You don't understand. Buying an Apple is like buying a Lexus or Acura. It gives you the opportunity to brag about your awesome machine, even though there's no real difference between a Lexus v. Toyota, or Acura v. Honda, except the inflated +33% higher pricetag.
I still remember my friends' reaction when I pointed to his shiny-new Acura and said, "The logo on the glass says Honda. And here inside the glovebox is another Honda logo. And... yep there's a Honda logo on the wheel cover." You would have thought I just insulted his best girl. "No, no that can't be. This is Acura not Honda. That logo's wrong. I only buy the best; the best I tell you."
I've been using their products off-and-on for the last 25 years......and they haven't made a superior product since BASIC 7.0 on my C=128. Windows 1-to-3 were jokes, Win95 was decent but still inferior to the Amiga or Mac OSes, and the new Vista 6.1 (Win7) is a giant blob of amorphous code that refuses to run properly even with 1.5 gigs of RAM in my brother's computer. Even though my XP machine only has 1/3rd as much memory, it still runs faster. Windows 7 still needs some major rewriting for efficiency.
>>>An informed citizenry is essential for a healthy democracy.
And having newspapers that are controlled by a wealthy megacorp oligarchy is the exact opposite of that. News is better when it's controlled by tens of thousands of independent individuals, each providing a different viewpoint, than when it's controlled centrally.
The day ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC start reporting actual NEWS instead of pro-big government bias, is the day Satan goes to work in a snowplow.
Fixed that for you.
These organizations have all been biased towards more government for the last 60 years. At least now FOX provides the alternate "we need less government" viewpoint.
Yes Microsoft had produced BASIC for Apples and Commodores (no not Ataris - Atari Basic is not MS-related), which was great for a small company. But if IBM had chosen TI-DOS instead of MS-DOS, then we'd all be talking about the monopoly held by Texas Instruments. IBM was the center around which 1980s offices revolved, and eventually (1987 onward) the IBM and PC clones won the home market too. Whoever was picked by IBM was just lucky enough to be going for the ride.
>>>And the C64's BASIC was essentially the computer's OS
Not really. Virtually all programs erased BASIC and used the freed-up space to run their own operating system. Or no OS at all (like games which went straight to the hardware). Even common users recognized that MS-BASIC was pretty worthless and typically erased just seconds after startup.
If you designed an FPGA using Google Ap 2008, and ten years have passed, how do you know Google Ap 2019 will give you the exact-same output?
You don't.
The software has different algorithms and will produce a different output. That's why you need the ability to archive the original 2008 tool so the output is reproducible to the exact-same specs, even if it's now the year 2020. Except you cannot archive online aps; you can only archive a product that you've purchased and physically own on a CD.
One thing this solution overlooks is the basic fact: - People change. She might be an avid reader now, but five years from now she might be a shopaholic, and five years after that a religious fanatic, and five years later something else.
If you want a marriage to survive then you need to be flexible enough to deal with these changes, and also brave enough to say, "No. Spending $100 a month on new clothes is not acceptable. We can't afford it." i.e. Honest communication.
Otherwise your future visit will be Dr. Phil or Divorce Court.
Now that the Chinese and Indians have adoped Euro-American lifestyle - about 1.5 billion of them are chucking waste into rivers (which eventually lead into the ocean). So this is a now a worldwide problem.
We could fix this problem quite easily if the world just stopped using plastics and other non-degradable packaging. At my local store some of the packing peanuts are made from corn starch. When they get wet they literally dissolve into a puddle of goo, which within a few days gets eaten by bacteria or fungus, and then disappears.
We need more of this biodegradable packaging, and it has to be degradable within a year, not like the plastic bottles my milk comes in that claims to be biodegradable, but takes 1000 years to do it.
>>>People use the Google apps at home, they do the job. It's no wonder they say "Why not use the same stuff at the office?" That's how MS got where they are after all >>>
Actually Microsoft went in the opposite direction, hanging onto IBM's coattails which grew dominant in the office while Atari and Commodore were dominant at home (from 1980 to 1986). Then people started saying, "I want to bring my work to my home", and so they went and bought IBM PCs which became dominant from 1987 onward.
