You presume he saw his own bio the way you did it, as a rather sad man who thought money was everything and whose death was ultimately received as "well, it ain't only the good that die young". Did he see himself as a vindictive petty minded asshole OR did he read it as a glorious tribute to his vision proving how right he was and how wrong everyone else was?
IF the bio is true, the picture it reveals is not of a man with a lot of introspective capability.
Then who deserves to die? You are just another wannabe hippy. Someone who doesn't love all but who is just to afraid to just admit some people deserve dead. Your like those people who are against the death penalty, not because they believe in human beings but because they don't want to take responsibility.
We are talking about a man who parked in handicap spaces when he could have build his office to have a drive in office if he wanted to. This person had zero morals and zero empathy. The only people that love him, everyone close to him (READ the reactions to his dead carefully) pretty much said "interesting guy, but ain't gonna shed a tear). Their would have been more reaction of a toaster had stopped working. A human being did not die, a thing died that made some fancy gadgets that will only be remembered in marketing books.
People say that nobody says that on they wished they spent more time in the office on their deathbed. I think Steve Jobs wished he did.
Now you can analyze your girlfriend's* DNA and see if she's only acting happy and would become miserable after marriage!
It's a lot easier than that. Just plan a wedding. Whatever she's like during that process is what she'll be like after marriage. Bridezilla == Wifezilla.
Then throw a screaming baby and some surging hormones into the mix.
Yeah, lets solve all Blizzard business troubles by making their entire business model to give their game and services away for free with no business transactions at all!
F2P, we loose money on every gamer but make it up in bulk.
What a moron. And if you comment on how F2P leads to cash sales... exactly how would those not be blocked by sanctions as business transactions? I had hoped I would not need to point this out on a tech forum but apparently I do.
Please BMOC, nominate yourself for a Darwin award soon.
It has been dumped by Ubuntu, nobody uses it on Linux. It wasn't needed, it wasn't wanted, it wasn't used. If that is not a failure for a product, what is?
Writing this from a Linux desktop at work (yeah yeah) and doing web development. One company forced me to use a AirBook for it and my got is sucked. Not only was it a very badly designed piece of hardware (rounded soft corners EVERYWHERE EXCEPT where you rest your palms. BRILLIANT! I found it to be a slow piece of crap that couldn't be outfitted with a decent amount of memory, something even AMD netbooks can handle (8GB) and the fucking lack of any kind (even MS half-assed version is better) of focus follows mouse makes development just that much more involved.
And those who claim macports is a replacement for aptitude need to have head re-examined.
Yes, a Macbook runs smoother then Windows, then again, what doesn't? But as a replacement for doing webdevelopment for software that will run on Linux servers? Not even close. Especially for the price. Sorry but I don't need USB3. I need a VERY fast SSD, plenty of memory and LOTS of screen space. Lighted keys? I can actually afford ceiling lights thank you very much.
Wait a minute, that name in the summary. Isn't that the mono retard? The thing that has now been completely dumped? Why should I take anyone who thought mono was a good idea serious?
What does logic have to do with a democracy? If the voters vote to have to sky painted pink by a majority of 1, then so be it. THAT IS DEMOCRACY, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Not just the will of logical people. THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. ABSOLUTE AND WITHOUT RESERVATION.
And yes, Godwin be damned, this means that if the majority votes for the gas chambers to be opened, you are an enemy of democracy for refusing to do so. Only a fool believes democracy to be a guarantee of freedom, liberty or human rights.
The western capitalist system has no need for state propaganda. The masses are all to happy to watch, devour no worship the opinions and lifestyles of the 1% who tell them that the 1% deserve to be the top and everyone else has a chance too even if they never ever get even remotely close with their part time burger flipping job.
What am I talking about? Media. Name ONE person in Media who makes less then 100.000 dollars per year. One TV celeb, just ONE! In many ways, Reality TV is a very risky move, showing the non-1% and allowing them to speak? Showing that work is hard and dangerous and it never gets any better? OOPS! Ah but luckily, reality stars get payed big, so soon they are the 1% too.
Public opinion in the West is made on TV and TV makes big money for all involved. Of course they are going to be pro-big money. It is like asking Oprah on how to make it from day to day with just 2 dollars per day for food. She eats ten dollars in a single snack. She hasn't lived the live of her audience in decades.
And she is not alone. Rappers? The ones you know ain't from the hood anymore, they live in guarded mansions and drive in armored cars.
