Urm, yeah, because a typical household can afford, 4 phones, 4 tablets, 4 dockable keyboards, a big screen, 4 notebooks, and a desktop and, all within the minimum wage. Opps, tee hee, I forgot all the software, content and connection fees they also have to pay. Gees total that all up and it most likely exceeds the minimum wage.
In which case greed is likely driving your decision thinking (the ability to derive infinite income from families), that and you income or your parents is above average.
There is another tablet market and that is of course the eReader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book_reader market. Basically the tablet is a content consumption device, with a teensy bit of interactivity and form filling thrown in.
Acer doesn't want to get into the content distribution market, and Amazon's Kindle is just crap in comparison.
So Acer is likely right, the tablet PC market has passed it fad moment and the big fight will be on for a more functional and colourful table eReader, subsidised by content distribution. Now the real question is will the major content distribution empires jump into the fray, a free fully featured tablet with a two year subscription contract to their whole media empire, including archived content. They have got the content and they can tell Apple et al to go jump and basically distribute direct.
Not all people are the same. Whilst it is all well and good to promote greater understanding of the world around you, some people, in fact quite a lot of people are simply incapable of it.
Whilst they might by rote remember some facts, they don't ever understand them, not by choice by by genetics and those people will always be drawn to more comfortable answers.
Answers that say you can alter random chance in highly complex interactions, that prevent you and those you care about from suffering by convincing some superior to intercede on your behalf.
Whilst that time is better spent on coming up with ways of reducing the probability of harmful outcomes not all people are capable of doing so.
Some people just need religion of one form or another, to maintain a stable psychological attitude in a world of, to them, of chaotic outcomes. So it's not about eliminating religion, it more about minimising the harm of religion and it promoting positive sociological outcomes via religion.
The worst of the worst, when it comes to religion, is politicians who use it to gain power. The more a politician reaches for religion the more corrupt they are.
Point to mention, who are worse, the corrupt people that pay the bribes or the politicians that pay them.
Keep in mind, all those bad decisions, all the theft, all the corrupt laws, were all decided and framed by people living outside of Washington.
You want to take action against someone, taking on the puppeteers rather than the puppets is more effective as there are plenty of lying jackasses out their quite content to take on the role of puppet.
So the majority of bookstores pass into history and the remainder becoming, book printing and binding centres. Laser printers make localised book production cheap enough and of course, how much you are willing to pay for the binding is your choice http://www.wharley.com.au/Index.htm.
So you buy your electronic version and take it to the book production facility of choice and have them produce it http://www.aboutbookbinding.com/index.html, you can even make it yourself.
Problem is "Marinol" is just not effective medicine and is likely to be replaced by Sativex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sativex. Which in itself is still a low complexity formulation rather than yet to be fully investigated high complex natural formulation.
Everything of course is blocked by sheer unadulterated greed. Greed of drug enforcement agencies for their power and salaries and of course their partners in crime the drug dealers and their dollars influencing politics. Greed by pharmaceuticals in the form of patents over natural substances by optimally patenting a synthetic substitute and the banning the use of the naturally occurring substances, the more effective the higher the profit margin 10,000 percent profit margins is not a problem regardless of the suffering caused by denial of medical treatment due to cost.
Even the alcohol industry baulks. Hard to sell a two hundred bottle of booze, when two hundred dollars of grass will last most people a year (especially with zero for profit criminalisation).
Let's be more clear on this. We are up to 14 versions of M$ Office, so not free once but free fourteen times and, in those upgrades, hardware upgrades forced by software upgrades forced by data incompatibility and add retraining, data conversions. So either make the switch once or pay and pay and pay.
Of course with open applications, the idea of open documents also grows. With many different hospitals sharing generic documents and macros, saving development costs and, easing training requirements, this open document development spread not just nationally but globally as language permits. Sharing and caring in document development can save billions just in document production world wide.
China runs into the inevitable problem of a more educated "production line" will want more equitable access to the countries productivity. The current principle of working people to exhaustion, paying the bugger all and, housing them crappy barracks, all because it is cheaper than automation, well come to a bitter end. Greed will force that bitter as China is no more free of psychopaths and narcissists than the rest of the world.
