If Congress had to vote on every single issue (no omnibus bills), they would run out of time. They simply handle too many things in a year to be able to research, debate, and vote on each one.
That's why 99% (made up statistic) of law making happens in committee.
The 360 is $200 cheaper. (I dare you to find me a PS3 20GB).
Also, you don't have to pay a monthly fee for online pay. $50 for a year (which is 4 bucks a month)
Do you plan on playing your 360 online for the next 4 years? If so, then you've paid as much (more, if you factor in the inflation that will occur over the next 4 years) as you would have if you had bought a ps3.
And this is why console price is a stupid thing to debate. In the long run, the price of the console becomes trivial compared to what is spent on games (purchased or rented) and online fees.
If you capture all the rain that lands on your roof and devert it to a single drainage point, you could run it through a turbine, but if you do the math, I think you'll find that it's energy output will be very small. When I ran the math for my own home, it took over 100 years to break even on the hardware cost.
A two-story house would do a little better, but probably not enough better to matter.
Linus doesn't own the copyright to all the code in the kernel, therefore, he can't change the license even if he wanted to.
If, down the road, the GPL3 is determined to be a good thing, then it might be worth the enormous effort required to (1) get permission the change the license from all the copyright owners we can find, (2) replace code that is owned by coders we couldn't find or wouldn't give permission, and (3) try to do all this without detracting from the real work of developing the kernel.
It's possible, but unlikely, at least in the next 10 years.
It's not quite as bad as you think. As infrastructure matures, the marginal cost of adding new users decreases, so customers who aren't economically viable now might be next year, or the year after.
I suspect that their reasoning for doing this is to help Windows users to become familiar with the look, feel, and behavior of native Mac apps. This makes OSX seem less foreign to the windows users who might, then, be more likely to convert to Mac somewhere down the road.
Is the idea that the Ipod monopolizes the digital music player market and most people use iTunes with their Ipod, so bundling safari with iTunes is an abuse of the Ipod monopoly?
I imagine that very few people will buy new machines just to be able to run Vista. People will run what they've got until they need a new machine. If that new machine comes with Vista, they'll simply adapt.
Now that computer technology has roughly plateaued, this replacement cycle will lengthen. We no longer live in a day where you need to upgrade your computer every couple of years just to handle software requirements. Computers are fast enough now that you're only forced to upgrade when your old computer dies.
So, how exactly does a patent collection defend against patent trolls?
The whole idea of the patent troll is that they don't have any business to defend so that they can use their patents offensively without worrying about (non-karmic) retaliation.
Nice thing about successful changeovers like this is that they're infectious.
This can't be emphasized enough. Success breeds imitation. If the imitators are similarly successful, that's when things really take off because now you've got a community.
Process is the antithesis of innovation. Similarly, bureaucracy is the antithesis of progress.
The business world is just now starting to figure out that it's better to build a framework to support something than it is to build a process to do the same thing. That's because a framework can support multiple things whereas a process that is modified from it's original purpose becomes an unwieldy beast.
It's always a bit of both. Some people are thugs and religion lets them justify their thuggery. Some people are religious and somehow feel obligated to respond to a perceived injustice.
But when you get right down to it, they do it because they think they can get away with it. Such is Human Nature.
They're all satisfied Apple customers. I don't see how it matters whether you approve of their purchasing decision or not.
We've got a Mini at work left over from a dead project. I don't know if I'd buy one myself, but it's certainly not a bad little machine. I'd certainly recommend it if someone asked for my opinion.
Actually, I think that helps it a lot. Most of the people I know who bought one bought it because they were tickled that it was a real computer in such a "cute" package.
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Does using the PS3 as a video player reduce the life expectancy of the hardware?
If Congress had to vote on every single issue (no omnibus bills), they would run out of time. They simply handle too many things in a year to be able to research, debate, and vote on each one.
That's why 99% (made up statistic) of law making happens in committee.
The 360 is $200 cheaper. (I dare you to find me a PS3 20GB).
