For any good, there is a price point that will result in the highest profit for the seller of that good. If selling the latest AAA game title at $40 instead of $60 would lead to more profit, logic says that games companies would be doing it.
After all, the goal of any publicly traded company should presumably be to make the highest profit possible.
Whats worse is that the "sheeple" keep electing the same people time and time again.
Look at the recent result in the New Zealand poll, they elected exactly the same people who ran the place before, the same people who are in the back pockets of the big media companies (especially the big film and TV production companies), big financial companies and the US government (Google "Bruce Simpson" if you want to find out how much in the pocket of the US government they are)
Iodine has all kinds of legitimate uses in all kinds of non-drug fields. Why not focus on stopping the drug labs getting hold of those things that are specific to the production of drugs. If the drug labs cant get the Pseudoephadrine or other drug ingredients, it wont matter how much iodine they can get.
Even in desktop games, S3TC is still common. Many games use it (in the form of the Direct3D DXTn texture format inside.dds files or other texture files)
OEMs may not like this as they currently get paid $$$ by vendors to include those trial/demo versions of Norton/McAfee/etc (the ones that only come with 3 months or so of definition updates before you have to buy the full version) If MS is including anti-virus out of the box, how can these OEMs keep earning that revenue?
Yes the Nokia N900 has a pile of closed-source packages. But if it WAS running this CarrierIQ crap (which it isn't because its a product direct from Nokia and has never been tainted by any carrier) I could just open up an xterm and type "apt-get remove carrieriq" and get rid of it.
I am more interested in seeing how the Motorola-Microsoft fight goes, Motorola is a big player in Android (especially on Verizon in the USA) and they have a long history of genuine innovation in the mobile space (having invented or contributed to many technologies in mobile phones and radio communications) and are totally uninterested in Windows Mobile. Plus they have refused to negotiate with Microsoft or give in to Microsoft's demands and instead are going to court.
Taxis around here have cameras, they were installed because of incidents with passengers assaulting drivers (e.g. to steal drivers takings). I think its a good thing as long as its clear that there is a camera before they get into the cab. Don't like it, don't take a cab, use another mode of transport.
Yep. In this case the "Bread" is McDonalds Big Macs produced with hormone, antibiotic and chemical laden beef, genetically modified wheat and corn, salad covered with insecticide, pesticide, herbicide and fungicide and processed to within an inch of its life and a special sauce that's probably full of all sorts of artificial chemicals.
And the "circuses" are cheaply made overdone reality TV shows designed to be just interesting enough for the "sheeple" to keep watching but not interesting enough to make someone switch channels during the ads.
I have both a Windows 7 box (my primary machine) and a Gentoo Linux box (used right now for coding related to my Nokia N900 for the most part).
The #1 thing stopping me from going Linux full time is the gaming. Both playing games and modding games. Although there are probably other things keeping me on windows that I cant remember off the top of my head:)
Or, since this is about the UK, only watch the BBC (which has no ads) With the amount of content the BBC puts out, it should be possible to completly avoid content that makes these MPAA scumbags money.
Notice that its not the content creators that are pushing for this, its the content distributors (although many of them are also creators). Its not about piracy, its about the fact that the Internet (as it stands now) increasingly has the power to remove the content distributors as gatekeepers of the worlds content. And the big distributors are fearful that they will lose control over how content is distributed, what content is distributed and what content gets promoted (and what content does not)
Get everyone (including these media guys saying bad things about them) to write letters/emails to the company saying "unless you stop sending the SPAM, we will boycott your company"
Of course that assumes the company is the kind of company where a boycott would actually work.
If you buy a security, treasury bond or other instrument (and that includes things like the bits of paper that wall street guys buy and sell for oil, gold, wheat, iron ore and other commodities) and hold it for less than a week, you have to pay a big tax on any profit you earn on that security. Eliminates the high-frequency-trading and computer stuff and a lot of the day-to-day fluctuations in the market whilst keeping those who invest for the "long term" (including those who invest peoples retirement savings on their behalf) from having to pay anything extra. It means people arent buying and selling just because of external events that really dont make that much difference to the actual profit/revenue/stability/value of the company being traded.
If you want to see the worst abuse of PulseAudio, check out the Nokia N900 linux phone. Its using a combination of PulseAudio and a few other projects along with a bunch of closed-source blobs to do lots of the audio stuff in the phone. (the closed source blobs exist to keep certain proprietary algorithms for things like speaker protection and other things that are needed in a cellphone (exactly what is unknown since Nokia hasn't documented them)
Microsoft makes big money using its patent portfolio for lawsuits and FUD surrounding Linux and Android so it has no incentive to push for reform that makes those patents easier to challenge, harder to get or harder to sue with.
