Would you rather have the government outright forbid things they dont want you to do, like smoke and drink alcohol, instead of merely taxing them? That would seem dictatorial. It happened in the 30s and I dont think you americans enjoyed it.
>An Office Suite (replaced by Open-office) wordpad, calc and outlook express =P i dont have an office suite installed and i dont need it. im not an accountant, i dont use spreadsheets and wordpad or even write are more than i'll ever need in terms of text formatting.
>A Programming Environment (Replaced by QT Designer) notepad:D
>Zipfiles builtin to windows xp
>PDF files isnt the acrobat reader plugin instamagically downloaded when you first browse to a pdf?
>MP3's WMplayer
>Instant Messaging MSN messenger
>IRC telnet =P
>Decent FTP Client ftp.exe IS a decent ftp client. i thought we linux freaks enjoyed working with the console?
>and A News reader. Outlook express?
I know what you mean but you went about it the wrong way. With mandrake, i slap on the cd, press a couple buttons and it Just Works. With windows, I need to either rummage through my thousands of CDs in a vain attempt to locate my drivers, or download them from a working puter. Why on earth arent most drivers included with windows anyway? All builtin windows drivers are always really old and crappy. Unless you have a severely outdated computer, windows will be a 16 color, soundless, webless hell upon first boot. Except for XP which finally seems to get that no one sane uses 16 colors anymore, or even 640x480. I was using 1024x768 at 256 colors 10 years ago on my 486 under windows 3.1! With Linux, you instantly get sound and pretty true colour graphics, unless you have some really weird incompatible hardware.
This may not be the best way on earth to store hardware or anything but I just use dead computers to hold my extra boards and drives... it's their natural environment you see;)
You're an idiot. They're not going to x-ray the moon like doctors do. They're gonna bounce the rays off its surface. You know, like you do with visible light? Its exactly the same kind of wave for christ's sake.
I've been looking for a US keyboard myself given that european keyboards aren't as programmer-friendly. To get {[]} you need to press Alt-Gray + 7, 8, 9, 0, the "quote" symbol is shift 2, you can really tell that programming languages were created in america, and made for american keyboards. I dont know who the heck came up with these crappy international layouts... i've switched to american layout for the past couple of months and found it most productive. Up for a swap?
I'm not a geologist, but this much I can tell you: The Sahara has been there since before civilization arose in the fertile crescent. It became a desert when some geological phenomenon made mountains appear, blocking the natural flow of rain clouds into the area. The land in Africa is like the land in any other place. It's not especially infertile, it's merely littered with some of the dumbest people on Earth who have done nothing but fight each other and set up dictatorship after dictatorship, destroying what little infrastructure existed and robbing the people of their rightful resources like food and water. Of course old colonialism didnt help and modern capitalism doesnt help either. Western corporations enjoy the cheap labour and products from Africa, encouraging countries to produce crops of tropical fruit instead of, say wheat, which we have plenty of. So they buy cheap goods from them and when they have no food sell them some of our excess for twice as much as what they would have spent had they grown their own. Also, some previously fertile areas depended on the natural cycle of yearly floods which irrigated the areas adjacent to the rivers. This has been disrupted by dams.
I remember playing a game where 2 cowboys tried to shoot each other. So much for the no humans rule? Or was it some sort of unauthorized game? It was so long ago, might even ne confusing it with another console. But I definitely remember the blocky look being exactly like the 2600's graphics.
