Honestly, it's my personal opinion that the US needs someone else to beat us to a major milestone in space. We've fallen into a bit of a winners dilemma. We've beaten everyone else, why do we need to keep trying? I think if China beats the US to Mars, you'll see the political will materialize around the space program again.
How is this legal? It's my admittedly weak understanding of H1B law that it can only be used to fill a job position if there are no qualified domestic workers. It sounds very much like a case of Disney replacing a current employee with an H1B visa worker.
You may have just created a time paradox that would destroy the universe as we know. On the other hand, it may just be localized to those who don't read the article...
I keep hearing this argument. Our infrastructure is crap and getting worse. And yet, when the roads need repaved, somehow they are being repaved. When a storm comes through and knocks down utility lines, someone comes and repairs them. When some idiot digs up a fiber optic line and cuts it, otherwise known as backhoe fade, someone repairs that too.
Statements like this make it sound like our roads, electrical lines, and telecommunications are on the verge of collapse due to neglect. Our did you mean some other kind of infrastructure?
The few watt power bill might not justify buying your own modem, but the $8 per month "leasing" fee for using their modem does. Most modems will pay themselves off at that rate in less than a year,two years if you get an expensive one.
What do they mean "the coming nightmare..." If you've worked with Industrial or smaller IT customers, it's already here. I just had to deal with a CNC machine that, no kidding, ran OS2 Warp version 3! How do you get patches for that?
You aren't married to a non-techy wife are you? Good God! My wife already complains about how long the wifi key is, this kind of thing might actually drive her insane! Actually, now that I think about it, I may try this later tonight.....
That's like saying the F-16 or F-18 are 60's era equipment. Sure, the first models were built around then, but just like aegis, those fighters have seen a lot of upgrades and love over the years. The aegis systems of today are much more capable than their predecessors.
The sad part about that comment is that this kind of thing does happen in the US. Try walking into any major airport and casually discussing with a friend how could "hypothetically" blow up the airport.
It just occurred to me that our country is so sensitive about that, there is a very real possibility one could find themselves in trouble simply for posting about talking about hypothetically blowing up an airport.
It would be kinda like being charged with conspiracy to commit a felony here for talking with some friends about how you go about robbing a bank; in a purely hypothetical manor.
The sad part about that comment is that this kind of thing does happen in the US. Try walking into any major airport and casually discussing with a friend how could "hypothetically" blow up the airport.
[sarcasm] If our government or governments in general, had a history of abusing unchecked power, I would care... quite a bit actually. But fortunately, since that is not the case and our government can be trusted with the use of power that skirts established law, I am not worried.... [/sarcasm]
I'm not an Apple lover by any stretch, but any time I see such a skewed summary or article, I tend to ignore it. Wouldn't it be better to just say that Apple added several more Samsung devices to ongoing patent litigation?
HTC did the same thing with the One X. If I understand it correctly, it had something to do with the Tegra 3 chipset not being compatible with LTE radios or something like that. I personally tracked down an International HTC One X. Cost me the same as a non-contract US HTC One X but I got twice the internal storage, quad core cpu, and a gpu that's at least as fast as the one in the US HTC One X.
And no, I don't miss LTE support. HSPA+ works just fine for me.
I knew the world was going down the tubes when I was working on a computer in a social studies class at the high school. The teacher was talking about the elections in Russia. At one point, a teenage girl near the front raises her hand and asks: "Where is Russia? Thats like... in South America, isn't it?"
What scared me was not that the girl asked the question but that she did not get laughed out of the class by nearly as many of her classmates and she should have.
If running a premade script and following instructions someone else wrote makes me a hacker, does that mean I can go buy a toy store chemistry set, perform a few preset experiments and call myself a chemist?
Why is the lack of LTE lame? Are you that interested in being able to max your data cap faster than my HSPA+ phone can? Yes, LTE is technically the better service. But, in the US at least, HSPA+ support with a lack of LTE support is only really an issue if you are stuck in an area with good LTE coverage and no/spotty HSPA+ coverage.
