The Who described this method in 1971, in the song "Goin' mobile", although this patent filing may have a fancier description of getting the police and tax man to miss you.
You not only need the patent, but also the ability to fund the legal campaign, which can go on for years as the different phases of the case happen, plus time for appeals, motions to extend, etc. It's not like you show up at court with your patent and walk out the same day with a suitcase filled with cash.
I'm more commenting on the headline containing the words "Faces Huge Damages". The damages are nowhere near huge for Apple, with ~$200B in cash and a ~$650B market cap.
If the headline was "Apple Faces Damages" or "Apple Owes Potential $825M in Damages", or something along those lines, there would be no complaints.
Perhaps eliminating profanity and insults on mailing lists and in submission reviews would be a good place to start?
Answer emails seven days a week filled with personal insults and profanity vs. a coding gig that with great pay, professional environment and a sane work week.
It's entirely possible to have code review with no profanity and insults, and have good code come out of it. Keep the review about the code and how it can be improved, and help each other out, since tomorrow it's going to be their code on review and they will know they will mess things up, too.
Exactly. I gave up on the stupid contracts years ago, when pay as you go phones were only marketed to criminals and old people. Buying a cheap GoPhone and plugging the SIM into an iPhone I picked up cheap worked just fine, all you had to do was change the APN, that took two seconds. When AT&T finally figured out what was going on circa 2013 and jacked up the rate for pay as you go, I happily jumped ship to Ting. Sure, I had to pay for the phone, but at this point I've saved quite literally thousands of dollars versus having a contract. On really heavy data months I might spend $31 total for my phone bill, but then again I never got "hooked" on the all you can eat data plan, either -- generally any "all you can *" anything is still making a tidy profit for whoever sells it, be it a buffet or cell phone company.
My wife migrated off Sprint when she looked at how much "unlimited" data she was using and realized that she could move to T-Mobile and we could save $40/month. She also realized that there was some real low-hanging fruit she could trim from her phone use habits that would drop her use even further, like bothering to look for free wifi at many of the places she goes that have it.
I had a Dell notebook in college, running a Windows 3.1 and a speed demon 25 MHz processor. The thing lasted 5+ years, and the thing that finally died was the battery. It had a black and white screen and pretty decent battery life.
My wife has an Inspiron something or other that's been chugging along for 4+ years. I need to transplant a SSD into it, but otherwise the quality is perfectly fine. But it was bought from their "business" site, which means no bloatware to remove and (IMHO) it's much better designed as something you would deploy to a lot of people. They put things like RAM and hard drive behind an easily accessible panel so they can be swapped with a few screws. I've seen worse.
Their low end desktop machines seem to command something of an aftermarket following if you are looking to get a pile of identical hardware in the $200 range to fill up a basic computer lab or set someone up with a basic PC that does web browsing and email.
Seriously, though, what a unholy mess that would be. EMC grew by acquiring a lot of other companies, then spinning them off, and not really doing a fantastic job of integrating anything, then laying off tens of thousands only to hire again. Dell has it's own history of being huge, then being private, now seemingly on the roll again. It would be a fitting end for the the execs at EMC that acquired and fired to get acquired and fired themselves, although the big difference will be that they will get some giant golden parachute.
We are a TiVo house who cut the cable cord years ago. We are currently running a Series 3 and a Premier, both with lifetime service. Both models happily record programming from the antenna, so we get the programming you can't get from streaming there, particularly NFL football from our local team (all local games MUST be televised in the local area, per FCC regs -- so I can watch all games), plus the dramas my wife enjoys and a bunch of PBS stuff. Not everything makes it onto a streaming site, and I've had season passes that turned into one passes that I set up years ago that still work fine.
Both TiVos also connect to Netflix, so I don't need a separate box for that. I use an XBox to get Amazon Prime, although IIRC they added that to Premier.
If the Bolt gets a HBO Now client, I could do streaming and OTA recording with one box and one interface, organized in one place. The OnePass thing is really nice, it can find what you want on broadcast or many of the subscription services (or not... you can just tell it to get stuff off broadcast or off streaming)
TiVos are also ridiculously easy to repair. If you can replace a hard drive or power supply in a desktop PC, you can keep a TiVo alive a really long time. My Series 3 HD was activated in 2000 and is still working just fine, recording HD content from an antenna with no complaints. It just keeps working.
My kids are 7 and 10 now. We have tried video calls with them over the years, as well as trying to use video conferencing with the grandparents.
