Contraception is something that allows you to manage the unexpected.
> In the olden days, by which I mean pre-Obamacare, you could indeed "pick and choose" what procedures and medications your policy would cover.
In other words, there are no standards and no concept of consumer protection. Corporations are just free to run roughshod over you. This could be your fundie employer or your crass insurance company that has an obvious conflict of interest.
You have no clue about Guilded Age you seem to long for so much.
> Who would need to take apart their laptop? This isn't 1994 - the things generally don't die.
Physical things tend to wear out eventually. This is especially true when you are cooking your electronics. Also, capacity needs change. Alternately, you might not want to pay obscene upgrade prices.
Modular industrial devices. It's almost like we're not living in the middle ages anymore.
> Wait, what? Doesn't pirating a movie require an internet connection? And posting on Slashdot, for that matter?
Pirating a movie doesn't require "streaming". It does not require that you have a constant, fast, and reliable Internet connection for the duration that you wish to watch something.
I have sufficient bandwidth to stream movies. I would still rather download them and be able to treat them as personal property if I have paid for them.
Game of Thrones is not available on Netflix when it is socially relevant. This is fine if you are a grumpy anti-social troll but probably sucks for most anyone else.
It's not available on the PPV services in a timely fashion either.
> Those living in a fantasy land find it pretty easy to conjure up a reason why stealing content is perfectly ok. "Tyrion Lannister would do it!" sheesh
More than 200 years ago, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would agree with your notion that copying is some sort of crime.
The problem with "doing the right thing" is that you've likely forgotten about it but the time that the industry finally gets around to accommodating you.
I did this with a TV series I actually bought. By the time I finally watched it, it had gotten to Netflix by then. Felt a little silly really.
The LAST thing that American corporations want is for consumers to learn how to engage in self-deprivation. Screeching Puritans are pretty irrelevant in this regard. The "victim" here cares about hard currency. Notions of "crime and punishment" are likely the furthest thing from their minds.
All he does is help inflate the ego of some media mogul that really doesn't need his ego inflated anymore. The actions of these people are nothing to base public policy decisions on.
Entertainment is a luxury good and thus subject to a high degree of price elasticity. Beyond the degenerates, there's some price at which they will buy. You just have to find what that is and be wiling to offer it.
For the Hobbit movies, the fractional value of the sale of a single piece of media to Netflix is all you will get out of me.
>> Windows is held in place by corporate fiat > > It's like you're a Fox News commentator.
The claim that "you would use something else" is simple bullshit. It's bullshit because history is littered with the corpses of better procducts that died for lack of interest. NO ONE was interested in better. The only thing that ever mattered is this delusion that you can use software from the office on your home machine.
If you were true to your word, Microsoft would be a long forgotten relic of history.
What's the religioun of shameless hypocrites? Assign that one to MS-DOS and Windows.
Some say that Martin Luther didn't know what he was doing either. He posts some intellectual ramblings on his local bulletin board and suddenly he has a full scale revolution on his hands.
Linus merely tapped into the zeitgeist. The path as already prepared for him by GNU. You could probably say the same of Luther.
The "bizarre religious conservatives" are why there's a black man in the White House right now.
As this survey demonstrates, the wingut contingent simply isn't that large. The kind of people that make a lot of noise and try to hijack the term "Christian" for themselves (and themselves only) are a fringe minority even among those that identify as "religious" in the US.
Creationists are a fringe minority even among the "faithful".
There was another version of this article. It took the "glass half full" approach rather than the "glass half empty" approach taken by Reuters. It also examined the numbers in far greater detail than Reuters did.
All in all, this is a great example of how so called journalists can twist the facts to suit any agenda of their choosing.
Slashdot pretty much latched on to the crappiest version of this article out there.
...the old "they can't have known" argument with a good dose of "how can something old be relevant".
The problem with both of those presumptions is the fact that human nature really never changes. The window dressing might change somewhat but people remain people whether it's the US Senate or the Roman Senate. The same problems of money and the concentration of power remain.
Some of the mechanisms they put in place 200 years ago make it pretty obvious they understood what was likely to go wrong. These often include the things most complained about as being out of date.
