Price discrimination, charging different people different prices for the same product is only viable when you have a monopoly. Since Photoshop basically has no competition they are able to inflate the price to significantly more than the market value.
There is also the issue of software being an infinite good, the marginal cost is $0, so the price should also be $0. Since the price isn't $0 the perception is that they shouldn't charge such huge fee's and that the company is ripping people off. Feeling ripped off causes people to forget the rules and take what they think they deserve.
1. There is a vulnerability disclosed in January that hasn't been fixed.
2. There are no more vulnerabilities to be fixed that were disclosed in January.
If you read the entire sentence from the summary:
"It also marked the first time this year that an operating system security update from Apple did not patch a vulnerability disclosed by the January Month of Apple Bugs project"
I would argue that either is meaning less because most of the time bugs are rank due to importance and there might not be any critical bus left to fix.
he should know better. He should have known better?
He called BEFORE he went to Canada and used any bandwidth, he asked for CONFIRMATION of the quoted price, he got the sales rep to make a note of the quoted price in his account, called customer service when he received the bill and they still misquoted him, he ask to speak to a supervisor who also CONTINUED to misquote the rate AND he spoke to the manager who also confirmed that their rate was in fact.002 cents/kb. I don't see how he could have done anything more.
The problem is NOT that Verizon's rate is really.002 dollars/kb, the problem is that there is a discrepancy between what they continue to quote him and what they charged him. A large difference actually, a factor of 100, two orders of magnitude.
I've had mixed results when asking for help in the gentoo forums, and I have found that the wording and the tone of how you ask questions is very important. An article by ESR on the proper way to ask questions http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.
This of course begs the question, how can you expect n00b to be careful about how a question is asked? after all he is merely a n00b.
I'm tired of hearing every American claim "It's not my fault! I didn't vote for Bush" because who you voted for is irrelevant. He is the leader of your democratic country and is supposed to represent you "The People".
If your government doesn't represent you, what are YOU doing to fix this? You and everyone else should go to Washington and stand up for your selves. Go to the white house and kick some ass.
The US Government = The US People
Anyone who disagrees doesn't understand democracy.
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Price discrimination, charging different people different prices for the same product is only viable when you have a monopoly. Since Photoshop basically has no competition they are able to inflate the price to significantly more than the market value.
There is also the issue of software being an infinite good, the marginal cost is $0, so the price should also be $0. Since the price isn't $0 the perception is that they shouldn't charge such huge fee's and that the company is ripping people off. Feeling ripped off causes people to forget the rules and take what they think they deserve.
1. There is a vulnerability disclosed in January that hasn't been fixed.
2. There are no more vulnerabilities to be fixed that were disclosed in January.
If you read the entire sentence from the summary: I would argue that either is meaning less because most of the time bugs are rank due to importance and there might not be any critical bus left to fix.
He called BEFORE he went to Canada and used any bandwidth, he asked for CONFIRMATION of the quoted price, he got the sales rep to make a note of the quoted price in his account, called customer service when he received the bill and they still misquoted him, he ask to speak to a supervisor who also CONTINUED to misquote the rate AND he spoke to the manager who also confirmed that their rate was in fact
The problem is NOT that Verizon's rate is really
Ya, retaliation is a bitch eh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
I've had mixed results when asking for help in the gentoo forums, and I have found that the wording and the tone of how you ask questions is very important. An article by ESR on the proper way to ask questions http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.
This of course begs the question, how can you expect n00b to be careful about how a question is asked? after all he is merely a n00b.
I'm tired of hearing every American claim "It's not my fault! I didn't vote for Bush" because who you voted for is irrelevant. He is the leader of your democratic country and is supposed to represent you "The People". If your government doesn't represent you, what are YOU doing to fix this? You and everyone else should go to Washington and stand up for your selves. Go to the white house and kick some ass. The US Government = The US People Anyone who disagrees doesn't understand democracy.