I am Eggy Lippmann in the game. I am the Second Life Disco Manager, a Linden sponsored project. I'm just a regular user who gets a bit more pocket change than others, along with tax breaks. I am building it in a themed server dedicated to america, with the washington monument, a "gangland" set in the 1930s prohibiton era with a subterranean area, Fenway park, area 51, route 66... amazing stuff really, very popular place. If you want unbiased facts here they are: The game, or rather virtual world, is very very cool BUT overly ambitious. It lags to hell and back on large events since the servers simply dont scale very well, and neither does the average users hardware - the graphics are beautiful, amazingly realistic, really sexy girls in there, you have a nearly unlimited ability to create all sorts of wacky avatars by attaching things to yourself, giant spiders, aliens, werewolves, robots, anime characters with 100 foot wingspans, the works. You can customize your appearance endlessly. Sliders exist for the tiniest of details, such as amount of muscles, body fat, eyelash length and even how far apart those two little ridge things between your nose and lips are. You have an unrestricted ability to make clothes for yourself. Any kind of design is possible, as long as you can make it in photoshop, you can upload it. Physics lags the servers to hell and back, and so is generallly avoided. Most people want to build a silly little house and be done with it, and some prefab houses exist for sale rather cheaply. Others rent apartments. I'm providing free space for shops and apartments at the disco actually, so if you're in SL and want a place, comfy 8 meter high ceilings are at your disposal;) Having said all of that, i do hope they can scale the system and fix its bugs. It's horrible to have a gigantic disco that cannot be filled due to technical limitations. 30 ppl will often crash the server. Imagine if it took 30 hits to slashdot a webpage! Thankfully its not often that 30 ppl get together in one place and usually performance is pretty damn good! You can have a free 5 day trial. I heartily recommend that you try it, and if you do, look me up at the Disco in Blue. It's a gigantic mother of a building so you can't miss it;)
What if there ISNT anything that I would rather be doing because EVERYTHING seems boring, even if it did originally sound like a good idea? I cant focus on anything for a whole lot of time. Studying makes my mind wander off after a few seconds. Gaming keeps my attention for a while longer but I end up getting bored anyway. Everything ends up boring me and being bored all the time leads to feeling lethargic and doing nothing useful, and feeling useless leads to frequent bouts of depression or wild outbursts of unjustified anger. Do not mock that which you don't understand. Some of us do have serious problems, even if others merely abuse the system in order to justify their hypochondriac self-pity.
Running a public server is different from running a private client. Your reasoning is similar to saying that if I go to a public library then the people at the library have every right to enter my house against my will.
What kind of glass are we talking about exactly, and why is it so hard to replicate nowadays? No offense, but could you provide some links to back that up? I find it a little hard to believe, but would be very interested in reading more about it. Thanks.
Ah, a one-liner gets modded up insightful. Such is the greatness of slashdot cens... uh, moderation, which has recently forced me into posting anonymously to escape abusive moderation.
In response to your cute remark, and as others have mentioned, I DO understand the proxy bidding system, you idiot, but proxy bids in no way invalidate what I have said. The sanest strategy from the buyers' perspective is to not bid at all until the auction is near an end, so as not to unnecessarily raise the price for them.
You may be joking but you do have a point. What's hurting the american economy more, 4 or 5 people swapping files or the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring in all the time? I wish people would worry about serious things instead of meaningless virtualities such as an mp3. With so many people being mugged, raped and murdered, politicians seem to spend half their lives worrying about petty little details such as wether people should or shouldn't have the right to do what they want with what they purchase.
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It's not Apple's businness to authorize anything, no one elected them. The only Apple part in a macintosh motherboard is a tiny bit of code in the bios DESIGNED TO STIFLE COMPETITION by irrevocably tying the OS to the hardware without introducing any advantage to the consumer. When a company acts like that, they are DEFRAUDING their prospective customers, since in a free market the only way to prevent consumers from being screwed is to guarantee the existence of competition. A simple computer part should have no PURPOSE attached to it. It is your right to decide what you do with the things you purchase and no silly contract can take that away in a free country. No one should have the right to know or limit what you do with a simple computer part, except the government, perhaps, and only in very particular circumstances.
Look, forget it, you'll never get it, you're used to american companies' default denial of your basic rights instead of what any democracy should have which is defaulting to consumer freedom and forbidding the barest minimum of your activities. I'm Portuguese. We were recently under a fascist dictatorship and so I feel we're far more qualified to discuss freedom, since we were deprived of it and know very well what it is. Freedom is the perceived notion of being able to do what you want, even if there are laws in place to limit your behaviour (eg murder and rape), you can live with the relaxed feeling that these laws are so reasonable that you will never need to worry about them. Freedom is being able to know that it really is the PEOPLE who are ruling their land instead of it being an excuse for the kind of corruption and bribery you have for a government. Watching america's new laws lately I no longer have that feeling of freedom, security and relaxation. You're becoming a corporately-enforced fascist regime and somehow dragging europe into it. You seem to hold a deep-rooted belief that a company should somehow have any say in what you should do or not instead of respecting their customers and bowing to their rights. I don't care if the cruel sort of capitalism you have in america is making your economy more powerful or efficient. I'd rather be poor and free than rich and caged.
