The patent holder clearly has no interest in doing this themselves
Whether they manage to get the capital together to do this themselves is irrelevant, they hold the patent, google is trying to screw them. Google can take the long walk!
Zigackly, back in the day every fvcking cellphone company had it's own charger - and some were not even compatible with another phone from the same company!
I remember the "Have you got a xyz charger" hunt around the office when your phone is about to die.
Then the EU came out with a law stating they should ALL have the SAME charging requirements, which is why they all settled on the USB connector. Fair enough there are different size USB ports, but that is rarely an issue. So with the new law it was pointless for companies to make a phone specifically for the EU market, so the rest of the world benefited from that law as well. I hope they pass this one as well. It's not just a matter of cost (for the consumer or the company) the more shit we repair means less shit in landfills, and for all you people who recycle (I do) I suggest taking a tour of the recycler you are using, I was blown away by how much I was cleaning and sending for recycling and then when it gets there it gets tossed into the landfill anyway, because it's not worth recycling.
He's clearly American - the idea that politicians actually try to do some good is completely foreign to Americans. In America all the politicians are owned by big corporations, and big corporations only care about making more profit.
My brother was working on the road trains in the outbacks (he had just immigrated) and the first kangaroo he saw the truck ran over it.
Didn't even stop, the trucks have these huge bull bars on them, they are designed to hit kangaroo's and keep going.
If you don't know what a road train is (I didn't) Road Trains
There's breakage, pilferage, accidental checkout of 2 items stuck together
I believe in the retail industry they call pilferage or stealing "shrinkage" fuck knows why, but that's entirely besides the point.
It may not be 100% accurate, but then it does not have to be, or is the robot going to take every can / item off a shelf and count each one?
You don't restock a shelf when it's empty, you restock a shelf when it's nearly empty - which should make up for any slight counting issues at the POS (or shrinkage). Also the packer can do an on shelf count and correct the total count - which would also be done during a stock take. Just seems a way cheaper option than building a robot to do something that is basically already being done, it's just not being utilized.
Sometimes it's easier said than done. If the software package your company relies on will only run on windows then you are a bit stuck. Sure you can look for an alternative (and probably free) version of it for linux, but what if there isn't one? What do you do then?
I do agree about the backups though, regardless what platform you are on, back your shit up.
Where I am you can get a total of 225 movies on Amazon (at launch, fuck knows what it is now) what made it even more annoying is that it would list ALL of the movies, and only when you clicked on a movie it would pop and say it was no available in your area. It's like trying to play whack the mole to get something you could watch. Very bloody annoying and time consuming. I remember wanting to watch a series which was "not available in your geographical area" and thought, "fuck it, torrent the damn thing". This is a prime (pun intended) example of someone wanting and willing to pay for something, but then being forced to pirate it because of geoblocking. Suffice to say I canned the subscription, wake me when you stop all the geoblocking crap.
Why can't they just use their POS system, surely they can keep track of how much stock is still on the shelves by determining how many have walked out the door. Why have robots do that at all? Seems a waste of effort to me. If their POS cannot differentiate from stock on shelves and stock in the back room then they need to get a better POS system. Once an item gets low on the shelves the shelf packer / stacker (or whatever they are called) is alerted and goes to the back room, checks out a new box of XYZ which gets recorded in the POS and the items added to the "Shelf" inventory.
I used to work for an online betting company (it's legal where I am) and the sad fact was when the Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 their betting volume WENT UP. It's actually sad really, people who were having financial difficulties before the collapse decided to use what little money they had left to put on more bets??? They clearly suck at math. Part of our job was to pull stats and reports etc. and only a handful of people in their active user list actually came out ahead.
And increase the cost of getting the testing done, and therefore increase the cost of the product. Our washing machine started giving us issues, and since we reuse the gray water coming out of it (watering plants, but mostly for flushing the toilet) so we had a pretty good idea of how much water it used. So with the machine giving us issues we were in the market for a new washing machine. Shopped around and bought an expensive Bosch washing machine with awesome ratings for energy and water usage. Turns out it uses MORE water than the old standard one. Not sure about the energy claims because that is one thing we have not been keeping track of.
Or everyone who wanted one has one, or two, or whatever. It's not like they wear out easily or get lost easily. Unlike memory sticks, which I don't bother buying anymore because I just end up losing them.
Hundreds of projects, startups, and companies at every scale -- including the likes of Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung -- are building software using Ethereum.
Or just get a knock off Chinese phone, the only problem with those is that what you get on the phone will be all you get on the phone. No updates. You will have to manage that yourself.
