With some estimates that their licensing costs will go up ten fold once the current set of contracts expire. They have to do whatever they can to amp up revenue, and segmenting the market is a tried and true strategy.
I last believed this crap when I bought OS/2 Warp. Yeah, it ran on my 1 mg 386sx. Like a snail. About the only OS that actually runs decently on hardware when it is upgraded is Linux, for about 2 years from hardware purchase date. That is my experience, YMMV.
You're right. What company in their right mind would want to produce something that is going to be in constant and ever increasing demand? They would have a guaranteed customer base, guaranteed scarcity, and guaranteed profits. Yup, no company in their right mind would ever want to be a part of that. Thank God that Uncle Sam is here to fill the gap. We should pour money into projects like this right up until the day we default.
Hundreds of chemicals? Now, honestly, where can you get that kind of value for your money? If you tried to round up and ingest each one of those chemicals, it would probably take you over a year and cost you a fortune. Instead, you just buy one pack of smokes. Yet another service provided to you by the tobacco companies.
Damned right there is a bias. After getting short shrift on support & software from MS on their mobile platform, going back to WinCE 2.11, I'll never use another WinMo phone again. I'm no Apple fanboy, but thank goodness that Jobs released the iPhone and changed the game, overthrowing the staid incumbents once and for all. I currently have an Evo and love it. I prefer Android, can appreciate the Apple devices, and will never again support MS due to their horrible customer service and support when they supplanted Palm. MS earned the bias against them.
It doesn't use any minutes in North America. I've integrated by Sprint and GV numbers, used GV to integrate with Sipgate, and can make and receive phone calls from my home on a Siemens Gigaset handset for free using my cell number. Since I work from home, this has been a huge cost savings for me.
If you call outside of North America, then yes, your Google Voice account gets charged, but inside North America the service is free.
I disagree with you, but won't bother with a back and forth. I'm guessing that your opinion is well considered over several years, as is mine, and won't be swayed by the same tired old arguments. Instead, I encourage you to demonstrate me a more efficient and effective economic system. For example, I know that many communes have been started over the years, and while they have a high failure rate, some are very successful and self sustaining. The problem is that the model can't seem to grow beyond a hundred people or so. Genuine, non-coercive communism doesn't seem to scale well. Capitalism scales very well. It also seems to adapt to different conditions. This can lead to maladaptive situations, such as monopolistic companies buying/burying competitors, or companies buying legislators and changing laws to their benefit. On the other hand, capitalism seems to flourish organically when given a chance. A great example is the American brewing industry. After Congress modified the laws that benefited the few large brewers, micro brewers started everywhere and are flourishing. Many people make a living brewing and distributing beer using a classic capitalist model (selling shares in their company to raise capital to invest in equipment and start the business). It is a great success story, shoes that capitalism works very well, and consumers have a wide variety of great products to choose from. Socialist systems scale rather well, but still rely on a basis of capitalism to generate the wealth, and therefore the revenue that the State uses to provide it's services. When socialist governments choke off or outlaw the capitalist foundation, they become impoverished over time. Cuba is an excellent example of this. The economy perks up when private ownership and enterprise are allowed, it gets depressed when the State cracks down. You state "If capitalism worked...", meaning that you think capitalism doesn't work. Show me a better economic system that doesn't rely on capitalism at its roots that scales well and isn't coercive in nature. To my knowledge, one doesn't exist, but I'm always open to new ideas.
yet believe that gays should be allowed to marry, all drugs should be legal, the right of the unborn to have their lives legally protected, and that we should pull our military back home from all countries while balancing the budget. I also own an iPad and an Android phone that provides a mobile WiFi hotspot for the ipad. I'm hoping I just broke your convenient labeling system.
-Create a car that runs on sunshine and rainbows and only emits water and smiles. They couldn't create a car powered by smiles because those whiny bastard don't know fun from a hole in the ground. -Create a power source that doesn't pollute, isn't harmful, and will never run out -Take their website offline. If they aren't part of the solution, they are part of the problem -Renounce all plastics -Create a media player/phone where the assembly workers make $100 per hour, have promotion based on race, gender, and victim status; and the production of which requires zero energy, zero natural resources, and can be shipped to anyone who wants it without using energy or polluting.
