There are other ways to make electric cars. We need to stop thinking of the battery, recharge station method. Why do we have to follow the thinking that cars have to have pit stops to refuel or recharge? Maybe it is time to have a different system of electric car or other method that does need the pit stop method.
Anyway, why not just skip over the pit stop method? This will tick off the oil companies, and the people who have business that rely on the pit stop method. Most disruptive technology annoys some group. The biggest thing is cost. For it to work, the new tech needs to be aimed that the low end not the high end. The new car should be aimed at the everyday person. The hybrids that are aimed mostly at the elite are not going to work in the long run. I know the Prius is selling great. There are a lot of non city people who will never get one since they see the prius as a hippy/tree hugger car. They want an electric car. They cannot stand the type of person they see with a prius. Not everyone lives in the cities. The pit stop method and short travel distances on battery power is not going to cut it for many.
Wasn't that what java was supposed to do? If I remember right java was build/compile once and run everywhere? That was back in the 90s though and then java changed as most things do over time.
By not buying rods (which was proposed in a UN resolution I believe) Iran is do a bunch of things. Iran looks to be strong by standing up to the US and not doing what it wants. That feeds Iran's propaganda. By making their own, they can up the enrichment to make weapons. The stuff they buy would not be that high. Even a dirty bomb of highly enriched uranium would be very bad. That is enough of for more propaganda.
Iran knows that it will take a lot for some country to actually go to war with it. Iran has much to gain by doing what it wants. Even if it is attacked, it gains politically by that as well. Unless all the other Islam countries are going to do nothing which is very unlikely, Iran has nothing to lose by enriching uranium. If Iran was threatened with being nuclear bombed, it might rethink what it is doing. Iran knows that the US will not nuke it. I do not think and western country will nuke Iran. Who would nuke Iran? Russia maybe but unlikely. India again not likely.
Pickups can also haul stuff by towing behind said pickup.
SUVS and pickups are not hip as they were in the 1990s. Most people buying them today have a reason. Some (but limited to) are:
They have something to tow behind the pickup. They are used for work. They like the ground clearance of the truck/SUV over a car. They like being able to see the road better when they drive the truck/SUV.* They feel safer in the truck/SUV then a car.**
*This one surprised me since most of the people who said it were on the short (5'-2" and under) side. **Usually happens once they have been a truck/SUV for a while. Which why many people once they get a truck or SUV do not want to go back to a car.
As far as your urban cowboy thing, the only people who really need a pickup in New York City are the construction workers. The wall street people do not need it for their daily ride to work. That is unless they also have a boat to tow and the truck is their only vehicle.
Try a single 5400 RPM drive in that to get a difference to see if the disk matters or not. A ramdisk and raptors in RAID 0 are fast with disk reads and writes. Some games are not too intensive on the disk once they get going. They load everything up when the game first starts and hits the disk very little once you are going. The mmo I play does this. The laptop I use has a 5400 RPM drive and yes the laptop starts the game slower. Once the game is running I see no difference in game speed* when I compare it to the desktop with faster hard drive, more RAM, and a much better video card. (laptop: Intel dual core 2.4ghz, 8 GB RAM, 5400 RPM HD, 512mb ati 3650? I think it is a 4 year old laptop. desktop: amd hexa core 2.7, 16GB ram, AMD 6950 2GB RAM video card, WD black 500 gb 64 cache drive). Not untra-high end stuff. But I can leave either system on for days and not worry about them overheating. This games allows us to download all game info. I do that before I start on each system. I rather be downloading stuff when I am not trying to play. Waiting for people to load is a pain. I do notice if I take a screen shot in the game that the laptop does take longer for that.
*There are a few areas where the graphic effects are slower on the laptop. I did try a few different video cards in the desktop to confirm that the textures want a 1GB video card. Even the 8800 GT I had slows at the same point. For less time then laptop, but it still slows at that point. While a 1GB ati 4600 does not slow at that point. The 4600 is not a gaming card with its 128 bus. The slowness drops off if I turn down the eye candy. I like all the eye candy. I play on highest quality settings. Which is why I am seeing if I can get a motherboard that fits the laptop. I also like my 1920 X 1200 screen in it. I cannot get a new laptop wit that screen resolution.
