Slashdot, Wikipedia, the grand majority of most news sources, most of the internets useful services, credit cards (for the 40% of people who pay them on time), wireless internet in an increasing number of places...
So, pretty much a lot of the major inventions of the modern era. I'd say you're getting a lot more for free now than you could [insert any number] of years ago.
In real life, Vlad the Impaler - Vlad ?epe? in Romanian (pronounced TSE-pesh) - was a prince who unified (sort of) Romania. He was horribly gruesome and tortured thousands of enemies and ordinary people. His favorite method was obviously impaling, but he had others, of course. The irony about Bram Stoker having set a story about vampires in Romania is that although most Eastern European countries had folktales about vampires before Dracula popularized them, Romanian mythology did not. He was also called Vlad Dr?culea after his father, and dracul is a cognate of dragon, but has nothing to do with vampires.
It's bullshit when they say the game will be drawing on elements of real life - there was absolutely nothing actually in Vlad the Impaler's life that has anything to fighting things in castles, unless the things he's fighting happen to be Turkish soldiers.
Is there a purpose behind all of the (tm)s? As if you're going to get sued if you don't do it, or as if your moral fiber will be ripped apart and you'll be racked by guilt your entire life because you didn't give those innovations their proper legal moniker, despite the fact that it's not at all required by law, and despite the fact that "IM" isn't a trademark, and it doesn't even generally hold connotations of any one company?
Lots of people do not have cable/satellite and prefer to watch DVDs only. Some of them for religious reasons...
Ha...ha...ha. Religious reasons? What is the religion, again, that outlaws the direct broadcasting of television to consumers via wires or via satellite waves, however allows postal shipment of discs containing similar content? Wait, nevermind, I think I found the Torah verse.
And because those corrupt and ineffective dictators and quasi-dictators (who supported those guys, anyway?!) made poor choices, their people deserve to suffer?
It's possible that the only cure for AIDS will be, thanks to the US government, invested in the hands of Mormons thanks to the patent system. That's a frightening thought. I'm all for private property, but it seems to me that when someone of this magnitude is produced, the greater common good is overwhelmingly more important than the concept of patent protection. The most benevolent thing to do would be for the holders to give away for free the rights to produce such a drug once they've recouped their losses, but something tells me that isn't going to happen.
"...than me" is perfectly acceptable. Languages evolve with popular usage, and that usage has been popular for centuries. It even has analogs in the Romance languages ("il est plus beau que moi" in French or "este mai frumos decât mine" in Romanian).
Well now, that was an embarrassing mistake. I believe there's some law that says that when you post a comment correcting someone's English (or, in this case, German), you're invariably going to make an error in your own.
If you're going to try to sound pretentious and use the German spelling of "German" (which is totally wrong considering you're writing in English), at least spell it write: Deutsche.
Considering America's literacy rate is about 97%, I don't think your situation is terribly relevant. Especially since illiteracy is correlated highly with poverty, homelessness, etc., none of which are terribly conducive to online shopping, telephone ownership, and credit card possession.
And look how much better we are for it! Romania's receiving massive amounts of US investment, while its chances of getting into the EU haven't diminished much at all because of the support it gives to the Americans. It's pragmatism, not dogma.
Nobody's mentioned the thing that irks me the most: when companies sell phones that are locked to that provider. Sure, you can unlock them by paying some shady person $40, but if it's so trivial for the consumer to unlock them (and doesn't bring a dime to the original company), what's the point?
Everything is expensive when it first comes out. If it is indeed more expensive than other alternatives, the other alternatives will be bought and the company that owns the patent to the product will have to lower their price to sell any of these devices. If for some reason this doesn't happen, in twenty years we'll all have the rights to produce it. And most probably this man will tire of being the only person to produce it and will realize that it's far more lucrative to just license away your rights to large companies and sit back and collect your checks.
Did anyone else see that for a second (or maybe longer?) the format of Slashdot changed? "Read more" was replaced by the headline title, the right sidebars were gone...?
I don't think it could have been a glitch in the rendering; it looked too orderly and intentioned....even, good!
You get discounts when you buy in bulk. You get it practically for free when you buy 40% of a company's stock in any given period.
Like all economics, the drugs analogy works best: one gram of cocaine is $50, an eight-ball (1/8 of an ounce -- 3.5 grams) is $150, but with bricks of the white, powdery goodness, you get it for less than $10/gram.
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Slashdot, Wikipedia, the grand majority of most news sources, most of the internets useful services, credit cards (for the 40% of people who pay them on time), wireless internet in an increasing number of places...
So, pretty much a lot of the major inventions of the modern era. I'd say you're getting a lot more for free now than you could [insert any number] of years ago.