So MS went from office-to-home. I doubt the reverse strategy would succeed for Google, since most people don't do a lot of work at home - mostly they just copy whatever the office uses, i.e. Microsoft.
Agreed. Also online aps are more-expensive longterm. For example I purchased Microsoft Office 97, and I'm still using it 12 years later, which is an annual cost of just ~$12. Online aps have significantly higher fees than that.
There's also the advantage of owning the software. If for example you develop a design, you can archive both the design and the tools so they can still be used 15-20 years from now and "resurrected" from the basement. You can't do that with online aps which are constantly updated with no way to "freeze" a tool at a certain point.
I think it's less about predicting the future, because even in 1982 there was already a cure available (lens surgery). Kirk's required glasses was more about a writer wanting to create a "flawed" hero as a plot device. You'll notice Kirk didn't wear glasses in later movies, not because of a sudden cure, but because glasses were not required for the story.
If this guy does get several years of jailtime, then we should join a gang of freedom fighters and shoot the Sony-America CEO. Death to tyrants that infringe upon the People's rights.
>>>Fact is, the kid broke the law. You can hate the law, and work to change it, but that doesn't change the fact the kid broke the law. >>>
Yes but there are *higher* laws, typically called "human rights", which nullify these lesser laws. I think the founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, said it best - "No man has a right to harm another... and that's all the government should restrain him."
This anti-hardware modifying law is a case of a victimless crime, like anti-plant smoking or anti-porn laws. For example if I draw a cartoon of a little girl licking a little boy's penis (playing doctor), I can get arrested for child pornography even though nobody's harmed. These types of victimless laws should be declared unconstitutional and voided, since no victim exists.
If I crack-open my PS2 to make it output high-def video, nobody is harmed by this act. It's MY property purchased with MY labor, and therefore my right to modify however I please. Not until I start making illegal copies of games should I be arrested.
1) You will wait. A very long time. 2) When the waiting is over, nothing will happen. Rogers has been running this annoying crap for months and nothing's happened
I wonder if hiring the mafia to kill the Bell or Rogers CEO would get their attention? "It's not personal - it's just business and your stupid hijacking is interfering with ours." BANG.
I suspect cleaning these "liquid-filled lenses" is no different than cleaning your liquid-filled calculator or LCD screen.
Not that this will help me. I have astigmatism which makes it virtually impossible to wear anything except hard lenses or hard contacts. What I *really* need is a new pair of eyeballs.
>>>What happens if the brakes on your car fail and... accident?
What if I acquire Swine Flu and die before I pass my genes to my kids? What if I have a heart attack? What if a meteorite falls from the sky and hits me on the head? What if my house catches fire and turns me into a charcoal critter? Life is risky. Face facts. "If you can't handle a bloody nose maybe you should have stayed home."
>>>Do you have deep enough pockets to reimburse the other drivers
Yes because all the money I did not spend making the Insurance company's CEO rich is in my bank. So in the very unlikely even that I cause an accident, I can afford to buy the driver another car and fix his broken arm.
Insurance is just a scam to suck money from your wallet to the CEO and other managers' wallets. Don't fall for the scam.
Leaving negative feedback for buyers STOPS a scam artist in his tracks - stops him from stealing any more product from sellers. Eventually all those negs lead to suspension, and the scam artist can no longer access ebay.
Without negative feedback for buyers, the scam artist can not be stopped.
Maybe we should eliminate ALL negative feedback - for both buyers and sellers. Just have nothing but mandatory positives for everyone. But you wouldn't support that would you? No because you like to screw it to the sellers, because you HATE sellers. You love ruining sellers reputation because it makes you feel like a Big Bad Buyer screwing it to the man. You probably laughed when you you heard my stories about the woman who stole eighty dollars from me, or the guy who couldn't read the word "VHS" and left my an undeserved neg, or the paypal claim to try to get a refund.
