No, the "consumer desktop OS" market is not a Microsoft market. The "iOS market" is a market created and owned by Apple.
There were other consumer desktop OSes out there. There are no other iOSes out there.
You are a moron if you think comparing a product monopoly (Microsoft owning Windows, Apple owning iOS) to a market monopoly (Microsoft dominating the desktop OS market, Apple dominating the smartphone market (which they don't)).
No, I don't hope for a powerful machine. Nintendo tried to go down the power route, and look where that got them. Nowhere. Their "powerful machines" sold extremely poorly. Only the "underpowered" Wii sold like crazy. So no, screw graphics and power. Give us enjoyable games instead.
Sales are down because Nintendo dropped the ball. They stopped making big sellers like Wii Sports and New Super Mario, and produced turds like Metroid: Other M instead.
No one claimed that IP address = person, AFAICT. What was claimed was quite accurate: The IP address can be used to track down the subscriber. Maybe he didn't use the router, but he's the guy who paid for the connection the IP address was assigned to.
Israeli courts have ruled that using human shields is illegal. Thus, it is not condoned by the military commanders. On the other hand, Hamas continues to actively and consistently use civilians as shields.
That mad dog nonsense seems to only be found on Nazi sites and similar racist bigot sites. Sorry, but they have no credibility. And how is Dayan relevant? He's dead!
Treating foreigners differently isn't Apartheid, dear child. And there is no "greater Israel," just areas captured by Israel after they were attacked from there.
Crimes against humanity? You mean like the way Hamas uses its own civilians as human shields to successfully fend off Israeli attacks (because Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties)?
In 48, a tiny handful of powerful countries told the Palestinians that their homeland was no longer theirs.
What homeland? Did the Palestinians own the land the Jews were living on after mostly settling on uninhabited land, or buying land off of the previous owner?
No, they did not. So stop spewing nonsensical garbage.
No they don't. If you are born somewhere and someone buys it off you, they have the right to live there, not you. And guess what, the areas the Jews settled in were mostly uninhabited, or they bought the land off of the previous owner. Only after the Jews had turned desert and swamp into fertile land did the Arabs start flocking back (they had largely migrated into the large cities when the Jewish refugee waves started arriving).
They used Britain's colonial power to give them a bit of someone else's land
This is a blatant lie. The fact is that the UN partition plan was carefully based around where people actually lived. So while the Arabs got huge areas of land, the Jews also got a small piece of land because they actually lived there (having settled on available land, or bought land from the previous owners).
Palestine was not someone else's land. It was to become the land of those who lived there. And many of them were Jews.
It is racist to demand that the Arabs should get everything and the Jews nothing.
The results are everyone's fault but most of all the Allies who set it all up.
So your suggestion is... Ignore the Jews and just create a massive Arab state where Jews would be terrorized, and once again forced to flee somewhere else?
If you live in a country where there's sometimes tensions over immigration then imagine what it would be like if you'd been under the sway of a colonial power for a long time, and that power then decided to take a part of your land and give it as a new country to a group of people who had mostly left the area hundreds of years ago.
Except Palestine was never a country. It was a piece of land. Please educate yourself.
The land belonged to whoever happened to own the land at the time.
And it just so happens that Jews bought land from the previous owners, or settled in parts that were not inhabited.
There were no Palestinians in 1948. Palestinians as a group didn't exist until 1968.
The fact is that Jews settled on available land, or bought it from the previous owners, and that was perfectly legal. Then Britain decided to give the inhabitants ownership of the land. Having a single state was impossible, so they divided it into a Jewish state, as well as massive areas that were to be two or more Arab states.
But the Arabs wanted all the land to themselves, so they attacked Israel.
Your knowledge if history is terrible. Please educate yourself.
The siege of Gaza is ongoing collective punishment.
The blockade of Gaza is there because of the constant attacks against Israeli civilians.
Israeli forces committed what would be considered piracy if civilians had done it against a humanitarian aid convoy.
Israeli forces did not commit anything even close to piracy. Israel enforced a legal blockade. As long as the ships had declared that their intention was to breach the blockade, they were fair game. Israel's actions were perfectly legal.
Quit it with the red herrings. This is not about open-source. This is about an industry cartel trying to hold back and gain control over its main competitor through threats and manipulation.
The MPEG-LA is not a standards group, and not affiliated with the MPEG. It is an industry cartel which is now trying to gain control over its main competitor (VP8) through the use of patent threats, and by setting up a patent pool for the competing technology.
You Google haters crack me up. You think this is about Google? No, it's about VP8 as a format, which reaches far beyond Google. It affects an entire industry. Stop obsessing over Google already.
