It's pretty common practice in your country that machines with highly sensitive areas of operation don't get audited for such common things like blatantly obvious backdoors and deliberately installed remote control software?
I think appointing judges was one of the few things he did without violating a law, offending someone or causing an international incident. But then again, he's not important enough in my life to monitor him 24/7, so there might have been other things.
It fails as a money grab because for this the fine is WAY too high. 5 billions isn't something that even Google could consider "cost of doing business".
It may seem odd, but over here in the EU, our goal is actually for you to heed the law rather than ensuring it's impossible so we can squeeze as much as we can out of you. But I guess the old German saying is true, the knave thinks as he is.
Because the law already states this and Google didn't give a shit. Does your country tell you to please stop breaking into homes or does it jail you when you get caught doing so?
How many nanoseconds do you think it would take until Steam jumps onto those phone manufacturers that are left "in the rain" if they can't license the Play Store anymore? I wouldn't be surprised if Steam already has something like a Play Store substitute ready to go.
I kinda doubt Google would want to give them the chance to create a beachhead here.
The counter argument relies on a finite market. Nothing else. Your "blocking" infrastructure is comparable to some "blocking" patents, in the end, there's a way around either. But in both markets you are dealing with systems that require heavy initial investments with comparably low running and per-unit cost. And the established competitor has already paid (and more likely than not recovered) that huge initial cost, meaning that he can more easily handle lowering his prices to muscle you out of the market.
More than the average US state, they are. But you can't have your cake and eat it, too, either you're a union or you go solo. Or you can of course do what Poland, Hungary and some others try now, leech off the EU when there's grants to be had but when it's time to stand together during a problem, it's everyone for himself.
They needn't be. Not only do they not have to find workarounds for the shortcomings of their machines, the problems that do arise can trivially be solved with the aid of Google, simply because the user base is large enough that it's almost certain someone else already solved the problem. If only because you CAN actually solve the problem without having to send in your system, accept the loss of all your data and pray that the fix isn't going to brick your system with the next update of the OS.
Apple products become more and more a fashion statement rather than something you actually use. It's like complaining that you can't fit your family luggage into the Ferrari, or that your Gucci handbag can't hold your stuff. That's not what they're here for.
I always wondered what it would have been like to live through the first dot com bubble. Now I realise that is involves real engineering getting pushed aside to make way for the hype merchants.
Pretty much. It was really a completely insane time. It was like a huge pyramid scheme, and everyone involved knew it was one but shut up because we made so much money it was just too good to be true. It was also the last time you could actually make a fortune as an engineer. Because of the way this bubble worked: Some yahoo had some pipe dream idea "on the internet", hit on some VCs who had more money than brains who didn't know jack shit about the internet and only knew that it has to be the next big thing, that VCs pumped money into the yahoo who, as well, had no idea about how anything on the internet worked, so he hired engineers whose job was to make the pipe dream come true. We, in turn, started asking more and more ridiculous prices for our work (and got paid those ridiculous sums because money was no issue), we literally made millions in 2-3 months programming what could best be described as very shoddy CMS and POS systems. About half a year the pipe dream went poof, so no maintenance had to be done, ever, and we could move on to the next million-per-month project.
In the end, the pipe dreamer went broke, the VC lost his money and, well, guess who had that money. Which, by the way, should serve as a lesson: Money is never "lost". It's just with someone else now.
Yet another startup promising yet another car of the future while producing yet again nothing.
The spot for loudmouth marketeer in the car industry is taken. Musk has solidly cornered that position. And even he has more to show than some frames on wheels.
If you want to produce the car of the future, great. Absolutely. But don't call before it's done. We have had so many stories of so many startups pipe dreaming up what could be, I think it's about time we move on to actually, you know, making something that can be sold. Anything else just ain't interesting anymore.
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Now where is the kickback in that?
It's pretty common practice in your country that machines with highly sensitive areas of operation don't get audited for such common things like blatantly obvious backdoors and deliberately installed remote control software?
Remind me to never use an ATM in the US.
I think appointing judges was one of the few things he did without violating a law, offending someone or causing an international incident. But then again, he's not important enough in my life to monitor him 24/7, so there might have been other things.
But you had no problem taking the money, did you?
Tell that your annoying orange, he started it.
What cheek, to actually want to enforce a law. Against a corporation, no less.
