That doesn't change the fact that TV stations *can't* raise prices. There are a handful of big advertisers, losing even one would devastate their income, so the normal tactic of raising prices at the cost of less sales doesn't apply.
Television stations do not 'pass the costs on'. They charge every last dime they can convince the advertiser to pay, regardless of what their costs are.
It's also very redundant. How can you have a simulation of something thats a product of bias in the first place?
The GPs suggestion, 'stimulation of justification' makes even less sense though. Either way he seems to be intentionally obfuscating his argument by using lots of big words.
They never say "I've plugged this scanner in over 1000 times and it's never died!"
Speaking as a help desk tech, they say that alot. In fact, its always worked before is probably the single most common form of whining the caller's do.
Its particularly amusing when someone is complaining they've never had te replace a battery/toner cartridge before.
A quick whois shows that the domain registrar is Godaddy, which seems an odd odd choice for a company as large as Microsoft.
Registered out of Kent, Washington to one Michael Sharp. A quick Google for Michael Sharp, Microsoft, shows this guy as holding or having held a bunch of management positions.
This may be legit, if its not, it was very well researched.
For 10 million (or more) dollars, I'm pretty sure Red Hat could make whatever they need to work work. The biggest advantage Linux has is enterprise installations that are large enough to absorb programmer salaries into the budget, and thus can customize the entire installation for a one time cost.
At the time in question, when MS first started bundling IE, an OEM could not. Microsoft forced OEMs to sign contracts that said they wouldn't install any competitive products.
Not entirely, Qwest gladly turned wiretaps and whatnot over to the government at first. It wasn't until bush expanded the warrantless wiretap program (apparently they wanted an entire neighborhood tapped) that qwest freaked.
Martian surface radiation is only 12 REM a year. Higher than standard on earth, but not significantly more than a typical coal miner gets. It's thin and pathetic atmosphere, such as it is, still blocks half the radiation that comes at it, and the radiation is halved again by the planet itself.
And Mars lost its atmosphere primarily because its volcanic activity ceased, and its now unable to replenish what it loses. The same thing would happen to Earth eventually, even if it was slower, without our own volcanoes. A magnetosphere isn't necessary at all, Venus has a very weak magnetosphere, resulting only from its atmosphere's interaction with the background/solar radiation, but it has a much thicker atmosphere.
People who buy what they actually need aren't that profitable. They don't buy extended warranties, or 4 gigabytes of RAM on a 32 bit OS for 5 times the market rate. Dell wants to sell to, well, the kind of women who find the Della site appealing.
Um, ground beef's 3.50 a pound here. Thats for the cheapest (and fattiest) stuff.
That means if i want to match that one dollar fast food quarter pounder, I've spent 88 cents of it on meat, and haven't even payed for the bun. Sometimes I can make cheap burgers, when all the right things are on sale, but not often.
The government agrees with you here, which is why there is an exception to the DMCA act for the purpose of enabling TTS.
Amazon allowing this flag to be switched creates a very real problem for them when it comes time to go after any DRM crackers who are bright enough to claim their tools are only meant for enabling TTS.
Except the actual ruling stated that he only needed to reveal his name, and that it wasn't actually necessary for him to produce a driver's license in order to do this.
Demanding a driver's license of someone who isn't driving remains unconstitutional, its the name, and only the name, thats important.
Um... these are their own systems. Note the 'dorms' part. I couldn't give a fuck what the colleges do to their own systems as long as they avoid censoring given points of view.
This isn't their game, at least, not theirs alone.
I agree that providing an incentive to download the original ROM is bad for Square, but there's an easy fix for that, make the modders release the fully hacked mod.
Of course, copyright law does the exact opposite here, they can maybe get away with releasing a mod. They definitely can't get away with releasing the original code too, even if thats better for Square.
Square is now on the list of companies I will not give money to. It will be easy to do too, just patience and a used copies of the games.
Nobody is saying you should get rid of direct X, the problem is that you can only use directX on windows, which provides an anticompetetive effect, anybody who wants to program their game for directX will have a harder time porting to a different OS.
The problem with the browser was never that it was included (Netscape was free after all), it was that IE didn't follow the standards *and* was included. You couldn't use activeX without having a windows server, and the way of doing things was changed even by people running other servers, to match IE, because everyone had IE. So if you didn't have windows you were locked out of swaths of the web. These days the browser war is a bit of a failure, activeX has died on the web for the most part, and MS has been pushed into implementing standards compliance with IE8. Removing the browser at this point would be pointless.
I'll agree the government has the potential to be worse, but at the moment, I've not heard of the government pulling insane BS like blocking everything but port 80 and 443 the way many college dorms do, or requiring that people give the government systematic access to their machines so they can check up on them (a common practice in law schools).
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Fuck if I know what 'epistemological justification' means.
In the context the OP is talking about, I'm pretty sure he means. "I believe X now how do I justify it".
That doesn't change the fact that TV stations *can't* raise prices. There are a handful of big advertisers, losing even one would devastate their income, so the normal tactic of raising prices at the cost of less sales doesn't apply.
