when you say the word "App Store", I think that conjures up images of just about any sort of app stores that we have nowadays - Palm's, Blackberry's, Windows Phone's Android's, etc.
I can see Apple suing people to stop saying "app" or "app store"
That's personal opinion, of course. I, on the other hand, think that they wouldn't. You do need to realise that the only reason why Apple are doing this is because Microsoft are being such utter douchebags in the first place.
The only reason my husband beats me is because Jane's husband down the street beats her. Apple doesn't need Microsoft to be sue-happy douches. They do that quite well enough on their own, thankyouverymuch.
It's not Darwinism unless he dies before managing to reproduce.
I'd say there's likely a good chance of that now, being (likely) penniless and without a girlfriend...
Brian Griffin combs his hair in front of the mirror, then unexpectedly messes it up.. "Yeah, that's a bed head, yeah. Hey, look at you, you just got out of bed. You're the underachiever every woman wants to sleep with."
That screw wasn't stripped! It's Apple's new screwdriver design. They take their ordinary pentabular screws, and apply a drill to eat out the head of one of them, forcing you to drill the screw out if you open it yourself.
The point is that if the DOJ, or any group says "Comcast is not permitted to block Netflix" it implies that Comcast can block things. That is very important.
must sell NBC shows via iTunes and other similar services
Suddenly NBC stops producing original shows and just licenses shows from other sources. As a bonus, maybe Comcast will use the extra timeslots to try to undersell Netflix by showing the 20th-30th most popular/recent movies on NBC over the air for free? Kill the competition by bleeding all over them? If people regularly get free slightly older movies over the air, why bother with netflix?
What a contrast to the way Hormel handled the use of the word "spam" to describe unsolicited commercial e-mail. "Spam" is a trademark of theirs. They could have gone apeshit and launched a ton of lawsuits over it if they really wanted. Instead they decided to allow this use. They were good sports about it.
Didn't they sue spam.org? Aren't they constantly suing spam blocking software? Whoosh?
There are good reasons for a single-button mouse. The first is that non-technical users simply don't understand the concept of right or left clicking, and adding buttons that can be clicked just confuses.
BS. I taught a "beginning computer" course in college and had 18-70 age ranges. The only people that had problems were the people that were unwilling to play. Once I convinced those people that nothing they did in the lab could hurt the computers unless they physically damaged them, they were willing to play too. The "should I click X or Y?" questions end quickly when people learn by just clicking willy nilly.
light bulbs are better now that people stood together to make them more efficient and longer lasting. Anyone bitching about their right to buy an incandescent bulb is a fucking moron.
Not all of us live in Florida where it's warm year-round. "inefficient" light bulbs don't waste electricity if heat is desired. Using lightbulbs for heating outdoor animal housing / boat houses / whatever just enough to stave off freezing is a common practice. Plus think of the easy bake ovens!
In the end it boils down to if you want to find out if the theory is correct by waiting to see it happen, or if you dislike the future the theory predicts so much that you want to act now in the hope that if the theory is correct, the worst case scenarios can be avoided.
Substitute hell for global warming and you have pascal's wager.
And after all these ways of determining if someone is carrying a pen knife, there is still nothing preventing someone from using a baby as a weapon. Not to smuggle a weapon. The baby is the weapon itself. You've got sonic attacks, biological attacks, those sharp baby fingernails... Heck, if the hijacker didn't care about the baby, he could use it as a blunt object. Good thing security folk are thinking up new ways to irradiate our gonads, because that means less babies to threaten air travel.
even hardware controller hacks like 10 trigger inputs on one pull are easy to recognize and detect with well implemented server side checks
How can it tell the difference between a hardware hack and me mashing the button fast? I used to mash the mouse button for BF2's MEC sniper rifle if I had an enemy get really close in my sites (climb up the ladder in front of me). It sounded like a full-auto rifle, and was always an instant kill. But no hardware or software hacks, just pure caffeine jitters (I had to lift my hand from the mouse slightly and shake my entire hand).
Something like 30,000 people have worked on Linux, on and off in groups of a dozen main contributors for the last 20 years [...] how can I sell it if I can't sell it? It can't be sold because it's so insanely easy to duplicate
You can sell it. You can make a lot of money selling it, even when it's being given out for free (gratis) at the same time. RHEL/CentOS. Sure, some people say Redhat sells support, but not from the practical view of it. Very very few sysadmins require Redhat support.
Also, if someone made a toaster that allowed people to instantly create free toast from thin air, ruining wheat farmers, bakers, etc. I'd still applaud the hacker of the insta-toaster for the boon to all peoples of the world, and the world as a whole would be better off. Even the farmers and bakers wouldn't starve, as there would be free toast available.
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when you say the word "App Store", I think that conjures up images of just about any sort of app stores that we have nowadays - Palm's, Blackberry's, Windows Phone's Android's, etc.
I imagine Babbage's.
I can see Apple suing people to stop saying "app" or "app store"
That's personal opinion, of course. I, on the other hand, think that they wouldn't. You do need to realise that the only reason why Apple are doing this is because Microsoft are being such utter douchebags in the first place.
The only reason my husband beats me is because Jane's husband down the street beats her. Apple doesn't need Microsoft to be sue-happy douches. They do that quite well enough on their own, thankyouverymuch.
