I know the condition/history of the car, I get a good deal, and my state waives sales tax when transferring the property to another family member if you fill out the right forms.
I took ownership of my father's old car. It took me three years to find and correct all the DIY repairs he made. When the mechanic informed me that the ignition switch needed replacement, my father called BS. I got the repaired done, brought home the old part, he took it apart to determine that mechanic was correct as the contacts were worn out, and paid the repair bill. When the alternator died a few years later, I sold the car to Pick-N-Pull.
Rode. If you think "road" is the right word, ask yourself - "would putting "highway" in instead work?" If the answer is "no", then "road" is the wrong spelling.
Or reach over and press the trigger yourself. When a boss gave me "his way or the highway" motivational speech, I left the company. Wasn't long before a dozen senior coworkers headed for the exit after me. The boss road the company all the way into bankruptcy and got fired after the reorganization.
Netflix doesn't offer sales within their iOS apps. You have to purchase your subscription on the website.
I just downloaded Netflix for iPhone, created a new account and subscribed via iTunes. I didn't have to go to an external website to signup or pay for my subscription. Your information is out of date.
If Apple were to launch a service similar to Facebook you can be certain they would cripple the Facebook app.
Correct. Because Apple states in the rules for their walled garden that no apps can compete with their offerings. That shouldn't be a surprise to any app developer who read the rules.
You are aware then that Walmart has dedicated staff to assisting manufacturers in cutting costs (quality) in order to meet Walmart's purchase requirements?
I was working in the video game industry (probably 1998) when Walmart decreed that it will only stock video games that came in an uniformed box size. At that time, most video games came in large boxes to stand out from the competition even though it may contain only a CD and a thin manual. Those large boxes soon disappeared as Walmart was too big of a market to ignore.
You realize that if it were Walmart doing this you'd be throwing a shitfit.
Probably not. Every walled garden has rules. If you don't like the rules, go someplace else.
However, because it's a "good" oppresive monopoly, that's okay that they're abusing their monopoly position.
How is this a monopoly? Spotify wants to stay on iDevices, they need to follow the rules. Apple isn't preventing Spotify from competing on Android — or Walmart.
If you want to play in the Apple walled garden, you have to play according to the rules. Pissing and moaning outside the walled garden doesn't get you preferential treatment.
But having a career that ends 20 years after you start is the worst part.
I heard somewhere that the average person will have six different careers in their lifetimes. I've done a lot stuff in my technical career: virtual world tester (six months), video game tester (six years), helpdesk/desktop support (four years), PC technician (three years), wireless technician (one year) and security technician (two years). My father did the same job for three generations of owners over 50 years, but you can't expect that to happen again.
It sorta has pay going for it- but not so much when you consider the sudden age discrimination end compared to many other fields.
Work for the government. I'm surrounded by old farts, including a 66-year-old coworker doing chemo therapy. Just because startups don't value experience, it doesn't mean everywhere else behaves the same way.
Affirmative action has nothing to do with admitting foreign students.
Foreign students, both out of state or out of country, pay more in tuition than in state students do. The academic ideal got replaced by the altar of cold hard cash.
"New Math" was around precisely during the 70's and 80's. Then it was abolished.
Same thing with Harvard Calculus in the 90's. I sat in on the weekly presentation in Fall 1994 when the instructors demonstrated how a textbook filled with word problems was a better approach to teaching calculus than a textbook filled with mathematical symbols. An old mathematician in the back of the room banged his cane against an empty chair that Harvard Calculus was blasphemy and the instructors would burn in hell for teaching this garbage. I took Harvard Calculus in Spring 1995 and bailed out with half the class after the first two weeks. Not sure if the instructors ever taught the material all the way through the end of the semester.
What fallacy exactly? Businesses — or individuals — don't exist separately from society and government. We're all in this together as a country for the last 240 years.
Somewhere along the way corporations stopped being corporate citizens that gave back to the local community to being multi-national corporations that don't care about the local community of any nation. Given enough bad PR by community activists and politicians, multi-national corporations can be shamed into doing the right thing for the local community.
Apple customers aren't running Android, and they don't have the option to do so until the next upgrade at least.
If I wanted an Android phone, I would get an Android phone. I don't see Apple giving up the vertical stack that they built to allow a competitor OS to run on it.
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There are other people in the world besides yourself.
You mean out in the big blue room with the bright light? This is Slashdot. We don't mention those people.
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I know the condition/history of the car, I get a good deal, and my state waives sales tax when transferring the property to another family member if you fill out the right forms.
I took ownership of my father's old car. It took me three years to find and correct all the DIY repairs he made. When the mechanic informed me that the ignition switch needed replacement, my father called BS. I got the repaired done, brought home the old part, he took it apart to determine that mechanic was correct as the contacts were worn out, and paid the repair bill. When the alternator died a few years later, I sold the car to Pick-N-Pull.
Rode. If you think "road" is the right word, ask yourself - "would putting "highway" in instead work?" If the answer is "no", then "road" is the wrong spelling.
I stand corrected.
Get out of that chair as soon as you can.