So the real question is will we run full greed ahead into a new dark ages, no real growth, no real further development, just a bunch of insatiably greedy psychopaths and narcissists attempting to exploit the rest of us because they need more, more, more, everything.
On the flip side mandatory testing for the genetic conditions of psychopathy and narcissism to exclude those people from positions of control, governance and influence, cleaning up corporations and governments. So a period of renewed growth, with technological acceleration and maybe just maybe, altered reality glasses becoming the norm. So glasses with cameras fitted to your visual prescription, creating a digital overlay of your visual environment, not for shit eating advertising everywhere but to improve digital interaction ie creating visually mid air large screens for person to person communications where you project your desired avatar or look into a mirror. With input driven by a floating virtual keyboard and arm and hand movements.
Once you go that way, desktops, notebooks, mobile phones and even the current growth area big screen computers (except in public areas), all become irrelevant. You would dock to a private or public base station for more processing power and storage, hook up peripherals like a real keyboard and mouse for better tactile response and do a mix of wired and wireless communications (people will be more cautious when it comes to frying their brains 18 hours a day). Then again it might take more like 25 years due to dead head patents without technological capability choking up development.
You know who writes the crap, people who have become used to M$'s PR=B$ marketing machine. Where wild guesses are often more reliable that what is coming out of M$'s advertising machine with regard to what is in and what is not in, the latest OS. This also covers the first three months after release with M$ publicity in full bullshit mode with regards to performance, reliability and stability.
Sorry but when it comes to M$ software releases, you just have to suck it up and 'er' howl at the moon, get it, howl out the moon, gees, boy who cried wolf much. So now with every release you get the worst extrapolations to counter the equally ludicrous marketing and yes, nobody still wants to buy Vista and M$ should be ashamed of itself and offer a free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 (Vista patched after Uncle Fester's, you know who we are talking about, failed release).
I really don't get why corporate marketdoirds expect equal treatment on Slashdot. Slashdot is about individuals, about people and their opinions and ideas, it is not a bloody marketing channel for marketdroids and when markertdroids become overly persistent pushing their products expect a commensurate pay back. To spell it out for you, people first, corporations last and that includes taking the piss out of them and their products and challenging their marketing exaggerations 'er' lies at every opportunity.
Now when they talk about Google paying $12.5 billion are they talking about cash or just shuffling about $12.5 billion dollars worth of Google stock, which this shuffle will significantly improve in value, especially as it means Android will slaughter Apple and M$.
Good times ahead for the Linux as any Android device will be a easy shift to the Linux Distribution of your choice with a straight forward computability layer to access all Android applications. So how will Google feel about the Linux after market biting large chunks out of Android, meh, as long as it is open and they can easily provided services for the user base, they still win (well for as long as they continue to provide desirable and accessible services). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVgSV8c87lo&feature=related
PC manufacturers, now who are your talking about, surely not the system badgers, the only thing they design being, the badges on the outside of computers. Could you be possibly talking about the ODM, joking called other devices manufacturers, those companies that actually manufacture PCs but whom the public relations bull shit caimpagn try to make invisible in order to trade on the prior trust built by one was computer manufacturers before they got taken over by off shoring shit heads (there just ain't no polite way to refer to them).
HP is just bailing while they still have a chance, Fiorina gutted the company (in order to line her own pocket) and left it vulnerable to an inevitable ODM take over.
Basically you are watching the takeover of the ODMs and the death of the public relations bull shitting branding machine, all profits are going off shore and the western technology consumer market has been gutted by rank after rank of psychopathic corporate executives. A empty debt ridden shell, with the time bomb like ticking of it's consumer market coming to a debt laden end.
The foreign ODMs will redefine the PC market based upon Eastern design requirements, you will get what you are given, when you are buried in debt created by the psychopathic pursuit of profits, be thankful they still pretend to sell you anything at all (it is all pretend with climbing debt and no way of reducing it)
In this case a blatant example of currency speak in a court of law, the difference between innocence and guilt being the size of the cheque book available to pay off lawyers, in this case zip, zero, nil.
