How can be you be tracked if the phone is powered off? There's hardly any power consumption so what electronics and code is running in power-off state.
Never? Many users will carry spares that they can swap in case of excess usage of phone or an emergency. The current model is dumb and greedy, just like Apple's $30 charging cables. Imagine the outrage if your TV remote needed to be taken to a retail store to have its AA batteries replaced.
I'm not sure why parent is modded down. Paying a measly monthly salary for designing stuff where said stuff makes millions for years or decades is a prime example of capitalists ripping off creative employees.
Jobs said, in a lecture at Stanford, that his exposure to typography in college was the reason beautiful variable width fonts existed in Apple's OS and later, all computers due to copying by other OS vendors. I bet Woz had little to do with the UI of the Mac since he was mostly a hardware guy. And Macs have the best UI (except Yosemite, which is quite meh) thanks to Jobs... even Microsoft can't compete in that area.
If Jobs did nothing, how come there hasn't been a decent new product from Apple since his passing away? Apple released OS X, MacBook, iPod, iPhone and iPad under Jobs.
Samsung did the best job of anyone trying to differentiate their phones, and as such was the only profitable Android manufacturer for several years. But even they are losing market share rapidly to the likes of Xiaomi and Huawei and their profits have fallen off a cliff in the past couple years.
I think they're making great profits even if they pretend not to. Their prices are only slightly lower than Apple's very premium pricing and all they do is integrate components from other manufacturers (OS from Google, RAM from memory vendors, CPU from Qualcomm etc.). They are very similar to PC motherboard makers like ASUS and charging $200 to $700 per phone gives them plenty of profit.
It's just like the PC market where the multitude of motherboard makers have a small profit margin, whereas the few component makers for CPU, chipset, RAM, hard disks etc. make decent or fat profits.
Yes, more open source copycatting proprietary software as "hack" looks like a direct ripoff of Monaco or Menlo fonts found in OS X. How did they get past the copyright lawyers? Although I read somewhere on slashdot that fonts are not copyrightable in the US.
So who owns Linux userspace and why is he against the Linux community? It's not as if Lennart can commit changes without getting approval from the userspace owner, right?
In the case of surge pricing.. the price prevents shortage from existing, does't it?
That may be a touted side-effect, but the real reason is Uber has ample opportunity to gouge the customers when there are fewer taxis. The solution to prevent shortage is very simple: allow and encourage more drivers during busy times.
Uber drivers are part-time workers. It would be easy for Uber to schedule more drivers when the public needs them the most and thereby keeping the fare constant. But no, they are greedy, so they resort to surge pricing.
Utility patents are only granted for significant innovations. You have to use trade secrets for minor innovations (such as quantity of a certain spice in a dish). And you can't get design patents on the appearance of a dish. So the business has to take matter into its own hands and prohibit such activity (that hurts profits), or are you unaware that filming a video inside a movie theater is a crime?
I've said this in another thread, but IP laws are very lax and were created several hundred years ago when there were very few types of IP and copying and transmitting IP was very expensive, unlike today, where IP is very important.
When considering a dish in a restaurant, what is the patron allowed to do with the dish needs to be clearly specified and what IP is prohibited should be clearly specified.
And brick-and-mortar bookstores allow you to read books that are on sale. Are you saying it's legal and okay I take photos with smartphone of all the useful pages of a book while I'm in the bookstore? Your "occurring in public" is not a good enough excuse.
A customer or competitor can replicate the recipe more easily if he took the photo than if he did not.
Bottom line: the product is on sale for consumption, but its trade and design secrets are not available for sale unless you pay a hefty fee and license them.
The food was cooked to order on behalf of the customer. There is an implied transfer of ownership and all rights from the restaurant (or chef) to the customer, hence the customer is allowed to destroy the chef's work without being sued.
LOL, just because you order a dish, does not mean you are the new owner of its recipe, its presentation etc. You just have the right to eat and enjoy it, that's all. There is no other "transfer of ownership" of trade secrets and design of the dish.
That's assuming you live really close to the bar. What if the distance were longer and you had to pay $75-100, each way, so $150 minimum just for the rides? Most people can't afford $200 just for the rides.
The punishment for pirate consumers should be no more than that for shoplifting, since the crimes are similar. The punishment for pirate distributors should be more.
Trade secrets == IP == the reason the company is making the money and not some competitor. Giving away secrets == donating a large chunk of earnings every year.
a lot of vague claims about the interface being copyrightable (based on the names of the classes! i.e. trying to claim the interface as copyright material).