I'm still waiting for Intel drivers that are on par with their Nvidia counterpart.
Despite all of the noise made about Intel's cooperation, this is the first time we've actually had full disclosure from them. Prior to today what they offered was incomplete. It was all empty promises despite of all of the rhetoric from the political purists about how Intel does things better.
Someday, this might lead to a proper driver. Although Intel hardware will probably still be just as lame then.
Include this with all of the other use cases that Apple has classified as irrelevant. Of course should Apple ever change it's mind, it will suddenly become one of Apple's great innovations.
If this were seen as a Linux problem, such a cobble ware approach would be portrayed as an insurmountable burden that poor "Joe Sixpack" isn't capable of handling.
Corporations that think they need Windows for legacy apps are Microsoft's greatest remaining stronghold. If that goes then Microsoft is sunk. "Consumers" are already defecting to other Android devices.
Auto Update is no silver bullet. Microsoft's problems are far more fundemental than that and always have been.
They have spent their 30 years of market dominance trying to prove that cumputing has to be a dire experience. It's no shock that people flee them as soon as they they are able.
X haters have been stuck in their little echo chamber for too long and haven't been paying attention with what's being going on with the rest of the world. Their vision of something to displace X with is about 20 years out of date.
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Contraception is something that allows you to manage the unexpected.
> In the olden days, by which I mean pre-Obamacare, you could indeed "pick and choose" what procedures and medications your policy would cover.
In other words, there are no standards and no concept of consumer protection. Corporations are just free to run roughshod over you. This could be your fundie employer or your crass insurance company that has an obvious conflict of interest.
You have no clue about Guilded Age you seem to long for so much.
> Methinks if you can afford the new Mac Pro that you're not at all concerned about Thunderbolt vs SATA.
If I can afford a Mac Pro then I am probably running a storage technology that you haven't even heard of.
> Who would need to take apart their laptop? This isn't 1994 - the things generally don't die.
Physical things tend to wear out eventually. This is especially true when you are cooking your electronics. Also, capacity needs change. Alternately, you might not want to pay obscene upgrade prices.
Modular industrial devices. It's almost like we're not living in the middle ages anymore.
> You can't buy GoT on Blu-Ray where you live?
The current season? No.
It's Game of Thrones, not Breaking Bad.
> Wait, what? Doesn't pirating a movie require an internet connection? And posting on Slashdot, for that matter?
Pirating a movie doesn't require "streaming". It does not require that you have a constant, fast, and reliable Internet connection for the duration that you wish to watch something.
I have sufficient bandwidth to stream movies. I would still rather download them and be able to treat them as personal property if I have paid for them.
Game of Thrones is not available on Netflix when it is socially relevant. This is fine if you are a grumpy anti-social troll but probably sucks for most anyone else.
It's not available on the PPV services in a timely fashion either.
The Oatmeal comic strip covered this quite well.
Yes. Because that is exactly what American Corporations need: a population that's adept at limiting their consumption.
> Those living in a fantasy land find it pretty easy to conjure up a reason why stealing content is perfectly ok. "Tyrion Lannister would do it!" sheesh
More than 200 years ago, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would agree with your notion that copying is some sort of crime.
The problem with "doing the right thing" is that you've likely forgotten about it but the time that the industry finally gets around to accommodating you.
I did this with a TV series I actually bought. By the time I finally watched it, it had gotten to Netflix by then. Felt a little silly really.
The LAST thing that American corporations want is for consumers to learn how to engage in self-deprivation. Screeching Puritans are pretty irrelevant in this regard. The "victim" here cares about hard currency. Notions of "crime and punishment" are likely the furthest thing from their minds.
Smug moral superiority doesn't pay the bills.
The degenerate pirate is ultimately irrelevant.
All he does is help inflate the ego of some media mogul that really doesn't need his ego inflated anymore. The actions of these people are nothing to base public policy decisions on.
Entertainment is a luxury good and thus subject to a high degree of price elasticity. Beyond the degenerates, there's some price at which they will buy. You just have to find what that is and be wiling to offer it.
