Oracle/Sun spent billions on Java, whereas Google spent almost nothing on the core technologies (Android = Linux + Java) that bring in over $30 billion a year. That is stealing.
That's silly. You think the entire world runs an advertising? Civilization grew up without incessant advertising.
Even in ancient times, you could go to the village market and set up shop to advertise and sell your product.
What a tough moral decision: more revenue versus more responsibility.
Without laws, law breaking is common. In this case, both the company and the ad maker don't care about the consumer, and if they have to annoy, harass and irritate you to make a sale, they'll do it. It's the government's fault for not making laws to prevent abuse of ad consumers.
How do you know? Are you the business owner? Or are you salaried and if so, what does your company sell?
I have a web site, actually several. They are financed out of my own pocket without soliciting ANYTHING without consent of a user looking for service or product! I do not track cookies, nor do I send out emails with tracking links.
Just because you make no ad money on your (apparently, hobby) websites does not mean others are not entitled to make money off their sites. Or are you a believer in the communist utopia where products are offered for free, without requiring any kind of payment?
Who needs them? You do. Or rather your boss needs to advertise his product/service so he can make decent sales because otherwise customers won't know the product exists. And without closing those sales, your boss will not be able to afford paying your salary. So yes, all you adblockers need ads to receive a salary in the first place.
Really? Are you ready for an internet consisting of only user forums (like slashdot) and the remaining 1000 paid-only sites?
A good chunk of the internet contains low-quality and free content (like those free newspaper stands in downtown). If you want high quality content, go to a bookstore or music store and pay $$$.
Why bother saving the $150k salary of pilots when your fuel costs per flight (1 gallon per second) are so high? Why not focus on saving lives during plane equipment failure instead?
So someone could sell the coins for a neat profit. Get the coins, convert to metal and sell the metal rods/sheets for a profit.
Why don't they use plastic coins? They would be lighter (so you can hold more change), smaller (so your pant pockets are not bulging), and cheaper to manufacture.
By that logic, what's stopping the tractor manufacturer from demanding a profit share from the farm? The manufacturer's machine is more responsible for the increased profit than the employee.
If you make over $100k salary, can a new car dealer charge you twice for the same car than he sells to someone who only makes $50k salary? You would not doubt call that greedy and ridiculous.
Unless the employee is performing something novel, useful and/or artistic that can be reused over and over (i.e. employee is a designer of something), he deserves only a fixed pay based on skill and standard of living. If the employee is a designer of copyrighted or patented work, he likely deserves a royalty based on the amount of sales of the product and his contribution to the product.
by the article they are producing twice a much and thus twice as important to the company
Really? Suppose an employee of a farmer uses mules and buffaloes to plow a field, producing X kg of crops. Later the farmer buys a tractor and the employee uses that instead of the animals to obtain 2X kg of crops. Does the employee deserve 2 times the pay for doing less work (since operating a tractor is easier than controlling animals)? I don't think so.
Most of the productivity gains can be attributed to scientists, mathematicians, architects, engineers and software developers -- the tool builders/enablers. Yet these group of people lot less than they deserve thereby wealth being taken by the corporations and shareholders.
In particular,your application violates clause 10.4(c), which does not allow developers to create a wrapper---an application that re-implements or duplicates the Google Maps website or mobile app
How is routemaker duplicating google maps? I can't get any turn-by-turn directions or anything similar to google maps. Routemaker just allows you to specify a route by clicking on various intermediate points and then saving/sharing that route with others.
Finding some minor flaw to shut down a service is definitely evil since routemaker is not competing with the main google maps website/app by duplicating their functionality.
So these corporations are sharing these massive profits by raising all the employees salaries
LOL, why should they raise anything? If you, as an employee, did something that deserves a lot of money, claim it. Otherwise, be satisfied with what you get.
