Apple is the new Microsoft. Any criticism of Microsoft is at this point misdirection from the real threat.
Just think of what would happen if the fanboy dream became reality: one cellphone, one mobile platform, and Apple has complete control. The future of mobile computing, of communication, of the Internet everywhere not chained to a desk, would be theirs to direct and constrain.
And you know they will do it, too, are doing it, because it is in their nature. Software is a means to an end for them, it is just the sugar that moves hardware. Choice in software is antithetical to their existence, much more than it is to Microsoft.
It's called price discrimination. Are you saying they shouldn't have the right to choose the price at which they sell the goods that they own, that they produced? Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
If someone has an allergic reaction to something, it is the allergic person's fault (physiologically, at least), rather than the manufacturer. Perhaps they need a warning on a vaccines that says: WARNING: vaccine may contain vaccine.
While they're being accused of squandering billions, it is quite possible that they have provided that much value to the industry as a whole. What the investors are really complaining about is their inability to produce something unique and patentable that is so compelling it sells licenses regardless of the (lack of) value elsewhere.
Oh, dear, I hadn't realized that empires have been undone by a few mouse clicks. Indeed, in real life, all it takes is one lieutenant to get the keys to the briefcase with the button, and suddenly everyone follows his orders without question.
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Apple is the new Microsoft. Any criticism of Microsoft is at this point misdirection from the real threat.
Just think of what would happen if the fanboy dream became reality: one cellphone, one mobile platform, and Apple has complete control. The future of mobile computing, of communication, of the Internet everywhere not chained to a desk, would be theirs to direct and constrain.
And you know they will do it, too, are doing it, because it is in their nature. Software is a means to an end for them, it is just the sugar that moves hardware. Choice in software is antithetical to their existence, much more than it is to Microsoft.
Printing trillions of dollars at a time when you are already close
Am I the only thinking that he believes that's literally what they're doing?
It will probably find evidence of vast machine intelligences like itself and decide not to tell us.
Isn't using Eclipse without the editor kind of pointless?
Hahah, you have a crappy job.
Playing video games... on a blue ray player? How deliciously absurd!
Giving odds for finding a theoretical particle is like giving odds on finding life in the solar system.
So it's one, then?
Crystal life? Frankly, I find the idea of a rock that lives offensive!
It's called price discrimination. Are you saying they shouldn't have the right to choose the price at which they sell the goods that they own, that they produced? Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Technology won't stop a magic bullet. You need an appropriately powerful protective charm for that.
Really? I saw fireworks.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
That sounds like a feat of engineering, not science.
Who let you out of the concent? Don't you have a naval to gaze at?
If someone has an allergic reaction to something, it is the allergic person's fault (physiologically, at least), rather than the manufacturer. Perhaps they need a warning on a vaccines that says: WARNING: vaccine may contain vaccine.
Errors should hurt, or you'll keep making them.
While they're being accused of squandering billions, it is quite possible that they have provided that much value to the industry as a whole. What the investors are really complaining about is their inability to produce something unique and patentable that is so compelling it sells licenses regardless of the (lack of) value elsewhere.
Actually yes, a whole lot of people who call themselves techies are stupid.
Actually, every person who calls himself "techie" is stupid. But the average person who creates technology is smarter than the average lawyer.
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Perhaps you watching a different version of the show than I
Heh, you watch that show.
The other half is Microsoft Songsmith. What happens when you put them together in a feedback loop?
Dude, you're Orwellian.
It wasn't a hacked account. It was a coup-de-tat. It is part of the intended game mechanics, and thus within the rules.
EVE Online: If you don't have guild drama, then you're not playing it right.
Dude, you passed "almost" back at "there are no bars in Utah".
Oh, dear, I hadn't realized that empires have been undone by a few mouse clicks. Indeed, in real life, all it takes is one lieutenant to get the keys to the briefcase with the button, and suddenly everyone follows his orders without question.
A game that supposedly about space combat and empire building is really about playground social engineering and back-stabbing.