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Shit.... he is such a fuckign UGLY. but that is his real face? Unbelievable. If you looked to the site, yyou will see his rat niigger face,
Disgusting niiggers head and face of a rat jewish, No wonder hes playing with a game toy,

He look exactly like John Turturros

Exactly as if John Turturros did fuck some ugly niigger head with a jewish.

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Notably, if Defendants' claims of infringement prove successful, GOG and Valve are already at risk of forfeiting any safe harbor under section 512(c) if they continue to offer Origins. See 17 U.S.C. SS 512(c)(1)(A) (requiring a service provider with actual or red flag knowledge of infringement to act âoeexpeditiously to removeâ the material); see also Ventura Content, 885 F.3d at 604 (to maintain its shield, a service provider "must delete or disable access to known or apparent infringing material, as well as material for which he receives a statutorily compliant takedown notice").

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Ars Technica has more pictures, err. I mean, renders.

It looks like it has cooling vents above the keyboard. They look like they would be closed up when the device is closed or in tablet mode, though.

I think the grill is the high-grade Bang & Olufsen speaker, not cooling vents..

Ars Technica has more pictures, err. I mean, renders.

It looks like it has cooling vents above the keyboard. They look like they would be closed up when the device is closed or in tablet mode, though.

Which calls into question why government officials and first responders are relying on it during emergencies.

It's not telephone services. It's a modern real time logistics and resource managements system.

From the DECLARATION OF FIRE CHIEF ANTHONY BOWDEN to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

6. Only a few weeks ago, County Fire deployed OES Incident Support Unit 5262 ("OES 5262"), to the Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest fire in state history. OES 5262 ADD2 USCA Case #18-1051 Document #1746555 Filed: 08/20/2018 Page 4 of 58 is deployed to large incidents as a command and control resource. Its primary function is to track, organize, and prioritize routing of resowces from around the state and country to the sites where they are most needed. OES 5262 relies heavily on the use of specialized software and Google Sheets to do near-real-time resource tracking through the use of cloud computing over the Internet.

7. Resources tracked across such a large event include personnel and equipment supplied from local governments across California; the State of California; federal agencies including the Department of Defense, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service; and other countries. As of Monday, August 13, 2018, the response effort for the wildfires burning across California included 13,000 firefighters, multiple aircraft, dozens or hundreds of hulldozers, and hundreds of fire engines. The wildfires have resulted in over 726,000 acres burned and roughly 2,000 structures destroyed. With several months left in what is a "normal" fire season, we fully expect these numbers to rise.

8. OES 5262 also coordinates all local government resources deployed to the Mendocino Complex Fire. That is, the unit facilitates resource check-in and routing for local government resources. In doing so, the unit typically exchanges 5-10 gigabytes of data per day via the Internet using a mobile router and wireless connection. Near-real-time information exchange is vital to proper function. In large and complex fires, resource allocation requires immediate information. Dated or stale information regarding the availability or need for resources can slow response times and render them far less effective. Resources could be deployed to the wrong fire, the wrong part of a fire, or fail to be deployed at all. Even small delays in response translate into devastating effects, including loss of property, and, in some cases, loss of life.

Also they have frequency set aside for first responders and forest fire crews. Did they suddenly become uneducated on how a radio, a compass and a map works.

Dropping back to radios, compasses and maps is obviously sub-optimal, but if you're expecting the command and control center to be able to perform command and control, you might not have that option ready.

The problem is that they were throttled at a critical time, and the outcome was poorer coordination of the response until Verison was paid off to lift the throttle.

"There is a panel of buttons"

go look at the pictures, their panel of buttons doesn't look like actual physical buttons but the same technology as the touch screen.

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I remap command to alt on my mac. It's in the system preferences.

The model M has plastic key caps that fit over each key. You can take them off, move them around, whatever you want.

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You are wrong. Samsung was already well down the path of "no keyboard/all screen" before the release of the iPhone. But hey - you're a Fake Tim Cook, what do we expect?

Yeah, that's why Samsung's phone you claim Apple copied was not only announced after the iPhone, but also still had a keyboard. You are the True Samsung Cocksucker. You prove that by presenting Samsung "evidence" from the case that was quite literally laughed out of court. Well, it wasn't accepted because Samsung entered the evidence too late, despite it being solely dependent on in-house information. IOW they couldn't actually fabricate it fast enough because they couldn't just copy Apple.

