If you give the mayor $25,000 and he understands what a zoning variance is, it's a good value for the money. If you give the mayor $25,000 and he doesn't understand what a zoning variance is, it's a bad value for the money. If you give the mayor $25,000 and neither of you understand what a zoning variance is, then it's your fault for not giving your money to a better candidate.
In Other News, Verizon is now getting into the sales of Livestock. The going rate is $0.002 for 71.78 Emus. However, Emus are not Gnus, nor are they sold with a GPL.
Lobbyists in Congress were quite happy to slide funding for 71.78 Congressional Libraries, which is how the William Jefferson Clinton library came about. But then, that was cut short, so it became the 0.78th library.
Popularlized by SF writer Theodore Sturgeon, there's large quantities of crap everywhere. Including RIAA labels. (All the more reason their pricing is silly.)
I have a blast picking stuff out of the dollar bins of used stores,... because by the time the averages play out, I end up with 1 good CD per about $8 spent. The fun is, like testing music online, it's a group I physically could never have bought straight up - because I did not know they exist. The other day I 'set the bin a challenge'. 'Let's get a very strange yet smooth cd to read Dean Koontz novels by.' - And the Bin nailed it perfectly.
So yes there's some less than stellar stuff on eMusic... and there's some incredible stuff. I have played the Fields of the Nephilim album for a week straight now.
... Except the major players behind the SUV market... are not okay. Recent news is showing that they rode the easy cash vehicle (ECV) too long, and are getting crushed by vendors with more efficient SKU lines. As One Of Many to make a Borg joke, they are furious that I am not a customer.
Buy your Hugo Boss suit - just not at the usual Boss price. I very carefully set a distinction between the item, and the value *that particular sales outlet* chooses to sell it at. It simply becomes an art of getting the exact same value... for less with a variety of savvy tricks.
Cereal is doing "fine" for now... but only because there's no crusade currently against cereal in some fashion. However, there are stores that also sell the exact same cereal, still fresh... for less than the classical Manuf. Sugg. Retail.
My advice is to be *price sensitive*, not *time sensitive*. If you can wait long enough to use Wall Street's This Quarter Sales mentality against them, then you can often slice 10% or more off prices.
1. To support the site with my money, showing that it has money value. 2. Read articles in The Mysterious Future!... Because other time machines are centuries away. 3. To have a nice pleasant page without the disastrous distraction value of animated ads.
I reduce my subscriber bonus. If I don't deserve a mod point, then that must mean no one likes today's post.
I concur with $13-19 range for CD's for even longer, say 15 years or more. And at that range, to borrow a wrestling phrase, "It was too expensive then, it's too expensive now, and that price will be too expensive forever".
$0.99 has been the dominant price for some 5 years now, and guess what? "It was too expensive then, it's too expensive now, and that price will be too expensive forever".
We all know it's not the artists getting all that money. So some nervy break-away company with deep pockets needs to start a serious price war and make it stick. As *demonstrated by P2P*, consumers are in fact profoundly sensitive to price and/or lack of DRM.
I helped negotiate a deal at my local Radio Shack for a 2 Gig 3rd party player and 50 eMusic songs for $80. As soon as I work out the mechanics, I plan to make a large purchase to send a "message that counts". Even before this discount, eMusic songs are about 48 cents each.
I have roughly determined that 25 cents per song would enable me to make large scale music purchases. Online ISP pricing was similarly priced through the stratosphere about 15 years ago, and that market crashed hard once the armor cracked. Music will be the same.
History (dull) is the recitation of factoids that (generally) no one can dispute. However, the factoids have no meaning, and therefore little truth alone.
History (narrative) draws conclusions from the factoids, and creates historical principles. Subject to the caveat that these are only as good as the person drawing the conclusions, these historical principles have much truth, but become open to interpretation.
Contemporary fiction deliberately masks most/all factoids to sculpt a specific scenario necessary to demonstrate an overall truth the writer has noticed.
Scifi creates a subset of specific scenarios by adding new technology and social conventions to create a wider range of scenarios to use as backdrops. The best Scifi demonstrates truths which are not possible in any other genre.
Fantasy is generally an anti-technology subset cross between fictional history and mythology. It too attempts to create additional backdrop scenarios.
VR creates specific events in an alternate space that may only exist for a single specific user. If an external documentation method were used, they might be as 'factual' as any other event, but there may not be any other person able to verify these events.
