The problem with that is the size of the market - Concorde had a very small following that could afford the price of the seats regularly, while cattle class on a modern aircraft is well within reach of more than 75% of the population of a western nation.
Modern aircraft compare extremely well to their 1960s counterparts - the best example is that of 'ETOPS' (Extended Twin Engine Operational Performance Standard), or 'LROPS' as it is known today (Long Range Operational Performance Standard).
Try finding a 1960s aircraft that is rated to fly for 208 minutes, or nearly 3 and a half hours, on one single engine. Thats how far the technology has come, its extremely reliable.
If the A380 is a modernised 747 'knockoff', then the Boeing 787 is a modernised Airbus A300 'knockoff'. Doesn't detract from the fact that either plane is simply fantastic.
*My* logic is bad? Your logic is utter bullshit - there has not been one single case of a police raid conducted because the recipient was muslim, there has always been other reasons for the raid. You need to learn context before you engage in a debate with adults.
Oh, and yes, all blacks were racially discriminated against in the context you put forward - there were laws restricting blacks rights and freedoms....
Would OSX be as cheap as it is if Apple did not expect you to have also purchased hardware from themselves to run it on? Apple is basically maintaining existing customers when selling them new copies of OSX, so OSX could potentially be sold by Apple as a low profit/zero profit/loss leader for the hardware.
"Muslims" do not, as a group, get "raided". Just because the vast majority of current high level suspects, or "persons of interest" are from that group does not extend the treatment to the entire group.
This really is not true - if you hang around any established OSX user group (#MacOSX on Freenode for example), you get a *lot* of people asking for warez, with Office or iWork being high on the list after OSx86. It is just as common as on any other platform.
Uh - I may be missing the point but if you charge for a product then it seems to me you might have some sort responsibility to your clients (maybe even legal though IANAL).
And you would be wrong - plenty of pay-for software goes unsupported every year through business failure. There is no law on earth that can force me to work for you against my will.
Also depending on the OSS license you use you might have the responsibility of providing source code to those people whom you distribute it to.
I don't think any court in the world will convict me of violating my own copyright - if I used the GPL license, I don't have to accept it when I distribute my own code, since I am the full copyright holder, only those I pass it on to are on the hook for the license. If you cannot fulfil the license terms, that is your problem, not mine.
No, no responsibility exists at all, in any situation - I can produce either a free or a pay for product, and I can happily walk away from it at any point, taking with me my tools and code and no responsibility to support you exists at all. There is no way in hell you can tell me to keep working on something that I don't want to keep working on.
Yes, nuclear weapons have a shelf life due to the components included in them - explosives, chemicals etc.
New designs are used to maximise yield per mass, enabling you to throw a smaller warhead at a target, which means less chance of interception. It also means a smaller package to maintain, and cheaper to build, along with more warheads per unit of material.
The fact that MS are indeed releasing SP2 for Vista, perhaps? This talk about whether or not Windows 7 is a service pack is nothing more than infantile - if you really want to bash MS and Windows 7 for something, I'm sure you can find something actually worth while...
That was 14 years ago - today I expect a browser to be immediately available on any system I install. This would be a huge step backward, even if all I use it for is to bootstrap the rest of my system after a reinstall.
Who maintains the source list for this package manager? What requirements should be in place for addition of another package? What punishments should be in place if $MAINTAINER doesn't update the source list within a set amount of time? Who gets to decide what browsers get onto the list?
Or in other words, most of the same issues as you pointed out...
MS was going to include PDF save capability in Office 2007, but Adobe threatened antitrust action so MS made the PDF and XPS save capability a separate installation.
Peter Bright, of "Peter Bright Productions" wrote the main article. He describes himself as having "Three decades of Television & Video Production, Promotion, Marketing, and Corporate Communications."
Now, look at the articles he has written for Ars:
*snip*
WHO is paying this guy's bills?
Ars Technica? Seriously, this guy has a field of expertise, does that mean MS must be paying him as a shill?
While it is indeed fun to watch people play blame tennis ('its Windows fault!' 'its the architectures fault!'), the reality is that until recently, it was both Windows and the architectures fault - Intel forced the device memory mapping to below 4GB in versions of its desktop chipsets until recently, to the extent that even Apple and OS X was affected (remember those 3GB max Macs? Bingo), which was not solved by PAE. Intel fixed that, but if you have one of the earlier chipsets then you are SOL.
Yay for taking a *huge* step back - I'm sorry, but a web browser is a commodity item these days, I *expect* one to be available as soon as I install whatever desktop OS I am installing, be it Linux, Windows or OSX, its not an app I expect to have to faff around with to get working.
You do realise that there is a significant number of Windows installations sold that never, ever touch any OEM? Retail copies of Windows are still a good seller - whats the solution then?
So no, putting the onus solely on the OEM is not the solution - the GP is basically correct.
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The problem with that is the size of the market - Concorde had a very small following that could afford the price of the seats regularly, while cattle class on a modern aircraft is well within reach of more than 75% of the population of a western nation.
Modern aircraft compare extremely well to their 1960s counterparts - the best example is that of 'ETOPS' (Extended Twin Engine Operational Performance Standard), or 'LROPS' as it is known today (Long Range Operational Performance Standard).
