If you're comparing the rate of sales between the PS3 and the Gamecube, you should also mention that Nintendo never took a loss on the hardware...as opposed to Sony, who sells at a loss.
Other smartphones with far more craptacular interfaces have been introduced at the same price. And those phones weren't widescreen video iPods.
And the people buying it up right now are only paving the way for Microsoft and others to fix up their mobile OSes to deliver cheaper devices capable of much of the same things as the iPhone. Only they will have replaceable batteries, cheaper cost (subsidized by the carrier), and 3G.
Sure, just like they are going to introduce mp3 players that are cheaper and have replaceable batteries and destroy Apple's 80% marketshare. They've had six years to do it, but I'm sure it'll happen any day now. Any day now....
Apple makes a habit of ensuring that you as a consumer are 'locked in' to their platform. In every way, shape and form.
Really? What part of ATA/SATA/USB/1394/DDR/DVI locks you into Apple, exactly? Ever heard of Boot Camp? Or their support of open source? Or how about pressuring the RIAA to start offering DRM free files on the iTunes store that will play on any device that supports AAC?
They are turning into yet another Microsoft, from another angle.
Once Apple has a monopoly, you'll have a point. Until then, you're just a PHB who reads eWeek so he can pretend that he knows what he's talking about.
Ah, so you are a jackass AND a hypocrite! A two-for-one special!
I disagree with your viewpoint on Joe Wilson. So, let's agree to disagree and desist with the name calling.
Wilson outed the Administration's pushing of intelligence that it knew to be false. That you have a greater problem with Wilson than Bush's lying us into war means that you don't deserve to be an American, Mr. Pot.
Then we agree everybody is greedy, both corporations and individuals.
No, it's called you get what you pay for. If you go to graduate school, you certainally should be able to make more money in the same field than if you had a 4 year degree. The problem is that companies are getting a lot more than what they are paying for.
Of course the Visa's are cheaper for MS, because it allows them to keep wages artificially low. Dell has this down to a science with their workforce - bitch about the pay and your job gets offshored.
Just calling a spade a spade and a jackass a jackass, jackass. Don't like it, maybe you shouldn't have been shrill and unreasonable and call Joe Wilson an asshole, when he was doing the patriotic thing and letting us know we were being lied into war.
No, it's the exact dilemma you are going to have. Registering and working with law enforcement reveals your identity. Revealing your identity opens up your friends and family to attack. Which means guys like Spidey are more likely to stay home and mind their own business. With means Carnage is going to merrily slaughter his way through your civilians and law enforcement until SHIELD shows up with sonic weapons and flame throwers.
So you didn't just not read Civil War, but you're not reading anything Marvel's putting out right now. Teh awesome. And even Spider Man didn't bring the Green Goblin to justice. He didn't kill him directly, but he didn't do much to not kill him... Then again, he apparently didn't die anyway. Supervillain respawning in 5...
Bigger yawn. Mentioning Gobby doesn't exactly help your case, since Spidey had already decided not to kill him, when Norman impaled himself with his own glider.
Libby was covering whose ass, exactly? Unless you're either (a) living in a cave or (b) hopelessly unable to separate a liberal ideology from reality, you'd know that Richard Armitage, not Libby, "leaked" the name of CIA "agent" Valerie Plame.
There were multiple leaks. Libby leaked, Rove leaked, and Armitage leaked. In an operation initiated by Cheney. Why weren't there more convictions? Because Libby LIED and OBSTRUCTED the investigation. And by commuting his sentence, Bush removed all incentive for Libby to start talking as he faced a 2 1/2 year jail term. Focusing on Armitage is a red herring.
Libby was a scapegoat alright, but a scapegoat of the left, not the right. Libby got convicted not to save Rove/Cheney/Bush, but because the Democrats had to produce a victim in their witch hunt or face humiliation.