You are wrong. Samsung was already well down the path of "no keyboard/all screen" before the release of the iPhone. But hey - you're a Fake Tim Cook, what do we expect?

FYI, the center pic in your link should be of an LG Prada, not an iPhone. The Prada was the first smartphone to go without a keyboard or keypad, not the iPhone. As I keep telling people, just because the first time you saw a feature was on an Apple product, does not mean Apple invented it.

The pics on the left and right are also cherry-picked to make it look like the iPhone was the progenitor of the modern smartphone design. Here's what the pic looks like if you cherry-pick phones to make the comparison favorable to Samsung.

Samsung already had phones in their internal design pipeline prior to the iPhone's release which looked very iPhone-like. They just weren't allowed to present them in court because they missed a filing deadline. The judge in the case opted to prioritize a legal deadline over the truth, which makes sense if a lawyer is exhibiting a pattern of missing deadlines, but not when potentially a billion dollars is at stake. The truth is the industry was already transitioning towards touch and away from physical keyboards by the time the iPhone rolled out. The iPhone did not create this new paradigm, it just happened to make the biggest splash with it.

Samsung missed no deadlines in the similar case over the iPad's design. So they were able to successfully argue that the concept of a tablet existed long before the iPad, and that the Samsung Galaxy Tab's design actually borrowed from their digital picture frame which pre-dates the iPad (and the iPhone for that matter). And the jury ruled for Samsung in the tablet design patent case. They weren't jerks about it either - they didn't sue Apple for stealing their picture frame design for the iPad.

this is the image that says it all:
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Look at the line drawn to signify the "present"... that is where we are now.

Everything beyond that is speculation. You can say "but we have people talking about building X or Y"... sure. And I've seen enough of these projection graphs created for other things to know they're not worth much. They tend to be wildly inaccurate.

I'd throw out a few examples but I can already hear the politicos Reeeing over how embarrassing it is to show predictions at time T and then what actually happened at T+5.

There's a lot of politics involved in these things. The people making predictions have a track record of not having a good mental filter between what they want and what they're seeing.

If anyone finds that "triggering"... leave it at this, at time T... "now"... the argument is not credible. At crystal ball gazing future time T+30 years you can predict anything you like. Aliens invading, everyone integrating with personal AIs, Scientology being the dominant global religion. Its all just tea leaves and animal entrails.

Predict whatever you want. But the wise know the secret of prophesy is not in the ability to predict the future but to manipulate the present by getting people to believe in your prediction.

I am too much goat to be folded into that flock of sheep.

This is the same cycle that Tesla's been through with the S and X. They burn cash until production ramps up, then they actually make money for a quarter before the plow it all back into R&D for the next vehicle. They have a plan to reach 5000 week, and a goal of over 25% margin. They will be fine.

Tesla's Free Cash Flow

$5.5 Billion / 250,000 = 22,000 cases of copyright infringement worldwide.

Are they using the ARM chips as a backup plan or have they even given up on their own efforts?

These processors are fabricated in China

By the way, is China still restricted from access to U.S. Supercomputer technology (seems hardly worth it now)

There are restrictions on supercomputers and also on the latest steppers for fabrication. These restrictions are seldom based on any logical rationale. Remember back in the 1990s when T-shirts were classified as munitions and banned for export?

The most likely outcome of these restrictions is to compel China to develop their own technology, improve it until it matches or improves on western tech, and then take over the market. So we will end up dependent on them.

and perhaps that category should be extended to include A.I.?

The hard part of AI is the software. Restrictions on sharing AI research will push more and more of it out of America.

The funny thing is there that your statement acknowledges that Android has the greater market share.

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The graph shows that Apples iOS is actually in decline. Get over that!

Firstly Android 8 is only just out, I just got the OTA on my Pixel yesterday, so very few people have it. So not really an issue as far as fragmentation goes. I'm not sure any non-Google phones have shipped with it yet.

Secondly you haven't been paying attention to the Android 8 changes. The Google stuff, the SoC vendor stuff, and the OEM stuff are now cleanly separated (diagram), so Google updates can be applied without affecting the OEM stuff; there is no need any more for OEMs to spend resources customising and testing updates for their devices. So that situation should be much improved even once there are devices shipping with Oreo.

Thirdly, Android is free, and OEMs are free to put it on good phones, on mediocre phones, and on shitty phones. It's up to you to choose a decent phone. Don't blame Android for your bad choices.