Try finding a 1960s aircraft that is rated to fly for 208 minutes, or nearly 3 and a half hours, on one single engine. Thats how far the technology has come, its extremely reliable.
If the A380 is a modernised 747 'knockoff', then the Boeing 787 is a modernised Airbus A300 'knockoff'. Doesn't detract from the fact that either plane is simply fantastic.
*My* logic is bad? Your logic is utter bullshit - there has not been one single case of a police raid conducted because the recipient was muslim, there has always been other reasons for the raid. You need to learn context before you engage in a debate with adults.
Oh, and yes, all blacks were racially discriminated against in the context you put forward - there were laws restricting blacks rights and freedoms....
Would OSX be as cheap as it is if Apple did not expect you to have also purchased hardware from themselves to run it on? Apple is basically maintaining existing customers when selling them new copies of OSX, so OSX could potentially be sold by Apple as a low profit/zero profit/loss leader for the hardware.
"Muslims" do not, as a group, get "raided". Just because the vast majority of current high level suspects, or "persons of interest" are from that group does not extend the treatment to the entire group.
So, asking on IRC constitutes lack of knowledge these days? Ok then...
This really is not true - if you hang around any established OSX user group (#MacOSX on Freenode for example), you get a *lot* of people asking for warez, with Office or iWork being high on the list after OSx86. It is just as common as on any other platform.
Uh - I may be missing the point but if you charge for a product then it seems to me you might have some sort responsibility to your clients (maybe even legal though IANAL).
And you would be wrong - plenty of pay-for software goes unsupported every year through business failure. There is no law on earth that can force me to work for you against my will.
Also depending on the OSS license you use you might have the responsibility of providing source code to those people whom you distribute it to.
I don't think any court in the world will convict me of violating my own copyright - if I used the GPL license, I don't have to accept it when I distribute my own code, since I am the full copyright holder, only those I pass it on to are on the hook for the license. If you cannot fulfil the license terms, that is your problem, not mine.
Copyright is very interesting in that regard...
No, no responsibility exists at all, in any situation - I can produce either a free or a pay for product, and I can happily walk away from it at any point, taking with me my tools and code and no responsibility to support you exists at all. There is no way in hell you can tell me to keep working on something that I don't want to keep working on.
Yes, nuclear weapons have a shelf life due to the components included in them - explosives, chemicals etc.
New designs are used to maximise yield per mass, enabling you to throw a smaller warhead at a target, which means less chance of interception. It also means a smaller package to maintain, and cheaper to build, along with more warheads per unit of material.
The fact that MS are indeed releasing SP2 for Vista, perhaps? This talk about whether or not Windows 7 is a service pack is nothing more than infantile - if you really want to bash MS and Windows 7 for something, I'm sure you can find something actually worth while...
That was 14 years ago - today I expect a browser to be immediately available on any system I install. This would be a huge step backward, even if all I use it for is to bootstrap the rest of my system after a reinstall.
I'm set to 'English (UK)' and I have IMAP options on my 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab - and I haven't ever played with my language settings.
Would the research get done if the investment was not protected?
Who maintains the source list for this package manager? What requirements should be in place for addition of another package? What punishments should be in place if $MAINTAINER doesn't update the source list within a set amount of time? Who gets to decide what browsers get onto the list?
Or in other words, most of the same issues as you pointed out...
Simple laws leave massive loopholes, which is why laws are complex - legalise is a form of programming, where you don't want obvious bugs.
MS was going to include PDF save capability in Office 2007, but Adobe threatened antitrust action so MS made the PDF and XPS save capability a separate installation.
http://my-tech-tips.blogspot.com/2006/11/adobe-threatens-microsoft-over-office.html
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/06/05/216271/microsoft-drops-pdf-option-after-adobe-threat.htm
So blame Adobe for this lack of ability, its certainly not Microsofts fault...
Peter Bright, of "Peter Bright Productions" wrote the main article. He describes himself as having "Three decades of Television & Video Production, Promotion, Marketing, and Corporate Communications."
Now, look at the articles he has written for Ars:
*snip*
WHO is paying this guy's bills?
Ars Technica? Seriously, this guy has a field of expertise, does that mean MS must be paying him as a shill?
Until recently, Intel desktop chipsets forced the 4GB memory limit, even with PAE - remember those 3GB max ram Macs? Same issue...
While it is indeed fun to watch people play blame tennis ('its Windows fault!' 'its the architectures fault!'), the reality is that until recently, it was both Windows and the architectures fault - Intel forced the device memory mapping to below 4GB in versions of its desktop chipsets until recently, to the extent that even Apple and OS X was affected (remember those 3GB max Macs? Bingo), which was not solved by PAE. Intel fixed that, but if you have one of the earlier chipsets then you are SOL.
You can buy a serial for the trial version from the Apple store - so it stands to reason someone has worked out a keygen for it...
Yay for taking a *huge* step back - I'm sorry, but a web browser is a commodity item these days, I *expect* one to be available as soon as I install whatever desktop OS I am installing, be it Linux, Windows or OSX, its not an app I expect to have to faff around with to get working.
I'd love to have a 'failure' like Vista!
You do realise that there is a significant number of Windows installations sold that never, ever touch any OEM? Retail copies of Windows are still a good seller - whats the solution then?
So no, putting the onus solely on the OEM is not the solution - the GP is basically correct.