The idea that sex between a minor and an adult is damaging to the minor is a relatively new concept. I don't know where or exactly when it started, but it's really annoying. Some stupid adults got a hangup about sex and projected that hangup onto children. If you treat sex as something pleasurable, then children will learn that it's pleasurable. They won't have negative ideas about sex and sex with adults unless they are taught that way.
So, while the logical fallacy is rather obvious, I will say anyway that I am not against CP or sex with minors.
(Rape is rape, no matter who it's with. Statuary rape is thought-crime.)
You, in the mind of most people who have been exposed to your silly bigotry, consider you ripe for extinction.
Really, who the hell cares what you think of the market position of Apple products? Millions of people like them, including many developers and engineers. You know... people who have a job to do with computers and want quality hardware to do it with. Apple products are reasonably priced, in the main. Most are comparable to the closest competition. Samsung has yet to innovate, so I'd guess you're going to be waiting for a very long time. Please do us a favor and hold your breath in anticipation.
Wow. What a nicely incoherent collection of rambling.
Patents may be "anti-competitive", but that's exactly what they are supposed to be! Thanks for the non sequitur.
It is not despicable that Apple relies (uses) the IP of others. No one creates in a vacuum. They publish the source code for all the Open Source code they use; even the BSD code. They do not (knowingly) violate software licenses. They purchased CUPS, and yet they still make their changes public. They are doing absolutely nothing to remove OS from the marketplace. Your ramblings about Apple's software strategy is completely nonsensical, and is not based in reality.
There is nothing what-so-ever to recommend about your post other than that it's a great essay for the entrance exam of your nearest Bigots-Are-Us club.
You have no grasp of modern economics. If the US starts a global trade war, the US will find it has no markets for its goods. Since the rest of the world isn't insane like you, they will happily trade with each other, pretty much ignoring the US.
Keep in mind that the US uses more petroleum than it can provide from its own resources. Maybe we could "single source" from US sources for a short while, but it wouldn't be more than a few years. When oil is traded in Euros because the US dollar has tanked, buying oil on the global market will be insanely expensive compared to what we pay now.
Protectionism does not work for a country's economy. It causes the economy to crash. It doesn't matter what you think should happen. It only matters that people more knowledgable than you know the consequences.
The historical record shows that trade wars harm everyone. If the US enacts (higher) tariffs, so will other countries in response. That means that US exports cost more, and thus less trade is done. An economy cannot grow without trading partners.
Do you think Verizon was waiting for the hell of it? Just because contract A is up doesn't mean that contract B is instantly ready to go, nor does it mean the hardware is available.
And besides, the terms of AT&T's contract were never made public. The point in time that the exclusivity clause ended is speculation.
If it was a nightmare, Verizon and Sprint would not have jumped at their chance to carry it. Surely Apple would have been happy to not produce a CDMA version, if no one wanted it.
Obarthelemy explicitly mentions the "30% cut of whatever they do allow you to sell on their platform". How you go from there to the $99/year entrance fee is quite mind-boggling.
To a certain degree, it is inevitable that programmers have to make allowances for the limitation of the machine in the way they express themselves. But to create a new language that forces the programmer to be rigid in formatting is just plain stupid. Not even BASIC was ever that bad. FORTRAN abandoned that notion in the 80's. Anyone who actually likes the straight-jacket that is Python should be fitted for a physical jacket.
Linus is arrogant, and honest enough to tell you that himself.
But he has never said that Linux doesn't need a stable driver ABI. He's only said that he doesn't give a shit about anyone who can't write a driver without one. His stance has always been that drivers in the kernel tree are updated for free as the ABI changes, and that drivers outside the tree are not his problem. He is not wrong at all.
Linux is the fastest growing OS (server, mobile, set-top) in the world. Obviously the idea that Linux needs a stable ABI is completely and utterly wrong.
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The idea that sex between a minor and an adult is damaging to the minor is a relatively new concept. I don't know where or exactly when it started, but it's really annoying. Some stupid adults got a hangup about sex and projected that hangup onto children. If you treat sex as something pleasurable, then children will learn that it's pleasurable. They won't have negative ideas about sex and sex with adults unless they are taught that way.
So, while the logical fallacy is rather obvious, I will say anyway that I am not against CP or sex with minors.
(Rape is rape, no matter who it's with. Statuary rape is thought-crime.)
What does that have to do with the Internet?
No, it doesn't.
I think it's hilarious that you refer to WASPs in an article about the Catholic school system. Talk about not thinking too hard!