American propaganda is simple, it shows only the lottery winners, 1 lucky winner won 300 million! Watch and admire him and aspire to do the same. Saying tat 300 million people lost a dollar they could have spend better... that would not be such a good ad.
Everyone who you see in America on TV, has made it. What better way to indoctrinate the American Dream.
But hey, why believe me, I am posting on the blogsite of poster boys of the American Dream. After all, they made it, so so could you. Right? It couldn't possibly be that the 1% by definition will always be the 1%? Nah, that is commy thinking. Everyone can be the 1% if they just work hard.
And Detroit could have made compact fuel efficient cars to 20 years before the Japanese introduced them. How is Detroit doing anyway, still a hot bed of technology development and the beating heart of American industrial might?
First the Chinese made cars that were crap, then they made them not so good but very cheap, now they are adding gadgets while still being dirt cheap. Next step? Bye bye Detroit. Japan had to always keep America at peace to keep its protection from China. Who does China need protection from? They can flood the west with cheap cars and no need to buy shares in American companies so some western workers can remain employed.
Be afraid, the west never fully recovered from the asian tigers like Japan and Korea. And those are tiny kittens compared to China. It might well show the world why going "here kitty kitty" to a Tiger is not a survival strategy.
Have you been to Japan? They are TINY! You can fit three inside a single MRI and no bits sticking out. Hell, if they bent their knees a bit, they can walk through.
Mean while the average American needs to go to the docks to get x-rayed in line with shipping containers.
You put Belgium before The Netherlands? How dare you deny our rightful claim to this tear away province... what... belgians want to join Holland? eeh... the French, they belong to the French! Belgium? Never heard of it. Where is it?
Some far older stores look like this. Hell, a make-up department in Bijenkorf Amsterdam (big rounded white curves, lots of light, big displays) (dutch department store) looked like this long before Apple became cool again.
There really are only so many designs and layouts you can think off. Even only a few colors. You could for instance color your store yellow but everyone would go insane. Yellow is NOT a good color for interiors. And entire range of the spectrum OUT of the question.
If a contract has an invalid clause, it can be ruled to be null and void in in its entirety, this is done PRECISELY to avoid what you said, try crap in your contract to see if you can get away with it and the judge will just award the case to the other side. It rarely goes this far because by that time a lawyer will advise the offending party to settle or risk getting their ass chewed out and usually companies listen.
A lot of Americans don't seem to understand their country. You only got freedom of speech protection from your government. NOT from your fellow citizens be they people or cooperations. See that church that celebrates dead soldiers AND in turn the bike riders who block them from view.
Free speech does NOT mean everyone has to let you speak.
Or else you let me into YOUR house to hold my speech in your face for 14 hours straight.
If you can't even understand your own freedoms, how can you possibly hope to keep them?
This Arijit clearly presented himself as a provocateur and a trouble maker. What if he was going to cause a disturbance up in the air? Do you know how easy it is to cause a disaster? OPEN THE DOOR! It can be easily opened, if only someone is crazy enough. Wearing a t-shirt that says bite me to a dog convention, is pretty damned crazy.
Pilots have the right to refuse ANYONE who they think is going to be a hazard to either themselves, they other passengers or the crew. Because once up in their, calling the cops is not an option. So they refuse people who are drunk, in bad health or belligerent. Don't like that? Start your own airline, good luck getting insurance with your policy of "we take EVERYONE".
And it not just whether Arijit himself would cause trouble. I have seen another passenger punch a person who came in WAY to late right in the face for causing the delay. An aircraft is a very small confined space. people are already on edge at the best of times, taking someone on board who has no regard for anyone else (Arijit thought nothing of delaying over a hundred people for his temper tantrum) and expecting a smooth flight is a risk I would not take and I don't blame the pilot for not taking it.
Little kids on Slashdot think the world should all go their way, not how the world works at all. You upset other people, they will upset you. And there are more of them then there are of you.
Want to make a point? Be prepared to be hauled away. And this fucktard just protested because he was inconvenienced and is now whining about missing a flight. 3 girls in Russia are in jail for 2 years at least for protesting a dictator. Get your priorities straight slashdot.
For years, using Linux was something for the advanced users who enjoyed having to dig deep on occasion to make it all work. Then along came Ubuntu and turned the Linux desktop into something that was REALLY a lot easier to install, use and maintain then Windows and yes, even Mac. Can either of those two run from a CD with full access to the HD if something goes tits up? Do either of them have a full desktop available with browser and everything else during install?
Finally, Linux the desktop. WORKED.
