uhh.. 3 for your PHONE. now add on all the other gadgets you have. maybe a few more items around the house that need charging like your TV remote. Then the fact you dont need to bring them on trips when there are charging stands in rooms etc.
Take it a step further once they refine the tech to remove powercords in general. Your media center is now missing one wire per item. etc etc.
at least in my eyes is quality. i tell people to stay away from dell because all the hardware ive ever bought from them has broken down within 1-4 years.
No.. all it means is military personnel will need to travel off base to purchase it. They didn't restrict it to nonmilitary only or anything. They simply pulled the games off the shelves at military bases. Its not so much "they can't handle it" its more "if they really want to play it, they can go elsewhere to buy it" I see it as a cautious move and a good one but personally I think if they cared at all they would stop selling it entirely if they wanted to "show respect".
last I checked, Germany is still touchy about this. All games must be free of basically anything to do with Nazis, Hitler etc. Sure you can find that in the US, but it still wont fly in Germany.
I'm going to end all this stupid patenting once and for all.. or at least make people pay for it! My patent will change the entire landscape! I will patent.... PATENT TROLLING!
Its the art of bogging down the patent office with stuff thats obviously prior art, common sense, stuff competitors and I already do.
and what they WILL do is charge you $40 to connect to battle.net. the rest of your traffic to say.../. will be at 56k speeds cause well.. you didnt pay premium. also to your email, hulu/youtube/netflix, torrents, etc. oh but you didnt pay a premium for those services!
Its more of a triple dip if you ask me. 1. Pay for bandwidth. you can go UP to 15mbits! 2. Pay for premium services! an extra $X a month for ___ (everything else will be 56k speeds cause its not premium. well maybe not 56k. but alot less than your bandwidth allows. not because they are "throttling" you but because everyone else has "priority" traffic over you.) It also means they will never need to upgrade their infrastructure and can just oversell bandwidth for 1 until they NEED to upgrade it for 2. 3. Charge the websites you want to get to extra money. bnet - hey Blizzard wouldn't it be horrible if we didnt offer premium data rates so people could play WoW?
Whats wrong is the fact that they will start charging for everything ontop of your original datarate. Imagine your TV channels. now pretend each of them is a.com,.net,.org etc. you can still connect to youtube or/., but premium service will cost an extra $X.
So they basically get an excuse to throttle ALL your traffic because guess what.. you aren't paying for "premium" ___ service.
Want to check your email and download attachments at a reasonable speed? Subscribe to the premium email service.
You can replace email with anything else. youTube, linux distros, messaging, VOIP.
It will be like TV. bundled "channels" of internet, otherwise you can just stick to slow as hell connections to what remains of those sites.
It sure as hell wont JUST be AT&T doing it too. comcrap, etc will do it as well. ISPs are basically cartels already.
I believe back then you were either a street performer or for hire... and the local king/chief/etc would decide to pay you or give you steel... between the head and shoulders. I wouldnt call that easier. Its not like they had concert organizers to book, organize concerts even if they had amphitheaters.
At least nowadays being a musician means you can get your music out to people without it being a day job. Harnessing electricity, recording and all that.
More likely they will modify hover drones to play music in public places and take photos of those in earshot and send bills via facial recognition software for the music you just heard.
As for indi music, I just have thesixtyone.com on at work. Some of the stuff is quite amazing.
Why can't they just stop accepting patents from the people who would just continually "revise" their patents? Just give it a hard cap. Say 5 revisions to get it right and after that it gets "released" to public domain. Give the people something to worry about or they will waste your time. This has always been the case. If you let people get away with unlimited revisions to bury you in paperwork, then you can expect for it to happen.
Excuse me while I go patent some random future tech... flying cars, teleporters, food replicators, AI.. yanno.
yep... I lived in Hong Kong for most my life. Unlocked phones = wayyy better than most of the crap they sell here. Now that US finally has smart phones its gotten better but I still cant believe how bad it is here. Worse reception, higher costs (if you get a by minutes plan its typically 1/10th of the price.. theres international and local thats it. no roaming or whatever else.) I feel the mobile phone market in the US gets away with it simply cause the consumers let them. That and the ignorance of the typical consumer that buys into the 3G 4G crap. No wonder I havent bought a new phone for 6 years now. I guess thats one of the perks of not wanting my phone to do anything other than call and text.
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uhh.. 3 for your PHONE. now add on all the other gadgets you have. maybe a few more items around the house that need charging like your TV remote. Then the fact you dont need to bring them on trips when there are charging stands in rooms etc.
Take it a step further once they refine the tech to remove powercords in general. Your media center is now missing one wire per item. etc etc.
you can tell them about duke nuke em and how legen --- wait for it!
keep waiting.
XD
at least in my eyes is quality. i tell people to stay away from dell because all the hardware ive ever bought from them has broken down within 1-4 years.
