Yes. This particular troll isn't the problem. The system that allows people to patent ideas, rather than inventions, is the problem. The notion, however, that taking advantage of a broken system to one's own advantage, even if it hurts everyone else, is blameless? That's crazy. Of course this troll is morally accountable for their actions. But to put it in question form:
Why do you believe you deserve any money in licensing fees at all, when you haven't apparently done any of the work required to produce a product?
The IRS decides that only groups with leftist names can be considered non-profits.
Except that isn't what happened. None of those groups were actually denied non-profit status. Meanwhile, when the Bush-era IRS did exactly the same thing to "leftist" groups, none of the current batch of tea bag imbeciles cared in the least. Sod 'em, they deserved the extra scrutiny. After all, they're all just astroturfers funded by the Koch brothers anyway.
while attempting to limit in any was possible U.S. citizen ownership and carrying of firearms.
Oh, I see my mistake. You're stupid. Whoops, never mind.
Guns SHOULD be outlawed. A sane person doesn't try to solve social problems with bullets, and has enough brain capacity to look at epidemiology studies and conclude that owning a gun makes you less safe, not more safe.
On the other hand, if you look around at your first-world neighborhood and conclude that guns make you free, you're a lunatic and are clearly too insane to be allowed to own a gun.
But that's fine. The mayor who wants to allow women to control their own reproduction and homosexuals to marry whomever they like wants to "control every aspect" of your life. Because you are so pathetic that the only part of your life that means anything is your ability to own a gun. And you also don't know what fascism is, but that's an argument for another day.
Indeed. The audio from my Touchpad with ICS is better than what comes out of my laptop speakers, and better than anything I've heard from another tablet of any description.
The debacle over the Touchpad / webOS was thanks to Apothekeer and the total failure to promote the damned things, or to push bugfixes out in a timely fashion. It didn't have to end that way.
iOS has existed since 2007. The iPad has been in existence for less than 3 years as a freestanding product. Don't fool yourself. However entrenched you think one operating system or manufacturer may be in this sector, all it takes is a little bit of rot and a solid kick to turn the entire thing onto its head.
Those friends of yours are in the minority. No one I know has more than 1 or 2 paid apps installed on their Android or iOS phones. Get the software and people will switch. I don't believe that the casual user has the least bit of brand loyalty to their mobile phone maker.
Is there a reason you're so angry at someone who's never done anything to harm you?
I don't know if you're a lawyer, and I don't know if you've ever dealt with clients who have been bullied into signing things. I am, and I have. Your fantasy version of the perfectly rational college student making calm and collected decisions when he's being threatened with prison, from people who are his authority figures and who he assumed were there to help protect him, is ludicrous.
This disclosure won't affect whether a court ultimately determines that the contract was signed under duress. And now that there is going to be some extremely hostile press against the company (I hope), such a lawsuit may never materialize. In which case breaking the agreement may have been the smart thing to do.
You can't protest against China, because China doesn't give a damn about you or anything you say. If you're going to lobby for policy changes, it helps to lobby something you have an actual chance of changing.
That is exceedingly sloppy thinking. Pollution is a problem of combined effects from multiple sources. Your claim that the USA, or Europe, or Japan reducing their respective pollution outputs "won't make a difference" isn't just an overstatement, it is false. EVERY bit makes a difference. The same logic you just used justifies every kind of petty offense in the world.
Collective problems require incremental solutions. Just because you cannot personally observe the effects of every increment doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
And you know this because you're an industry insider who's gotten a demo unit to play with? Oh wait, no you're not, you've never touched a BB10 device either and you're just talking out of your butt.
Have you actually used a Symbian device recently, or is this just a knee-jerk reaction? I have an E6-00 with the latest release of Belle on it, and I like it a lot. It's stable, the battery life is great, and it has a physical keyboard. It does everything I need a smartphone to do, which is why I thought we bought the things to begin with.
1. Refusing to change because people who area old don't like it will mean that we never accomplish anything. Get on the train or get off the tracks, grandpa. 2. No need to wait. 3. Hello circular reasoning, my old friend! 4. That's stupid. Incredibly stupid. There is nothing special about the USA. If it fails to take steps to better integrate itself into the global economy, it will simply be bypassed.
And speaking as someone who uses a Symbian Belle device every day, Nokia *finally* got it right. Immediately after they killed the thing and drove all possible developer interest into the dirt, the schmucks.
Interesting take on a country that just re-elected the most income-distributing president of all time. We know he didn't win on his economic record. He won on the same kind of class warfare talk that you're giving right now.
I'd ask you what possible justification you could have for these claims, but either you really believe this (in which case you're an imbecile) or you are being intentionally dishonest (in which case you are below notice). How did a post that starts off with this garbage get modded +5?
Did you read the study I linked? I don't know who this "we" is. Here in Europe, where we have more renewables and most countries have "smart" grids, EVs are a fine idea.
and then quickly recovers. Right, but not without destroying millions of dollars in value, and sometimes much more than even that. And the SEC getting involved isn't a 'problem,' this is precisely what a regulatory authority is supposed to do.
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Yes. This particular troll isn't the problem. The system that allows people to patent ideas, rather than inventions, is the problem. The notion, however, that taking advantage of a broken system to one's own advantage, even if it hurts everyone else, is blameless? That's crazy. Of course this troll is morally accountable for their actions. But to put it in question form:
Why do you believe you deserve any money in licensing fees at all, when you haven't apparently done any of the work required to produce a product?
