All we hear about from the rich is that they don't want government controlling industry. Great. But then without controls and limits, the prices of services become what they are today.
Thats the point.
An industry without government controls will inevitably implement their own controls which will almost always be anti-consumer and pro-profit. There are few industries where complete de-regulation or even self regulation works.
In a truly uncontrolled economy, a powerful force will assert itself as controller. So one has the choice between a government regulator which does not have a profit motive or a corporate regulator which has a vested interest in limiting competition.
Yes, if you go to Thailand and grab yourself some Stem Cell treatment, they'll do that, and that is fucking dangerous.
Spoken like someone who is truly ignorant.
You wont find embryonic stem cell therapy in a Thai hospital. Just the same type of therapy that can be found in European and Australian hospitals for a fraction of the price (because there is little in the way of liability in Thailand, that's your caveat emptor bit). A decent Thai hospital will be staffed by a lot of Thai doctors who got their medical degrees in western universities, Australian doctors will refer patients to these doctors for expensive elective surgery (I.E. cosmetic) because they have the same success rate as in Australia. A lot of Aussies get dental work done in Thailand as it's just as good as Oz and a fraction of the price for top dentists.
If you want an illegal treatment, you need to go to a back yard clinic and if you do that anywhere in the world, you're a complete idiot (or totally desperate, but the former is more likely).
I'm rather curious as to when sci-fi will become fulfilled prophecy as these companies go to war with real weapons.
Yes, Apple has already designed it's iArmy, they will be dressed in shiny white armour with highly inaccurate weapons that can only fire one shot at a time. I believe they will look something like this.
You are 100% correct, except that you are describing presisely what capitalism is NOT. The first and foremost prerequisite of capitalism is voluntary association. Capitalism is founded on the lack of coercion (i.e. government interference) in the market, not the presence of it.
Oh, it's so cute you believe that.
But capitalism is the operation of a purely for profit business, not a voluntary association. It is quite fond of coercion when there is profit to be found. Our most successful capitalists are willing to do almost any dirty trick to become the top and often only player in the market.
This is why no country runs a purely capitalist system. Western economies run mixed economies because a pure capitalism only works in theory, in reality we end up with the likes of Microsoft.
Velcro wrap, also cable snakes for professional jobs. People dont care about seeing cables, they just want them out of the way. A short length of cable snake does just that. Clients are almost always happy to see one big cable snake then 6 or 7 smaller power/network/video cables.
As for home, I use the cable ties that came in the box at strategic points. Occasionally sticky tape but normally I cant be arsed.
First off, he didn't get time for simple anonymous trolling as happens everyday here on trolldot. He targeted the families and friends of the deceased specifically, that demonstrates a clear malicious intent. Lets remove the Internet from the current scenario, say he mailed hateful letters to the family, played that YouTube video on TV et al. It's the same thing minus the Internet and we'd call that stalking.
Secondly, this is the UK govt over-reacting. Since the recent riots they've been taking every oportunity to prove they are "tough on crime" in an attempt to make it look like they aren't letting the real perpetrators of the riot get away (because finding evidence and trying them would be hard and going after people who post stupid things on facebook is easy). Yes this guy is a dick, a complete dick who deserves some jail time and community service but that's it.
So dearest Australians and Americans, read the above paragraph and remember in 2012, conservatives don't fix problems, at best they don't create new ones.
Cat6e will do 10 gigabit which should be quite adequate for most purposes for quite some time.
Which still makes you victim to a building managed MDF.
Speed is far from the only reason to go with fibre, Ethernet cables tend to require a router at the MDF to change a WAN link such as ADSL or Fibre into a LAN link where as Fibre can simply be repeated when your government finally figures out Telco's will never fibre up most homes. Also reliability and longevity are huge reasons to go with Fibre, with Ethernet, how long until you have to rewire the building due to obsolescence/degraded cables? 10, maybe 20 but with Fibre that's forty odd years.
Oh really. Well try shorting them then. I think Apple has just gotten started and recently bought even more stock.
APPL is peaking on a huge bubble right now. Every financial minded person I talk to is saying not to buy APPL stock ATM as the stock value is way out of sync with the companies actual production values (forget market cap, that is simply a corporate e-peen, we're talking actual numbers here).
