Because that case the end user is the only one at risk.
When used in a crypto taxi service, there is also a passenger. In the event of an problem, the passenger will go after the party with the money which will not the the "self-employed" not-a-taxi driver but rather Tesla.
"Seriously... who EVER thought adding all the touchscreen phone gestures to a touchpad was a good idea? Oh, yeah, Apple. "
I am unimpressed by people trying to blame Apple for forcing features they don't like into other products when those other products did it first. There have been gestures on track pads since before there were any iPhones. How can Apple be responsible for forcing a feature from iOS to non-Apple products before there was an iOS?
Damage to reputation cannot be repaired with a firmware patch. At some point it becomes cheaper to eat the cost of taking all of the returns back rather than risk future sales.
Remember, FDIV established Pentium as a brand that the manufacturer would stand behind and in the end was considered a financial win. OTOH it didn't set anyone on fire.
A lot of SF is just poorly written. As much of the readership also has poor writing skills and they are interested in other things this is easily forgiven with the genre, but that is no reason for others to lower their standards to our level.
The major writers like Asimov acknowledged that the were poor writers. The problem today is writers that have no self-awareness of what they are actually making and instead see an SJW bogeyman behind every tree.
"the process nodes, which are half of the distance between the same feature in neighboring transistors"
Somewhat besides the point, but a) these days the process node bears of causal relationship with any physical dimension in the device; b) even back in the day it would correspond to a feature size and never a half-pitch.
Channel length is a physical measurement and it does not change with applied bias. The "effective" is in contrast with "drawn". Ldrawn is the dimension as measured on the masks; Leff is the dimensions between the actual edges of the diffusion.
The problem with most arguments against software patents specifically that that they are made by people who cannot supply a rigorous definition hardware and software.
I can start with the same RTL source and produce the following systems:
1a. RTL loaded into a simulator and run against a canned data file. 1b. RTL loaded into a simulator and run with a breakout box for real asynchronous i/o
2. RTL compiled to a native binary, run with a) canned data file and b) i/o breakout box
3. RTL synthesized to a gate level netlist and a) run in an STA with canned data
4. RTL synthesized to a device level netlist and run in a circuit simulator
5. RTL compile to FPGA programming and loaded into a hardware emulator with real i/o
6. RTL synthesized, placed, routed, fabricated, and packaged; and run in a system with real i/o.
Which of these implementations are patentable? All? None? Is the original RTL patentable? If it is not but some of the implementations are, at what point does it become patentable?
Even here, that average poster has no experience with creating hardware and thus never thinks very hard about what it is. What is the difference between hardware and software? If you cannot say, then you cannot reject just software patents.
"They refuse to check ID" Retailers are prohibited from checking ID, unless specifically requested by the bank.
"they refuse to check signatures" The signatures on the card are not for authentication purposes. Also, there's no way a minimum wage clerk is going to be able to do handwriting recognition.
During Marissa Mayer's tenure, she has increased the value of the company by $10-20 million per day, roughly a 100:1 ratio with her compensation. She is employed by the shareholders to increase the value of their holdings.
When is the last time *you* provided a 100x return to your employers?
East Texas has only a *reputation* for awarding favorable verdicts to plaintiffs alleging infringement; in reality it is not the most favorable district.
The credentials in question came from the manager that was still employed. It was a different user that had been terminated and with whom the manager's credentials had been shared..
"The use of "that" here, though, indicates they are talking about a specific subset of counterfeit or third party ink cartridges (or that they believe all of them fit the following criteria). This is where they shoot themselves in the foot I think."
If there is no way for the counterfeit or third party cartridges to contain the authentication DRM then 'that' merely indicates a property common to the entire set, i.e. a property then usable to test for 1st party vs. non-first party. The use of 'that' only reads as malicious if you're looking for malice and are determined to find it.
She was hired by the board of directors to get the shareholders a big payday. She was willing to do it by making the company a going concern in the long term, but the shareholders decided they wanted to cash out quickly.
She added value to the company at a rate of 10 to 20 million USD per day that she's been employed, at a 100:1 return on her compensation. Form the perspective of the people that hired her, that's a big damned success.
It's not punishable specifically within the terms of the DMCA, but claiming something is a work to which you hold rights when it is a different work is plain old fraud and using such a claim to get someone else's work taken down is plain old tortious interference.
These are outstations for flag airlines that have few or even one hub airport.
From LAS, BA only flies to LHR. Depending on which Swiss city was referenced, GVA only connects with LHR and LGW, and ZRH only connects with LHR and LCY. All they have to do is get you on any plane and let the hub operation sort the rest out.
I once just stood in line for 9 hours with British Airways (still another 12 to get on a plane). If they get me home on the correct day I declare victory.
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"other wise why is it ok to use for end user?"
Because that case the end user is the only one at risk.
When used in a crypto taxi service, there is also a passenger. In the event of an problem, the passenger will go after the party with the money which will not the the "self-employed" not-a-taxi driver but rather Tesla.
No matter how much you tip waiters in Germany, they can't ignore you any harder than they already are.
"If they have turned off their phones, they won't receive the text. "
They would get the text on the phone they are using now.
