Well, I don't disagree with anything you said. I guess anyone who looks at a recent Samsung would say they're copying Apple. But if they *had* to, they *could* work around the Apple patents. They may not, because they're trying to copy something popular and they don't want to stop because it's making them gobs of money. But I'd guess they could. otoh, Apple probably can't invent new forms of wireless technology or solid state mass storage.
Hmm, seems like all the patents I see Apple getting are software and design patents that can be worked around. Whereas the other big cell-phone companies like Nokia, Samsung, SE, etc, have patents that you need to license to actually, you know, make a phone.
A better description than shape of electron, is distribution of charge. Which is exactly what they are measuring. If the charge density were not uniformly spherical (or point charge) then there would be some "shape".
"I'm sure most of us looking for an HDMI cable have been in a situation where a store clerk sidles up, offers to help and points to some of the most expensive HDMI cables"
And anybody who reads slashdot pays them absolutely no mind. Whatever the situation.
I once asked one of them how upscaling on dvd players work. Answer: "it makes the resolution look higher". Me: "I meant *how* does it makes the... sigh. never mind."
Mr. bin Laden was killed at a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, CNN reported. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told Associated Press Mr. bin Laden was killed in a ground operation in Pakistan, not by a Predator drone. A senior Pakistani intelligence official confirmed that he was killed in Pakistan.
Taxes are what the rich people pay in exchange for the poor letting them continue to be rich. Doesn't seem fair? Tough shit. Life isn't fair. Just ask that starving kid next door.
Exactly. Funny how the anti-tax people only state that life isn't fair when they're asked to feel sympathy for the kid born to poor parents, through no fault of their own. But ask them to pay taxes and all of a sudden they feel like we should be in some fairy-tale flat-tax (or no tax) world.
What I like to ask the wealthy whiners is; if you're getting treated so unfairly while these freeloading, poor, sub-human, cradle-to-grave ghetto-dwellers are living the high-life off of your tax dollars, you should be happy to trade places, right? Right?
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Better that an animal never be born than spend a miserable, tortuous life trapped in a cage hardly bigger than itself, only to finally be slaughtered for food.
Even if I wanted to pay for news and magazine articles (which I don't) why would I want to go through the extra complication of a separate app for every newspaper, and downloading each magazine? The web already covers this. Am I missing something?
That's pretty fair, if a bit complicated. But even if the jury and judge came to the decision that *every* person who got their copy of the song from her would have bought it if she personally hadn't been seeding it and decided to make her penalty 99 cents for every song she seeded times the number of uploads, that would still be far more reasonable than the bullshit they handed her.
Even if we take the "low" fine of $54,000, that's $2,250 per song. So what, she uploaded each song over 2000 times? What crap. I understand that some of the fine is more than just compensation, it's also deterrent, but shit, man that's just ridiculous.
On the bright side, I have a habit of downloading something "illegally" every time I let something like this get under my skin, so, off to the torrentz!
I checked, and hatetube.com is apparently already taken. It's not really what I was expecting. So now, half an hour later, I thought I'd drop by here again just to let everyone know.
To add to your (almost certainly wrong) speculation, here's a couple of 'what-ifs':
That disease that (some claim) makes people hoard cats, and a short story by David Brin about a disease that makes people want to give blood, thus spreading the disease.
The long game doesn't have to be so long. See Canada's bill C-24, enacted in 2003. Corporations can't donate over $1000 to a party, people can't donate over $5000.
Funny but.. also interesting. I mean, what with all the hoopla over Hawking's recent comments, and the predictable "rebuttals" by the religious folks, about how someone must have started the universe in the first place, therefore there's a god. What if the person/people who started our universe were just a bunch of scientists in their universe?
What would the zealots hate more, the idea that our universe sprang out of nothing, or that our "god(s)" were just some nerds performing an experiment?
But this is backwards. In the sane world, the reason why paying less gets you less is because the cheaper product was cheaper to make. Not only is their locked down product not cheaper to make, but it's actually making the whole line more expensive. Some of our dollars are actually going towards the developers for the purpose of making the product worse, by locking it down.
That eternal "Fusion is 50 years away" saying stopped being due to physics and started being due to squabbling countries and their bureaucracies many years ago. ITER could have been started over a decade ago.
ppffft. I'll be interested when it has pressure sensitivity. Anybody who can draw something halfway decent on an ipad could make something spectacular on a wacom.
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Well, I don't disagree with anything you said. I guess anyone who looks at a recent Samsung would say they're copying Apple. But if they *had* to, they *could* work around the Apple patents. They may not, because they're trying to copy something popular and they don't want to stop because it's making them gobs of money. But I'd guess they could. otoh, Apple probably can't invent new forms of wireless technology or solid state mass storage.
