tjogin

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by tjogin 15y ago
First: iPad. Most personal usage of PC laptops are mostly performing tasks that the iPad can do. And the iPad is getting more versatile faster than regular people are using PCs for more tasks. Apple hasn't maxed out their iPad business unti
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by tjogin 15y ago
Are you kidding? Apple has only half the market of smart phones (and that market itself is growing quickly), and only single digit market share in PCs. And people actually replace their phones and their PCs over a few years. They can ke
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by tjogin 15y ago
It isn't eerie when Apple is silent.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I don't think Apple ever did support SOPA. BSA did, of which Apple is a member, and BSA withdrew their support.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Yes, but it is not stealing .
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by tjogin 15y ago
No it isn't. Stealing is taking something from the owner. Like if I steal your bike, you no longer have a bike . If I copy your bike (were it possible), you still have a bike . Copyright infringement isn't stealing just like it also isn't
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by tjogin 15y ago
Why stop at stealing? Why isn't pirating a movie also rape, murder, armed robbery and polygamy, and any other crime it doesn't fit the definition of?
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by tjogin 15y ago
So what? That doesn't make it theft, any more than it makes it murder or rape.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I feel for you. But when I described the problem as "solved", I meant that the solution to music piracy has been found , it's been tested , and it has prevailed where implemented. Unfortunately, it has yet to come to your country, probabl
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by tjogin 15y ago
The problem of music piracy is mostly solved, largely because of iPod/iTunes and Spotify and others. And it was, indeed, solved by making the legal services as good or better as the illegal ones. Sure there are some music piracy left, but
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by tjogin 15y ago
It's not an added middleman, it's replacing one or more other middlemen with Apple.
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by tjogin 15y ago
The 30% cut Apple takes is a minuscule part of their business, you can pretty much round it off as irrelevant. Look at any of their financial reports for this presented in black and white. From their perspective that cut is just a way to
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by tjogin 15y ago
He wouldn't be ranting if his photo was the sunset equivalent of the Mona Lisa. To use your metaphor, his photo is not the Mona Lisa. To use your metaphor, his photo is but one among the huge number of portraits of women.
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by tjogin 15y ago
He included the cost of the camera, but only the cost of the gas , not the cost of the car . Why include the whole cost of the camera equipment, but only the operating cost, and barely that, of the car? To be consistent, he should inc
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by tjogin 15y ago
It matters a lot if you're using open source tools, I think. The people running windows and doing development on open source tools are a tiny minority, therefore whatever platform specific problems they run into aren't going to get as much
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by tjogin 15y ago
Of course you did, and I say that as a self-described Ruby programmer. What I really want to know is what gave you the idea that it might be a good idea to use Ruby for a project so obviously not suitable for Ruby?
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by tjogin 15y ago
Right, but that assumes Apple would show the Premier League for free and without any ads. Securing rights to popular tv content seems like an extremely good way to seriously establish Apple as a contender in the tv market, and a very nice w
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by tjogin 15y ago
Said blowhards have an equally shallow understanding of what design is.
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by tjogin 15y ago
See, this is why Apple is winning. Because their competitors, analysts and other blowhards think it's just "marketing". It isn't. But as long as people don't figure that out, Apple will continue to reap their rewards.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Uh, "magic" code isn't "magic", it's just code you don't understand. The obvious solution is to stop writing it off as "magic" and learn to understand it.
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by tjogin 15y ago
> Now suppose someone had asked you: "do you want legislation against these foreign illegal drug sellers?" Surely you'd say yes. Heck, I'd say yes. What reasonable person would oppose this? I would. Not every nuisance should be outlawed
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by tjogin 15y ago
These kinds of arguments only weakens your position. If you had something thoughtful to say, something of value, you would have said it. Instead you serve this nonsense, the only logical conclusion of which is that you can't think of anyt
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by tjogin 15y ago
I hate software patents, I really do. But what alternatives does Apple have? They're the big fish in their industries, they have to file and use patents or they'll be on the other end of the lawsuits. At least the patents Apple use in lawsu
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by tjogin 15y ago
It's impossible to create anything at all "without" design. Design is not graphical embellishment. Design is decision making of appearance and functionality.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I've never claimed there to be a singular European attitude.
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by tjogin 15y ago
The one in this specific example is likely ok in most western workplaces, outside of the US. Europeans don't freak out nearly as much over this kind of stuff as Americans do. It isn't porn, as anyone with a pair of eyes can clearly see.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Game consoles, cars and GPS-devices are closed in the same sense that Macs, iPhones and iPads are. The vendor supplies the product as a complete integrated experience, not as hardware that you install whichever software you want on.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Whether locked down technologies "tend" to lose depends on what categories of technologies you count. A common mistake when speaking of closed vs. open systems is to look at a very narrow set of technologies and product categories, often li
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by tjogin 15y ago
Why would he step out of the Apple bubble? His crowd were Apple developers, that's the one thing they have in common.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I agree, but at the same time there's a certain poetic justice to it.

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