Elon Musk or Daft Punk?

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Probably a typical ailment for those fleeing India.

It looks like this, pretty much (not identical, but about right):

Link.

You may be right and I may have the terminology incorrect. I have to be within so many feet of that thing. Well, the big thing. There's another smaller box nearby but I didn't pay for that. It was there when I moved in.

To me, it's more a question of where your attention should be. The recent design trend across the industry towards "flatter" designs is intended to put more emphasis on the content itself, rather than the window chrome around it. I'm fully in support of that notion, so long as the designers exercise the restraint necessary to prevent it from becoming a noisy, cluttered mess (e.g. Windows' live tiles). Towards that end, de-emphasizing everything else makes a lot of sense, which Apple and others have been doing by relying on more muted tones, more subtle gradients, and a reduced use of color so that (when done correctly) your eye is drawn towards the most important parts of the screen.

I'll let you judge the extent to which you think Apple et al. have succeeded (though your opinion seems to be fairly evident). For my part, while it admittedly took some getting used to, and while there were certainly some misses along the way (iOS 7 sacrificed A LOT of usability for the sake of aesthetics, but iOS has since recovered) I've come to enjoy the current design trend, and find that whenever I have to go back to earlier designs that had more texture, depth, gloss, glow, or gradient, it feels like taking a step in the wrong direction. While they weren't as bad as the spinning construction light GIFs and marquee text on websites in the '90s, the translucency effects, 3D-ness, and embossed text from just a few years ago have not aged well.

Also worth pointing out: UI design has been heading this direction for years, though it hit quite a few speed bumps along the way (e.g. brushed aluminum, green felt, stitched leather, fogged glass windows, other skeuomorphisms). For example, just look at how the translucency, pinstriping, and text shadows changed in pulldown menus in just the first few years of OS X: Mac OS X 10.0, Mac OS X 10.2, and Mac OS X 10.4. Transparency was decreased without being eliminated, pinstriping was nearly eliminated (and later was), and text shadows were greatly reduced, all of which point in the direction of the flatter designs we see now.

All of which is to say, the Yosemite "redesign" wasn't a sudden one, but it was a bigger step in the direction they were already heading than some of the previous steps had been.

OMG. The hand-wringing that goes on here.

Pick one of those projects and read the technical details; de-orbiting is built right in.

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That link is the SpaceX plan. Please refer to page 55 for re-entry estimates. These constellations are destined for orbits that are just outside the thermosphere so the real challenge is keeping them in orbit for the duration their useful life.

Perhaps Apple did hamstring the Qualcomm chip so that the performance differential to Intel's chipset would be lower, and thus prevent customers from self-selecting the Qualcomm-equipped models. Even so, that's between Apple and its customers. Qualcomm has no place interceding itself in that process.

No? Qualcomm's claims are all there in the filing. Among them:

235. Apple’s Misstatements About the Relative Performance of the
Qualcomm Versus Intel Modems in iPhone 7 and Its Threat Have Harmed
Qualcomm and Consumers. Absent Apple’s conduct, Qualcomm’s chipsets would
be in higher demand, and Qualcomm would be able to sell more chips to Apple to
meet that demand. Apple’s decision not to use Qualcomm’s enhanced chipsets
denied consumers access to higher-performing devices, and Apple’s threats and
other efforts to hide the truth deprived consumers of meaningful choice. And, as
noted above, by choosing not to utilize the higher data rates that Qualcomm’s
chipsets can reach for the Qualcomm-based iPhones, Apple reduces the data
download resources available to other smartphones operating on the network.

236. By choosing not to use the best performing Qualcomm-based iPhones
(and risking that consumers would find out), Apple faced a potential backlash from
its customers. It avoided that backlash by concealing the truth, at the expense of
Qualcomm and consumers alike.

So in other words, Qualcomm is saying that the fact that consumers could not self-select Qualcomm iPhones materially affected its business. It further alleges that consumers were not properly informed, not just because Apple withheld information, but because Apple deliberately misrepresented the facts by stating publicly that the performance of both models was identical.

This isn't the main claim of the lawsuit, though. Qualcomm is alleging Apple interfered with Qualcomm's patent licensing contracts with manufacturers (like Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron) by encouraging them not to pay the full royalties Qualcomm asks for and not to comply with independent royalty audits. Apple is alleging that Qualcomm's royalty licensing practices are anticompetitive. It'll all go on for years.