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There were other consumer desktop OSes out there. There are no other iOSes out there.
You are a moron if you think comparing a product monopoly (Microsoft owning Windows, Apple owning iOS) to a market monopoly (Microsoft dominating the desktop OS market, Apple dominating the smartphone market (which they don't)).
Yes, it is very different. Windows was a monopolist OS. iPhone is not a monopoly (Apple does not hold a monopoly on smartphones).
Monopoly is purely about market share. Having a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing it is.
More likely at Apple. Apple fanboys hate Google more than they hate Microsoft these days.
No, I don't hope for a powerful machine. Nintendo tried to go down the power route, and look where that got them. Nowhere. Their "powerful machines" sold extremely poorly. Only the "underpowered" Wii sold like crazy. So no, screw graphics and power. Give us enjoyable games instead.
Sales are down because Nintendo dropped the ball. They stopped making big sellers like Wii Sports and New Super Mario, and produced turds like Metroid: Other M instead.
No one claimed that IP address = person, AFAICT. What was claimed was quite accurate: The IP address can be used to track down the subscriber. Maybe he didn't use the router, but he's the guy who paid for the connection the IP address was assigned to.
And Israel does indeed try to minimize civilian casualties. Otherwise they wouldn't have halted attacks because of civilians gatherings.
That mad dog nonsense seems to only be found on Nazi sites and similar racist bigot sites. Sorry, but they have no credibility. And how is Dayan relevant? He's dead!
Did you even read what I wrote? I pointed out that they bought the land off the owners, or settled in areas that were not owned by anyone else. Geez.
Treating foreigners differently isn't Apartheid, dear child. And there is no "greater Israel," just areas captured by Israel after they were attacked from there.
Israel did not start the 6 day war. Egypt did.
What?
Crimes against humanity? You mean like the way Hamas uses its own civilians as human shields to successfully fend off Israeli attacks (because Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties)?
What homeland? Did the Palestinians own the land the Jews were living on after mostly settling on uninhabited land, or buying land off of the previous owner?
No, they did not. So stop spewing nonsensical garbage.
What country?
No they don't. If you are born somewhere and someone buys it off you, they have the right to live there, not you. And guess what, the areas the Jews settled in were mostly uninhabited, or they bought the land off of the previous owner. Only after the Jews had turned desert and swamp into fertile land did the Arabs start flocking back (they had largely migrated into the large cities when the Jewish refugee waves started arriving).
This is a blatant lie. The fact is that the UN partition plan was carefully based around where people actually lived. So while the Arabs got huge areas of land, the Jews also got a small piece of land because they actually lived there (having settled on available land, or bought land from the previous owners).
Palestine was not someone else's land. It was to become the land of those who lived there. And many of them were Jews.
It is racist to demand that the Arabs should get everything and the Jews nothing.
So your suggestion is... Ignore the Jews and just create a massive Arab state where Jews would be terrorized, and once again forced to flee somewhere else?
Except Palestine was never a country. It was a piece of land. Please educate yourself.
And it just so happens that Jews bought land from the previous owners, or settled in parts that were not inhabited.
There were no Palestinians in 1948. Palestinians as a group didn't exist until 1968.
The fact is that Jews settled on available land, or bought it from the previous owners, and that was perfectly legal. Then Britain decided to give the inhabitants ownership of the land. Having a single state was impossible, so they divided it into a Jewish state, as well as massive areas that were to be two or more Arab states.
But the Arabs wanted all the land to themselves, so they attacked Israel.
Your knowledge if history is terrible. Please educate yourself.
The blockade of Gaza is there because of the constant attacks against Israeli civilians.
Israeli forces did not commit anything even close to piracy. Israel enforced a legal blockade. As long as the ships had declared that their intention was to breach the blockade, they were fair game. Israel's actions were perfectly legal.
Israel started the 6 Day War by attacking a US ship during the 6 Day War? Cool story, bro. Excellent example of racist logic.
Quit it with the red herrings. This is not about open-source. This is about an industry cartel trying to hold back and gain control over its main competitor through threats and manipulation.
The MPEG-LA is not a standards group, and not affiliated with the MPEG. It is an industry cartel which is now trying to gain control over its main competitor (VP8) through the use of patent threats, and by setting up a patent pool for the competing technology.
You Google haters crack me up. You think this is about Google? No, it's about VP8 as a format, which reaches far beyond Google. It affects an entire industry. Stop obsessing over Google already.
They pick a major industry cartel which engages in mafia-like behavior. Why is this "facepalm"?
Google is a monopoly according to the legal definition (has at least 50% of the market), but being a monopoly is not necessary illegal nor immoral.