Totally agree.
I never had much free dough, back in the day. But I scrimped and saved to buy each X-Wing game as it was released. I'd also buy a new flight stick - as I'd worn the last one out playing the previous versions.
Is this a real filing or is Amazon (or it's engineers) trolling the USPTO to see if there are any signs of life?
A software patent for something acting like the milkman that actually references milk deliveries? Something smells fishy.
After playing with the Blackberry tablet I dislike their attempt at uniqueness by ditching the home button and replacing it with the swipe!
Change is hard, small minds do tend to have issues adapting. It's ok, Darwinian evolution will weed out your kind eventually. Continue to play with the crApple baby button if it makes your small world more bearable.
That's what you get when you issue contracts to the lowest bidder.
I'm personally aware of several instances just like this. One of my favorites was when a former employer elected to contract out the work for a database migration (same data, different table layout, with extra fields populated with default data). After several weeks of status updates indicating all was on track, the contractor demoed and delivered the finished product. Supposed due to contract conditions, engineering wasn't given access to the final product before the payment check was cut. We were horrified...
What they'd done was a manual search and replace for the db version string and hacked up the test harness so it would output data that looked like a correctly completed query. We had our old db, with a new version and a crafted test harness used to simulate the final result.
Don't blame Blackberry for that, blame friggin Verizon. Verizon likes to put the screws to phone providers asking for all kinds of stuff that benefit their bottom line, not make the product useful to the purchaser.
Did the MS product mgmt, engineering and test orgs not think to try this out on a standard desktop machine with the high res monitors pretty much everyone uses these days?
Incomprehensible!
Any municipality that allows cellphone use while driving is, essentially, endorsing driverless cars. If someone gets engaged in a deep conversation on the phone, their driving skills drop below that of someone with 0.08% blood alcohol...
That's a classic bait n' switch. How usable would an OS that pops ads all the time be? What if, after installing, they upped the ad frequency etc? Would the ads be embedded or fetched over the network? Could you downgrade to your previously legally obtained, ad-free, OS without losing all your work?
This isn't an Apple bash or even a Steve Jobs bash. That idea is pure, unadulterated, marketing evilness.
Use of this product may cause: - bloating - sluggish behavior - loss of memory - sudden fits of aggression and/or rage - a prolonged feeling of regret and/or disappointment leading to depression
Whether its an app on a phone or my laptop plugged into my phone consuming bandwidth, its just bytes on the APN or bearer that the service provider has configured for data traffic. The only distinction is that the data is eventually routed over an interface with a direct electrical connection from the phone to another device. If I wrote an app that sent the data to a qcode-like on-screen icon that was read by a webcam, I could get around their "tethering" charges and still provide internet access to another device.
... and wouldn't stop when asked, I imagine colleagues would get pissed and find it a hard work environment to excel in.
I had a coworker became a born-again Christian. No one cared, until he tried to recruit us into a lunch-hour prayer group. When no one showed up, he decided to bring the prayer group to us, where ever we were. I guess he thought he was some sort of second-coming-of-Jesus prophet. That was freaking uncomfortable. He left shortly afterwards. I don't know if he was "moved along" or he felt sullied working with unbelievers.
You could *always*run, gmail, yahoo mail, or any of the web mail clients on day one. The browser is/was powerful enough and flash compliant enough to "just work". No need for some stooge to write a custom app just to access your standard websites (and charge you $0.99 or more)... unlike another fruity vendor. In fact, several websites need to remove the PlayBook browser from their "mobile device" list and allow it to access the standard desktop-targetted site. This tablet is capable of rendering it without customization.
The various iPad app devs don't want you to know that. Their income is predicated on Apple continuing to fail to deliver a device capable of accessing the entire web. While Apple continues to deliver crippled hardware, they tie their users ever more tightly to cash-cow called the iStore. It's time for consumers to break free. Buy Android or other devices that DON'T lock you into the closed marketing machine.
I've done alot of reading on the subject and the most conservative part of me is still on the fence. Very little peer-reviewed science indicates cooling. There are several studies that indicate that the Earth *should* be cooling, but isn't due to GW...
Regardless, would you rather err on the side of caution and take actions that are positive (sustainable living etc) or keep on as we have, which will eventually hit a wall anyway as we fully deplete our stores of fossil fuels...
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O Hai there paid M$ shill.
Totally agree. I never had much free dough, back in the day. But I scrimped and saved to buy each X-Wing game as it was released. I'd also buy a new flight stick - as I'd worn the last one out playing the previous versions.
I got duped into clicking the story thinking it was a legitimate article. Instead I got a slashvertisement... ./suckered
... but no one is home in Rep Orcutt's skull.
Is this a real filing or is Amazon (or it's engineers) trolling the USPTO to see if there are any signs of life?
