The reason things like PCs and laptops have gone down in price so much is due to overzealous price-cutting that has lead to razor-thin profit margins and that they are heavily subsidized by the people who pay to get the crapware pre-installed on those machines and from various other kickbacks from their suppliers.
$40 is the 6 months introductory price, after that it goes up to $55 per month.
Nope, it wasn't a 6 month price. Secondly, even if it was you can always call them and get them to give you the promotional price for the service so your rate doesn't go up. This is quite simple to do which is why I don't even pay 50 bucks for 15/2 service. If you are paying more than $40 a month you're doing it wrong.
I just looked up what Time Warner offers in Rochester and you can get 10 mbps service for only $40 a month. You're apparently doing something wrong if you are paying $55 for 3mbps.
So why have prices of laptops and cameras dropped? Are their manufacturers just stupid?
In many cases, yes. Many of the OEMs have basically reduced the laptop/desktop market into having razor-thin margins in trying to compete for marketshare.
In what city are you paying $55 for only 3mbps? In pretty much any city around where I live the 7mbps package is only around 40 bucks. Hell $55 is more than I pay for the 15/2 package.
You do realize that all you've done is try to deflect the point, right? How many other bands followed what Radiohead did? Are they more than you can count on one hand?
So DRM and laws that erode privacy are loved by many?
Actually, yes. There are many people who love these things. There are also many people who are apathetic to them. You need to step out of the slashdot bubble a bit more often.
Yes, it does not make it ground zero. As I said, the term "ground zero" has a very specific meaning which the area where this mosque/community center is being built does not meet.
J#/C# are based on C and C++ - which are free and open...
No, J# is based directly on Java and was created specifically to try to get Java developers to jump to.NET by having a very similar syntax. Secondly, the implication made by the person I was responding to is the usual claims that C# and.NET are just ripoffs of Java (despite the fact that Java is derivative itself and isn't really novel).
.NET is based on various technologies some of which are FOSS (most were not)
And what were those FOSS technologies?
IE7 was Microsoft's attempt at catching up with the *standards*, and with features on *many* other browsers
Which is not the same as "cloning" a piece of FOSS like the GP had claimed. The implication of bringing up IE7 was their attempt to claim that IE7 ripped off Firefox and yet all of Firefox's features were implemented in the proprietary Opera browser first. So that again is a fail.
Sharepoint is an integrated system most of the parts of which were originally FOSS ideas,
But that's not the same claim. The GP claimed that Sharepoint was a "clone" of a piece of FOSS software. Care to name what these amorphous "FOSS ideas" were? Oh and it has to be from a piece of software that was actually widely known.
The seem to ignore the real commercial pirates that might actually be "stealing" paying customers from the industry.
They only "seem" to be ignoring these people because either the stories don't make a frontpage headline or you are just being willfully ignorant. The MPAA/RIAA go after commercial pirates, such as Hong Kong and Russian bootleggers, on a regular basis.
The first 3 are probably jabs at being clones of Java but ignoring the fact that Java wasn't open source at the time they were created. The IE7 thing is probably him trying to claim that IE7 ripped off Firefox despite the fact that the features he is going to claim that were ripped off from Firefox were actually first implemented in the proprietary Opera browser. With Sharepoint and ForeFront he is probably going to claim that some FOSS project that 3 people have ever heard of may have implemented similar features and thus this is "M$" cloning them.
J# C# Oh, hell... let's just say most of.NET and be done with it. Continuing..
Except that Java wasn't open source at the time and thus none of those are clones of FOSS software? Oh is this ignoring the fact that Java 6 and 7 have blatantly copied features out of C# and.NET?
The rest of what you quote is pretty lame. If that's the best you can do for your claims that proprietary software is "often" a clone of a FOSS product your claims are even more laughable now then they originally looked.
And that the site was damaged in the attacks, making it part of ground zero
Only by redefining the term "ground zero". Ground zero does not include any and all areas that has been damaged it only refers to the "point directly below an explosion". So no, it is not at "ground zero" at all.
Are you seriously so retarded that you can't think of a single scenario where someone might oppose the construction of a specific building in a specific location, and not have some deep-seeded bigotry against the entire group of people who use such building?
When pretty much 99.9999% of the people against it are because "those durn muslims attacked us!!!" your bullshit excuses ring very, very hollow.
How is it false? Why would anyone keep playing a game that has rampant cheating going on when you can easily and cheaply switch to the hundreds of other iPhone games?
You might have a point if not for the fact that the alternatives like FoxIt have had to patch their fair share of security holes as well (with a number of them being the exact same issue as spotted in Reader).
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The reason things like PCs and laptops have gone down in price so much is due to overzealous price-cutting that has lead to razor-thin profit margins and that they are heavily subsidized by the people who pay to get the crapware pre-installed on those machines and from various other kickbacks from their suppliers.
$40 is the 6 months introductory price, after that it goes up to $55 per month.
