"the fact that they haven't sued Bloomberg for libel/defamation means that it's real and it happened"
It may not be libelous because a) it's true, but also because b) Bloomberg had reason to believe it was true, or c) Bloomberg thought it would not be damaging to Apple (for instance, because they had long since stopped using Supermicro products). In addition it may be libelous yet not a net gain to go to court because then Bloomberg gets to do discovery on why Apple severed their relationship with Supermicro in the first place. News organizations love to get libel suits because of the oportunity to use discover to research.
"everyone else on the ship who as you have reminded me, mutinied."
Everyone else, except those who were mutinied against and those not involved in the mutiny either way.
"There was no spy sub plot in the movie" The characters in the movie did not know they were in a movie with no spy sob-plot. More importantly they were in a movie with a leaker, and being on space ships doesn't stop leaks when you have radios.
The abstract and title of a patent are not the claims of the patent. Just because the abstract or title do no include every constraint does not mean that the inventors are making claims without constraints.
The most senior person who didn't know was the freshly-demoted Poe himself. He was the fighter commander whose subordinates no longer had any fighters to pilot, so they were not immediately useful to the plan and had no need to know.
The one sticking point is Lt. Connix. Did she not know the plan earlier despite being a junior bridge officer, or did she know but threw her lot in with the mutiny anyway? If she did already know, why didn't she tell Poe sooner?
"for some unexplainable reason left her crew hopeless rather than tell them where they were going"
Not only is the reason explainable, it is demonstrated in the movie itself: the bridge crew is worried that the plan will leak off the ship so they limit the knowledge to those actively working on implementing it. They don't know if they have a mole or not, and they were never told about Rose's theory about how to track the hyper jumps so quickly.
This worry is born out by the fact that once someone not actively working on implementing the plan finds out they immediately leak the plan off the ship.
Existing electronics that provide least common denominator features are produced in incredible volume thus they are amazingly cheap and take zero effort to integrate. Any added features cause a literally infinite percentage increase in effort.
"It sounds like bot trolling is an effective and disruptive way to sway many things - an election, regime satisfaction, and scientific belief.
Why doesn't someone use that technique for the purposes of good?"
Because the technique does not produce one outcome or the other, it produces chaos. It may just so happen that out outcome prevails in chaos, or maybe all you get is the chaos. Those using the technique effectively don't care about any of the possible outcomes as much as they care about the chaos.
"The IT Crowd, for example, is hilarious and absolutely makes fun of geeks."
The thing about the characters in IT Crowd is that they are incompetent. The geeks eagerly herp derp about Jen assuming that all management is incompetent. But Roy is completely unsupportive as IT support and Moss has no idea what other people want to accomplish.
And they never learn any better.
Contrast that with TBBT which not only establishes that the intellectual conflicts are between competent professionals but that they also grow in areas outside of their profession. Even Stuart is progressing.
The only recurring characters that doesn't seem to have progressed is Penny's old boyfriend Zach. He started off as some kind of a jock but he's turned out to be just a dumb loser.
It was laughing at the characters, because it is a sitcom. Are you familiar with the genre?
It wasn't laughing at geeks, because it was pointing out that the problems that geeks have are the problems that *everyone* has[1] sch as: Spouses with significantly different earnings. Involuntary career changes. Self-sabotage of relationships Dealing with parents as fellow adults. Workplace rivalries.
Note that the only character who has not had at least one long term relationship in the show is the guy with the art degree who had a business that failed once.
It was also laughing at you you.
[1] One exception: how PhDs view those with a terminal masters. But even there, that's just because a PhD is a requirement and still it includes any field where PhDs are awarded.
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You are reading a press release from Aptoide, not an opinion of the court.
Also, at the time of the firmware bug Apple denied the story that they are now claiming is the real story.
"the fact that they haven't sued Bloomberg for libel/defamation means that it's real and it happened"
It may not be libelous because a) it's true, but also because b) Bloomberg had reason to believe it was true, or c) Bloomberg thought it would not be damaging to Apple (for instance, because they had long since stopped using Supermicro products). In addition it may be libelous yet not a net gain to go to court because then Bloomberg gets to do discovery on why Apple severed their relationship with Supermicro in the first place. News organizations love to get libel suits because of the oportunity to use discover to research.
Chaebol all look alike to me
"everyone else on the ship who as you have reminded me, mutinied."
