The Lenovo X-series tablets have been available with an "outdoor display." I have an X230 on my desk with such a thing. You don't get "touch" but it still works with (and comes with) a Wacom stylus.
They learned a different lesson - keeping the police unions fed with fresh police from the academy, and keeping the private prison operators fed with tax dollars does much more for keeping incumbent politicians as incumbent politicians. The rest is just spin to keep the voters thinking that it's a good policy.
This seems to be a lesson that other people are incapable of learning.
It took a Constitutional amendment, because Prohibition was enacted through a Constitutional amendment. There's only one way to change what the Constitution says - changing it again. And the Founders (rightly) made that hard to do.
Like the old saying goes: You follow drugs, you get drug dealers and drug users. You start to follow the money, and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna go.
The internet equivalent of sitting on the stash house and making cases off the mules going in and out? Unfortunately, most modern law enforcement doesn't have a view of a horizon that far away. They go for the low hanging fruit and move on, instead of taking down the whole ring.
Because clearly the state of today's software will never change, and never become more resource hungry once those resources are available in the market.
And what of the bloodbath that was all the clone makers that couldn't turn a profit in the race to the bottom? Where is Packard Bell, Compaq, and Gateway 2000 today? Either parts of their competition, or they don't exist. Will HP even be a PC OEM in 5 years?
If there's any parallel between the PC market of then and the smartphone market of today, expect it to be the Android ecosystem having a few less participants on the hardware side as the low-cost guys eat the low end, and Samsung squeezes out any other high-end players.
People forget that it is possible to not only survive, but flourish as something less than #1. Red Hat seems to be fine. As is BMW and Mercedes. Nobody in their right mind would claim that Budweiser is clearly the best beer in the world because of market share, just as Windows is not the best based on market share.
Because we all know that having a large market share means that everyone else's products are inferior, and those companies that make them are teetering on the edge of oblivion. See: cars, beer, and just about every other market in existence.
They each equally invested in a joint venture, which put up the capital to purchase the patent portfolio. It then subsequently licensed those patents to each of the investing companies.
This joint venture is the one suing, not the parent companies. There is no collusion in the eyes of the law.
Is it bullshit? Very likely. But it's not that far removed from the SCO Group being a proxy warrior against Linux. And it just happens to be legal bullshit, as it isn't subject to anti-trust - if there was a monopoly player in search, it's Google; not MicrosoftAppleSonyBlackberry.
Apple and Samsung have already been involved in legal action against each other for years, yet Apple still ships products with Samsung parts. Why does Samsung still have Apple as a customer? Because the people running Samsung are not morons - you don't throw away billions in revenue to spite someone. Or, maybe they do, and the shareholders throw them out on their asses.
The whole "OMG you're suing me so I don't want your business" idea is ridiculous in anything larger than a mom-and-pa operation.
Get yourself a Mini-DisplayPort cable and press a keyboard combination. Your 27" iMac just turned into a 27" Thunderbolt Cinema Display for another box that has DisplayPort output.
Just try and file a bug against last year's clang, and the first question asked is "does it work on 3.3?". If it does, that bug is closed, with no more thought to it.
If they already fixed it, why would they want to put any more thought to it?
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Or, on some platforms where 32-bit Java is no longer an option (Mac OS X), Chrome is useless for any site implementing Java.
You get a nice message saying that you need to download something that doesn't exist.
And what's stopping him from seizing 5 more? 100 more?
Nothing. The government has already proved the willingness to do it, and to defend outright theft as social policy.
Except that anything produced locally is ripe for government annexation, so nobody is going to put forth the risk in capital to start a factory.
The Lenovo X-series tablets have been available with an "outdoor display." I have an X230 on my desk with such a thing. You don't get "touch" but it still works with (and comes with) a Wacom stylus.
They learned a different lesson - keeping the police unions fed with fresh police from the academy, and keeping the private prison operators fed with tax dollars does much more for keeping incumbent politicians as incumbent politicians. The rest is just spin to keep the voters thinking that it's a good policy.