Apple right now is on a mission to crush Android in any court that it can get a hearing in, they dont want to see change that makes it harder for them to do that.
Microsoft and Apple may not support the system as it stands. But anyone who thinks either company wants the kind of patent reform that many others in the tech industry (including the Google guy posting in TFA) want is deluded. Both companies would think nothing of spending whatever it takes to lobby against any bill that actually made software un-patentable or that tightened up the criteria for what is and isn't patentable in the software field.
The only people who make money from software patents are patent trolls, lawyers and companies who would rather litigate than innovate (Microsoft being one example, Apple being another)
My guess is that the people with a controlling interest in SCO dont care that the company is being run into the ground, they just care that more FUD is being created regarding Linux being "legally risky to use"
Back in the cold war days, the Soviets would pretty much give/sell AK-47s, RPGs and who knows what else to any government that hated the same countries the Soviets did.
Except in this case its not the browser makers that would need to fix it, its companies like Microsoft who accept these certificates as valid for code signing when they were not explicitly marked with a "can be used for code signing" flag.
I dumped my old bank (the National Australia Bank) for Police & Nurses Credit Society (and no you dont have to be a cop or nurse to join). I get access to any RediATM branded ATM anywhere in Australia including (ironically) all National Australia Bank ATMs with no fee whatsoever. And I get fee free EFTPOS (which means I can pay for stuff and do cash out at retailers ranging from fast food joints to computer parts shops to the machines where I recharge my public transport payment card. I also get fee-free online banking (including being able to pay any bill with a bPay logo on it as well as being able to transfer money to any Australian bank account if I have the account details). I think my account has a minimum ballance requirement (i.e. must have $x in the account or get $x in income per month in the account else you pay fees) but in all the years I have had this account, I have never hit that limit or paid those fees.
The only fees I get charged for is a fee for using a non-RediATM ATM (something I almost never do given that there are 1000s of RediATM branded ATMs all over Australia), a $1.50 per month fee for having a VISA Debit card and fees if I purchase something from an overseas retailer using said VISA Debit card.
The situation may be different in Australia compared to the USA but the big banks are just as greedy and I am glad I switched and dont regret it.
Anyone who hasn't at least investigated the alternatives and come up with legitimate reasons why switching is not possible has no right to complain about their bank IMO.
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For any good, there is a price point that will result in the highest profit for the seller of that good. If selling the latest AAA game title at $40 instead of $60 would lead to more profit, logic says that games companies would be doing it.
After all, the goal of any publicly traded company should presumably be to make the highest profit possible.
Whats worse is that the "sheeple" keep electing the same people time and time again.
Look at the recent result in the New Zealand poll, they elected exactly the same people who ran the place before, the same people who are in the back pockets of the big media companies (especially the big film and TV production companies), big financial companies and the US government (Google "Bruce Simpson" if you want to find out how much in the pocket of the US government they are)
A chip like this would work good for servers that are limited more by network bandwidth and disk IO than by CPU load.
Iodine has all kinds of legitimate uses in all kinds of non-drug fields. Why not focus on stopping the drug labs getting hold of those things that are specific to the production of drugs. If the drug labs cant get the Pseudoephadrine or other drug ingredients, it wont matter how much iodine they can get.
Even in desktop games, S3TC is still common. Many games use it (in the form of the Direct3D DXTn texture format inside .dds files or other texture files)
OEMs may not like this as they currently get paid $$$ by vendors to include those trial/demo versions of Norton/McAfee/etc (the ones that only come with 3 months or so of definition updates before you have to buy the full version)
If MS is including anti-virus out of the box, how can these OEMs keep earning that revenue?
Yes the Nokia N900 has a pile of closed-source packages. But if it WAS running this CarrierIQ crap (which it isn't because its a product direct from Nokia and has never been tainted by any carrier) I could just open up an xterm and type "apt-get remove carrieriq" and get rid of it.
I am more interested in seeing how the Motorola-Microsoft fight goes, Motorola is a big player in Android (especially on Verizon in the USA) and they have a long history of genuine innovation in the mobile space (having invented or contributed to many technologies in mobile phones and radio communications) and are totally uninterested in Windows Mobile. Plus they have refused to negotiate with Microsoft or give in to Microsoft's demands and instead are going to court.
Taxis around here have cameras, they were installed because of incidents with passengers assaulting drivers (e.g. to steal drivers takings). I think its a good thing as long as its clear that there is a camera before they get into the cab. Don't like it, don't take a cab, use another mode of transport.
Isn't that just 3-clause BSD (or something almost the same) and therefore there is no requirement for apple to share anything?
Yep. In this case the "Bread" is McDonalds Big Macs produced with hormone, antibiotic and chemical laden beef, genetically modified wheat and corn, salad covered with insecticide, pesticide, herbicide and fungicide and processed to within an inch of its life and a special sauce that's probably full of all sorts of artificial chemicals.
