I am not opposed to copyright but to its misappropriation by the entertainment industries which do not create anything but insert themselves between the creators and the public. Are you unable to acknowledge that the world is not in black or white?
OS X ships with GCC installed. How is that not a compiler? Android and iOS are target platforms; picking nits because the OP did not explicitly state he meant desktop or server OSes is just dumb.
Because he promised them he would create lots of jobs in the fastest-growing entertainment industry, maybe even making them believe the RI could become the next Austin for game companies.
No, the Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane, what they did was to build the first one that could carry a person. Innovation based on earlier designs.
Inventing something does not grant a right to control it later - otherwise, you would not need the FCC to allocate radio spectrum but leave that to Italy; and if Ford wanted to make changes to a car model they should ask Germany. And so on.
Correction: They control some aspects of it, i.e. creation of TLDs and some of the most common TLDs. IANA, IETF, IESG etc. are international bodies already.
Ah, but Obama only deals with the American space program, not e.g. the Chinese, Indian, Russian, etc. It would be a nice feather in the cap of any other nation to build the first ion-drive starship.
They were American jobs, but then the competitors moved their manufacturing to China and Apple reached a maximum factory throughput that meant they were unable to meet demand. So they did the sensible thing and cut costs while increasing production, just like HP and others were doing. And they have generated a shedload of non-manufacturing jobs.
How long would you be willing to wait for your iPhone at 1/10th of the production capacity that the lack of manual labor and increased worker protection in the West would lead to? And would you demand the same from Foxconn's other clients like Dell and HP? And will you be the one to go to China and tell the now unemployed workers that they are better off earning nothing as subsistence farmers?
I have seen good arguments for why the retooling/quick turnaround in Chinese factories is a fact, but they are crushed by your unbeatable "that's a bunch of bull" well-documented argument...
I am sure the Apple investors would love the idea that Apple should ditch profits in favor of throwing money on some pipe-dream where you can magically drum up hundreds of thousands tech workers in an American city to make electronics. Remember, assembling an iPhone is not the same as flipping a burger.
Yeah, if they wanted to make around 1/100th of the number of devices since you simply cannot get that many people here. Apple DID do their manufacturing in the West at one point: They ended up with too few units to meet demand, at too high price compared to their competitors who moved production to the East.
But I guess you are saying that none of Foxconn's customers - Cisco, HP, etc. - give a fuck. It's OK, as long as you direct your anger at all of them.
"Near slave" how? They pay more than the average pay for the region, and though a few minors did work there, that is illegal in China so Apple were in the clear on that too - it was Faxconn's fault. Do you think the Foxconn workers should go back to being subsistence farmers in the countryside instead of making money? You seem to think that American standards of living and levels of income should be the norm...
Now, what you should worry about are all the OTHER factories making shit for Cisco, HP, etc. that are NOT improved, do NOT increase pay as much as Apple's factories have done, but that you gladly ignore in your blind hate. Fucking double standards.
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Well, looking at which countries do what, the United States need to change a department name to "Department of Attack" soon...
Or maybe a double pointer of (cryptic) type a? These programming languages are weird.
Hello, DearFuckingSpammer. Maybe someone should clean your PC with a baseball bat so you stop posting here?
I am not opposed to copyright but to its misappropriation by the entertainment industries which do not create anything but insert themselves between the creators and the public. Are you unable to acknowledge that the world is not in black or white?
Rather: Pay us, pay us, pay us for the privilege. Not that alternatives like Delphi or C++Builder are any cheaper.
OS X ships with GCC installed. How is that not a compiler? Android and iOS are target platforms; picking nits because the OP did not explicitly state he meant desktop or server OSes is just dumb.
Yeah, everyone should share everything, since nobody is special, and live off their parents for eternity.
I guess if someone "lifted" some of Candice Schwager's site content for their own use she would have an issue though...
There are countries out there without copyright laws, you could move to Somalia if you do not like them.
Yes. The country you belong to? Not so much.
Because he promised them he would create lots of jobs in the fastest-growing entertainment industry, maybe even making them believe the RI could become the next Austin for game companies.
And as a failed, state-backed video game company executive? Welcome to the world of "what have you done lately, not ages ago".
Yeah, I was mistaken about IANA - they are closer to ICANN in their U.S. dominance than the others are.
No, the Wright brothers didn't invent the airplane, what they did was to build the first one that could carry a person. Innovation based on earlier designs.
Inventing something does not grant a right to control it later - otherwise, you would not need the FCC to allocate radio spectrum but leave that to Italy; and if Ford wanted to make changes to a car model they should ask Germany. And so on.
South Korea? You mean the former military dictatorship that dabbles in democracy but is practically run by industry giants?
Correction: They control some aspects of it, i.e. creation of TLDs and some of the most common TLDs. IANA, IETF, IESG etc. are international bodies already.
Yeah, I know: Just like we keep out Americans by strategically placing spinach around, since they abhor healthy food.
Ah, but Obama only deals with the American space program, not e.g. the Chinese, Indian, Russian, etc. It would be a nice feather in the cap of any other nation to build the first ion-drive starship.
They were American jobs, but then the competitors moved their manufacturing to China and Apple reached a maximum factory throughput that meant they were unable to meet demand. So they did the sensible thing and cut costs while increasing production, just like HP and others were doing. And they have generated a shedload of non-manufacturing jobs.
How long would you be willing to wait for your iPhone at 1/10th of the production capacity that the lack of manual labor and increased worker protection in the West would lead to? And would you demand the same from Foxconn's other clients like Dell and HP? And will you be the one to go to China and tell the now unemployed workers that they are better off earning nothing as subsistence farmers?
I have seen good arguments for why the retooling/quick turnaround in Chinese factories is a fact, but they are crushed by your unbeatable "that's a bunch of bull" well-documented argument...
They could hire execs from Electronic Arts, where "crunch time" never ends...
I am sure the Apple investors would love the idea that Apple should ditch profits in favor of throwing money on some pipe-dream where you can magically drum up hundreds of thousands tech workers in an American city to make electronics. Remember, assembling an iPhone is not the same as flipping a burger.
Yeah, if they wanted to make around 1/100th of the number of devices since you simply cannot get that many people here. Apple DID do their manufacturing in the West at one point: They ended up with too few units to meet demand, at too high price compared to their competitors who moved production to the East.
But I guess you are saying that none of Foxconn's customers - Cisco, HP, etc. - give a fuck. It's OK, as long as you direct your anger at all of them.
"Near slave" how? They pay more than the average pay for the region, and though a few minors did work there, that is illegal in China so Apple were in the clear on that too - it was Faxconn's fault. Do you think the Foxconn workers should go back to being subsistence farmers in the countryside instead of making money? You seem to think that American standards of living and levels of income should be the norm...
Now, what you should worry about are all the OTHER factories making shit for Cisco, HP, etc. that are NOT improved, do NOT increase pay as much as Apple's factories have done, but that you gladly ignore in your blind hate. Fucking double standards.
They didn't start it: There were tons of closed platforms before the iOS era, e.g. most video game consoles.