Apple does not hold a monopoly in any market segment.
That is ignorance of the incredibly highest order, not only about Apple's market, but also that anti-competitive behaviours do not require a company to be an outright monopoly in order to be illegal.
But instead of pushing for and promoting open platforms, companies are happy to be dependent on someone else's platform while the owner of that platform isn't trying to compete with them - and then act all surprised when that platform owner steals the lunch they laid out under their nose.
There's a reason they are happy with this, there are laws that protect their interests in doing so. Spotify isn't acting surprised in the slightest, they are acting on enacting the protections they have in place for their business strategy.
No it's fundamental misunderstanding of the issue involved. Apple is not in trouble for charging fees, and what Amazon and Google do in this regard isn't wrong either.
They are in trouble for not charging levelised fees. They are in trouble for unrelated restrictions applied to force b2b customers to buy a more expensive service than they need.
The fees aren't the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is that the fees aren't leveled between sellers for Apple.
To compare to Amazon, Amazon would too be in deep shit if: Instead of $480/year they charged $590 / year and 20% of each orders total to use (Amazon's custom feature X) AND (and the "and" part is key), if choosing not to do this caused you in a completely unrelated way to lose access to Amazon customer feature Y and Z AND customers which didn't rely on feature X got feature Y and Z anyway for the original price.
1) Design an aircraft that has an inherent tendency to pitch up 2) Implement an a system to persistently add control inputs during critical phases of flight 3) Do NOT disclose system description to pilots in FCOM
1. Yes. 2. Sort of. There are many such systems in every plane. This isn't a bad thing. Computers are inherently better at this than people are. 3. NO.
As for 3 I'll expand a bit. The system is disclosed and known the pilots. The operation is known to pilots. What isn't disclosed is the exact inner workings of each system, and very detailed complicated bypasses and failures. Information inundation is a very real problem, and becomes even more of a problem during a stress scenario. Management of information is a fine art, and you definitely don't want everyone to think they know everything about everything.
So to your fundamental rules: - The pilots understand what the systems do, they don't understand how the systems work. And just like typing here in a slashdot box shouldn't require you to understand precisely what makes your computer tick, a pilot doesn't have the capacity to understand complex control schemes they use in detail. - The airline industry has made leaps and bounds precisely by taking away from pilot skill, not by relying on it. Safety has continuously been advanced by offloading tasks from that fallible squishy mess of thinking water behind the stick to pre-programmed computers. What has happened here, the computer design is poor.
While you can compensate for a poor design in software, the best way is to not make the poor design in the first place.
This isn't a poor design. It is just a design. Control is part of most finely tuned complex and efficient machines. Discounting anything for daring to need an instrumented control loop is just ignorance of the world around you.
That's taking into account one theory and completely ignoring another. 5G classically has lower range meaning they need to provide at least the same amount of hardware to get the coverage. Combined with being able to cram more connections in the same hardware you will definitely see improvements in speed on congested hotspots.
i.e. 1. your phone may actually work when there's a football game at the local stadium. 2. you will get blazingly fast speeds at off peak times. 3. even if your speeds don't improve you still get the other benefits such as improved battery life at other times.
I'm pretty sure when I looked in to changing my US Provider, they wanted me to pay an extra $10/month for LTE as well. So does this fee replace the $10/month for LTE or are customers expected to pay $10/month for LTE AND $10/month for "5G?"
If you're still paying the same amount now as when LTE was introduced for the same package then the answer is yes you will pay $10 more a month because you're a sucker.
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There's birds and air and stuff out there! And you won't be pissed off at your friends!
However, I still lean towards this... if you don't trust the crew then it's like the old joke about the perfect crew
That isn't a joke, it's a lesson learnt in the industry. There's a few industries which in the last 50 years have made leaps and strides in safety, airlines, cars, and the process industry are among the top three. Each of them share a common approach to the problem: The realisation that humans are fallible and there are situations where in the name of safety control should be taken away from a human and not returned.
The problem is we're starting to exhaust low hanging fruit in terms of simplified absolute automation and the more complicated systems get the more chance those damn fallible humans screw up the system that is supposed to take away control from those other fallible humans.
Please tell me you're joking. The Vega RX11 in the Ryzen iGPU is between 4x and 6x faster than a GT720 on it's best day. The Vega RX8 is only a few percent worse than the 11. In a general sense they are on par with current entry level cards like the GTX1030 which is a damn sight faster than your waste of $20.
It works from device to device without affecting something as fundamental as networking. It works without draining your Android device flat within an hour as typically happens with WiFi direct connections.
Been there, fail, not capable of this, unable to use it across different networks, drops you off wifi to achieve what it does, finally MS presents something that may work as a solution.
The only real yawn is: Slashdot ignorance claims something is already being done without having a clue how a system works, *yawn*.
