OK Lesson 1: Face book is not real, it is make believe anything put on there is for fun and shit stirring not because it's true.
Lesson 2: If you think I had any real secrets that I would be stupid enough to put them on Face book. Everyone knows Face book is busted ass when it comes to security, they sell everything about you to the highest bidder.
Lesson 3: If you are silly enough to use Face book purposefully put bullshit in their, the more miss-information the better. Don't have a middle name, add one it or more. Humorously exaggerate, allude to all sorts of associations ie claim to be a member of 'Anonymous' the more the merrier.
Lesson 4: Red neck type technophobes are notoriously obtuse when it comes to satire, use it with caution.
Lesson 5: Not matter what people say, no matter how many people want to communicate with you via that channel, just don't bloody use Face book, it's bad, really, really bad and the most innocent crap is going to hang around your neck for the rest of your life, like a burning tyre. Please don't use Face book.
You just scored sexist pig of the thread. Note you glibly denied women access to computers and relegated to them as being nothing more than targets for men and boys and a group of sexist moderators joined you.
Right now simplest gaming would be the Android stack on tablets, even pet's can use it and no the female pets will not loathe the male pets for having used a tablet.
Introversion, extroversion, is something you are born with, computers do not make you that way and fuck all you extroverts who not only think introverts are broken and suspect but shout about it all over the place. The psychos are failed extroverts rejected by their own kind not bloody introverts.
Yet the US constantly talks about bombing the Iranian people because of a dispute with the Iranian government, chief of which seems to be the desire of the Iranian government to trade oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Bahrain with the direct support of Saudi Arabia and indirect support of the US government treated it's population far worse with hardly a whisper in US main stream press and complete silence from the US government.
The US government can not call up 'The People' in any way, upon any issue. The US government is quite content to homicidally kill as many people as necessary guilty or innocent, whether in the name of justice or just as examples, to torture the guilty or even innocent as lab rats and, to abandon all principles of justice in the pursuit of corporate profits. Only in PR and advertising campaigns is the US the champion of democracy and justice, in reality it's all 'SHOW ME THE MONEY'.
No different in this case. Iran attacking the US (just in case that doesn't work they'll through in Russia and China to the mix, ohh ahh), cyber Pearl Harbour, oh my God they are going to kill us all, it's all crap and bullshit, it's all 'SHOW ME THE MONEY'. The military industrial complex has discovered another route to the tax payer's wallet, billions are up for grabs and it is working every angle to get them.
The question is would the military industrial complex via it's non-military holdings purposefully connect those holdings to the internet with lax security so that they will be destructively attacked. Have a hospitals prescription opened up to the internet for hacking so that people will die and they can say see we told you so. Pointlessly hook up power system to the internet so that some script kiddie can bring down all power in a major city for days, so they can say, we told you so. Hook up traffic control so that as many people as possible and or get injured will die in traffic so that they can scream over the media controlled channels 'SEE YOU SHOULD HAVE PAID US MORE, MORE, MORE'. Right now multi-national corporations and the psychopaths running them are a far greater threat than Iran. If the US military is desperate to fire missiles from drones they would likely be far better off targeting corporate board rooms than some mud hut in the desert.
He simply used the religion he was most exposed to as an example, to look beyond that is simply vain attempts to promote other religions. More concisely the view is whether or not life has value, real value ie considered a dimension an expression of a different form of energy. Once down that path all life has value, not just select believers over non-believers and the remainder of the living biosphere. Obviously Einstein perceived a value of value of life, a distinct worth, something that has a true impact and influence upon the whole universe great and small.
Those choices that promote life as being honourable and those that detract from it, lessen it, diminish all life that is not your own as being dis-honourable ie forces positive and negative. More simply expressed in English as 'LIVE' being the literal opposite of 'EVIL', hardly an accident in literal expression. So people have always had this perception of value, in some ways religion support this and in their own lust for power the chief promoters of particular religions routinely abandon it. Psychopaths always find a place in organisation where they can manipulate circumstance to feed their own ego, greed and lust.
