Well, I want coke to cost 1 euro per gram, also retail Windows 8 should cost 10 euros and Windows Server 2012 Datacenter would cost 80 euros at most (granting you a license to install on 15 physical machines).
That's not possible yet, so an option is to get drunk with red wine and use linux.
I believe Apple is the red wine option whereas Linux is hooch from a homemade still.
Not quite,
Linux is a microbrew, there are hundreds about, some good, some bad and a rare few absolutely brilliant.
Apple is four penny dark (cheap red wine) that is bought in a cask (box), re-bottled with a fancy label and sold for top shelf prices. In the end it's still cheap wine, it just costs more.
Windows is the mainstream beers. Harsh to drink, no to bad taste but enough ABV to get the job done.
Help me I am trying to swap my Ford engine for a Chevy and it won't fit!
Remove side panels and weld on supports until it fits. Replace drive train if need be.
It's not like Ford locked down the chassis or the panels with Car Rights Management or anything.
The smallest 787 configuration carries 210 passengers. The largest stretched Embraer carries just 120. Different league entirely. Embraer is competing with the 717/A318 and similar small commuter jets, not the 787/A380 and similar wide bodied jumbos.
The E1xx jets aren't even competing with the A318 and B737's. They're small regional jets that are competing with the B717 and Bombardier C series. Older competitors include the Avro RJ/BAe146 and Fokker F28 which will still be flying about. These commercial passenger jets are as small as you get before you start getting into turboprops (ATR 72). B737 and A320 series are up in the 120-200 odd pax group.
Dear NSA,
despite the use of the word "terrorism", I have no intention of violating US laws in order to influence US politics. I'm just using what little remains of my first amendment rights to make a political comment on US policies on terrorism.
Dear joe_frisch,
It's not that we dont understand the context of your comment, it's just that we simply dont care.
It's 2013 - why is Slashdot's icon for anything Australia-related still Crocodile Dundee's hat?
What else would it be, yanks wont know what a VN Commo is, a prawn is too ambiguous, sharks are already used for anything to do with lasers, roo's, koala's and Emu's are overused and overrated. Few people outside of Australia recognise a map of Australia. So what else are they meant to use?
Besides, the hat is an Akubra and it is an Australian icon, long before Paul Hogan ever donned it.
Did Obama not say something similar before he got in?
Didn't read the GP huh?
The Greens have a history of fighting these things. They fought against the mandatory net filter, now we have no filter and Conroy had resigned. They fought for R18 ratings on games, now we have R18 ratings for games. So they're pretty damn successful.
If you think of a used car only in terms of the initial sales price, you are silly.
Read my post again, if the car is taking most of your income (it will on minimum wage), that doesn't count as reasonable.
Yes, and cars are not that expensive to own unless you're a complete idiot.
My first car was a EK Civic, it got 7L/100 KM in the city, doing 250 KM a week when petrol was A$1.40 a litre I bought about 18 litres it was A$26 a week on fuel. Registration was $420 a year. Maintenance was 2 yearly services at $200 a shot. A set of tyres set me back A$500 and trust me, the US gets tyres for a lot less than we do. If you're spending more than $2500 on running a car, you're doing it wrong, if you're really cheap you could run it on less than $500 (read, you drive it until it dies then buy another $500 car).
If you're frugal like me, you learn to do a lot of things yourself, I changed my own brake pads (which I learned to do by watching some videos on YouTube), air con filters, head unit, buffed out scratches. If you go onto YouTube you'll find a lot of video's explaining how to maintain your car, all you need to do is search for the model of car you have and the task you want to perform.
Now owning a sports car, that's expensive (I just paid A$600 for performance brake pads) but a student or low wage earner will not be buying a sports car.
Did you RFTA? It doesn't say they don't *drive* - It says millennials
I stopped reading at that word.
Its used by crotchety old men in dying print media to deride people under 20 because they cant think of a legitimate complaint but wish to complain about those "utes" anyway.
In the more congested US and European cities owning a car is impractical because there's nowhere to park and you take the bus to work anyway, here people tend to hire cars by the day when they need them. But in most of the country in the western world car ownership amongst under 20's is relatively common. Certainly in Australia, most people will have their license and first car by the age of 20 (you can sit your driving test at 17), many will be onto their 2nd car by 20.
I suspect motorbike and scooter ownership to rise (or already has risen) as a response to congestion.
