That's why AMD exists, because Intel was forced to license the i386 instruction set.
No, you couldn't be more wrong.
AMD produces x86 processors because Intel wanted government contracts with people like the military and NASA. The government doesn't buy important things like processors its entire business is going to depend on if there is only one source.
In order for Intel to get these big deals, they had to license x86 to other companies, such as AMD and Cyrix and the like, so they wouldn't be the only vendor... allowing NASA to purchase x86 CPUs from Intel because there were multiple sources (preventing Intel from having control over the governments purchasing by being the sole vendor of a required item).
AMD makes x86 chips because NASA said so, not because of some court case.
FreeBSD doesn't do 'repositories', so to speak. They do ports, and then FreeBSD.
/usr/ports is just the buildtree for packages. Its shared between FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD and some other OSes.
pkg_add -r will install binaries for any port that builds properly for your version of the OS (assuming you're not using an old version that is no longer maintained).
Heh, but he didn't realize when he wrote those books he was writing a self fulfilling prophecy. Seems he got the timeline a little off though, must have been using a different calendar.
Except all those Linux applications are recompiled for ARM by the distro developers, whereas every single Windows application has to be recompiled by its own developers, and then you have to buy it again.
Yea, Microsoft could never make something like Apple did with Rosetta, that would JIT translate x86 apps to ARM...
I mean, they have no clue how to do it, its been like 15 years since they did that themselves, you know, when you could run x86 Windows NT apps on Windows NT for the alpha using FX32! which... did a JIT translation from x86 to alpha...
Yea... MS has no clue how to deal with that problem do they?
Apple got away with it because they weren't emulating.
Rosetta is not an emulator, its a caching JIT re-compiler that reads binaries for PPC and translates them into x86 code for actual execution.
Its only slow the first run, after that its running native code the entire time. If your recompiler is designed properly, you can get pretty fast code as long as the processors support the same major functions. You certainly aren't going to see things like on processor AES encryption translating particularly well unless the target chip also has an equivalent high level function like that, but for the most part, most code doesn't do anything special so translating between processors isn't REALLY that hard, especially not for someone like MS with the resources they have at their disposal.
Eclipse is except Eclipse is truly cross platform while.Net apps are truly cross platform only on Windows flavors.
You do realize there are multiple.NET runtimes for non-Microsoft OSes, 2 of which are 100% free software that are fully capable of running pure.NET applications on OSes such as Mac OS, Linux, *BSD... right?
Of course, what you really mean is that Eclipse is a pure java application that doesn't use NMI where as most.NET apps use P/Invoke (which is the.NET version of the NMI interface for the sake of this post) to do things the authors haven't bothered to figure out how to do in.NET yet.
Or they could do the same thing they did with the Alpha builds of WindowsNT the last time they supported multiple CPUs (FX32 I think) and the same thing Apple did when moving to x86 (Rosetta).
You just include a JIT recompiler and a library to bridge the gaps.
You can already compile for ARM in VisualStudio, as well as a few other architectures that WinMobile and WinCE run on.
VisualStudio can easily have any of its build components swapped out for another binary, making cross compiling with full IDE integration a snap, its already done.
Actually, it seems to me that Garfinkel is conflating identification with authentication, when the two are not the same thing.
Uhm, yes, they are the same thing.
Authentication and AUTHORIZATION are not the same thing, and are what he is getting confused.
A drivers license functions as both an authentication and an authorization device. Its used to authenticate who you are to the cops and many businesses, and it also carries information for some authorizations such as driving and age restricted stuff.
What you are refering to as 'identification' is actually called 'authorization'. You are 'authorized' to drive, not 'identified' to drive.
Authenticating is the act of confirming an identity..
8: It's corny, but consider a unique login picture per user that is used at some sites, Yahoo being the most widely used. This way, when you enter your username, if you don't get the picture, you likely got phished.
I wish people would stop thinking this is useful.
Any phishing site worth its weight in salt will simply pull in your picture from the real site and display it to you.
I've created example sites to demonstrate this very issue with Bank of America's system which does this.
The picture is essentially public information since you don't have to actually authenticate in order to see it so anyone can see it and redisplay it too you.
Seriously? On what planet do you live in which anyone with even a quarter of a clue would entrust their entire authentication service to Facebook?