Hmm, seems like all the patents I see Apple getting are software and design patents that can be worked around. Whereas the other big cell-phone companies like Nokia, Samsung, SE, etc, have patents that you need to license to actually, you know, make a phone.
I'd like to stick to open source apps. Is there a way to tell which ones are by just looking in the marketplace, without searching on the net?
Ok, a quick search found the oblig. wiki page. Which says that no, you can't. But there are 3rd party lists of open source Android apps.
A better description than shape of electron, is distribution of charge. Which is exactly what they are measuring. If the charge density were not uniformly spherical (or point charge) then there would be some "shape".
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"I'm sure most of us looking for an HDMI cable have been in a situation where a store clerk sidles up, offers to help and points to some of the most expensive HDMI cables"
And anybody who reads slashdot pays them absolutely no mind. Whatever the situation.
I once asked one of them how upscaling on dvd players work.
Answer: "it makes the resolution look higher".
Me: "I meant *how* does it makes the... sigh. never mind."
This article's a bit heavier on details:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/reports-say-osama-bin-laden-dead-us-president-obama-to-speak-soon/article2006299/
Mr. bin Laden was killed at a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, CNN reported. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told Associated Press Mr. bin Laden was killed in a ground operation in Pakistan, not by a Predator drone. A senior Pakistani intelligence official confirmed that he was killed in Pakistan.
Taxes are what the rich people pay in exchange for the poor letting them continue to be rich. Doesn't seem fair? Tough shit. Life isn't fair. Just ask that starving kid next door.
Exactly. Funny how the anti-tax people only state that life isn't fair when they're asked to feel sympathy for the kid born to poor parents, through no fault of their own. But ask them to pay taxes and all of a sudden they feel like we should be in some fairy-tale flat-tax (or no tax) world.
What I like to ask the wealthy whiners is; if you're getting treated so unfairly while these freeloading, poor, sub-human, cradle-to-grave ghetto-dwellers are living the high-life off of your tax dollars, you should be happy to trade places, right? Right?
No, no, no, the jihadists get the 1000 virgins. He gets the 1000 right hands.
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Better that an animal never be born than spend a miserable, tortuous life trapped in a cage hardly bigger than itself, only to finally be slaughtered for food.
Even if I wanted to pay for news and magazine articles (which I don't) why would I want to go through the extra complication of a separate app for every newspaper, and downloading each magazine? The web already covers this. Am I missing something?
FPS doug on the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olm7xC-gBMY&t=2m5s
That's pretty fair, if a bit complicated. But even if the jury and judge came to the decision that *every* person who got their copy of the song from her would have bought it if she personally hadn't been seeding it and decided to make her penalty 99 cents for every song she seeded times the number of uploads, that would still be far more reasonable than the bullshit they handed her.
Even if we take the "low" fine of $54,000, that's $2,250 per song. So what, she uploaded each song over 2000 times? What crap. I understand that some of the fine is more than just compensation, it's also deterrent, but shit, man that's just ridiculous.
On the bright side, I have a habit of downloading something "illegally" every time I let something like this get under my skin, so, off to the torrentz!
I checked, and hatetube.com is apparently already taken. It's not really what I was expecting. So now, half an hour later, I thought I'd drop by here again just to let everyone know.
To add to your (almost certainly wrong) speculation, here's a couple of 'what-ifs':
That disease that (some claim) makes people hoard cats, and a short story by David Brin about a disease that makes people want to give blood, thus spreading the disease.
The long game doesn't have to be so long. See Canada's bill C-24, enacted in 2003. Corporations can't donate over $1000 to a party, people can't donate over $5000.
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Funny but.. also interesting. I mean, what with all the hoopla over Hawking's recent comments, and the predictable "rebuttals" by the religious folks, about how someone must have started the universe in the first place, therefore there's a god. What if the person/people who started our universe were just a bunch of scientists in their universe?
What would the zealots hate more, the idea that our universe sprang out of nothing, or that our "god(s)" were just some nerds performing an experiment?
But this is backwards. In the sane world, the reason why paying less gets you less is because the cheaper product was cheaper to make. Not only is their locked down product not cheaper to make, but it's actually making the whole line more expensive. Some of our dollars are actually going towards the developers for the purpose of making the product worse, by locking it down.
That eternal "Fusion is 50 years away" saying stopped being due to physics and started being due to squabbling countries and their bureaucracies many years ago. ITER could have been started over a decade ago.
Cocaine is a pretty good anti-depressant.
It's a well studied cycle.
Here ya go. Hopefully, the current administration agrees.
ppffft. I'll be interested when it has pressure sensitivity. Anybody who can draw something halfway decent on an ipad could make something spectacular on a wacom.
Death from auto-erotic asphyxiation?