All I can see is yet another smartphone. Nothing in that video made me want to run out and buy one of these things. These smartphones are way more powerful than I need them to be which has resulted in ridiculous prices.
I'll wait for the price announcement but I'll be up for a new phone soon.
I passed on the Nexus 4 because I had a Galaxy Nexus, the Moto "X" might be a decent upgrade if it:
1) is competitively priced.
2) has an unlocked bootloader.
3) free of moto-blurgh.
The official name was changed. The implementation in both the software and the marketing materials is extremely slow to catch up though. Source: I work closely with esri on the engineering and business side.
PS: Arcserver is now Arcgis for Server, and Arcgis Online is just called ArcGIS now (they are trying to push the "platform" thing)
ArcMap.exe still exists.
Source, I work with ArcGIS, I have it installed on the same desktop I'm writing this on.
Have you ever actually laid eyes on a mainframe? You seem to be confusing them with low-budget HPC clusters. IBM is the largest mainframe vendor and I can assure you that they are not "a bunch of PC servers with Infiniband."
I have, we carted it out and replaced it with some system P's.
Yes, a lot of applications that used tor require mainframes now run on clusters of system P's or even X86-64 blades running VMWare. Thats how far servers have progressed.
Whilst I 100% agree that a mainframe is not "just a bunch of servers that are interconnected" they are being replaced by a bunch of servers that are interconnected because the performance of clusters has reached a point where they can replace mainframes in most applications and have several advantages like using off-the-shelf and easy to replace hardware and cheap/easy redundancy.
Mainframes are really only used for very specialised applications these days.
The Mainframe isn't dead, however it isn't as widely used as it once was. They are still new Mainframes being made, and any true Computer Scientist would drool to get their hands on one.
But that being said, they are not selling as many as they use to, most companies are going to PC based servers, because they are cheaper, and more software flexibility, and you are not as stuck with one company for support, and a large group of developers who can handle the platform.
Most mainframes have shrunk into two forms. Very high powered servers like IBM System P or clusters. Bare metal hypervisors are dragging most high performance applications to clusters. If you need 40 physical processors and 1 TB of RAM, well I can get that in 1 blade chassis.
The new mainframes being made are for very, very specialised applications, otherwise we've replaced them with racks of interconnected servers.
Now the PC, are tablets going replace them? No, but they will bring the PC down to a few manufacturers.
I doubt this. Tablets are in a bubble, the deficiencies of tablets are forcing people to buy peripherals like keyboards for them. Well a tablet with a keyboard... Wait that's a laptop.
You may also have noticed that most computer manufacturers are now also making tablets. Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, hell even Dell have had a crack at it. So hardware vendors aren't the losers here. The only one who stands to suffer is Microsoft as people get used to OS's that aren't Windows.
Correctomondo. Except it's not just about checking email but also about one of the biggest PC sellers of the past: games. I used to by a new PC at least every 2 years to keep up with the advances in hardware just to be able to play the latest games. This process has practically come to an abrupt halt. My Athlon 64 X2 I'm typing this on is about 5 years old and it still runs the latest games on high detail without problems (on a standard 1-monitor setup). The only upgrade I performed at some point was the graphics card from a 8800 to a GTX 275.
This,
I also used to upgrade every 2 years religiously and computer components were a lot more expensive (I used to drop A$2000-2500 for a moderately high end rig, now A$1500 buys a good high end rig and A$2000 buys the ducks nuts). But since my last rig bought in 2009 (Phenom II 955, 8 GB RAM, Geforce 285) I've only paid for 3 upgrades, an SSD, a Geforce 660 and a Wireless N card.
The fact is, games simply dont challenge it any more. Even with the terrible inefficiency of DX10/11 nothing pushes my gaming rig to the limits. Where's our Crysis? Hell, a poorly coded 2013 game cant even push my old gaming rig to the limits any more.
The only reason I'd recommend upgrading a 5 yr old gaming rig is if for some strange reason it didn't support SSD's.
1. Mac's -- Apple doesn't seem go give a fck about them and only keeps them around so that they get free movie/tv marketing and so that programmers can actually write software for the platforms that they care about. Even if they did decide to push it hard, they're still the insular control freaks that make people run from their platforms at least as often as it attracts.
