Well, PS3s prior to the Slim, i.e. only the first couple of SKUs. Since the PS3 mostly took off after the launch of the Slim, it could be said the PS3 was also NOT sold with that as a feature. Also, the ability was NOT in the PS3 at the start but was added as a firmware update even though there was a stated intent from the very beginning due to the success of the PS2 Linux support.
The ideal free market is a theoretical construct where an infinite number of customers have perfect knowledge about the products of an infinite number of suppliers. In this though-scenario, all goods and services must be sold at cost simply because a profit margin is a margin a competitor can undercut.
Profit is therefore a sign of an imperfect market. Which basically is what we must have, since the perfect free market is merely a theoretical construct. Suppliers and customers are finite and information is imperfect.
In addition, interactions are constrained by laws, but the significant effect of these lead to a meta-game outside the normal market where actors try and influence lawgivers to create laws benefiting their role either as supplier or consumer, even though the laws are detrimental to other actors, as if economy is a zero-sum game. (Which Adam Smith showed it is not, back in 1776).
Case study: After pressure from American steel makers, G.W. Bush enacted tariffs on European steel. This meant American steel producers could sell their goods at higher prices to American steel consumers, leading to a net increase in threat to American jobs since the latter industries employed more people than the former, and now faced an increase in manufacturing costs.
Initial money traditionally came from saving up "profits" (e.g. disposable income from labor) which were then invested; as money accumulated some started to give money to others to start a business, commonly because they saw it as benefiting society at large - or themselves for that matter. Direct profits in lending (interest) was earlier banned as "usury", though that is no longer as much an issue.
What wrecked the economy was when the banks supplying a "common" cache of investable money to the real economy (goods and services) started to merge with the "false" economy of number tricking, "betting" (insurance, futures trading etc.), speculation (e.g. currencies) and balloons (stock trading where the prices rise in a race between people who try and desperately convince others to buy them for more than they paid, until it stops when people relaize the prices are not backed by any real value and the balloon pops).
If the banks had stuck to the real economy instead of joining the fantasy-league of the false economy, then that little world could have crashed with no effect on the rest of us. But no...
Wonder what the opponents of "Obamacare" in the general public would say if it failed and they went to a private insurance company and got "Don't Care" instead... amazing how the Average Joe can be turned into a stooge for a lobby like that.
... and high risk means having the balls to go bust when you fail instead of running to Mommy State for a corporate handout, like the financial industries. Or lobbying them for laws to protect your business model like the entertainment industries.
But it also means that someone else gets to do what you do but cheaper and out-compete you later on - except that is a feature the free market which is the antithesis to capitalism and profit because profits is a margin that you need to "justify" to your customer by making them choose you rather than a at-cost competitor.
Medicare and Social Security should not be money makers but money givers. I heard one of Medicare or Medicaid had a 2% administrative overhead; given its purpose that is good. Please feel free to use private insurance if you want to sponsor CEO golf trips to Dubai.
It is more sensible to complain about Microsoft removing the last vestige of old DOS from Windows with the removal of debug.exe. Oh, pining for the direct binary edits of yore...
The "Other OS" feature was only ever present on the first generation of PS3s, so no big loss to the majority of owners. They have ADDED more features than they have taken away, features that benefit GAMERS not nerds who can run Linux on anything else they want to.
Government is what happens when more than one family wants to coexist without bashing their heads in. It arises because of the very simple fact that large-scale work is more economical than if divided into a set of small-scale work.
It's worse than that, as seen in the MPEG-LA "rumblings" about WebM where they hint that there might be infringements: Some awarded patents are so vague they cover many possible solutions when a patent is supposed to describe one particular, letting inventors do things differently and succeed with that. Plus patents are more like legal weapons where the threat of a lawsuit is enough to stop people who might not even be infringing but who cannot take the legal costs associated with a suit.
Are you seriously so brainwashed by Flash DUH-signers that you have failed to see how far HTML+Javascript has come? Browsers were able to play video using OBJECT/EMBED ten years ago.
Flash is an abomination on the web, but has its use for simple games and the like. "Most sites" do not rely on Flash for anything more than ads - to blindly rely on Adobe and Flash to remain significant is akin to relying on Ashton-Tate and dBase III/IV to remain the dominant solution for desktop apps. There is no benefit to other companies to keep giving Adobe business.
