The problem is, if my iPad needs to get wiped for whatever reason, I cannot reinstall older versions of the apps from the Apple Store, since they will not allow download of old versions of apps, even if the newer version is not compatible with my hardware.
"customers should never lose access to their Amazon Instant Video purchases."
This was actually one of Amazon's big selling points a couple of years ago - if you purchase a digital video through Amazon, you are not suppose to loose access to it.
Naturally, you are supposed to keep tight access to it. Only you can prevent media piracy...
An always-connected player would defeat the whole purpose of physical media
You're quite right, but the OP's assumption isn't that far-fetched. Didn't the original DivX players (the old rental units) refuse to play their disks until they phoned home? Yes, I know it's a bit apples-and-oranges, but you know the media corps would do that again in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away with it.
Furthermore if you bothered to read the Militia Act of 1792, signed into law by George Washington, you'd know that the militia was to consist of everybody who could vote under the age of 45. Gun ownership was mandatory for this group, not owning a gun was, in fact, a crime.
Except for the women, of course. Oh, and the blacks, I imagine. And any other "non-people". I mean, while we're being slavishly faithful to the founder's intents and everything...
Fourteen years ago, Microsoft wholesale copied an existing competitor's product to announce Microsoft Wallet. That competitor was CyberCash, which was the first to provide a secure payment system on the Internet. I remember watching a Microsoft promotional video where actually showed pages from CyberCash's web site and presented them as their own, being careful to scroll down enough before the cameras rolled to cut off the CyberCash banners. I learned an important lesson about Microsoft that day.
What a shame. I remember taking college level Chemistry in my U.S. government-run school. (Well, actually, my school was run by state government like most public schools. You must have gone to school on a military base or something.) And getting credit for it when I went to University. On the other hand, I didn't get drivers ed until I graduated, and I had to pay for it at a private driving school.
If Nintendo was really denying there was no redesigned DS, then they were in fact stating that there was a redesigned DS, and you therefore shouldn't have been surprised.
In any case, I thought the old DS was perfectly fine. I doubt you'll get much of anything on your trade-in, given the huge number of these things already out in the marketplace.
Is it really worth the distinction to point out that others might be just as bad? Not that your anecdote does this; if anything, accusing other countries of ethical lapses in arms dealing is pretty ballsy coming from an American. The US is the biggest arms exporter in the world, and if you think all those weapons are going to "good guys" then you just don't want to know the truth. On the other hand, the parent poster's assertion about US businesses wasn't backed up by any facts either.
In any case, when you (or your country) are accused of wrongdoing, declaring "so-and-so is just as bad!" is very weak. We don't even accept that kind of behavior from children!
Do you think a publicly-trade company is doing something that will lose money over the long term?
Publicly traded companies constantly do things that will lose money over the long term. You might argue that they don't mean for them to lose money, but given the astoundingly stupid things done by even the largest corporations, it's downright depressing to think that they might really be that incompetently led...
Social Security is "bankrupt" in the same way that the United States is "bankrupt". Or didn't you notice that crippling deficit we're running? Funny how that doesn't seem to bother the administration.
Guess it's time to shutter the doors on the whole country!
The linked article espouses the same tired view that it's OK to take money from the American people with no intention of repaying it, while at the same time the trillions in bonds owned by foreign nations are not "worthless pieces of paper".
If people like this really believe what they're saying, they should be calling for an immediate reduction in social security taxes to eliminate the surpluses being generated between now and 2018, since that's just going into the "worthless" trust fund. Strange how you never hear that.
Yes, but you're presuming that the world will react calmly to this dropoff in production. Instead, there could well be panic, hoarding, wide-spread shortages, and all-new wars between the major oil-consuming nations. People complain when the price of petroleum goes up a measily $1 a gallon. It's hard to imagine what would happen in the United States if people simply could not buy the petroleum they need to get to work, the store, etc. The result would be an immediate economic downturn that could completely collapse the house of cards the US economy has become.
This could happen very suddenly. So perhaps we won't have plenty of time. Perhaps we will finally have to use our brains to avoid an obvious approaching catastrophe, rather than trusting "the market". Infrastructure requires a significant lead-time and huge investments, whether it be a new fleet of fuel-efficent vehicles or a new power source that requires a distribution mechanism.
