Just to clarify on thing, unless you are ticketed by a state or federal officier, i.e. State Trooper, speeding is a civil offense. You are not charged with a criminal offense, the municipality merely decides to sue you for a small fee. Makes it fun to fight, since "beyond a resonable doubt" changes to "beyond a preponderence of doubt", or in other words you only need to be most likely guilty.
Now for those of you who plan to point it out, excessive speeding is usually charged as reckless endangerment which is a crime, and hence will go on your criminal record, and will likely get you jail time.
"Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town..."
So while parts of it may have been filmed in Canada, I think that's irelevant to the plot. If every movie needed to be filmed where it was set, we'd see a lot of movies set on soundstages.
Or how about the equipment in the medical industry. Will new EKGs have to prevent a patients heartbeat from playing 'Tainted Love' unless they are willing to pay royalties?
Looking over the lovely website of the bastards its hard to even spot one, let alone two, patents that apply. This coupled with the fact that they never even mention the patents violated, makes me think they are merely hoping to catch people who are looking for the quick out in the form of their "reasonable" license fee. I doubt the overworked monkeys at the USPTO would double check a patent they've already issued, if they don't even read them the first time.
Another reason for limiting upstream bandwidth is based on transmitter power. The transmitter at the base station of a cell tower has lots of power, whereas the phone must run off of a battery. Since the transmission from the mobile phone is of lower power, it must slow the transmission rate to allow for more errors and noise in the signal.
Or there is another cavity, remeber "Pulp Fiction" and Christopher Walkin's watch story. I wonder how that would affect it's connectivity and ability to recieve GPS signals?
The subject of corporate anthems immediately reminded me of one of the characters in Douglas Adams book, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". He worked for a startup company that wrote software to generate corporate anthems based off of the a company's financial performance. Japanese companies tended to produce fast tempo pop music while European companies produces something akin to funeral marches. I wonder what dot coms would generate?
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I imagine that this is the real reason this model is only avaliable in Japan.
Now for those of you who plan to point it out, excessive speeding is usually charged as reckless endangerment which is a crime, and hence will go on your criminal record, and will likely get you jail time.
"Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town..."
So while parts of it may have been filmed in Canada, I think that's irelevant to the plot. If every movie needed to be filmed where it was set, we'd see a lot of movies set on soundstages.
Microsoft violate privacy rights? Never.
Or how about the equipment in the medical industry. Will new EKGs have to prevent a patients heartbeat from playing 'Tainted Love' unless they are willing to pay royalties?
Looking over the lovely website of the bastards its hard to even spot one, let alone two, patents that apply. This coupled with the fact that they never even mention the patents violated, makes me think they are merely hoping to catch people who are looking for the quick out in the form of their "reasonable" license fee. I doubt the overworked monkeys at the USPTO would double check a patent they've already issued, if they don't even read them the first time.
But the real question is: Do Jedis dream of electric Ewoks?
Another reason for limiting upstream bandwidth is based on transmitter power. The transmitter at the base station of a cell tower has lots of power, whereas the phone must run off of a battery. Since the transmission from the mobile phone is of lower power, it must slow the transmission rate to allow for more errors and noise in the signal.
Or there is another cavity, remeber "Pulp Fiction" and Christopher Walkin's watch story. I wonder how that would affect it's connectivity and ability to recieve GPS signals?
The subject of corporate anthems immediately reminded me of one of the characters in Douglas Adams book, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". He worked for a startup company that wrote software to generate corporate anthems based off of the a company's financial performance. Japanese companies tended to produce fast tempo pop music while European companies produces something akin to funeral marches. I wonder what dot coms would generate?