I haven't noticed lack of creating a product stopping anyone from patenting something. Lots of companies patent things and never create anything at all.
No. Not really. It's just that Apple is a little too big to be picking on with this stupid shit. Motorola should have used Microsoft's strategy of suing smaller companies first to build up to suing bigger ones. They jumped straight at Apple and got slapped down. You notice that Microsoft didn't jump straight at Google over Android but instead is attacking their manufacturing partners who are happy to pay protection money to get them to go away. If they had sued Google then Google would have whistled up their lawyers and slapped Microsoft down.
The diabetes meters are ridiculously cheap, it's the fucking test strips that kill you. My wife gets a free meter every 6 months, that doesn't use the old strips! She puts them in a box until she runs out of strips then starts on the new ones. She's got a backlog of 4 meters now. Thing is she doesn't even order the damn things they just send them. They make a killing on the strips like printer companies do on ink.
This is why they have high priced software. The software company is paid more for their liability than their ability. That is what all the certifications are about.
Most of the Doctors I know have 2 or 3 ex wives and several child support payments that eat up a lot of their money. Then there is the current wife and mistress.
I don't know if you're aware of this or not but if a guy is holding a gun and shooting at police with it they can kill him and no one except the occasional crackpot will have much to say about it. If he points a gun at police and they shoot him there might be a minor investigation but that is about it. Shooting a terrorist who is armed and actively hostile is not an execution.
I feel no conflict. I thought this one of the few times I've seen government act effectively. I was pretty impressed by the way the officials in Boston handled the situation and especially the way local, state and federal agencies acted in concert. My congratulations to my Northern neighbors on a job well done.
All not getting your miranda rights mean is that they can't use anything you say against you. Given that these assholes were on video and openly engaged in violence there really is no need for the survivor to have his testimony used against him. They know what he did and the proof is ridiculously overwhelming. The public safety exception is for any continuing violence that may happen such as booby traps and such he left. This and any other accomplices are what they want to question about at this time, not whether he commited crimes. Hence the term "public safety." Really, the main reason they wanted him alive is to get information on any other possible terrorists. Without that motivation I imagine he'd never been taken alive.
The keyboard on the business class Dells used to be good. I have an old D630 that has an excellent keyboard. Trackpads are another matter. I find the apple laptops have pretty good ones but nothing in the "peecee" world seems to match up. I end up using a usb mouse instead.
Sadly laptops are not so easy to accomplish. I have built several desktops which are childishly easy to do and have the added benefit of no microsoft tax. I've never purchased a new laptop and only once a new computer in the last couple of decades, that being the refurbished mac mini quad i7 server I got from the Apple store last year. It was a dreadful amount of money but the last few videos I edited on it made the purchase worthwhile. I've edited movies on Linux but it is a chore while on a Mac it is ridiculously simple and quick. I love linux for pretty much everything else though. Now that I think on it before the mini all my computers were used except for the Commodore 64 I bought from the Keesler AFB Exchange in 1983. I still have that one and it and the 1541 disk drive I got with it still work.
Really? A dollar is only worth what you can buy with it. It can become nearly worthless overnight. It is only paper and your faith in it is all that gives it value.
spying is tapping phones and hiding cameras in a home's air ducts or reading private e-mail. Not looking through photos of people walking down the street. That's why they call it "in public."
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I bet instead of money they gave them their own exclusive iPhone 6's. That would do it.
I haven't noticed lack of creating a product stopping anyone from patenting something. Lots of companies patent things and never create anything at all.
No. Not really. It's just that Apple is a little too big to be picking on with this stupid shit. Motorola should have used Microsoft's strategy of suing smaller companies first to build up to suing bigger ones. They jumped straight at Apple and got slapped down. You notice that Microsoft didn't jump straight at Google over Android but instead is attacking their manufacturing partners who are happy to pay protection money to get them to go away. If they had sued Google then Google would have whistled up their lawyers and slapped Microsoft down.
Damn. That says it all.
They sued another very large corporation. Apple has lots of bad ass lawyers too unlike the little people these assholes usually beat up on.
My doctor has that same software!
The diabetes meters are ridiculously cheap, it's the fucking test strips that kill you. My wife gets a free meter every 6 months, that doesn't use the old strips! She puts them in a box until she runs out of strips then starts on the new ones. She's got a backlog of 4 meters now. Thing is she doesn't even order the damn things they just send them. They make a killing on the strips like printer companies do on ink.
This is why they have high priced software. The software company is paid more for their liability than their ability. That is what all the certifications are about.
Most of the Doctors I know have 2 or 3 ex wives and several child support payments that eat up a lot of their money. Then there is the current wife and mistress.
Sounds like they need a version of Wine for Windows 8.
I think Apple has the patent on viral marketing as well don't they? Call the Lawyers!
I don't know if you're aware of this or not but if a guy is holding a gun and shooting at police with it they can kill him and no one except the occasional crackpot will have much to say about it. If he points a gun at police and they shoot him there might be a minor investigation but that is about it. Shooting a terrorist who is armed and actively hostile is not an execution.
Such an eloquent response. You obvious intelligence is awe inspiring.
I agree with you. Those guys in Gitmo should either be released if innocent or shot if guilty. That bullshit has gone on way too long.
I feel no conflict. I thought this one of the few times I've seen government act effectively. I was pretty impressed by the way the officials in Boston handled the situation and especially the way local, state and federal agencies acted in concert. My congratulations to my Northern neighbors on a job well done.
All not getting your miranda rights mean is that they can't use anything you say against you. Given that these assholes were on video and openly engaged in violence there really is no need for the survivor to have his testimony used against him. They know what he did and the proof is ridiculously overwhelming. The public safety exception is for any continuing violence that may happen such as booby traps and such he left. This and any other accomplices are what they want to question about at this time, not whether he commited crimes. Hence the term "public safety." Really, the main reason they wanted him alive is to get information on any other possible terrorists. Without that motivation I imagine he'd never been taken alive.
The keyboard on the business class Dells used to be good. I have an old D630 that has an excellent keyboard. Trackpads are another matter. I find the apple laptops have pretty good ones but nothing in the "peecee" world seems to match up. I end up using a usb mouse instead.
Sadly laptops are not so easy to accomplish. I have built several desktops which are childishly easy to do and have the added benefit of no microsoft tax. I've never purchased a new laptop and only once a new computer in the last couple of decades, that being the refurbished mac mini quad i7 server I got from the Apple store last year. It was a dreadful amount of money but the last few videos I edited on it made the purchase worthwhile. I've edited movies on Linux but it is a chore while on a Mac it is ridiculously simple and quick. I love linux for pretty much everything else though. Now that I think on it before the mini all my computers were used except for the Commodore 64 I bought from the Keesler AFB Exchange in 1983. I still have that one and it and the 1541 disk drive I got with it still work.
That's a novel idea. It'll probably never catch on.
I got the feeling the Kurds actually liked us.
Really? A dollar is only worth what you can buy with it. It can become nearly worthless overnight. It is only paper and your faith in it is all that gives it value.
Thanks for that info.
I agree. We should catch them, try them and if guilty fry them. No reason not to be civil.
spying is tapping phones and hiding cameras in a home's air ducts or reading private e-mail. Not looking through photos of people walking down the street. That's why they call it "in public."
At Amazon's e-book prices there is no way they can fail to make a profit.