The fine in this case was around 25% of the profit they made that year. Anyone would rather take the IP licensing deal than hand over that kind of money.
If by your facetious comment you think that a 30% hit on the bottom line is just waved away and doesn't have an effect on the company or a market then you're a complete moron.
Intel's net profit was $4.3bn the year of the fine.
Yeah actually good job EU. At least some government knows how to issue a fine that is relevant.
I know history quite well. You'll also note that the only people prosecuted are those who committed crimes. People belonging to an organisation are not automatically guilty by association. There's a reason the trials went for as long as they did.
with the US approval.
It's great being on the winning team. History is written by the winners.
There have been no "good Nazis", since the war ended.
That's an interesting and hurtful statement. My grandpa was a "Nazi". He wore a Nazi uniform. It was the only employment he got. Glorified desk clerk overseeing construction activities undertaken during the war. He never hurt a fly and I will be you is a much better man than you'll ever be.
But guilty by association, you sound like you're American so clearly you should be held directly responsible for dropping agent orange. You're a monster.
The thing is, veterans marched not just as veterans but wearing SS insignia. That's the difference.
And? Oh that's right strip them from their uniforms and punish them without trail too while you're at it. Unless you have evidence that the people involved committed actual war crimes... No? Didn't think so. Frankly the USA lost the Vietnam war, all your veterans should stop wearing your uniforms in the street and give back your medals.
Are you guys so new to the Net that you don't know this?
Nope. We're just aware Facebook has a feature called groups and privacy controls that can be set on that scale to not need to do garbage like playing with multiple accounts.
Also "everyone" has one account which they use to mix work, friends and their drunk social lives in ways that they will regret in their future. Very few people have more. Between the paranoid approach, the techie approach, and the braindead approach it is a safe bet to assume the vast majority of people will opt for the latter.
Much of the wealthy west's problem with immigration has nothing to do with why the immigrants are fleeing their home country. Most people aren't immigrating because of their mess or religion or they way their country acts. They are immigrating because they are sick of dodging bombs, being ruled by dictators who would have them beheaded for any of the proposed "fixing" you suggest they do.
or even rubberized connectors, making them easier to handle and to pull.
As much as I like the handling and feel of the rubberized stuff, in 2 years my gloss plastic will still be fine, while the rubberized stuff will disintegrate and look really really bad from impregnated dirt and discoloration.
Plastic isn't good to handle, but rubber is a blight on the consumer electronics world.
I actually like Windows 10, but the store is the biggest load of crap that I have ever seen. There is nothing useful in it,... well the Netflix app, but other than that there's nothing useful in it.
Whoever came up with it should be shot in the face with a bucket of their own shit.
Exactly this. As far as I can tell, they're not measuring "enjoyment" at all!
I know reading is hard and all:
Moreover, the researchers found that on all three follow-up questionnaires, binge watchers reported enjoying The Game "significantly less" than those who watched it on a weekly or daily basis. Overall, those who watched the show daily reported the greatest amount of enjoyment over time.
And given they're actually measuring retention
It's amazing that when using a questionnaire you can actually ask more than one question at a time, such as measuring retention and then asking about enjoyment.
How about a study with people who have jobs, kids and responsibilities and then see who enjoys binge watching vs waiting every week for the next episode.
Oh you (almost) described me. I say almost because I'm working in a shutdown cycle at the moment so I have a 56hour workweek instead of the usual 40 hour week.
I also binge watched all of Steins Gate this past weekend.
Maybe you need better personal time management, or maybe you have that but don't think binge watching something is good use of your personal time. I do, so I made time for it.
I shot a video of a wedding recently and overlaid American Authors - Best Day Of My Life over it. I then uploaded it to Youtube unlisted, and Facebook private open to tagged people only. In both cases there were people who couldn't see this private video shared among friends.
Did the "copyright infringement" stop? Nah, I simply put the file on Dropbox and sent everyone a download link. Also I sped it up slightly which caused Facebook's detection algorithm to fail (though it didn't fool Youtube)
WTF are you talking about, just deny it the right to create a notification. There's no need to demolish a house because you can't get rid of a couple of cockroaches.
Turn off the f*cking notifications unelss you're paid to have them on and are willing to do so.
This right here. People complain about notifications and then swipe them away. Why not long press them instead and then deny the app from producing them in the first place. Many apps which spam notifications also kindly provide fine grained control of them. E.g. I am not in the slightest interested in getting a notification of who's birthday it is from Facebook. Turned off. I'm not interested in someone talking in groups, requesting charity, broadcasting live video, etc, etc.
Congress can no more grant extra powers to the President than they can remove powers from the President. Any law passed by Congress surrendering their powers to the President is unconstitutional on it's face. Amending the constitution is the only way to do that.
