And i'll put this out there. NY Blue Cross Blue Shield is now $1,150 a month.
Talk about fucking insane cost...
I'm not Steve Jobs... I'm not rich. I doubt anyone can truly afford to pay that rate. I DO... but right now in this tough economic times its hard... very hard.
I saw the cost of my health insurance go from $250 a month... to $1,150 a month in the course of 10 years. In the last 2 years, it has gone from $500 to $1,150.
Think about that for a second.
I unfortunately need my health care because i have a genetic immune system condition which also means i cant shop around for cheaper health care because i have a preexisting condition.
On a side note, there are cheaper plans that all start at around $550 a month but also have $2000 additional charge every year.
If i lose my health care.... I'm going to die.
Tell me how that is fair or right?
Put your mother, or child in my position... would you still think thats fair?
I'm a new yorker. What i know of LA is that those who can afford it, live outside the city in better areas. Those who cant, live in the less desirable places.
Here in NYC its not ideal for raising kids. Most families live outside the city and commute in. Most single people that meet and marry within the city tend to live together in an apartment until they can afford a house outside of the city. We have central park and thats about it. The city is great for what it is, but its a terrible place to grow up in. Its a great place to grow up around, and have access to it because its a wonderful place that has plenty to offer, but its not ideal for kids. Apartments big enough for a family cost way too much and you just end up locked up inside of it unless you go out to eat or the park.
The original poster thinks having a mother drive their child around is bad, but try walking around the city as a kid. Its not fun really.
I didnt say it was NAFTA alone, it was the entire mentality that believed it was wiser to employ foreigners rather than our citizens.
Its the mentality of get rich by maximizing profits, exploiting the economic system by going outside of the circle of cash flow within our country. The idea that bleeding us dry was some how a good thing... was ridiculous and ultimately damaging.
You cant keep buying when you run out of money to buy things with. Its pretty simple, but that was never a concern for those who have the power. They were more concerned with maximizing profits in the short term, getting stinking rich and ultimately saying "fuck you" to everyone because they were set for life 50x over.
I love when people talk about "homes" and use terms like "growth" and speak as if there were never any HUMANS involved. Where did these families go? Shouldnt that be more of a concern?
Why cant these people afford their homes anymore? If no one wants them, why cant they just have them back?
Did they leave cause there was no work in the area? Well... WHY IS THERE NO WORK IN THE AREA? Oh yeah.. NAFTA....
so called "Free Trade" came at some pretty fucking high costs if you ask me.
Gotta love outsourcing, and cheap slave labor.... You never have to really pay slaves much. You think the workers in China are living like middle class Americans would be if they had those jobs? hehehe...
Somewhere in there is the problem... but you dont care about me, your neighbor.... your children even. Its all about that "dolla dolla bill yall". I hate pop culture.
Yes pack all of the children into Harlem, the Bronx and the worst parts of Brooklyn & Queens (Its truly horrible in some places).
Take your kids out of nature, grass, trees, clean air... and pack them into a filthy concrete jungle full of extreme poverty and extreme wealth. Ask them to inhail that dark purple thick air that circulates the city... which is only visible from OUTSIDE the city when looking in:)
Yes Mom will no longer have to give you a ride anywhere. Your kids can now either stay locked up in that closet you call an apartment (which costs $2500+ a month.) or they can venture out onto the subways, buses and crowded sidewalks were on average they will meet 1 prostitue, 10 illegal street venders, and 400 other children who's parents dont give a DAMN about them and how they're raised because like you... they let their kids run around in a city.
White Flight isnt so bad when you realize what families were escaping to.
The city has a lot to offer, but its generally better for single adults or married adults with carears rather than children. Having children in a city like NY... SUCKS.
"It was not a pre-existing separate market at the time of monopolization."
There were plenty of file browsers sold by various people long before explorer.exe ever existed. Long before windows existed...
That market was alive and well.
I ran norton commander in dos for a long time. Windows 1 - 3.1 had plenty of browsers for file management.
There is still a market for file managers. Directory Opus is a great one, and there are many clones of norton commander, and all kinds of other file managers. Should MS remove the file explorer from windows????