Reality's well known liberal bias strikes again: both the prosecutor and the judge were Republicans and Bush appointees. Now, any more lame talking points you'd like to throw out? Maybe the canard that Bush kept reading 'My Pet Goat' because he didn't want to scare the children in the classroom?
Obviously you didn't read Civil War, as the whole point there was that innocent people often get hurt in the process of vigilantism but since they wear a mask, no one can be held to account. Fuck the bad guys, thinkofthechildren!
Yawn. So what's worse: Spidey having a destructive fight with Carnage in Manhattan that leaves a few people wounded, or just let Carnage roam around offing dozens of people at will? Hmmm.
Obviously you haven't read Spider Man lately, either. Or New Avengers... Or Captain America, etc., etc., etc. Quite a lot of people lately have been very happy to dish out punishment outside of the legal system.
I'll take 50+ years of history over one crappy storyline, thank you.
So far as the "taking an alcoholic to the bar" analogy, maybe people should simply have a better grasp on reality. f you don't have any money, guess what you do... Don't spend it!
It's interesting that in your reality, the old "stand up and take responsibility for your actions" only applies to the little guy. I made the alcoholic analogy because while your buddy is at fault for drinking too much, you are also at fault for knowing he's an alcoholic and giving him drinks anyway. The person who outspends his income is at fault for living beyond his means, but lending companies that keep sending him offers are also at fault because they know damn well that he can't afford more credit cards yet keep sending them anyway.
As far as the accident/job loss/illness part goes... Sad as all that is (and, believe me, I understand what you're getting at, and I'm not trying to pass it off as no big deal), it's like homeless people stealing food. We're not going to make stealing legal just because a minority more-or-less have to do it to survive, so I don't really see why this should be any different.
No, he didn't. The point of courts and putting people under oath is to see if a crime was committed, not create a crime by making the person jump through hoops until they lie about something. The judge ruled that whatever happened between Bill and Monica was irrelevant to the Jones case. And if it's not relevant, it's not perjury.
Yes, it was a witchhunt, but the President, of all people, should be expected to tell the truth when under oath.
Yes, it was a witchunt, and thus noneoftheirfuckingbusiness. And if it's noneofyourfuckingbusiness, whether or not the person is lying to you is irrelevant. Clinton shouldn't have been impeached, Starr and the Republicans in Congress should have been sent to jail for malicious prosecution.
"Give and take" was not a good choice of words, but you are completely full of shit if you keep insisting EULA's are valid contracts. Even if one party refuses to negotiate, all terms in a contract are available to both parties before money changes hands. With EULA's, that is almost never the case. Now get fucked, shithead.
"Give and take" was not a good choice of words, but you really should understand that's no reason to go and be a condescending dick. With contracts, all parties can try and negotiate, but even if one party refuses to, all terms are still available up front before money changes hands. With EULA's, that is not the case. In fact, if you disagree with the EULA, you just bought a nice paperweight since you had to open the box to read the EULA and now the store wont take it back. EULA's are not contracts.
Hey, Clinton got away with it - on his own perjury.
Except he didn't commit any. The judge ruled that whatever happened between Bill and Monica was not relevant to the Jones case - and if it's not relevant, it's not perjury.
I still remain unconvinced that Libby committed any crime.
Are you also unconvinced that 2 + 2 = 4 and the Earth is round? Revealing the identity of a covert official is a crime. Lying to federal investigators over relevant issues is a crime. Obstruction of justice is a crime.
His misfortune was to fall in the cross-hairs of an overzealous federal prosecutor, Mr. Fitzgerald.
Bullshit. Know was Valerie Plame Wilson was working on? Nuclear proliferation. What has the administration spent the last couple years beating its chest on with regards to Iran? Outing her endangered the lives of the people she worked with. Libby is covering up for other members of the administration. 30 months is a slap on the wrist.
What? In general, EULAs are considered legally to be boilerplate contracts.
No, they aren't. Contracts are up-front negotiations, with give and take on both sides, before money changes hands. EULA's don't do that, and aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
Clinton's impeachment wasnt' over squirting on an intern.