The intellectual people, the scientists, the mathematicians, the engineers and programmers -- the people actually responsible for increasing human productivity get paid squat relative to the profit their work generates. All their output goes straight to the corps pockets and a little bit to the govt through taxes. That is the issue that needs addressing, not blindly sharing wealth to undeserving people, like commie ideology.
Corporate greed is at an all time high.
What about consumer greed? How many brick and mortar shops have gone bankrupt because of large malls and online shopping, just because the cheap/greedy consumer wanted the cheapest deal. You can't claim the moral high ground because consumers are somewhat greedy themselves.
Money that their employees will never see.
What do these tricks have to do with employees? Nothing, they get paid the same regardless of what tax tricks the company plays.
Bottom line: the CEO salary has nothing to do with common worker salary (unless you're a communist propagandist) and everything to do with performance of his company -- that is, the ratios most relevant are:
Company revenue / CEO salary and Company profit / CEO salary
There's a reason a CEO makes 300 times the average-paid worker in their organization, instead of around 30 times back in the 50's. Pure, unadulterated greed.
Or maybe, just maybe, corporations are bigger and more organized now. They make around $50 billion/year in revenue. That's a lot more than any '50s company. Meanwhile, the average worker does not work much harder than the '50s worker. And if he does, it's mostly due to him using more productive tools.
But don't let facts get in the way of the communist agenda of equalizing everyone's income, regardless of their contributions.
Summon requires that you continually monitor your vehicle's movement and surroundings
So it's a lot like driving the car yourself -- this should not be called "car parks itself" then. What happens if you can't see some hidden object while summoning and that object gets crushed by your car? I guess it's the summoner's fault.
And who pays when it doesn't work exactly right and it crunches the car next to it? Who pays when it doesn't work exactly right and scrapes a wall? Will Tesla pay for this kind of accident?
If the human car owner is at fault, he/she should pay. If the car AI is at fault, the car maker should pay. I guess the insurance companies will receive two premiums per car -- one from the car owner and another from the car maker.
you don't get better at combat without a training montage
The cardinal rule of movies is: the hero/heroine always wins towards the end of the movie, no matter how slim the chance of winning. In real life, Rey would get slaughtered by the dark side because of her lack of training, even if she were an uber jedi. But audiences want a happy ending, so there.
I'm all for copyright, but set it back to 14 years, and no extensions.
LOL, why such an arbitrary number? How would you like it if the car manufacturer repoed your car after 3 or 5 years even though you've fully paid off the car loan? Copyright protection time frame is too low because the government wanted to screw the authors and benefit the publishers. It should be a minimum of 300-500 years.
2) People can profit off their dead ancestors' work.
Right, people should donate their inheritance to charity and start from scratch. How would you feel if your parents abandoned you in a ditch instead of paying for your shelter, food and education? Bottom line: you can't take your money with you when you're dead, but you sure as hell can pass it down to your descendents. Copyrighted materials are assets, like real estates and businesses, and how the copyright owner distributes that wealth is up to him/her and none your damn leeching business.
Right, will you be developing and offering free games instead? We don't need freemium games with their sky high prices or grinding for weeks/months for free players if you can give us free (as in beer) games. Gather some open source developers and start creating these games!
That won't work. The whole freemium (free and/or premium) model is based on the premise that a small number of big spenders (say 2% or less) are paying huge amounts for the game... the rest of the players are freeeloaders ($0 paid).
If you limit per app/per user purchase to $50, it will bankrupt the developer overnight. This problem is Apple's fault because their in-app purchase system is broken. Why does the kid have access to the credit card in the first place? There should at least be a username/password that you have to enter before making any purchases.
someone needs to send USPTO -printed- prior art such as a magazine or journal article describing A/B testing of educational videos
Why videos, let alone educational? It can be any content, like pictures or ads. Just because you change the content or data structure does not mean it's novel -- a requirement for patents.
"I thought of X, no one else can use X, even thinking of it completely independently, without clearing it with me".
