Nope. The judge wasn't "being nice". The accused took a guilty plea bargain, because if he did not he would be facing a possible 121 years sentence, which is beyond ridiculous in this case (or in any case to tell the truth). That is how your justice system works. You intimidate the accused into forfeiting their constitutional rights of defending themselves with the threat of ridiculous sentences. It is why only 3% of those accused of anything in US actually go to trial.
Let me make it simple for you. Anything that hurts the bully is a good thing. The bully getting away with being bully is not. So basically when you see Apple being screwed you should rejoice. You are free to hate or like the others though. Hope this helps.
You apparently can't speak on either of the three points, because you are completely ignorant about all the three.
That problem is indeed the fault of the OS, no matter how you try to spin it. Mouse gestures being confused with similar touch gestures is the inevitable result of this schizophrenic interface.
And no, you don't need to know specific keywords when you are trying for example to look for a file that was modified between today and 3 days ago on Windows XP, but you cannot do it on Windows 8 (and even on 7) if you don't know the proper (and counter-intuitive) syntax of the command you must type in order to do so, just to give you a quick example.
Even a single one of these is enough to validate the claim that the OS goes out of its way to hinder any task you vainly hope to complete, unless, of course, the task is to torture and frustrate yourself.
When healthy competition does not exist which is more often than not the case in our world, regulation, inefficient as it may be, is the only way to combat abuses.
Just RTFA, or in this case watch the video and you will see. Actually you may choose one from the dozens of videos about Windows 8 and you will see. Just to cite a few things:
- it more than doubles the number of clicks and moves you have to do to perform normal operations,
- applications (like the weather predictions) keep popping up when you least expect because you made a gesture with your mouse that the horrible horrible UI mistakes as another touch gesture that has nothing to do with what you want to do,
- you simply cannot find configuration features without knowing the specific keywords, because there are no shortcuts that do not involve typing these specific keywords/ This is something they started with the advanced file search in Windows 7, which is much worse than XPs, but went viral on Windows 8
Nobody is saying anything against all Windows version. Just this specific one. Yes, Windows will work well for people who can't afford a Mac. Actually it could be argued that even with their problems the stable and reasonably well designed versions of Windows (XP, 7, etc) are actually better than anything Apple has to offer in this area. Apple desktops just suck.
Windows is not easier to install or use than Ubuntu or any other end-user Linux, though. You are just wrong about that. Figuring out how these Linux distributions work is about as hard as figuring out as Windows 8 works for a layman used to Windows 7, for example, with the added benefit that in the end you will have a much less frustrating experience.
That said Windows 8 is simply unusable for anything serious and thus does not work, perfectly fitting your definition of trash. Metro is an horrible UI and the choice to make it entrenched in the OS like a virus turned this OS into a useless piece of trash.
Yes, apparently you do not understand it. Windows 8 is Metro with windows 7 running as an application inside it. Metro cannot be fully disabled and goes out of its way to hinder any task you vainly hope to complete whilst using this abomination of an OS, even if you decide "not to use" it.
The problem with simple regulation is that the regulators can be easily bought. It is far better to force competition whenever it is possible and use regulation as a complement, than to simply rely on it.
Considering the nature of those crimes, and the fact that all of them are related, yes it was bad. 10 years is far too excessive even for a thousand crimes of this nature.
Yes, for these exact motives you point plea bargaining shouldn't be legal at all. It is basically legally intimidating people from using their constitutional rights.
Yes you are right, but the problem is their being allowed to maximize their profits at the cost of consumers by avoiding competition because they hold monopolies or oligopolies in most areas.
And that is exactly the problem with your country (and with you). You seem to have forgotten that there are minor crimes. And please, what the next step could be is irrelevant, because it never happened.
He may be a creep and, as I said, I think he deserves to be punished for it, but 10 years is too much time, no matter how you look at it. 121 years, on the other hand, is simply absurd and it is too much for ANY crime.
That is your opinion and you are entitled to have it. The fact that I don't agree with it doesn't mean I don't think for myself, though. The fact that you want everybody to forcibly agree with you means you don't want people to think for themselves, though.
Most countries don't add multiple sentences to be served sequentially in this way. Furthermore most countries have a maximum total time for sentences. Here in Brazil, for example, it is 30 years. 121 years in prison is basically a death sentence, and in many ways it is even worse than it.
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Nope. The judge wasn't "being nice". The accused took a guilty plea bargain, because if he did not he would be facing a possible 121 years sentence, which is beyond ridiculous in this case (or in any case to tell the truth). That is how your justice system works. You intimidate the accused into forfeiting their constitutional rights of defending themselves with the threat of ridiculous sentences. It is why only 3% of those accused of anything in US actually go to trial.
