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Seriously, though, this is great. The Internet doesn't need to be run on a Mafia-style extortion plan, and it works best, in fact, when it doesn't. This is one of those times when government can do something right.
Maybe a couple of hundred dollars for RAM. I favor laptops, which hurts a bit (since it's much, much easier to make incremental upgrades on a desktop than a laptop), but I also favor not buying a new system very often.
My $1500 computer plays all the games from this generation (the occasional F.E.A.R. aside) and all the games of the previous generations- along with all the console games from previous generations.
I guess I could pay $500 every five years for a new console that plays only a small selection of games, but that seems silly.
Which is irrelevant. One of the foundational principles of American criminal justice is that it's better to let guilty people go than to imprison the innocent.
The problem is that businesses have come to expect a particular level of profitability. No matter that they could get by just fine on much, much less, or even live in luxury at that level- they feel they're owed that amount of profit, and so even the slightest increase in cost must be met with at least as much (and usually more) of an increase in price.
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Countdown to random Internet Libertarian telling us all how this is a horrible infringement on private enterprise in five, four, three, two...
Seriously, though, this is great. The Internet doesn't need to be run on a Mafia-style extortion plan, and it works best, in fact, when it doesn't. This is one of those times when government can do something right.
Now that's a shiny thought.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Laptop. For the love of God, do not taunt Happy Fun Laptop.
Bottom line is more and more people use Microsoft. Less and less people use Apple and Unix.
Are you being sarcastic or trolling?
What does .gif have, another year or two before the patent expires?
how did they prevent all those worms, viruses and trojans from infecting their pcs
Come to mention it, this would explain an awful lot about Microsoft's code...
Good point.
I adore your sig, btw.
I'm not trolling. I just don't get, as a KDE user, how this affects me or what practical change this causes.
That's neat, but what does this really change?
Yet another capitalist who can't differentiate between harmful and nonharmful market activity.
...or deliberately chooses not to, as is often the case.
Indeed.
And... overrated! Yeesh, must've hit a couple of nerves.
Surely such serveres (datahavens?) will be throttled and held back when accessed from within the states, thanks to the lack of net neutrality...
...capitalists defend other capitalists' right to profit by harming consumers.
Now sports.
$1,000,001, Bob!
And I seriously doubt your XBOX plays anything but XBOX games.
Maybe a couple of hundred dollars for RAM. I favor laptops, which hurts a bit (since it's much, much easier to make incremental upgrades on a desktop than a laptop), but I also favor not buying a new system very often.
My $1500 computer plays all the games from this generation (the occasional F.E.A.R. aside) and all the games of the previous generations- along with all the console games from previous generations. I guess I could pay $500 every five years for a new console that plays only a small selection of games, but that seems silly.
Ahh, percussive programming. Where would we be without you?
Which is irrelevant. One of the foundational principles of American criminal justice is that it's better to let guilty people go than to imprison the innocent.
Yeah, what's stopping a group of programmers from grabbing the code, renaming it "Nonwhore Azureus", and releasing it?
The number of dependencies this thing comes with is obscene. Nice try, kids.
...so THAT'S how Blizzard is combatting server lag.
You've clearly never taken a Classics and Modern Language course at uni...
I would just like to say that that's one of the most specifically awesome posts I've seen in awhile.
The problem is that businesses have come to expect a particular level of profitability. No matter that they could get by just fine on much, much less, or even live in luxury at that level- they feel they're owed that amount of profit, and so even the slightest increase in cost must be met with at least as much (and usually more) of an increase in price.