But your examples of copying are not zero sum. Android is valuable despite copying the iPhone, it's different enough, and more importantly it grows the market in a way that Apple wasn't going to. And if companies fight for market share by making their products more valuable then this is not zero sum either, it's zero sum for the competing companies, but extra value is created for their customers.
War doesn't have to be zero sum either. If it's a war over land and resources then yes, but if it's a war over political ideals then no.
I also have to agree. Actually Gnome was fine for years, I never got on with KDE, tried XFCE a few times and it was okay, but I preferred Gnome 2.x, does everything, looks okay. Until 2010. Why are they so determined to move us away from the layout that works to something new? It's not just a case of copying what Apple and Microsoft are doing, it's like they're trying to do one better and failing, and things KEEP changing.
Now I'm using OSX. It's fine, not as great as mac users make out, but fine, does everything, works ok, looks okay. So, same as Gnome 2.x.
Now people will say "oh you can just install this that out of the repos, you can configure it to look how it used to", but I don't do that anymore, I just install with the defaults and get used to them so I don't have to remember what happened later on.
Oh... and I dont have to alt-tab nearly as much these days and that makes me happy:p
Urgh.
Is there anyone else like me who went to multi monitor programming, then back to one monitor, then down to a smaller monitor (13" laptop)? alt-tabbing actually seems easier than moving my head and focussing on another screen.
Surely the opposite is true. If you want companies to reinvest as much money in the business as possible then you want capital gains tax to be very high. This would work fine if it were not for the way these global companies operate, moving the money around the world. If you could say "we're going to tax all your profit made in America, as worked out by us after doing a global audit", then there'd be more incentive to have less profit, and instead create more wealth by reinvestment for a time when taxes might be lower.
And of course all countries should do this, but for most governments they might be worried if they tried that game the businesses in question would just leave (can't see it happening here in NZ). But I don't think America has the same worry. If those companies did up and leave one of their biggest markets someone local would step in and all would be sweet.
I think I see what he's saying, even if it was a terrible and flamebait way to say it. I would assume that if a developer came to him and was working with.NET, but said "and at home I've also tried Python and Ruby for web development, I've looked into some Android development..." then they would take that person on.
But if you say "I did Java at university then.NET ever since for my job" and nothing else, it shows no passion for programming or exploring alternative tools for solving problems. You just work with what you're given.
And that reasoning can be extended. Can't afford Microsoft Office? Why do people feed they HAVE to have it? If you really needed it then you'd pay for it, otherwise you'd go with one of the many alternatives.
Apart from the fact that copyright violation isn't the same crime as theft, I don't see why this isn't exactly the same logic as seeing a really big expensive car and getting quite upset that you can only afford a shitty little car, therefore car theft is justified. People don't seem to think like that though. Is it the difference in cost (it's only $60)? Or is it that its ok to do it to game companies, but not other people?
But if she didn't know it came from "Love Letters Unlimited" then it would be the same as a genuine love letter. Probably even better, as they can home in on the best way to write a love letter.
You probably wouldn't. SF came first, so when Google Code came out it had to have better features to attract users, and it did. Then GitHub, again had to have better features to attract users, and it did. In my view the main improving feature as you jumped from one to the other was better usability.
Except that newer european diesels are notoriously unreliable (more so than european cars) after they've racked up the miles. This is mainly because shrinking diesel technology down and making it more powerful requires stronger engine parts than older, larger diesels or petrol engines. This results in a higher failure rate.
Probably fine for new vehicles, and great for fleet cars. But woe betide the second hand buyer.
Gosh, well we used Windows 3.1, and 3.11, and 95 in our household, but we didn't get an Internet connection until Windows 98. Damn you BT metered dial up.
I'm sure you understand this then, but obviously many people don't: If you don't understand the terms then don't use it.
It seems to me that people will go well out of their way to use free instead of paying for commercial libraries. Even though cost wise they'll end up paying way more in time and trouble. And how many times have I heard "I'm not paying $xx for a graphing library! We'll just write one ourselves."
You can do everything you can do on OSX on Microsoft Windows, or Linux, and there are other choices. So the only reason you'd be complaining that the components are overpriced is because you want them from Apple. Otherwise you wouldn't care. And people are willing to pay those prices to get machines running OSX, so there must be some value add (even if it's just the warm glow of belonging to the Apple cult?). Who cares about the components inside it.
