You can't have a free market in a Natural Monopoly (roads, water, power), although you can get pretty close via deregulation. Such as electricity choice, local phone choice, multiple car manufacturers, et cetera.
>>>have one company that runs the fiber to the house,
Government. They already own the roads... and the water/sewer pipes... might as well own the 50-fiber optic bundle too. Then lease one fiber to each company as needed, so customers can choose comcast or cox or cablevision or verizon or AppleTV or MSN or whatever.
Of course this will never happen, because Comcast bribes my local politicians to make sure comcast has an exclusive contract to distribute CATV. (sigh)
It means Verizon cannot charge $1000 per megabyte to XYZ Services to lease their phone or DSL lines. The ruling is intended to prevent Verizon (and other telcos) from blocking-out competition via outrageous charges.
This is a good thing. Now maybe instead of being stuck with Verizon or Comcast, I can choose some other ISP. Just the same way I can choose to say "screw BGE" and buy my power from somebody else.
Which are often destroyed by the police in order to Make more money off fines.
I found this part of the article interesting. It shows you can't trust studies from Insurance companies: "A few studies show a decrease in accidents, funded by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a trade group for the insurance industry. Insurers tend to profit from red light cameras, because revenues go up with increased citations and accidents." - They also profit by claiming speeding is dangerous when it's not the speeders that cause accidents (it's the reckless lane changers that drive like it's a race).
>>>Macintosh that's got a Core Duo CPU instead of a Core 2 Duo CPU will not be able to run Lion at all
Precisely. Apple makes money the same way Atari and Commodore used to make their money: Off the hardware. By obsoleting hardware after only 3-4 years time ("Sorry this won't run Safari 5 or OS 10.6 - you need to upgrade your machine"), Apple forces users to trash perfectly good hardware and jump to the next ~$2000 product. And managers smile.
Corrected that for you. My CoO for my XP-PC is zero over the last seven years. Of if you prefer to include the initial cost: $1000/8 == $125 per annum.
None of them. Copyright should be enforced by the Judicial Branch, whenever a lawsuit is brought against someone who copied without permission.
Perhaps I could accept enforcement of the Copy Monopoly by the same branch that regulates other monopolies/cartels: Department of Justice. Or the FTC. Still no need for DHS to be involved. DHS was created to prevent 9/11 events, not people scanning books w/o permission.
>>>what the hell Homeland Security are doing enforcing copyright claims in the first place.
It's just NBC repaying its debt:
- Government give NBC-GE billions of dollars in bailout money. - NBC gives free videos for government propa..... PSAs. - Government says thank you and cracks-down on thieves of NBC products. - NBC gives donations for the 2012 campaign. Win. Win. "Bam. Winning!"
>>>"ditching support after about 2 days" (obvious hyperbole, but not even remotely rooted in even a thin shred of truth).
My G5 Mac won't run the latest versions of Safari or iTunes or iWork. And it's not that old... 3 years? So yes two days is an exaggeration, but not hyperbole. Apple is quick to dump old OSes, because they want users to buy new Macs or upgrades. Planned obsolescence. - Now compare that 3-year-old G5 to my 8 year old XP which still operates and runs everything I throw at it.
>>>Agreed, but will these small nudges to get users away from XP be enough to get them to change their OS?
No. Rather than spend $200 or whatever upgrading to Windows 6.1, my operating system will remain stagnant until my P4 machine dies (which should be soon). In the meantime I'm perfectly happy to use older programs (Office97) or free alternatives for my software addons. Most of it is better than what MS or Apple offers anyway - like VLC or Winamp or Utorrent - and supports stuff as old as 98.
Not only do they not support 98, or 2000, or XP, they also don't support any OS X older than 10.5 (example: Safari and iTunes).
It is simply part of Apple culture not to supply software to older OSes. It forces the user to upgrade (i.e. spend money), and I'm not surprised Apple applies the same tactic to PCs that has worked so well for Macs.
Yep. According to this history, nobody existed in the personal computer market (i.e. home) except for Apple and Microsoft. Other significant companies like TI, Atari, and Commodore did not matter. I mean... Atari merely created the idea of a multimedia computer (one that has music-quality sound and graphics) in 1979. Commodore merely invented the idea of preemptive-multitasking and parallel processing (between SPU, GPU, and CPU).
