This is like the nerd version of reality television. Apple and Google are BFF until Jobs sees Schmidt making out with iPhone Joe. Then it's like OMGWTFBBQ and Google is no longer welcome in the house of fruit. Srsbzns means that hurt Jobs is going to stick daggers into Schmidts new BFFs, HTC, Samsung and Moto. Stuck and bleeding Moto threatens to turn on Samsung and HTC unless Schmidt makes Google tie the knot with Moto.
Then the surprise of next week, Jobs makes a quick exit because he feels totally ill and then drunk Apotheker shows up and announces that he is aborting his billion dollar baby. Mistress Rubenstein looks sheepishly at his shoes.
Meanwhile, HTC grabs some patents out of Google's drawers and waves them in front of Apple's face...
Apple is likely by far more clever than your average poster on/. This is kind of the attention you probably don't want as a vendor. It's not like Samsung is a bit player, in almost every market they are in, they are at or near the top, and they are hyper competitive. You can't turn around in an electronics store and not see a Samsung TV, camera, fridge, washer, phone, etc.
Apple isn't going to win these lawsuits, it's nearly impossible for design patents to trump infrastructure and basic research patents. Apple will eventually make room for Android tablets and X-OS tablets to come in the marketplace. The question is when will they lose the lawsuits and why would they delay competitors?
The biggest reason for any company to want a market to themselves temporally is to establish vendor lock-in. This means they want people to buy all the 99 cent games as possible, and possibly $5 and $10 apps as well. By the time Google/Motorola, Samsung, RIM and HP (what's left of them) get to field good tablets/OS/apps it will be much too late. They will have ZERO binary compatibility with iOS games and apps and then no consumer in their right mind would switch from an iOS device when it means needing to repurchase the entire library of software (no matter how much they currently use any of their games or apps).
It is the same inertia that is keeping Windows going. After decades of dominance, there are a myriad and plethora of utilities/applications/games that developers are loathe to port over to linux/Mac OS and people are less willing to repurchase. In essence the PC market is Microsoft's to lose. Apple is basically wanting to be in that space for tablets and they are deathly afraid of letting Android elbow their way into that space like they're doing in the smartphone market.
If you look at the F/OSS space, the same thing happened to BSD and Linux. By the time BSD had escaped the legal maneuverings of USL, Linux had captured the hearts and minds of the masses and BSD was an also-ran. Not implying that Linus made USL sue BSD but the results are similar.
Suing the vendor is the best way to seed FUD in the every user to stay off of a platform. I think Apple will win this one by grinding through the courts long enough to lock in 80% of the market in tablets.
It is even more screwed up than what the summary implies.
This isn't even a compliance issue. The U.S. government objects to the importation of unfinished wood (raw imports), while Gibson has imported finished wood from India. However, the U.S. contends that the wood is not finished ENOUGH, although the Indian government is quite satisfied with the paperwork on their end (no objection and considers the wood properly finished).
So although all the paperwork is technically in order, the US government is on a massive fishing expedition to force Gibson into 'compliance' even though they haven't broken any laws. Indian article here: http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/9756435.cms
This reminds me of the way the government has sent those mortgage liars to jail: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/26nocera.html
Pop the little guys because all the big fish are too hard to catch. Government at work for you.
Oh yeah, forgot I have ThinkTank gear as well, pretty darn good stuff. Don't forget to try Andy Bigg's Kiboko bag too, it's very highly regarded among travelling pros, don't think it handles a laptop though. Never seen a photographer with Case Logic stuff but photogear queers are usually brand snobs as well.
I've got LowePro, Kata and Clik Elite bags and I'll probably wind up getting more.
None are perfect but they all are pretty good, depending on your needs.
LowePro: quality construction, high price, thick padding. Photo Trekker AW has water resistant zippers. Bag (not me!) survived a tumble out of a minivan on the Kalahari desert when the hatch wasn't latched properly. Only damage was a slightly decentered 50-500 OS lens, 1DIV, 5D2, Sigma 12-24 and TCs flash guns unscathed. Bag didn't flinch with 42 pounds of gear. Bag is on it's way out with plastic stiffener bits coming out after 8 years of heavy weight use. No tears or rips in the fabric and looks perfect externally though.
Kata: lighter weight, innovative design. Love their sling bag 3N1-20. Just doesn't hold enough for me. Also evaluating Bumblee-222 and front pack but probably not the one I should have tried (220). Front harness system looks less functional than the Clik Elite, but the frame ventilation system seems the most comfortable and coolest (but takes up valuable space). Padding seems adequate but choosing the lightweight series makes me question the protection.
Clik Elite: lower pricing than LowePro, less padding, slightly lighter weight. Average fit and finish. Clean and innovative design. Pro Express bag not wide enough (center row lens hood gets squeezed with lenses in the outside lanes) compared to LowePro design but guaranteed for airline compatibility. Front harness system integrates well to pack.