Microsoft is not a monopoly. Windows is not a monopoly. Linux and Apple are the most common competing operating systems.
Ok so lets say Microsoft's integrated HTML engine is keeping mozilla from integrating their html engine into the Windows OS functionality. Ok if that is the issue, then lets look at other system functions of Windows. There are plenty of other system level functions that are microsoft only land. You cant add you're own plug and play system into windows. You cant add you're own kernel to windows so where is the line that we draw? Does MS have a monopoly on the windows kernel? YEs... because they wrote it and dont expect anyone else to change it. If you want a different kernel, buy another operating system. There are 2 others that are quite capable products. One of which is free.
Remember MS doesnt haver a monopoly with windows.Its just a POPULAR OS. Apple and Linux compete on the same intel/pc hardware.
Apple ships OSX with itunes and prevents me from using a different companies DRM, or file formats such as flac within itunes. Safari ships with OSX. OSX has better integrated graphic format viewers and video codecs than windows does.
To some extent an OS has to function based on how the producer of the OS intends. Windows is not linux. Windows doesnt contain code written by various contributors around the globe. IT is a MICROSOFT PRODUCT and it should function as they see it.
Telling MS to change their html engine is like saying "Ford is anti competitive because they refuse to make plug and play engines in their cars" Can you take a Toyota engine and hook it right up into a Ford? Not easily no. Do most people want to even do that? No. Shouldnt you just buy a Toyota then?
Oh but you REALLY want that toyota engine in that Ford Focus.... Ok... well you're a unique case and quite stubborn frankly because its really not a big deal to the rest of the planet.
Somethings cant be your way.
Now i understand that there is concern that MS may squeeze other browsers out o fthe market by further integration of html etc but what if Google makes an entire OS that does something similar? Will Google allow you to plug and play any kind of html engine into their ficticious os? Will Apple? Will anyone?
Personally i've yet to really see the issue with the html engine being linked to explorer because I NEVER USE IE to view html. But i do think the OS should be capable of Html rendering without going into firefox.
How about the Iphone OS? All i can run on it is Safari. They wont even allow Opera on the phone. It was an issue made publically by opera in the news. All Iphone apps can use Safari's html rendering engine to enable browsing within apps...
Shouldnt that be split from the iphone OS as well?
There are lots of situations where This kind of thinking can apply, and i'm not sure we're being fair by just going after microsoft. There are MANY instances where Apple does the very same thing but they get away with it because "they're not as popular".... Or i should say "Not as hated as much"
Yeah but doesnt Apple force Ipod users to use Itunes? Doesnt Apple force Itunes installs, Safari, search light installs etc.
What about the explorer.exe itself as a file browser? Sure you can use alternative programs to browse your hard drives but MS comes with only their file browser built in.
Why not force everything to be open? Because its wrong to do so. At some point, its a Microsoft product and so be it.
oh so it matters how much % of the market you have? How convenient!
I thought it was about integrating features within an OS that restrict competition.
OK so by your logic (and the poster before you)... It's ok to stifle competition as long as you're "not popular".
Whats good for the goose... is good for the goose.
Lets face it, everyone just hates microsoft and wants to needle them at every turn.
Microsoft sucks in many ways, but this is not one of them. This is just misdirected hate, that some hope will hurt Microsoft just in spite of the real bad things they do.... like writing terrible performing operating systems, or infecting the world with DRM'd os etc.
Of course its also just good to hate the king and i think a lot of that bleeds into things like this.
I could careless about the html engine being intergrated into the explorer. I never use the dam thing.
blah blah, you dont know shit and you're trying to sound like you do by saying nothing.
Whats the big Anti trust issue with IE? It comes installed with the OS? The HTML engine is integrated into their OS? Well SO IS NTFS, so are the APIs that make win32 and win64 possible... Directx... etc... blah blah
Microsoft made it, you dont like it, dont buy it.
No one is stopping you from running another browser. Thats a FACT.
Most cars come with OEM parts from the manufacturer. You dont get a choice of fucking tire brands. It comes as is. Next you're going to tell me that air bag brands are anti trust violations.