Here is a radical idea for you: Give us back control of when to apply updates.
That doesn't address the root of multiple problems: a) it results in perpetually unpatched systems becoming a health hazard to the rest of the internet. b) people generally aren't upset at getting updates, they are upset at the reboot schedule and that those updates break things.
I don't want options from MS, I want actual quality so that I have no need for options.
Put a damn setting that makes it our own responsibility
People can't be trusted to be responsible. This has been clearly demonstrated with widespread harm caused by previously patched security bugs being none the less exploited.
Microsoft doesn't do that because Windows 10 gives them so much power over your PC and your data.
Sorry but no. MS doesn't do that because it doesn't make any sense at all. They don't do it now, they didn't do it in the past when Windows wasn't spying on your data, and if anything one of the few things they have back ported is precisely the things that give them the power.
MS (and other companies) don't do this because it's a colossal waste of time supporting and enhancing old software when you could instead bring people to the latest version. Even the Linux kernel eventually drops support for things even though support could be maintained indefinitely. That's life in the technology world.
OEMs will eventually stop releasing up to date drivers for new Windows 10 releases and you'll end up with a Windows 10 PC/laptop where some piece of your equipment no longer works.
Can you point to a driver model change that has resulted in an auto update making hardware unusable? I ask this legitimately as someone who has some hardware on my latest and greatest Windows 10 machine running on the original beta windows 8 drivers released way back when the product was discontinued. MS did change hardware requirements between Windows 8 and 10, but as far as I am aware a Windows 10 update has made any hardware intentionally obsolete.
MS has done a lot of shit, but "Documents" have been incredibly backwards compatible and you're more than able to open up Word 97 or even old Word perfect documents in any modern version of word, a capability they AFAIK they have never broken.
Now backwards compatibility is a problem, but hey advancement always is. You can't expect old anything to be able to seamlessly read new anything.
So you're going to have to come up with something better than that. MS has a lot to answer for, but breaking compatibility intentionally is not one of those things.
Finally someone has made exciting advancements in the field. I propose we being to pool efforts to advance this quickly due to it's amazing medical applications. We can start by putting all the scientists in one major facility and managing them under a single Umbrella Corporation.
But instead, it wants to JUST sell its music services, and ride on the coattails of someone else who bothers to make the hardware to make that possible.
With great marketshare and power comes great responsibility. The fact of the matter is that no Spotify cannot do the latter precisely because of the advantage of being the market leader afforded to Apple.
It is called antitrust laws. Fortunately in Europe they apply to everyone rather than just looking at the singular cost to an end user like they do in the USA.
Not the OP, but I too am a citizen of the EU. How is that possible? Good question. First you have to define what it means to be a "citizen". The key part is to be covered legally by a sovereign juridical entity, kind of like the EU which through a treaty has laws, legal frame works, judicial systems, governments, and rights that span the entire geographical area it covers.
Now a bigger question would be is Austria still a country given that it doesn't have complete and total sovereignty over it's land and laws while part of the EU. In many ways, the EU is more of a country than it's member nations, and being a citizens of an EU member nation makes you a citizen of the EU complete with rights, laws, and legal systems afforded by the EU.
That and it says "European Union" on my passport, *above* that irrelevant little country name where I was born. After all as far as boarders go, the only thing people care about when entering or leaving is if I'm going in and out of that meganation known as the EU.
Anyway to the rest of your comment:
Your country has a representative who is on the council.
Council yes. Parliament no. As an EU citizen I directly elect members of the EU parliament and the country in which I live of in which I am a citizen of has no say in the matter.
If the EU passes rules that you object to or blatantly supersede your country's laws and social mores, what is your recourse?
What's yours? The EU is a representative democracy just like that of many other countries. Don't like who your representative is, don't vote for them next time around. Think they passed something that doesn't pass legal mustard, take them to the European Court.
Tell me what safeguards are built into the EU to prevent tyranny of the masses - the "masses" being the council.
I think you should do what a lot of the Brits did the day after the brexit vote and start by typing into Google: "What is the European Union"
Oh is that why I had the option to elect people who are responsible for voting on the very legislation being discussed? I'm constantly surprised. Until now I thought you Americans didn't know what socialism or communism is. Now it turns out you don't know dictatorships either and generally have no political clue at all.
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Apple does not hold a monopoly in any market segment.
That is ignorance of the incredibly highest order, not only about Apple's market, but also that anti-competitive behaviours do not require a company to be an outright monopoly in order to be illegal.
But instead of pushing for and promoting open platforms, companies are happy to be dependent on someone else's platform while the owner of that platform isn't trying to compete with them - and then act all surprised when that platform owner steals the lunch they laid out under their nose.