Except they did nothing of the sort. They enacted a law that said the specific implementation of the policy to follow that law was up to the executive. That doesn't grant Obama any more powers than it does to any other government department that is asked to come up with policy. What Obama's office made was not a law.
But you don't need to believe me, you can read up the 5th Circuit's conclusion who ruled on the constitutional validity of what happened. (see links spread throughout responses to this story).
The dots or the lines or the fact that people seem unable to standardise.
Honestly, that seems a silly nit to pick.
A lot of things are silly to nit-pick if you know what they mean. For most people 3 vertical dots means absolutely nothing. Sure a smartphone veteran who has suffered though this adaptation to UIs know *now* what it means, but that also wasn't always the case. When did it stop being a wheel of a cog, and what did that represent as well? Speaking of I'm currently staring at what looks like a tombstone with a + symbol in it. Sure I know because I've used this god-awful software befre that this opens a new tab but what a dumb way of putting it. There's an arrow pointing to a drive, not sure if that will save the file or what. Last time I checked it was an icon which looked like a sheet of paper with an arrow pointing down. Maybe that means to throw it all on the ground in hopelessness.
UI design is hard. We have an entire generation growing up now who have no idea what the save icon represents despite it being very intuitive to a 80s/90s kid. You only call it nitpicking because *you* understand. That doesn't mean it's completely counter-intuitive to someone who's never used software before, completely unlike the word "menu".
I suspect that every symbol replacing text is another item they don't need to translate for non-English markets.
And yet every such app normally is either well translated or has walls of untranslated english text.
That still doesn't excuse blending buttons into the rest of the content.
Flat design says nothing about blending the buttons with the content. Actually it's typically quite the opposite. What you're talking about is crap design, not flat design.
No the solution is to have event generated by the system that is responsible for performing the action. That is kind of the point. You're asking to fix something that can't be properly fixed in the place that you want it fixed.
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They no doubt prefer fines to doing that, though.
The fine in this case was around 25% of the profit they made that year. Anyone would rather take the IP licensing deal than hand over that kind of money.
If by your facetious comment you think that a 30% hit on the bottom line is just waved away and doesn't have an effect on the company or a market then you're a complete moron.
Intel's net profit was $4.3bn the year of the fine.
Yeah actually good job EU. At least some government knows how to issue a fine that is relevant.
I know history quite well. You'll also note that the only people prosecuted are those who committed crimes. People belonging to an organisation are not automatically guilty by association. There's a reason the trials went for as long as they did.
with the US approval.
It's great being on the winning team. History is written by the winners.
There have been no "good Nazis", since the war ended.
That's an interesting and hurtful statement. My grandpa was a "Nazi". He wore a Nazi uniform. It was the only employment he got. Glorified desk clerk overseeing construction activities undertaken during the war. He never hurt a fly and I will be you is a much better man than you'll ever be.
But guilty by association, you sound like you're American so clearly you should be held directly responsible for dropping agent orange. You're a monster.
The thing is, veterans marched not just as veterans but wearing SS insignia. That's the difference.
And? Oh that's right strip them from their uniforms and punish them without trail too while you're at it.
Unless you have evidence that the people involved committed actual war crimes... No? Didn't think so. Frankly the USA lost the Vietnam war, all your veterans should stop wearing your uniforms in the street and give back your medals.
Are you guys so new to the Net that you don't know this?
Nope. We're just aware Facebook has a feature called groups and privacy controls that can be set on that scale to not need to do garbage like playing with multiple accounts.
Also "everyone" has one account which they use to mix work, friends and their drunk social lives in ways that they will regret in their future. Very few people have more. Between the paranoid approach, the techie approach, and the braindead approach it is a safe bet to assume the vast majority of people will opt for the latter.
An icon is much easier than text. (Yes, there where studies), The issue is that there is no standard for the icons.
A system where there is no standard by extension means that they are not "easier".
A picture says 1000 words only when people understand what they are looking at.
Estonia is the only remaining country in Europe where SS (yes, _that_ SS) veterans march on main streets.
Sorry I must have missed the part where the winning country gets to decide the losing one imprisons all of their military without trial.
The EU eroded border security and caused a mass influx of criminal migrants and terrorists.
Personally I blame them for the rise of racist fuckwits on the internet.
Much of the wealthy west's problem with immigration has nothing to do with why the immigrants are fleeing their home country. Most people aren't immigrating because of their mess or religion or they way their country acts. They are immigrating because they are sick of dodging bombs, being ruled by dictators who would have them beheaded for any of the proposed "fixing" you suggest they do.
Brexit isn't sounding so bad now, is it....?
Yeah 100% of deaf people agree.
is two years old
Holy crap you set the bar high. (sarcasm) What happened in the world where we find that acceptable?
or even rubberized connectors, making them easier to handle and to pull.
