This isn't the first time Apple has used screws to gain an advantage. Apple had been using 5-point Torx screws for its MacBook Pros, not standard 6-point Torx screws."We did a little bit of research and found out that this particular screw has been patented," Wiens says. "It is illegal to import screwdrivers that can open this screw into the U.S. unless you buy it through Apple's sales channels. Apple sells the screwdriver for $40." (Wiens doesn't know if the Pentalobular screws have been patented.)
I'm not sure how it's illegal to import screwdrivers that can open a patented screw. Would it be illegal to make them state-side too?
Anyways, it looks like they just have to patent the screw and then control the distribution channel for the tools that work on that type of screw.
When I step back at what he says in the article, it just sounds like there's a bunch of "silos" (communities) that don't share information and he wants to try and connect those silos or bridge those gaps or whatever euphemism suits use these days. I imagine that if he put it as simply as that most people would go "duh" and forget about it. Stating it this way might get some people to look at it a second time and in a different way.
What strikes me as odd is that he wants to ask if the community is willing to share it with the rest of the state. Why would you ask? It's a process that is being used at a different level of the same governing body. Just take their ideas and improve on them. That might be the way to "open source" processes.
My first suggestion would be to borrow something from the Commonwealths of Virginia: use a county-based library system rather than having a tiny library for each suburb or city.
While legalizing pot would create a new industry -- and thus, jobs -- where would the formerly incarcerated go for jobs? What about those security guards who watched over the people within the cells?
I do suppose that it would be cheaper for the state to put them on welfare than to pay their salary or contractor.
I remember spending hours upon hours playing GoldenEye on the N64, and was sad seeing it go.
Who said that it went away? I keep an N64 and four working controllers on hand for the purpose of playing some of the greatest games to grace the platform: GoldeneEye, Mario Kart 64, and Perfect Dark. You'd be surprised how many people don't mind putting down Rock Band for some furious rounds in the Archives or Facility.
That's what confuses me about this. Why haven't airline lobbyists stopped this yet? Do they not realize that everyone hates flying now?
People have hated flying for awhile now, at least since 9/11 happened nine years ago, maybe longer. A lot of people may hate flying but they keep doing it because they prefer to get across the country in a quicker manner than by bus, train, or car. This means airlines are still taking in revenue. Once the lobbyists see the airline industry's revenue fall and bus and train revenue gain, then you might see the lobbyists bringing out the hookers and blow for the Congress Critters.
Really? I mean, REALLY? The only reason you can come up with to dodge jury duty is essentially, "My tightwad employer doesn't pay me for jury duty leave."
Or, if they wanted to print even LESS phone books, use an opt-in solution. Much better solution and no bother for the hyper-majority of us that don't really want a phone book anymore.
I mean, Steam has DRM but it saves me gas and money and puts me a little closer to that little developer that spends countless nights slaving away over code.
Steam is DRM. But now that you bring it up, there are games sold at brick and mortar shops that aren't offered through Steam yet still contain DRM.
Well, if Tiger Woods had to play his first ever game of golf against Jack Nicklaus, he probably would have been so frustrated with the experience that he might have considered not bothering. That is how multiplayer (your favorite FPS here) is for many people. That is exactly why I only played the first Quake for about an hour - and the rest of the series not at all. People who are new to the games end up in multiplayer games against people who play it 16 hours a day and hence find themselves annihilated faster than they can even figure out which button opens a door and which button changes weapons. ...
People aren't giving up games quickly because they are hard - more often they are giving up because there is no point in trying to compete when there are no new players around. It would be as it there was no such thing as amateur boxing, everyone had to get started by fighting Mike Tyson; many people wouldn't even consider it out of fear of immediate death.
You just summed up a common multiplayer problem described in your first paragraph with the last sentence of your last paragraph. People are afraid; they care too much.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, is a noob at some point. I remember playing CS:S multiplayer for the first time and had no fucking idea what to do except buy a gun and shoot someone that didn't look like me. I had no idea that various maps had specific objectives and I didn't know how to plant a bomb or how to use flash bangs.
But I played anyways because I didn't care and I wasn't afraid: I was having fun. It was a new experience to me and serious players be damned. So what if I popped every round? I could always log off and go do something else I was good at. It's only when I get to the point of being angry that I find myself not enjoying the game. This basically amounts to yelling, "This game cheats!" or chucking a controller against a wall.
More importantly, how do you organize the information contained within them?
Suppose the whole thing is crowd-sourced. Okay, that's fine, but now all that data has to be aggregated and categorized. How many deaths occurred? What types of deaths were they (friendly on friendly, friendly on civilian)? When did these deaths occur? Where did they occur? So right here we have a need for dynamic maps and some sort of query-friendly website presentation. And that's just one topic!
Um, so? Obviously that model isn't for you. It's for people who want to listen to music and watch TV and Movies and videos on their phone.