2. Linux -- Linux what? The diaspora of hundreds of projects all running in different directions changing paradigms because they feel like it? Yeah, we're boned. I love Linux and use it for real work daily, but this is NOT the replacement until people seriously start collaborating on writing a consistent platform
3. Android/FirefoxOS/ChromeOS/etc.. -- Sadly if there was any front facing OS strategy that would take out MS for desktops / laptops, it'll probably be one of these, but a lot has to change for these to become the competitive general purpose computing solution.
Due entirely to 1.'s creator, everything people do is now based on a website. Facebook, webmail, document editing and just about everything else most users do, so 3. are now general purpose PC's.
Apple wanted to make everything an app or web-based. Seeing as apps are too much trouble and too limited everyone went web-based and Apple got what it wanted... Just not the way it wanted. Now competitors only have to provide a web browser (which will ultimately lead to apple's demise and marginalisation in the marketplace).
You might want to get a new introductory economics book. Yours sounds like it was written to promote a political view rather than actually, ya know, teach economics.
The government is just as capable of producing wealth as any other entity.
As far as economics go, the government can be a revenue producing entity.
In the case of many governments throughout the world, they are. Most budgest have line items for "interest accrued" and "returns on investment" under Income. In the case of city-states like Singapore, the government owns a lot of private enterprises (Tamasek and Singapore Airlines for example) which provides most of the state revenue (the downside of this is that the state is enabled to run as a dictatorship and yes, Singapore is a quasi dictatorship).
Where government differs from private enterprise in that the primary goal is not to create more income, but to provide services.
If the government spends money on a program that adds more value to the economy than the cost of the program (such as food assistance, which has close to a 2:1 return), then the government has produced wealth. Whether the entity is public or private doesn't figure into it at all.
Quoted for truth.
Governments to produce a lot of wealth, its just that it benefits non-governmental entities most of the time (including the citizens in this group).
And of course, your unsubstantiated claim that Apple will never drop the price on the iPhone 5
Only when it's superseded.
This is not a price drop, this is a stock dump.
Even then you're paying a lot more for a 12-18 month old phone then you would from any other manufacturer. Go on, tell me again how paying more for a 18 month old Iphone 4 is better than buying a current generation Nexus. If I wanted to get a Samsung S3, I'd be looking at half it's original retail price.
In 5 years, the price of a current generation Iphone has never dropped.
But go on, tell me more about how correct you are.
Done and done.
Feel free to keep embarrassing yourself with your obvious fanboysim.
This is a slightly circular argument because the issue is what constitutes "good driving". I am simply saying that good driving is not primarily about technical skill but about behaviour.
It isn't a circular argument. It says that good technical diving skills naturally leads to polite driving, not the other way around.
It is possible to be polite, but an extremely bad driver.
Disagree. Most of entertainment is rarely reused and ultimately disposable.
What is true for you is not true for everyone... Hell, it's not even true for the majority.
Do I want to replay a game I already played through? Usually no. So I would rather rent it for a few hours (until I win or get bored).
Which is why "replayability" is never mentioned in reviews, people never talk about playing System Shock/Deus Ex/Civ (insert favourite version) or any other classic again.
Do I want to watch a movie again after I saw it once? Usually no. So rent makes sense.
"So I re-watched Snatch/Star Wars/LOTR" again the other day... Again something no-one would ever do.
Same with music, software, DRM-free ownership is important. Unfortunately most people wont realise it until its too late.
On some devices things display differently, even though they have the same version of Android. On some devices you have access to audio/video codecs that aren't available on others.
No,
This is when you target Android API's not vendor specific API's.
So you really have just re-iterated my point. If you target ANDROID 2.2 it will work on Android 2.2 and above, if you target a SAMSUNG API, it may not work on HTC phones.
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Well, I want coke to cost 1 euro per gram, also retail Windows 8 should cost 10 euros and Windows Server 2012 Datacenter would cost 80 euros at most (granting you a license to install on 15 physical machines).
That's not possible yet, so an option is to get drunk with red wine and use linux.
I believe Apple is the red wine option whereas Linux is hooch from a homemade still.
Not quite, Linux is a microbrew, there are hundreds about, some good, some bad and a rare few absolutely brilliant.
Apple is four penny dark (cheap red wine) that is bought in a cask (box), re-bottled with a fancy label and sold for top shelf prices. In the end it's still cheap wine, it just costs more.
Windows is the mainstream beers. Harsh to drink, no to bad taste but enough ABV to get the job done.
Help me I am trying to swap my Ford engine for a Chevy and it won't fit!
