian' levels of monopoly power, not by a long shot. If Android and blackberry didnt exist, then yeah MAYBE Apple could approach a monopoly, but then theres still Sony, LG, Samsung, HTC, Motorola most whom have at least some form of roll-their-own mobile OS. All of them make competing and viable products.
Apple's biggest effect on the marketplace is most often people REACTING to Apple, not Apple's actions themselves. Apple says 'We are reducing Flash's importance on our platforms' and the world gasped.
Your statement is the equivalent of saying he should not have books at age 4. There is nothing wrong with allowing a 4 year old to browse the greatest library ever.
Its also the first widely popular smartphone that 'jsut works' The iPhone IS an incredible piece of hardware/software. Its not as open as we would like, but that doesnt mean its not a VERY capable device. I carried a windows phone for 4 years. I couldnt even install ACROBAT on it without failing.
It is not a weapon of MASS destruction. Not to be insensitive, but 3000 people dying and 2 buildings collapsing with virtually no other collateral damage is very far from MASS destruction. Mass destruction would require taking out an entire borough at the minimum. Id rather chance dying in a fiery plane crash then live my life the TSA way.
SO you are saying because STEAM says the account has no value that it must be true? Rules and to a lesser extent laws are not 'holy'. They are constructs most often made by people who have vested interests in shaping law/policy. The 'rules' in this case are overburdensome and attempts to strip the purchaser the right to recoup his investment.
Aliens Vs Predator was a pure Steam game too. I dont really know why they even bothered with retail sales. First thing i had to do when i got home with my new shiny disc was sign into Steam to get it to install. For all tense and purposes the disc was/is completely arbitrary.
i think the 8800 GTX is anomaloy in pricing due to lack of finding replacement parts now, and how very poopular it was in SLI rigs. IT keeps value as a replacement part.
The electoral college exists as a check to Tyranny of the Majority. Contrary to what is over-emphasized in schools, we are not and will never be a direct democracy, nor is that a good form of governance at all. We are a REPUBLIC above all else.
Those options only became available relatively recently. Not to mention be cheap enough to justify. And then you have to bend windows to your will so that its not bugging people all the time as well as make sure your target customer doesnt have unrealistic expectations of what it can do. HTPC using windows is unreliable( in this context as compared to dedicated hardware) unless you are a techie, period.
Its a consortium of patent holders. Basically all the big video patent holders pooled all their patents into MPEGLA. THe specific part i was mentioning is that you can go buy a professional grade camera, but you can not use your video for commercial use without paying a licensing fee. The insidious part of all this is that you never enter into a contract with MPEGLA, its implied when you purchase a camera, even professional grade ones. THe takeaway is, a company you have never heard of can severely limit what you can do with equipment you own and video you shot because of a PATENT.
That is not the issue at all. First of all your PC might not recognize your TV, you might need drivers, sound might not work over PC HDMI, or you have to go to sound properties and change things to get it to pump sound via HDMI. Then you get to the whole mess of how to control it (keyboard in the living room is unsightly), updates pestering you in the middle of a movie, need a new codec, it goes on and on. So NO it not just as easy as snaking a cable from your PC.
I know all this becasue i spent the last decade trying to make a HTPC that is as easy to use as a plug-in piece of hardware.
MPEGLA would beg to differ. They can and DO dictate what is done with hardware after the sale. Even when the buying party has no formal contract with MPEGLA, they can restrict whatever you film with your equipment that you bought. Its wrong, it should be illegal, but so far they have been successful in cowing people.
Regardless of the business model, there is no place for this aggressive rhetoric. Microsoft needs to understand that when they sell someone a piece of hardware, it is no longer Microsoft's to control outside of allowing it on their network or not.
You have some misconceptions. Its not YOUR credit rating. Its a rating OF YOU by large corporations to ease in the evaluation in the best ways to fleece you legally. ITs a giant setup you ninny, all the corporations involved in your little story have 'treaties' with each other, not you. You are not the customer, you are the PRODUCT. I really like how you dig up BP in an effort to give your non-logic some emotional punch. Your post is like a teenage girl ranting into her diary. You may now commence the flaming, I got Karma to burn.
Its only yours because WE the people allow you to control it as an AGREEMENT. The terms of the original agreement are being heavily distorted by entities without THE PEOPLE'S best interest at heart. Be careful how tight you tie your own noose. If copyright was abolished tomorrow, mankind would still make art everyday, from now to the end of time.
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The key part you are missing here is ILLEGAL monopoly. IM not going to get into a semantics argument about what level of 'monopoly' Apple holds. But LEGALLY, it is nowhere near a true monopoly in the context of the law. Having a walled garden is not illegal. Please dont confuse mindshare with monopoly status. Apple is in no way anywhere near 'microsoftian' levels of monopoly power, not by a long shot. If Android and blackberry didnt exist, then yeah MAYBE Apple could approach a monopoly, but then theres still Sony, LG, Samsung, HTC, Motorola most whom have at least some form of roll-their-own mobile OS. All of them make competing and viable products.