>The best lies are the truth. They already weren't going to sell your browsing history.

But..but..Pelosi said they would! She even displayed a sign on the House floor saying so! https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pelosi-privacy-640x424.jpg

Are you trying to tell me that the Democrats LIED?

Click here to see the uncorrected data graphed alongside the main corrected analyses (source: Berkeley Earth via Ars Technica).

Hopefully this makes it abundantly clear that the raw data still shows an obvious warming trend even before known problems are removed. It also shows how little difference the corrections have actually made, particularly in the last 75 years.

Not only that but the corrections before about 1940 actually raised the temperature which reduces the overall warming trend. That kind of counters the people that claim the adjustments always increase the warming trend.

Click here to see the uncorrected data graphed alongside the main corrected analyses (source: Berkeley Earth via Ars Technica).

Hopefully this makes it abundantly clear that the raw data still shows an obvious warming trend even before known problems are removed. It also shows how little difference the corrections have actually made, particularly in the last 75 years.

Ars measured the controller cords on this system as a mere 31 inches long... they were 90 inches long on the original US systems.

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Lenovo did this with their X1 Carbon a while back too.

Actually, they didn't remove the ESC key, but they relocated it, and did several other gibberingly insane things as well. It was a fscking disaster. Gen-3 restored the keyboard to sanity, and is quite a decent machine.

What Deep Space Nine does that no other Star Trek series can

Enlarge / Deep Space Nine is on the wormhole front in the Dominion Wars, yet its main characters remain fundamentally humane and strive for peace.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

We all have people in our lives who are so important that theirdeaths wouldbe tragic at an existential level. Recently, one such person in my life almost died. It wasn't one of those things where he narrowly escaped from sniper fire in a starship fight and we could raise a glass of synthaholin Ten Forward afterwards.He was plugged into life support machines for over a week, unconscious, with doctors shaking their heads and urging us to "be patient." Medical staff said completelyterrifying things like "I think he'll probably make it."

I had plenty of time to imagine how my life would be utterly different without him. He's part of the family I've found with my circle of nerdy friends, and losing him would be like losing, well, part of my family. Part of me. Every night when I came home from the hospital,there was only one thing I could do that didn't make me want to cry. I watched Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

I never really thought of ST:DS9 as a comforting show, or even a particularly brilliantone. I grew up on Star Trek: The Next Generation, so DS9 is definitely "my" era in Star Trek, and I have hazy memories of enjoying it in college. Still, I never really loved DS9 the way I loved Data and Picard and TNG's ongoing wonky obsession with maintainingthe Prime Directive onwhat Guinan called a "ship of peace." Yet in my darkest emotional hour, DS9 was what did it for me. Ithink that'sbecause theshow combined everyday stories of awfulness and political meltdown with an aggressive hopefulness about the future. Call it Utopia ex machina.

War and peace

How do you get a message of universal social democracy out of a world whereBajor struggles with post-colonial poverty while their former oppressors, the Cardassians, team up with the Romulans to start a war on the Dominion? And how do you wrest a sense of justice out of a story where one of the main characters, saloonowner Quark, successfully exploitseveryone, including his own brother?The answer is: awkwardly.

I keep thinking about "Past Tense," that two-part episode in season 3 where Sisko, Dax, and Bashir go back to "primitive" Earth in 2024 and take part in the Bell Riots to liberate the walled shantytowns called Sanctuaries. In fact, Sisko has to take the place of rebel leader Gabriel Bell when the real man is killed because the DS9 ganghas altered the timeline slightly. There's this very 1990s Star Trek moment where Bashir is tending to the sick in a Sanctuary and is completely shocked by how horrific the health care is. "How could they let it get this bad?" he asks Sisko,who replies that humansdidn't stand for this kind of injustice for longbecause of people like Gabriel Bell.

Sisko explains to Bashir that humans of the 21st century rebelled against the government that kept impoverished people in ghettos.

Thatkind of dogged Utopianism in the face of our present-day reality comes across as frankly a little bit weird. It seems absurd to imaginewe'll go from a world of ghettos to one whereit's "obvious" to all humans that eliminating poverty is the only way forward. And today it's even harder to swallow the idea thatspace station captains of tomorrow willconsider what amounts to an Occupy activist as the foundational hero of human civilization.

