That's *exactly* what I was thinking. How fortuitous for Samsung to have acquired this judge. And how sad it would be politically incorrect for her to recuse herself on the basis of "racial discrimination".
Comparing Apple to MS is laughably ignorant. Apple has revolutionized a myriad of industries and ushered in multiple eras of new computing paradigms. Just look at Samsung's (and everyone else's) tablets before the iPad or the state of the smartphone industry before the iPhone (Symbian? *shivers*). Android prototypes at the time were blackberry rip-offs.
Samsung eventually tried to develop their own OS, "bada", but as far as I can tell they haven't even bothered marketing it. They know it's completely inferior to anything Apple can come up with.
True. In fact this is a great deal like the RIAA passing "anti-piracy" three-strikes laws in European countries. Lobbying politicians to use the law against their competition.
The main cost of creating an ebook in fact remains the main costs of creating a book, period. The writing. The editing. The fact-checking and cross-checking. The images. The index building, oh gods, the index building. The cover. The marketing. The accounting. Making deals with the distributors. Negotiating with the goddess Ingram, goddess of the bottleneck of publishing. The poor bastards who have to clear copyright issues for, say, song lyrics.1 All of this adds up to the point where the cost of paper printing is dwarfed, as is the cost of creating ebooks (once we get a standardized workflow. Printing sure wasn’t fun before people knew what they were doing).
This is why I think Good Old Games is the true hero in all of this. They have a no compromise policy- if you want to sell games on their site, you have to sell it 100% DRM free (Steam is DRM btw), with a lot of additional free content (like PDF manuals, soundtracks, codes, etc.). You can re download your game as many times as you want, copy it to wherever you want, give it to whomever you want. And with the success of the Witcher and its sequel, they're attracting interest and acquiring more publisher agreements. GoG is the real future, not Steam.
Hahaha, you biased anti-Apple moron. You freaks are like the bane of the human race. One company innovates while everyone else copies them and sells their products at half the price, and you scream bloody murder when someone tries to take away your cheap, ill-gotten toys.
You don't need to cut spending. The government can print a $15 trillion coin. Or they can print a $6 T coin and pay off their debts to Social Security/Medicare and the Federal Reserve. There is no budget issue. It's a red herring.
I wonder... does anyone else realize this could be used to create upgradeable smartphones? You would have a phone with touchscreen and battery, with a recessed USB port. Then just slide this device in, and in a couple years when you want to upgrade buy a new usb stick PC. If they could fit the baseband radio in this device that would be truly revolutionary.
Chinese and Indian girls going into engineering are doing it for there families, not because of any specific interest in the field. You have to understand the culture in order to understand the decision of these girls.
individualism in America has worked selfish greed. I don't think these people understand that helping Mexicans would help themselves.in some ways you can understand why they might not like the illegals, but even if you show them evidence that integrating these people into normal society would be beneficial to everyone these people will still have some hatred. they're just too darn selfish. it's a common problem among the baby boomers and it won't go away until that generation finally dies off.
know what's needed is to make those illegals legal. Then they get all the work benefits a legal citizen receives, the expense of hiring them goes up, and suddenly those farmers hiring illegals will hire people like you again. The main problem is that illegals work for such low wages (because they're illegal) that they crowd out everyone else. When one state forces farmers to stop hiring illegals or gets rid of their illegals the reason their crops begin to rot is because they can't compete with other states that hire illegals at below minimum wage. So it's obvious the solution is to give amnesty to all of these illegals.
What countries? As far as I know the majority of patents come out of America. Companies like Samsung copy Apple left and right, Japan hasn't been relevant since Sony's Walkman in the 80s, and China sole purpose of life is to steal other people's IP.
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That's *exactly* what I was thinking. How fortuitous for Samsung to have acquired this judge. And how sad it would be politically incorrect for her to recuse herself on the basis of "racial discrimination".
Every time an autistic freetard calls millions of users "sheeple" I want to pull their tongue out of their body and strangle them to death with it.
Comparing Apple to MS is laughably ignorant. Apple has revolutionized a myriad of industries and ushered in multiple eras of new computing paradigms. Just look at Samsung's (and everyone else's) tablets before the iPad or the state of the smartphone industry before the iPhone (Symbian? *shivers*). Android prototypes at the time were blackberry rip-offs.
