I must disagree. You do not only think you've learnt how to speak. You are actually doing reasonably well. You have to improve your vocabulary levels a lot but given your limitations it is a great advance.
Most closed source systems need constant maintenance, and save for your personal systems, which are just a small part of what you use, you don't choose to use anything. You use what is imposed upon you, and should be grateful that are smarter people making sure those things are there for you to use.
He was one of the World's most failed decision maker too. He alone almost destroyed Apple before being forced to retire. The fact that he got many opportunities and managed to get lucky in one of them does not make him a great decision maker in any way.
Wrong and immoral is to game the system and submit thousands of patents of trivial things and things of which prior use is well known and troll other companies into submission with them, in the hope of achieving market monopoly.
Illegal was what he did, by making a conspiracy to fix employees salaries through agreements with CEOs of other companies:
The market is not doing well. Things like MS UEFI, locked mobile devices and centralization of applications in stores controlled by a few big corporations is just the beginning of the very dark times that are coming. A lesson History shows time and time again is that where there is concentration of power there is abuse, and the abuse just gets worse as time goes.
But he was not. I made a simple statement. If he disagrees with the statement it should be because he had facts to contest it. So the natural thing to do is to expose the flaws of the statement in light of those facts, which he did not. He preferred to make it a challenge of wits, and so that is what he got.
Depends how you define "enhance", but your question brings one of the main problems about software patents and even patents as a whole. It is impossible to objectively define what is a valid patent and what is not.
You, from your delusional bubble, don't even realize that your system isn't the only system you use. You use hundreds of different systems per year and a lot of them wouldn't work for even a day without constant maintenance of your "useless" geeks. Without them your world simply doesn't work.
On the other hand, I would bet you could disappear and nobody would even notice.
Apple did nothing, they just got a lot of prior art ideas and managed to patent them exactly because the patent office is a mess. One by one those patents are falling, but there is still much mess and patent trolling ahead.
Furthermore, software patents are something that shouldn't even exist.
If you had made a post contesting what I said with facts I could be tempted to answer you with facts. Considering you decided to be childish you got what you deserved.
RMS never forced anything into anyone and never will, it would go against everything he defends. Jobs on the other hand did nothing but to copy other people's ideas, having the nerve to patent them, and marketed them well. After failing several times in similar attempts.
It is people like you that are the problem, my good anonymous sir. People who want so eagerly to be slaves that they resent anybody else who does not. You are the sour grape, the willing subservient slave that traded freedom for a bit of comfort and will likely see it bite you in the ass, rest assured. You know you bent and you envy and despise people that did not because you know they are what you can never be.
Cute. If you have lived the last decades disconnected from our world it would even make sense, but by all means keep hiding your head under the ground.
Keep repeating this, Mr Anonymous Coward who posts in a geek site and apparently doesn't have enough self-awareness to understand he is every bit as geekish as everyone he so much despises. Worse than that, you are a geekish fanboy, which brings your mental age to around 3 or 4 years. That is a disorder and you should treat yourself.
Oh it happened in the past, but their power continuously increased since then. Today their power and influence is incomparably greater than it was even a few decades ago. Capitalism is very valid and quite a good economical system, but laissez-faire capitalism doesn't exist, never existed and belongs to the realm of fantasy together with non authoritarian comunism, anarchy and many other ideas that cannot ever work in our world because they ignore human nature.
There is no capitalism regimen in the world that exists without a lot of regulation. Even in US the regulations are many and some are very strong. That alone shows that the market cannot regulate things on its own, at least not alone anymore.
Jobs was an egomaniac ass who made more harm to the industry than anyone else and contributed to basically nothing. Hopefully when Apple finally sinks, as it certainly will, we won't even remember of him anymore.
Because the market is not that good in doing so anymore for sometime now. Adam Smith theory does not work anymore save for very few scenarios. There are big corporations with too much power to influence the market and do as their will, regardless of the user's wishes.
Well, he is a citizen. He can try to change and fix this in his country (as he does). He can't do a thing about Argentina except refusing to go back, though.
No it does not, but then again we don't need them to exist at all. There are times you must compromise, but there are times you must stand for what you believe. You don't need to compromise with big corporations. They are a cancer and should be purged.
That is true, but not doing it keep costing money continuously. So yes, in the short term it will be more costly than keeping things as they are. In the long term, though, it is worth the effort.
Not exactly true. Certainly the majority of the aeronautic industry uses the Imperial System, but it is not even close to universal, and it actually creates a lot of problems when multinational projects are done, like cooperative aeroespatial projects.
Well, governments do, because it costs them a lot to keep with bad standards and they have the power to enforce any standard they like. Furthermore anyone that has half a brain understand why the current measure system used in US is horribly designed.
Languages are a good example. You need different tools to accomplish different tasks. While it is perfectly acceptable to have an ambiguous language like English for general communication it is not good enough for other tasks. That is why in Mathematics the standardized Math language is used instead, for example.
Governments impose standards all the time, because it is necessary. Entities like the FCC exist in great part to do this. Imagine for example what would happen if every US city had a different measure system. Nothing would match. Ever. Gee, you can break it down even more, imagine if everybody had his own measure system.
Keeping using one badly designed measure system while the whole world use another clearly superior is not only stubbornness but stupidity.
It is actually the whole enchilada, and no, I do not "know" whatever seem obvious to you about it.
Regarding the influence of piracy in sells, no scientific consensus exists to determine what you are so sure about without any real data to back your conclusions. Nobody really knows if there is a correlation, if it exist what is its nature, and much less if it is significant.
Regarding DRM, the nature of piracy is such that once one "warez" copy appears it will be distributed exponentially. In the end DRM does absolutely nothing to deter piracy because the cracked version is always easily available.