You would be surprised at the number of people who use a credit card or debit card at McDonalds, other fast food places, 7-11s, or Wawas. They could have just hit the ATM for $20 and saved a few dollars by paying cash. Those ATM fees add up.
Is bringing a new currency to the mix a good idea? IS there an exchange rate for bitcoins? I always thought this was a way for the creator to scam people out of money. After all is does cost something to run those bitcoin machines. Plus the cost of the hardware itself. Have you ever looked at some people's bitcoins rigs? They spend $1000+ on them. If it was their hobby fine. Do people think they will get rich by doing this?
There is still an age thing even with a PhD. If you are getting your PhD and you are in your 40s, you will be going up against many PhDs who are in their mid to late 20s. I see many people going straight through to PhD now. They have no real life working experience, but they have a PhD. While the person getting their PhD has that real life experience. Depending on the company, that experience may count or may not count. It all depends on the HR department and the person at the top.
From what I have seen real life experience is starting to look better to some companies. Many still will go for what looks good on paper and take the younger PhD over the older person.
I didn't read if there was ammo to go with the rifle. No ammo the rifle is not much better then a baseball bat or golf club. Both of which are legal to have in DC and make a better club then the rifle does.
According to what I read UPS screwed up the labeling. UPS said that the label fell off his TV box. The TV label was but on the rifle box. Sounds really odd to me.
Everyone can point to an example of a regular hard dive lasting 10, 15, 20 years. SSD drives have not been around that long. Everything I read about SSD drives is that you will be changing them out in 3-5 years especially if you have a high number of writes. You just wear out the drive. If the system is one where rebuilding it is no big deal, then go for it. But if this is a system where you do not want to or it would be a real hassle to rebuild then stay away from SSD drives.
I was thinking of rebuilding my laptop with an SSD (still may it is old now). Then I looked at what I use it for. I game on from time to time. I add mp3s all the time. I back up the entire mp3 collection art least once a month. At house parties I go to my laptop is the jukebox. I am still on the original drive (ok not original but I swapped the original drive for a 500GB one as soon as I got it. I never used the 320GB drive it came with). My friends and family use this laptop to edit their pictures. They copy their entire USB stick of pictures on and off the laptop every time even if they edit 5 pictures. They are not a high level computer users. They do what they understand. My sister did get a laptop with an SSD drive. I loaded all the apps she would need so she can stay on her laptop. She is on her third SSD drive in 14 months. Either she has really bad luck or the SSD drive she keeps getting is bad. I have not seen the SSD. They were all warranty replacements. She was the heaviest picture user. She has about 7GB of pictures that she copied on and off her laptop all the time. I looked at her laptop, she has not dropped it that I can tell. No scratches, dents, cracks anywhere on the laptop. Only the SSD is breaking. Nothing else. The electric in her place is clean. Plus the laptop charger is plugged in to an APC UPS. I don't think the UPS is the issue. She only charges it at home. Could it be her high level of files she copies on and off the drive? The odd part is she has not killed the USB flash drive and external 2.5 inch drive which have copies of those pictures. I figured the USB flash drive would have died before the SSD did.
There are illegal drugs that cannot be consumed in a rate fast enough to cause death. There are drugs no one would want to consume that much.
Dosages would be better understood and less people would die if the drugs that can kill by overdose were legal and properly labeled.
? What drug can be consumed at a very high rate and not kill? I am betting your thinking of pot. Considering people can die from drinking too much water, I call bs. You just want pot legal. Anything taken to extremes can kill people.
If you can get studies done by people who have nothing to gain by pot being legal or for it remain illegal you might have a chance. Those groups are the only ones who could deliver a clear unbiased result. Anyone else will have a biased result. All results from the biased groups for either side should be tossed. They have an agenda. When we are looking for facts to see if something is harmful or not, the agenda groups do not provide the answer.