Right.
It was about presenting a bald face lie to judge and jury.
Wrong. It was about find a reason, any reason, to try and remove Clinton from office. Investigations and re-investigations of Whitewater and Vince Foster didn't work, so they put him in front of a judge and asked him enough irrelevant questions until they could try and pin a perjury case on him. But even if he lied about Monica till the sun came down, it wasn't perjury since the judge ruled that whatever happened between Bill and Monica was irrelevant to the Jones case. And if it's not relevant, it's not perjury.
The people saw that he was above the law and walked away from it.
No, people saw that Republicans in Congress were trying to undo the 1992 and 1996 elections, and walked away from them. We have courts and put people under oath to find out of a crime was committed, not make someone jump through hoops until you try and nail them for "perjury" even if there was no crime. Clinton shouldn't have been impeached, Starr and Congressional Republicans should have been sent to jail for malicious prosecution.
slick Willy could have done tings to prevent the war in the first place. Bush Sr. had the correct intelligence. But Bill was more into partying and screwing around then preventing the situation we are in now. The Cole happened under Billy's watch. That should have been a clear sign of things to come. All he did was shoot a few guided missiles.
It is utterly fascinating to see those who insisted that Clinton's actions against Al Qaeda were nothing more than "wagging the dog" now fault him for not doing enough.
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If you're comparing the rate of sales between the PS3 and the Gamecube, you should also mention that Nintendo never took a loss on the hardware...as opposed to Sony, who sells at a loss.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
If "battery replacement" was so rare, why would ALL mobile phone companies (and many others) produce one (i.e.spare batteries) ??
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So they can charge crazy markups for them like they do with all their other accessories. Duh.
Its bound to fail
So Taco, you run out of space on your Nomad yet?
That said, it's overpriced for what it is.
Other smartphones with far more craptacular interfaces have been introduced at the same price. And those phones weren't widescreen video iPods.
And the people buying it up right now are only paving the way for Microsoft and others to fix up their mobile OSes to deliver cheaper devices capable of much of the same things as the iPhone. Only they will have replaceable batteries, cheaper cost (subsidized by the carrier), and 3G.
Sure, just like they are going to introduce mp3 players that are cheaper and have replaceable batteries and destroy Apple's 80% marketshare. They've had six years to do it, but I'm sure it'll happen any day now. Any day now....
Apple makes a habit of ensuring that you as a consumer are 'locked in' to their platform. In every way, shape and form.
Really? What part of ATA/SATA/USB/1394/DDR/DVI locks you into Apple, exactly? Ever heard of Boot Camp? Or their support of open source? Or how about pressuring the RIAA to start offering DRM free files on the iTunes store that will play on any device that supports AAC?
They are turning into yet another Microsoft, from another angle.
Once Apple has a monopoly, you'll have a point. Until then, you're just a PHB who reads eWeek so he can pretend that he knows what he's talking about.
My, my... very grown up aren't we.
Ah, so you are a jackass AND a hypocrite! A two-for-one special!
I disagree with your viewpoint on Joe Wilson. So, let's agree to disagree and desist with the name calling.
Wilson outed the Administration's pushing of intelligence that it knew to be false. That you have a greater problem with Wilson than Bush's lying us into war means that you don't deserve to be an American, Mr. Pot.
Then we agree everybody is greedy, both corporations and individuals.
No, it's called you get what you pay for. If you go to graduate school, you certainally should be able to make more money in the same field than if you had a 4 year degree. The problem is that companies are getting a lot more than what they are paying for.
Of course the Visa's are cheaper for MS, because it allows them to keep wages artificially low. Dell has this down to a science with their workforce - bitch about the pay and your job gets offshored.
Just calling a spade a spade and a jackass a jackass, jackass. Don't like it, maybe you shouldn't have been shrill and unreasonable and call Joe Wilson an asshole, when he was doing the patriotic thing and letting us know we were being lied into war.