First and foremost, no riot, no violence, not even a couple of drunks fighting. Second 750 million facebook users, bloody hell, one page amongst 750 million how many people were actually going to see it. Thirdly it is pull not push, people actually have to get it, it is not pushed out to them. Fourthly and most importantly the people who want to become involved, actually already have to have a desire to become involved the absence or presence of one page on the internet amongst billions in meaningless, is is just the communications medium. Fifth what was claimed as the level of interaction by the court, how many accessed the page (excluding idiots in police uniforms ramping it up for the sake of easy arrests and promotions), how many replied and how many added to it.
This is nothing more that abusive autocrats seizing an opportunity to demonstrate their power by destroying peoples lives, clearly innocent people who were selected virtually at random, there was absolutely no intent of justice.
What can I say, hmm, Ohhh Noess, the only touch screens or tablets in the world are on an Apple iPad. What this is not true, http://www.magictouch.com/large_resistive_touch.html and whoops http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370090,00.asp. Ipad an overpriced little dinky toy reader pretending to be something it's not, to scam the iGullible for big profits. For portability smart phones, like the iPhone or the whole Android range work, once you go for greater usability, you are bound by physiological constraints, ergonomics and, haptic technology. Apple even ripped off a patent for auto-focusing for virtual reality glasses, which is the real direction for portable digital interaction.
Not only is the iPad and content machine (licence fee based) it is only a 2nd rate content machine.
Screen real estate limits it severely as does processing power. The more screen real estate you have go to work with, the easier creativity is. Working within fifteen inches is tight, 17 is easier and guess what keeps the desktop going 24 inches and up.
Only real fanbois think you work on spreadsheets, documents and drawings, on an iPad, compared to the ease of a full keyboard, mouse, generally 50% bigger screens running 25% higher resolution, with more video ram than the iPad has main memory, let alone real storage capacity.
i(bloody)Movie seriously how marketdroid lame can you get,. Yep all the Hollywood moguls are going to be doing their movie editing on an iPad. Movies, hmm, everyone else going big screen TV(any are now coming out as internet devices based around the PCs model) but you prefer you iPad, ok, fine, not a problem at all.
I am just wondering, should you not also be able to apply this to citizens arrest. A group of hooligans, grab a young lady during a riot, making a citizens arrest, tie her up, threaten to kill her if she resists, take her back to their gang clubhouse, strip search her including cavity search, torture her with chemical weapons for protesting the arrest, apply electric shocks to random parts of her body, keep her overflight and then, whoops, tee hee, she did nothing wrong lets release her the next day, bruised, battered and terrified.
Dude, you are one sick puppy. An arrest is not just an arrest, it is a whole series of escalating crimes, that would see a regular person in jail for many years. To ensure restraint, it seems necessary to force penalties upon policing organisation and their officers to ensure they do not break those laws and they do break all those laws when it is a false arrest.
The law is the law. You can not selectively break the law because it suits you or because it is convenient to do so. Don't want rioters on your streets, then solve the problems that put them out there in the first place. When the police start acting like thugs, randomly beating people up, randomly torturing them with chemical weapons and grossly abusing the law by, let's put this is full context Physically assaulting them Using death threats Kidnapping them Illegally detaining them benying them their freedoms and rights
It is, if your contributions to the code are nothing more than re-branding ie making it seem like it is your application in the retail space for marketing purposes, basically supplied for free with the hardware.
In turn providing some direct sponsored contributions to the core code, some improvements you wanted in your retail branded version but you still didn't want to maintain and distribute the source, security etc.
It seems pretty un-necessary to distribute 'your' source if it is pretty much identical to the parent source apart from branding, especially if you are not going to put real effort into making sure, your version of the source is kept secure and not adulterated.
In many just making or sponsoring changes back to the parent source is easier for most interested parties. They just need to be able to easily substantiate, the only changes are simple public branding and all the internals including attribution remain as was.
Books are most definitely not the same as movies or TV series. Reading is not the preferred pass time of the majority. The cheetos crowd that loves plot free, weak story, no thinking video content, as long as it full of, from the gut thinking and, action scenes, generally don't read and do not really re-watch content.
