One day you will learn what a monopoly is in the eyes of the Law, and your poor little mind will simply melt.
Hint: Apple is not a monopoly, in precisely the same way Ford isn't a monopoly for being the only manufacturer of Ford vehicles.
Ford isn't a monopoly because you don't have to go to the Ford dealer to by fuel or tires for your Ford. However to buy iCrap apps you have to go to Apple's store. Same with Metro an MS. That means you're excluding free competition and are therefore a monopoly.
The article states that there will probably be a 70/30 revenue split with the developer as in Win Phone7. Since you won't be able to independently market your Metro app, I believe that would make this another illegal Microsoft monopoly.
However, before we all go after them for that, remember that Apple is also doing this. Both monopolies need to be broken up, and their illegal practices stopped.
No, it's all about 'tech porn'. You know, the sexy new gotta-have-it tech gadget that everyone it tweeting about.
You know you're lusting after it right now. Look at it, lying there so sultry. It's calling your name. "Hey baby, ever had a go with an iPhone 6? I'm much hotter than that iPad3 over there, I've got all it's moves in a slimmer, more compact body. Yeah baby, just shell out some cash and I'm all yours!."
$2 is too much because it's $2 for every show. Even $2 per day will suck $730 out of your pocket. I don't pay that much for cable TV.
Add up all the shows you watch in your household, and you could easily spend several thousand dollars a year to get rid of commercials. Ridiculous! Just get up and go to the bathroom, grab a sandwich or drink, of mute the TV and talk to a live person during commercials.
Isn't it cheating to have a CPU with one instruction that relies on custom hardware to do the rest of the instructions? You're just re-defining the CPU and adding more hardware to 'simplify' the CPU!
If the US had subsidized rail infrastructure as much as they subsidized roadways, we'd probably have good passenger rail from more suburbs to urban centers, as well as between cities. Unfortunately, we don't, because the US didn't subsidize that way.
Huh? Do you know the history of the US rail system? The Fed Gov gave them the ground for their lines and a mile on either side for the rail companies exclusive use! THAT'S not subsidized?
Any government powerful enough to seize control of ours would have the technological capabilities to create and deploy such software already, and presumably already deployed against their own people.
None of which would be an issue if you had physical books. No matter how much the seller decided he didn't like you, he could never legally take back books you've bought and paid for. By forcing users to tie a book to a specific machine, you cut much of the value of that book. If I have a physical book, I can give it to another person when I am done with it. My wife and sisters trade books all the time.
Any e-book that you buy with DRM that ties it to a particular device is crap.
to use a car analogy, Shell has gotten off the future express way and is driving down a dead end street. it may be a very long road, but it will come to an end.
To use a car analogy, Shell has gotten off the unfinished road of future energy production methods and returned to the paved express way of the present, knowing that there will be exits going to that road when it is completed.
Where I live you can get out of any parking ticket that you didn't receive personally because there is no "pedigree".
They are can't give car a ticket, they have to give it to a person. (Your state/locale may vary). If they don't fill in the height, weight, hair color section of the ticket (since you aren't there) they don't know who the ticket should rightly go to.
I watched a woman in front of me tell the judge "I was driving my friends car, she shouldn't get the ticket, I should". The judge threw it out, even though she had a willing payer. On my turn, she let me know the above info. As long I am not there to get the ticket handed to me, I only have to contest it to win.
Now for the bad news, I have to spend several hours in night court to contest it.
I also see a market for digital cameras that look like cell phones. Hold it up to your as if talking, snap a silent pic, and no one knows because cell phones all click now when picture taking, right?
Just more stupid laws giving us a false sense of security!
If the files are a type of RAW format, and the Bush Administration didn't save that, instead keeping the JPEGs, the conspiracy theorists in/. would be screaming that they were trying to hide something by only supply low quality JPEGs, not the 'whole RAW file'.
Except for those assignments that have to be electronically submitted. I always gave my students the choice of software to submit it in, and preferred Open Office, except when we were studying the MS Suite!
There are also many MANY assignments that must be submitted in printed form. Yes, typewriters will do that, but a word processor is better, that's why there are so few typewriters left!
Oh Great! Now in addition to converting all my single sided, single density 5 1/4" floppies to a new format, I have to deal with converting VHS tapes, too!
It's nice and all that we have freedom of speech and religion, but come on. There should be at least an attempt to stop this. Make laws that forbid people from donating more than a certain amount to a church every year (IE, they can only receive enough to keep their buildings maintained every year).
Wow! How enlightened, let's have freedom of religion, but only very limited amounts. Since it's in the same First Amendment (US Constitution), lets limit the right to petition for a redress of grievances. You only get one. If they don't listen, just shut up and sit down. Free speech? Hey we've already heard your viewpoint once, you can't talk again.
You can't right wrongs by reducing other people's rights. (TM)
The shift from 32-bit to 64-bit systems has been darn near seamless as compared to previous transitions.
If you're talking systems, and not OSes, then there really was no problem in Intel architecture systems going from 8 to 16 to 32 bit.
However, the change to Windows 64 bit breaks all types of apps. I worked for hours on a PC getting the 64 bit versions of everything we needed for a project running, only to be shut down at the last second because the VPN client isn't available for win64.
Vista 64 just compounds the disaster that is Vista.
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One day you will learn what a monopoly is in the eyes of the Law, and your poor little mind will simply melt.