Television stations do not 'pass the costs on'. They charge every last dime they can convince the advertiser to pay, regardless of what their costs are.
It's also very redundant. How can you have a simulation of something thats a product of bias in the first place?
The GPs suggestion, 'stimulation of justification' makes even less sense though. Either way he seems to be intentionally obfuscating his argument by using lots of big words.
They never say "I've plugged this scanner in over 1000 times and it's never died!"
Speaking as a help desk tech, they say that alot. In fact, its always worked before is probably the single most common form of whining the caller's do.
Its particularly amusing when someone is complaining they've never had te replace a battery/toner cartridge before.
Criticism of government employees (the targets of the douche bag comment) isn't political speech?
400000 visitors, an hour.
A quick whois shows that the domain registrar is Godaddy, which seems an odd odd choice for a company as large as Microsoft.
Registered out of Kent, Washington to one Michael Sharp. A quick Google for Michael Sharp, Microsoft, shows this guy as holding or having held a bunch of management positions.
This may be legit, if its not, it was very well researched.
I assume they'll use the new rapid charging battery tech. Pump the solar panels into some very big capacitors, then unload them into the batteries.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/battery-material-0311.html
For 10 million (or more) dollars, I'm pretty sure Red Hat could make whatever they need to work work. The biggest advantage Linux has is enterprise installations that are large enough to absorb programmer salaries into the budget, and thus can customize the entire installation for a one time cost.
Memorial day isn't set for the 25th, its set for the last Monday in may. The two do not coincide most years.
At the time in question, when MS first started bundling IE, an OEM could not. Microsoft forced OEMs to sign contracts that said they wouldn't install any competitive products.
Not entirely, Qwest gladly turned wiretaps and whatnot over to the government at first. It wasn't until bush expanded the warrantless wiretap program (apparently they wanted an entire neighborhood tapped) that qwest freaked.
Martian surface radiation is only 12 REM a year. Higher than standard on earth, but not significantly more than a typical coal miner gets. It's thin and pathetic atmosphere, such as it is, still blocks half the radiation that comes at it, and the radiation is halved again by the planet itself.
And Mars lost its atmosphere primarily because its volcanic activity ceased, and its now unable to replenish what it loses. The same thing would happen to Earth eventually, even if it was slower, without our own volcanoes. A magnetosphere isn't necessary at all, Venus has a very weak magnetosphere, resulting only from its atmosphere's interaction with the background/solar radiation, but it has a much thicker atmosphere.
Why would they want sophistication?
People who buy what they actually need aren't that profitable. They don't buy extended warranties, or 4 gigabytes of RAM on a 32 bit OS for 5 times the market rate. Dell wants to sell to, well, the kind of women who find the Della site appealing.
Um, ground beef's 3.50 a pound here. Thats for the cheapest (and fattiest) stuff.
That means if i want to match that one dollar fast food quarter pounder, I've spent 88 cents of it on meat, and haven't even payed for the bun. Sometimes I can make cheap burgers, when all the right things are on sale, but not often.
"Does that exception exist in the DMCA?"
The DMCA allows the copyright office to make exceptions to it (though the decision must be made again every three years).
The government agrees with you here, which is why there is an exception to the DMCA act for the purpose of enabling TTS.
Amazon allowing this flag to be switched creates a very real problem for them when it comes time to go after any DRM crackers who are bright enough to claim their tools are only meant for enabling TTS.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html - reference
More vulnerabilities and more exploits aren't quite the same thing though.
Except the actual ruling stated that he only needed to reveal his name, and that it wasn't actually necessary for him to produce a driver's license in order to do this.
Demanding a driver's license of someone who isn't driving remains unconstitutional, its the name, and only the name, thats important.
Um... these are their own systems. Note the 'dorms' part. I couldn't give a fuck what the colleges do to their own systems as long as they avoid censoring given points of view.
This isn't their game, at least, not theirs alone.
I agree that providing an incentive to download the original ROM is bad for Square, but there's an easy fix for that, make the modders release the fully hacked mod.
Of course, copyright law does the exact opposite here, they can maybe get away with releasing a mod. They definitely can't get away with releasing the original code too, even if thats better for Square.
Square is now on the list of companies I will not give money to. It will be easy to do too, just patience and a used copies of the games.
Nobody is saying you should get rid of direct X, the problem is that you can only use directX on windows, which provides an anticompetetive effect, anybody who wants to program their game for directX will have a harder time porting to a different OS.
The problem with the browser was never that it was included (Netscape was free after all), it was that IE didn't follow the standards *and* was included. You couldn't use activeX without having a windows server, and the way of doing things was changed even by people running other servers, to match IE, because everyone had IE. So if you didn't have windows you were locked out of swaths of the web. These days the browser war is a bit of a failure, activeX has died on the web for the most part, and MS has been pushed into implementing standards compliance with IE8. Removing the browser at this point would be pointless.
I'll agree the government has the potential to be worse, but at the moment, I've not heard of the government pulling insane BS like blocking everything but port 80 and 443 the way many college dorms do, or requiring that people give the government systematic access to their machines so they can check up on them (a common practice in law schools).
Dammit, ignore me, I misread some thing about 5 posts up.