So you will be shorting them then? Look forward to your rolling-in-cash gloating session.
I was smart enough not to buy them.
Why, because 70% of public APPL shares are owned by holding companies. A holding company will not keep shares that do not pay div's when they think they have peaked. So it will be a fire sale of APPL shares.
What happens when 70% of a companies shares are sold almost at once...
Apple is in trouble. Not going out of business in trouble, but in trouble in terms of losing their vast profits.
Exactly. Unfortunately Apple will be around for a while but when the numbers in sales start to slip most of Apple's shareholders are going to sell. in the end, I reckon APPL shares will be worth about $15-25 a piece and wont go back up again.
At the moment Apple is a one trick pony with 50% of their profits coming from one product alone, the Iphone. So if Iphones sales drop, the share price will dive, Apple is desperately trying to stop the tablet space becoming like the phone space where they compete with a superior product which gains a higher market share stagnating growth in market share because it need to stop being a one trick pony in order to keep it's share price.
Oh really. Well try shorting them then. I think Apple has just gotten started and recently bought even more stock.
APPL is peaking on a huge bubble right now. Every financial minded person I talk to is saying not to buy APPL stock ATM as the stock value is way out of sync with the companies actual production values (forget market cap, that is simply a corporate e-peen, we're talking actual numbers here).
All they are asking is Samsung to stop making devices that look EXACTLY like the equivalent Apple devices.
No, if that were the case they would not be suing because the Galaxy Tab looks nothing like the Ipad in reality, they had to doctor evidence to support that flawed assertion.
Selling as many as you can make is anything but stagnant.
Actually, they aren't.
Sorry to break it to you dear fanboy. I was in Singapore on Saturday, you could find an Iphone 4 everywhere but a Samsung Galaxy 2 was extremerly hard to find.
But growth is definitely stagnant and when your stock is based on gaining a higher price by gaining higher market share this is very bad indeed.
Your arguments are desperate and have no basis in reality. By all means, keep buying APPL stock, you seem to have no idea what is happening around you right now, let alone an inkling of what might happen in the future.
Because apparently they believe that the situation is not mutually assured destruction.
No, I think very little of Apple and its management but even I trust that Apple knows this.
I think Apple has seen the writing on the wall, Android is growing in popularity, Iphone has been stagnant over the last year, despite selling more units their market share has not increased. Historically, Apple has never been able to cope with competition, even when it was only one big competitor (Microsoft). So the patent war is mutally assured destruction because Apple wants to take others down with it. Rather then conceding defeat and saying "we had a good run" they want to ruin everything for everyone. This isn't simply Apple taking it's ball and going home, they want Samsung's bat too.
At best, this is a ruse to keep stock holders from figuring out that Apple has peaked.
The IT industry has not been able to provide a superior or even equal solution to fax yet.
It has. VPN, direct dial (either 56K or via a private DSLAM) and a bunch of other solutions that don't even touch the Internet.
But the thing is, everyone already has a fax machine. No other method of secure transmission has reached critical mass because the fax machine, as ancient as it is does the job it's intended to fine. When you need a document sent to you securely, you know they can get access to a fax.
Besides this, few business in Australia have a physical fax. The last two I've worked for have used a fax service, so we simply email the service with the fax number in the subject line and the document attached.
BMW's are a bit of status, but mostly about driving.
And people read playboy for the articles.
Sorry, but people who enjoy driving tend to drive cars which are good to drive, we actually enjoy any car that is a good drive. From the Honda Civic (owned) to the Holden Commodore V8 supercar (driven), Aston Martin DB9 (driven) all the way up to the Bugatti Vehron (will drive before I die). People who are wankers who needs to show status symbols, they buy Beemers and Mercs.
Its the same with computers, want something functional and reliable, buy an Asus, want to show off how cool you (think you) are, overspend on a Mac. Apple is a status symbol, if it weren't they'd lose out to better, cheaper manufactuers like Asus, Toshiba, Sony et al. completely.
So hackers like it but do companies want hackers as their customers?
Without a doubt, whether they realise it or not, they need us.
When the average person wants their device to do something, do they talk to the douche marketing or the tech. When they want good advice do they talk to the salesdrones or to a tech head.
