If Apple split MacOSX off from the hardware, and opened it up, it would first kill off desktop Linux almost entirely, and then probably go for Microsoft in a big, big way.
It would also kill Apple's desktop hardware, but they do make some nice laptops that would survive. And if they maintained proper leadership of the MacOSX project, they could end up the head of a huge Open Source desktop market.
But Apple seems more interested in selling sugar water to kids (shiney consumer stuff) these days.
I'm saying the Native Americans were a stone age culture, one that drove horses to extinction without ever figuring out how to tame and ride them.
Granted, the humans who ate almost all of the large mammals to extinction were many generations back from the more evolved Native Americans that the first European settlers encountered.
The European settlers didn't decimate the American Bison out of stupidity, incidentally. It was impossible to build a transcontinental railroad system with the huge bison herds intact. When a million bison rumble over some railroad tracks, there's nothing left there but an unpleasant surprise for the next train to encounter.
It also helped the European settlers subjugate the Indians to take away their resource supply, but that was secondary to the impossibility of a railroad while the buffalo herds roamed the land.
Many fairly high quality apps do just that. Often enough, if I encounter the 'free' version of something, I make certain that the publisher doesn't have a 'paid' version I can install instead.
When the paid version is a 99 cent app, or even a few dollars, if the prospectus on the App Store page, and a decent number of user comments, makes it look good enough, I'd rather just buy it than bother with the 'free' version in the first place.
I shy away from IAP offerings specifically because I'd rather just pay for the fricking thing and be done with it, than have the app publisher chisel away at me for cash. A publisher confident to charge $3.99 for an app, with a large enough count of downloads on the App Store page, and enough authentic appearing positive User Comments, is a selling point. Sure, there is some real junk out there that is just a con job, but it's not that hard to suss it out.
When I go to the main volkspc.org url, it's titled 'Just another WordPress site". When I look at all the links on the page, it's essentially several categories of vapor. Some photoshopped images of 'hardware' and even a 'software' page with a single YouTube video to watch, and no links whatsoever to any software. The only link on the FAQ page is titled 'unified distribution' but just loops back to the 'sofware' page with it's YouTube video.
It certainly looks like 'just another WordPress site' to me.
Just banning In App Purchases would be a big move at this point in time.
Look at the descriptions in mobile games these days. One of the things many, many games boast of is being 'the most addictive game in the app store.' Like it's a good thing. A measure of success for the game's publisher.
Software companies don't 'grow' by getting it right, then maintaining the goodness that they've achieved. They 'grow' their market by shitcanning last year's version and coming out with something new to sell us. The whole concept of 'growth' is just wrong for software. Software should develop through convergence. It just just keep getting better.
In fact, if software grew along lines of convergence, new features might cause increased resource usage, but other than that, the new word processor or spreadsheet should become gradually faster and more efficient on older hardware.
The self-interest of commercial software developers like Microsoft involves ripping everything down and building it over again ever few years. If we allowed the building construction industry to operate like that they'd tear everything down every decade or so.
No you are right we should certainly not go back to the way things were back then.
Well, for one thing, the rest of the world is not going to let us go back to being one of the dominant world powers after most other modern countries were leveled post WWII. The idea that 'government regulation' made the post-war economic boom is so ridiculous, I'm surprised you dare foist it off on us.
The rest of the world hasn't been leveled in a world war, and we can't just roll out a Marshall plan to achieve world dominance and prosperity for our middle class, like we did in the period that you're claiming 'government regulation' caused. I call bullshit on your whole thesis.
I think you missed out on the overall long term feeling you have that induces you to take the pills. Which is a permanent feeling. It also then sucks to feel dependent on said pills to feel at all well.
You're kidding about the pills, right? You don't consider your body just a big sack of chemicals used as the life support system for your brain, do you? Or is this a futile argument for me to even make?
Give Amerikka back to the large mammal species that the Native Americans drove into extinction (there were horses on North America, and giant sloths the size of bears, and many other large mammals) shortly after they arrived here over the Bering Straight.
The Indians didn't have horses again to ride until the Europeans broght them over and showed the noble wise red men how to ride, not eat, them.
Just like people called for with Microsoft a number of years back, Apple should be broken up into a content-providing company and a hardware manufacturer. Their eBook intiatives that are being scrutinized now were a clear attempt to tie up and monopolize the ebook industry. Fair play would dictate that the people calling for Microsoft to be 'broken up' should be calling for the same for Apple.