And yet, while you can create several million different copyrighted characters or stories, inevitably, the unimaginative copycat crowd chooses to steal other people's intellectual assets instead of creating their own? Why? Because they can't create original artistic stuff worth anything, so they have to steal.
Because the fan movie makers are making a lot of money off the Star Trek trademark and marketing. Making money of someone else's intellectual assets is a crime.
Yeah, right. The politicians of today have roughly the same power as kings did. Things have only changed superficially since the time of kings. You're just a communist with your "share your power with the masses" spiel.
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Oracle/Sun spent billions on Java, whereas Google spent almost nothing on the core technologies (Android = Linux + Java) that bring in over $30 billion a year. That is stealing.
Fine. Then don't visit it, otherwise you're stealing...
Even in ancient times, you could go to the village market and set up shop to advertise and sell your product.
Without laws, law breaking is common. In this case, both the company and the ad maker don't care about the consumer, and if they have to annoy, harass and irritate you to make a sale, they'll do it. It's the government's fault for not making laws to prevent abuse of ad consumers.
How do you know? Are you the business owner? Or are you salaried and if so, what does your company sell?
Just because you make no ad money on your (apparently, hobby) websites does not mean others are not entitled to make money off their sites. Or are you a believer in the communist utopia where products are offered for free, without requiring any kind of payment?
Who needs them? You do. Or rather your boss needs to advertise his product/service so he can make decent sales because otherwise customers won't know the product exists. And without closing those sales, your boss will not be able to afford paying your salary. So yes, all you adblockers need ads to receive a salary in the first place.
Really? Are you ready for an internet consisting of only user forums (like slashdot) and the remaining 1000 paid-only sites?
A good chunk of the internet contains low-quality and free content (like those free newspaper stands in downtown). If you want high quality content, go to a bookstore or music store and pay $$$.
Why bother saving the $150k salary of pilots when your fuel costs per flight (1 gallon per second) are so high? Why not focus on saving lives during plane equipment failure instead?
So someone could sell the coins for a neat profit. Get the coins, convert to metal and sell the metal rods/sheets for a profit.
Why don't they use plastic coins? They would be lighter (so you can hold more change), smaller (so your pant pockets are not bulging), and cheaper to manufacture.
By that logic, what's stopping the tractor manufacturer from demanding a profit share from the farm? The manufacturer's machine is more responsible for the increased profit than the employee.
If you make over $100k salary, can a new car dealer charge you twice for the same car than he sells to someone who only makes $50k salary? You would not doubt call that greedy and ridiculous.
Unless the employee is performing something novel, useful and/or artistic that can be reused over and over (i.e. employee is a designer of something), he deserves only a fixed pay based on skill and standard of living. If the employee is a designer of copyrighted or patented work, he likely deserves a royalty based on the amount of sales of the product and his contribution to the product.
Really? Suppose an employee of a farmer uses mules and buffaloes to plow a field, producing X kg of crops. Later the farmer buys a tractor and the employee uses that instead of the animals to obtain 2X kg of crops. Does the employee deserve 2 times the pay for doing less work (since operating a tractor is easier than controlling animals)? I don't think so.
Most of the productivity gains can be attributed to scientists, mathematicians, architects, engineers and software developers -- the tool builders/enablers. Yet these group of people lot less than they deserve thereby wealth being taken by the corporations and shareholders.
How is routemaker duplicating google maps? I can't get any turn-by-turn directions or anything similar to google maps. Routemaker just allows you to specify a route by clicking on various intermediate points and then saving/sharing that route with others.
Finding some minor flaw to shut down a service is definitely evil since routemaker is not competing with the main google maps website/app by duplicating their functionality.
LOL, why should they raise anything? If you, as an employee, did something that deserves a lot of money, claim it. Otherwise, be satisfied with what you get.
