Do you think that the labels will be willing to sell digital files online without the proprietary copy protection? Would iTunes have ever gotten the backing it has now without it?
Umm, once the store tells you your sales tax is $350 and you don't immediately say, "Hey, fuck you store!" and walk out, then you deserve to pay every last penny of that sales tax.
I'm going to anticipate your response touting aftermarket hacks that allow you to get around Apples ridiculously intrusive proprietism in the iPod, but that doesn't change the fact that they deliberately crippled the unit to try to drive purchases to their music store, and to cover DRM as well.
Of course they did. How else would they be able to get the record companies to agree to sell music digitally over the internet? I'm willing to accept such limitations. But it isn't like I didn't know about them when I purchased my ipod.
They should have sold the laptops on ebay in order to get a market price for them, rather than causing potential harm to their citizens by selling them for $50 which was obviously below equillibrium (causing a shortage = more people want to buy than the supply). Then they could use that money to help fund the schools.
I had a 3G ipod- the touch sensitive interface didn't work very well on it. It was a neat idea, but I really resented when I had to press the play/pause button three times before it finally did what I wanted. The scroll wheel worked perfectly, but the buttons did not.
That of course is why the mini and 4g ipod didn't use the same interface.
If it wasn't for the bean counters, nothing would ever get built. We'd all walk around in plastic bubbles with parachutes attached, bumping into each other aimlessly.:P
Except that the Consumer Electronics Association doesn't make or sell TV's, and most of their market research (like in the study being reported on) is done by third party fiduciaries like the company I work for.
You just don't get it. Not all of us think a monopoly should be illegal. I don't think that a US court ruling is the end all be all of what is right and wrong.
Actually he called him a champion of freedom while he was still alive, and gave him the presidential medal of honor on the same day that the pope criticized his policies towards Iraq.
So I'm not sure what "irony" you think you've found here, but the Pope is widely recognized as being courageous for taking an open stance against the former Soviet Union that occupied his country.
I bought some of their E2c's to use on some recent traveling I did for work (drowns out airplane noise nicely). Of course one of the trips I made was to visit their corporate headquarters in Chicago, too.:-)
Heh, you should go turn on a car the size of a speck of dirt and see if there are changes to the local environment.
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Don't forget that the government doesn't include accurate real estate information in their inflation index, or else it would be brought up to at least 5%. The price index for real estate is for rent only, not for actual housing costs.
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Do you think that the labels will be willing to sell digital files online without the proprietary copy protection? Would iTunes have ever gotten the backing it has now without it?
id size? Really?
Well you're all wrong! I was the one that saved Apple!
As to the original name of Jesus, I'm not sure, but something I read recently ("The Light of Other Days") gives it as "Yesho"
;-p
Which was a great book, but just fiction afterall.
Umm, once the store tells you your sales tax is $350 and you don't immediately say, "Hey, fuck you store!" and walk out, then you deserve to pay every last penny of that sales tax.
How do you guys withstand all of those hurricanes that churn in the warm tropical waters of the North Sea? :P
Umm, a strong hurricane hitting New Orleans was hardly far fetched. They'd predicting that it would happen eventually for the past decade.
People bidding competitively for a product where the person who bids the highest gets the product isn't reality?
:P
Fine, don't shop there.
I'm going to anticipate your response touting aftermarket hacks that allow you to get around Apples ridiculously intrusive proprietism in the iPod, but that doesn't change the fact that they deliberately crippled the unit to try to drive purchases to their music store, and to cover DRM as well.
Of course they did. How else would they be able to get the record companies to agree to sell music digitally over the internet? I'm willing to accept such limitations. But it isn't like I didn't know about them when I purchased my ipod.
I can see it now, a zebra tries crossing the capitol beltway just as rush hour is starting.
There would be little striped bits strewn about the road as some lobbyists H2 mows it down.
Substitue evil fat with disgusting undigestable substances, and we have the nutrasweet equivalent from the great-grandparent post.
:-P
Can we call it "WOW! Meat!" ??
Then after lots of complaints of anal discharge, we could save the product with a PR campaign by renaming it to "Lite Meat"
You, for example, would make a delicious snack.
My butcher will be there in a few minutes.
They should have sold the laptops on ebay in order to get a market price for them, rather than causing potential harm to their citizens by selling them for $50 which was obviously below equillibrium (causing a shortage = more people want to buy than the supply). Then they could use that money to help fund the schools.
Maryland isn't an uncivilized backwater? Have you been to the Eastern Shore? How about Cumberland?
I suppose there's Baltimore, if you consider a ghetto shithole to be civilized. Same for PG County.
Let me guess, you live in either Montgomery County or Howard County? Snob.
I had a 3G ipod- the touch sensitive interface didn't work very well on it. It was a neat idea, but I really resented when I had to press the play/pause button three times before it finally did what I wanted. The scroll wheel worked perfectly, but the buttons did not.
That of course is why the mini and 4g ipod didn't use the same interface.
If it wasn't for the bean counters, nothing would ever get built. We'd all walk around in plastic bubbles with parachutes attached, bumping into each other aimlessly. :P
*rolls eyes*
Let me guess, an Oxford alumni?
Except that the Consumer Electronics Association doesn't make or sell TV's, and most of their market research (like in the study being reported on) is done by third party fiduciaries like the company I work for.
You just don't get it. Not all of us think a monopoly should be illegal. I don't think that a US court ruling is the end all be all of what is right and wrong.
No blood for digital TV!
I recently discovered that my supervisor can't discern between grammar and spelling mistakes. Why? He's red-green colorblind.
It was frustrating to watch him try to fix a grammar mistake that was inconsequential because he couldn't tell if it was a spelling mistake.
Actually he called him a champion of freedom while he was still alive, and gave him the presidential medal of honor on the same day that the pope criticized his policies towards Iraq.
So I'm not sure what "irony" you think you've found here, but the Pope is widely recognized as being courageous for taking an open stance against the former Soviet Union that occupied his country.
I bought some of their E2c's to use on some recent traveling I did for work (drowns out airplane noise nicely). Of course one of the trips I made was to visit their corporate headquarters in Chicago, too. :-)
If that's all it takes to win an argument around here, why am I not getting blow jobs?
Heh, you should go turn on a car the size of a speck of dirt and see if there are changes to the local environment.
Don't forget that the government doesn't include accurate real estate information in their inflation index, or else it would be brought up to at least 5%. The price index for real estate is for rent only, not for actual housing costs.