This.... a thousand million times... this. I am so sick of the hero worship. Albert Einstein was a genius. Nikolai Tesla was a Genius. Thomas Edison was a great inventor and, arguably, a genius. Steve Jobs was none of these. He was a great salesman and perhaps even an extraordinary salesman, but not a genius. I heard some kid talking the other day about how Steve Jobs was a genius because he invented the smartphone and the MP3 player. It was all I could do to not slap the kid.
Let's be clear. Steve Jobs did NOT invent the smartphone. He did not invent MP3 players. He did not invent the personal computer. He merely repackaged those ideas into something else. Steve jobs was a great salesman, nothing more.
Who here honestly thought that Apple would actually apologize to Samsung? Judging from the posts I've read so far, a lot more than I would have expected. Just goes to show you that iDevice and Mac owners aren't the only deluded people in the world.
It's legal for my wife to jailbreak her iPhone 4s but not her iPad? Even though her iPhone can do almost everything that her iPad can do? I think we need to wipe out whatever they have written for the definition of "Arbitrary" in the dictionary and just put a link to this article.
The folks who stood in line for hours(or days in some cases), or ordered one online and still haven't seen it yet, got screwed. Not because of manufacturing delays, but because they bought a phone that was already out of date before it was even released. HTC and Samsung had better phones out eight and six months ago, respectively. I bought the one x. It has a better LCD, better resolution, better talk time, same resolution camera, NFC, WiFi direct, and a whole list of other things the "cutting edge" iPhone 5 doesn't have. And here's the punchline..... I paid $300 less for my One X than you did for the 32 gb iPhone 5.
A logical ruling on a patent case? Really? *looks around, bewildered* Is this America??
I assume this particular judge is aware that we don't live in a free country anymore and that the role of government is to listen to whoever has the most money. So what happened? Did Apple forget to send the six figure "judicial consultation fee?"
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Honestly, it's my personal opinion that the US needs someone else to beat us to a major milestone in space. We've fallen into a bit of a winners dilemma. We've beaten everyone else, why do we need to keep trying? I think if China beats the US to Mars, you'll see the political will materialize around the space program again.
The 1st commandment of Capitalism: Thou shalt not piss off people with vastly more money than thyself...
How is this legal? It's my admittedly weak understanding of H1B law that it can only be used to fill a job position if there are no qualified domestic workers. It sounds very much like a case of Disney replacing a current employee with an H1B visa worker.
You may have just created a time paradox that would destroy the universe as we know. On the other hand, it may just be localized to those who don't read the article...
I keep hearing this argument. Our infrastructure is crap and getting worse. And yet, when the roads need repaved, somehow they are being repaved. When a storm comes through and knocks down utility lines, someone comes and repairs them. When some idiot digs up a fiber optic line and cuts it, otherwise known as backhoe fade, someone repairs that too.
Statements like this make it sound like our roads, electrical lines, and telecommunications are on the verge of collapse due to neglect. Our did you mean some other kind of infrastructure?
The few watt power bill might not justify buying your own modem, but the $8 per month "leasing" fee for using their modem does. Most modems will pay themselves off at that rate in less than a year,two years if you get an expensive one.
What do they mean "the coming nightmare..." If you've worked with Industrial or smaller IT customers, it's already here. I just had to deal with a CNC machine that, no kidding, ran OS2 Warp version 3! How do you get patches for that?
SCOTUS agrees unanimously on something? *Looks at the calendar* It's not April 1st... Am I being punked??
You aren't married to a non-techy wife are you? Good God! My wife already complains about how long the wifi key is, this kind of thing might actually drive her insane! Actually, now that I think about it, I may try this later tonight.....
That's like saying the F-16 or F-18 are 60's era equipment. Sure, the first models were built around then, but just like aegis, those fighters have seen a lot of upgrades and love over the years. The aegis systems of today are much more capable than their predecessors.
The sad part about that comment is that this kind of thing does happen in the US. Try walking into any major airport and casually discussing with a friend how could "hypothetically" blow up the airport.
