Wow, I'm going to ignore the whole flame bait samsung thing, and say that of all the silly and obvious things they have patented you are upset about a few actual unique, innovative, physical things they've designed in-house and patented?
That isn't free market. Free market means everyone has the same opportunity to sell their goods. Anyone can come along with a better product or price and the customer is free to choose.
This is the local store has to charge citizen sales tax on behave of state vs Amazon activity helps citizen commit tax evasion against the state.
Funny, I've had fairly opposite experience. I'm not a fan of VMware. For commercial solutions I've had good experience with Parallels. In the OSS areana I've great experience with KVM for servers and VirtualBox for desktops.
If I am not in a hurry I stop for random strangers whom I can help, because sometime we each need a little extra help. I also legally carry a concealed weapon (hand gun) with me, because as we all know, people are fucked up.
I'm baffled by the anyone but hardcore Office users liking Ribbon. After all I read about the ideas behind it I expected to love it. But quickly found it terrible. The raw concept is great, but the actual implementation is absolutely the most frustrating UI I've worked with. It is not intuitive. There is no consistency. It is not familiar. A UI needs to be at lest one of the three.
When I used to use windows, (I switched to linux shortly before XP came out, and then to mac right after Apple switched to Intel chips,) I used to seldom use the mouse preferring keyboard shortcuts for navigating. With linux I never really got there because each application could implement it's interface so differently. Plus, I was in console the majority of time anyway. With Mac it's a whole different experience. I use the touchpad a lot more then I did in either windows or linux. I also use keyboard shortcuts more then I did in either. People used to say they didn't like only having on button, but I looked it as having one pointer and a whole panel full buttons.
I can't do any real work with a mouse. Compared to a muti touchpad, I find the mouse inferior for text editing, it's useless with photo editing, and casual games (not FPS type games, although I personally feel a console is better for those anyway.) For most stuff, even on my desktop I use a muti touchpad.
On a side note, of all the computers I've ever used (to long to list 20 year history of PC use) I actually find the apple muti touch mouse the easiest mouse to use because of the touch inputs.
Different stroke for different folks? I've heard what your saying before, so I know there are many people that feel like you do, but I've found once I adjusted, it's quite the opposite. Unless so many people are just resistant to learning something better, I don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something?
A tablets I've looked at as serious contenders, frankly suck. They are around $700, have low storage memory, must be tethered to a cellular plan, and cannot run anything better than what I already have on my very spacious 4.x" phone screen. My netbook, on the other hand, was $199, has more storage than I'll need in a portable situation, works with Wifi, Cisco VPN (which most phones/tablets don't), and is very compact with the same or larger screen size as most tablets (~10")
For me, an overpriced, underfeatured, cellular locked tablet makes no sense. Oooo, it has a touch screen... big freaking deal! Oooo, I have a keyboard with a netbook... now that's a real consideration for having something in the "gap" between my phone and a desktop. My battery is also much better than any tablet, because I don't need something equivalent to an OLED screen. It's backlit, and I can watch netflix just fine on it.
You should check out Apple iPad then. I paid $320 for an original iPad with a buit-in 3G GSM modem, (there is a 2nd gen out now, it starts at $500 though, $629 for the model with the 3G.) It is slightly more then the $200 you paid for your netbook, but it's faster, instant on/off, works with WiFI and Cisco VPN, which you need, has a 10 inch screen, (technically 9.7 but still larger then MOST netbooks.) If you opt for the model with 3G cell it's an unlocked model, but only the company that offer 3G GSM is AT&T anyway. You can get newer 2nd gen models with a verizon modem, but the service is slower then the 3G GSM. You can use any BT keyboard, or use the optional USB dongle and a usb keyboard. I use the an Apple BT keyboard because it's very small, and doesn't have the ridiculous keystroke depths that some of the others have. No OLED screen just standard back-light LCD. It's battery last about 6 hours, but that is 6 hours of awake time. If you put it down for bathroom breaks, lunch break, etc.. you'd be able to use through out the full day without worry. Of course you still have access to your netflix.
yaya, your right. I have the same complaint with Firewire 800. It's nearly square, but can only connect all the way if you have it on just the right side.
I agree with what your saying. The company that was buying and cutting thing was weird. I do wish Apple would license, or at lest sell pigtails to 3rd parties. There are crappy 3rd party imitation ones from china you can get on eBay, but they are known to catch on fire.
The old MacBook Pro used to get really hot near the connect and it would cause the connector, and any USB cables, to melt after awhile. That was the computer though, not the connector's fault.