Mod yourself as troll and finishing swallowing your fathers load. I'm done with you.
Thank you, another wise person who is marked as Troll.
You're right. This singles out Microsoft and lets Apple and Linux off the hook.
OSX only runs on "apple hardware" which to me screams more injustice than IE coming with windows. We all know Apple's hardware is the same shit in all of our windows pcs.
Safari is bundled...
Itunes is bundled...
Search Light is bundled...
The EU doesnt seem to care about them. Why? The answer is the REAL injustice.
The EU is ridiculous. I sure hope they are at the very least fair with their insanity, and force Apple to remove Safari from OSX. They might as well force MS and Apple to remove their desktop search features, Instant messengers, and programming APIs.
Hell why not force Microsoft to unbundle NTFS and to use non Microsoft file systems.
Why even let microsoft even write an OS at all? Some one else may want to one day and MS stands in the way.
We've lost 1 million jobs each month due to our corporate and government corruption (same damn thing if you ask me).
We cant be a nation of film makers and muscians. Its not going to float this sinking economy. The real problem is greed, corruption, outsourcing, our law makers bending over backwards for those that would sell out America at every opportunity.
Downloading a shitty movie here and there that still makes 200 million in profit, is not costing us that much.
There are far bigger problems, and i find it hysterical that Oren Hatch (who is part of the problem) is acting as if some how the pirate bay is more significant than health care or the economy.
Perhaps more people are pirating stuff because they can no longer afford to LIVE in the country Oren Hatch supposedly represents. Thanks Oren you fucking tool.
Every one of these politicians live like kings in these "tough economic times"
Give me a break. Fuck off and DO SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE FOR ONCE!!!!!!
Shadow of the Colossus was incredible, but their first game ICO was the finest gaming experience i have ever had. It is the first game that transcends the concept of gaming and should be labeled as an interactive emotional experience.
ICO is ridiculously amazing. Team ICO and Fumito Ueda have changed gaming as we know it.
And what do you suppose will happen if MS doesn't move? Foreign competition that isn't subject to a crushing corporate tax will then have an advantage over MS. You don't move your labor base because you want to, you do it because if you don't, your competition will.
And what competition does Microsoft have? They're known for being a monopoly. Perhaps you could say Sony because of the video game console competition, but in general.... Microsoft has dictated the way things go for a long long time and they have murdered all competition.
Lets not act as if Microsoft has any real competition.
Americans will NEVER be able to compete with the wages of poorer countries. Taxes have nothing to do with it. Its the high cost of living. Other countries have higher tax rates.
This is Balmer threatening America... as if his company is not rich enough already.
He wants to avoid giving back to the country he profits from. This is typical of most corporations today. They sell us foreign made products at American prices. They make these products overseas insanely cheap.
I'm sure the price of windows will become much cheaper if Balmer is moves Microsoft out of America (Rolls eyes)
The difference is that you have the ability to walk around and explore as well as the things you mentioned.
I wonder the same thing. Why not just make it prerendered cutscenes and input commands change clips... but the difference is you can walk around and explore your environment rather than be locked in to a video cut scene.
Basically its a more interactive Dragons Lair. Its not that different but it is an evolution of those kind of games that is more interactive.
Time Warner just wants to lock people into yearly contracts where they can charge whatever they want and if you want out of the contract, you will have to pay a penalty.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup.
And i'll put this out there. NY Blue Cross Blue Shield is now $1,150 a month.
Talk about fucking insane cost...
I'm not Steve Jobs... I'm not rich. I doubt anyone can truly afford to pay that rate. I DO... but right now in this tough economic times its hard... very hard.
I saw the cost of my health insurance go from $250 a month... to $1,150 a month in the course of 10 years. In the last 2 years, it has gone from $500 to $1,150.
Think about that for a second.
I unfortunately need my health care because i have a genetic immune system condition which also means i cant shop around for cheaper health care because i have a preexisting condition.
On a side note, there are cheaper plans that all start at around $550 a month but also have $2000 additional charge every year.
If i lose my health care.... I'm going to die.
Tell me how that is fair or right?
