My good man: When a ten-year old boy dreams about owning a car, is he more likely to dream about a cheap Fiat 500, or an expensive Ferrari model? Hm?
The low end of the PC market is a zero-profit business, subsidized by those more expensive machines. Apple have healthy profits because they stay out of that tar pit.
(De Beers sell diamonds. You would think that with experience in selling rocks to people they would also sell gravel, but they do not...)
Civ V for the Mac is sadly the DirectX 9 PC version wrapped in Wine, courtesy of Aspyr.
Blizzard do the right thing and stick with OpenGL for graphics, and so they can just plug in some native libraries for the rest. (DirectX has the advantage that it covers more bases than just 3D graphics - music, sounds, controllers, networking(?), 2D and 3D wrapped into one set of libraries.)
Also the steel tariffs erected by GWB to protect a few thousand steel producing jobs in the southern states, at the expense of the greater number of jobs in the steel consuming industries elsewhere in the States, which no longer could get cheap foreign steel.
Reminds me of when I wanted to update some software after installing Mac OS X 10.5.10, and the installer bailed out because it thought the version number string "10.5.10" was less than the minimum which was "10.5.8"... string comparison FTL.
Italy for instance, where "il Berluscono grande" tries to morph the laws to shield himself and his party as much as possible. Especially to suppress the videos of him happily singing Musolini-era songs at neo-fascist rallies...
Did you fail to register that this interrogation happened AFTER THE MAN HAD STEPPED OFF THE PLANE?
And would you also support mandatory breath tests before you are allowed to drive, in order to prevent drunk drivers? Or is harassment OK only if it targets other people than you?
Why not? I mean, did the multiple IRA and ETA bombings in the last century affect the lives of catholics in general? After the recent sex abuse scandals, did catholics end up on a "no-working-with-children" list? Why not?
Fox News and other conservatives tends to have a "negative attitude towards the West" as well (meaning western liberalism), instead exposing a moralistic view more akin to the Islamists...
The best known example from there is the story of Lot, his stupid wife who turned into salt by looking back on the devastation, and his daughters who got him drunk and had sex with him to bring him male heirs.
What, you suggest he should get a loan or talk to some VC dude? All software is financed somehow, there is nothing wrong by doing it his way, the people who actually pay (instead of being whining non-players like you) seem to enjoy it.
Um, none of the existing TLD "rules" are enforced by the registrars since they get paid by whomever buys a domain, and not the entity demanding they should say "no" to this money. Why should.xxx be any different? There is plenty of porn in.biz,.name,.info etc. already.
Hm, Sony was a bad example, I had forgotten they were an actual licensee... but the point still stands. If your device need sync software you write it, don't piggy-back on someone else's.
Well, they did get a hand all over it back when it was a (D)ARPA project. Or did you fail to notice that private enterprise did not actually spend the initial money creating it? They just "took it over" when it had matured a bit.
I wish the "get rid of Government regulation" politicians really went all in and removed all of it; then P2P would not be an issue since the "Government regulation" called copyright (with its siblings trademarks and patents) would be gone...
I am sure that back when PCs cost an arm and a leg (you know, when Microsoft started to get entrenched in the corporate space, and Apple in the creative space), people would not have minded that Commodore and Atari had defeated both. Soundly.
I mean, all the worshipers of the Redmond altar do not even know about the CP/M + GEM alternative to DOS + Windows, but think that without Microsoft the world would be void of any home computers.
Are you seriously defending the "cannot see the difference between a rocket launcher and a camera zoom lens yet qualified for duty" asshats? Is it not terrorism if you have expensive equipment? If Russia sold a few MiGs to Hamas would US nod approvingly and take them off the terrorist list since they now were a properly expensive army?
Yes, even a Swedish feminist apparently stated that this was the first time she had heard about Sweden issuing an international arrest warrant for this kind of sex crimes.
- "Hi, we recently implemented service-based fees, but as far as we can see you never use those metered services but always just connect via VPN to some server..."
Because the service they provide is access and bandwidth. It should not matter to the operator what "higher-level" services, like Facebook, that the subscriber uses that data bandwidth for. Subscribers pay $x for y GB of data, period. If the provider starts charging extra fees depending on what third party services you access, they are moving into becoming a leech on the services that are the real reason they have customers.
This tech enables something like if you have a toll road, but drivers pay a different toll depending on whether they are driving to a mall or driving to the beach. It does not matter to the people who are financing the road, just like where you surf should not matter to the operator.
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I can take you up on that: I have a case full, from getting one every time someone said "this will be the year of Linux on the desktop".
My good man: When a ten-year old boy dreams about owning a car, is he more likely to dream about a cheap Fiat 500, or an expensive Ferrari model? Hm?
The low end of the PC market is a zero-profit business, subsidized by those more expensive machines. Apple have healthy profits because they stay out of that tar pit.
