DVD Forum's semi-official expansion of DVD as "digital versatile disc"
That's crap. DVD is not an acronym. It just means DVD. Anyway, if you've noticed, all your examples involve stuff from the music and movie industry, which involve computers only secondarily.
How's it fraudulent? You're providing goods as expected and at a reasonable price point. Sure, he may get pissed if he figures it out, but is it actually illegal?
Arts, sciences, and road infrastructure fall under the common welfare clause; police and fire are generally local, and safety codes, while local, often follow a common recommendation put out by the feds - interstate commerce is easier when states have fairly uniform safety requirements.
I was about to say the same thing. Hell, I love my subaru, but I'd get a Ford if I could get the Euro trim. I'd still keep the WRX, though - I can upgrade that sucker to 350WHP and have a blast on the track, then drive a TD Ford on weekdays.
funny, I've found that it mostly depends on the workload. The new i7s are nice, but they are fairly recent - I was referring to the p4 days up to when intel dropped its core i7 chips.
I think you've got it backwards - Intel was the Mhz fanboy, while AMD had its work cut out telling people that they had faster processors with a smaller number on the die. Now AMD is saying "hey look - we do more per clock, and our clock goes up to 7000".
You're depriving them of reward for the hard work they put into creating the material. If someone spends a year writing a book, you think everyone just has an implicit right to possess it? Why?
No, but there's no guarantee of reward either. If someone is infringing my copyright, I can go after them for statutory damages, but I can't complain if i simply don't sell any copies.
But this is doing homework. It is *not*, under any possible definition of the word, a necessity for survival.
Spoken like someone with a 1 day time horizon. Homework is often graded, and people who blow off homework to play games often fail tests, get bad grades and don't get into a decent college. This means you can end up working a $12/hr job forever because you spent all your time on games, which are fun now, but confer no benefit later.
Well, in fairness, Amazon could sell the units at a loss and make up the difference on digital book sales much like the console manufacturers do.
Aside from the Xbox, who sells consoles at a loss?
This has been fairly standard practice since the PS1 days.
No, it's a recent phenomenon. The first was the Dreamcast, which catered, then the Xbox, which would've cratered if it was anyone other than MS bankrolling it.
Or you do the redhat thing and sell support and consulting based on the freely available product, and drive packaging of several variants so that you have a market advantage.
This is what's so brain-dead about the argument that bandwidth is free - it's only free once you've built out infrastructure to handle capacity, but something has to pay for that. This is common, as you point out, to any industry in which one-time costs dominate per-unit costs.
BW is free on the margin and not free in aggregate. This means that the value is in getting a connection - incremental usage is a very shaky cost structure.
Swedish authorities discover that ISPs deleting cutomer ID info has led to them being unable to determine the ID of file sharers, but also child pornographers
Mostly teenagers these days.
terrorists
What terrorists? The ones you need to worry about don't use the internet.
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DVD Forum's semi-official expansion of DVD as "digital versatile disc"
That's crap. DVD is not an acronym. It just means DVD. Anyway, if you've noticed, all your examples involve stuff from the music and movie industry, which involve computers only secondarily.
It is insulting and immoral to spread such lies. I am continuously amazed at the lack of factual information on syndicated radio broadcasts.
What's insulting is how often it works.
removing money from the economy that would be invested by the people who earned it in things that are productive and worth investment
So you think science R&D is unproductive and not worth investment? We've got weather satellites and star trek tech, no thanks to your kind.
How's it fraudulent? You're providing goods as expected and at a reasonable price point. Sure, he may get pissed if he figures it out, but is it actually illegal?
Arts, sciences, and road infrastructure fall under the common welfare clause; police and fire are generally local, and safety codes, while local, often follow a common recommendation put out by the feds - interstate commerce is easier when states have fairly uniform safety requirements.
It's not unusual for a retail store to have a 3-year-old computer.
Not a new one. Most model lines don't last 3 years, anyway.
I was about to say the same thing. Hell, I love my subaru, but I'd get a Ford if I could get the Euro trim. I'd still keep the WRX, though - I can upgrade that sucker to 350WHP and have a blast on the track, then drive a TD Ford on weekdays.
If they're 3+ years old, why would dell warrant them?
funny, I've found that it mostly depends on the workload. The new i7s are nice, but they are fairly recent - I was referring to the p4 days up to when intel dropped its core i7 chips.
Yeah, it totally sounded like an Anonymous troll. Anon delivers yet again.
I think you've got it backwards - Intel was the Mhz fanboy, while AMD had its work cut out telling people that they had faster processors with a smaller number on the die. Now AMD is saying "hey look - we do more per clock, and our clock goes up to 7000".
That is sort of funny - aggressive penis hunting pedo groups. Just the sort of thing to scare soccer moms.
You're depriving them of reward for the hard work they put into creating the material. If someone spends a year writing a book, you think everyone just has an implicit right to possess it? Why?
No, but there's no guarantee of reward either. If someone is infringing my copyright, I can go after them for statutory damages, but I can't complain if i simply don't sell any copies.
You are not threatening someone's business model if you do not buy from them.
Of course you are. Threatening someone's business model is not and should not be illegal.
Well, ok - I was mostly talking about selling at a loss as a strategic choice.
But this is doing homework. It is *not*, under any possible definition of the word, a necessity for survival.
Spoken like someone with a 1 day time horizon. Homework is often graded, and people who blow off homework to play games often fail tests, get bad grades and don't get into a decent college. This means you can end up working a $12/hr job forever because you spent all your time on games, which are fun now, but confer no benefit later.
Where's the comparison to the natural rate of addiction? As I recall, 7% of the population will find something to get addicted to, no matter what.
Well, in fairness, Amazon could sell the units at a loss and make up the difference on digital book sales much like the console manufacturers do.
Aside from the Xbox, who sells consoles at a loss?
This has been fairly standard practice since the PS1 days.
No, it's a recent phenomenon. The first was the Dreamcast, which catered, then the Xbox, which would've cratered if it was anyone other than MS bankrolling it.
Monster cables probably have a 90% margin, seeing as how a $50 cable costs $5 from monoprice.
Well, in fairness, Amazon could sell the units at a loss and make up the difference on digital book sales much like the console manufacturers do.
Aside from the Xbox, who sells consoles at a loss?
Hell, you can rip both of them out and use fvwm. Or run everything from the cmdline. That's the point of being open and modular.
Or you do the redhat thing and sell support and consulting based on the freely available product, and drive packaging of several variants so that you have a market advantage.
Unless, of course, you are using an iterative or agile methodology.
Especially if you're doing iterative development. What did you think the next train was?
This is what's so brain-dead about the argument that bandwidth is free - it's only free once you've built out infrastructure to handle capacity, but something has to pay for that. This is common, as you point out, to any industry in which one-time costs dominate per-unit costs.
BW is free on the margin and not free in aggregate. This means that the value is in getting a connection - incremental usage is a very shaky cost structure.
Swedish authorities discover that ISPs deleting cutomer ID info has led to them being unable to determine the ID of file sharers, but also child pornographers
Mostly teenagers these days.
terrorists
What terrorists? The ones you need to worry about don't use the internet.
people threatening suicide, etc.
How is that an ISP's business at all?