and I don't remember anything being particularly inappropriate. Any one know what they are referring to? I mean the Bible has GOT to have much much worse scenes in it.
I thought Intellectual Property laws protected creators from other creators, not from retailers... Apple's terms and conditions clearly state that anything submitted to their store must be legal to sell in the first place. This is a grab for attention, nothing else, and the accusers are only wasting their time.
Any sort of 'advanced' mode might result in regular users turning it on by accident and then resulting in a much much greater number of vulnerabilities. No, the closed wall garden that Apple employs is what makes iOS great.And let's be honest, 95% of jailbreakers just want to pirate apps.
All public services are ultimately paid for with our tax dollars. We already pay for the electricity that powers the electric chair, the money that runs the prisons and the food our Prime Minister eats. If people understood that, maybe they'd get more involved in politics.
parts of democracy aren't totally useless! As for DRM, as they have been in the past, the free markets will defeat them. Everyone knows that DRM just makes products worse and doesn't affect pirates or theft at all.
Thanks for that, all this time I was thinking:"Big bully Hollywood using lawyers for no good." Then I went to the site, that sort of looks like a Lord of the Rings fan club and thought:"Ah, shameless copyright infringement, nevermind."
Starcraft II was about 80$, I've been playing it since two summers ago... must be pennies an hour or something. Mariokart Wii was about 60$, can play that whenever I want, there's no fixed hours of entertainment for games like that. When multiplayer is involved, the cost of the game is almost totally unimportant compared to how badly you want to play it. Of course, they need to price the game so that you don't cringe when you see the price, but anything below that and it's fair game, pun intended.
It's surprising because this article claims there are 100,000 times more planets than stars, quite a ways off from 8x. Methinks we just don't know squat about physics on that level to make absurd estimations like this. I am not a physicist but so many theories being thrown around seem just as dense as the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Let us list some of them:
-teachers, good or bad, are dealt opportunity based on seniority
Seniority obviously is a problem because the length of time a teacher has been teaching has little to do with their effectiveness, if anything, I'd say that the quality of teaching will remain the same since although their experience is greater, their apathy is also greater, in general of course.
-teachers are themselves qualified based on the performance of their students
Teacher's write and grade exams, leaving the door wide open to fraud (basically they make themselves look good). Sometimes departments will even institute policies that make it difficult for a teacher to fail a student. The problem there is that all students pass but all are most certainly not equal, so you get horribly ambiguous real life results. A lot of people are really quite dense, either from lack of effort or otherwise, and they simply wouldn't get by in a normal education system, but societies say that EVERYONE can get through it and that right there is the problem. Some people would be just fine doing manual labor their whole life, we don't all need to be brainiacs but society says we have to be and glamorizes intelligence while putting down the laymen, who we desperately need working the low level jobs.
-Special education programs: my fiancé, who is a special education teacher, has great insight into special education programs. A lot of kids just don't have the skills, and they never will. They can spend 4 times as much time working on problems and exercising but they just can't do certain things, and while some of them might eventually cut it, they'll be so far behind, it'll be too late for a 'normal' education. Yet education is mandated and often these kids get a great deal more attention than gifted students. The problem there is that students who may be gifted are completely ignored, because they don't have problems. The system therefore creates a working class of morons and geniuses who all end up at or around the same level of education. The system basically aims for mediocrity for everyone.
-Parents: parents want the educational system to educate their child and often leave it at that. School is just the beginning though and I sometimes wish it wasn't free, so that people would actually care about their child's education enough to provide it and PAY ATTENTION. Too often parents come into school blasting teachers for the child's poor grades, it's not a teacher's job to give a student good grades, it's their job to give each student what they need to succeed on their own and it's parents that should be providing the extra. Parents need to man up and complement the education their children get instead of JUST relying on the social systems that they have no choice but to follow.
-Unions: Unions in general are a good thing, the way they function in real life is appalling, I don't need to give examples here but unions are supposed to be there to protect good employees from bad treatment, not bad employees from real life. When you see/hear a teacher who is absolutely out of line keep their job because of their union, you know something is wrong.
-red tape: So many faculty members hands are tied in so many ways. Good people with good ideas are often completely helpless to act because the system they work in is 'their way or the high way'. School boards are bloated administrative messes that leach money from schools that schools could use to actually improve facilities, yet even if they did have the extra funds, the school board wouldn't allow the school to do so, because it's not mandated by the school board. The system, where everybody has to play by the same rules, whether they like it or not, whether it works or not, is a problem.
I could think of more but I think i've made my point by now and I doubt anyone will have read this far anyway because we live in a society that prizes the short messages that please everyone as opposed to the real complex reality nobody likes to hear.
I have to disagree, Samsung really did make their product look identical to Apple's, whether it was on purpose or not.
http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad-2-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-10.1.jpg
Without the home button and the slightly different shape, they look exactly the same. Apple asserts that this fact may confuse customers. And don't forget that a LOT of shops selling non iPad tablets will still put that typical iPad home screen screenshot on it. Remember the ordeal where a Samsung display had all the core Apple apps up on the wall?
Do I agree with patents like this? No. But if they exist and they should be enforceable, I think Apple has a case.
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and I don't remember anything being particularly inappropriate. Any one know what they are referring to? I mean the Bible has GOT to have much much worse scenes in it.
Once solar panels can provide enough power for the drones to stay aloft indefinitely this seems feasible.
I thought Intellectual Property laws protected creators from other creators, not from retailers... Apple's terms and conditions clearly state that anything submitted to their store must be legal to sell in the first place. This is a grab for attention, nothing else, and the accusers are only wasting their time.
