And how many laptops use it? At my company, every time I get a new laptop (2 years on average), I get a new freaking power adapter that doesn't connect to the old one. Lenovo, if you're curious.
Name one one fucked up port? Are you saying the Thunderbolt port that Intel created is a fucked up port? And the fact that Thunderbolt cables require a chip in them (that Intel made necessary) is now Apple's fault?
Isn't the budget previously approved? If the head of IT ran his dept within the approved budget, whether it was 0.5X or 10X industry norm, does it really matter?
Senior management *APPROVED* the budget and he stuck to it, end of story.
In this case, he was caught pissing in the very pond he lives in. The other residents of the pond hate that. You can pee over anyone else, just not in your own pond.
If they understand the concept of guards at the gate checking people and calling in to make sure visitors were expected, they understand the concept of firewalls.
It doesn't matter if these guys do not have any idea what good IT practices are. If it's multimillion dollars, this is a corporate function. All they have to do is call this number, and say "open sesame". And when done, say "close sesame".
How quickly people forget what smartphones were like before the iPhone. Blackberry's CEO was quoted as saying he didn't believe the iPhone was real because what he saw couldn't really be done.
Android v1 and v2 sucked rats ass, and it wasn't until ICSW where it was decent. And yet fandroids everywhere always conveniently forgets that.
Are you still going on about that? Samsung would really love for you and everyone else to believe the case is about rounded corners, but, do try to base your criticisms on reality. Read the actual lawsuits, and what the jury and judge actually wrote in their decisions rather than Samsung talking points, ok?
You are either claiming the site forged those pictures, if so, just show evidence, since Samsung's so popular, pictures of undoctored Galaxy Android phones must be easy to find.
Or for whatever reason, you simply cannot believe they are true, in which case, collect your fandroid pass on your way out.
When your starting point of negotiation is a magnitude of 2000 points away from reality, what sort of negotiations are you really having? Wait, wait, you must be one of those republican negotiators!
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And how many laptops use it? At my company, every time I get a new laptop (2 years on average), I get a new freaking power adapter that doesn't connect to the old one. Lenovo, if you're curious.
And after market Apple power adapters are expensive?
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/macbook-power-cord
Name one one fucked up port? Are you saying the Thunderbolt port that Intel created is a fucked up port? And the fact that Thunderbolt cables require a chip in them (that Intel made necessary) is now Apple's fault?
Seriously? You've been smoking too strange stuff.
Thunderbolt is proprietary the same way USB is proprietary - both are owned by Intel.
Slavery means you can indiscriminately kill them? I didn't know that.
For abuse and to get them to do things regular employees would quit over, of course.
And, of course, free "add-on" services, right? Right?!
If the companies aren't getting any use out of interns, would they take on interns? Most wouldn't.
So your argument is flat out wrong.
You do see the 4 sticks of ram, right? Seriously?
Isn't the budget previously approved? If the head of IT ran his dept within the approved budget, whether it was 0.5X or 10X industry norm, does it really matter?
Senior management *APPROVED* the budget and he stuck to it, end of story.
In this case, he was caught pissing in the very pond he lives in. The other residents of the pond hate that. You can pee over anyone else, just not in your own pond.
PR release via arstechnica? So now arstechnica should burn in hell too?
Wait, am I even reading the same article you are?
If they understand the concept of guards at the gate checking people and calling in to make sure visitors were expected, they understand the concept of firewalls.
It doesn't matter if these guys do not have any idea what good IT practices are. If it's multimillion dollars, this is a corporate function. All they have to do is call this number, and say "open sesame". And when done, say "close sesame".
The corporate IT firewall guys can do the magic.
You have never heard of change management?
When access is needed, and authorized/approved, the firewall team opens it.
When the work is done, the firewall team removes the permission.
Is that really a difficult concept?
All Internet connections must cross a Firewall. Disable inbound connections, done.
Seriously, this is a question?
Do you actually think it is right for one company to copy another company's product so much that their own attorneys couldn't tell the difference?
Or, is your alterego GenericMan?
Seeing that I have the original Palm Pilot, the Newton, the HP Ipaq, I wouldn't call myself ignorant of the category.
On the other hand, I see people like you protesting all the time, and I'm curious if you do know the product category.
And you jumped in multiple times to tell us how much you don't care.
Aren't you protesting a little too much...?
How quickly people forget what smartphones were like before the iPhone. Blackberry's CEO was quoted as saying he didn't believe the iPhone was real because what he saw couldn't really be done.
Android v1 and v2 sucked rats ass, and it wasn't until ICSW where it was decent. And yet fandroids everywhere always conveniently forgets that.
Are you still going on about that? Samsung would really love for you and everyone else to believe the case is about rounded corners, but, do try to base your criticisms on reality. Read the actual lawsuits, and what the jury and judge actually wrote in their decisions rather than Samsung talking points, ok?
You are either claiming the site forged those pictures, if so, just show evidence, since Samsung's so popular, pictures of undoctored Galaxy Android phones must be easy to find.
Or for whatever reason, you simply cannot believe they are true, in which case, collect your fandroid pass on your way out.
You did not see the S1 and S2 packagings and shape and look of the phones as well as icons and so on?
You might just want to do a simple google search. Plenty of things like the following exist:
http://samsungcopiesapple.tumblr.com/
When your starting point of negotiation is a magnitude of 2000 points away from reality, what sort of negotiations are you really having? Wait, wait, you must be one of those republican negotiators!
Does it have to be identical? Designing and building the parts give you knowledge on how your competitor's phone work.
Additionally, did you not see the 250 pages of competitive design notes that Samsung created, *FROM THE TEAM THAT MADE PARTS FOR THE IPHONE*?
So... your claim is that selling below cost is a good thing?
Care to comment on all the RAM dumping charges that were rampant during the 1990s? Or any of the current anti-dumping laws out there?
How the hell did you go from "new" to "all"?
You do realize that Amazon routinely buys newly released books at $12.99 wholesale and sells them for $9.99 wholesale?