AT&T was illegally leveraging their monopoly in the local phone market to dominate the long distance market. It's an antitrust violation regardless of whether the initial monopoly was a government granted and regulated one or not.
Microsoft's OS monopoly isn't and never was illegal. How they used it is what was illegal.
Some people might need the book to figure out how to make a cardboard case for their iPod. Of course, anyone who's going to pay for this book and an iPod can probably afford a real case.
1. Any decision must take longer than 6 months to reach. With few exceptions (Patriot Act, declarations of war, etc etc.) any piece of law in the government (at least the U.S. government) takes months to pass through the Senate and signed into law by the President. Therefore you CANNOT arrest someone, hold them until a bill passes and THEN jail them since everyone else under him would've scatter.
Umm, no. You can't do that because it would be blatently unconstitutional. It has nothing to do with whether other people would "scatter"; you simply can't pass a law that makes something illegal and then prosecute someone for their actions before it was illegal.
They need to know how many students from each elementary school go on to graduate from college, so they have an excuse to say that school is failing and give its money to religious schools in the form of vouchers. It's very simple.
If it renders valid HTML/CSS properly, I don't see why a web developer would care what other crap it adds, anyway.
The problem with non-compliant browsers (especially IE) is that they support invalid pages, so people have an incentive to write invalid pages, which then only work on IE. A well-written page should work on any reasonable browser; it's the users of other browsers, not web developers, who should worry about those non-standard additions. When my bank tells me I can't use their page because their web developers are a bunch of idiots, that's a problem. When I want to develop a page on my own, I don't care what ridiculous features I could be supporting for your browser that I'm not.
It has tooltips. They're like balloon help, only they're always on, and they're a lot less annoying because there's a delay before they appear and they don't make a squeaky noise when they pop up.
Balloon help was nice to find out what a specific UI element did, but I can't imagine anyone leaving it on for more than 10 seconds at a time without going crazy.
If you've ever used the Help Viewer in OS X, you couldn't possibly think that any action which opened it would be good design. Clicking on a greyed-out menu option definitely shouldn't make the user wait 2 minutes for an application to launch to tell him why the option wasn't available.
On the other hand, the super-slow Help Viewer would make an excellent addition to a list of bad designs.
The option should just be removed from the menu altogether. Sure, that would lead to users getting confused and looking through all of the other menus to find the option they were sure was there yesterday, but it would satisfy the author of the article, I'm sure.
Oh, I see. The fact that the Preamble uses the term "We, the people" means "Please ignore everything else this document says. Everything the government does must benefit every single person in the US." Sorry, I missed that in the small print.
Also, no significant medical research will take place in the year 2005, because by ALL accounts no research done in 2005 has ever helped anyone, while lots of research done before 2005 has.
That's all fine and dandy in a communist country, but in the United States, the court system doesn't exist to give "the people" anything when they're not involved in the matter at hand.
If I have a dispute with another individual, neither of us owes YOU anything, regardless of how we choose to settle things.
You mean the stupid buzzword "Information Superhighway"? I don't see how that really helped at all. The Internet was, in fact, around in the early 1990s. And there was a lot less crap on it back then.
Unless, of course, you happen to be using a brain dead Microsoft application like Excel (on Windows, anyway; I'd never sully my Mac by installing MS software), where Cut isn't destructive until after you Paste. I'm not sure if Windows Explorer uses the same Cut paradigm; if I want to move a file, I drag it where I want it instead of cutting it and pasting it.
Yeah, how dare a Congressman try to prevent the other party from making laws when most of Congress isn't even around? I don't care what position a bill is taking; if it can't be passed under normal congressional procedure it's just pushing us one step closer to an oligarchy ruled by 4 or 5 top Republicans.
Ok, add digital camera and PDA to the peripherals Apple used to make, but hasn't in a very long time.
Doesn't take away from the point that they don't make most of the peripherals people use with Macs, or how well they work out of the box.
I can plug in my HP photosmart without installing any drivers and iPhoto can deal with it just fine. Using the Apple camera with my mac would require, well... a SCSI port for one thing. I'm guessing iPhoto wouldn't know what to do with it even then.
Not many people are pleasantly surprised by Porsche's prices, either.