Corporations, governments and especially religions have all fallen under the sway of individual psychopaths who have used those organisation in the most destructive ways imaginable, costing the lives of hundreds of millions in the process. Whilst psychopathy can by it's action be considered the true evil of human society it still does not mean psychopaths themselves are evil, they just suffer from a genetic defect which impacts the cerebral functions, which relate to social behaviour and that makes them unfit for position of governance, control and influence.
The next Google Nexus will be an LG and Nokia either spits an an Android range or dies, hell you can even go waterproof with a Panasonic Eluga or piss of the bagde and buy direct from a Chinese Manufacturer like Huawei. Boycotting Apple only really counts if they are the best choice, when the phones are trailing the pack in terms of features an price, not buying them means you are not a victim of marketing.
Then some smart arse drives around in a diesel van with a generator and an electro magnetic pulse generator http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm and all your network security is for nothing. Of course now your network is 100% secure ain't no one getting in with nothing.
Course greed could come up with a scheme like, paying a commission to management to reduce the price of a company with a buy out is intended in a year or so. You know pay a kick back for a significant reduction in capital value. Over the last year or so Nokia has lost more than 30 billion dollars, now that pays for a hell of a massive bride to quite a few people. The company with the cash that has spent a considerable amount of time sniffing around Nokia is of course M$ and Uncle Fester has some strange notions about proper business practices. Never forget M$ has tons on money squirrelled away tax havens as a result of shuffling about licence fees and hiding off shore incomes. M$ is riding Nokia into an early grave to pick up the patents cheap.
Hatred, no, religious obsession, yes. The real question in whether the cult of Wahhabi which hides behind the religion of Islam, should be consider part of the intelligence arm of the Saudi Government, actively seeking to enforce the power of the Saudi Government over other countries via acts of subversive riot. Muslims don't just pray to Mecca, they are also showing unknowing subservience to the Saudi Government, who is seeking to force their national cult the Wahhabi on the rest of the world via subversive intelligence operations and blatant global terrorism. Of those rioters how many were in fact intelligence operatives of the Saudi Government, certainly all the ones running the operation.
Location, location, location, it doesn't just work for real world real estate, it also covers the digital landscape, mirrors dude are now just for looking into.
Your name wouldn't happen to be George W Bush by any chance, you know that guy the Saudis kept bailing out of failed business after failed business, for no apparent reason making him a millionaire in the process. Left to there own devices the Saudi's would still be a bunch of ignorant goat herders. It's American dollars that keep that regime going.
Now here's the catch. A riot was asked what they didn't like about the video or what was so wrong, answer, I would not watch that rubbish. So what do you do with morons who riot about content they have never even bloody seen and like automatons they are rioting because the were told to be insulted and that they should riot.
Saudi Arabian government can fuck right off. The Government of Saudi Arabia via their nominated sub-cult the Wahhabis were the shit heads telling everyone to riot. No matter what anyone writes, draws or video if the criminally insane subcult of Islam spends money on telling the rest of the Islam world to riot via the religious communication channels then a percentage of fundamentalists world wide will riot.
The problem is not the content the problem is the corrupt autocratic government of Saudi Arabia and it's fiscal campaign corruption of the US government. How many US politicians are crawling around feeding at the hand of the Saudi government and it's Wahhabi religious fanatics, shit they ran airliners into US buildings, own substantial interests in US media channels, corrupt US politicians and the US governments turns a blind eye, again and again and again.
'ER' that is a lie;D. People also very often express refinements and improvements to things when they are in favour of them. We like it, however can you change this and possibly add that. Just saying;).
I know it can be a little embarrassing for you country to alter it coinage something that'll last for hundreds even thousands of years over something so meaningless as a single movie but everyone makes mistakes, they oversee something rather insignificant as big and important, when it really isn't especially when it's involved in something as shallow as the movie industry. Suck it up, laugh at the idiot's that made the mistake, make fun of them and as you got modded turn it into a joke. It is silly and that is the only way to treat it, accept that quite a few people often get pulled in by the glitz and glamour.