The intellectual people, the scientists, the mathematicians, the engineers and programmers -- the people actually responsible for increasing human productivity get paid squat relative to the profit their work generates. All their output goes straight to the corps pockets and a little bit to the govt through taxes. That is the issue that needs addressing, not blindly sharing wealth to undeserving people, like commie ideology.
What about consumer greed? How many brick and mortar shops have gone bankrupt because of large malls and online shopping, just because the cheap/greedy consumer wanted the cheapest deal. You can't claim the moral high ground because consumers are somewhat greedy themselves.
What do these tricks have to do with employees? Nothing, they get paid the same regardless of what tax tricks the company plays.
Bottom line: the CEO salary has nothing to do with common worker salary (unless you're a communist propagandist) and everything to do with performance of his company -- that is, the ratios most relevant are:
Company revenue / CEO salary
and
Company profit / CEO salary
Or maybe, just maybe, corporations are bigger and more organized now. They make around $50 billion/year in revenue. That's a lot more than any '50s company. Meanwhile, the average worker does not work much harder than the '50s worker. And if he does, it's mostly due to him using more productive tools.
But don't let facts get in the way of the communist agenda of equalizing everyone's income, regardless of their contributions.
So it's a lot like driving the car yourself -- this should not be called "car parks itself" then. What happens if you can't see some hidden object while summoning and that object gets crushed by your car? I guess it's the summoner's fault.
If the human car owner is at fault, he/she should pay. If the car AI is at fault, the car maker should pay. I guess the insurance companies will receive two premiums per car -- one from the car owner and another from the car maker.
The cardinal rule of movies is: the hero/heroine always wins towards the end of the movie, no matter how slim the chance of winning. In real life, Rey would get slaughtered by the dark side because of her lack of training, even if she were an uber jedi. But audiences want a happy ending, so there.
Better than Perl or C++ at least, and more practical than Haskell or Scheme.
LOL, why such an arbitrary number? How would you like it if the car manufacturer repoed your car after 3 or 5 years even though you've fully paid off the car loan? Copyright protection time frame is too low because the government wanted to screw the authors and benefit the publishers. It should be a minimum of 300-500 years.
Right, people should donate their inheritance to charity and start from scratch. How would you feel if your parents abandoned you in a ditch instead of paying for your shelter, food and education? Bottom line: you can't take your money with you when you're dead, but you sure as hell can pass it down to your descendents. Copyrighted materials are assets, like real estates and businesses, and how the copyright owner distributes that wealth is up to him/her and none your damn leeching business.
Right, will you be developing and offering free games instead? We don't need freemium games with their sky high prices or grinding for weeks/months for free players if you can give us free (as in beer) games. Gather some open source developers and start creating these games!
That won't work. The whole freemium (free and/or premium) model is based on the premise that a small number of big spenders (say 2% or less) are paying huge amounts for the game... the rest of the players are freeeloaders ($0 paid).
If you limit per app/per user purchase to $50, it will bankrupt the developer overnight. This problem is Apple's fault because their in-app purchase system is broken. Why does the kid have access to the credit card in the first place? There should at least be a username/password that you have to enter before making any purchases.
Why videos, let alone educational? It can be any content, like pictures or ads. Just because you change the content or data structure does not mean it's novel -- a requirement for patents.
And yet, while you can create several million different copyrighted characters or stories, inevitably, the unimaginative copycat crowd chooses to steal other people's intellectual assets instead of creating their own? Why? Because they can't create original artistic stuff worth anything, so they have to steal.
Because the fan movie makers are making a lot of money off the Star Trek trademark and marketing. Making money of someone else's intellectual assets is a crime.
Yeah, right. The politicians of today have roughly the same power as kings did. Things have only changed superficially since the time of kings. You're just a communist with your "share your power with the masses" spiel.
Oh yeah, about the obscenities. Fuck you, your ugly whore mother, and murderer of a father. Fuck you and your whole family, you ugly piece of garbage.
Either learn to debate properly, or simply slit your throat open.