For all those who say that pot id helping with whatever, look at the placebo groups in studies. They were giving nothing and yet many still get better. They think they were given something. They believe that that pill will help them. They then get/feel better. It is all in their mind. All the medical benefits of pot is like the placebo pill. Those people believed that pot will make them better. So they get better when they take pot. Hemp rope is proven, pot plants are good for that. All the medical stuff needs more unbiased research.
Justice for the relative of the victims perhaps. It should for other would-be criminals be a warning. If they do that crime the same will happen to them. With all the appeals that death row inmates get, their dead man walking time is years if not decades away. They all know this. So that is the lack of deterrent. There needs to be an express lane put in for death row. Speed up the executions. If a criminal is caught, tried, convicted, sentenced, and that sentence is carried out in a few months, I would bet many criminals would think twice.
Lets get all the high tech stuff to all law enforcement. At least then they can catch the right person the first time. Using clear evidence that convicts that person. I am begging to think we need a robot police force. Those robots would follow the law and not have any prejudice against anyone. People can be blinded by their beliefs too easily. Hence all the wrong arrests and wrong people convicted.
breaking into people's homes so they can steal to feed their habit
They do that because drugs are artificially expensive due to the legal BS around them.
If the risk of jail was removed the cost of manufacturing, transporting, and distributing things like Cocaine would fall thru the floor. Only the most hopelessly strung out junkie would be unable to support their habit, if by no other means than panhandling.
Exactly what do you think many of the panhandlers are buying?
Were the drug mules forced to swallow those balloons filled with drug abc123? If so, get them to give evidence (besides the drugs) that will point to the drug lords/pushers etc. If they were a mule for an easy pay off, then jail or worse. They made a decision and that is the consequence of that action.
I would be serious money that if drug mules were getting death sentences that was to be carried out in six months of less, that many of those mules would start talking. The forced and non forced ones. Jail time is better then death.
All the talk about alcohol. Anything taken to extremes is bad. I'll say this I have yet to see anyone get addicted to alcohol on the first drink. I have seen first hand and read about people getting addicted to drugs on the first hit. They need that drug after the first hit. I have yet to see someone need a drink after the first drink.
The design of the F700 is precisely what Samsung is not being allowed to enter into evidence, slong with the facts regarding when that design was created. Meanwhile, Apple is being allowed to enter that very design into evidence *against* Samsing. What don't you understand about that? The moment Apple was allowed to use a photo of the design, Samsung should have been allowed to fill in the missing pieces.
Samsung missed the deadline, Apple didn't. What don't you understand about that?
Let us try this example: You Deorus are on trial for stealing a blue ray player. The judge does not allow you to enter into evidence a tape showing that you paid for said blue ray player in cash. Then mall security shows a tape of you walking out of a store with the blue ray player. You are still not allowed by the judge to enter into evidence the tape showing you paying for the blue ray player. See the point now?
The point is even after the deadline, if one side brings something into evidence the other side can bring the details of that evidence. That happens all the time. This case is prime for an appeal.
And all of us big desktop fans will be relegated to the mainframe fossils
So cloud computing here we come!
I remember liking the look and feel of openGL over directX in games back when you could switch between the two in the video settings. That was over 10 years ago before directX became the 'standard'.
I still think there will be a need for desktops. Most business do not want the average Joe to walk away with the companies laptop/tablet. I would bet that many a computer programmer/graphic artist/video person would still want a desktop over a laptop or tablet. Unless things really change you are not going to get 16GB, or 32GB+G of RAM in a tablet. Some laptops you can get 32GB of RAM (some dell precision models) most stop at 16GB due to having only 2 RAM slots. Since you can get 8GB DDR3 RAM modules now, laptops with 16GB are popping up. For the average person's home computer? A laptop is fine. I am still not sold on a tablet replacing a laptop yet. Too many people I know would rather type on a keyboard. They do not want to carry around a separate bluetooth keyboard with them for the tablet. A laptop is easier.
Jury of one's peers. Shouldn't the jury be other electronics companies? After all Companies are people too now? Get the CEO's or other high level people from other electronics companies to be on the jury.