It was a shit show every time. Besides the inevitable delays, jumps, crappy audio, etc, the kid was just more fascinated with seeing themselves on the video and then trying to out-compete the sibling for attention, then we had to shush them, then they got mad, would hit the other one, then the devolved into a giant mess. Then the video would get broken up and we'd just revert to using the phone because the audio had dropped out again.
My suggestion would be to have the responsible adult on the other end living with the kids record something, then email it to you, put it in Dropbox, etc. Expecting a three or five year old to do this is asking too much, even with the best UI imaginable. My ten year old could certainly handle something like this, the seven year old would be iffy at best. But if their mother was holding the phone it would definitely be OK.
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Oh, unless they do things that we don't like. Then we ban them.
There are comparably priced SUVs and sedans that use internal combustion engines that Telsa competes with from Mercedes, Lexus, BMW and Audi. Are you railing against the manufacturers selling those vehicles, too? Someone likes what they are selling because they buy them at those prices.
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Tesla has never made a secret that their approach was to sell the high margin luxury vehicles first, where the margins are. The next model they introduce is going to be priced at $35K, which is solidly in the 4-door family sedan price range (Accord, Camry) and the low end of small upscale sedan territory (3-series).
Just like kids and puppies, it's cute when they are small, then develops into an annoyance you put up with for decades.
It's also painfully annoying when you have a version of something (e.g. 7.0), then another version contained in the driver file (340.xx), and still another version reported in a OS-unique manner (e.g. A.B.C.D on Windows). Yes, I'm looking at you, nVidia.
Similar case for themed server names versus role-based, owner-based, rack-location-based, physical-location-based -- anything that allows a rational human being to determine something useful about the server in question versus some confused mnemonic about how Gandalf is the mail server, Frodo is the DNS and Bilbo is the VPN gateway.
So a report showed that US spec cars don't do well under a different testing regimen. OK, fine. That's data, and likely highly repeatable since I assume that there are likely a series of standard procedures and testing regimens that are used to set the standards. Ostensibly, these map to real-world scenarios like frontal collision, side collision, rear ending, etc. The automakers design appropriately to these standards. So If the testing regimen for the US is different, you will get different (likely poor) results. The fact that models like the Golf or Focus need different engineering for different markets suggests that automakers already did this, and figured out it was cheaper to spend the money to have two different models for the markets rather than try and engineer one model that would pass both standards. That would likely be expensive and add weight, compromising fuel economy and not adding much customer value -- customers would likely care a lot more that their safety standards were met. Questions could follow:
If a European spec car was tested under the US testing regimen, how do they fare?
Were un-altered US spec cards sold in Europe as meeting European safety standards?
What are the actual numerical differences in the results? How far off are the standards? Is a US made car 10% worse, 20% worse, 100% worse?
How do the test results correlate with real-world crash results?
But you know, the above questions are actual things an engineer might ask if given the task of "making the US and Euro standards uniform" as a project. Unfortunately, it's the lawyers and politicians who are writing these laws.
There is no way that 3d printing will hold a candle to "mainstream manufacturing". Many manufactured parts are made very quickly, and at scale. If you take common plastic molded part, they are likely to be running cycle times of under a minute and have multiple parts coming out of the mold simultaneously. Sure, the mold and the injection molding machine aren't cheap, but they can pound out a lot of copies of your plastic part for a long time and get the unit cost down really low. You will also get better surface finish and appearance than a 3d printed part, as well as having little or no waste (depending on mold design/part geometry) and very consistent material properties in your part.
This doesn't even get into manufacturing things made out of metal. I know there are various cool 3d printers that are using lasers and other stuff to make metal parts, but that's not going to hold a candle to the manufacturing processes that give you many of the common metal things you use every day, or that you rely on every day (think of all the manufactured metal things in a car, bus, or even a bicycle).
3d printing has a number of applications for one-off parts, prototyping and low volume work. It's definitely a great thing, the first company I worked for in the 90's paid out the nose for a Stratasys machine because they recognized the value of the tool for prototyping and getting to market faster -- but the 3d printer in no way would have ever made production parts. I'm sure people will dream up new and novel ways of using the technology, but it's going to be a long time before 3d printing ever supplants traditional volume manufacturing methods and techniques, if ever.
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You could be a motivational speaker as a side job, too!
The Who described this method in 1971, in the song "Goin' mobile", although this patent filing may have a fancier description of getting the police and tax man to miss you.
You not only need the patent, but also the ability to fund the legal campaign, which can go on for years as the different phases of the case happen, plus time for appeals, motions to extend, etc. It's not like you show up at court with your patent and walk out the same day with a suitcase filled with cash.
I'm more commenting on the headline containing the words "Faces Huge Damages". The damages are nowhere near huge for Apple, with ~$200B in cash and a ~$650B market cap.
