Driver error/stupidity is the main factor in the vast majority of automotive crashes in which seatbelts and airbags save lives. That doesn't mean that seatbelts and airbags should be kept from public use by non-practising patent trolls.
In civilised countries, this is what a coronial inquest is for. The coroner would probably recommend that the patent be implemented or opened in the public interest, and the company holding the patent would be shamed or regulated into submission. But this is the good ol' USA, so a lawsuit is the only option.
This is a clear cut case of irresponsibility on the part of the driver who was driving distracted.
Right, and in that sense the crash is not, even in a small way, Apple's fault. None of this changes the fact that a useful safety feature is being kept from the public because the patent holder is a NPE (for the purpose of this patent, anyway).
If there was another way to get the message out, that would be good, obviously. But in America, it usually takes a lawsuit.
That, and it's really absurd to label this as a racism thing as in TFS when Islam isn't a race.
Congratulations, you can read a dictionary.
Meanwhile, back in the real world: Voter ID laws are racist even though the presence or absence of a certain ID is not a race. Gerrymandering is (usually) racist even though street address is not a race. Even the criminalisation of cannabis was racist even though cannabis is not a race.
Politicians, pundits, and others use many things as a proxy for race to kid themselves that they're not being racist. Islamophobia is one of many such things.
"Hi, I'm a mostly blue 2031 VW Hedgehog at latitude xx.xxxx,longitude yyy.yyyy proceeding NorthEast toward an intersection where I plan to turn left. If you need to talk to me, my friends call me $%34XQC1"
I definitely felt this way with my S4. When the charging port finally died on it, I bit the bullet and got an S7. I have to say, 3-4 months in and I don't miss the replaceable battery.
I also upgraded direct from a S4 to a S7, and I very much miss the IR blaster. Do they even make phones with those any more?
I get laughed at when I suggest memcached because all the cool young programmers "know" that redis is where it's at.
I had to look up this "redis" thing. I saw on the front page that it supports geospatial data. Then I looked up what constitutes "geospatial data" as far as redis is concerned. Then I cried a little.
It might be a fine product at what it was designed for, but any time I see people throwing around big words that they don't understand, it's a safe assumption that what they're trying to sell me is a toy.
I've read the 1973 editions, cover to cover. I skimmed a few fasciles. Haven't kept up since then.
Do I recommend it? You bet I do, just like I recommend Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The Mythical Man-month, and The Psychology of Computer Programming. That's not to say you have to have read classics like these to be a good programmer, but if you haven't internalised a lot of the material that's covered in books like these, I question how much you care about what you do. And if you don't care about what you do, it will show in the quality of your software.
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Driver error/stupidity is the main factor in the vast majority of automotive crashes in which seatbelts and airbags save lives. That doesn't mean that seatbelts and airbags should be kept from public use by non-practising patent trolls.
In civilised countries, this is what a coronial inquest is for. The coroner would probably recommend that the patent be implemented or opened in the public interest, and the company holding the patent would be shamed or regulated into submission. But this is the good ol' USA, so a lawsuit is the only option.
Drivers are totally to blame in the vast majority of crashes where seatbelts and airbags save lives, too.
If Skype implemented it, Apple would have to implement it too due to customer pressure.
You say that like the job of the vast majority of safety mechanisms isn't to avoid or mitigate human error.
This is a clear cut case of irresponsibility on the part of the driver who was driving distracted.
Right, and in that sense the crash is not, even in a small way, Apple's fault. None of this changes the fact that a useful safety feature is being kept from the public because the patent holder is a NPE (for the purpose of this patent, anyway).
If there was another way to get the message out, that would be good, obviously. But in America, it usually takes a lawsuit.
Disney owns the Star Wars franchise now.
...and 20th Century Fox owns the original trilogy.
Unlikely. Lucas destroyed the originals when he made the Special Editions.
Lucas used to be an editor. He is famous for never throwing away anything.
There may be no original prints of A New Hope left, but all the source material almost certainly exists.
TIRED of all these retards ending anything that they disagree with with a "-gate."
Yeah, fuck Adam Baldwin.
Bass Strait, I'm guessing.
Valve Software is not an individual. It is a legal fiction created by law.
I resent that remark.
(Free clue: Harlem is not in the South.)
"You're the racist, you racist!"
- Someone Who Self-Identifies As a Conservative
That, and it's really absurd to label this as a racism thing as in TFS when Islam isn't a race.
Congratulations, you can read a dictionary.
Meanwhile, back in the real world: Voter ID laws are racist even though the presence or absence of a certain ID is not a race. Gerrymandering is (usually) racist even though street address is not a race. Even the criminalisation of cannabis was racist even though cannabis is not a race.
Politicians, pundits, and others use many things as a proxy for race to kid themselves that they're not being racist. Islamophobia is one of many such things.
War isn't fair, but neither is it lawless.
The objective of war is not to look "man enough" but to kill sufficiently large numbers of enemy that he will no longer be inclined to attack you.
That's the weirdest twisting of jus ad bello I've seen since the Bush Doctrine.
If humans were not monogamous, there would be no concept of infidelity or cheating.
As any historian can tell you, fidelity is a middle-class concept.
I'm getting a kick out of imagining Bush trying to pronounce it and it sounds like he's saying "Alterterior" to me.
I thought it sounded like neo-nazis. "We prefer the term alt-ruistic."
"Hi, I'm a mostly blue 2031 VW Hedgehog at latitude xx.xxxx,longitude yyy.yyyy proceeding NorthEast toward an intersection where I plan to turn left. If you need to talk to me, my friends call me $%34XQC1"
It's an older code, sir, but it checks out.
It's not the same without Angela Rippon.
I definitely felt this way with my S4. When the charging port finally died on it, I bit the bullet and got an S7. I have to say, 3-4 months in and I don't miss the replaceable battery.
I also upgraded direct from a S4 to a S7, and I very much miss the IR blaster. Do they even make phones with those any more?
I get laughed at when I suggest memcached because all the cool young programmers "know" that redis is where it's at.
I had to look up this "redis" thing. I saw on the front page that it supports geospatial data. Then I looked up what constitutes "geospatial data" as far as redis is concerned. Then I cried a little.
It might be a fine product at what it was designed for, but any time I see people throwing around big words that they don't understand, it's a safe assumption that what they're trying to sell me is a toy.
I've been programming longer than Knuth has, starting with machine language.
If it's not a rude question, how old are you, exactly?
I've read the 1973 editions, cover to cover. I skimmed a few fasciles. Haven't kept up since then.
Do I recommend it? You bet I do, just like I recommend Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The Mythical Man-month, and The Psychology of Computer Programming. That's not to say you have to have read classics like these to be a good programmer, but if you haven't internalised a lot of the material that's covered in books like these, I question how much you care about what you do. And if you don't care about what you do, it will show in the quality of your software.
I was thinking The Red Weed.