New Zealand will always struggle due to size, limited resources and isolated location, Australia suffers much the same with regards to isolated location. Such is life. The original founders across both sides of the Tasmanrecognised this which is why they incorporated the ability for both countries to unite but political idiots latter on got all nationalistic to suck in voters and screwed it all up. The spirit of ANZAC was basically killed by lying ass hat politicians.
This is exactly like Huffington Post, when you are one amongst thousands even tens of thousands of posters do you think anyone is going to read it. It's a game, that just show the most recent post, give people the kick of seeing their own post and seconds latter the comment disappears in the backlog, while their page view remains the same with their comment still appearing. Go back a few minutes latter and it is buried in the comment avalanche.
So it is all basically a web site draw card for suckers, fool them into thinking their rant has meaning and keeping them coming back. Arguments are kept alive between utterly uninformed users, ranting back and forth in comment 8769 and comment 8700 thread, that absolutely no one else is seeing, yet those goomba's believe they are convincing the whole rest of the world whilst they fling insults at each other, basically forums for noobs, cruel but true.
Good forums are all about exchanging, tackling and challenging ideas, throwing new ones into the mix, having some fun. Now life and death over some words that soon disappear in the flood of say let's guess maybe a billion comments scatter out across the web each and every single day.
You are really taking an invention patent versus a data base design patent. Seriously if those companies that produced relational database had realised that the corrupt US patent office would allow data bases to be patent, basically an assemblage of row and column heading and references. That you could basically patent each and every single database design and block everyone else from referencing those same items.
How many database designers out there aren't kicking themselves right now for failing to patent the first iteration of every kind of imaginable database. Think how much money they could have made from patent a DVD collection database and charging everyone that tried to create a use one.
Now if you don't think that's exactly what is going on here, with just made up pretend external inputs and outputs, you need your head read.
The reality is that what they put out is total bullshit. They should only list manufactures, re-badgers should be totally ignored or put up as a completely separate listing. Who cares how many plastic stick on badges HP versus how many computers Lenovo made especially when HP didn't even make the stick on badges. So goes for Apple and all the rest of the re-badgers. So what are the real numbers, where does ACER, ASUS and even Foxcon et al actual come it.
It's about time the lies were dropped about resellers and importers being computer manufacturers or those numbers that don't count dropped off their tallies. Far more interesting to count who is actually manufacturing them and who the new rising stars will as those useless middle men inevitably die off.
I also enjoy the all to rare locations where they enter retail and commercial premises http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/. Let's you not only scope out where to park when you get there but also where exactly you want to go in the store or business.
So street view airports, bus terminals and train stations, as well as those many recreational locations is also cool, even when you are only street view touring.
Would also be interesting to add in recorded video and sound, just the same as images are embedded in google maps. Enter a famous pizza restaurant and watch them cook up a pie etc. Start adding some motion into street view with 'video frames' at interesting locations (now don't you dare patent that shit).
As well as starting to incorporate more bloody mirrors for far better streaming rates on all of Google's services, some of Google's stuff is bogging down to shit and becoming useless it times. No matter how good it is, if it ain't accessible it is a waste of time.
Pretty much every food item does have labelling on it saying where it was sourced from. Buying food coming out of China is basically nuts, just don't do it. I always check country of source and when it doubt about packed produce that is unclear I just avoid it. I do not buy any food coming out of China, I double wash all clothes in very hot water coming out off China prior to wearing (if the clothes wont tolerate that, then those types of clothes I source from more reliable locations). Buying food out of China is playing Russian sure there might be a whole bunch of empty chambers but you are bound to eventually cop a bullet to the belly.
So you have the right to urinate into any body of water available at any time. To dig a hole a defecate in it and any spot or don't even bother with a hole. To claim the whole island as yours.
