google pays mozilla to be firefox frontpage for years = good microsoft pays oneplus for bing to be frontpage = new precedent that's how silly you sound...
It's one thing to do it on a fresh install, it's another ENTIRELY to change my chosen settings in an update, even more so a setting that has NOTHING to do with how the OS functions or handles data. I can change my homepage in FF and it doesn't get reverted upon updating the software.
programmers insisting on calling themselves engineers.
You mean like mechanical, electrical, etc 'engineers'? When was the last time ANY of those people drove trains? What? You mean it's only ok for some people to 'evolve langauge' to suit themsleves, but not others?
So in order for a website to remain free for the users use, they will need to post more advertisements to make up for it.
If you don't like advertising on you favorite site. Then you better find them a business model where they can keep running (as it isn't free for them) and feed their family's. Otherwise just suck it up as the cost of having free access to their data.
If they can't 'feed their families' on the income of their website, and they don't wan't to add a subscription tier to the site, maybe they should get actual jobs.
>If this is a case of what it's being made to sound to be, that actual non-DRM, legally purchased files got burnt out? I don't believe said things existed at the time, did they?
People were legally format shifting before the iDevices existed, so yes, those things did exist.
Among other things, they were infecting ISP machines to monitor specific customers.
Anyway, guesses on the responsible party? China, Israel, Russia?
...or USA, Britain, France, Germany...
I'm all for free software, but this reasoning sounds insane. When people buy a PC, it says "comes with windows", you know what you're getting, and to require manufacturers to return half of it seems nuts. It's like ordering a cheeseburger, and then demanding a refund for the cheese. Why didn't you just order a hamburger?
Walk into a store and buy a fully assembled name brand (Dell, HP, etc) PC, complete with warranty and guarantees, without ANY software preinstalled. You can't. Your analogy fails.
It helps to frame the discussion in terms of economics. If you take every dollar bill that has ever been spent on fusion research, wadded them up into a big ball, and threw them into a wood burning furnace, you would have a better return on your investment than you have right now. Hell, you could buy lottery tickets and have a better ROI.
That's an awful lot of words to say exactly nothing. You would have achieved better ROI by not posting at all, if you can't be bothered to actually respond.
My history is your history
Except that it isn't...
Some people have privacy and security concerns, even though Comcast insists the public and private Wi-Fi networks are entirely separate and shielded from each other. Others worry that the public network will affect the private network's performance. Comcast says this isn't so.
In NL, some ISPs are doing the same. It's even a different public-facing IP address.
Of course, you can also turn it off. Though turning it off on your modem means you don't get to use it yourself on others' modems.
Comcast says it's fine and they would never ever ever possibly lie to get people to do what they want.
Buy this rock I have. It keeps bears away.
"Economists, publishers, and readers no longer have confidence that a book will cost the same amount this week as it did the last."
Not sure I see the problem here. Books are like any other good. They're "true" market value is only as high as the target market is willing to pay. This is going to shift frequently. Sometimes up, sometimes down. Quality and available will play the same role with books, as with anything else.
And smelled bad, which is some kind of crime against those in the immediate vicinity
Isn't there prior art on the iStink?
Richard Stallman.
How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools.