Since the "open" Flash is only "open" if you want to make dev tools and Adobe maintains a monopoly on making runtimes (Gnash does little more than open FLV container movies), "every other platform" excludes anything Adobe do not see a reason to spend resources on. No Flash on Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, the PS3 browser - the list goes on. Just because the few-ish platforms Flash runs on are dominant does not mean every other platform than the Apple devices has Flash.
Because iTunes has two roles: One as a music library and player (like WMP), and the other as a sync program for Apple's devices (like HotSync for Flash back in the day).
Other devices come without sync software but just mount as a remote disk, letting the tech-savvy user navigate cryptic folder structures themselves instead.
Playing a MMO is time consumption, not time investment. If you watch a two hour movie, the movie will end after two hours, you cannot pay another $10 to make it last longer. Nor is it like you can complain that Babylon 5 ends after five seasons with the argument that you have paid for the DVD sets and therefore demand a sixth season (no, Rangers does not count).
Games are entertainment products. Some "entrepreneurs" (eupheism) have found ways of monetizing that time investment, but by and large you do not get any more out of a MMO subscription that you get from television watching.
The point is that Glide implemented a counter-solution to the technical solution. So Blizzard could either keep playing the game of the automators or they could short-cut by going to the courts. And win.
Also, after this autoleveling has finished, you will have an army of inexperienced players (I have run into a level 60 who asked what the "trade channel" was) who will wipe pick-up group after PUG until they have entered the ignore list of every guild in existence.
YES it does make it less a crime since theft is a criminal offense but copyright infringement is a civil offense.
The "copyright infringement is theft" crowd seems to use the amusing logic that since they both are illegal they must be comparable. Yet they would not equate speeding with serial rape.
Please cite a copyright case where the defendant was accused of theft, then we can say they have been equated.
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Well, PS3s prior to the Slim, i.e. only the first couple of SKUs. Since the PS3 mostly took off after the launch of the Slim, it could be said the PS3 was also NOT sold with that as a feature. Also, the ability was NOT in the PS3 at the start but was added as a firmware update even though there was a stated intent from the very beginning due to the success of the PS2 Linux support.
Whoops, you are of course right. Be more awake next time I guess.
(Hum, she's called Khan but looks like Uhura... conflict!)
*extends hand* - Denny Crane.
The ideal free market is a theoretical construct where an infinite number of customers have perfect knowledge about the products of an infinite number of suppliers. In this though-scenario, all goods and services must be sold at cost simply because a profit margin is a margin a competitor can undercut.
Profit is therefore a sign of an imperfect market. Which basically is what we must have, since the perfect free market is merely a theoretical construct. Suppliers and customers are finite and information is imperfect.
In addition, interactions are constrained by laws, but the significant effect of these lead to a meta-game outside the normal market where actors try and influence lawgivers to create laws benefiting their role either as supplier or consumer, even though the laws are detrimental to other actors, as if economy is a zero-sum game. (Which Adam Smith showed it is not, back in 1776).
Case study: After pressure from American steel makers, G.W. Bush enacted tariffs on European steel. This meant American steel producers could sell their goods at higher prices to American steel consumers, leading to a net increase in threat to American jobs since the latter industries employed more people than the former, and now faced an increase in manufacturing costs.
Initial money traditionally came from saving up "profits" (e.g. disposable income from labor) which were then invested; as money accumulated some started to give money to others to start a business, commonly because they saw it as benefiting society at large - or themselves for that matter. Direct profits in lending (interest) was earlier banned as "usury", though that is no longer as much an issue.
What wrecked the economy was when the banks supplying a "common" cache of investable money to the real economy (goods and services) started to merge with the "false" economy of number tricking, "betting" (insurance, futures trading etc.), speculation (e.g. currencies) and balloons (stock trading where the prices rise in a race between people who try and desperately convince others to buy them for more than they paid, until it stops when people relaize the prices are not backed by any real value and the balloon pops).
If the banks had stuck to the real economy instead of joining the fantasy-league of the false economy, then that little world could have crashed with no effect on the rest of us. But no...
Wonder what the opponents of "Obamacare" in the general public would say if it failed and they went to a private insurance company and got "Don't Care" instead... amazing how the Average Joe can be turned into a stooge for a lobby like that.
