[QUOTE]That's irrelevant. Individual humans behave unpredictably. People, en masse, behave in ways that are actually highly predictable because the unpredictable actions of one person are balanced by the "unpredictable" action of another person doing something relatively opposite.[/QUOTE]
Very true. But also irrelevant, because of unequal wealth distribution. The "unpredictable" actions of a few led to massive economic disruption that cascaded.
As opposed to not announcing it, and inducing a temporary panic when the warning goes off all over the country and nobody bothers to read/listen to the "oh hay, that was just a test kthxbai" message?
Funny, I would have flipped that around... seems those with resources and influence try to gain information for blackmail/leverage on government. So it's a rather incestuous relationship, and frankly I wish they'd just leave average citizens out of it.
And if the Judge genuinely believes that the shape of an object as it appears from 10ft away is sufficient to determine patent infringement, Samsung should just go ahead and give up now.
I think Samsung's general plan of flooding every court system on the planet with countersuits against Apple is the most logical response here. Let's DDOS the system until someone finally steps in and says, "No shit they all look the same, there's only so many ways to design small handheld devices that adhere to industry-wide form factors. Get back to innovating or DIAF."
Ahh, who am I kidding? There is no such body of logic within any source of power anymore.
I'm not so sure. While individual reliability has increased dramatically, the shear number of systems in use around the world has increased as well, probably along a similar rate. Will we eventually reach a point at which computer hardware simply does not fail without an external event (power surge, physical damage, etc)? Maybe. But I don't see that happening until performance plateaus.
Savings account? Good God, man, are you nuts? The last time we had spare money that we tried to save, we ended up receiving a massive tax cut that sent us spiraling into an outrageous deficit!
This does matter for use on non-PC systems, such as tablets and phones. One of the stated goals for Windows 8 is the desire to have the platform be the same across devices, and while desktop systems with 8+ GB of memory are increasingly common (and will likely be standard by the time 8 is widely adopted), tablets and phones still usually only have a few GB available.
With so many public officials throughout the developed world saying that broadband internet access is a necessity and a right for modern society, I have to agree that the infrastructure needs to be moved to public control. Just as roads are essential infrastructure, so to is the internet. I would extend this argument to cell phones, as the current system in the US is ridiculous as well, but that's rather off-topic.
Government control of the infrastructure can be a cost-neutral endeavor, with the costs of expanding, repairing, and maintaining the system paid for by the ISP licensing fees for the bandwidth.
While they may all use LTE, but the LTE implementations are not identical. They use multiple different bands, which means the modems will need to support many frequencies in order to actually work across carriers. While it would be nice, there is no promise that phones released in the US are going to support all of them, and international frequencies will also likely wind up being different. The entire infrastructure system is a joke. I hope I end up being wrong, and that we end up having a truly global phone system that doesn't require extremely complex, expensive modems.
But then, that would make it vastly easier to have the service and phone become separate, forcing the carriers to actually compete with each other.
"allowing" the manufacturers? While Google might have enough influence now to convince some members of the OHA to run pure Android on their phones, I am highly skeptical of that. And they damn sure didn't have that kind of influence when Android launched. The cell carriers (in the US, anyway) aren't going to carry very many phones that they can't lock or restrict in some way. That's simply the price of doing business in the US. If Google said, "Pure Android, no crap", there would be no non-Nexus Android phones in the US, and likely none elsewhere, as Google would've had to give up.
I have to agree. There is nothing better than using the current stuff and migrating it as technology changes. My music collection has grown and transitioned from UltaATA-33 through SATA III drives. I wish I could say the same for the pictures and documents that I stuck on floppy disks more than a decade ago.
Honestly, if the process of doing an overnight copy of your data from a previous-generation hard drive to your shiny new (massively higher capacity) drive is too much, go back to film.
The vast majority of these nut jobs have brown hair. The vast majority of these nut jobs are humans. The vast majority of these nut jobs have two ears.
Want to know that ALL of the nut jobs have in common?
Useful and constructive to whom? The MPAA represents the studios, not the public. They can only see as far as the nearest link on the chain, I'm afraid. The connection between the MPAA and the paying public is too far off for them to comprehend.