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I must disagree. You do not only think you've learnt how to speak. You are actually doing reasonably well. You have to improve your vocabulary levels a lot but given your limitations it is a great advance.
Most closed source systems need constant maintenance, and save for your personal systems, which are just a small part of what you use, you don't choose to use anything. You use what is imposed upon you, and should be grateful that are smarter people making sure those things are there for you to use.
Wrong and immoral is to game the system and submit thousands of patents of trivial things and things of which prior use is well known and troll other companies into submission with them, in the hope of achieving market monopoly.
Illegal was what he did, by making a conspiracy to fix employees salaries through agreements with CEOs of other companies:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/steve-jobs-antitrust/
The market is not doing well. Things like MS UEFI, locked mobile devices and centralization of applications in stores controlled by a few big corporations is just the beginning of the very dark times that are coming. A lesson History shows time and time again is that where there is concentration of power there is abuse, and the abuse just gets worse as time goes.
But he was not. I made a simple statement. If he disagrees with the statement it should be because he had facts to contest it. So the natural thing to do is to expose the flaws of the statement in light of those facts, which he did not. He preferred to make it a challenge of wits, and so that is what he got.
Depends how you define "enhance", but your question brings one of the main problems about software patents and even patents as a whole. It is impossible to objectively define what is a valid patent and what is not.
You, from your delusional bubble, don't even realize that your system isn't the only system you use. You use hundreds of different systems per year and a lot of them wouldn't work for even a day without constant maintenance of your "useless" geeks. Without them your world simply doesn't work.
On the other hand, I would bet you could disappear and nobody would even notice.
Apple did nothing, they just got a lot of prior art ideas and managed to patent them exactly because the patent office is a mess. One by one those patents are falling, but there is still much mess and patent trolling ahead.
Furthermore, software patents are something that shouldn't even exist.
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If you had made a post contesting what I said with facts I could be tempted to answer you with facts. Considering you decided to be childish you got what you deserved.
RMS never forced anything into anyone and never will, it would go against everything he defends. Jobs on the other hand did nothing but to copy other people's ideas, having the nerve to patent them, and marketed them well. After failing several times in similar attempts.
It is people like you that are the problem, my good anonymous sir. People who want so eagerly to be slaves that they resent anybody else who does not. You are the sour grape, the willing subservient slave that traded freedom for a bit of comfort and will likely see it bite you in the ass, rest assured. You know you bent and you envy and despise people that did not because you know they are what you can never be.
What is your next step? To cry and go to your mom, complaining that the big bad slashdoter abused you?
Cute. If you have lived the last decades disconnected from our world it would even make sense, but by all means keep hiding your head under the ground.
Keep repeating this, Mr Anonymous Coward who posts in a geek site and apparently doesn't have enough self-awareness to understand he is every bit as geekish as everyone he so much despises. Worse than that, you are a geekish fanboy, which brings your mental age to around 3 or 4 years. That is a disorder and you should treat yourself.
Oh it happened in the past, but their power continuously increased since then. Today their power and influence is incomparably greater than it was even a few decades ago. Capitalism is very valid and quite a good economical system, but laissez-faire capitalism doesn't exist, never existed and belongs to the realm of fantasy together with non authoritarian comunism, anarchy and many other ideas that cannot ever work in our world because they ignore human nature.
There is no capitalism regimen in the world that exists without a lot of regulation. Even in US the regulations are many and some are very strong. That alone shows that the market cannot regulate things on its own, at least not alone anymore.
All you have to contribute is an ad hominen attack against a reference? A source that unlike you have arguments. Why do you bother to post at all?
Jobs was an egomaniac ass who made more harm to the industry than anyone else and contributed to basically nothing. Hopefully when Apple finally sinks, as it certainly will, we won't even remember of him anymore.
Because the market is not that good in doing so anymore for sometime now. Adam Smith theory does not work anymore save for very few scenarios. There are big corporations with too much power to influence the market and do as their will, regardless of the user's wishes.
Well, he is a citizen. He can try to change and fix this in his country (as he does). He can't do a thing about Argentina except refusing to go back, though.
No it does not, but then again we don't need them to exist at all. There are times you must compromise, but there are times you must stand for what you believe. You don't need to compromise with big corporations. They are a cancer and should be purged.
That is true, but not doing it keep costing money continuously. So yes, in the short term it will be more costly than keeping things as they are. In the long term, though, it is worth the effort.
Not exactly true. Certainly the majority of the aeronautic industry uses the Imperial System, but it is not even close to universal, and it actually creates a lot of problems when multinational projects are done, like cooperative aeroespatial projects.
Well, governments do, because it costs them a lot to keep with bad standards and they have the power to enforce any standard they like. Furthermore anyone that has half a brain understand why the current measure system used in US is horribly designed.
Languages are a good example. You need different tools to accomplish different tasks. While it is perfectly acceptable to have an ambiguous language like English for general communication it is not good enough for other tasks. That is why in Mathematics the standardized Math language is used instead, for example.
Governments impose standards all the time, because it is necessary. Entities like the FCC exist in great part to do this. Imagine for example what would happen if every US city had a different measure system. Nothing would match. Ever. Gee, you can break it down even more, imagine if everybody had his own measure system.
Keeping using one badly designed measure system while the whole world use another clearly superior is not only stubbornness but stupidity.
It is actually the whole enchilada, and no, I do not "know" whatever seem obvious to you about it.
Regarding the influence of piracy in sells, no scientific consensus exists to determine what you are so sure about without any real data to back your conclusions. Nobody really knows if there is a correlation, if it exist what is its nature, and much less if it is significant.
Regarding DRM, the nature of piracy is such that once one "warez" copy appears it will be distributed exponentially. In the end DRM does absolutely nothing to deter piracy because the cracked version is always easily available.