The smart ones talk to the hackers, the hackers recomend the products that can be hacked. We're better then almost any sales force.
And dont use Florian Mueller as an authoritative source. It only proves you are easily misled.
If you proposed a "Fair, Raisonnable And Non-Discriminatory" (FRAND) licence scheme
The problem is Apple uses patents that are not covered by FRAND and are claiming that FRAND licensing gives them access to non FRAND patents. They tried this line for years with Nokia until finally having to settle for cash.
FRAND only covers essential GSM patents. I.E. only the patents you need to create a GSM phone, not all the fruit that is built into a modern smartphone. FRAND's scope is limited.
Kindly know what you are on about, before posting about it. Mueller does not know what he's on about, he's a lobbyist, not a patent lawyer or even examiner which means he's pushing an agenda regardless of the truth and has continually been found to be publishing outright fabrications during the SCO-Novell case.
Apple has a patent. Whether you believe the patent should have been granted or not is a separate issue, the fact is that the USPTO issued the patent. If a patent holder doesn't try to enforce it when they believe it's been infringed upon, they lose the ability to enforce it.
The problem with defending a patent is that you need proof of infringement.
Apple has doctored evidence to create the illusion that their patent has been infringed when in reality, the patent has not.
No matter how you twist it, Apple is not in the right here and is only trying to prevent a competitor from releasing a product that will take sales away from their monopoly. If MS sued IBM because they developed some Linux GFX drivers claiming their patent for "method of displaying a blue pixel" was infringed you'd be screaming bloody murder. Apple is doing exactly that with "design patents" and they are defended for it.
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Hope this never happens to Amazon...
In all seriousness,
/.er who's set up rules for Amazon and the like to be automatically shunted into a different folder.
How long until Gmail "prioritises" all advertising into a "secondary" inbox that is not presented with ones personal mail by default.
I'm certain I'm not the only
Hope this never happens to Amazon...
What difference would it make?
Amazon UK has been spamming me with the same book I bought a month and a half ago. Would it matter if B&N does it too?
Cable snake seems expensive and clumsy compared to spiral cable binder/wrapper, which is cheap and easy :)
You can get it a lot cheaper then that, especially if you can get trade prices, the link was merely an example.
Thats the point.
An industry without government controls will inevitably implement their own controls which will almost always be anti-consumer and pro-profit. There are few industries where complete de-regulation or even self regulation works.
In a truly uncontrolled economy, a powerful force will assert itself as controller. So one has the choice between a government regulator which does not have a profit motive or a corporate regulator which has a vested interest in limiting competition.
Yes, if you go to Thailand and grab yourself some Stem Cell treatment, they'll do that, and that is fucking dangerous.
Spoken like someone who is truly ignorant.
You wont find embryonic stem cell therapy in a Thai hospital. Just the same type of therapy that can be found in European and Australian hospitals for a fraction of the price (because there is little in the way of liability in Thailand, that's your caveat emptor bit). A decent Thai hospital will be staffed by a lot of Thai doctors who got their medical degrees in western universities, Australian doctors will refer patients to these doctors for expensive elective surgery (I.E. cosmetic) because they have the same success rate as in Australia. A lot of Aussies get dental work done in Thailand as it's just as good as Oz and a fraction of the price for top dentists.
If you want an illegal treatment, you need to go to a back yard clinic and if you do that anywhere in the world, you're a complete idiot (or totally desperate, but the former is more likely).
I'm rather curious as to when sci-fi will become fulfilled prophecy as these companies go to war with real weapons.
Yes, Apple has already designed it's iArmy, they will be dressed in shiny white armour with highly inaccurate weapons that can only fire one shot at a time. I believe they will look something like this.
Oh, it's so cute you believe that.
But capitalism is the operation of a purely for profit business, not a voluntary association. It is quite fond of coercion when there is profit to be found. Our most successful capitalists are willing to do almost any dirty trick to become the top and often only player in the market.
This is why no country runs a purely capitalist system. Western economies run mixed economies because a pure capitalism only works in theory, in reality we end up with the likes of Microsoft.
Velcro wrap, also cable snakes for professional jobs. People dont care about seeing cables, they just want them out of the way. A short length of cable snake does just that. Clients are almost always happy to see one big cable snake then 6 or 7 smaller power/network/video cables.