Some people are willing to pay more for what the perceive to be a better product. Others will point out that a Ford Focus is cheaper and can go as fast as you can legally drive anyway, and thus conclude that Porsche will be going out of business any day now.
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Microsoft's OS monopoly isn't and never was illegal. How they used it is what was illegal.
Some people might need the book to figure out how to make a cardboard case for their iPod. Of course, anyone who's going to pay for this book and an iPod can probably afford a real case.
Umm, no. You can't do that because it would be blatently unconstitutional. It has nothing to do with whether other people would "scatter"; you simply can't pass a law that makes something illegal and then prosecute someone for their actions before it was illegal.
Except there have been lots of RBLs around for a long time and the problem hasn't been resolved, which sort of disproves your entire premise.
Actually, Clear Channel owns exactly 7 of the 35 radio channels in the Orlando market. But feel free to make up "facts" to fit your argument.
They need to know how many students from each elementary school go on to graduate from college, so they have an excuse to say that school is failing and give its money to religious schools in the form of vouchers. It's very simple.
And if you're worried about brand dilution because someone's using your code, open source is not right for you.
The problem with non-compliant browsers (especially IE) is that they support invalid pages, so people have an incentive to write invalid pages, which then only work on IE. A well-written page should work on any reasonable browser; it's the users of other browsers, not web developers, who should worry about those non-standard additions. When my bank tells me I can't use their page because their web developers are a bunch of idiots, that's a problem. When I want to develop a page on my own, I don't care what ridiculous features I could be supporting for your browser that I'm not.
I don't plan on being cremated before I die, personally. Sorry.
They work exactly as well as Balloon Help did in menus. Not at all, if the application developer didn't implement them, otherwise quite well.
Balloon help was nice to find out what a specific UI element did, but I can't imagine anyone leaving it on for more than 10 seconds at a time without going crazy.
On the other hand, the super-slow Help Viewer would make an excellent addition to a list of bad designs.
The option should just be removed from the menu altogether. Sure, that would lead to users getting confused and looking through all of the other menus to find the option they were sure was there yesterday, but it would satisfy the author of the article, I'm sure.
No, it doesn't. A paraphrase of the Gettysburg Address says that, dumbass.
Oh, I see. The fact that the Preamble uses the term "We, the people" means "Please ignore everything else this document says. Everything the government does must benefit every single person in the US." Sorry, I missed that in the small print.
Also, no significant medical research will take place in the year 2005, because by ALL accounts no research done in 2005 has ever helped anyone, while lots of research done before 2005 has.
If I have a dispute with another individual, neither of us owes YOU anything, regardless of how we choose to settle things.
You mean the stupid buzzword "Information Superhighway"? I don't see how that really helped at all. The Internet was, in fact, around in the early 1990s. And there was a lot less crap on it back then.
Umm, we get the Rule of Law. Most people find that to be preferable to anarchy, and think it's worth paying for.
Unless, of course, you happen to be using a brain dead Microsoft application like Excel (on Windows, anyway; I'd never sully my Mac by installing MS software), where Cut isn't destructive until after you Paste. I'm not sure if Windows Explorer uses the same Cut paradigm; if I want to move a file, I drag it where I want it instead of cutting it and pasting it.
Yeah, how dare a Congressman try to prevent the other party from making laws when most of Congress isn't even around? I don't care what position a bill is taking; if it can't be passed under normal congressional procedure it's just pushing us one step closer to an oligarchy ruled by 4 or 5 top Republicans.
And some people will type in all lowercase and spell things in a way they think is cuter.
Doesn't take away from the point that they don't make most of the peripherals people use with Macs, or how well they work out of the box.
I can plug in my HP photosmart without installing any drivers and iPhoto can deal with it just fine. Using the Apple camera with my mac would require, well... a SCSI port for one thing. I'm guessing iPhoto wouldn't know what to do with it even then.
Wash your freakin' hands once in a while and your keyboard won't be so dirty.
Some people are willing to pay more for what the perceive to be a better product. Others will point out that a Ford Focus is cheaper and can go as fast as you can legally drive anyway, and thus conclude that Porsche will be going out of business any day now.