I don't know many details about Samsung's side, but..
First, Moto's use of a FRAND patent is against MS, not Apple. Second, the rate is the same that at least 50 other companies have agreed to in the past (according to several articles I've read about it). You can argue that the rate isn't reasonable, but you can't argue that it's discriminatory.
In both cases, however, the tech is being used unlicensed and therefore is infringing.
Frankly, I want this whole patent BS to go away on all sides, but the lawyers in charge love it.
Mass transit can be great in urban areas, but there's still a lot of issues with capacity and availability. I live a little outside DC and use Metro, but over half my commute is spent just getting to the nearest Metro station. During rush hour, they run more (and sometimes longer) trains, but they are still over capacity. The trains are sardine cans and people still get left on the platform sometimes. On the weekends, the trains are often more than 15 mins apart and, if there's an event or two in town, it can be even worse than rush hour. In a few years, the new Silver Line will make its way closer to me, but I don't see that helping the capacity issue.
I've also lived in places with little mass transit to speak of. Sure, they had buses, but it was actually quite rare to see one on the road.
Personally, I went from getting a couple of commercial telemarketers a week to getting several charity or dead air robocalls a day after signing up for the DNC. In election season, I get tons of political robocalls a day. I was out for half a day once and came home to 57 messages on my answering machine. Every one of them was a pre-recorded political call - ~90% of them were smear campaigns.
Callers do pay.. But so do receivers. The telecom industry has been double dipping for years with cell phones. And it's what they've been talking about doing on the internet.
Given the fact that Klaatu was threatening to destroy the Earth itself, I don't see where the ecological theme comes in. You're trying to apply modern themes to a classic movie.
You say you saw the original, but you seem to think the reason Klaatu came to Earth was the same in both.
It wasn't.
In the original, it was about preventing the violence and destruction of the human race from spreading and threatening the other planets. The "remake" was what you described. Big difference in motivation.
Verizon's left the Droid-branded phones alone, but have replaced many of Google's standard apps with Bing versions on others like the LG Revolution, Samsung Fascinate and Continuum, and Sony Xperia Play. They've also been pushing their VCAST apps more and more.
I don't know where you've been using backscatter scanners, but at Washington Dulles, they slow things down. In fact, they actually get so far behind that they randomly select people to go through the old way to prevent the lines from getting too long. With the old metal detector, people just walk through with a possible pause for a check with a hand wand or go through again because of change in their pocket or something. With backscatter, every person has to stop in the device for a few moments, then wait for the person in the back room to report to the agent at the scanner. It doesn't help that every person who goes through the nudie-scan also gets groped because every one is reported to have an "anomaly." At least, with every one that has gone through at the same time as I have since they made the backscatter mandatory earlier this year.
But it means you shouldn't have to. It's an FCC violation if a telemarketer or robodialer calls your cell phone. I've become quite familiar with form 1088 with all the complaints I've filed, but rarely does the FCC actually do anything about it (I did receive an apology letter from Dish Network after I filed a complaint about someone trying to sell me their service with a cold call to my cell, but that's one of dozens of cases).
I've never had any major problems with USAirways (a few delays here and there, but only one more than 30 mins). I actually flew through CLT yesterday, but I guess I got out before the problems started.
Delta, on the other hand, is a constant problem. Left stranded in ATL twice, many delays, and terrible customer serice. Maybe if they didn't overload ATL, it wouldn't be so bad (that doesn't help the customer service issues, but it might with the others). I avoid them whenever possible.
Unfortunately, it does not allow you to install on "incompatible" devices, which the Droid is one of, from the web market. Eventually, Netflix may open the app up for more devices, but until then you have to go to alternate sources to get it. And when they open up more devices, I doubt the Droid will be one of them since it is a very old device (was end-of-lifed almost a year ago and most people who got it will be up for upgrades soon) with much tighter hardware constraints (only 256MB of RAM being the big one).
Before you go with the hacked versions, give the original apk a shot. Works on my Droid running CM7. Got it from xda-dev before the hacked versions were posted (it's also posted in the thread with the hacked versions).
I did have it sort of lock up once (kept playing, but wouldn't react to any input and couldn't exit it), but that was the only issue and it's worked fine since.
Actually, when I saw this on Ars the other day, they claimed:
The lawsuits asks the court to require Google to either give up tracking Android users or to clearly inform users of "its true intentions about tracking," including whether that information is released to third partis are used for marketing. It further seeks monetary damages "in excess of $50,000,000.00" as well as punitive damages on top of that amount.
I worked at Suncoast several years ago and we were explicitly told not to enforce age restrictions on movies (discretion allowed on the "adult" movies, but still no carding). Anyone with the cash was allowed to buy R or Unrated movies. Meanwhile, the Gamestop next door was turning away kids trying to buy Grand Theft Auto. Often parents would come in, ask why their kid couldn't buy it, then buy it for them anyway.
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I think you just named Ubuntu 15.10...
I don't know many details about Samsung's side, but..
First, Moto's use of a FRAND patent is against MS, not Apple.
Second, the rate is the same that at least 50 other companies have agreed to in the past (according to several articles I've read about it). You can argue that the rate isn't reasonable, but you can't argue that it's discriminatory.
In both cases, however, the tech is being used unlicensed and therefore is infringing.
Frankly, I want this whole patent BS to go away on all sides, but the lawyers in charge love it.