But as I watched with my sadness-blunted brain, DS9 kept me stumbling onward with its optimism. Episodes vacillate betweengoofy stories of mirror universes, mystical Bajoran prophesies, and darktales of the Dominion W

Are you blind?

Footnote e, page 3 of 47:
"The Apple Server consisted of an Apple Power Macintosh G4 or G5 tower and an HP printer."

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Why does the Lizard Eye logo look like a Fleshlight?

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Incredibly strong urge for Baskin-Robbins right now, am I the only one?

They already did for mobile applications.

Windows 10 to Make the Secure Boot Alt OS Lock-Out A Reality

Note the graphic that shows the slide in the Windows presentation.

The slide in question

Here is an arstechnica article reporting on a judge ruling that the "cut the internet, then claim to fix it" lie is illegal:

Arstechnica story

and here is a link to the official ruling:
arstechnica hosted court ruling.

You are misunderstanding the fair-use factor 3, the amount copied. That isn't a positive defense, at best it is neutral: Google can say "We copied no more than necessary." But Oracle will try to argue that they did copy more than necessary.

None of them are positive defenses. All are factors that weigh more or less in favor of fair use or against it. They are also not exhaustive, the jury can use other factors as well. Read the jury instructions.

Amount used (in comparison to the infringed work) is an important factor. The amount of copied material compared to the rest of the infringing work is also a factor, it goes to "the purpose and character of use" - if most of your work is just copied material, it weight against fair use. In Sega, the entire ROM was copied many times in it's entirety, even downloaded from the Internet, for an explicitly commercial use, yet they won on fair use with those two factors completely against them. One factor was that none of the protected material actually ended up in the finished product, other than a very small piece of code that was challenged on trademark but not copyright (and Sega lost on that as well). The other factor was the use and purpose of the copying.

The Java API is clearly HIGHLY functional, and Google clearly copied the absolute minimum required to use it. The only copied material is the names and the relationships between the names, and changing a single character of any of those names would cause that portion of the API, and quite possibly the whole system, to completely fail. Hard to get more functional than that.

Indeed, rather than show that the API was "the heart" of Android, Oracle's demonstration served to show how functional it is (especially since ANY section of code removed from Android, whether from the API or anywhere else, would also make it fail).

The "nature of the copyrighted work" is clearly functional. You don't decide you want to replace the API in your project because you're tired of looking at this one and would like something fresh and new. You don't buy a product that uses Java inside for the artfully selected names like java.net.HttpURLConnection.setChunkedStreamingMode(), and if all the names were changed to AAAAA AAAAB AAAAC, etc. it would be just as functional, except it would be hard to write code for (so, again, the names are functional).

It may take creativity to create it, but the work is functional, and the purpose for copying it is for the function.

In brief, when considering merger for copyright protection, you need to consider the options available to Sun when they originally wrote Java: there were plenty of ways they could have written any of those APIs.

The CAFC confused merger with scènes à faire. Merger is independent of point of view, it either is or it isn't.

The API is an abstraction, it is an idea, protection is not supposed to "extend" to it. The expression is indeed copyrighted, but the idea expressed is not protected.

The CAFC said that the "idea" was "an API", but that isn't what is expressed by the source code. The source code expresses a very specific API, the Java API. That is the "idea" that is not protected, whether you call it a process, a system, or a method of operation, 102(b) says the idea is not protected.

Look at Baker v Selden or Bikram, the idea was not "an accounting system" or "a sequence of yoga poses" the way the CAFC would have you believe. In Bikram the Ninth completely rejected that the idea of "the Sequence" could be protected even though there were any number of ways it could have been created. Bikram was just about the idea being used, but once you have the ruling that the idea is not protected, merger can come into play. For example, expressing the Sequence as a simple list of each of the 26 poses by name would not be protected expression, as almost any expres

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These should have been in PNG. Whoever picked JPEG for those images should take a few minutes to learn the difference between the two.

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These should have been in PNG. Whoever picked JPEG for those images should take a few minutes to learn the difference between the two.

I should change my previous comment, because it wasn't very good. Here is what I meant:

If you look at a web page from the 90s, here's an example so you can remember, it's not going to be acceptable to modern users. It looks ugly. Furthermore, the tools used to build it (like tables) are outdated, and your coworkers will yell at you if you use them now.

Moving forward, in the early 2000s, everything looked really square, so now, if you don't add a radius to the corners of your divs, then people will say, "Oh, your website looks old."