Do it informally. Someone joins your project, they do a little work for a month, and if you're happy with it you send them $100, or a gift for that amount of money. I could really use a new graphics card, for instance, and I'm sure you could work something out with whoever you're going to pay. $100 a month still sounds good to me. What kind of programmer/designer do you need? I'm good with bryce and stuff, I know C, Java, ASP, PHP, XML/XSLT... lots of other stuff. I've won writing contests, both poetry and prose, and I'm a good singer with some acting experience if you need voice-overs...
If you have $100 a week you are NOT a poor college kid. That's half my mom's salary, i dont have a father, and my allowance is zero. Anyway if you're paying that much I'll do anything for you. Part-time salaries in my country are a lot less than $100 per week. Need your floor scrubbed mr. E1ven?:)
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Apple can sell or refuse to sell whatever they make to whatever they want. My point was that you can't get it anywhere else because whenever someone tries to make something remotely similar to their computers (even if its only in "look and feel") they threaten and sue like the bully they are. Why can I get 10 different brands of motherboards for a PC and not for an Apple? Why should Apple be allowed the privilege to distort the nature of the personal computer market for their own benefit instead of competing fairly against all other personal computer companies? TYING their software to specially apple-modified PowerPC hardware is a Microsoftish lock-in tactic. Unnecessarily tying anything to anything else dimishes the consumer's freedom and the product's flexibility. I believe that they shouldn't be excused just because they are small. It still harms the consumer to benefit the vendor, something that is the basis for many laws that are in place to protect our basic rights. When I buy a xyzzy-brand PC I don't need to sign an agreement with the vendor banning me from getting replacement parts from a non-xyzzy shop. It would only be fair that Apple were forced to do their business along the same lines as all other computer companies and suffer the same narrow profit margins that everyone else is getting on parts. On complete computers, however, they could very well charge what they want. The superior design and assurance of quality justifies the price for many people. But that doesn't mean I should be banned from rolling my own PPC on a boring beige case and purchasing OSX separately.
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The point is that it's anyone's reasonable expectation to be able to obtain a stupid motherboard without going through any hassle, and that it is wrong for Apple to exert this sort of control over basic hardware, and also to irrevocably tie its hardware to its software. Microsoft was sued for exactly the same thing, why don't you apple zealots get it? When something is being increasingly commoditized a lot of people try to fight their inevitable downturn in profits through idiotic bully tactics like Microsoft's and Apple's. Their attempts to decommoditize computers are Luddite in nature and will never get us anywhere. A mac should be the exact same price as a PC, or even cheaper, given that it usually has a lot less processing power and available software than a normal computer.
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"The company flirted with hardware licensing in the mid-1990s, but shut down the so-called "clone" manufacturers in 1997 when it became clear they were hurting the company's own sales."
I don't see how making and breaking an entire industry on a whim could be healthy for an economy or should be legal for a company to do. I don't care about what's on their contract, I could sign a contract with you that would allow you to publically torture me to death but it doesn't mean it's right morally or legally to torture someone.
This is the 21st century my friend. Products aren't supposed to have a measurable amount of usefulness or quality. They are merely an excuse for other people to get their hands in your pocket. Through comprehensive hyping and brainwashing (err, marketing) you could get a sizable amount of money out of selling a single turd. Ever heard of Merda d' Artista? It literally translates to "Artist's shit" and it IS shit. Very old shit but nothing more than human faeces. And yet, we are supposed to believe that it is a minimalist protest against the state of art (blah blah monocle polish yacht hampsters). The thing sold for a bundle.
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I have no idea how this kind of thing can be legal. It is anti-competitive by definition and if it was Microsoft doing it ppl would be all over them. Why is it acceptable that Apple can bully companies into oblivion? Just because it's not Microsoft? Or is it because their PCs are prettier and BSD-based? I thought the whole point of capitalism was that through competition among large numbers of companies, consumers would get better and cheaper products with the passing of time. Mod me down if you must, I realize this is pretty much a troll post, but I just don't like the kind of blind zealotry that Apple gets.
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Would you rather have the government outright forbid things they dont want you to do, like smoke and drink alcohol, instead of merely taxing them? That would seem dictatorial. It happened in the 30s and I dont think you americans enjoyed it.
