If all 5m residents of his state got $251, that's a total of $1,255,000,000 which is enough to hurt ANY company. "But Micro$oft has liek $9b in cash!" so? That's still a LOT of money. That's almost as much as they lose on their X-Box devision every year (zing).
And a payout like that would encourage other states to follow with their own lawsuits. "Remember that $251 check you got from Microsoft? I was the guy who went after the big bad company. Vote for me!"
"Strictly speaking, there are no tasks I do today that I couldn't do in 1997."
There's nothing my $2500 computer can do today that my $4.25 calculator from 1992 can't do. I mean, they both simply add numbers!
It's a computer. It computes. The advances made in the past 10 years aren't giving you the ability to do new things because there's almost no limit to what you can do with a computer. The last 10 years of advancement have simply allowed you to do them faster with a shiny UI.
"When are we going to demand more from OS vendors?"
Have you ever owned a Mac? The reason I enjoy my Macbook Pro so much is because when I want to use different apps, the OS gets the fuck out of the way. On my Vista running desktop when I want to run an app the OS stands in front of the app waving its arms around going "OOH OOH OOH" and it's quite distracting.
We've made the demands from the vendors, and the good ones (Apple) listened. If you don't want to go buy a Mac check out the various flavors of Linux.
"here in europe i here the opposite, the store where i buy games, the owner says he's got trouble selling the ps3, while the 360 keeps doing good... about the power, ps3 has got better processors, the 360 has got a better graphics card, how it will balance out, dunno..."
The Wii outsells them both. That's how it's balancing out.
You can unlock your phone here, but if you're in a contract with a provider you have to pay their early termination fee (usually $150-250) to get out of it.
"Thing is, that kind of agreements aren't just because Apple or AT&T are "evil" and want to tie you to their network. They're a glimpse into how expensive the iPhone really is. That price you see when you buy one is already minus AT&T's subsidies, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're quite hefty."
The funny thing about your post is that you're simply incorrect. The parts for the iPhone are about $250. Gluing them together doesn't cost another $250.
"Seeing the extent to which the iPhone is locked down, makes me think Apple negotiated some pretty damn hefty subsidies for it."
Incorrect yet again! This is not some extreme level of lock-down. It's simply an Apple product. Apple tells you how you're supposed to use it, and for about a week people use it that way, until someone figures out how to use it the way WE want to use it. Look at the Apple TV. Or running Windows on a Mac (Boot Camp only came out because someone figured out how to do it without Apple's help). Look at Linux on the iPod.
I've got a Macbook Pro and love it, so don't think I'm hating on Apple, but there's a certain way they do things, and the iPhone is business as usual.
If you knew anyone who was a responder to accidents like that you'd know that the helmet is nice because it keeps their face mostly together so you can ID the corpse easier.
A helmet may save your life at a low speed accident, but not when you're on the highway going 70.
My mother was going 5mph on her bike when she hit a parked truck (her first time pulling out of the driveway) and if she had been going 3mph faster she would have lost her foot. The forces at work in a collision like that are pretty impressive and the damage caused to a soft bag of water like a body is MASSIVE.
And when people crash, their bodies aren't left in the road.
"There is simply no incentive for any one individual not to pollute -- one person's pollution, no matter how bad, is usually not going to affect the rights of others. But in a country of 300 million individuals, of course widespread pollution will affect everyone's rights! There is no solution to this problem that does not involve society as a whole somehow coercing the individual -- in other words, regulation."
You have obviously done no research into the Libertarian party.
If you have a factory up-stream of me and you're making the water toxic, I get people from further downstream together and we first ask you to stop. If you refuse we take it to the media and hurt your profits.
It's a lot easier than you think. You should give Free Talk Live a listen, maybe you'll learn some things.
In situations like those, charity exists. People love calling Americans dumb, lazy, fat, and selfish, but when the tsunami hit and destroyed the lives of people the average American didn't know existed that dumb, lazy, fat, and selfish American donated a few bucks to try to help them out.
Now what if that person who needed help was your neighbor? I believe people would be even MORE willing to help. I know I'd willingly donate and be glad I can help others. And that's a nicer feeling than "Goddamnit, it's tax time again."
I love slashdot for the posters like you. You make all that look easy while all that makes ME nerdy is that I assemble computers and know my way around inside them.
