So you need a Google app to use a Google service and this is somehow supposed to be a "monopoly"?
It's suboptimal but not exactly a "monopoly".
One could simply use a Contact management method that doesn't use Google anything outside of the phone itself. I think that was one of the first things I installed for my own (Android) phone.
They can when the future is obvious to anyone with more than one functioning brain cell. People used to get burned as witches for this sort of thing. Now you just get dirty looks from your neighbors.
Jacked up prices castrate demand on a luxury good. Any group of Econ 101 students could have predicted that.
> Whether it's a "crappy" song or a pre-release of a highly-anticipated motion picture, the law says the punishment is the same.
No. Usually not. The law and judges actually have a wide degree of leeway. They have it because typically no two sets of facts are quite alike and they can be often quite different.
The judge could have suspended the sentence entirely.
The judge isn't just an automaton despite the fact that some people like to pretend that they are or should be.
The ability to adapt to different circumstances is actually a good thing.
The shuttle was brilliant in it's moment but is now horribly dated. With all of the tech advances that have occured in the last 30 years, it's really time to retire the thing. There should have been a Shuttle 2.0 to replace it but we all know the politics of the situation.
Instead of keeping this particular zombie alive, they should go back to the drawing board and perhaps draw inspiration from some of the other Shuttle designs that didn't make it.
Although separating the cargo from the people is probably a good alternate approach to start considering. The whole bloody thing probably doesn't need to be engineered to the level where it becomes acceptable for manned use.
I've never had to coax Linux to recognize a flash drive.
On the other hand, I recently had a problem with a thumb drive where it failed for no reason in Windows and could not be read again by any version of Windows until it was first mounted on Linux (which happened automatically).
It wasn't even mine. It belonged to someone I do "Windows support" for.
And don't get me started about the page full of options that Windows throws at you when it does actually decided to acknowledge removable media. Granny just can't handle that sort of thing.
Some of that enterprise business even drive sales of Oracle database licenses. Anything Oracle does to screw around with Java is basically cutting off their nose to spite their face.
Even Oracle might have been better off with Sun as a separate entity.
It's not just Java. You can get Oracle's flagship database products like that. You've always been able to. They've been pretty permissive like that for pretty much forever.
Packages shouldn't be installing anything except in their own personal space, much like a Mac.
So does MacOS have "DLL Hell" now?
If you need a particular library and you are willing to put it where you are allowed to installed (shouldn't be in of the usual places, bad security) then it shouldn't impact anyone else.
Packages "installing their own libraries" into the root-owned part of the system is the Windows way.
Time to "support" them by showing them how to have their own local repository. That will nicely avoid this particular problem as well as ensuring that they always have the means to recreate their currently deployed machines.
> however FSF has defined the mere process of linking to the code
This is largely irrelevant and is only mentioned when someone doesn't really have anything meaningful to add to the discussion. Libraries are licensed under the lesser GPL to specifically avoid this problem and always have been.
While RMS may be an intolerable zealot, most of the downstream users are not.
They simply don't want to be free labor for corporations.
That's why the GPL was created BTW. It's not not some subversive attempt by RMS. It was a response to the "BSDL problem" of someone taking the source and making a closed commercial product out of it.
The GPL exists to satisfy developers.
Not everyone likes the idea of being a free labor pool for Apple without any recourse.
Shared libraries are all licensed under the LGPL so only the library itself must remain libre. You can build whatever you want on top. That's how companies like Oracle sell very expensive GNU based software.
Corporations are a legal fiction meant to shield it's members from liability. It removes the accountability that ANY morally aware entity should be subject to.
A corporation is effectively a (rioting) mob. It has no self awareness or moral awareness or even any social encouragement to be a good citizen.
Anyone that tries to conflate a corporation with a person is an idiot.
If rights can be blindly transferred from individuals to a collective, then the reverse should also true. The corporate veil should vanish and all members of the collective should be jointly and severally liable for any harm the collective causes.