And how much more would it cost to register a domain? All that paper work and vetting is going to seriously increase the price of registering a domain. Heard of net neutrality? Same thing applies here. You raise the bar for something as simple as registering a domain and you start cutting out the smaller players, and then only the big boys can play, and we all know what happens then.
Not if it's done by a someone who is stupid enough to print it out on their printer, and then forward it almost straight away to a news agency.
If you are a bit more careful, well then things get a lot more difficult to trace.
Heh, you joke, but we had a server in our server room no one was using any more, it was under powered (ie. old) we had all gotten our stuff off of it and thought we might as well shut it down. So we did. Got a call a couple days later from across the country, "WTF happened to our XYZ?". So we switched it on again. No one knew wtf they were doing on/with the server, and our manager didn't even try to find out, he just said "Well leave it on then". It's probably still sitting there quietly doing whatever the fuck it was doing before.
We (humans) like to fight, if we are not fighting over oil / water / land etc. we will fight over whether the playstation is better than the xbox - it's the way we are wired.
WTF are you talking about? With or without AMP you are going to get that shit, stop going to the fucking sites if it bugs you. It's like going to a porn site and then complaining about all the porn.
No dip shit, if I ever bothered writing another virus (last wrote one in school) I would not bother targeting the 10% of the PC's running linux, there would be no profit in it. I would write it for the most common denominator, Windows. Linux has also had it's fair share of "oh fucks", wasn't there a huge SSH flaw just a while back? I would look it up but I don't really give a shit. Linux is still not user friendly enough to "replace all the windows pc's in a company". If you did that productivity would drop a LOT, and then when someone hits a snag with xyz you are going to have to call the local linux support contractors and considering what they charge you will very shortly be a very unhappy company. Wasn't there some municipality in europe that switched to linux and after a year they switched back to windows because they were having so many issues. Not with linux per se, but with usability. That's the problem with technical people, to them it's easy, and they can't seem to comprehend that MOST people are NOT technical. At least not enough to figure out linux, hell sometimes they can't fucken figure out windows.
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Whether they manage to get the capital together to do this themselves is irrelevant, they hold the patent, google is trying to screw them. Google can take the long walk!
Thanks for the info and link, did not know about this.
Will definitely be reading more about it at home.
Zigackly, back in the day every fvcking cellphone company had it's own charger - and some were not even compatible with another phone from the same company!
I remember the "Have you got a xyz charger" hunt around the office when your phone is about to die.
Then the EU came out with a law stating they should ALL have the SAME charging requirements, which is why they all settled on the USB connector. Fair enough there are different size USB ports, but that is rarely an issue. So with the new law it was pointless for companies to make a phone specifically for the EU market, so the rest of the world benefited from that law as well. I hope they pass this one as well. It's not just a matter of cost (for the consumer or the company) the more shit we repair means less shit in landfills, and for all you people who recycle (I do) I suggest taking a tour of the recycler you are using, I was blown away by how much I was cleaning and sending for recycling and then when it gets there it gets tossed into the landfill anyway, because it's not worth recycling.
Lightning - and it doesn't have to hit a power line either, induction can cause all the damage even if the lightning hits a tree.
Spike in the power supply Brown outs, where the power supply is not at the correct frequency, happens more than you think (at least here)
Dust, seriously, I know a lot of power supplies that have gamely tried to cool things down with a gummed up fan, so they eventually overheat.
Time expired - usually caused by the capacitors getting too old and leaking, can be easy to repair.
He's clearly American - the idea that politicians actually try to do some good is completely foreign to Americans. In America all the politicians are owned by big corporations, and big corporations only care about making more profit.
My brother was working on the road trains in the outbacks (he had just immigrated) and the first kangaroo he saw the truck ran over it.
Didn't even stop, the trucks have these huge bull bars on them, they are designed to hit kangaroo's and keep going.
If you don't know what a road train is (I didn't) Road Trains
I believe in the retail industry they call pilferage or stealing "shrinkage" fuck knows why, but that's entirely besides the point.
It may not be 100% accurate, but then it does not have to be, or is the robot going to take every can / item off a shelf and count each one? You don't restock a shelf when it's empty, you restock a shelf when it's nearly empty - which should make up for any slight counting issues at the POS (or shrinkage). Also the packer can do an on shelf count and correct the total count - which would also be done during a stock take. Just seems a way cheaper option than building a robot to do something that is basically already being done, it's just not being utilized.
Sometimes it's easier said than done. If the software package your company relies on will only run on windows then you are a bit stuck. Sure you can look for an alternative (and probably free) version of it for linux, but what if there isn't one? What do you do then?
