Completeness is far more useful than "lack of bias".
If an article is detailed enough, I can sift through the bias. I can create my own informed opinion given enough information. Any article that skimps on the details does not allow for this.
So in truth, an "unbiased" article is more of a problem. It's much more likely to constitute a "lie of omission" by leaving out key details.
In true Newspeak manner, it will be the "unbiased" article that actually represents the greatest bias.
Lie down in the mud with pigs and you are bound to get ringworm. That's just how it is. Sooner or later you have to ask yourself if the money is worth it. If so, then get yourself some fungicidal cream.
> Do you really think that the app store is a simple software repository?
OK. So it's a "store" instead of a repository.
The same criticism holds.
They are a monopoly taking a monopoly cut rather than just your usual garden variety retailer that has to compete with the rest of the market and who may have very narrow margins despite of "all of the burdens" involved.
No mere consumer should be making excuses for jacked up prices.
No. It's not the same scenario because the Japanese are not animals posing as people. They are not going to do stupid shit just because there's a little lapse in authority.
If anything the Japanese would organize their own Night Watch.
If you are whining about the US having been there, and are claiming it is some form of imperalism then clearly you haven't been paying attention. The Lybians clamoured for our presence and the Arab League specifically asked for it.
If you are not trying to sell to anyone, then clearly there can be no harm. You already decided that it wasn't worth your effort.
Copyright is not a variation on property law. It's something that is meant to "get things out there" and eventually make them available for anyone else to freely use.
A simple minded "crime and punishment" approach to copyright is what's really toddler stuff.
I already have big budget Linux games that don't have any of this DRM nonsense. It's quite nice actually. It makes it a lot easier to actually use the game if it is something you haven't played in awhile.
Linux ports can be strangely more convenient in this respect.
Oh. So this is the best that anyone here could come up with? Really. I have to de-compile the thing before it's obvious that anything has improved what so ever? That's just stupid.
As always, one wonders how Microsoft ever stays in business with this crap.
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Semi-rugged?
Nothing in the "consumer tablet" space.
Some Apple marketing buzzwords don't alter this.
It sounds like the Pentagon needs to spec out it's own tablets.
> And now have an almost impossible to police or defend position of having to identify and prove that you don't still have a copy after selling it.
You already had that problem.
Most people just chose to ignore the problem or deny that it existed.
"Proof of Purchase" remains a problem regardless of whether or not ReDigi is declared legal.
> don't deserve to get paid for years of work?
No.
The market gets to decide that.
This is no right to profit. There is really no right to a copyright either.
You should be so lucky to have such a layman preside over your next legal encounter.
> In both however, you're ending up with the item without paying the author. You've essentially said, "I deserve access to your hard work FOR FREE!"
That's what Copyright is ultimately supposed to be: more stuff in the Public Domain.
Completeness is far more useful than "lack of bias".
If an article is detailed enough, I can sift through the bias. I can create my own informed opinion given enough information. Any article that skimps on the details does not allow for this.
So in truth, an "unbiased" article is more of a problem. It's much more likely to constitute a "lie of omission" by leaving out key details.
In true Newspeak manner, it will be the "unbiased" article that actually represents the greatest bias.
When did "we" ever make any pretenses about being journalists or any sort of NEWS organization?
> If you praise Apple even a little bit in the comments, you get modbombed and accused of shilling.
No. It's usually mindless superlatives that get you accused of that.
It's like the arrogance of DOS users and the Lemming mentality in the press in the 90s.
...or dumping Apple.
Lie down in the mud with pigs and you are bound to get ringworm. That's just how it is. Sooner or later you have to ask yourself if the money is worth it. If so, then get yourself some fungicidal cream.
Yes. Apple has such great products that you have to cook the market share numbers in order to make yourself feel better.
Great product you're shilling for there.
Yes. It is their little monopoly playground.
This should shock and dismay even Apple fanboys.
> Do you really think that the app store is a simple software repository?
OK. So it's a "store" instead of a repository.
The same criticism holds.
They are a monopoly taking a monopoly cut rather than just your usual garden variety retailer that has to compete with the rest of the market and who may have very narrow margins despite of "all of the burdens" involved.
No mere consumer should be making excuses for jacked up prices.
If you are proudly ignorant, how can you know quality when you see it?
Clearly you cannot.
I dumped an iPhone for my current Android.
If I am for some reason unhappy with it, another iPhone is clearly not the answer.
Smartphone apps are generally cheap.
It's that copy of Fast Five that's expense.
I think what you are trying to portray as looting would not be described as such if it happened any where else on the planet.
No. It's not the same scenario because the Japanese are not animals posing as people. They are not going to do stupid shit just because there's a little lapse in authority.
If anything the Japanese would organize their own Night Watch.
The US was specifically invited into Libya.
If you are whining about the US having been there, and are claiming it is some form of imperalism then clearly you haven't been paying attention. The Lybians clamoured for our presence and the Arab League specifically asked for it.
"From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"
The entire US military exists because the Libyans are pirates.
I was working with 50TB databases 10 years ago. They have to be up to ungodly sizes now.
So is this about big filesystems or lots of tiny files?
'cause they are not the same thing.
How many files is a lot? 300K? 10M? 100M?
A crime or a tort should imply some harm.
If you are not trying to sell to anyone, then clearly there can be no harm. You already decided that it wasn't worth your effort.
Copyright is not a variation on property law. It's something that is meant to "get things out there" and eventually make them available for anyone else to freely use.
A simple minded "crime and punishment" approach to copyright is what's really toddler stuff.
I already have big budget Linux games that don't have any of this DRM nonsense. It's quite nice actually. It makes it a lot easier to actually use the game if it is something you haven't played in awhile.
Linux ports can be strangely more convenient in this respect.
Oh. So this is the best that anyone here could come up with? Really. I have to de-compile the thing before it's obvious that anything has improved what so ever? That's just stupid.
As always, one wonders how Microsoft ever stays in business with this crap.
That is not an answer.
That's just more of the same stupid empty rhetoric.