Fine. Next time I have a large project I will ask you to analyze the problem and design the interfaces/class declarations. I will then take/copy those interfaces from you without paying you a penny. Any half-competent programmer will implement those interfaces you donated for free.
Java is no longer the carrot/bait to get users to buy Sun computers. Java is far more important than commodity hardware and Sun took too long to realize that or monetize Java's value like Oracle is trying to.
Frankly, IP laws are quite lax if Google can simply take major parts of Java, reimplement the remaining parts, and pay Oracle exactly $0.
If there was no limitation on the number of taxis, the market would be flooded with taxi drivers and their wages would plummet (although that would be good for the customers). It would also create massive traffic jams. So it's not 100% about the money, maybe just 30%.
Also, if Uber can run taxis without permission from the authorities, why can't any Joe do the same?
But many freemium games allow you access to almost all the content (say 70-90% of the game) for free whereas shareware gives you only about 5-10% of the full game for free.
Another difference is freemium content is 10-100 times more expensive (but buyers won't notice because they pay small amounts in micro-transactions) than full commercial or shareware games. The high price is because the premium content in freemium games allows the buyer to win easily against free players, which is not how shareware works.
Option (A) is definitely cheaper. It just needs much bigger capacity hard disks, say 5 to 10 TB for the DVR.
Option (B) would require all ISPs entering the TV industry. What if your ISP was small and did not provide TV content? Having local CDNs would also be a huge investment, but you would be able to get any content you want, when you want and perhaps at a higher resolution than cable/satellite. Can the ISP transmit separate 1080p shows to all customers at the same time without taxing their equipment?
What would be rough cost of building a local content CDN for a city of say 200,000 population?
There is also the issue of piracy. If movies/TV shows are sent through the internet and played on some sort of computer, there is a greater chance of piracy and so the content studios won't use the internet unless there is a DRM box like a DVR ensuring content is not stolen.
1% drop does not mean dying but they have reached the peak. The broadcast medium, like cable and satellite, is very suitable for high-bandwidth content like HD TV shows and movies compared to the resource intensive unicast model of the internet TV.
To be clear, before the test began, these queries found either nothing or a few poor quality results on Google or Bing. Then Google made a manual change, so that a specific page would appear at the top of these searches, even though the site had nothing to do with the search. Two weeks after that, some of these pages began to appear on Bing for these searches.
It strongly suggests that Bing was copying Google's results, by watching what some people do at Google via Internet Explorer.
Wait a sec... does this mean IE spies on your google page and sends your google search queries to Microsoft servers?
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How can be you be tracked if the phone is powered off? There's hardly any power consumption so what electronics and code is running in power-off state.
Never? Many users will carry spares that they can swap in case of excess usage of phone or an emergency. The current model is dumb and greedy, just like Apple's $30 charging cables. Imagine the outrage if your TV remote needed to be taken to a retail store to have its AA batteries replaced.
I'm not sure why parent is modded down. Paying a measly monthly salary for designing stuff where said stuff makes millions for years or decades is a prime example of capitalists ripping off creative employees.
Woz should get royalties for every Apple II sold.
Jobs said, in a lecture at Stanford, that his exposure to typography in college was the reason beautiful variable width fonts existed in Apple's OS and later, all computers due to copying by other OS vendors. I bet Woz had little to do with the UI of the Mac since he was mostly a hardware guy. And Macs have the best UI (except Yosemite, which is quite meh) thanks to Jobs... even Microsoft can't compete in that area.
If Jobs did nothing, how come there hasn't been a decent new product from Apple since his passing away? Apple released OS X, MacBook, iPod, iPhone and iPad under Jobs.
2% property tax is nothing compared to what IP owners pay -- 20 to 50% in income and sales taxes when they sell their products.
I think they're making great profits even if they pretend not to. Their prices are only slightly lower than Apple's very premium pricing and all they do is integrate components from other manufacturers (OS from Google, RAM from memory vendors, CPU from Qualcomm etc.). They are very similar to PC motherboard makers like ASUS and charging $200 to $700 per phone gives them plenty of profit.
It's just like the PC market where the multitude of motherboard makers have a small profit margin, whereas the few component makers for CPU, chipset, RAM, hard disks etc. make decent or fat profits.
Yes, more open source copycatting proprietary software as "hack" looks like a direct ripoff of Monaco or Menlo fonts found in OS X. How did they get past the copyright lawyers? Although I read somewhere on slashdot that fonts are not copyrightable in the US.
Not as stupid as your parents.
So who owns Linux userspace and why is he against the Linux community? It's not as if Lennart can commit changes without getting approval from the userspace owner, right?
That may be a touted side-effect, but the real reason is Uber has ample opportunity to gouge the customers when there are fewer taxis. The solution to prevent shortage is very simple: allow and encourage more drivers during busy times.
