If you don't have the means to enforce it or collect abroad, it's effectively useless.
This isn't about collecting abroad. It's about collecting locally from US companies doing business abroad. This is about you and me going about our business in the USA. It's about you having a patent. It's about me creating a product that violates that patent and in an attempt to skirt your law selling that product somewhere else in the world but not in the USA.... Then you suing me for it.
I mean, I'm unlikely to ever have the resources to run an international lawsuit to enforce patent law but I could see getting sued by a mega corp who does.
Unless you're a company which runs a business internationally and has a presence in the USA while selectively infringing USA patents elsewhere I don't think this story or ruling has any implication for you.
The way I see it this is just rich large corporations suing each other. Small corporations wouldn't be in a position to infringe in this way and would likely get sued locally under local law or simply have their products blocked from import.
There's far more than Hong Kong and Macau in terms of special zones and provinces. China has all sorts of zoning systems where various rules do or don't apply. The most common of these are the special economic zones which promote foreign investment. One example I've seen of a policy in a special economic zones is that foreign companies can punch through the great firewall with a VPN without port blocking or other bans.
If this article hasn't turned you off moderation and feedback then you're more than welcome to help decide what does and doesn't make the front page using the firehose: https://slashdot.org/recent
Just don't use the Firehose on a tablet or you're hurting msmash.
should I tip the amount that I would normally tip at a full service place?
Is the server standing around doing nothing as a result of you having to swipe your own card? By not tipping in America due to the environment rather than the service you're only hurting the server.
Personally I think the entire tipping thing is absurd but then I'm used to people actually being paid to work rather than going to work to beg for enough money to make going to work worthwhile.
This -- independently owned places are unlikely to have those things.
I've never seen a tablet in a chain, only in independently owned restaurants. Chains are more likely to be resistant to change and less able to experiment at a whim. But really if you want to see a tablet visit an asian all you can eat and made to order restaurant. The tablets make a world of difference so you're not interrupting the waiter every 30 seconds for another bite of sushi or don't constantly have to get up. It makes dining at these places far more palatable in a group as you can continue the exercise of talking to one another rather than fighting to get fed.
If I do like the service I don't tip. Fuck the tipping culture. Pay your waiters a living wage like in sensible countries.
As a side note I actually hate the waiting culture in America too. Everyone is so dependent on tips they run up and interrupt you with their fake smiles every 2 seconds asking you how your meal is going. The meal is going fine, now let me actually eat it! Yes I'm finished, no I don't want to leave just so you can make another tip from the next people who sit down, let me enjoy going out without interrupting me every 30 seconds!
The flip side of it is an American friend joined me in Amsterdam a few months back and got fully agitated that we had been sitting there for 5 minutes already and hadn't even been given menus yet. I made some snide comment about him being on European time now, and to chill a bit.
Let me rephrase. The problem here isn't that one supplier is unable to deliver. You're 100% correct that suppliers will warn customers of these problems when they can. However the current crisis which you claimed could be solved by reputable communication isn't caused by a single supply chain which is under the control of a contract, but rather a larger issue in the industry itself.
Me telling you that I can't sell you a coke is irrelevant, right until EVERYONE can't sell you a coke. Communication between me and you won't fix that you can now not get a coke.
Says the person redefining what a mac is. Please go and tell people who own macs that they don't own macs. I'm sure you'll be met with the complete understanding of a person who is making sense and using words the way everyone else is too./sarcasm
So what you're saying is that the amounts aren't sufficiently available to meet the normal demand (like a shortage) prompting a creep up the supply and demand graph. Got it.
The amounts are available, the price may be a little higher
You seem to fundamentally not understand how the supply and demand graph works. Your running around your own circular argument.
You need DisplayPort to drive a proper 4K@60 or 120.
Hasn't DP been a default on pretty much every device for the past 5 years anyway, and if you're using a potato then why attach a 4K screen?
Also HDMI 2.0 can do 4K@60Hz and and 2.1 can do 4K@120Hz. And for Display Port you need at least DP 1.3 which was released AFTER HDMI 2.0. So basically if your video card is less than 5 years old you're good to go.
Why is that? Reading some reviews online, a few people said 4k was unusable as a computer monitor because all of the icons became impossibly small. Is that true?
If you're still running Windows XP, or Ubuntu 6.04 then yes it is true.
How well does Linux run widely used design tools like Altium? How well does it support commercial drawing software with pen input? How well do the non-existent Creative Suite ports work? Where's the native Netflix app or Edge needed to stream in the highest quality due to DRM restrictions, to say nothing of the bluray support? What about all those email clients which can't seem to even provide a small portion of the functionality of Outlook, let alone Office apps that don't at all integrate with Microsoft Sharepoint, Exchange, or Skype for Business? And if you are into gaming, what about the actual non-AAA games that don't exist on Linux and are much better than their AAA counterparts anyway?
