Declining revenue or declining profit? You can't just expect revenue to continue growing in an older company, at some point your market is saturated or you are inflating a bubble. I see IBM doing pretty well in its more futuristic technologies section. The problem is lack of innovation anywhere else.
IBM hasn't done anything important in quite a few decades. They're simply maintaining large amounts of software they primarily purchased from others and then branding it IBM. SPSS hasn't changed since they purchased it yet they still want thousands of dollars in licensing every year.
So then what is the point of the bill? Apple could just decide that the 'parts' for the 2016 iPhone are no longer available in 2017 and there goes your 'right to repair'.
In regards the Warrantors Shall Demonstrate - the section right prior says that the warranty is to be upheld even when the repair is done with 3rd party products. And try to demonstrate a defect/damage was caused by the repair/3rd party product! Again, nothing for an Apple-sized company.
This bill basically allows you to deconstruct an Apple iPhone, replace all it's parts with knock-offs and then go back and get a new authentic one from Apple and the NY bill you quote doesn't even apply to motor vehicles.
But that's already the case. I can go to a few dozen shops in less than 10 miles that will repair ANY smartphone.
There is no law against fixing/breaking your stuff, not even the DMCA. And if you really need something you can tinker with, you don't buy a Samsung or Apple device.
The real problem is the language in some of these bills. It would for instance allow you to break your device open for a repair and then go back to the manufacturer and have them uphold a lifetime warranty. Or third party medical equipment repairs where liability continues to be with the manufacturer.
This won't impact big companies like Apple, they have the money to keep stocks of parts for 10 year old devices. But imagine being a small "manufacturer" of a computer and you have to keep stocks of various interfaces and sizes of hard drives (every permutation of IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, FC and 40GB, 80GB,...) and every time something breaks you have to not just send out parts but keep them stocked for the "lifetime" of the device (25 years?).
Hillary didn't lose because of the investigation. Just look at the polls, pretty much every revelation boosted her poll numbers, with Trump a near certain loss at the end. Die hards aren't going to change their votes and the "undecided" are not a relevant portion of voters in any election.
The problem is that the DNC put up Hillary while their voters voted for Sanders. Hillary won solely on the superdelegates, the epitome of the rich, elite shadow government the US has been beholden to.
You extend copyright protection to songs, not necessarily to a short series of notes. I would think an 'act' is copyrighted in the same way, an individual joke may not be. Either way, you should be able to find numerous similar jokes in the public domain that relate to the subject at hand and demonstrate them to be prior art.
Where have you seen real-life batteries that are deep cycled every 12h have lifespans of 15-25 years? I've been involved in many datacenter designs with both flywheel and battery bank designs, both have significant replacement cost much sooner than most operators expect.
Every time there is a large wind farm project there are protestors saying it will kill birds, their views and even change weather/wind patterns.
Coal is the status quo, not that anyone likes it but there are no protests when the coal plants keep producing. Nuclear is the next best thing for base load generation of energy.
Are you still waiting on Obamas birth certificate or his mother to be fired from the White House payrolls or were you not alive for the last presidential inauguration?
If everybody else uses renewables and doesn't want oil, oil will be cheap. These things will trickle over IF they are ever done. People and corporations are already planning solar installations, if they're the panacea to cheap energy everybody will have them regardless of what the state says we should do. The problem, on large scales it doesn't work. Germany produces 100% renewable energy one day, paying customers to use energy and charges $3/kWh another day, all the while importing French nuclear reactors' energy not really the realm of stability.
Batteries are far from clean as well, the cheapest ones we have are full of lead and the best ones we have are full of lithium and all have a lifespan of 3-5 years.
Natural gas is great as auxiliary power and burns pretty close to optimal.
Nuclear can be clean if we wouldn't worry so much about the rogue employee running of with a nearly useless yet personally lethal portion of weapons grade uranium. We're throwing away significant amounts of fuel because of some Cold War fears and wasting more on litigation than it would cost in the first place.
Any amount of energy we generate is going to have some impact. Everybody knows coal and oil is not the way to go but the point is that everyone equally opposes any alternative.
The problem is that although solar and wind are decent peak generators, people have been eschewing clean base load generation for decades. Natural gas, nuclear and hydro power, even wind power has been under attack from all forms of "nature freaks" the only thing that doesn't piss anyone off today is solar and coal because we already have coal and they don't understand the environmental impact of silicon production.
People that support Greenpeace and similar alt-environment organizations need to understand that people aren't willing or capable to go back to nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles.