To use a car analogy: I have a Toyota Echo. It's not very nice to drive. But it does take me everywhere I need to go, keeps me warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and it goes and can exceed the speed limit. I'd rather have a (insert favourite car brand/model). It'd be much more expensive. But it can only do the same stuff, going at the speed limit it can't get me anywhere faster. It's just nicer to use. It isn't overpriced, it's just more expensive.
But it's not overpriced, it's just a price. You can buy those things somewhere else. Apple are not the only retailer selling hard drives, memory and monitors.
And granted they seem to be trying to prevent people upgrading laptops using off the shelf components. But that's still not an indication of being overpriced, just an indication of evilness. They don't have a monopoly on Laptops, so you can still buy from someone else if that makes you unhappy.
I don't think they are overpriced, after all they don't operate in a supply/demand type chain. Apple sets the price based on the development, design and manufacturing costs, plus whatever profit margin they want. If they were overpriced then a lower priced competitor would come into the market and take some market share... like Android has done quite successfully with smartphones, except that the market is not yet saturated.
As for their other stuff, well personally I like their computing equipment enough to think that it's worth the extra you pay (and when I priced up my macbook it was actually cheaper / on par with the competition). On the other hand an iPhone is overpriced for me because I don't see the value in what it does, same with the iPad. But for plenty of others it's obviously not overpriced. If they try to control OSX as they have iOS, then I'll move to Linux if it doesn't work for me, and they'll lose my custom.
I really don't like what Apple are doing in the content space with walled gardens etc. However, that doesn't make them overpriced. Evil perhaps, or maybe just normal corporate. I don't think Anonymous are the weapon to use here, and I didn't like the tone of your comment, people are allowed to buy into Apple equipment and services if they choose to do so. Try your wallet as a weapon instead.
I'm not sure that you fit into that 14%. I know people who go album shopping once or more a week and buy as many as 5 each trip (~ $300 per week). Now that's an enthusiast.
most people don't shout and curse and things or people in general. Computer broken, annoying, slight frustration, make a cup of tea, all is good. I don't shout at my car when it breaks either, I just get it fixed.
It would be nice if there was a website where newbs, (not noobs), and regular folk, could for a reasonable price "hire" a programmer (or 4) to make a page/script/app/whatever. Kinda like an ebay/craigslist mix, where people can post jobs (WTB), and programmers can post offers (WTS).
Febrile seizures are caused by high temperatures in young children (under 5). Some immunizations can give children high temperatures afterwards. So there could be a chain of cause and effect there, but the vaccine didn't directly cause the seizure. Of course I don't know anything, just musing a possible.
On another note, if it was a febrile seizure it wouldn't have caused the baby to nearly die, they're very scary for parents but not dangerous (my son has had a couple and I actually thought he had died).
Arrogance and empath are not two sides of the same thing. I'm pretty arrogant, I don't much take into account the other side in an argument, I just assume I'm correct. But at the same time I'd say I was very empathetic, touched by the plight of others, etc.
Well Rails itself wasn't responsible for developers putting unsafe operations behind GET requests, you can shoot yourself in the foot with any language. Rails convention (now) is for a RESTful service where each operation does what it says (GET gets, POST posts, PUT puts, DELETE deletes).
I think that perhaps the Rails community will have to accept "professionals", like it or not, if larger companies start using the framework. Also I think that a few very vocal developers who consider themselves central to the Rails community are quite unprofessional in a bad way.
ADSL is still pretty rubbish in New Zealand. Telecom have to allow competitors access to users for DSL, but they still control the outbound access, so even when you get a MAX DSL line at say 6Mbps, it acts like a 256Kbps line to the outside world. Their contention ratio is about 80:1, so every single evening the internet slows to a halt. Luckily there is competition, I'm on Telstra clear cable, which is better (but not great). Hopefully Telecom will be forced to do LLU soon so competitors can actually install their own DSL equipment. I hear its pretty dire at the rural end, and without government subsidies I can't ever see it being profitable for ISPs to extend their networks to these areas.
it's a nice idea but... all of my emails are in outlooks pst file - it would be really great if there were some program on linux that could read the outlook file so i could use email properly on both windows and linux
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But your examples of copying are not zero sum. Android is valuable despite copying the iPhone, it's different enough, and more importantly it grows the market in a way that Apple wasn't going to. And if companies fight for market share by making their products more valuable then this is not zero sum either, it's zero sum for the competing companies, but extra value is created for their customers.