They are great at criticizing, but really lame when it comes to actually delivering anything of value that meets their own standards. I have no respect for them and they can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
We use Netflix and Hulu, which taken together is less than $20 per month. Standard cable rates in my neighborhood go around $65. It was an easy decision. We also canceled our landline and use Google Voice and Sipgate. I'm a football fan, so I stream college ball from ESPN3 or watch NFL games OTA.
Now refuses to buy a game that costs more than $1.00? I don't believe it. Cheap apps have expanded the market to people that wouldn't buy a console. If you're having a hard time selling console games, don't blame the casual gamer who wants to spend 15 minutes on the subway playing a game. Blame the glut of "me, too" games at the high end.
This looks like some really promising work. I still want to crush your football team on the gridiron, though. 3 Cheers for U of M Physics! 3 Cheers for Rich Rodriguez!
No way! It might be time to remember that mass production is more efficient than cottage industry, at-home lot production. Not that companies shouldn't try to be energy efficient, but looking at only the energy consumption of a place without thinking about how that energy is put to use is myopic.
The iPad doesn't. I hope that ESPN releases the "ESPN3" app for the iPad, but until then, I can get my sports fix on my Android device. As for the ads, set flash to only turn on when you activate it. Flash is not forced on you, it's an option.
why build a tablet OS? Whatever happened to "Windows Everywhere", other than complete repudiation in the marketplace beyond the PC? MS cracks me up. In the last 2 years, they have announced several times that tablets don't matter, that they already do tablets, that their new tablet is due "later this year", that tablets are a fad, and that their new OS will be just like a tablet OS. Things look a little scrambled back at the Home Office, Balmer. Why don't you get your story straight then present your customers with a clear path to the future?
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With some estimates that their licensing costs will go up ten fold once the current set of contracts expire. They have to do whatever they can to amp up revenue, and segmenting the market is a tried and true strategy.
I last believed this crap when I bought OS/2 Warp. Yeah, it ran on my 1 mg 386sx. Like a snail.
About the only OS that actually runs decently on hardware when it is upgraded is Linux, for about 2 years from hardware purchase date. That is my experience, YMMV.
Get over it.
They used to be in the old terminal at Detroit Metro (since remodeled) and in a few GM plants.
You're right. What company in their right mind would want to produce something that is going to be in constant and ever increasing demand? They would have a guaranteed customer base, guaranteed scarcity, and guaranteed profits. Yup, no company in their right mind would ever want to be a part of that. Thank God that Uncle Sam is here to fill the gap. We should pour money into projects like this right up until the day we default.
Hundreds of chemicals? Now, honestly, where can you get that kind of value for your money? If you tried to round up and ingest each one of those chemicals, it would probably take you over a year and cost you a fortune. Instead, you just buy one pack of smokes. Yet another service provided to you by the tobacco companies.
Damned right there is a bias. After getting short shrift on support & software from MS on their mobile platform, going back to WinCE 2.11, I'll never use another WinMo phone again. I'm no Apple fanboy, but thank goodness that Jobs released the iPhone and changed the game, overthrowing the staid incumbents once and for all. I currently have an Evo and love it. I prefer Android, can appreciate the Apple devices, and will never again support MS due to their horrible customer service and support when they supplanted Palm. MS earned the bias against them.
Make sure that Russian hackers have all your personal information and credit card numbers.
It doesn't use any minutes in North America. I've integrated by Sprint and GV numbers, used GV to integrate with Sipgate, and can make and receive phone calls from my home on a Siemens Gigaset handset for free using my cell number. Since I work from home, this has been a huge cost savings for me.
If you call outside of North America, then yes, your Google Voice account gets charged, but inside North America the service is free.
