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From: "Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" on 21 Oct 2009 13:56 "Hans-Joachim Zierke" <Usenetspam014(a)Zierke.com> wrote in message news:slrnhdu9fc.jtt.Usenetspam014(a)Odysseus.Zierke.com... > > Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick schrieb: > > >> "Dave C." <noway(a)nohow.never> wrote in message > >>> I'm sorry to hear that. IMHO, none of the tractors in your fleet are >>> properly equipped to pull flatbed. -Dave >> >> >> >> We've had lots of your "honest opinions". > > > Dave seems to post a lot of nonsense out of his hip, but in the year > 2009, adjustable air suspension isn't exactly rocket science. > > In the 1980s, items like this were luxury indeed. Today, it comes down > to the question, how much support a company gives to its drivers. > > > > Hans-Joachim I never had one, so I don't know how they work (i.e., the utility of equiping a tractor fleet with the device). I rarely pull a spread axle, so it would be wasted on my truck. But fleet trucks are economy and resale value. My truck doesn't even have power locks, or a driver's side power window. > -- > It sometimes seems to me that people have a need for the externalization > of evil. They have the need to think that there is, somewhere, an enemy > boundlessly evil, because this makes them feel boundlessly good. > George Kennan -- -- Popeye "If one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lector. www.finalprotectivefire.com http://picasaweb.google.com/Popeye8762
From: Larrybud on 21 Oct 2009 15:43 >> You can argue as much as you like, but by every legal and other >> definition, Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly in OS's. >> >> FloydR >> >> > It does, however, have an effective monopoly. How is it "effective" if you can buy (or get free) other OSes?
From: Larrybud on 21 Oct 2009 15:48 >> In a free market, a "monopoly", by definition, can not form. > > > In a free market, a monopoly is always the end result. > Government must > preserve the marketplace. Since we're all using usenet news readers here, what government laws have prevented a monopoly of just one news reader from forming, instead of the dozens of free or pay alternatives that currently exist?
From: "Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" on 21 Oct 2009 16:13 "Hans-Joachim Zierke" <Usenetspam014(a)Zierke.com> wrote in message news:slrnhduq7g.jtt.Usenetspam014(a)Odysseus.Zierke.com... > > Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick schrieb: > > >> I never had one, so I don't know how they work (i.e., the utility of >> equiping a tractor fleet with the device). >> >> I rarely pull a spread axle, so it would be wasted on my truck. > > > It also comes handy to adjust height at the ramp. > > > > Due to high-volume demand in Europe, the price for air suspension > adjustment mechanisms has come down considerably. My tractor has adjustable air bags, as does my regular trailer. But I can't adjust the trailer bags from in the tractor. > US trucks have plenty of ground clearance. In Europe, lots of shippers > tell you to turn around and leave the property, if you don't have > 3 meters of clearance for loading. (They want to load 3 layers of > 1 meter high pallets or boxes.) European trucks are 4 meters high, a > tad lower than yours. > > For this reason, lots of new trucks now look like > http://www.lkw-infos.eu/images/lkw_hersteller/man/tgx/teil-1/TGX%20Teil%201/slides/MAN-TGX-18440-Gillhuber-MWolf-091108-01.jpg > http://www.lkw-infos.eu/images/lkw_hersteller/mercedes/actros-3-18/teil-1/Actros%203.%20Generation%20bis%2018%20t%20Teil%201/slides/MB-Actros-3-1846-silber-250908-02.jpg > > Wanna ride speed bumps or steep ramps without an adjustment knob on the > dash? ;-) That's how prices came down for it. > > > >> My truck doesn't even have power locks, or a driver's side power >> window. > > Delivery trucks should have power locks, but otherwise, both aren't needed > in fact. > > > Hans-Joachim > > > > > -- > It sometimes seems to me that people have a need for the externalization > of evil. They have the need to think that there is, somewhere, an enemy > boundlessly evil, because this makes them feel boundlessly good. > George Kennan -- -- Popeye "If one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lector. www.finalprotectivefire.com http://picasaweb.google.com/Popeye8762
From: B on 21 Oct 2009 18:30
On 2009-10-21, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc(a)launchmodem.com> wrote: > To be a competitor to Windows, you have to have a system that is *given* to > the user, as a preinstall. Otherwise, the vast majority of users can't deal > with it. Apple has such a market, and is a competitor. However, they do > not produce a Windows-compatible operating system. No one commercial does, > except Microsoft. To make a 'windows compatible' OS would probably mean making one just as bad. Which is why others probably don't. Apple intentionally locks their OS to their hardware (yes, I know it can be overcome by those clever enough). This move helps to preserve the premium on hardware sales but it is very limiting when it comes to market share. Most people aren't going to pay the premium for the apple badge and the stylish industrial design just to get the OS. Microsoft doesn't lock their OS to any particular computer maker which is good for market share. The only thing stopping apple from having a lot more machines preinstalled with OSX is apple. This is a company that after motorola developed a machine of their own to run the old apple OS, pulled the plug on their use of the OS. Apple doesn't have more OS market share because they don't want it and are hostile to others that might get it for them. > Because of this, Microsoft wields great power over what > people get to experience with their computers. They are a monopoly. Microsoft has no power but the power people give it. Only government has the kind of power you speak of. > Linux? Sure, it's everywhere else in significant numbers, because it is not > only free, but Free -- anyone can incorporate and adapt it. But, where > consumers depend on the choices made by companies alone, Microsoft rules. > You know this, I"m sure. Office politics is not a firm ground for monopoly. > You'd be the first one bitching if the only cell phones you could buy were > all running PalmOS. I'd be bitching if all I could get were windows computers. But that's not the case at all. |