A software patent for something acting like the milkman that actually references milk deliveries? Something smells fishy.
After playing with the Blackberry tablet I dislike their attempt at uniqueness by ditching the home button and replacing it with the swipe!
Change is hard, small minds do tend to have issues adapting. It's ok, Darwinian evolution will weed out your kind eventually. Continue to play with the crApple baby button if it makes your small world more bearable.
Security IQ test question 1: "Ensure all private keys are are stored in a secured location."
"Oh sh**..."
Fanbois on both sides are about to hit this thread in 3, 2, 1, ... /popcorn
That's what you get when you issue contracts to the lowest bidder. I'm personally aware of several instances just like this. One of my favorites was when a former employer elected to contract out the work for a database migration (same data, different table layout, with extra fields populated with default data). After several weeks of status updates indicating all was on track, the contractor demoed and delivered the finished product. Supposed due to contract conditions, engineering wasn't given access to the final product before the payment check was cut. We were horrified... What they'd done was a manual search and replace for the db version string and hacked up the test harness so it would output data that looked like a correctly completed query. We had our old db, with a new version and a crafted test harness used to simulate the final result.
R belong to us!
The O/S supports the additional resources. Who has am O/S today that has a proven roadmap to get there?
1. Make condescending vid comparing folks who don't like your new UI with someone's 3yo 2. ??? 3. Profit?
Don't blame Blackberry for that, blame friggin Verizon. Verizon likes to put the screws to phone providers asking for all kinds of stuff that benefit their bottom line, not make the product useful to the purchaser.
Did the MS product mgmt, engineering and test orgs not think to try this out on a standard desktop machine with the high res monitors pretty much everyone uses these days? Incomprehensible!
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Any municipality that allows cellphone use while driving is, essentially, endorsing driverless cars. If someone gets engaged in a deep conversation on the phone, their driving skills drop below that of someone with 0.08% blood alcohol...
That's a classic bait n' switch. How usable would an OS that pops ads all the time be? What if, after installing, they upped the ad frequency etc? Would the ads be embedded or fetched over the network? Could you downgrade to your previously legally obtained, ad-free, OS without losing all your work?
This isn't an Apple bash or even a Steve Jobs bash. That idea is pure, unadulterated, marketing evilness.
The courts will be so completely swamped they'll be backed up for years and real criminals will go free due to extreme delays in getting a fair trial.
My guess is any charges of this sort will be tossed out.
Use of this product may cause:
- bloating
- sluggish behavior
- loss of memory
- sudden fits of aggression and/or rage
- a prolonged feeling of regret and/or disappointment leading to depression
Really, no basis at all in reality.
The editor who posted this should DIAF.
Data is data.
Whether its an app on a phone or my laptop plugged into my phone consuming bandwidth, its just bytes on the APN or bearer that the service provider has configured for data traffic. The only distinction is that the data is eventually routed over an interface with a direct electrical connection from the phone to another device. If I wrote an app that sent the data to a qcode-like on-screen icon that was read by a webcam, I could get around their "tethering" charges and still provide internet access to another device.
... and wouldn't stop when asked, I imagine colleagues would get pissed and find it a hard work environment to excel in.
I had a coworker became a born-again Christian. No one cared, until he tried to recruit us into a lunch-hour prayer group. When no one showed up, he decided to bring the prayer group to us, where ever we were. I guess he thought he was some sort of second-coming-of-Jesus prophet. That was freaking uncomfortable. He left shortly afterwards. I don't know if he was "moved along" or he felt sullied working with unbelievers.
Too bad you won't say "goodbye!". This is another example of s*** floats to the top in government, military and business.
"Native email" means BlackBerry Messenger...
You could *always*run, gmail, yahoo mail, or any of the web mail clients on day one. The browser is/was powerful enough and flash compliant enough to "just work". No need for some stooge to write a custom app just to access your standard websites (and charge you $0.99 or more)... unlike another fruity vendor. In fact, several websites need to remove the PlayBook browser from their "mobile device" list and allow it to access the standard desktop-targetted site. This tablet is capable of rendering it without customization.
The various iPad app devs don't want you to know that. Their income is predicated on Apple continuing to fail to deliver a device capable of accessing the entire web. While Apple continues to deliver crippled hardware, they tie their users ever more tightly to cash-cow called the iStore. It's time for consumers to break free. Buy Android or other devices that DON'T lock you into the closed marketing machine.
I've done alot of reading on the subject and the most conservative part of me is still on the fence. Very little peer-reviewed science indicates cooling. There are several studies that indicate that the Earth *should* be cooling, but isn't due to GW...
Regardless, would you rather err on the side of caution and take actions that are positive (sustainable living etc) or keep on as we have, which will eventually hit a wall anyway as we fully deplete our stores of fossil fuels...