its not lead its the upbringing of people out of poverty
over the last 40 some years the poverty rate has fallen, lots of products are cheap now. 30 years ago if poor people were bored they would go rob or kill someone. They called it Wilding in NYC like when the central park jogger was raped and beaten. these days poor people have x-boxes and you just play call of duty to pass the time
poor people have so much stuff compared to 40-50 years ago there is almost no reason to rob and kill any more
i've bought nvidia cards since the 1990's TNT2 and they always pull this crap one time they announced a card and they hadn't taped out the GPU to TSMC yet
9 month wait for retail means the final product is not ready and they don't have a manufacturing deal set up yet. for all the hype of the Tegra 4, the LTE modem is not ready yet so don't expect phones for it until next year at the earliest. by then the apple A8 will be out
if you work in a sensitive area then expect high security if you work for a US GOVERNMENT agency around classified information then you're probably following these rules already if you work in a start up with cool tech you might expect something like this
if you work in your average workplace no one is going to care
geeks love to wait for crap and nvidia is the master of a paper launch
expect this to hit stores by august 31 to and in the mean time geeks will be creaming their shorts reading blog posts about how awesome this and watching unboxing videos made by the PR guys
samsung probably copied a few of apple's design patents, but you can't patent the concept of a touch screen device. apple never made touch screens and samsung had real touch screen phones in testing before the iphone was released. along with others.
the iphone's strength was that it had a real almost desktop class OS. LG Prada had the crappy Qualcomm Brew. If LG shipped an android phone in late 2006 then it would have been a totally different story. Android as an OS was close to ready in 2006 it just that the GUI was made for blackberry type phones
our SQL devs write the longest most headache inducing code and never listen to reason. and they use the most evil invention ever, temporary tables. when there is no reason to
amal whatever was nothing special. and then they spent all that money on a MMO when they are now free to play and a dime a dozen
should have looked at the mobile dev houses. these guys have much lower development and distribution costs. and with in app purchasing they are generating steady revenue for months or years after a game's release. unlike the consoles where you sell it the first week or two and then sales drop to almost nothing
because the knock offs are always slightly different
this guy runs a business called gotham garage and advertises his cars as bat 89 and so forth. and even says that he uses molds pulled from the original cars used in the production of the shows/movies.
you seem to not get the concept of patents. you can't patent an idea of a stylus but a specific implementation of it. in this case using a different type of stylus on a specific type of screen
yes we have had these before, but this one is different. just like we've had 100 years of the combustion engine but car makers still get patents every year because they find new ways to squeeze more efficiency out of them.
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just wait till the next earnings release in a week or two, Tim Cook will finally announce Chapter 11
just because they kicked some app back
yeah, but this is a BBC story so you should trust it at face value
We did that after the Cold War ended
We got a huge economic and technological boost as those people were freed up for the civilian economy
Most if the money is made by the top dev houses
Just like in the play store and in hardware sales
its not lead its the upbringing of people out of poverty
over the last 40 some years the poverty rate has fallen, lots of products are cheap now. 30 years ago if poor people were bored they would go rob or kill someone. They called it Wilding in NYC like when the central park jogger was raped and beaten. these days poor people have x-boxes and you just play call of duty to pass the time
poor people have so much stuff compared to 40-50 years ago there is almost no reason to rob and kill any more
$7.99 a month is expensive?
i've bought nvidia cards since the 1990's TNT2 and they always pull this crap
one time they announced a card and they hadn't taped out the GPU to TSMC yet
9 month wait for retail means the final product is not ready and they don't have a manufacturing deal set up yet. for all the hype of the Tegra 4, the LTE modem is not ready yet so don't expect phones for it until next year at the earliest. by then the apple A8 will be out
if you work in a sensitive area then expect high security
if you work for a US GOVERNMENT agency around classified information then you're probably following these rules already
if you work in a start up with cool tech you might expect something like this
if you work in your average workplace no one is going to care
geeks love to wait for crap and nvidia is the master of a paper launch
expect this to hit stores by august 31 to and in the mean time geeks will be creaming their shorts reading blog posts about how awesome this and watching unboxing videos made by the PR guys
WTF is the point of streaming the entire game rather than the cloud just taking care of the back end
nvidia is going down the toilet with apple and qualcomm killing their business so they had to make up this crazy idea to stay relevant
so who is responsible if the rocket crashes into someone's home?
so?
strike a deal with MS to use their OS on their own branded device which has pretty good penetration in the market
kindle books will work
most of the popular apps like facebook and netflix will work
have MS do the work of porting less popular games and apps
instant market share for MS
long ago i sold my used games on ebay. the price you get for them is not worth the time you spend listing it, packing it and sending it.
digital with no resale rights is a lot better and convenient and a lot of times cheaper than physical copy
more likely Amazon
they probably used the SDK to make their version of android. now they will most likely run to Microsoft which is worse for google
samsung probably copied a few of apple's design patents, but you can't patent the concept of a touch screen device. apple never made touch screens and samsung had real touch screen phones in testing before the iphone was released. along with others.
the iphone's strength was that it had a real almost desktop class OS. LG Prada had the crappy Qualcomm Brew. If LG shipped an android phone in late 2006 then it would have been a totally different story. Android as an OS was close to ready in 2006 it just that the GUI was made for blackberry type phones
love my iCrap but for the last few years it seemed like Apple was taking some code out of Android for iOS
our SQL devs write the longest most headache inducing code and never listen to reason. and they use the most evil invention ever, temporary tables. when there is no reason to
amal whatever was nothing special. and then they spent all that money on a MMO when they are now free to play and a dime a dozen
should have looked at the mobile dev houses. these guys have much lower development and distribution costs. and with in app purchasing they are generating steady revenue for months or years after a game's release. unlike the consoles where you sell it the first week or two and then sales drop to almost nothing
because the knock offs are always slightly different
this guy runs a business called gotham garage and advertises his cars as bat 89 and so forth. and even says that he uses molds pulled from the original cars used in the production of the shows/movies.
surprised it took this long to sue him
so? if it was apple or google they can have it reexamined and get rid of it easily
small businesses can't afford the legal bills
the reason is the end user won't fight it
the prior art is that the device in their patent had to exist before their patent. but the small business will pay up because its cheaper
In the old days you would send a fake purchase order for some low amount to finance and demand to get paid. This is just another scam like that
I guess people need to be outraged about something
really? check out the history of san francisco in the 1800's
they would entrap young men, drug them and put them on ships. then tell them to get to work or get dumped over board
this is for capacitive screens
you seem to not get the concept of patents. you can't patent an idea of a stylus but a specific implementation of it. in this case using a different type of stylus on a specific type of screen
yes we have had these before, but this one is different. just like we've had 100 years of the combustion engine but car makers still get patents every year because they find new ways to squeeze more efficiency out of them.
come on
this is Ubuntu. the company that follows trends years after everyone get their piece of the market
the company whose products no one cares about