This is just more BS perpetuated by those who stand to lose their income streams from oil, including car mfgs who stand to lose the income stream of spare parts, since EVs are waaaaay more reliable than gas or diesel engines.
Never underestimate our ability to intentionally manufacture crap products.
If you are the one person not downloading "the latest 18G celebrity midget porn video", you're the one losing out anyway, regardless of bandwidth availability.
I'm glad someone mentioned that the Roombas are not expensive. In the way of vacuum cleaners, they're quite inexpensive.
I have one, and I've never regretted it (I'm not wealthy). I could see someone having a regular vacuum to deal with the few areas the roomba can't clean well (90deg corners and tight spots) but if it runs more often than you'd otherwise vacuum manually, it keeps your place very clean.
LOVE my Roomba, and I haven't even tinkered with it.;)
PS - The little bonus is that you WILL engage in a little bit of ridiculous personification.
Huh. I was openly and honestly atheistic in Scouts. When there were prayers (which was very rare), I was silent. When they asked me what the Oath was, I told them. When I proclaimed it, I skipped the God part.
I'm an Eagle Scout, and nobody ever gave me a hard time about it, and I could go be a Scout master right now for my old troop.
As many know, each troop has it's own sponsors and holds meetings wherever it wants. Ours was a lutheran church. If my family had a problem with that, there were plenty of others to go join instead. Hell, we even had explorer posts at the Motorola campus here in Schaumburg, IL.
I'm not saying you're a liar, I'm just curious about where this mean Mormon stuff manifests.
Which brings up an interesting point. XAML makes things far more open than Flash does. I need no expensive, closed tools to generate it. I'm also more likely to be able to inspect others work. In my estimation, this is one of the greatest strengths of HTML and CSS. They're transparent.
This is the one way in which it might take real market share from flash.
"and that modifying their business plan is both cheaper and garners more and loyal customers."
When it comes to DRM on content and locking down devices, I don't think that's the case. I wish you were right, but... iTunes? Or DVD's, iPhones, etc?
I dream of a world where people care about DRM, vendor lock-in, closed platforms, etc., but they just don't seem to.
It seems like DRM, in most co's eyes, is good enough if it stops a reasonable percentage of their consumers. Same with platform locks. A few will always get by, like you said, and they know that. That just don't seem to care a lot... and neither do consumers.
I think you're blurring the line between criminal and civil issues.
If greedy corporate decisions cause a company to incur a billion dollars in fines due to an oil spill, ultimately shareholders DO write a check. Their share price tanks. The only difference is each shareholder put the money in up front, denoting the level of accountability they're willing to accept. That's part of the risk-reward of buying stock in a company. You decide how big of a role you're going to take in the good and the bad.
On the other hand, you can't haul a million people to jail because of criminal negligence on the part of a couple board members. For that, courts pierce the veil of liability and level criminal charges against the individuals. It happens all the time.
I have to say, as a bank, I'd be piling up the list of these until it was time to send you a "Ok, we're pulling $400 from your account to reconcile your deposit errors. By the way, you've been warned. Do it again and we'll make a case out of it."
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Yeah, because everything was a-ok 8 years ago.
No, but if it helps me find the guy with the QuickStop drop bag in his back seat stuffed with bills and a .38 snub-nose, that would help. :)
This is just more BS perpetuated by those who stand to lose their income streams from oil, including car mfgs who stand to lose the income stream of spare parts, since EVs are waaaaay more reliable than gas or diesel engines.
Never underestimate our ability to intentionally manufacture crap products.
Toss the baby shoes... I'm waiting to bronze mine. ;)
Man, you're my hero. Really.
Yes, the Chief Operat[ing/ions] Officer, or COO.
If you are the one person not downloading "the latest 18G celebrity midget porn video", you're the one losing out anyway, regardless of bandwidth availability.
I'm glad someone mentioned that the Roombas are not expensive. In the way of vacuum cleaners, they're quite inexpensive.
