The 110 year old man would be lying about Ho-Hos since he could only have eaten them for 40% of his life. Likewise you may wish to ignore the advise of someone who believes that the CCD was invented by Kodak or in 1990. CCD was invented by Bell Labs in 1969 and Kodak did use CCDs in a digital camera in 1975 and nobody (as far as I have been able to determine) said either was a bad idea.
I believe that ignoring the conventional wisdom of this ex-CIO is apt advise in this case.
And the drones who must carry them conceal them, when they once displayed them proudly. Settling into a small niche means you are irrelevant to the vast majority.
When your market share drops from 19% to 14% in one quarter, that is not incredible growth. Research In Motion issued a warning stating that its smartphone sales would hit the low end of its projected 13.5 to 14.5 million in unit sales this quarter.
If they don't leapfrog their competition with their next product, they will be marginalized quickly.
differential tuition is a reaction to basic market forces that we've been resisting for a long time.
FTFY
Universities make money from STEP programs - patents and government and industry funded research bring in revenues that liberal arts never could. The universities know that the federal government will do the stupidest thing possible in reaction to this which is to throw money at the problem, creating entitlements, and subsidizing directly STEP students. This is a trap we need to avoid.
Eisenhower warned in his Military Industrial Complex Speech that, "the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity."
College is supposed to prepare students for the real world, and this is preparing engineers and science majors to subsidize liberal arts majors for the rest of their lives - that is, unless STEP graduates finally wake up and recognize that political activism is an area in which they may benefit from participating.
I expect that people with your limited comprehension seldom come up with anything original. Next time you provide a link you may want to do more than just look at the pictures The article clearly states that Samsung copied Apple, and the subject is design patent and trade dress not copyright. From the article you reference:
the graphic is in error, as Samsung only mentioned plans for the new phone in 2006. It wasn't actually shown until February 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress, held a month after the iPhone's debut. It did not go on sale at that time.
With its Galaxy line of mobile products, Samsung has copied not just the overall look of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but went even further to add a "Touchwiz" layer to Android that makes its devices far more closely resemble Apple's products than other Android licensee have.
After the release of iPad 2, Samsung even publicly admitted needing to redesign its Galaxy Tab to more closely resemble Apple's product.
We have abused our customers by failing to provide them with the services they paid for. We have sold products that we cannot support and continued to misrepresent our data services as superior to those of our competitors. We have demonstrated contempt for the concept of building out our network. We have generated record profits as a result. Therefore we humbly ask the FCC to allow us to buy T-Mobile so we can be the biggest mobile provider and do more of the same.
And you would be so disappointed when you found out that Metric is different than SI and you can't easily convert from m/s to km/h. It is just as easy to remember that 88fps=60mph
The problem with SI is that no country adheres to it.
My pet peeve is pressure: 1 Pa = 1 N/m^2 = 10^5 bar = 10.197×106 at = 9.8692×106 atm = 7.5006×103 torr = 145.04×106 psi = ? kgm/s^2 = ? mm of Hg = ? m of H2O = ? bar = ? atm = ? kilopond/cm^2. I have, in the normal course of business, had to use every one of these because the SI units are somehow less convenient than non SI metric units.
Every country continues to use knots velocity, and it is SI and it does not convert to any other combination of SI units with factors of ten.
I like American units because they were selected specifically to offer a basis for understanding. It is relatively obvious that a man might be able to generate a large fraction of a Hp for a short period of time but few engineers would be able to discuss W (Watts) in such a visceral manner, and then they have to introduce calories into the mix. We use mAH to talk about the charge in a small battery and so does the rest of the world, but they should be using Coulombs.
My experience living in Europe is that when Americans use the Metric System, engineers at least tend to adhere to the base units as intended far better than their counterparts in other nations. And I would be pleased if the US made the conversion, but it only makes a fraction of the calculations easier.
They state their weight in stones, even though the unit was obsoleted for trade in the 80's. A stone = 14 lb. 8 stones = 1 hundredweight = 1cwt = 112 lb and people bitch about gigabytes.
And every country continues to use Knots for velocity of ships and aircraft.
"So far we've already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site." So 'Friday' and a couple of lolcats vids. I'm pretty sure they had to euthanize the server responsible for that.