The same can be said for actual people. When a millionaire or billionaire is on trial should their peers also be millionaires or billionaires? Do you think someone making $30,000 a year can be a peer of someone making $3,000,000 or $3,000,000,000 a year? I think they only look at age as the peer thing. It should be more.
All the rounded corner, rectangular screens with a bezel on LCD monitors and laptops are prior art for the Ipad and iphone.
Who ever in the patent office that granted that patent is either being paid off or a complete moron. Look at the early tablet computers. Those laptops where the screen flipped around and folded back on to the keyboard. This gave you a touchscreen. They were clunky. They were not that fast. But those touchscreen/tablet laptops were prior art for the ipad. And those had rectangular rounded corner screens. Another example is the picture frames. These were not computers per say but a display. You could no do anything but display a bunch of your digital pictures, but those devices also predated the ipad.
Those are a few examples of prior art in the electronic field. The patent office people completely missed them. Maybe the patent office people only look for other patents not things in the world for prior art?
Maybe using a line for 50 years when that line was supposed to last 30 years is a bad idea. Electric companies do that all the time. The transformers near my place and work were around 50 years old. They all blew with 3 months. The electric company people who were replacing them said that these things are designed for 30 years of service. They should have been changed 20 years ago. To save a few bucks, the electric company did not change them out. They waited until they broke to do he change. Maybe over in India a similar thing is going on. For where I live and work, the power outages could have been totally avoided if they actually changed them before they blew. Or at least the power outage could have been shortened and scheduled.
The one near my place has been changed three times in four years. Once from breaking. Once from a car taking out the pole it was one. Once from a tree branch going through the transformer in a storm. The electric company guy's name is Bill. It is sad that I am on a first name basis with the electric company repair guy.
Put evergreen trees/bushes on the north side of the house. Add more insulation to the attic and walls if you can. Sorry but replacing the windows with double pane one or even triple pane ones does pay off. If you have not done so put vinyl siding on the house. Remember to add the insulation that goes under it when you do. I think you can do the same with aluminum siding. It has to be done when the siding is being put up. Also how old is the roof? Adding the attic vents when the roof is being done is not really a major expense. If you do get a new roof, do not be too surprised if they say you need the wood replaced as well. If you have a poorly vented roof, the wood gets soft. It adds to the cost, but if they rip off the roof wood and all that is the perfect time to add insulation to the attic. How old is the gas furnace? If it is original, time to upgrade that. If you get it changed in the summer , it is cheaper than the in winter. Remember to pick an efficient one. The same goes for the fridge, washing machine, drier, and dishwasher. If they are 10-15+ years old. Look into upgrading them to newer more efficient ones. Those are more of things you change when they break items though. Also look at your doors. Like windows, if they are original, they could be changed to more energy saving ones. Remember to insulate around the door frame. Even if you use that spray foam insulation. I did that on a sliding glass door that was installed in the 1960s in a house (build in the 1940s). That alone helped keep the heat inside in the winter.
Of course if you are not planing on being there for the net 10 years skip all that.
What about the ads that now appear on site that are for things I have searched for? Wouldn't those ads be violating Apple's patent? It is funny to see ads for the items that I just searched for. I was looking up home NAS options. Then I get ads for NAS systems. I was looking up fishing lures. I then get ads for fishing lures. I don't think all the ad people have paid Apple.
All these legal moves by Apple point to one thing. Apple is blocking other companies from bringing products to market that might be better their Apple's own products. Apple wants to have their next gen product out so that people always think of Apple of being the market leader. The lead position can and should change so that we have competition. That competition leads to better products.
You are forgetting that people often list their last boss by name. Then that person can be called directly skipping HR. I have seen this often. I have also seen a boss get called for someone who left on good grounds give a reference that made that guy look like totally crap. Remember it is often not what was said but how one says it. You can say that someone "showed up for work on time and did a good job". Now add in pauses and emphasize a word or two and it means something totally different.
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There are other ways to make electric cars. We need to stop thinking of the battery, recharge station method. Why do we have to follow the thinking that cars have to have pit stops to refuel or recharge? Maybe it is time to have a different system of electric car or other method that does need the pit stop method.