And then the Gnome 3 team said "nah, it doesn't, we know better how you should work". And they released a badly tested, badly thought out and badly documented product way to early and with no training to get people used to the new interface or any motivation for wanting to get used to the new interface.
It is like me forcing you to sit upside down on the toilet, with no training or handy handholds all for the pleasure of crapping on your face. Whatever secret benefit it might give, you are not going to be in the mood to find out right?
It is the same with Windows Metro. WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO FIX? What was missing in the classic desktop user design that is being fixed in by either Unity, Gnome 3 or Metro?
People are perfectly willing to change for a well known UI if there is a really good reason to do so. Who here still uses rotary dialing on their phone? Touch keys WERE a massive improvement, not just more accurate but also less stressful on your finger if had to dial a lot. The mobile phones and indeed the rise of OSX has shown that people are not stuck to the classic desktop, as MS thought judging by their early attempts at a phone OS.
But for the desktop, the desktop design, just works well enough. Gnome 3 made its introduction even worse by not being very well put together and doing it while things like Nautilus were still horrid pieces of buggy crash prone slow as molasses software. They then threw out all the good bits all the improvements others had made to make Gnome 2.0 workable and made something nobody wanted instead.
But all is good. Hello? You have been ditched left and right by distro's. Mint rose as a distro from nothing just because they offered people non-gnome3 despite their insistence of screwing up google searches.
The Iraqi minister of looking silly couldn't do a better job of dis-information. Gnome 3.0 has not been ditched by all users. Gnome 2.0 fork is NOT eating our lunch.
You and so many bleeding hearts lack reading capability. YOU are talking about PERMANENT insanity defense. However, most people to try the insanity defense use TEMPORARY insanity, like a psychosis induced by drug use.
Recent case in Holland saw a black guy murder his famous brother during a marijuana induced psychosis. He was released from jail immidiatly when this defence was accepted.
The Netherlands DOES have TBS, which means "Ter beschikking stelling" which means "To be made available" which in theory can see you locked up without a defined sentence period (a human right crime according to bleeding hearts) BUT that is ONLY for permanent crazies. Not for people who claimed they lost it due to drugs or stress.
I am perfectly willing to accept permanent insanity and sent someone to a padded cell instead of a non-padded one. Just as long as the door remains locked for a very long time. To many times, the temp insanity plea results in people walking away from a crime.
Or you are just an ignorent kid. Doctors have the highest levels of suicide. Maybe that is because they make so little money of people don't give any special respect to someone who is a doctor, yeah, that must be it. Not all the crap they got to deal with.
Genius is a relative term. These sales clerks work in Apple Stores. Compared to their customers, they are most certainly geniuses. People give monster cables a bad rep but compared to Apple cables, they are a BARGAIN! Why yes, a DVI to dsub connector, that be 20 euro please. COME ON! You fall for that, your knuckles are dragging across the floor.
Samsung can answer the question of you and what army of killer robots. They got them. The market cap of Samsung is the GDP of Korea.
Meanwhile Apple is a very small player in a very crowded market that already was at deaths door once and the leader who pulled them out of it is dead.
The two companies are VERY different. If Apple loses mobile, it is dead. If Samsung looses mobile, only Samsung mobile is dead. And Samsung itself will continue and continue earning money on EVERY Apple device as it contains Samsung tech.
That is probably also the reason Apple is so pissed. Samsung gets money for every iPhone and iPad. Apple gets nothing (because it has nothing anybody wants for their devices). That hurts, Apple wants to sell stuff to other producers too but they got nothing but design and design is hard to sell to other designers.
This entire trial is between a company that makes physical parts that it sells to a design company that wants to sell its ideas. 40 bucks for a border around a screen. Fair isn't it? After all, Samsung and the likes get 40 bucks for the screen so why not 40 bucks in return for the design of the bezel?
Don't discount this, a LOT of republicans who want to outsource jobs want to turn the entire US economy into an idea economy where the west sells ideas to the east in exchange for physical products.
Problem: patents for physical objects are clear, for ideas... not so much.
This case is test if the "knowledge" economy (where knowledge is not hard science but design and ideas) is workable.
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You presume he saw his own bio the way you did it, as a rather sad man who thought money was everything and whose death was ultimately received as "well, it ain't only the good that die young". Did he see himself as a vindictive petty minded asshole OR did he read it as a glorious tribute to his vision proving how right he was and how wrong everyone else was?
IF the bio is true, the picture it reveals is not of a man with a lot of introspective capability.
