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>But having a monopoly in the mobile app market does give Apple a monopoly. They don't. Doesn't Android actually have more apps in their app store? It really is what the parent sai…

I can't believe history can be completely forgotten in less than 20 years. Here are a couple of links I found with a quick googling: http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html http://web.a…

If we ever get to the point that jobs aren't replaced that would mean that all work isn't needed so the typical rules of capitalism no longer apply. Capitalism is just a mechanism …

If last.fm, etc. are providing so much value why are their margins so thin? Are they providing value less than 30% of the cost of the base product?

You can't possibly be serious. You don't know of Microsoft's long history of copying software that other companies had made, putting them out of business? And three other people as…

This sounds a bit hyperbolic. The company that is notorious for doing this is Microsoft.

Personally I would prefer Racket over Guile, but if it starts to keep its promise about becoming the scripting language for linux then I would get more interested. Any link for all…

I can understand Apple wanting to cut out middle men. I've never been a big fan of middle men myself, for the most part. But the biggest thing that bugs me about this is: iBooks do…

Simple solution: sell your crops where it is most profitable. Maybe with 11x normal it's still worth it. As soon as it's not, you switch.

>It's deeply disturbing that the people at Apple feel entitled to radically change the rules of the game whenever it suits them. What makes you think that's what they're doing? It …

Couldn't disagree more. The "all apps should be web apps" movement is just an attempt to return to dumb terminals. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way again, but this time "…

If people are using apps because they make more money with them, then what is your basis for claiming web apps are superior?

If you don't have speech without consequences then there will always be things that need to be said that can't be.

Looks like you're getting a bit defensive for some reason. I was using "you" as a generic pronoun (I could have said "one would be" instead but that's more wordy and is IMO less cl…

You make some good points but I think you're underestimating the power a monopoly can have. It's true that IBM wasn't able to keep their strangle hold on technology, but Microsoft …

>Happy wife = happy life I hate this phrase, it's the battle cry of those who do whatever their wife says and laugh with their buddies about how whipped they are. Marriage is a bal…

I agree with PG: just ignore patents when you're small. If you ever get big enough for it to matter than things are looking really good and you'll have more bargaining options.

>You come across patterns like that by doing the tedious work the hard way and looking for short-cuts. This doesn't work for me. After a little bit of tedium my mind quickly switch…

>He very correctly points out that people should simply fix the Wikipedia rules then. Everyone is responsible for their own action . You should not follow rules that are bad, you s…

Nothing lets the terrorists win more than spending ourselves into a stupor chasing non-existent boogy men.

What is the point of posting a 10+ year old toy? You could do this same thing in a very wide variety of languages, but since it's useless most people usually don't bother.

Good catch. Windows has never been the king of OS's ever. They've been spectacular at marketing to Corporations, etc., but their OS's have always been "within range" or worse than …

From your moral high horse can you see what the correct action to take is? More useless voting between two parties who take near identical actions? Anonymous did what their target …

The entire point of a civilized society is to overcome evolution. For consistency, do you at least hate all our technology that lets e.g. babies that would have died 50 years ago l…

That's actually a very cute story. It would make a nice blog post, or Calvin & Hobbes type comic strip or something.