Poe's Law...
You are free to hate (or not hate) anyone you like, for having money or whatever. That is your pleasure. Completely optional.
Your only obligation is to hate Apple, because it is that bad.
No, I mean that the irony on your post will me missed.
Let me make it simple for you. Anything that hurts the bully is a good thing. The bully getting away with being bully is not. So basically when you see Apple being screwed you should rejoice. You are free to hate or like the others though. Hope this helps.
FRAND should encompass ALL design patents.
Poe's law will cause you problems here...
You apparently can't speak on either of the three points, because you are completely ignorant about all the three.
That problem is indeed the fault of the OS, no matter how you try to spin it. Mouse gestures being confused with similar touch gestures is the inevitable result of this schizophrenic interface.
And no, you don't need to know specific keywords when you are trying for example to look for a file that was modified between today and 3 days ago on Windows XP, but you cannot do it on Windows 8 (and even on 7) if you don't know the proper (and counter-intuitive) syntax of the command you must type in order to do so, just to give you a quick example.
Even a single one of these is enough to validate the claim that the OS goes out of its way to hinder any task you vainly hope to complete, unless, of course, the task is to torture and frustrate yourself.
When healthy competition does not exist which is more often than not the case in our world, regulation, inefficient as it may be, is the only way to combat abuses.
Just RTFA, or in this case watch the video and you will see. Actually you may choose one from the dozens of videos about Windows 8 and you will see. Just to cite a few things:
- it more than doubles the number of clicks and moves you have to do to perform normal operations,
- applications (like the weather predictions) keep popping up when you least expect because you made a gesture with your mouse that the horrible horrible UI mistakes as another touch gesture that has nothing to do with what you want to do,
- you simply cannot find configuration features without knowing the specific keywords, because there are no shortcuts that do not involve typing these specific keywords/ This is something they started with the advanced file search in Windows 7, which is much worse than XPs, but went viral on Windows 8
Nobody is saying anything against all Windows version. Just this specific one. Yes, Windows will work well for people who can't afford a Mac. Actually it could be argued that even with their problems the stable and reasonably well designed versions of Windows (XP, 7, etc) are actually better than anything Apple has to offer in this area. Apple desktops just suck.
Windows is not easier to install or use than Ubuntu or any other end-user Linux, though. You are just wrong about that. Figuring out how these Linux distributions work is about as hard as figuring out as Windows 8 works for a layman used to Windows 7, for example, with the added benefit that in the end you will have a much less frustrating experience.
That said Windows 8 is simply unusable for anything serious and thus does not work, perfectly fitting your definition of trash. Metro is an horrible UI and the choice to make it entrenched in the OS like a virus turned this OS into a useless piece of trash.
Yes, apparently you do not understand it. Windows 8 is Metro with windows 7 running as an application inside it. Metro cannot be fully disabled and goes out of its way to hinder any task you vainly hope to complete whilst using this abomination of an OS, even if you decide "not to use" it.
No amount of ranting is enough in this matter. Windows 8 is trash.
Maybe because it is unavoidable?
The problem with simple regulation is that the regulators can be easily bought. It is far better to force competition whenever it is possible and use regulation as a complement, than to simply rely on it.
Which is basically what all religious types do regarding anyone that does not believe in their specific religion...
There is no comparison between QT and GTK+. QT is by far superior in about everything. Only hipsters like you think otherwise.
Considering the nature of those crimes, and the fact that all of them are related, yes it was bad. 10 years is far too excessive even for a thousand crimes of this nature.
Yes, for these exact motives you point plea bargaining shouldn't be legal at all. It is basically legally intimidating people from using their constitutional rights.
Yes you are right, but the problem is their being allowed to maximize their profits at the cost of consumers by avoiding competition because they hold monopolies or oligopolies in most areas.
And that is exactly the problem with your country (and with you). You seem to have forgotten that there are minor crimes. And please, what the next step could be is irrelevant, because it never happened.
The collateral effect is that many people will accept the bargains even if they are innocent, because not doing it is risking too much.
He may be a creep and, as I said, I think he deserves to be punished for it, but 10 years is too much time, no matter how you look at it. 121 years, on the other hand, is simply absurd and it is too much for ANY crime.
That is your opinion and you are entitled to have it. The fact that I don't agree with it doesn't mean I don't think for myself, though. The fact that you want everybody to forcibly agree with you means you don't want people to think for themselves, though.
Most countries don't add multiple sentences to be served sequentially in this way. Furthermore most countries have a maximum total time for sentences. Here in Brazil, for example, it is 30 years. 121 years in prison is basically a death sentence, and in many ways it is even worse than it.