I hate private monopolies but I hate the state as monopoly equally.
I dislike both but I hate private monopolies more. Why? Because I live in a democracy. You CAN influence your local govt, you have a vote. A private monopoly is more like a dictatorship - you can't see the books, you don't get a vote... nothing.
The simple solution to that is to buy stock in said company. Then you to vote as well as receive financial statements and all sorts of other fun things.
Of course, that's assuming you trust the company enough not to lie to you (i.e. it's not like Enron or AIG).
Our high speed Internet service providers are an Oligarchy (a Duopoly more specifically) in any specific region. That being the case, they rarely see the need to upgrade their services.
The validity of the check is not as relevant as the accurate record of your identity. You see, a store will trust you as long as they have your ID on file, i.e. they have you by the balls in case if your check bounces. This is not what I would call a trust-based transaction.
I've never had a store make a copy of my ID when I hand them a check. What makes you think they have my ID on file? All they have is a check, and until they cash it they're simply trusting that it's valid.
In other words, you're completely ignoring the inherent trust in the system. Even if they did make a photocopy of your ID, the store is trusting you that the ID you have provided is not fake. If it's not fake, the store trusts the issuing authority that the ID was issued to the correct person.
You can't claim there's no trust simply by ignoring the trust involved.
That's not all stores do with checks. Haven't you noticed they run them through little machines at the checkout counters?
The numbers on the bottom of cheques are printed with magnetic ink so that the numbers can be scanned into a computer, which are then checked against the computers of a payment processor to verify that you haven't written bogus cheques before.
Some stores (such as WalMart) even turn them into an EFT transaction on checkout, meaning that your account is checked and instantly debited for the amount of the check.
Glassfish - This will become the reference implementation for J2EE and Oracle will kill (as best they can) development on large scalability features out of it.
Just a nitpick, but Glassfish already IS the reference implementation of J2EE.
Having said that, I don't disagree that Oracle will stop adding features to it to encourage the use of WebLogic or Application Server.
The fact that less than 100% of pirates would've bought something does not mean you get to pretend that 0% of them would've bought it.
That is not quite what the GPP was arguing. He was saying that HE would never ever buy the game, and that therefore if he downloaded the game it wouldn't be costing the company a sale.
(Note: I'm not the GPP to this post) Technicall, he wasn't. However, he replied to a post talking about groups of people. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for the GPP to take what the GGPP said and apply it to groups.
In the case of Oracle, you have a company that makes an obscenely bloated, broken, overpriced software package that is causing havoc and pain around the world.
Transmitting the user's password to a third party server in plain text over an unencrypted link is inexcusable.
Is it unencrypted? You can have unencrypted https connections, but one would assume they would encrypt it....you did catch that s after the http in the url?
No, what you should be concerned about is that it's being transmitted at all, since it's not required for the operation of the phone!
Technologically uneducated users? Can you explain to me how, at the last developer's conference I attended for an open source CMS, Apple users outnumbered IBM clone users by probably 3 or 4 to 1?
Since you consider using a CMS to be "technologically savvy", I think you give your own answer... it's only you probably won't like it.
What will be next? Considering mathematicians those that use a calculator?
You appear to have ignored a key word in the GP's post.
I do not own a Mac, I am not a fan boy, I'm just sick of people not spending the 45 seconds it would take to be more honest about their points.
(Note: I'm not the GP poster)
Last time I checked the Mac Pro page, there was no single-CPU version, only two dual-CPU versions. I'd have to search my IM logs to find out when that was and what the price on the cheaper model was, but I'm pretty sure it was $2999.
I was going to respond to this post indicating that it is not the same experience. The hardware itself, totally outside of specs is much nicer on a MBP than any HP. Then I was going relate my experiences of loading OSX on HP laptops (among others)...hunting for drivers, manually editing files to allow the latest hardware to be recognized bythe existing drivers, not using auto-updates because they screw up those drivers and cause kernel panics after reboots.
and then a thought about this statement for a bit...
That doesn't mean jack. I can find an HP laptop with the EXACT hardware specs of any Apple laptop,
and decided that this statement in response to that comment would sum it up:
No you cannot.
Allow me to summarize what you said in the proper/. way: [citation needed]
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No, what the GP said is true.
You just have to look at the reason why: it's pre-installed on new computers from the major brands (Dell, HP, etc...) by default.
Oh, that's right, they sell anti-virus software now, don't they?
The Internet is really, really great...
Copyright might work if the section after the part you quoted was applied ("by securing for limited times").
The simple solution to that is to buy stock in said company. Then you to vote as well as receive financial statements and all sorts of other fun things.
Of course, that's assuming you trust the company enough not to lie to you (i.e. it's not like Enron or AIG).
Yes, we are so far behind.
Our high speed Internet service providers are an Oligarchy (a Duopoly more specifically) in any specific region. That being the case, they rarely see the need to upgrade their services.
That's not all stores do with checks. Haven't you noticed they run them through little machines at the checkout counters?
The numbers on the bottom of cheques are printed with magnetic ink so that the numbers can be scanned into a computer, which are then checked against the computers of a payment processor to verify that you haven't written bogus cheques before.
Some stores (such as WalMart) even turn them into an EFT transaction on checkout, meaning that your account is checked and instantly debited for the amount of the check.
Just a nitpick, but Glassfish already IS the reference implementation of J2EE.
Having said that, I don't disagree that Oracle will stop adding features to it to encourage the use of WebLogic or Application Server.
USD $100 for a PS2 wouldn't surprise me; that appears eems to be its standard price in most regions now.
(Note: I'm not the GPP to this post)
Technicall, he wasn't. However, he replied to a post talking about groups of people. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for the GPP to take what the GGPP said and apply it to groups.
Fixed again!
When does throwing chairs come in?
It'd be more like
"Windows would like to upgrade itself to Ultimate Edition. Your credit card will be charged $129. Allow/Deny"
A miserable little pile of secrets!
"Of course, they don't have the support of developers, developers, developers, developers!"
According to the tool I used, your name is Douglas Adams, and you're only PRETENDING to be named Martin.
No, and they even have a page that says so on their site.
"(we used to have a nice graph here, but it's simpler to just say: 0 torrents has been removed, and 0 torrents will ever be removed.)"
Is it unencrypted? You can have unencrypted https connections, but one would assume they would encrypt it. ...you did catch that s after the http in the url?
No, what you should be concerned about is that it's being transmitted at all, since it's not required for the operation of the phone!
Yes. In fact, keep an eye out for them in the upcoming movie!
After all, since they can talk to alien starships (see: Independence Day), they're bound to be useful during our 5 year mission.
You appear to have ignored a key word in the GP's post.
Maybe you just need to hear it repeated hundreds of times to get it.
(Note: I'm not the GP poster)
Last time I checked the Mac Pro page, there was no single-CPU version, only two dual-CPU versions. I'd have to search my IM logs to find out when that was and what the price on the cheaper model was, but I'm pretty sure it was $2999.
As I recall, WinME introduced System Restore... which was so buggy that you had to disable it to keep the system even remotely stable.
Allow me to summarize what you said in the proper /. way:
[citation needed]
I'll admit, I haven't read the article, but...
this is why I would refer to it as a tax. Just like having Windows included with a PC is called the Microsoft Tax.
Seriously, isn't OSX why most people buy a Mac? I know it's the only reason I considered buying one before.
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