“the License will be renewable for successive five-year periods for the life of any Portfolio patent on reasonable terms and conditions. [F]or the protection of licensees, royalty rates applicable to specific license grants or specific licensed products will not increase by more than ten percent (10%) at each renewal.”
Do you think most PC owners could even tell you what brand of CPU they have, let alone the line or speed? Do you think they know what graphics chips they have? What the resolution of their displays are? What all the different audio ports on the back are for?
I'm pretty sure every PC is required to have a separate colorful sticker to answer each of those questions
Whether or not a similar problem exists in competing products is beside the point. [I haven't run into anyone pretending] competing products are implicitly secure straight out of the box[, but I have run into] Apple fans pretend[ing] exactly that.
if you have another OSX Machine (I don't know which version, so just say Snow Leopard) you can use the optical drive from that machine for any MBAirs you have lying around over the network.
Slashdot Mirror
superior UX is relative.
Now that's worth a 3 or 4 interesting much more than the original was a 5 informative
maybe read the whole thing before speculating?
Yeah, I'd guess if you added steam's sales to the slope, non-physical games sales would overcome physical games sales even quicker.
clicking on the link and looking at the picture is not ReadingTFA
“the License will be renewable for successive five-year periods for the life of any Portfolio patent on reasonable terms and conditions. [F]or the protection of licensees, royalty rates applicable to specific license grants or specific licensed products will not increase by more than ten percent (10%) at each renewal.”
can you say anything you want?
you obviously live in an urban area. Some people don't.
how would you know if a slashdotter who had a girlfriend or wife but didn't let you know about their significant other had a girlfriend or wife?
yeah, I read your previous posts.
Slashdot, we are truly losing one of the great wordsmiths of our times. Something should be done to correct this.
"There's no app for that."
actually there is: Safari
nope, steer or ox
and for multiple viewers
Do you think most PC owners could even tell you what brand of CPU they have, let alone the line or speed? Do you think they know what graphics chips they have? What the resolution of their displays are? What all the different audio ports on the back are for?
I'm pretty sure every PC is required to have a separate colorful sticker to answer each of those questions
and as far as I can tell that's not even the usual ignorant slashdot poster's wrong idea about what bricked means. It's a whole new level of wrong.
different kind of restriction
oh my, what do the other numbers break down to?
180 days, 1.5M units = 8,333.3 units per day
Who cares? I think it'd be funny if WP7 went the way of the kin, but the article and summary were poorly written.
I love the comparison of First day :: Launch Weekend :: First 6 Months
Whether or not a similar problem exists in competing products is beside the point. [I haven't run into anyone pretending] competing products are implicitly secure straight out of the box[, but I have run into] Apple fans pretend[ing] exactly that.
Fixed that for you
The pages didn't serve the same ads because the ads were flash-based
because they/I like Safari's UI better than Firefox's
I'm guessing the submitter has little to no exposure to laws.
Costs around $250 less than a Maxed 15" Mac Book Pro
(including Apple Care)
Food for thought.
Although that is mostly due the cost of the 512GB SSD in the MBP.
if you have another OSX Machine (I don't know which version, so just say Snow Leopard) you can use the optical drive from that machine for any MBAirs you have lying around over the network.
When roughly all Mac users are dual booting Windows anyway?
what the...?