You want single sign on? Its already there. Its called Kerberos, when coupled with a proper DNS setup it provides global SSO, in a secure manner, without handing it all off to one company that everyone has to depend on and everyone gets fucked when they break or get hacked.
Browsers support Kerberos.
Many apps (at least the ones where security actually matters) support Kerberos.
Its cross platform.
It requires practically 0 setup for a user NOW and with even slightly better application integration it can be brought down to 0.
It doesn't require that I trust people trying to authenticate me with my password. If I want to login to Facebook using my work user account, Facebook never gets my authentication tokens or anything even remotely resembling them, they just get a ticket we share for that session.
Its tried and true and was designed for this purpose.
Again, it doesn't depend on any one provider, it works the way the net was supposed to work.
Kerberos is the net's SSO, its just ignorance like this article and companies who want to keep you locked into their systems are trying hard to ignore it.
Seriously, just the easy of access to it by developers.
There has been an Apple ran 'Mac App Store' on Apples website for at least a year (didn't own a mac before that so I don't know how long its been there).
The only change is now they've documented and made public access the requirements for getting an app on there.
Guess what? You've been able to buy all sorts of Mac apps on it... including iWorks... The price didn't even change.
I've found CutePDF bundled with a few other packages that seemed extremely odd, perhaps you installed it without noticing that you didn't uncheck a box on some stupid installer? It seems to be the next big thing for shoveling crapware (not that I think CutePDF is crapware, I actually like it) on people without them consenting. I say without consent not because they never give you the option to not install it (some do) but because they intentionally obscure the option or wording so you don't realize that its going to install something, or the make it an opt out, where you have to check to box to not install it rather than the natural assumption of checking it too install it.
The current OSes are not effected, could just be an accident, could be a bug that someone found during Windows 7 development and didn't bother to see that it got backported to Vista or XP.
MS didn't say 'we're not going to fix it!'
They said 'we're not going to fix it outside our normal patch release schedule'.
Theres a big difference.
In reality however.
No, MICROSOFT does not give a shit about any OS that has been officially end of lifed, do you expect them to add fix bugs and add features to old versions of the OS forever? They're just supposed to maintain all their old products till the end of time?
Please show me one manufacture that supports their products after 'end of life'. End of life means... its fucking dead jim, move the fuck on, we're not supporting it any more.
I'm guessing you've never used Windows Media Center with XBox (old or 360) as an extender.
It is simply put the best DVR system on the planet for the home.
You get complete control over your TV, you get the ability to burn to DVD as DVD movies anything you record so you can use it elsewhere. You can archive your videos if you want.
I have the ability to record or watch live 8 HD or SD streams at a time while watching them on the local display, another Windows PC or any of my XBox 360s. Or I can watch any combination of live and recorded across my systems. Or listen to my music, watch my home videos.
The interface is fast and looks good. It supports plugins so you can do stuff like commercial removal if you want, but its almost pointless to bother with since the 'skip forward' feature is exactly 30 seconds and makes commercial skipping almost instinctual with the remote in hand.
The only thing that prevents WMC from being perfect is the fact that cable companies encrypt their content rather than filter it from entering the home so for premium channels you need STBs from your provider. My solution is to simply ignore those channels, and the cable co can ignore the money they could have had in the process.
In short, I'm sure MS is perfectly capable of pulling this off, they already have, you just haven't heard about it before now.
Take a look at WMC, it makes others DVRs look like a joke.
And before anyone tries to mention MythTV... don't. Seriously, its only useful if you would rather spend your time screwing with it to get it to work at all rather than watching recorded shows. Forget about using it like a normal TV, its architecture makes the lag in user input to system response completely unbearable. Its a joke all on its own.
That is... too bad I stopped caring about bands who pulled this crap a long time ago.
Don't want to sell me what I want? Fine, I'll keep my money for people who sell me what I want to buy.
Buying their tracks now just lets them get by with it and sends the wrong message to other people like them. The best thing to do is to simply not purchase it anyway, rip your old CDs instead or records if you got'em, but don't give them any more of your money.
Not because of the environment, but so we stop funding Saudi Arabia. If it weren't for oil, Saudi Arabia would be a few poor camel herders in the desert, and their children would look on their ultraconservative religious views and go "I'm outta here," and ultraconservative Islam would die as a force in this world.