Or reach over and press the trigger yourself. When a boss gave me "his way or the highway" motivational speech, I left the company. Wasn't long before a dozen senior coworkers headed for the exit after me. The boss road the company all the way into bankruptcy and got fired after the reorganization.
Apple will promptly cave.
Or Apple stops doing business in the EU.
Netflix doesn't offer sales within their iOS apps. You have to purchase your subscription on the website.
I just downloaded Netflix for iPhone, created a new account and subscribed via iTunes. I didn't have to go to an external website to signup or pay for my subscription. Your information is out of date.
If Apple were to launch a service similar to Facebook you can be certain they would cripple the Facebook app.
Correct. Because Apple states in the rules for their walled garden that no apps can compete with their offerings. That shouldn't be a surprise to any app developer who read the rules.
You are aware then that Walmart has dedicated staff to assisting manufacturers in cutting costs (quality) in order to meet Walmart's purchase requirements?
I was working in the video game industry (probably 1998) when Walmart decreed that it will only stock video games that came in an uniformed box size. At that time, most video games came in large boxes to stand out from the competition even though it may contain only a CD and a thin manual. Those large boxes soon disappeared as Walmart was too big of a market to ignore.
Netflix doesn't get preferential treatment? Wait, does the Netflix app in the Apple store give Apple a cut of the subscription?
A quick Google search didn't turn up anything that Netflix got preferential treatment from Apple.
Ask for a citation, yet post numbers out of your ass.
Do a quick Google search if you doubt the accuracy of my ass pulling. Oh, wait. That's real work. Never mind. Go back to bitching.
You realize that if it were Walmart doing this you'd be throwing a shitfit.
Probably not. Every walled garden has rules. If you don't like the rules, go someplace else.
However, because it's a "good" oppresive monopoly, that's okay that they're abusing their monopoly position.
How is this a monopoly? Spotify wants to stay on iDevices, they need to follow the rules. Apple isn't preventing Spotify from competing on Android — or Walmart.
Facebook gets preferential treatment. Why shouldn't Spotify?
Citation please?
If Facebook does get preferential treatment from Apple, let's look at the numbers: Facebook (1600M+ users) vs. Spotify (75M+ users).
Which company would Apple benefit the most from — the whale or the minnow?
As the hangman told the black guy on the gallows in Blazing Saddles, "Everyone is equal in my eyes."
If you want to play in the Apple walled garden, you have to play according to the rules. Pissing and moaning outside the walled garden doesn't get you preferential treatment.
They're Democrats, not Communists or Socialists.
A rose by any other name...
If the shoe fits...
Looks like a duck, walks like a ducks...
etc.
So the Republicans are Fascists?
Post-It Notes - Dead Tree Edition.
Yes, even in the paperless office.
But having a career that ends 20 years after you start is the worst part.
I heard somewhere that the average person will have six different careers in their lifetimes. I've done a lot stuff in my technical career: virtual world tester (six months), video game tester (six years), helpdesk/desktop support (four years), PC technician (three years), wireless technician (one year) and security technician (two years). My father did the same job for three generations of owners over 50 years, but you can't expect that to happen again.
It sorta has pay going for it- but not so much when you consider the sudden age discrimination end compared to many other fields.
Work for the government. I'm surrounded by old farts, including a 66-year-old coworker doing chemo therapy. Just because startups don't value experience, it doesn't mean everywhere else behaves the same way.
Affirmative action has nothing to do with admitting foreign students.
Foreign students, both out of state or out of country, pay more in tuition than in state students do. The academic ideal got replaced by the altar of cold hard cash.
"New Math" was around precisely during the 70's and 80's. Then it was abolished.
Same thing with Harvard Calculus in the 90's. I sat in on the weekly presentation in Fall 1994 when the instructors demonstrated how a textbook filled with word problems was a better approach to teaching calculus than a textbook filled with mathematical symbols. An old mathematician in the back of the room banged his cane against an empty chair that Harvard Calculus was blasphemy and the instructors would burn in hell for teaching this garbage. I took Harvard Calculus in Spring 1995 and bailed out with half the class after the first two weeks. Not sure if the instructors ever taught the material all the way through the end of the semester.
Many are the long-bread-lined nations on the ash heap of history that revolved around the primacy of government central planning.
So what does that have to do with Warren and Obama? They're Democrats, not Communists or Socialists.
This fallacy rich quote proves that.
What fallacy exactly? Businesses — or individuals — don't exist separately from society and government. We're all in this together as a country for the last 240 years.
The corporate raiders of the 1970's and 1980's, who turned boring businesses into high-risk operations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_raid
As a great teacher once said, "Go educate thyself!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren#Academic
Somewhere along the way corporations stopped being corporate citizens that gave back to the local community to being multi-national corporations that don't care about the local community of any nation. Given enough bad PR by community activists and politicians, multi-national corporations can be shamed into doing the right thing for the local community.
Apple customers aren't running Android, and they don't have the option to do so until the next upgrade at least.
If I wanted an Android phone, I would get an Android phone. I don't see Apple giving up the vertical stack that they built to allow a competitor OS to run on it.