More importantly, in the last two or three years, we've seen the advent of the responsive web. The way the 'responsive web' was designed means that anything built before 2012 looks rather lousy on cell phones.

Now, of course, you are right that the web page from 1997 will probably still render, but it will look really bad everywhere. Compare that to TCL-TK which apps built in 1997 actually look really good right now.

My joke could had been fun if I had made it correctly, one article had a lot of cables but I didn't knew whatever all was standard USB ports or not so I googled it and just took one but that one didn't even have the type C port so .. that was pretty stupid. 03:35 local time so I blame that. Also there was the SuperSpeed cables as-well.

So you've got A, B in normal and mini and micro versions:
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And then you've got SuperSpeed A, B and micro-B:
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And USB type C:
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For at-least 10 different connectors for USB cables =P

Here is the "adjustment" you're referring to:
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The recent correction is the difference between the black line and the red line. The temperature rise between 1959 and 2014 is about 0.9C. The adjustment, in the last two years, is just barely large enough to see, about 0.05C. Over the full period analyzed, the new global analysis changed the observed rate of warming from 0.065C/decade to 0.068C/decade, less than the noise.

Really, I need to point out that analyzing data sets is what science does. But, if you actually look at the data, even if you throw out the new corrections entirely, it doesn't make a difference. The corrections didn't change whether warming exists or not.

That image is from this article: http://arstechnica.com/science...
For reference, here is the paper with the adjustments explained: http://www.sciencemag.org/cont...
(Karl, et al., "Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus," Science Vol. 348 no. 6242, 26 June 2015: pp. 1469-1472
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa5632)

Here is the original complaint from the Eastern District of Virginia.

However this party was unrelated to PAX.

That must be why it's the sixth word on the poster and the second in large type. Just after "poke'mon" [sic].

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There is no ethernet cable in the world which is sufficiently bad, that there are enough retransmits for mere audio to stutter or stall.

I think you'll find that this very expensive cable has sufficiently poor quality that it will impact the reception of data.

This comes up whenever audiophile cables are discussed, but it's worth repeating: don't buy the cheapest cable.

I'm not sure if you read the follow-up article, but this bears repeating.

The cable that was used for comparison was the cheapest cable. In fact, it didn't even pass the Cat-6 certification tests done by Blue Jeans Cable after the even had finished.

But even with that nobody could tell the difference in the final sound quality.

Sorry to nit-pick, sir, but it's only 5x5 LEDs on it.

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I can just see the average kids plodding through a list of "experiments" with this, bored to tears.

And the kids with more advanced skills are already making games in one of the dozens of free game engines. For them this would be a gigantic step backwards, and for what?

They are all basically a piece of glass. The iPhone 6 came out with aluminum case like the HTC One and in the same size as the One but months later. Those were the distinguishing features in phones at the time.

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They all copy each other. Nobody really innovates. They follow the leader. Samsung had iPhone type designs before the iPhone came out.

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I hadn't seen them laid out so clearly before, but now that I have, all I can say about the original Windows 10 icons (middle row) is oh my god.

Seriously, what happened here? When did we go completely off the rails and let pea-brained designers start throwing this kind of bullshit around, calling it "modern" and "clean". No shit it's clean -- that recycle bin probably took all of 30 seconds to draw with the Line tool. No, faster probably, since they were just pulled out of the Windows 1.0 archives.

I look at those three rows of icons and truly cannot fathom why someone would ever choose (especially) the second or third rows. They're low contrast, simpleton drivel that doesn't even do a good job of representing the objects they're trying to depict. Whoever created them should be fired, along with the manager that approved them.

In fact, Microsoft would be well-served by firing the whole damned "UX" group and replacing this new-age cargo-cult mentality of user interface design with a scientific approach of usability studies and research. You know, that thing they used to do. Let Google and Apple waste their time with that hipster crap if they want to -- normal people and business just want to get shit done and you don't get off on the right foot to do that by making all your icons indistinguishable pale pastel blobs.

Someone posted this interesting link above.... clearly the iPhone borrowed heavily from what Samsung had already released.

Her employer required her to use the company issued phone, and to have it on 24/7 (from the lawsuit).

Your "solution" would result in the exact same thing hers did: termination.

If the allegations are true, it sounds like both her manager and CEO were douchebags. And stupid ones at that.

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