But they don't matter. The victors (Apple/Microsoft) have very effectively rewritten history to make it sound like they invented anything of any significance since 1975, and authors of websites like this one are buying it. Kinda depressing. The truth is that Apple/Microsoft computers of the 1980s were bland and uninteresting (unless you enjoyed 4-color graphics and sound that went "beep") with no parallel processing or preemptive tasking whatsoever. Atari/Commodore were the ones who were innovating.
The power LED on my Amiga can be overridden (turned off). I can't think of any reason a Macintosh camera LED would be any different. If there's a will, there's a hack for it.
Whoever modded you "troll" is an idiot. Clearly you were being sarcastic.
The irony is that the government doesn't want us to spy on Their actions (think wikileaks and learning the Mrs. Clinton was stealin credit card numbers), but when the government spies on us then it's okay.
It's for the children. Or for anti-terrorism. If they were honest they'd admit it's for their own desire to Control the masses, as the nobility has always done.
The US has always been behind the times. Heck we didn't even invent the Bill of Rights concept. It was taken from the British, after we won the civil war. Or the concept of natural rights (invented by the Greek Stoics and Roman Senator Cicero). We're all just a a bunch of plagiarists.;-)
(1) Adding video to Congress has not made anything more "transparent". Now the elected servants just hide in their offices to shaft the populace, and they use the floor to do pointless campaign speeches (posturing).
(2) A judge's duty is to the law, even if that displeases the general population. Having a camera means he too will be giving speeches to get re-elected, instead of following the letter of the law.
>>>Cartoon Network shows on XfinityTV (formerly Fancast) such as this one require subscription.
I said MOST cable channels put their videos on their websites, not all. Please read to the end of the paragraph. Thanks.
Channels that put their shows online: ABC FAMILY TNT USA DISCOVER ANIMAL PLANET SYFY BROADCAST (abc, cbs, nbc, fox, cw, myNetTV) and so on. I don't feel like typing a complete list.
>>>You live in a strange world if you believe the money is yours, you earned it all by yourself and seem to believe taxes are theft.
Was it somebody else's Body that earned the cash? No. It was mine. QED it belongs to me, just as surely as the cotton picked by the slave belongs to the slave, not the plantation master. The goods/money that somebody sweats to earn belong to THAT person, and should only be taken for a damn good reason.
Like roads to ship mail and food. Or police to protect citizens from harm. Et cetera. NOT to provide welfare to Comcast or Lehman Brothers or whoever else you desire to prop-up.
I did not know MPEG decoding was a parallel process that worked better if you have more processors. Thanks for telling me, and in such a well-mannered message. I guess I should be looking for a quadcore 900 megahertz or 8-core 500 megahertz tablet when I go shopping.
BTW I get television for free! And you pay. Sucker. neener-neener (just joking);-)
The PS3 isn't doing that badly. It's only 5% behind the Xbox360, but you are correct that Sony is doing some tricky accounting:
"As of FY 2010 Q1, Sony are now reporting the results for the re-organised division Networked Products & Services rather than the old method of reporting for the gaming division. 'Sony said it will combine its VAIO personal-computer, Walkman and PlayStation businesses in the Networked Products & Services Group to focus on creating gadgets that can work with each other and connect to the Internet.' "
I'm certainly no fan of the Xbox, but I don't see "in the red". Microsoft's Xbox360 division has been profitable every year since the old xbox was retired.
Of course Microsoft wanted to be where Nintendo is now (billions of profit each year), but at least they aren't losing anymore. And they sold about twice as many units as the 2000-2005 generation.
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You can't have a free market in a Natural Monopoly (roads, water, power), although you can get pretty close via deregulation. Such as electricity choice, local phone choice, multiple car manufacturers, et cetera.
>>>have one company that runs the fiber to the house,
Government. They already own the roads... and the water/sewer pipes... might as well own the 50-fiber optic bundle too. Then lease one fiber to each company as needed, so customers can choose comcast or cox or cablevision or verizon or AppleTV or MSN or whatever.
