I would actually rather not have an unnaturally vibrant screen. I want a screen that shows me exactly what the director intended the picture to look like.
I know a lot of people who got the engineering degree because they thought it would pay well, not because they were suited to it or found it at all interesting. They were generally not very good.
The pager she used to have would go weeks on a set of batteries. Now it's an iphone and she needs to constantly check whether someone called while she was away from the phone, and it needs charging almost every day. (This sounds silly, but when you can be on duty for 30hrs straight a phone that needs charging after 24hrs can be a real problem.)
SMS was available long before email on a phone. It required development to route all the messages (of course that has long since been recouped and now it's a profit center).
These days if you have a smartphone with a data plan there is very little need for SMS--unless you need to message someone like my dad who doesn't have a smartphone but does have ulimited SMS.
I got an i3 Vostro 14" a couple years ago. It's my personal home machine, has held up well, and was one of the least expensive comparable machines with HDMI out at the time of its release. And it has a matte screen. Oh, it also came with a year of next-business-day on-site warranty service, which the consumer-series ones don't.
It's not quite as heavy-duty as a Latitude (and doesn't support a dock), but its more compact.
Look at the Raspberry Pi. The hardware is capable of handling a bunch of codecs, but they only actually enable a couple because the licensing fees for the other codecs were too expensive. If you want to decode MPEG-2, you need to buy a separate license after the fact.
Motorola charges the same rates to everyone (and they're less than Qualcomm, actually). It's just that normally companies don't pay cash but rather cross-license their own patents.
Apple doesn't want to cross-license, but claims the cash rates are too high. (When they're the same as what everyone else is charged.)
not concept. Originally the patent was to cover the specific method of implementing an idea (like a better gear tooth pattern, or a more efficient mechanism to husk corn, or whatever.)
However, in the case of software patents they really do seem to be patenting an idea. So current patents are so broadly worded that they really do essentially cover the idea of pinch-to-zoom, or the idea of having a little marker showing your location on the current page while scrolling. If we held true to the original rules, the patent should only cover the implementation--that is, the source code.
It's not just software patents either. There is a company called Sawstop that makes tablesaws that can detect if the blade comes in contact with human flesh and slams the blade to a stop, dropping it down below the table. Their patents are so broadly worded that they've basically locked up the whole concept of flesh-sensing technology, making it really hard for anyone else to come out with competing technology, even if implemented totally differently.
There is apparently some procedure whereby apple could ask for it to be added to the list. I assume there would be some sort of judgement required as to whether or not it is similar enough to any banned devices.
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Since the RPi *is* a computer, I assume you meant an x86 computer.
Where exactly can you find one for $35 that has GPIO pins, runs linux, and has HDMI, USB, and gigabit ethernet?
I would actually rather not have an unnaturally vibrant screen. I want a screen that shows me exactly what the director intended the picture to look like.
That's comparing the two hatchback versions. Fuel economy is 5 L/100km in the first case, 8 L/100km in the second.
in 12.2. See earlier comments.
The 16GB is at least $100. Depending on the provider it can be more. Where I live, at least.
I know a lot of people who got the engineering degree because they thought it would pay well, not because they were suited to it or found it at all interesting. They were generally not very good.
Around here a basic landline runs at least $25/month. I can get a really basic cell plan for $15.
Around here cell phone are still not ubiquitous in elementary schools. Popular certainly, but not *everywhere*.
The pager she used to have would go weeks on a set of batteries. Now it's an iphone and she needs to constantly check whether someone called while she was away from the phone, and it needs charging almost every day. (This sounds silly, but when you can be on duty for 30hrs straight a phone that needs charging after 24hrs can be a real problem.)
and it's if the wife is in labour. Any other time it should be possible for messages to wait until it is convenient to check them.
We did manage to make do for hundreds of thousands of years without being on-call at all times.
SMS was available long before email on a phone. It required development to route all the messages (of course that has long since been recouped and now it's a profit center).
These days if you have a smartphone with a data plan there is very little need for SMS--unless you need to message someone like my dad who doesn't have a smartphone but does have ulimited SMS.
The phone could theoretically be set up with a back door to periodically wake up and ping the tower.
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Any evidence should have gone to the lab, not onto a laptop.
I got an i3 Vostro 14" a couple years ago. It's my personal home machine, has held up well, and was one of the least expensive comparable machines with HDMI out at the time of its release. And it has a matte screen. Oh, it also came with a year of next-business-day on-site warranty service, which the consumer-series ones don't.
It's not quite as heavy-duty as a Latitude (and doesn't support a dock), but its more compact.
He gave us copies for the cost of printing them instead of making us pay full rate.
I plugged in two external monitors to my laptop, told the system how they were positioned relative to each other and it worked fine.
Now if you suspend with dual monitors and wake up with both disconnected it can get a bit confused...
I actually liked that book (and it's sequels). The author has imagination and a sense of humour.
So you need big enough wings to support them.
For passenger travel you scale it up enough that the people can sit inside part of the wing area. Look up the "blended wing body" design.
Look at the Raspberry Pi. The hardware is capable of handling a bunch of codecs, but they only actually enable a couple because the licensing fees for the other codecs were too expensive. If you want to decode MPEG-2, you need to buy a separate license after the fact.
Motorola charges the same rates to everyone (and they're less than Qualcomm, actually). It's just that normally companies don't pay cash but rather cross-license their own patents.
Apple doesn't want to cross-license, but claims the cash rates are too high. (When they're the same as what everyone else is charged.)
It's just that everyone else other than Apple just cross-licenses their patents instead of paying cash royalties.
Heck, Qualcomm's standard rate for use of FRAND patents is 3.5% of the final retail price.
not concept. Originally the patent was to cover the specific method of implementing an idea (like a better gear tooth pattern, or a more efficient mechanism to husk corn, or whatever.)
However, in the case of software patents they really do seem to be patenting an idea. So current patents are so broadly worded that they really do essentially cover the idea of pinch-to-zoom, or the idea of having a little marker showing your location on the current page while scrolling. If we held true to the original rules, the patent should only cover the implementation--that is, the source code.
It's not just software patents either. There is a company called Sawstop that makes tablesaws that can detect if the blade comes in contact with human flesh and slams the blade to a stop, dropping it down below the table. Their patents are so broadly worded that they've basically locked up the whole concept of flesh-sensing technology, making it really hard for anyone else to come out with competing technology, even if implemented totally differently.
And I say "I don't know. Let me research it." at least once a week. Sometimes multiple times a day.
I think your employer sucked.
There is apparently some procedure whereby apple could ask for it to be added to the list. I assume there would be some sort of judgement required as to whether or not it is similar enough to any banned devices.