Right to Obtain Decent Reviews Before Purchase. Good luck exercising that right between all the pre-release embargoes and the thinly-veiled corporate shills that make up the mainstream gaming press.
Because it's not really Apple or Samsung that are suffering. It's us. The consumers who are literally paying for the benefit of stagnation and lack of choice.
Apple and Samsung like the weather in Hell just fine.
Before we get too excited about ruined businesses, it's best to remember that Yelp has a fairly enthusiastic but narrow user base. I'd be surprised if even 2% of the contractor's potential clients had read the review (before the Streisand Effect kicked in of course).
The HIB grand experiment was in proving there was a demand for fair content. Child's Play are simply beneficiaries.
Certainly CP have enough avenues for donation already, it's not like people who want to donate are forced to do so through HIB. One has to assume that the reason HIB was successful was because of the business model, not the charities selected.
The support of Free, non-DRM software and indie developers is the charity, chief. The other guys are just icing on the cake. Not only have they dropped the indies and dropped the no-drm requirements, but they've they've dropped support of the EFF too!
If a new group had come along with a "support struggling AAA studios" charity then we might laugh, but they wouldn't be denounced for compromising their ideals.
On the jury thing... that's not actually a legal reason to throw out a verdict. Juror privilege protects them from allegations of misconduct, and the testimony of a juror is not enough to impeach the verdict.
Basically, hostile and/or biased juries are known to be a weakness of the jury system, but it's just one we've decided to live with. If the defence could not get the case thrown out before they deliver their verdict, the verdict stands.
Taking the lane when it gets narrow is the safest way to deal with that situation, it's taught by riding instructors everywhere and is totally legal. In fact, taking the lane is just the safest policy all round - even safer than using bike lanes (which are there to increase rider participation rather than safety).
Honestly, you just need to sack up. Driving a car in traffic is pretty intimidating too until you get used to it, and you don't notice the haters after you get used to the idea that you are riding where you are supposed to be riding.
It is easy. If you compare Samsung's pre-iPhone phones to it's post-iPhone phones you'd be hard pressed to work out exactly where the iPhone came along.
Indeed, the iPhone looks suspiciously like a lot of Samsung's pre-iPhone devices.
I'm going out on a limb here, but surely when the clutch is engaged there is a mechanical connection, and when it is disengaged there is no mechanical connection. All it would take is for the electrical failure mode to engage the clutch.
Oh, we'll call it 1.0, but I'm sure distros won't start shipping it by default because we said it's not ready. Why are you pulling that face? Worked for KDE didn't it?
Your boycotting EA is not going to change the fact that the always-connected DRM model is going to be significantly more financially successful than the securerom one.
That's a dubious "fact" there. It assumes more effective DRM = increased sales... A content-industry fantasy that has not been observed in the real world.
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Right to Obtain Decent Reviews Before Purchase. Good luck exercising that right between all the pre-release embargoes and the thinly-veiled corporate shills that make up the mainstream gaming press.
The lucrative video gaming market you were a member of no longer exists. It's been replaced by a lucrative consumer milking machine.
Sure, a new video game market is forming around the fringes, but it's far from lucrative.
We had advisories from "concerned" police that Apple's service was potentially life-threatening.
Not ruling out the advisories may have been overblown, but yeah... that's a fiasco alright.
Because it's not really Apple or Samsung that are suffering. It's us. The consumers who are literally paying for the benefit of stagnation and lack of choice.
Apple and Samsung like the weather in Hell just fine.
Ah ha! And now my poor math is recorded for prosperity.
Dude. There has not been a single mass murder in Australia since our gun laws were strengthened in '96. 12 years without a massacre. Can you imagine?
Before we get too excited about ruined businesses, it's best to remember that Yelp has a fairly enthusiastic but narrow user base. I'd be surprised if even 2% of the contractor's potential clients had read the review (before the Streisand Effect kicked in of course).
Existential issues.
The HIB grand experiment was in proving there was a demand for fair content. Child's Play are simply beneficiaries.
Certainly CP have enough avenues for donation already, it's not like people who want to donate are forced to do so through HIB. One has to assume that the reason HIB was successful was because of the business model, not the charities selected.
The support of Free, non-DRM software and indie developers is the charity, chief. The other guys are just icing on the cake. Not only have they dropped the indies and dropped the no-drm requirements, but they've they've dropped support of the EFF too!
If a new group had come along with a "support struggling AAA studios" charity then we might laugh, but they wouldn't be denounced for compromising their ideals.
The point is you don't need (or even want) a hypervisor when you have a secure multi-user system with process isolation like Android.
Lack of a hypervisor support baked into the CPU is only a problem for hypervisor vendors.
On the jury thing... that's not actually a legal reason to throw out a verdict. Juror privilege protects them from allegations of misconduct, and the testimony of a juror is not enough to impeach the verdict. Basically, hostile and/or biased juries are known to be a weakness of the jury system, but it's just one we've decided to live with. If the defence could not get the case thrown out before they deliver their verdict, the verdict stands.
Just goes to show, the only way the Nazi's could have been more evil was if they had patented their wartime tech.
patents: More evil than Hitler.
Users don't install Sophos. It's the kind of product that is marketed to the CEO level (thus forced on enterprise IT departments).
Taking the lane when it gets narrow is the safest way to deal with that situation, it's taught by riding instructors everywhere and is totally legal. In fact, taking the lane is just the safest policy all round - even safer than using bike lanes (which are there to increase rider participation rather than safety).
Honestly, you just need to sack up. Driving a car in traffic is pretty intimidating too until you get used to it, and you don't notice the haters after you get used to the idea that you are riding where you are supposed to be riding.
It is easy. If you compare Samsung's pre-iPhone phones to it's post-iPhone phones you'd be hard pressed to work out exactly where the iPhone came along.
Indeed, the iPhone looks suspiciously like a lot of Samsung's pre-iPhone devices.
Come on, mate. You can do better than unoriginal meme regurgitation.
Besides, the question was posed by slashdot editors. The article headline is noticeably bereft of any questions.
That sounds like quite a tale, my good Sir.
I'm going out on a limb here, but surely when the clutch is engaged there is a mechanical connection, and when it is disengaged there is no mechanical connection. All it would take is for the electrical failure mode to engage the clutch.
Why is the Federal Government singling out Huawei and not subjecting everyone to this scrutiny?
Because most other networking companies aren't wholly owned subsidiaries of the Chinese government.
You know you can set gmail's display density to compact right?
A wiki'tard, eh? Try the summary at the top of the page.
OP made a distinction between coding and scripting. It's assumed that EVERY sysadmin does scripting, but very few can code.
Oh, we'll call it 1.0, but I'm sure distros won't start shipping it by default because we said it's not ready. Why are you pulling that face? Worked for KDE didn't it?
Your boycotting EA is not going to change the fact that the always-connected DRM model is going to be significantly more financially successful than the securerom one.
That's a dubious "fact" there. It assumes more effective DRM = increased sales... A content-industry fantasy that has not been observed in the real world.