On the first drop of the bottle the cap loosens slightly but stays in place. The bottle hisses as some of the pressure is released. When you pick it up awhile later and drop it again, the pressure has mostly equalized, but a second drop, and it hisses some more. A little while later you pick up the bottle which is now full of flat soda.
Don't be silly, it used to be much worse. Before, the site was filled with hooligan spam and vulgarity. But the site has reached a level of prominence, and the moderating cadre has arrived at a level of dominance, where prigs and wordsmiths, and the clever who like to admire their own words prominently placed, have reached a critical mass. Everybody here now is a wise scribe, not just the occasional Jon Katz as it was in the past.
Cash money has a huge surface area, though. Which makes it much more attractive for a low tech thief to attach to it. And let's face it, most thieves on the level regular people encounter them are dumb and fairly brutal.
That's true, but the ability to process credit cards has become much easier in the last several years. You can get the hardware and an account to accept credit card payments using your iPhone, for instance.
Why do you link to a page that shows which future dollar coins they will issue for the next several years, in order to prove that they no longer issue dollar coins?
eBooks aren't for reading and literacy. They're to explain to mom why that tablet is a good thing. So that you can get the tablet. To play Clash of Clans on. The eBook app is a boss-screen.
The Annual Fee is then part of the cost. So they can add that as a percentage to the price of the book. Just like they do with other fixed costs, like the lubricant for the pick-and-place robot that pulls the book from the shelf and places it in the shipping box.
And they had better add that cost, not just MBA it away with the magic wand. I suspect Amazon has already whittled the shipping cost down to a minimum with their courier services, and that it can't just 'disappear into the woodwork' in their business accounting.
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Right.
It's profit-driven androids, all the way down.
If Apple split MacOSX off from the hardware, and opened it up, it would first kill off desktop Linux almost entirely, and then probably go for Microsoft in a big, big way.
It would also kill Apple's desktop hardware, but they do make some nice laptops that would survive. And if they maintained proper leadership of the MacOSX project, they could end up the head of a huge Open Source desktop market.
But Apple seems more interested in selling sugar water to kids (shiney consumer stuff) these days.
I'm saying the Native Americans were a stone age culture, one that drove horses to extinction without ever figuring out how to tame and ride them.
Granted, the humans who ate almost all of the large mammals to extinction were many generations back from the more evolved Native Americans that the first European settlers encountered.
The European settlers didn't decimate the American Bison out of stupidity, incidentally. It was impossible to build a transcontinental railroad system with the huge bison herds intact. When a million bison rumble over some railroad tracks, there's nothing left there but an unpleasant surprise for the next train to encounter.
It also helped the European settlers subjugate the Indians to take away their resource supply, but that was secondary to the impossibility of a railroad while the buffalo herds roamed the land.
Many fairly high quality apps do just that. Often enough, if I encounter the 'free' version of something, I make certain that the publisher doesn't have a 'paid' version I can install instead.
When the paid version is a 99 cent app, or even a few dollars, if the prospectus on the App Store page, and a decent number of user comments, makes it look good enough, I'd rather just buy it than bother with the 'free' version in the first place.
I shy away from IAP offerings specifically because I'd rather just pay for the fricking thing and be done with it, than have the app publisher chisel away at me for cash. A publisher confident to charge $3.99 for an app, with a large enough count of downloads on the App Store page, and enough authentic appearing positive User Comments, is a selling point. Sure, there is some real junk out there that is just a con job, but it's not that hard to suss it out.
When I go to the main volkspc.org url, it's titled 'Just another WordPress site". When I look at all the links on the page, it's essentially several categories of vapor. Some photoshopped images of 'hardware' and even a 'software' page with a single YouTube video to watch, and no links whatsoever to any software. The only link on the FAQ page is titled 'unified distribution' but just loops back to the 'sofware' page with it's YouTube video.
It certainly looks like 'just another WordPress site' to me.
It's not stupidity to juggle with statistics until they can plausibly be distorted to meet your need.
You can get decent 20-sider apps for your phone. Nice graphical ones. Makes it much more discreet.
Just banning In App Purchases would be a big move at this point in time.
