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Remember being a monopoly is not illegal - it's your behaviour using the power of monopoly. Conversely even if you don't have a monopoly unethical behaviour should be dealt with. I own my letter box. People who send me things pay the post offi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Nonsense. Inkling 106 posts - I don't know if as detailed and thought out as this one. Anonymouse 3,838 posts - I suspect drivel just like this. Give the counter argument why you think it's nonsense or…
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HP got its innovative stack designs from Burroughs, where the ideas of stacks and Reverse-Polish Notation (RPN) was introduced by Bob Barton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Barton Thus HP and Woz have a lineage to Barton. But not on…
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A couple of "Thoughts of the Day" from a guru in Rishikesh (where the Beatles went) have come to me in the last two days which are relevant: "EFFICIENCY MEANS, MORE OUTPUT WITH LESS INPUT, IN TERMS OF TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY." and "JUST AS M…
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The following excerpt is from The Philosopher's Zone: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopher...07/1923237.htm Alan Saunders: John, let's turn to the modern case for the free market, and this turns on an intellectual construct called the ideal ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando But the US as a whole competes with other nations. It is like saying members of a sports team cooperate. Yes they do, but they do so because as a team they can better compete against other teams and it is th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Can you give some big-deal examples of where cooperation clearly yielded better results than competition? Like stuff on the scale of the wealth of nations, and not little hippie co-ops? Sure. The USA. 50 st…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Can you give some big-deal examples of where cooperation clearly yielded better results than competition? Like stuff on the scale of the wealth of nations, and not little hippie co-ops? You are looking like…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Wrong. They believe that their current strategy will yield the highest amount of profit over time. Why is that hard for you to believe? Do you think that maximizing total profits is somehow a bad thing? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar But now that Apple had made their decision, isn't it the Mac user's duty to support and defend that decision and pretend that the past never happened? Following on the natural selection theme... it's called a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Ha! You must be as old as I am! I worked for the Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation in Pasadena, CA, 1957-1961. They invented the DataTron computer that was sold to Burroughs and became the Bu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jetz Did you miss Biology class in High School? Natural selection most certainly has a goal. Maximum propagation of the species in question. Chapter III of On the Origin of Species is entitled "Struggle for Exis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jetz Yes. And we all know how well Communism works in practice. Because it degenerates to competition for power with again winner takes all. It's not truly cooperative. All systems have their problems.
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Quote: Originally Posted by RationalTroll Not necessarily. The competition in commodity computing is intense and drives margins down. By offering a more boutique approach to computing, Apple has carved out the more lucrative high-end of the mar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mahoney I would say this rather undermines your objection to the statement "competition is good". If competition is nearly a necessary precondition of a good outcome then the absence of competition nearly precludes a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Whether money is a just reward or not ain't really got nothing to do with Apple's motivations. And they have only one: to maximize total profits. Everything and anything else is just a means to that end. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ijoyner Well, the ultimate goal of competition is to kill the competition right. So there is no competition. So the pro-competition people just vanished in a puff of their own logic! Quote: Originally Posted by Orla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by boeyc15 Well, well, well, surprised by the all the negative competition is good replies here. Of course competition can be good or bad. But in a market where the field has relatively equal playing rules(and ground r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp ""We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers," Jobs wrote." As a long time Mac user I personally know what it is like to be at …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum What mystery app? First I've heard about that rumor! iPad CoBOL? AlGol? Neat Linear Programming (and feed blending)? APL (need reverse italics)? CICS? . ALGOL... the first and best systems…