Comment Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced (Score 1) 392
OnDemand is definitely available with Time-Warner DVR's, and I think with their non-DVR boxes as well.
OnDemand is definitely available with Time-Warner DVR's, and I think with their non-DVR boxes as well.
You do realize that "high IQ individuals that have fuck all common sense" used to be Slashdot's key demographic, don't you?
SourceForge was open-source in its earliest days, and then they stopped open-sourcing later releases as they added more features that were intended to generate revenue. There was indeed a lot of coverage of SourceForge's failings here, even though both Sourceforge and
They've confirmed it will be Jason Momoa.
As was said below, cable TV is a natural monopoly: in all but a few very densely-populated areas (as in, parts of Manhattan dense) there isn't enough potential profit to make it worth their while to set up a competing cable plant. Forget TW and Comcast for the moment, in how many parts of the country are there ANY localities with competing cable companies where one of them isn't government-owned, even when the franchises are specifically non-exclusive (as they are in my state)? That's not a result of illegal collusion, that's a result of the fact that competing for anything other than the initial franchise agreement is a stupid business decision.
Plus, you appear to have misrepresented what the NYT article said: the sentence "Under conventional antitrust standards, it's pretty much an open-and-shut case" is actually saying that it's an open-and-shut case that the merger would not affect competition, and would be approved. The people raising the "potential competition" issue are the opponents of the merger!
Incidentally, the "guy they got to comment for the story" is a woman named Susan, who is actually a professor of IP law, and in fact a former member of the board of directors of ICANN, so by
If the WP article is accurate, Commodore's PET BASIC was a licensed Microsoft product, and as I mentioned so was the version in the TRS-80. So other than Apple's, I would say that the parent's statement that "the BASICs for most early PCs and home computers came from Microsoft", regardless of the fact that any other OS layer may or may not have, is accurate. And as others have pointed out, the first MS BASIC was in 1975 with the Altair, but I never used one of those so I went with "at least" as old as the TRS-80.
From TFA:
Microsoft’s long love of the BASIC programming language extends all the way back to 1991, when the company purchased a pretty awesome (for its time) visual programming designer from Alan Cooper.
I'd say that MS's love of BASIC goes back at least a decade before that; they wrote the ROM BASIC for the TRS-80 (as I found when doing a PEEK scan through it).
We don't speak of DejaNews?
It should be possible since Flamebait is a -1.
Oh, it was the OLD version he wrote (I haven't RTFA yet). I was hoping to blame him for IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL!
"There are those who believe that life here, began out there...." -- Battlestar Galactica
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies! (Sorry, I'm still on a retro kick.)
That's a distinction without a difference. The people in the private sector are wasting the investors / suppliers / customers money.
The difference is that the investors / suppliers / customers have a choice when dealing with a particular private company. We have no real choice regarding paying our taxes (assuming one doesn't want to wind up in a courtroom over it).
Just so long as they don't stop them from making 50" plasma TV's before it's time to upgrade my current set!
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein