to the apple apologists, especially the ones who modded me down: I worked at a Mac-only store and loaded OSX the day it came out on a partition of my G3-500. I loaded it perfectly, and everything crawled. Anytime I wanted to run anything, "classic" mode" opened and the overall performance was far, far worse than 9.1. I proceeded to put Yellow Dog on the other partition, which was far superior to OSX. I noticed none of you actually tried to argue against the main thrust of my post when you modded me down for saying anything negaitve about your precious company. Suckers.
Apple has a longstanding policy of being hostile to their customers and resenting backwards compatability. The next step is the new ipod that can play two types of files - the old school itms files, and the "new and groundbreaking, far superior files." Then they will stop producing the old files altogether, or in some other way make the old school ipods incompatable with the "new" itms so you won't be able to use the store. Then all new ipods will only be compatable with the new files / new itms. Your old ipod is completely unable to be upgraded. You are screwed. Congratulations on being suckered into Apple! [at least, that's what they did to me with my imac & the OSX it couldn't run.)
If people were not allowed to sell patents, that would leave patent protection only for those who had the capital to mass produce their inventions. What about the guy who has a million ideas, but only a hundred dollars? Of course we should let him sell his ideas to those who can do something with them!
The monopoly given by the government is in exchange for sharing your invention with the world. The patent system increases the amount of publicly owned ideas by giving this carrot to those who might otherwise keep their new knowledge to themselves.
And the patent system also protects the little guy against having a big-capital rich corporation take his idea and use it for their greedy profit. This is a good thing.
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I don't give a damn if this is offtopic or not. Sometime, somewhere, you will get some nasty ass real Karma for that link.
to the apple apologists, especially the ones who modded me down:
I worked at a Mac-only store and loaded OSX the day it came out on a partition of my G3-500. I loaded it perfectly, and everything crawled. Anytime I wanted to run anything, "classic" mode" opened and the overall performance was far, far worse than 9.1. I proceeded to put Yellow Dog on the other partition, which was far superior to OSX. I noticed none of you actually tried to argue against the main thrust of my post when you modded me down for saying anything negaitve about your precious company. Suckers.
Apple has a longstanding policy of being hostile to their customers and resenting backwards compatability. The next step is the new ipod that can play two types of files - the old school itms files, and the "new and groundbreaking, far superior files." Then they will stop producing the old files altogether, or in some other way make the old school ipods incompatable with the "new" itms so you won't be able to use the store. Then all new ipods will only be compatable with the new files / new itms. Your old ipod is completely unable to be upgraded. You are screwed. Congratulations on being suckered into Apple! [at least, that's what they did to me with my imac & the OSX it couldn't run.)
If people were not allowed to sell patents, that would leave patent protection only for those who had the capital to mass produce their inventions. What about the guy who has a million ideas, but only a hundred dollars? Of course we should let him sell his ideas to those who can do something with them!
The monopoly given by the government is in exchange for sharing your invention with the world. The patent system increases the amount of publicly owned ideas by giving this carrot to those who might otherwise keep their new knowledge to themselves.
And the patent system also protects the little guy against having a big-capital rich corporation take his idea and use it for their greedy profit. This is a good thing.
"Honorable" is an appropriate title for both judges and congressmen, although it is very rare to hear a congressman referred to as "your honor."