Rural voters are going to raise a stink about this. It's a national pastime there. Ironically they'll probably blame it on "gov't control", when in fact it's based on laws pushed by big corporations.
2. Door out of the Holodeck. 3. Kolob 4. Missing dryer socks 5. Where another LHC went "south" 6. Where God divided by zero 7. Where the Death Star exploded, taking out the neighborhood 8. Universe's belly button 9. Universe's tail end orifice
I see it as an odd commentary on the mass inequality in this country. Some inequality is a good thing, but too much is morally disgusting and a recipe for mayhem and national collapse.
Sarcasm aside, Microsoft was heavily under the anti-trust scope at the time, and needed a viable OS competitor to not look like a monopoly. MS thus wanted Apple to survive. (It's possibly the same reason AMD is still alive.)
Better yet, and less violent, lock the execs in a cell with spotty Internet and a bunch of channels they don't want. Let them watch the World Series, but have the picture and sound go all pixelly and choppy in the 9th inning in a close game.
Better yet, build a telecom that isn't a dick. If it works right, I won't care about my brown lawn, I'd probably never even see it. I'll put up damned cacti to get away from AT & Comcast Warner, who are already prickly.
I'm sick and tired of forced bundling from telecoms in general. I can't just buy what I want and only what I want; I have to buy crap I don't want and don't use to get it, and there is not enough competition to find one that doesn't ALSO force bundling.
They should be split up, not merged, dammit! Merging just makes them more bundly.
And don't even get me started about reliability and stealth billing "fees". ARRRRGGG.
who the heck wears a watch nowadays, other than old people...And why would I want to be constantly interrupted by stuff I don't want to do anything about?
So you can more easily press the "F off!" and/or "Get off my lawn!" reply button.
Yeah, and Microsoft...had phones YEARS before Apple did.
But people expect Microsoft to suck.
We use Microsoft because help for all the glitches and work-arounds are relatively easy to find because everybody else uses Microsoft and gijillion people already ran into and documented the issues we encounter. It's the Network Effect applied to volume suckage.
Microsoft just couldn't sell enough phones for the Volume Suckage Network Effect to kick in.
It's a new field. Vendors are going to trip and stumble until the lessons of the street straiten things out. The first PC apps sucked, the first Mac apps sucked, the first Linux apps were...all in EMACS, anyhow, you get the point.
I suspect Intel will find a way to keep AMD alive using pricing games to avoid both anti-trust accusations and the appearance that X86 cpu's are a dying biz. Intel and AMD need each other whether they like it or not.
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Rural voters are going to raise a stink about this. It's a national pastime there. Ironically they'll probably blame it on "gov't control", when in fact it's based on laws pushed by big corporations.
10. Comcast HQ
2. Door out of the Holodeck.
3. Kolob
4. Missing dryer socks
5. Where another LHC went "south"
6. Where God divided by zero
7. Where the Death Star exploded, taking out the neighborhood
8. Universe's belly button
9. Universe's tail end orifice
I see it as an odd commentary on the mass inequality in this country. Some inequality is a good thing, but too much is morally disgusting and a recipe for mayhem and national collapse.
May The Force be with George.
Sarcasm aside, Microsoft was heavily under the anti-trust scope at the time, and needed a viable OS competitor to not look like a monopoly. MS thus wanted Apple to survive. (It's possibly the same reason AMD is still alive.)
Better yet, and less violent, lock the execs in a cell with spotty Internet and a bunch of channels they don't want. Let them watch the World Series, but have the picture and sound go all pixelly and choppy in the 9th inning in a close game.
We tried that. Random whales kept clogging the lines.
Better yet, build a telecom that isn't a dick. If it works right, I won't care about my brown lawn, I'd probably never even see it. I'll put up damned cacti to get away from AT & Comcast Warner, who are already prickly.
I'm sick and tired of forced bundling from telecoms in general. I can't just buy what I want and only what I want; I have to buy crap I don't want and don't use to get it, and there is not enough competition to find one that doesn't ALSO force bundling.
They should be split up, not merged, dammit! Merging just makes them more bundly.
And don't even get me started about reliability and stealth billing "fees". ARRRRGGG.
Imagine a planet without trolls. Would all civilizations evolve trolls?
On Rina 4, that's how they spail it.
Can we peak under alien skirts, or is this only virtual?
Missionaries taste like chicken.
"There is a black hole approaching from the south-east. Please evacuate as fast as possible..."
Summary: God went bowling to knock some sense into wayward particle clumps.
Especially if you held it "wrong".
So you can more easily press the "F off!" and/or "Get off my lawn!" reply button.
But people expect Microsoft to suck.
We use Microsoft because help for all the glitches and work-arounds are relatively easy to find because everybody else uses Microsoft and gijillion people already ran into and documented the issues we encounter. It's the Network Effect applied to volume suckage.
Microsoft just couldn't sell enough phones for the Volume Suckage Network Effect to kick in.
It's a new field. Vendors are going to trip and stumble until the lessons of the street straiten things out. The first PC apps sucked, the first Mac apps sucked, the first Linux apps were...all in EMACS, anyhow, you get the point.
Absolute true story I'm embarrassed to say:
My 7 year old son: "Pffft, I know how babies are made; I watch all the nature channels".
I guess you had better dates than I did.
"You've been replaced by your own robots"
I suspect Intel will find a way to keep AMD alive using pricing games to avoid both anti-trust accusations and the appearance that X86 cpu's are a dying biz. Intel and AMD need each other whether they like it or not.
You imply it's Fate's Will and/or a "good thing" that we heavily populate arid land.
I suppose you could argue "we do it because we can", but then don't whine when Blow Back hits.