His point from the beginning has been that it's probably not a good idea to build a brand new type of car in a brand new plant. You end up debugging the plant and prototype simultaneously which is stupid and inefficient.
The MPAA doesn't care if you did it or if you let someone else do it for you. Granted, you're not supporting the makers of the film with option 3, but I think this is the point that the article is getting at.
So it was indeed a market distortion caused by government influences.
I think it's quite a stretch to say that the government's dealings with fanny and freddie tricked private institutions into gambling with toxic assets. This idea that there is a large class of private banks too stupid to make decisions is fallacious.
This is bullshit that assumes that people that take loans that they cant afford simply don't know what they are doing.
They might have been able to afford them at the time. The recession snowballed with people losing their jobs and property values declining.
I don't agree that the tea party's "too big" sentiment matches the occupiers'. I don't agree with the statement that "government in general" is "too big, is too wasteful & corrupt and is essentially bankrupting the country". What is "too big" exactly? How much identifiable waste is "too much" and how can you know when the deficit has officially "bankrupted the country"? I might agree if you could point to particulars in the government for being too big and wasteful (military) etc because specifics tend to be more rational. On the other hand, I wouldn't say that all corporations are too big and powerful etc, but I think it's glaringly obvious that certain key financial institutions are too big (necessitating bailouts), too powerful & corrupt (corporate personhood), and are bankrupting the country (recent recession). I'd like to know what key government agencies the tea party has in mind and how exactly their influence is effecting the public. I have a feeling they would say something along the lines of "every agency because the private sector always does it best".
I don't agree that she should be shouted down with insults, but you have to admit that her advice of "don't go to college if you can't get a scholarship" is pretty inflammatory. The fact is that to get a salary of even half what she makes is going to require a degree (or two). Decent jobs require a decent education. Would you submit to living at or near minimum wage your whole life because you were denied a scholarship? Student loans used to be, should be, and probably still are worth the risk if your major is anything except art history.
TFA (conclusion): "If Web Browser Grand Prix VI: Firefox 6, Chrome 13, Mac OS X Lion taught us anything, it's that the rules of physics, common sense, and everything else you hold dear don't apply on Apple's own OS X platform. Over there, Safari is still king."
Ha, I remember people used to take jabs at this guy on Digg for signing his posts. That's probably why he does it. The great JCR will go down in internet message board history as the guy who didn't realize his posts were auto-signed if he was logged in.
You're doing it wrong. One of the biggest (if not *the* biggest) advantage to using firefox is the customizability of the UI. You can change the buttons back to how you want and ditch the new single-menu entirely. Also, try fitting everything you need into the title-bar with Chrome.
It would be pretty damn easy for studios to get close to my description as well. That was my point. They don't have to constantly make me feel abused as a consumer. Case in point: I buy games from Steam because even though there's DRM, it never seems to really get in the way, the games are reasonably priced and delivered digitally at high speed. I could easily pirate these games, but there's no reason to avoid supporting the content creators in this case.
Movies from netflix (or all blu-rays) often have unskipable commercials and are of course laden with DRM. For example, blu-ray players will artificially limit the quality of video going to my old rear-projection HDTV because it doesn't have HDMI.
It's still beside the point though. Digital distribution was an implied premise to this discussion.
It pioneered getting individual shows or entire seasons (along with movies of course) at the highest quality, without commercials or DRM, and on demand at speeds that max out whatever broadband connection you have.
The studios still do not offer this at any price, much less the reasonable price of $0. People like supporting content creators. They don't like getting fucked by lock-ins, ridiculous prices, and having to subsidize reality TV.
You're obviously not a PC gamer.
Trollish as he sounds, he does have a point. Even without the gaming aspect, Windows (these days) is very hassle-free. I install linux from time to time (Suse and Ubuntu) for experimentation sake, and in my opinion, anecdotal as it may be, even ubuntu is not ready for prime time. Inevitably something will always get screwed up which requires a long quest through google to find some serpentine solution. It gets tiring.
The saving grace in all this will be that someone will inevitably find a way to circumvent microsoft's lock-in if you really want unapproved metro applications.
It doesn't. It does, however, serve as a pretty good reminder that when someone seems to be spewing a string of talking points, they're probably full of shit.
I think they're hoping that the console gamers really won't care so much, and the ones that do will be drowned out by the ones that love being able to play cross-platform. If you allow PS3 to play with PC gamers on the same server then it's only fair to allow them to use keyboard and mouse too.
I hear that "use it on the couch" argument a lot, but I really don't see how a tablet is much better. If you get a lightweight laptop you can use it in all the same circumstances except when standing up. For half the price you also get a physical keyboard and a screen that keeps itself propped up. I had thought that's why tablets hadn't really taken off (until now). I think it's mostly the shiny Apple factor that draws people to it.
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His point from the beginning has been that it's probably not a good idea to build a brand new type of car in a brand new plant. You end up debugging the plant and prototype simultaneously which is stupid and inefficient.
The MPAA doesn't care if you did it or if you let someone else do it for you. Granted, you're not supporting the makers of the film with option 3, but I think this is the point that the article is getting at.
