If there is any problem with my logic (there may be)
The only problem with your logic is you are expecting the market to work in a logical manner.
If AT&T was a logical company they would not be scrimping on their infrastructure and would instead try to build more towers and improve their service, they ain't interested in that though.
As to the question as to why Sprint is suing, well monopolistic companies have a very large influence on their marketplace and are able to dictate the market.
This would not be nearly the issue it is though if all phones were unlocked and available to all carriers, if we could move between carriers without major hardware purchases, but that is an issue.
IF you believe that AT&T and T-Mobile will NOT bring prices down then answer this question: how does any of this hurt customers of Sprint and how does this hurt Sprint?
I could give a shit less about Sprint, I'm a T-Mobile customer and I would like to remain a T-Mobile customer and my rates will increase and my service will dramatically decrease if AT&T is allowed to purchase T-Mobile.
As for the possibility that Sprint may lower prices if confronted with more competition, well if AT&T doesn't lower their prices, and of course AT&T will not lower their prices to current T-Mobile prices, exactly why would Sprint lower theirs?
Well let me propose to you that in fact this merger is an act of free market at work, if this merger goes through, then Sprint will have a formidable competitor, covering very large area, and this competitor will be able to bring prices down and hold off against inflation longer.
Get out of your ivory tower and get back in the real world.
There is NO WAY IN HELL that AT&T would lower their prices. The rest of your argument is invalidated by AT&T's greed. Expecting them to lower their prices and/or provide better service is like expecting a crackhead not to smoke crack when presented with more crack.
AT&T was broken up in the first place because your arguments do not apply when monopolies occur. If there is a monopoly the free market gets fucked.
The raw materials of the book isn't the largest part of the cost, it's royalties. You also still have all the overhead of marketing, sales/customer service, editors, copyright, and of course you still need to make a profit. You also paid for the rental DRM software for your e-book.
The renting of e-books though is a straight up scam.
This really isn't news until it ships, and we can assess the product as a whole.
This is not a slashvertisement, it is information for people who are interested in what the next MS OS will be. This being a website that is frequented by people who develop software and people who administer software, they need to know what is coming down the pipe before it happens.
Besides this gives us more ammo to talk crap about MS when they drop features they have talked about.
Ok so this is the youngest of stars within x range of us.
Couldn't you describe any star in such a fashion?
I think this is pretty cool to think that this star is younger than the dinosaurs, but I would have thought that would still be cool no matter the distance it was from us?
people have been told that the cure happens to be a reording of global affairs in a way that happens to line up with their politics. Typically, taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity, etc
Really? I haven't been told that redistributing wealth or centralized control of econimics are the cure for AGW, what I've been told the AGW is for us to stop polluting so damn much.
Now some people have some funny ideas about how to go about that, some are dead wrong and could do much worse damage to the climate than we have, but I haven't heard that what would amount to communism to be a cure. In fact there is not a communist country with a good environmental record.
You know that Dr. Bob can cure your laptop of viruses by carefully manipulating the hinge. In fact you should entrust your laptop to Dr. Bob on a weekly basis to keep your laptop virus free and in good health.
It's funny, in many articles random people will talk about how the manufacturer made some obvious mistake. 90% of the time those random people are just fucking stupid, with this article they are right.
You make a very good point, and definitely one that a gaming mouse manufacturer should have known.
I would guess that would be the reason for the water cooling, to increase the drives reliability.
Also from the article it sounds like they may have more than 200,000 hard drives hooked up, but only use 200,000 at a time so the computer can automatically begin recreating the dead drive as soon as it occurs.
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AT&T's tech and t-mobiles are not compatible
Um, actually they are the only 2 US providers that are compatible.
If there is any problem with my logic (there may be)
The only problem with your logic is you are expecting the market to work in a logical manner.
If AT&T was a logical company they would not be scrimping on their infrastructure and would instead try to build more towers and improve their service, they ain't interested in that though.
As to the question as to why Sprint is suing, well monopolistic companies have a very large influence on their marketplace and are able to dictate the market.
This would not be nearly the issue it is though if all phones were unlocked and available to all carriers, if we could move between carriers without major hardware purchases, but that is an issue.
once T-Mo files for Chapter 11 and gets sold off piece by piece.
I don't know, T-Mobile will get quite the shot in the arm what with that $6 billion that AT&T will give them when this fails.