Of course this will never happen, because Comcast bribes my local politicians to make sure comcast has an exclusive contract to distribute CATV. (sigh)
It means Verizon cannot charge $1000 per megabyte to XYZ Services to lease their phone or DSL lines. The ruling is intended to prevent Verizon (and other telcos) from blocking-out competition via outrageous charges.
This is a good thing. Now maybe instead of being stuck with Verizon or Comcast, I can choose some other ISP. Just the same way I can choose to say "screw BGE" and buy my power from somebody else.
>>>1. There are multiple videos taken.
Which are often destroyed by the police in order to Make more money off fines.
I found this part of the article interesting. It shows you can't trust studies from Insurance companies: "A few studies show a decrease in accidents, funded by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a trade group for the insurance industry. Insurers tend to profit from red light cameras, because revenues go up with increased citations and accidents." - They also profit by claiming speeding is dangerous when it's not the speeders that cause accidents (it's the reckless lane changers that drive like it's a race).
Please, please, please.
It would give me a valid excuse to Toilet paper your house. Asshat.
>>>Macintosh that's got a Core Duo CPU instead of a Core 2 Duo CPU will not be able to run Lion at all
Precisely. Apple makes money the same way Atari and Commodore used to make their money: Off the hardware. By obsoleting hardware after only 3-4 years time ("Sorry this won't run Safari 5 or OS 10.6 - you need to upgrade your machine"), Apple forces users to trash perfectly good hardware and jump to the next ~$2000 product.
And managers smile.
>>>â390 per year!
Corrected that for you. My CoO for my XP-PC is zero over the last seven years. Of if you prefer to include the initial cost: $1000/8 == $125 per annum.
>>>So which department of the Executive Branch
None of them.
Copyright should be enforced by the Judicial Branch, whenever a lawsuit is brought against someone who copied without permission.
Perhaps I could accept enforcement of the Copy Monopoly by the same branch that regulates other monopolies/cartels: Department of Justice. Or the FTC. Still no need for DHS to be involved. DHS was created to prevent 9/11 events, not people scanning books w/o permission.
>>>what the hell Homeland Security are doing enforcing copyright claims in the first place.
It's just NBC repaying its debt:
- Government give NBC-GE billions of dollars in bailout money.
- NBC gives free videos for government propa..... PSAs.
- Government says thank you and cracks-down on thieves of NBC products.
- NBC gives donations for the 2012 campaign.
Win.
Win.
"Bam. Winning!"
>>>"ditching support after about 2 days" (obvious hyperbole, but not even remotely rooted in even a thin shred of truth).
My G5 Mac won't run the latest versions of Safari or iTunes or iWork. And it's not that old... 3 years? So yes two days is an exaggeration, but not hyperbole. Apple is quick to dump old OSes, because they want users to buy new Macs or upgrades. Planned obsolescence. - Now compare that 3-year-old G5 to my 8 year old XP which still operates and runs everything I throw at it.
>>>Your choice isn't wrong, neither is the "other side's."
I chose Commodore=Amiga which went bankrupt.
;-)
Want to revise your comment?
>>>Agreed, but will these small nudges to get users away from XP be enough to get them to change their OS?
No. Rather than spend $200 or whatever upgrading to Windows 6.1, my operating system will remain stagnant until my P4 machine dies (which should be soon). In the meantime I'm perfectly happy to use older programs (Office97) or free alternatives for my software addons. Most of it is better than what MS or Apple offers anyway - like VLC or Winamp or Utorrent - and supports stuff as old as 98.
Not only do they not support 98, or 2000, or XP, they also don't support any OS X older than 10.5 (example: Safari and iTunes).
It is simply part of Apple culture not to supply software to older OSes. It forces the user to upgrade (i.e. spend money), and I'm not surprised Apple applies the same tactic to PCs that has worked so well for Macs.
>>>looks more like an advertisement for Windows
Yep.