The rights of a limited liability entity should be limited too.
The problem with many religions is that they promote ideas that make their followers highly subseptable to charlatains. Instead of attempting to perfect the soul or the person in general, they just do their best to set up a highly pathalogical pattern of dependence that is easy to abuse.
He had himself waterboarded so that he would have some clue regarding what that actually is. You gotta respect the guy for that. Most other journalists/commentators can't touch that level of dedication to seeking the truth.
> Name one good, moral action that could not have been conceived of by a person of no faith.
Liberty and equality. It's simply motivated self interest. It becomes obvious once you realize that a just and equitable society benefits everyone equally including yourself.
A lot of tribal knowledge is like that and doesn't really need the extra fairy tales.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There are plenty of Xians that seem hell bent on establishing a theocracy and starting wars with infidels and oppressing anyone that doesn't fit into their narrow definition of "Christian". We have plenty of our own homegrown Taliban.
These are usually the ones whining about "the war on Christmas" in America.
While many may not have the guts to take action themselves, they do favor various forms of social meddling. Our version of the Taliban is much more numerous than people want to admit. Many of them have embedded themselves in the Republican party and made themselves difficult to ignore.
Puritans of various kinds are alive and well in America.
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It's quite easy actually.
It's actually much easier than the same exercise with Android replaced with an iPhone and Apple.
So you need a Google app to use a Google service and this is somehow supposed to be a "monopoly"?
It's suboptimal but not exactly a "monopoly".
One could simply use a Contact management method that doesn't use Google anything outside of the phone itself. I think that was one of the first things I installed for my own (Android) phone.
Troll harder.
They can when the future is obvious to anyone with more than one functioning brain cell. People used to get burned as witches for this sort of thing. Now you just get dirty looks from your neighbors.
Jacked up prices castrate demand on a luxury good. Any group of Econ 101 students could have predicted that.
Elastic demand is elastic.
> Whether it's a "crappy" song or a pre-release of a highly-anticipated motion picture, the law says the punishment is the same.
No. Usually not. The law and judges actually have a wide degree of leeway. They have it because typically no two sets of facts are quite alike and they can be often quite different.
The judge could have suspended the sentence entirely.
The judge isn't just an automaton despite the fact that some people like to pretend that they are or should be.
The ability to adapt to different circumstances is actually a good thing.
The shuttle was brilliant in it's moment but is now horribly dated. With all of the tech advances that have occured in the last 30 years, it's really time to retire the thing. There should have been a Shuttle 2.0 to replace it but we all know the politics of the situation.
Instead of keeping this particular zombie alive, they should go back to the drawing board and perhaps draw inspiration from some of the other Shuttle designs that didn't make it.
Although separating the cargo from the people is probably a good alternate approach to start considering. The whole bloody thing probably doesn't need to be engineered to the level where it becomes acceptable for manned use.
I've never had to coax Linux to recognize a flash drive.
On the other hand, I recently had a problem with a thumb drive where it failed for no reason in Windows and could not be read again by any version of Windows until it was first mounted on Linux (which happened automatically).
It wasn't even mine. It belonged to someone I do "Windows support" for.
And don't get me started about the page full of options that Windows throws at you when it does actually decided to acknowledge removable media. Granny just can't handle that sort of thing.
Some of that enterprise business even drive sales of Oracle database licenses. Anything Oracle does to screw around with Java is basically cutting off their nose to spite their face.
Even Oracle might have been better off with Sun as a separate entity.
It's not just Java. You can get Oracle's flagship database products like that. You've always been able to. They've been pretty permissive like that for pretty much forever.
Packages shouldn't be installing anything except in their own personal space, much like a Mac.
So does MacOS have "DLL Hell" now?
If you need a particular library and you are willing to put it where you are allowed to installed (shouldn't be in of the usual places, bad security) then it shouldn't impact anyone else.