Yes, because I know I've always wanted to watch movies on my phone when I'm in a private space. Like - you know - my home where my entertainment center is.
There are already inconsiderate folks walking around with their cell phones in their pocket blaring whatever music they like. Unfortch, all anyone can hear is a bunch of tinny noise. At least with a boom box one could understand what was being played.
Although, having a slide-out speaker might improve the speakerphone capabilities a little bit.
This could possibly be due to other circumstances. Think about it. If you sell to a 12 year old, how smart is that kid, really? Do they know the best place to smoke it and not get caught? How do they hide their stash so that their guardians don't find it? Might they take a blunt to school and show off as kids are wont to do sometimes?
All these things lead back to higher authorities (teachers and guardians at first) asking the big question: where did you get this? Who is more likely to fess up at this point? A 25 year-old with a job and responsibilities who knows he can be held accountable or some 12 year-old that doesn't quite understand what will happen to that small time peddler when he rats him out?
I think it's a combination of morals and CYA at the very least.
We have had prisons for many years, yet people still commit crimes. Clearly it is not strong enough.
I believe the problem lies with the actual system, not just the prison. If every crime was given an appropriate penalty (fine, jail time, community service) and was doled out swiftly, it might work. It's just like training a pet: you have to use the stick (or squirt bottle) at every moment that it should be used.
Other people have mentioned libraries as a source to check out movies, and yes, if you live in a municipality that has a good library system, then it's a viable option.
But one option I haven't seen is the independent shops or the smaller chains. There's a place a few blocks from my parents house that has been in business as long as I can remember (I'm in my late 20s). How they stayed in business versus Blockbuster, I can take a few guesses. Hire high school kids and pay minimum wage, offer lots of games as the same price as BB but keep them for 5 nights instead of 2 or 3, stock lots of "fad" items in the showcase up front such as Pokemon, Magic, and other cards, stock lots of movie-night snacks but the same price as going to your favorite corner store.
Purely anecdotal in my case, but don't overlook the smaller shops.
There already is more than one viable alternative. I'm a fan of both Firefox and Opera for Windows use. I'm sure there's more than one viable alternative for Linux distros and OSX as well.
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This isn't the first time Apple has used screws to gain an advantage. Apple had been using 5-point Torx screws for its MacBook Pros, not standard 6-point Torx screws."We did a little bit of research and found out that this particular screw has been patented," Wiens says. "It is illegal to import screwdrivers that can open this screw into the U.S. unless you buy it through Apple's sales channels. Apple sells the screwdriver for $40." (Wiens doesn't know if the Pentalobular screws have been patented.)
I'm not sure how it's illegal to import screwdrivers that can open a patented screw. Would it be illegal to make them state-side too?
Anyways, it looks like they just have to patent the screw and then control the distribution channel for the tools that work on that type of screw.
When I step back at what he says in the article, it just sounds like there's a bunch of "silos" (communities) that don't share information and he wants to try and connect those silos or bridge those gaps or whatever euphemism suits use these days. I imagine that if he put it as simply as that most people would go "duh" and forget about it. Stating it this way might get some people to look at it a second time and in a different way.
What strikes me as odd is that he wants to ask if the community is willing to share it with the rest of the state. Why would you ask? It's a process that is being used at a different level of the same governing body. Just take their ideas and improve on them. That might be the way to "open source" processes.
My first suggestion would be to borrow something from the Commonwealths of Virginia: use a county-based library system rather than having a tiny library for each suburb or city.
And lose roughly 85% of their revenue? I don't think so.
While legalizing pot would create a new industry -- and thus, jobs -- where would the formerly incarcerated go for jobs? What about those security guards who watched over the people within the cells?
I do suppose that it would be cheaper for the state to put them on welfare than to pay their salary or contractor.
As an example of bias, compare the Fox News article on today's House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Wikileaks to The Hill's coverage.
I remember spending hours upon hours playing GoldenEye on the N64, and was sad seeing it go.
Who said that it went away? I keep an N64 and four working controllers on hand for the purpose of playing some of the greatest games to grace the platform: GoldeneEye, Mario Kart 64, and Perfect Dark. You'd be surprised how many people don't mind putting down Rock Band for some furious rounds in the Archives or Facility.
Just like XML =)
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If you could manage to convince the KDE crowd that I'd appreciate it.
I Konquer.
That's what confuses me about this. Why haven't airline lobbyists stopped this yet? Do they not realize that everyone hates flying now?
People have hated flying for awhile now, at least since 9/11 happened nine years ago, maybe longer. A lot of people may hate flying but they keep doing it because they prefer to get across the country in a quicker manner than by bus, train, or car. This means airlines are still taking in revenue. Once the lobbyists see the airline industry's revenue fall and bus and train revenue gain, then you might see the lobbyists bringing out the hookers and blow for the Congress Critters.
Really? I mean, REALLY? The only reason you can come up with to dodge jury duty is essentially, "My tightwad employer doesn't pay me for jury duty leave."