People who really enjoy reading, who use their own imaginations to fill out the content, create the visuals, sound, smells, sensations and tastes of a story, of course the journey is just as important as the end.
For people who don't really enjoy reading, any excuse to stop is acceptable.
Oh Yes, sure they are improving the standard of living, they with those governments a getting peasants of farms where they work say 6 hours a day, fully independent, live where their families and eat pretty well.
Instead they now work 12 to 14 hour days 6 to 7 days a week in sweat shop factories till they are no longer fit to do so and then they are replaced, why, because they are cheaper than bloody robots (Apple et al are all exploitative shit heals).
Back to the distortions of capital value of a company., First rule - brokers and their companies only make real money when the value of stocks rise and fall, when they are stable, no one trade stocks much. Hence they spend their lives lying both talking up and talking down stocks, that how they make their money. Capital assets give a better indication of long term value rather than cash flow, especially when modern cash flow is often driven by bullshit marketing and being able to sustain a bullshot public relations image. Image collapse's -"KABOOM"- revenues die, Apple's has milked it's bullshit image for about all it's worth and are now starting to come of pretty douchey.
So will insiders start quietly selling off Apple, whilst brokers ready the big talk down in value. Seems likely as they always talk up a stock when they start selling, so watch the insider trades. I bet they'll be able to get Apple stock going through some pretty wild gyrations as it's Public Relations value falls.
Oddly enough it could only be counted as a threat if, "The Supreme Council of Armed Forces" fully intend not to provide justice. It would seem by this arrest "The Supreme Council of Armed Forces" intend to become the new autocratic power and deny justice to the citizens of Egypt.
This sort of over sensitivity is just a public display of guilt and criminal intent. It all smells of a military junta, conspiring to create a illusory pretend democracy subject to the approval of Israel and the US, so that the Egyptian military leaders in charge can get their turn at the trough. So how much of Mubarak's stolen billions will return to Egypt and how much will disappear into the maws of American and European financial institutions so that a handful of Egyptian Generals can get a percentage.
Oh, ESAD, printer ribbons for, duh, dot matrix printers were no different. Each manufacturer pushing there own, uniqueness but still largely driven by the consumables market.
The consumbales market is as old as the spare parts market. Normally wouldn't bother with dead head insulters like you but sometimes the mood strikes, YUPOS.
The armed revolt does not start overnight, generally it springs from a rising death toll at peaceful protest. You read those mass media news reports, were some arse hat commenter reports, that riots resulted in the deaths of ten people. Of course that all those ten people were unarmed and kill by the police, some shot and others beaten to death, gets buried on the back pages. As soon as the numbers get high enough and enough families join the mourners, those that are doing the killing become targets for revenge. So it is just escalation of violence, rather than engagement and trying to solve the problems.
A natural result of narcissistic politicians. They are the leader, a perfect leader, how dare anybody disobey them. So when they issue orders to control the protesters, who then become rioters rioters in the politicians head is a loud voice screaming "how dare they disobey me, kill them, kill them all" over and over again. So any orders or directives they issue, regardless of the lies of corrupted mass media are all about re-establishing the power of corrupted politicians not about re-establishing peace and prosperity.
Likewise, I replaced an inkjet with a laser, not for the higher quality but simply because I was sick of printing handful of pages and then having to throw out a dried out cartridge.
Printer drivers only exist because each printer manufacturer wanted control over their own device and the lucrative ink replacement business.
Does this smell like Apple is trying to patent more universal print drivers as they exist in Linux and hence Android. Those shit heads are really getting into panic mode and thinking they call force the end users to buy their lock in, make them pay all the time for everything, junk. Continue does this path and they will create a consumer backlash, that will crush the company.
You certainly could imagine someone inviting and producing anti-gravity units and then getting sued by some sleaze like Bezos for infringing his, a product that doesn't hit the ground patent.
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Urm, yeah, because a typical household can afford, 4 phones, 4 tablets, 4 dockable keyboards, a big screen, 4 notebooks, and a desktop and, all within the minimum wage. Opps, tee hee, I forgot all the software, content and connection fees they also have to pay. Gees total that all up and it most likely exceeds the minimum wage.