Yes, but I don't feel comfortable with being the product when I'm paying them.
So it was indeed a market distortion caused by government influences.
I think it's quite a stretch to say that the government's dealings with fanny and freddie tricked private institutions into gambling with toxic assets. This idea that there is a large class of private banks too stupid to make decisions is fallacious.
This is bullshit that assumes that people that take loans that they cant afford simply don't know what they are doing.
They might have been able to afford them at the time. The recession snowballed with people losing their jobs and property values declining.
Tracker sites are required to get the torrent. Trackers are where the convenience lies.
I don't know what economy you're living in, but I wouldn't say it's dirt cheap. Even $100 (much less than it started at) isn't dirt cheap.
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Double +5s, nice.
I don't agree that the tea party's "too big" sentiment matches the occupiers'. I don't agree with the statement that "government in general" is "too big, is too wasteful & corrupt and is essentially bankrupting the country". What is "too big" exactly? How much identifiable waste is "too much" and how can you know when the deficit has officially "bankrupted the country"? I might agree if you could point to particulars in the government for being too big and wasteful (military) etc because specifics tend to be more rational. On the other hand, I wouldn't say that all corporations are too big and powerful etc, but I think it's glaringly obvious that certain key financial institutions are too big (necessitating bailouts), too powerful & corrupt (corporate personhood), and are bankrupting the country (recent recession). I'd like to know what key government agencies the tea party has in mind and how exactly their influence is effecting the public. I have a feeling they would say something along the lines of "every agency because the private sector always does it best".
I don't agree that she should be shouted down with insults, but you have to admit that her advice of "don't go to college if you can't get a scholarship" is pretty inflammatory. The fact is that to get a salary of even half what she makes is going to require a degree (or two). Decent jobs require a decent education. Would you submit to living at or near minimum wage your whole life because you were denied a scholarship? Student loans used to be, should be, and probably still are worth the risk if your major is anything except art history.
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TFA (conclusion): "If Web Browser Grand Prix VI: Firefox 6, Chrome 13, Mac OS X Lion taught us anything, it's that the rules of physics, common sense, and everything else you hold dear don't apply on Apple's own OS X platform. Over there, Safari is still king."
Ha, I remember people used to take jabs at this guy on Digg for signing his posts. That's probably why he does it. The great JCR will go down in internet message board history as the guy who didn't realize his posts were auto-signed if he was logged in.
You're doing it wrong. One of the biggest (if not *the* biggest) advantage to using firefox is the customizability of the UI. You can change the buttons back to how you want and ditch the new single-menu entirely. Also, try fitting everything you need into the title-bar with Chrome.
It would be pretty damn easy for studios to get close to my description as well. That was my point. They don't have to constantly make me feel abused as a consumer. Case in point: I buy games from Steam because even though there's DRM, it never seems to really get in the way, the games are reasonably priced and delivered digitally at high speed. I could easily pirate these games, but there's no reason to avoid supporting the content creators in this case.
Movies from netflix (or all blu-rays) often have unskipable commercials and are of course laden with DRM. For example, blu-ray players will artificially limit the quality of video going to my old rear-projection HDTV because it doesn't have HDMI. It's still beside the point though. Digital distribution was an implied premise to this discussion.
It pioneered getting individual shows or entire seasons (along with movies of course) at the highest quality, without commercials or DRM, and on demand at speeds that max out whatever broadband connection you have. The studios still do not offer this at any price, much less the reasonable price of $0. People like supporting content creators. They don't like getting fucked by lock-ins, ridiculous prices, and having to subsidize reality TV.
Try this one: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colloquial
You're obviously not a PC gamer. Trollish as he sounds, he does have a point. Even without the gaming aspect, Windows (these days) is very hassle-free. I install linux from time to time (Suse and Ubuntu) for experimentation sake, and in my opinion, anecdotal as it may be, even ubuntu is not ready for prime time. Inevitably something will always get screwed up which requires a long quest through google to find some serpentine solution. It gets tiring. The saving grace in all this will be that someone will inevitably find a way to circumvent microsoft's lock-in if you really want unapproved metro applications.
It doesn't. It does, however, serve as a pretty good reminder that when someone seems to be spewing a string of talking points, they're probably full of shit.
They've put the right interface onto the wrong product.
One cannot make a better sentence to describe the situation. You're my hero.
I think they're hoping that the console gamers really won't care so much, and the ones that do will be drowned out by the ones that love being able to play cross-platform. If you allow PS3 to play with PC gamers on the same server then it's only fair to allow them to use keyboard and mouse too.
I don't know. I see a lot of people in my office closely watching certain stocks.
It's not that they *need* it. They just know they aren't going to buy it and figure they might as well take a shared copy if it's available.
I hear that "use it on the couch" argument a lot, but I really don't see how a tablet is much better. If you get a lightweight laptop you can use it in all the same circumstances except when standing up. For half the price you also get a physical keyboard and a screen that keeps itself propped up. I had thought that's why tablets hadn't really taken off (until now). I think it's mostly the shiny Apple factor that draws people to it.