>An Office Suite (replaced by Open-office)
:D
wordpad, calc and outlook express =P
i dont have an office suite installed and i dont need it. im not an accountant, i dont use spreadsheets and wordpad or even write are more than i'll ever need in terms of text formatting.
>A Programming Environment (Replaced by QT Designer)
notepad
>Zipfiles
builtin to windows xp
>PDF files
isnt the acrobat reader plugin instamagically downloaded when you first browse to a pdf?
>MP3's
WMplayer
>Instant Messaging
MSN messenger
>IRC
telnet =P
>Decent FTP Client
ftp.exe IS a decent ftp client. i thought we linux freaks enjoyed working with the console?
>and A News reader.
Outlook express?
I know what you mean but you went about it the wrong way. With mandrake, i slap on the cd, press a couple buttons and it Just Works.
With windows, I need to either rummage through my thousands of CDs in a vain attempt to locate my drivers, or download them from a working puter.
Why on earth arent most drivers included with windows anyway? All builtin windows drivers are always really old and crappy. Unless you have a severely outdated computer, windows will be a 16 color, soundless, webless hell upon first boot. Except for XP which finally seems to get that no one sane uses 16 colors anymore, or even 640x480.
I was using 1024x768 at 256 colors 10 years ago on my 486 under windows 3.1!
With Linux, you instantly get sound and pretty true colour graphics, unless you have some really weird incompatible hardware.
This may not be the best way on earth to store hardware or anything but I just use dead computers to hold my extra boards and drives... it's their natural environment you see ;)
Say what? Check out www.secondlife.com and then tell me that again.
You're an idiot.
They're not going to x-ray the moon like doctors do.
They're gonna bounce the rays off its surface. You know, like you do with visible light? Its exactly the same kind of wave for christ's sake.
I've been looking for a US keyboard myself given that european keyboards aren't as programmer-friendly. To get {[]} you need to press Alt-Gray + 7, 8, 9, 0, the "quote" symbol is shift 2, you can really tell that programming languages were created in america, and made for american keyboards. I dont know who the heck came up with these crappy international layouts... i've switched to american layout for the past couple of months and found it most productive.
Up for a swap?
I'm not a geologist, but this much I can tell you:
The Sahara has been there since before civilization arose in the fertile crescent.
It became a desert when some geological phenomenon made mountains appear, blocking the natural flow of rain clouds into the area.
The land in Africa is like the land in any other place. It's not especially infertile, it's merely littered with some of the dumbest people on Earth who have done nothing but fight each other and set up dictatorship after dictatorship, destroying what little infrastructure existed and robbing the people of their rightful resources like food and water. Of course old colonialism didnt help and modern capitalism doesnt help either.
Western corporations enjoy the cheap labour and products from Africa, encouraging countries to produce crops of tropical fruit instead of, say wheat, which we have plenty of. So they buy cheap goods from them and when they have no food sell them some of our excess for twice as much as what they would have spent had they grown their own.
Also, some previously fertile areas depended on the natural cycle of yearly floods which irrigated the areas adjacent to the rivers. This has been disrupted by dams.
I remember playing a game where 2 cowboys tried to shoot each other. So much for the no humans rule?
Or was it some sort of unauthorized game?
It was so long ago, might even ne confusing it with another console. But I definitely remember the blocky look being exactly like the 2600's graphics.
You can teleport in that game you know.
And theres a couple of walk thru walls bugs you can use to get in and out of any place.
I am Eggy Lippmann in the game. I am the Second Life Disco Manager, a Linden sponsored project. ;) ;)
I'm just a regular user who gets a bit more pocket change than others, along with tax breaks. I am building it in a themed server dedicated to america, with the washington monument, a "gangland" set in the 1930s prohibiton era with a subterranean area, Fenway park, area 51, route 66... amazing stuff really, very popular place.
If you want unbiased facts here they are:
The game, or rather virtual world, is very very cool BUT overly ambitious. It lags to hell and back on large events since the servers simply dont scale very well, and neither does the average users hardware - the graphics are beautiful, amazingly realistic, really sexy girls in there, you have a nearly unlimited ability to create all sorts of wacky avatars by attaching things to yourself, giant spiders, aliens, werewolves, robots, anime characters with 100 foot wingspans, the works.
You can customize your appearance endlessly. Sliders exist for the tiniest of details, such as amount of muscles, body fat, eyelash length and even how far apart those two little ridge things between your nose and lips are.