Put your mother, or child in my position... would you still think thats fair?
So, is it bad if he uses that money to get the kind of treatment you and I can't afford?
Yes.
Health Care should not be about "who can afford not to die"
Support Universal single payer health care!
I'm a new yorker. What i know of LA is that those who can afford it, live outside the city in better areas. Those who cant, live in the less desirable places.
Here in NYC its not ideal for raising kids. Most families live outside the city and commute in. Most single people that meet and marry within the city tend to live together in an apartment until they can afford a house outside of the city. We have central park and thats about it. The city is great for what it is, but its a terrible place to grow up in. Its a great place to grow up around, and have access to it because its a wonderful place that has plenty to offer, but its not ideal for kids. Apartments big enough for a family cost way too much and you just end up locked up inside of it unless you go out to eat or the park.
The original poster thinks having a mother drive their child around is bad, but try walking around the city as a kid. Its not fun really.
I didnt say it was NAFTA alone, it was the entire mentality that believed it was wiser to employ foreigners rather than our citizens.
Its the mentality of get rich by maximizing profits, exploiting the economic system by going outside of the circle of cash flow within our country. The idea that bleeding us dry was some how a good thing... was ridiculous and ultimately damaging.
You cant keep buying when you run out of money to buy things with. Its pretty simple, but that was never a concern for those who have the power. They were more concerned with maximizing profits in the short term, getting stinking rich and ultimately saying "fuck you" to everyone because they were set for life 50x over.
I love when people talk about "homes" and use terms like "growth" and speak as if there were never any HUMANS involved. Where did these families go? Shouldnt that be more of a concern?
Why cant these people afford their homes anymore? If no one wants them, why cant they just have them back?
Did they leave cause there was no work in the area? Well... WHY IS THERE NO WORK IN THE AREA? Oh yeah.. NAFTA....
so called "Free Trade" came at some pretty fucking high costs if you ask me.
Gotta love outsourcing, and cheap slave labor.... You never have to really pay slaves much. You think the workers in China are living like middle class Americans would be if they had those jobs? hehehe...
Somewhere in there is the problem... but you dont care about me, your neighbor.... your children even. Its all about that "dolla dolla bill yall". I hate pop culture.
Yes pack all of the children into Harlem, the Bronx and the worst parts of Brooklyn & Queens (Its truly horrible in some places).
Take your kids out of nature, grass, trees, clean air... and pack them into a filthy concrete jungle full of extreme poverty and extreme wealth. Ask them to inhail that dark purple thick air that circulates the city... which is only visible from OUTSIDE the city when looking in :)
Yes Mom will no longer have to give you a ride anywhere. Your kids can now either stay locked up in that closet you call an apartment (which costs $2500+ a month.) or they can venture out onto the subways, buses and crowded sidewalks were on average they will meet 1 prostitue, 10 illegal street venders, and 400 other children who's parents dont give a DAMN about them and how they're raised because like you... they let their kids run around in a city.
White Flight isnt so bad when you realize what families were escaping to.
The city has a lot to offer, but its generally better for single adults or married adults with carears rather than children. Having children in a city like NY... SUCKS.
"It was not a pre-existing separate market at the time of monopolization."
There were plenty of file browsers sold by various people long before explorer.exe ever existed. Long before windows existed...
That market was alive and well.
I ran norton commander in dos for a long time. Windows 1 - 3.1 had plenty of browsers for file management.
There is still a market for file managers. Directory Opus is a great one, and there are many clones of norton commander, and all kinds of other file managers. Should MS remove the file explorer from windows????
Microsoft is not a monopoly. Windows is not a monopoly. Linux and Apple are the most common competing operating systems.
Ok so lets say Microsoft's integrated HTML engine is keeping mozilla from integrating their html engine into the Windows OS functionality. Ok if that is the issue, then lets look at other system functions of Windows. There are plenty of other system level functions that are microsoft only land. You cant add you're own plug and play system into windows. You cant add you're own kernel to windows so where is the line that we draw? Does MS have a monopoly on the windows kernel? YEs... because they wrote it and dont expect anyone else to change it. If you want a different kernel, buy another operating system. There are 2 others that are quite capable products. One of which is free.
