Sure, and people can go and make a desktop operating system any way they like. It doesn't mean they can sell one.
Totally different - it's way easier to switch mp3 players than PCs. What this is really about is Diamond and co. trying to ride Apple's coattails and crying foul when they find they can't.
Take a nuclear bomb for example, the neutrons are bouncing all around within a beryllium sphere, the thing explodes into a fireball. What is the difference?
Apple arguably has a monopoly on high end portable music players. If this is the case, there are at least two actions that Apple has taken that may be illegal attempts to leverage that monopoly into a monopoly on on-line music distribution. First is their refusal to license their FairPlay technology, at least under terms other vendors would accept. Second is their undermining of attempts by other vendors (Real) to get their own DRM'd material to play on iPods. Clearly, what Apple is doing is attempting to prevent consumers from buying material from other vendors to play on their iPods.
Apple has a monopoly on iPods. Other people can go and make a mp3 player any way they like.
Fairplay is not necessary for playing music on a mp3 player, only DRMed stuff on an iPod.
Apple's undermining activity is perfectly reasonable: they have the right to control access to their product.
Apple is within their rights to prevent people from producing stuff that runs on their device.
I think what is at question is whether it is possible to create a viable music store without access to iPods. If not, then Apple's would be competitors might have a case.
That's the last line in the article summary. I'd say the idea is ridiculous in it's face.
Why can't we just pay one Federal Tax, one State Tax, and one Local Tax? (I imagine it's varied outside the US.) Why do we need to be nickeled and dimed to death?
Because politicians are too chickenshit to raise taaxes directly. Instead, they raise revenue by adding taxes through the backdoor.
Every time I have been to the emergency room, they demanded that we fill out all kinds of insurance forms before they would treat myself or my family member.
If you come in in your own car and are lucid enough to remember them demanding stuff, then it's a low priority. If you show up unconcious or in an ambulance, then they wait til afterwards.
Because many, many apps have to store settings in the registry, it becomes impossible to have users be able to run their apps without giving them elevated privileges.
No, that's a result of all the apps that write to HKLM, which requires admin privs to update. Never underestimate the power of stupid programmers.
So in the end, the "freedoms" you get by using Firefox are quite minimal.
If I've standardized on some old version of FF (say that a newer version breaks my internal websites or something), I can still fix vulnerabilities myself. If FF dies, I have the code - I can continue to use it and extend it. These are things that IE (which is a large part of the reason for having FF) will never let you do.
The best solution is to use software like OpenBSD or Solaris, which offers a far greater degree of security. Not only that, but it avoids all of the problems associated with the Windows anti-virus software.
Can you run Word and outlook on BSD? No, and that's why some people have to run windows.
Yeah, it's called sensible user permissions. If you could run most apps in non admin and set up the file permissions properly, you'd eliminate a lot of viruses as a side effect. OSX does most of this by default.
My fealing in the subject is that the speed of light is just a mental barrier.
Well, your feeling is wrong. There are very hard problems (i.e. all of Relativity) involved in making things go at lightspeed. The faster you go, the more you weigh - try getting around that.
If you decide on multiple languages, you can use the.NET framework because all languages that sit on top of it boil down to the single Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code meaning:
You get all the benefits of everything being written in a different language, while still locking you into a proprietary platform
A classic example is a company I used to work for who used MagicLanguageX. MagicLanguageX (X) was retired by the company who made it, but the victim company had developed a entire system with it, on which the business depended.
Sounds like Allstate - they built an internal language and wrote their underwriting stuff in it, so now anybody they hire for developing that platform must learn the weirdness unique to that language (which they apparently hack to add features occasionally).
All the people talking about "use the best tool for the job" have probably not worked very long in the industry. Being able to build on each other's successes, re-use code across projects that gets more vetted with each project, and build expertise with all the "gotchas" in your language of choice will make your company's product better and the company more profitable.