As much as I like the handling and feel of the rubberized stuff, in 2 years my gloss plastic will still be fine, while the rubberized stuff will disintegrate and look really really bad from impregnated dirt and discoloration.
Plastic isn't good to handle, but rubber is a blight on the consumer electronics world.
I actually like Windows 10, but the store is the biggest load of crap that I have ever seen. There is nothing useful in it, ... well the Netflix app, but other than that there's nothing useful in it.
Whoever came up with it should be shot in the face with a bucket of their own shit.
What does retention have to do with enjoyment.
Nothing, which is why they separately asked about retention and enjoyment in different questionaires.
Exactly this. As far as I can tell, they're not measuring "enjoyment" at all!
I know reading is hard and all:
Moreover, the researchers found that on all three follow-up questionnaires, binge watchers reported enjoying The Game "significantly less" than those who watched it on a weekly or daily basis. Overall, those who watched the show daily reported the greatest amount of enjoyment over time.
And given they're actually measuring retention
It's amazing that when using a questionnaire you can actually ask more than one question at a time, such as measuring retention and then asking about enjoyment.
How about a study with people who have jobs, kids and responsibilities and then see who enjoys binge watching vs waiting every week for the next episode.
Oh you (almost) described me. I say almost because I'm working in a shutdown cycle at the moment so I have a 56hour workweek instead of the usual 40 hour week.
I also binge watched all of Steins Gate this past weekend.
Maybe you need better personal time management, or maybe you have that but don't think binge watching something is good use of your personal time. I do, so I made time for it.
I shot a video of a wedding recently and overlaid American Authors - Best Day Of My Life over it. I then uploaded it to Youtube unlisted, and Facebook private open to tagged people only. In both cases there were people who couldn't see this private video shared among friends.
Did the "copyright infringement" stop? Nah, I simply put the file on Dropbox and sent everyone a download link. Also I sped it up slightly which caused Facebook's detection algorithm to fail (though it didn't fool Youtube)
Yes but there are some cases where a famous and relevant song just fits your video better.
Simpler solution, turn off notifications. There's no need to forgo a useful tool when all you want is for it to stop beeping at you.
Turn the phone off? Uninstall the applications?
WTF are you talking about, just deny it the right to create a notification. There's no need to demolish a house because you can't get rid of a couple of cockroaches.
Turn off the f*cking notifications unelss you're paid to have them on and are willing to do so.
This right here. People complain about notifications and then swipe them away. Why not long press them instead and then deny the app from producing them in the first place. Many apps which spam notifications also kindly provide fine grained control of them. E.g. I am not in the slightest interested in getting a notification of who's birthday it is from Facebook. Turned off. I'm not interested in someone talking in groups, requesting charity, broadcasting live video, etc, etc.
Congress can no more grant extra powers to the President than they can remove powers from the President. Any law passed by Congress surrendering their powers to the President is unconstitutional on it's face. Amending the constitution is the only way to do that.
Except they did nothing of the sort. They enacted a law that said the specific implementation of the policy to follow that law was up to the executive. That doesn't grant Obama any more powers than it does to any other government department that is asked to come up with policy. What Obama's office made was not a law.
But you don't need to believe me, you can read up the 5th Circuit's conclusion who ruled on the constitutional validity of what happened. (see links spread throughout responses to this story).
The dots or the lines or the fact that people seem unable to standardise.
Honestly, that seems a silly nit to pick.
A lot of things are silly to nit-pick if you know what they mean. For most people 3 vertical dots means absolutely nothing. Sure a smartphone veteran who has suffered though this adaptation to UIs know *now* what it means, but that also wasn't always the case. When did it stop being a wheel of a cog, and what did that represent as well? Speaking of I'm currently staring at what looks like a tombstone with a + symbol in it. Sure I know because I've used this god-awful software befre that this opens a new tab but what a dumb way of putting it. There's an arrow pointing to a drive, not sure if that will save the file or what. Last time I checked it was an icon which looked like a sheet of paper with an arrow pointing down. Maybe that means to throw it all on the ground in hopelessness.
UI design is hard. We have an entire generation growing up now who have no idea what the save icon represents despite it being very intuitive to a 80s/90s kid. You only call it nitpicking because *you* understand. That doesn't mean it's completely counter-intuitive to someone who's never used software before, completely unlike the word "menu".
I suspect that every symbol replacing text is another item they don't need to translate for non-English markets.
And yet every such app normally is either well translated or has walls of untranslated english text.
That still doesn't excuse blending buttons into the rest of the content.
Flat design says nothing about blending the buttons with the content. Actually it's typically quite the opposite. What you're talking about is crap design, not flat design.
So the solution is to not have the events?
No the solution is to have event generated by the system that is responsible for performing the action. That is kind of the point.
You're asking to fix something that can't be properly fixed in the place that you want it fixed.