That's why it hasn't been killed off yet. There's plenty of alternatives out there but the implementations are either really difficult or aren't open source.

NFS should have been killed off 10 years ago.

Really? I'm the first person to mention this? Before you decide to mod me into oblivion yes, it's on topic. Go watch Machete Kills

Of course it is. It's Global Positioning System, not GLONASS Points South. Doesn't matter how you know where you are, as long as you know where you are with some accuracy. It's unlikely this method will be as accurate as using an actual satellite-based GPS, but probably good enough for submarines that can stay under for months at a time.

I'm in the healthcare and higher education industry, but my beliefs don't always match that of my employers. While I can understand employees of a company may want to keep their business going, I consider it a far cry from actual lobbyists or company executives doing the same.

Profit != revenue, and in the financial world, both have to be constantly increasing.

While not paying for 54 ESPN channels may help Comcast's profit in the long term, it hurts their revenue stream since those customers for that service no longer exist. They need to recoup that revenue in some manner, and that will likely be increased internet prices.

You've got lots of people just getting Internet to download/watch TV rather than buying it via the cable company. They have to recoup that revenue somehow. It's either going to be data caps or they'll flip the model they currently have and charge $75 for Internet access and $25 for a full cable lineup. Then another $50 in regulatory 'fees' and other BS and you're back to where you started.

Kindle: Waah, Amazon can take away my titles at any time!
Navy: Waah, I can't change anything!

I don't mean to say that it's not a serious issue, but to say that something is important because it has 1000 replies when there's only a few people posting, it's very misleading.

Looking at page 100, it looks like this really affects about a dozen people and they just keep posting. Let me know when there's 1000 unique people saying there's a problem.

(and it appears that there's a fix of sorts)

I wasn't able to get a replacement for myself, but the team was big enough that I was able to 'help' for a while though I mostly just took on the things the rest of the team didn't want to do so they could focus on the important tasks. So I got rather familiar with RT (that's Request Tracker, not Windows RT). In the end, my boss didn't give me the budgeting or hiring repsonsibilities I wanted, and he eventually let me go.

I'm now still quasi-technical, but more like an IT analyst with the ability to simultaneously speak at every level from customer to IT staff to CIO. I no longer get my hands dirty with the finer details of how an account gets created - I just tell someone to do it and it gets done. I miss it a bit, but then I come home and hack away on my home network and stay up to speed on what's going on out there.

I used to have books on bookstore shelves. The publisher generally sold the book to stores for 50% of list.

Which makes sense - the bookstore has to have the property to sell the books, the staff to sell them, the rest of the infrastructure to get the books from a distributor to them along with all the accounting required, and make a profit on top of all that.

All Apple really needs are some hard drives and an Ethernet cable. I realize it's not that simple and maybe that's why they're taking 30% and not 50%, but there's no requirement that companies use Apple's in-app purchases in this manner.

Sure I do. But what's happened over the past 30 years is that the lower class has expanded by population and the upper class has expanded by wealth. What was middle class (which I see as owning one house, maybe two cars, reasonably comfortable, and salaried employment) is getting pushed at both ends. 100 years ago I'd probably be upper class. Now I'm upper middle, but that doesn't mean I'm upper class.

Nope, just a 630 UID

I consider myself middle class, but by income standards I'm in the top 10% of income earners in the US. And I don't have a mansion or yacht.