Does this allow them to then upload said music and films to other people on the Internet ? I don't think anyone has really been charged for just downloading stuff yet, but for "Sharing" (distributing, uploading).
My friend had at times before seen her eat meat that had touched chicken without adverse effect. She could also eat duck, turkey without a problem. Like I said, It was obvious it was all in her head.
Nope we didn't have ER on speed dial. You know why ? Because it was blatantly obvious it was all in her head. You think her boyfriend would've permitted and laughed at it if he had any doubt ?
Reminds me of one of my friend's ex-girlfriend. She claimed she was allergic to chicken and that just the fact that chicken touched her steak would make her sick. She also claimed this was psychological because it had happened to her before. She went in the house and of course, I proceeded to rub a big fat piece of chicken all over her steak, on both sides. My friend laughed. She never got sick. We never told her about it, so it's a safe bet to assume she still thinks she's allergic to chicken.
The thing with the 100bhp/liter thing is that it only measures peak horsepower. As anyone who's not a Magazine car enthousiast knows, peak values mean absolutely nothing. What good is having a peak of 200 hp at 9000 rpm out of a 2.0L engine, if everything under 8000 rpm gives you 85 bhp. You should look at the area under the curve and not the peak. That'll tell you the whole story about your engine's performance.
All you wasted time looking up about the game isn't going to push sales, but to a few very hardcore players. New players either get it because they didn't play the older games, or don't because they are sick of playing the same songs over and over again. It's not the main series, so forget about sales being high, especially in the summer months, right in the middle of a recession.
What's been released in the last 2 months ? Guitar Hero : Smash hits ? It's basically a rehash of already released content, you can't expect record sales from that. The last big release in the genre was Guitar Hero : World Tour/Rock Band 2, and that was late last year. Big article about nothing if you ask me.
Recalls usually are done when enough incidents have been declared that settling litigation would be more costly than the actual recall. I bet GM already had much more than the 1/11,000,000 incidents Apple has in this article.
Because it takes actual effort to write and then post a letter to a major newspaper. Typing stuff in WoW while idling in some zone somewhere takes about 0 effort and relieves some of the boredom of just idling around in a zone in WoW.
Yes, you do need 1 guy to tank and 1 guy to heal. There's 4 class for each of those roles, so I'd say that doesn't make for very strict group configurations. But that's besides the point, I was saying some people think it requires certain classes for certain instances, when it's patently false. Take for example Heroic Blood furnace. People used to say you need a Warlock for banishes in there, while we just did it numerous times with numerous different classes and often times without a Warlock in sight. Heck, I used to kite the demons before the last boss as a Paladin with just high aggro and other people slowing them down (rogues/hunters/mages or even myself with the daze). But I've been thrown out of pugs (as a tank too..) for even mentionning "Let's get that mage and go, we won't find a stupid warlock and we don't need it". Of course, 45 minutes later, the instance was cleared for my new group and the old group was still looking for a Warlock.
The difference is between the sheep who can't do anything if it's not written on a web page, and people that actually can play. There's no such thing as a strict group make up, only idiots who say it does because Wowhead told them so.
Except iPods aren't in a monopoly situation. There is plenty of healthy competition in that market. The iPhone isn't either, nor is iTunes or the iTunes music store. In that scenario, it isn't illegal to leverage one product in order to make inroads in another market.
If I were you and wanting to get into the software publishing arena, I wouldn't go for either the FOSS world, the Windows world or the iPhone (especially not the Apple App Store saturated iPhone market...). Shrinked-wrapped, shelf bought software is not a big market, nothing compared to enterprise-grade, support contract, custom order software is. If you want to get into software, that's where you want to be.
What you say would be true, except for a while there, the buy 1, give 1 away program was so overloaded with demand that they just couldn't produce enough to meet the orders.
Except the iTunes Music Store isn't the only game and neither is the iPod. Amazon and Wal-mart have music stores that sell DRM-less music too. Also, the iPod isn't the only game in town either. There are tons of MP3 players in the market. Basically, Apple isn't stiffling competition in the Market, like Microsoft has done. It's not illegal to have a monopoly, it's illegal to abuse it.
That one is bull. I've seen a lot of people say "You need X class to do Y instance" or "X type group to beat Y boss". And you know what ? It's never true. I've always been very liberal in my choice of classes for groups, and if the people I was it were open minded enough, we never had any problems. I'd go so far that usually, all the problems were from people saying "We can't do this with X class". After we kicked those people, usually everything went smoothly.
Are you including the costs of having to support IE6 for websites in your FREE ? Because it seems to me that it has cost a lot to a lot of people in the last few years. Sometimes, the upfront cost is not the only thing there is.
No, the PC Market and the "Mac Market" aren't different things. A Mac is a Personnal Computer. One that isn't compatible to the IBM PC platform. In a sense, you could say that they are the only remaining competition in the PC market, with the Amigas, Ataris and all other offerings in the market having been killed years ago.