In which case greed is likely driving your decision thinking (the ability to derive infinite income from families), that and you income or your parents is above average.
Two words "Play Games", nuff said.
There is another tablet market and that is of course the eReader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book_reader market. Basically the tablet is a content consumption device, with a teensy bit of interactivity and form filling thrown in.
Acer doesn't want to get into the content distribution market, and Amazon's Kindle is just crap in comparison.
So Acer is likely right, the tablet PC market has passed it fad moment and the big fight will be on for a more functional and colourful table eReader, subsidised by content distribution. Now the real question is will the major content distribution empires jump into the fray, a free fully featured tablet with a two year subscription contract to their whole media empire, including archived content. They have got the content and they can tell Apple et al to go jump and basically distribute direct.
Not all people are the same. Whilst it is all well and good to promote greater understanding of the world around you, some people, in fact quite a lot of people are simply incapable of it. Whilst they might by rote remember some facts, they don't ever understand them, not by choice by by genetics and those people will always be drawn to more comfortable answers.
Answers that say you can alter random chance in highly complex interactions, that prevent you and those you care about from suffering by convincing some superior to intercede on your behalf. Whilst that time is better spent on coming up with ways of reducing the probability of harmful outcomes not all people are capable of doing so.
Some people just need religion of one form or another, to maintain a stable psychological attitude in a world of, to them, of chaotic outcomes. So it's not about eliminating religion, it more about minimising the harm of religion and it promoting positive sociological outcomes via religion. The worst of the worst, when it comes to religion, is politicians who use it to gain power. The more a politician reaches for religion the more corrupt they are.
Point to mention, who are worse, the corrupt people that pay the bribes or the politicians that pay them. Keep in mind, all those bad decisions, all the theft, all the corrupt laws, were all decided and framed by people living outside of Washington. You want to take action against someone, taking on the puppeteers rather than the puppets is more effective as there are plenty of lying jackasses out their quite content to take on the role of puppet.
So the majority of bookstores pass into history and the remainder becoming, book printing and binding centres. Laser printers make localised book production cheap enough and of course, how much you are willing to pay for the binding is your choice http://www.wharley.com.au/Index.htm.
So you buy your electronic version and take it to the book production facility of choice and have them produce it http://www.aboutbookbinding.com/index.html, you can even make it yourself.
Problem is "Marinol" is just not effective medicine and is likely to be replaced by Sativex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sativex. Which in itself is still a low complexity formulation rather than yet to be fully investigated high complex natural formulation.
Everything of course is blocked by sheer unadulterated greed. Greed of drug enforcement agencies for their power and salaries and of course their partners in crime the drug dealers and their dollars influencing politics. Greed by pharmaceuticals in the form of patents over natural substances by optimally patenting a synthetic substitute and the banning the use of the naturally occurring substances, the more effective the higher the profit margin 10,000 percent profit margins is not a problem regardless of the suffering caused by denial of medical treatment due to cost.
Even the alcohol industry baulks. Hard to sell a two hundred bottle of booze, when two hundred dollars of grass will last most people a year (especially with zero for profit criminalisation).
Let's be more clear on this. We are up to 14 versions of M$ Office, so not free once but free fourteen times and, in those upgrades, hardware upgrades forced by software upgrades forced by data incompatibility and add retraining, data conversions. So either make the switch once or pay and pay and pay.
Of course with open applications, the idea of open documents also grows. With many different hospitals sharing generic documents and macros, saving development costs and, easing training requirements, this open document development spread not just nationally but globally as language permits. Sharing and caring in document development can save billions just in document production world wide.
China runs into the inevitable problem of a more educated "production line" will want more equitable access to the countries productivity. The current principle of working people to exhaustion, paying the bugger all and, housing them crappy barracks, all because it is cheaper than automation, well come to a bitter end. Greed will force that bitter as China is no more free of psychopaths and narcissists than the rest of the world.
So the real question is will we run full greed ahead into a new dark ages, no real growth, no real further development, just a bunch of insatiably greedy psychopaths and narcissists attempting to exploit the rest of us because they need more, more, more, everything.