... and high risk means having the balls to go bust when you fail instead of running to Mommy State for a corporate handout, like the financial industries. Or lobbying them for laws to protect your business model like the entertainment industries.
But it also means that someone else gets to do what you do but cheaper and out-compete you later on - except that is a feature the free market which is the antithesis to capitalism and profit because profits is a margin that you need to "justify" to your customer by making them choose you rather than a at-cost competitor.
I like free market better than capitalism.
Medicare and Social Security should not be money makers but money givers. I heard one of Medicare or Medicaid had a 2% administrative overhead; given its purpose that is good. Please feel free to use private insurance if you want to sponsor CEO golf trips to Dubai.
It is more sensible to complain about Microsoft removing the last vestige of old DOS from Windows with the removal of debug.exe. Oh, pining for the direct binary edits of yore...
The "Other OS" feature was only ever present on the first generation of PS3s, so no big loss to the majority of owners. They have ADDED more features than they have taken away, features that benefit GAMERS not nerds who can run Linux on anything else they want to.
What, there is disorganized communism?
Government is what happens when more than one family wants to coexist without bashing their heads in. It arises because of the very simple fact that large-scale work is more economical than if divided into a set of small-scale work.
Government = civilization.
Tell that to Premiere users. Hear the manic laughter.
It's worse than that, as seen in the MPEG-LA "rumblings" about WebM where they hint that there might be infringements: Some awarded patents are so vague they cover many possible solutions when a patent is supposed to describe one particular, letting inventors do things differently and succeed with that. Plus patents are more like legal weapons where the threat of a lawsuit is enough to stop people who might not even be infringing but who cannot take the legal costs associated with a suit.
No but it is patent encumbered.
Confusingly, it means the diodes are at the front instead of the back relative to the pixel microlenses.
Er, they are licensing out the trademark to Apple. Try to keep up.
5 Mpx backlit sensor (like newer Sony and Ricoh cameras have) means good quality, assuming the keynote demos were anything to go by.
Are you seriously so brainwashed by Flash DUH-signers that you have failed to see how far HTML+Javascript has come? Browsers were able to play video using OBJECT/EMBED ten years ago.
Flash is an abomination on the web, but has its use for simple games and the like. "Most sites" do not rely on Flash for anything more than ads - to blindly rely on Adobe and Flash to remain significant is akin to relying on Ashton-Tate and dBase III/IV to remain the dominant solution for desktop apps. There is no benefit to other companies to keep giving Adobe business.
Blu-Ray uses Java. Where do you see Flash in Blu-Ray?
Since the "open" Flash is only "open" if you want to make dev tools and Adobe maintains a monopoly on making runtimes (Gnash does little more than open FLV container movies), "every other platform" excludes anything Adobe do not see a reason to spend resources on. No Flash on Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, the PS3 browser - the list goes on. Just because the few-ish platforms Flash runs on are dominant does not mean every other platform than the Apple devices has Flash.
Because iTunes has two roles: One as a music library and player (like WMP), and the other as a sync program for Apple's devices (like HotSync for Flash back in the day).
Other devices come without sync software but just mount as a remote disk, letting the tech-savvy user navigate cryptic folder structures themselves instead.
Playing a MMO is time consumption, not time investment. If you watch a two hour movie, the movie will end after two hours, you cannot pay another $10 to make it last longer. Nor is it like you can complain that Babylon 5 ends after five seasons with the argument that you have paid for the DVD sets and therefore demand a sixth season (no, Rangers does not count).
Games are entertainment products. Some "entrepreneurs" (eupheism) have found ways of monetizing that time investment, but by and large you do not get any more out of a MMO subscription that you get from television watching.
The point is that Glide implemented a counter-solution to the technical solution. So Blizzard could either keep playing the game of the automators or they could short-cut by going to the courts. And win.
Also, after this autoleveling has finished, you will have an army of inexperienced players (I have run into a level 60 who asked what the "trade channel" was) who will wipe pick-up group after PUG until they have entered the ignore list of every guild in existence.
YES it does make it less a crime since theft is a criminal offense but copyright infringement is a civil offense.
The "copyright infringement is theft" crowd seems to use the amusing logic that since they both are illegal they must be comparable. Yet they would not equate speeding with serial rape.
Please cite a copyright case where the defendant was accused of theft, then we can say they have been equated.
Apple will make a netbook the day BMW makes a competitor to the Fiat 500.