IF you believe that AT&T and T-Mobile will NOT bring prices down then answer this question: how does any of this hurt customers of Sprint and how does this hurt Sprint?
I could give a shit less about Sprint, I'm a T-Mobile customer and I would like to remain a T-Mobile customer and my rates will increase and my service will dramatically decrease if AT&T is allowed to purchase T-Mobile.
As for the possibility that Sprint may lower prices if confronted with more competition, well if AT&T doesn't lower their prices, and of course AT&T will not lower their prices to current T-Mobile prices, exactly why would Sprint lower theirs?
Well let me propose to you that in fact this merger is an act of free market at work, if this merger goes through, then Sprint will have a formidable competitor, covering very large area, and this competitor will be able to bring prices down and hold off against inflation longer.
Get out of your ivory tower and get back in the real world.
There is NO WAY IN HELL that AT&T would lower their prices. The rest of your argument is invalidated by AT&T's greed. Expecting them to lower their prices and/or provide better service is like expecting a crackhead not to smoke crack when presented with more crack.
AT&T was broken up in the first place because your arguments do not apply when monopolies occur. If there is a monopoly the free market gets fucked.
Is it now illegal for a company to simply become too big?
Yes, it has been for quite some time now.
As a T-Mobile customer I would just like to say "Go fuck yourself."
I'd be less worried about us running out of fossil fuels than I would worry about us running out of fossil water.
Who cares if we can't fertilize a crop if we can't water it.
I was thinking TV makers would put this in their displays as a way to provide low cost internet capabilities.
Only Sony would add a DRM chip in their products to specifically counter a low usage device such as this.
The raw materials of the book isn't the largest part of the cost, it's royalties. You also still have all the overhead of marketing, sales/customer service, editors, copyright, and of course you still need to make a profit. You also paid for the rental DRM software for your e-book.
The renting of e-books though is a straight up scam.
This really isn't news until it ships, and we can assess the product as a whole.
This is not a slashvertisement, it is information for people who are interested in what the next MS OS will be. This being a website that is frequented by people who develop software and people who administer software, they need to know what is coming down the pipe before it happens.
Besides this gives us more ammo to talk crap about MS when they drop features they have talked about.
Can I have an o/s that boots to a command line?
Well sure, it just ain't going to be windows.
Think of the panda as a bamboo chipper that's powered by chipped bamboo. I challenge anybody to make a machine that can do that.
That would be simple enough. Use a steam engine, power the steam engine with chipped bamboo to run your bamboo chipper.
If I wanted AT&T as my service provider I would have subscribed to their service.
If you have to buy customers perhaps it's time to change ones business strategy.
She was dumb for not contacting the parents and making sure it was legit deal.
Probably just immature. The pics were of a 52 year old woman, not a very sexually appealing one apparently.
Ok so this is the youngest of stars within x range of us.
Couldn't you describe any star in such a fashion?
I think this is pretty cool to think that this star is younger than the dinosaurs, but I would have thought that would still be cool no matter the distance it was from us?
Luckily it was sub-titled.
people have been told that the cure happens to be a reording of global affairs in a way that happens to line up with their politics. Typically, taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity, etc
Really? I haven't been told that redistributing wealth or centralized control of econimics are the cure for AGW, what I've been told the AGW is for us to stop polluting so damn much.
Now some people have some funny ideas about how to go about that, some are dead wrong and could do much worse damage to the climate than we have, but I haven't heard that what would amount to communism to be a cure. In fact there is not a communist country with a good environmental record.
So what you are saying is that you are full of shit?
Link or shut up.
You know that Dr. Bob can cure your laptop of viruses by carefully manipulating the hinge. In fact you should entrust your laptop to Dr. Bob on a weekly basis to keep your laptop virus free and in good health.
It's funny, in many articles random people will talk about how the manufacturer made some obvious mistake. 90% of the time those random people are just fucking stupid, with this article they are right.
You make a very good point, and definitely one that a gaming mouse manufacturer should have known.
I would guess that would be the reason for the water cooling, to increase the drives reliability.
Also from the article it sounds like they may have more than 200,000 hard drives hooked up, but only use 200,000 at a time so the computer can automatically begin recreating the dead drive as soon as it occurs.
I saw around three of them being used as E-readers on my last flight.
The actual E-readers outnumbered the tablets though.
It might help that I live in Austin. Austin shows up in the lists for most healthy cities.
Then again the rest of Texas would be happy for Austin to not be part of Texas.
It's Texas's little liberal heart.