Look at the descriptions in mobile games these days. One of the things many, many games boast of is being 'the most addictive game in the app store.' Like it's a good thing. A measure of success for the game's publisher.
Hey, all those liberal arts majors in the social sciences need jobs as counselors and parole officers.
Are your comments always just a bunch of memes glued together with a slam at the Tea Party on top for frosting?
Tell whichever PAC you work for that you need a reduction in pay.
Software companies don't 'grow' by getting it right, then maintaining the goodness that they've achieved. They 'grow' their market by shitcanning last year's version and coming out with something new to sell us. The whole concept of 'growth' is just wrong for software. Software should develop through convergence. It just just keep getting better.
In fact, if software grew along lines of convergence, new features might cause increased resource usage, but other than that, the new word processor or spreadsheet should become gradually faster and more efficient on older hardware.
The self-interest of commercial software developers like Microsoft involves ripping everything down and building it over again ever few years. If we allowed the building construction industry to operate like that they'd tear everything down every decade or so.
No you are right we should certainly not go back to the way things were back then.
Well, for one thing, the rest of the world is not going to let us go back to being one of the dominant world powers after most other modern countries were leveled post WWII. The idea that 'government regulation' made the post-war economic boom is so ridiculous, I'm surprised you dare foist it off on us.
The rest of the world hasn't been leveled in a world war, and we can't just roll out a Marshall plan to achieve world dominance and prosperity for our middle class, like we did in the period that you're claiming 'government regulation' caused. I call bullshit on your whole thesis.
I think you missed out on the overall long term feeling you have that induces you to take the pills. Which is a permanent feeling. It also then sucks to feel dependent on said pills to feel at all well.
You're kidding about the pills, right? You don't consider your body just a big sack of chemicals used as the life support system for your brain, do you? Or is this a futile argument for me to even make?
Give Amerikka back to the large mammal species that the Native Americans drove into extinction (there were horses on North America, and giant sloths the size of bears, and many other large mammals) shortly after they arrived here over the Bering Straight.
The Indians didn't have horses again to ride until the Europeans broght them over and showed the noble wise red men how to ride, not eat, them.
Just like people called for with Microsoft a number of years back, Apple should be broken up into a content-providing company and a hardware manufacturer. Their eBook intiatives that are being scrutinized now were a clear attempt to tie up and monopolize the ebook industry. Fair play would dictate that the people calling for Microsoft to be 'broken up' should be calling for the same for Apple.
Then maybe I could run MacOS on my Acer.
On the first drop of the bottle the cap loosens slightly but stays in place. The bottle hisses as some of the pressure is released. When you pick it up awhile later and drop it again, the pressure has mostly equalized, but a second drop, and it hisses some more. A little while later you pick up the bottle which is now full of flat soda.
Don't be silly, it used to be much worse. Before, the site was filled with hooligan spam and vulgarity. But the site has reached a level of prominence, and the moderating cadre has arrived at a level of dominance, where prigs and wordsmiths, and the clever who like to admire their own words prominently placed, have reached a critical mass. Everybody here now is a wise scribe, not just the occasional Jon Katz as it was in the past.
Those are Freedom Fries, motherfucker!
Cash money has a huge surface area, though. Which makes it much more attractive for a low tech thief to attach to it. And let's face it, most thieves on the level regular people encounter them are dumb and fairly brutal.
That's true, but the ability to process credit cards has become much easier in the last several years. You can get the hardware and an account to accept credit card payments using your iPhone, for instance.
Why do you link to a page that shows which future dollar coins they will issue for the next several years, in order to prove that they no longer issue dollar coins?
eBooks aren't for reading and literacy. They're to explain to mom why that tablet is a good thing. So that you can get the tablet. To play Clash of Clans on. The eBook app is a boss-screen.
Books are actually cheaper and more readily available in France than in the US.
The shop assistant is an employee of the shop. Amazon has not incorporated their own shipping company.
The Annual Fee is then part of the cost. So they can add that as a percentage to the price of the book. Just like they do with other fixed costs, like the lubricant for the pick-and-place robot that pulls the book from the shelf and places it in the shipping box.
And they had better add that cost, not just MBA it away with the magic wand. I suspect Amazon has already whittled the shipping cost down to a minimum with their courier services, and that it can't just 'disappear into the woodwork' in their business accounting.