Remember MS doesnt haver a monopoly with windows.Its just a POPULAR OS. Apple and Linux compete on the same intel/pc hardware.
Apple ships OSX with itunes and prevents me from using a different companies DRM, or file formats such as flac within itunes. Safari ships with OSX. OSX has better integrated graphic format viewers and video codecs than windows does.
To some extent an OS has to function based on how the producer of the OS intends. Windows is not linux. Windows doesnt contain code written by various contributors around the globe. IT is a MICROSOFT PRODUCT and it should function as they see it.
Telling MS to change their html engine is like saying "Ford is anti competitive because they refuse to make plug and play engines in their cars" Can you take a Toyota engine and hook it right up into a Ford? Not easily no. Do most people want to even do that? No. Shouldnt you just buy a Toyota then?
Oh but you REALLY want that toyota engine in that Ford Focus.... Ok... well you're a unique case and quite stubborn frankly because its really not a big deal to the rest of the planet.
Somethings cant be your way.
Now i understand that there is concern that MS may squeeze other browsers out o fthe market by further integration of html etc but what if Google makes an entire OS that does something similar? Will Google allow you to plug and play any kind of html engine into their ficticious os? Will Apple? Will anyone?
Personally i've yet to really see the issue with the html engine being linked to explorer because I NEVER USE IE to view html. But i do think the OS should be capable of Html rendering without going into firefox.
How about the Iphone OS? All i can run on it is Safari. They wont even allow Opera on the phone. It was an issue made publically by opera in the news. All Iphone apps can use Safari's html rendering engine to enable browsing within apps...
Shouldnt that be split from the iphone OS as well?
There are lots of situations where This kind of thinking can apply, and i'm not sure we're being fair by just going after microsoft. There are MANY instances where Apple does the very same thing but they get away with it because "they're not as popular".... Or i should say "Not as hated as much"
Yeah but doesnt Apple force Ipod users to use Itunes? Doesnt Apple force Itunes installs, Safari, search light installs etc.
What about the explorer.exe itself as a file browser? Sure you can use alternative programs to browse your hard drives but MS comes with only their file browser built in.
Why not force everything to be open? Because its wrong to do so. At some point, its a Microsoft product and so be it.
Point stands. This is news that mostly no one cares about. I'm sorry but its true.
A better headline would be "Microsoft figures out how to write a great OS"... That would be far more useful to MOST people, than USB 3.0 in linux.
oh so it matters how much % of the market you have? How convenient!
I thought it was about integrating features within an OS that restrict competition.
OK so by your logic (and the poster before you)... It's ok to stifle competition as long as you're "not popular".
Whats good for the goose... is good for the goose.
Lets face it, everyone just hates microsoft and wants to needle them at every turn.
Microsoft sucks in many ways, but this is not one of them. This is just misdirected hate, that some hope will hurt Microsoft just in spite of the real bad things they do.... like writing terrible performing operating systems, or infecting the world with DRM'd os etc.
Of course its also just good to hate the king and i think a lot of that bleeds into things like this.
I could careless about the html engine being intergrated into the explorer. I never use the dam thing.
hehe Oh i'm sure there are plenty of people would love that but the point is i think people take things too far just to get back at MS.
MS has done some evil things and they should be kept in check... but whats next and when is it just going to far?
blah blah, you dont know shit and you're trying to sound like you do by saying nothing.
Whats the big Anti trust issue with IE? It comes installed with the OS? The HTML engine is integrated into their OS? Well SO IS NTFS, so are the APIs that make win32 and win64 possible... Directx... etc... blah blah
Microsoft made it, you dont like it, dont buy it.
No one is stopping you from running another browser. Thats a FACT.
Most cars come with OEM parts from the manufacturer. You dont get a choice of fucking tire brands. It comes as is. Next you're going to tell me that air bag brands are anti trust violations.
Mod yourself as troll and finishing swallowing your fathers load. I'm done with you.
Thank you, another wise person who is marked as Troll.
You're right. This singles out Microsoft and lets Apple and Linux off the hook.