But who am I kidding? We've shown no knack for wisdom. I'd love to be able to transport someone directly out of one of those gas lines in the 70s and show them how we've been using gas for the last 20 years, while at the same time showing him the projected production shortages. If I sent him back to his time, he'd probably hang himself inside a week.
Not that they ever did a decent job of promoting it, but one of the cool things about mozilla was that it provided a development platform for cross-platform, stand-alone applications that were capable of a wide variety of rendering and communication tasks. XUL was/is cool.
Unfortunately, switching to a Firefox/Thunderbird model of stripped-down applications means there's no longer a single place where a developer may write a XUL application and have access to the full range of XPCOM objects and rendering abilities that were present in the suite.
I have written complex XUL clients, only to find out now that the primary development platform is being trashed. My applications won't run in Firefox, mostly because of missing capabilities. Guess I could write my own objects to replace all the ones being lost with the suite, but since all those objects were the reason I chose to develop on mozilla, I see little point.
I can see I made a mistake in choosing my technology.
On the bright side, the books "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" and "Creating Applications with Mozilla" should be hitting the clearance shelves in no time!
Holy Sh*!!!! I'm stunned! I'm personally at about 20-30 (depending on the season), and that's with central air conditioning, big screen tv, always on internet, electric washer & dryer, etc, etc. And I'm still trying to find ways to cut that consumption so I can put in my own self-sufficient system.
Keeping in mind, of course, that the price you pay to your utility is only a small part of the hidden price you pay as a result of our current power generation system.
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Perhaps I miss your point.
Don't feel bad. He's wearing a hat.
They were given a 6th peanut.
The problem is, if my iPad needs to get wiped for whatever reason, I cannot reinstall older versions of the apps from the Apple Store, since they will not allow download of old versions of apps, even if the newer version is not compatible with my hardware.
This is false.
"customers should never lose access to their Amazon Instant Video purchases."
This was actually one of Amazon's big selling points a couple of years ago - if you purchase a digital video through Amazon, you are not suppose to loose access to it.
Naturally, you are supposed to keep tight access to it. Only you can prevent media piracy...
Who did he loose it upon? I missed that detail.
An always-connected player would defeat the whole purpose of physical media
You're quite right, but the OP's assumption isn't that far-fetched. Didn't the original DivX players (the old rental units) refuse to play their disks until they phoned home? Yes, I know it's a bit apples-and-oranges, but you know the media corps would do that again in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away with it.
Furthermore if you bothered to read the Militia Act of 1792, signed into law by George Washington, you'd know that the militia was to consist of everybody who could vote under the age of 45. Gun ownership was mandatory for this group, not owning a gun was, in fact, a crime.
Except for the women, of course. Oh, and the blacks, I imagine. And any other "non-people". I mean, while we're being slavishly faithful to the founder's intents and everything...
Dead Donald Pleasence agrees.
Did you complain that Iron man is powered with an Arc reactor and not the "power of the transistor" that was originally used?
Twit.
Oh, come on. The Arc reactor is obviously just a souped up Heathkit.
Twat.
Normalizing bad behavior isn't something to aspire to.
Fourteen years ago, Microsoft wholesale copied an existing competitor's product to announce Microsoft Wallet. That competitor was CyberCash, which was the first to provide a secure payment system on the Internet. I remember watching a Microsoft promotional video where actually showed pages from CyberCash's web site and presented them as their own, being careful to scroll down enough before the cameras rolled to cut off the CyberCash banners. I learned an important lesson about Microsoft that day.
What a shame. I remember taking college level Chemistry in my U.S. government-run school. (Well, actually, my school was run by state government like most public schools. You must have gone to school on a military base or something.) And getting credit for it when I went to University. On the other hand, I didn't get drivers ed until I graduated, and I had to pay for it at a private driving school.
Stewart said the malware industry is moving faster than the security industry, making it impossible for users to remain secure.
He then set his hair on fire and ran screaming from the stage.