This seems to be a lesson that other people are incapable of learning.
It took a Constitutional amendment, because Prohibition was enacted through a Constitutional amendment. There's only one way to change what the Constitution says - changing it again. And the Founders (rightly) made that hard to do.
Wait, are you saying that a computer virus can't stop lithium hydroxide from chemically absorbing CO2?
What a shitty virus.
Like the old saying goes: You follow drugs, you get drug dealers and drug users. You start to follow the money, and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna go.
The internet equivalent of sitting on the stash house and making cases off the mules going in and out? Unfortunately, most modern law enforcement doesn't have a view of a horizon that far away. They go for the low hanging fruit and move on, instead of taking down the whole ring.
Because clearly the state of today's software will never change, and never become more resource hungry once those resources are available in the market.
More accurately, they bought the "assets" of 3DFX, after 3DFX decided it would be a good idea to go into competition with all their customers.
That way, they could pick and choose what expenses they keep (buildings, employees, etc.)
So you're saying that as people become more familiar with something, they want it to be harder to use, and more obtuse?
Are you cracked?
And what of the bloodbath that was all the clone makers that couldn't turn a profit in the race to the bottom? Where is Packard Bell, Compaq, and Gateway 2000 today? Either parts of their competition, or they don't exist. Will HP even be a PC OEM in 5 years?
If there's any parallel between the PC market of then and the smartphone market of today, expect it to be the Android ecosystem having a few less participants on the hardware side as the low-cost guys eat the low end, and Samsung squeezes out any other high-end players.
By that logic, Mercedes is completely fucked. Except that they are not.
And yet Beta outlasted VHS because of its ubiquity in the professional video space.
People forget that it is possible to not only survive, but flourish as something less than #1. Red Hat seems to be fine. As is BMW and Mercedes. Nobody in their right mind would claim that Budweiser is clearly the best beer in the world because of market share, just as Windows is not the best based on market share.
It's a ridiculous argument, and always has been.
Because we all know that having a large market share means that everyone else's products are inferior, and those companies that make them are teetering on the edge of oblivion. See: cars, beer, and just about every other market in existence.
Wouldn't have made a difference. It's "Rockstar Bidco" that is the plaintiff, not Sony.
In the legal world, details matter.
They each equally invested in a joint venture, which put up the capital to purchase the patent portfolio. It then subsequently licensed those patents to each of the investing companies.
This joint venture is the one suing, not the parent companies. There is no collusion in the eyes of the law.
Is it bullshit? Very likely. But it's not that far removed from the SCO Group being a proxy warrior against Linux. And it just happens to be legal bullshit, as it isn't subject to anti-trust - if there was a monopoly player in search, it's Google; not MicrosoftAppleSonyBlackberry.
Apple and Samsung have already been involved in legal action against each other for years, yet Apple still ships products with Samsung parts. Why does Samsung still have Apple as a customer? Because the people running Samsung are not morons - you don't throw away billions in revenue to spite someone. Or, maybe they do, and the shareholders throw them out on their asses.
The whole "OMG you're suing me so I don't want your business" idea is ridiculous in anything larger than a mom-and-pa operation.
It works with anything that is DisplayPort compliant. I've personally plugged it into multiple ThinkPads.
It does.
Get yourself a Mini-DisplayPort cable and press a keyboard combination. Your 27" iMac just turned into a 27" Thunderbolt Cinema Display for another box that has DisplayPort output.
Just try and file a bug against last year's clang, and the first question asked is "does it work on 3.3?". If it does, that bug is closed, with no more thought to it.
If they already fixed it, why would they want to put any more thought to it?
At least this makes an attempt to do away with the non-practicing entities that patent things only to sue.
I'm sure it will still be ineffective, or just not pass both houses of Congress.
And if you buy a car and radically modify the engine and drivetrain, your warranty goes away.
So it is with this.