Your a Buyer on a mission to destroy seller's lives by negging them as often as possible. You LOVWE neggging them which is why you would Never support the idea of removing negatives from ALL feedback. You like the power it gives you to Blackmail a seller into giving your partial refund or free items or other perks.
You're probably right, but it would be a royal pain to keep upgrading to new programs. If the consumer gets frustrated then the Cable company has won.
BTW the reason folks like Comcast have a monopoly is the same reason your local phone, natural gas, and electric companies have monopolies. It's considered impossible to create a competitive market in these areas, and they are excluded from antitrust laws.
I don't believe you. I lived in the U.S. and I looked-and-looked-and-looked for DAT (tm) recorders to replace my analog cassettes, and they simply did not exist here. Not in Radio Shack or Sears or Wall-to-Wall Sound. Nobody sold them.
Then I went to Germany in 1990 and the DAT recorders and blanks were literally everywhere. I later learned the reason Europe had them, but not U.S. stores, was because their was an U.S. injunction to block them from entering, except for use by professionals.
Not until 1993 did Digital Compact Cassettes (DCC) arrive on the American scene and appear in retail stores, which of course is Not the same standard as DAT (tm) and ultimately failed.
I read it in my local paper about five months ago that CC, TW, and Cox are losing subscribers, because customers are watching shows online for free instead of paying. Therefore they want to lock-up their cable programming (USA, TNT, SyFy, et cetera) behind a wall that only subscribers can bypass. Perhaps if you read YOUR local paper once-in-a-while (or tried google) then you'd already know about it instead of accusing me of making-up lies.
So say goodbye to being able to watch Monk or Kyle XY or Eureka or Closer or Deadliest Catches online. Only subscribers will have access to these cable shows.
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You don't understand. Buying an Apple is like buying a Lexus or Acura. It gives you the opportunity to brag about your awesome machine, even though there's no real difference between a Lexus v. Toyota, or Acura v. Honda, except the inflated +33% higher pricetag.
I still remember my friends' reaction when I pointed to his shiny-new Acura and said, "The logo on the glass says Honda. And here inside the glovebox is another Honda logo. And... yep there's a Honda logo on the wheel cover." You would have thought I just insulted his best girl. "No, no that can't be. This is Acura not Honda. That logo's wrong. I only buy the best; the best I tell you."
I stepped back several feet.
I've been using their products off-and-on for the last 25 years... ...and they haven't made a superior product since BASIC 7.0 on my C=128. Windows 1-to-3 were jokes, Win95 was decent but still inferior to the Amiga or Mac OSes, and the new Vista 6.1 (Win7) is a giant blob of amorphous code that refuses to run properly even with 1.5 gigs of RAM in my brother's computer. Even though my XP machine only has 1/3rd as much memory, it still runs faster. Windows 7 still needs some major rewriting for efficiency.
>>>An informed citizenry is essential for a healthy democracy.
And having newspapers that are controlled by a wealthy megacorp oligarchy is the exact opposite of that. News is better when it's controlled by tens of thousands of independent individuals, each providing a different viewpoint, than when it's controlled centrally.
The day ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC start reporting actual NEWS instead of pro-big government bias, is the day Satan goes to work in a snowplow.
Fixed that for you.
These organizations have all been biased towards more government for the last 60 years. At least now FOX provides the alternate "we need less government" viewpoint.
Yes Microsoft had produced BASIC for Apples and Commodores (no not Ataris - Atari Basic is not MS-related), which was great for a small company. But if IBM had chosen TI-DOS instead of MS-DOS, then we'd all be talking about the monopoly held by Texas Instruments. IBM was the center around which 1980s offices revolved, and eventually (1987 onward) the IBM and PC clones won the home market too. Whoever was picked by IBM was just lucky enough to be going for the ride.
>>>And the C64's BASIC was essentially the computer's OS
Not really. Virtually all programs erased BASIC and used the freed-up space to run their own operating system. Or no OS at all (like games which went straight to the hardware). Even common users recognized that MS-BASIC was pretty worthless and typically erased just seconds after startup.
If you designed an FPGA using Google Ap 2008, and ten years have passed, how do you know Google Ap 2019 will give you the exact-same output?