What, and actually read something else by Anne McCaffrey? Sorry, the so-called "Catteni Sequence" ensured that that will never happen again.
If Nintendo was really denying there was no redesigned DS, then they were in fact stating that there was a redesigned DS, and you therefore shouldn't have been surprised.
In any case, I thought the old DS was perfectly fine. I doubt you'll get much of anything on your trade-in, given the huge number of these things already out in the marketplace.
Is it really worth the distinction to point out that others might be just as bad? Not that your anecdote does this; if anything, accusing other countries of ethical lapses in arms dealing is pretty ballsy coming from an American. The US is the biggest arms exporter in the world, and if you think all those weapons are going to "good guys" then you just don't want to know the truth. On the other hand, the parent poster's assertion about US businesses wasn't backed up by any facts either.
In any case, when you (or your country) are accused of wrongdoing, declaring "so-and-so is just as bad!" is very weak. We don't even accept that kind of behavior from children!
Do you think a publicly-trade company is doing something that will lose money over the long term?
Publicly traded companies constantly do things that will lose money over the long term. You might argue that they don't mean for them to lose money, but given the astoundingly stupid things done by even the largest corporations, it's downright depressing to think that they might really be that incompetently led...
Social Security is "bankrupt" in the same way that the United States is "bankrupt". Or didn't you notice that crippling deficit we're running? Funny how that doesn't seem to bother the administration.
Guess it's time to shutter the doors on the whole country!
The linked article espouses the same tired view that it's OK to take money from the American people with no intention of repaying it, while at the same time the trillions in bonds owned by foreign nations are not "worthless pieces of paper".
If people like this really believe what they're saying, they should be calling for an immediate reduction in social security taxes to eliminate the surpluses being generated between now and 2018, since that's just going into the "worthless" trust fund. Strange how you never hear that.
Yes, but you're presuming that the world will react calmly to this dropoff in production. Instead, there could well be panic, hoarding, wide-spread shortages, and all-new wars between the major oil-consuming nations. People complain when the price of petroleum goes up a measily $1 a gallon. It's hard to imagine what would happen in the United States if people simply could not buy the petroleum they need to get to work, the store, etc. The result would be an immediate economic downturn that could completely collapse the house of cards the US economy has become.
This could happen very suddenly. So perhaps we won't have plenty of time. Perhaps we will finally have to use our brains to avoid an obvious approaching catastrophe, rather than trusting "the market". Infrastructure requires a significant lead-time and huge investments, whether it be a new fleet of fuel-efficent vehicles or a new power source that requires a distribution mechanism.
But who am I kidding? We've shown no knack for wisdom. I'd love to be able to transport someone directly out of one of those gas lines in the 70s and show them how we've been using gas for the last 20 years, while at the same time showing him the projected production shortages. If I sent him back to his time, he'd probably hang himself inside a week.
Yes, capitalism is great for combating that "what's in it for me" attitude! 8-)
Not that they ever did a decent job of promoting it, but one of the cool things about mozilla was that it provided a development platform for cross-platform, stand-alone applications that were capable of a wide variety of rendering and communication tasks. XUL was/is cool.
Unfortunately, switching to a Firefox/Thunderbird model of stripped-down applications means there's no longer a single place where a developer may write a XUL application and have access to the full range of XPCOM objects and rendering abilities that were present in the suite.
I have written complex XUL clients, only to find out now that the primary development platform is being trashed. My applications won't run in Firefox, mostly because of missing capabilities. Guess I could write my own objects to replace all the ones being lost with the suite, but since all those objects were the reason I chose to develop on mozilla, I see little point.
I can see I made a mistake in choosing my technology.
On the bright side, the books "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" and "Creating Applications with Mozilla" should be hitting the clearance shelves in no time!
Holy Sh*!!!! I'm stunned! I'm personally at about 20-30 (depending on the season), and that's with central air conditioning, big screen tv, always on internet, electric washer & dryer, etc, etc. And I'm still trying to find ways to cut that consumption so I can put in my own self-sufficient system.
Keeping in mind, of course, that the price you pay to your utility is only a small part of the hidden price you pay as a result of our current power generation system.