They've actually failed to grasp the point of PDF. You might as well go back to HTML if your PDF reader can't render the same everywhere considering that was the whole point of PDF to begin with.
well perhaps "gone" is not the right word. perhaps "ignored, maligned, disregarded, and clinging to a tiny toehold in the market" would be more accurate.
Amongst nerds, maybe, but I still know plenty of people that use AOL still. Considering they made nearly $2.5 billion in revenue last year they must have some sizable user base left.
Great, my point has no bearing on whether it is a real quote or an interpretation. In pretty much all cases I've seen the aforementioned groups really only superficially know what Adam Smith said since they skip over or never learned the parts of his writings that contradict much of their ideology.
Non sequitur. Just because something is old does not precluded it from being advanced or the "most advanced" of whatever category you are talking about.
Several security researchers agreed with Microsoft's revisions, but a noted botnet expert doubted that the advice guaranteed a clean PC. But an internationally-known botnet expert disagrees.
Redundant much? Could the "editors" possibly make themselves look any more lazy and incompetent if they tried?
When somebody says that government can do things efficiently, and they use the postal office as an example, they should really go back to that premise and realize, that the US post office is out of cash
So it's out of cash yet it started the 2011 fiscal year with $283 million in net profit? If you can't even get that detail right then one can only imagine that the rest of your rant is wrong as well.
Great, so would you mind answering the question now? If it was such a burden on the telecoms, why do the ones outside of the US do just fine without being able to charge for incoming calls and charge less to boot?
If the situation was so dire why is it that the telecoms in most of the rest of the world seem perfectly able to survive such a burden and have cheaper prices to boot?
Wait. You're actually presuming that conservatives and libertarians actually read Adam Smith? From what I can tell most of them just read selected quotes of the parts they agree with and skipped the rest of the text which contained inconvenient parts.
It's funny how the left's tune changes when it's marijuana being smoked.
So then provide an example of marijuana lobbyist(s) trying to make smoking marijuana in public places legal while at the same time working to prohibit tobacco smoking in public. It should be quite easy, right? Oh right it's not otherwise you would have actually post some evidence to back up your claim. That's apparently not something you tend to do.
The cost of copying software is probably the least contributing factor to the cost of software so this argument thrown out countless times by slashtards is completely stupid. Secondly, increasing revenues is not what it's about. If they don't get as much profit through increased sales at a lower price point they will not lower the price. Despite what the dot com companies said you can not just make it up through volume.
Yes, it may increase revenues but increasing revenues doesn't mean squat if they don't get the same profit margin. The games are where the biggest profit margin is when it comes to consoles so unless that $20 dollar title has a larger margin than the $50 title you'll never see new games being sold at that cost.
So why doesn't the PC likewise suffer from drowning in shovelware?
You've not been to a brick & mortar store in years have you? The PC game titles section is usually 90% or more shovelware. The PC has been drowning in shovelware games for the better part of a decade.
What content? You just regurgitated the official blogpost with a picture lifted from it. You provided nothing of value other than driving ad clicks for yourself.
No, they just care about the fact that their plugins fail to work after an update because the version number was bumped for no good reason. If Firefox would fix their stupid policy about what you can set maxVersion to there wouldn't be any issues but at the rate they are going to bump version numbers they are going to continuously cause headaches.
Instead of the blogspam link you could have linked the official page that has far more useful information than useless article on the submitter's blog.
So AdSense and AdWords are open source? Their search engine is completely open source? Oh right, it's not and those are what make up well more than 90% of Google's revenue. But let's ignore all that and point out examples of things that Google has open sourced things that make up almost none of their yearly revenue and claim that that makes them an open source company!
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They've actually failed to grasp the point of PDF. You might as well go back to HTML if your PDF reader can't render the same everywhere considering that was the whole point of PDF to begin with.
And people say things that are completely wrong all the time. Cite the actual laws in Germany to back yourself up rather than relaying hearsay.
well perhaps "gone" is not the right word. perhaps "ignored, maligned, disregarded, and clinging to a tiny toehold in the market" would be more accurate.