Remove side panels and weld on supports until it fits. Replace drive train if need be. It's not like Ford locked down the chassis or the panels with Car Rights Management or anything.
The Li-Ion batteries that have caused the Dreamliner so much trouble are in the lower front part of the plane, below the front doors.
The news pictures show a problem on the upper side near the tail section.
Oh well! That's all right then!
The fire is on top of where the 787's cabin crew rest area is.
The airline may have changed this configuration but I doubt it.
The smallest 787 configuration carries 210 passengers. The largest stretched Embraer carries just 120. Different league entirely. Embraer is competing with the 717/A318 and similar small commuter jets, not the 787/A380 and similar wide bodied jumbos.
The E1xx jets aren't even competing with the A318 and B737's. They're small regional jets that are competing with the B717 and Bombardier C series. Older competitors include the Avro RJ/BAe146 and Fokker F28 which will still be flying about. These commercial passenger jets are as small as you get before you start getting into turboprops (ATR 72). B737 and A320 series are up in the 120-200 odd pax group.
How unpatriotic. Borrow an American term from WWII, when Sherman tanks were called Ronsons: lights first time, every time.
It was actually the British who coined that term for the Sherman Tank based on an advertisement for Ronson lighters.
The Germans called them "Tommy Cookers" with Tommy being a nickname for the English.
Dear NSA,
despite the use of the word "terrorism", I have no intention of violating US laws in order to influence US politics. I'm just using what little remains of my first amendment rights to make a political comment on US policies on terrorism.
Dear joe_frisch,
It's not that we dont understand the context of your comment, it's just that we simply dont care.
Please enjoy your stay in our facility.
Signed,
NSA.
It's 2013 - why is Slashdot's icon for anything Australia-related still Crocodile Dundee's hat?
What else would it be, yanks wont know what a VN Commo is, a prawn is too ambiguous, sharks are already used for anything to do with lasers, roo's, koala's and Emu's are overused and overrated. Few people outside of Australia recognise a map of Australia. So what else are they meant to use?
Besides, the hat is an Akubra and it is an Australian icon, long before Paul Hogan ever donned it.
Did Obama not say something similar before he got in?
Didn't read the GP huh?
The Greens have a history of fighting these things. They fought against the mandatory net filter, now we have no filter and Conroy had resigned. They fought for R18 ratings on games, now we have R18 ratings for games. So they're pretty damn successful.
If you think of a used car only in terms of the initial sales price, you are silly.
Read my post again, if the car is taking most of your income (it will on minimum wage), that doesn't count as reasonable.
Yes, and cars are not that expensive to own unless you're a complete idiot.
My first car was a EK Civic, it got 7L/100 KM in the city, doing 250 KM a week when petrol was A$1.40 a litre I bought about 18 litres it was A$26 a week on fuel. Registration was $420 a year. Maintenance was 2 yearly services at $200 a shot. A set of tyres set me back A$500 and trust me, the US gets tyres for a lot less than we do. If you're spending more than $2500 on running a car, you're doing it wrong, if you're really cheap you could run it on less than $500 (read, you drive it until it dies then buy another $500 car).
If you're frugal like me, you learn to do a lot of things yourself, I changed my own brake pads (which I learned to do by watching some videos on YouTube), air con filters, head unit, buffed out scratches. If you go onto YouTube you'll find a lot of video's explaining how to maintain your car, all you need to do is search for the model of car you have and the task you want to perform.
Now owning a sports car, that's expensive (I just paid A$600 for performance brake pads) but a student or low wage earner will not be buying a sports car.
Did you RFTA? It doesn't say they don't *drive* - It says millennials
I stopped reading at that word.
Its used by crotchety old men in dying print media to deride people under 20 because they cant think of a legitimate complaint but wish to complain about those "utes" anyway.
In the more congested US and European cities owning a car is impractical because there's nowhere to park and you take the bus to work anyway, here people tend to hire cars by the day when they need them. But in most of the country in the western world car ownership amongst under 20's is relatively common. Certainly in Australia, most people will have their license and first car by the age of 20 (you can sit your driving test at 17), many will be onto their 2nd car by 20.
I suspect motorbike and scooter ownership to rise (or already has risen) as a response to congestion.
All I can see is yet another smartphone. Nothing in that video made me want to run out and buy one of these things. These smartphones are way more powerful than I need them to be which has resulted in ridiculous prices.