Hint: Apple is not a monopoly, in precisely the same way Ford isn't a monopoly for being the only manufacturer of Ford vehicles.
Ford isn't a monopoly because you don't have to go to the Ford dealer to by fuel or tires for your Ford. However to buy iCrap apps you have to go to Apple's store. Same with Metro an MS. That means you're excluding free competition and are therefore a monopoly.
The article states that there will probably be a 70/30 revenue split with the developer as in Win Phone7. Since you won't be able to independently market your Metro app, I believe that would make this another illegal Microsoft monopoly.
However, before we all go after them for that, remember that Apple is also doing this. Both monopolies need to be broken up, and their illegal practices stopped.
No, it's all about 'tech porn'. You know, the sexy new gotta-have-it tech gadget that everyone it tweeting about. You know you're lusting after it right now. Look at it, lying there so sultry. It's calling your name. "Hey baby, ever had a go with an iPhone 6? I'm much hotter than that iPad3 over there, I've got all it's moves in a slimmer, more compact body. Yeah baby, just shell out some cash and I'm all yours!."
Add up all the shows you watch in your household, and you could easily spend several thousand dollars a year to get rid of commercials. Ridiculous! Just get up and go to the bathroom, grab a sandwich or drink, of mute the TV and talk to a live person during commercials.
See the world's largest pump project being build. http://www.faribanksmorseispumped.com/
Isn't it cheating to have a CPU with one instruction that relies on custom hardware to do the rest of the instructions? You're just re-defining the CPU and adding more hardware to 'simplify' the CPU!
If the US had subsidized rail infrastructure as much as they subsidized roadways, we'd probably have good passenger rail from more suburbs to urban centers, as well as between cities. Unfortunately, we don't, because the US didn't subsidize that way.
Huh? Do you know the history of the US rail system? The Fed Gov gave them the ground for their lines and a mile on either side for the rail companies exclusive use! THAT'S not subsidized?
Any government powerful enough to seize control of ours would have the technological capabilities to create and deploy such software already, and presumably already deployed against their own people.
*Sigh* Please RTA.
Uhm, did you forget you're posting on Slashdot?
Well, they can get a Linux version if they want to, I keep a copy of BeOS around do do all my illegal hacking with! ;)
None of which would be an issue if you had physical books. No matter how much the seller decided he didn't like you, he could never legally take back books you've bought and paid for. By forcing users to tie a book to a specific machine, you cut much of the value of that book. If I have a physical book, I can give it to another person when I am done with it. My wife and sisters trade books all the time. Any e-book that you buy with DRM that ties it to a particular device is crap.
to use a car analogy, Shell has gotten off the future express way and is driving down a dead end street. it may be a very long road, but it will come to an end.
To use a car analogy, Shell has gotten off the unfinished road of future energy production methods and returned to the paved express way of the present, knowing that there will be exits going to that road when it is completed.
There, fixed it for you.
They are can't give car a ticket, they have to give it to a person. (Your state/locale may vary). If they don't fill in the height, weight, hair color section of the ticket (since you aren't there) they don't know who the ticket should rightly go to.
I watched a woman in front of me tell the judge "I was driving my friends car, she shouldn't get the ticket, I should". The judge threw it out, even though she had a willing payer. On my turn, she let me know the above info. As long I am not there to get the ticket handed to me, I only have to contest it to win.
Now for the bad news, I have to spend several hours in night court to contest it.
Will its wonders never cease!
Will its iWonders never cease!
There, fixed it for you.
Just more stupid laws giving us a false sense of security!
I see a run on non-click cell phones right before the law goes into effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Information_Systems_and_Technology_Architecture
If the files are a type of RAW format, and the Bush Administration didn't save that, instead keeping the JPEGs, the conspiracy theorists in /. would be screaming that they were trying to hide something by only supply low quality JPEGs, not the 'whole RAW file'.
And Obama isn't a third Clinton administration? :-)
No, he's the second Carter administration!
There are also many MANY assignments that must be submitted in printed form. Yes, typewriters will do that, but a word processor is better, that's why there are so few typewriters left!
I guess I'll be get around to that by 2038.
How hard would it be to just print some extra money?
Which is why the only industries not suffering right now are ink and paper!
It's nice and all that we have freedom of speech and religion, but come on. There should be at least an attempt to stop this. Make laws that forbid people from donating more than a certain amount to a church every year (IE, they can only receive enough to keep their buildings maintained every year).
Wow! How enlightened, let's have freedom of religion, but only very limited amounts. Since it's in the same First Amendment (US Constitution), lets limit the right to petition for a redress of grievances. You only get one. If they don't listen, just shut up and sit down. Free speech? Hey we've already heard your viewpoint once, you can't talk again.
You can't right wrongs by reducing other people's rights. (TM)
The shift from 32-bit to 64-bit systems has been darn near seamless as compared to previous transitions.
If you're talking systems, and not OSes, then there really was no problem in Intel architecture systems going from 8 to 16 to 32 bit.
However, the change to Windows 64 bit breaks all types of apps. I worked for hours on a PC getting the 64 bit versions of everything we needed for a project running, only to be shut down at the last second because the VPN client isn't available for win64.
Vista 64 just compounds the disaster that is Vista.
It may be a bit slow in getting there as it's cloudy, and my solar powered network is a bit slow.
he's a shining example of some who works really hard!