Anyway, why not just skip over the pit stop method? This will tick off the oil companies, and the people who have business that rely on the pit stop method. Most disruptive technology annoys some group. The biggest thing is cost. For it to work, the new tech needs to be aimed that the low end not the high end. The new car should be aimed at the everyday person. The hybrids that are aimed mostly at the elite are not going to work in the long run. I know the Prius is selling great. There are a lot of non city people who will never get one since they see the prius as a hippy/tree hugger car. They want an electric car. They cannot stand the type of person they see with a prius. Not everyone lives in the cities. The pit stop method and short travel distances on battery power is not going to cut it for many.
Wasn't that what java was supposed to do? If I remember right java was build/compile once and run everywhere? That was back in the 90s though and then java changed as most things do over time.
By not buying rods (which was proposed in a UN resolution I believe) Iran is do a bunch of things. Iran looks to be strong by standing up to the US and not doing what it wants. That feeds Iran's propaganda. By making their own, they can up the enrichment to make weapons. The stuff they buy would not be that high. Even a dirty bomb of highly enriched uranium would be very bad. That is enough of for more propaganda.
Iran knows that it will take a lot for some country to actually go to war with it. Iran has much to gain by doing what it wants. Even if it is attacked, it gains politically by that as well. Unless all the other Islam countries are going to do nothing which is very unlikely, Iran has nothing to lose by enriching uranium. If Iran was threatened with being nuclear bombed, it might rethink what it is doing. Iran knows that the US will not nuke it. I do not think and western country will nuke Iran. Who would nuke Iran? Russia maybe but unlikely. India again not likely.
Pickups can also haul stuff by towing behind said pickup.
SUVS and pickups are not hip as they were in the 1990s. Most people buying them today have a reason. Some (but limited to) are:
They have something to tow behind the pickup.
They are used for work.
They like the ground clearance of the truck/SUV over a car.
They like being able to see the road better when they drive the truck/SUV.*
They feel safer in the truck/SUV then a car.**
*This one surprised me since most of the people who said it were on the short (5'-2" and under) side.
**Usually happens once they have been a truck/SUV for a while. Which why many people once they get a truck or SUV do not want to go back to a car.
As far as your urban cowboy thing, the only people who really need a pickup in New York City are the construction workers. The wall street people do not need it for their daily ride to work. That is unless they also have a boat to tow and the truck is their only vehicle.
Try a single 5400 RPM drive in that to get a difference to see if the disk matters or not. A ramdisk and raptors in RAID 0 are fast with disk reads and writes. Some games are not too intensive on the disk once they get going. They load everything up when the game first starts and hits the disk very little once you are going. The mmo I play does this. The laptop I use has a 5400 RPM drive and yes the laptop starts the game slower. Once the game is running I see no difference in game speed* when I compare it to the desktop with faster hard drive, more RAM, and a much better video card. (laptop: Intel dual core 2.4ghz, 8 GB RAM, 5400 RPM HD, 512mb ati 3650? I think it is a 4 year old laptop. desktop: amd hexa core 2.7, 16GB ram, AMD 6950 2GB RAM video card, WD black 500 gb 64 cache drive). Not untra-high end stuff. But I can leave either system on for days and not worry about them overheating. This games allows us to download all game info. I do that before I start on each system. I rather be downloading stuff when I am not trying to play. Waiting for people to load is a pain. I do notice if I take a screen shot in the game that the laptop does take longer for that.
*There are a few areas where the graphic effects are slower on the laptop. I did try a few different video cards in the desktop to confirm that the textures want a 1GB video card. Even the 8800 GT I had slows at the same point. For less time then laptop, but it still slows at that point. While a 1GB ati 4600 does not slow at that point. The 4600 is not a gaming card with its 128 bus. The slowness drops off if I turn down the eye candy. I like all the eye candy. I play on highest quality settings. Which is why I am seeing if I can get a motherboard that fits the laptop. I also like my 1920 X 1200 screen in it. I cannot get a new laptop wit that screen resolution.