Apple's biggest effect on the marketplace is most often people REACTING to Apple, not Apple's actions themselves. Apple says 'We are reducing Flash's importance on our platforms' and the world gasped.
Your statement is the equivalent of saying he should not have books at age 4. There is nothing wrong with allowing a 4 year old to browse the greatest library ever.
Why in God's name wouldnt you give him easy access to the greatest repository of knowledge ever?
Google is not purely a web company. They make hardware, they make appliances, they make physical stuff.
Its also the first widely popular smartphone that 'jsut works' The iPhone IS an incredible piece of hardware/software. Its not as open as we would like, but that doesnt mean its not a VERY capable device. I carried a windows phone for 4 years. I couldnt even install ACROBAT on it without failing.
Ive only ever seen his work as an actor and you can readily tell he is of above average intelligence.
Matter can neither be created or destroyed, merely transformed was the point I was trying to make. Considering the topic at hand, the phrase
"But those atoms were destroyed immediately after being created"
is a little out of place. I now what he was trying to say, it merely struck me as odd.
"But those atoms were destroyed immediately after being created"
Does not compute..
It is not a weapon of MASS destruction. Not to be insensitive, but 3000 people dying and 2 buildings collapsing with virtually no other collateral damage is very far from MASS destruction. Mass destruction would require taking out an entire borough at the minimum. Id rather chance dying in a fiery plane crash then live my life the TSA way.
WebOS is very open. Regardless of marketshare, it is a completely viable mobile OS.
I shouldnt have to be subjected o the DMCA either, but here we are.
SO you are saying because STEAM says the account has no value that it must be true? Rules and to a lesser extent laws are not 'holy'. They are constructs most often made by people who have vested interests in shaping law/policy. The 'rules' in this case are overburdensome and attempts to strip the purchaser the right to recoup his investment.
Aliens Vs Predator was a pure Steam game too. I dont really know why they even bothered with retail sales. First thing i had to do when i got home with my new shiny disc was sign into Steam to get it to install. For all tense and purposes the disc was/is completely arbitrary.
The USAF install has more then paid for the subsidy in free PS3 advertising. just sayin.
DO you not keep an offline local copy of your email? Around here we have another word for that kind of paranoia: Stupidity.
Nvidia already has those for high end professional rendering. http://store.nvidia.com/store/nvidia/en_US/pd/productID.49538800
i think the 8800 GTX is anomaloy in pricing due to lack of finding replacement parts now, and how very poopular it was in SLI rigs. IT keeps value as a replacement part.
The electoral college exists as a check to Tyranny of the Majority. Contrary to what is over-emphasized in schools, we are not and will never be a direct democracy, nor is that a good form of governance at all. We are a REPUBLIC above all else.
Those options only became available relatively recently. Not to mention be cheap enough to justify. And then you have to bend windows to your will so that its not bugging people all the time as well as make sure your target customer doesnt have unrealistic expectations of what it can do. HTPC using windows is unreliable( in this context as compared to dedicated hardware) unless you are a techie, period.
Its a consortium of patent holders. Basically all the big video patent holders pooled all their patents into MPEGLA. THe specific part i was mentioning is that you can go buy a professional grade camera, but you can not use your video for commercial use without paying a licensing fee. The insidious part of all this is that you never enter into a contract with MPEGLA, its implied when you purchase a camera, even professional grade ones. THe takeaway is, a company you have never heard of can severely limit what you can do with equipment you own and video you shot because of a PATENT.
That is not the issue at all. First of all your PC might not recognize your TV, you might need drivers, sound might not work over PC HDMI, or you have to go to sound properties and change things to get it to pump sound via HDMI. Then you get to the whole mess of how to control it (keyboard in the living room is unsightly), updates pestering you in the middle of a movie, need a new codec, it goes on and on. So NO it not just as easy as snaking a cable from your PC. I know all this becasue i spent the last decade trying to make a HTPC that is as easy to use as a plug-in piece of hardware.
MPEGLA would beg to differ. They can and DO dictate what is done with hardware after the sale. Even when the buying party has no formal contract with MPEGLA, they can restrict whatever you film with your equipment that you bought. Its wrong, it should be illegal, but so far they have been successful in cowing people.
Regardless of the business model, there is no place for this aggressive rhetoric. Microsoft needs to understand that when they sell someone a piece of hardware, it is no longer Microsoft's to control outside of allowing it on their network or not.
You have some misconceptions. Its not YOUR credit rating. Its a rating OF YOU by large corporations to ease in the evaluation in the best ways to fleece you legally. ITs a giant setup you ninny, all the corporations involved in your little story have 'treaties' with each other, not you. You are not the customer, you are the PRODUCT. I really like how you dig up BP in an effort to give your non-logic some emotional punch. Your post is like a teenage girl ranting into her diary. You may now commence the flaming, I got Karma to burn.
Its only yours because WE the people allow you to control it as an AGREEMENT. The terms of the original agreement are being heavily distorted by entities without THE PEOPLE'S best interest at heart. Be careful how tight you tie your own noose. If copyright was abolished tomorrow, mankind would still make art everyday, from now to the end of time.