And by not looking at them they have ensured themselves failure at the most critical time near the finish line. Perhaps if they looked and avoided them they wouldn't have anything to worry about?
Yes but the H.264 implementation only infringes on the patents of the holders of the H.264 patents.
The whole idea is to come up with new and different ways to do things, not get pissed off because someone else beat you to it.
In the old days and I'm sure it still happens. There are guys working in large companies watching several patents and as soon as they expire they implement the item and sell it to us without giving the original inventor one red cent. I say patent holders need to make hay while the sun shines.
Oh My GAWD, Mr Jobs says something about a sacred cow and the Linux dweebies and Microsoft apologists come out of the woodwork to bash him to pieces. Get over it guys he can have opinions just like you and me.
Yet you continue to whine about just those facts. While decrying the horror of walled gardens you live in what amounts to a walled garden and complain nothing falls over the wall into the past. Pull the dirt over your head guys you're through. Keep your 8 tracks and mp3 players just keep quiet and we'll tolerate your idiosyncrasies. !Old Guys Rule!
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Sounds like time to upgrade to me. It's consumers like you that hang on to outdated equipment that frustrate sales people everywhere trying to unload the new products and you keep the dinosaurs alive.
Oh but it is. The essence of competition is eliminating competitors. Successfully competing means you win. How do we not understand this. Everybody seems to think that in order to have a product you must have competition, when in fact the perfect business model flourishes on no competition.
While you personally didn't use the service... You heard good things. If you and a few more people had spent money there it might still exist.
This isn't evil people it's business, we live in a competitive capitalist state and as long as you keep voting with your wallet you probably will get what you deserve.
Tacky that his first point is that Flash is proprietary, when Apple restricts the apps that can be installed on the phone.
Do you guys work at being stupid or does it come naturally?
Yeah I suppose you could argue that.
What he really got convicted for (not of) is being an arrogant asshole who upheld the letter of the rule (it wasn't a law) rather than reasonably complying with requests from his superiors. In order for him to have been correct you have to assume that he had the moral/legal authority to predetermine that his compliance would result in a situation worse than the one he caused by doing what he did.
There are times usually when great financial harm or great bodily harm are imminent that he may have been correct but that was not the case here.
By doing what he did he caused great financial harm rather than preventing it. So by following the letter he violated the spirit and caused the harm he was trying to prevent thereby stepping in the shit and then failing to scrape it off his shoe.
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And by not looking at them they have ensured themselves failure at the most critical time near the finish line. Perhaps if they looked and avoided them they wouldn't have anything to worry about?
It really doesn't matter actually. When it happens theora et al will be defenseless.
Always, but usually also followed by lawyer or politician
Yes but the H.264 implementation only infringes on the patents of the holders of the H.264 patents.
The whole idea is to come up with new and different ways to do things, not get pissed off because someone else beat you to it.
In the old days and I'm sure it still happens. There are guys working in large companies watching several patents and as soon as they expire they implement the item and sell it to us without giving the original inventor one red cent. I say patent holders need to make hay while the sun shines.
Oh My GAWD, Mr Jobs says something about a sacred cow and the Linux dweebies and Microsoft apologists come out of the woodwork to bash him to pieces. Get over it guys he can have opinions just like you and me.
Yet you continue to whine about just those facts. While decrying the horror of walled gardens you live in what amounts to a walled garden and complain nothing falls over the wall into the past. Pull the dirt over your head guys you're through. Keep your 8 tracks and mp3 players just keep quiet and we'll tolerate your idiosyncrasies.
!Old Guys Rule!
sarcasm mode end...
Sounds like time to upgrade to me. It's consumers like you that hang on to outdated equipment that frustrate sales people everywhere trying to unload the new products and you keep the dinosaurs alive.
Oh but it is. The essence of competition is eliminating competitors. Successfully competing means you win. How do we not understand this. Everybody seems to think that in order to have a product you must have competition, when in fact the perfect business model flourishes on no competition.
Because nobody paid them enough to stay independent in the first place and you have to pay for licenses for the music. TANSTAAFL
While you personally didn't use the service... You heard good things. If you and a few more people had spent money there it might still exist.
This isn't evil people it's business, we live in a competitive capitalist state and as long as you keep voting with your wallet you probably will get what you deserve.
Yes but your understanding of the world is a mockery of reality. Sorry but you seem to lack the information that it was a jury of his peers truly!
Except that they can not freeze assets that you use to defend yourself.
Give that up, move out now, and remember she reads all your posts.
Yes and as paragons of intelligence and rationality we are utter failures.
Wow, again, saying this drivel is insightful is like saying Reverend Jones saved their souls in Guyana.
Tacky that his first point is that Flash is proprietary, when Apple restricts the apps that can be installed on the phone.
Do you guys work at being stupid or does it come naturally?
Yeah I suppose you could argue that.
What he really got convicted for (not of) is being an arrogant asshole who upheld the letter of the rule (it wasn't a law) rather than reasonably complying with requests from his superiors. In order for him to have been correct you have to assume that he had the moral/legal authority to predetermine that his compliance would result in a situation worse than the one he caused by doing what he did.
There are times usually when great financial harm or great bodily harm are imminent that he may have been correct but that was not the case here.
By doing what he did he caused great financial harm rather than preventing it. So by following the letter he violated the spirit and caused the harm he was trying to prevent thereby stepping in the shit and then failing to scrape it off his shoe.
irrelevant how it was determined. If you don't want to pay stupid inflated damages don't fuck up.
Actually yes it is apt. A bit morbid and over the top but a good analogy none the less.
Yes let me see. He won't give us the passwords to our property after we dismissed him so we will just change all the ... oops.
No actually in many jurisdictions you must pay for your own prosecution. Besides the idiot responder was talking a civil case anyway.
Wow, trolling along are we.
Give me a break. I mentioned the topic in the post moron!
Preference noted.
Oh I've been a troll and got the deserved troll designation. But it looks automatic if you agree with the verdict on this one.