Any other retailer was equally open to compete against Amazon on pricing if they wished.
With the most market power, the widest distribution, and ebooks DRM locked to their #1 market leader ebook reader and iPad app? Barns & Noble, with its huge entrenched business and brand recognition, and pushing it through the retail outlets, managed to get about 20% of the market by 2011.
They chose to be greedy and collude with publishers to ensure they got their 30% cut no matter what, at the expense of the consumer
Amazon's business model made sure Amazon profited, screw everybody else. This business model is more fair, and we notice consumers like it. Apple is up to 20% of the market despite never having dealt in the publishing industry before, and mainly just making a venue for purchasing ebooks available on a device that already was a popular reader for Amazon ebooks.
Apple only has 20% of the ebook market. Amazon still has over half, most of the rest being B&N. When Apple first started in ebooks, Amazon had almost all of the market.
That looks like the market busting monopolies by itself. I think the government's offended that can happen, that the market doesn't always need them to break up monopolies.
Adults of sound mind who consent to marriage can have it
Brother and sister? First cousins? Some states still prohibit in-law and step-relation marriage although there's only a social, and not a genetic, relation.
How about a man with a wife or woman with a husband looking to marry #2?
A family member of mine recently got married using the Persian wedding ceremony, and that historically was for everybody. Of course, that's from a country that currently executes homosexuals.
There you go, men and women. Not men and men or women and women.
Face it, up until recently, all Western cultures prohibited gay marriage, and many even prohibited homosexuality. This idea that gay marriage is a right is very new.
Oops, read over that part. You're right. He is going over the top, especially on an issue as unimportant as this.
Yes, unimportant. The gays "they're violating our rights" are blowing it out of proportion. It's a privilege, a cultural institution that has in it prohibitions for what is considered the good of society based on relation, age, sex or current marital status. Race used to be a factor, but society decided that wasn't important anymore. If we say this is about rights, to avoid hypocrisy we need to stop prohibiting polygamy and incestuous marriage too (age is questionable, since it's about the ability to legally consent).
On Card's side, relax, the only detrimental effect on society that gay marriage has is all the fighting about the issue.
Feel free to organize a boycott of those writers, producers, directors and actors
Thus my point, most of Hollywood believes in violating rights. There wouldn't be much left to watch.
Card's call for 'tolerance' after his intolerance (advocating revolution over the legalization of gay marriage can hardly be viewed as tolerant of gay people) has a definite element of hypocrisy.
No hypocrisy at all. Gays want him to respect their view, he wants them to respect his. He believes marriage has a cultural definition, and they don't fit that.
Hypocrisy is Hollywood glorifying firearms while simultaneously campaigning against the rights of the people to own them, and also while pushing for exemptions in the firearms laws for themselves.
By this logic I can't watch movies by Richard Donner, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney, Spike Lee, Jim Carrey, and a large number of other Hollywood elites.
I'm actually not sure what he's saying, since "government" can have two meanings. In one sense he could mean to destroy our system of government through violent overthrow. Or he could mean to overthrow those currently running the government through the ballot box.
Italy has had about 60 governments since WWII. That doesn't mean their system of government has been overthrown 60 times by violence, that means those running the government have been kicked out through the legal political process and replaced with new ones.
Actually, LGBT are angry about not being able to "marry." Civil partnership laws that give equivalent rights as marriage aren't good enough. It has to be called "marriage" for them to be happy.
On the surface it's about rights, but at the root it's about forcing cultural acceptance of their sexual preference.
No, they colluded to use a different pricing model than Amazon had forced on them through a near-monopoly position on e-books.
And now, in the end, there is more competition. Welcome to modern-day America, where breaking a monopoly is itself considered to be an anti-competitive practice.
Most of Hollywood believes in violating the right to keep and bear arms. If I went by the right-supporting stance of writers, producers, directors or actors, my movie viewing would be extremely limited.
Hollywood even does this while representing gratuitous gun violence by the heroes in their films. At least Card doesn't have this element of hypocrisy.
They're phones. They're not considered to have the lifespan of full computers. Plus, this is the fairly early years of this type of product. Hardware is changing extremely fast.
As I noted in another post, I'm surprised that an iPhone 3GS still supports iOS 6. While it still uses an ARM, it's the same SOC as a Palm Pre at 600 MHz and only has 256 MB RAM. Wild guess, this must be much less than 1/10th as powerful as the SOC the current OS runs on. And yet it's supported.
The problem with Android makers is that somehow they think they can be lazy, and they're mostly right that they can get away with it. We know various Android versions work on their phones because Cyanogenmod is successfully running on them. They just don't bother to build, test and roll out the official update.
Given a choice, I'll go with the one with the proven record of updates.
Been burned three times with Android, not risking it again. I have a friend who got a 3GS for free back in 2011, and it's sitll good for iOS 6. That's four years and three generations old. I find that pretty amazing, especially since it doesn't even have an A-series processor.