I think Apple's suit is utterly without merit, but you are trolling or stupid.
From the accompanying article, "the graphic is in error, as Samsung only mentioned plans for the new phone in 2006. It wasn't actually shown until February 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress, held a month after the iPhone's debut. It did not go on sale at that time."
Your movements in public are not a privacy issue. You use public thoroughfares and have no legitimate expectation of privacy at any instant, but somehow you construe that adding all those instants together is greater than the sum?
Providing a tool that can be used to invade your privacy is not the same as invading your privacy. Kodak started making cameras and film 120 years ago, and they had the same potential to destroy privacy, but there is nothing inherently evil about them. While I might object to someone following me and documenting my every move, I know I neither have, nor (more importantly) do I believe others should have, recourse against such activities. I think the public has the right to film the police when they beat Rodney King, so I have to defend that right even for those who might somehow abuse that right. That trumps any right to "privacy" in public.
All that said, I think it is an unnecessary record of information and frankly a bit creepy. I think it is unconscionable that battery life of the phone was sacrificed, however minimally, to run a program which the user is unaware of, and which does not serve a clear purpose. Privacy is simply not a particularly appropriate argument against something that does not actually fit under that heading.
Gaming of the system is the next logical step. One might be able to route people to one's neighborhood by submitting false one-way streets, road closures, altered speed limits, and traffic jam reports.
All the data needs to indicate is, "Hey we got another sucker to put on the band!", which reality show he is watching, and his address. Direct sales to weak-minded people is far more profitable than advertising dollars.
My comments were limited to the design patents and their claims and have nothing to do with the underlying software because there are no claims in the patents in that regard. If you had read the design patents, you would know how limited in scope it is, "CLAIM The ornamental design for a graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof, as shown and described." Note that there is no indication in the patent that the interface is a touchscreen. Read the patent and you figure out if any effort was required in software development to file for the patent.
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The 110 year old man would be lying about Ho-Hos since he could only have eaten them for 40% of his life. Likewise you may wish to ignore the advise of someone who believes that the CCD was invented by Kodak or in 1990. CCD was invented by Bell Labs in 1969 and Kodak did use CCDs in a digital camera in 1975 and nobody (as far as I have been able to determine) said either was a bad idea.
I believe that ignoring the conventional wisdom of this ex-CIO is apt advise in this case.
And the drones who must carry them conceal them, when they once displayed them proudly. Settling into a small niche means you are irrelevant to the vast majority.
When your market share drops from 19% to 14% in one quarter, that is not incredible growth. Research In Motion issued a warning stating that its smartphone sales would hit the low end of its projected 13.5 to 14.5 million in unit sales this quarter.
If they don't leapfrog their competition with their next product, they will be marginalized quickly.
differential tuition is a reaction to basic market forces that we've been resisting for a long time.
FTFY
Universities make money from STEP programs - patents and government and industry funded research bring in revenues that liberal arts never could. The universities know that the federal government will do the stupidest thing possible in reaction to this which is to throw money at the problem, creating entitlements, and subsidizing directly STEP students. This is a trap we need to avoid.
Eisenhower warned in his Military Industrial Complex Speech that, "the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity."
College is supposed to prepare students for the real world, and this is preparing engineers and science majors to subsidize liberal arts majors for the rest of their lives - that is, unless STEP graduates finally wake up and recognize that political activism is an area in which they may benefit from participating.
the graphic is in error, as Samsung only mentioned plans for the new phone in 2006. It wasn't actually shown until February 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress, held a month after the iPhone's debut. It did not go on sale at that time.
With its Galaxy line of mobile products, Samsung has copied not just the overall look of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but went even further to add a "Touchwiz" layer to Android that makes its devices far more closely resemble Apple's products than other Android licensee have.
After the release of iPad 2, Samsung even publicly admitted needing to redesign its Galaxy Tab to more closely resemble Apple's product.
We have abused our customers by failing to provide them with the services they paid for. We have sold products that we cannot support and continued to misrepresent our data services as superior to those of our competitors. We have demonstrated contempt for the concept of building out our network. We have generated record profits as a result. Therefore we humbly ask the FCC to allow us to buy T-Mobile so we can be the biggest mobile provider and do more of the same.
