As I understand this situation, the law firm doesn't own the patent? They are approaching random patent holders that they can weponize on their behalf - presumably paying them a share of the potential payout. Really a new kind of evil not seen before if this is the case.
I think a lot of people are on Cell contracts which allow a free or almost free phone every few years.
Personally I use a pay-as-i-go plan, which saves a lot, but I have to buy my phone at full price.
Personally, I'd like to see more municipalities running fibre lines from houses to central access points. Once there are enough houses connected to an access point there could be real competition for service. The last mile problem is still a big one in 2017. Something needs to be done about mobile competition too, although it's harder with frequency limitations.
Most of the time it came free on a new Mac, however you wouldn't get the latest version of iwork, imovie etc after a few years. At least that's what it seemed like to me.
Personally I'd like a laptop that has both MagSafe and USB-C charging. Cleaning lady tripped on my Macbook air power cable last week, It would been a $1,500 accident had I been charging via USB-C, instead I just plugged it back in.
In Canada You might be better off with a fido tablet plan (often on sale $15 / gig month or $30 / 3 gigs) or koodo prepaid $30 per gig and never expires.
1 Billion is pocket change compared to the industries that are possible because of the DMCA. We couldn't have a Slashdot, Facebook, YouTube or any real way for users to post content without the DMCA.
In reality though, music sales are probably higher because of promotion through social media than they would be otherwise.
I'd say rather than getting rid of alert, change the way the browser displays the alert to a user. Maybe instead a small bar at the bottom of the page that doesn't interfere with anything would be a better standard way of displaying a message without blocking user interaction.
It did make sense to have some method to confirm closing of a window while the user was in the middle filling in a form for example, however it's abused for more than it's used correctly. That and it's pretty easy these days to save state without an old submit button, so it's really no longer needed. On a per-tab basis sounds like a good inbetween.
I'm assuming he means has an active account with a cellphone service provider. In the US and Canada, an account is not necessary for emergency calls. You'll have to be within reception range of a cellphone tower though of course.
Or covering their faces -makes them pretty much pointless.
Personally I hide all my cameras quite well so they're not noticeable. I've caught some copulation in my side yard, no breakins however.
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Used to have the "don't be evil" slogan, I wonder what their new one is?
No but it "Plays for sure"
You can't sign away your basic human rights.
Masochistic I guess? Some people pay to get tied up and spanked too, sounds about the same to a programmer.
Something tells me he already got a job in their propaganda department.
As I understand this situation, the law firm doesn't own the patent? They are approaching random patent holders that they can weponize on their behalf - presumably paying them a share of the potential payout. Really a new kind of evil not seen before if this is the case.
I think a lot of people are on Cell contracts which allow a free or almost free phone every few years. Personally I use a pay-as-i-go plan, which saves a lot, but I have to buy my phone at full price.
I just bought a unlocked phone from Costco, my $89 Acer Zest does pretty much everything a high end phone does once I add a 32gig sd card.
To be fair though, launching them into space is the hard part, and they already own the rockets...
It works!!
Personally, I'd like to see more municipalities running fibre lines from houses to central access points. Once there are enough houses connected to an access point there could be real competition for service. The last mile problem is still a big one in 2017. Something needs to be done about mobile competition too, although it's harder with frequency limitations.
Because poor starving billion dollar corporations need help while Bob's music shop is making way too much money...
Most of the time it came free on a new Mac, however you wouldn't get the latest version of iwork, imovie etc after a few years. At least that's what it seemed like to me.
Nuclear power would be well suited to long distance transport ships. The amount of bunker fuel they consume per day of operation is insane.
Personally I'd like a laptop that has both MagSafe and USB-C charging. Cleaning lady tripped on my Macbook air power cable last week, It would been a $1,500 accident had I been charging via USB-C, instead I just plugged it back in.
Very well said.
Whatever happend to wimax? I used to have a modem that on wimax, it was pretty good.
In Canada You might be better off with a fido tablet plan (often on sale $15 / gig month or $30 / 3 gigs) or koodo prepaid $30 per gig and never expires.
1 Billion is pocket change compared to the industries that are possible because of the DMCA. We couldn't have a Slashdot, Facebook, YouTube or any real way for users to post content without the DMCA. In reality though, music sales are probably higher because of promotion through social media than they would be otherwise.
I'd say rather than getting rid of alert, change the way the browser displays the alert to a user. Maybe instead a small bar at the bottom of the page that doesn't interfere with anything would be a better standard way of displaying a message without blocking user interaction.
It did make sense to have some method to confirm closing of a window while the user was in the middle filling in a form for example, however it's abused for more than it's used correctly. That and it's pretty easy these days to save state without an old submit button, so it's really no longer needed. On a per-tab basis sounds like a good inbetween.
I'm assuming he means has an active account with a cellphone service provider. In the US and Canada, an account is not necessary for emergency calls. You'll have to be within reception range of a cellphone tower though of course.
I know right? That would only buy like 75 iPhones! Always backup your important data locally in addition to cloud services.
Deer actually :)
Or covering their faces -makes them pretty much pointless. Personally I hide all my cameras quite well so they're not noticeable. I've caught some copulation in my side yard, no breakins however.