War doesn't have to be zero sum either. If it's a war over land and resources then yes, but if it's a war over political ideals then no.
I also have to agree. Actually Gnome was fine for years, I never got on with KDE, tried XFCE a few times and it was okay, but I preferred Gnome 2.x, does everything, looks okay. Until 2010. Why are they so determined to move us away from the layout that works to something new? It's not just a case of copying what Apple and Microsoft are doing, it's like they're trying to do one better and failing, and things KEEP changing.
Now I'm using OSX. It's fine, not as great as mac users make out, but fine, does everything, works ok, looks okay. So, same as Gnome 2.x.
Now people will say "oh you can just install this that out of the repos, you can configure it to look how it used to", but I don't do that anymore, I just install with the defaults and get used to them so I don't have to remember what happened later on.
Oh... and I dont have to alt-tab nearly as much these days and that makes me happy :p
Urgh.
Is there anyone else like me who went to multi monitor programming, then back to one monitor, then down to a smaller monitor (13" laptop)? alt-tabbing actually seems easier than moving my head and focussing on another screen.
Surely the opposite is true. If you want companies to reinvest as much money in the business as possible then you want capital gains tax to be very high. This would work fine if it were not for the way these global companies operate, moving the money around the world. If you could say "we're going to tax all your profit made in America, as worked out by us after doing a global audit", then there'd be more incentive to have less profit, and instead create more wealth by reinvestment for a time when taxes might be lower.
And of course all countries should do this, but for most governments they might be worried if they tried that game the businesses in question would just leave (can't see it happening here in NZ). But I don't think America has the same worry. If those companies did up and leave one of their biggest markets someone local would step in and all would be sweet.
I think I see what he's saying, even if it was a terrible and flamebait way to say it. I would assume that if a developer came to him and was working with .NET, but said "and at home I've also tried Python and Ruby for web development, I've looked into some Android development..." then they would take that person on.
But if you say "I did Java at university then .NET ever since for my job" and nothing else, it shows no passion for programming or exploring alternative tools for solving problems. You just work with what you're given.
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And that reasoning can be extended. Can't afford Microsoft Office? Why do people feed they HAVE to have it? If you really needed it then you'd pay for it, otherwise you'd go with one of the many alternatives.
Apart from the fact that copyright violation isn't the same crime as theft, I don't see why this isn't exactly the same logic as seeing a really big expensive car and getting quite upset that you can only afford a shitty little car, therefore car theft is justified. People don't seem to think like that though. Is it the difference in cost (it's only $60)? Or is it that its ok to do it to game companies, but not other people?
But if she didn't know it came from "Love Letters Unlimited" then it would be the same as a genuine love letter. Probably even better, as they can home in on the best way to write a love letter.
You probably wouldn't. SF came first, so when Google Code came out it had to have better features to attract users, and it did. Then GitHub, again had to have better features to attract users, and it did. In my view the main improving feature as you jumped from one to the other was better usability.
Except that newer european diesels are notoriously unreliable (more so than european cars) after they've racked up the miles. This is mainly because shrinking diesel technology down and making it more powerful requires stronger engine parts than older, larger diesels or petrol engines. This results in a higher failure rate.
Probably fine for new vehicles, and great for fleet cars. But woe betide the second hand buyer.
Gosh, well we used Windows 3.1, and 3.11, and 95 in our household, but we didn't get an Internet connection until Windows 98. Damn you BT metered dial up.
I'm sure you understand this then, but obviously many people don't: If you don't understand the terms then don't use it.
It seems to me that people will go well out of their way to use free instead of paying for commercial libraries. Even though cost wise they'll end up paying way more in time and trouble. And how many times have I heard "I'm not paying $xx for a graphing library! We'll just write one ourselves."
You can do everything you can do on OSX on Microsoft Windows, or Linux, and there are other choices. So the only reason you'd be complaining that the components are overpriced is because you want them from Apple. Otherwise you wouldn't care. And people are willing to pay those prices to get machines running OSX, so there must be some value add (even if it's just the warm glow of belonging to the Apple cult?). Who cares about the components inside it.