We'd need a new word to describe the results of what was termed elsewhere 'faulty data processing'.
Also known by the more polite terms NaN and Undefined, 0/0 and cousins are also the basis of pseudo-proofs which abuse the unwillingness to "just let it go". Then you can "prove" that Intelligent Design is more valuable than evolution and lots of other neat things, like perpetual energy generators.
If this were 100 years ago, the variant would be inventing some straddling constants when physicists couldn't get around wave/particle dualities and uncertainty.
Finally: No attempts to "imagine what it would be like" are valid if crushed by formal proofs.
Both from the reports and experience, the anti-brain attitude of schools has to be dealt with first.
Can we create a fund whereby every time some kid gets beaten up for being a nerd, they can submit it to the federal government and receive $10,000?
"Go on. Punch me. Break my glasses. I'll get those reimbursed AND Ten Grand. We can do this 7 periods a day and 5 days a week if you like. I'll be a millionaire by the time I graduate. Awww. What'sa matter? I'm not a nerd anymore?"
Some of these companies have the money to survive decades on prior earnings. So cutting yourself off from your favorite music "in hopes" that 75 million people follow creates a lot of personal hurt without *any* assurance of positive result. You can try acquiring your music through the SecondHand market, such as Ebay, to make sure companies such as Warner here, are not receiving any This Quarter Sales.
My compromise has been to purchase the absolute essentials, and then spend a lot of effort learning about alternative sources. Having stocked my favorite bands, I am now assuring that *new* content comes from non-RIAA sources. At some point I will have a website up exploring these content sources.
Content... includes Video/Movies. Even if you somehow locate a cast for free, there's some serious equipment involved. Content really doesn't mean GooTube type cheeseball offerings.
I *started* with the *Mac* introduction to menubars, back about 1986. Windows was merely EmbraXtending the original brilliant design. Now, fully a quarter of my job is about wandering the weird options buried in menus to solve nuisances for those above me who decide they shouldn't have to care. I became grumpy with IE7 taking away my menubar, and found the command to put it back, and back at the *top* of the screen.
Again there are alternating comments upon the ease of use of Xandros. I'm a moderate user... on Windows. This makes all my knowledge completely worthless for Linux, and I'll be reduced to beginner's luck. Y'all who are already experts don't need convincing. "Newbs are where your target audience is". I'd like to think I'm a semi intelligent Newb(N), but then I also can't seem to navigate the RMVehicle efficiently either.
Since I switched out of MacOS about 1998, I've used about fifteen Windows systems. When it comes time soon for me to do the Big Switch, I'll keep some detailed notes. Anyone interested?
Operation Iron Fist Operation Kabda Bil Hadid October 1, 2005 - October 6, 2005
On October 1, 2005 a force consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines, Soldiers and Sailors from Regimental Combat Team-2 launched Operation Iron Fist, or Kabda Bil Hadid in Arabic. The goal of the operation was to disrupt the insurgent activity based out of Sadah, a town in the al Anbar province located 12 km from the Syrian border. The Iron Fist offensive is part of Operation Hunter, a larger operation to deny insurgents the ability to operate out of the Euphrates River Valley.
I'm not against the choice of company (Microsoft) behind this particular demonstration, I am concerned with the concept of massively refined ground level mapping when combined with other databases. The alternating posts demonstrate tremendous uncertainty about the legal status here. I wish a professional lawyer was on tap to Slashdot through a retainer to cut through the confusion.
The people have not been edited, and they are recognizeable in many cases. I briefly looked for license plates. The photo editor at least did a riffle-through to toss out the absolute worst examples of license plates. However, all this means is that someone will simply need to do a second level of research and paste it on.
What doesn't make sense is how people are thunderously promoting how legal all this is... at the same time that certain other laws are being ratcheted up to a level so fierce "in the name of post-2001 terrorist shock" that entire websites cannot operate because SnakesAlive, someone might have a seventeen year old model. Or Johnny took an Apple Juice on board an airplane. (Seriously, that computer company needs a fruit juice sideline!!)
Using high grade correlations, you can extrapolate *who* is *in* the cars on these maps, and thus where they are. Then you crosslink with other databases, and then scary things begin to emerge. Yet this is the same company tied in with a TurboDRM attitude towards... MUSIC! "Ach, laddie, ye canna share the music, but you can share the video..."
So if you have opposite trends of "it's okay to increase information here, but restrict it there", something is going to break.