Amongst nerds, maybe, but I still know plenty of people that use AOL still. Considering they made nearly $2.5 billion in revenue last year they must have some sizable user base left.
Great, my point has no bearing on whether it is a real quote or an interpretation. In pretty much all cases I've seen the aforementioned groups really only superficially know what Adam Smith said since they skip over or never learned the parts of his writings that contradict much of their ideology.
So then maybe the editors should actually "edit" the articles so they don't look so lazy and stupid?
So advanced, it's been around for 25 years.
Non sequitur. Just because something is old does not precluded it from being advanced or the "most advanced" of whatever category you are talking about.
Several security researchers agreed with Microsoft's revisions, but a noted botnet expert doubted that the advice guaranteed a clean PC. But an internationally-known botnet expert disagrees.
Redundant much? Could the "editors" possibly make themselves look any more lazy and incompetent if they tried?
When somebody says that government can do things efficiently, and they use the postal office as an example, they should really go back to that premise and realize, that the US post office is out of cash
So it's out of cash yet it started the 2011 fiscal year with $283 million in net profit? If you can't even get that detail right then one can only imagine that the rest of your rant is wrong as well.
Great, so would you mind answering the question now? If it was such a burden on the telecoms, why do the ones outside of the US do just fine without being able to charge for incoming calls and charge less to boot?
If the situation was so dire why is it that the telecoms in most of the rest of the world seem perfectly able to survive such a burden and have cheaper prices to boot?
Wait. You're actually presuming that conservatives and libertarians actually read Adam Smith? From what I can tell most of them just read selected quotes of the parts they agree with and skipped the rest of the text which contained inconvenient parts.
It's funny how the left's tune changes when it's marijuana being smoked.
So then provide an example of marijuana lobbyist(s) trying to make smoking marijuana in public places legal while at the same time working to prohibit tobacco smoking in public. It should be quite easy, right? Oh right it's not otherwise you would have actually post some evidence to back up your claim. That's apparently not something you tend to do.
The cost of copying software is probably the least contributing factor to the cost of software so this argument thrown out countless times by slashtards is completely stupid. Secondly, increasing revenues is not what it's about. If they don't get as much profit through increased sales at a lower price point they will not lower the price. Despite what the dot com companies said you can not just make it up through volume.
All the innovation is happening in mobile right now
Yeah lame ports of console and PC games and the vast amounts of solitaire clones, etc really shows a lot of "innovation".
Yes, it may increase revenues but increasing revenues doesn't mean squat if they don't get the same profit margin. The games are where the biggest profit margin is when it comes to consoles so unless that $20 dollar title has a larger margin than the $50 title you'll never see new games being sold at that cost.
If new games were $20 instead of $50 or $60, I'm pretty certain my game library would be more than 3x as big.
And how is that attractive to them when they will either make the same or less profit?
So why doesn't the PC likewise suffer from drowning in shovelware?
You've not been to a brick & mortar store in years have you? The PC game titles section is usually 90% or more shovelware. The PC has been drowning in shovelware games for the better part of a decade.
What content? You just regurgitated the official blogpost with a picture lifted from it. You provided nothing of value other than driving ad clicks for yourself.
Hell I would do (almost) anything to undo their acquisition of Sun.
Then you need to go back in time and stop Jonathan Schwartz from becoming CEO and running Sun into the ground.
Well it's good that they addressed the issue.
Yea, the average user REALLY cares about that.
No, they just care about the fact that their plugins fail to work after an update because the version number was bumped for no good reason. If Firefox would fix their stupid policy about what you can set maxVersion to there wouldn't be any issues but at the rate they are going to bump version numbers they are going to continuously cause headaches.
They've already updated the score for Preview 2:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 PP 2 231 6
That's 106 higher score than Preview 1.
Instead of the blogspam link you could have linked the official page that has far more useful information than useless article on the submitter's blog.
If it made no profit it doesn't matter if the site made $500 trillion in revenue.
So AdSense and AdWords are open source? Their search engine is completely open source? Oh right, it's not and those are what make up well more than 90% of Google's revenue. But let's ignore all that and point out examples of things that Google has open sourced things that make up almost none of their yearly revenue and claim that that makes them an open source company!