Humans contrary to the many ludicrous dog eat dog claims (only rabid dogs run actually run around eating dogs), are a socially species, we achieve together, that you write and I read and the reverse should be proof of it too you. On that desert Island you have the right to run around screaming at the world, grub in the dirt for roots and bugs, freeze at night and burn during the day.
Human knowledge is a shared value. Rights are what we equally share and expect of each other, reasonable expectations of a social species. Rights can only ever be expressed as a group, be provided by that group and serve all the members of that group equally.
Crazy screaming short hair crested monkey men, have no rights except the right to be eaten by the very first more physically capable predator that shows up, our brains count for shit on our own, only together do they provide an advantage. Nails, teeth and individual ignorance are no match for claws and fangs, you are just a tasty tit bit.
Humans started gaining advantage over the rest of the species by the simply act of learning to collect a store of rocks and collectively flinging them at anything that threatened them or when caught by surprise, hunting down that predator and stoning it too bloody death. By that act, humans declared the right of humans to survive against all other species either prey or predators and from that all other shared collective and socialistic rights grew. On your own you are nothing but crazy screaming short hair crested monkey man and soon to be extinct crazy screaming short hair crested monkey man.
Canonical biggest mistake was not anything to do with gui's or distribution it was a failure to shift to a franchise collective model and grow the service and support model globally, with the parent focusing distribution maintenance and certification systems, as well as fiscal and marketing management. It should have sought partners to expand Ubuntu and by substantively expending it's contribution base.
There's an error in you statement "puts a drag on the courts" is a, 'erm', patently false claim. In fact patents bloat the legal system with profits, basically laws written by lawyers to promote the fiscal future of lawyers.
If they are truly seriously about resolving patent issues that will not let any lawyers any near those negotiations. Reality is of course those negotiation will be just chock full of lawyers, pretending to represent their clients whilst in reality they will be focused on ensuring their own highly profitable future.
So either no resolution and endless delays or we will end up even worse of, likely bloody both. As the longer the negotiations take the more the lawyers get paid.
The next great goal is blindingly obvious and when we start solving it many problems created by our activities will be resolved, 'GRAVITY'. A real understanding of gravity and the direct manipulation of gravitic fields or gravitons, will make a lot of technological dreams possible and now war required, simply the desire to expand humanity to the other planets in our system as well the orbits about them. Cheaply and effectively getting high mass objects out of our pesky gravity well the obvious goal. Likely a great deal of focused energy will be required to achieve it but logically access to even greater amounts of energy became possible. Of course we could start bumping into the powers that be and some behavioural adjustment might be required so as not to be perceived as a pest that needs to be controlled.
It seems Ballmer was tolerated for his ability the maintain windows and office monopoly via many very legally questionable activities and to extract a profit from it. However his manner blunders and his shocking failure with MSN has even Bill calling him Uncle Fester behind his back. MSN should be worth more than Google not wallowing in the background lost and forgotten behind the delusions of 'Live', 'Bing', 'Zune' and even 'XBOX'. M$ seriously blundered when they did not take the opportunity to split the company living windows and office in one group and taking everything else including the cash into another group and putting that group under far more creative management, M$ and MSN, were the logical split.
MSN was such an abortion, it's dalliances with commercial TV networks did nothing but help to develop those commercial TV network internet abilities and create real competitors. Stripping search out of MSN twice, first with Live and then with Bing crippled MSN's identity and weakened it's market presence. The gross mishandling of advertising on MSN with trialling some of the worst and most abusive content destroying and customer annoying advertising methods with delusional spreadsheets about how much money each method would make with literally no regard to how many customers they would drive away.
No company was more single handedly responsible and executive failures more directly tied to the success of 'Google' than M$ and Uncle Fester. Without Uncle Fester stumbling about the internet at the helm of the beast of Redmond, that grand canyon wide gap in the market would not have been left for Google to fill.
Slashdot Mirror
OK Lesson 1: Face book is not real, it is make believe anything put on there is for fun and shit stirring not because it's true.