I hope you also find it funny and sad how the Republican/Tea party has managed to brainwash much of the public into thinking they are somehow any better. The problem is systemic. Greed, grandstanding, and idiocy are not limited to either party. Term limits (one term, 4-6 years, then you're back to the real world) for Congress and the President would go a long way towards fixing this problem, or at least mitigating it. Give the noblest person a bit of power and an outlet, and they start to corrupt, as they fight for their belief and assume all others are wrong.
Fire them all. Vote out all incumbents regardless of party. Send a message.
Google had no interest in mountains of patents and this type of litigation until the competition started using it to attack them. That left them no choice but to retaliate or get pushed out of the market. Saying it's childish isn't really fair to Google--they're just playing by the rules that have been in place now for the last couple of decades. Let your government representatives know how you feel, but don't expect companies to stay above this kind of behavior when, legally, the only alternative is to give up on a product.
GameStop's core product is used games, which they are massively better at selling than anyone else. You can complain about pricing if you like, but they move huge volumes of used games. Think it's not worth it to buy a used copy for only $5 less than new? That might be true of you, but whenever a big title is released like Call of Duty, those used copies are often sold before they even get put out on the shelves. GameStop only sells PC games at all to avoid upsetting publishers - the money earned from the square footage spent on PC games is, in many stores, not worth it compared to console formats.
Was it incredibly stupid to yank the OnLive coupon? Yes. Was that coupon really worth $50? That's a personal decision. I don't feel that it was--all it provided was a different medium to play the same game, whereas with this gift card you can get a different game.
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[QUOTE]That's irrelevant. Individual humans behave unpredictably. People, en masse, behave in ways that are actually highly predictable because the unpredictable actions of one person are balanced by the "unpredictable" action of another person doing something relatively opposite.[/QUOTE]
Very true. But also irrelevant, because of unequal wealth distribution. The "unpredictable" actions of a few led to massive economic disruption that cascaded.
As opposed to not announcing it, and inducing a temporary panic when the warning goes off all over the country and nobody bothers to read/listen to the "oh hay, that was just a test kthxbai" message?
Funny, I would have flipped that around... seems those with resources and influence try to gain information for blackmail/leverage on government. So it's a rather incestuous relationship, and frankly I wish they'd just leave average citizens out of it.
let's see if we can reduce our dependence on a particular region of the world that doesn't really like us.
Canada???
constituents finally decide that they cannot have their rights further eroded
Good luck with that one. :/
Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares about what it would be like if Lucas decided to just completely re-make Episodes 4-6.
"take money away from people who have a lot of it"??
When the fuck did paying your fair share of taxes become akin to theft?
And if the Judge genuinely believes that the shape of an object as it appears from 10ft away is sufficient to determine patent infringement, Samsung should just go ahead and give up now.
I think Samsung's general plan of flooding every court system on the planet with countersuits against Apple is the most logical response here. Let's DDOS the system until someone finally steps in and says, "No shit they all look the same, there's only so many ways to design small handheld devices that adhere to industry-wide form factors. Get back to innovating or DIAF."
Ahh, who am I kidding? There is no such body of logic within any source of power anymore.
I'm more concerned by the fact that this "theft" occurred on another planetary body. This kind of sets a curious precedent here.
I'm not so sure. While individual reliability has increased dramatically, the shear number of systems in use around the world has increased as well, probably along a similar rate. Will we eventually reach a point at which computer hardware simply does not fail without an external event (power surge, physical damage, etc)? Maybe. But I don't see that happening until performance plateaus.
There is also the fact that most broadcasts now show a visual of the pitch location, making any cheating exceedingly obvious to the viewers.
Needs "+1 Ironic" modifier...
Savings account? Good God, man, are you nuts? The last time we had spare money that we tried to save, we ended up receiving a massive tax cut that sent us spiraling into an outrageous deficit!
This does matter for use on non-PC systems, such as tablets and phones. One of the stated goals for Windows 8 is the desire to have the platform be the same across devices, and while desktop systems with 8+ GB of memory are increasingly common (and will likely be standard by the time 8 is widely adopted), tablets and phones still usually only have a few GB available.