Or, if they wanted to print even LESS phone books, use an opt-in solution. Much better solution and no bother for the hyper-majority of us that don't really want a phone book anymore.
I mean, Steam has DRM but it saves me gas and money and puts me a little closer to that little developer that spends countless nights slaving away over code.
Steam is DRM. But now that you bring it up, there are games sold at brick and mortar shops that aren't offered through Steam yet still contain DRM.
Well, if Tiger Woods had to play his first ever game of golf against Jack Nicklaus, he probably would have been so frustrated with the experience that he might have considered not bothering. That is how multiplayer (your favorite FPS here) is for many people. That is exactly why I only played the first Quake for about an hour - and the rest of the series not at all. People who are new to the games end up in multiplayer games against people who play it 16 hours a day and hence find themselves annihilated faster than they can even figure out which button opens a door and which button changes weapons.
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People aren't giving up games quickly because they are hard - more often they are giving up because there is no point in trying to compete when there are no new players around. It would be as it there was no such thing as amateur boxing, everyone had to get started by fighting Mike Tyson; many people wouldn't even consider it out of fear of immediate death.
You just summed up a common multiplayer problem described in your first paragraph with the last sentence of your last paragraph. People are afraid; they care too much.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, is a noob at some point. I remember playing CS:S multiplayer for the first time and had no fucking idea what to do except buy a gun and shoot someone that didn't look like me. I had no idea that various maps had specific objectives and I didn't know how to plant a bomb or how to use flash bangs.
But I played anyways because I didn't care and I wasn't afraid: I was having fun. It was a new experience to me and serious players be damned. So what if I popped every round? I could always log off and go do something else I was good at. It's only when I get to the point of being angry that I find myself not enjoying the game. This basically amounts to yelling, "This game cheats!" or chucking a controller against a wall.
More importantly, how do you organize the information contained within them?
Suppose the whole thing is crowd-sourced. Okay, that's fine, but now all that data has to be aggregated and categorized. How many deaths occurred? What types of deaths were they (friendly on friendly, friendly on civilian)? When did these deaths occur? Where did they occur? So right here we have a need for dynamic maps and some sort of query-friendly website presentation. And that's just one topic!
If I could be any imaginary person with superpowers, I'd be God.
Um, so? Obviously that model isn't for you. It's for people who want to listen to music and watch TV and Movies and videos on their phone.
Yes, because I know I've always wanted to watch movies on my phone when I'm in a private space. Like - you know - my home where my entertainment center is.
There are already inconsiderate folks walking around with their cell phones in their pocket blaring whatever music they like. Unfortch, all anyone can hear is a bunch of tinny noise. At least with a boom box one could understand what was being played.
Although, having a slide-out speaker might improve the speakerphone capabilities a little bit.
This could possibly be due to other circumstances. Think about it. If you sell to a 12 year old, how smart is that kid, really? Do they know the best place to smoke it and not get caught? How do they hide their stash so that their guardians don't find it? Might they take a blunt to school and show off as kids are wont to do sometimes?
All these things lead back to higher authorities (teachers and guardians at first) asking the big question: where did you get this? Who is more likely to fess up at this point? A 25 year-old with a job and responsibilities who knows he can be held accountable or some 12 year-old that doesn't quite understand what will happen to that small time peddler when he rats him out?
I think it's a combination of morals and CYA at the very least.
Justice quality depends on personal resources in America, no doubt about it.
Wouldn't that be true in Canada as well? You know, seeing as how the Quebec Superior Court upheld the ruling.
A few folks noted a story making the rounds about the huge energy potential just blowing passed the planet in the form of solar winds.
Really? Editors don't read the first sentence of a submission?
RETORT
We have had prisons for many years, yet people still commit crimes. Clearly it is not strong enough.
I believe the problem lies with the actual system, not just the prison. If every crime was given an appropriate penalty (fine, jail time, community service) and was doled out swiftly, it might work. It's just like training a pet: you have to use the stick (or squirt bottle) at every moment that it should be used.
Other people have mentioned libraries as a source to check out movies, and yes, if you live in a municipality that has a good library system, then it's a viable option.
But one option I haven't seen is the independent shops or the smaller chains. There's a place a few blocks from my parents house that has been in business as long as I can remember (I'm in my late 20s). How they stayed in business versus Blockbuster, I can take a few guesses. Hire high school kids and pay minimum wage, offer lots of games as the same price as BB but keep them for 5 nights instead of 2 or 3, stock lots of "fad" items in the showcase up front such as Pokemon, Magic, and other cards, stock lots of movie-night snacks but the same price as going to your favorite corner store.
Purely anecdotal in my case, but don't overlook the smaller shops.
There already is more than one viable alternative. I'm a fan of both Firefox and Opera for Windows use. I'm sure there's more than one viable alternative for Linux distros and OSX as well.
Hey, at least it wasn't a javascript tutorial.