My family has had three Android phones. None of them were released with the latest Android OS, and none of them ever had an official upgrade to the latest Android OS of the time. With one of them, we bought the phone only on the promise by the manufacturer that it would be upgraded to Android 4.x (the hardware is capable), and that won't be happening.
These three Android phone companies said "fuck you" from the very beginning. Never. Again.
The original iPad could run the latest iOS for 2.5 years after its introduction, 1.5 years after its discontinuation. That's far better than the official Android support you'll see.
And I just said that it may gather information if a country has shown itself to actually be a threat.
So take Iran. They weren't a threat until they had a revolution. Using your logic, we'd suddenly have an extremely hostile country to us about wich we have absolutely no information. Allegiances change, better to always be informed.
In addition, in the modern day, our main enemy does not have a country. Instead, they operate within other countries, including those that may be friendly with us. So we are to remain blind in this case too? Or do we naively hope they are keeping track of our enemies for us, and will share that information? The Israelis knew our Beirut Marine barracks was going to be attacked but didn't tell us because it would have compromised their sources. We can't rely on "friendly" nations.
Welcome to the real world. It's not paranoia when they actually are out to get you.
Here in the US a house built in the early 1900s is ancient, and over two hundred years old is a museum piece. Meanwhile, my German father in law is living in a house something like 600+ years old.
Of course, the real danger to having old structures in Europe is the various wars over the years. If they weren't burned to the ground in the 1300-1700s, they were bombed to bits in WWII.
You know what's really funny? My response was that the new Mac Pro is anything but boring, and here we are arguing various aspects about it because the new design is obviously quite contentious. Do you see us doing that for the latest Dell or Lenovo?
Apple definitely retains the ability to cause a stir in the industry by going outside the box.
Any government that doesn't gather all information from all other countries that it thinks is pertinent to the safety and well-being of its people is doing a great disservice to its people.
Finally, someone who recognizes that the system isn't for all cases. If buying a normal machine works for you, then go for it. If you want a lot of power in a small, quiet package on your desk, here it is.
Your average workstation may hold four data drives, and it's going to be put in a RAID most likely. It'll probably be using SAS. SAS is up to, what, 6 Gb these days? A 20 Gb channel to a huge number of external disks isn't good enough? You can do do a RAID10 across many disks, quite fast. Do you know of latency problems I haven't heard of?
Space to waste? Isn't that kind of the point? It's 1/8th the size of the current Mac Pro, which wasn't a very large workstation to begin with.
everytime you spin it around you wrench up the power cord from behind the desk or you have a whole heap of slack sitting on the desk
Now that is the best criticism I've heard so far, the only one that doesn't have its roots in personal taste or "I'm afraid of new things." I wonder if someone at Apple has actually tried spinning a fully plugged-up Mac Pro 180 degrees, dragging a few pounds of cable with it. Also think of the sideways stress on all those ports if it's done a lot. Was it designed to handle that?
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Apple only has 20% of the ebook market. Amazon still has over half, most of the rest being B&N. When Apple first started in ebooks, Amazon had almost all of the market.
That looks like the market busting monopolies by itself. I think the government's offended that can happen, that the market doesn't always need them to break up monopolies.
Brother and sister? First cousins? Some states still prohibit in-law and step-relation marriage although there's only a social, and not a genetic, relation.
How about a man with a wife or woman with a husband looking to marry #2?
A family member of mine recently got married using the Persian wedding ceremony, and that historically was for everybody. Of course, that's from a country that currently executes homosexuals.
There you go, men and women. Not men and men or women and women.
Face it, up until recently, all Western cultures prohibited gay marriage, and many even prohibited homosexuality. This idea that gay marriage is a right is very new.
Oops, read over that part. You're right. He is going over the top, especially on an issue as unimportant as this.
Yes, unimportant. The gays "they're violating our rights" are blowing it out of proportion. It's a privilege, a cultural institution that has in it prohibitions for what is considered the good of society based on relation, age, sex or current marital status. Race used to be a factor, but society decided that wasn't important anymore. If we say this is about rights, to avoid hypocrisy we need to stop prohibiting polygamy and incestuous marriage too (age is questionable, since it's about the ability to legally consent).
On Card's side, relax, the only detrimental effect on society that gay marriage has is all the fighting about the issue.
Thus my point, most of Hollywood believes in violating rights. There wouldn't be much left to watch.
No hypocrisy at all. Gays want him to respect their view, he wants them to respect his. He believes marriage has a cultural definition, and they don't fit that.
Hypocrisy is Hollywood glorifying firearms while simultaneously campaigning against the rights of the people to own them, and also while pushing for exemptions in the firearms laws for themselves.
They've done nothing to promote any of those three things.
By this logic I can't watch movies by Richard Donner, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney, Spike Lee, Jim Carrey, and a large number of other Hollywood elites.
