do you have any idea how much this is a pot calling the kettle black?
The difference between MS and google is very, very explicit.
1: you can take everything out of google. they pretty much enable it. No such thing exists for MS. 2: you choose to opt into google in the first place. MS does not give you such an option, and defaults to you being opted in (windows, IE, bing).
Google is not a completely innocent company, but this entire article is the biggest fucking strawman ever (and the laziest).
I don't understand how you glance over or through this fact?
you can lower prices to whatever the shit you want, but individual deals with every publisher is what this wasn't. Low prices are not by themselves predatory, even at $0. This was collectively agreeing to the same thing and signing for it individually.
not just in wyoming, 3 miles up a mountain in yellowstone. Also, there's cellphone signal even on the Appalachian trail these days.
how do people act like there's simply no signal? 2g is perfectly fine in plenty of instances in which 3g is not unheard of, either.
you don't need data (I don't either), but I can't imagine anyone needing to call 411 in alaska/wyoming to find something in the middle of a forest, even.
ribbon would have been a-okay if..... it wasn't made explicitly proprietary and happen to break anything that ends up having to deal with it. as sharepoint is used far and wide, this is a gigantic fuck you to anyone not using IE in that sense - as the ribbon simply does not function right in any other browser, which includes mobile. considering that no userbase uses exclusively IE unless their app is that poorly coded, this is so hamfisted that it simply reflects on Metro in the same light.
I don't doubt there are great MS employees who have passion and seek to do good things, but that's one very small side of the coin vs all the shit we've seen MS do over the years. you'd think they realize this by now, but I think the execs are so old and stubborn that I don't see a long term existence on the horizon for MS anymore.
you still have 411 today, and other free 411's if you look them up. just save them in your phone. you don't need data, or an SMS plan. 2G is still common across much of the US? who makes this shit up? Not many people even *provide* 2G anymore, and not anyone who has 2G is going to be posting on slashdot. Are there gaps in coverage, and areas under-served? absolutely.
I can get 3g in alaska, I can get 3g in wyoming. both of these are areas with extremely low population density and generally show no coverage.
if you were still relying on google 411 when it shut down and today still can't figure out what to do with it, then you have problems well beyond google 411.
Not every case is it good that a judge zeroes in on it, or they can also come to the *wrong* conclusion very quickly:
bad examples - see: grokster/napster cases, the ITC, the judge in MS vs google in washington, east texas, etc. better examples: the lawsuits/investigations as a result of the mortgage collapse, Samba vs MS, this case, SCO vs Novell.
There's no general answer to when this is good or bad. Absolutely never. It's specific to every case whether it's good or bad it gets picked up and gets more spotlight.
this isn't how the system is designed or intended, this is how the system has been perverted.
making money off products you do not have any involvement in via patent extortion is a sign of a broken system and this is already reaching antitrust investigations.
there's a ton of misogyny in that statement but the long/short of any relationship is that if there is extreme pressure/stress there will be extreme responses to that pressure/stress, which usually involve inducing more pressure/stress.
probably helps that if you decide you don't want that stress, you decide not to have a relationship as opposed to hating on that decision after it has been made, unless it's simply a bad relationship .
How about putting it on any website other than youtube, because you should not be putting videos on youtube, ever - aside from glaring social issues where youtube will stand up for you. Youtube is a site that has zero rights for the people who upload. Their only respect is towards the MPAA/RIAA.
Find other video websites and do this, and suddenly it's a different situation.
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do you have any idea how much this is a pot calling the kettle black?
The difference between MS and google is very, very explicit.
1: you can take everything out of google. they pretty much enable it. No such thing exists for MS.
2: you choose to opt into google in the first place. MS does not give you such an option, and defaults to you being opted in (windows, IE, bing).
Google is not a completely innocent company, but this entire article is the biggest fucking strawman ever (and the laziest).
how was amazon a monopoly?
I don't understand how you glance over or through this fact?
you can lower prices to whatever the shit you want, but individual deals with every publisher is what this wasn't. Low prices are not by themselves predatory, even at $0. This was collectively agreeing to the same thing and signing for it individually.
