Yes, but a good blacksmith probably still can't get a good job these days. The fewer jobs there are to have, the more skilled you will need to be in order to get one of those jobs. In the dotcom days, they were hiring anyone with a pulse for $60k/year.
The stock ticker is draggable, like Google Maps, and shows a marker for each news item (listed on the side). Also, as you scroll the ticker (by dragging it), the news items change to show items relevant to the timeframe displayed.
I think you just reinforced his point. With Windows XP or Mac OS X, I've never needed to search for a step-by-step guide on a forum to set up a wireless connection. Nor did I need to work in the command line.
Those who feel comfortable doing these things tend to have difficulty understanding why others find Linux too difficult to use.
The basic problem with that theory is that human greed knows no bound. If the record companies can get away with charging say $2 a song, do you really think they would settle for $1.50?
Case in point: CD prices. I think it's safe to assume the COST of pressed CDs in the volume record companies deal in is around 50 cents. Given the prevalence of CD in this day and age, by your logic CDs should cost no more than... say, $5. The very fact that to this day consumers are still charged $15 a CD would disprove your theory...
There is no problem with the theory. The theory applies in this case like this: If the record companies lowered the price of CD's to the $5 you propose, sales would increase. But they wouldn't increase enough to offset the loss of profit from the lower price.
By the same token, if they make more profit from adding draconian DRM to their CD's, then they will do so. Why is Sony removing the DRM from some of their CD's? Because it's negatively impacting their profit.
Why do CD's cost so much when they cost so little to produce? because people buy them. If you don't like a particular companies prices, or business practices, or ecological ideals, or whatever, don't buy their products. And it won't matter in the least. If, however, enough customers stop buying their products, the company will make whatever changes necessary to increase their profits (changing the price, changing the business practice, moving their factories to cheaper offshore companies, etc).
I'd suggest two things: Take a basic microeconomics class, and watch the documentary, "The Corporation".
IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO HAVE A MONOPOLY. Got it? It is illegal to abuse the power you get with a monopoly. You could argue that Apple is abusing their monopoly somehow, but I don't think they are (and they don't have a monopoly quite yet anyway). In any case, just having a monopoly isn't illegal.
Netflix is very different from a music store. I usually watch a movie once and that's it. I don't care that I don't own the movie. I listen to music files multiple times (witness my awesome collection of 80's hair band music as proof...).
"When I first came here, this was all ice. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on ice, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It got covered by ice. So I built a second one. That got covered by ice. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then got covered by ice. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of Antarctica."
"Some AIM addicts are surely getting worried that AOL may eventually charge for regular usage."
I hope they do charge for it. Then open source systems such as Jabber will become more popular. I'm sick of having to use AIM just because it's all anyone knows about...
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You should watch the commercials. They're not a hate campaign. They are trying to show how the Mac is better than a PC.
They do come across as a little overly smug, but they'll still raise interest in the Mac.
Yes, but a good blacksmith probably still can't get a good job these days. The fewer jobs there are to have, the more skilled you will need to be in order to get one of those jobs. In the dotcom days, they were hiring anyone with a pulse for $60k/year.
I was just about to post a story about this. I went to pull up the info on a quote from my Google news page and saw the new format.
The main page may look plain, but the detail on a stock is beautiful:
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=AAPL
The stock ticker is draggable, like Google Maps, and shows a marker for each news item (listed on the side). Also, as you scroll the ticker (by dragging it), the news items change to show items relevant to the timeframe displayed.
I'd say well done Google.
I think you just reinforced his point. With Windows XP or Mac OS X, I've never needed to search for a step-by-step guide on a forum to set up a wireless connection. Nor did I need to work in the command line. Those who feel comfortable doing these things tend to have difficulty understanding why others find Linux too difficult to use.
There is no problem with the theory. The theory applies in this case like this: If the record companies lowered the price of CD's to the $5 you propose, sales would increase. But they wouldn't increase enough to offset the loss of profit from the lower price.
By the same token, if they make more profit from adding draconian DRM to their CD's, then they will do so. Why is Sony removing the DRM from some of their CD's? Because it's negatively impacting their profit.
Why do CD's cost so much when they cost so little to produce? because people buy them. If you don't like a particular companies prices, or business practices, or ecological ideals, or whatever, don't buy their products. And it won't matter in the least. If, however, enough customers stop buying their products, the company will make whatever changes necessary to increase their profits (changing the price, changing the business practice, moving their factories to cheaper offshore companies, etc). I'd suggest two things: Take a basic microeconomics class, and watch the documentary, "The Corporation".
Not exactly, they said they want something the "designers" can tinker with.
Here's the solution. OK, it's a few years away, but the Army investing in it would probably help it along...
And if he's a terrorist, you expect him to wait around while you check the drive?
At least he's on the right side in the War on Drugs....
Not true. He also eats the "magic mushrooms" which give him "special powers". Druggie...
IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO HAVE A MONOPOLY. Got it? It is illegal to abuse the power you get with a monopoly. You could argue that Apple is abusing their monopoly somehow, but I don't think they are (and they don't have a monopoly quite yet anyway). In any case, just having a monopoly isn't illegal.
As if watching Luke cry "NOOOO!!!" in Empire was any better?
Netflix is very different from a music store. I usually watch a movie once and that's it. I don't care that I don't own the movie. I listen to music files multiple times (witness my awesome collection of 80's hair band music as proof...).
Sounds like the old EvangeList...
Microsoft released this (beta) in July 2004. Apple has had this type of search in iTunes since at least v4, released April 2003...
The poster said RAM, not disk space...
They can, but they have to pay unemployment. Employers really hate that...
The question is, did they taste it after each pass through the filter? That would explain the result... ("Thish is farckn great!!")
Last (and the article really begs for this question): since when is iPod an MP3 player?
Um, since it plays MP3's, wouldn't that make it an MP3 player?
Why can't you fix it?
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/index.html
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"When I first came here, this was all ice. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on ice, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It got covered by ice. So I built a second one. That got covered by ice. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then got covered by ice. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of Antarctica."
The editors don't need to allow them to make their case. They are making it in a court of law, and badly from what I've read.
I hope they do charge for it. Then open source systems such as Jabber will become more popular. I'm sick of having to use AIM just because it's all anyone knows about...
In a related story, Netgear has announced the formation of a new security division, formed with ex-Microsoft employees...
Wow, that's the coolest name ever...