I'm actually not sure what he's saying, since "government" can have two meanings. In one sense he could mean to destroy our system of government through violent overthrow. Or he could mean to overthrow those currently running the government through the ballot box.
Italy has had about 60 governments since WWII. That doesn't mean their system of government has been overthrown 60 times by violence, that means those running the government have been kicked out through the legal political process and replaced with new ones.
Actually, LGBT are angry about not being able to "marry." Civil partnership laws that give equivalent rights as marriage aren't good enough. It has to be called "marriage" for them to be happy.
On the surface it's about rights, but at the root it's about forcing cultural acceptance of their sexual preference.
No, they colluded to use a different pricing model than Amazon had forced on them through a near-monopoly position on e-books.
And now, in the end, there is more competition. Welcome to modern-day America, where breaking a monopoly is itself considered to be an anti-competitive practice.
Most of Hollywood believes in violating the right to keep and bear arms. If I went by the right-supporting stance of writers, producers, directors or actors, my movie viewing would be extremely limited.
Hollywood even does this while representing gratuitous gun violence by the heroes in their films. At least Card doesn't have this element of hypocrisy.
They're phones. They're not considered to have the lifespan of full computers. Plus, this is the fairly early years of this type of product. Hardware is changing extremely fast.
As I noted in another post, I'm surprised that an iPhone 3GS still supports iOS 6. While it still uses an ARM, it's the same SOC as a Palm Pre at 600 MHz and only has 256 MB RAM. Wild guess, this must be much less than 1/10th as powerful as the SOC the current OS runs on. And yet it's supported.
The problem with Android makers is that somehow they think they can be lazy, and they're mostly right that they can get away with it. We know various Android versions work on their phones because Cyanogenmod is successfully running on them. They just don't bother to build, test and roll out the official update.
Given a choice, I'll go with the one with the proven record of updates.
Been burned three times with Android, not risking it again. I have a friend who got a 3GS for free back in 2011, and it's sitll good for iOS 6. That's four years and three generations old. I find that pretty amazing, especially since it doesn't even have an A-series processor.
My family has had three Android phones. None of them were released with the latest Android OS, and none of them ever had an official upgrade to the latest Android OS of the time. With one of them, we bought the phone only on the promise by the manufacturer that it would be upgraded to Android 4.x (the hardware is capable), and that won't be happening.
These three Android phone companies said "fuck you" from the very beginning. Never. Again.
The original iPad could run the latest iOS for 2.5 years after its introduction, 1.5 years after its discontinuation. That's far better than the official Android support you'll see.
So take Iran. They weren't a threat until they had a revolution. Using your logic, we'd suddenly have an extremely hostile country to us about wich we have absolutely no information. Allegiances change, better to always be informed.
In addition, in the modern day, our main enemy does not have a country. Instead, they operate within other countries, including those that may be friendly with us. So we are to remain blind in this case too? Or do we naively hope they are keeping track of our enemies for us, and will share that information? The Israelis knew our Beirut Marine barracks was going to be attacked but didn't tell us because it would have compromised their sources. We can't rely on "friendly" nations.
Welcome to the real world. It's not paranoia when they actually are out to get you.
Here in the US a house built in the early 1900s is ancient, and over two hundred years old is a museum piece. Meanwhile, my German father in law is living in a house something like 600+ years old.
Of course, the real danger to having old structures in Europe is the various wars over the years. If they weren't burned to the ground in the 1300-1700s, they were bombed to bits in WWII.
You know what's really funny? My response was that the new Mac Pro is anything but boring, and here we are arguing various aspects about it because the new design is obviously quite contentious. Do you see us doing that for the latest Dell or Lenovo?
Apple definitely retains the ability to cause a stir in the industry by going outside the box.
Any government that doesn't gather all information from all other countries that it thinks is pertinent to the safety and well-being of its people is doing a great disservice to its people.
Finally, someone who recognizes that the system isn't for all cases. If buying a normal machine works for you, then go for it. If you want a lot of power in a small, quiet package on your desk, here it is.
Yuo're funny
Your average workstation may hold four data drives, and it's going to be put in a RAID most likely. It'll probably be using SAS. SAS is up to, what, 6 Gb these days? A 20 Gb channel to a huge number of external disks isn't good enough? You can do do a RAID10 across many disks, quite fast. Do you know of latency problems I haven't heard of?
Space to waste? Isn't that kind of the point? It's 1/8th the size of the current Mac Pro, which wasn't a very large workstation to begin with.
Still thinking in the 90s.
So you think they spy just for the fun of it? They are spying to better their countries.
Now that is the best criticism I've heard so far, the only one that doesn't have its roots in personal taste or "I'm afraid of new things." I wonder if someone at Apple has actually tried spinning a fully plugged-up Mac Pro 180 degrees, dragging a few pounds of cable with it. Also think of the sideways stress on all those ports if it's done a lot. Was it designed to handle that?