None of that really changes my point though. Just because someone who is obviously heavily involved with FOSS gets a lot of bugs fixed, doesn't mean that everyone using Linux is going to get their bugs fixed. It's anecdotal evidence from someone who is obviously not average. The GP is obviously a contributor to FOSS, she uses her real name when doing this contribution and she will have a reputation within the community. Add in understanding how the system works, how to file bug reports(and more than likely an understanding of what kind of bugs/features will actually get fixed/implemented) and you'll see someone whose reports will get in front of the eyes of people who can act on the information. A regular person isn't going to get that from Linux any more than they will from Microsoft.
The main reason I use MSE is that it does an adequate job and unlike every one of the competitors free or otherwise, installing it isn't worse than getting infected with Malware. Last time I used either AVG or Avast it was like infecting my PC on purpose. I'll pass up some protection against zero days(which is spotty at best anyway) in exchange for not installing crap.
Microsoft don't see it because it isn't necessarily true.
The reason why OS upgrades suck for business users is that every 3 years or so Microsoft releases a new OS which is significantly different than the previous one and which most software vendors won't support without a version upgrade which is also generally significantly different than the previous version. In addition this upgrade tends to involve either a massive capital outlay or spreading the upgrade over hardware generations(meaning the PC you installed yesterday won't get the new OS for about 4-5 years depending on how you write down your assets for tax purposes). This means that every 3 years or so you have to spend a huge amount of cash and do about a years worth of testing and upgrading. Business of course doesn't like this.
On the other hand, things like service packs are a lot less of a horror. If upgrades happened in smaller more manageable amounts, it might be a lot less horrible. If it only cost you a month a year to test and deploy an update as opposed to a year every 4, you'd be laughing even if there was a small capital cost.
I build my own PCs and with the notable exception of the Sound Blaster Audigy(which simply had no functional driver for either Vista or Linux for the better part of a year) I haven't had hardware not detect since I moved from XP to Vista a bunch of years back and even with XP if I'd bothered to slipstream the service packs in I'd for the most part have been fine.
I can't really comment on Linux as I'd stopped using it a few years back when my "faffing about" time allocations dropped to zero and I couldn't find the time to reinstall it. When I did use it I ran Gentoo with custom kernel options because largely speaking "faffing about" was what I was trying to do so automatic driver detection wasn't as such something that I was expecting.
The fact that you have thousands of FOSS bug reports means you a member in good standing in the FOSS community, which from a "getting my problems fixed" perspective is a lot like being a Fortune 100 company is for Microsoft.
The real fun thing about the XP licensing now is that the OEM licenses coming with any new kit you buy with Windows 8 on it only allow you to downgrade to Vista.
The simplest way to say it is that MySQL is really more of a data store than a database. You can store stuff in it, and it'll get the data back reasonably efficiently, but in terms of actually operating as a proper compliant database for critical information it just isn't designed that way. It works great for storing the back end for your web server, but if you wanted to store complex data in it and needed it to be 100% accurate, transactional, and reliable, the product just doesn't fit the bill. For all that it's got a paid "enteprise" edition, it's really more in the space of something like SQLite or SQL CE than it is in the space of Oracle, and again it's not an issue of whether it can scale or whether it's buggy, it just simply isn't designed to be compliant to the required level. That's largely the reason it works so well as a LAMP back end and is so easy to administer, but it just isn't fit for purpose for much more.
May US people don't seem to like the idea of the government doing things they don't want done regardless of the value of the thing being done, it's constitutionality or popularity. These people generally define any such things as "big government", whereas everything they do approve of is "small government". It's how every libertarians hero Ron Paul can be pro "small government" while simultaneously supporting the right of the government to tell you who you can or cannot marry, among other things. There are a few genuine loonies who like to dress up anarchy in libertarian clothing, but the vast majority of the people who call for "small government" are simply self serving hypocrites who beat the "small government" drum as an excuse to object to things they don't like while not appearing like selfish ass hats. It also has the added advantage politically that everybody thinks the government does things which shouldn't be done, so your particular cause no matter how insane, selfish or otherwise horrendous can start out with people agreeing with you, especially if they don't finish listening.
