Samsung's penalties have been pathetically small, so there's no real cost to them when it comes to violating and/or ignoring other people's IP.
Samsung's position is entirely rational, but less than ethical.
Jesus christ, shit is free and you're like "oh, my fucking technical skill suck so much that I need content spoon fed into my retinas."
Haven't you heard the good news about Wine? Install it on your lame linux box and run the iTunes installer. You can ask the interwebs how to do it.
Just want to point out that iTunes U has amazing and free content available to anyone with iTunes. It's unbelievable how easy it is to learn almost anything you want. If you're not taking advantage of it you must be suffering from (in the words of an old colleague) recto-cranial inversion.
Maybe the good Senator thinks Hungary is somewhere in Kansas and that Finland is somewhere near Alaska. He is from Alabama, so it's hard to say. As Tom Lehrer once sang about another southerner, "He's from Georgia, and doesn't speak the language very well."
There's no real relationship to Microsoft's Nokia layoffs and H-1B visas, except for those people in Seattle maybe. But the Seattle folks a be marketing people or managers, and you don't usually get H1-B visas for marketeers and managers.
He didn't really get a treasure trove. He got some stuff that was sort of interesting, and maybe unfortunate.
It's not like he got every transaction of everyone who's used the system, their names, addresses, passwords, credit cards, security questions, etc.
The higgs particle imparts mass the same way that donut holes impart mass, but differently.
It's interesting, but practically speaking is it worth building a large, passive electricity and water generator in a cave system?
Not really.
OTOH, it would generate electricity forever, or at least until dust caked all the plates.
Snapshots are great, but they assume all your data is on the snapshot. It's harder to roll back if your new version goes ahead and corrupts some database or something on the NAS.
It's even harder to roll back if your data stores are on some multi-clustered beast that wasn't designed to be rolled back.
Of course, you should have caught that in test, right?
old smartphones are to today's smartphones as:
A BMW 7 series is to a model-T ford
GPS is to maps
Color TV vs Stereoscopes
I'd put my iPhone 1 up against a psion any day of the week.
These days, whenever someone tries to build something nice people are all "what about the poor?"
Well, what about the poor? Are the poor going on those Moon or Mars missions that
Fuck worrying about the poor. They don't worry about you. Most of the poor would steal all your stuff and pawn it.
Maybe that's the secret to CSNs: ramification. Somehow trick the staffers into coming up and exploring new strategies via online corporate games. Like "see what happens when you fire the marketing department", or "the teamsters have gone on strike: now what?"
That would be hilarious, and might even be useful.
Oceanographers are at a loss to explain the lack of plastic floating in our oceans. "Where the fuck did it go?" asked Omar Roberts, head of oceanography at the Skips Institute. "We've thrown shit-tons of plastic into the ocean. Where is it?"
Omar, though, has a theory. "The Kraken ate it. We're feeding the fucking Kraken. Jeeeesus!"
Taxi medallions are so expensive because medallion owners want them that way. By restricting the medallions, they restrict the competition.
Has this resulted in better service? In NY, ask the people in the outer boroughs if they can get cabs.
I (and they) can do this already with Amazon PriceCheck and the normal Amazon app. Why bother making a whole cellphone just do reinvent the wheel?
It's odd - I'm not sure if a phone would drive more amazon services. What's their motivation? They already see what I buy, when, and in many cases for whom, but they don't really seem to use that information very effectively.
I see some targeted stuff, but not as much as I would expect given my ridiculously long shopping history. A phone would allow them to know more, but they don't seem to be using the data the have...so the extra data would be pointless.
They're not like google, in that their mobile is not a stalking horse for targeted ads. They're not really like Apple, since they don't really make high-end hardware. Launching a cellphone because you're feeling left out isn't really a great business case. Amazon doesn't really need to control the experience, since you can buy anything on amazon on other platforms.
Maybe they got a good deal on bulk minutes and cheap hardware, and want to pass the savings onto the public?
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
