Oh please, give me a break. Most developers I know do it to make money (and have fun at the same time in many cases).
How does that contradict to any of my statements? Simple fact is, that Apple grabs 18x more revenue than the whole mobile app market. Basically, for every dollar app you sell, Apple benefits $18. Nothing wrong with that per se, just a reminder to the app developers that Apple has no problem with patent trolls like Lodsys...
But getting riled up over nothing seems to be the flavour of the day every day on/.
A) You numbers are wrong.
B) You must be an economist, since you think that there is no limit to growth.
C) If we apply the same projections to Android's explosive growth - then in 1 year everyone on this planet will have at least one Android device.
But wouldn't YOU like to get paid for all the sales your competitors get? I would.
Microsoft is a business through and though. Apple does not care for additional revenue from their IP assets. Their lack of interest in licensing some interesting, but not essential patents is just ridiculous. The bounce-back patent is the best one to note, it sure isn't the feature that makes iOS so irresistible to many people.
But therein lies the reason I'm not a business man: I don't have the balls to pull stunts like this and profit at any cost.
You probably missed the main difference here - HTC is Google's partner that is being sued over Android by Apple, while Apple transfered their patents to a patent troll.
To all Apple app developers under fire from Lodsys - this is what the company that you develop for* thinks of patent trolls.
* - Yep, you develop for them, notice how your hard work resulted in their successful ad campaign "There's an app for that"
Well... The EU has no patent authority per se. The EPO however, does allow software to be patented with limited conditions. Not all EU countries are part of EPO and not all EPO members are EU members. That being said, the EPO looks like a much saner organisation that USPTO.
Well I managed to get into IBM without a degree, and IBM is generally strict about degrees.
Aerospace usually implies a lot of government work or government supervision, so I wouldn't be surprised that they require it for the formal requirement from the government.
Of course it costs jobs. That's what computers are for. If you don't free someone to be able to do something else, then your automation has failed.
Technology costs jobs. Any advancement in technology in fact. Remember the threshing machine riots? Technology makes increases efficiency and kills inefficient jobs.
PS: Free Markets and Central Planning do not imply capitalism or communism; More precisely, they imply communism or capitalism as much as capitalism implies democracy or communism/socialism implies dictatorship. In fact, the most successful elements of the Soviet industries relied heavily on competition - a trait associated with free markets (though USSR was never technically a communist society)
To get jobs and business, in general, you have to have a recognisable "name". This is essential if you don't have a degree. It replaces the diploma at a later stages of your career. When you get to having 10 years of experience or a "name", only the government institutions ask for a diploma.
Islam has this concept of "the law of the land", that fundamentalists tend to forget. Remember that Judaism was created specifically to create one nation, a single nation. Judaism was never intended to be spread around, that is one of the reasons why jews are rather secretive about their religion - it is only for one nation.
Islam however was designed to be propagated to a lot of nations and a lot of kingdoms, so you get an nationally centred shared religion. Compare that to the differences in religious hierarchies in Western Catholic tradition and Eastern Orthodox tradition. Islam wouldn't have and uptake, if the heads of states weren't promised the final word in the matter of running their lands.
Consider that the gravity and calculus were created by a deeply religious person that was only uncovering the rules that god put into place in this universe - Isaac Newton. Algebra was created by absolutely extremist people.
That being said, doctors should be as stone-cold and as non-religious as possible.
To hell with treating, diagnosing.
And no, I wouldn't want a religious doctor that could kill me by over-prescribing just because of his religion telling him to kill people like me...
So according to you having an opinion/belief makes you an idiot. I think the only idiot doesn't seek knowledge from many avenues.
The second sentence is exactly what your first sentence is a complaint about. These people are idiots because they decided to not accept knowledge that does not fit with their beliefs. And yes, they should be failed because they decided not to get knowledge that is essential to the topic, even if it might be false.(Note: religious people rarely use "might" when it comes to things "from the Book")
However back to the topic:
More power to them. However if they fail the test that the professor has outlined, it's their problem. I don't agree with a lot of professors but I sit through their lectures because I want to get good marks on the tests and because of academic courtesy.
You want to get good marks as proof that you know of the existence of alternative knowledge and the basis for that knowledge.
If they don't want to learn about Darwin, well, that's fine... but it's still a required part of the Biology class.
No, that's not fine for people in college. Closed minded people shouldn't be allowed to have 3rd level degrees - PERIOD. If they want to exist in a "clean" Islamic society there is always Iran.
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Oh please, give me a break. Most developers I know do it to make money (and have fun at the same time in many cases).
How does that contradict to any of my statements? Simple fact is, that Apple grabs 18x more revenue than the whole mobile app market. Basically, for every dollar app you sell, Apple benefits $18. Nothing wrong with that per se, just a reminder to the app developers that Apple has no problem with patent trolls like Lodsys... /.
