When you spend $600+ for a phone, rather than getting one that, for one quarter of the price, will do almost everything that the big one does, you are doing that because you want to show the world that you do not have a small cock. Those overpriced phones are status symbols, period. It does not matter how well they work, provided that they do the basics. What matters is that you can produce them in public, and that everybody around you will see what a successful person you are.
At least in the US, movies come to, and leave Netflix, all the time. Not Netflix's fault - the stupid content owners, still anchored in a 20th century mindset, keep playing the silly game of artificial scarcity. As long as they keep at it, piracy will flourish.
These guys are behaving almost as stupidly as Trump. This aside, who will want to be seen with a Samsung handset from now on? I mean, if you want a handset to make a social statement, the only statement that you will be able to make is that you have a handset that might explode at any time. Probably not many are interested in that social image. Samsung is toast in the ego mobile phone market.
Samsung are already taking a massive financial hit over the failure of the Note 7, so there's no punitive sense in bringing this suit.
But there is. Samsung has been an obnoxious company for years, with their planned obsolescence and general disregard for its customers. They are getting a much deserved comeuppance.
Or is it what they claim? Staying at the office long hours is not necessarily correlated with working. Many stay at the office long hours because they can't stand going home, in this country where being divorced multiple times is commonplace.
The problem with original content, from anyone, is that, for the most part, such original content will suck to high heaven. For each hit like, say, Cheers, there are hundreds of flops that, justly, remain in oblivion. I am all for new shows and movies - but I want access to classic hits. Complete access, not this garbage whereby things appear and disappear more or less randomly. Until this happens, piracy will carry on rampant.
They are still in a 20th century mindset whereby they artificially create temporal and geographic scarcity in order to increase their revenues. That does not work any more, even if they refuse to understand it. Content providers, what people want is for the content to be available everywhere, all the time, in all devices, at reasonable prices and in simple, user-friendly ways. As long as you refuse to do so, people will resort to piracy. You can fight it, you can scream and adopt hypocritical pseudo-moral positions, but people will carry on doing it - you have been trying to thwart them for almost two decades now, without any significant success. It's up to you: try to make the best of the new status quo, by implementing the above, or keep your heads deeply stuck up your collective asses, and watch piracy grow every passing year.
He is now nothing but a peddler of disinformation. It seems to me that he might spend still a few more years at the Ecuador embassy - unless the Ecuadorians get fed up with him.
The KDE and Gnome developers are doing what they are doing in a misguided effort to stay relevant. The truth is that the desktop environment problem with the current interfaces (screen, keyboard and mouse) was solved long ago. They just keep remodeling it, adding things, removing things, but it is pretty much more of the same - more baroque, with more bells and whistles, more resource hungry, but with the same essentials disguised in many different, more or less creative, ways. It is no wonder that, with these two wretched flagships, Linux is getting nowhere in the desktop. With them, Linux would probably be getting nowhere in the desktop even absent Microsoft's stranglehold.
Until the KDE developers decided to reinvent the wheel, and make KDE the star of the show, determining what is best for you, what it is that you can and can't do, while consuming preposterous amounts of memory in the process. Happy birthday indeed.
AI has been the next big thing around the corner for fifty years. I would not be surprised if, in fifty years, it still thing the next big thing around the corner.
Especially for retailers, who will get a lot of purchases that wouldn't otherwise have been made. Less tongue-in-cheek, this sounds like a terrible idea.
And do not lie; anybody that has had to deal with you knows that you are arrogant, heavy handed and just plain obnoxious to your customers. If any company, apart from Microsoft, deserved a fiasco like this, Samsung did.
I am deriving lots of schadenfreude from this fracas. I just hope that Samsung, a rather despicable company, with their heavy-handedness, built-in obsolescence, arrogance, and useless customer service, will not recover from this.
LinkedIn is little more than an incestuous whore market, where people sell each other and make themselves feel important and great. It is pretty pathetic.
For me, desktop environment should just be in the background, waiting to do what you tell it do, fast, efficiently and using as few resources as possible. KDE, Gnome and Unity have decided to take the opposite approach - they are the stars of the show, they may, or may not, allow you to do what you want to do, they are not particularly fast or responsive, and they consume more system resources than just about any other application. Since it is those desktops what the Linux community is pushing to compete against Windows and Mac, I am only too glad that they are not making any significant headway in that undertaking.
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They will give you minty fresh breath as well. Something advertised like this can be almost guaranteed to come to nothing.
Indeed. They have been able to postdict with 62% accuracy - a very different thing. And hardly earth-shattering. I agree, it is mostly BS.
When you spend $600+ for a phone, rather than getting one that, for one quarter of the price, will do almost everything that the big one does, you are doing that because you want to show the world that you do not have a small cock. Those overpriced phones are status symbols, period. It does not matter how well they work, provided that they do the basics. What matters is that you can produce them in public, and that everybody around you will see what a successful person you are.