As for home, I use the cable ties that came in the box at strategic points. Occasionally sticky tape but normally I cant be arsed.
Prison time for trolling?
First off, he didn't get time for simple anonymous trolling as happens everyday here on trolldot. He targeted the families and friends of the deceased specifically, that demonstrates a clear malicious intent. Lets remove the Internet from the current scenario, say he mailed hateful letters to the family, played that YouTube video on TV et al. It's the same thing minus the Internet and we'd call that stalking.
Secondly, this is the UK govt over-reacting. Since the recent riots they've been taking every oportunity to prove they are "tough on crime" in an attempt to make it look like they aren't letting the real perpetrators of the riot get away (because finding evidence and trying them would be hard and going after people who post stupid things on facebook is easy). Yes this guy is a dick, a complete dick who deserves some jail time and community service but that's it.
So dearest Australians and Americans, read the above paragraph and remember in 2012, conservatives don't fix problems, at best they don't create new ones.
Cat6e will do 10 gigabit which should be quite adequate for most purposes for quite some time.
Which still makes you victim to a building managed MDF. Speed is far from the only reason to go with fibre, Ethernet cables tend to require a router at the MDF to change a WAN link such as ADSL or Fibre into a LAN link where as Fibre can simply be repeated when your government finally figures out Telco's will never fibre up most homes. Also reliability and longevity are huge reasons to go with Fibre, with Ethernet, how long until you have to rewire the building due to obsolescence/degraded cables? 10, maybe 20 but with Fibre that's forty odd years.
She should be sentenced to 5 years of pulling cat6 cable thru 200 year old buildings in Boston; and removing all the old POTS wire.
That would fall under the "cruel and unusual" clause as by the time she's done pulling Cat 6 through, it'll be obsolete.
Why not just do it right the first time and do it with fibre.
the power of Origin.
Wait.. Anyone else here?
Who am I supposed to tell about the power of Origin?
Oh bugger.
APPL is peaking on a huge bubble right now. Every financial minded person I talk to is saying not to buy APPL stock ATM as the stock value is way out of sync with the companies actual production values (forget market cap, that is simply a corporate e-peen, we're talking actual numbers here).
So you will be shorting them then? Look forward to your rolling-in-cash gloating session.
I was smart enough not to buy them.
Why, because 70% of public APPL shares are owned by holding companies. A holding company will not keep shares that do not pay div's when they think they have peaked. So it will be a fire sale of APPL shares.
What happens when 70% of a companies shares are sold almost at once...
Apple is in trouble. Not going out of business in trouble, but in trouble in terms of losing their vast profits.
Exactly. Unfortunately Apple will be around for a while but when the numbers in sales start to slip most of Apple's shareholders are going to sell. in the end, I reckon APPL shares will be worth about $15-25 a piece and wont go back up again.
At the moment Apple is a one trick pony with 50% of their profits coming from one product alone, the Iphone. So if Iphones sales drop, the share price will dive, Apple is desperately trying to stop the tablet space becoming like the phone space where they compete with a superior product which gains a higher market share stagnating growth in market share because it need to stop being a one trick pony in order to keep it's share price.
APPL is peaking on a huge bubble right now. Every financial minded person I talk to is saying not to buy APPL stock ATM as the stock value is way out of sync with the companies actual production values (forget market cap, that is simply a corporate e-peen, we're talking actual numbers here).
No, if that were the case they would not be suing because the Galaxy Tab looks nothing like the Ipad in reality, they had to doctor evidence to support that flawed assertion.
Actually, they aren't.
Sorry to break it to you dear fanboy. I was in Singapore on Saturday, you could find an Iphone 4 everywhere but a Samsung Galaxy 2 was extremerly hard to find.
But growth is definitely stagnant and when your stock is based on gaining a higher price by gaining higher market share this is very bad indeed.
Your arguments are desperate and have no basis in reality. By all means, keep buying APPL stock, you seem to have no idea what is happening around you right now, let alone an inkling of what might happen in the future.
Because apparently they believe that the situation is not mutually assured destruction.
No, I think very little of Apple and its management but even I trust that Apple knows this.