I have one, and I've never regretted it (I'm not wealthy). I could see someone having a regular vacuum to deal with the few areas the roomba can't clean well (90deg corners and tight spots) but if it runs more often than you'd otherwise vacuum manually, it keeps your place very clean.
LOVE my Roomba, and I haven't even tinkered with it. ;)
PS - The little bonus is that you WILL engage in a little bit of ridiculous personification.
That sounds like a "control the input", validate, store, kind of problem.
How is this data entered?
How about a nice game of chess?
Not sure that's such a great idea.
I patent a clever widget. Hyper-mega-global Corp rips it off. I sue, they unleash the multi-million dollar hounds on my ass. Naturally, I lose.
Now I owe them $30M? :(
Nah, just an accurate adjective.
Eh, just make sure to separate your whites and your colors.
Huh. I was openly and honestly atheistic in Scouts. When there were prayers (which was very rare), I was silent. When they asked me what the Oath was, I told them. When I proclaimed it, I skipped the God part.
I'm an Eagle Scout, and nobody ever gave me a hard time about it, and I could go be a Scout master right now for my old troop.
As many know, each troop has it's own sponsors and holds meetings wherever it wants. Ours was a lutheran church. If my family had a problem with that, there were plenty of others to go join instead. Hell, we even had explorer posts at the Motorola campus here in Schaumburg, IL.
I'm not saying you're a liar, I'm just curious about where this mean Mormon stuff manifests.
Which brings up an interesting point. XAML makes things far more open than Flash does. I need no expensive, closed tools to generate it. I'm also more likely to be able to inspect others work. In my estimation, this is one of the greatest strengths of HTML and CSS. They're transparent.
This is the one way in which it might take real market share from flash.
"and that modifying their business plan is both cheaper and garners more and loyal customers."
When it comes to DRM on content and locking down devices, I don't think that's the case. I wish you were right, but... iTunes? Or DVD's, iPhones, etc?
I dream of a world where people care about DRM, vendor lock-in, closed platforms, etc., but they just don't seem to.
It seems like DRM, in most co's eyes, is good enough if it stops a reasonable percentage of their consumers. Same with platform locks. A few will always get by, like you said, and they know that. That just don't seem to care a lot... and neither do consumers.
I think you're blurring the line between criminal and civil issues.
If greedy corporate decisions cause a company to incur a billion dollars in fines due to an oil spill, ultimately shareholders DO write a check. Their share price tanks. The only difference is each shareholder put the money in up front, denoting the level of accountability they're willing to accept. That's part of the risk-reward of buying stock in a company. You decide how big of a role you're going to take in the good and the bad.
On the other hand, you can't haul a million people to jail because of criminal negligence on the part of a couple board members. For that, courts pierce the veil of liability and level criminal charges against the individuals. It happens all the time.
I have to say, as a bank, I'd be piling up the list of these until it was time to send you a "Ok, we're pulling $400 from your account to reconcile your deposit errors. By the way, you've been warned. Do it again and we'll make a case out of it."
I wouldn't say he's generalizing. He said, "Maybe not".
I think the point was that a jury will not always decide what we expect they would, or should, decide.
I see this quickly degenerating into an argument for genetically engineered offspring. :(
I choose to disagree with you... but only for the sake of being different.
I must be your nemesis, as I've found the error in your evil plan...
Ikea furniture self-destructs in far less than 2 years to begin with.
I believe I recorded a show with a broadcast flag a long time ago and it said that. Guess I'll have to record one of these shows just to double check.
Sir, sometimes the cost of knowledge is just too high.
And because you have to be constantly attentive to Tetris. I can walk away from a game of Solitaire, or take a call.
Can you imagine how much pain you could inflict with a standard dinner fork (provided the subject was sufficiently restrained)?
You have clearly underestimated the element of surprise. This is why I always keep a suspicious eye on my dinner guests. You just never know.