Then who deserves to die? You are just another wannabe hippy. Someone who doesn't love all but who is just to afraid to just admit some people deserve dead. Your like those people who are against the death penalty, not because they believe in human beings but because they don't want to take responsibility.
We are talking about a man who parked in handicap spaces when he could have build his office to have a drive in office if he wanted to. This person had zero morals and zero empathy. The only people that love him, everyone close to him (READ the reactions to his dead carefully) pretty much said "interesting guy, but ain't gonna shed a tear). Their would have been more reaction of a toaster had stopped working. A human being did not die, a thing died that made some fancy gadgets that will only be remembered in marketing books.
People say that nobody says that on they wished they spent more time in the office on their deathbed. I think Steve Jobs wished he did.
Now you can analyze your girlfriend's* DNA and see if she's only acting happy and would become miserable after marriage!
It's a lot easier than that. Just plan a wedding. Whatever she's like during that process is what she'll be like after marriage. Bridezilla == Wifezilla.
Then throw a screaming baby and some surging hormones into the mix.
Somebody kill me.
I am on it.
The wife
Yeah, lets solve all Blizzard business troubles by making their entire business model to give their game and services away for free with no business transactions at all!
F2P, we loose money on every gamer but make it up in bulk.
What a moron. And if you comment on how F2P leads to cash sales... exactly how would those not be blocked by sanctions as business transactions? I had hoped I would not need to point this out on a tech forum but apparently I do.
Please BMOC, nominate yourself for a Darwin award soon.
It has been dumped by Ubuntu, nobody uses it on Linux. It wasn't needed, it wasn't wanted, it wasn't used. If that is not a failure for a product, what is?
Writing this from a Linux desktop at work (yeah yeah) and doing web development. One company forced me to use a AirBook for it and my got is sucked. Not only was it a very badly designed piece of hardware (rounded soft corners EVERYWHERE EXCEPT where you rest your palms. BRILLIANT! I found it to be a slow piece of crap that couldn't be outfitted with a decent amount of memory, something even AMD netbooks can handle (8GB) and the fucking lack of any kind (even MS half-assed version is better) of focus follows mouse makes development just that much more involved.
And those who claim macports is a replacement for aptitude need to have head re-examined.
Yes, a Macbook runs smoother then Windows, then again, what doesn't? But as a replacement for doing webdevelopment for software that will run on Linux servers? Not even close. Especially for the price. Sorry but I don't need USB3. I need a VERY fast SSD, plenty of memory and LOTS of screen space. Lighted keys? I can actually afford ceiling lights thank you very much.
Wait a minute, that name in the summary. Isn't that the mono retard? The thing that has now been completely dumped? Why should I take anyone who thought mono was a good idea serious?
Kiwis are not corrupt, just naïve and often a bit stupid. It's too small and too far away to maintain a critical mass of intellect.
So is my penis! It looks like a small hairy flightless bird too.
What does logic have to do with a democracy? If the voters vote to have to sky painted pink by a majority of 1, then so be it. THAT IS DEMOCRACY, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Not just the will of logical people. THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. ABSOLUTE AND WITHOUT RESERVATION.
And yes, Godwin be damned, this means that if the majority votes for the gas chambers to be opened, you are an enemy of democracy for refusing to do so. Only a fool believes democracy to be a guarantee of freedom, liberty or human rights.
The western capitalist system has no need for state propaganda. The masses are all to happy to watch, devour no worship the opinions and lifestyles of the 1% who tell them that the 1% deserve to be the top and everyone else has a chance too even if they never ever get even remotely close with their part time burger flipping job.
What am I talking about? Media. Name ONE person in Media who makes less then 100.000 dollars per year. One TV celeb, just ONE! In many ways, Reality TV is a very risky move, showing the non-1% and allowing them to speak? Showing that work is hard and dangerous and it never gets any better? OOPS! Ah but luckily, reality stars get payed big, so soon they are the 1% too.
Public opinion in the West is made on TV and TV makes big money for all involved. Of course they are going to be pro-big money. It is like asking Oprah on how to make it from day to day with just 2 dollars per day for food. She eats ten dollars in a single snack. She hasn't lived the live of her audience in decades.
And she is not alone. Rappers? The ones you know ain't from the hood anymore, they live in guarded mansions and drive in armored cars.
American propaganda is simple, it shows only the lottery winners, 1 lucky winner won 300 million! Watch and admire him and aspire to do the same. Saying tat 300 million people lost a dollar they could have spend better... that would not be such a good ad.
Everyone who you see in America on TV, has made it. What better way to indoctrinate the American Dream.