False dilemma
No, it's the exact dilemma you are going to have. Registering and working with law enforcement reveals your identity. Revealing your identity opens up your friends and family to attack. Which means guys like Spidey are more likely to stay home and mind their own business. With means Carnage is going to merrily slaughter his way through your civilians and law enforcement until SHIELD shows up with sonic weapons and flame throwers.
So you didn't just not read Civil War, but you're not reading anything Marvel's putting out right now. Teh awesome. And even Spider Man didn't bring the Green Goblin to justice. He didn't kill him directly, but he didn't do much to not kill him... Then again, he apparently didn't die anyway. Supervillain respawning in 5...
Bigger yawn. Mentioning Gobby doesn't exactly help your case, since Spidey had already decided not to kill him, when Norman impaled himself with his own glider.
Carter was pretty bad. Actually I rate him second to Hoover. A 30% inflation
The jump in inflation wasn't caused by Carter, it was caused by OPEC slashing oil production.
Libby was covering whose ass, exactly? Unless you're either (a) living in a cave or (b) hopelessly unable to separate a liberal ideology from reality, you'd know that Richard Armitage, not Libby, "leaked" the name of CIA "agent" Valerie Plame.
There were multiple leaks. Libby leaked, Rove leaked, and Armitage leaked. In an operation initiated by Cheney. Why weren't there more convictions? Because Libby LIED and OBSTRUCTED the investigation. And by commuting his sentence, Bush removed all incentive for Libby to start talking as he faced a 2 1/2 year jail term. Focusing on Armitage is a red herring.
Libby was a scapegoat alright, but a scapegoat of the left, not the right. Libby got convicted not to save Rove/Cheney/Bush, but because the Democrats had to produce a victim in their witch hunt or face humiliation.
Reality's well known liberal bias strikes again: both the prosecutor and the judge were Republicans and Bush appointees. Now, any more lame talking points you'd like to throw out? Maybe the canard that Bush kept reading 'My Pet Goat' because he didn't want to scare the children in the classroom?
Obviously you didn't read Civil War, as the whole point there was that innocent people often get hurt in the process of vigilantism but since they wear a mask, no one can be held to account. Fuck the bad guys, thinkofthechildren!
Yawn. So what's worse: Spidey having a destructive fight with Carnage in Manhattan that leaves a few people wounded, or just let Carnage roam around offing dozens of people at will? Hmmm.
Obviously you haven't read Spider Man lately, either. Or New Avengers... Or Captain America, etc., etc., etc. Quite a lot of people lately have been very happy to dish out punishment outside of the legal system.
I'll take 50+ years of history over one crappy storyline, thank you.
So far as the "taking an alcoholic to the bar" analogy, maybe people should simply have a better grasp on reality. f you don't have any money, guess what you do... Don't spend it!
It's interesting that in your reality, the old "stand up and take responsibility for your actions" only applies to the little guy. I made the alcoholic analogy because while your buddy is at fault for drinking too much, you are also at fault for knowing he's an alcoholic and giving him drinks anyway. The person who outspends his income is at fault for living beyond his means, but lending companies that keep sending him offers are also at fault because they know damn well that he can't afford more credit cards yet keep sending them anyway.
As far as the accident/job loss/illness part goes... Sad as all that is (and, believe me, I understand what you're getting at, and I'm not trying to pass it off as no big deal), it's like homeless people stealing food. We're not going to make stealing legal just because a minority more-or-less have to do it to survive, so I don't really see why this should be any different.
Um, minority? Try 90%.
He committed perjury
No, he didn't. The point of courts and putting people under oath is to see if a crime was committed, not create a crime by making the person jump through hoops until they lie about something. The judge ruled that whatever happened between Bill and Monica was irrelevant to the Jones case. And if it's not relevant, it's not perjury.
Yes, it was a witchhunt, but the President, of all people, should be expected to tell the truth when under oath.