Uber drivers are part-time workers. It would be easy for Uber to schedule more drivers when the public needs them the most and thereby keeping the fare constant. But no, they are greedy, so they resort to surge pricing.
Utility patents are only granted for significant innovations. You have to use trade secrets for minor innovations (such as quantity of a certain spice in a dish). And you can't get design patents on the appearance of a dish. So the business has to take matter into its own hands and prohibit such activity (that hurts profits), or are you unaware that filming a video inside a movie theater is a crime?
I've said this in another thread, but IP laws are very lax and were created several hundred years ago when there were very few types of IP and copying and transmitting IP was very expensive, unlike today, where IP is very important.
When considering a dish in a restaurant, what is the patron allowed to do with the dish needs to be clearly specified and what IP is prohibited should be clearly specified.
And brick-and-mortar bookstores allow you to read books that are on sale. Are you saying it's legal and okay I take photos with smartphone of all the useful pages of a book while I'm in the bookstore? Your "occurring in public" is not a good enough excuse.
A customer or competitor can replicate the recipe more easily if he took the photo than if he did not.
Bottom line: the product is on sale for consumption, but its trade and design secrets are not available for sale unless you pay a hefty fee and license them.
LOL, just because you order a dish, does not mean you are the new owner of its recipe, its presentation etc. You just have the right to eat and enjoy it, that's all. There is no other "transfer of ownership" of trade secrets and design of the dish.
What if a competing chef sees the photo and duplicates the dish? Don't you think the chef should have protection for his IP?
That's assuming you live really close to the bar. What if the distance were longer and you had to pay $75-100, each way, so $150 minimum just for the rides? Most people can't afford $200 just for the rides.
The punishment for pirate consumers should be no more than that for shoplifting, since the crimes are similar. The punishment for pirate distributors should be more.
Trade secrets == IP == the reason the company is making the money and not some competitor. Giving away secrets == donating a large chunk of earnings every year.
Fine. Next time I have a large project I will ask you to analyze the problem and design the interfaces/class declarations. I will then take/copy those interfaces from you without paying you a penny. Any half-competent programmer will implement those interfaces you donated for free.
Java is no longer the carrot/bait to get users to buy Sun computers. Java is far more important than commodity hardware and Sun took too long to realize that or monetize Java's value like Oracle is trying to.
Frankly, IP laws are quite lax if Google can simply take major parts of Java, reimplement the remaining parts, and pay Oracle exactly $0.
If there was no limitation on the number of taxis, the market would be flooded with taxi drivers and their wages would plummet (although that would be good for the customers). It would also create massive traffic jams. So it's not 100% about the money, maybe just 30%.
Also, if Uber can run taxis without permission from the authorities, why can't any Joe do the same?
Maybe there are not many impulsive, big spenders in the business world to sustain the freemium business model.
But many freemium games allow you access to almost all the content (say 70-90% of the game) for free whereas shareware gives you only about 5-10% of the full game for free.
Another difference is freemium content is 10-100 times more expensive (but buyers won't notice because they pay small amounts in micro-transactions) than full commercial or shareware games. The high price is because the premium content in freemium games allows the buyer to win easily against free players, which is not how shareware works.
Option (A) is definitely cheaper. It just needs much bigger capacity hard disks, say 5 to 10 TB for the DVR.
Option (B) would require all ISPs entering the TV industry. What if your ISP was small and did not provide TV content? Having local CDNs would also be a huge investment, but you would be able to get any content you want, when you want and perhaps at a higher resolution than cable/satellite. Can the ISP transmit separate 1080p shows to all customers at the same time without taxing their equipment?
What would be rough cost of building a local content CDN for a city of say 200,000 population?
There is also the issue of piracy. If movies/TV shows are sent through the internet and played on some sort of computer, there is a greater chance of piracy and so the content studios won't use the internet unless there is a DRM box like a DVR ensuring content is not stolen.
1% drop does not mean dying but they have reached the peak. The broadcast medium, like cable and satellite, is very suitable for high-bandwidth content like HD TV shows and movies compared to the resource intensive unicast model of the internet TV.
To be clear, before the test began, these queries found either nothing or a few poor quality results on Google or Bing. Then Google made a manual change, so that a specific page would appear at the top of these searches, even though the site had nothing to do with the search. Two weeks after that, some of these pages began to appear on Bing for these searches.
It strongly suggests that Bing was copying Google's results, by watching what some people do at Google via Internet Explorer.
Wait a sec... does this mean IE spies on your google page and sends your google search queries to Microsoft servers?
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