But hey, why believe me, I am posting on the blogsite of poster boys of the American Dream. After all, they made it, so so could you. Right? It couldn't possibly be that the 1% by definition will always be the 1%? Nah, that is commy thinking. Everyone can be the 1% if they just work hard.
And Detroit could have made compact fuel efficient cars to 20 years before the Japanese introduced them. How is Detroit doing anyway, still a hot bed of technology development and the beating heart of American industrial might?
First the Chinese made cars that were crap, then they made them not so good but very cheap, now they are adding gadgets while still being dirt cheap. Next step? Bye bye Detroit. Japan had to always keep America at peace to keep its protection from China. Who does China need protection from? They can flood the west with cheap cars and no need to buy shares in American companies so some western workers can remain employed.
Be afraid, the west never fully recovered from the asian tigers like Japan and Korea. And those are tiny kittens compared to China. It might well show the world why going "here kitty kitty" to a Tiger is not a survival strategy.
Americans... doh!!!
Mind you, I am siding with the Brits, drinkers of warm beer. But at least their beer has some taste.
Billions of people must die before the RIAA is defeated? Doesn't sound like much of a plan to me, one of the billions.
Have you been to Japan? They are TINY! You can fit three inside a single MRI and no bits sticking out. Hell, if they bent their knees a bit, they can walk through.
Mean while the average American needs to go to the docks to get x-rayed in line with shipping containers.
You put Belgium before The Netherlands? How dare you deny our rightful claim to this tear away province... what... belgians want to join Holland? eeh... the French, they belong to the French! Belgium? Never heard of it. Where is it?
Some far older stores look like this. Hell, a make-up department in Bijenkorf Amsterdam (big rounded white curves, lots of light, big displays) (dutch department store) looked like this long before Apple became cool again.
There really are only so many designs and layouts you can think off. Even only a few colors. You could for instance color your store yellow but everyone would go insane. Yellow is NOT a good color for interiors. And entire range of the spectrum OUT of the question.
If a contract has an invalid clause, it can be ruled to be null and void in in its entirety, this is done PRECISELY to avoid what you said, try crap in your contract to see if you can get away with it and the judge will just award the case to the other side. It rarely goes this far because by that time a lawyer will advise the offending party to settle or risk getting their ass chewed out and usually companies listen.
A lot of Americans don't seem to understand their country. You only got freedom of speech protection from your government. NOT from your fellow citizens be they people or cooperations. See that church that celebrates dead soldiers AND in turn the bike riders who block them from view.
Free speech does NOT mean everyone has to let you speak.
Or else you let me into YOUR house to hold my speech in your face for 14 hours straight.
If you can't even understand your own freedoms, how can you possibly hope to keep them?
This Arijit clearly presented himself as a provocateur and a trouble maker. What if he was going to cause a disturbance up in the air? Do you know how easy it is to cause a disaster? OPEN THE DOOR! It can be easily opened, if only someone is crazy enough. Wearing a t-shirt that says bite me to a dog convention, is pretty damned crazy.
Pilots have the right to refuse ANYONE who they think is going to be a hazard to either themselves, they other passengers or the crew. Because once up in their, calling the cops is not an option. So they refuse people who are drunk, in bad health or belligerent. Don't like that? Start your own airline, good luck getting insurance with your policy of "we take EVERYONE".
And it not just whether Arijit himself would cause trouble. I have seen another passenger punch a person who came in WAY to late right in the face for causing the delay. An aircraft is a very small confined space. people are already on edge at the best of times, taking someone on board who has no regard for anyone else (Arijit thought nothing of delaying over a hundred people for his temper tantrum) and expecting a smooth flight is a risk I would not take and I don't blame the pilot for not taking it.
Little kids on Slashdot think the world should all go their way, not how the world works at all. You upset other people, they will upset you. And there are more of them then there are of you.
Want to make a point? Be prepared to be hauled away. And this fucktard just protested because he was inconvenienced and is now whining about missing a flight. 3 girls in Russia are in jail for 2 years at least for protesting a dictator. Get your priorities straight slashdot.
For years, using Linux was something for the advanced users who enjoyed having to dig deep on occasion to make it all work. Then along came Ubuntu and turned the Linux desktop into something that was REALLY a lot easier to install, use and maintain then Windows and yes, even Mac. Can either of those two run from a CD with full access to the HD if something goes tits up? Do either of them have a full desktop available with browser and everything else during install?
Finally, Linux the desktop. WORKED.