It just occurred to me that our country is so sensitive about that, there is a very real possibility one could find themselves in trouble simply for posting about talking about hypothetically blowing up an airport.
It would be kinda like being charged with conspiracy to commit a felony here for talking with some friends about how you go about robbing a bank; in a purely hypothetical manor.
The sad part about that comment is that this kind of thing does happen in the US. Try walking into any major airport and casually discussing with a friend how could "hypothetically" blow up the airport.
[sarcasm]
If our government or governments in general, had a history of abusing unchecked power, I would care... quite a bit actually. But fortunately, since that is not the case and our government can be trusted with the use of power that skirts established law, I am not worried....
[/sarcasm]
I'm not an Apple lover by any stretch, but any time I see such a skewed summary or article, I tend to ignore it. Wouldn't it be better to just say that Apple added several more Samsung devices to ongoing patent litigation?
HTC did the same thing with the One X. If I understand it correctly, it had something to do with the Tegra 3 chipset not being compatible with LTE radios or something like that. I personally tracked down an International HTC One X. Cost me the same as a non-contract US HTC One X but I got twice the internal storage, quad core cpu, and a gpu that's at least as fast as the one in the US HTC One X.
And no, I don't miss LTE support. HSPA+ works just fine for me.
I knew the world was going down the tubes when I was working on a computer in a social studies class at the high school. The teacher was talking about the elections in Russia. At one point, a teenage girl near the front raises her hand and asks: "Where is Russia? Thats like... in South America, isn't it?"
What scared me was not that the girl asked the question but that she did not get laughed out of the class by nearly as many of her classmates and she should have.
.... doesn't mean they're going to enforce it using unconstitutional methods like they do here in the states.
Fixed that for ya....
If running a premade script and following instructions someone else wrote makes me a hacker, does that mean I can go buy a toy store chemistry set, perform a few preset experiments and call myself a chemist?
Why is the lack of LTE lame? Are you that interested in being able to max your data cap faster than my HSPA+ phone can? Yes, LTE is technically the better service. But, in the US at least, HSPA+ support with a lack of LTE support is only really an issue if you are stuck in an area with good LTE coverage and no/spotty HSPA+ coverage.
This.... a thousand million times... this. I am so sick of the hero worship. Albert Einstein was a genius. Nikolai Tesla was a Genius. Thomas Edison was a great inventor and, arguably, a genius. Steve Jobs was none of these. He was a great salesman and perhaps even an extraordinary salesman, but not a genius. I heard some kid talking the other day about how Steve Jobs was a genius because he invented the smartphone and the MP3 player. It was all I could do to not slap the kid.
Let's be clear. Steve Jobs did NOT invent the smartphone. He did not invent MP3 players. He did not invent the personal computer. He merely repackaged those ideas into something else. Steve jobs was a great salesman, nothing more.
Who here honestly thought that Apple would actually apologize to Samsung? Judging from the posts I've read so far, a lot more than I would have expected. Just goes to show you that iDevice and Mac owners aren't the only deluded people in the world.
It's legal for my wife to jailbreak her iPhone 4s but not her iPad? Even though her iPhone can do almost everything that her iPad can do? I think we need to wipe out whatever they have written for the definition of "Arbitrary" in the dictionary and just put a link to this article.
The folks who stood in line for hours(or days in some cases), or ordered one online and still haven't seen it yet, got screwed. Not because of manufacturing delays, but because they bought a phone that was already out of date before it was even released. HTC and Samsung had better phones out eight and six months ago, respectively. I bought the one x. It has a better LCD, better resolution, better talk time, same resolution camera, NFC, WiFi direct, and a whole list of other things the "cutting edge" iPhone 5 doesn't have. And here's the punchline..... I paid $300 less for my One X than you did for the 32 gb iPhone 5.
There is a setting to prevent that under the App Store
A logical ruling on a patent case? Really? *looks around, bewildered* Is this America??
I assume this particular judge is aware that we don't live in a free country anymore and that the role of government is to listen to whoever has the most money. So what happened? Did Apple forget to send the six figure "judicial consultation fee?"