Lately, it's more like " hey don't like to release details of hardware until they're ready to sue.". I'm still amazed at people's ability to continue to support them.
From what I've seen, unions only ensure than people end up not being fired even if they *are* completely useless, while paying them the same regardless of ability. It's not a solution, just a different problem. A sane company would just evaluate their employees and keep them (or not) based on their individual merits.
It's not education, it's anti short-term "the only thing that matters is the next quarter" thinking. MBAs are not the only ones to blame., CxOs seem to be disposable these days, making some short term changes, cashing in on stocks and bonuses, and leaving a swath of lost R&D opportunities, outsourced labour, and unrealistic expectations in their wake.
It's an emergency as these phones make the 4S look quite out of date. The features these phones 'infringe' on are also on most other Android phones, but I don't see them blocking the cheap ones.
That's the word the wonderful MBAs use these days. The real meaning of course, is a small short term increase in profit, and a long term effect of turning your former customers against you. They're not concerned about that last part, as they've generally moved on to 'help' the next company.
We've been at that point for quite a while now. Have a look at any of the iDevices. Even some of the Android phones have locked bootloaders (which don't restrict which apps you can install, but they limit your OS options). We're just seeing it spread, much like the locked Apple market is spreading to Windows metro.
There's no need to 'flip bits' to re-enable any of these ridiculously simple features. Android lets you replace pretty much any piece of functionality, including lock screens, etc. People can just install the features from the market (or directly as APK files).
A punishment could be valued at much more than 96 million, but it's unlikely to be even close to what being blocked from the market for that long truly costs. If Apple loses, the punishment should be that their products are blocked for the same length of time.
... I was also just thinking that it's unlikely that when the injunction is appealed, that it's unlikely that Samsung will be paid enough for the lost sales, marketing time, etc. Perhaps the cost of having these bullshit injunctions overturned should be that the claimant have sales of their products blocked for a similar amount of time.
This could actually just be a case of judicial 'fanboi' bias. You see it even more in the news media and TV fields, where the poor downtrodden minority that had been using Macs for years now have the opportunity to spread the gospel.
This is exactly the point. Many carriers say they support that option, but in name only. Sure, you can use your own phone, but we're going to change you the same as if we gave you a $600 one.
The fact that the carriers are the hardware manufacturers customers is a separate problem. It should be consumers. If I ran the word (and I really think I should), things would be different. It would be illegal to have phone contracts longer than 2 months. You could sell a subscriber a phone, but it would be a separate cost, and you must support phones you don't sell. Let consumers decide the best products.
I always assumed that someone with an in-ear phone liked *themselves* a little too much, probably because they tended to be worn mainly by sales people. I thought we'd actually invented a way of tagging douche-bags.
Swype keyboard. I can't imagine using a touch keyboard without that functionality. There's the usual replacable battery, expandable storage, USB hosting, standard connectors, etc as well.
When upgrading someone's machine from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 recently, it came up with an 'upgrade' option, which surprised me a bit. I thought they only supported previous versions and LTS->LTS upgrades, but it appears that at least some other upgrade paths are available.
Click the icon that looks like a terminal in one of the dock bars, tap Windows T E R M, and select Terminal, Alt-F2 and enter gnome-terminal, or press crtl-alt-T.
There are many other calendar applications, of which the Google one is only one. Most of the others are just re-works of the Google Apps one, but I think there a few that are not. In any case, you should be able to find one that not only works, but will allow syncing to other sources if you like, such as HotMail. (Note that I haven't actually done this, but I'm fairly confident it will work. Business Calendar maybe?) .
True, but the same thing could actually (and has on occasion, I believe) happen with the Amazon store. If you can get hold of the APK, you can still install it in either case, but it's less convenient. This is not a requirement for setting up the phone at this point, but for availability of specific applications.
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Lately, it's more like " hey don't like to release details of hardware until they're ready to sue.". I'm still amazed at people's ability to continue to support them.
From what I've seen, unions only ensure than people end up not being fired even if they *are* completely useless, while paying them the same regardless of ability. It's not a solution, just a different problem. A sane company would just evaluate their employees and keep them (or not) based on their individual merits.