I think Apple has seen the writing on the wall, Android is growing in popularity, Iphone has been stagnant over the last year, despite selling more units their market share has not increased. Historically, Apple has never been able to cope with competition, even when it was only one big competitor (Microsoft). So the patent war is mutally assured destruction because Apple wants to take others down with it. Rather then conceding defeat and saying "we had a good run" they want to ruin everything for everyone. This isn't simply Apple taking it's ball and going home, they want Samsung's bat too.
At best, this is a ruse to keep stock holders from figuring out that Apple has peaked.
How about that?
Or better yet,
"HTC Does To Apple What Apple Has Been Doing To HTC, Motorola And Samsung.
I have zero sympathy for Apple in this regard, they are getting their just deserts for starting this patent war.
Suffer in your jocks Apple.
I'd just like to post so that I might also benefit from this Karma grab.
It has. VPN, direct dial (either 56K or via a private DSLAM) and a bunch of other solutions that don't even touch the Internet.
But the thing is, everyone already has a fax machine. No other method of secure transmission has reached critical mass because the fax machine, as ancient as it is does the job it's intended to fine. When you need a document sent to you securely, you know they can get access to a fax.
Besides this, few business in Australia have a physical fax. The last two I've worked for have used a fax service, so we simply email the service with the fax number in the subject line and the document attached.
And people read playboy for the articles.
Sorry, but people who enjoy driving tend to drive cars which are good to drive, we actually enjoy any car that is a good drive. From the Honda Civic (owned) to the Holden Commodore V8 supercar (driven), Aston Martin DB9 (driven) all the way up to the Bugatti Vehron (will drive before I die). People who are wankers who needs to show status symbols, they buy Beemers and Mercs.
Its the same with computers, want something functional and reliable, buy an Asus, want to show off how cool you (think you) are, overspend on a Mac. Apple is a status symbol, if it weren't they'd lose out to better, cheaper manufactuers like Asus, Toshiba, Sony et al. completely.
So hackers like it but do companies want hackers as their customers?
Without a doubt, whether they realise it or not, they need us.
When the average person wants their device to do something, do they talk to the douche marketing or the tech. When they want good advice do they talk to the salesdrones or to a tech head.
The smart ones talk to the hackers, the hackers recomend the products that can be hacked. We're better then almost any sales force.
First of all Apple has sued only Samsung for design patents. They have not sued every Android manufacturer over design patents..
They've been suing HTC for some time.
Now they've attacked Motorola as well.
They also doctored evidence in the Samsung case because the truth did not reflect their case.
The problem is Apple uses patents that are not covered by FRAND and are claiming that FRAND licensing gives them access to non FRAND patents. They tried this line for years with Nokia until finally having to settle for cash.
FRAND only covers essential GSM patents. I.E. only the patents you need to create a GSM phone, not all the fruit that is built into a modern smartphone. FRAND's scope is limited.
Kindly know what you are on about, before posting about it. Mueller does not know what he's on about, he's a lobbyist, not a patent lawyer or even examiner which means he's pushing an agenda regardless of the truth and has continually been found to be publishing outright fabrications during the SCO-Novell case.
So when Apple sues its competitors with overly broad patents it's "protecting its innovations"
When the targets of Apple's anti-competitive lawsuits counter-sue Apple cries "anti-competitive" monopoly.
Apple gets more evil every day.
Yep, Apple started the patent war, now they find their abilty to fight it is lacking.
Well you get what you deserve, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Or for a more Australian phrase, suffer in you jocks.
Apple has a patent. Whether you believe the patent should have been granted or not is a separate issue, the fact is that the USPTO issued the patent. If a patent holder doesn't try to enforce it when they believe it's been infringed upon, they lose the ability to enforce it.
The problem with defending a patent is that you need proof of infringement.
Apple has doctored evidence to create the illusion that their patent has been infringed when in reality, the patent has not.
No matter how you twist it, Apple is not in the right here and is only trying to prevent a competitor from releasing a product that will take sales away from their monopoly. If MS sued IBM because they developed some Linux GFX drivers claiming their patent for "method of displaying a blue pixel" was infringed you'd be screaming bloody murder. Apple is doing exactly that with "design patents" and they are defended for it.