There's a reason they are happy with this, there are laws that protect their interests in doing so. Spotify isn't acting surprised in the slightest, they are acting on enacting the protections they have in place for their business strategy.
No it's fundamental misunderstanding of the issue involved. Apple is not in trouble for charging fees, and what Amazon and Google do in this regard isn't wrong either.
They are in trouble for not charging levelised fees. They are in trouble for unrelated restrictions applied to force b2b customers to buy a more expensive service than they need.
The fees aren't the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is that the fees aren't leveled between sellers for Apple.
To compare to Amazon, Amazon would too be in deep shit if:
Instead of $480/year they charged $590 / year and 20% of each orders total to use (Amazon's custom feature X)
AND (and the "and" part is key), if choosing not to do this caused you in a completely unrelated way to lose access to Amazon customer feature Y and Z
AND customers which didn't rely on feature X got feature Y and Z anyway for the original price.
Because you look retarded with a gaming chair in the middle of a living room.
1) Design an aircraft that has an inherent tendency to pitch up
2) Implement an a system to persistently add control inputs during critical phases of flight
3) Do NOT disclose system description to pilots in FCOM
1. Yes.
2. Sort of. There are many such systems in every plane. This isn't a bad thing. Computers are inherently better at this than people are.
3. NO.
As for 3 I'll expand a bit. The system is disclosed and known the pilots. The operation is known to pilots. What isn't disclosed is the exact inner workings of each system, and very detailed complicated bypasses and failures. Information inundation is a very real problem, and becomes even more of a problem during a stress scenario. Management of information is a fine art, and you definitely don't want everyone to think they know everything about everything.
So to your fundamental rules:
- The pilots understand what the systems do, they don't understand how the systems work. And just like typing here in a slashdot box shouldn't require you to understand precisely what makes your computer tick, a pilot doesn't have the capacity to understand complex control schemes they use in detail.
- The airline industry has made leaps and bounds precisely by taking away from pilot skill, not by relying on it. Safety has continuously been advanced by offloading tasks from that fallible squishy mess of thinking water behind the stick to pre-programmed computers. What has happened here, the computer design is poor.
While you can compensate for a poor design in software, the best way is to not make the poor design in the first place.
This isn't a poor design. It is just a design. Control is part of most finely tuned complex and efficient machines. Discounting anything for daring to need an instrumented control loop is just ignorance of the world around you.
What's really sad is how people pass judgement while at the same time having no fucking clue about what they are talking about.
That's taking into account one theory and completely ignoring another. 5G classically has lower range meaning they need to provide at least the same amount of hardware to get the coverage. Combined with being able to cram more connections in the same hardware you will definitely see improvements in speed on congested hotspots.
i.e.
1. your phone may actually work when there's a football game at the local stadium.
2. you will get blazingly fast speeds at off peak times.
3. even if your speeds don't improve you still get the other benefits such as improved battery life at other times.
I'm pretty sure when I looked in to changing my US Provider, they wanted me to pay an extra $10/month for LTE as well. So does this fee replace the $10/month for LTE or are customers expected to pay $10/month for LTE AND $10/month for "5G?"
If you're still paying the same amount now as when LTE was introduced for the same package then the answer is yes you will pay $10 more a month because you're a sucker.
There's birds and air and stuff out there! And you won't be pissed off at your friends!
Are you trying to kill me? It all over the news yesterday that the air is going to kill me https://www.weforum.org/agenda....
But joke's on them. Skin cancer will get me first.
....is temporarily a BETTER place for it!!
Going to be a lot of December babies this year...
What makes you think these virtual friends would want to see each other in real life, much less copulate?
I de-installed chrome just like I quit facebook
Cool story. What other ill informed knee jerk reactions did you take?
Now we get this version of the internet only available to websites that optimize their pages for big Goog.
If you didn't uninstall Chrome maybe you could Google what this change actually does so you would realise why your comment sounds incredibly stupid.
Since the alternative source link in the summary appears to link to an article about stock prices
Could be worse. We could have an article about spaghetti.
However, I still lean towards this... if you don't trust the crew then it's like the old joke about the perfect crew
That isn't a joke, it's a lesson learnt in the industry. There's a few industries which in the last 50 years have made leaps and strides in safety, airlines, cars, and the process industry are among the top three. Each of them share a common approach to the problem: The realisation that humans are fallible and there are situations where in the name of safety control should be taken away from a human and not returned.
The problem is we're starting to exhaust low hanging fruit in terms of simplified absolute automation and the more complicated systems get the more chance those damn fallible humans screw up the system that is supposed to take away control from those other fallible humans.
Please tell me you're joking. The Vega RX11 in the Ryzen iGPU is between 4x and 6x faster than a GT720 on it's best day. The Vega RX8 is only a few percent worse than the 11. In a general sense they are on par with current entry level cards like the GTX1030 which is a damn sight faster than your waste of $20.
