Ok, let's be more specific. How did they force you to repurchase anything you'd already purchased? Did your VHS tapes stop working suddenly?
He decided he wanted some (real or perceived) benefit of a newer format, and they wouldn't give it away for free, so he sees that as justification for copyright violations. I don't agree.
You're confusing iTunes-purchased music with illegally downloaded music. They're not the same thing. If iTunes gave the music away for free, I dare say noone would purchase it anymore, at least not on a scale that would make the current music industry financially viable.
Right now, illegally-downloaded music is difficult enough to get and risky enough to be involved with that the benefits do not outweigh the risks. Some purchase music on iTunes, some stopped purchasing music altogether.
The reality is that iTunes is the #1 seller of music, with Amazon #2. People do actually like paying for legal, digital content.
The fact that iTunes is the #1 seller of music says absolutely nothing about how much music is pirated, or how much would be if DRM were more effecive, or how much would be if DRM didn't exist.
It's not illegal to be a monopoly, it's illegal to abuse your monopoly position. Releasing new "features" (whether we like them or not) is not abuse. Forcing a movie studio to use these new features would be abuse.
Absolutely agree. I wouldn't let my 5-year-old wander alone, but I have no problem letting my 2 7-year-olds, my 6-year-old, and my 5-year-old (blended family) walk home from the bus, maybe 1/2 mile.
Haha, that's rich. Even given a plane without a wall, you wouldn't be able to throw -ANYTHING- far enough to hit an engine, even if the airplane was going 1/4 of it's normal cruising speed. Sorry.
As for flying on two engines, yes, they can. All 3-engine planes (DC-10, 727, Falcon 50) MUST be able to fly on a single engine, and a 747 can quite easily land on two. A light enough 747 can be landed on a single engine. It's been done before in emergency situations.
I've only ever let WU replace a network driver once, back in XP, and all hell broke loose. I learned my lesson, and I've never again done it. Maybe that's why I haven't seen this behavior.
I didn't argue that there aren't some people who dislike Obama because of his race. I argue that the idea that his legacy will be defined by the general population's hatred for his race is stupid.
You're making excuses for his (perceived or real) poor performance as president.
Is that a feature of the language, or is that a feature of the class library?
I bet it's a class library feature. The.NET class library has similar stuff ("remoting"), so does that make every language that can be compiled to IL "networked"? How about every language that could theoretically be compiled to IL? How about every language that can currently, or might one day be compiled to JVM bytecode? Are they all "networked"?
80k per month? That's 960k/year, or for 2 developers, 480k/year each, or for 3 developers, 320k/year.
If that can't buy you good developers, something's wrong with your company. I, for one, would be happy to make what would come from splitting that 10 ways (and I've been developing software for 15 years).
Your argument was that no one hates Obama because of his race.
No, my argument was that your theory that the reason "people" (not one single person) don't like Obama is because of his race exposes you for an idiot.
Re: the enums-and-commas point, some languages, at least, allow a trailing comma after the last member in an enum (C# is one example). You can write this:
I think Obama will be hated far more than Carter mostly on racial grounds but also because there is no magic way for him to instantly get the USA out of the hole it has fallen into. Whoever follows after him will probably be hated for the same reason.
People who think Obama is hated because of his race are just as clueless as people who think he doesn't have a birth certificate. You're all morons.
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Ok, let's be more specific. How did they force you to repurchase anything you'd already purchased? Did your VHS tapes stop working suddenly?
He decided he wanted some (real or perceived) benefit of a newer format, and they wouldn't give it away for free, so he sees that as justification for copyright violations. I don't agree.
You're confusing iTunes-purchased music with illegally downloaded music. They're not the same thing. If iTunes gave the music away for free, I dare say noone would purchase it anymore, at least not on a scale that would make the current music industry financially viable.
Right now, illegally-downloaded music is difficult enough to get and risky enough to be involved with that the benefits do not outweigh the risks. Some purchase music on iTunes, some stopped purchasing music altogether.
The reality is that iTunes is the #1 seller of music, with Amazon #2. People do actually like paying for legal, digital content.
The fact that iTunes is the #1 seller of music says absolutely nothing about how much music is pirated, or how much would be if DRM were more effecive, or how much would be if DRM didn't exist.
It's not illegal to be a monopoly, it's illegal to abuse your monopoly position. Releasing new "features" (whether we like them or not) is not abuse. Forcing a movie studio to use these new features would be abuse.
How exactly did they force you to buy anything? If you don't like the game they're playing, you're free to not participate.
Absolutely agree. I wouldn't let my 5-year-old wander alone, but I have no problem letting my 2 7-year-olds, my 6-year-old, and my 5-year-old (blended family) walk home from the bus, maybe 1/2 mile.
Yes, child abduction is a concern
Not really, and especially not if there's no custody issues involving the kid.
Haha, that's rich. Even given a plane without a wall, you wouldn't be able to throw -ANYTHING- far enough to hit an engine, even if the airplane was going 1/4 of it's normal cruising speed. Sorry.
As for flying on two engines, yes, they can. All 3-engine planes (DC-10, 727, Falcon 50) MUST be able to fly on a single engine, and a 747 can quite easily land on two. A light enough 747 can be landed on a single engine. It's been done before in emergency situations.
BA9 lost all four engines, and survived: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
I've only ever let WU replace a network driver once, back in XP, and all hell broke loose. I learned my lesson, and I've never again done it. Maybe that's why I haven't seen this behavior.
So, they're a normal (dysfunctional) very large company, then?
I've never seen that happen, and I've added all sorts of network connections to various 7 machines. Any more details on when you'd see that?
Theoretically, any company that "stuck it to the consumer" wouldn't last long, because noone would do business with them.
In reality, however, we gotta haz our ipodz. With the gbs and the wifis.
I didn't argue that there aren't some people who dislike Obama because of his race. I argue that the idea that his legacy will be defined by the general population's hatred for his race is stupid.
You're making excuses for his (perceived or real) poor performance as president.
Is that a feature of the language, or is that a feature of the class library?
I bet it's a class library feature. The .NET class library has similar stuff ("remoting"), so does that make every language that can be compiled to IL "networked"? How about every language that could theoretically be compiled to IL? How about every language that can currently, or might one day be compiled to JVM bytecode? Are they all "networked"?
80k per month? That's 960k/year, or for 2 developers, 480k/year each, or for 3 developers, 320k/year.
If that can't buy you good developers, something's wrong with your company. I, for one, would be happy to make what would come from splitting that 10 ways (and I've been developing software for 15 years).
Your argument was that no one hates Obama because of his race.
No, my argument was that your theory that the reason "people" (not one single person) don't like Obama is because of his race exposes you for an idiot.
Hasty generalization much?
Or, do you have a large enough sample to come to that conclusion? Maybe you have a dog in this fight?
Java is a portable, networked, object-oriented *application* language.
What does it take, exactly, for a language to be "networked"?
Re: the enums-and-commas point, some languages, at least, allow a trailing comma after the last member in an enum (C# is one example). You can write this:
enum Color
{
member_one,
member_two,
}
I think Obama will be hated far more than Carter mostly on racial grounds but also because there is no magic way for him to instantly get the USA out of the hole it has fallen into. Whoever follows after him will probably be hated for the same reason.
People who think Obama is hated because of his race are just as clueless as people who think he doesn't have a birth certificate. You're all morons.
That companies act in the best interest of those that invested in them? That's a problem?
Lemme guess; you're a socialist? We should all be looking out for you, and making sure you're not inconvenienced in any way?
And one of the many faults of capitalism is that those with a ton of money can do the stupidest shit and still come out okay.
How is that a "fault" of capitalism? Seems ok to me, since that "ton" of money goes directly into other people's pockets...
You don't have to produce commercially VIABLE products to improve the economic situation of the people as a whole.
That's definitely interesting. Does it do that by generating code from the .xsd at compile time?
Google has investors to please, and other deals to protect. They're not worried about angering one minor customer when much more might be at stake.