With so many public officials throughout the developed world saying that broadband internet access is a necessity and a right for modern society, I have to agree that the infrastructure needs to be moved to public control. Just as roads are essential infrastructure, so to is the internet. I would extend this argument to cell phones, as the current system in the US is ridiculous as well, but that's rather off-topic.
Government control of the infrastructure can be a cost-neutral endeavor, with the costs of expanding, repairing, and maintaining the system paid for by the ISP licensing fees for the bandwidth.
While they may all use LTE, but the LTE implementations are not identical. They use multiple different bands, which means the modems will need to support many frequencies in order to actually work across carriers. While it would be nice, there is no promise that phones released in the US are going to support all of them, and international frequencies will also likely wind up being different. The entire infrastructure system is a joke. I hope I end up being wrong, and that we end up having a truly global phone system that doesn't require extremely complex, expensive modems.
But then, that would make it vastly easier to have the service and phone become separate, forcing the carriers to actually compete with each other.
I believe Thomas Jefferson would argue that the "right to revolt" comes from nature, and does not need to be outlined in any legal document.
"allowing" the manufacturers? While Google might have enough influence now to convince some members of the OHA to run pure Android on their phones, I am highly skeptical of that. And they damn sure didn't have that kind of influence when Android launched. The cell carriers (in the US, anyway) aren't going to carry very many phones that they can't lock or restrict in some way. That's simply the price of doing business in the US. If Google said, "Pure Android, no crap", there would be no non-Nexus Android phones in the US, and likely none elsewhere, as Google would've had to give up.
I have to agree. There is nothing better than using the current stuff and migrating it as technology changes. My music collection has grown and transitioned from UltaATA-33 through SATA III drives. I wish I could say the same for the pictures and documents that I stuck on floppy disks more than a decade ago.
Honestly, if the process of doing an overnight copy of your data from a previous-generation hard drive to your shiny new (massively higher capacity) drive is too much, go back to film.
The vast majority of these nut jobs have brown hair.
The vast majority of these nut jobs are humans.
The vast majority of these nut jobs have two ears.
Want to know that ALL of the nut jobs have in common?
THEY'RE NUT JOBS!
Useful and constructive to whom? The MPAA represents the studios, not the public. They can only see as far as the nearest link on the chain, I'm afraid. The connection between the MPAA and the paying public is too far off for them to comprehend.
I hope you also find it funny and sad how the Republican/Tea party has managed to brainwash much of the public into thinking they are somehow any better. The problem is systemic. Greed, grandstanding, and idiocy are not limited to either party. Term limits (one term, 4-6 years, then you're back to the real world) for Congress and the President would go a long way towards fixing this problem, or at least mitigating it. Give the noblest person a bit of power and an outlet, and they start to corrupt, as they fight for their belief and assume all others are wrong.
Fire them all. Vote out all incumbents regardless of party. Send a message.
Never run your sarcasm over the head of the anonymous coward - NOT a good thing!
Welcome to the current patent and legal system?
Google had no interest in mountains of patents and this type of litigation until the competition started using it to attack them. That left them no choice but to retaliate or get pushed out of the market. Saying it's childish isn't really fair to Google--they're just playing by the rules that have been in place now for the last couple of decades. Let your government representatives know how you feel, but don't expect companies to stay above this kind of behavior when, legally, the only alternative is to give up on a product.
GameStop's core product is used games, which they are massively better at selling than anyone else. You can complain about pricing if you like, but they move huge volumes of used games. Think it's not worth it to buy a used copy for only $5 less than new? That might be true of you, but whenever a big title is released like Call of Duty, those used copies are often sold before they even get put out on the shelves. GameStop only sells PC games at all to avoid upsetting publishers - the money earned from the square footage spent on PC games is, in many stores, not worth it compared to console formats.
Was it incredibly stupid to yank the OnLive coupon? Yes. Was that coupon really worth $50? That's a personal decision. I don't feel that it was--all it provided was a different medium to play the same game, whereas with this gift card you can get a different game.