I don't either, but I understand a bit of what's going on. Essentially it's sort of complicated.
Part of why data is so expensive is because the phone companies have to keep investing in new infrastructure to deliver the speeds that people expect from their phones in this day and age and the phone companies have to make their money back(and ideally earn a profit). Part of it has to do with the fact that while voice is technically data, the way voice traffic is transmitted, even in a cell network isn't really the same as the way data is, and we've gotten very good at encoding voice over the last hundred years or so which means that a minute talking on the phone doesn't use the same amount of bandwidth as one minute using your maximum 4g bandwidth(and generally only involves peering with other players in the same market).
For the most part though, the reason why voice is so much cheaper than data is because it's a phone and however much people don't actually talk on them much anymore, if phone calls were super expensive no one would buy the things.
Actually, vertical integration is one of the definitions of a monopoly, and you could be a monopoly even if your market share in every segment was virtually non existent. Since Google will be vertically integrated(or fairly close to anyway), and have massive market share in some of those segments, they'd be pretty much a text book monopoly.
Of course Google is the poster child for American innovation so no matter how much they don't innovate or how much they distort the market or break the law, nothing of any consequence will happen to them.
Actually I live in Australia now, and I do vote independent because we have instant run off voting here so I can mark a second choice.
My point however is the fact that it's not as simple a choice as people make it out to be. I may have my disappointments with Obama, but as I said in my original post, compromising from 96 to 80 is worth avoiding 15.
Except of course whatever my objections to surveillance cameras might be, they're not a creepy fuck shoving a camera into your face. The harassment isn't as such the photography(though photography isn't quite as protected as you might think, more protected than cops like to think, but not as protected as you think), it's the creepy fuck shoving a camera in your personal space, following you around and generally making you feel threatened.
I went and did the little survey thing on isidewith.com and unsurprisingly I have a 96% match with Jill Stein, by your theory I should vote for her, the problem is that I have an 80% match with Obama and only 15% with Mitt Romney. This isn't a case of the lesser of two evils, it's about choosing the candidate who is capable of winning and whose values most closely match my own. I can see if you disagree strongly with both major parties you should vote third party because you've got nothing to lose, but for most people that's not the case.
FFS, first to file doesn't mean what you think it does, it doesn't negate prior art, it just means that if two idiots come to the patent office at the same time instead of spending years trying to work out which idiot actually developed whatever it is first, they just give it to the idiot who submitted their paperwork first. If said idea has been published for the last 5 years by someone else it's still legally patent rejected just like it is now(at least in theory).
If you've kept your idea secret and not published it and someone else patents it then yes you're Shit Outta Luck, but that's it.
I didn't develop for it, I only used it. It's the Symbian OS and it's referred to for compatibility purposes as Series 60. When I say "Symbian Series 60" or even "Symbian 60" you know damned well what I mean and you also know it was a massively shitty OS. Maybe as an ex Nokia employee you'd rather focus on the technicalities of what it was actually called instead of the fact that it was the face of Nokia seen by most customers and was the worst smart phone OS to ever exist, but that's beside the point really. S60 is why the Apple iPhone exists, it's why Android exists, and it's why Nokia is about to go out of business instead of being the market leader. It was, is, and will continue to be a steaming pile of shit.
Yes, it's an old version of Symbian, and technically it's called Symbian Series 60, but it's what was on nearly all the phones Nokia was selling in the market. It's what was forging their reputation. Yes they had better phones, but they cost as much as an iPhone and were much crappier so why bother.
Except that that's a bit like saying that if Apple could just sell 30 times more Macs they'd have the majority of the desktop market. True in theory, but unrealistic. Symbian 60 sucked royally, it was the worst phone OS I've ever used to the extent that it made the hardware seem cheap and unreliable. I've heard that some of the phones that got a more recent version of Symbian didn't suck and that Meego was passable, but no one was buying those phones, and the development of those operating systems was costing Nokia a fortune.