Thank you,
AT&T
The burden always lies, both literally and figuratively, with those at the bottom of the food chain.
The problem with SI is that no country adheres to it.
My pet peeve is pressure: 1 Pa = 1 N/m^2 = 10^5 bar = 10.197×106 at = 9.8692×106 atm = 7.5006×103 torr = 145.04×106 psi = ? kgm/s^2 = ? mm of Hg = ? m of H2O = ? bar = ? atm = ? kilopond/cm^2. I have, in the normal course of business, had to use every one of these because the SI units are somehow less convenient than non SI metric units.
Every country continues to use knots velocity, and it is SI and it does not convert to any other combination of SI units with factors of ten.
I like American units because they were selected specifically to offer a basis for understanding. It is relatively obvious that a man might be able to generate a large fraction of a Hp for a short period of time but few engineers would be able to discuss W (Watts) in such a visceral manner, and then they have to introduce calories into the mix. We use mAH to talk about the charge in a small battery and so does the rest of the world, but they should be using Coulombs.
My experience living in Europe is that when Americans use the Metric System, engineers at least tend to adhere to the base units as intended far better than their counterparts in other nations. And I would be pleased if the US made the conversion, but it only makes a fraction of the calculations easier.
They state their weight in stones, even though the unit was obsoleted for trade in the 80's. A stone = 14 lb. 8 stones = 1 hundredweight = 1cwt = 112 lb and people bitch about gigabytes.
And every country continues to use Knots for velocity of ships and aircraft.
Here's why: Jump to 2:00 for those without eidetic memory.
"So far we've already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site." So 'Friday' and a couple of lolcats vids. I'm pretty sure they had to euthanize the server responsible for that.
Exactly why we users should shun WebM as long as it's not governed by a third-party standardization organizations like ISO/IEC.
Yeah 'cause we all just love what the way they handled ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (OOXML).
I believe an anorexic chip fabricator would deliver the requested flavor combination.
I think Apple's suit is utterly without merit, but you are trolling or stupid.
From the accompanying article, "the graphic is in error, as Samsung only mentioned plans for the new phone in 2006. It wasn't actually shown until February 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress, held a month after the iPhone's debut. It did not go on sale at that time."
Your movements in public are not a privacy issue. You use public thoroughfares and have no legitimate expectation of privacy at any instant, but somehow you construe that adding all those instants together is greater than the sum?
Providing a tool that can be used to invade your privacy is not the same as invading your privacy. Kodak started making cameras and film 120 years ago, and they had the same potential to destroy privacy, but there is nothing inherently evil about them. While I might object to someone following me and documenting my every move, I know I neither have, nor (more importantly) do I believe others should have, recourse against such activities. I think the public has the right to film the police when they beat Rodney King, so I have to defend that right even for those who might somehow abuse that right. That trumps any right to "privacy" in public.
All that said, I think it is an unnecessary record of information and frankly a bit creepy. I think it is unconscionable that battery life of the phone was sacrificed, however minimally, to run a program which the user is unaware of, and which does not serve a clear purpose. Privacy is simply not a particularly appropriate argument against something that does not actually fit under that heading.
Tablets are about consuming, not computing.
But the other one would be holding the tablet.
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WP7? Yeah, cut and paste is for pussies.
As long as it is instantly and not three days later, we do not need to introduce religion into the issue.
Gaming of the system is the next logical step. One might be able to route people to one's neighborhood by submitting false one-way streets, road closures, altered speed limits, and traffic jam reports.
All the data needs to indicate is, "Hey we got another sucker to put on the band!", which reality show he is watching, and his address. Direct sales to weak-minded people is far more profitable than advertising dollars.
This should make Aliens' lives easier since we know where marketing people invariably put their heads.
My comments were limited to the design patents and their claims and have nothing to do with the underlying software because there are no claims in the patents in that regard. If you had read the design patents, you would know how limited in scope it is, "CLAIM The ornamental design for a graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof, as shown and described." Note that there is no indication in the patent that the interface is a touchscreen. Read the patent and you figure out if any effort was required in software development to file for the patent.