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by antonovka 17y ago
Unfortunately we clearly can't trust even your breaking news -- as evidenced by the referenced article -- until it's validated by a more reputable source.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Clearly you didn't read it closely enough. They were worse off for the lack of an affordable water supply leading to a lack of sanitation and epidemic. The inefficient private solution stayed the adoption of a publicly administered one.
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by antonovka 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly#Historical_exa...
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by antonovka 17y ago
But we would never know as long as the government enforced the coercive monopoly. This is a one-sided description and a false dichotomy. A non-regulated natural monopoly can be just as suppressive as a government enforced-coercive monopol
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by antonovka 17y ago
Monopoly? Last I checked there were multiple competing mobile carriers. You do have to put a lot of capital at risk though to be a national carrier. Which is exactly the point, really. Someone put a lot of capital at risk, and now that the
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by antonovka 17y ago
Both. The first market entrant has "... an overwhelming cost advantage over other actual or potential competitors". Municipalities also have natural incentives to provide sweet-heart franchise agreements -- it's generally too expensive to d
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by antonovka 17y ago
There is nothing natural about a monopoly (or in this case, oligopoly) ordained by government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly And that is the problem that should be addressed directly. Current government policies create
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by antonovka 17y ago
On the Mac, I have full control, for some reasonable definition of "full control".
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by antonovka 17y ago
This can't end well. At the end of the day, Apple and AT&T have the right (or should have the right) to make any agreements they find necessary ... So can I have the right to broadcast my own GSM signal in the 900 MHz range, or a perp
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by antonovka 17y ago
Compared to the open source alternatives, it is. It seems to require a paycheck to convince anyone to produce feature complete business accounting software, and even then the A-list individuals are probably otherwise occupied with more enjo
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by antonovka 17y ago
Am I squatting because I've registered a few tens of domains (and paid for them, faithfully, every year), but haven't yet gotten 'round to the projects I registered them for? Yes -- just like a trademark. Are you going to take my domains
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by antonovka 17y ago
As opposed to ICANN, an organization propped up entirely by the U.S. government?
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by antonovka 17y ago
Linux is only a reasonable desktop if you're only spending your time in a terminal, using emacs/vi/eclipse/netbeans/etc. Before moving to Mac OS X from Linux/BSD desktops, I failed to appreciate the value of polished, non-developer software
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by antonovka 17y ago
I think this explains the (predictably) irrational hatred for the GPL; it makes doors close, and that is something we are apparently hard-wired to hate. Even though we know we are never going to make our free app proprietary, we want that
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by antonovka 17y ago
I'm more interested in not having my iPhone hacked and not having lots of support calls from customers who have had theirs hacked than whether Apple gets whatever comeuppance you/he decides they deserve. Whatever comeuppance the market
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by antonovka 17y ago
If you have a vulnerability that could result in the takeover of every iPhone in the world, along with a noticable increase in SMS message traffic over carrier networks, and the manufacturer has not fixed it yet... Looking at how Apple be
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by antonovka 17y ago
The phone is perfectly capable of running background processes -- it really is just Darwin running on a small ARM device. The default sandbox does not permit calls to fork/exec, but there's no guarantee that the SMS application runs in that
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by antonovka 17y ago
The fact that the company was able to hire an additional contractor demonstrates that they had the finances available to pay all or part of their outstanding debt. The use of copyright-infringement forces the company to meet their ethical a
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by antonovka 17y ago
An unpaid developer normally cannot sue for copyright infringement, even when the work has not been paid for (unless the contract explicitly states that the IP rights transfer only upon payment, which few contracts do). I find that surpri
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by antonovka 17y ago
Apple doesn't use stock icons for their product icons, and the Xcode icon has been in use in similar forms since 2003.
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by antonovka 17y ago
The icons are almost exact clones of Apple's -- the differences are so minor that I didn't notice them when actually looking at the applications in my dock. The Xcode icon, for instance, appears identical barring the reversal of the hammer.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Using Apple's Xcode and Dictionary icons in the banner of the RethinkDB website looks pretty skeevy. It's hard to do by accident, and beyond violating Apple's copyright, it doesn't place your company in a good light. I wouldn't bother comme