You have an unrestricted ability to make clothes for yourself. Any kind of design is possible, as long as you can make it in photoshop, you can upload it.
Physics lags the servers to hell and back, and so is generallly avoided. Most people want to build a silly little house and be done with it, and some prefab houses exist for sale rather cheaply.
Others rent apartments. I'm providing free space for shops and apartments at the disco actually, so if you're in SL and want a place, comfy 8 meter high ceilings are at your disposal
Having said all of that, i do hope they can scale the system and fix its bugs. It's horrible to have a gigantic disco that cannot be filled due to technical limitations. 30 ppl will often crash the server. Imagine if it took 30 hits to slashdot a webpage! Thankfully its not often that 30 ppl get together in one place and usually performance is pretty damn good!
You can have a free 5 day trial. I heartily recommend that you try it, and if you do, look me up at the Disco in Blue. It's a gigantic mother of a building so you can't miss it
What if there ISNT anything that I would rather be doing because EVERYTHING seems boring, even if it did originally sound like a good idea?
I cant focus on anything for a whole lot of time.
Studying makes my mind wander off after a few seconds. Gaming keeps my attention for a while longer but I end up getting bored anyway. Everything ends up boring me and being bored all the time leads to feeling lethargic and doing nothing useful, and feeling useless leads to frequent bouts of depression or wild outbursts of unjustified anger. Do not mock that which you don't understand. Some of us do have serious problems, even if others merely abuse the system in order to justify their hypochondriac self-pity.
Running a public server is different from running a private client.
Your reasoning is similar to saying that if I go to a public library then the people at the library have every right to enter my house against my will.
What kind of glass are we talking about exactly, and why is it so hard to replicate nowadays?
No offense, but could you provide some links to back that up? I find it a little hard to believe, but would be very interested in reading more about it. Thanks.
Sellout, and plagiarist, since in 1984 Nancy Stouffer had already written a book by the name of "The Legend of Rah and the Muggles", starring Larry Potter.
Ah, a one-liner gets modded up insightful. Such is the greatness of slashdot cens... uh, moderation, which has recently forced me into posting anonymously to escape abusive moderation.
In response to your cute remark, and as others have mentioned, I DO understand the proxy bidding system, you idiot, but proxy bids in no way invalidate what I have said. The sanest strategy from the buyers' perspective is to not bid at all until the auction is near an end, so as not to unnecessarily raise the price for them.
You may be joking but you do have a point.
What's hurting the american economy more, 4 or 5 people swapping files or the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring in all the time?
I wish people would worry about serious things instead of meaningless virtualities such as an mp3.
With so many people being mugged, raped and murdered, politicians seem to spend half their lives worrying about petty little details such as wether people should or shouldn't have the right to do what they want with what they purchase.
Pictures here ;)
It's not Apple's businness to authorize anything, no one elected them.
The only Apple part in a macintosh motherboard is a tiny bit of code in the bios DESIGNED TO STIFLE COMPETITION by irrevocably tying the OS to the hardware without introducing any advantage to the consumer.
When a company acts like that, they are DEFRAUDING their prospective customers, since in a free market the only way to prevent consumers from being screwed is to guarantee the existence of competition.
A simple computer part should have no PURPOSE attached to it. It is your right to decide what you do with the things you purchase and no silly contract can take that away in a free country.
No one should have the right to know or limit what you do with a simple computer part, except the government, perhaps, and only in very particular circumstances.
Look, forget it, you'll never get it, you're used to american companies' default denial of your basic rights instead of what any democracy should have which is defaulting to consumer freedom and forbidding the barest minimum of your activities.
I'm Portuguese. We were recently under a fascist dictatorship and so I feel we're far more qualified to discuss freedom, since we were deprived of it and know very well what it is.
Freedom is the perceived notion of being able to do what you want, even if there are laws in place to limit your behaviour (eg murder and rape), you can live with the relaxed feeling that these laws are so reasonable that you will never need to worry about them.
Freedom is being able to know that it really is the PEOPLE who are ruling their land instead of it being an excuse for the kind of corruption and bribery you have for a government.
Watching america's new laws lately I no longer have that feeling of freedom, security and relaxation. You're becoming a corporately-enforced fascist regime and somehow dragging europe into it.
