Apr 17 2012: For me the worst thing besides the way the state is so easily bought, is the fact it's quite obvious these big companies have too much money, when the best way they can come up with to use those resources is to spent rediculous amounts of money suing each other.
The best for me was when microsoft settled with Samsung who agreed to pay MS a licence fee for each android phone they make and the next thing MS and Samsung where signing a deal for Samsung to make MS phones!!??
It's obviously just a power game to them and it hurts them none, but when you consider those dying of starvation, those who struggle with constant poverty, i'm really surprised the capitalists haven't considered developing poor countries as potential markets for their products, because the bigger the market the bigger the production industry would be this in turn could generate industry in poorer countries, and larger markets for the likes of MS, Samsung, Apple and many other global companies.
Already nations are sending officials to the likes of China and Indonesia because they have managed to clamber up the ladder but no one ever really bother to try pull them up the ladder and maybe it wasn't the wests job to pull these countries up but it would have been a lot quicker. Now the likes of Apple, MS and google and many other global giants are probably slobbering at the opportunity to have a billion or more new potential customers?
Apr 17 2012: I agree Capitalism did in the start promote innovation, as technology is one of the reasons captitalism is profitable, and i don't disagree that if you have 10 million $$$ you should be obliged to hand it to someone who says they have an idea but i'm sure starting off with 10 million you'd be pretty eager but what would you be like if you turn that 10 million into a billion $$ industry it seems the attention switches from being eager to fear, fear you'll lose your money, your empire and then the capitalists start pouring their money into preventing those who could challenge thier dominance.
Look at the legal action about start in the US Oracle versus Google, everybody is suing everyone trying to protect what they beleive is thiers and thiers alone, apple is also looking to pick a fight with android, microsoft has also spent hundreds of millions suing samsung over intellectual property rights.
There are more of these cases, they've turned into gollem protecting the precious ring.
But the worst thing is that all of this action is anti innovative, even some guys who don't make anything but buy patents known as patent trolls have been getting in on all this anti competetive practice mostly targeting individuals who try to innovate.
I think all this should be stoppped people don't buy something because it creates folders in a certain way they choose it for many reasons, like price, features and looks. If you can't make a product that people will buy then that's just competition and if it worked like that manufacturers would be more innovative and competetive, and so caould individuals who try to create innovative additions to our technologies.
Firstly it wasn't a complaint it was a question, but granted i probably didn't put the question across very well i have never been very good a getting my point across in writing and i end up waffling so please excuse me.
Yes oil is a resource but it's a resource that has kept the human race chained to the combustion engine for many years, yes i do believe that for that reason progress has been slowed.
The system of power and wealth i meantion, there is an obvious problem with the way wealth is shared around the globe, yes life is better than 30 years ago but wealth is relative to the time in which you live like the old saying says "we all live to our means", 30 years ago the household out goings may have been less and so was the money coming back in then it only took one person in the house to go to work and things ticked over even if it wasn't easy these days it usually takes both adults/parents to work and still they struggle, and forget about bying a house even if you both work, a better system could be as easy as a fairer distrubution of the wealth, but those who control the wealth are greedy why do you think apple has it's products made in asian countries? for bigger profit margins? i'm not against a company that makes profits of course not they've worked for it haven't they? but couldn't they just make less profit and give thier workers a better quality of life? i'm not condeming a monetary system i just think that maybe it's not handled very well?
and finally.... :-) Wage slavery might sound like an oxymoron, no one forces me to go to work every day do they? and i do get paid for what i do, well they told what they would pay me but it was that or walk out the door, they didn't mention they would freeze my pay for the last few years, introduce a freeze on promotions, change my contract of employment they offered oh and then effectivley cut my pay by increasing the retirement age and increasing my pension contributions.
Apr 11 2012: Hi Edward, by your response you feel that i am either completely wrong or missing the point, i'm always happy to take on board the views of others and i would be grateful for your views.
Apr 11 2012: Thanks Sean, i can see your point perhaps thats why we keep re-inventing the same technology look at mobile phones they've come a long way in the last ten years, and it's been largely driven by what consumers want, driving the innovations that go into our mobile phone technology, and in a sense that could be the reason other technologies have been stunted.
Maybe it's just me who'd hoped for more by 2012? maybe i have been blaming the wrong group of people?
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The best for me was when microsoft settled with Samsung who agreed to pay MS a licence fee for each android phone they make and the next thing MS and Samsung where signing a deal for Samsung to make MS phones!!??
It's obviously just a power game to them and it hurts them none, but when you consider those dying of starvation, those who struggle with constant poverty, i'm really surprised the capitalists haven't considered developing poor countries as potential markets for their products, because the bigger the market the bigger the production industry would be this in turn could generate industry in poorer countries, and larger markets for the likes of MS, Samsung, Apple and many other global companies.
Already nations are sending officials to the likes of China and Indonesia because they have managed to clamber up the ladder but no one ever really bother to try pull them up the ladder and maybe it wasn't the wests job to pull these countries up but it would have been a lot quicker. Now the likes of Apple, MS and google and many other global giants are probably slobbering at the opportunity to have a billion or more new potential customers?
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Look at the legal action about start in the US Oracle versus Google, everybody is suing everyone trying to protect what they beleive is thiers and thiers alone, apple is also looking to pick a fight with android, microsoft has also spent hundreds of millions suing samsung over intellectual property rights.
There are more of these cases, they've turned into gollem protecting the precious ring.
But the worst thing is that all of this action is anti innovative, even some guys who don't make anything but buy patents known as patent trolls have been getting in on all this anti competetive practice mostly targeting individuals who try to innovate.
I think all this should be stoppped people don't buy something because it creates folders in a certain way they choose it for many reasons, like price, features and looks. If you can't make a product that people will buy then that's just competition and if it worked like that manufacturers would be more innovative and competetive, and so caould individuals who try to create innovative additions to our technologies.
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I agree with everything you said and it's a really shame we can't change at least some of those things for a more enjoyable world.
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Firstly it wasn't a complaint it was a question, but granted i probably didn't put the question across very well i have never been very good a getting my point across in writing and i end up waffling so please excuse me.
Yes oil is a resource but it's a resource that has kept the human race chained to the combustion engine for many years, yes i do believe that for that reason progress has been slowed.
The system of power and wealth i meantion, there is an obvious problem with the way wealth is shared around the globe, yes life is better than 30 years ago but wealth is relative to the time in which you live like the old saying says "we all live to our means", 30 years ago the household out goings may have been less and so was the money coming back in then it only took one person in the house to go to work and things ticked over even if it wasn't easy these days it usually takes both adults/parents to work and still they struggle, and forget about bying a house even if you both work, a better system could be as easy as a fairer distrubution of the wealth, but those who control the wealth are greedy why do you think apple has it's products made in asian countries? for bigger profit margins? i'm not against a company that makes profits of course not they've worked for it haven't they? but couldn't they just make less profit and give thier workers a better quality of life? i'm not condeming a monetary system i just think that maybe it's not handled very well?
and finally.... :-) Wage slavery might sound like an oxymoron, no one forces me to go to work every day do they? and i do get paid for what i do, well they told what they would pay me but it was that or walk out the door, they didn't mention they would freeze my pay for the last few years, introduce a freeze on promotions, change my contract of employment they offered oh and then effectivley cut my pay by increasing the retirement age and increasing my pension contributions.
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Maybe it's just me who'd hoped for more by 2012? maybe i have been blaming the wrong group of people?