I disagree with you, but won't bother with a back and forth. I'm guessing that your opinion is well considered over several years, as is mine, and won't be swayed by the same tired old arguments. Instead, I encourage you to demonstrate me a more efficient and effective economic system. For example, I know that many communes have been started over the years, and while they have a high failure rate, some are very successful and self sustaining. The problem is that the model can't seem to grow beyond a hundred people or so. Genuine, non-coercive communism doesn't seem to scale well. Capitalism scales very well. It also seems to adapt to different conditions. This can lead to maladaptive situations, such as monopolistic companies buying/burying competitors, or companies buying legislators and changing laws to their benefit. On the other hand, capitalism seems to flourish organically when given a chance. A great example is the American brewing industry. After Congress modified the laws that benefited the few large brewers, micro brewers started everywhere and are flourishing. Many people make a living brewing and distributing beer using a classic capitalist model (selling shares in their company to raise capital to invest in equipment and start the business). It is a great success story, shoes that capitalism works very well, and consumers have a wide variety of great products to choose from. Socialist systems scale rather well, but still rely on a basis of capitalism to generate the wealth, and therefore the revenue that the State uses to provide it's services. When socialist governments choke off or outlaw the capitalist foundation, they become impoverished over time. Cuba is an excellent example of this. The economy perks up when private ownership and enterprise are allowed, it gets depressed when the State cracks down. You state "If capitalism worked...", meaning that you think capitalism doesn't work. Show me a better economic system that doesn't rely on capitalism at its roots that scales well and isn't coercive in nature. To my knowledge, one doesn't exist, but I'm always open to new ideas.
Fight the Man! Go find a bug but don't tell anyone.
Anyone remember the sheep? Novell pretty much did them in. I'll bet they're laughing now.
yet believe that gays should be allowed to marry, all drugs should be legal, the right of the unborn to have their lives legally protected, and that we should pull our military back home from all countries while balancing the budget. I also own an iPad and an Android phone that provides a mobile WiFi hotspot for the ipad. I'm hoping I just broke your convenient labeling system.
that Google would ever relinquish any data on anything?
Amen to that, brother.
-Create a car that runs on sunshine and rainbows and only emits water and smiles. They couldn't create a car powered by smiles because those whiny bastard don't know fun from a hole in the ground.
-Create a power source that doesn't pollute, isn't harmful, and will never run out
-Take their website offline. If they aren't part of the solution, they are part of the problem
-Renounce all plastics
-Create a media player/phone where the assembly workers make $100 per hour, have promotion based on race, gender, and victim status; and the production of which requires zero energy, zero natural resources, and can be shipped to anyone who wants it without using energy or polluting.
They are great at criticizing, but really lame when it comes to actually delivering anything of value that meets their own standards. I have no respect for them and they can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
We use Netflix and Hulu, which taken together is less than $20 per month. Standard cable rates in my neighborhood go around $65. It was an easy decision. We also canceled our landline and use Google Voice and Sipgate. I'm a football fan, so I stream college ball from ESPN3 or watch NFL games OTA.
Now refuses to buy a game that costs more than $1.00?
I don't believe it. Cheap apps have expanded the market to people that wouldn't buy a console. If you're having a hard time selling console games, don't blame the casual gamer who wants to spend 15 minutes on the subway playing a game. Blame the glut of "me, too" games at the high end.
so I got an iPad with wifi. The combo works great.
This looks like some really promising work. I still want to crush your football team on the gridiron, though. 3 Cheers for U of M Physics! 3 Cheers for Rich Rodriguez!
No way!
It might be time to remember that mass production is more efficient than cottage industry, at-home lot production. Not that companies shouldn't try to be energy efficient, but looking at only the energy consumption of a place without thinking about how that energy is put to use is myopic.
The iPad doesn't. I hope that ESPN releases the "ESPN3" app for the iPad, but until then, I can get my sports fix on my Android device. As for the ads, set flash to only turn on when you activate it. Flash is not forced on you, it's an option.
Windows had been ported to the DEC Alpha, and was going to be running on mainframes, MIPS, and SPARC soon after.
How is this any different?
Yawn.
why build a tablet OS? Whatever happened to "Windows Everywhere", other than complete repudiation in the marketplace beyond the PC? MS cracks me up. In the last 2 years, they have announced several times that tablets don't matter, that they already do tablets, that their new tablet is due "later this year", that tablets are a fad, and that their new OS will be just like a tablet OS. Things look a little scrambled back at the Home Office, Balmer. Why don't you get your story straight then present your customers with a clear path to the future?
but it is just a reminder that all politicians suck. They all want to screw with your lives just to enhance their egos.