But getting riled up over nothing seems to be the flavour of the day every day on
Nice speculations. And Macs would still be on 68K. And we would be using analogue computers... But, if ifs and buts....
Until other players pull a permanent injunction form their hat of tricks, just like Moto did.
A) You numbers are wrong.
B) You must be an economist, since you think that there is no limit to growth.
C) If we apply the same projections to Android's explosive growth - then in 1 year everyone on this planet will have at least one Android device.
But wouldn't YOU like to get paid for all the sales your competitors get? I would.
Microsoft is a business through and though. Apple does not care for additional revenue from their IP assets. Their lack of interest in licensing some interesting, but not essential patents is just ridiculous. The bounce-back patent is the best one to note, it sure isn't the feature that makes iOS so irresistible to many people.
But therein lies the reason I'm not a business man: I don't have the balls to pull stunts like this and profit at any cost.
Profit at any cost ends up being a loss.
You probably missed the main difference here - HTC is Google's partner that is being sued over Android by Apple, while Apple transfered their patents to a patent troll.
To all Apple app developers under fire from Lodsys - this is what the company that you develop for* thinks of patent trolls.
* - Yep, you develop for them, notice how your hard work resulted in their successful ad campaign "There's an app for that"
Hardware with baked in VP8
No. There has always been a goal of having a royalty free H.264 version. Even if it would be patent encumbered.
Shape that isn't rectangular and cluttered appearance :-D Brillant!!!!
Well... The EU has no patent authority per se. The EPO however, does allow software to be patented with limited conditions. Not all EU countries are part of EPO and not all EPO members are EU members. That being said, the EPO looks like a much saner organisation that USPTO.
Not even a patent, it's a non-examined* registered community design.
* - Community Designs are not examined upon registration.
No... But if it's on a mobile device.....
Well I managed to get into IBM without a degree, and IBM is generally strict about degrees.
Aerospace usually implies a lot of government work or government supervision, so I wouldn't be surprised that they require it for the formal requirement from the government.
Of course it costs jobs. That's what computers are for. If you don't free someone to be able to do something else, then your automation has failed.
Technology costs jobs. Any advancement in technology in fact. Remember the threshing machine riots? Technology makes increases efficiency and kills inefficient jobs.
PS: Free Markets and Central Planning do not imply capitalism or communism; More precisely, they imply communism or capitalism as much as capitalism implies democracy or communism/socialism implies dictatorship. In fact, the most successful elements of the Soviet industries relied heavily on competition - a trait associated with free markets (though USSR was never technically a communist society)
Iran is not an Islamic state.
Geez... Do I have to quote myself?
a "clean" Islamic society
Google? But again, a proven experience will replace a degree.
To get jobs and business, in general, you have to have a recognisable "name". This is essential if you don't have a degree. It replaces the diploma at a later stages of your career. When you get to having 10 years of experience or a "name", only the government institutions ask for a diploma.
Islam has this concept of "the law of the land", that fundamentalists tend to forget. Remember that Judaism was created specifically to create one nation, a single nation. Judaism was never intended to be spread around, that is one of the reasons why jews are rather secretive about their religion - it is only for one nation.
Islam however was designed to be propagated to a lot of nations and a lot of kingdoms, so you get an nationally centred shared religion. Compare that to the differences in religious hierarchies in Western Catholic tradition and Eastern Orthodox tradition. Islam wouldn't have and uptake, if the heads of states weren't promised the final word in the matter of running their lands.
Consider that the gravity and calculus were created by a deeply religious person that was only uncovering the rules that god put into place in this universe - Isaac Newton. Algebra was created by absolutely extremist people.
That being said, doctors should be as stone-cold and as non-religious as possible.
To hell with treating, diagnosing.
And no, I wouldn't want a religious doctor that could kill me by over-prescribing just because of his religion telling him to kill people like me...
Ironically, survival of the fittest is evolution.
So according to you having an opinion/belief makes you an idiot. I think the only idiot doesn't seek knowledge from many avenues.
The second sentence is exactly what your first sentence is a complaint about. These people are idiots because they decided to not accept knowledge that does not fit with their beliefs. And yes, they should be failed because they decided not to get knowledge that is essential to the topic, even if it might be false.(Note: religious people rarely use "might" when it comes to things "from the Book")
However back to the topic:
More power to them. However if they fail the test that the professor has outlined, it's their problem. I don't agree with a lot of professors but I sit through their lectures because I want to get good marks on the tests and because of academic courtesy.
You want to get good marks as proof that you know of the existence of alternative knowledge and the basis for that knowledge.
"not degree-worthy material" => theologian :-D
If they don't want to learn about Darwin, well, that's fine... but it's still a required part of the Biology class.
No, that's not fine for people in college. Closed minded people shouldn't be allowed to have 3rd level degrees - PERIOD. If they want to exist in a "clean" Islamic society there is always Iran.
UK?