Lesson 2: If you think I had any real secrets that I would be stupid enough to put them on Face book. Everyone knows Face book is busted ass when it comes to security, they sell everything about you to the highest bidder.
Lesson 3: If you are silly enough to use Face book purposefully put bullshit in their, the more miss-information the better. Don't have a middle name, add one it or more. Humorously exaggerate, allude to all sorts of associations ie claim to be a member of 'Anonymous' the more the merrier.
Lesson 4: Red neck type technophobes are notoriously obtuse when it comes to satire, use it with caution.
Lesson 5: Not matter what people say, no matter how many people want to communicate with you via that channel, just don't bloody use Face book, it's bad, really, really bad and the most innocent crap is going to hang around your neck for the rest of your life, like a burning tyre. Please don't use Face book.
You just scored sexist pig of the thread. Note you glibly denied women access to computers and relegated to them as being nothing more than targets for men and boys and a group of sexist moderators joined you.
Right now simplest gaming would be the Android stack on tablets, even pet's can use it and no the female pets will not loathe the male pets for having used a tablet.
Introversion, extroversion, is something you are born with, computers do not make you that way and fuck all you extroverts who not only think introverts are broken and suspect but shout about it all over the place. The psychos are failed extroverts rejected by their own kind not bloody introverts.
Yet the US constantly talks about bombing the Iranian people because of a dispute with the Iranian government, chief of which seems to be the desire of the Iranian government to trade oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Bahrain with the direct support of Saudi Arabia and indirect support of the US government treated it's population far worse with hardly a whisper in US main stream press and complete silence from the US government.
The US government can not call up 'The People' in any way, upon any issue. The US government is quite content to homicidally kill as many people as necessary guilty or innocent, whether in the name of justice or just as examples, to torture the guilty or even innocent as lab rats and, to abandon all principles of justice in the pursuit of corporate profits. Only in PR and advertising campaigns is the US the champion of democracy and justice, in reality it's all 'SHOW ME THE MONEY'.
No different in this case. Iran attacking the US (just in case that doesn't work they'll through in Russia and China to the mix, ohh ahh), cyber Pearl Harbour, oh my God they are going to kill us all, it's all crap and bullshit, it's all 'SHOW ME THE MONEY'. The military industrial complex has discovered another route to the tax payer's wallet, billions are up for grabs and it is working every angle to get them.
The question is would the military industrial complex via it's non-military holdings purposefully connect those holdings to the internet with lax security so that they will be destructively attacked. Have a hospitals prescription opened up to the internet for hacking so that people will die and they can say see we told you so. Pointlessly hook up power system to the internet so that some script kiddie can bring down all power in a major city for days, so they can say, we told you so. Hook up traffic control so that as many people as possible and or get injured will die in traffic so that they can scream over the media controlled channels 'SEE YOU SHOULD HAVE PAID US MORE, MORE, MORE'. Right now multi-national corporations and the psychopaths running them are a far greater threat than Iran. If the US military is desperate to fire missiles from drones they would likely be far better off targeting corporate board rooms than some mud hut in the desert.
He simply used the religion he was most exposed to as an example, to look beyond that is simply vain attempts to promote other religions. More concisely the view is whether or not life has value, real value ie considered a dimension an expression of a different form of energy. Once down that path all life has value, not just select believers over non-believers and the remainder of the living biosphere. Obviously Einstein perceived a value of value of life, a distinct worth, something that has a true impact and influence upon the whole universe great and small.
Those choices that promote life as being honourable and those that detract from it, lessen it, diminish all life that is not your own as being dis-honourable ie forces positive and negative. More simply expressed in English as 'LIVE' being the literal opposite of 'EVIL', hardly an accident in literal expression. So people have always had this perception of value, in some ways religion support this and in their own lust for power the chief promoters of particular religions routinely abandon it. Psychopaths always find a place in organisation where they can manipulate circumstance to feed their own ego, greed and lust.