The last time I purchased a pre-built PC (a dell) it came with a Windows XP install CD. Rebranded "DELL" of course, but it was a legit XP CD. Not recovery. I know this, because I used it on some other computers. It also didn't have the pre-installed Dell crap, that was on CD 2 which was thrown away instantly.
I'm not saying people didn't do it before, but there weren't this many people before. The cities weren't as massive and people didn't have such terrible eating habits. People back then knew you had to work for your meals. Now "we'll run the 9 kids down to the Mickey D's" is how people feed their families.
And "transport via animals" isn't getting the corn from Iowa to Tampa, FL before it gets nasty. I'm not saying EVERYONE WILL DIE, but I'm agreeing with the post that said the majority of humans would die.
Think about it: the New York City Area is huge and all those people would be without food and would starve to death before they could get out of the city. Same goes for all biggish cities in the world. Without fuel and food people will panic and die. People living in the country would do alright because it's not a big change. The next town over has more chickens than people and the town on the other side is the same except with llamas. Down the road is a milk farm (You've not had real milk until you've had fresh Jersey milk) and I live next to a corn field. People like me would be fine, since we're surrounded by food. But people who live in dense areas of population would be first class fucked.
But the original point was that the majority of people can't do what you do. People who live in densely populated areas can't grow much, let alone enough to feed them for a winter. 5.4 billion people WOULD probably die, leaving 600m people like you. Luckily, I live right next door to a corn field (lucky until they spread the fertilizer that is) and there are woods full of animals across the street. But there are a lot of people who don't live near other sources of food.
"You can store food without fuel. You can transport food without fuel (fuel as in oil based fuels, obviously you will need food to feed the animals)."
How do you store food without power? I can store frozen burger patties in my freezer for quite some time. Without a freezer how would you do it? And how would you transport corn from Iowa to Tampa, FL without fuel to power a vehicle?
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If all 5m residents of his state got $251, that's a total of $1,255,000,000 which is enough to hurt ANY company. "But Micro$oft has liek $9b in cash!" so? That's still a LOT of money. That's almost as much as they lose on their X-Box devision every year (zing).
And a payout like that would encourage other states to follow with their own lawsuits. "Remember that $251 check you got from Microsoft? I was the guy who went after the big bad company. Vote for me!"
"Also, how fast does Tiger run on a beige Powermac G3?"
Also, how fast does XP run on a P2 233 with 64 megs of ram?
I've actually done the latter, and the answer is "Not well at all."
"Strictly speaking, there are no tasks I do today that I couldn't do in 1997."
There's nothing my $2500 computer can do today that my $4.25 calculator from 1992 can't do. I mean, they both simply add numbers!
It's a computer. It computes. The advances made in the past 10 years aren't giving you the ability to do new things because there's almost no limit to what you can do with a computer. The last 10 years of advancement have simply allowed you to do them faster with a shiny UI.
"When are we going to demand more from OS vendors?"
Have you ever owned a Mac? The reason I enjoy my Macbook Pro so much is because when I want to use different apps, the OS gets the fuck out of the way. On my Vista running desktop when I want to run an app the OS stands in front of the app waving its arms around going "OOH OOH OOH" and it's quite distracting.
We've made the demands from the vendors, and the good ones (Apple) listened. If you don't want to go buy a Mac check out the various flavors of Linux.
Do most things confuse you as much as this simple concept?
How did you manage to stumble upon slashdot, anyway?
"here in europe i here the opposite, the store where i buy games, the owner says he's got trouble selling the ps3, while the 360 keeps doing good... about the power, ps3 has got better processors, the 360 has got a better graphics card, how it will balance out, dunno..."
The Wii outsells them both. That's how it's balancing out.
"most importantly, software."
OS X? I think that existed before the iPhone.
You can unlock your phone here, but if you're in a contract with a provider you have to pay their early termination fee (usually $150-250) to get out of it.
"Thing is, that kind of agreements aren't just because Apple or AT&T are "evil" and want to tie you to their network. They're a glimpse into how expensive the iPhone really is. That price you see when you buy one is already minus AT&T's subsidies, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're quite hefty."
The funny thing about your post is that you're simply incorrect. The parts for the iPhone are about $250. Gluing them together doesn't cost another $250.
"Seeing the extent to which the iPhone is locked down, makes me think Apple negotiated some pretty damn hefty subsidies for it."
Incorrect yet again! This is not some extreme level of lock-down. It's simply an Apple product. Apple tells you how you're supposed to use it, and for about a week people use it that way, until someone figures out how to use it the way WE want to use it. Look at the Apple TV. Or running Windows on a Mac (Boot Camp only came out because someone figured out how to do it without Apple's help). Look at Linux on the iPod.