You would be surprised at the number of people who use a credit card or debit card at McDonalds, other fast food places, 7-11s, or Wawas. They could have just hit the ATM for $20 and saved a few dollars by paying cash. Those ATM fees add up.
Is bringing a new currency to the mix a good idea? IS there an exchange rate for bitcoins? I always thought this was a way for the creator to scam people out of money. After all is does cost something to run those bitcoin machines. Plus the cost of the hardware itself. Have you ever looked at some people's bitcoins rigs? They spend $1000+ on them. If it was their hobby fine. Do people think they will get rich by doing this?
There is still an age thing even with a PhD. If you are getting your PhD and you are in your 40s, you will be going up against many PhDs who are in their mid to late 20s. I see many people going straight through to PhD now. They have no real life working experience, but they have a PhD. While the person getting their PhD has that real life experience. Depending on the company, that experience may count or may not count. It all depends on the HR department and the person at the top.
From what I have seen real life experience is starting to look better to some companies. Many still will go for what looks good on paper and take the younger PhD over the older person.
From before 1986? You can buy a gun today but the gun must be old? Or you had to have purchased the gun before 1986?
I didn't read if there was ammo to go with the rifle. No ammo the rifle is not much better then a baseball bat or golf club. Both of which are legal to have in DC and make a better club then the rifle does.
According to what I read UPS screwed up the labeling. UPS said that the label fell off his TV box. The TV label was but on the rifle box. Sounds really odd to me.
If they win gold, that is when the pay day starts. How many non medal winning people from the Olympics are on the Wheaties box?
Well the hurricane could spawn a tornado or two. That has been know to happen. Imagine a Cat 5 hurricane spawning a few F5 tornados.
Everyone can point to an example of a regular hard dive lasting 10, 15, 20 years. SSD drives have not been around that long. Everything I read about SSD drives is that you will be changing them out in 3-5 years especially if you have a high number of writes. You just wear out the drive. If the system is one where rebuilding it is no big deal, then go for it. But if this is a system where you do not want to or it would be a real hassle to rebuild then stay away from SSD drives.
I was thinking of rebuilding my laptop with an SSD (still may it is old now). Then I looked at what I use it for. I game on from time to time. I add mp3s all the time. I back up the entire mp3 collection art least once a month. At house parties I go to my laptop is the jukebox. I am still on the original drive (ok not original but I swapped the original drive for a 500GB one as soon as I got it. I never used the 320GB drive it came with). My friends and family use this laptop to edit their pictures. They copy their entire USB stick of pictures on and off the laptop every time even if they edit 5 pictures. They are not a high level computer users. They do what they understand. My sister did get a laptop with an SSD drive. I loaded all the apps she would need so she can stay on her laptop. She is on her third SSD drive in 14 months. Either she has really bad luck or the SSD drive she keeps getting is bad. I have not seen the SSD. They were all warranty replacements. She was the heaviest picture user. She has about 7GB of pictures that she copied on and off her laptop all the time. I looked at her laptop, she has not dropped it that I can tell. No scratches, dents, cracks anywhere on the laptop. Only the SSD is breaking. Nothing else. The electric in her place is clean. Plus the laptop charger is plugged in to an APC UPS. I don't think the UPS is the issue. She only charges it at home. Could it be her high level of files she copies on and off the drive? The odd part is she has not killed the USB flash drive and external 2.5 inch drive which have copies of those pictures. I figured the USB flash drive would have died before the SSD did.
What does dosage have to do with it?
There are illegal drugs that cannot be consumed in a rate fast enough to cause death. There are drugs no one would want to consume that much.
Dosages would be better understood and less people would die if the drugs that can kill by overdose were legal and properly labeled.
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What drug can be consumed at a very high rate and not kill? I am betting your thinking of pot. Considering people can die from drinking too much water, I call bs. You just want pot legal. Anything taken to extremes can kill people.
If you can get studies done by people who have nothing to gain by pot being legal or for it remain illegal you might have a chance. Those groups are the only ones who could deliver a clear unbiased result. Anyone else will have a biased result. All results from the biased groups for either side should be tossed. They have an agenda. When we are looking for facts to see if something is harmful or not, the agenda groups do not provide the answer.