I'm going to look at the Tenba shootouts as well, and the newer LowePro replacement for my older Photo Trekker, the 400AW (pricey, especially in Canada).
I carry around an iPad and a 13" MacBook Air so I don't need a 17" laptop carrier.
Contacting Congress and the Senate didn't do much for the Tillman family. The Senate inquiry basically pandered to the military and ol' Rummie to the point of it being a cocktail party. I always thought the Tillman family got a raw deal, but then I watched the "The Tillman Story," which showed (from the family's POV) how badly they got railroaded.
All of the cover-up went straight to the top and everyone covered for each other. That was for the death of one (famous) soldier. I don't know what else is in the leaked Manning documents but just the Iraqi reporters being attacked by helicopter gunships was enough to disgust me.
I don't necessarily agree with what Manning did but I don't disagree either. About the only thing I *DO* know is that he is utterly screwed.
This is what happens when people don't RTFA. The spider is not new, it's the research into the spider's behaviour that is new.
"Previous researchers thought the spiders had to replenish their air every half-hour, but as they report online today in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Seymour and Hetz found that the spiders can hang out near their bells for up to a day, waiting for prey while keeping safe from birds."
If you bothered to look up the definition, you will see that insure can be used in lieu of ensure.
Definition of INSURE
transitive verb 1 : to provide or obtain insurance on or for 2 : to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions intransitive verb
in·sure    [in-shoor, -shur] Show IPA verb, -sured, -sur·ing. –verb (used with object) 1. to guarantee against loss or harm. 2. to secure indemnity to or on, in case of loss, damage, or death. 3. to issue or procure an insurance policy on or for. 4. ensure ( defs. 1–3 ) .
He shoulda attached it to the cars of one of the sitting US Supreme Court Judges and see how fast things got 'straightened out'. Of course getting caught putting a hidden box that looks like a bomb onto one of the Supreme's cars doesn't look so great.
So then the big electronics company is going to file patents around all of this anyhow, make millions of dollars and the original researcher is out in the cold. How is that the 'right result' again?
Just because he has a PhD and he has just won a Nobel Prize, it doesn't mean he can't get scammed. He was foolish to cave into the electronics company's demand. He should have just said, oh, I suppose you aren't interested then. I'll just go to your /// instead.
They would change their attitude right quick if they felt that this guy was going to go over to the "enemy". Sometimes you have to fight evil with a larger evil.
...and randomize the order of the questions, changing values subtly for the questions, and/or changing the variable names and other minutiae in order to make it a bigger waste of time for them to cheat.
Once you make it clear to them that the exams are 'unique' to each student the cheaters will likely panic and turf the exam hard anyhow.
You can make 4-10 different exams and it will be way easier to catch the cheaters.
In theory you could tailor each exam to each student but you'd have to set up a pretty good infrastructure for grading efficiently.
Agreed. If they don't pay the bill make sure that you sue them in small claims court. Depending on jurisdiction it should be under 25k, but it also is loaded towards the small guy (you).
Yeah, it's still racism couched in the nicest possible way. Chinese people are very prejudiced against dark skinned people, particularly "Blacks" and "Indians". If they rented out people of all colours it would be a different story but obviously white people are superior to everyone else except the Chinese...
While there's a lot of humour to be found in this article, there can be some benefit as well. While I couldn't help but laugh when I read the article, producing videos and having them broadcast to zoo animals (not debating the ethics of keeping zoo animals, except that they are there) may help stimulate them (for short periods) even though they are in relatively cramped quarters.
Perfectly true, but the tirade then goes on to accuse the GP of outright lying, and everything that the GP said was BS. Sounds like someone got bent over at the HP corral if you ask me.
Nothing wrong with making a factual critique, but to just out and out appeal to emotional rather than rational responses sounds a bit Palinesque.
Because the choice was put in front of the consumer 20 years ago, and they chose to support the subsidized printer model. It's all about dollars for the printer manufacturer. Some of our wounds are self inflicted, if we choose to support a 'zero down' style plan we should always know that we never get something for nothing.
The manufacturers aren't exactly innocent parties, but they will switch if we decide that we aren't going to put up with it. Until then the price beatings will continue exactly as scheduled.
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This is like the nerd version of reality television. Apple and Google are BFF until Jobs sees Schmidt making out with iPhone Joe. Then it's like OMGWTFBBQ and Google is no longer welcome in the house of fruit. Srsbzns means that hurt Jobs is going to stick daggers into Schmidts new BFFs, HTC, Samsung and Moto. Stuck and bleeding Moto threatens to turn on Samsung and HTC unless Schmidt makes Google tie the knot with Moto.
