I have a hard time siding with anyone using software patents offensively. Fuck these guys and their patents. And if Apple asserts software patents in a non-defensive manner, fuck them, too.
You really, really must hate Google then. Wanting 4 billion dollars for some mp3 patents.
Unfortunately, far too many people are worshipping at the church of Steve Jobs for the concept of the unskilled idea person to die out any time soon.
I'll tell you something about "unskilled" Steve Jobs: When Apple had all their plans ready for the Apple 1 computer, Steve Jobs got off his arse and sold 50 of those computers to a hobby computer store for $500 each, and the $25,000 he got was enough to buy the parts for the first 50 computers he needed to deliver, plus 50 more that he could sell. Without that money, Apple would have been dead at inception. That single sale started everything.
Job's ideas were a dime a dozen. His ability to make it stick and actually produce the thing, that's what sets him apart.
And yet, when you look at the stalwarts of today's tech industry, most of them excelled, not because of their technical skills but because of their ideas. The best technical skills in the world don't mean a thing if you can't envision how to use them for something others want. Put differently, it is a lot easier to teach others to code than it is to teach them to think creatively.
No, they didn't succeed because of their ideas, but because they managed to put money where their mouth is, and got the finances to turn the idea into something that can be sold.
The study, available in MS-Word format in a link posted by a kindly slashdotter, contains this gem. 67% is 75th percentile? People who trust the findings of such articles are the harbingers of onslaught of stupidity.
Careful complaining about stupidity.
Less than 25% bought more than 67% flops, and 75% didn't. That makes people picking 67% flops or more the 75% percentile.
Why is there no production capacity shortage to keep Greek pensioners at a decent standard of living?
The problem really is that 57 year old German workers don't want their money, earned by hard work, going to 57 year old Greek pensioners.
retart? look in the mirror lol
"Retart" was used to avoid insulting retards.
And iTunes already does organize files by directories if your metadata is correct.
And if you want to access the music outside iTunes, it takes a total of two OS calls to read the complete iTunes library database into memory, with all the information immediately accessible.
Very close to zero. Bitcoins are mined where power is cheapest, which means where there is plenty of hydropower, like in Iceland and the US Pacific Northwest. It is not cost effective to mine bitcoins using electricity from FFs.
Bullshit. Give us one shred of evidence that this is happening. Anyone involved in bitcoin mining isn't one bit interested in environmental issues, and coal is still the cheapest form of energy.
Sure, not sharing your messianic opinion of Assange and wanting him to be judged like a normal person is capitulating...
Not even that> Assange asked for asylum (and now, like the fox with the sour grapes, suddenly he never wanted it), and France sees no reason to give him asylum. Firstly, because he is not in France. You have to be in France or in a French embassy to get asylum in France. Second, because they don't find any reason to grant him asylum. No fear for his life, no fear of an unfair court trial.
If you offer your copyrighted work for download for free what possible complaint can you have against anyone who takes you up on that offer unless they redistribute via other methods or sites? Peer-peer nature of torrents excluded of course, since they knowingly uploaded knowing full well that peer-peer partial transfers would occur from each torrent downloader...
Actually... With theft, there is an interesting situation:In US law, if someone sells stuff cheaply (for example a tiny company dissolving), and you think wrongly the goods on offer are stolen goods, and you buy them under the assumption that the are cheap because they are stolen goods, you are committing a crime (attempt to buy stolen goods). However, I don't think that attempted copyright infringement is a crime, and in a civil case there would be no damage done.
Digital music was well on it's way before apple produced the iPod. And let's not forget the LG Prada which came out almost a year before the iPhone, it was the first phone with a capacitive touchscreen and that form factor.
Seriously. You are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And the "almost a year": LG Prada sales started May 2007. iPhone sales started June 29th, 2007. And by the end of the month they had overtaken the LG Prada in number of sales.
And there were probably asshole CEO level people that could have created "Apple" as well. Nobody is irreplaceable.
Fact is that there have been no asshole CEO level people who created Apple. And a reasonably successful software / hardware company. And maybe the most successful computer graphics and animation company in the world.
Someone is lazy and untalented if they think a father who abandoned his child is a dick? There are plenty of other examples of what a horrible person he was, but that alone is enough to damn anyone.
You are very quick at condemning. I suppose you condemn Steve Jobs' biological parents as well, who both abandoned him? And I mean totally abandoned him. The reality is that there are millions of parents who treated and treat their children worse.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