Of course it comes out too easily, don't pull your computer, or electronic, around by it's power cable. However, do that with a Leveno style barrel connector and you need a new main board. Ask me know I know...
As far as false sense of security, I kind of see your point, but at the same time, you can say the same thing about air-bags in cars. The bottom line is the magsafe connector is much safer then a conventional.
The only real downside I've experienced is that since the internal connectors are spring loaded, and there is a magnet near them, they can over the course of about 4 years, acquire crud and stop making contact.
no. as others have posted, it's not multitouch. Aside from that, the patent was filed 2007, but the invention was created much earlier, by a different company that Apple bought, then filed patents for.
The problem with your logic is that CD are both a tangible, the actual disc, and an intangible, the license to listen to that disc. There is no comparison possible, as there is nothing else that is both tangible and intangible at the same time. The fire caused him a loss of the physical disc, but not his license to listen to it. The only way to replace his lose to buy a whole new set, disc and license. If he had insurance, it paid him for his loss of the physical disc. That does not remove his license to listen to his format-shifted backups.
amazon watermarks (some) of their mp3. I believe, Amazon also adds personally identifiable info the tags... I know Apple store the original purchaser in the tags.
In honesty, that is the fault of the insurance companies. If you were paying cash you would have worked out a payment plan ahead of time, and likely paid about 50K. Basically the insurance companies make their own rates. They want to make the rates so low that medical workers wont make any profit off their work. To combat this the medical workers have to raise their advertised price, so they have a better barging chip when renegotiating their rates with the insurance company. This has created a race condition producing the effects you witnessed. Ironically, the real losers are those with "major emergency" only insurance. If you have that you technically have insurance, so you get billed full price, but the insurance really doesn't cover pretty much anything.
I highly doubt that this man will not wave his right to a speedy trial. Add in unavoidable scheduling conflicts and continuances, he can be in there for over a year easily before the court makes him go to trial.
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Wow, I'm going to ignore the whole flame bait samsung thing, and say that of all the silly and obvious things they have patented you are upset about a few actual unique, innovative, physical things they've designed in-house and patented?
The "hide your kids, hide your wife" guy was black. No one is looking or cares about apprehending the perpetrator.
That isn't free market. Free market means everyone has the same opportunity to sell their goods. Anyone can come along with a better product or price and the customer is free to choose.
This is the local store has to charge citizen sales tax on behave of state vs Amazon activity helps citizen commit tax evasion against the state.
The non-free version is free for personal use. It is just not open source.
Funny, I've had fairly opposite experience. I'm not a fan of VMware. For commercial solutions I've had good experience with Parallels. In the OSS areana I've great experience with KVM for servers and VirtualBox for desktops.
If I am not in a hurry I stop for random strangers whom I can help, because sometime we each need a little extra help. I also legally carry a concealed weapon (hand gun) with me, because as we all know, people are fucked up.
I'm baffled by the anyone but hardcore Office users liking Ribbon. After all I read about the ideas behind it I expected to love it. But quickly found it terrible. The raw concept is great, but the actual implementation is absolutely the most frustrating UI I've worked with. It is not intuitive. There is no consistency. It is not familiar. A UI needs to be at lest one of the three.
When I used to use windows, (I switched to linux shortly before XP came out, and then to mac right after Apple switched to Intel chips,) I used to seldom use the mouse preferring keyboard shortcuts for navigating. With linux I never really got there because each application could implement it's interface so differently. Plus, I was in console the majority of time anyway. With Mac it's a whole different experience. I use the touchpad a lot more then I did in either windows or linux. I also use keyboard shortcuts more then I did in either. People used to say they didn't like only having on button, but I looked it as having one pointer and a whole panel full buttons.
I can't do any real work with a mouse. Compared to a muti touchpad, I find the mouse inferior for text editing, it's useless with photo editing, and casual games (not FPS type games, although I personally feel a console is better for those anyway.) For most stuff, even on my desktop I use a muti touchpad.
On a side note, of all the computers I've ever used (to long to list 20 year history of PC use) I actually find the apple muti touch mouse the easiest mouse to use because of the touch inputs.
Different stroke for different folks? I've heard what your saying before, so I know there are many people that feel like you do, but I've found once I adjusted, it's quite the opposite. Unless so many people are just resistant to learning something better, I don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something?
True this. As a culture we are teaching youth NOT to ask questions.
