This reminds me about that time Microsoft settled with patent trolls with the purpose of scaring Sony into paying. One of the conditions of their settlement was to get money back after Sony pays. They were not ashamed to try and enforce this agreement through court, thus making it public. Microsoft has always been a bunch of narcissistic douche bags, pretending to be a technology company.
Ever since the Samsung's battery fiasco we owned six Huawei devices between me and my spouse -- two of mine were stolen, and my other half cracks the screen every other month. It's a nice quality package with a ~7" screen size that competition does not even offer.
Comes with a scuba diving case, you say? I will just wait for mine to be stolen... maybe book another trip to Barcelona where things magically vanish from your pockets.
Both Hulu and Netflix started having connection issues on my Verizon Fiber. Does anyone else have similar problems? Will switching to Comcast help or make it worse?
All US college textbooks weight a ton and cost a fortune. The text is mostly water, meant to be skimmed diagonally as opposed to read. I come from Soviet Russia where textbooks cost pennies (also free education) and there was no incentive to bloat them. Russian textbooks were actually readable.
... sea level rise...that can't be the cause of sudden changes in coastal real estate prices
Unfortunately climate change does not work "gradually over hundreds of years". We in NY/NJ getting hit with hurricanes the likes of which we have not been seen before. Prime real estate at ocean front either got swept away and what is left of it lost all value. Even in my far from ocean town the houses close to river cannot be sold any longer.
Do we really need numeric keypad? I haven't touched it in the past 20 years. I learned about it by accident: https://www.amazon.com/967428-... -- a separate numeric keypad ended up never being used. It's just there to create clutter and make finding the Enter key difficult.
If restricted access to these documents is the problem then OCR can do little to help. At the same time OCR is not a requirement for granting public access, just scan and publish the images. Having an imperfect OCR is more of a hindrance than help.
Gee, I don't know where to start... Microsoft gets a few bucks off every Android set ever sold. Microsoft.... Android? Because Microsoft threatens manufacturers to throw an undisclosed number of patents if they don't pay up. Undisclosed, not because there are some specific ones infringed, but because MS can keep throwing until payout does not look so bad.
And this is only one obvious troll. They usually troll under shell companies so cannot be linked to MS directly. This being probably most famous one. I know of a few others, and probably many more that we don't know about because we only know of the ones that leaked by accident.
Once they start censoring they will keep censoring, whether it is to please the Disney mouse, a political party, their own agenda, etc. Do you still trust them with finding for what you are looking for or finding what they want you to see instead? Probably not yet but they are trotting towards becoming a world-wide propaganda engine.
My grandma, who was an atheist commie, used to say that after having invested two decades of hard work into raising a human being it is a great waste to have someone killed in a second. So simply from economic perspective suicides don't make sense.
Why do we even have a purchase tax? I already pay my income taxes, why do I need to pay a second tax off already taxed money? Wouldn't it be easier to simply abolish the purchase tax?
I used Huawei Honor Note 8 for a year and the quality is awesome, especially the battery. Both capacity of 4500 mAh and power management is outstanding. I am never going back to Samsung with self-combusting 3000 mAh.
Ruby is ahead of Perl, in the "medium-disliked" category. I find it amusing that Ruby was conceived as a Python replacement, yet fell hopelessly behind in the popularity contest.
If I were to choose between "invasive dictatorship" or an "invasive empire", with the latter being my guberment and having unlimited power over me, I will choose "invasive dictatorship" every time.
...despite having spent millions of euros switching PCs to open-source software... "
They already switched and trained, so in this case your argument is void. They are considering switching from free software to non-free software while incurring additional training and switching costs.
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This reminds me about that time Microsoft settled with patent trolls with the purpose of scaring Sony into paying. One of the conditions of their settlement was to get money back after Sony pays. They were not ashamed to try and enforce this agreement through court, thus making it public. Microsoft has always been a bunch of narcissistic douche bags, pretending to be a technology company.
Ever since the Samsung's battery fiasco we owned six Huawei devices between me and my spouse -- two of mine were stolen, and my other half cracks the screen every other month. It's a nice quality package with a ~7" screen size that competition does not even offer.
Comes with a scuba diving case, you say? I will just wait for mine to be stolen... maybe book another trip to Barcelona where things magically vanish from your pockets.
Both Hulu and Netflix started having connection issues on my Verizon Fiber. Does anyone else have similar problems? Will switching to Comcast help or make it worse?
Absolutely! For those who want to learn how Google search actually works.
All US college textbooks weight a ton and cost a fortune. The text is mostly water, meant to be skimmed diagonally as opposed to read. I come from Soviet Russia where textbooks cost pennies (also free education) and there was no incentive to bloat them. Russian textbooks were actually readable.
...it would apply to corporations with 500 or more employees
Time to delegate warehousing duty to subcontractors!
... sea level rise...that can't be the cause of sudden changes in coastal real estate prices
Unfortunately climate change does not work "gradually over hundreds of years". We in NY/NJ getting hit with hurricanes the likes of which we have not been seen before. Prime real estate at ocean front either got swept away and what is left of it lost all value. Even in my far from ocean town the houses close to river cannot be sold any longer.
...types about three hundred IP addresses per day...
Sounds like a little automation can change your life. Number pad is not always the answer.
Do we really need numeric keypad? I haven't touched it in the past 20 years. I learned about it by accident: https://www.amazon.com/967428-... -- a separate numeric keypad ended up never being used. It's just there to create clutter and make finding the Enter key difficult.
If restricted access to these documents is the problem then OCR can do little to help. At the same time OCR is not a requirement for granting public access, just scan and publish the images. Having an imperfect OCR is more of a hindrance than help.
And this is only one obvious troll. They usually troll under shell companies so cannot be linked to MS directly. This being probably most famous one. I know of a few others, and probably many more that we don't know about because we only know of the ones that leaked by accident.
Once they start censoring they will keep censoring, whether it is to please the Disney mouse, a political party, their own agenda, etc. Do you still trust them with finding for what you are looking for or finding what they want you to see instead? Probably not yet but they are trotting towards becoming a world-wide propaganda engine.
My grandma, who was an atheist commie, used to say that after having invested two decades of hard work into raising a human being it is a great waste to have someone killed in a second. So simply from economic perspective suicides don't make sense.
Why do we even have a purchase tax? I already pay my income taxes, why do I need to pay a second tax off already taxed money? Wouldn't it be easier to simply abolish the purchase tax?
I used Huawei Honor Note 8 for a year and the quality is awesome, especially the battery. Both capacity of 4500 mAh and power management is outstanding. I am never going back to Samsung with self-combusting 3000 mAh.
Ruby is ahead of Perl, in the "medium-disliked" category. I find it amusing that Ruby was conceived as a Python replacement, yet fell hopelessly behind in the popularity contest.
If you look at the original article -- cobol is there, as the 3rd most hated "tag".
The original study is here I found the "polarization of technology" diagram at the bottom even more interesting.
If I were to choose between "invasive dictatorship" or an "invasive empire", with the latter being my guberment and having unlimited power over me, I will choose "invasive dictatorship" every time.
...despite having spent millions of euros switching PCs to open-source software... "
They already switched and trained, so in this case your argument is void. They are considering switching from free software to non-free software while incurring additional training and switching costs.
Translating from German: "The right people have been greased, this will not happen again"
Didn't he propose two thermonuclear blasts to create global warming on Mars?
"polynia" is a Russian word that stands for "naturally-formed hole in the ice". They are formed due to current.
Oh wait, they can't -- MS Office will not run.