You don't.
The software has different algorithms and will produce a different output. That's why you need the ability to archive the original 2008 tool so the output is reproducible to the exact-same specs, even if it's now the year 2020. Except you cannot archive online aps; you can only archive a product that you've purchased and physically own on a CD.
Get it?
One thing this solution overlooks is the basic fact: - People change. She might be an avid reader now, but five years from now she might be a shopaholic, and five years after that a religious fanatic, and five years later something else.
If you want a marriage to survive then you need to be flexible enough to deal with these changes, and also brave enough to say, "No. Spending $100 a month on new clothes is not acceptable. We can't afford it." i.e. Honest communication.
Otherwise your future visit will be Dr. Phil or Divorce Court.
Plastic does occur naturally in nature. Just like lakes-of-oil occured naturally until we humans cleaned them up.
Now that the Chinese and Indians have adoped Euro-American lifestyle - about 1.5 billion of them are chucking waste into rivers (which eventually lead into the ocean). So this is a now a worldwide problem.
We could fix this problem quite easily if the world just stopped using plastics and other non-degradable packaging. At my local store some of the packing peanuts are made from corn starch. When they get wet they literally dissolve into a puddle of goo, which within a few days gets eaten by bacteria or fungus, and then disappears.
We need more of this biodegradable packaging, and it has to be degradable within a year, not like the plastic bottles my milk comes in that claims to be biodegradable, but takes 1000 years to do it.
That would never work for our military projects. Everything has to stay within the building's walls, including email.
>>>People use the Google apps at home, they do the job. It's no wonder they say "Why not use the same stuff at the office?" That's how MS got where they are after all
>>>
Actually Microsoft went in the opposite direction, hanging onto IBM's coattails which grew dominant in the office while Atari and Commodore were dominant at home (from 1980 to 1986). Then people started saying, "I want to bring my work to my home", and so they went and bought IBM PCs which became dominant from 1987 onward.
So MS went from office-to-home. I doubt the reverse strategy would succeed for Google, since most people don't do a lot of work at home - mostly they just copy whatever the office uses, i.e. Microsoft.
Agreed. Also online aps are more-expensive longterm. For example I purchased Microsoft Office 97, and I'm still using it 12 years later, which is an annual cost of just ~$12. Online aps have significantly higher fees than that.
There's also the advantage of owning the software. If for example you develop a design, you can archive both the design and the tools so they can still be used 15-20 years from now and "resurrected" from the basement. You can't do that with online aps which are constantly updated with no way to "freeze" a tool at a certain point.
I think it's less about predicting the future, because even in 1982 there was already a cure available (lens surgery). Kirk's required glasses was more about a writer wanting to create a "flawed" hero as a plot device. You'll notice Kirk didn't wear glasses in later movies, not because of a sudden cure, but because glasses were not required for the story.
If this guy does get several years of jailtime, then we should join a gang of freedom fighters and shoot the Sony-America CEO. Death to tyrants that infringe upon the People's rights.
>>>Fact is, the kid broke the law. You can hate the law, and work to change it, but that doesn't change the fact the kid broke the law.
>>>
Yes but there are *higher* laws, typically called "human rights", which nullify these lesser laws. I think the founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, said it best - "No man has a right to harm another... and that's all the government should restrain him."
This anti-hardware modifying law is a case of a victimless crime, like anti-plant smoking or anti-porn laws. For example if I draw a cartoon of a little girl licking a little boy's penis (playing doctor), I can get arrested for child pornography even though nobody's harmed. These types of victimless laws should be declared unconstitutional and voided, since no victim exists.
If I crack-open my PS2 to make it output high-def video, nobody is harmed by this act. It's MY property purchased with MY labor, and therefore my right to modify however I please. Not until I start making illegal copies of games should I be arrested.
1) You will wait. A very long time.
2) When the waiting is over, nothing will happen. Rogers has been running this annoying crap for months and nothing's happened
I wonder if hiring the mafia to kill the Bell or Rogers CEO would get their attention? "It's not personal - it's just business and your stupid hijacking is interfering with ours." BANG.