You can get over the Stockholm Syndrome now.
Why would we want to? You're not presenting a compelling alternative.
Find me any general population of two million people that has no sexual assault
Oh your military is a general population? I thought they were specially trained to follow rules and be able to concentrate on the task at hand rather than let their mind wander to raping mode. I thought the military was full of American citizens rather than those rapey mooslims and dirty mexican prostitution trafficers who get blamed for all the sexual assault in the "general population".
But I'll bite anyway, because the problem is not so much that sexual assault happens, it's that the victims of it are the ones who end up dishonourably discharged, stripped of their titles and pensions. Even the dirty general population doesn't stoop that low.
The general population also doesn't sexually assault 1 in 4 women, and doesn't sexually harass the overwhelming majority of them.
Also on behalf of everyone FUCK YOU for excusing the practice and turning a blind eye .
I'm sorry but your sarcasm is completely lost in this case. There's a very big frigging difference between having your mind wonder, and kicking back and watching a frigging TV show.
And? We happen to live in the first world. I don't go hungry, I don't have a lack of clean drinking water, I'm secure in my life, so what? Give up? Never seek any further improvements?
Speaking of first world problems, just how many 3rd world countries will be rolling out top of the line BMWs with fancy unlocking mechanisms from your iPhone X? Maybe we should stop developing all technology and luxury goods as they are all solutions to first world problems.
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If you don't have the means to enforce it or collect abroad, it's effectively useless.
This isn't about collecting abroad. It's about collecting locally from US companies doing business abroad. This is about you and me going about our business in the USA. It's about you having a patent. It's about me creating a product that violates that patent and in an attempt to skirt your law selling that product somewhere else in the world but not in the USA. ... Then you suing me for it.
I mean, I'm unlikely to ever have the resources to run an international lawsuit to enforce patent law but I could see getting sued by a mega corp who does.
Unless you're a company which runs a business internationally and has a presence in the USA while selectively infringing USA patents elsewhere I don't think this story or ruling has any implication for you.
The way I see it this is just rich large corporations suing each other. Small corporations wouldn't be in a position to infringe in this way and would likely get sued locally under local law or simply have their products blocked from import.
There's far more than Hong Kong and Macau in terms of special zones and provinces. China has all sorts of zoning systems where various rules do or don't apply. The most common of these are the special economic zones which promote foreign investment. One example I've seen of a policy in a special economic zones is that foreign companies can punch through the great firewall with a VPN without port blocking or other bans.
If this article hasn't turned you off moderation and feedback then you're more than welcome to help decide what does and doesn't make the front page using the firehose:
https://slashdot.org/recent
Just don't use the Firehose on a tablet or you're hurting msmash.
should I tip the amount that I would normally tip at a full service place?
Is the server standing around doing nothing as a result of you having to swipe your own card? By not tipping in America due to the environment rather than the service you're only hurting the server.
Personally I think the entire tipping thing is absurd but then I'm used to people actually being paid to work rather than going to work to beg for enough money to make going to work worthwhile.
This -- independently owned places are unlikely to have those things.
I've never seen a tablet in a chain, only in independently owned restaurants. Chains are more likely to be resistant to change and less able to experiment at a whim. But really if you want to see a tablet visit an asian all you can eat and made to order restaurant. The tablets make a world of difference so you're not interrupting the waiter every 30 seconds for another bite of sushi or don't constantly have to get up. It makes dining at these places far more palatable in a group as you can continue the exercise of talking to one another rather than fighting to get fed.
Don't like the service? Don't tip.
If I do like the service I don't tip. Fuck the tipping culture. Pay your waiters a living wage like in sensible countries.
As a side note I actually hate the waiting culture in America too. Everyone is so dependent on tips they run up and interrupt you with their fake smiles every 2 seconds asking you how your meal is going. The meal is going fine, now let me actually eat it! Yes I'm finished, no I don't want to leave just so you can make another tip from the next people who sit down, let me enjoy going out without interrupting me every 30 seconds!
The flip side of it is an American friend joined me in Amsterdam a few months back and got fully agitated that we had been sitting there for 5 minutes already and hadn't even been given menus yet. I made some snide comment about him being on European time now, and to chill a bit.
So 16gigs is going to hibernate on a 900meg swap partition? Now THAT is some compression.
Maybe you should file a bug report. The default Ubuntu full disk partition scheme creates a swap partition identical to the amount of RAM.
