Possibly, but still, how do you think Mumsie (and her lawyer) would react to sparks coming out of the cereal box (regardless of the actions that led to it)?
Probably the same reaction "Mumsie" would take if the same kid smashing a camera and touched the much higher capacitance flash cap, punish him for destroying stuff and making a mess. Besides, Mumsie would probably be told by her lawyer that you need to actually have some actual damage to sue someone.
Can't you see lil' Johnny poking a fork/steak knife/scissors into the side of the box to cut out the cool picture, and then BZZZZORPP!! as he discharges the last bit of the capacitor into his weapon of choice!
The charge of even a full capacitor will not approach the charge of rubbing one's socks against a rug and touching someone. Besides if the child truly is that destructive there are plenty of things in the home that can to far more harm, far easier.
Not to mention, Capacitors aren't exactly full of food-grade ingredients. What happens if they get damaged (box cutter anyone?)?
Vegetable oil/paper electrolytic capacitors do exsist.
First of all RIP was introduced in 1993 and the patent was filed in 1994, I really doubt you can consider that WAY before.
Second I really don't see how RIP has anything to do with this as it doesn't even deal with "application objects" that the patent is about.
Due to the regulatory requirements typically power supplies are bought as a unit. It is likely they just assumed it would work and didn't do any tests on it. Not that that is a valid excuse or anything.
from their website:
"A final note: Eolas also 'invented' (designed, actually) the now-ubiquitous stylized "e" logo. IBM purchased rights to use it from us in 1997."
The problem with that(not buying RIAA label CDs), is that the more people who participate in a 'boycott', the more the RIAA whines about loss of sales to piracy. Even if *everyone* stopped buying RIAA label music, from any source, they'll find people to sue. Be it Karaoke singers, scout troops, high school bands, etc.. The MPAA started doing that when movie ticket sales kept declining, until someone pulled their head out and realized that it had nothing to do with piracy, it was just that hollywood produces nothing but crap anymore.
It really doesn't matter what the RIAA says, asside from money from it's member studios it money comes from litigation. However the moment it's member studios catch wind that being in the RIAA is a liability they will remove or distance themselves themselves from the organization.
So you are saying that because the happy people on TV are holding it in their hand or have it in an arm band we should conclude that this is the only way it should be used? You sir have just taken fanboy logic to a new level.
Read my post, it is in reference to marketing. I never said the device should never be put in the pocket, only it wasn't marketed for that. Heck I never even said that the Nano's susceptibility to scratches is ok. But if you actually read what I wrote you would know that and to that I say; Sir you have taken illiteracy to a new level.
But Apple are marketing the nano as the ultimate in fits-in-your-pocket convenience.
You sure about that? It seems to be said a lot however, from what I have seen it only relates to the original marking for the large ipods that don't suffer this problem. Perhaps I missed something but, I have never heard anything about being suitable for being naked in your pocket from apple. As a matter of fact they seem to suggest wearing it around your neck or using an arm band accessory.
Insults sounds like fun, let me try...
I don't know what is more idiotic the fact you call the joke in question irrelevant in a post that is a hundred times more so or the fact you demand your sense of humor demands that jokes be chopped into small pieces and spoon-fed to you.
6. Firewire may not be the best high-speed bus to add. We'll see.
Firewire may not be the say all end all of high speed busses however it has one huge plus, most digital camcorders support it. Firewire would give this unit some use inside video production and would be DAMN useful.
Your point was it was excessively expensive, that is just plain not true when you consider the bulk of the cost behind that is the pre-release small run hardware (something you were not aware of).
Well, depending on where the pizza was "stolen" from and the situation surrounding it, it would indicate libel as libel relies on accusing a person of something that would be considered illegal in a court of law.
The comment would also have to be not true to be considered libel. It seems some of the parents are involved with selling the pizza in question so if it indeed did happen they are likely to have witnessed the act.
Let the students sort it out...
Talk to the people and by talk I mean knock on the door and talk to them.
Make a list posting the room numbers of the people who are responsible for the network problems titled: The people at these room numbers are responsible for the outage at x date.
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Possibly, but still, how do you think Mumsie (and her lawyer) would react to sparks coming out of the cereal box (regardless of the actions that led to it)?
Probably the same reaction "Mumsie" would take if the same kid smashing a camera and touched the much higher capacitance flash cap, punish him for destroying stuff and making a mess. Besides, Mumsie would probably be told by her lawyer that you need to actually have some actual damage to sue someone.
Can't you see lil' Johnny poking a fork/steak knife/scissors into the side of the box to cut out the cool picture, and then BZZZZORPP!! as he discharges the last bit of the capacitor into his weapon of choice!
