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by athms 6y ago
I would take 70% versus pennies on the dollar. I have been developing software since the 1980s and remember the days when software was sold into the retail channel. During that period, a publisher never saw anything close to 70% and you wer
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by athms 6y ago
I would agree if there were more post offices, but the USPS has been closing them over the last twenty years to cut costs. They serve wide geographic areas and it is easier to find a local credit union than a post office these days. The poo
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by athms 6y ago
Being a monopoly is NOT illegal. It seems many people think once a company has a monopoly, they need to be broken into separate pieces. This is fiction. A monopoly would only be illegal if a business uses its monopoly power to stifle compet
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by athms 6y ago
The quoted price is not retail, it is volume pricing at 1,000 units for direct customers.
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by athms 6y ago
Except they don't provide adequate mental health care even with the parity law. It takes about a month for your consultation and they funnel everybody into group therapy and/or drugs. Only those with severe mental disorders are gi
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by athms 6y ago
Yes, the sample size of one.
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by athms 6y ago
Are you living in fantasy land? There have been many documented cases of horrible support for both the Pixel series and Fi, with many articles appearing here. I have the original Pixel beside me and I get frustrated at the piss poor pure An
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by athms 6y ago
It has been this way since MacOS 10.7 (Lion) released in 2011. I recommend keeping up with current events.
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by athms 6y ago
The Windows SDKs and APIs are free to use and the documentation is freely available. Microsoft has many free tools to help write code for Windows platforms. That said, the MSDN has never been free. The software used for development and test
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by athms 6y ago
The conversation was about suites not individual applications. Even though you can use some of the separate GSuite applications for personal use, you cannot get GSuite for free. There is no free tier. Likewise, there is no free tier of Offi
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by athms 6y ago
For physical sales, the developer got pennies on the dollar. You needed to find a publisher. Not only would they help with packaging, marketing, localization, and QA, but they also brought access to the wholesale channel. Ingram and MicroD
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by athms 6y ago
Unless you have an Enterprise license, Office 365 pushes updates for both on-prem and cloud at the same time and you cannot opt-out. On-prem uses the CTR installer, not MSI, which includes DRM that must be activated online and phones home e
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by athms 6y ago
There has not been a free tier of GSuite since 2011. It is a commercial service that has a monthly cost per seat. There are 6 million users on GSuite for Business and 120 million on GSuite for Education. None of the grandfathered free Googl
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by athms 6y ago
Office 365 is a subscription service for both on-prem and cloud. It would be pointless to include the old Office seats since the conversation is about bundling Teams with Office, and that is only done with the Office 365 offering.
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by athms 7y ago
>She has directly authored many foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the internet. This statement is a fabrication. She was trained and worked as a lawyer. She went to Berkeley, not to study computer science or electrical engine
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by athms 7y ago
Only coins are issued by the government. Paper notes are issued by the Federal Reserve.
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by athms 7y ago
Yes, it is the word 'illegal'. There isn't a federal or state statute requiring paper currency (or coins) to be used to pay off a debt. Debt doesn't disappear because an organization refuses to accept cash. They can acce
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by athms 7y ago
Wrong. The words don't imply that paper currency must be accepted for a debt, simply that the currency can be used for a debt.
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by athms 7y ago
You said, "US bills say 'legal tender for all debts', which means it's illegal not to accept cash once a debt is incurred." This statement is incorrect.
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by athms 7y ago
You are wrong about US legal tender. You have to know about the history of currency in the United States to fully grasp why those words are there. The simple explanation is the Coinage Act of 1965, Section 31 U.S.C. 5103[1], entitled "
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by athms 7y ago
The author developed tmux on OpenBSD because that is what he used, but it was never part of the OpenBSD Project. It was a port prior to being included in the base install. This is no different that how FreeBSD includes software in its base
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by athms 7y ago
tmux is NOT part of the OpenBSD project, it is independently developed.
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by athms 8y ago
No it doesn't. The case wasn't about ownership of the trash. The case was about whether the search was unreasonable. Did the person that disposed of the trash have an expectation of privacy. In that specific case, the police asked