Hey, it's only...3, 5 years late! That's practically at the discarded tail-end of innovation!
not just in wyoming, 3 miles up a mountain in yellowstone. Also, there's cellphone signal even on the Appalachian trail these days.
how do people act like there's simply no signal? 2g is perfectly fine in plenty of instances in which 3g is not unheard of, either.
you don't need data (I don't either), but I can't imagine anyone needing to call 411 in alaska/wyoming to find something in the middle of a forest, even.
hey, at least the performance and battery life degradation is free! /s
just wait until this software is preinstalled on new phones from the MFR, cannot be disabled, or is put into hardware.
I'd give it a year.
ribbon would have been a-okay if.....
it wasn't made explicitly proprietary and happen to break anything that ends up having to deal with it. as sharepoint is used far and wide, this is a gigantic fuck you to anyone not using IE in that sense - as the ribbon simply does not function right in any other browser, which includes mobile. considering that no userbase uses exclusively IE unless their app is that poorly coded, this is so hamfisted that it simply reflects on Metro in the same light.
I don't doubt there are great MS employees who have passion and seek to do good things, but that's one very small side of the coin vs all the shit we've seen MS do over the years. you'd think they realize this by now, but I think the execs are so old and stubborn that I don't see a long term existence on the horizon for MS anymore.
and sure enough, here we are today. what has happened already?
the #1 supporter of patent trolls gets shut down by his own court. Does he whine about it? you bet.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130510155818152
No thanks. National ID was refused for a lot of valid reasons. State ID's and passports when you have to travel works quite well.
again.
you still have 411 today, and other free 411's if you look them up. just save them in your phone. you don't need data, or an SMS plan. 2G is still common across much of the US? who makes this shit up? Not many people even *provide* 2G anymore, and not anyone who has 2G is going to be posting on slashdot. Are there gaps in coverage, and areas under-served? absolutely.
I can get 3g in alaska, I can get 3g in wyoming. both of these are areas with extremely low population density and generally show no coverage.
if you were still relying on google 411 when it shut down and today still can't figure out what to do with it, then you have problems well beyond google 411.
how about they just rely on actual law and not politicized interpretations?
that would fix a lot of things, like the question of "why do we need this?"
any judge who doesn't follow precedent is going to get benchslapped if they don't have a valid reason to disregard it.
nope.
supposed to be able to implement the product based on the patent, and math is not patentable.
remind me what software is?
I'm just waiting for such a ruling to actually occur, because once it does this whole patent BS will end immediately.
yep.
wonder what will happen when the facts really start to come out.
Yeah?
coverage: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/feds-may-use-subpoena-powers-to-study-patent-trolls/
explanation: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2013041110212889
give it a few months. The wheels are turning, slowly but surely.
Sorry, no, everyone doesn't.
Not every case is it good that a judge zeroes in on it, or they can also come to the *wrong* conclusion very quickly:
bad examples - see: grokster/napster cases, the ITC, the judge in MS vs google in washington, east texas, etc.
better examples: the lawsuits/investigations as a result of the mortgage collapse, Samba vs MS, this case, SCO vs Novell.
There's no general answer to when this is good or bad. Absolutely never. It's specific to every case whether it's good or bad it gets picked up and gets more spotlight.
Well, not exactly. This is bloat. 3.4 billion dollars of bloat.
this isn't how the system is designed or intended, this is how the system has been perverted.
making money off products you do not have any involvement in via patent extortion is a sign of a broken system and this is already reaching antitrust investigations.
incorrect trick question.
WD makes great drives, for specific purposes only. These drives are not them.
The WD red drives are acceptable. aside from that, not much for hard drives..
there's a ton of misogyny in that statement but the long/short of any relationship is that if there is extreme pressure/stress there will be extreme responses to that pressure/stress, which usually involve inducing more pressure/stress.
probably helps that if you decide you don't want that stress, you decide not to have a relationship as opposed to hating on that decision after it has been made, unless it's simply a bad relationship .
Look buddy. I'm not going to sell you a bridge, but I've got a beautiful cloud worth billions.
How about putting it on any website other than youtube, because you should not be putting videos on youtube, ever - aside from glaring social issues where youtube will stand up for you. Youtube is a site that has zero rights for the people who upload. Their only respect is towards the MPAA/RIAA.
Find other video websites and do this, and suddenly it's a different situation.
if proprietary software makers don't want to fix the problem, there's a 0% chance of a legal fix.
if open source software makers don't want to fix the problem, at least there's an option to work together/do it yourselves.
noted and agreed, but then again it seems that they simply want to move forward with an obviously bad decision.
no. scarcity is not value. scarcity can be defined by those who are in possession of something, but value is defined by the consumers.