If the headline was "Apple Faces Damages" or "Apple Owes Potential $825M in Damages", or something along those lines, there would be no complaints.
Apple has somewhere around $200 billion in cash. If they have to pay $823 million they still will have around $200 billion in cash.
If you buy something for around $200, do you care if it's $200 or $200.80? Do you really miss the extra 0.80?
I like to get my hands dirty from time to time. This should be enough for this year, but your suggestion is not without merit.
I'll just hire someone to do it for me.
"I light my cigars with $100 bills, so a $200 phone is almost a burner! BULLY!"
Perhaps eliminating profanity and insults on mailing lists and in submission reviews would be a good place to start?
Answer emails seven days a week filled with personal insults and profanity vs. a coding gig that with great pay, professional environment and a sane work week.
It's entirely possible to have code review with no profanity and insults, and have good code come out of it. Keep the review about the code and how it can be improved, and help each other out, since tomorrow it's going to be their code on review and they will know they will mess things up, too.
Exactly. I gave up on the stupid contracts years ago, when pay as you go phones were only marketed to criminals and old people. Buying a cheap GoPhone and plugging the SIM into an iPhone I picked up cheap worked just fine, all you had to do was change the APN, that took two seconds. When AT&T finally figured out what was going on circa 2013 and jacked up the rate for pay as you go, I happily jumped ship to Ting. Sure, I had to pay for the phone, but at this point I've saved quite literally thousands of dollars versus having a contract. On really heavy data months I might spend $31 total for my phone bill, but then again I never got "hooked" on the all you can eat data plan, either -- generally any "all you can *" anything is still making a tidy profit for whoever sells it, be it a buffet or cell phone company.
My wife migrated off Sprint when she looked at how much "unlimited" data she was using and realized that she could move to T-Mobile and we could save $40/month. She also realized that there was some real low-hanging fruit she could trim from her phone use habits that would drop her use even further, like bothering to look for free wifi at many of the places she goes that have it.
Vader works for AT&T. They use the Death Star as their corporate logo.
Verizon has also been shown to not give a damn.
I'd expect all the other telcos to follow suit pretty much immediately.
"Even though a Verizon spokesperson confirmed the change, I'm hoping they won't go through with this plan"
I hate to break it to you, but they are going through with this plan.
When everything comes out, it will be unsurprising if you can't just re-use the conclusions of the Challenger investigation.
I had a Dell notebook in college, running a Windows 3.1 and a speed demon 25 MHz processor. The thing lasted 5+ years, and the thing that finally died was the battery. It had a black and white screen and pretty decent battery life.
My wife has an Inspiron something or other that's been chugging along for 4+ years. I need to transplant a SSD into it, but otherwise the quality is perfectly fine. But it was bought from their "business" site, which means no bloatware to remove and (IMHO) it's much better designed as something you would deploy to a lot of people. They put things like RAM and hard drive behind an easily accessible panel so they can be swapped with a few screws. I've seen worse.
Their low end desktop machines seem to command something of an aftermarket following if you are looking to get a pile of identical hardware in the $200 range to fill up a basic computer lab or set someone up with a basic PC that does web browsing and email.
Dude, you got laid off!
Seriously, though, what a unholy mess that would be. EMC grew by acquiring a lot of other companies, then spinning them off, and not really doing a fantastic job of integrating anything, then laying off tens of thousands only to hire again. Dell has it's own history of being huge, then being private, now seemingly on the roll again. It would be a fitting end for the the execs at EMC that acquired and fired to get acquired and fired themselves, although the big difference will be that they will get some giant golden parachute.
We are a TiVo house who cut the cable cord years ago. We are currently running a Series 3 and a Premier, both with lifetime service. Both models happily record programming from the antenna, so we get the programming you can't get from streaming there, particularly NFL football from our local team (all local games MUST be televised in the local area, per FCC regs -- so I can watch all games), plus the dramas my wife enjoys and a bunch of PBS stuff. Not everything makes it onto a streaming site, and I've had season passes that turned into one passes that I set up years ago that still work fine.
Both TiVos also connect to Netflix, so I don't need a separate box for that. I use an XBox to get Amazon Prime, although IIRC they added that to Premier.
If the Bolt gets a HBO Now client, I could do streaming and OTA recording with one box and one interface, organized in one place. The OnePass thing is really nice, it can find what you want on broadcast or many of the subscription services (or not ... you can just tell it to get stuff off broadcast or off streaming)
TiVos are also ridiculously easy to repair. If you can replace a hard drive or power supply in a desktop PC, you can keep a TiVo alive a really long time. My Series 3 HD was activated in 2000 and is still working just fine, recording HD content from an antenna with no complaints. It just keeps working.