(De Beers sell diamonds. You would think that with experience in selling rocks to people they would also sell gravel, but they do not...)
Civ V for the Mac is sadly the DirectX 9 PC version wrapped in Wine, courtesy of Aspyr.
Blizzard do the right thing and stick with OpenGL for graphics, and so they can just plug in some native libraries for the rest. (DirectX has the advantage that it covers more bases than just 3D graphics - music, sounds, controllers, networking(?), 2D and 3D wrapped into one set of libraries.)
Also the steel tariffs erected by GWB to protect a few thousand steel producing jobs in the southern states, at the expense of the greater number of jobs in the steel consuming industries elsewhere in the States, which no longer could get cheap foreign steel.
Reminds me of when I wanted to update some software after installing Mac OS X 10.5.10, and the installer bailed out because it thought the version number string "10.5.10" was less than the minimum which was "10.5.8"... string comparison FTL.
Trollbot is boring.
Italy for instance, where "il Berluscono grande" tries to morph the laws to shield himself and his party as much as possible. Especially to suppress the videos of him happily singing Musolini-era songs at neo-fascist rallies...
Hungary is the new Italy, Slashdot confirms it.
Did you fail to register that this interrogation happened AFTER THE MAN HAD STEPPED OFF THE PLANE?
And would you also support mandatory breath tests before you are allowed to drive, in order to prevent drunk drivers? Or is harassment OK only if it targets other people than you?
Why not? I mean, did the multiple IRA and ETA bombings in the last century affect the lives of catholics in general? After the recent sex abuse scandals, did catholics end up on a "no-working-with-children" list? Why not?
Fox News and other conservatives tends to have a "negative attitude towards the West" as well (meaning western liberalism), instead exposing a moralistic view more akin to the Islamists...
Or is that not considered fictional?
The best known example from there is the story of Lot, his stupid wife who turned into salt by looking back on the devastation, and his daughters who got him drunk and had sex with him to bring him male heirs.
What, you suggest he should get a loan or talk to some VC dude? All software is financed somehow, there is nothing wrong by doing it his way, the people who actually pay (instead of being whining non-players like you) seem to enjoy it.
No it is the "firing at civilians" bit that is terrorism. You are being dense on purpose I guess - you should sign up for duty.
Um, none of the existing TLD "rules" are enforced by the registrars since they get paid by whomever buys a domain, and not the entity demanding they should say "no" to this money. Why should .xxx be any different? There is plenty of porn in .biz, .name, .info etc. already.
Hm, Sony was a bad example, I had forgotten they were an actual licensee... but the point still stands. If your device need sync software you write it, don't piggy-back on someone else's.
Well, someone has no sense of humor. The anti-Apple brigade is strong on this site.
Well, they did get a hand all over it back when it was a (D)ARPA project. Or did you fail to notice that private enterprise did not actually spend the initial money creating it? They just "took it over" when it had matured a bit.
I wish the "get rid of Government regulation" politicians really went all in and removed all of it; then P2P would not be an issue since the "Government regulation" called copyright (with its siblings trademarks and patents) would be gone...
I am sure that back when PCs cost an arm and a leg (you know, when Microsoft started to get entrenched in the corporate space, and Apple in the creative space), people would not have minded that Commodore and Atari had defeated both. Soundly.
I mean, all the worshipers of the Redmond altar do not even know about the CP/M + GEM alternative to DOS + Windows, but think that without Microsoft the world would be void of any home computers.
Are you seriously defending the "cannot see the difference between a rocket launcher and a camera zoom lens yet qualified for duty" asshats? Is it not terrorism if you have expensive equipment? If Russia sold a few MiGs to Hamas would US nod approvingly and take them off the terrorist list since they now were a properly expensive army?
Which part of "unlicensed copying that does not deprive the original owner of his copy" do you fail to understand?
Yes, even a Swedish feminist apparently stated that this was the first time she had heard about Sweden issuing an international arrest warrant for this kind of sex crimes.
Well, there is a solution to that.
- "Hi, we recently implemented service-based fees, but as far as we can see you never use those metered services but always just connect via VPN to some server..."
- "Yes, how strange that is."
Because the service they provide is access and bandwidth. It should not matter to the operator what "higher-level" services, like Facebook, that the subscriber uses that data bandwidth for. Subscribers pay $x for y GB of data, period. If the provider starts charging extra fees depending on what third party services you access, they are moving into becoming a leech on the services that are the real reason they have customers.
This tech enables something like if you have a toll road, but drivers pay a different toll depending on whether they are driving to a mall or driving to the beach. It does not matter to the people who are financing the road, just like where you surf should not matter to the operator.
I am sure Sony would not have minded as much if there was an easy way to prevent these "owned" devices from accessing the services that Sony owns.