According to this history, nobody existed in the personal computer market (i.e. home) except for Apple and Microsoft. Other significant companies like TI, Atari, and Commodore did not matter. I mean... Atari merely created the idea of a multimedia computer (one that has music-quality sound and graphics) in 1979. Commodore merely invented the idea of preemptive-multitasking and parallel processing (between SPU, GPU, and CPU).
But they don't matter.
The victors (Apple/Microsoft) have very effectively rewritten history to make it sound like they invented anything of any significance since 1975, and authors of websites like this one are buying it. Kinda depressing. The truth is that Apple/Microsoft computers of the 1980s were bland and uninteresting (unless you enjoyed 4-color graphics and sound that went "beep") with no parallel processing or preemptive tasking whatsoever. Atari/Commodore were the ones who were innovating.
The power LED on my Amiga can be overridden (turned off). I can't think of any reason a Macintosh camera LED would be any different. If there's a will, there's a hack for it.
Whoever modded you "troll" is an idiot. Clearly you were being sarcastic.
The irony is that the government doesn't want us to spy on Their actions (think wikileaks and learning the Mrs. Clinton was stealin credit card numbers), but when the government spies on us then it's okay.
It's for the children. Or for anti-terrorism. If they were honest they'd admit it's for their own desire to Control the masses, as the nobility has always done.
The US has always been behind the times. ;-)
Heck we didn't even invent the Bill of Rights concept. It was taken from the British, after we won the civil war. Or the concept of natural rights (invented by the Greek Stoics and Roman Senator Cicero). We're all just a a bunch of plagiarists.
I like it.
(sits back to see how many recognize this 'toon)
(1) Adding video to Congress has not made anything more "transparent". Now the elected servants just hide in their offices to shaft the populace, and they use the floor to do pointless campaign speeches (posturing).
(2) A judge's duty is to the law, even if that displeases the general population. Having a camera means he too will be giving speeches to get re-elected, instead of following the letter of the law.
>>>Cartoon Network shows on XfinityTV (formerly Fancast) such as this one require subscription.
I said MOST cable channels put their videos on their websites, not all. Please read to the end of the paragraph. Thanks.
Channels that put their shows online:
ABC FAMILY
TNT
USA
DISCOVER
ANIMAL PLANET
SYFY
BROADCAST (abc, cbs, nbc, fox, cw, myNetTV)
and so on. I don't feel like typing a complete list.
>>>You live in a strange world if you believe the money is yours, you earned it all by yourself and seem to believe taxes are theft.
Was it somebody else's Body that earned the cash?
No.
It was mine. QED it belongs to me, just as surely as the cotton picked by the slave belongs to the slave, not the plantation master. The goods/money that somebody sweats to earn belong to THAT person, and should only be taken for a damn good reason.
Like roads to ship mail and food. Or police to protect citizens from harm. Et cetera. NOT to provide welfare to Comcast or Lehman Brothers or whoever else you desire to prop-up.
Warner Brothers
MGM
Sony Pictures
Bantum Publishing
PennyPress
Dell Magazines
etc
Hire authors as full-time employees to churn-out fiction, just the same as engineers/programmers churn-out schematics and programs.
Yep.
I did not know MPEG decoding was a parallel process that worked better if you have more processors. Thanks for telling me, and in such a well-mannered message. I guess I should be looking for a quadcore 900 megahertz or 8-core 500 megahertz tablet when I go shopping.
BTW I get television for free! And you pay. Sucker. neener-neener (just joking) ;-)
The PS3 isn't doing that badly. It's only 5% behind the Xbox360, but you are correct that Sony is doing some tricky accounting:
"As of FY 2010 Q1, Sony are now reporting the results for the re-organised division Networked Products & Services rather than the old method of reporting for the gaming division. 'Sony said it will combine its VAIO personal-computer, Walkman and PlayStation businesses in the Networked Products & Services Group to focus on creating gadgets that can work with each other and connect to the Internet.' "
I'm certainly no fan of the Xbox, but I don't see "in the red". Microsoft's Xbox360 division has been profitable every year since the old xbox was retired.
Of course Microsoft wanted to be where Nintendo is now (billions of profit each year), but at least they aren't losing anymore. And they sold about twice as many units as the 2000-2005 generation.