On the flip side mandatory testing for the genetic conditions of psychopathy and narcissism to exclude those people from positions of control, governance and influence, cleaning up corporations and governments. So a period of renewed growth, with technological acceleration and maybe just maybe, altered reality glasses becoming the norm. So glasses with cameras fitted to your visual prescription, creating a digital overlay of your visual environment, not for shit eating advertising everywhere but to improve digital interaction ie creating visually mid air large screens for person to person communications where you project your desired avatar or look into a mirror. With input driven by a floating virtual keyboard and arm and hand movements.
Once you go that way, desktops, notebooks, mobile phones and even the current growth area big screen computers (except in public areas), all become irrelevant. You would dock to a private or public base station for more processing power and storage, hook up peripherals like a real keyboard and mouse for better tactile response and do a mix of wired and wireless communications (people will be more cautious when it comes to frying their brains 18 hours a day). Then again it might take more like 25 years due to dead head patents without technological capability choking up development.
You know who writes the crap, people who have become used to M$'s PR=B$ marketing machine. Where wild guesses are often more reliable that what is coming out of M$'s advertising machine with regard to what is in and what is not in, the latest OS. This also covers the first three months after release with M$ publicity in full bullshit mode with regards to performance, reliability and stability.
Sorry but when it comes to M$ software releases, you just have to suck it up and 'er' howl at the moon, get it, howl out the moon, gees, boy who cried wolf much. So now with every release you get the worst extrapolations to counter the equally ludicrous marketing and yes, nobody still wants to buy Vista and M$ should be ashamed of itself and offer a free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 (Vista patched after Uncle Fester's, you know who we are talking about, failed release).
I really don't get why corporate marketdoirds expect equal treatment on Slashdot. Slashdot is about individuals, about people and their opinions and ideas, it is not a bloody marketing channel for marketdroids and when markertdroids become overly persistent pushing their products expect a commensurate pay back. To spell it out for you, people first, corporations last and that includes taking the piss out of them and their products and challenging their marketing exaggerations 'er' lies at every opportunity.
Google is only buying the patents http://economicsnewspaper.com/policy/german/google-buys-motorolas-mobile-phone-division-a-cell-phone-manufacturers-and-17000-patents-57336.html. With those patents they fully intent to destroy Apple and M$, never ending lawsuits.
Now when they talk about Google paying $12.5 billion are they talking about cash or just shuffling about $12.5 billion dollars worth of Google stock, which this shuffle will significantly improve in value, especially as it means Android will slaughter Apple and M$.
Good times ahead for the Linux as any Android device will be a easy shift to the Linux Distribution of your choice with a straight forward computability layer to access all Android applications. So how will Google feel about the Linux after market biting large chunks out of Android, meh, as long as it is open and they can easily provided services for the user base, they still win (well for as long as they continue to provide desirable and accessible services). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVgSV8c87lo&feature=related
PC manufacturers, now who are your talking about, surely not the system badgers, the only thing they design being, the badges on the outside of computers. Could you be possibly talking about the ODM, joking called other devices manufacturers, those companies that actually manufacture PCs but whom the public relations bull shit caimpagn try to make invisible in order to trade on the prior trust built by one was computer manufacturers before they got taken over by off shoring shit heads (there just ain't no polite way to refer to them).
Lenovo is apparently doing really well, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/18/lenovo_first_quarter_numbers/, when they bough IBM's PC they took that branding reputation direct to the ODM and cut out the marketing middle machine.
HP is just bailing while they still have a chance, Fiorina gutted the company (in order to line her own pocket) and left it vulnerable to an inevitable ODM take over.
Basically you are watching the takeover of the ODMs and the death of the public relations bull shitting branding machine, all profits are going off shore and the western technology consumer market has been gutted by rank after rank of psychopathic corporate executives. A empty debt ridden shell, with the time bomb like ticking of it's consumer market coming to a debt laden end.
