Mostly because its difficult to knock off the patent trolls that nobody wants, without also inadvertently harming the big patent holders such as Microsoft, Intel, IBM
If all those large patent holders lost their patents at the same time, no one would be harmed.
There was also outrage in Italy when the Guardia di Finazia took action against a famous restaurant that had laundry bills for twice the number of napkins than reported covers.
The guy was lucky to break $50K/year, but he had a boat that looked like it cost better than twice his income.
Yes, but these were million-dollar boats owned by people who claimed to have $30k incomes. Also, the marina fees alone would be too much for someone on a $30k income.
Some years ago, the Italian equivalent of the IRS sent some of its agents to go round marinas, looking at the boats moored there, then compared the estimated value of the boat with the declared income of the owner.
What is this magic? You have a mobile device that can make phone calls? I thought that all that phones do was text, browse the Internet and run lots of apps. But actual voice calls? I'm not sure anyone knows how to do that these days.
The support life should be in BIG letters on the box
... just like any Android phone.
Although my family is all on Android, the whole approach to support for these phones by manufacturers and phone companies is terrible. You are lucky if your phone is supported for 2 years after the model first goes on the market, let alone 2 years after the last sale of that model.
I don't expect firmware updates to the latest version of Android for the life of the phone, but merely security updates for several years after the last sale.
We also had a terrible experience with a phone from T-Mobile. The phone was no longer working, but it was also eligible for an upgrade. T-Mobile didn't have any of the existing model in stock and took 2 weeks before they finally gave in and agreed to do an upgrade without doing the utterly pointless warranty swap first.
The point, at least to most crowd funding efforts, is to create a kind of hybrid of purchasing and investing.
No, crowdfunding is intended to create an illusion of investing, but in reality, there is no investment from the crowds, there is no ownership by the crowds.
People need to remember what happened with Oculus Rift. The Kickstarter suckers provided the seed funding, yet, when the company was sold for $2.3B, the suckers got nothing. I don't think they even got their headsets, did they?
Is there a law that requires Lexus to sell you cheap cars? Do buyers of cars pay a special fee that should go towards subsidizing the purchase of Lexus cars by poor people?
No? Then your analogy is inappropriate and a waste of space.
10. Find my Device: Google has introduced a new feature, called Find my Device, which is a similar feature to Apple's Find my iPhone and allows people to locate, lock and wipe their Android devices in the event when they go missing or get stolen.
Paraphrasing from Margaret Thatcher, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
I bet you think you are smart for (incorrectly) quoting that, but context is important. When she said something like that, she was not yet Prime Minster and the top marginal tax rate in the UK was 98% (on investment income). So it's not remotely comparable to the situation today.
Washington schools are not funded by property taxes. Schools are funded at the state level. Property taxes provide some funding, indirectly to schools. So that's another thing you got wrong.
What is going on is that another state is acting as a parasite. Offering a loophole to a large company such that it can reduce its overall tax burden.
Schools have to be built, teachers paid, roads built, etc.. In particular, Washington State has many highway bridges that are in desperate need of repair. Yet people like you seem to think that all of this is possible, irrespective of how low tax rates are. Go and look at how that worked out in Kansas.
For instance, I avoid Laotian and Sudanese taxes by doing business in California, and not Laos or Sudan. Is what wrong? If not, then how is it different from what Microsoft is doing?
You don't benefit from anything provided by the governments of Laos and Sudan. Microsoft benefits from infrastructure, educational opportunities, etc.. provided to it and its employees.
Yes, you don't have to pay sales tax in the US on items you will use to produce something or resell but you in turn have to charge sales tax to the entity you sell to.
Are you sure that new buildings or services attract sales tax in Wisconsin?
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10 people to design a CPU? That hasn't been true for decades, unless you want to design a tiny CPU with uncompetitive performance.
If all those large patent holders lost their patents at the same time, no one would be harmed.
I find that the version of Swype on my current phone does not work anywhere near as well as the version of Swype on the Galaxy SII I had years ago.
There was also outrage in Italy when the Guardia di Finazia took action against a famous restaurant that had laundry bills for twice the number of napkins than reported covers.