So ... what was the EU supposed to do, maybe you could tell us. There is a company that pretty much ignores your laws. What do you do?
It fails as a money grab because for this the fine is WAY too high. 5 billions isn't something that even Google could consider "cost of doing business".
It may seem odd, but over here in the EU, our goal is actually for you to heed the law rather than ensuring it's impossible so we can squeeze as much as we can out of you. But I guess the old German saying is true, the knave thinks as he is.
Because the law already states this and Google didn't give a shit. Does your country tell you to please stop breaking into homes or does it jail you when you get caught doing so?
When Apple gets 80% market share in, well, anything, this might actually matter.
Moreover, I'll use all faith I have left in humanity.
I guess most countries would prefer a trading system where their concerns and goals actually matter.
1) Stop the frothing.
2) Make sure you actually understood what someone wrote when talking about your messiah.
3) Post.
Try to follow that order from now on, it makes you look less silly.
How many nanoseconds do you think it would take until Steam jumps onto those phone manufacturers that are left "in the rain" if they can't license the Play Store anymore? I wouldn't be surprised if Steam already has something like a Play Store substitute ready to go.
I kinda doubt Google would want to give them the chance to create a beachhead here.
The counter argument relies on a finite market. Nothing else. Your "blocking" infrastructure is comparable to some "blocking" patents, in the end, there's a way around either. But in both markets you are dealing with systems that require heavy initial investments with comparably low running and per-unit cost. And the established competitor has already paid (and more likely than not recovered) that huge initial cost, meaning that he can more easily handle lowering his prices to muscle you out of the market.
I have a quite similar hypothesis concerning the use of the word "proof"...
It looks more like they're slapping together some hardware, hoping that Google (or whoever) buys them out before the money runs out.
More than the average US state, they are. But you can't have your cake and eat it, too, either you're a union or you go solo. Or you can of course do what Poland, Hungary and some others try now, leech off the EU when there's grants to be had but when it's time to stand together during a problem, it's everyone for himself.
You forgot to factor in the Apple-Tax, then it adds up.
They needn't be. Not only do they not have to find workarounds for the shortcomings of their machines, the problems that do arise can trivially be solved with the aid of Google, simply because the user base is large enough that it's almost certain someone else already solved the problem. If only because you CAN actually solve the problem without having to send in your system, accept the loss of all your data and pray that the fix isn't going to brick your system with the next update of the OS.
Apple products become more and more a fashion statement rather than something you actually use. It's like complaining that you can't fit your family luggage into the Ferrari, or that your Gucci handbag can't hold your stuff. That's not what they're here for.
So "you're holding it wrong" became "you're holding it at the wrong location".
I always wondered what it would have been like to live through the first dot com bubble. Now I realise that is involves real engineering getting pushed aside to make way for the hype merchants.
Pretty much. It was really a completely insane time. It was like a huge pyramid scheme, and everyone involved knew it was one but shut up because we made so much money it was just too good to be true. It was also the last time you could actually make a fortune as an engineer. Because of the way this bubble worked: Some yahoo had some pipe dream idea "on the internet", hit on some VCs who had more money than brains who didn't know jack shit about the internet and only knew that it has to be the next big thing, that VCs pumped money into the yahoo who, as well, had no idea about how anything on the internet worked, so he hired engineers whose job was to make the pipe dream come true. We, in turn, started asking more and more ridiculous prices for our work (and got paid those ridiculous sums because money was no issue), we literally made millions in 2-3 months programming what could best be described as very shoddy CMS and POS systems. About half a year the pipe dream went poof, so no maintenance had to be done, ever, and we could move on to the next million-per-month project.
In the end, the pipe dreamer went broke, the VC lost his money and, well, guess who had that money. Which, by the way, should serve as a lesson: Money is never "lost". It's just with someone else now.
Yet another startup promising yet another car of the future while producing yet again nothing.
The spot for loudmouth marketeer in the car industry is taken. Musk has solidly cornered that position. And even he has more to show than some frames on wheels.
If you want to produce the car of the future, great. Absolutely. But don't call before it's done. We have had so many stories of so many startups pipe dreaming up what could be, I think it's about time we move on to actually, you know, making something that can be sold. Anything else just ain't interesting anymore.
I have this hypothesis that whenever someone feels the urge to declare what he has to say as "facts", it's anything but facts.
Thanks for supporting my hypothesis.