For the Hobbit movies, the fractional value of the sale of a single piece of media to Netflix is all you will get out of me.
Long live personal property rights!
>> Windows is held in place by corporate fiat
>
> It's like you're a Fox News commentator.
The claim that "you would use something else" is simple bullshit. It's bullshit because history is littered with the corpses of better procducts that died for lack of interest. NO ONE was interested in better. The only thing that ever mattered is this delusion that you can use software from the office on your home machine.
If you were true to your word, Microsoft would be a long forgotten relic of history.
What's the religioun of shameless hypocrites? Assign that one to MS-DOS and Windows.
Some say that Martin Luther didn't know what he was doing either. He posts some intellectual ramblings on his local bulletin board and suddenly he has a full scale revolution on his hands.
Linus merely tapped into the zeitgeist. The path as already prepared for him by GNU. You could probably say the same of Luther.
The "bizarre religious conservatives" are why there's a black man in the White House right now.
As this survey demonstrates, the wingut contingent simply isn't that large. The kind of people that make a lot of noise and try to hijack the term "Christian" for themselves (and themselves only) are a fringe minority even among those that identify as "religious" in the US.
Creationists are a fringe minority even among the "faithful".
There was another version of this article. It took the "glass half full" approach rather than the "glass half empty" approach taken by Reuters. It also examined the numbers in far greater detail than Reuters did.
All in all, this is a great example of how so called journalists can twist the facts to suit any agenda of their choosing.
Slashdot pretty much latched on to the crappiest version of this article out there.
...the old "they can't have known" argument with a good dose of "how can something old be relevant".
The problem with both of those presumptions is the fact that human nature really never changes. The window dressing might change somewhat but people remain people whether it's the US Senate or the Roman Senate. The same problems of money and the concentration of power remain.
Some of the mechanisms they put in place 200 years ago make it pretty obvious they understood what was likely to go wrong. These often include the things most complained about as being out of date.
> Are you saying that tablets are not computers?
Tablets are PCs masquerading as appliances.
They're like a Tivo. Sure, it's technically a computer but full access to the hardware and software are closed off to you.
I'm still waiting for Intel drivers that are on par with their Nvidia counterpart.
Despite all of the noise made about Intel's cooperation, this is the first time we've actually had full disclosure from them. Prior to today what they offered was incomplete. It was all empty promises despite of all of the rhetoric from the political purists about how Intel does things better.
Someday, this might lead to a proper driver. Although Intel hardware will probably still be just as lame then.
Include this with all of the other use cases that Apple has classified as irrelevant. Of course should Apple ever change it's mind, it will suddenly become one of Apple's great innovations.
There's already lot of inequality in the learning environment. It's called suburbia.
If this were seen as a Linux problem, such a cobble ware approach would be portrayed as an insurmountable burden that poor "Joe Sixpack" isn't capable of handling.
If you aren't doing squat with your PC already, you can not do squat with a tablet instead.
Candy Crush and other Solitaire/Minesweeper/Tetris type games are all very popular with tablet users.
So this is CORPORATE purchases then?
Well then that's even WORSE!
Corporations that think they need Windows for legacy apps are Microsoft's greatest remaining stronghold. If that goes then Microsoft is sunk. "Consumers" are already defecting to other Android devices.
Your argument doesn't help.
I still run Atom based HTPCs and they are more than adequate. Pair them with a decent trailing edge GPU and you can even do "hard" stuff with them.
ARM is certainly no power house. Yet it's taking the world by storm. Most people simply don't do a lot of pure computation.
The problem is not the processor. The problem is the OS.
Netbooks are little more than slim laptops from 2001 with a different pricetag. They managed to be useful then. Why not now?
Auto Update is no silver bullet. Microsoft's problems are far more fundemental than that and always have been.
They have spent their 30 years of market dominance trying to prove that cumputing has to be a dire experience. It's no shock that people flee them as soon as they they are able.
X haters have been stuck in their little echo chamber for too long and haven't been paying attention with what's being going on with the rest of the world. Their vision of something to displace X with is about 20 years out of date.