But then I'd assume you like wasting your money on short-lived games with very little staying power with the way you phrase your comment.
"Assume" is the correct word here, considering you are an ass. The GP meant that there aren't games geared toward a short play time. I don't know if that's true at all, but at least I know what he meant.
"Hey, I don't pay a premium for this like you do with your iPhone. I pay $30/yr and that's that to make phone calls. You pay that monthly? Fool."
I'd love to see you do that 40 miles out in the middle of nowhere like an iPhone user can. Oh right, you are too stupid to understand the difference between cellular and wifi access.
I agree. The correct course of action is to outlaw political parties. There's nothing wrong or illegal with having an opinion. But abusing the legislative process to keep your "party" in power should be a Constitutional violation.
It is 100% illegal for a party other than the Democratic-Republican party to gain power in the United States.
It's one thing to not sell to a specific person or group of people.
It's quite another to prohibit such people from using your product if they obtain it from someone you do sell to.
If you do the latter, you deserve to die painfully for being a shit-headed asshole. There's absolutely no reason beyond greed and selfishness to do such a thing.
It's actually easier to emulate an x86 on a RISC chip than the other way around.
The distinction between RISC and CISC are largely meaningless when talking about an x86(-64) CPU. If you can decode the instruction set, you can emulate. The hard part is emulating the attendant chipsets and their interactions with the emulated and real system.
You can always provide contact information that includes a forum for feedback. I realize that many customers may not use it, but I can't quite blame Apple for not providing a fully-functional forum.
I would be much happier using X (under Linux) if there was a sane clipboard model. On Windows (and OS X), the clipboard and the standard interaction with it is consistent and sane across the entire system.
I absolutely* cannot stand highlight=copy for text. It makes the entire system so much less usable that it completely kills the experience for me.
* The lone exception being a text-only program such as a terminal.
I would say I was amazed that you're a complete and total moron, but I'm simply not.
We already know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Government already has complete access to all telecommunications. We already know that privatization makes no difference at all. We have laws that provide immunity to these companies for breaking the law.
You are a complete idiot. Congratulations on reaching such perfection.
Political parties are an abomination. Anyone who declares for a party should be killed immediately. Unfortunately, however, principles are completely unimportant to 99.999999999% of the world.
Exactly. Many (small) businesses out-source their pay-roll systems. They actually let other companies manage their money. If that doesn't scare them, the idea of letting a 3rd-party manage an incidental to their business sure isn't going to faze them.
And all your blathering about a republic ignores that this article is about a municipality and its upcoming fight against a state law. I don't know the exact nature of NC's state government, but its not likely to be a republic.
That explains why the entire US does not have the same level of service. It does not explain why densely populated cities or suburbs do not.
Telcos are require, by law, to hookup anyone in the country that wants service. DSL providers (even though they are also telcos) and cable providers have no such requirement.
I don't really care that TWC (or Comcast in my area) does not provide better service. It does bother me that they feel they have a right to literally outlaw competition.
Why don't you read the fucking article? No taxes were imposed to pay for this. Bonds were sold to provide start-up costs. Revenue is through subscriptions.
You do realize that TWC only exists in its current form due to government intervention, don't you? TWC has received far more in tax dollars than this company will receive in its lifetime.
The idea that government-owned corporations should not exist has to die. The only guiding principle should be that an even playing field in terms of regulation should exist.
Why the fuck not? The only principle I agree with is that government should not impose restrictions on privately-owned competition that it itself is not bound by. Other than that, who the hell cares who owns the company that provides the best service?
Why does anyone here worry about whether the government is playing by the same rules? Ultimately, the purpose of running the ISP is to provide service to end-users. I do not see how it's magically better for everyone involved when the service is provided by a non-governmental entity.
Are you all so scared of communism that you can't accept the idea that there is no NEED for TWC to exist, much less be in the ISP business?
Are you trying to say the US system, in which about 80% of the population is sacrificed so that upper management can receive their bonuses, is so much better?
It is impossible to have any kind of society in which every single member believes that their rights are not somehow violated. That is simple human nature.
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Piracy is nothing more than selfish humans leeching other people's work and not wanting to lose the free ride.
Modern copyright law is nothing more than selfish and greedy middlemen not wanting to lose their free ride.
Skype on PSP makes the PSP a phone just as much as games on iPhone make the iPhone a game console.
You are an ass.
But then I'd assume you like wasting your money on short-lived games with very little staying power with the way you phrase your comment.
"Assume" is the correct word here, considering you are an ass. The GP meant that there aren't games geared toward a short play time. I don't know if that's true at all, but at least I know what he meant.