It's easier to mind Gaps in America, here we have Baby Gap's.
Any sort of 'advanced' mode might result in regular users turning it on by accident and then resulting in a much much greater number of vulnerabilities. No, the closed wall garden that Apple employs is what makes iOS great.And let's be honest, 95% of jailbreakers just want to pirate apps.
that or replicators.
the money is trickling down, this must be stopped!
All public services are ultimately paid for with our tax dollars. We already pay for the electricity that powers the electric chair, the money that runs the prisons and the food our Prime Minister eats. If people understood that, maybe they'd get more involved in politics.
Hey with redbull and double dipping someday we'll hit 180 hour work week, then we can retire at 28!
Roll over red rover!
Human life is greatly overrated.
this is a joke right?
or you could put an ad on the back and send proceeds to the original creator!
parts of democracy aren't totally useless! As for DRM, as they have been in the past, the free markets will defeat them. Everyone knows that DRM just makes products worse and doesn't affect pirates or theft at all.
Thanks for that, all this time I was thinking:"Big bully Hollywood using lawyers for no good." Then I went to the site, that sort of looks like a Lord of the Rings fan club and thought:"Ah, shameless copyright infringement, nevermind."
Starcraft II was about 80$, I've been playing it since two summers ago... must be pennies an hour or something. Mariokart Wii was about 60$, can play that whenever I want, there's no fixed hours of entertainment for games like that. When multiplayer is involved, the cost of the game is almost totally unimportant compared to how badly you want to play it. Of course, they need to price the game so that you don't cringe when you see the price, but anything below that and it's fair game, pun intended.
It's surprising because this article claims there are 100,000 times more planets than stars, quite a ways off from 8x. Methinks we just don't know squat about physics on that level to make absurd estimations like this. I am not a physicist but so many theories being thrown around seem just as dense as the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Except last time 'we' tried that it got us worse than nothing.
I'm sure it'll be implemented in Firefox 19, due to be released next week.
come talk to me when we have photon torpedos...
Let us list some of them: -teachers, good or bad, are dealt opportunity based on seniority Seniority obviously is a problem because the length of time a teacher has been teaching has little to do with their effectiveness, if anything, I'd say that the quality of teaching will remain the same since although their experience is greater, their apathy is also greater, in general of course. -teachers are themselves qualified based on the performance of their students Teacher's write and grade exams, leaving the door wide open to fraud (basically they make themselves look good). Sometimes departments will even institute policies that make it difficult for a teacher to fail a student. The problem there is that all students pass but all are most certainly not equal, so you get horribly ambiguous real life results. A lot of people are really quite dense, either from lack of effort or otherwise, and they simply wouldn't get by in a normal education system, but societies say that EVERYONE can get through it and that right there is the problem. Some people would be just fine doing manual labor their whole life, we don't all need to be brainiacs but society says we have to be and glamorizes intelligence while putting down the laymen, who we desperately need working the low level jobs. -Special education programs: my fiancé, who is a special education teacher, has great insight into special education programs. A lot of kids just don't have the skills, and they never will. They can spend 4 times as much time working on problems and exercising but they just can't do certain things, and while some of them might eventually cut it, they'll be so far behind, it'll be too late for a 'normal' education. Yet education is mandated and often these kids get a great deal more attention than gifted students. The problem there is that students who may be gifted are completely ignored, because they don't have problems. The system therefore creates a working class of morons and geniuses who all end up at or around the same level of education. The system basically aims for mediocrity for everyone. -Parents: parents want the educational system to educate their child and often leave it at that. School is just the beginning though and I sometimes wish it wasn't free, so that people would actually care about their child's education enough to provide it and PAY ATTENTION. Too often parents come into school blasting teachers for the child's poor grades, it's not a teacher's job to give a student good grades, it's their job to give each student what they need to succeed on their own and it's parents that should be providing the extra. Parents need to man up and complement the education their children get instead of JUST relying on the social systems that they have no choice but to follow. -Unions: Unions in general are a good thing, the way they function in real life is appalling, I don't need to give examples here but unions are supposed to be there to protect good employees from bad treatment, not bad employees from real life. When you see/hear a teacher who is absolutely out of line keep their job because of their union, you know something is wrong. -red tape: So many faculty members hands are tied in so many ways. Good people with good ideas are often completely helpless to act because the system they work in is 'their way or the high way'. School boards are bloated administrative messes that leach money from schools that schools could use to actually improve facilities, yet even if they did have the extra funds, the school board wouldn't allow the school to do so, because it's not mandated by the school board. The system, where everybody has to play by the same rules, whether they like it or not, whether it works or not, is a problem. I could think of more but I think i've made my point by now and I doubt anyone will have read this far anyway because we live in a society that prizes the short messages that please everyone as opposed to the real complex reality nobody likes to hear.
So, what the heck does it mean in the context of video games? "A problem as hard as the hardest NP-problem" really doesn't clarify it for me thanx...
I have to disagree, Samsung really did make their product look identical to Apple's, whether it was on purpose or not. http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad-2-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-10.1.jpg Without the home button and the slightly different shape, they look exactly the same. Apple asserts that this fact may confuse customers. And don't forget that a LOT of shops selling non iPad tablets will still put that typical iPad home screen screenshot on it. Remember the ordeal where a Samsung display had all the core Apple apps up on the wall? Do I agree with patents like this? No. But if they exist and they should be enforceable, I think Apple has a case.
Definitely GPS timing error.
Did you not at least specify which dumpster and ask for him to make sure it landed safely on top of something relatively clean?