Nokia got shafted in their deal with Microsoft(as did everyone who bought a Lumia this year), but don't go pretending that Nokia wasn't already down the shitter well before Elop got there. The deal they made was a bit like putting it all on red, but the alternative wasn't any better.
Government always governs with the consent of the people, because you can always choose not to be governed. Yes they might throw you in jail or execute you for doing so, but you always have that power. It's part of the most fundamental core of freedom, your choice to die. If enough people agree with you the government topples always has, always will.
My point about government and human nature is that it isn't government that's evil, it's people who are, you don't get rid of the evil by eliminating government which is really only a tool. Government is not a monopoly on force, it's a consolidation of force. We as citizens of a country delegate our natural right to make laws to a body which represents us, we do this because it isn't democracy that is chains, it's life. Every relationship you form is a chain, some are chains you choose, some are not, but the only way to escape them isn't to destroy government, it's to destroy society, because society is links binding people together, give and take, good and bad. You can't have the one without the other, which is my whole point. By rejecting those chains you reject people, and if you try to do that without giving up all the good things that come with those chains, if you just try to free yourself while taking all the things that society builds then it's you who become the parasite.
In actuality, when Microsoft talks about "C++ being a first class citizen" they actually mean managed C++ which compiles into the.NET CLR. Using unmanaged C++ is an option, but it's definitely about a third class citizen.
Because I actually read what you and others respond to my statements, and I see nothing to change my opinion.
The "state" isn't some horrible foreign entity, it's people, it's you and it's me, and it's your neighbor, and the woman from around the corner, it's all of us. Government, every single one in all of human history is formed as a way to make the involuntary association known as humanity function. It exists, and has always existed, solely with the consent of those it governs. This is as true of China as it is of the US, as it was of Ancient Rome or any other country. It's not perfect, it's an attempt to compromise, it's cruel, and it's horrendous and tyrannical because we are. We fear and we hate, we are greedy and selfish and so is the government we choose for ourselves. This is as true now as it has ever been and as it ever will be.
Libertarianism is no different, your ideal will create a government, a state for the simple reason that we need each other and always have, the world getting smaller only makes that more true not less. We need people to work out where the roads will go, where the internet cables will go, and we need them to do so on a big enough scale that things actually work, someone needs to build all that be it governments we elect or private companies we choose or any other formation you want to try.
Since in the end the result will be the same, I have to look at the founding principles of a philosophy to judge it, and its adherents. The core idea of the Libertarian philosophy is ME. It's about choosing what parts of society I want to belong to. It's about choosing what laws will apply on MY land. It's about the free market giving ME what I deserve and letting me keep what I have. It's all rights, no responsibilities, no compromise except with people who think exactly the way that I do.
At its core every explanation of Libertarian ideology I have heard, including all those provided by you is about the freedom to choose not to give up anything of MINE mixed with a fantasy that the state is some evil and unnatural thing we can do without, usually on Slashdot through the magical use of technology as if we don't all come here over the most gigantic, world encompassing central infrastructure man has ever known.
I will change my opinion of Libertarianism and perhaps even give it a modicum of respect the second I hear a single explanation of its values that is concerned with what happens to anyone who I don't 100% agree with. You and all those who have come before you have failed to provide that, just more "I", "Me" and "Freedom".
I am not a Statist, I am not a Communist, I believe in the free market, but I believe it is a tool we use not a god we follow. I believe that we should care about others and use the government that is, after all, just us to provide for people in need, and I believe that for all its faults, through the government that is us, we can do that more effectively than any charity, church or voluntary association can. I do not fail to see or understand your world view, but I reject it utterly.
It's exactly like anarchism because it involves the core presumption that the world will somehow just work out. That's the core of pure anarchism in the same way it is the core of pure libertarian philosophy. If we just get rid of all these governments then somehow, someway, millions of years of human history will prove to be wrong, we'll somehow get everyone to follow the non aggression principle, and then we'll somehow make it all work out, billions of people in a world you can go round in a bit over a day with new laws every 30 feet. It's a fantasy, it's the "but if everyone thought exactly like me it'd be perfect" well guess what if everyone thought exactly like each other pretty much any government works out, democracy, dictatorships, they all work fine when you don't have any kind of diversity.