The charge of even a full capacitor will not approach the charge of rubbing one's socks against a rug and touching someone. Besides if the child truly is that destructive there are plenty of things in the home that can to far more harm, far easier.
Not to mention, Capacitors aren't exactly full of food-grade ingredients. What happens if they get damaged (box cutter anyone?)?
Vegetable oil/paper electrolytic capacitors do exsist.
Somehow I picture that like these guys do: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578200997/
First of all RIP was introduced in 1993 and the patent was filed in 1994, I really doubt you can consider that WAY before. Second I really don't see how RIP has anything to do with this as it doesn't even deal with "application objects" that the patent is about.
Due to the regulatory requirements typically power supplies are bought as a unit. It is likely they just assumed it would work and didn't do any tests on it. Not that that is a valid excuse or anything.
from their website:
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"A final note: Eolas also 'invented' (designed, actually) the now-ubiquitous stylized "e" logo. IBM purchased rights to use it from us in 1997."
I can understand you being upset over the patents
But what exactly is your problem with that? It's their trademark which they had and used since 1994: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=2
Heck Reuters did an article on him back in 1997: http://www.keelynet.com/energy/hydmills.htm
The problem with that(not buying RIAA label CDs), is that the more people who participate in a 'boycott', the more the RIAA whines about loss of sales to piracy. Even if *everyone* stopped buying RIAA label music, from any source, they'll find people to sue. Be it Karaoke singers, scout troops, high school bands, etc.. The MPAA started doing that when movie ticket sales kept declining, until someone pulled their head out and realized that it had nothing to do with piracy, it was just that hollywood produces nothing but crap anymore.
It really doesn't matter what the RIAA says, asside from money from it's member studios it money comes from litigation. However the moment it's member studios catch wind that being in the RIAA is a liability they will remove or distance themselves themselves from the organization.
So you are saying that because the happy people on TV are holding it in their hand or have it in an arm band we should conclude that this is the only way it should be used? You sir have just taken fanboy logic to a new level.
Read my post, it is in reference to marketing. I never said the device should never be put in the pocket, only it wasn't marketed for that. Heck I never even said that the Nano's susceptibility to scratches is ok. But if you actually read what I wrote you would know that and to that I say; Sir you have taken illiteracy to a new level.
But Apple are marketing the nano as the ultimate in fits-in-your-pocket convenience.
You sure about that? It seems to be said a lot however, from what I have seen it only relates to the original marking for the large ipods that don't suffer this problem. Perhaps I missed something but, I have never heard anything about being suitable for being naked in your pocket from apple. As a matter of fact they seem to suggest wearing it around your neck or using an arm band accessory.
"...but according to Business Week, they lost 900,000 subscribers just in the second quarter!"
Yeah but they are still billing their credit cards so it's not as bad as it sounds.
Somehow I doubt a bios from 1999 will support 5Gigs of ram let alone 1T of ram.
According to the OASIS spec Embedded images (among other things) seem to be supported.
Web sites are not broadcast, they are accessed. There is a lot of difference there and it puts it more in the realm of the telephone then television.
That sounds like a whole lot of FUD to me.
Insults sounds like fun, let me try... I don't know what is more idiotic the fact you call the joke in question irrelevant in a post that is a hundred times more so or the fact you demand your sense of humor demands that jokes be chopped into small pieces and spoon-fed to you.
That explains why it took an hour to reply... that tiny keyboard. :p
6. Firewire may not be the best high-speed bus to add. We'll see. Firewire may not be the say all end all of high speed busses however it has one huge plus, most digital camcorders support it. Firewire would give this unit some use inside video production and would be DAMN useful.
They do. 1st Q 2005 the Games unit lost $154M,
Though my point still remains, regardless.
Your point was it was excessively expensive, that is just plain not true when you consider the bulk of the cost behind that is the pre-release small run hardware (something you were not aware of).
Trust me the cleaning your esophagus with alcohol trick never works with the cops and I doubt this would fall for it either.
"Here's one: marketing." Apple kills them there.
Well, depending on where the pizza was "stolen" from and the situation surrounding it, it would indicate libel as libel relies on accusing a person of something that would be considered illegal in a court of law.
The comment would also have to be not true to be considered libel. It seems some of the parents are involved with selling the pizza in question so if it indeed did happen they are likely to have witnessed the act.
Let the students sort it out... Talk to the people and by talk I mean knock on the door and talk to them. Make a list posting the room numbers of the people who are responsible for the network problems titled: The people at these room numbers are responsible for the outage at x date.
If it happened in the 1940s it probably would have been largely ignored.