Because nothing can play Ogg (besides the Android File Browser) and Ogg is 'free' in as far that nobody has asserted yet a patent on it although it's fairly certain patents that cover it exist.
If people don't want to buy an album/song from an artist, it's because they just aren't that good.
There are many artists I have purchased from even after they release their entire album on YouTube (and yes, I know the ffmpeg commands to copy it faster than they can ever mail it).
Good music makes you want to buy an album just so they can continue making the music.
For most uses, MP3 is just fine. Just like PNG, it suits the bill for everything and has silently taken over much of the modern web.
Although the rest may be technically better for some purposes (except for WMA, which is worse than a good MP3 encoder) there is just no equally fast/low-power decoders which has once again become as important as it was when MP3 was released for mainstream markets.
It's also two magnitudes larger. If you don't need a codec for lo-fi speech streams, then I suppose you never need a phone, VoIP or other form of instant voice communication
Most engineers (software, mechanical etc) are salaried. People 'on the line' are hourly where wages, positions and promotions are "protected" by unions.
It's a great way to deflect and just shows you how stupid the media thinks the plebes are. The malware was written by the NSA most likely in cooperation with Microsoft and therefore their responsibility.
We should set up groups of politicians and experts from all nations, they could get together for all sorts of conflicts and discuss them rationally and come to resolutions. We could call it a League of Nations or so.
In the case of NHS it's their own fault for continuing the bad practices. Typical for a government to want punishment of bad actors without any prevention.
Microsoft knew about various vulnerabilities for years and the Wikileaks revelations have been online for quite some time, the NSA didn't want them to patch it and even now Microsoft is obfuscating the patch amongst various other fixes and forced installations of adware. Now it's too late for many people that still rely on Windows.
Then they ARE connected to the Internet, having a proxy to the entire network is the same as having no firewall. From my understanding this isn't being done via social engineering though (yet), a coordinated "attack" (I would call it a test) would devastate these Windows-only enterprises.
Rule number one on any network: everything else is hostile. Not sure how even Microsoft hasn't figured that one out.
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Anything that's not Intel? If I can buy the same hardware from SuperMicro, you're not really innovative.
Declining revenue or declining profit? You can't just expect revenue to continue growing in an older company, at some point your market is saturated or you are inflating a bubble. I see IBM doing pretty well in its more futuristic technologies section. The problem is lack of innovation anywhere else.
IBM hasn't done anything important in quite a few decades. They're simply maintaining large amounts of software they primarily purchased from others and then branding it IBM. SPSS hasn't changed since they purchased it yet they still want thousands of dollars in licensing every year.
So then what is the point of the bill? Apple could just decide that the 'parts' for the 2016 iPhone are no longer available in 2017 and there goes your 'right to repair'.
In regards the Warrantors Shall Demonstrate - the section right prior says that the warranty is to be upheld even when the repair is done with 3rd party products. And try to demonstrate a defect/damage was caused by the repair/3rd party product! Again, nothing for an Apple-sized company.
This bill basically allows you to deconstruct an Apple iPhone, replace all it's parts with knock-offs and then go back and get a new authentic one from Apple and the NY bill you quote doesn't even apply to motor vehicles.
But that's already the case. I can go to a few dozen shops in less than 10 miles that will repair ANY smartphone.
There is no law against fixing/breaking your stuff, not even the DMCA. And if you really need something you can tinker with, you don't buy a Samsung or Apple device.
The real problem is the language in some of these bills. It would for instance allow you to break your device open for a repair and then go back to the manufacturer and have them uphold a lifetime warranty. Or third party medical equipment repairs where liability continues to be with the manufacturer.
This won't impact big companies like Apple, they have the money to keep stocks of parts for 10 year old devices. But imagine being a small "manufacturer" of a computer and you have to keep stocks of various interfaces and sizes of hard drives (every permutation of IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, FC and 40GB, 80GB, ...) and every time something breaks you have to not just send out parts but keep them stocked for the "lifetime" of the device (25 years?).
Hillary didn't lose because of the investigation. Just look at the polls, pretty much every revelation boosted her poll numbers, with Trump a near certain loss at the end. Die hards aren't going to change their votes and the "undecided" are not a relevant portion of voters in any election.
The problem is that the DNC put up Hillary while their voters voted for Sanders. Hillary won solely on the superdelegates, the epitome of the rich, elite shadow government the US has been beholden to.