The foreign ODMs will redefine the PC market based upon Eastern design requirements, you will get what you are given, when you are buried in debt created by the psychopathic pursuit of profits, be thankful they still pretend to sell you anything at all (it is all pretend with climbing debt and no way of reducing it)
In this case a blatant example of currency speak in a court of law, the difference between innocence and guilt being the size of the cheque book available to pay off lawyers, in this case zip, zero, nil.
First and foremost, no riot, no violence, not even a couple of drunks fighting. Second 750 million facebook users, bloody hell, one page amongst 750 million how many people were actually going to see it. Thirdly it is pull not push, people actually have to get it, it is not pushed out to them. Fourthly and most importantly the people who want to become involved, actually already have to have a desire to become involved the absence or presence of one page on the internet amongst billions in meaningless, is is just the communications medium. Fifth what was claimed as the level of interaction by the court, how many accessed the page (excluding idiots in police uniforms ramping it up for the sake of easy arrests and promotions), how many replied and how many added to it.
This is nothing more that abusive autocrats seizing an opportunity to demonstrate their power by destroying peoples lives, clearly innocent people who were selected virtually at random, there was absolutely no intent of justice.
What can I say, hmm, Ohhh Noess, the only touch screens or tablets in the world are on an Apple iPad. What this is not true, http://www.magictouch.com/large_resistive_touch.html and whoops http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370090,00.asp. Ipad an overpriced little dinky toy reader pretending to be something it's not, to scam the iGullible for big profits. For portability smart phones, like the iPhone or the whole Android range work, once you go for greater usability, you are bound by physiological constraints, ergonomics and, haptic technology. Apple even ripped off a patent for auto-focusing for virtual reality glasses, which is the real direction for portable digital interaction.
Not only is the iPad and content machine (licence fee based) it is only a 2nd rate content machine.
Screen real estate limits it severely as does processing power. The more screen real estate you have go to work with, the easier creativity is. Working within fifteen inches is tight, 17 is easier and guess what keeps the desktop going 24 inches and up.
Only real fanbois think you work on spreadsheets, documents and drawings, on an iPad, compared to the ease of a full keyboard, mouse, generally 50% bigger screens running 25% higher resolution, with more video ram than the iPad has main memory, let alone real storage capacity.
i(bloody)Movie seriously how marketdroid lame can you get,. Yep all the Hollywood moguls are going to be doing their movie editing on an iPad. Movies, hmm, everyone else going big screen TV(any are now coming out as internet devices based around the PCs model) but you prefer you iPad, ok, fine, not a problem at all.
I am just wondering, should you not also be able to apply this to citizens arrest. A group of hooligans, grab a young lady during a riot, making a citizens arrest, tie her up, threaten to kill her if she resists, take her back to their gang clubhouse, strip search her including cavity search, torture her with chemical weapons for protesting the arrest, apply electric shocks to random parts of her body, keep her overflight and then, whoops, tee hee, she did nothing wrong lets release her the next day, bruised, battered and terrified.
Dude, you are one sick puppy. An arrest is not just an arrest, it is a whole series of escalating crimes, that would see a regular person in jail for many years. To ensure restraint, it seems necessary to force penalties upon policing organisation and their officers to ensure they do not break those laws and they do break all those laws when it is a false arrest.
The law is the law. You can not selectively break the law because it suits you or because it is convenient to do so. Don't want rioters on your streets, then solve the problems that put them out there in the first place. When the police start acting like thugs, randomly beating people up, randomly torturing them with chemical weapons and grossly abusing the law by, let's put this is full context
Physically assaulting them
Using death threats
Kidnapping them
Illegally detaining them
benying them their freedoms and rights
It is, if your contributions to the code are nothing more than re-branding ie making it seem like it is your application in the retail space for marketing purposes, basically supplied for free with the hardware. In turn providing some direct sponsored contributions to the core code, some improvements you wanted in your retail branded version but you still didn't want to maintain and distribute the source, security etc.
It seems pretty un-necessary to distribute 'your' source if it is pretty much identical to the parent source apart from branding, especially if you are not going to put real effort into making sure, your version of the source is kept secure and not adulterated.
In many just making or sponsoring changes back to the parent source is easier for most interested parties. They just need to be able to easily substantiate, the only changes are simple public branding and all the internals including attribution remain as was.