And then the Gnome 3 team said "nah, it doesn't, we know better how you should work". And they released a badly tested, badly thought out and badly documented product way to early and with no training to get people used to the new interface or any motivation for wanting to get used to the new interface.
It is like me forcing you to sit upside down on the toilet, with no training or handy handholds all for the pleasure of crapping on your face. Whatever secret benefit it might give, you are not going to be in the mood to find out right?
It is the same with Windows Metro. WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO FIX? What was missing in the classic desktop user design that is being fixed in by either Unity, Gnome 3 or Metro?
People are perfectly willing to change for a well known UI if there is a really good reason to do so. Who here still uses rotary dialing on their phone? Touch keys WERE a massive improvement, not just more accurate but also less stressful on your finger if had to dial a lot. The mobile phones and indeed the rise of OSX has shown that people are not stuck to the classic desktop, as MS thought judging by their early attempts at a phone OS.
But for the desktop, the desktop design, just works well enough. Gnome 3 made its introduction even worse by not being very well put together and doing it while things like Nautilus were still horrid pieces of buggy crash prone slow as molasses software. They then threw out all the good bits all the improvements others had made to make Gnome 2.0 workable and made something nobody wanted instead.
But all is good. Hello? You have been ditched left and right by distro's. Mint rose as a distro from nothing just because they offered people non-gnome3 despite their insistence of screwing up google searches.
The Iraqi minister of looking silly couldn't do a better job of dis-information. Gnome 3.0 has not been ditched by all users. Gnome 2.0 fork is NOT eating our lunch.
You and so many bleeding hearts lack reading capability. YOU are talking about PERMANENT insanity defense. However, most people to try the insanity defense use TEMPORARY insanity, like a psychosis induced by drug use.
Recent case in Holland saw a black guy murder his famous brother during a marijuana induced psychosis. He was released from jail immidiatly when this defence was accepted.
The Netherlands DOES have TBS, which means "Ter beschikking stelling" which means "To be made available" which in theory can see you locked up without a defined sentence period (a human right crime according to bleeding hearts) BUT that is ONLY for permanent crazies. Not for people who claimed they lost it due to drugs or stress.
I am perfectly willing to accept permanent insanity and sent someone to a padded cell instead of a non-padded one. Just as long as the door remains locked for a very long time. To many times, the temp insanity plea results in people walking away from a crime.
Or you are just an ignorent kid. Doctors have the highest levels of suicide. Maybe that is because they make so little money of people don't give any special respect to someone who is a doctor, yeah, that must be it. Not all the crap they got to deal with.
Couldn't Apple have payed their wage slaves better so they wouldn't want to risk their jobs by thieving?
Also, Apple has very invasive hiring practices with the excuse to stop bad Apples. Doesn't work at all it seems, so why the invasive hiring practices?
Genius is a relative term. These sales clerks work in Apple Stores. Compared to their customers, they are most certainly geniuses. People give monster cables a bad rep but compared to Apple cables, they are a BARGAIN! Why yes, a DVI to dsub connector, that be 20 euro please. COME ON! You fall for that, your knuckles are dragging across the floor.
That I am NOT special despite it clearly saying so on my corporate mug? Well, DAMN!
Does that also mean all my co-workers are also not special? ALRIGHT!
Samsung can answer the question of you and what army of killer robots. They got them. The market cap of Samsung is the GDP of Korea.
Meanwhile Apple is a very small player in a very crowded market that already was at deaths door once and the leader who pulled them out of it is dead.
The two companies are VERY different. If Apple loses mobile, it is dead. If Samsung looses mobile, only Samsung mobile is dead. And Samsung itself will continue and continue earning money on EVERY Apple device as it contains Samsung tech.
That is probably also the reason Apple is so pissed. Samsung gets money for every iPhone and iPad. Apple gets nothing (because it has nothing anybody wants for their devices). That hurts, Apple wants to sell stuff to other producers too but they got nothing but design and design is hard to sell to other designers.
This entire trial is between a company that makes physical parts that it sells to a design company that wants to sell its ideas. 40 bucks for a border around a screen. Fair isn't it? After all, Samsung and the likes get 40 bucks for the screen so why not 40 bucks in return for the design of the bezel?
Don't discount this, a LOT of republicans who want to outsource jobs want to turn the entire US economy into an idea economy where the west sells ideas to the east in exchange for physical products.
Problem: patents for physical objects are clear, for ideas... not so much.
This case is test if the "knowledge" economy (where knowledge is not hard science but design and ideas) is workable.
I don't think it is.