Corporations, governments and especially religions have all fallen under the sway of individual psychopaths who have used those organisation in the most destructive ways imaginable, costing the lives of hundreds of millions in the process. Whilst psychopathy can by it's action be considered the true evil of human society it still does not mean psychopaths themselves are evil, they just suffer from a genetic defect which impacts the cerebral functions, which relate to social behaviour and that makes them unfit for position of governance, control and influence.
The next Google Nexus will be an LG and Nokia either spits an an Android range or dies, hell you can even go waterproof with a Panasonic Eluga or piss of the bagde and buy direct from a Chinese Manufacturer like Huawei. Boycotting Apple only really counts if they are the best choice, when the phones are trailing the pack in terms of features an price, not buying them means you are not a victim of marketing.
Then some smart arse drives around in a diesel van with a generator and an electro magnetic pulse generator http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm and all your network security is for nothing. Of course now your network is 100% secure ain't no one getting in with nothing.
Course greed could come up with a scheme like, paying a commission to management to reduce the price of a company with a buy out is intended in a year or so. You know pay a kick back for a significant reduction in capital value. Over the last year or so Nokia has lost more than 30 billion dollars, now that pays for a hell of a massive bride to quite a few people. The company with the cash that has spent a considerable amount of time sniffing around Nokia is of course M$ and Uncle Fester has some strange notions about proper business practices. Never forget M$ has tons on money squirrelled away tax havens as a result of shuffling about licence fees and hiding off shore incomes. M$ is riding Nokia into an early grave to pick up the patents cheap.
Hatred, no, religious obsession, yes. The real question in whether the cult of Wahhabi which hides behind the religion of Islam, should be consider part of the intelligence arm of the Saudi Government, actively seeking to enforce the power of the Saudi Government over other countries via acts of subversive riot. Muslims don't just pray to Mecca, they are also showing unknowing subservience to the Saudi Government, who is seeking to force their national cult the Wahhabi on the rest of the world via subversive intelligence operations and blatant global terrorism. Of those rioters how many were in fact intelligence operatives of the Saudi Government, certainly all the ones running the operation.
Location, location, location, it doesn't just work for real world real estate, it also covers the digital landscape, mirrors dude are now just for looking into.
Your name wouldn't happen to be George W Bush by any chance, you know that guy the Saudis kept bailing out of failed business after failed business, for no apparent reason making him a millionaire in the process. Left to there own devices the Saudi's would still be a bunch of ignorant goat herders. It's American dollars that keep that regime going.
Now here's the catch. A riot was asked what they didn't like about the video or what was so wrong, answer, I would not watch that rubbish. So what do you do with morons who riot about content they have never even bloody seen and like automatons they are rioting because the were told to be insulted and that they should riot.
Saudi Arabian government can fuck right off. The Government of Saudi Arabia via their nominated sub-cult the Wahhabis were the shit heads telling everyone to riot. No matter what anyone writes, draws or video if the criminally insane subcult of Islam spends money on telling the rest of the Islam world to riot via the religious communication channels then a percentage of fundamentalists world wide will riot.
The problem is not the content the problem is the corrupt autocratic government of Saudi Arabia and it's fiscal campaign corruption of the US government. How many US politicians are crawling around feeding at the hand of the Saudi government and it's Wahhabi religious fanatics, shit they ran airliners into US buildings, own substantial interests in US media channels, corrupt US politicians and the US governments turns a blind eye, again and again and again.
'ER' that is a lie ;D. People also very often express refinements and improvements to things when they are in favour of them. We like it, however can you change this and possibly add that. Just saying ;).
I know it can be a little embarrassing for you country to alter it coinage something that'll last for hundreds even thousands of years over something so meaningless as a single movie but everyone makes mistakes, they oversee something rather insignificant as big and important, when it really isn't especially when it's involved in something as shallow as the movie industry. Suck it up, laugh at the idiot's that made the mistake, make fun of them and as you got modded turn it into a joke. It is silly and that is the only way to treat it, accept that quite a few people often get pulled in by the glitz and glamour.