OSX only runs on "apple hardware" which to me screams more injustice than IE coming with windows. We all know Apple's hardware is the same shit in all of our windows pcs.
Safari is bundled...
Itunes is bundled...
Search Light is bundled...
The EU doesnt seem to care about them. Why? The answer is the REAL injustice.
This shouldnt be marked as Troll. He's right.
Cars come with steering wheels. That doesnt stop you from buying an after market Momo steering wheel and putting it on your car.
Having IE come with windows, does not prevent the choice of installing another web browser. I've been proving that for years by running firefox.
When will APPLE be forced to OPEN up their OS to non Apple hardware? Will the EU force Apple to unbundle Safari or searchlight?
When will FAIR BE FAIR?
This is just bullshit as usual without any basis in reality.
The EU is ridiculous. I sure hope they are at the very least fair with their insanity, and force Apple to remove Safari from OSX. They might as well force MS and Apple to remove their desktop search features, Instant messengers, and programming APIs.
Hell why not force Microsoft to unbundle NTFS and to use non Microsoft file systems.
Why even let microsoft even write an OS at all? Some one else may want to one day and MS stands in the way.
sigh.
Fucking EU is ridiculous sometimes.
We've lost 1 million jobs each month due to our corporate and government corruption (same damn thing if you ask me).
We cant be a nation of film makers and muscians. Its not going to float this sinking economy. The real problem is greed, corruption, outsourcing, our law makers bending over backwards for those that would sell out America at every opportunity.
Downloading a shitty movie here and there that still makes 200 million in profit, is not costing us that much.
There are far bigger problems, and i find it hysterical that Oren Hatch (who is part of the problem) is acting as if some how the pirate bay is more significant than health care or the economy.
Perhaps more people are pirating stuff because they can no longer afford to LIVE in the country Oren Hatch supposedly represents. Thanks Oren you fucking tool.
Every one of these politicians live like kings in these "tough economic times"
Give me a break. Fuck off and DO SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE FOR ONCE!!!!!!
Shadow of the Colossus was incredible, but their first game ICO was the finest gaming experience i have ever had. It is the first game that transcends the concept of gaming and should be labeled as an interactive emotional experience.
ICO is ridiculously amazing. Team ICO and Fumito Ueda have changed gaming as we know it.
And what competition does Microsoft have? They're known for being a monopoly. Perhaps you could say Sony because of the video game console competition, but in general.... Microsoft has dictated the way things go for a long long time and they have murdered all competition.
Lets not act as if Microsoft has any real competition.
Yes, hiring Americans cost more.
Americans will NEVER be able to compete with the wages of poorer countries. Taxes have nothing to do with it. Its the high cost of living. Other countries have higher tax rates.
This is Balmer threatening America... as if his company is not rich enough already.
He wants to avoid giving back to the country he profits from. This is typical of most corporations today. They sell us foreign made products at American prices. They make these products overseas insanely cheap.
I'm sure the price of windows will become much cheaper if Balmer is moves Microsoft out of America (Rolls eyes)
Fuck you Balmer. You were always an ass
The difference is that you have the ability to walk around and explore as well as the things you mentioned.
I wonder the same thing. Why not just make it prerendered cutscenes and input commands change clips... but the difference is you can walk around and explore your environment rather than be locked in to a video cut scene.
Basically its a more interactive Dragons Lair. Its not that different but it is an evolution of those kind of games that is more interactive.
Actually there are some really incredible PS3 Exclusives coming.
Uncharted 2
God of War 3
Last Guardian (Project TRICO) from Team ICO (best game ever)
Gran Turismo 5
Ratchet and Clank
Heavy Rain
MAG
I'm not overly impressed with MAG, but the rest look absolutely stunning. Last Guardian and Uncharted 2 especially.
Dont worry, All 360's will still ship with the "veg out" controller... AKA 360 wireless controller
Time Warner just wants to lock people into yearly contracts where they can charge whatever they want and if you want out of the contract, you will have to pay a penalty.
So basically Time Warner is saying "we can charge you whatever we want based on whatever we feel like and you must agree to this or fuck off"
Time Warner really gets it