No.. all it means is military personnel will need to travel off base to purchase it. They didn't restrict it to nonmilitary only or anything. They simply pulled the games off the shelves at military bases. Its not so much "they can't handle it" its more "if they really want to play it, they can go elsewhere to buy it" I see it as a cautious move and a good one but personally I think if they cared at all they would stop selling it entirely if they wanted to "show respect".
last I checked, Germany is still touchy about this. All games must be free of basically anything to do with Nazis, Hitler etc. Sure you can find that in the US, but it still wont fly in Germany.
what? the part where you cant even remove their logo at all so you basically advertise for them regardless unless you get a case?
I'm going to end all this stupid patenting once and for all.. or at least make people pay for it! My patent will change the entire landscape! I will patent.... PATENT TROLLING!
Its the art of bogging down the patent office with stuff thats obviously prior art, common sense, stuff competitors and I already do.
*insert evil laugh*
I should patent "pull out the battery and power cord" then. Its a really hard to realize method to get your computer to shutdown.
and what they WILL do is charge you $40 to connect to battle.net. the rest of your traffic to say... /. will be at 56k speeds cause well.. you didnt pay premium. also to your email, hulu/youtube/netflix, torrents, etc. oh but you didnt pay a premium for those services!
Its more of a triple dip if you ask me.
1. Pay for bandwidth. you can go UP to 15mbits!
2. Pay for premium services! an extra $X a month for ___ (everything else will be 56k speeds cause its not premium. well maybe not 56k. but alot less than your bandwidth allows. not because they are "throttling" you but because everyone else has "priority" traffic over you.) It also means they will never need to upgrade their infrastructure and can just oversell bandwidth for 1 until they NEED to upgrade it for 2.
3. Charge the websites you want to get to extra money. bnet - hey Blizzard wouldn't it be horrible if we didnt offer premium data rates so people could play WoW?
Whats wrong is the fact that they will start charging for everything ontop of your original datarate. Imagine your TV channels. now pretend each of them is a .com, .net, .org etc. you can still connect to youtube or /., but premium service will cost an extra $X.
So they basically get an excuse to throttle ALL your traffic because guess what.. you aren't paying for "premium" ___ service.
Want to check your email and download attachments at a reasonable speed? Subscribe to the premium email service.
You can replace email with anything else. youTube, linux distros, messaging, VOIP.
It will be like TV. bundled "channels" of internet, otherwise you can just stick to slow as hell connections to what remains of those sites.
It sure as hell wont JUST be AT&T doing it too. comcrap, etc will do it as well. ISPs are basically cartels already.
I was going to say the same thing... putting wheels on a helicopter would be so much easier. I call vaporware cause its not gonna work.
I patent communication in all its various forms!
Hey AT&T ima let you finish but the Pentagon had the worst data breach EVER! Worst data breach ever!
*runs over your USB drive*
wait.. so the big bang theory episode where they shot a laser at the moon totally wouldnt work?
I dont know about you but my inbox has google search in it. Therefore its all knowing. Or at least all web searching.
I believe back then you were either a street performer or for hire... and the local king/chief/etc would decide to pay you or give you steel... between the head and shoulders. I wouldnt call that easier. Its not like they had concert organizers to book, organize concerts even if they had amphitheaters.
At least nowadays being a musician means you can get your music out to people without it being a day job. Harnessing electricity, recording and all that.
you deserve the -1 offtopic though.
More likely they will modify hover drones to play music in public places and take photos of those in earshot and send bills via facial recognition software for the music you just heard.
As for indi music, I just have thesixtyone.com on at work. Some of the stuff is quite amazing.
*opens up file in hex editor, changes flag from 0 to 1, uploads to youTube*
No no. with the cost being 137k per student, it sounds like they were designing with specs from Mein Kampfy Chair.
Why can't they just stop accepting patents from the people who would just continually "revise" their patents? Just give it a hard cap. Say 5 revisions to get it right and after that it gets "released" to public domain. Give the people something to worry about or they will waste your time. This has always been the case. If you let people get away with unlimited revisions to bury you in paperwork, then you can expect for it to happen.
Excuse me while I go patent some random future tech... flying cars, teleporters, food replicators, AI.. yanno.
yep... I lived in Hong Kong for most my life. Unlocked phones = wayyy better than most of the crap they sell here. Now that US finally has smart phones its gotten better but I still cant believe how bad it is here. Worse reception, higher costs (if you get a by minutes plan its typically 1/10th of the price.. theres international and local thats it. no roaming or whatever else.) I feel the mobile phone market in the US gets away with it simply cause the consumers let them. That and the ignorance of the typical consumer that buys into the 3G 4G crap. No wonder I havent bought a new phone for 6 years now. I guess thats one of the perks of not wanting my phone to do anything other than call and text.
salesmen, car salesmen, lawyers?
The problem with that is after you sue him for all the money you are gonna spend it on buying crack from him again.