Yes, but these were million-dollar boats owned by people who claimed to have $30k incomes. Also, the marina fees alone would be too much for someone on a $30k income.
$ perl -e "@$%#$%[%#^$#]=$_;"
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Sorry, try again.
This works, though:
$ perl -e "$%#$%[%#^$#]=$_;"
Or this:
$ perl -e "$@$%#$%[%#^$#]=$_;"
[for some definition of 'works' that I cannot imagine.]
"assembly code ... binary". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Some years ago, the Italian equivalent of the IRS sent some of its agents to go round marinas, looking at the boats moored there, then compared the estimated value of the boat with the declared income of the owner.
What is this magic? You have a mobile device that can make phone calls? I thought that all that phones do was text, browse the Internet and run lots of apps. But actual voice calls? I'm not sure anyone knows how to do that these days.
There was a time when Seagate gave a much longer warranty than their competitors and the drives actually lasted longer.
Sadly, those days are long gone.
My guess would be that the publishers show their advertisers the number of times the video played, even if the no one actually watched it.
So, it's a giant scam.
What's the point of this effort? Did he break any laws?
Or is this just more dick-waving by the NSA?
More proof that the security services are out of control?
Although my family is all on Android, the whole approach to support for these phones by manufacturers and phone companies is terrible. You are lucky if your phone is supported for 2 years after the model first goes on the market, let alone 2 years after the last sale of that model.
I don't expect firmware updates to the latest version of Android for the life of the phone, but merely security updates for several years after the last sale.
We also had a terrible experience with a phone from T-Mobile. The phone was no longer working, but it was also eligible for an upgrade. T-Mobile didn't have any of the existing model in stock and took 2 weeks before they finally gave in and agreed to do an upgrade without doing the utterly pointless warranty swap first.
No, crowdfunding is intended to create an illusion of investing, but in reality, there is no investment from the crowds, there is no ownership by the crowds.
People need to remember what happened with Oculus Rift. The Kickstarter suckers provided the seed funding, yet, when the company was sold for $2.3B, the suckers got nothing. I don't think they even got their headsets, did they?
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken
Is there a law that requires Lexus to sell you cheap cars? Do buyers of cars pay a special fee that should go towards subsidizing the purchase of Lexus cars by poor people?
No? Then your analogy is inappropriate and a waste of space.
"Is it safe?" is the wrong question.
The real question is: "are the fatalities, injuries and accidents that occur per passenger mile greater or less when compared to a human driver?"
"Safe" is a subjective and unmeasurable term, unless you define it in unreasonable terms (for example if your definition of safe is zero accidents).
How is Pandora #10 on the list, when I keep reading about how Pandora is struggling against competition from Apple and Spotify?
How is this new? It's been available for years.
Since we are talking about backups of my home network and I don't work in a home office, any backups in my office are off-site.
My solution is simpler.
Make sure that your backups are encrypted (with a strong encryption method and strong keys), and just keep the drives at your office.
If you suddenly leave your job, you may need to leave the drives behind, which is why the encryption is important.
Since the foundation of Object Oriented Perl is the "bless()" command, this is clearly the correct language for religious schools.
I bet you think you are smart for (incorrectly) quoting that, but context is important. When she said something like that, she was not yet Prime Minster and the top marginal tax rate in the UK was 98% (on investment income). So it's not remotely comparable to the situation today.
Washington schools are not funded by property taxes. Schools are funded at the state level. Property taxes provide some funding, indirectly to schools. So that's another thing you got wrong.
What is going on is that another state is acting as a parasite. Offering a loophole to a large company such that it can reduce its overall tax burden.
Schools have to be built, teachers paid, roads built, etc.. In particular, Washington State has many highway bridges that are in desperate need of repair. Yet people like you seem to think that all of this is possible, irrespective of how low tax rates are. Go and look at how that worked out in Kansas.
You don't benefit from anything provided by the governments of Laos and Sudan. Microsoft benefits from infrastructure, educational opportunities, etc.. provided to it and its employees.
That wasn't hard was it?
Are you sure that new buildings or services attract sales tax in Wisconsin?