You, in the mind of most people who have been exposed to your silly bigotry, consider you ripe for extinction.
Really, who the hell cares what you think of the market position of Apple products? Millions of people like them, including many developers and engineers. You know... people who have a job to do with computers and want quality hardware to do it with. Apple products are reasonably priced, in the main. Most are comparable to the closest competition. Samsung has yet to innovate, so I'd guess you're going to be waiting for a very long time. Please do us a favor and hold your breath in anticipation.
Maybe they'd change it so that your head would spontaneously combust the moment you saw it. But oh well, not even Jobs was that good.
Good old slashdot immaturity. Let me retort that it's better to look than to be.
...even if the exact implementation of how to get a computer to do it is not.
That's exactly what would make it patentable. Patents (used to) protect specific implementations of an idea, not the idea itself.
Modern patent law and software patents are a whole 'nother question.
Wow. What a nicely incoherent collection of rambling.
Patents may be "anti-competitive", but that's exactly what they are supposed to be! Thanks for the non sequitur.
It is not despicable that Apple relies (uses) the IP of others. No one creates in a vacuum. They publish the source code for all the Open Source code they use; even the BSD code. They do not (knowingly) violate software licenses. They purchased CUPS, and yet they still make their changes public. They are doing absolutely nothing to remove OS from the marketplace. Your ramblings about Apple's software strategy is completely nonsensical, and is not based in reality.
There is nothing what-so-ever to recommend about your post other than that it's a great essay for the entrance exam of your nearest Bigots-Are-Us club.
What the hell is a "patient" in this context?
At Apple's lawyers know how to choose their words correctly.
I prefer my mobile communication devices to be surly.
You have no grasp of modern economics. If the US starts a global trade war, the US will find it has no markets for its goods. Since the rest of the world isn't insane like you, they will happily trade with each other, pretty much ignoring the US.
Keep in mind that the US uses more petroleum than it can provide from its own resources. Maybe we could "single source" from US sources for a short while, but it wouldn't be more than a few years. When oil is traded in Euros because the US dollar has tanked, buying oil on the global market will be insanely expensive compared to what we pay now.
Protectionism does not work for a country's economy. It causes the economy to crash. It doesn't matter what you think should happen. It only matters that people more knowledgable than you know the consequences.
The historical record shows that trade wars harm everyone. If the US enacts (higher) tariffs, so will other countries in response. That means that US exports cost more, and thus less trade is done. An economy cannot grow without trading partners.
It's even more ridiculous than that. The plunge was from 43.7% to 42.2%.
Has been for years. Are you new here?
Do you think Verizon was waiting for the hell of it? Just because contract A is up doesn't mean that contract B is instantly ready to go, nor does it mean the hardware is available.
And besides, the terms of AT&T's contract were never made public. The point in time that the exclusivity clause ended is speculation.
If it was a nightmare, Verizon and Sprint would not have jumped at their chance to carry it. Surely Apple would have been happy to not produce a CDMA version, if no one wanted it.
No, the OP wasn't saying that at all. It's funny how you somehow twisted his words to imply the exact opposite of what he wrote.
DARPA built the Internet as a nuclear-weapons-resistant communications suite.
No they didn't.
Why is it bad that there are few women in leadership positions in open source?
Obarthelemy explicitly mentions the "30% cut of whatever they do allow you to sell on their platform". How you go from there to the $99/year entrance fee is quite mind-boggling.
To a certain degree, it is inevitable that programmers have to make allowances for the limitation of the machine in the way they express themselves. But to create a new language that forces the programmer to be rigid in formatting is just plain stupid. Not even BASIC was ever that bad. FORTRAN abandoned that notion in the 80's. Anyone who actually likes the straight-jacket that is Python should be fitted for a physical jacket.
Using characters that are, by definition, not supposed to be displayed, is the single most stupid decision ever made in programming languages.
Both platforms will kill an app to make more memory available to foreground apps. The forced killing looks like a crash from the app's perspective.
Linus is arrogant, and honest enough to tell you that himself.
But he has never said that Linux doesn't need a stable driver ABI. He's only said that he doesn't give a shit about anyone who can't write a driver without one. His stance has always been that drivers in the kernel tree are updated for free as the ABI changes, and that drivers outside the tree are not his problem. He is not wrong at all.
Linux is the fastest growing OS (server, mobile, set-top) in the world. Obviously the idea that Linux needs a stable ABI is completely and utterly wrong.