the shape of a phone is trade dress if it is not done for functional reasons. What has apple done that they don't claim a functional reason for? Round corners have an obvious functional aspect: they're not pointy, so they don't poke you in the hands.
TFA at least mentions that "trade dress" has restrictions regarding functionality versus brand identity, but wikipedia is much more informative to my mind. But yeah, I'd love to see a place that collected this stuff. Wikilegal, anyone?:)
if/when I can swap out the fiesta's trunk for a suburban's trunk, maybe. But extra cubic feet are much harder to fit into the same form factor than drive platters or ram sticks.
Oh, there's a little bit. If the bigger (fed) can't regulate the smaller (state) in an industry that is pretty much inherently interstate in nature, then why can the bigger (state) regulate the smaller (city)?
If I understand it right, Greece is an example of a country which gave up its own currency (and with it the power to play certain tricks to nudge the economy) without having the productivity to make it work without those tricks. So they ran into trouble, and asked the controllers of the currency for help, which was refused except on terms that minimized the helpfulness (austerity measures make sense for balancing a budget but do very little to increase the flow of currency in the economy - and "flow of currency" is pretty much what an economy is, so...) Since Germany's the one with all the productivity, and hence a lot of the power over the Euro, they get blamed by the Greeks for the lack of helpfulness. Whether it's really warranted takes more knowledge than I have.
and hard to fix, because recertifying avionics is not fast. And if they do catch anyone scanning onboard systems, they don't have to consider "but I'm in this contest" as an excuse, they can just throw the book and be done with it.
There is that. I was assuming they were talking about fluctuating fields, like the ones around AC lines, antennas in use, and transformers, rather than the more constant field around a DC device, but you're right, read literally, it's BS.
well, from prior comments I assumed the factor that what he's pushing is something that's actually to their long term benefit, even if they don't realize it, which is usually a harder sell than short term gratification that most marketers get to work with. "Leader" also tends to relate more to shifting society's mindset more than just convincing some subset that product A is sexier than product B, which is more work, and it's frequently an unrewarding position, which means the leader has to actually buy in to the notion rather than just selling it to others.
It's a tradeoff. Encrypt the URLs and make it easy to tell when the manager password has been found without having to try the managed passwords, or leave the URLs expose and make it hard to tell when the password has been found. *shrug*
There's some speculation that addiction is a reaction to social situations - essentially, addicts become/stay addicts because they don't have anything better to do. Studies on mice with (I believe it was) heroin showed that mice with a better social setup (ability to connect with other mice) had both a lower addiction rate and a higher stop-being-addicted rate than mice kept in isolation. Let's see... ah, here's the article I saw about it. Very interesting stuff.
I think the usual theory is that good data will overwhelm bad data. The problem is that assumes that the people entering bad data are outnumbered by folks willing to put in the effort to put in good data. Essentially, that those who will add good data for fun outnumber those who will add bad data for fun. Unfortunately that is frequently not true.
TLDR: there are more assholes than hobbyist cartographers.
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the shape of a phone is trade dress if it is not done for functional reasons. What has apple done that they don't claim a functional reason for? Round corners have an obvious functional aspect: they're not pointy, so they don't poke you in the hands.
Which makes me think... pretty much all of Apple's design decisions have some functionality aspect, no? How do they get trade dress for anything?
TFA at least mentions that "trade dress" has restrictions regarding functionality versus brand identity, but wikipedia is much more informative to my mind. But yeah, I'd love to see a place that collected this stuff. Wikilegal, anyone? :)
as in so many things, the word "infinite" makes the question both solvable and irrelevant to reality
if/when I can swap out the fiesta's trunk for a suburban's trunk, maybe. But extra cubic feet are much harder to fit into the same form factor than drive platters or ram sticks.
Oh, there's a little bit. If the bigger (fed) can't regulate the smaller (state) in an industry that is pretty much inherently interstate in nature, then why can the bigger (state) regulate the smaller (city)?
If I understand it right, Greece is an example of a country which gave up its own currency (and with it the power to play certain tricks to nudge the economy) without having the productivity to make it work without those tricks. So they ran into trouble, and asked the controllers of the currency for help, which was refused except on terms that minimized the helpfulness (austerity measures make sense for balancing a budget but do very little to increase the flow of currency in the economy - and "flow of currency" is pretty much what an economy is, so...) Since Germany's the one with all the productivity, and hence a lot of the power over the Euro, they get blamed by the Greeks for the lack of helpfulness. Whether it's really warranted takes more knowledge than I have.
they don't have caffeine free diet lime coke.
I'm not sure he's the one who got whooshed :)
and hard to fix, because recertifying avionics is not fast. And if they do catch anyone scanning onboard systems, they don't have to consider "but I'm in this contest" as an excuse, they can just throw the book and be done with it.
There is that. I was assuming they were talking about fluctuating fields, like the ones around AC lines, antennas in use, and transformers, rather than the more constant field around a DC device, but you're right, read literally, it's BS.
That's not stupidity, it's a marketing reaction to stupidity.
well, from prior comments I assumed the factor that what he's pushing is something that's actually to their long term benefit, even if they don't realize it, which is usually a harder sell than short term gratification that most marketers get to work with. "Leader" also tends to relate more to shifting society's mindset more than just convincing some subset that product A is sexier than product B, which is more work, and it's frequently an unrewarding position, which means the leader has to actually buy in to the notion rather than just selling it to others.
More like 100 billion m^3, but essentially all of earth's water has been drunk and peed by dinosaurs.
That's beyond good leader and into really great leader, and those are unfortunately rare.
gonna have to move to distillation at some point, I guess.
It's a tradeoff. Encrypt the URLs and make it easy to tell when the manager password has been found without having to try the managed passwords, or leave the URLs expose and make it hard to tell when the password has been found. *shrug*
but it's been through so many kidneys it _has_ to be pure!
When did Netflix start sending DRM-free video? (Except maybe their original serieses.)
There's some speculation that addiction is a reaction to social situations - essentially, addicts become/stay addicts because they don't have anything better to do. Studies on mice with (I believe it was) heroin showed that mice with a better social setup (ability to connect with other mice) had both a lower addiction rate and a higher stop-being-addicted rate than mice kept in isolation. Let's see... ah, here's the article I saw about it. Very interesting stuff.
Ah, I misunderstood your point of view. I agree with your ire at the over/misuse of that phrase.
I think the usual theory is that good data will overwhelm bad data. The problem is that assumes that the people entering bad data are outnumbered by folks willing to put in the effort to put in good data. Essentially, that those who will add good data for fun outnumber those who will add bad data for fun. Unfortunately that is frequently not true.
TLDR: there are more assholes than hobbyist cartographers.
once you control for percentage of time on the road, sure. What are the figures for accidents per vehicle-mile?
they also have a less flashy one
it's not tesla, but it's an electric motorcycle...