It's not education, it's anti short-term "the only thing that matters is the next quarter" thinking. MBAs are not the only ones to blame., CxOs seem to be disposable these days, making some short term changes, cashing in on stocks and bonuses, and leaving a swath of lost R&D opportunities, outsourced labour, and unrealistic expectations in their wake.
If I remember correctly, porsche will let you turn off those measures. iOS on the other hand ...
It's an emergency as these phones make the 4S look quite out of date. The features these phones 'infringe' on are also on most other Android phones, but I don't see them blocking the cheap ones.
That's the word the wonderful MBAs use these days. The real meaning of course, is a small short term increase in profit, and a long term effect of turning your former customers against you. They're not concerned about that last part, as they've generally moved on to 'help' the next company.
We've been at that point for quite a while now. Have a look at any of the iDevices. Even some of the Android phones have locked bootloaders (which don't restrict which apps you can install, but they limit your OS options). We're just seeing it spread, much like the locked Apple market is spreading to Windows metro.
The US does not protect its companies? Have you seen the way copyright protections are headed? They're not for the people.
There's no need to 'flip bits' to re-enable any of these ridiculously simple features. Android lets you replace pretty much any piece of functionality, including lock screens, etc. People can just install the features from the market (or directly as APK files).
A punishment could be valued at much more than 96 million, but it's unlikely to be even close to what being blocked from the market for that long truly costs. If Apple loses, the punishment should be that their products are blocked for the same length of time.
... I was also just thinking that it's unlikely that when the injunction is appealed, that it's unlikely that Samsung will be paid enough for the lost sales, marketing time, etc. Perhaps the cost of having these bullshit injunctions overturned should be that the claimant have sales of their products blocked for a similar amount of time.
They most likely will be able to do that. The problem here is that they can't sell their product while they do it and the court system is slow.
This could actually just be a case of judicial 'fanboi' bias. You see it even more in the news media and TV fields, where the poor downtrodden minority that had been using Macs for years now have the opportunity to spread the gospel.
This is exactly the point. Many carriers say they support that option, but in name only. Sure, you can use your own phone, but we're going to change you the same as if we gave you a $600 one.
Yeah, but why set your sights so low.
The fact that the carriers are the hardware manufacturers customers is a separate problem. It should be consumers. If I ran the word (and I really think I should), things would be different. It would be illegal to have phone contracts longer than 2 months. You could sell a subscriber a phone, but it would be a separate cost, and you must support phones you don't sell. Let consumers decide the best products.
I always assumed that someone with an in-ear phone liked *themselves* a little too much, probably because they tended to be worn mainly by sales people. I thought we'd actually invented a way of tagging douche-bags.
Coming up with the idea is the easy part. Making it work is the hard part.
Swype keyboard. I can't imagine using a touch keyboard without that functionality. There's the usual replacable battery, expandable storage, USB hosting, standard connectors, etc as well.
When upgrading someone's machine from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 recently, it came up with an 'upgrade' option, which surprised me a bit. I thought they only supported previous versions and LTS->LTS upgrades, but it appears that at least some other upgrade paths are available.
Click the icon that looks like a terminal in one of the dock bars, tap Windows T E R M, and select Terminal, Alt-F2 and enter gnome-terminal, or press crtl-alt-T.
There are many other calendar applications, of which the Google one is only one. Most of the others are just re-works of the Google Apps one, but I think there a few that are not. In any case, you should be able to find one that not only works, but will allow syncing to other sources if you like, such as HotMail. (Note that I haven't actually done this, but I'm fairly confident it will work. Business Calendar maybe?) .
True, but the same thing could actually (and has on occasion, I believe) happen with the Amazon store. If you can get hold of the APK, you can still install it in either case, but it's less convenient. This is not a requirement for setting up the phone at this point, but for availability of specific applications.
You're also not limited to just Google's market anyway. You can use Amazon or others, as well as installing applicatiions directly using APK files.
You need neither. You can set up an Android phone without any ties to Google whatsoever.