Really - you know, the scourge of 'closing in the customers, locking them, controlling them, deciding what they can do' ? its Apple's doing.
10 years ago it wasnt like that. Openness was the order of the day. proliferation of ibm pc had had created an environment that had the theme 'you can do whatever you want with your device'. this also prevailed in software. despite there was so much need for standardization and access controls for pc based software, all software was made thinking that people would do anything they want with it.
but then came apple's success with all those fanbois. and all the buzz talk, hype-tech talk that went on in the media. their fanaticism, waiting a week in lines, their dedication to buy things by paying heaps more, and apple profiting on and on and on, made good news. despite google was shattering a lot of barriers for example, more talk was done on apple, its hype, success etc.
what do you expect other companies would to then ? they saw apple, their good profit margins, their control over their customer base, they saw they not only got away with locking their customers in and milking them, but they made profit, and noone sued or prosecuted apple for that, including government. on and on.
You let this thing happen for half a decade, and it was inevitable all would jump in. and voila. everyone is now trying to lock in their customers. everyone became control freaks.
Now it is at the point of claiming ownership of very basic things, like word apple, (the lawsuit in australia), the word 'app' (despite it has been used before that), and now simple moves and motions.
you reap what you saw. its as simple as that. we have apple fanbois' unconsciousness to thank this era of closed-in computing for. well done. now all our devices' cases will be shiny and cool, but they wont open. (remember apple services' screwdriver bastardry)
Yeah. fuck them. its as elaborately as can be put. "Hey, you cannot use our moving-your-hand-to-right-to-move-a-page-right" 'innovation'. because, well, millions of fanbois have pumped up our control freakness by obliging with everything we did to them, and we think everyone will do the same.
he wants to pay $1. he and everyone else thinks movie is worth $1 or less. they are the market. the producers are trying to force down their price. simple.
Do you think it costs no money or time to make a movie?
dont come up with this stupid argument ever, ever again.
it takes much more time and money to produce a single car model and sell it. yet, the company selling it to you is not asking you to pay money over and over and over and over again, and dictate ways you can use your car, or prevent you from selling your car if you want.
a car is much harder to produce than a software. yes, it is. because with a car, you start with an idea, you pass through abstract design, you DO create software in the middle to manage the car, and you go through all the horrors of manufacturing AND distributing, and THEN you go through servicing of that car for its lifetime. you cant just produce one copy of the car and copy it over and over without any effort and just give it to people over internet.
moreover, most of the intellectual property makes out their initial investment and multiples of profit in short notice. there is nothing that says people should be able to produce a single product and make money over and over again without adding any additional value to society.
do you see the irony of requiring compensation on something that will not be ever used on a lifetime, and the same thing also being reproduceable/copiable faster than the original author can say 'copyright' ?
they are at it again. defending the principles of modern society against private greed. because, most others that purported to do that, failed. like americans.
are you saying that what is described in the links, with references, are NOT happening ? are you using the perceived credibility of the site that hosts those links, to negate the existence of those events that are linked ? have it occurred to your mind that, the reason why you are able to find these news on such sites is because the syndicated established private channels do not want to make them news, to not upset voters and their supporting parties, which generally end up being right wing, and supported by very corporations that own those news channels ? fox ? cnn ? et al ?
again, are you or are you not telling me that the events listed in those links are not happening ?
What do you think the people classified in 'migrant worker' category in increasing numbers are ? famine, plague, drought, are causing people to relocate and seek work.
those land disputes and kashmir issue is a remainder of the 1950s and mao era. it is 2011 now. they linger, and will linger on. however, there are bigger mechanics of life than land as of 2011, and all know it. this is why there is a BRIC bloc, including I and C.
it wasnt anything related to real estate market. even if the houses that were bought from 600,000 are now valued at 300,000, THEY ARE STILL THERE. they did not vanish.
mortgage backed securities were inflated, then incorporated into more papers which were inflated up to 60x their value, and then shown to government as financial assets of 61x.
despite having 1x actual assets, they showed their assets as 61x.
THEN THEY GOT PERMISSION FROM GOVERNMENT TO LEND MONEY TO PEOPLE 610x OVER THOSE ASSETS, as per the financial regulations.
in short, they lent 609x units of money THEY DID NOT HAVE.
people built factories with those lent funds. they invested. reinvested. bought stocks. lended. governments, corporations. and in 2008, it turned out that THAT 609x INITIAL FUNDS WERE NOT THERE AT ALL. but all the transactions, investments that were done by using the funds lent, are still there.
this is what they mean with 'poisoning' of the world's assets. noone knows how much of what they have was acquired with water vapor, and everyone is hesitant to trade with anyone else.
it is appalling that your knowledge of the situation is moronically shallow. yeah. it was some 1 million mortgaged houses, each 300-600,000 k apiece, that sank the ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY. china builds that many houses in a year....
your understanding of the economic situation is too funny.
american financial market has not only been inflated 610x or so its value, but also these nonexistent, fraudulent papers have been traded to entire world countries.
this is the reason behind the 2008 crisis. and this is the source of the disparage. compared to that, yes, we can say real economic value only happens outside usa.