I'll wait for the price announcement but I'll be up for a new phone soon.
I passed on the Nexus 4 because I had a Galaxy Nexus, the Moto "X" might be a decent upgrade if it:
1) is competitively priced.
2) has an unlocked bootloader.
3) free of moto-blurgh.
LTE would be nice, but not a deal breaker.
The official name was changed. The implementation in both the software and the marketing materials is extremely slow to catch up though. Source: I work closely with esri on the engineering and business side.
PS: Arcserver is now Arcgis for Server, and Arcgis Online is just called ArcGIS now (they are trying to push the "platform" thing)
ArcMap.exe still exists.
Source, I work with ArcGIS, I have it installed on the same desktop I'm writing this on.
Have you ever actually laid eyes on a mainframe? You seem to be confusing them with low-budget HPC clusters. IBM is the largest mainframe vendor and I can assure you that they are not "a bunch of PC servers with Infiniband."
I have, we carted it out and replaced it with some system P's.
Yes, a lot of applications that used tor require mainframes now run on clusters of system P's or even X86-64 blades running VMWare. Thats how far servers have progressed.
Whilst I 100% agree that a mainframe is not "just a bunch of servers that are interconnected" they are being replaced by a bunch of servers that are interconnected because the performance of clusters has reached a point where they can replace mainframes in most applications and have several advantages like using off-the-shelf and easy to replace hardware and cheap/easy redundancy.
Mainframes are really only used for very specialised applications these days.
The Mainframe isn't dead, however it isn't as widely used as it once was. They are still new Mainframes being made, and any true Computer Scientist would drool to get their hands on one.
But that being said, they are not selling as many as they use to, most companies are going to PC based servers, because they are cheaper, and more software flexibility, and you are not as stuck with one company for support, and a large group of developers who can handle the platform.
Most mainframes have shrunk into two forms. Very high powered servers like IBM System P or clusters. Bare metal hypervisors are dragging most high performance applications to clusters. If you need 40 physical processors and 1 TB of RAM, well I can get that in 1 blade chassis.
The new mainframes being made are for very, very specialised applications, otherwise we've replaced them with racks of interconnected servers.
Now the PC, are tablets going replace them? No, but they will bring the PC down to a few manufacturers.
I doubt this. Tablets are in a bubble, the deficiencies of tablets are forcing people to buy peripherals like keyboards for them. Well a tablet with a keyboard... Wait that's a laptop.
You may also have noticed that most computer manufacturers are now also making tablets. Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, hell even Dell have had a crack at it. So hardware vendors aren't the losers here. The only one who stands to suffer is Microsoft as people get used to OS's that aren't Windows.
Correctomondo. Except it's not just about checking email but also about one of the biggest PC sellers of the past: games. I used to by a new PC at least every 2 years to keep up with the advances in hardware just to be able to play the latest games. This process has practically come to an abrupt halt. My Athlon 64 X2 I'm typing this on is about 5 years old and it still runs the latest games on high detail without problems (on a standard 1-monitor setup). The only upgrade I performed at some point was the graphics card from a 8800 to a GTX 275.
This,
I also used to upgrade every 2 years religiously and computer components were a lot more expensive (I used to drop A$2000-2500 for a moderately high end rig, now A$1500 buys a good high end rig and A$2000 buys the ducks nuts). But since my last rig bought in 2009 (Phenom II 955, 8 GB RAM, Geforce 285) I've only paid for 3 upgrades, an SSD, a Geforce 660 and a Wireless N card.
The fact is, games simply dont challenge it any more. Even with the terrible inefficiency of DX10/11 nothing pushes my gaming rig to the limits. Where's our Crysis? Hell, a poorly coded 2013 game cant even push my old gaming rig to the limits any more.
The only reason I'd recommend upgrading a 5 yr old gaming rig is if for some strange reason it didn't support SSD's.
1. Mac's -- Apple doesn't seem go give a fck about them and only keeps them around so that they get free movie/tv marketing and so that programmers can actually write software for the platforms that they care about. Even if they did decide to push it hard, they're still the insular control freaks that make people run from their platforms at least as often as it attracts.
2. Linux -- Linux what? The diaspora of hundreds of projects all running in different directions changing paradigms because they feel like it? Yeah, we're boned. I love Linux and use it for real work daily, but this is NOT the replacement until people seriously start collaborating on writing a consistent platform
3. Android/FirefoxOS/ChromeOS/etc.. -- Sadly if there was any front facing OS strategy that would take out MS for desktops / laptops, it'll probably be one of these, but a lot has to change for these to become the competitive general purpose computing solution.