A couple points that should be noted: 40% of US oil is domestic which accounts for almost ALL of the gasoline in our tanks. Canada is our largest foreign supplier, then Mexico, then... finally, Saudi Arabia. If everyone in the US stopped using any crude oil product and we completely stopped importing from Saudia Arabia... China and India would be happy to suck up the surplus, both of which have economies which are just explosive right now.
So... if everyone in the US stopped using gasoline completely, the total net effect on Saudi Arabia would be roughly the equivelent daily to what they loose in evaporation... i.e. They wouldn't notice even a little fucking bit.
Of course, if we stopped using crud oil completely, pretty much everything you own could no longer be made in its current form. You apparently are completely ignorant of the fact that crude oil is used to produce chemicals that are basically used everywhere. Theres plastics, home insulation, fire retardent materials, most of your computer comes from crude or use crude oil products in the manufacturing process.
I love how people think we depend on others for gasoline and have no freaking clue that almost all of our domestically consumed gasoline is also produced domestically.
Fishing licenses have always struck me as silly, at least for non-commercial fishermen using poles instead of nets.
Non-commercial fishing licenses are more or less a tax, as are hunting licenses in places where limits aren't an issue.
I'm happy to pay for a fishing license because that money is then used to stock the lakes I fish in and do research into keeping the areas I fish healthy for me to fish in down the road.
Inland lakes are extremely overfished in the US these days. Florida has been destroyed by tourism from a fishing perspective.
You also have to deal with the people who come out to the lake and use casting nets to catch fish to take home, if what they catch isn't big enough, they just let it die on the shore or dock, of course these guys aren't licensed anyway.
The license fees help to pay people to keep the lakes, rivers and other waterways alive. They pay for some of the boat ramps I launch from. They pay for the educational services and kids fishing trips and outdoors events to educate our children about the damage they can do and how to prevent it.
In short, fishing licenses are just like hunting licenses, they help slow down the damage being done by over population and waste, and I'm really okay with it as a fisherman myself, but that could be because I'm lucky enough to live in an area that cares a lot about its waterways. The last 6 times I've been out on the lake, 4 of those times I saw and conversed with researchers or wardens about the state of the lake and any problems I might have noticed or think of. The $35/year I pay for a fishing license is probably the most productive use of money I ever make... well, short of buying Apple stock back when they weren't worth crap:)
OMG Android is making a play that's designed to let lower cost, highly capable devices subsist in the marketplace? How horrible is that?
Pretty bad actually. Considering we've been using APIs that allow hardware acceleration with fallback to software implementations like OpenGL to handle JUST THIS EXACT PROBLEM for the last 25-30 years, I'd say it was absolutely shitty for Google to fuck up this badly.
Of course, perhaps thats cause I understand the problem as stated where as you're comparing service providers. You're obviously a fan boy since you're trying to sell everyone on how awesome it is to buy Android devices.
As far as saying what I want, well, once the hype dies down which has already started, and more and more people start complaining which is already starting, it will suddenly become clear that the holy grail of smart phone OSes really isn't better than any of the others and has its own unique set of flaws... just like all the others.
Funny thing is you can do the same thing with an iPhone as far as upgrading for less than $300 and getting all the crap you posted as features for it... its funny that you mention facebook... a website... that any phone with a browser can get too.
The only advantage you offered was the $50 service fee, however, having been a MetroPCS customer, I can honestly say you get EXACTLY what you pay for. If you never leave your city, it'll kick ass. Those of us who occasionally go outside of the 8 square blocks that Metro PCS covers in a town need something a little more useful.
Its tradition that the mother of the bride plans the wedding details.
In this case being that his mother is a 'travel agent' it makes sense that she would be involved in that part of it.
Don't worry, when you move out of mommies basement and actually get to see tits other than hers, you might get a little better of an idea of what happens to adults.
They have a Linux-based entertainment system with free games and movies, seat-to-seat chat, and a shopping-cart style electronic ordering system for food/drinks.
You base your airline ticket decisions on what OS their infotainment system runs? Seriously?
To celebrate the holiday, the internet was free for all of December.
Virgin didn't give you free wifi, Google paid them to give you wifi, and it wasn't just Virgin.
And the price is comparable to shitty airlines like Delta and US Air. Virgin America kicks ass.