Money talks, and bullshit walks. Do you think China is going to send billions of Yuan to Europe during a crisis? Fuck no. Their currency doesn't even float because their government is too chickenshit to expose their currency to the real market.
let me tell you what will happen : china will send yuan to europe, will keep it fixed rate, and everything will work because china is a mega market that is 1.5 billion itself.
it can easily define what happens with its market alone. the biggest market and the biggest growing potential market in regard to size on the planet, is china.
what about the euro, anyone, anyone, WHAT ? as of this moment, euro is not only a more stable currency than the nonexistent dollar, but also its backers are stronger than the water vapor that backs dollar in wall street. at least, its existence is not being maintained by printing money.
really, what was the purpose of your post ?
your problem seems to be with 'enforcing rulings' -> they ARE enforcing rulings. they are NOT enforcing the rulings that the filth behind wall street wants them to enforce. this is the gist of the article.
"repatriate" your manufacturing... WHERE will you sell your products to ? europe ? china ? russia ? india ? all the while where china produces the same product for dimes ? with its 1.5 billion population ?
in case you are not yet aware, china is the BIGGEST market on the planet, and one of its cards in his hand, is this. noone can ignore the market that is china and be set.
yes they are quite large. even proposal of an invasion of india is hilarious. leave aside their military power, but, noone would allow that on any ground.
Slashdot Mirror
hahaha ahahaha. sarcasm.... how rare to see it on the web.
Really - you know, the scourge of 'closing in the customers, locking them, controlling them, deciding what they can do' ? its Apple's doing.
10 years ago it wasnt like that. Openness was the order of the day. proliferation of ibm pc had had created an environment that had the theme 'you can do whatever you want with your device'. this also prevailed in software. despite there was so much need for standardization and access controls for pc based software, all software was made thinking that people would do anything they want with it.
but then came apple's success with all those fanbois. and all the buzz talk, hype-tech talk that went on in the media. their fanaticism, waiting a week in lines, their dedication to buy things by paying heaps more, and apple profiting on and on and on, made good news. despite google was shattering a lot of barriers for example, more talk was done on apple, its hype, success etc.
what do you expect other companies would to then ? they saw apple, their good profit margins, their control over their customer base, they saw they not only got away with locking their customers in and milking them, but they made profit, and noone sued or prosecuted apple for that, including government. on and on.
You let this thing happen for half a decade, and it was inevitable all would jump in. and voila. everyone is now trying to lock in their customers. everyone became control freaks.
Now it is at the point of claiming ownership of very basic things, like word apple, (the lawsuit in australia), the word 'app' (despite it has been used before that), and now simple moves and motions.
you reap what you saw. its as simple as that. we have apple fanbois' unconsciousness to thank this era of closed-in computing for. well done. now all our devices' cases will be shiny and cool, but they wont open. (remember apple services' screwdriver bastardry)
Yeah. fuck them. its as elaborately as can be put. "Hey, you cannot use our moving-your-hand-to-right-to-move-a-page-right" 'innovation'. because, well, millions of fanbois have pumped up our control freakness by obliging with everything we did to them, and we think everyone will do the same.
he wants to pay $1. he and everyone else thinks movie is worth $1 or less. they are the market. the producers are trying to force down their price. simple.
Do you think it costs no money or time to make a movie?
dont come up with this stupid argument ever, ever again.
it takes much more time and money to produce a single car model and sell it. yet, the company selling it to you is not asking you to pay money over and over and over and over again, and dictate ways you can use your car, or prevent you from selling your car if you want.
a car is much harder to produce than a software. yes, it is. because with a car, you start with an idea, you pass through abstract design, you DO create software in the middle to manage the car, and you go through all the horrors of manufacturing AND distributing, and THEN you go through servicing of that car for its lifetime. you cant just produce one copy of the car and copy it over and over without any effort and just give it to people over internet.
moreover, most of the intellectual property makes out their initial investment and multiples of profit in short notice. there is nothing that says people should be able to produce a single product and make money over and over again without adding any additional value to society.
yes. and that self-centered self-interestedness is harming them all.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-etoilet-to-revolutionize-online-shitting,633/
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compared to those in u.s., europeans indeed come up as the angels the gp portrays.
do you see the irony of requiring compensation on something that will not be ever used on a lifetime, and the same thing also being reproduceable/copiable faster than the original author can say 'copyright' ?