"Calculated Compromise". Finally, someone noticed that large swaths of the music out there doesn't need insanely expensive equipment because the style it was recorded in mimics the garage sound, or doesn't attempt complex harmony, and so on. Therefore, per each person's taste, songs from your "Grade B" list that you only "kinda like" may not deserve luxurious full-size storage. Better to free up that extra space to put something else on there.
The 80 gig models offer the room, but those using the smaller models *because* they are less risky to lose, the "calculated risk" factor skyrockets. These things are marketed for the on-the-go lifestyle, so ambient noise will long since cover artifacts.
When I decide it's a good day to play audiophile, I... simply draw from my pre-selected A-list at home with moderate grade surround phones.
Mod previous post up! (I have mod points, but they vanished somewhere, maybe because I started replying instead of moderating.) P.S. in response to a post elsewhere, in the context of court cases in general, this is still a "moderately new issue" (only 8 years old), and the additional time has been passively put to use to review continued developments in the market.
Can we develop this chain of logic a little? (To the tune of House that Bill Built.)
1. MS bundles a browser which cannot be safely removed. 2. MS uses non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed. 3. Developers (Developers, Developers, Developers) must spend irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed. 4. Gaps emerge because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed. 5. NastyWare invades between the gaps which emerged because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed. 6. Anti-Nastyware companies make money selling software which purports to block the NastyWare that invaded between the gaps which emerged because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed. 7. Microsoft is forced by pressure to back down from bundling ( ! ) integrated versions of protection suites which have specific features designed to block the Anti-Nastyware companies make money selling software which purports to block the NastyWare that invaded between the gaps which emerged because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
Conclusion? Lost market efficiency for the masses, profits for the few, with litigation and regulation for all.
Free as in Beer does not mean something is not a commercial product. The 21st century is all about exploring indirect payment models. A "no-cash-price" business model falls in the category of loss-leader to build market share. That market share can then be used to upsell premium materials.
Your post remarks that Netscape was "available" in all those places. Microsoft buried theirs into the OS in a fashion that made it essentially impossible to remove.
The Two-Person sales model ended its heyday at the end of World War II. Starting in earnest with the advent of TV, the direct consumer of value ceased to pay for (at least basic) versions. Advertisers paid the producer for the right to target the consumers drawn by free-beer pricing.
To use a modern slogan, "Dell recommends Windows XP" inhibits my educational opportunity to learn about Linux, and the minute the machine powers up, the icy blue E hindered my educational learning about FireFox. FireFox, which is "even-stronger-free", but it took active effort to bypass the monopolistic mindspace lock of Microsoft to discover that choice was available.
Perhaps this can shed light on the above semi-asked question. Previous post mentions the following:
"It's my understanding that IE has a privileged role because it is used to render HTML in other places in the OS - help files and whatnot if I'm not completely mistaken. This seems like a fairly logical reuse of existing code, and I recall that it was due to engineering reasons that IE was bundled in the first place.
I do think it was a mistake, but it's harder to remember why now. All operating systems include browsers now - offering any kind of OS without some sort of web browser would be fairly ridiculous now (aside from server OS I suppose). "
Allowing someone else to refine the technics of my language, the bunding went far deeper than providing the limited functions above. (I have not used help files in years). I think the mechanics of the OS shell and MS-IE were co-mingled to use the same organizing abilities for both web pages and local folders & files. The problem arises that it becomes *dangerous* to remove MS-IE, because then it could completely crash the entire system.
"Ignoring" a product is not considered a valid response to the question of marketplace dominance. By its presence, IE shout down any hope of a "regular user" paying cash for a competing brand, such as Netscape. When the hardware OEM deals are considered, then pre-installation of offending Microsoft wares block the exercise of rational choice.
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Has anyone else noticed her initials are BS?
If you give the mayor $25,000 and he understands what a zoning variance is, it's a good value for the money.
If you give the mayor $25,000 and he doesn't understand what a zoning variance is, it's a bad value for the money.
If you give the mayor $25,000 and neither of you understand what a zoning variance is, then it's your fault for not giving your money to a better candidate.
In Other News, Verizon is now getting into the sales of Livestock. The going rate is $0.002 for 71.78 Emus. However, Emus are not Gnus, nor are they sold with a GPL.
Lobbyists in Congress were quite happy to slide funding for 71.78 Congressional Libraries, which is how the William Jefferson Clinton library came about. But then, that was cut short, so it became the 0.78th library.
