Uniform Product Classification? Sounds like a potential extension of the Universal Product Code system. Just have the GS1 people add a product classification standard into the barcoding standard, and boom. Job Done.
Give up now. That guy will insist until the end of days that if you can't afford to collect and remit for over 10,000 different tax regimes then you can pack up and go home.
That "hedwards" guy here is exactly that ignorant person you refer to. He insists that everyone should collect taxes for everywhere. Not just in your country, but everywhere on the planet. I cannot fathom why anyone would hold such a stupid viewpoint short of being a tax accountant.
Apparently you don't get the point either. Everyone did not "fail" at all. Many people in my country were happily buying music for $1.39 per track which could be transferred to virtually any portable media player or onto CD before iTunes even existed. All Apple's involvement has done is made it nearly twice the price ($2.39) and DRM-free (not that the DRM was hard to break before).
So, if there was not Steve Jobs, do you really think we had now afordable music for download?
Yes. In fact, I already had affordable music for download before iTunes. In fact, the creation of iTunes increased the price of music from $1.39 to $2.39 for me. So fuck Apple.
Do you really think Android would exist if there was no iOS?
Yes, since Android was started in 2003 and purchased by Google in 2005 - two years before Apple announced the iPhone.
I strongly suggest researching your facts before stating them as such.
Part of that is because Apple will happily slice prices down to 0%, or even negative margins in order to sell Macs to schools. Get 'em while they're young, eh?
Steve was a human being, with human interests. Creating a walled garden appealed to both his own financial interests, and the interests of consumers for simpler (eg, "easier to use") devices.
I don't need to point out the deleterious effects of that compromise, as others have already done a fantastic job of pointing that out. What I will point out instead is that jobs's "vision" for the future of mobile and desktop devices is a sterile, gleaming desert, with only one kind of sand, and only approved forms of cactus.
Which is why every mac either ships with a free copy of Xcode, or is available for Free* off apple's developer site? Why apple are releasing most of their new core technologies as open source?
The success of small developers getting their shit on everybody's devices via the app store would kinda disagree with your dystopian vision of the future.
Oh, nothing wrong with disliking Microsoft (or Apple, or Google - OK, I admit it, I don't actually really like any of them). I just wouldn't go trusting Slashdot headlines as authoritative sources of truth for anything regarding The Big Three tech companies. There's always an angle.
They likely have delegated authority for small amounts which they can use in a sales capacity. In general though, your offer to defer with interest would have costed more in administration costs than simply waiving it, and disconnecting you for less than a dollar is a major PR risk. Not to say Amazon doesn't have very good customer service - they do (I have a Kindle 3G with a damaged screen, out of warranty, and they say they'll replace it for $85 which comes with a new warranty and everything - they sure know how to keep customers) - but... er, actually, my tangent answered it. Amazon knows how to keep customers.
What the hell are you talking about? PlaysForSure is the certification platform upon which something called the Windows Media Rights Manager was built. The WMRM is the server side software that generates licenses for "protected" content for delivery to Windows Media Player, or anything else that happens to support it. WMRM is still available to license (at no charge, may I add) along with the PlaysForSure logo for third party MP3 players. That's not "discontinued" by any stretch of the term, and did not "brick" any devices whatsoever. As you say, "you shills use some pretty bizarre arguments".
There are many citations, quit being lazy. We get reminded of this event, called "Sun Fade", twice a year by our satellite TV provider in the channel guide magazine. The reason why directly behind causes an issue but slightly to the side doesn't is that the dish (or more specifically, the LNB) is pointed directly at the satellite, and has a very narrow angle from which it can pick up a signal. "Slightly off" is actually outside the targeted area of the LNB.
Upgrade? There's nothing to upgrade to... for backups, LTO tapes (1.2TB capacity per tape) are virtually the be all and end all. Magnetic platter disks are far too unreliable long term (or hell, even medium term) to trust this sort of data to, and sending the backup over the wire to an offsite location would be both prohibitively expensive and take too long (working in a hospital that handles this many records, our backups run to approximately 7TB per day).
The "wow" is in just how clueless you are as to appropriate usage of backup technologies.
Sure, if they're old Tandberg drive tapes, but LTO tapes are extremely reliable. Where I work we wouldn't dream of writing backups to anything else (not least because it would be expensive to match the 1.2TB capacity of each tape).
Neither Apple, nor Google, nor Microsoft design new chipsets for mobile hardware. Those are designed by companies like ARM, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and others.
I'll happily join a party which aims to change and adapt copyright to reflect the modern world. I refuse to join one that aims to destroy it, and throw creative folks to the wolves in order to satisfy a sense of entitlement.
FF9 is better. It's actually 64-bit (which means most native plugins - Flash included - do not work) and the memory performance is staggeringly better than FF6343635645346 or whatever is current. Still shitty memory performance, but tolerable.
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Uniform Product Classification? Sounds like a potential extension of the Universal Product Code system. Just have the GS1 people add a product classification standard into the barcoding standard, and boom. Job Done.