For all those who say that pot id helping with whatever, look at the placebo groups in studies. They were giving nothing and yet many still get better. They think they were given something. They believe that that pill will help them. They then get/feel better. It is all in their mind. All the medical benefits of pot is like the placebo pill. Those people believed that pot will make them better. So they get better when they take pot. Hemp rope is proven, pot plants are good for that. All the medical stuff needs more unbiased research.
Justice for the relative of the victims perhaps. It should for other would-be criminals be a warning. If they do that crime the same will happen to them. With all the appeals that death row inmates get, their dead man walking time is years if not decades away. They all know this. So that is the lack of deterrent. There needs to be an express lane put in for death row. Speed up the executions. If a criminal is caught, tried, convicted, sentenced, and that sentence is carried out in a few months, I would bet many criminals would think twice.
Lets get all the high tech stuff to all law enforcement. At least then they can catch the right person the first time. Using clear evidence that convicts that person. I am begging to think we need a robot police force. Those robots would follow the law and not have any prejudice against anyone. People can be blinded by their beliefs too easily. Hence all the wrong arrests and wrong people convicted.
breaking into people's homes so they can steal to feed their habit
They do that because drugs are artificially expensive due to the legal BS around them.
If the risk of jail was removed the cost of manufacturing, transporting, and distributing things like Cocaine would fall thru the floor. Only the most hopelessly strung out junkie would be unable to support their habit, if by no other means than panhandling.
Exactly what do you think many of the panhandlers are buying?
Were the drug mules forced to swallow those balloons filled with drug abc123? If so, get them to give evidence (besides the drugs) that will point to the drug lords/pushers etc. If they were a mule for an easy pay off, then jail or worse. They made a decision and that is the consequence of that action.
I would be serious money that if drug mules were getting death sentences that was to be carried out in six months of less, that many of those mules would start talking. The forced and non forced ones. Jail time is better then death.
All the talk about alcohol. Anything taken to extremes is bad. I'll say this I have yet to see anyone get addicted to alcohol on the first drink. I have seen first hand and read about people getting addicted to drugs on the first hit. They need that drug after the first hit. I have yet to see someone need a drink after the first drink.
Samsung missed the deadline, Apple didn't. What don't you understand about that?
Let us try this example: You Deorus are on trial for stealing a blue ray player. The judge does not allow you to enter into evidence a tape showing that you paid for said blue ray player in cash. Then mall security shows a tape of you walking out of a store with the blue ray player. You are still not allowed by the judge to enter into evidence the tape showing you paying for the blue ray player. See the point now?
The point is even after the deadline, if one side brings something into evidence the other side can bring the details of that evidence. That happens all the time. This case is prime for an appeal.
And all of us big desktop fans will be relegated to the mainframe fossils
So cloud computing here we come!
I remember liking the look and feel of openGL over directX in games back when you could switch between the two in the video settings. That was over 10 years ago before directX became the 'standard'.
I still think there will be a need for desktops. Most business do not want the average Joe to walk away with the companies laptop/tablet. I would bet that many a computer programmer/graphic artist/video person would still want a desktop over a laptop or tablet. Unless things really change you are not going to get 16GB, or 32GB+G of RAM in a tablet. Some laptops you can get 32GB of RAM (some dell precision models) most stop at 16GB due to having only 2 RAM slots. Since you can get 8GB DDR3 RAM modules now, laptops with 16GB are popping up. For the average person's home computer? A laptop is fine. I am still not sold on a tablet replacing a laptop yet. Too many people I know would rather type on a keyboard. They do not want to carry around a separate bluetooth keyboard with them for the tablet. A laptop is easier.
Jury of one's peers. Shouldn't the jury be other electronics companies? After all Companies are people too now? Get the CEO's or other high level people from other electronics companies to be on the jury.