Let me rephrase. The problem here isn't that one supplier is unable to deliver. You're 100% correct that suppliers will warn customers of these problems when they can. However the current crisis which you claimed could be solved by reputable communication isn't caused by a single supply chain which is under the control of a contract, but rather a larger issue in the industry itself.
Me telling you that I can't sell you a coke is irrelevant, right until EVERYONE can't sell you a coke. Communication between me and you won't fix that you can now not get a coke.
Looks like about 1.2 Billion people [geekwire.com]
I was being facetous while pointing out there's a shitload more to Windows lock-in than gaming.
I'm also aware that they're rather less rapey than a lot of soldiers.
Cool, from ignoring the problem to excusing it because worse people are around.
I repeat: FUCK YOU for dismissing problems.
I'm not redefining words
Says the person redefining what a mac is. Please go and tell people who own macs that they don't own macs. I'm sure you'll be met with the complete understanding of a person who is making sense and using words the way everyone else is too. /sarcasm
Garbz out.
So what you're saying is that the amounts aren't sufficiently available to meet the normal demand (like a shortage) prompting a creep up the supply and demand graph. Got it.
The amounts are available, the price may be a little higher
You seem to fundamentally not understand how the supply and demand graph works. Your running around your own circular argument.
You need DisplayPort to drive a proper 4K@60 or 120.
Hasn't DP been a default on pretty much every device for the past 5 years anyway, and if you're using a potato then why attach a 4K screen?
Also HDMI 2.0 can do 4K@60Hz and and 2.1 can do 4K@120Hz. And for Display Port you need at least DP 1.3 which was released AFTER HDMI 2.0. So basically if your video card is less than 5 years old you're good to go.
Why is that? Reading some reviews online, a few people said 4k was unusable as a computer monitor because all of the icons became impossibly small. Is that true?
If you're still running Windows XP, or Ubuntu 6.04 then yes it is true.
Short of certain AAA games
Huh? Who gives a shit about gaming?
How well does Linux run widely used design tools like Altium? How well does it support commercial drawing software with pen input? How well do the non-existent Creative Suite ports work? Where's the native Netflix app or Edge needed to stream in the highest quality due to DRM restrictions, to say nothing of the bluray support? What about all those email clients which can't seem to even provide a small portion of the functionality of Outlook, let alone Office apps that don't at all integrate with Microsoft Sharepoint, Exchange, or Skype for Business? And if you are into gaming, what about the actual non-AAA games that don't exist on Linux and are much better than their AAA counterparts anyway?
You can get over the Stockholm Syndrome now.
Why would we want to? You're not presenting a compelling alternative.
If that was a pop culture reference I don't get it. If it was an insult I don't get it either.
Find me any general population of two million people that has no sexual assault
Oh your military is a general population? I thought they were specially trained to follow rules and be able to concentrate on the task at hand rather than let their mind wander to raping mode. I thought the military was full of American citizens rather than those rapey mooslims and dirty mexican prostitution trafficers who get blamed for all the sexual assault in the "general population".
But I'll bite anyway, because the problem is not so much that sexual assault happens, it's that the victims of it are the ones who end up dishonourably discharged, stripped of their titles and pensions. Even the dirty general population doesn't stoop that low.
The general population also doesn't sexually assault 1 in 4 women, and doesn't sexually harass the overwhelming majority of them.
Also on behalf of everyone FUCK YOU for excusing the practice and turning a blind eye .
A Mac is not only one thing: it's both hardware AND software.
A Mac is not software.
*sigh* Don't redefine words at whim.
I don't know about the OP, but I like being able to hibernate...
Yeah which would be achieved by the default. No need for any custom install there.
had their mind could wander
I'm sorry but your sarcasm is completely lost in this case. There's a very big frigging difference between having your mind wonder, and kicking back and watching a frigging TV show.
Neither. We prosecute the driver of a vehicle for manslaughter.
Except we won't because this is America and someone didn't commit copyright infringement so they are only worthy of a slap on the wrist.
How's the crow taste?
Errr you post makes no sense what so ever. The people who were defending Uber's self-driving car were from the beginning blaming human error...
Damn man - that' a hellava first world problem.
And? We happen to live in the first world. I don't go hungry, I don't have a lack of clean drinking water, I'm secure in my life, so what? Give up? Never seek any further improvements?
Speaking of first world problems, just how many 3rd world countries will be rolling out top of the line BMWs with fancy unlocking mechanisms from your iPhone X? Maybe we should stop developing all technology and luxury goods as they are all solutions to first world problems.
I'd be doing a custom install to have more swap space
Can I ask why? What's the point of extra swap space unless you're running Ubuntu on a potato?