A "Representative sample" doesn't necessarily mean a large percentage. You may want to take a class or at least read up on statistics before making comments like that.
The FSF isn't demanding the removal of VLC from the app store. They are simply stating that Apple is distributing it with DRM which goes against the license that it is released under. Rather than comply with the license, Apple chose to just remove the app instead.
Which is what all of their products are becoming. I thought the same thing with the apple TV. And the ipod/iphone may not have started out that way, they have kinda morphed into it.
Time magazine is another "what the hell are they thinking?" $5 per issue on the ipad when they have a free iphone app. Seriously, is anyone going to consistently pay news stand price for a digital magazine?
Maybe I just don't understand regular people but I thought the only time people paid news stand price was when they were in an airport or somewhere where they needed to kill some time and then maybe they would pay that much for a single issue. But I don't see how anyone would pay that much every week for something they could get cheaper elsewhere.
I do use an ad blocker most of the time. I try to keep it disabled for sites that I frequently visit because I want to support them. I just temporarily disabled the ad blocker on ars and I saw multiple ads with text and graphics flying all over the ad trying to draw my attention to it. (Same thing on this site.) It is extremely annoying to me so I turned the ad blocking back on.
The topic of the contest was "Is it OK to download music, movies and games without paying?" so there were probably quite a few essay's out of the 80 submitted that had a similar view point. It isn't as surprising as if it were an open contest on any topic and this was the only one on piracy.
Could be similar to airline fees. One will try adding a new fee and then others will follow, it doesn't necessarily mean they are colluding to all increase and add fees.
@Derek, I agree to an extent, but it's just annoying that they charge extra for texts just because they consider it a different kind of data from the data I already pay for. Also, if there were any kind of regulation on text costs they would just add or increase some other fees to make up the difference.
"Most people who use SMS text messages on any sort of regular basis have bulk plans included with their regular plan."
That's because individual prices are so outrageous. Also, it is only "included with their regular plan" because they pay extra for it. I for one refuse to use text message. I have an Android phone and pay $30 a month for data, there is no reason I should have to pay more for the couple bytes of data in a text message.
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Re: From a less than 0.00001 sample size.
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Re: Who's denying whom here?
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Correction:
new = knew
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Re: Obvious
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Re: its in the DETAILS
The graphics may look similar, but you get a much larger field of view at 1900x1200 than you do at 640x480 which can be very beneficial in some games.
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And isn't Netflix only available in the US? Which would be precisely the type of content limitation this post is referring to.
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Which is what all of their products are becoming. I thought the same thing with the apple TV. And the ipod/iphone may not have started out that way, they have kinda morphed into it.
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Maybe I just don't understand regular people but I thought the only time people paid news stand price was when they were in an airport or somewhere where they needed to kill some time and then maybe they would pay that much for a single issue. But I don't see how anyone would pay that much every week for something they could get cheaper elsewhere.
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Re: No More Gizmodo
will get you the full feed.
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"If an average user can't cope with 20Gb, I don't feel at all sorry for them."
20Gb is nothing if you want to do any kind of video streaming.
I use about 80Gb/month. Most of it legal. I don't have cable and use Hulu and the network sites to watch most tv shows.
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"In 2005, it inaugurated Empire High as a digital school, with the district issuing students laptops instead of textbooks,"
They are all provided school laptops.
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@Derek, I agree to an extent, but it's just annoying that they charge extra for texts just because they consider it a different kind of data from the data I already pay for. Also, if there were any kind of regulation on text costs they would just add or increase some other fees to make up the difference.
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That's because individual prices are so outrageous. Also, it is only "included with their regular plan" because they pay extra for it. I for one refuse to use text message. I have an Android phone and pay $30 a month for data, there is no reason I should have to pay more for the couple bytes of data in a text message.
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