If you just want to share to Facebook from the gallery, you can use a third party app like FriendCaster instead of the Facebook app.
Mass transit can be great in urban areas, but there's still a lot of issues with capacity and availability. I live a little outside DC and use Metro, but over half my commute is spent just getting to the nearest Metro station. During rush hour, they run more (and sometimes longer) trains, but they are still over capacity. The trains are sardine cans and people still get left on the platform sometimes. On the weekends, the trains are often more than 15 mins apart and, if there's an event or two in town, it can be even worse than rush hour. In a few years, the new Silver Line will make its way closer to me, but I don't see that helping the capacity issue.
I've also lived in places with little mass transit to speak of. Sure, they had buses, but it was actually quite rare to see one on the road.
J2ME is not an OS. It's a runtime environment that runs on top of an OS (like Blackberry OS), just like normal Java.
I believe that's his point.
Personally, I went from getting a couple of commercial telemarketers a week to getting several charity or dead air robocalls a day after signing up for the DNC. In election season, I get tons of political robocalls a day. I was out for half a day once and came home to 57 messages on my answering machine. Every one of them was a pre-recorded political call - ~90% of them were smear campaigns.
Probably because most of what makes a Blackberry a Blackberry requires going through RIM's servers.
Same unit, different pronunciation.
We've only got a couple more years before we're supposed to have Mr. Fusion providing at least 1.21 gigawatts!
Callers do pay.. But so do receivers. The telecom industry has been double dipping for years with cell phones. And it's what they've been talking about doing on the internet.
Immediately thought of the Fujitsu F-04B. I guess since that wasn't released on this side of the Pacific, they think it doesn't count.
Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
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Given the fact that Klaatu was threatening to destroy the Earth itself, I don't see where the ecological theme comes in. You're trying to apply modern themes to a classic movie.
You say you saw the original, but you seem to think the reason Klaatu came to Earth was the same in both.
It wasn't.
In the original, it was about preventing the violence and destruction of the human race from spreading and threatening the other planets. The "remake" was what you described. Big difference in motivation.
Verizon's left the Droid-branded phones alone, but have replaced many of Google's standard apps with Bing versions on others like the LG Revolution, Samsung Fascinate and Continuum, and Sony Xperia Play. They've also been pushing their VCAST apps more and more.
I don't know where you've been using backscatter scanners, but at Washington Dulles, they slow things down. In fact, they actually get so far behind that they randomly select people to go through the old way to prevent the lines from getting too long. With the old metal detector, people just walk through with a possible pause for a check with a hand wand or go through again because of change in their pocket or something. With backscatter, every person has to stop in the device for a few moments, then wait for the person in the back room to report to the agent at the scanner. It doesn't help that every person who goes through the nudie-scan also gets groped because every one is reported to have an "anomaly." At least, with every one that has gone through at the same time as I have since they made the backscatter mandatory earlier this year.
But it means you shouldn't have to. It's an FCC violation if a telemarketer or robodialer calls your cell phone. I've become quite familiar with form 1088 with all the complaints I've filed, but rarely does the FCC actually do anything about it (I did receive an apology letter from Dish Network after I filed a complaint about someone trying to sell me their service with a cold call to my cell, but that's one of dozens of cases).
Upon seeing the headline, my first thought was of Roujin Z.
I guess that's for when they can't get by on their own and simple monitoring won't do.
I've never had any major problems with USAirways (a few delays here and there, but only one more than 30 mins). I actually flew through CLT yesterday, but I guess I got out before the problems started.
Delta, on the other hand, is a constant problem. Left stranded in ATL twice, many delays, and terrible customer serice. Maybe if they didn't overload ATL, it wouldn't be so bad (that doesn't help the customer service issues, but it might with the others). I avoid them whenever possible.
Unfortunately, it does not allow you to install on "incompatible" devices, which the Droid is one of, from the web market. Eventually, Netflix may open the app up for more devices, but until then you have to go to alternate sources to get it. And when they open up more devices, I doubt the Droid will be one of them since it is a very old device (was end-of-lifed almost a year ago and most people who got it will be up for upgrades soon) with much tighter hardware constraints (only 256MB of RAM being the big one).
Before you go with the hacked versions, give the original apk a shot. Works on my Droid running CM7. Got it from xda-dev before the hacked versions were posted (it's also posted in the thread with the hacked versions).
I did have it sort of lock up once (kept playing, but wouldn't react to any input and couldn't exit it), but that was the only issue and it's worked fine since.
Actually, when I saw this on Ars the other day, they claimed:
The lawsuits asks the court to require Google to either give up tracking Android users or to clearly inform users of "its true intentions about tracking," including whether that information is released to third partis are used for marketing. It further seeks monetary damages "in excess of $50,000,000.00" as well as punitive damages on top of that amount.
So, this sounds like a cash grab, to me.
I worked at Suncoast several years ago and we were explicitly told not to enforce age restrictions on movies (discretion allowed on the "adult" movies, but still no carding). Anyone with the cash was allowed to buy R or Unrated movies. Meanwhile, the Gamestop next door was turning away kids trying to buy Grand Theft Auto. Often parents would come in, ask why their kid couldn't buy it, then buy it for them anyway.
Yeah, that may be true, but it has nothing to do with anything going on in Northern Virginia. Surry is in Southeastern Virginia, over 150 miles away.
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