Then the surprise of next week, Jobs makes a quick exit because he feels totally ill and then drunk Apotheker shows up and announces that he is aborting his billion dollar baby. Mistress Rubenstein looks sheepishly at his shoes.
Meanwhile, HTC grabs some patents out of Google's drawers and waves them in front of Apple's face...
Posts that get modded down to -5 should automatically have their IPs revealed.
Apple is likely by far more clever than your average poster on /. This is kind of the attention you probably don't want as a vendor. It's not like Samsung is a bit player, in almost every market they are in, they are at or near the top, and they are hyper competitive. You can't turn around in an electronics store and not see a Samsung TV, camera, fridge, washer, phone, etc.
Apple isn't going to win these lawsuits, it's nearly impossible for design patents to trump infrastructure and basic research patents. Apple will eventually make room for Android tablets and X-OS tablets to come in the marketplace. The question is when will they lose the lawsuits and why would they delay competitors?
The biggest reason for any company to want a market to themselves temporally is to establish vendor lock-in. This means they want people to buy all the 99 cent games as possible, and possibly $5 and $10 apps as well. By the time Google/Motorola, Samsung, RIM and HP (what's left of them) get to field good tablets/OS/apps it will be much too late. They will have ZERO binary compatibility with iOS games and apps and then no consumer in their right mind would switch from an iOS device when it means needing to repurchase the entire library of software (no matter how much they currently use any of their games or apps).
It is the same inertia that is keeping Windows going. After decades of dominance, there are a myriad and plethora of utilities/applications/games that developers are loathe to port over to linux/Mac OS and people are less willing to repurchase. In essence the PC market is Microsoft's to lose. Apple is basically wanting to be in that space for tablets and they are deathly afraid of letting Android elbow their way into that space like they're doing in the smartphone market.
If you look at the F/OSS space, the same thing happened to BSD and Linux. By the time BSD had escaped the legal maneuverings of USL, Linux had captured the hearts and minds of the masses and BSD was an also-ran. Not implying that Linus made USL sue BSD but the results are similar.
Suing the vendor is the best way to seed FUD in the every user to stay off of a platform. I think Apple will win this one by grinding through the courts long enough to lock in 80% of the market in tablets.
You must feed the trolls with Organic foods or Doc Bob will get his spine all bent out of shape.
It is even more screwed up than what the summary implies.
This isn't even a compliance issue. The U.S. government objects to the importation of unfinished wood (raw imports), while Gibson has imported finished wood from India. However, the U.S. contends that the wood is not finished ENOUGH, although the Indian government is quite satisfied with the paperwork on their end (no objection and considers the wood properly finished).
So although all the paperwork is technically in order, the US government is on a massive fishing expedition to force Gibson into 'compliance' even though they haven't broken any laws.
Indian article here:
http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/9756435.cms
This reminds me of the way the government has sent those mortgage liars to jail:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/26nocera.html
Pop the little guys because all the big fish are too hard to catch. Government at work for you.
Oh yeah, forgot I have ThinkTank gear as well, pretty darn good stuff. Don't forget to try Andy Bigg's Kiboko bag too, it's very highly regarded among travelling pros, don't think it handles a laptop though. Never seen a photographer with Case Logic stuff but photogear queers are usually brand snobs as well.
I've got LowePro, Kata and Clik Elite bags and I'll probably wind up getting more.
None are perfect but they all are pretty good, depending on your needs.
LowePro: quality construction, high price, thick padding. Photo Trekker AW has water resistant zippers. Bag (not me!) survived a tumble out of a minivan on the Kalahari desert when the hatch wasn't latched properly. Only damage was a slightly decentered 50-500 OS lens, 1DIV, 5D2, Sigma 12-24 and TCs flash guns unscathed. Bag didn't flinch with 42 pounds of gear. Bag is on it's way out with plastic stiffener bits coming out after 8 years of heavy weight use. No tears or rips in the fabric and looks perfect externally though.
Kata: lighter weight, innovative design. Love their sling bag 3N1-20. Just doesn't hold enough for me. Also evaluating Bumblee-222 and front pack but probably not the one I should have tried (220). Front harness system looks less functional than the Clik Elite, but the frame ventilation system seems the most comfortable and coolest (but takes up valuable space). Padding seems adequate but choosing the lightweight series makes me question the protection.
Clik Elite: lower pricing than LowePro, less padding, slightly lighter weight. Average fit and finish. Clean and innovative design. Pro Express bag not wide enough (center row lens hood gets squeezed with lenses in the outside lanes) compared to LowePro design but guaranteed for airline compatibility. Front harness system integrates well to pack.
I'm going to look at the Tenba shootouts as well, and the newer LowePro replacement for my older Photo Trekker, the 400AW (pricey, especially in Canada).
I carry around an iPad and a 13" MacBook Air so I don't need a 17" laptop carrier.