So their price compares to expensive airlines... and thats impressive why? Its not like you were even naming midrange prices there, those two are only cheap if you happen to live in their hub cities and stand on one leg while hopping and petting a white tiger as you book your reservation.
Airlines long ago eliminated commissions for in-person travel agents because they had the market power and
Funny, my wedding was booked earlier this year by a travel agent who... made a commission on our airline travel.
Fearing dis-intermediation, the airlines continued to pay Expedia / Orbitz
No, they continue paying these sites because SOMEONE is going to offer the service of shopping around for the cheapest price, they will never element it because its a service people want.
Expedia says 'no booking fees!' to get customers in because the airlines are paying the booking fees. Either way, you still pay them.
Its a hard dose of reality for the online sites, who don't offer much functionality above what you can get on Southwest.com.
When southwest.com lets me book flight, car, hotel and theme park tickets, then it will be providing me SOME of the same services as expedia/orbitz. When it starts giving me REAL, ACCURATE and UP TO DATE prices for flights for other airlines as well, THEN you can talk about it providing the same services. The only way your comparison is valid is if all you do on expedia/orbitz is book flights via southwest, in which case that just makes you an idiot.
My mom is a travel agent- and while she is computer challenged she can run command line commands into Worldspan faster than I can login to Orbitz.
Sounds like you need to use Google Chrome or get a faster computer, I'm pretty sure orbitz/expedia operate far faster than I can type and point and click.
I've never understood why someone would spend hours online finding a site when a travel agent can do it all for you
While I don't know about your mom, in general, travel agents fucking suck. My recently booked wedding resulted in spending roughly the equivalent of my monthly mortgage payment per night for the room to which she told us how wonderful this place was...
She fucked up the flights for EVERYONE except for myself that booked through her. She had my wife and I on separate flights both ways on different days. We paid more for flights than I could book them for a week before we were supposed to leave. She provided no support when we got there and half the stuff in our room didn't work and they wouldn't move us. She provided no support when we moved to a lower class of room (we booked the most expensive suite in the resort) and demanded a reduction in our fees because we moved from a suite with an ocean view to a 'room' with no hot tub (indoor or out, we were supposed to have both), no kitchen, a view of the swamp on the inland side, and a lightbulb to the 'deck' that exploded over my head as I turned it on and burnt the shit out of me.
This was her 'recommended' resort because in her 'experience' it was great.
Turns out, she had no fucking experience with the place, she sent someone else there a year earlier and through some digging of my own we found out afterwords they fucking hated it as well.
Travel agents provide no value because theres no way you can trust that they actually KNOW what they are talking about. They do nothing more than you and I can do and charge too much for it.
That was just OUR room, they also managed to fuck up in major ways ever other person that attended except for the one guy who booked at the last minute and accepted he was going to get screwed up anyway since it was last minute and he just wanted to get to the wedding... he just didn't care enough to mention anything.
The rest of us spent 3 or 4 out of 7 days JUST TRYING TO GET rooms and flights fixed. Several members of our party had to leave early... and pay for a room they didn't stay in an extra night in order to just be sure they could get home.
Too bad that ends the instant the airlines say 'no scanning our site, you aren't authorized to reproduce our information, copyright violation!'
Which is what would happen the instant you got popular enough to notice.
The only solution is to simply cut off AA.
Seriously, fuck'em. I'm not going to go to AA's site to look at airline prices, I could give a shit if they don't want to compete with the other airlines for business on Expedia. If they are so comfortable and profitable that they don't need to participate in the marketplace in order to make money, good for them, they obviously don't NEED my business or they'd stop trying to make it a bitch to find their flights.
Of course, the fact that I do more than book a flight on Expedia means that either AA has to give me all the options for finding hotels and cars and other bits that expedia does, OR, I've got to go to expedia to get all the other crap I want.
Or...
I can just go to Expedia, get a lower price than AA is going to offer anyway (seriously, 'lower prices on our website' is bullshit anyway) and book all my crap in one session.
I don't drive to multiple vendors to decide which cereal I'm going to buy, I got to the market and pick one of them all lined up in a way thats easy for me to compare.
If you base your flight choices on 'points' you are an idiot.
You do realize that you pay for those points in the price of the ticket... RIGHT? You aren't getting anything for free, you're just paying for the flight in advance.
'cash back rewards' on a credit card... you pay for yourself in interest and high fees from merchants who have to provide the kickback to the card issuer in order for you to get paid.