I do agree about the backups though, regardless what platform you are on, back your shit up.
Where I am you can get a total of 225 movies on Amazon (at launch, fuck knows what it is now) what made it even more annoying is that it would list ALL of the movies, and only when you clicked on a movie it would pop and say it was no available in your area. It's like trying to play whack the mole to get something you could watch. Very bloody annoying and time consuming. I remember wanting to watch a series which was "not available in your geographical area" and thought, "fuck it, torrent the damn thing". This is a prime (pun intended) example of someone wanting and willing to pay for something, but then being forced to pirate it because of geoblocking. Suffice to say I canned the subscription, wake me when you stop all the geoblocking crap.
Only if the axe were wielded by a script kiddie.
You hacker you!
Why can't they just use their POS system, surely they can keep track of how much stock is still on the shelves by determining how many have walked out the door. Why have robots do that at all? Seems a waste of effort to me. If their POS cannot differentiate from stock on shelves and stock in the back room then they need to get a better POS system. Once an item gets low on the shelves the shelf packer / stacker (or whatever they are called) is alerted and goes to the back room, checks out a new box of XYZ which gets recorded in the POS and the items added to the "Shelf" inventory.
I used to work for an online betting company (it's legal where I am) and the sad fact was when the Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 their betting volume WENT UP. It's actually sad really, people who were having financial difficulties before the collapse decided to use what little money they had left to put on more bets??? They clearly suck at math. Part of our job was to pull stats and reports etc. and only a handful of people in their active user list actually came out ahead.
And increase the cost of getting the testing done, and therefore increase the cost of the product. Our washing machine started giving us issues, and since we reuse the gray water coming out of it (watering plants, but mostly for flushing the toilet) so we had a pretty good idea of how much water it used. So with the machine giving us issues we were in the market for a new washing machine. Shopped around and bought an expensive Bosch washing machine with awesome ratings for energy and water usage. Turns out it uses MORE water than the old standard one. Not sure about the energy claims because that is one thing we have not been keeping track of.
Or everyone who wanted one has one, or two, or whatever. It's not like they wear out easily or get lost easily. Unlike memory sticks, which I don't bother buying anymore because I just end up losing them.
Citation needed
Or just get a knock off Chinese phone, the only problem with those is that what you get on the phone will be all you get on the phone. No updates. You will have to manage that yourself.
And how much more would it cost to register a domain? All that paper work and vetting is going to seriously increase the price of registering a domain. Heard of net neutrality? Same thing applies here. You raise the bar for something as simple as registering a domain and you start cutting out the smaller players, and then only the big boys can play, and we all know what happens then.
Not if it's done by a someone who is stupid enough to print it out on their printer, and then forward it almost straight away to a news agency.
If you are a bit more careful, well then things get a lot more difficult to trace.
Heh, you joke, but we had a server in our server room no one was using any more, it was under powered (ie. old) we had all gotten our stuff off of it and thought we might as well shut it down. So we did. Got a call a couple days later from across the country, "WTF happened to our XYZ?". So we switched it on again. No one knew wtf they were doing on/with the server, and our manager didn't even try to find out, he just said "Well leave it on then". It's probably still sitting there quietly doing whatever the fuck it was doing before.
EA would have been a LOT worse.
Too late, I stopped even trying to listen to voice messages ages ago. All my friends and family know not to bother.
We (humans) like to fight, if we are not fighting over oil / water / land etc. we will fight over whether the playstation is better than the xbox - it's the way we are wired.
WTF are you talking about? With or without AMP you are going to get that shit, stop going to the fucking sites if it bugs you. It's like going to a porn site and then complaining about all the porn.
No dip shit, if I ever bothered writing another virus (last wrote one in school) I would not bother targeting the 10% of the PC's running linux, there would be no profit in it. I would write it for the most common denominator, Windows. Linux has also had it's fair share of "oh fucks", wasn't there a huge SSH flaw just a while back? I would look it up but I don't really give a shit. Linux is still not user friendly enough to "replace all the windows pc's in a company". If you did that productivity would drop a LOT, and then when someone hits a snag with xyz you are going to have to call the local linux support contractors and considering what they charge you will very shortly be a very unhappy company. Wasn't there some municipality in europe that switched to linux and after a year they switched back to windows because they were having so many issues. Not with linux per se, but with usability. That's the problem with technical people, to them it's easy, and they can't seem to comprehend that MOST people are NOT technical. At least not enough to figure out linux, hell sometimes they can't fucken figure out windows.