New Zealand will always struggle due to size, limited resources and isolated location, Australia suffers much the same with regards to isolated location. Such is life. The original founders across both sides of the Tasmanrecognised this which is why they incorporated the ability for both countries to unite but political idiots latter on got all nationalistic to suck in voters and screwed it all up. The spirit of ANZAC was basically killed by lying ass hat politicians.
This is exactly like Huffington Post, when you are one amongst thousands even tens of thousands of posters do you think anyone is going to read it. It's a game, that just show the most recent post, give people the kick of seeing their own post and seconds latter the comment disappears in the backlog, while their page view remains the same with their comment still appearing. Go back a few minutes latter and it is buried in the comment avalanche.
So it is all basically a web site draw card for suckers, fool them into thinking their rant has meaning and keeping them coming back. Arguments are kept alive between utterly uninformed users, ranting back and forth in comment 8769 and comment 8700 thread, that absolutely no one else is seeing, yet those goomba's believe they are convincing the whole rest of the world whilst they fling insults at each other, basically forums for noobs, cruel but true.
Good forums are all about exchanging, tackling and challenging ideas, throwing new ones into the mix, having some fun. Now life and death over some words that soon disappear in the flood of say let's guess maybe a billion comments scatter out across the web each and every single day.
You are really taking an invention patent versus a data base design patent. Seriously if those companies that produced relational database had realised that the corrupt US patent office would allow data bases to be patent, basically an assemblage of row and column heading and references. That you could basically patent each and every single database design and block everyone else from referencing those same items.
How many database designers out there aren't kicking themselves right now for failing to patent the first iteration of every kind of imaginable database. Think how much money they could have made from patent a DVD collection database and charging everyone that tried to create a use one.
Now if you don't think that's exactly what is going on here, with just made up pretend external inputs and outputs, you need your head read.
The reality is that what they put out is total bullshit. They should only list manufactures, re-badgers should be totally ignored or put up as a completely separate listing. Who cares how many plastic stick on badges HP versus how many computers Lenovo made especially when HP didn't even make the stick on badges. So goes for Apple and all the rest of the re-badgers. So what are the real numbers, where does ACER, ASUS and even Foxcon et al actual come it.
It's about time the lies were dropped about resellers and importers being computer manufacturers or those numbers that don't count dropped off their tallies. Far more interesting to count who is actually manufacturing them and who the new rising stars will as those useless middle men inevitably die off.
I also enjoy the all to rare locations where they enter retail and commercial premises http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/. Let's you not only scope out where to park when you get there but also where exactly you want to go in the store or business.
So street view airports, bus terminals and train stations, as well as those many recreational locations is also cool, even when you are only street view touring.
Would also be interesting to add in recorded video and sound, just the same as images are embedded in google maps. Enter a famous pizza restaurant and watch them cook up a pie etc. Start adding some motion into street view with 'video frames' at interesting locations (now don't you dare patent that shit).
As well as starting to incorporate more bloody mirrors for far better streaming rates on all of Google's services, some of Google's stuff is bogging down to shit and becoming useless it times. No matter how good it is, if it ain't accessible it is a waste of time.
Forgot to mention, rich Chinese buy most of the food imported from Australia for a reason.
Pretty much every food item does have labelling on it saying where it was sourced from. Buying food coming out of China is basically nuts, just don't do it. I always check country of source and when it doubt about packed produce that is unclear I just avoid it. I do not buy any food coming out of China, I double wash all clothes in very hot water coming out off China prior to wearing (if the clothes wont tolerate that, then those types of clothes I source from more reliable locations). Buying food out of China is playing Russian sure there might be a whole bunch of empty chambers but you are bound to eventually cop a bullet to the belly.
So you have the right to urinate into any body of water available at any time. To dig a hole a defecate in it and any spot or don't even bother with a hole. To claim the whole island as yours.