All the other perks you discuss are examples of retarded things you have no reason to pay more, you've just been brainwashed into thinking you're getting something special because you pay more.
So the only way, in your case, that AA makes sense really is if someone else pays for your ticket and you reap the benefits, which is essentially theft since the person paying (I assume the company you work for or the client you're working for) should really be the one benefiting from the payment.
So in order for AA to be a better deal, you have to steal. In that case, I can fly first class in the most expensive seats on any airline and still get a 'good deal' if I steal from someone.
The sad part is that you've not figured it out yet, like so many others who get duped into silly advertising schemes and programs.
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If you have that big of an issue watching it, you should probably see a doctor, you actually have ADD and need medication for it.
At least go see someone about your problem blowing things out of proportion.
No, you couldn't be more wrong.
AMD produces x86 processors because Intel wanted government contracts with people like the military and NASA. The government doesn't buy important things like processors its entire business is going to depend on if there is only one source.
In order for Intel to get these big deals, they had to license x86 to other companies, such as AMD and Cyrix and the like, so they wouldn't be the only vendor ... allowing NASA to purchase x86 CPUs from Intel because there were multiple sources (preventing Intel from having control over the governments purchasing by being the sole vendor of a required item).
AMD makes x86 chips because NASA said so, not because of some court case.
pkg_add -r will install binaries for any port that builds properly for your version of the OS (assuming you're not using an old version that is no longer maintained).
As for the guidelines, well you should probably follow the links at the bottom of this page: http://www.freebsd.org/internal/policies.html
I think you'll find its almost entirely unlike what you say it is.
I also understand there are most certainly Debian repositories that contain non-libre software.
You might want to do a bit of reading about this stuff you are talking about.
Heh, but he didn't realize when he wrote those books he was writing a self fulfilling prophecy. Seems he got the timeline a little off though, must have been using a different calendar.
Yea, Microsoft could never make something like Apple did with Rosetta, that would JIT translate x86 apps to ARM ...
I mean, they have no clue how to do it, its been like 15 years since they did that themselves, you know, when you could run x86 Windows NT apps on Windows NT for the alpha using FX32! which ... did a JIT translation from x86 to alpha ...
Yea ... MS has no clue how to deal with that problem do they?
Apple got away with it because they weren't emulating.
Rosetta is not an emulator, its a caching JIT re-compiler that reads binaries for PPC and translates them into x86 code for actual execution.
Its only slow the first run, after that its running native code the entire time. If your recompiler is designed properly, you can get pretty fast code as long as the processors support the same major functions. You certainly aren't going to see things like on processor AES encryption translating particularly well unless the target chip also has an equivalent high level function like that, but for the most part, most code doesn't do anything special so translating between processors isn't REALLY that hard, especially not for someone like MS with the resources they have at their disposal.
You do realize there are multiple .NET runtimes for non-Microsoft OSes, 2 of which are 100% free software that are fully capable of running pure .NET applications on OSes such as Mac OS, Linux, *BSD ... right?
Of course, what you really mean is that Eclipse is a pure java application that doesn't use NMI where as most .NET apps use P/Invoke (which is the .NET version of the NMI interface for the sake of this post) to do things the authors haven't bothered to figure out how to do in .NET yet.
Or they could do the same thing they did with the Alpha builds of WindowsNT the last time they supported multiple CPUs (FX32 I think) and the same thing Apple did when moving to x86 (Rosetta).
You just include a JIT recompiler and a library to bridge the gaps.
You can already compile for ARM in VisualStudio, as well as a few other architectures that WinMobile and WinCE run on.
VisualStudio can easily have any of its build components swapped out for another binary, making cross compiling with full IDE integration a snap, its already done.
Uhm, yes, they are the same thing.
Authentication and AUTHORIZATION are not the same thing, and are what he is getting confused.
A drivers license functions as both an authentication and an authorization device. Its used to authenticate who you are to the cops and many businesses, and it also carries information for some authorizations such as driving and age restricted stuff.
What you are refering to as 'identification' is actually called 'authorization'. You are 'authorized' to drive, not 'identified' to drive.
Authenticating is the act of confirming an identity..
I wish people would stop thinking this is useful.
Any phishing site worth its weight in salt will simply pull in your picture from the real site and display it to you.