Also, you don't have to pay a monthly fee for online pay. $50 for a year (which is 4 bucks a month)
Do you plan on playing your 360 online for the next 4 years? If so, then you've paid as much (more, if you factor in the inflation that will occur over the next 4 years) as you would have if you had bought a ps3.
And this is why console price is a stupid thing to debate. In the long run, the price of the console becomes trivial compared to what is spent on games (purchased or rented) and online fees.
Just food for thought.
You know, if the mob offered to pay me to accept their protection...
That was Novell's deal. Do we know if Xandros and Linspire got paid by MS?
If you capture all the rain that lands on your roof and devert it to a single drainage point, you could run it through a turbine, but if you do the math, I think you'll find that it's energy output will be very small. When I ran the math for my own home, it took over 100 years to break even on the hardware cost.
A two-story house would do a little better, but probably not enough better to matter.
Linus doesn't own the copyright to all the code in the kernel, therefore, he can't change the license even if he wanted to.
If, down the road, the GPL3 is determined to be a good thing, then it might be worth the enormous effort required to (1) get permission the change the license from all the copyright owners we can find, (2) replace code that is owned by coders we couldn't find or wouldn't give permission, and (3) try to do all this without detracting from the real work of developing the kernel.
It's possible, but unlikely, at least in the next 10 years.
Can you file a grievance against them with the regulatory agency?
It's not quite as bad as you think. As infrastructure matures, the marginal cost of adding new users decreases, so customers who aren't economically viable now might be next year, or the year after.
If encryption is outlawed, only the government will have encryption.
I suspect that their reasoning for doing this is to help Windows users to become familiar with the look, feel, and behavior of native Mac apps. This makes OSX seem less foreign to the windows users who might, then, be more likely to convert to Mac somewhere down the road.
Just a thought.
What monopoly would Apple be leveraging?
Is the idea that the Ipod monopolizes the digital music player market and most people use iTunes with their Ipod, so bundling safari with iTunes is an abuse of the Ipod monopoly?
and the mac mini is hilariously underpowered for what it costs.
What are you comparing the mini to? Give us some links so that we can determine for
ourselves how the mini compares.
Is that true of software that is strictly GPL2 or just true of software that is "GPL2 or later versions of GPL"?
I imagine that very few people will buy new machines just to be able to run Vista. People will run what they've got until they need a new machine. If that new machine comes with Vista, they'll simply adapt.
Now that computer technology has roughly plateaued, this replacement cycle will lengthen. We no longer live in a day where you need to upgrade your computer every couple of years just to handle software requirements. Computers are fast enough now that you're only forced to upgrade when your old computer dies.
So, how exactly does a patent collection defend against patent trolls?
The whole idea of the patent troll is that they don't have any business to defend so that they can use their patents offensively without worrying about (non-karmic) retaliation.
Keep in mind that this is in Canada. The vast majority of schools in Canada deal with snow.
Nice thing about successful changeovers like this is that they're infectious.
This can't be emphasized enough. Success breeds imitation. If the imitators are similarly successful, that's when things really take off because now you've got a community.
Process is the antithesis of innovation.
Similarly, bureaucracy is the antithesis of progress.
The business world is just now starting to figure out that it's better to build a framework to support something than it is to build a process to do the same thing. That's because a framework can support multiple things whereas a process that is modified from it's original purpose becomes an unwieldy beast.
It's always a bit of both. Some people are thugs and religion lets them justify their thuggery. Some people are religious and somehow feel obligated to respond to a perceived injustice.
But when you get right down to it, they do it because they think they can get away with it. Such is Human Nature.
Didn't India introduce pot to the western world?
I think that Linux and the Linux community have been made stronger by the whole SCO fiasco.
Let's hope that phase 2 of Microsoft's plan is equally successful.
I wish I had mod points.
That was the most insightfully depressing summation of things I've ever seen.
They're all satisfied Apple customers. I don't see how it matters whether you approve of their purchasing decision or not.
We've got a Mini at work left over from a dead project. I don't know if I'd buy one myself, but it's certainly not a bad little machine. I'd certainly recommend it if someone asked for my opinion.
Actually, I think that helps it a lot. Most of the people I know who bought one bought it because they were tickled that it was a real computer in such a "cute" package.