"Hey, I don't pay a premium for this like you do with your iPhone. I pay $30/yr and that's that to make phone calls. You pay that monthly? Fool."
I'd love to see you do that 40 miles out in the middle of nowhere like an iPhone user can. Oh right, you are too stupid to understand the difference between cellular and wifi access.
I agree. The correct course of action is to outlaw political parties. There's nothing wrong or illegal with having an opinion. But abusing the legislative process to keep your "party" in power should be a Constitutional violation.
It is 100% illegal for a party other than the Democratic-Republican party to gain power in the United States.
It's one thing to not sell to a specific person or group of people.
It's quite another to prohibit such people from using your product if they obtain it from someone you do sell to.
If you do the latter, you deserve to die painfully for being a shit-headed asshole. There's absolutely no reason beyond greed and selfishness to do such a thing.
It's actually easier to emulate an x86 on a RISC chip than the other way around.
The distinction between RISC and CISC are largely meaningless when talking about an x86(-64) CPU. If you can decode the instruction set, you can emulate. The hard part is emulating the attendant chipsets and their interactions with the emulated and real system.
I very much doubt that any shop that chose MySQL over Oracle did so for any reason but price.
In other words, such a shop was never really a potential customer.
The GP specifically spoke of form designers. Your whole rant is utterly meaningless, as you aren't talking about the same aspect at all.
You can always provide contact information that includes a forum for feedback. I realize that many customers may not use it, but I can't quite blame Apple for not providing a fully-functional forum.
If people are doing it with other devices, they certainly don't need the iPhone to do it.
The people who use iPhones don't need all that functionality to make the device useful to them.
The people who need that functionality do not use the (non-jail-broken) iPhone.
There's no problem here. Different devices for differing needs. I fail to see how there is an actual problem.
I would be much happier using X (under Linux) if there was a sane clipboard model. On Windows (and OS X), the clipboard and the standard interaction with it is consistent and sane across the entire system.
I absolutely* cannot stand highlight=copy for text. It makes the entire system so much less usable that it completely kills the experience for me.
* The lone exception being a text-only program such as a terminal.
Are you truly this stupid, or do you just play an idiot on slashdot?
I would say I was amazed that you're a complete and total moron, but I'm simply not.
We already know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Government already has complete access to all telecommunications. We already know that privatization makes no difference at all. We have laws that provide immunity to these companies for breaking the law.
You are a complete idiot. Congratulations on reaching such perfection.
Political parties are an abomination. Anyone who declares for a party should be killed immediately. Unfortunately, however, principles are completely unimportant to 99.999999999% of the world.
What is a NIC card and where can you find a new PC that comes with 10Mbit interface?
Electronic need not mean remotely-accessible.
Exactly. Many (small) businesses out-source their pay-roll systems. They actually let other companies manage their money. If that doesn't scare them, the idea of letting a 3rd-party manage an incidental to their business sure isn't going to faze them.
It's sickening to see your utter naivety in thinking corporations ever had ideals other than profit at the expense of all that is not the corporation.
And all your blathering about a republic ignores that this article is about a municipality and its upcoming fight against a state law. I don't know the exact nature of NC's state government, but its not likely to be a republic.
That explains why the entire US does not have the same level of service. It does not explain why densely populated cities or suburbs do not.
Telcos are require, by law, to hookup anyone in the country that wants service. DSL providers (even though they are also telcos) and cable providers have no such requirement.
I don't really care that TWC (or Comcast in my area) does not provide better service. It does bother me that they feel they have a right to literally outlaw competition.
Why don't you read the fucking article? No taxes were imposed to pay for this. Bonds were sold to provide start-up costs. Revenue is through subscriptions.
You do realize that TWC only exists in its current form due to government intervention, don't you? TWC has received far more in tax dollars than this company will receive in its lifetime.
The idea that government-owned corporations should not exist has to die. The only guiding principle should be that an even playing field in terms of regulation should exist.
Why the fuck not? The only principle I agree with is that government should not impose restrictions on privately-owned competition that it itself is not bound by. Other than that, who the hell cares who owns the company that provides the best service?
Why does anyone here worry about whether the government is playing by the same rules? Ultimately, the purpose of running the ISP is to provide service to end-users. I do not see how it's magically better for everyone involved when the service is provided by a non-governmental entity.
Are you all so scared of communism that you can't accept the idea that there is no NEED for TWC to exist, much less be in the ISP business?
He obviously has something against societies that provide basic means of living to their members. Jealousy seems an obvious motivation.
Are you trying to say the US system, in which about 80% of the population is sacrificed so that upper management can receive their bonuses, is so much better?
It is impossible to have any kind of society in which every single member believes that their rights are not somehow violated. That is simple human nature.