I've created example sites to demonstrate this very issue with Bank of America's system which does this.
The picture is essentially public information since you don't have to actually authenticate in order to see it so anyone can see it and redisplay it too you.
Seriously? On what planet do you live in which anyone with even a quarter of a clue would entrust their entire authentication service to Facebook?
You want single sign on? Its already there. Its called Kerberos, when coupled with a proper DNS setup it provides global SSO, in a secure manner, without handing it all off to one company that everyone has to depend on and everyone gets fucked when they break or get hacked.
Browsers support Kerberos.
Many apps (at least the ones where security actually matters) support Kerberos.
Its cross platform.
It requires practically 0 setup for a user NOW and with even slightly better application integration it can be brought down to 0.
It doesn't require that I trust people trying to authenticate me with my password. If I want to login to Facebook using my work user account, Facebook never gets my authentication tokens or anything even remotely resembling them, they just get a ticket we share for that session.
Its tried and true and was designed for this purpose.
Again, it doesn't depend on any one provider, it works the way the net was supposed to work.
Kerberos is the net's SSO, its just ignorance like this article and companies who want to keep you locked into their systems are trying hard to ignore it.
We already have SSO, no one uses it.
Seriously, just the easy of access to it by developers.
There has been an Apple ran 'Mac App Store' on Apples website for at least a year (didn't own a mac before that so I don't know how long its been there).
The only change is now they've documented and made public access the requirements for getting an app on there.
Guess what? You've been able to buy all sorts of Mac apps on it ... including iWorks ... The price didn't even change.
I've found CutePDF bundled with a few other packages that seemed extremely odd, perhaps you installed it without noticing that you didn't uncheck a box on some stupid installer? It seems to be the next big thing for shoveling crapware (not that I think CutePDF is crapware, I actually like it) on people without them consenting. I say without consent not because they never give you the option to not install it (some do) but because they intentionally obscure the option or wording so you don't realize that its going to install something, or the make it an opt out, where you have to check to box to not install it rather than the natural assumption of checking it too install it.
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WTF?
The current OSes are not effected, could just be an accident, could be a bug that someone found during Windows 7 development and didn't bother to see that it got backported to Vista or XP.
MS didn't say 'we're not going to fix it!'
They said 'we're not going to fix it outside our normal patch release schedule'.
Theres a big difference.
In reality however.
No, MICROSOFT does not give a shit about any OS that has been officially end of lifed, do you expect them to add fix bugs and add features to old versions of the OS forever? They're just supposed to maintain all their old products till the end of time?
Please show me one manufacture that supports their products after 'end of life'. End of life means ... its fucking dead jim, move the fuck on, we're not supporting it any more.
I'm guessing you've never used Windows Media Center with XBox (old or 360) as an extender.
It is simply put the best DVR system on the planet for the home.
You get complete control over your TV, you get the ability to burn to DVD as DVD movies anything you record so you can use it elsewhere. You can archive your videos if you want.
I have the ability to record or watch live 8 HD or SD streams at a time while watching them on the local display, another Windows PC or any of my XBox 360s. Or I can watch any combination of live and recorded across my systems. Or listen to my music, watch my home videos.
The interface is fast and looks good. It supports plugins so you can do stuff like commercial removal if you want, but its almost pointless to bother with since the 'skip forward' feature is exactly 30 seconds and makes commercial skipping almost instinctual with the remote in hand.
The only thing that prevents WMC from being perfect is the fact that cable companies encrypt their content rather than filter it from entering the home so for premium channels you need STBs from your provider. My solution is to simply ignore those channels, and the cable co can ignore the money they could have had in the process.
In short, I'm sure MS is perfectly capable of pulling this off, they already have, you just haven't heard about it before now.
Take a look at WMC, it makes others DVRs look like a joke.
And before anyone tries to mention MythTV ... don't. Seriously, its only useful if you would rather spend your time screwing with it to get it to work at all rather than watching recorded shows. Forget about using it like a normal TV, its architecture makes the lag in user input to system response completely unbearable. Its a joke all on its own.
That is ... too bad I stopped caring about bands who pulled this crap a long time ago.
Don't want to sell me what I want? Fine, I'll keep my money for people who sell me what I want to buy.
Buying their tracks now just lets them get by with it and sends the wrong message to other people like them. The best thing to do is to simply not purchase it anyway, rip your old CDs instead or records if you got'em, but don't give them any more of your money.