At least in the US, movies come to, and leave Netflix, all the time. Not Netflix's fault - the stupid content owners, still anchored in a 20th century mindset, keep playing the silly game of artificial scarcity. As long as they keep at it, piracy will flourish.
It's why Snowden is still in Commie Russia.
Autocratic Russia, yes. Commie, no.
These guys are behaving almost as stupidly as Trump. This aside, who will want to be seen with a Samsung handset from now on? I mean, if you want a handset to make a social statement, the only statement that you will be able to make is that you have a handset that might explode at any time. Probably not many are interested in that social image. Samsung is toast in the ego mobile phone market.
Samsung are already taking a massive financial hit over the failure of the Note 7, so there's no punitive sense in bringing this suit.
But there is. Samsung has been an obnoxious company for years, with their planned obsolescence and general disregard for its customers. They are getting a much deserved comeuppance.
Or is it what they claim? Staying at the office long hours is not necessarily correlated with working. Many stay at the office long hours because they can't stand going home, in this country where being divorced multiple times is commonplace.
Once you start spewing nonsense like that, you really must have lost contact with reality.
The problem with original content, from anyone, is that, for the most part, such original content will suck to high heaven. For each hit like, say, Cheers, there are hundreds of flops that, justly, remain in oblivion. I am all for new shows and movies - but I want access to classic hits. Complete access, not this garbage whereby things appear and disappear more or less randomly. Until this happens, piracy will carry on rampant.
I am inflamed, bursting with joy!
They are still in a 20th century mindset whereby they artificially create temporal and geographic scarcity in order to increase their revenues. That does not work any more, even if they refuse to understand it. Content providers, what people want is for the content to be available everywhere, all the time, in all devices, at reasonable prices and in simple, user-friendly ways. As long as you refuse to do so, people will resort to piracy. You can fight it, you can scream and adopt hypocritical pseudo-moral positions, but people will carry on doing it - you have been trying to thwart them for almost two decades now, without any significant success. It's up to you: try to make the best of the new status quo, by implementing the above, or keep your heads deeply stuck up your collective asses, and watch piracy grow every passing year.
He is now nothing but a peddler of disinformation. It seems to me that he might spend still a few more years at the Ecuador embassy - unless the Ecuadorians get fed up with him.
The KDE and Gnome developers are doing what they are doing in a misguided effort to stay relevant. The truth is that the desktop environment problem with the current interfaces (screen, keyboard and mouse) was solved long ago. They just keep remodeling it, adding things, removing things, but it is pretty much more of the same - more baroque, with more bells and whistles, more resource hungry, but with the same essentials disguised in many different, more or less creative, ways. It is no wonder that, with these two wretched flagships, Linux is getting nowhere in the desktop. With them, Linux would probably be getting nowhere in the desktop even absent Microsoft's stranglehold.
Until the KDE developers decided to reinvent the wheel, and make KDE the star of the show, determining what is best for you, what it is that you can and can't do, while consuming preposterous amounts of memory in the process. Happy birthday indeed.
What did they expect?
Indeed. A turd and Microsoft are synonymous. Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
AI has been the next big thing around the corner for fifty years. I would not be surprised if, in fifty years, it still thing the next big thing around the corner.
Especially for retailers, who will get a lot of purchases that wouldn't otherwise have been made. Less tongue-in-cheek, this sounds like a terrible idea.
And do not lie; anybody that has had to deal with you knows that you are arrogant, heavy handed and just plain obnoxious to your customers. If any company, apart from Microsoft, deserved a fiasco like this, Samsung did.
Nope. If I do not despise the fruit company as much as I despise Samsung it is because I have never had to deal with the latter.
I am deriving lots of schadenfreude from this fracas. I just hope that Samsung, a rather despicable company, with their heavy-handedness, built-in obsolescence, arrogance, and useless customer service, will not recover from this.
LinkedIn is little more than an incestuous whore market, where people sell each other and make themselves feel important and great. It is pretty pathetic.
Is this not the kind of thing that would be seen from the ISS? Or from a normal plane flying at the appropriate altitude? Where are the pictures?
For me, desktop environment should just be in the background, waiting to do what you tell it do, fast, efficiently and using as few resources as possible. KDE, Gnome and Unity have decided to take the opposite approach - they are the stars of the show, they may, or may not, allow you to do what you want to do, they are not particularly fast or responsive, and they consume more system resources than just about any other application. Since it is those desktops what the Linux community is pushing to compete against Windows and Mac, I am only too glad that they are not making any significant headway in that undertaking.
Most fitting: Microsoft is offensive vis-a-vis anything and everything to do with trust.