Contacting Congress and the Senate didn't do much for the Tillman family. The Senate inquiry basically pandered to the military and ol' Rummie to the point of it being a cocktail party. I always thought the Tillman family got a raw deal, but then I watched the "The Tillman Story," which showed (from the family's POV) how badly they got railroaded.
All of the cover-up went straight to the top and everyone covered for each other. That was for the death of one (famous) soldier. I don't know what else is in the leaked Manning documents but just the Iraqi reporters being attacked by helicopter gunships was enough to disgust me.
I don't necessarily agree with what Manning did but I don't disagree either. About the only thing I *DO* know is that he is utterly screwed.
This is what happens when people don't RTFA. The spider is not new, it's the research into the spider's behaviour that is new.
"Previous researchers thought the spiders had to replenish their air every half-hour, but as they report online today in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Seymour and Hetz found that the spiders can hang out near their bells for up to a day, waiting for prey while keeping safe from birds."
Because the management of the power utility consistently underestimated the crisis and didn't want to 'needlessly' alarm people.
Crisis management is the opposite of normal management and these guys don't understand that. Well, maybe not until now.
If you bothered to look up the definition, you will see that insure can be used in lieu of ensure.
Definition of INSURE
transitive verb
1
: to provide or obtain insurance on or for
2
: to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions
intransitive verb
in·sure   
[in-shoor, -shur] Show IPA
verb, -sured, -sur·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1.
to guarantee against loss or harm.
2.
to secure indemnity to or on, in case of loss, damage, or death.
3.
to issue or procure an insurance policy on or for.
4.
ensure ( defs. 1–3 ) .
Find the FBI vehicle who's shadowing him and hide it on the agent's vehicle.
They would think they are being followed the whole time.
Or put it on a government worker's car so it looks like he is visiting a whole bunch of government places.
He shoulda attached it to the cars of one of the sitting US Supreme Court Judges and see how fast things got 'straightened out'. Of course getting caught putting a hidden box that looks like a bomb onto one of the Supreme's cars doesn't look so great.
So then the big electronics company is going to file patents around all of this anyhow, make millions of dollars and the original researcher is out in the cold. How is that the 'right result' again?
Just because he has a PhD and he has just won a Nobel Prize, it doesn't mean he can't get scammed. He was foolish to cave into the electronics company's demand. He should have just said, oh, I suppose you aren't interested then. I'll just go to your /// instead.
They would change their attitude right quick if they felt that this guy was going to go over to the "enemy". Sometimes you have to fight evil with a larger evil.
...and randomize the order of the questions, changing values subtly for the questions, and/or changing the variable names and other minutiae in order to make it a bigger waste of time for them to cheat.
Once you make it clear to them that the exams are 'unique' to each student the cheaters will likely panic and turf the exam hard anyhow.
You can make 4-10 different exams and it will be way easier to catch the cheaters.
In theory you could tailor each exam to each student but you'd have to set up a pretty good infrastructure for grading efficiently.
Compare And Store. Load Link/Store Conditional. Google is your friend.
Agreed. If they don't pay the bill make sure that you sue them in small claims court. Depending on jurisdiction it should be under 25k, but it also is loaded towards the small guy (you).
Perhaps you're short a few IQ points, since you need to realize that teaching ability also require a good EQ score.
Yeah, it's still racism couched in the nicest possible way. Chinese people are very prejudiced against dark skinned people, particularly "Blacks" and "Indians". If they rented out people of all colours it would be a different story but obviously white people are superior to everyone else except the Chinese...
Obviously you're not Canadian so you don't understand it.
Didn't have revolution and didn't need one to become a country. Don't need to shoot other people to be proud of your country.
While there's a lot of humour to be found in this article, there can be some benefit as well. While I couldn't help but laugh when I read the article, producing videos and having them broadcast to zoo animals (not debating the ethics of keeping zoo animals, except that they are there) may help stimulate them (for short periods) even though they are in relatively cramped quarters.
Perfectly true, but the tirade then goes on to accuse the GP of outright lying, and everything that the GP said was BS. Sounds like someone got bent over at the HP corral if you ask me.
Nothing wrong with making a factual critique, but to just out and out appeal to emotional rather than rational responses sounds a bit Palinesque.
If everyone was logical
No one would buy contract mobile phones.
People wouldn't have sex while drunk.
No one would buy consumer inkjets.
Because the choice was put in front of the consumer 20 years ago, and they chose to support the subsidized printer model. It's all about dollars for the printer manufacturer. Some of our wounds are self inflicted, if we choose to support a 'zero down' style plan we should always know that we never get something for nothing.
The manufacturers aren't exactly innocent parties, but they will switch if we decide that we aren't going to put up with it. Until then the price beatings will continue exactly as scheduled.