To use a car analogy: I have a Toyota Echo. It's not very nice to drive. But it does take me everywhere I need to go, keeps me warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and it goes and can exceed the speed limit. I'd rather have a (insert favourite car brand/model). It'd be much more expensive. But it can only do the same stuff, going at the speed limit it can't get me anywhere faster. It's just nicer to use. It isn't overpriced, it's just more expensive.
But it's not overpriced, it's just a price. You can buy those things somewhere else. Apple are not the only retailer selling hard drives, memory and monitors.
And granted they seem to be trying to prevent people upgrading laptops using off the shelf components. But that's still not an indication of being overpriced, just an indication of evilness. They don't have a monopoly on Laptops, so you can still buy from someone else if that makes you unhappy.
I don't think they are overpriced, after all they don't operate in a supply/demand type chain. Apple sets the price based on the development, design and manufacturing costs, plus whatever profit margin they want. If they were overpriced then a lower priced competitor would come into the market and take some market share... like Android has done quite successfully with smartphones, except that the market is not yet saturated.
As for their other stuff, well personally I like their computing equipment enough to think that it's worth the extra you pay (and when I priced up my macbook it was actually cheaper / on par with the competition). On the other hand an iPhone is overpriced for me because I don't see the value in what it does, same with the iPad. But for plenty of others it's obviously not overpriced. If they try to control OSX as they have iOS, then I'll move to Linux if it doesn't work for me, and they'll lose my custom.
I really don't like what Apple are doing in the content space with walled gardens etc. However, that doesn't make them overpriced. Evil perhaps, or maybe just normal corporate. I don't think Anonymous are the weapon to use here, and I didn't like the tone of your comment, people are allowed to buy into Apple equipment and services if they choose to do so. Try your wallet as a weapon instead.
Since i use facebook i found lost relatives, family, old friends.
Facebook helped me a lot.
This sounds like an advert. Facebook employee?
I'm not sure that you fit into that 14%. I know people who go album shopping once or more a week and buy as many as 5 each trip (~ $300 per week). Now that's an enthusiast.
most people don't shout and curse and things or people in general. Computer broken, annoying, slight frustration, make a cup of tea, all is good. I don't shout at my car when it breaks either, I just get it fixed.
Jaywalking isn't illegal in the UK.
It would be nice if there was a website where newbs, (not noobs), and regular folk, could for a reasonable price "hire" a programmer (or 4) to make a page/script/app/whatever. Kinda like an ebay/craigslist mix, where people can post jobs (WTB), and programmers can post offers (WTS).
If only you could find a programmer.
Febrile seizures are caused by high temperatures in young children (under 5). Some immunizations can give children high temperatures afterwards. So there could be a chain of cause and effect there, but the vaccine didn't directly cause the seizure. Of course I don't know anything, just musing a possible. On another note, if it was a febrile seizure it wouldn't have caused the baby to nearly die, they're very scary for parents but not dangerous (my son has had a couple and I actually thought he had died).
Arrogance and empath are not two sides of the same thing. I'm pretty arrogant, I don't much take into account the other side in an argument, I just assume I'm correct. But at the same time I'd say I was very empathetic, touched by the plight of others, etc.
Well Rails itself wasn't responsible for developers putting unsafe operations behind GET requests, you can shoot yourself in the foot with any language. Rails convention (now) is for a RESTful service where each operation does what it says (GET gets, POST posts, PUT puts, DELETE deletes). I think that perhaps the Rails community will have to accept "professionals", like it or not, if larger companies start using the framework. Also I think that a few very vocal developers who consider themselves central to the Rails community are quite unprofessional in a bad way.
ADSL is still pretty rubbish in New Zealand. Telecom have to allow competitors access to users for DSL, but they still control the outbound access, so even when you get a MAX DSL line at say 6Mbps, it acts like a 256Kbps line to the outside world. Their contention ratio is about 80:1, so every single evening the internet slows to a halt. Luckily there is competition, I'm on Telstra clear cable, which is better (but not great). Hopefully Telecom will be forced to do LLU soon so competitors can actually install their own DSL equipment. I hear its pretty dire at the rural end, and without government subsidies I can't ever see it being profitable for ISPs to extend their networks to these areas.
actually dunblane wasn't kids shooting kids, it was one rather disturbed adult shooting kids.
it's a nice idea but... all of my emails are in outlooks pst file - it would be really great if there were some program on linux that could read the outlook file so i could use email properly on both windows and linux