It's not like the original XBox was floundering until Halo eventually came along. How can you make the assertion that Halo "made" the XBox when you have no history of XBox without Halo?
Your shit can give you a great insight into your general health, knowing it well would allow you to be more familiar with changes that could signal health issues. On the other hand, who wants to look at other people's shit?
You're the one who made the ridiculous claim about "extortion", then defended yourself by saying English is not your first language yet are now trying to play word games about the word "negotiation", as if that is relevant to a practice being good or bad. If you want to nitpick over someone else's word choice, you lose the right to play dumb with your own.
You either have a complaint about the practice or you don't. Stop being a hypocrite.
Of course they can. I can sign any document, even a blank piece of paper, and allow someone to put whatever they want to above it. This is the equivalent to clicking a button that says "this app can do anything I could do".
It's not a "negotiation", but I don't see why that matters or is particularly bad. Most modern transactions aren't negotiated, especially smaller ones. I don't know where you live, but in my country when you go to the grocery store you don't haggle over the price of the toilet paper. You buy it for the advertised price or you don't. People who provide goods and services have the right to offer them at whatever price they would like. People who are interested in negotiating the price make that known by selling their products in a medium where that's more typical (farmer's markets, Craigslist, etc). Are you suggesting that people should be forced to sell goods and services for less than they want to? How is that fair? If they want to sell you an app only in exchange for X, and you don't agree to X, that should be final. You don't get to force them to sell it to you for X-1 because you think you deserve it. You don't have the right to force someone to negotiate with you against their will.
Then don't let them?The app stores tell you before you install what permissions an app wants. If every grocery store in town decided you had to have a prostate exam given by the cashier before you could shop there would you just shrug your shoulders and say, "oh well, nothing we can do"?
There are plenty of ways to secure apps on your phone once you have rooted it.
Really? It's "extortion"? They threaten that they're going to do something bad to you if you don't authenticate with Twitter and let them post as you? No? Your life proceeds exactly the same if you decline? Huh.
Grow up. This in on par with a a teenage girl claiming her life is "ruined" because she can't have the latest trendy gadget.
"Locks keep people out of my house". They don't keep bad guys out. Anyone can kick the door in. I can pick the lock, as can many other people. A lock is a REQUEST. a "do not disturb" sign.
Of course locks keep people out. They keep out anyone who is less determined than the effort and risk circumventing the lock poses. Why do you think criminals walk through parking lots checking door handles for open doors? By your logic they would just start smashing windows.
How about much bigger locks, like a bank vault? Have you ever noticed that most banks keep their vault door a) open and b) well polished? Does that look like security, or security theatre? Notice that next to the thick steel door is a plaster wall.
If you think that bank vaults are big steel doors surrounded by plaster walls, you're a dumbass.
It's fairly rare that you can increase security enough that something is more expensive to steal than it's worth. Sometimes, but rarely. What you CAN do is avoid being low-hanging fruit.
Oh. You are a dumbass. "Low hanging fruit" is something that is less trouble/risk to steal than its worth. Physical security revolves entirely around the concept that you claim is "rare".
Getting you in and out as quickly as possible is their goal.
Completely wrong. Lingering is the goal. Customers who linger buy more.
The main cost for these retailers isn't the food/coffee they serve it's the time and space you take up as you order it and then have to wait for all the inefficiencies with cash, cards, or checks.
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Yes. When asked to pay what they think a game is worth, Linux users consistently pay significantly more than users of other platforms.
Name me any game platform that took off because of one good game?
The Wii. It wasn't even a good game, either. I know a great number of otherwise non-gamers who own a Wii and haven't purchased a single game.
It's not like the original XBox was floundering until Halo eventually came along. How can you make the assertion that Halo "made" the XBox when you have no history of XBox without Halo?
Your shit can give you a great insight into your general health, knowing it well would allow you to be more familiar with changes that could signal health issues. On the other hand, who wants to look at other people's shit?
You're the one who made the ridiculous claim about "extortion", then defended yourself by saying English is not your first language yet are now trying to play word games about the word "negotiation", as if that is relevant to a practice being good or bad. If you want to nitpick over someone else's word choice, you lose the right to play dumb with your own.