You can give excuses like "if we have problems it's because we haven't gotten there", but it's the same crap that every crazy ideology goes with. Communists, Anarchists, hell it's the same lie most tyrants tell themselves "I'll be able to stop killing them as soon as we're there and they all see what I'm doing" it really doesn't matter which fantasy is behind it.
Libertarianism is just a slightly less honest version of anarchism. The political sentiments are pretty much the same and both are equally untenable, but the libertarians wrap theirs up with ideals about private property to pretend they aren't just a bunch of crazies.
Anyone who believes fundamentally that everything ought to be private falls into one of two categories. People who believe that when everything turns private they will be one of the people running the show and idiots who think that the first group of people won't be worse than any government which has ever existed.
Google isn't fragmenting their market because they don't sell tablets, they sell advertising based on all the personal information they collect.
Fundamentally the problem for Google is that android is just too damned useful. You can do things on it that Google isn't made instantly aware of and without Google showing you advertising. So instead they're releasing crippleware crap no one is going to buy.
Windows 8 is essentially Windows 7 with some tweaks and the metro(I know it's not called that anymore) component added on. Windows 8 RT is the metro component without the Windows 7 bit built for ARM, Windows 8 Phone is Windows 8 RT. The components they share are the same code, software you write with the new Metro UIs will run on every single device.
They have exactly the same kernel for one thing. Then there's the fact that the metro UI component of Windows 8 and the Windows 8 phone metro component are, well exactly the same code. And of course any Windows RT app you write will run on Windows 8 and Windows 8 Phone(and the tablets for that matter). Oh and of course it's all the same code base, but aside from that they're entire different of course.
Win Phone 7 and Windows 7 were totally different, and originally Microsoft was planning on going that way with Windows Phone 8, but they didn't. Sure pure Windows 8 has a whole bunch of additional stuff in it that Windows Phone 8 doesn't, but the bit they share is the same god damned code.
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None of that really changes my point though. Just because someone who is obviously heavily involved with FOSS gets a lot of bugs fixed, doesn't mean that everyone using Linux is going to get their bugs fixed. It's anecdotal evidence from someone who is obviously not average. The GP is obviously a contributor to FOSS, she uses her real name when doing this contribution and she will have a reputation within the community. Add in understanding how the system works, how to file bug reports(and more than likely an understanding of what kind of bugs/features will actually get fixed/implemented) and you'll see someone whose reports will get in front of the eyes of people who can act on the information. A regular person isn't going to get that from Linux any more than they will from Microsoft.
The main reason I use MSE is that it does an adequate job and unlike every one of the competitors free or otherwise, installing it isn't worse than getting infected with Malware. Last time I used either AVG or Avast it was like infecting my PC on purpose. I'll pass up some protection against zero days(which is spotty at best anyway) in exchange for not installing crap.
Microsoft don't see it because it isn't necessarily true.
The reason why OS upgrades suck for business users is that every 3 years or so Microsoft releases a new OS which is significantly different than the previous one and which most software vendors won't support without a version upgrade which is also generally significantly different than the previous version. In addition this upgrade tends to involve either a massive capital outlay or spreading the upgrade over hardware generations(meaning the PC you installed yesterday won't get the new OS for about 4-5 years depending on how you write down your assets for tax purposes). This means that every 3 years or so you have to spend a huge amount of cash and do about a years worth of testing and upgrading. Business of course doesn't like this.
On the other hand, things like service packs are a lot less of a horror. If upgrades happened in smaller more manageable amounts, it might be a lot less horrible. If it only cost you a month a year to test and deploy an update as opposed to a year every 4, you'd be laughing even if there was a small capital cost.
This!!
I build my own PCs and with the notable exception of the Sound Blaster Audigy(which simply had no functional driver for either Vista or Linux for the better part of a year) I haven't had hardware not detect since I moved from XP to Vista a bunch of years back and even with XP if I'd bothered to slipstream the service packs in I'd for the most part have been fine.