Due entirely to 1.'s creator, everything people do is now based on a website. Facebook, webmail, document editing and just about everything else most users do, so 3. are now general purpose PC's.
Apple wanted to make everything an app or web-based. Seeing as apps are too much trouble and too limited everyone went web-based and Apple got what it wanted... Just not the way it wanted. Now competitors only have to provide a web browser (which will ultimately lead to apple's demise and marginalisation in the marketplace).
You might want to get a new introductory economics book. Yours sounds like it was written to promote a political view rather than actually, ya know, teach economics.
The government is just as capable of producing wealth as any other entity.
As far as economics go, the government can be a revenue producing entity.
In the case of many governments throughout the world, they are. Most budgest have line items for "interest accrued" and "returns on investment" under Income. In the case of city-states like Singapore, the government owns a lot of private enterprises (Tamasek and Singapore Airlines for example) which provides most of the state revenue (the downside of this is that the state is enabled to run as a dictatorship and yes, Singapore is a quasi dictatorship).
Where government differs from private enterprise in that the primary goal is not to create more income, but to provide services.
If the government spends money on a program that adds more value to the economy than the cost of the program (such as food assistance, which has close to a 2:1 return), then the government has produced wealth. Whether the entity is public or private doesn't figure into it at all.
Quoted for truth.
Governments to produce a lot of wealth, its just that it benefits non-governmental entities most of the time (including the citizens in this group).
Owning the content would mean..
Pesky boss coming back from lunch while I was typing :)
I was going to say that owning the content would mean truly owning the copyright on it.
Well that was my point.
I dont truly own the copy I have. If I did I would be permitted to make copies for personal use and resell that single use license I own.
No, cherry picking prices is fanboyism.
As multiple people including myself have pointed out, you had to look for that price.
Those aren't random, thats one of the largest WORLDWIDE mobile phone retailers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansys
Only when it's superseded.
This is not a price drop, this is a stock dump.
Even then you're paying a lot more for a 12-18 month old phone then you would from any other manufacturer. Go on, tell me again how paying more for a 18 month old Iphone 4 is better than buying a current generation Nexus. If I wanted to get a Samsung S3, I'd be looking at half it's original retail price.
In 5 years, the price of a current generation Iphone has never dropped.
Done and done.
Feel free to keep embarrassing yourself with your obvious fanboysim.
Arcmap is the unofficial name for ESRI's flagship product ArcGIS Desktop.
Not quite,
ArcMap is a component of ArcGIS. There is an ArcMap.exe.
Good driving naturally leads to good manners.
This is a slightly circular argument because the issue is what constitutes "good driving". I am simply saying that good driving is not primarily about technical skill but about behaviour.
It isn't a circular argument. It says that good technical diving skills naturally leads to polite driving, not the other way around.
It is possible to be polite, but an extremely bad driver.
What in the world are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing
Not fanboyism, which is clearly what you're on. http://www.expansys.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s4-i9500-3g-octa-core-unlocked-16gb-black-mist-240604/ = $649 http://www.expansys.com.au/apple-iphone-5-lte-16gb-unlocked-black-236918/ = $775 You may also note the S4 is newer and will drop in price over it's lifetime. The Iphone 5 is older and will never drop in price.
Disagree. Most of entertainment is rarely reused and ultimately disposable.
What is true for you is not true for everyone... Hell, it's not even true for the majority.
Do I want to replay a game I already played through? Usually no. So I would rather rent it for a few hours (until I win or get bored).
Which is why "replayability" is never mentioned in reviews, people never talk about playing System Shock/Deus Ex/Civ (insert favourite version) or any other classic again.
Do I want to watch a movie again after I saw it once? Usually no. So rent makes sense.
"So I re-watched Snatch/Star Wars/LOTR" again the other day... Again something no-one would ever do. Same with music, software, DRM-free ownership is important. Unfortunately most people wont realise it until its too late.
we buy what we want to watch.
Me too. This is why I have no movies. I cant find one where I actually own the content, I can only license it.
No,
This is when you target Android API's not vendor specific API's.
So you really have just re-iterated my point. If you target ANDROID 2.2 it will work on Android 2.2 and above, if you target a SAMSUNG API, it may not work on HTC phones.