someone did a replace all because they were lazy, on a FREE PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOK
its a conspiracy, B&N is not allowing any use of the word kindle in any book they sell. in fact if you go to the store you will find EVERY PHYSICAL BOOK they sell will have the word kindle crossed out and Nook written in
MS is a major investor in facebook DNT might be on but if you like every other website than facebook will be getting a lot of data that google won't be
or sign contract to upgrade software contractor comes in and tells you that the new software won't work on current hardware. or new current hardware won't work with some old piece of junk you are running somewhere else new costs for buying new hardware
how are they going to lock out used games on physical media? they will just lock out levels and characters so you are in effect playing an extended demo unless you buy the whole game
almost all people with cash businesses do it for the tax benefits. accepting traceable payments mean they just increased their costs
its happening slowly but only because physical purchases like magazines at news stands are going digital and cash businesses are going out of business for lack of things to sell
its legal because people like me who rarely go to the doctor and dont have these problems support it because we don't want to pay for your endless supply of drugs, sleep aids and other nonsense
for something minor like a $100 billing dispute with AT&T you file a small claims case. just like the guy did with the unlimited data thing from a few months ago
the supreme court said you can't clog the court system with minor nonsense about billing issues or service issues. you can still file a class action for the reason they were created if some company inflicts major financial or physical pain on you. like an insurance company denying legit claims of thousands of people as a matter of corporate strategy
Email is for work But for non work communication its Facebook 10 years ago all the stupid jokes and pictures were emailed to friends. Today they are shared on Facebook
linux isn't secure by itself. you have to configure it to be secure and you still have to buy firewalls and all kinds of appliances to monitor traffic. add that up along with the extra work required to set it up compared to windows and its cheaper to buy windows.
people don't work for free. figure $120,000 or so per employee when you figure all the benefits. cheaper to just buy windows
your annual profit is $483 million. it's going to cost you about that much to build a new plant so you can sell your product cheaper and get your profit down to $200 million
these decisions aren't rocket science. i bet your're not running a business
years ago on some talk show Julia Roberts said that out of a $20 million paycheck on a movie she's lucky to see $4 million
between agent fees and taxes there is not much left. and if a movie is going to gross $500 million around the world including home video sales why should the top talent settle for pennies?
there is no way hollywood can make money on $8 netlix subscriptions and letting them have first run movies before blu ray street date. and netflix refuses to have a tiered model
for $5 or so you can rent almost every new movie after it leaves the theaters and the apps are on most consoles and blu ray players and set top boxes
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someone did a replace all because they were lazy, on a FREE PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOK
its a conspiracy, B&N is not allowing any use of the word kindle in any book they sell. in fact if you go to the store you will find EVERY PHYSICAL BOOK they sell will have the word kindle crossed out and Nook written in
MS is a major investor in facebook
DNT might be on but if you like every other website than facebook will be getting a lot of data that google won't be
ibm even says give it its own physical machine if you're going to virtualize it.
or sign contract to upgrade software
contractor comes in and tells you that the new software won't work on current hardware. or new current hardware won't work with some old piece of junk you are running somewhere else
new costs for buying new hardware
sign contract
start changing conditions of SoW or the hardware you want
agree to cost overruns
complain
D3 and S2 have battle.net. lots of good games from devs who don't have their own backend clouds like EA/Activision and won't bother with this
and how am i supposed to watch blu ray's without an optical drive?
how are they going to lock out used games on physical media? they will just lock out levels and characters so you are in effect playing an extended demo unless you buy the whole game
optical disks i can use anywhere are for grandma
downloading the same games that are locked to my console is so much cooler and sexier. its like 3g vs wifi. 3g is awesome compared to grandma's wifi.
so if the world ends like the global warming nuts believe it will what are you going to do with your shiny yellow metal?
can you eat it? NO
can you make weapons out of it? NO
if i have a big pile of food to live on, why would i trade it for your shiny yellow metal?
almost all people with cash businesses do it for the tax benefits. accepting traceable payments mean they just increased their costs
its happening slowly but only because physical purchases like magazines at news stands are going digital and cash businesses are going out of business for lack of things to sell
its legal because people like me who rarely go to the doctor and dont have these problems support it because we don't want to pay for your endless supply of drugs, sleep aids and other nonsense
for something minor like a $100 billing dispute with AT&T you file a small claims case. just like the guy did with the unlimited data thing from a few months ago
the supreme court said you can't clog the court system with minor nonsense about billing issues or service issues. you can still file a class action for the reason they were created if some company inflicts major financial or physical pain on you. like an insurance company denying legit claims of thousands of people as a matter of corporate strategy
Email is for work
But for non work communication its Facebook
10 years ago all the stupid jokes and pictures were emailed to friends. Today they are shared on Facebook
Find cool tech developed by start up
Rip it off
Don't worry about lawsuit since risk is too great
linux isn't secure by itself. you have to configure it to be secure and you still have to buy firewalls and all kinds of appliances to monitor traffic. add that up along with the extra work required to set it up compared to windows and its cheaper to buy windows.
people don't work for free. figure $120,000 or so per employee when you figure all the benefits. cheaper to just buy windows
they don't need to nod
the have oracle financials to model the projected revenue/profits of building more capacity. and it's telling them not to do it
computers are so good at doing repetitive monkey work that most people don't like to do
how is it illegal? there is no democratic government that can force you to invest in something that won't return any profits
its already happening, people are buying smartphones and ipads. even my wife's macbook rarely gets used. she's always on her iphone.
the computer is mostly a paperweight at home that i turn on once a month to copy photos from my iphone
your annual profit is $483 million. it's going to cost you about that much to build a new plant so you can sell your product cheaper and get your profit down to $200 million
these decisions aren't rocket science. i bet your're not running a business
yeah, that's partly the problem of hollywood
years ago on some talk show Julia Roberts said that out of a $20 million paycheck on a movie she's lucky to see $4 million
between agent fees and taxes there is not much left. and if a movie is going to gross $500 million around the world including home video sales why should the top talent settle for pennies?
for a long time itunes would only deal with wholesalers which after the itunes cut and their cut the artist got 30%
i hear now they let anyone sell music
there is no way hollywood can make money on $8 netlix subscriptions and letting them have first run movies before blu ray street date. and netflix refuses to have a tiered model
for $5 or so you can rent almost every new movie after it leaves the theaters and the apps are on most consoles and blu ray players and set top boxes