I didn't say it was easy to start a manufacturing union, I simply said it was even harder for developers due to a lack of direct costs in moving to non-unionized labor in our field.
The second a union starts, the company closes the local shop and outsources all development to a place where unions are illegal.
Manufacturers at least have a direct cost associated with moving a factory; most costs attributed to outsourcing are intangible in development and are thus usually ignored by PHBs.
My troll, eh? So let me get this straight, you have no problem with the parent of my OP here, but you do have a problem with my post. Extrapolating from that, apparently insulting one's religious beliefs is fine and dandy, but calling someone out as being a dick is not.
*shrugs* I've been at the karma cap here for years. Your Jedi mind tricks don't work on me. If you want a forum where everyone is 100% on topic all the time, Slashdot isn't and hasn't been it.
Great. I have a question: Has there ever been a trademark infringement lawsuit, where the defendants had both been using the trademark in the market and had originated it before the plaintiffs, and where the plaintiffs won the case? I sincerely doubt it.
Unfounded assumption. I'm just not a dick about it.
...paranoia...
So when was the last time a religious person personally threatened your life? I'm not talking about kooks from the middle east, I'm talking about you, personally. I bet it's never happened.
GP is not talking about suing upon release of a project, they're talking about suing years after a product has been released and has been on the market.
Nope, and that's often the strategy of trolls; wait until another company gains traction with "your" "idea" and then bring out the submarine patent and sue for retroactive license payments.
Not to mention that the very fact that they still use a polygraph after it's been repeatedly proven unreliable would turn geeks off faster than a naked Steve Ballmer.
(If you are in fact attracted to Steve Ballmer, you need better taste.)
From the summary, I was under the impression that there was de facto compression involved: There was less information transmitted that losslessly could be converted back to full packets. Perhaps I should have RTFA.
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I didn't say it was easy to start a manufacturing union, I simply said it was even harder for developers due to a lack of direct costs in moving to non-unionized labor in our field.
The second a union starts, the company closes the local shop and outsources all development to a place where unions are illegal.
Manufacturers at least have a direct cost associated with moving a factory; most costs attributed to outsourcing are intangible in development and are thus usually ignored by PHBs.
Excuse me if I don't take Senator Tubes seriously.
My troll, eh? So let me get this straight, you have no problem with the parent of my OP here, but you do have a problem with my post. Extrapolating from that, apparently insulting one's religious beliefs is fine and dandy, but calling someone out as being a dick is not.
*shrugs* I've been at the karma cap here for years. Your Jedi mind tricks don't work on me. If you want a forum where everyone is 100% on topic all the time, Slashdot isn't and hasn't been it.
Don't get me started on the IOC.
Great. I have a question: Has there ever been a trademark infringement lawsuit, where the defendants had both been using the trademark in the market and had originated it before the plaintiffs, and where the plaintiffs won the case? I sincerely doubt it.
Apple's lawyers either didn't do the research here, or are arrogant to the point of being harmful to their interests.
See my sibling posts, lazy commentator.
Who is being the dick, calling people names (who haven't even done anything)?
I think needlessly insulting someone's religion is dickish, yes.
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean anyone is out to get you.
In what way am I paranoid?
Atheists face much more discrimination in the world and in the U.S. than people with religious beliefs.
Maybe. I suppose that gives you a license to be a dick, then?
Look, it's someone who believes...
Unfounded assumption. I'm just not a dick about it.
...paranoia...
So when was the last time a religious person personally threatened your life? I'm not talking about kooks from the middle east, I'm talking about you, personally. I bet it's never happened.
Didn't they kinda forfeit this 'IP' when they did not sue over WP7?
Look, it's someone with possibly religious beliefs! ATHEIST DICKS, ASSEMBLE!
GP is not talking about suing upon release of a project, they're talking about suing years after a product has been released and has been on the market.
Nope, plain view rule. A satellite is, after all, just a substitute for a cop looking down from orbit.
Sweet. So you get judged entirely subjectively by a bunch of random people. That's much better. Sign me up!
Nope, and that's often the strategy of trolls; wait until another company gains traction with "your" "idea" and then bring out the submarine patent and sue for retroactive license payments.
Not to mention that the very fact that they still use a polygraph after it's been repeatedly proven unreliable would turn geeks off faster than a naked Steve Ballmer.
(If you are in fact attracted to Steve Ballmer, you need better taste.)
Sounds like a true Scotsman to me!
From the summary, I was under the impression that there was de facto compression involved: There was less information transmitted that losslessly could be converted back to full packets. Perhaps I should have RTFA.
I'm going the platform-neutral HTML 5 route now. It's not quite ready for prime time, but I'm betting on it being ready very soon.
It's an error-correction method that happens to have compression built-in.
Also, I really wish people would stop shitting on new technologies like they're some sort of oracle. This is awesome. Accept it.
The nice thing here is that instead of tanking themselves, they only tank Nokia! Win-win, right?
They don't have to support it; people don't have to upgrade. Everybody's happy!
So increase her software PPI. This isn't rocket science.
Can't we all just... get along?
(also Android is superior and you are wrong and eat babies)