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I don't think it's Monopoly, it looks more like Risk!
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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How is it a monopoly?
I can't buy apps for windows or android there, so the only thing they're "monopolising" is access to software that is specifically designed to run on their specific hardware and OS.
That's not a monopoly; it's a specialist shop.
Did some idiot bring the suit because he wants to buy iOS apps from the google play store, or something?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Think of it as trying to buy a car, but there is only one worldwide dealer. No choice of dealers to find a better price.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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No, a monopoly would be if there were only one car manufacturer, or if all manufacturers/vendors were conspiring as one.
If you make a car (or any other product) and you sell it directly to the public (without paying any middlemen), you are simply selling your product, not creating a monopoly.
If people don't want your car (or other product), they have the choice to buy a different car (or other product).
That's kinda nothing whatsoever to do with a monopoly.
Besides, if you want apple apps, you can get them from just about anywhere on the planet. Why should you need other options?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh I see what you mean. I didn't think of it that way.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Evidently, since there are no other sanctioned outlets besides the app store to buy apps through, that app store is a monopoly.
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Yup, the only "sanctioned outlet" is one that is available globally to everyone with a device that requires it.
There are plenty of product vendors who only have one "sanctioned outlet", or who only sell through their own outlet. That does not constitute a monopoly.
We sure 'nuff need cowboy stores on top of apple's global outlet, and stores set up by hackers to infect machines, and stores that don't do enough to check that the apps they're distributing haven't been hacked.
Everything else (music, videos, etc.) is available elsewhere, and the app makers set the price for their apps, not apple, so the apps won't be cheaper elsewhere.
I don't like apple, but they're in the right, and are not even infringing any monopoly laws.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PC shipments have now declined for 5 years in a row, with between 260 and 270 million machines shipped during 2016 according to Gartner and IDC. It's almost like a five year-old computer is good enough these days
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the only ones that want new ones are programmers and security researchers.
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I barely push 10-20% doing most stuff. Only gaming really puts any stress on desktops anymore. I haven't had a need to upgrade, really.
modified 15-Jan-17 14:49pm.
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Unless Intel comes with new hardware, not much reasons to upgrade. No surprises there
--edit
We seem to be stuck with 64 bits. When is 512 bits Windows coming?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
modified 13-Jan-17 18:09pm.
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My work PC is 5 (ish) years old and it is sufficient.
If needed to be upgraded, I could probably swap in new parts as it was state of the art at the time.
I'd rather be phishing!
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What everyone would like us to believe is that PC sales are in decline because everyone wants to use their phone for all their computing needs.
The reality, however, is that everyone is clinging on to windows XP and 7 machines, because 8 and 10 are such cr@p.
You can't argue with the timeline.
Mobile computing didn't knock a big chunk off of the desktop market; bad choices, awful UI "innovations", and inferior operating systems from microsoft did.
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You are correct - unless you are in a position to recompile / rewrite your code to take advantage of the latest instructions.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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My current rig was built in late 2009 when Weven came out, so that makes it over 7 years old. I swapped out the spinning os hdd for a ssd a little over a year ago with a fresh upgrade to 10. It's now better than ever and still easily handles whatever I throw at it. There just haven't been enough hardware improvements, with the exception of ssd, to warrant a new box. My previous rebuild/replace rate was around 3 years until the current one. I think I can get another years or so out of it. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's almost like a five year-old computer is good enough these days
Probably about right! I upgrade my PC in 2013 (wrote about it here: Major Component Upgrades with a twist, benchmarks and all!) and only now am I considering upgrading the GPU again to get some better video processing performance.
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In this post, Joy Clark, a consultant at innoQ, claims that simplicity is key to creating and maintaining good software and explains why the functional programming approach offers a great way to achieve it. KISS the software
But no simpler!
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Send simple artificial intelligence...urgentz!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Two years ago, Google bought Launchpad Toys, the company behind the popular Toontastic kids app for iOS that allows you — whether you are a kid or not — to easily tell your stories through animations. Coming soon - CodeProject: The Movie
In 3D
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Yahoo is releasing the tool that helped the company perform Continuous Delivery at scale into the open-source community. Collapsing your corporation available separately
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Am I puerile to snigger at their choice of "screw" in their product name?
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Yahoo!
Not at all. Or maybe it's just we both are.
TTFN - Kent
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
It's blocking my periscope. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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