No one cares and, as long as the DRM isn't mandatory, that will continue to be the case.
Take Vista. I'd bet at least a nickle that the number of people who are upset about the DRM 'in it' is dwarfed by the number of people who would go ape shit if their shiny new computer wouldn't play BD movies back on their shiny new TV.
Oh wah, you have to spend $10 on a new card each time you spend $200 on a device.
Most people want new shiny well before the technology inside the device expires anyway (I live in the "use it until it breaks or an upgrade is insanely compelling" world, but I'm pretty sure that more people live in the "oooooooh, shiny" world than that one).
Oh whatever. If we can't come up with a way to make clean energy and then use it to separate out the materials contained in a hard drive, we are fucked anyway.
Also, the market for obsolete drives of questionable reliability is only so big, and what do you think those people do with disks when they stop using them?
What interpreted languages do you think are pass by value? Perl, Python, and Ruby are all pass by reference (or roughly equivalent to such). Javascript passes objects by reference and native types by value. Those are the big 4.
I was, however obliquely, agreeing with you. There aren't really any schools anywhere near the top of any mountain (and to whoever replies with a school near the top of a mountain, the fact that there is a school there indicates that it isn't a real mountain...).
Flash deterioration is only really a problem in a few narrow areas. For typical laptop/desktop use, it isn't a relevant consideration (it will take some reasonably long number of years for the drive to start to lose capacity).
It depends a whole lot on who and what you examine. On the one hand, I, as a college student, got my first cell phone in 1999. On the other hand, it took a while for Indian fisherman and African schoolchildren to catch up with me.
Deflation in the prices of consumer goods doesn't appear to be problematic (is it so awful that TVs are bigger, cheaper and shinier?). Deflation of durable goods and commodities continues to be punishing (but there really isn't that much deflation in things like the housing market, at least if you measure over 10 years; there are pockets of severe deflation (Detroit, etc.), but the overall market is up). And at least with commodities, the pain is generally quite short term (because the stuff gets used up).
My point was more that actually putting on the seat belt is much more important to survivability than whether the car has a functional air bag or not. Vastly more important. It also helps to be close to the size that was used to design the restraint system (because it will work better).
It isn't wasteful and insanely misleading (people are dumb). Also, it is probably cheaper.
As someone who doesn't watch many films more than once, I really don't want to pay $10-20 per movie just because you insist that a tangible, owned product is better.
That isn't strictly an issue with the transaction fee being separate from the risk; without a market to sell crappy mortgages into, the banks would have been a lot more careful about the loans they issued. So maybe it is better explained by a lack of transparency, poor ratings or pathetic diligence on the part of the buyers.
Microsoft is not (heavily, they might be a little bit here and there, anyway, it isn't substantial) leveraged, the market price of a share has no impact on the ability of the company to operate. It might affect acquisitions, but only huge ones that they can't afford to pay cash for.
No, if anybody accessed the airplanes without the airlines noticing, they have an operational problem.
The airlines might not be able to prevent the TSA from stomping in and breaking shit, but they damn well better notice that it happened. That the TSA fails to announce what they are doing is irrelevant to what the airlines should be doing.
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No one cares and, as long as the DRM isn't mandatory, that will continue to be the case.
Take Vista. I'd bet at least a nickle that the number of people who are upset about the DRM 'in it' is dwarfed by the number of people who would go ape shit if their shiny new computer wouldn't play BD movies back on their shiny new TV.
Oh wah, you have to spend $10 on a new card each time you spend $200 on a device.
Most people want new shiny well before the technology inside the device expires anyway (I live in the "use it until it breaks or an upgrade is insanely compelling" world, but I'm pretty sure that more people live in the "oooooooh, shiny" world than that one).
Oh whatever. If we can't come up with a way to make clean energy and then use it to separate out the materials contained in a hard drive, we are fucked anyway.
Also, the market for obsolete drives of questionable reliability is only so big, and what do you think those people do with disks when they stop using them?
Quit fucking locking me out of my car.
One easy way to justify it is to say that it makes the drives safer to move around up until the point that step 4 is carried out.
You just committed a federal defense.
What interpreted languages do you think are pass by value? Perl, Python, and Ruby are all pass by reference (or roughly equivalent to such). Javascript passes objects by reference and native types by value. Those are the big 4.
The constant loud beeping gets on my nerves, so I try to keep it in a forward gear.
I was, however obliquely, agreeing with you. There aren't really any schools anywhere near the top of any mountain (and to whoever replies with a school near the top of a mountain, the fact that there is a school there indicates that it isn't a real mountain...).
It depends a little bit on the reliability of each variety of card...
If you are going to shoot school photos at the top of Mt. Everest, you might as well do it right.
Flash deterioration is only really a problem in a few narrow areas. For typical laptop/desktop use, it isn't a relevant consideration (it will take some reasonably long number of years for the drive to start to lose capacity).
That's because you over-identify with a corporation.
It depends a whole lot on who and what you examine. On the one hand, I, as a college student, got my first cell phone in 1999. On the other hand, it took a while for Indian fisherman and African schoolchildren to catch up with me.
Deflation in the prices of consumer goods doesn't appear to be problematic (is it so awful that TVs are bigger, cheaper and shinier?). Deflation of durable goods and commodities continues to be punishing (but there really isn't that much deflation in things like the housing market, at least if you measure over 10 years; there are pockets of severe deflation (Detroit, etc.), but the overall market is up). And at least with commodities, the pain is generally quite short term (because the stuff gets used up).
Not even the tits are real on that show.
My point was more that actually putting on the seat belt is much more important to survivability than whether the car has a functional air bag or not. Vastly more important. It also helps to be close to the size that was used to design the restraint system (because it will work better).
There is a price threshold. For $20, who cares. For $200, yeah, leave it out.
It isn't wasteful and insanely misleading (people are dumb). Also, it is probably cheaper.
As someone who doesn't watch many films more than once, I really don't want to pay $10-20 per movie just because you insist that a tangible, owned product is better.
Sandwiches.
Also, General Motors.
That isn't strictly an issue with the transaction fee being separate from the risk; without a market to sell crappy mortgages into, the banks would have been a lot more careful about the loans they issued. So maybe it is better explained by a lack of transparency, poor ratings or pathetic diligence on the part of the buyers.
What if I am wearing my seat belt?
There is a reason that race car drivers strap in, rather than pinning their hopes on a fancy balloon:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/which-would-you-rather-have-a-seat-belt-or-an-air-bag/
Microsoft is not (heavily, they might be a little bit here and there, anyway, it isn't substantial) leveraged, the market price of a share has no impact on the ability of the company to operate. It might affect acquisitions, but only huge ones that they can't afford to pay cash for.
No, if anybody accessed the airplanes without the airlines noticing, they have an operational problem.
The airlines might not be able to prevent the TSA from stomping in and breaking shit, but they damn well better notice that it happened. That the TSA fails to announce what they are doing is irrelevant to what the airlines should be doing.
I'll bet you $0.25 that the majority of Firefox users don't even know what an extension is.