If a company was selling dangerous weapons to the Dept of Agriculture, they would get investigated for their practices
But if they sell guns to the Department of Fish and Game, an investigation won't find anything.
Wanna go back to my place? ..before you decide, why don't you go use the restroom? I'll be right here when you're ready to make up your mind.
That's what she said. And he paid $200,000 for it.
It's not Darwinism unless he dies before managing to reproduce.
I'd say there's likely a good chance of that now, being (likely) penniless and without a girlfriend...
Brian Griffin combs his hair in front of the mirror, then unexpectedly messes it up.. "Yeah, that's a bed head, yeah. Hey, look at you, you just got out of bed. You're the underachiever every woman wants to sleep with."
I can't mod you up any more than you already are, so allow me to applaud you. I clicked the story intending to post the very same message.
You're paying $1400 dollars for a titanium shell...
Robocop approves.
That screw wasn't stripped! It's Apple's new screwdriver design. They take their ordinary pentabular screws, and apply a drill to eat out the head of one of them, forcing you to drill the screw out if you open it yourself.
The point is that if the DOJ, or any group says "Comcast is not permitted to block Netflix" it implies that Comcast can block things. That is very important.
s/things/anything else/
must sell NBC shows via iTunes and other similar services
Suddenly NBC stops producing original shows and just licenses shows from other sources. As a bonus, maybe Comcast will use the extra timeslots to try to undersell Netflix by showing the 20th-30th most popular/recent movies on NBC over the air for free? Kill the competition by bleeding all over them? If people regularly get free slightly older movies over the air, why bother with netflix?
They should sue over the original movie scene. Elves indeed!
What a contrast to the way Hormel handled the use of the word "spam" to describe unsolicited commercial e-mail. "Spam" is a trademark of theirs. They could have gone apeshit and launched a ton of lawsuits over it if they really wanted. Instead they decided to allow this use. They were good sports about it.
Didn't they sue spam.org? Aren't they constantly suing spam blocking software? Whoosh?
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Ask the High Evolutionary?
There are good reasons for a single-button mouse. The first is that non-technical users simply don't understand the concept of right or left clicking, and adding buttons that can be clicked just confuses.
BS. I taught a "beginning computer" course in college and had 18-70 age ranges. The only people that had problems were the people that were unwilling to play. Once I convinced those people that nothing they did in the lab could hurt the computers unless they physically damaged them, they were willing to play too. The "should I click X or Y?" questions end quickly when people learn by just clicking willy nilly.
Sorry, CPUs are inefficient heaters because some energy is lost in productive computation.
He's just speaking well of the dead.
light bulbs are better now that people stood together to make them more efficient and longer lasting. Anyone bitching about their right to buy an incandescent bulb is a fucking moron.
Not all of us live in Florida where it's warm year-round. "inefficient" light bulbs don't waste electricity if heat is desired. Using lightbulbs for heating outdoor animal housing / boat houses / whatever just enough to stave off freezing is a common practice. Plus think of the easy bake ovens!
The whole point of spreading toxic, dangerous dihydrogen monoxide is to increase the amount in the local environment.
I use the pressure from the dihydrogen monoxide lines to power my water sprinkler, you insensitive clod!
In the end it boils down to if you want to find out if the theory is correct by waiting to see it happen, or if you dislike the future the theory predicts so much that you want to act now in the hope that if the theory is correct, the worst case scenarios can be avoided.
Substitute hell for global warming and you have pascal's wager.
Furthermore, since the potentially fake oodle criminal account is "verified" by Facebook, people will trust it more and be less on their guard.
And after all these ways of determining if someone is carrying a pen knife, there is still nothing preventing someone from using a baby as a weapon. Not to smuggle a weapon. The baby is the weapon itself. You've got sonic attacks, biological attacks, those sharp baby fingernails... Heck, if the hijacker didn't care about the baby, he could use it as a blunt object. Good thing security folk are thinking up new ways to irradiate our gonads, because that means less babies to threaten air travel.
even hardware controller hacks like 10 trigger inputs on one pull are easy to recognize and detect with well implemented server side checks
How can it tell the difference between a hardware hack and me mashing the button fast? I used to mash the mouse button for BF2's MEC sniper rifle if I had an enemy get really close in my sites (climb up the ladder in front of me). It sounded like a full-auto rifle, and was always an instant kill. But no hardware or software hacks, just pure caffeine jitters (I had to lift my hand from the mouse slightly and shake my entire hand).
Something like 30,000 people have worked on Linux, on and off in groups of a dozen main contributors for the last 20 years [...] how can I sell it if I can't sell it? It can't be sold because it's so insanely easy to duplicate
You can sell it. You can make a lot of money selling it, even when it's being given out for free (gratis) at the same time. RHEL/CentOS. Sure, some people say Redhat sells support, but not from the practical view of it. Very very few sysadmins require Redhat support.
Also, if someone made a toaster that allowed people to instantly create free toast from thin air, ruining wheat farmers, bakers, etc. I'd still applaud the hacker of the insta-toaster for the boon to all peoples of the world, and the world as a whole would be better off. Even the farmers and bakers wouldn't starve, as there would be free toast available.