You seem to hold a deep-rooted belief that a company should somehow have any say in what you should do or not instead of respecting their customers and bowing to their rights. I don't care if the cruel sort of capitalism you have in america is making your economy more powerful or efficient. I'd rather be poor and free than rich and caged.
Do it informally. Someone joins your project, they do a little work for a month, and if you're happy with it you send them $100, or a gift for that amount of money. I could really use a new graphics card, for instance, and I'm sure you could work something out with whoever you're going to pay.
$100 a month still sounds good to me. What kind of programmer/designer do you need? I'm good with bryce and stuff, I know C, Java, ASP, PHP, XML/XSLT... lots of other stuff. I've won writing contests, both poetry and prose, and I'm a good singer with some acting experience if you need voice-overs...
If you have $100 a week you are NOT a poor college kid. That's half my mom's salary, i dont have a father, and my allowance is zero. Anyway if you're paying that much I'll do anything for you. Part-time salaries in my country are a lot less than $100 per week. :)
Need your floor scrubbed mr. E1ven?
Apple can sell or refuse to sell whatever they make to whatever they want. My point was that you can't get it anywhere else because whenever someone tries to make something remotely similar to their computers (even if its only in "look and feel") they threaten and sue like the bully they are.
Why can I get 10 different brands of motherboards for a PC and not for an Apple? Why should Apple be allowed the privilege to distort the nature of the personal computer market for their own benefit instead of competing fairly against all other personal computer companies?
TYING their software to specially apple-modified PowerPC hardware is a Microsoftish lock-in tactic.
Unnecessarily tying anything to anything else dimishes the consumer's freedom and the product's flexibility.
I believe that they shouldn't be excused just because they are small. It still harms the consumer to benefit the vendor, something that is the basis for many laws that are in place to protect our basic rights.
When I buy a xyzzy-brand PC I don't need to sign an agreement with the vendor banning me from getting replacement parts from a non-xyzzy shop.
It would only be fair that Apple were forced to do their business along the same lines as all other computer companies and suffer the same narrow profit margins that everyone else is getting on parts.
On complete computers, however, they could very well charge what they want. The superior design and assurance of quality justifies the price for many people. But that doesn't mean I should be banned from rolling my own PPC on a boring beige case and purchasing OSX separately.
The point is that it's anyone's reasonable expectation to be able to obtain a stupid motherboard without going through any hassle, and that it is wrong for Apple to exert this sort of control over basic hardware, and also to irrevocably tie its hardware to its software.
Microsoft was sued for exactly the same thing, why don't you apple zealots get it?
When something is being increasingly commoditized a lot of people try to fight their inevitable downturn in profits through idiotic bully tactics like Microsoft's and Apple's.
Their attempts to decommoditize computers are Luddite in nature and will never get us anywhere.
A mac should be the exact same price as a PC, or
even cheaper, given that it usually has a lot less processing power and available software than a normal computer.
"The company flirted with hardware licensing in the mid-1990s, but shut down the so-called "clone" manufacturers in 1997 when it became clear they were hurting the company's own sales."
I don't see how making and breaking an entire industry on a whim could be healthy for an economy or should be legal for a company to do.
I don't care about what's on their contract, I could sign a contract with you that would allow you to publically torture me to death but it doesn't mean it's right morally or legally to torture someone.
This is the 21st century my friend. Products aren't supposed to have a measurable amount of usefulness or quality. They are merely an excuse for other people to get their hands in your pocket.
Through comprehensive hyping and brainwashing (err, marketing) you could get a sizable amount of money out of selling a single turd. Ever heard of Merda d' Artista? It literally translates to "Artist's shit" and it IS shit. Very old shit but nothing more than human faeces. And yet, we are supposed to believe that it is a minimalist protest against the state of art (blah blah monocle polish yacht hampsters).
The thing sold for a bundle.
I have no idea how this kind of thing can be legal. It is anti-competitive by definition and if it was Microsoft doing it ppl would be all over them.
Why is it acceptable that Apple can bully companies into oblivion? Just because it's not Microsoft? Or is it because their PCs are prettier and BSD-based? I thought the whole point of capitalism was that through competition among large numbers of companies, consumers would get better and cheaper products with the passing of time.
Mod me down if you must, I realize this is pretty much a troll post, but I just don't like the kind of blind zealotry that Apple gets.