I can't really comment on Linux as I'd stopped using it a few years back when my "faffing about" time allocations dropped to zero and I couldn't find the time to reinstall it. When I did use it I ran Gentoo with custom kernel options because largely speaking "faffing about" was what I was trying to do so automatic driver detection wasn't as such something that I was expecting.
The fact that you have thousands of FOSS bug reports means you a member in good standing in the FOSS community, which from a "getting my problems fixed" perspective is a lot like being a Fortune 100 company is for Microsoft.
The real fun thing about the XP licensing now is that the OEM licenses coming with any new kit you buy with Windows 8 on it only allow you to downgrade to Vista.
The simplest way to say it is that MySQL is really more of a data store than a database. You can store stuff in it, and it'll get the data back reasonably efficiently, but in terms of actually operating as a proper compliant database for critical information it just isn't designed that way. It works great for storing the back end for your web server, but if you wanted to store complex data in it and needed it to be 100% accurate, transactional, and reliable, the product just doesn't fit the bill. For all that it's got a paid "enteprise" edition, it's really more in the space of something like SQLite or SQL CE than it is in the space of Oracle, and again it's not an issue of whether it can scale or whether it's buggy, it just simply isn't designed to be compliant to the required level. That's largely the reason it works so well as a LAMP back end and is so easy to administer, but it just isn't fit for purpose for much more.
May US people don't seem to like the idea of the government doing things they don't want done regardless of the value of the thing being done, it's constitutionality or popularity. These people generally define any such things as "big government", whereas everything they do approve of is "small government". It's how every libertarians hero Ron Paul can be pro "small government" while simultaneously supporting the right of the government to tell you who you can or cannot marry, among other things. There are a few genuine loonies who like to dress up anarchy in libertarian clothing, but the vast majority of the people who call for "small government" are simply self serving hypocrites who beat the "small government" drum as an excuse to object to things they don't like while not appearing like selfish ass hats. It also has the added advantage politically that everybody thinks the government does things which shouldn't be done, so your particular cause no matter how insane, selfish or otherwise horrendous can start out with people agreeing with you, especially if they don't finish listening.
I don't either, but I understand a bit of what's going on. Essentially it's sort of complicated.
Part of why data is so expensive is because the phone companies have to keep investing in new infrastructure to deliver the speeds that people expect from their phones in this day and age and the phone companies have to make their money back(and ideally earn a profit). Part of it has to do with the fact that while voice is technically data, the way voice traffic is transmitted, even in a cell network isn't really the same as the way data is, and we've gotten very good at encoding voice over the last hundred years or so which means that a minute talking on the phone doesn't use the same amount of bandwidth as one minute using your maximum 4g bandwidth(and generally only involves peering with other players in the same market).
For the most part though, the reason why voice is so much cheaper than data is because it's a phone and however much people don't actually talk on them much anymore, if phone calls were super expensive no one would buy the things.
Actually, vertical integration is one of the definitions of a monopoly, and you could be a monopoly even if your market share in every segment was virtually non existent. Since Google will be vertically integrated(or fairly close to anyway), and have massive market share in some of those segments, they'd be pretty much a text book monopoly.
Of course Google is the poster child for American innovation so no matter how much they don't innovate or how much they distort the market or break the law, nothing of any consequence will happen to them.
Actually I live in Australia now, and I do vote independent because we have instant run off voting here so I can mark a second choice.
My point however is the fact that it's not as simple a choice as people make it out to be. I may have my disappointments with Obama, but as I said in my original post, compromising from 96 to 80 is worth avoiding 15.
Except of course whatever my objections to surveillance cameras might be, they're not a creepy fuck shoving a camera into your face. The harassment isn't as such the photography(though photography isn't quite as protected as you might think, more protected than cops like to think, but not as protected as you think), it's the creepy fuck shoving a camera in your personal space, following you around and generally making you feel threatened.
The problem is the voting system, fundamentally.