Packages "installing their own libraries" into the root-owned part of the system is the Windows way.
I wonder just what Java "killer apps" for the desktop you think will be impacted by this.
It's just like .Net and Adobe Air.
Why should I care. Mindless hysterics just aren't that compelling.
Time to "support" them by showing them how to have their own local repository. That will nicely avoid this particular problem as well as ensuring that they always have the means to recreate their currently deployed machines.
Sony sold comparable machines 10 years ago.
Stop swimming in the kool-aid.
> however FSF has defined the mere process of linking to the code
This is largely irrelevant and is only mentioned when someone doesn't really have anything meaningful to add to the discussion. Libraries are licensed under the lesser GPL to specifically avoid this problem and always have been.
While RMS may be an intolerable zealot, most of the downstream users are not.
They simply don't want to be free labor for corporations.
That's why the GPL was created BTW. It's not not some subversive attempt by RMS. It was a response to the "BSDL problem" of someone taking the source and making a closed commercial product out of it.
The GPL exists to satisfy developers.
Not everyone likes the idea of being a free labor pool for Apple without any recourse.
> but it uses GPL apis
Except no such thing really exists.
Shared libraries are all licensed under the LGPL so only the library itself must remain libre. You can build whatever you want on top. That's how companies like Oracle sell very expensive GNU based software.
Simply play older games.
A lot of "old" stuff is still perfectly playable and better than a lot of newer stuff.
Classics tend to be like that.
Corporations are a legal fiction meant to shield it's members from liability. It removes the accountability that ANY morally aware entity should be subject to.
A corporation is effectively a (rioting) mob. It has no self awareness or moral awareness or even any social encouragement to be a good citizen.
Anyone that tries to conflate a corporation with a person is an idiot.
If rights can be blindly transferred from individuals to a collective, then the reverse should also true. The corporate veil should vanish and all members of the collective should be jointly and severally liable for any harm the collective causes.
The rights of a limited liability entity should be limited too.
The problem with many religions is that they promote ideas that make their followers highly subseptable to charlatains. Instead of attempting to perfect the soul or the person in general, they just do their best to set up a highly pathalogical pattern of dependence that is easy to abuse.
He had himself waterboarded so that he would have some clue regarding what that actually is. You gotta respect the guy for that. Most other journalists/commentators can't touch that level of dedication to seeking the truth.
You seem to be engineering the challenge specifically to avoid all of the things the OP was complaining about.
Of course religions aren't running amok any more now that their power has been displaced by kings and secular national governments.
It's also how interesting those communist death tolls keep on going up and up. It's almost like Jews describing plagues during Seder.
> Name one good, moral action that could not have been conceived of by a person of no faith.
Liberty and equality. It's simply motivated self interest. It becomes obvious once you realize that a just and equitable society benefits everyone equally including yourself.
A lot of tribal knowledge is like that and doesn't really need the extra fairy tales.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There are plenty of Xians that seem hell bent on establishing a theocracy and starting wars with infidels and oppressing anyone that doesn't fit into their narrow definition of "Christian". We have plenty of our own homegrown Taliban.
These are usually the ones whining about "the war on Christmas" in America.
While many may not have the guts to take action themselves, they do favor various forms of social meddling. Our version of the Taliban is much more numerous than people want to admit. Many of them have embedded themselves in the Republican party and made themselves difficult to ignore.
Puritans of various kinds are alive and well in America.
Well then that would be the best case against organized religion.
Faith in God is one thing. Faith in your fellow man is a much bigger problem.
Pretty much any device that doesn't have an Apple or Microsoft logo works like this. Newer Androids are also handy in this respect.
Someone else mentioned Archos specifically.
VLC is more than just a copy of iTunes or WMP.
If you find those other things confusing and disturbing, then leave those parts of the app alone.
Have fun playing stuff on the proprietary OS of your choice then.
It's like a world without zinc.