Humans contrary to the many ludicrous dog eat dog claims (only rabid dogs run actually run around eating dogs), are a socially species, we achieve together, that you write and I read and the reverse should be proof of it too you. On that desert Island you have the right to run around screaming at the world, grub in the dirt for roots and bugs, freeze at night and burn during the day.
Human knowledge is a shared value. Rights are what we equally share and expect of each other, reasonable expectations of a social species. Rights can only ever be expressed as a group, be provided by that group and serve all the members of that group equally.
Crazy screaming short hair crested monkey men, have no rights except the right to be eaten by the very first more physically capable predator that shows up, our brains count for shit on our own, only together do they provide an advantage. Nails, teeth and individual ignorance are no match for claws and fangs, you are just a tasty tit bit.
Humans started gaining advantage over the rest of the species by the simply act of learning to collect a store of rocks and collectively flinging them at anything that threatened them or when caught by surprise, hunting down that predator and stoning it too bloody death. By that act, humans declared the right of humans to survive against all other species either prey or predators and from that all other shared collective and socialistic rights grew. On your own you are nothing but crazy screaming short hair crested monkey man and soon to be extinct crazy screaming short hair crested monkey man.
Canonical biggest mistake was not anything to do with gui's or distribution it was a failure to shift to a franchise collective model and grow the service and support model globally, with the parent focusing distribution maintenance and certification systems, as well as fiscal and marketing management. It should have sought partners to expand Ubuntu and by substantively expending it's contribution base.
So how far off is the woohoo inhaler, hmm ;)?
There's an error in you statement "puts a drag on the courts" is a, 'erm', patently false claim. In fact patents bloat the legal system with profits, basically laws written by lawyers to promote the fiscal future of lawyers.
If they are truly seriously about resolving patent issues that will not let any lawyers any near those negotiations. Reality is of course those negotiation will be just chock full of lawyers, pretending to represent their clients whilst in reality they will be focused on ensuring their own highly profitable future.
So either no resolution and endless delays or we will end up even worse of, likely bloody both. As the longer the negotiations take the more the lawyers get paid.
The next great goal is blindingly obvious and when we start solving it many problems created by our activities will be resolved, 'GRAVITY'. A real understanding of gravity and the direct manipulation of gravitic fields or gravitons, will make a lot of technological dreams possible and now war required, simply the desire to expand humanity to the other planets in our system as well the orbits about them. Cheaply and effectively getting high mass objects out of our pesky gravity well the obvious goal. Likely a great deal of focused energy will be required to achieve it but logically access to even greater amounts of energy became possible. Of course we could start bumping into the powers that be and some behavioural adjustment might be required so as not to be perceived as a pest that needs to be controlled.
It seems Ballmer was tolerated for his ability the maintain windows and office monopoly via many very legally questionable activities and to extract a profit from it. However his manner blunders and his shocking failure with MSN has even Bill calling him Uncle Fester behind his back. MSN should be worth more than Google not wallowing in the background lost and forgotten behind the delusions of 'Live', 'Bing', 'Zune' and even 'XBOX'. M$ seriously blundered when they did not take the opportunity to split the company living windows and office in one group and taking everything else including the cash into another group and putting that group under far more creative management, M$ and MSN, were the logical split.
MSN was such an abortion, it's dalliances with commercial TV networks did nothing but help to develop those commercial TV network internet abilities and create real competitors. Stripping search out of MSN twice, first with Live and then with Bing crippled MSN's identity and weakened it's market presence. The gross mishandling of advertising on MSN with trialling some of the worst and most abusive content destroying and customer annoying advertising methods with delusional spreadsheets about how much money each method would make with literally no regard to how many customers they would drive away.
No company was more single handedly responsible and executive failures more directly tied to the success of 'Google' than M$ and Uncle Fester. Without Uncle Fester stumbling about the internet at the helm of the beast of Redmond, that grand canyon wide gap in the market would not have been left for Google to fill.