Everyone else, except those who were mutinied against and those not involved in the mutiny either way.
"There was no spy sub plot in the movie"
The characters in the movie did not know they were in a movie with no spy sob-plot. More importantly they were in a movie with a leaker, and being on space ships doesn't stop leaks when you have radios.
Since they put the constraint of "handle of a shopping cart" in the claims.
The abstract and title of a patent are not the claims of the patent. Just because the abstract or title do no include every constraint does not mean that the inventors are making claims without constraints.
" if the "Group" couldn't make their stance clear in court "
The couldn't make their stance clear in court because they were not permitted into the court, not because their argument failed.
Platform TDPs that have to be targeted have been fixed for like 15 years. No one could sell a hotter SKU without defining a new platform to use it.
"So all senior staff was left out? "
The most senior person who didn't know was the freshly-demoted Poe himself. He was the fighter commander whose subordinates no longer had any fighters to pilot, so they were not immediately useful to the plan and had no need to know.
The one sticking point is Lt. Connix. Did she not know the plan earlier despite being a junior bridge officer, or did she know but threw her lot in with the mutiny anyway? If she did already know, why didn't she tell Poe sooner?
"for some unexplainable reason left her crew hopeless rather than tell them where they were going"
Not only is the reason explainable, it is demonstrated in the movie itself: the bridge crew is worried that the plan will leak off the ship so they limit the knowledge to those actively working on implementing it. They don't know if they have a mole or not, and they were never told about Rose's theory about how to track the hyper jumps so quickly.
This worry is born out by the fact that once someone not actively working on implementing the plan finds out they immediately leak the plan off the ship.
"Just avoid holding it in that way."
Yet another thing that Apple did not invent.
"cost little to nothing to add"
Existing electronics that provide least common denominator features are produced in incredible volume thus they are amazingly cheap and take zero effort to integrate. Any added features cause a literally infinite percentage increase in effort.
Why do I have all of these pictures of hot grits?
Like using a regular expression, now you have two problems.
Most people are not professional photographers but are already likely to buy cell phones. So which analysis is more relevant to them?
"fewer people are reading"
Plato complained that it was reading which was dumbing down the youth of the day 24 centuries ago.
"C is lightning fast and is the tool for when you know what you're doing."
No one knows what they're doing.
"Why would I give a shit about what random people think? "
Because it is infeasible to watch every TV show to determine which TV shows you will enjoy watching.
"It sounds like bot trolling is an effective and disruptive way to sway many things - an election, regime satisfaction, and scientific belief.
Why doesn't someone use that technique for the purposes of good?"
Because the technique does not produce one outcome or the other, it produces chaos. It may just so happen that out outcome prevails in chaos, or maybe all you get is the chaos. Those using the technique effectively don't care about any of the possible outcomes as much as they care about the chaos.
"The IT Crowd, for example, is hilarious and absolutely makes fun of geeks."
The thing about the characters in IT Crowd is that they are incompetent. The geeks eagerly herp derp about Jen assuming that all management is incompetent. But Roy is completely unsupportive as IT support and Moss has no idea what other people want to accomplish.
And they never learn any better.
Contrast that with TBBT which not only establishes that the intellectual conflicts are between competent professionals but that they also grow in areas outside of their profession. Even Stuart is progressing.
The only recurring characters that doesn't seem to have progressed is Penny's old boyfriend Zach. He started off as some kind of a jock but he's turned out to be just a dumb loser.
"It was laughing *AT* us."
It was laughing at the characters, because it is a sitcom. Are you familiar with the genre?
It wasn't laughing at geeks, because it was pointing out that the problems that geeks have are the problems that *everyone* has[1] sch as:
Spouses with significantly different earnings.
Involuntary career changes.
Self-sabotage of relationships
Dealing with parents as fellow adults.
Workplace rivalries.
Note that the only character who has not had at least one long term relationship in the show is the guy with the art degree who had a business that failed once.
It was also laughing at you you.
[1] One exception: how PhDs view those with a terminal masters. But even there, that's just because a PhD is a requirement and still it includes any field where PhDs are awarded.
It never fails to surprise me that people who claim to be indifferent to the show will put in effort to lie about it.
Clearly Google is manipulating search results by (checks notes) demoting their own results in the rankings.
-1, "When did you stop beating your wife"-style telling a question