Nope, it wasn't a 6 month price. Secondly, even if it was you can always call them and get them to give you the promotional price for the service so your rate doesn't go up. This is quite simple to do which is why I don't even pay 50 bucks for 15/2 service. If you are paying more than $40 a month you're doing it wrong.
Except what you describe is crony capitalism not socialism.
Unlike most of Europe where citizens 18-20 have to go into the army or other duty for two years
I call bullshit. Please enumerate this list that encompasses "most of Europe" that has such a requirement.
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I just looked up what Time Warner offers in Rochester and you can get 10 mbps service for only $40 a month. You're apparently doing something wrong if you are paying $55 for 3mbps.
So why have prices of laptops and cameras dropped? Are their manufacturers just stupid?
In many cases, yes. Many of the OEMs have basically reduced the laptop/desktop market into having razor-thin margins in trying to compete for marketshare.
In what city are you paying $55 for only 3mbps? In pretty much any city around where I live the 7mbps package is only around 40 bucks. Hell $55 is more than I pay for the 15/2 package.
You do realize that all you've done is try to deflect the point, right? How many other bands followed what Radiohead did? Are they more than you can count on one hand?
No jail needed. A firing squad is much more efficient.
So DRM and laws that erode privacy are loved by many?
Actually, yes. There are many people who love these things. There are also many people who are apathetic to them. You need to step out of the slashdot bubble a bit more often.
Yes, it does not make it ground zero. As I said, the term "ground zero" has a very specific meaning which the area where this mosque/community center is being built does not meet.
J#/C# are based on C and C++ - which are free and open ...
No, J# is based directly on Java and was created specifically to try to get Java developers to jump to .NET by having a very similar syntax. Secondly, the implication made by the person I was responding to is the usual claims that C# and .NET are just ripoffs of Java (despite the fact that Java is derivative itself and isn't really novel).
.NET is based on various technologies some of which are FOSS (most were not)
And what were those FOSS technologies?
IE7 was Microsoft's attempt at catching up with the *standards*, and with features on *many* other browsers
Which is not the same as "cloning" a piece of FOSS like the GP had claimed. The implication of bringing up IE7 was their attempt to claim that IE7 ripped off Firefox and yet all of Firefox's features were implemented in the proprietary Opera browser first. So that again is a fail.
Sharepoint is an integrated system most of the parts of which were originally FOSS ideas,
But that's not the same claim. The GP claimed that Sharepoint was a "clone" of a piece of FOSS software. Care to name what these amorphous "FOSS ideas" were? Oh and it has to be from a piece of software that was actually widely known.
The seem to ignore the real commercial pirates that might actually be "stealing" paying customers from the industry.
They only "seem" to be ignoring these people because either the stories don't make a frontpage headline or you are just being willfully ignorant. The MPAA/RIAA go after commercial pirates, such as Hong Kong and Russian bootleggers, on a regular basis.
Wow, that's even lamer than your other post. That's quite a feat.
The first 3 are probably jabs at being clones of Java but ignoring the fact that Java wasn't open source at the time they were created. The IE7 thing is probably him trying to claim that IE7 ripped off Firefox despite the fact that the features he is going to claim that were ripped off from Firefox were actually first implemented in the proprietary Opera browser. With Sharepoint and ForeFront he is probably going to claim that some FOSS project that 3 people have ever heard of may have implemented similar features and thus this is "M$" cloning them.
J# .NET and be done with it. Continuing..
C#
Oh, hell... let's just say most of
Except that Java wasn't open source at the time and thus none of those are clones of FOSS software? Oh is this ignoring the fact that Java 6 and 7 have blatantly copied features out of C# and .NET?
The rest of what you quote is pretty lame. If that's the best you can do for your claims that proprietary software is "often" a clone of a FOSS product your claims are even more laughable now then they originally looked.
And that the site was damaged in the attacks, making it part of ground zero
Only by redefining the term "ground zero". Ground zero does not include any and all areas that has been damaged it only refers to the "point directly below an explosion". So no, it is not at "ground zero" at all.
Are you seriously so retarded that you can't think of a single scenario where someone might oppose the construction of a specific building in a specific location, and not have some deep-seeded bigotry against the entire group of people who use such building?
When pretty much 99.9999% of the people against it are because "those durn muslims attacked us!!!" your bullshit excuses ring very, very hollow.
How is yahoo still even ranked in the top 10?
Because lots of people still use their email services.
Except that the old-style comment viewer still has the years old pagination bug.
The GP was commenting to the person who had modded the GGP's post as troll.
How is it false? Why would anyone keep playing a game that has rampant cheating going on when you can easily and cheaply switch to the hundreds of other iPhone games?
If people are rampantly cheating even a single day can be enough to put off a huge portion of the people playing your game.
Because HTML rendering is exactly the same on every system in every browser? Oh wait, it's not and thus is not an alternative to PDF.
You might have a point if not for the fact that the alternatives like FoxIt have had to patch their fair share of security holes as well (with a number of them being the exact same issue as spotted in Reader).