Funny, I've been in the inustry for about 7 years, and using the best tool for the job is part of doing the job. In the current place, we've sort of standardized on C, C++, Java, perl, and bash. Of course, each team has a favored set of languages, usually 1 or 2 + scripting. The ability to move languages allows us to adapt to new things as they become available. Our higher ups concentrate on business initiatives, metrics, and other things, leaving details like the language to use to us developers. That's why they hired us.
And the Iliad is also written down. I guess Hera and Poseidon really were duking it out over Troy. Good grief.
I believe the Civil War happened because I've been to the battlefields, I've picked up musketballs, and some people are still pissed off about 'the War of Northern Aggression'. There's a mountain of physical evidence for the war. I suppose you're the sort of person that'd go to Dachau and deny that the Holocause happened (you weren't there) (go on, try it).
The only problem with the Theory of Gravity is it isn't really called that. It is called the Law of Gravity or, more formally, The Universal Law of Gravitation.
no, that's different. The Theory attempts to explain how it happens. The Law just describes what does happen.
It seems your using your own definition for item the IRS already defined.
If you look up at the top of this thread, we're talking about how much the rich pay in taxes. Fact is, rich means accumulated wealth, not a large income. I don't care if the IRS thinks otherwise, it's wrong.
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Would you really be any worse off at this point if the Nazis had won?
Well, the jews certainly are. Actually, the Nazis make Blair's crowd look like choirboys.
Now, I'm not homophobic, although you clearly are. You appear to be attempting to attach a homophobic stigma to the Lib Dems
No, he implied that the Gay vote is a large part of the LibDem base. Any anti-gay sentiment is in your head.
The bank in question is "www.mtnamerica.org".
What real bank uses a .org? I've never heard of a noncommercial bank.
Sure, and people can go and make a desktop operating system any way they like. It doesn't mean they can sell one.
Totally different - it's way easier to switch mp3 players than PCs. What this is really about is Diamond and co. trying to ride Apple's coattails and crying foul when they find they can't.
Take a nuclear bomb for example, the neutrons are bouncing all around within a beryllium sphere, the thing explodes into a fireball. What is the difference?
Well, it's a nuclear reaction, for one thing...
Apple arguably has a monopoly on high end portable music players. If this is the case, there are at least two actions that Apple has taken that may be illegal attempts to leverage that monopoly into a monopoly on on-line music distribution. First is their refusal to license their FairPlay technology, at least under terms other vendors would accept. Second is their undermining of attempts by other vendors (Real) to get their own DRM'd material to play on iPods. Clearly, what Apple is doing is attempting to prevent consumers from buying material from other vendors to play on their iPods.
I think what is at question is whether it is possible to create a viable music store without access to iPods. If not, then Apple's would be competitors might have a case.
That's the last line in the article summary. I'd say the idea is ridiculous in it's face.
The person who was telling the story wasn't the one who was supposed to be treated it was their child, and she had to wait a bit apparently.
And they still said it wasn't an emergency.
Why can't we just pay one Federal Tax, one State Tax, and one Local Tax? (I imagine it's varied outside the US.) Why do we need to be nickeled and dimed to death?
Because politicians are too chickenshit to raise taaxes directly. Instead, they raise revenue by adding taxes through the backdoor.
Every time I have been to the emergency room, they demanded that we fill out all kinds of insurance forms before they would treat myself or my family member.
If you come in in your own car and are lucid enough to remember them demanding stuff, then it's a low priority. If you show up unconcious or in an ambulance, then they wait til afterwards.
Because many, many apps have to store settings in the registry, it becomes impossible to have users be able to run their apps without giving them elevated privileges.
No, that's a result of all the apps that write to HKLM, which requires admin privs to update. Never underestimate the power of stupid programmers.
So in the end, the "freedoms" you get by using Firefox are quite minimal.
If I've standardized on some old version of FF (say that a newer version breaks my internal websites or something), I can still fix vulnerabilities myself. If FF dies, I have the code - I can continue to use it and extend it. These are things that IE (which is a large part of the reason for having FF) will never let you do.
The best solution is to use software like OpenBSD or Solaris, which offers a far greater degree of security. Not only that, but it avoids all of the problems associated with the Windows anti-virus software.