dont dodge. are you saying that, what are being told in those links, those droughts, hailstorms, sandstorms, are not happening.
they are at it again. defending the principles of modern society against private greed. because, most others that purported to do that, failed. like americans.
are you saying that what is described in the links, with references, are NOT happening ? are you using the perceived credibility of the site that hosts those links, to negate the existence of those events that are linked ? have it occurred to your mind that, the reason why you are able to find these news on such sites is because the syndicated established private channels do not want to make them news, to not upset voters and their supporting parties, which generally end up being right wing, and supported by very corporations that own those news channels ? fox ? cnn ? et al ?
again, are you or are you not telling me that the events listed in those links are not happening ?
cost reduction.
relevance ?
news in the links, are still news. verifiable.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/04/15/us-farmers-threaten-by-worst-drought-since-1930s/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/04/15/cuba-is-dealing-with-the-worst-drought-in-50-years/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/04/17/hailstorms-damage-crops-across-states-in-india/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/04/15/dozens-tornadoes-rip-through-u-s-southwest/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/04/15/cuba-is-dealing-with-the-worst-drought-in-50-years/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/04/16/air-pollution-worries-iran-as-sandstorms-wreak-havoc/
What do you think the people classified in 'migrant worker' category in increasing numbers are ? famine, plague, drought, are causing people to relocate and seek work.
those land disputes and kashmir issue is a remainder of the 1950s and mao era. it is 2011 now. they linger, and will linger on. however, there are bigger mechanics of life than land as of 2011, and all know it. this is why there is a BRIC bloc, including I and C.
alliances, are pragmatic.
it wasnt anything related to real estate market. even if the houses that were bought from 600,000 are now valued at 300,000, THEY ARE STILL THERE. they did not vanish.
....
mortgage backed securities were inflated, then incorporated into more papers which were inflated up to 60x their value, and then shown to government as financial assets of 61x.
despite having 1x actual assets, they showed their assets as 61x.
THEN THEY GOT PERMISSION FROM GOVERNMENT TO LEND MONEY TO PEOPLE 610x OVER THOSE ASSETS, as per the financial regulations.
in short, they lent 609x units of money THEY DID NOT HAVE.
people built factories with those lent funds. they invested. reinvested. bought stocks. lended. governments, corporations. and in 2008, it turned out that THAT 609x INITIAL FUNDS WERE NOT THERE AT ALL. but all the transactions, investments that were done by using the funds lent, are still there.
this is what they mean with 'poisoning' of the world's assets. noone knows how much of what they have was acquired with water vapor, and everyone is hesitant to trade with anyone else.
it is appalling that your knowledge of the situation is moronically shallow. yeah. it was some 1 million mortgaged houses, each 300-600,000 k apiece, that sank the ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY. china builds that many houses in a year
morondom.
and ?
correct link below :
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-16-2010/in-dodd-we-trust
your understanding of the economic situation is too funny.
american financial market has not only been inflated 610x or so its value, but also these nonexistent, fraudulent papers have been traded to entire world countries.
this is the reason behind the 2008 crisis. and this is the source of the disparage. compared to that, yes, we can say real economic value only happens outside usa.
and the mechanic that provided that, is this :
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-17-2010/in-dodd-we-trust
Money talks, and bullshit walks. Do you think China is going to send billions of Yuan to Europe during a crisis? Fuck no. Their currency doesn't even float because their government is too chickenshit to expose their currency to the real market.
let me tell you what will happen : china will send yuan to europe, will keep it fixed rate, and everything will work because china is a mega market that is 1.5 billion itself.
it can easily define what happens with its market alone. the biggest market and the biggest growing potential market in regard to size on the planet, is china.
what about the euro, anyone, anyone, WHAT ? as of this moment, euro is not only a more stable currency than the nonexistent dollar, but also its backers are stronger than the water vapor that backs dollar in wall street. at least, its existence is not being maintained by printing money.
really, what was the purpose of your post ?
your problem seems to be with 'enforcing rulings' -> they ARE enforcing rulings. they are NOT enforcing the rulings that the filth behind wall street wants them to enforce. this is the gist of the article.
"repatriate" your manufacturing ... WHERE will you sell your products to ? europe ? china ? russia ? india ? all the while where china produces the same product for dimes ? with its 1.5 billion population ?
in case you are not yet aware, china is the BIGGEST market on the planet, and one of its cards in his hand, is this. noone can ignore the market that is china and be set.
yes they are quite large. even proposal of an invasion of india is hilarious. leave aside their military power, but, noone would allow that on any ground.
hahahaha. invading india, a 1 billion country, with nuclear weapons, ally of russia, china ? ......