"Seriously... who EVER thought adding all the touchscreen phone gestures to a touchpad was a good idea? Oh, yeah, Apple. "
I am unimpressed by people trying to blame Apple for forcing features they don't like into other products when those other products did it first. There have been gestures on track pads since before there were any iPhones. How can Apple be responsible for forcing a feature from iOS to non-Apple products before there was an iOS?
"Well, that should be effective, seeing as how Samsung has told all Note 7 users to power off their phones."
Clearly they would be going without any phone at all, left incommunicado forever.
Damage to reputation cannot be repaired with a firmware patch. At some point it becomes cheaper to eat the cost of taking all of the returns back rather than risk future sales.
Remember, FDIV established Pentium as a brand that the manufacturer would stand behind and in the end was considered a financial win. OTOH it didn't set anyone on fire.
A lot of SF is just poorly written. As much of the readership also has poor writing skills and they are interested in other things this is easily forgiven with the genre, but that is no reason for others to lower their standards to our level.
The major writers like Asimov acknowledged that the were poor writers. The problem today is writers that have no self-awareness of what they are actually making and instead see an SJW bogeyman behind every tree.
"the process nodes, which are half of the distance between the same feature in neighboring transistors"
Somewhat besides the point, but a) these days the process node bears of causal relationship with any physical dimension in the device; b) even back in the day it would correspond to a feature size and never a half-pitch.
Channel length is a physical measurement and it does not change with applied bias. The "effective" is in contrast with "drawn". Ldrawn is the dimension as measured on the masks; Leff is the dimensions between the actual edges of the diffusion.
The problem with most arguments against software patents specifically that that they are made by people who cannot supply a rigorous definition hardware and software.
I can start with the same RTL source and produce the following systems:
1a. RTL loaded into a simulator and run against a canned data file.
1b. RTL loaded into a simulator and run with a breakout box for real asynchronous i/o
2. RTL compiled to a native binary, run with a) canned data file and b) i/o breakout box
3. RTL synthesized to a gate level netlist and a) run in an STA with canned data
4. RTL synthesized to a device level netlist and run in a circuit simulator
5. RTL compile to FPGA programming and loaded into a hardware emulator with real i/o
6. RTL synthesized, placed, routed, fabricated, and packaged; and run in a system with real i/o.
Which of these implementations are patentable? All? None? Is the original RTL patentable? If it is not but some of the implementations are, at what point does it become patentable?
Even here, that average poster has no experience with creating hardware and thus never thinks very hard about what it is. What is the difference between hardware and software? If you cannot say, then you cannot reject just software patents.
'Imagine if someone had patented the concept of "an interrupt" or "DMA" or "UART"'
Other than the people who did patent UARTs and DMA systems?
"They refuse to check ID"
Retailers are prohibited from checking ID, unless specifically requested by the bank.
"they refuse to check signatures"
The signatures on the card are not for authentication purposes. Also, there's no way a minimum wage clerk is going to be able to do handwriting recognition.
"negative ROI"
During Marissa Mayer's tenure, she has increased the value of the company by $10-20 million per day, roughly a 100:1 ratio with her compensation. She is employed by the shareholders to increase the value of their holdings.
When is the last time *you* provided a 100x return to your employers?
East Texas has only a *reputation* for awarding favorable verdicts to plaintiffs alleging infringement; in reality it is not the most favorable district.
The credentials in question came from the manager that was still employed. It was a different user that had been terminated and with whom the manager's credentials had been shared..
"The use of "that" here, though, indicates they are talking about a specific subset of counterfeit or third party ink cartridges (or that they believe all of them fit the following criteria). This is where they shoot themselves in the foot I think."
If there is no way for the counterfeit or third party cartridges to contain the authentication DRM then 'that' merely indicates a property common to the entire set, i.e. a property then usable to test for 1st party vs. non-first party. The use of 'that' only reads as malicious if you're looking for malice and are determined to find it.
Why are the Android phones that already eliminated the headphone jack acceptable but the iPhones that now eliminate the headphone jack not acceptable?
Curation.
She was hired by the board of directors to get the shareholders a big payday. She was willing to do it by making the company a going concern in the long term, but the shareholders decided they wanted to cash out quickly.
She added value to the company at a rate of 10 to 20 million USD per day that she's been employed, at a 100:1 return on her compensation. Form the perspective of the people that hired her, that's a big damned success.
It's not punishable specifically within the terms of the DMCA, but claiming something is a work to which you hold rights when it is a different work is plain old fraud and using such a claim to get someone else's work taken down is plain old tortious interference.
Remember, there are other laws besides the DMCA.
They can still set whatever tax rate they like. What they cannot do is set a different tax rate for a specific company.
"won't cost you more than $500 with the case and the PSU."
If drives and your time are free.
"Amazon gives free unlimited backup account with prime (which is around $99)"
If all you have to back up are pictures.
For high enough target value, all services look commodity grade.
These are outstations for flag airlines that have few or even one hub airport.
From LAS, BA only flies to LHR. Depending on which Swiss city was referenced, GVA only connects with LHR and LGW, and ZRH only connects with LHR and LCY. All they have to do is get you on any plane and let the hub operation sort the rest out.
I once just stood in line for 9 hours with British Airways (still another 12 to get on a plane). If they get me home on the correct day I declare victory.