If you check a laptop, there is a significant chance it's not making it to your destination in working order, or even at all.
I frequently make long international flights involving two plane changes. I used to carry my laptop and use it during the layovers. Once I got an iPad I no longer had a specific need to use the laptop during that time, but still needed to take it with me on the trip. It's annoying to lug around, especially during those long hurried walks to get to the next gate, and so I decided to being putting it in my checked luggage. It's reasonably well protected with an extra padded case and a couple of towels.
So far it has been on 24 different planes without incident. Maybe I'm just getting lucky, but if I lose it I lose it. It's not the end of the world. And I enjoy the freedom of not having to lug it around. I know there's a cost involved, but making one's life a little easier seems to me to be a pretty reasonable thing to spend money on.
Any idiot who checks a laptop is begging to have it stolen, broken, or both.
Or simply chooses not to live constantly on the defensive. Yes, sometimes bad things happen, but It's much nicer in the long run to just do the things you want to rather than constantly sacrifice ease and convenience for fear of losing an item or two.
The who point of crime is that a lazy person or a person with poor impulse control can realize high marginal value by doing something illegal.
There are parts of the world where there is little opportunity, especially if you're not from the right background. Some of those smart and enterprising people turn to crime. And the internet lets them reach victims across the globe. Disparity of income also contributes to it. Where I live, if a person could steal even just $100 a day he would live quite well. The chance of him finding legitimate employment offering that type of salary is very low.
They have a deal with Apple that makes the iPhone exclusive to them until 2012.
With only one more year, it'd be pretty easy for Apple to renegotiate. They could offer ATT better terms going forward, or alternatively not deal with them at all later if they don't cooperate. That contract doesn't have a lot of power at this point.
if an industrial spy took a copy of some paper blueprints, it was called stealing not infringing.
If you can't see the flaw in your example then it's no wonder that copyright law is as screwed up as it is. Stealing a secret is very different from copyright infringement.
The summary is incorrect. The exoplanet has "a mass three times larger than Earth's"
The article is also incorrect, or at least unlcear. It (presumably) has a mass three times as large, not three times larger. (Unless of course it actually has a mass four times as large.)
This is not just a grammatical nitpick. the correct way is clear and unambiguous. The way it's written either it's four times as large or the statement is wrong. Otherwise if they were the same size then it would be "one times larger," which is absurd.
Your arguments would be more persuasive if they didn't immediately resort to inane labeling of anyone who might take issue with them. It's the rhetorical equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "I can't hear you because you're a liberal hippie!"
Labeling the opposition is a cheap and lazy way to avoid addressing what they have to say.
(For what it's worth, I am not a hippie and most decidedly not a liberal.)
Technically it is 8x as fast, or 7x faster. Otherwise you'd have to say the same speed is 1x faster. You're comparing how fast they are, not how faster they are.
The patent would allow the carrier or any other 'authorized' party to disable or restrict the functionality of the device.
That makes it sound like the patent would be some sort of legal precedent establishing law. That makes no sense. Patents don't "allow" actions, they restrict them.
So you believe Jobs that only 0.55% of users had connection problems?
No, and that's not what he said. He said "Percent actually calling Apple? 0.55 percent."
Big difference. He and anybody else in business knows that for every customer actually complaining there are others suffering in silence.
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The company was in terrible shape in 1997. Even MIchael Dell, when asked what he thought would be Apple's best strategy, said "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders"
At the time Apple was worth less than $5 billion.
I frequently make long international flights involving two plane changes. I used to carry my laptop and use it during the layovers. Once I got an iPad I no longer had a specific need to use the laptop during that time, but still needed to take it with me on the trip. It's annoying to lug around, especially during those long hurried walks to get to the next gate, and so I decided to being putting it in my checked luggage. It's reasonably well protected with an extra padded case and a couple of towels.
So far it has been on 24 different planes without incident. Maybe I'm just getting lucky, but if I lose it I lose it. It's not the end of the world. And I enjoy the freedom of not having to lug it around. I know there's a cost involved, but making one's life a little easier seems to me to be a pretty reasonable thing to spend money on.
Or simply chooses not to live constantly on the defensive. Yes, sometimes bad things happen, but It's much nicer in the long run to just do the things you want to rather than constantly sacrifice ease and convenience for fear of losing an item or two.
What are you talking about? He missed it completely.
There are parts of the world where there is little opportunity, especially if you're not from the right background. Some of those smart and enterprising people turn to crime. And the internet lets them reach victims across the globe. Disparity of income also contributes to it. Where I live, if a person could steal even just $100 a day he would live quite well. The chance of him finding legitimate employment offering that type of salary is very low.
With only one more year, it'd be pretty easy for Apple to renegotiate. They could offer ATT better terms going forward, or alternatively not deal with them at all later if they don't cooperate. That contract doesn't have a lot of power at this point.
For sufficiently small values of "exactly."
If you can't see the flaw in your example then it's no wonder that copyright law is as screwed up as it is. Stealing a secret is very different from copyright infringement.
The article is also incorrect, or at least unlcear. It (presumably) has a mass three times as large, not three times larger. (Unless of course it actually has a mass four times as large.)
This is not just a grammatical nitpick. the correct way is clear and unambiguous. The way it's written either it's four times as large or the statement is wrong. Otherwise if they were the same size then it would be "one times larger," which is absurd.
No, but if you could somehow taste the gum before you buy it I'll bet you would.
Is this the first confirmed death while operating a Segway?
His post is chock full o' snippets ELO songs.
So if it's hunting season then it's somebody else's safe?
They held a mock funeral. I wouldn't get my hopes up for better marketing.
Your arguments would be more persuasive if they didn't immediately resort to inane labeling of anyone who might take issue with them. It's the rhetorical equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "I can't hear you because you're a liberal hippie!" Labeling the opposition is a cheap and lazy way to avoid addressing what they have to say.
(For what it's worth, I am not a hippie and most decidedly not a liberal.)
Technically it is 8x as fast, or 7x faster. Otherwise you'd have to say the same speed is 1x faster. You're comparing how fast they are, not how faster they are.
I won't pretend that, but I will speculate that people who use Windows are generally easier to fool into running a trojan.
That makes it sound like the patent would be some sort of legal precedent establishing law. That makes no sense. Patents don't "allow" actions, they restrict them.
Or you could just hit the space bar. You can preview many types of documents this way.
Well, he did say it was his #2 post on the matter.
Yes, it's very unique in that regard.
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(if uncertain, please mentally append a wink to that sentence.)
But obviously more understandable.
No doubt that post will be on your personal list of "Things I Wish I Hadn't Done Today."
No, and that's not what he said. He said "Percent actually calling Apple? 0.55 percent." Big difference. He and anybody else in business knows that for every customer actually complaining there are others suffering in silence.
Yes, and the money all had the same serial number: 3M4FUN4U2. :-( )
(amazing what my brain is willing to waste space on