You either have a complaint about the practice or you don't. Stop being a hypocrite.
Of course they can. I can sign any document, even a blank piece of paper, and allow someone to put whatever they want to above it. This is the equivalent to clicking a button that says "this app can do anything I could do".
Damn that unjust and unfair contract of adhesion known as the GPL.
It's not a "negotiation", but I don't see why that matters or is particularly bad. Most modern transactions aren't negotiated, especially smaller ones. I don't know where you live, but in my country when you go to the grocery store you don't haggle over the price of the toilet paper. You buy it for the advertised price or you don't. People who provide goods and services have the right to offer them at whatever price they would like. People who are interested in negotiating the price make that known by selling their products in a medium where that's more typical (farmer's markets, Craigslist, etc). Are you suggesting that people should be forced to sell goods and services for less than they want to? How is that fair? If they want to sell you an app only in exchange for X, and you don't agree to X, that should be final. You don't get to force them to sell it to you for X-1 because you think you deserve it. You don't have the right to force someone to negotiate with you against their will.
It must be all four or it is not spam.
Nope. The only two requirements are "unsolicited" and "bulk". Commercial and topicality are totally irrelevant.
Learn what the word means before you use it.
And now you have, so you can avoid embarrassing yourself in the future. HTH. HAND.
Because they have something people want and that allows them to negotiate from a position of strength. Pretty basic concept.
Then don't let them?The app stores tell you before you install what permissions an app wants. If every grocery store in town decided you had to have a prostate exam given by the cashier before you could shop there would you just shrug your shoulders and say, "oh well, nothing we can do"?
There are plenty of ways to secure apps on your phone once you have rooted it.
Really? It's "extortion"? They threaten that they're going to do something bad to you if you don't authenticate with Twitter and let them post as you? No? Your life proceeds exactly the same if you decline? Huh.
Grow up. This in on par with a a teenage girl claiming her life is "ruined" because she can't have the latest trendy gadget.
"Locks keep people out of my house". They don't keep bad guys out. Anyone can kick the door in. I can pick the lock, as can many other people. A lock is a REQUEST. a "do not disturb" sign.
Of course locks keep people out. They keep out anyone who is less determined than the effort and risk circumventing the lock poses. Why do you think criminals walk through parking lots checking door handles for open doors? By your logic they would just start smashing windows.
How about much bigger locks, like a bank vault? Have you ever noticed that most banks keep their vault door a) open and b) well polished? Does that look like security, or security theatre? Notice that next to the thick steel door is a plaster wall.
If you think that bank vaults are big steel doors surrounded by plaster walls, you're a dumbass.
It's fairly rare that you can increase security enough that something is more expensive to steal than it's worth. Sometimes, but rarely. What you CAN do is avoid being low-hanging fruit.
Oh. You are a dumbass. "Low hanging fruit" is something that is less trouble/risk to steal than its worth. Physical security revolves entirely around the concept that you claim is "rare".
Even after figuring in card fraud and bad debt, credit cards save retailers money.
You know how I know you've never run a small business?
Getting you in and out as quickly as possible is their goal.
Completely wrong. Lingering is the goal. Customers who linger buy more.
The main cost for these retailers isn't the food/coffee they serve it's the time and space you take up as you order it and then have to wait for all the inefficiencies with cash, cards, or checks.
Nope, it's health insurance. After that, it's definitely cost of goods sold. Operating expenses like "cash handling" aren't even a blip.
The so called "blogosphere" is nothing more than an echo chamber that has no more credibility than journalism.
Not quite. Android has 52% of the smartphone market and Apple has 40%. Hardly 3:1. Samsung has 25% of the smartphone market, so about half of the Android marketshare. http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-android-market-share-2013-2
I don't know, why would you? Most people, when confronted with such an unsolvable conundrum would think for a half second and then use another pocket.
Maybe you shouldn't rely on Slashdot as your sole source of news? This has been on astronomy and ham sites for days.