The same can be said for actual people. When a millionaire or billionaire is on trial should their peers also be millionaires or billionaires? Do you think someone making $30,000 a year can be a peer of someone making $3,000,000 or $3,000,000,000 a year? I think they only look at age as the peer thing. It should be more.
All the rounded corner, rectangular screens with a bezel on LCD monitors and laptops are prior art for the Ipad and iphone.
Who ever in the patent office that granted that patent is either being paid off or a complete moron. Look at the early tablet computers. Those laptops where the screen flipped around and folded back on to the keyboard. This gave you a touchscreen. They were clunky. They were not that fast. But those touchscreen/tablet laptops were prior art for the ipad. And those had rectangular rounded corner screens. Another example is the picture frames. These were not computers per say but a display. You could no do anything but display a bunch of your digital pictures, but those devices also predated the ipad.
Those are a few examples of prior art in the electronic field. The patent office people completely missed them. Maybe the patent office people only look for other patents not things in the world for prior art?
Maybe using a line for 50 years when that line was supposed to last 30 years is a bad idea. Electric companies do that all the time. The transformers near my place and work were around 50 years old. They all blew with 3 months. The electric company people who were replacing them said that these things are designed for 30 years of service. They should have been changed 20 years ago. To save a few bucks, the electric company did not change them out. They waited until they broke to do he change. Maybe over in India a similar thing is going on. For where I live and work, the power outages could have been totally avoided if they actually changed them before they blew. Or at least the power outage could have been shortened and scheduled.
The one near my place has been changed three times in four years. Once from breaking. Once from a car taking out the pole it was one. Once from a tree branch going through the transformer in a storm. The electric company guy's name is Bill. It is sad that I am on a first name basis with the electric company repair guy.
Record winter lows are a predicted sign of global warming. I'm not surprised you don't know that, because you are clearly willfully ignorant.
Wasn't that from a movie? Oh yea the Day after Tomorrow.
What I find funny is that most of the scientists that say that all started saying that after that movie came out.
Put evergreen trees/bushes on the north side of the house. Add more insulation to the attic and walls if you can. Sorry but replacing the windows with double pane one or even triple pane ones does pay off. If you have not done so put vinyl siding on the house. Remember to add the insulation that goes under it when you do. I think you can do the same with aluminum siding. It has to be done when the siding is being put up. Also how old is the roof? Adding the attic vents when the roof is being done is not really a major expense. If you do get a new roof, do not be too surprised if they say you need the wood replaced as well. If you have a poorly vented roof, the wood gets soft. It adds to the cost, but if they rip off the roof wood and all that is the perfect time to add insulation to the attic. How old is the gas furnace? If it is original, time to upgrade that. If you get it changed in the summer , it is cheaper than the in winter. Remember to pick an efficient one. The same goes for the fridge, washing machine, drier, and dishwasher. If they are 10-15+ years old. Look into upgrading them to newer more efficient ones. Those are more of things you change when they break items though. Also look at your doors. Like windows, if they are original, they could be changed to more energy saving ones. Remember to insulate around the door frame. Even if you use that spray foam insulation. I did that on a sliding glass door that was installed in the 1960s in a house (build in the 1940s). That alone helped keep the heat inside in the winter.
Of course if you are not planing on being there for the net 10 years skip all that.
What about the ads that now appear on site that are for things I have searched for? Wouldn't those ads be violating Apple's patent? It is funny to see ads for the items that I just searched for. I was looking up home NAS options. Then I get ads for NAS systems. I was looking up fishing lures. I then get ads for fishing lures. I don't think all the ad people have paid Apple.
All these legal moves by Apple point to one thing. Apple is blocking other companies from bringing products to market that might be better their Apple's own products. Apple wants to have their next gen product out so that people always think of Apple of being the market leader. The lead position can and should change so that we have competition. That competition leads to better products.
You are forgetting that people often list their last boss by name. Then that person can be called directly skipping HR. I have seen this often. I have also seen a boss get called for someone who left on good grounds give a reference that made that guy look like totally crap. Remember it is often not what was said but how one says it. You can say that someone "showed up for work on time and did a good job". Now add in pauses and emphasize a word or two and it means something totally different.