Except that isn't what happened. None of those groups were actually denied non-profit status. Meanwhile, when the Bush-era IRS did exactly the same thing to "leftist" groups, none of the current batch of tea bag imbeciles cared in the least. Sod 'em, they deserved the extra scrutiny. After all, they're all just astroturfers funded by the Koch brothers anyway.
while attempting to limit in any was possible U.S. citizen ownership and carrying of firearms.
Oh, I see my mistake. You're stupid. Whoops, never mind.
Guns SHOULD be outlawed. A sane person doesn't try to solve social problems with bullets, and has enough brain capacity to look at epidemiology studies and conclude that owning a gun makes you less safe, not more safe.
On the other hand, if you look around at your first-world neighborhood and conclude that guns make you free, you're a lunatic and are clearly too insane to be allowed to own a gun.
But that's fine. The mayor who wants to allow women to control their own reproduction and homosexuals to marry whomever they like wants to "control every aspect" of your life. Because you are so pathetic that the only part of your life that means anything is your ability to own a gun. And you also don't know what fascism is, but that's an argument for another day.
Recursive project acronyms are SO 1996.
Indeed. The audio from my Touchpad with ICS is better than what comes out of my laptop speakers, and better than anything I've heard from another tablet of any description.
The debacle over the Touchpad / webOS was thanks to Apothekeer and the total failure to promote the damned things, or to push bugfixes out in a timely fashion. It didn't have to end that way.
iOS has existed since 2007. The iPad has been in existence for less than 3 years as a freestanding product. Don't fool yourself. However entrenched you think one operating system or manufacturer may be in this sector, all it takes is a little bit of rot and a solid kick to turn the entire thing onto its head.
Those friends of yours are in the minority. No one I know has more than 1 or 2 paid apps installed on their Android or iOS phones. Get the software and people will switch. I don't believe that the casual user has the least bit of brand loyalty to their mobile phone maker.
Is there a reason you're so angry at someone who's never done anything to harm you?
I don't know if you're a lawyer, and I don't know if you've ever dealt with clients who have been bullied into signing things. I am, and I have. Your fantasy version of the perfectly rational college student making calm and collected decisions when he's being threatened with prison, from people who are his authority figures and who he assumed were there to help protect him, is ludicrous.
This disclosure won't affect whether a court ultimately determines that the contract was signed under duress. And now that there is going to be some extremely hostile press against the company (I hope), such a lawsuit may never materialize. In which case breaking the agreement may have been the smart thing to do.
Reading that comment made all of us dumber.
You can't protest against China, because China doesn't give a damn about you or anything you say. If you're going to lobby for policy changes, it helps to lobby something you have an actual chance of changing.
That is exceedingly sloppy thinking. Pollution is a problem of combined effects from multiple sources. Your claim that the USA, or Europe, or Japan reducing their respective pollution outputs "won't make a difference" isn't just an overstatement, it is false. EVERY bit makes a difference. The same logic you just used justifies every kind of petty offense in the world.
Collective problems require incremental solutions. Just because you cannot personally observe the effects of every increment doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
I wonder, how sick do you have to be to believe that Al Gore has anything at all to do with global climate change?
And you know this because you're an industry insider who's gotten a demo unit to play with? Oh wait, no you're not, you've never touched a BB10 device either and you're just talking out of your butt.
Dude, the 5800 is a FOUR YEAR OLD phone. What are you talking about?
Have you actually used a Symbian device recently, or is this just a knee-jerk reaction? I have an E6-00 with the latest release of Belle on it, and I like it a lot. It's stable, the battery life is great, and it has a physical keyboard. It does everything I need a smartphone to do, which is why I thought we bought the things to begin with.
You can take that indentured servitude attitude back to Victorian England where it belongs.
1. Refusing to change because people who area old don't like it will mean that we never accomplish anything. Get on the train or get off the tracks, grandpa.
2. No need to wait.
3. Hello circular reasoning, my old friend!
4. That's stupid. Incredibly stupid. There is nothing special about the USA. If it fails to take steps to better integrate itself into the global economy, it will simply be bypassed.
And speaking as someone who uses a Symbian Belle device every day, Nokia *finally* got it right. Immediately after they killed the thing and drove all possible developer interest into the dirt, the schmucks.
Interesting take on a country that just re-elected the most income-distributing president of all time. We know he didn't win on his economic record. He won on the same kind of class warfare talk that you're giving right now.
I'd ask you what possible justification you could have for these claims, but either you really believe this (in which case you're an imbecile) or you are being intentionally dishonest (in which case you are below notice). How did a post that starts off with this garbage get modded +5?
Best overall in my book is Johnny Wander:
www.johnnywander.com
Why, you ask? Because of silly nonsense like this::
http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/437
Did you read the study I linked? I don't know who this "we" is. Here in Europe, where we have more renewables and most countries have "smart" grids, EVs are a fine idea.
Your blanket statement about EVs is not correct.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00532.x/full
Amen. My HP 48GX made the TI look like a toy.
Yeah, the usual sense of humor revolves around stuff like slapstick and wordplay. Sarcasm and satire aren't understood.
and then quickly recovers.
Right, but not without destroying millions of dollars in value, and sometimes much more than even that. And the SEC getting involved isn't a 'problem,' this is precisely what a regulatory authority is supposed to do.
Yup. 3 GHz quad-core POWER7, and every individual core in that architecture supports 4 threads. It's a beast of a CPU for a little game console.