The thing that really pissed me off about the iPhone 4 shit was not that they bought the prototype. They're sleazy, and would be somewhat expected to do such things. No, what really got me is that they published the details and Facebook page of the poor guy who lost the phone. Right there was when they lost any and all credibility to me, and lost any possible sympathy for having Apple come after them.
Yeah, not gonna happen. This has absolutly nothing to do with the "Invisible Hand" giving the market a handjob. The iPhone is popular, whether you like to admit it or not, so the Chinese are gonna make cheap, crappy clones of it. Such as what happens to anything remotely popular.
Which brings me to one item I have experience with, when unions want to protest an organization they not only rely on their own they pay for help. That help usually is non-union minimum wage people with no benefits to carry signs and the like. I am quite sure they also pay outside organizations in this day and age for "mailing assistance"
And you think the business isn't going to bring in outside help to prevent unionization?
PS: If you think unions are all flowers and bunnies you obviously never worked under one or with people under one. BTW, I suppose that the union in Verizon's current case is really trying hard to stop the damage being caused by its members? Far too many of these groups are thugs. They intimidate both workers and businesses all the time. Seeing one gets its balls busted for it is a good thing. We should promote proper and lawful solutions, not intimidation and depriving another of their livelihood.
Everything you said can go double for businesses, and the people that run them.
Which is still completely unwarranted. If they had told them all to write paper letters, and then their physical mailbox filled up, meaning that legitimate business mail didn't get through, would you still blame them?
So a movie now counts as "prior art" now? Are you so idiotic as to think that you can just make the gestures, that you don't actually have to do any engineering to get them to work?
Yes, it was new and novel, because it was the first time it actually fucking worked in real life.
I love how proponents of anti-vehicular living conveniently forget that there are a huge number of tasks that can't be performed on a bicycle or on foot.
There are not a "huge number" of these tasks. There are a few, and even with these plans, it's still perfectly fine and possible to drive.
However, I am quite sick and tired of people like you bitching constantly whenever someone tries to encourage biking, walking, and public transit use, completely forgetting the DECADES spent encouraging people to drive. Shut the hell up, you had your turn.
You're telling me that you would derive no benefit from increased ease of cycling to get around? Even if you drive everywhere, if more people are biking, then that means less traffic for you.
So you're going to tell me with a straight face that Samsung doesn't have patents on it's SuperAMOLED displays? That they don't have patents on their flash memory?
That has got to be the dumbest statement I've ever seen on here. Bravo.
However, the poster I replied to mentioned actions which he said made Apple a troll in his opinion. I just pointed out that it's the same thing the rest of the industry does. Meaning he's just an anti-Apple fanboy.
Taste of their own medicine? I take it you completely forgot about Nokia suing them, and Kodak before that? Or how about the company that sued them on the basis of the iPod's playlist?
To say that "Apple started it!" is extremely childish and naive.
Here's a really stupid question: If IBM patented patent trolling, why have they not gone after all of these little fuckstain companies? They could easily help to reform the patent system just by exerting that one patent.
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These places are rife with gangs who partake in drug trafficking, prostitution, violence, theft, vandalism, and just plain out thuggery.
Theft? Like taking someone's phone from a bar? Thuggery? Like selling that same phone to a bunch of scumbags?
The thing that really pissed me off about the iPhone 4 shit was not that they bought the prototype. They're sleazy, and would be somewhat expected to do such things. No, what really got me is that they published the details and Facebook page of the poor guy who lost the phone. Right there was when they lost any and all credibility to me, and lost any possible sympathy for having Apple come after them.
And everyone and their mother would know that story would be complete bullshit.
How was that abuse? They went after those involved in taking their prototype. That's not abuse.
Taking a phone in a bar is considered stealing. And paying money for said objects is Paying for Stolen Goods, which is against the law.
Yeah, not gonna happen. This has absolutly nothing to do with the "Invisible Hand" giving the market a handjob. The iPhone is popular, whether you like to admit it or not, so the Chinese are gonna make cheap, crappy clones of it. Such as what happens to anything remotely popular.
It's also called having sane email handling processes. But that didn't stop the company in the story.
Which brings me to one item I have experience with, when unions want to protest an organization they not only rely on their own they pay for help. That help usually is non-union minimum wage people with no benefits to carry signs and the like. I am quite sure they also pay outside organizations in this day and age for "mailing assistance"
And you think the business isn't going to bring in outside help to prevent unionization?
PS: If you think unions are all flowers and bunnies you obviously never worked under one or with people under one. BTW, I suppose that the union in Verizon's current case is really trying hard to stop the damage being caused by its members? Far too many of these groups are thugs. They intimidate both workers and businesses all the time. Seeing one gets its balls busted for it is a good thing. We should promote proper and lawful solutions, not intimidation and depriving another of their livelihood.
Everything you said can go double for businesses, and the people that run them.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to know the email handling capabilities of everyone I send email to.
Which is still completely unwarranted. If they had told them all to write paper letters, and then their physical mailbox filled up, meaning that legitimate business mail didn't get through, would you still blame them?
Doesn't change that their car was defective from the moment they sold it to you.
Blah blah blah extremely biased anti-Union, pro-business sentiment.
Do you honestly think that the business doesn't have people on their side doing the exact same fucking thing?
So a movie now counts as "prior art" now? Are you so idiotic as to think that you can just make the gestures, that you don't actually have to do any engineering to get them to work?
Yes, it was new and novel, because it was the first time it actually fucking worked in real life.
I love how proponents of anti-vehicular living conveniently forget that there are a huge number of tasks that can't be performed on a bicycle or on foot.
There are not a "huge number" of these tasks. There are a few, and even with these plans, it's still perfectly fine and possible to drive.
However, I am quite sick and tired of people like you bitching constantly whenever someone tries to encourage biking, walking, and public transit use, completely forgetting the DECADES spent encouraging people to drive. Shut the hell up, you had your turn.
You're telling me that you would derive no benefit from increased ease of cycling to get around? Even if you drive everywhere, if more people are biking, then that means less traffic for you.
Provide evidence that it was, in fact, "stolen" before you make shit up.
More mindless Apple hate, singling them out as the only one responsible for the same shit that the entire rest of the industry does.
The problem is that everyone points at Apple and singles them out on this behavior, as if nobody else is doing it.
So you're going to tell me with a straight face that Samsung doesn't have patents on it's SuperAMOLED displays? That they don't have patents on their flash memory?
It is starting to look more like that episode of South Park, with the case of Everyone vs. Everyone.
That has got to be the dumbest statement I've ever seen on here. Bravo.
However, the poster I replied to mentioned actions which he said made Apple a troll in his opinion. I just pointed out that it's the same thing the rest of the industry does. Meaning he's just an anti-Apple fanboy.
So in other words, the exact same fucking thing that everyone else is doing?
Taste of their own medicine? I take it you completely forgot about Nokia suing them, and Kodak before that? Or how about the company that sued them on the basis of the iPod's playlist?
To say that "Apple started it!" is extremely childish and naive.
Here's a really stupid question: If IBM patented patent trolling, why have they not gone after all of these little fuckstain companies? They could easily help to reform the patent system just by exerting that one patent.
You mean doing the exact same fucking thing as everyone else, but just because it's Apple, makes them a troll?