Books are most definitely not the same as movies or TV series. Reading is not the preferred pass time of the majority. The cheetos crowd that loves plot free, weak story, no thinking video content, as long as it full of, from the gut thinking and, action scenes, generally don't read and do not really re-watch content.
People who really enjoy reading, who use their own imaginations to fill out the content, create the visuals, sound, smells, sensations and tastes of a story, of course the journey is just as important as the end.
For people who don't really enjoy reading, any excuse to stop is acceptable.
Oh Yes, sure they are improving the standard of living, they with those governments a getting peasants of farms where they work say 6 hours a day, fully independent, live where their families and eat pretty well. Instead they now work 12 to 14 hour days 6 to 7 days a week in sweat shop factories till they are no longer fit to do so and then they are replaced, why, because they are cheaper than bloody robots (Apple et al are all exploitative shit heals).
Back to the distortions of capital value of a company. ,
First rule - brokers and their companies only make real money when the value of stocks rise and fall, when they are stable, no one trade stocks much. Hence they spend their lives lying both talking up and talking down stocks, that how they make their money.
Capital assets give a better indication of long term value rather than cash flow, especially when modern cash flow is often driven by bullshit marketing and being able to sustain a bullshot public relations image. Image collapse's -"KABOOM"- revenues die, Apple's has milked it's bullshit image for about all it's worth and are now starting to come of pretty douchey.
So will insiders start quietly selling off Apple, whilst brokers ready the big talk down in value. Seems likely as they always talk up a stock when they start selling, so watch the insider trades. I bet they'll be able to get Apple stock going through some pretty wild gyrations as it's Public Relations value falls.
Oddly enough it could only be counted as a threat if, "The Supreme Council of Armed Forces" fully intend not to provide justice. It would seem by this arrest "The Supreme Council of Armed Forces" intend to become the new autocratic power and deny justice to the citizens of Egypt.
This sort of over sensitivity is just a public display of guilt and criminal intent. It all smells of a military junta, conspiring to create a illusory pretend democracy subject to the approval of Israel and the US, so that the Egyptian military leaders in charge can get their turn at the trough. So how much of Mubarak's stolen billions will return to Egypt and how much will disappear into the maws of American and European financial institutions so that a handful of Egyptian Generals can get a percentage.
Oh, ESAD, printer ribbons for, duh, dot matrix printers were no different. Each manufacturer pushing there own, uniqueness but still largely driven by the consumables market. The consumbales market is as old as the spare parts market. Normally wouldn't bother with dead head insulters like you but sometimes the mood strikes, YUPOS.
The armed revolt does not start overnight, generally it springs from a rising death toll at peaceful protest. You read those mass media news reports, were some arse hat commenter reports, that riots resulted in the deaths of ten people. Of course that all those ten people were unarmed and kill by the police, some shot and others beaten to death, gets buried on the back pages. As soon as the numbers get high enough and enough families join the mourners, those that are doing the killing become targets for revenge. So it is just escalation of violence, rather than engagement and trying to solve the problems.
A natural result of narcissistic politicians. They are the leader, a perfect leader, how dare anybody disobey them. So when they issue orders to control the protesters, who then become rioters rioters in the politicians head is a loud voice screaming "how dare they disobey me, kill them, kill them all" over and over again. So any orders or directives they issue, regardless of the lies of corrupted mass media are all about re-establishing the power of corrupted politicians not about re-establishing peace and prosperity.
Likewise, I replaced an inkjet with a laser, not for the higher quality but simply because I was sick of printing handful of pages and then having to throw out a dried out cartridge.
Printer drivers only exist because each printer manufacturer wanted control over their own device and the lucrative ink replacement business.
Does this smell like Apple is trying to patent more universal print drivers as they exist in Linux and hence Android. Those shit heads are really getting into panic mode and thinking they call force the end users to buy their lock in, make them pay all the time for everything, junk. Continue does this path and they will create a consumer backlash, that will crush the company.
You certainly could imagine someone inviting and producing anti-gravity units and then getting sued by some sleaze like Bezos for infringing his, a product that doesn't hit the ground patent.