I went and did the little survey thing on isidewith.com and unsurprisingly I have a 96% match with Jill Stein, by your theory I should vote for her, the problem is that I have an 80% match with Obama and only 15% with Mitt Romney. This isn't a case of the lesser of two evils, it's about choosing the candidate who is capable of winning and whose values most closely match my own. I can see if you disagree strongly with both major parties you should vote third party because you've got nothing to lose, but for most people that's not the case.
FFS, first to file doesn't mean what you think it does, it doesn't negate prior art, it just means that if two idiots come to the patent office at the same time instead of spending years trying to work out which idiot actually developed whatever it is first, they just give it to the idiot who submitted their paperwork first. If said idea has been published for the last 5 years by someone else it's still legally patent rejected just like it is now(at least in theory).
If you've kept your idea secret and not published it and someone else patents it then yes you're Shit Outta Luck, but that's it.
I didn't develop for it, I only used it. It's the Symbian OS and it's referred to for compatibility purposes as Series 60. When I say "Symbian Series 60" or even "Symbian 60" you know damned well what I mean and you also know it was a massively shitty OS. Maybe as an ex Nokia employee you'd rather focus on the technicalities of what it was actually called instead of the fact that it was the face of Nokia seen by most customers and was the worst smart phone OS to ever exist, but that's beside the point really. S60 is why the Apple iPhone exists, it's why Android exists, and it's why Nokia is about to go out of business instead of being the market leader. It was, is, and will continue to be a steaming pile of shit.
Yes, it's an old version of Symbian, and technically it's called Symbian Series 60, but it's what was on nearly all the phones Nokia was selling in the market. It's what was forging their reputation. Yes they had better phones, but they cost as much as an iPhone and were much crappier so why bother.
Except that that's a bit like saying that if Apple could just sell 30 times more Macs they'd have the majority of the desktop market. True in theory, but unrealistic. Symbian 60 sucked royally, it was the worst phone OS I've ever used to the extent that it made the hardware seem cheap and unreliable. I've heard that some of the phones that got a more recent version of Symbian didn't suck and that Meego was passable, but no one was buying those phones, and the development of those operating systems was costing Nokia a fortune.
Nokia got shafted in their deal with Microsoft(as did everyone who bought a Lumia this year), but don't go pretending that Nokia wasn't already down the shitter well before Elop got there. The deal they made was a bit like putting it all on red, but the alternative wasn't any better.
Government always governs with the consent of the people, because you can always choose not to be governed. Yes they might throw you in jail or execute you for doing so, but you always have that power. It's part of the most fundamental core of freedom, your choice to die. If enough people agree with you the government topples always has, always will.
My point about government and human nature is that it isn't government that's evil, it's people who are, you don't get rid of the evil by eliminating government which is really only a tool. Government is not a monopoly on force, it's a consolidation of force. We as citizens of a country delegate our natural right to make laws to a body which represents us, we do this because it isn't democracy that is chains, it's life. Every relationship you form is a chain, some are chains you choose, some are not, but the only way to escape them isn't to destroy government, it's to destroy society, because society is links binding people together, give and take, good and bad. You can't have the one without the other, which is my whole point. By rejecting those chains you reject people, and if you try to do that without giving up all the good things that come with those chains, if you just try to free yourself while taking all the things that society builds then it's you who become the parasite.
In actuality, when Microsoft talks about "C++ being a first class citizen" they actually mean managed C++ which compiles into the .NET CLR. Using unmanaged C++ is an option, but it's definitely about a third class citizen.
Because I actually read what you and others respond to my statements, and I see nothing to change my opinion.
The "state" isn't some horrible foreign entity, it's people, it's you and it's me, and it's your neighbor, and the woman from around the corner, it's all of us. Government, every single one in all of human history is formed as a way to make the involuntary association known as humanity function. It exists, and has always existed, solely with the consent of those it governs. This is as true of China as it is of the US, as it was of Ancient Rome or any other country. It's not perfect, it's an attempt to compromise, it's cruel, and it's horrendous and tyrannical because we are. We fear and we hate, we are greedy and selfish and so is the government we choose for ourselves. This is as true now as it has ever been and as it ever will be.
