2. This isn't some arbitrary decision by Apple (unlike some other cases), this is because another company owns the trademark to "memory" in the context of games and is threatening to sue Apple if they don't comply with the order to have the apps' names changed.
Which doesn't change the fact that this could happen so easily only because the other company only had to squeeze one throat to get a shutdown for *all* apps.
Parts of the Windows 3.1 infrastructure may have been 16-bit, but it ran 32-bit apps. To find a version of Windows that did not support 32-bit apps, you have to go back to 286-mode Windows, as I said.
Meanwhile, MS is showing that they've learned the lesson that a touch device must have an interface built for a touch device by insisting that *desktops* must have an interface built for a touch device. The more things change...
No, we invented SSDs to alleviate that. Even an SSD is much, much slower than the CPU. Hell, your *RAM* is much slower than the CPU; that's why CPUs have memory caches. Even with SSDs, there's a lot of load profiles where the CPU is not the bottleneck. A slower CPU that's cheaper, uses less power and generates less heat looks good to anybody with that kind of load profile.
"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from the highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they make more comfortable neighbors than the first sort."
I'm not saying that you should keep the value of the $5 mill intact right up to your death, but you should be aware of what inflation is doing to it and try to make sure you don't come up short at the end.
You're eating into your principle doing that. Because there's a little thing called in-fla-tion. At 2% inflation, that 100k a year at the end of 50 years is worth only what about 37k a year is worth now. Not quite so much any more. And that's a very conservative estimate of inflation.
If I was the judge, I'd be very tempted to make it something like this:
"£500,000 for contempt of court. Your next layout will need to be submitted to this court for approval, and will be subject to another £500,000 fine if the court does not find it acceptable. This will continue until you submit an apology that this court does find acceptable."
Will be down in the basement, in the dark, with no stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
"Go away"? Who said he'd ever go away? Well, maybe he did, but, you know, people who extort often also lie. Shocking, I know. Next time he feels the need for a few hundred dollars (or maybe a little more...), he knows where to go.
He decided he didn't want to be part of an expanding market if he had to share it (and, granted, Android isn't doing that great for people not in the front rank). So now he's in a dying market. And he has to share it.
Also, I never said the SpecFor dudes taught the natives cavalry tactics. It was, indeed, more the other way around. The US troops just pointed them in the right direction.
And yet the last cavelry [sic] charge occurred 80 years later!
No. Cavalry charges were used, often successfully, in WWII. They've also been used, with success, by US Special Forces leading native troops in Afghanistan.
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...I'm holding out for the Shaman planet.
Which doesn't change the fact that this could happen so easily only because the other company only had to squeeze one throat to get a shutdown for *all* apps.
Parts of the Windows 3.1 infrastructure may have been 16-bit, but it ran 32-bit apps. To find a version of Windows that did not support 32-bit apps, you have to go back to 286-mode Windows, as I said.
No, it can't. I don't think you realize how archaic 16-bit mode is. 16-bit mode was for running on *286* Windows. If you had a 386 you ran in 32 bits.
Meanwhile, MS is showing that they've learned the lesson that a touch device must have an interface built for a touch device by insisting that *desktops* must have an interface built for a touch device. The more things change...
Little do you know that the Cisco VP has spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.
No, we invented SSDs to alleviate that. Even an SSD is much, much slower than the CPU. Hell, your *RAM* is much slower than the CPU; that's why CPUs have memory caches. Even with SSDs, there's a lot of load profiles where the CPU is not the bottleneck. A slower CPU that's cheaper, uses less power and generates less heat looks good to anybody with that kind of load profile.
...but my mobile phone browser has a URL bar. I use it, too.
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"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from the highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they make more comfortable neighbors than the first sort."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Until the medical bills hit.
I'm not saying that you should keep the value of the $5 mill intact right up to your death, but you should be aware of what inflation is doing to it and try to make sure you don't come up short at the end.
You're eating into your principle doing that. Because there's a little thing called in-fla-tion. At 2% inflation, that 100k a year at the end of 50 years is worth only what about 37k a year is worth now. Not quite so much any more. And that's a very conservative estimate of inflation.
A wrench should be good enough. After all, he's got the element of surprise.
In fact, he does not. Five sons, no daughters.
If I was the judge, I'd be very tempted to make it something like this:
"£500,000 for contempt of court. Your next layout will need to be submitted to this court for approval, and will be subject to another £500,000 fine if the court does not find it acceptable. This will continue until you submit an apology that this court does find acceptable."
Will be down in the basement, in the dark, with no stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
My god, you're right.
We must immediately set half the unemployed to digging ditches while the other half fill them up again. It'll save the economy! You're brilliant!
"Go away"? Who said he'd ever go away? Well, maybe he did, but, you know, people who extort often also lie. Shocking, I know. Next time he feels the need for a few hundred dollars (or maybe a little more...), he knows where to go.
That's one IP, only tens of thousands more to go!
*Distributed* Denial of Service, remember?
He decided he didn't want to be part of an expanding market if he had to share it (and, granted, Android isn't doing that great for people not in the front rank). So now he's in a dying market. And he has to share it.
Here's an account from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/us/afghanistan-horse-soldiers-memorial/index.html
Also, I never said the SpecFor dudes taught the natives cavalry tactics. It was, indeed, more the other way around. The US troops just pointed them in the right direction.
An army full of rifleman still can't shoot at every passing bird and has no way of knowing which bird is a carrier pigeon.
No. Cavalry charges were used, often successfully, in WWII. They've also been used, with success, by US Special Forces leading native troops in Afghanistan.
Plain text is still encoded. Your decoding training was called "learning to read."