Perhaps the CC companies permit you to pass along swipe fees there, but in much of the world, they don't. They should probably be prohibited by law from prohibiting you from passing those fees on, but ha ha ha
For what windows does in the real world, other companies already do better and most importantly cheaper. games? steam is a household name.
I never did get it to work on Linux, on the very same machine on which it worked on Windows. Just always gave me a network failure. No firewall rules on the Linux box, same rules on the gateway, same IP. No uPnP. Windows is ten times the household name that Steam is. Virtually no AAA titles run on Linux, so you neeed Steam and Windows to play them.
word processing? a google docs enabled chromebook has that covered in spades along with social networking and internet.
Yes, but it doesn't actually deliver a better experience there; you have more flexibility on Windows. Sometimes a site craps itself in Chrome, I have the option to load up Firefox.
Windows is still compelling for gamers especially, and for people who run professional applications. It's true that chromebooks will do for most people who only websurf, but don't count Windows out yet. Especially for all those AMD GPU users, for whom the Linux driver is shit.
indeed there are many companies that resemble Microsoft, for instance Starbucks is the Microsoft of coffee and equally evil.
Yeah, like that time that Starbucks paid less than the average wage? Woops, they pay more. Or like that time that Starbucks put the competition out of business by dumping and then raised their prices, destroying jobs in the process? No, they put the competition out of business by being consistent, and they are totally willing to open a starbucks across the street from a starbucks so there's plenty of jobs. Wait, like that time they underpaid their suppliers? No, they pay more than fair trade amounts, although those amounts are arguably too low at least they've over the baseline. So in what way is Starbucks like Microsoft? Because they produce a product that more people want to use than the stuff you like?
FWIW I think starfucks coffee is ass and if I wanted a cup of sugar I'd just ask for it, but seriously, how is Starbucks like Microsoft? The occasional bullshit trademark lawsuit? That's lame, but nowhere near that territory.
So, basically Microsoft successfully killed the actual Nokia, successfully transferred the IP to themselves, have completely screwed the pooch in terms of being able to manage an acquisition which never made any sense
So, basically Microsoft got access to all of Nokia's IP and a big portion of their customer base for $7b in cash they didn't know what to do with, and destroyed a competitor in the process?
Is this anything but mismanagement and hubris?
Sounds like a bargain to me.
Free markets don't exist.
Fairly true.
they need an infinite amount of land, resources, perfect and complete information for all players on this market.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
This is incorrect. That is only true if the market is a zero sum game, which it is not.
Right, it's a negative-sum game. We ignore externalities until the world ends.
Markets don't work like a casino though.
They've got enough in common. In order for there to be winners there have to be losers, and the house always gets a cut.
I'm not sure I like your tone.
I'm sure I don't like it when people spread FUD.
Robbing energy from the wind is perhaps poorly studied and less well understood, but there's no doubt it will alter something, for better or worse.
Robbing energy from the wind is highly studied and well understood, and it results in a minimal localized heating effect (lack of cooling effect, actually) immediately downwind of the actual turbine, which is rapidly lost in the statistical noise. If you were able to use google you'd know this already. You do have to learn to filter out the hits from obvious idiots, but since your rhetoric matches theirs, you're probably suffering from confirmation bias. I know it can be hard to wade through the hits from jackholes who don't know what the fuck they're talking about, but all you have to do is just ignore all the results that give you a warm fuzzy feeling.
What I'm proposing is a little more honesty in PR.
What you're doing is complicating the issue because... who knows? Because you have sand in your asscrack? Why don't you go antagonize some of the members of the MIC who outright lie every time they communicate? You've got to pick on someone who's supporting renewables? Show me on the picture where the wind farm touched you.
My most recent ex-girlfriend, even though she had lived in America for a few years by the time we started dating, seemed to have this belief that you simply couldn't lose money in the stock market.
You should have taken her to a casino and used it to explain how markets work, then ask her where she thinks the money to build casinos comes from.
I guess you haven't listened to his NPR Radio show. Unless you are die hard hippy level, liberal, who hates all things about Nuclear Power, Fracking, Catholic, Olympics, George Bush Jr. and you really really really hate the Army Core of Engineers.
Sounds sensible to me. All of those things are cancers. You want to think of the ACE as the good guys, but they build stuff that furthers our war efforts, whether economic or actually blowing shit up. They are there not to make the world a better place, but to make certain people richer, and they compete with non-military labor.
No, evidently phoning in his lines still didn't allow for enough free time for 'other projects'
Sigh. Because of the typical boring legal nature of these conflicts, we may well never know the whole story. Perhaps something else he wanted to do conflicted with The Simpsons in some way, and he's just gotten go-ahead to do it, in writing. But because E.P. Al Jean said you should be skeptical, you automatically are. He successfully framed the debate for you to be specifically over time.
They literally have whole cities just lying around idle. I mean, Spain's got one, sure, but they have several. The economy never developed sufficiently to employ people in jobs that would permit them to live in developed cities in a capitalist society... so the places rot. If they had chosen people to just move into them by merit, or hell had a lottery, the situation would be better.
Capitalism only works when you have free markets and China is the opposite of that. When you have some businesses which clearly have state sponsorship (notably when their whole business model is lying on customs forms) the game is rigged and it doesn't work.
Here in the USA, the robber barons perverted capitalism for their own ends. In China, whatever kind of barons they have over there are preventing it from developing, for their own ends. Same problem, from different ends.
Well, now I know what the one thing is.
Looking forward to per-tab process separation. But I still wish they would rip out the crap and revert the interface.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