Can you run Word and outlook on BSD? No, and that's why some people have to run windows.
OS X has built in antivirus?
Yeah, it's called sensible user permissions. If you could run most apps in non admin and set up the file permissions properly, you'd eliminate a lot of viruses as a side effect. OSX does most of this by default.
It might as well just be that that perticular way of thinking by a coincidence fitted into the theory.
Speculating about theorries working by simple coincidence is unproductive. Until you can find data that falsifies the theory, it stands.
What says that the mass is infinite at light speed?
General Relativity, backed up by experimental evidence.
it should take just the same amount of energy to accelerate from lightspeed to lightspeed + 1 km/s.
It does. The only problem is that you can't accelerate to c - as you accelerate, you stretch out (or space compresses if you like).
My fealing in the subject is that the speed of light is just a mental barrier.
Well, your feeling is wrong. There are very hard problems (i.e. all of Relativity) involved in making things go at lightspeed. The faster you go, the more you weigh - try getting around that.
Mass is constant for an object, regardless of gravity.
In a relativistic object, mass varies with speed.
Mono can run on a BSD or GNU/Linux operating system, which is also not proprietary.
Until the Linux solution becomes inconvenient to MS, at which point they shut them down with patent infringement lawsuits.
If you decide on multiple languages, you can use the .NET framework because all languages that sit on top of it boil down to the single Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code meaning:
You get all the benefits of everything being written in a different language, while still locking you into a proprietary platform
A classic example is a company I used to work for who used MagicLanguageX. MagicLanguageX (X) was retired by the company who made it, but the victim company had developed a entire system with it, on which the business depended.
Sounds like Allstate - they built an internal language and wrote their underwriting stuff in it, so now anybody they hire for developing that platform must learn the weirdness unique to that language (which they apparently hack to add features occasionally).
All the people talking about "use the best tool for the job" have probably not worked very long in the industry. Being able to build on each other's successes, re-use code across projects that gets more vetted with each project, and build expertise with all the "gotchas" in your language of choice will make your company's product better and the company more profitable.
Funny, I've been in the inustry for about 7 years, and using the best tool for the job is part of doing the job. In the current place, we've sort of standardized on C, C++, Java, perl, and bash. Of course, each team has a favored set of languages, usually 1 or 2 + scripting. The ability to move languages allows us to adapt to new things as they become available. Our higher ups concentrate on business initiatives, metrics, and other things, leaving details like the language to use to us developers. That's why they hired us.
After all, if you want to be an employed programmer you need to make the computer do what your employer wants it to do.
My employer wants my software to do specific things. They don't care too much what language I use - that's between me and my teammates.
And the Iliad is also written down. I guess Hera and Poseidon really were duking it out over Troy. Good grief.
I believe the Civil War happened because I've been to the battlefields, I've picked up musketballs, and some people are still pissed off about 'the War of Northern Aggression'. There's a mountain of physical evidence for the war. I suppose you're the sort of person that'd go to Dachau and deny that the Holocause happened (you weren't there) (go on, try it).
The only problem with the Theory of Gravity is it isn't really called that. It is called the Law of Gravity or, more formally, The Universal Law of Gravitation.
no, that's different. The Theory attempts to explain how it happens. The Law just describes what does happen.
It seems your using your own definition for item the IRS already defined.
If you look up at the top of this thread, we're talking about how much the rich pay in taxes. Fact is, rich means accumulated wealth, not a large income. I don't care if the IRS thinks otherwise, it's wrong.
Oh yeah, it's capital gains.
Nobody needs to call anyone. You are either paying more and don't know it or flat out lieing some were (here or on your return).
I'm doing c) None of the above. Long term Capital Gains are taxed at 15% for higher income brackets, and are not taxed as income.
If you had 1,000,000 sitting around, we would consider you rich but the IRS considers you rich if they can tax it.
Whatever. You're rich if you have enough money to not have to work. If you make a big pile of money and spend it all, you ain't rich.