And the "circuses" are cheaply made overdone reality TV shows designed to be just interesting enough for the "sheeple" to keep watching but not interesting enough to make someone switch channels during the ads.
I have both a Windows 7 box (my primary machine) and a Gentoo Linux box (used right now for coding related to my Nokia N900 for the most part).
The #1 thing stopping me from going Linux full time is the gaming. Both playing games and modding games. :)
Although there are probably other things keeping me on windows that I cant remember off the top of my head
Or, since this is about the UK, only watch the BBC (which has no ads)
With the amount of content the BBC puts out, it should be possible to completly avoid content that makes these MPAA scumbags money.
Notice that its not the content creators that are pushing for this, its the content distributors (although many of them are also creators).
Its not about piracy, its about the fact that the Internet (as it stands now) increasingly has the power to remove the content distributors as gatekeepers of the worlds content. And the big distributors are fearful that they will lose control over how content is distributed, what content is distributed and what content gets promoted (and what content does not)
Get everyone (including these media guys saying bad things about them) to write letters/emails to the company saying "unless you stop sending the SPAM, we will boycott your company"
Of course that assumes the company is the kind of company where a boycott would actually work.
If you buy a security, treasury bond or other instrument (and that includes things like the bits of paper that wall street guys buy and sell for oil, gold, wheat, iron ore and other commodities) and hold it for less than a week, you have to pay a big tax on any profit you earn on that security. Eliminates the high-frequency-trading and computer stuff and a lot of the day-to-day fluctuations in the market whilst keeping those who invest for the "long term" (including those who invest peoples retirement savings on their behalf) from having to pay anything extra. It means people arent buying and selling just because of external events that really dont make that much difference to the actual profit/revenue/stability/value of the company being traded.
If you want to see the worst abuse of PulseAudio, check out the Nokia N900 linux phone. Its using a combination of PulseAudio and a few other projects along with a bunch of closed-source blobs to do lots of the audio stuff in the phone. (the closed source blobs exist to keep certain proprietary algorithms for things like speaker protection and other things that are needed in a cellphone (exactly what is unknown since Nokia hasn't documented them)
At the time I switched, the NAB didnt even DO Debit Cards.
Microsoft makes big money using its patent portfolio for lawsuits and FUD surrounding Linux and Android so it has no incentive to push for reform that makes those patents easier to challenge, harder to get or harder to sue with.
Apple right now is on a mission to crush Android in any court that it can get a hearing in, they dont want to see change that makes it harder for them to do that.
Microsoft and Apple may not support the system as it stands. But anyone who thinks either company wants the kind of patent reform that many others in the tech industry (including the Google guy posting in TFA) want is deluded. Both companies would think nothing of spending whatever it takes to lobby against any bill that actually made software un-patentable or that tightened up the criteria for what is and isn't patentable in the software field.
The only people who make money from software patents are patent trolls, lawyers and companies who would rather litigate than innovate (Microsoft being one example, Apple being another)
My guess is that the people with a controlling interest in SCO dont care that the company is being run into the ground, they just care that more FUD is being created regarding Linux being "legally
risky to use"
Back in the cold war days, the Soviets would pretty much give/sell AK-47s, RPGs and who knows what else to any government that hated the same countries the Soviets did.
Except in this case its not the browser makers that would need to fix it, its companies like Microsoft who accept these certificates as valid for code signing when they were not explicitly marked with a "can be used for code signing" flag.
I dumped my old bank (the National Australia Bank) for Police & Nurses Credit Society (and no you dont have to be a cop or nurse to join). I get access to any RediATM branded ATM anywhere in Australia including (ironically) all National Australia Bank ATMs with no fee whatsoever. And I get fee free EFTPOS (which means I can pay for stuff and do cash out at retailers ranging from fast food joints to computer parts shops to the machines where I recharge my public transport payment card.
I also get fee-free online banking (including being able to pay any bill with a bPay logo on it as well as being able to transfer money to any Australian bank account if I have the account details). I think my account has a minimum ballance requirement (i.e. must have $x in the account or get $x in income per month in the account else you pay fees) but in all the years I have had this account, I have never hit that limit or paid those fees.
The only fees I get charged for is a fee for using a non-RediATM ATM (something I almost never do given that there are 1000s of RediATM branded ATMs all over Australia), a $1.50 per month fee for having a VISA Debit card and fees if I purchase something from an overseas retailer using said VISA Debit card.
The situation may be different in Australia compared to the USA but the big banks are just as greedy and I am glad I switched and dont regret it.
Anyone who hasn't at least investigated the alternatives and come up with legitimate reasons why switching is not possible has no right to complain about their bank IMO.