I've got a Macbook Pro and love it, so don't think I'm hating on Apple, but there's a certain way they do things, and the iPhone is business as usual.
It was clearly a simple typo.
If you knew anyone who was a responder to accidents like that you'd know that the helmet is nice because it keeps their face mostly together so you can ID the corpse easier.
A helmet may save your life at a low speed accident, but not when you're on the highway going 70.
My mother was going 5mph on her bike when she hit a parked truck (her first time pulling out of the driveway) and if she had been going 3mph faster she would have lost her foot. The forces at work in a collision like that are pretty impressive and the damage caused to a soft bag of water like a body is MASSIVE.
And when people crash, their bodies aren't left in the road.
"There is simply no incentive for any one individual not to pollute -- one person's pollution, no matter how bad, is usually not going to affect the rights of others. But in a country of 300 million individuals, of course widespread pollution will affect everyone's rights! There is no solution to this problem that does not involve society as a whole somehow coercing the individual -- in other words, regulation."
You have obviously done no research into the Libertarian party.
If you have a factory up-stream of me and you're making the water toxic, I get people from further downstream together and we first ask you to stop. If you refuse we take it to the media and hurt your profits.
It's a lot easier than you think. You should give Free Talk Live a listen, maybe you'll learn some things.
In situations like those, charity exists. People love calling Americans dumb, lazy, fat, and selfish, but when the tsunami hit and destroyed the lives of people the average American didn't know existed that dumb, lazy, fat, and selfish American donated a few bucks to try to help them out.
Now what if that person who needed help was your neighbor? I believe people would be even MORE willing to help. I know I'd willingly donate and be glad I can help others. And that's a nicer feeling than "Goddamnit, it's tax time again."
I was almost always discouraged from reading ahead and learning things that we weren't "supposed" to learn until next year.
I love slashdot for the posters like you. You make all that look easy while all that makes ME nerdy is that I assemble computers and know my way around inside them.
It's more like analog rights management.
I've read that a Furby has more processing power than everything on the lunar lander combined.
That's what it's designed to do.
http://portableapps.com/
Get firefox portable. There's no installing, just extract a zip and run firefox.
You must be new here. Twitter is like Trip Master Monkey on crack.
They're both creeps.
The last time I purchased a pre-built PC (a dell) it came with a Windows XP install CD. Rebranded "DELL" of course, but it was a legit XP CD. Not recovery. I know this, because I used it on some other computers. It also didn't have the pre-installed Dell crap, that was on CD 2 which was thrown away instantly.
Did you try to contact the company? If not, that would be the first step.
I'm not saying people didn't do it before, but there weren't this many people before. The cities weren't as massive and people didn't have such terrible eating habits. People back then knew you had to work for your meals. Now "we'll run the 9 kids down to the Mickey D's" is how people feed their families.
And "transport via animals" isn't getting the corn from Iowa to Tampa, FL before it gets nasty. I'm not saying EVERYONE WILL DIE, but I'm agreeing with the post that said the majority of humans would die.
Think about it: the New York City Area is huge and all those people would be without food and would starve to death before they could get out of the city. Same goes for all biggish cities in the world. Without fuel and food people will panic and die. People living in the country would do alright because it's not a big change. The next town over has more chickens than people and the town on the other side is the same except with llamas. Down the road is a milk farm (You've not had real milk until you've had fresh Jersey milk) and I live next to a corn field. People like me would be fine, since we're surrounded by food. But people who live in dense areas of population would be first class fucked.
But the original point was that the majority of people can't do what you do. People who live in densely populated areas can't grow much, let alone enough to feed them for a winter. 5.4 billion people WOULD probably die, leaving 600m people like you. Luckily, I live right next door to a corn field (lucky until they spread the fertilizer that is) and there are woods full of animals across the street. But there are a lot of people who don't live near other sources of food.
"hackers on steroids"
"internet hate machine"
Wait until these stores get dogs and curtains, than we'll be REALLY fucked.
"You can store food without fuel. You can transport food without fuel (fuel as in oil based fuels, obviously you will need food to feed the animals)."
How do you store food without power? I can store frozen burger patties in my freezer for quite some time. Without a freezer how would you do it? And how would you transport corn from Iowa to Tampa, FL without fuel to power a vehicle?
You're a liar and not funny. End your life.