Popularlized by SF writer Theodore Sturgeon, there's large quantities of crap everywhere. Including RIAA labels. (All the more reason their pricing is silly.)
... because by the time the averages play out, I end up with 1 good CD per about $8 spent. The fun is, like testing music online, it's a group I physically could never have bought straight up - because I did not know they exist. The other day I 'set the bin a challenge'. 'Let's get a very strange yet smooth cd to read Dean Koontz novels by.' - And the Bin nailed it perfectly.
... and there's some incredible stuff. I have played the Fields of the Nephilim album for a week straight now.
I have a blast picking stuff out of the dollar bins of used stores,
So yes there's some less than stellar stuff on eMusic
... Except the major players behind the SUV market... are not okay. Recent news is showing that they rode the easy cash vehicle (ECV) too long, and are getting crushed by vendors with more efficient SKU lines. As One Of Many to make a Borg joke, they are furious that I am not a customer.
... but only because there's no crusade currently against cereal in some fashion. However, there are stores that also sell the exact same cereal, still fresh ... for less than the classical Manuf. Sugg. Retail.
Buy your Hugo Boss suit - just not at the usual Boss price. I very carefully set a distinction between the item, and the value *that particular sales outlet* chooses to sell it at. It simply becomes an art of getting the exact same value... for less with a variety of savvy tricks.
Cereal is doing "fine" for now
My advice is to be *price sensitive*, not *time sensitive*. If you can wait long enough to use Wall Street's This Quarter Sales mentality against them, then you can often slice 10% or more off prices.
And here is my variant list.
... Because other time machines are centuries away.
1. To support the site with my money, showing that it has money value.
2. Read articles in The Mysterious Future!
3. To have a nice pleasant page without the disastrous distraction value of animated ads.
I reduce my subscriber bonus. If I don't deserve a mod point, then that must mean no one likes today's post.
I concur with $13-19 range for CD's for even longer, say 15 years or more. And at that range, to borrow a wrestling phrase, "It was too expensive then, it's too expensive now, and that price will be too expensive forever".
$0.99 has been the dominant price for some 5 years now, and guess what? "It was too expensive then, it's too expensive now, and that price will be too expensive forever".
We all know it's not the artists getting all that money. So some nervy break-away company with deep pockets needs to start a serious price war and make it stick. As *demonstrated by P2P*, consumers are in fact profoundly sensitive to price and/or lack of DRM.
I helped negotiate a deal at my local Radio Shack for a 2 Gig 3rd party player and 50 eMusic songs for $80. As soon as I work out the mechanics, I plan to make a large purchase to send a "message that counts". Even before this discount, eMusic songs are about 48 cents each.
I have roughly determined that 25 cents per song would enable me to make large scale music purchases. Online ISP pricing was similarly priced through the stratosphere about 15 years ago, and that market crashed hard once the armor cracked. Music will be the same.
Except in military usage, it wouldn't be called "silly". (This, besides being pejorative and politically incorrect, might infringe upon trademark.)
Expect instead "long-chained nontoxic polycarbon semi-liquid fast drying compound."
Also, some of your information seems to be missing. Accounting forwarded the following rejection notice:
Please supply
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Cost Code
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Expected use rates for prepaid asset scheduling
Routing number
Authorized sign-off official
History (dull) is the recitation of factoids that (generally) no one can dispute. However, the factoids have no meaning, and therefore little truth alone.
History (narrative) draws conclusions from the factoids, and creates historical principles. Subject to the caveat that these are only as good as the person drawing the conclusions, these historical principles have much truth, but become open to interpretation.
Contemporary fiction deliberately masks most/all factoids to sculpt a specific scenario necessary to demonstrate an overall truth the writer has noticed.
Scifi creates a subset of specific scenarios by adding new technology and social conventions to create a wider range of scenarios to use as backdrops. The best Scifi demonstrates truths which are not possible in any other genre.
Fantasy is generally an anti-technology subset cross between fictional history and mythology. It too attempts to create additional backdrop scenarios.
VR creates specific events in an alternate space that may only exist for a single specific user. If an external documentation method were used, they might be as 'factual' as any other event, but there may not be any other person able to verify these events.
We'd need a new word to describe the results of what was termed elsewhere 'faulty data processing'.