The fact is, a PC and a Mac offer the same fonctionnality. They are used to do personnal things like write letters, browse the web, read e-mail. If Apple disapeared tomorrow, you wouldn't really lose anything (except the last remnants of true competition in the PC market).
As such, Apple doesn't have to submit to anti-trust laws, since they are far from a Monopoly. Microsoft on the other hand is a clear monopoly in the PC Market, having over 90% market share. They have been found guilty of abuse of that Monopoly, which is against anti-trust laws. Again, these laws don't apply to Apple, and they probably never will.
Your view is flawed. You can have healthy competition that is ever lasting without any product ever becoming a monopoly of sorts. Maybe you've been blinded by Microsoft all these years and think the "Big monopolistic" way is the only way. Bitching about Safari ? Konqueror ? Chrome ? They're all based on the very same thing, WebKit, which is a collaborative effort. They compete on features of the browser, not on lock-in of the rendering engine.
In fact I am. Mozilla, even in RCs, had better support for CSS and emerging XHTML than even Internet Explorer at the time. In that period, I was using Linux exclusively as my OS of choice and I used either Konqueror or Mozilla as a browser depending on my mood. This was all way before Firefox was even a glimmer in the eyes of Mozilla developpers, and shortly after Netscape forked over their code base for the full rewrite.
There is no denying that there still was healthy competition in the Browser market at that time. Opera was also very much alive and a few alternative browsers did exist. Microsoft extinguished it all with its bundling of IE. So either you're ignorant of browser history, or you're a Microsoft shill/astroturfer.
Wait Firefox ? What about Pheonix and Firebird before it ? What about Mozilla, the Web Browser itself before that ? Mozilla RCs ? Sorry, but FireFox is not the first browser to come out of the Mozilla Foundation. You're basically rewriting history there.
No, it's not the case with Linux, at least not with Firefox. KDE uses KHTML and Gnome also uses an in-house HTML engine for all the help pages. But you know what ? That doesn't matter, people don't browse using a.lib or a.dyn or a.dll, they use a Browser. Just removing that simple.exe and letting people choose which browser they surf the web with is fine. Who cares what the Help pages uses or what application developpers use to display their HTML inside their applications. It's ok to have MSHTML.dll around for that stuff.
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Does this allow them to then upload said music and films to other people on the Internet ? I don't think anyone has really been charged for just downloading stuff yet, but for "Sharing" (distributing, uploading).
Copying (downloading) music for personal purposes is considered fair use in many if not all European countries.
However, most cases are brought on the grounds that the defendant has been Distributing (uploading) said music. Does Fair use also cover this ?
My friend had at times before seen her eat meat that had touched chicken without adverse effect. She could also eat duck, turkey without a problem. Like I said, It was obvious it was all in her head.
Nope we didn't have ER on speed dial. You know why ? Because it was blatantly obvious it was all in her head. You think her boyfriend would've permitted and laughed at it if he had any doubt ?
Reminds me of one of my friend's ex-girlfriend. She claimed she was allergic to chicken and that just the fact that chicken touched her steak would make her sick. She also claimed this was psychological because it had happened to her before. She went in the house and of course, I proceeded to rub a big fat piece of chicken all over her steak, on both sides. My friend laughed. She never got sick. We never told her about it, so it's a safe bet to assume she still thinks she's allergic to chicken.
The thing with the 100bhp/liter thing is that it only measures peak horsepower. As anyone who's not a Magazine car enthousiast knows, peak values mean absolutely nothing. What good is having a peak of 200 hp at 9000 rpm out of a 2.0L engine, if everything under 8000 rpm gives you 85 bhp. You should look at the area under the curve and not the peak. That'll tell you the whole story about your engine's performance.
All you wasted time looking up about the game isn't going to push sales, but to a few very hardcore players. New players either get it because they didn't play the older games, or don't because they are sick of playing the same songs over and over again. It's not the main series, so forget about sales being high, especially in the summer months, right in the middle of a recession.
What's been released in the last 2 months ? Guitar Hero : Smash hits ? It's basically a rehash of already released content, you can't expect record sales from that. The last big release in the genre was Guitar Hero : World Tour/Rock Band 2, and that was late last year. Big article about nothing if you ask me.
Recalls usually are done when enough incidents have been declared that settling litigation would be more costly than the actual recall. I bet GM already had much more than the 1/11,000,000 incidents Apple has in this article.
Strawman. If you put a kid behind bars even if he was no threat at all to anyone, do YOU want to be the one who explains why you ruined his life ?
He's not old enough to drink alcool yet. Also eighTEEN means he's a teenager, not an adult.
Because it takes actual effort to write and then post a letter to a major newspaper. Typing stuff in WoW while idling in some zone somewhere takes about 0 effort and relieves some of the boredom of just idling around in a zone in WoW.