My kids are 7 and 10 now. We have tried video calls with them over the years, as well as trying to use video conferencing with the grandparents.
It was a shit show every time. Besides the inevitable delays, jumps, crappy audio, etc, the kid was just more fascinated with seeing themselves on the video and then trying to out-compete the sibling for attention, then we had to shush them, then they got mad, would hit the other one, then the devolved into a giant mess. Then the video would get broken up and we'd just revert to using the phone because the audio had dropped out again.
My suggestion would be to have the responsible adult on the other end living with the kids record something, then email it to you, put it in Dropbox, etc. Expecting a three or five year old to do this is asking too much, even with the best UI imaginable. My ten year old could certainly handle something like this, the seven year old would be iffy at best. But if their mother was holding the phone it would definitely be OK.
This is slashdot, and there is a fine tradition of NEVER reading the article first.
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Oh, unless they do things that we don't like. Then we ban them.
There are comparably priced SUVs and sedans that use internal combustion engines that Telsa competes with from Mercedes, Lexus, BMW and Audi. Are you railing against the manufacturers selling those vehicles, too? Someone likes what they are selling because they buy them at those prices.
Tesla has never made a secret that their approach was to sell the high margin luxury vehicles first, where the margins are. The next model they introduce is going to be priced at $35K, which is solidly in the 4-door family sedan price range (Accord, Camry) and the low end of small upscale sedan territory (3-series).
Just like kids and puppies, it's cute when they are small, then develops into an annoyance you put up with for decades.
It's also painfully annoying when you have a version of something (e.g. 7.0), then another version contained in the driver file (340.xx), and still another version reported in a OS-unique manner (e.g. A.B.C.D on Windows). Yes, I'm looking at you, nVidia.
Similar case for themed server names versus role-based, owner-based, rack-location-based, physical-location-based -- anything that allows a rational human being to determine something useful about the server in question versus some confused mnemonic about how Gandalf is the mail server, Frodo is the DNS and Bilbo is the VPN gateway.
So a report showed that US spec cars don't do well under a different testing regimen. OK, fine. That's data, and likely highly repeatable since I assume that there are likely a series of standard procedures and testing regimens that are used to set the standards. Ostensibly, these map to real-world scenarios like frontal collision, side collision, rear ending, etc. The automakers design appropriately to these standards. So If the testing regimen for the US is different, you will get different (likely poor) results. The fact that models like the Golf or Focus need different engineering for different markets suggests that automakers already did this, and figured out it was cheaper to spend the money to have two different models for the markets rather than try and engineer one model that would pass both standards. That would likely be expensive and add weight, compromising fuel economy and not adding much customer value -- customers would likely care a lot more that their safety standards were met. Questions could follow:
If a European spec car was tested under the US testing regimen, how do they fare?
Were un-altered US spec cards sold in Europe as meeting European safety standards?
What are the actual numerical differences in the results? How far off are the standards? Is a US made car 10% worse, 20% worse, 100% worse?
How do the test results correlate with real-world crash results?
But you know, the above questions are actual things an engineer might ask if given the task of "making the US and Euro standards uniform" as a project. Unfortunately, it's the lawyers and politicians who are writing these laws.
There is no way that 3d printing will hold a candle to "mainstream manufacturing". Many manufactured parts are made very quickly, and at scale. If you take common plastic molded part, they are likely to be running cycle times of under a minute and have multiple parts coming out of the mold simultaneously. Sure, the mold and the injection molding machine aren't cheap, but they can pound out a lot of copies of your plastic part for a long time and get the unit cost down really low. You will also get better surface finish and appearance than a 3d printed part, as well as having little or no waste (depending on mold design/part geometry) and very consistent material properties in your part.
This doesn't even get into manufacturing things made out of metal. I know there are various cool 3d printers that are using lasers and other stuff to make metal parts, but that's not going to hold a candle to the manufacturing processes that give you many of the common metal things you use every day, or that you rely on every day (think of all the manufactured metal things in a car, bus, or even a bicycle).
3d printing has a number of applications for one-off parts, prototyping and low volume work. It's definitely a great thing, the first company I worked for in the 90's paid out the nose for a Stratasys machine because they recognized the value of the tool for prototyping and getting to market faster -- but the 3d printer in no way would have ever made production parts. I'm sure people will dream up new and novel ways of using the technology, but it's going to be a long time before 3d printing ever supplants traditional volume manufacturing methods and techniques, if ever.