In real life, Vlad the Impaler - Vlad ?epe? in Romanian (pronounced TSE-pesh) - was a prince who unified (sort of) Romania. He was horribly gruesome and tortured thousands of enemies and ordinary people. His favorite method was obviously impaling, but he had others, of course. The irony about Bram Stoker having set a story about vampires in Romania is that although most Eastern European countries had folktales about vampires before Dracula popularized them, Romanian mythology did not. He was also called Vlad Dr?culea after his father, and dracul is a cognate of dragon, but has nothing to do with vampires.
It's bullshit when they say the game will be drawing on elements of real life - there was absolutely nothing actually in Vlad the Impaler's life that has anything to fighting things in castles, unless the things he's fighting happen to be Turkish soldiers.
Is there a purpose behind all of the (tm)s? As if you're going to get sued if you don't do it, or as if your moral fiber will be ripped apart and you'll be racked by guilt your entire life because you didn't give those innovations their proper legal moniker, despite the fact that it's not at all required by law, and despite the fact that "IM" isn't a trademark, and it doesn't even generally hold connotations of any one company?
Lots of people do not have cable/satellite and prefer to watch DVDs only. Some of them for religious reasons...
Ha...ha...ha. Religious reasons? What is the religion, again, that outlaws the direct broadcasting of television to consumers via wires or via satellite waves, however allows postal shipment of discs containing similar content? Wait, nevermind, I think I found the Torah verse.
And because those corrupt and ineffective dictators and quasi-dictators (who supported those guys, anyway?!) made poor choices, their people deserve to suffer?
It's possible that the only cure for AIDS will be, thanks to the US government, invested in the hands of Mormons thanks to the patent system. That's a frightening thought. I'm all for private property, but it seems to me that when someone of this magnitude is produced, the greater common good is overwhelmingly more important than the concept of patent protection. The most benevolent thing to do would be for the holders to give away for free the rights to produce such a drug once they've recouped their losses, but something tells me that isn't going to happen.
"...than me" is perfectly acceptable. Languages evolve with popular usage, and that usage has been popular for centuries. It even has analogs in the Romance languages ("il est plus beau que moi" in French or "este mai frumos decât mine" in Romanian).
Well now, that was an embarrassing mistake. I believe there's some law that says that when you post a comment correcting someone's English (or, in this case, German), you're invariably going to make an error in your own.
If you're going to try to sound pretentious and use the German spelling of "German" (which is totally wrong considering you're writing in English), at least spell it write: Deutsche.
HAHAHA...whoops!
I read "computer illiterate" as "illiterate" -- disregard all of that!
Considering America's literacy rate is about 97%, I don't think your situation is terribly relevant. Especially since illiteracy is correlated highly with poverty, homelessness, etc., none of which are terribly conducive to online shopping, telephone ownership, and credit card possession.
And look how much better we are for it! Romania's receiving massive amounts of US investment, while its chances of getting into the EU haven't diminished much at all because of the support it gives to the Americans. It's pragmatism, not dogma.
-- a Romanian
I never did get those fucking things in SimCity 2000 to actually appear. What were they called, again?
Is there a reason that you write "NASDAQ:APPL" when "Apple" is much shorter and makes a whole lot more sense?
Nobody's mentioned the thing that irks me the most: when companies sell phones that are locked to that provider. Sure, you can unlock them by paying some shady person $40, but if it's so trivial for the consumer to unlock them (and doesn't bring a dime to the original company), what's the point?
So the answer to the original question is, "Everyone!"
Everything is expensive when it first comes out. If it is indeed more expensive than other alternatives, the other alternatives will be bought and the company that owns the patent to the product will have to lower their price to sell any of these devices. If for some reason this doesn't happen, in twenty years we'll all have the rights to produce it. And most probably this man will tire of being the only person to produce it and will realize that it's far more lucrative to just license away your rights to large companies and sit back and collect your checks.
Did anyone else see that for a second (or maybe longer?) the format of Slashdot changed? "Read more" was replaced by the headline title, the right sidebars were gone...?
...even, good!
I don't think it could have been a glitch in the rendering; it looked too orderly and intentioned.
That was Novocaine you snorted, not coke.
You get discounts when you buy in bulk. You get it practically for free when you buy 40% of a company's stock in any given period.
Like all economics, the drugs analogy works best: one gram of cocaine is $50, an eight-ball (1/8 of an ounce -- 3.5 grams) is $150, but with bricks of the white, powdery goodness, you get it for less than $10/gram.
That should be "the order in which they are arranged." Arranged asks for a direct object constructed using the preposition "in."
HAEMORRHOID.
The content on the website you're visiting, maybe?
Hell, I'd be amazed if they could even guess my gender. :P
What kind of porn sites are you looking at?
Even Madlibs gives you the part of speech.