Give up now. That guy will insist until the end of days that if you can't afford to collect and remit for over 10,000 different tax regimes then you can pack up and go home.
That "hedwards" guy here is exactly that ignorant person you refer to. He insists that everyone should collect taxes for everywhere. Not just in your country, but everywhere on the planet. I cannot fathom why anyone would hold such a stupid viewpoint short of being a tax accountant.
Retailers will solve that by incorporating in Vancouver.
Apparently you don't get the point either. Everyone did not "fail" at all. Many people in my country were happily buying music for $1.39 per track which could be transferred to virtually any portable media player or onto CD before iTunes even existed. All Apple's involvement has done is made it nearly twice the price ($2.39) and DRM-free (not that the DRM was hard to break before).
So, if there was not Steve Jobs, do you really think we had now afordable music for download?
Yes. In fact, I already had affordable music for download before iTunes. In fact, the creation of iTunes increased the price of music from $1.39 to $2.39 for me. So fuck Apple.
Do you really think Android would exist if there was no iOS?
Yes, since Android was started in 2003 and purchased by Google in 2005 - two years before Apple announced the iPhone.
I strongly suggest researching your facts before stating them as such.
Part of that is because Apple will happily slice prices down to 0%, or even negative margins in order to sell Macs to schools. Get 'em while they're young, eh?
Which is why every mac either ships with a free copy of Xcode, or is available for Free* off apple's developer site? Why apple are releasing most of their new core technologies as open source?
The success of small developers getting their shit on everybody's devices via the app store would kinda disagree with your dystopian vision of the future.
* For definitions of "free" costing $5, anyway.
Oh, nothing wrong with disliking Microsoft (or Apple, or Google - OK, I admit it, I don't actually really like any of them). I just wouldn't go trusting Slashdot headlines as authoritative sources of truth for anything regarding The Big Three tech companies. There's always an angle.
They likely have delegated authority for small amounts which they can use in a sales capacity. In general though, your offer to defer with interest would have costed more in administration costs than simply waiving it, and disconnecting you for less than a dollar is a major PR risk. Not to say Amazon doesn't have very good customer service - they do (I have a Kindle 3G with a damaged screen, out of warranty, and they say they'll replace it for $85 which comes with a new warranty and everything - they sure know how to keep customers) - but ... er, actually, my tangent answered it. Amazon knows how to keep customers.
What the hell are you talking about? PlaysForSure is the certification platform upon which something called the Windows Media Rights Manager was built. The WMRM is the server side software that generates licenses for "protected" content for delivery to Windows Media Player, or anything else that happens to support it. WMRM is still available to license (at no charge, may I add) along with the PlaysForSure logo for third party MP3 players. That's not "discontinued" by any stretch of the term, and did not "brick" any devices whatsoever. As you say, "you shills use some pretty bizarre arguments".
Oh, Ron Paul. That explains your blindness to... oh, reality.
Back to this shit again are we?
There are many citations, quit being lazy. We get reminded of this event, called "Sun Fade", twice a year by our satellite TV provider in the channel guide magazine. The reason why directly behind causes an issue but slightly to the side doesn't is that the dish (or more specifically, the LNB) is pointed directly at the satellite, and has a very narrow angle from which it can pick up a signal. "Slightly off" is actually outside the targeted area of the LNB.
Because an injunction in one EU state blocks it in all of them. And the EU is a much bigger market than the US.
Nope. They can invoke the Mutually Assured Destruction clause.
Um, Apple's screen provider IS Samsung. I'd find it unlikely that Samsung isn't capable of making sure their own devices are still being assembled.
Upgrade? There's nothing to upgrade to... for backups, LTO tapes (1.2TB capacity per tape) are virtually the be all and end all. Magnetic platter disks are far too unreliable long term (or hell, even medium term) to trust this sort of data to, and sending the backup over the wire to an offsite location would be both prohibitively expensive and take too long (working in a hospital that handles this many records, our backups run to approximately 7TB per day).
The "wow" is in just how clueless you are as to appropriate usage of backup technologies.
Sure, if they're old Tandberg drive tapes, but LTO tapes are extremely reliable. Where I work we wouldn't dream of writing backups to anything else (not least because it would be expensive to match the 1.2TB capacity of each tape).
Neither Apple, nor Google, nor Microsoft design new chipsets for mobile hardware. Those are designed by companies like ARM, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and others.
I'll happily join a party which aims to change and adapt copyright to reflect the modern world. I refuse to join one that aims to destroy it, and throw creative folks to the wolves in order to satisfy a sense of entitlement.
Six? There's Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, um... I forgot the state Canberra hangs out in didn't I?
No idea really. Here in NZ we just call it "sports" with everything else being "fake sports". Or at least that's the impression you'd get.
It won't enable extensions that have Native code components though (e.g. Cooliris or whatever it's called today).
FF9 is better. It's actually 64-bit (which means most native plugins - Flash included - do not work) and the memory performance is staggeringly better than FF6343635645346 or whatever is current. Still shitty memory performance, but tolerable.
I know of a six letter word which refers to those things, but the U isn't in the middle.