A couple points that should be noted: ... finally, Saudi Arabia. ... China and India would be happy to suck up the surplus, both of which have economies which are just explosive right now.
40% of US oil is domestic which accounts for almost ALL of the gasoline in our tanks.
Canada is our largest foreign supplier, then Mexico, then
If everyone in the US stopped using any crude oil product and we completely stopped importing from Saudia Arabia
So ... if everyone in the US stopped using gasoline completely, the total net effect on Saudi Arabia would be roughly the equivelent daily to what they loose in evaporation ... i.e. They wouldn't notice even a little fucking bit.
Of course, if we stopped using crud oil completely, pretty much everything you own could no longer be made in its current form. You apparently are completely ignorant of the fact that crude oil is used to produce chemicals that are basically used everywhere. Theres plastics, home insulation, fire retardent materials, most of your computer comes from crude or use crude oil products in the manufacturing process.
I love how people think we depend on others for gasoline and have no freaking clue that almost all of our domestically consumed gasoline is also produced domestically.
Non-commercial fishing licenses are more or less a tax, as are hunting licenses in places where limits aren't an issue.
I'm happy to pay for a fishing license because that money is then used to stock the lakes I fish in and do research into keeping the areas I fish healthy for me to fish in down the road.
Inland lakes are extremely overfished in the US these days. Florida has been destroyed by tourism from a fishing perspective.
You also have to deal with the people who come out to the lake and use casting nets to catch fish to take home, if what they catch isn't big enough, they just let it die on the shore or dock, of course these guys aren't licensed anyway.
The license fees help to pay people to keep the lakes, rivers and other waterways alive. They pay for some of the boat ramps I launch from. They pay for the educational services and kids fishing trips and outdoors events to educate our children about the damage they can do and how to prevent it.
In short, fishing licenses are just like hunting licenses, they help slow down the damage being done by over population and waste, and I'm really okay with it as a fisherman myself, but that could be because I'm lucky enough to live in an area that cares a lot about its waterways. The last 6 times I've been out on the lake, 4 of those times I saw and conversed with researchers or wardens about the state of the lake and any problems I might have noticed or think of. The $35/year I pay for a fishing license is probably the most productive use of money I ever make ... well, short of buying Apple stock back when they weren't worth crap :)
Pretty bad actually. Considering we've been using APIs that allow hardware acceleration with fallback to software implementations like OpenGL to handle JUST THIS EXACT PROBLEM for the last 25-30 years, I'd say it was absolutely shitty for Google to fuck up this badly.
Of course, perhaps thats cause I understand the problem as stated where as you're comparing service providers. You're obviously a fan boy since you're trying to sell everyone on how awesome it is to buy Android devices.
As far as saying what I want, well, once the hype dies down which has already started, and more and more people start complaining which is already starting, it will suddenly become clear that the holy grail of smart phone OSes really isn't better than any of the others and has its own unique set of flaws ... just like all the others.
Funny thing is you can do the same thing with an iPhone as far as upgrading for less than $300 and getting all the crap you posted as features for it ... its funny that you mention facebook ... a website ... that any phone with a browser can get too.
The only advantage you offered was the $50 service fee, however, having been a MetroPCS customer, I can honestly say you get EXACTLY what you pay for. If you never leave your city, it'll kick ass. Those of us who occasionally go outside of the 8 square blocks that Metro PCS covers in a town need something a little more useful.
So I'm guessing you've never been married.
Its tradition that the mother of the bride plans the wedding details.
In this case being that his mother is a 'travel agent' it makes sense that she would be involved in that part of it.
Don't worry, when you move out of mommies basement and actually get to see tits other than hers, you might get a little better of an idea of what happens to adults.
You base your airline ticket decisions on what OS their infotainment system runs? Seriously?
http://www.freeholidaywifi.com/
Virgin didn't give you free wifi, Google paid them to give you wifi, and it wasn't just Virgin.
So their price compares to expensive airlines ... and thats impressive why? Its not like you were even naming midrange prices there, those two are only cheap if you happen to live in their hub cities and stand on one leg while hopping and petting a white tiger as you book your reservation.
Funny, my wedding was booked earlier this year by a travel agent who ... made a commission on our airline travel.