Yes, you do need 1 guy to tank and 1 guy to heal. There's 4 class for each of those roles, so I'd say that doesn't make for very strict group configurations. But that's besides the point, I was saying some people think it requires certain classes for certain instances, when it's patently false. Take for example Heroic Blood furnace. People used to say you need a Warlock for banishes in there, while we just did it numerous times with numerous different classes and often times without a Warlock in sight. Heck, I used to kite the demons before the last boss as a Paladin with just high aggro and other people slowing them down (rogues/hunters/mages or even myself with the daze). But I've been thrown out of pugs (as a tank too..) for even mentionning "Let's get that mage and go, we won't find a stupid warlock and we don't need it". Of course, 45 minutes later, the instance was cleared for my new group and the old group was still looking for a Warlock.
The difference is between the sheep who can't do anything if it's not written on a web page, and people that actually can play. There's no such thing as a strict group make up, only idiots who say it does because Wowhead told them so.
Except iPods aren't in a monopoly situation. There is plenty of healthy competition in that market. The iPhone isn't either, nor is iTunes or the iTunes music store. In that scenario, it isn't illegal to leverage one product in order to make inroads in another market.
If I were you and wanting to get into the software publishing arena, I wouldn't go for either the FOSS world, the Windows world or the iPhone (especially not the Apple App Store saturated iPhone market...). Shrinked-wrapped, shelf bought software is not a big market, nothing compared to enterprise-grade, support contract, custom order software is. If you want to get into software, that's where you want to be.
What you say would be true, except for a while there, the buy 1, give 1 away program was so overloaded with demand that they just couldn't produce enough to meet the orders.
Except the iTunes Music Store isn't the only game and neither is the iPod. Amazon and Wal-mart have music stores that sell DRM-less music too. Also, the iPod isn't the only game in town either. There are tons of MP3 players in the market. Basically, Apple isn't stiffling competition in the Market, like Microsoft has done. It's not illegal to have a monopoly, it's illegal to abuse it.
How much were you paid for your post ? Seriously, the question of wether Microsoft is or isn't a Monopoly was put to rest 10 years ago.
That one is bull. I've seen a lot of people say "You need X class to do Y instance" or "X type group to beat Y boss". And you know what ? It's never true. I've always been very liberal in my choice of classes for groups, and if the people I was it were open minded enough, we never had any problems. I'd go so far that usually, all the problems were from people saying "We can't do this with X class". After we kicked those people, usually everything went smoothly.
Are you including the costs of having to support IE6 for websites in your FREE ? Because it seems to me that it has cost a lot to a lot of people in the last few years. Sometimes, the upfront cost is not the only thing there is.
No, the PC Market and the "Mac Market" aren't different things. A Mac is a Personnal Computer. One that isn't compatible to the IBM PC platform. In a sense, you could say that they are the only remaining competition in the PC market, with the Amigas, Ataris and all other offerings in the market having been killed years ago.
The fact is, a PC and a Mac offer the same fonctionnality. They are used to do personnal things like write letters, browse the web, read e-mail. If Apple disapeared tomorrow, you wouldn't really lose anything (except the last remnants of true competition in the PC market).
As such, Apple doesn't have to submit to anti-trust laws, since they are far from a Monopoly. Microsoft on the other hand is a clear monopoly in the PC Market, having over 90% market share. They have been found guilty of abuse of that Monopoly, which is against anti-trust laws. Again, these laws don't apply to Apple, and they probably never will.
Your view is flawed. You can have healthy competition that is ever lasting without any product ever becoming a monopoly of sorts. Maybe you've been blinded by Microsoft all these years and think the "Big monopolistic" way is the only way. Bitching about Safari ? Konqueror ? Chrome ? They're all based on the very same thing, WebKit, which is a collaborative effort. They compete on features of the browser, not on lock-in of the rendering engine.
In fact I am. Mozilla, even in RCs, had better support for CSS and emerging XHTML than even Internet Explorer at the time. In that period, I was using Linux exclusively as my OS of choice and I used either Konqueror or Mozilla as a browser depending on my mood. This was all way before Firefox was even a glimmer in the eyes of Mozilla developpers, and shortly after Netscape forked over their code base for the full rewrite.
There is no denying that there still was healthy competition in the Browser market at that time. Opera was also very much alive and a few alternative browsers did exist. Microsoft extinguished it all with its bundling of IE. So either you're ignorant of browser history, or you're a Microsoft shill/astroturfer.
Wait Firefox ? What about Pheonix and Firebird before it ? What about Mozilla, the Web Browser itself before that ? Mozilla RCs ? Sorry, but FireFox is not the first browser to come out of the Mozilla Foundation. You're basically rewriting history there.
No, it's not the case with Linux, at least not with Firefox. KDE uses KHTML and Gnome also uses an in-house HTML engine for all the help pages. But you know what ? That doesn't matter, people don't browse using a .lib or a .dyn or a .dll, they use a Browser. Just removing that simple .exe and letting people choose which browser they surf the web with is fine. Who cares what the Help pages uses or what application developpers use to display their HTML inside their applications. It's ok to have MSHTML.dll around for that stuff.