A tablets I've looked at as serious contenders, frankly suck. They are around $700, have low storage memory, must be tethered to a cellular plan, and cannot run anything better than what I already have on my very spacious 4.x" phone screen. My netbook, on the other hand, was $199, has more storage than I'll need in a portable situation, works with Wifi, Cisco VPN (which most phones/tablets don't), and is very compact with the same or larger screen size as most tablets (~10")
For me, an overpriced, underfeatured, cellular locked tablet makes no sense. Oooo, it has a touch screen... big freaking deal! Oooo, I have a keyboard with a netbook... now that's a real consideration for having something in the "gap" between my phone and a desktop. My battery is also much better than any tablet, because I don't need something equivalent to an OLED screen. It's backlit, and I can watch netflix just fine on it.
You should check out Apple iPad then. I paid $320 for an original iPad with a buit-in 3G GSM modem, (there is a 2nd gen out now, it starts at $500 though, $629 for the model with the 3G.) It is slightly more then the $200 you paid for your netbook, but it's faster, instant on/off, works with WiFI and Cisco VPN, which you need, has a 10 inch screen, (technically 9.7 but still larger then MOST netbooks.) If you opt for the model with 3G cell it's an unlocked model, but only the company that offer 3G GSM is AT&T anyway. You can get newer 2nd gen models with a verizon modem, but the service is slower then the 3G GSM. You can use any BT keyboard, or use the optional USB dongle and a usb keyboard. I use the an Apple BT keyboard because it's very small, and doesn't have the ridiculous keystroke depths that some of the others have. No OLED screen just standard back-light LCD. It's battery last about 6 hours, but that is 6 hours of awake time. If you put it down for bathroom breaks, lunch break, etc.. you'd be able to use through out the full day without worry. Of course you still have access to your netflix.
Well, if they'd quite smoking it at lest we could stay on topic.
yaya, your right. I have the same complaint with Firewire 800. It's nearly square, but can only connect all the way if you have it on just the right side.
I agree with what your saying. The company that was buying and cutting thing was weird. I do wish Apple would license, or at lest sell pigtails to 3rd parties. There are crappy 3rd party imitation ones from china you can get on eBay, but they are known to catch on fire.
The old MacBook Pro used to get really hot near the connect and it would cause the connector, and any USB cables, to melt after awhile. That was the computer though, not the connector's fault.
Of course it comes out too easily, don't pull your computer, or electronic, around by it's power cable. However, do that with a Leveno style barrel connector and you need a new main board. Ask me know I know...
As far as false sense of security, I kind of see your point, but at the same time, you can say the same thing about air-bags in cars. The bottom line is the magsafe connector is much safer then a conventional.
The only real downside I've experienced is that since the internal connectors are spring loaded, and there is a magnet near them, they can over the course of about 4 years, acquire crud and stop making contact.
I think settlements should be illegal.
You should sue!
Last time I priced out a comparable monitor to Apple's Cinema it actually cost about $200 more... I agree with the rest of your post.
Apple TV plays porn just fine thank you. iTunes doesn't sell any, so maybe you mean iTunes is doomed to fail.
no. as others have posted, it's not multitouch. Aside from that, the patent was filed 2007, but the invention was created much earlier, by a different company that Apple bought, then filed patents for.
The problem with your logic is that CD are both a tangible, the actual disc, and an intangible, the license to listen to that disc. There is no comparison possible, as there is nothing else that is both tangible and intangible at the same time. The fire caused him a loss of the physical disc, but not his license to listen to it. The only way to replace his lose to buy a whole new set, disc and license. If he had insurance, it paid him for his loss of the physical disc. That does not remove his license to listen to his format-shifted backups.
amazon watermarks (some) of their mp3. I believe, Amazon also adds personally identifiable info the tags... I know Apple store the original purchaser in the tags.
In honesty, that is the fault of the insurance companies. If you were paying cash you would have worked out a payment plan ahead of time, and likely paid about 50K. Basically the insurance companies make their own rates. They want to make the rates so low that medical workers wont make any profit off their work. To combat this the medical workers have to raise their advertised price, so they have a better barging chip when renegotiating their rates with the insurance company. This has created a race condition producing the effects you witnessed. Ironically, the real losers are those with "major emergency" only insurance. If you have that you technically have insurance, so you get billed full price, but the insurance really doesn't cover pretty much anything.
You joke, but that is exactly what they did in Miami. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Tuttle_Causeway_sex_offender_colony
I highly doubt that this man will not wave his right to a speedy trial. Add in unavoidable scheduling conflicts and continuances, he can be in there for over a year easily before the court makes him go to trial.