Comment Re: *shrug* (Score 1) 387
Neither am I a zealot. In fact, the way you double down and try to invent a new definition of 'closed source' out of whole cloth does make you the zealous one.
Neither am I a zealot. In fact, the way you double down and try to invent a new definition of 'closed source' out of whole cloth does make you the zealous one.
No, England is closer to the rest of the Anglophone world. There is a reason SNP supporters are making noises about a second independence referendum for Scotland should Brexit become a real possibility.
To be fair, Nicola Sturgeon is keeping mum on the subject, but I don't think (from across the North Sea) she's against the notion.
Strange definition of 'closed source'. I remember Amiga manuals detailing those chips to the register level.
It's not the country, It's the drooling morons that we have running the country.
We get the politicians we deserve.
Because they have half a clue
Apple doesn't enter a market unless they see the ability to innovate and change it. They aren't always first movers, but they DO bring innovation and of course profits to any segment they enter.
The magic is in saying "NO" to doing things that don't make sense... entering a crowded, unimaginative, razor-thin margin, mature TV market doesn't make sense for Apple. That's why they said no.... No more, no less.
Then Uber comes along and creates a way to share a ride and the driver benefits a little bit as well.
Uber drivers aren't sharing a damned thing. They're charging for a service. That's called doing business, and if you want to do business, you need to follow certain rules, just like anything else in life. You can't just jump up and say "nuh-uh, this is sharing!" when you're really requiring people to pay you before you "share" anything.
If I open a gas station and call it a "fuel sharing service", does that mean that I get to bypass all those pesky rules and regulations for making sure my tanks don't leak into the ground? Or that I don't need to spend all that extraneous money to install safety cutoff switches (like anyone ever -uses- those, amirite?)
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.