Libertarianism is no different, your ideal will create a government, a state for the simple reason that we need each other and always have, the world getting smaller only makes that more true not less. We need people to work out where the roads will go, where the internet cables will go, and we need them to do so on a big enough scale that things actually work, someone needs to build all that be it governments we elect or private companies we choose or any other formation you want to try.
Since in the end the result will be the same, I have to look at the founding principles of a philosophy to judge it, and its adherents. The core idea of the Libertarian philosophy is ME. It's about choosing what parts of society I want to belong to. It's about choosing what laws will apply on MY land. It's about the free market giving ME what I deserve and letting me keep what I have. It's all rights, no responsibilities, no compromise except with people who think exactly the way that I do.
At its core every explanation of Libertarian ideology I have heard, including all those provided by you is about the freedom to choose not to give up anything of MINE mixed with a fantasy that the state is some evil and unnatural thing we can do without, usually on Slashdot through the magical use of technology as if we don't all come here over the most gigantic, world encompassing central infrastructure man has ever known.
I will change my opinion of Libertarianism and perhaps even give it a modicum of respect the second I hear a single explanation of its values that is concerned with what happens to anyone who I don't 100% agree with. You and all those who have come before you have failed to provide that, just more "I", "Me" and "Freedom".
I am not a Statist, I am not a Communist, I believe in the free market, but I believe it is a tool we use not a god we follow. I believe that we should care about others and use the government that is, after all, just us to provide for people in need, and I believe that for all its faults, through the government that is us, we can do that more effectively than any charity, church or voluntary association can. I do not fail to see or understand your world view, but I reject it utterly.
It's exactly like anarchism because it involves the core presumption that the world will somehow just work out. That's the core of pure anarchism in the same way it is the core of pure libertarian philosophy. If we just get rid of all these governments then somehow, someway, millions of years of human history will prove to be wrong, we'll somehow get everyone to follow the non aggression principle, and then we'll somehow make it all work out, billions of people in a world you can go round in a bit over a day with new laws every 30 feet. It's a fantasy, it's the "but if everyone thought exactly like me it'd be perfect" well guess what if everyone thought exactly like each other pretty much any government works out, democracy, dictatorships, they all work fine when you don't have any kind of diversity.
You can give excuses like "if we have problems it's because we haven't gotten there", but it's the same crap that every crazy ideology goes with. Communists, Anarchists, hell it's the same lie most tyrants tell themselves "I'll be able to stop killing them as soon as we're there and they all see what I'm doing" it really doesn't matter which fantasy is behind it.
Libertarianism is just a slightly less honest version of anarchism. The political sentiments are pretty much the same and both are equally untenable, but the libertarians wrap theirs up with ideals about private property to pretend they aren't just a bunch of crazies.
Anyone who believes fundamentally that everything ought to be private falls into one of two categories. People who believe that when everything turns private they will be one of the people running the show and idiots who think that the first group of people won't be worse than any government which has ever existed.
Google isn't fragmenting their market because they don't sell tablets, they sell advertising based on all the personal information they collect.
Fundamentally the problem for Google is that android is just too damned useful. You can do things on it that Google isn't made instantly aware of and without Google showing you advertising. So instead they're releasing crippleware crap no one is going to buy.
Windows 8 is essentially Windows 7 with some tweaks and the metro(I know it's not called that anymore) component added on. Windows 8 RT is the metro component without the Windows 7 bit built for ARM, Windows 8 Phone is Windows 8 RT. The components they share are the same code, software you write with the new Metro UIs will run on every single device.
Well, let's see.
They have exactly the same kernel for one thing. Then there's the fact that the metro UI component of Windows 8 and the Windows 8 phone metro component are, well exactly the same code. And of course any Windows RT app you write will run on Windows 8 and Windows 8 Phone(and the tablets for that matter). Oh and of course it's all the same code base, but aside from that they're entire different of course.
Win Phone 7 and Windows 7 were totally different, and originally Microsoft was planning on going that way with Windows Phone 8, but they didn't. Sure pure Windows 8 has a whole bunch of additional stuff in it that Windows Phone 8 doesn't, but the bit they share is the same god damned code.