Also known by the more polite terms NaN and Undefined, 0/0 and cousins are also the basis of pseudo-proofs which abuse the unwillingness to "just let it go". Then you can "prove" that Intelligent Design is more valuable than evolution and lots of other neat things, like perpetual energy generators.
If this were 100 years ago, the variant would be inventing some straddling constants when physicists couldn't get around wave/particle dualities and uncertainty.
Finally: No attempts to "imagine what it would be like" are valid if crushed by formal proofs.
Both from the reports and experience, the anti-brain attitude of schools has to be dealt with first.
Can we create a fund whereby every time some kid gets beaten up for being a nerd, they can submit it to the federal government and receive $10,000?
"Go on. Punch me. Break my glasses. I'll get those reimbursed AND Ten Grand. We can do this 7 periods a day and 5 days a week if you like. I'll be a millionaire by the time I graduate. Awww. What'sa matter? I'm not a nerd anymore?"
Where's Brad Garlinghouse these days? Wasn't he the darling of a nice little story some time back?
Johnny Axion and Jimmy Neutron next, at 8:30 AM on Saturday.
This is like a distributed Prisoner's Paradox.
Some of these companies have the money to survive decades on prior earnings. So cutting yourself off from your favorite music "in hopes" that 75 million people follow creates a lot of personal hurt without *any* assurance of positive result. You can try acquiring your music through the SecondHand market, such as Ebay, to make sure companies such as Warner here, are not receiving any This Quarter Sales.
My compromise has been to purchase the absolute essentials, and then spend a lot of effort learning about alternative sources. Having stocked my favorite bands, I am now assuring that *new* content comes from non-RIAA sources. At some point I will have a website up exploring these content sources.
Did I miss something?
... then it's still ... copyright infringement, right? So what ARE the penalties?
If copyright infringement is not "stealing" (different penalties?)
The above post makes it sound like it's all okay again.
Content... includes Video/Movies. Even if you somehow locate a cast for free, there's some serious equipment involved. Content really doesn't mean GooTube type cheeseball offerings.
I *started* with the *Mac* introduction to menubars, back about 1986. Windows was merely EmbraXtending the original brilliant design. Now, fully a quarter of my job is about wandering the weird options buried in menus to solve nuisances for those above me who decide they shouldn't have to care. I became grumpy with IE7 taking away my menubar, and found the command to put it back, and back at the *top* of the screen.
Again there are alternating comments upon the ease of use of Xandros. I'm a moderate user... on Windows. This makes all my knowledge completely worthless for Linux, and I'll be reduced to beginner's luck. Y'all who are already experts don't need convincing. "Newbs are where your target audience is". I'd like to think I'm a semi intelligent Newb(N), but then I also can't seem to navigate the RMVehicle efficiently either.
Since I switched out of MacOS about 1998, I've used about fifteen Windows systems. When it comes time soon for me to do the Big Switch, I'll keep some detailed notes. Anyone interested?
Or even louder, "poisoning the well"??
With that much excess punctuation dress, is it an excuse for stronger values of poison?
Better check Leviticus. Lots of neat Sacrifices (cue Elton John) there.
... So you are on track to NotLike:
Operation Iron Fist
Operation Kabda Bil Hadid
October 1, 2005 - October 6, 2005
On October 1, 2005 a force consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines, Soldiers and Sailors from Regimental Combat Team-2 launched Operation Iron Fist, or Kabda Bil Hadid in Arabic. The goal of the operation was to disrupt the insurgent activity based out of Sadah, a town in the al Anbar province located 12 km from the Syrian border. The Iron Fist offensive is part of Operation Hunter, a larger operation to deny insurgents the ability to operate out of the Euphrates River Valley.
I'm not against the choice of company (Microsoft) behind this particular demonstration, I am concerned with the concept of massively refined ground level mapping when combined with other databases. The alternating posts demonstrate tremendous uncertainty about the legal status here. I wish a professional lawyer was on tap to Slashdot through a retainer to cut through the confusion.
... MUSIC! "Ach, laddie, ye canna share the music, but you can share the video..."
The people have not been edited, and they are recognizeable in many cases. I briefly looked for license plates. The photo editor at least did a riffle-through to toss out the absolute worst examples of license plates. However, all this means is that someone will simply need to do a second level of research and paste it on.