Samsung eventually tried to develop their own OS, "bada", but as far as I can tell they haven't even bothered marketing it. They know it's completely inferior to anything Apple can come up with.
Uh what tablets and phones looked and behaved like an iPhone/iPad before the two devices came out?
Interestingly this judge is a Korean-American...
True. In fact this is a great deal like the RIAA passing "anti-piracy" three-strikes laws in European countries. Lobbying politicians to use the law against their competition.
This is pretty much it. MS's been doing the same thing in the US, which is partly why Google started to lobby Congress only in 2005/2006.
Sounds Orwellian.
The main cost of creating an ebook in fact remains the main costs of creating a book, period. The writing. The editing. The fact-checking and cross-checking. The images. The index building, oh gods, the index building. The cover. The marketing. The accounting. Making deals with the distributors. Negotiating with the goddess Ingram, goddess of the bottleneck of publishing. The poor bastards who have to clear copyright issues for, say, song lyrics.1 All of this adds up to the point where the cost of paper printing is dwarfed, as is the cost of creating ebooks (once we get a standardized workflow. Printing sure wasn’t fun before people knew what they were doing).
http://www.spontaneousderivation.com/2009/10/01/a-brief-drunken-comment-on-the-cost-of-making-ebooks/
Shipping a single item to a *house* is not the same as shipping a giant truck full of books to a specific retail location.
How long will it take for you idiots to realize printing and distributing a dead tree book costs less than $1 per book?
All developed countries have below maintenance birth rates.
So is a chiropracter a quack or not?
That's why Good old Games is the future. Steam is just a temporary step.
This is why I think Good Old Games is the true hero in all of this. They have a no compromise policy- if you want to sell games on their site, you have to sell it 100% DRM free (Steam is DRM btw), with a lot of additional free content (like PDF manuals, soundtracks, codes, etc.). You can re download your game as many times as you want, copy it to wherever you want, give it to whomever you want. And with the success of the Witcher and its sequel, they're attracting interest and acquiring more publisher agreements. GoG is the real future, not Steam.
What about Flash Lite?
The issue is the length of these patents.
Hahaha, you biased anti-Apple moron. You freaks are like the bane of the human race. One company innovates while everyone else copies them and sells their products at half the price, and you scream bloody murder when someone tries to take away your cheap, ill-gotten toys.
You don't need to cut spending. The government can print a $15 trillion coin. Or they can print a $6 T coin and pay off their debts to Social Security/Medicare and the Federal Reserve. There is no budget issue. It's a red herring.
I wonder... does anyone else realize this could be used to create upgradeable smartphones? You would have a phone with touchscreen and battery, with a recessed USB port. Then just slide this device in, and in a couple years when you want to upgrade buy a new usb stick PC. If they could fit the baseband radio in this device that would be truly revolutionary.
Chinese and Indian girls going into engineering are doing it for there families, not because of any specific interest in the field. You have to understand the culture in order to understand the decision of these girls.
individualism in America has worked selfish greed. I don't think these people understand that helping Mexicans would help themselves.in some ways you can understand why they might not like the illegals, but even if you show them evidence that integrating these people into normal society would be beneficial to everyone these people will still have some hatred. they're just too darn selfish. it's a common problem among the baby boomers and it won't go away until that generation finally dies off.
know what's needed is to make those illegals legal. Then they get all the work benefits a legal citizen receives, the expense of hiring them goes up, and suddenly those farmers hiring illegals will hire people like you again. The main problem is that illegals work for such low wages (because they're illegal) that they crowd out everyone else. When one state forces farmers to stop hiring illegals or gets rid of their illegals the reason their crops begin to rot is because they can't compete with other states that hire illegals at below minimum wage. So it's obvious the solution is to give amnesty to all of these illegals.
That is an unfortunate reality that Bill Gates realized.
What countries? As far as I know the majority of patents come out of America. Companies like Samsung copy Apple left and right, Japan hasn't been relevant since Sony's Walkman in the 80s, and China sole purpose of life is to steal other people's IP.