It works from device to device without affecting something as fundamental as networking.
It works without draining your Android device flat within an hour as typically happens with WiFi direct connections.
Been there, fail, not capable of this, unable to use it across different networks, drops you off wifi to achieve what it does, finally MS presents something that may work as a solution.
The only real yawn is: Slashdot ignorance claims something is already being done without having a clue how a system works, *yawn*.
Here is a radical idea for you: Give us back control of when to apply updates.
That doesn't address the root of multiple problems:
a) it results in perpetually unpatched systems becoming a health hazard to the rest of the internet.
b) people generally aren't upset at getting updates, they are upset at the reboot schedule and that those updates break things.
I don't want options from MS, I want actual quality so that I have no need for options.
Put a damn setting that makes it our own responsibility
People can't be trusted to be responsible. This has been clearly demonstrated with widespread harm caused by previously patched security bugs being none the less exploited.
Microsoft doesn't do that because Windows 10 gives them so much power over your PC and your data.
Sorry but no. MS doesn't do that because it doesn't make any sense at all. They don't do it now, they didn't do it in the past when Windows wasn't spying on your data, and if anything one of the few things they have back ported is precisely the things that give them the power.
MS (and other companies) don't do this because it's a colossal waste of time supporting and enhancing old software when you could instead bring people to the latest version. Even the Linux kernel eventually drops support for things even though support could be maintained indefinitely. That's life in the technology world.
OEMs will eventually stop releasing up to date drivers for new Windows 10 releases and you'll end up with a Windows 10 PC/laptop where some piece of your equipment no longer works.
Can you point to a driver model change that has resulted in an auto update making hardware unusable? I ask this legitimately as someone who has some hardware on my latest and greatest Windows 10 machine running on the original beta windows 8 drivers released way back when the product was discontinued. MS did change hardware requirements between Windows 8 and 10, but as far as I am aware a Windows 10 update has made any hardware intentionally obsolete.
MS has done a lot of shit, but "Documents" have been incredibly backwards compatible and you're more than able to open up Word 97 or even old Word perfect documents in any modern version of word, a capability they AFAIK they have never broken.
Now backwards compatibility is a problem, but hey advancement always is. You can't expect old anything to be able to seamlessly read new anything.
So you're going to have to come up with something better than that. MS has a lot to answer for, but breaking compatibility intentionally is not one of those things.
Finally someone has made exciting advancements in the field. I propose we being to pool efforts to advance this quickly due to it's amazing medical applications. We can start by putting all the scientists in one major facility and managing them under a single Umbrella Corporation.
But instead, it wants to JUST sell its music services, and ride on the coattails of someone else who bothers to make the hardware to make that possible.
With great marketshare and power comes great responsibility. The fact of the matter is that no Spotify cannot do the latter precisely because of the advantage of being the market leader afforded to Apple.
It is called antitrust laws. Fortunately in Europe they apply to everyone rather than just looking at the singular cost to an end user like they do in the USA.
Not the OP, but I too am a citizen of the EU. How is that possible? Good question. First you have to define what it means to be a "citizen". The key part is to be covered legally by a sovereign juridical entity, kind of like the EU which through a treaty has laws, legal frame works, judicial systems, governments, and rights that span the entire geographical area it covers.
Now a bigger question would be is Austria still a country given that it doesn't have complete and total sovereignty over it's land and laws while part of the EU. In many ways, the EU is more of a country than it's member nations, and being a citizens of an EU member nation makes you a citizen of the EU complete with rights, laws, and legal systems afforded by the EU.
That and it says "European Union" on my passport, *above* that irrelevant little country name where I was born. After all as far as boarders go, the only thing people care about when entering or leaving is if I'm going in and out of that meganation known as the EU.
Anyway to the rest of your comment:
Your country has a representative who is on the council.
Council yes. Parliament no. As an EU citizen I directly elect members of the EU parliament and the country in which I live of in which I am a citizen of has no say in the matter.
If the EU passes rules that you object to or blatantly supersede your country's laws and social mores, what is your recourse?
What's yours? The EU is a representative democracy just like that of many other countries. Don't like who your representative is, don't vote for them next time around. Think they passed something that doesn't pass legal mustard, take them to the European Court.
Tell me what safeguards are built into the EU to prevent tyranny of the masses - the "masses" being the council.
I think you should do what a lot of the Brits did the day after the brexit vote and start by typing into Google: "What is the European Union"
It's cruel dictatorship by committee,
Oh is that why I had the option to elect people who are responsible for voting on the very legislation being discussed? I'm constantly surprised. Until now I thought you Americans didn't know what socialism or communism is. Now it turns out you don't know dictatorships either and generally have no political clue at all.