I suspect cleaning these "liquid-filled lenses" is no different than cleaning your liquid-filled calculator or LCD screen.
Not that this will help me. I have astigmatism which makes it virtually impossible to wear anything except hard lenses or hard contacts. What I *really* need is a new pair of eyeballs.
I bet you are no older than 20 if you still enjoy repeating this.
Anon. Cowards are so funny. Like children - "I cutted my hair! I cutted my hair!" Awww so cute.
>>>What happens if the brakes on your car fail and... accident?
What if I acquire Swine Flu and die before I pass my genes to my kids? What if I have a heart attack? What if a meteorite falls from the sky and hits me on the head? What if my house catches fire and turns me into a charcoal critter? Life is risky. Face facts. "If you can't handle a bloody nose maybe you should have stayed home."
>>>Do you have deep enough pockets to reimburse the other drivers
Yes because all the money I did not spend making the Insurance company's CEO rich is in my bank. So in the very unlikely even that I cause an accident, I can afford to buy the driver another car and fix his broken arm.
Insurance is just a scam to suck money from your wallet to the CEO and other managers' wallets. Don't fall for the scam.
Leaving negative feedback for buyers STOPS a scam artist in his tracks - stops him from stealing any more product from sellers. Eventually all those negs lead to suspension, and the scam artist can no longer access ebay.
Without negative feedback for buyers, the scam artist can not be stopped.
>>>Your signature cites FOX NEWS. What...the...heck
Actually it cites OBAMA "in his own words". Yeah the Obama speeches are hosted on the foxnews server, but so what? It's still Obama speaking.
P.S..
Maybe we should eliminate ALL negative feedback - for both buyers and sellers. Just have nothing but mandatory positives for everyone. But you wouldn't support that would you? No because you like to screw it to the sellers, because you HATE sellers. You love ruining sellers reputation because it makes you feel like a Big Bad Buyer screwing it to the man. You probably laughed when you you heard my stories about the woman who stole eighty dollars from me, or the guy who couldn't read the word "VHS" and left my an undeserved neg, or the paypal claim to try to get a refund.
Your a Buyer on a mission to destroy seller's lives by negging them as often as possible. You LOVWE neggging them which is why you would Never support the idea of removing negatives from ALL feedback. You like the power it gives you to Blackmail a seller into giving your partial refund or free items or other perks.
You love negging sellers too much.
You're probably right, but it would be a royal pain to keep upgrading to new programs. If the consumer gets frustrated then the Cable company has won.
BTW the reason folks like Comcast have a monopoly is the same reason your local phone, natural gas, and electric companies have monopolies. It's considered impossible to create a competitive market in these areas, and they are excluded from antitrust laws.
I don't believe you. I lived in the U.S. and I looked-and-looked-and-looked for DAT (tm) recorders to replace my analog cassettes, and they simply did not exist here. Not in Radio Shack or Sears or Wall-to-Wall Sound. Nobody sold them.
Then I went to Germany in 1990 and the DAT recorders and blanks were literally everywhere. I later learned the reason Europe had them, but not U.S. stores, was because their was an U.S. injunction to block them from entering, except for use by professionals.
Not until 1993 did Digital Compact Cassettes (DCC) arrive on the American scene and appear in retail stores, which of course is Not the same standard as DAT (tm) and ultimately failed.
Grrr.
I read it in my local paper about five months ago that CC, TW, and Cox are losing subscribers, because customers are watching shows online for free instead of paying. Therefore they want to lock-up their cable programming (USA, TNT, SyFy, et cetera) behind a wall that only subscribers can bypass. Perhaps if you read YOUR local paper once-in-a-while (or tried google) then you'd already know about it instead of accusing me of making-up lies.
Anyway here's the best article I could find: http://newteevee.com/2009/07/14/first-broadcaster-to-join-comcasts-ondemand-online-cbs/ And another: http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-companies-ganging-up-on-hulu-2009-2
So say goodbye to being able to watch Monk or Kyle XY or Eureka or Closer or Deadliest Catches online. Only subscribers will have access to these cable shows.