What doesn't make sense is how people are thunderously promoting how legal all this is... at the same time that certain other laws are being ratcheted up to a level so fierce "in the name of post-2001 terrorist shock" that entire websites cannot operate because SnakesAlive, someone might have a seventeen year old model. Or Johnny took an Apple Juice on board an airplane. (Seriously, that computer company needs a fruit juice sideline!!)
Using high grade correlations, you can extrapolate *who* is *in* the cars on these maps, and thus where they are. Then you crosslink with other databases, and then scary things begin to emerge. Yet this is the same company tied in with a TurboDRM attitude towards
So if you have opposite trends of "it's okay to increase information here, but restrict it there", something is going to break.
Previous poster has some great phrases.
... simply draw from my pre-selected A-list at home with moderate grade surround phones.
"Calculated Compromise". Finally, someone noticed that large swaths of the music out there doesn't need insanely expensive equipment because the style it was recorded in mimics the garage sound, or doesn't attempt complex harmony, and so on. Therefore, per each person's taste, songs from your "Grade B" list that you only "kinda like" may not deserve luxurious full-size storage. Better to free up that extra space to put something else on there.
The 80 gig models offer the room, but those using the smaller models *because* they are less risky to lose, the "calculated risk" factor skyrockets. These things are marketed for the on-the-go lifestyle, so ambient noise will long since cover artifacts.
When I decide it's a good day to play audiophile, I
Mod previous post up! (I have mod points, but they vanished somewhere, maybe because I started replying instead of moderating.) P.S. in response to a post elsewhere, in the context of court cases in general, this is still a "moderately new issue" (only 8 years old), and the additional time has been passively put to use to review continued developments in the market.
Can we develop this chain of logic a little? (To the tune of House that Bill Built.)
1. MS bundles a browser which cannot be safely removed.
2. MS uses non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
3. Developers (Developers, Developers, Developers) must spend irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
4. Gaps emerge because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
5. NastyWare invades between the gaps which emerged because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
6. Anti-Nastyware companies make money selling software which purports to block the NastyWare that invaded between the gaps which emerged because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
7. Microsoft is forced by pressure to back down from bundling ( ! ) integrated versions of protection suites which have specific features designed to block the Anti-Nastyware companies make money selling software which purports to block the NastyWare that invaded between the gaps which emerged because of the incomplete documentation provded to the Developers spending irreplaceable labor to comply with non-standard specs in the browser which cannot be safely removed.
Conclusion? Lost market efficiency for the masses, profits for the few, with litigation and regulation for all.
Free as in Beer does not mean something is not a commercial product. The 21st century is all about exploring indirect payment models. A "no-cash-price" business model falls in the category of loss-leader to build market share. That market share can then be used to upsell premium materials.
Your post remarks that Netscape was "available" in all those places. Microsoft buried theirs into the OS in a fashion that made it essentially impossible to remove.
The Two-Person sales model ended its heyday at the end of World War II. Starting in earnest with the advent of TV, the direct consumer of value ceased to pay for (at least basic) versions. Advertisers paid the producer for the right to target the consumers drawn by free-beer pricing.
To use a modern slogan, "Dell recommends Windows XP" inhibits my educational opportunity to learn about Linux, and the minute the machine powers up, the icy blue E hindered my educational learning about FireFox. FireFox, which is "even-stronger-free", but it took active effort to bypass the monopolistic mindspace lock of Microsoft to discover that choice was available.
Perhaps this can shed light on the above semi-asked question. Previous post mentions the following:
"It's my understanding that IE has a privileged role because it is used to render HTML in other places in the OS - help files and whatnot if I'm not completely mistaken. This seems like a fairly logical reuse of existing code, and I recall that it was due to engineering reasons that IE was bundled in the first place.
I do think it was a mistake, but it's harder to remember why now. All operating systems include browsers now - offering any kind of OS without some sort of web browser would be fairly ridiculous now (aside from server OS I suppose). "
Allowing someone else to refine the technics of my language, the bunding went far deeper than providing the limited functions above. (I have not used help files in years). I think the mechanics of the OS shell and MS-IE were co-mingled to use the same organizing abilities for both web pages and local folders & files. The problem arises that it becomes *dangerous* to remove MS-IE, because then it could completely crash the entire system.
"Ignoring" a product is not considered a valid response to the question of marketplace dominance. By its presence, IE shout down any hope of a "regular user" paying cash for a competing brand, such as Netscape. When the hardware OEM deals are considered, then pre-installation of offending Microsoft wares block the exercise of rational choice.