No, they continue paying these sites because SOMEONE is going to offer the service of shopping around for the cheapest price, they will never element it because its a service people want.
Expedia says 'no booking fees!' to get customers in because the airlines are paying the booking fees. Either way, you still pay them.
When southwest.com lets me book flight, car, hotel and theme park tickets, then it will be providing me SOME of the same services as expedia/orbitz. When it starts giving me REAL, ACCURATE and UP TO DATE prices for flights for other airlines as well, THEN you can talk about it providing the same services. The only way your comparison is valid is if all you do on expedia/orbitz is book flights via southwest, in which case that just makes you an idiot.
Sounds like you need to use Google Chrome or get a faster computer, I'm pretty sure orbitz/expedia operate far faster than I can type and point and click.
While I don't know about your mom, in general, travel agents fucking suck. My recently booked wedding resulted in spending roughly the equivalent of my monthly mortgage payment per night for the room to which she told us how wonderful this place was ...
She fucked up the flights for EVERYONE except for myself that booked through her. She had my wife and I on separate flights both ways on different days. We paid more for flights than I could book them for a week before we were supposed to leave. She provided no support when we got there and half the stuff in our room didn't work and they wouldn't move us. She provided no support when we moved to a lower class of room (we booked the most expensive suite in the resort) and demanded a reduction in our fees because we moved from a suite with an ocean view to a 'room' with no hot tub (indoor or out, we were supposed to have both), no kitchen, a view of the swamp on the inland side, and a lightbulb to the 'deck' that exploded over my head as I turned it on and burnt the shit out of me.
This was her 'recommended' resort because in her 'experience' it was great.
Turns out, she had no fucking experience with the place, she sent someone else there a year earlier and through some digging of my own we found out afterwords they fucking hated it as well.
Travel agents provide no value because theres no way you can trust that they actually KNOW what they are talking about. They do nothing more than you and I can do and charge too much for it.
That was just OUR room, they also managed to fuck up in major ways ever other person that attended except for the one guy who booked at the last minute and accepted he was going to get screwed up anyway since it was last minute and he just wanted to get to the wedding ... he just didn't care enough to mention anything.
The rest of us spent 3 or 4 out of 7 days JUST TRYING TO GET rooms and flights fixed. Several members of our party had to leave early ... and pay for a room they didn't stay in an extra night in order to just be sure they could get home.
Your mother may have done a good job for you, but
Too bad that ends the instant the airlines say 'no scanning our site, you aren't authorized to reproduce our information, copyright violation!'
Which is what would happen the instant you got popular enough to notice.
The only solution is to simply cut off AA.
Seriously, fuck'em. I'm not going to go to AA's site to look at airline prices, I could give a shit if they don't want to compete with the other airlines for business on Expedia. If they are so comfortable and profitable that they don't need to participate in the marketplace in order to make money, good for them, they obviously don't NEED my business or they'd stop trying to make it a bitch to find their flights.
Of course, the fact that I do more than book a flight on Expedia means that either AA has to give me all the options for finding hotels and cars and other bits that expedia does, OR, I've got to go to expedia to get all the other crap I want.
Or ...
I can just go to Expedia, get a lower price than AA is going to offer anyway (seriously, 'lower prices on our website' is bullshit anyway) and book all my crap in one session.
I don't drive to multiple vendors to decide which cereal I'm going to buy, I got to the market and pick one of them all lined up in a way thats easy for me to compare.
If you base your flight choices on 'points' you are an idiot.
You do realize that you pay for those points in the price of the ticket ... RIGHT? You aren't getting anything for free, you're just paying for the flight in advance.
'cash back rewards' on a credit card ... you pay for yourself in interest and high fees from merchants who have to provide the kickback to the card issuer in order for you to get paid.
All the other perks you discuss are examples of retarded things you have no reason to pay more, you've just been brainwashed into thinking you're getting something special because you pay more.
So the only way, in your case, that AA makes sense really is if someone else pays for your ticket and you reap the benefits, which is essentially theft since the person paying (I assume the company you work for or the client you're working for) should really be the one benefiting from the payment.
So in order for AA to be a better deal, you have to steal. In that case, I can fly first class in the most expensive seats on any airline and still get a 'good deal' if I steal from someone.
The sad part is that you've not figured it out yet, like so many others who get duped into silly advertising schemes and programs.