You extend copyright protection to songs, not necessarily to a short series of notes. I would think an 'act' is copyrighted in the same way, an individual joke may not be. Either way, you should be able to find numerous similar jokes in the public domain that relate to the subject at hand and demonstrate them to be prior art.
And on a 'good day' Germany's power cost surge past $3/kWh.
Where have you seen real-life batteries that are deep cycled every 12h have lifespans of 15-25 years? I've been involved in many datacenter designs with both flywheel and battery bank designs, both have significant replacement cost much sooner than most operators expect.
Every time there is a large wind farm project there are protestors saying it will kill birds, their views and even change weather/wind patterns.
Coal is the status quo, not that anyone likes it but there are no protests when the coal plants keep producing. Nuclear is the next best thing for base load generation of energy.
Are you still waiting on Obamas birth certificate or his mother to be fired from the White House payrolls or were you not alive for the last presidential inauguration?
If everybody else uses renewables and doesn't want oil, oil will be cheap. These things will trickle over IF they are ever done. People and corporations are already planning solar installations, if they're the panacea to cheap energy everybody will have them regardless of what the state says we should do. The problem, on large scales it doesn't work. Germany produces 100% renewable energy one day, paying customers to use energy and charges $3/kWh another day, all the while importing French nuclear reactors' energy not really the realm of stability.
Batteries are far from clean as well, the cheapest ones we have are full of lead and the best ones we have are full of lithium and all have a lifespan of 3-5 years.
Natural gas is great as auxiliary power and burns pretty close to optimal.
Nuclear can be clean if we wouldn't worry so much about the rogue employee running of with a nearly useless yet personally lethal portion of weapons grade uranium. We're throwing away significant amounts of fuel because of some Cold War fears and wasting more on litigation than it would cost in the first place.
Any amount of energy we generate is going to have some impact. Everybody knows coal and oil is not the way to go but the point is that everyone equally opposes any alternative.
The problem is that although solar and wind are decent peak generators, people have been eschewing clean base load generation for decades. Natural gas, nuclear and hydro power, even wind power has been under attack from all forms of "nature freaks" the only thing that doesn't piss anyone off today is solar and coal because we already have coal and they don't understand the environmental impact of silicon production.
People that support Greenpeace and similar alt-environment organizations need to understand that people aren't willing or capable to go back to nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles.
Because nothing can play Ogg (besides the Android File Browser) and Ogg is 'free' in as far that nobody has asserted yet a patent on it although it's fairly certain patents that cover it exist.
If people don't want to buy an album/song from an artist, it's because they just aren't that good.
There are many artists I have purchased from even after they release their entire album on YouTube (and yes, I know the ffmpeg commands to copy it faster than they can ever mail it).
Good music makes you want to buy an album just so they can continue making the music.
For most uses, MP3 is just fine. Just like PNG, it suits the bill for everything and has silently taken over much of the modern web.
Although the rest may be technically better for some purposes (except for WMA, which is worse than a good MP3 encoder) there is just no equally fast/low-power decoders which has once again become as important as it was when MP3 was released for mainstream markets.
It's also two magnitudes larger. If you don't need a codec for lo-fi speech streams, then I suppose you never need a phone, VoIP or other form of instant voice communication
Most engineers (software, mechanical etc) are salaried. People 'on the line' are hourly where wages, positions and promotions are "protected" by unions.
It's a great way to deflect and just shows you how stupid the media thinks the plebes are. The malware was written by the NSA most likely in cooperation with Microsoft and therefore their responsibility.
We should set up groups of politicians and experts from all nations, they could get together for all sorts of conflicts and discuss them rationally and come to resolutions. We could call it a League of Nations or so.
So it's like the hyperloop, but theoretically feasible.
In the case of NHS it's their own fault for continuing the bad practices. Typical for a government to want punishment of bad actors without any prevention.
Microsoft knew about various vulnerabilities for years and the Wikileaks revelations have been online for quite some time, the NSA didn't want them to patch it and even now Microsoft is obfuscating the patch amongst various other fixes and forced installations of adware. Now it's too late for many people that still rely on Windows.
I agree that Microsoft and the NSA should pay for it and their execs should get that sort of sentence.
Then they ARE connected to the Internet, having a proxy to the entire network is the same as having no firewall. From my understanding this isn't being done via social engineering though (yet), a coordinated "attack" (I would call it a test) would devastate these Windows-only enterprises.
Rule number one on any network: everything else is hostile. Not sure how even Microsoft hasn't figured that one out.