Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Logically Answered" channel.

  1. IBM has vast numbers of patents, but the sale of their machines and the renting out of their software to people who use other makers' machine are both businesses which depend on patents owned by others. IBM was originally a rather nasty and not altogether honest company named Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation, but they realised early on that there was more money to be made by going straight and, perhaps more importantly, locking in the government as a customer. So they changed around, changed their name, wrote echange agreements with everybody, "our patents are free to you if yours are free to us," and put a lot of energy into making tabulating machinery essential to America's decennial census. By WWII, half of their business was with the US government, and everything that later became computing was "IBM and the seven dwarfs" -- even though those seven other companies had thousands of patents, too.
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  2. "...for the last 25 years" gives new and poetic meaning to the metaphor "crashing."
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  3.  @showtek826  As a former boss, correct, and well said -- as least as far as founders and other entrepreneurial bosses are concerned. A high percentage are figure-heads, time-servers, fronts for the owners, fools who got kicked upstairs, or other sorts of, well dummies in both senses of the word. But you have the ideal case, still perhaps the modal case, correct.
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  4. "Neither" is singularl It means one of the two. Neither is. When you say "neither are," at about 6:28, you tell us you've lost track of your subject: you don't know what you're talking about.
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  5. You do know that that "x" means, and is pronounced "times," don't you? Don't you? Or, sorry, this is YouTube. Any idiocy any fool stumbles along with is standard here. And, uh, Broadcom? They provide services to a lot of Internet users. They do not "control" the net -- an idea as stupid as saying "eks when you mean "times.".
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  6. I don't think State Farm overtook Phoenix's stadum. It wasn't going anywhere. Do you maybe mean they took it over?
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  7. One difficulty for people who want to start a new map app by copying an old one: almost all maps have a small secret inaccuracy or two introduced by the publisher to catch anyone who copies, breaking their copyright. In Toronto, for instance, all Perly's Maps have an incorrect version of the little triangle where Vaughan Road meets Eglinton (or maybe it's St. Clair. Don't take my word for it. Go look.). With Perly's, that's deliberate. With anybody who copies them, that's You Just Got Caught.
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  8. on-truh-pren-noo-ers? Uh, no. Ugh. Fail. Do it over. From the start. Entre: on-truh. pren: pren. eurs: ehrrs maybe?
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  9. That isn't what "momentarily" means. It means "in a moment," not "for a moment" as you misuse it. The word you want might be "temporarily" or "briefly."
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  10. The "IBM" PC? The Matsushita HitBit sold 700,000 BASIC machines before the Chiclet-keyboard IBM came on the market.
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  11.  @TheChees1996  So taking the operating system out of your machine and feeding it to you as you need it from the 'Net, the post-Windows 10 present situation, didn't happen under an Indian. Is that your theory? Or maybe Satya isn't an Indian... OMG, this is weird: I didn't think anybody even thought -- let alone expressed -- a racial theory of abilities since maybe... Oh, shit, I forgot: you were born in 1996 and your first vote was for Donald Trump.
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  12.  @MrJamiez  You're the one who just posed as the expert on the subject... Just sayin'.
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  13. By the year 2100, healthcare will consume 50% of American GDP and Americans will have a life expectancy of 48.
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  14.  @theuncalled_64  You're imagining things.
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  15. I don't think AOL was ever "the most dominant internet company of all time." Back when it was very big, say 1988-92, it was a useful entry-point for newbies -- but it was very clear what it was, and nobody sensible or involved stayed with it for very long. There wasn't anything wrong with staying on AOL: my ex-wife, who is a very smart lady stayed with them for years, although she has office and academicaccounts for her professional work. She jus isn't as stupid as me and the rest of the Internet addicts, so it served its place in her life. Its biggest role in American life may have been its supplying Time-Life, the corporation and Time magaine itself, with a way of destroying themselves. (In those days, the Internet was still basically America++.)
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  16. Nobody's doubting that it's a fine company. The question being raised here is the sanity of the people buying its stock at current prices.
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  17.  @SloanJane-xp4kr  And your idea of a "certified market strategist" is...? My experience is that in any game where strategies are being applied, the line of combat or debate is exactly where the experts are evenly divided.
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  18. So much for "logically" answered!
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  19. "Hollywood strikes back" is nonsense. "Strikes back" is at best a metaphor, and there is no coherent entity, whether named Hollywoood or anything else, which does it in any real sense. There may have been some copyright-holders who were unhappy. "@LogicallyAnswered" has not bothered to name any of them for us. Phooey. More silly YouTubers torturing innocent little electrons.
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