Yes, it was a witchunt, and thus noneoftheirfuckingbusiness. And if it's noneofyourfuckingbusiness, whether or not the person is lying to you is irrelevant. Clinton shouldn't have been impeached, Starr and the Republicans in Congress should have been sent to jail for malicious prosecution.
"Give and take" was not a good choice of words, but you are completely full of shit if you keep insisting EULA's are valid contracts. Even if one party refuses to negotiate, all terms in a contract are available to both parties before money changes hands. With EULA's, that is almost never the case. Now get fucked, shithead.
"Give and take" was not a good choice of words, but you really should understand that's no reason to go and be a condescending dick. With contracts, all parties can try and negotiate, but even if one party refuses to, all terms are still available up front before money changes hands. With EULA's, that is not the case. In fact, if you disagree with the EULA, you just bought a nice paperweight since you had to open the box to read the EULA and now the store wont take it back. EULA's are not contracts.
When you grow up you have to make decisions.
Maybe when you grow up, you 14%ers can pull your heads out and stop being tools for an incompetent liar.
Go and read the Articles of Confederation
Yes, what about that absolute disaster should he know about?
see a document that gives a lot more power to the common man.
If by "common man" you mean "those with money, connections, business interests, or those with the wherewithal to hire their own attorney" then yes.
Joe Wilson is an asshole who is disloyal to his boss.
His boss and Bush's boss are the American people, jackass.
Hey, Clinton got away with it - on his own perjury.
Except he didn't commit any. The judge ruled that whatever happened between Bill and Monica was not relevant to the Jones case - and if it's not relevant, it's not perjury.
I still remain unconvinced that Libby committed any crime.
Are you also unconvinced that 2 + 2 = 4 and the Earth is round? Revealing the identity of a covert official is a crime. Lying to federal investigators over relevant issues is a crime. Obstruction of justice is a crime.
His misfortune was to fall in the cross-hairs of an overzealous federal prosecutor, Mr. Fitzgerald.
Bullshit. Know was Valerie Plame Wilson was working on? Nuclear proliferation. What has the administration spent the last couple years beating its chest on with regards to Iran? Outing her endangered the lives of the people she worked with. Libby is covering up for other members of the administration. 30 months is a slap on the wrist.
What? In general, EULAs are considered legally to be boilerplate contracts.
No, they aren't. Contracts are up-front negotiations, with give and take on both sides, before money changes hands. EULA's don't do that, and aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
Clinton's impeachment wasnt' over squirting on an intern.
Right.
It was about presenting a bald face lie to judge and jury.
Wrong. It was about find a reason, any reason, to try and remove Clinton from office. Investigations and re-investigations of Whitewater and Vince Foster didn't work, so they put him in front of a judge and asked him enough irrelevant questions until they could try and pin a perjury case on him. But even if he lied about Monica till the sun came down, it wasn't perjury since the judge ruled that whatever happened between Bill and Monica was irrelevant to the Jones case. And if it's not relevant, it's not perjury.
The people saw that he was above the law and walked away from it.
No, people saw that Republicans in Congress were trying to undo the 1992 and 1996 elections, and walked away from them. We have courts and put people under oath to find out of a crime was committed, not make someone jump through hoops until you try and nail them for "perjury" even if there was no crime. Clinton shouldn't have been impeached, Starr and Congressional Republicans should have been sent to jail for malicious prosecution.
No. Slick Willy used the power of his office to sexually harass female employees with impunity.
Hm. Wild, unsubstantiated claims much?
slick Willy could have done tings to prevent the war in the first place. Bush Sr. had the correct intelligence. But Bill was more into partying and screwing around then preventing the situation we are in now. The Cole happened under Billy's watch. That should have been a clear sign of things to come. All he did was shoot a few guided missiles.
It is utterly fascinating to see those who insisted that Clinton's actions against Al Qaeda were nothing more than "wagging the dog" now fault him for not doing enough.