I don't think you're familiar with European budget airlines. You can choose your seat when booking if you're willing to pay extra. Maybe a dozen people per flight have reserved seats, and the rest work on the basis of first come, first served.
Sure, but they will always check if there's an extra passenger on board, because else they may run out of fuel.
Well, your excessive use of CAPITAL LETTERS certainly convinced me.
exactly, usb is without flaws.
He said the model used in all EU airports to check the validity of tickets was "malfunctioning" noting they lacked "direct access to the airliner database", but wouldn't be drawn on whether he tested his research by boarding a flight.
Go sit in the bathroom until after they count?
But don't close the door, else they count the occupied booth.
If only some fans had done their own B5 VFX...on no budget...a decade ago...
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Somebody give Energia Productions a call.
So you present us something that would look blurry on VHS and think it proves they could do HD?
One can idiot-proof anything, until along comes a bigger idiot. Cars have had keys that can be inserted either-side-up and I've still seen broken and jammed car door locks and ignition cylinders.
Absolutely, GM shouldn't be forced to recall their ignition switches, idiots would have found a way to die anyway.
But why? What's wrong with charging devices this way?
Apple started it with the iPod.
Maybe because he wasn't yet born?
Then maybe he should keep his mouth shut when grown-ups are talking.
IOW because you are an idiot and hate Apple.
Yes, because Apple encompasses the entirety of the problems in the USPTO.
As opposed to Samsung, who has much more patents.
When apple wins a patent for "bayonet attachment mechanisms", why would you assume it would be used for camera lenses?
Uh, more to the point, when Apple wins a patent, why would you assume it was ever something we asked for or needed in a cell phone?
So you complain that Apple does something so nobody but them can put something you would never want on any phone you would ever want? Why?
So, you get all these features in a phone you never asked for,
So don't fucking buy one, you moron.
It's something that has existed for years and that is extremely obvious, yet somehow they were granted a patent on it because "on a smartphone".
Funny how the patent doesn't mention "phone" anywhere - nor "computer" or "internet" for that matter. But hey, you claim shit like that all the time, so what else is new. Frankly, I blame you - Apple gets all these patents because you are so dumb.
When apple wins a patent for "bayonet attachment mechanisms", why would you assume it would be used for camera lenses?
Uh, more to the point, when Apple wins a patent, why would you assume it was ever something we asked for or needed in a cell phone?
So you complain that Apple does something so nobody but them can put something you would never want on any phone you would ever want? Why?
For the very reason we're having this conversation. Or more to the point, so we can avoid having this conversation in the future.
Marketing useless features and wasting millions on pointless patents (round corners anyone?) does nothing but clog up the entire system, and shines a questionable light on any patent and the system that protects it, no matter how valid or worthwhile.
IOW because you are an idiot and hate Apple.
More like the Nikon F...wait...no, looks like it goes on clockwise...like a Canon and every *other* bayonet mount in the history of photography, then.
Seriously, except for the scale, how is this novel and non-obvious?
It's wasn't novel and non-obvious when it was first used for cameras, which is sort of obvious from the "bayonet" part of bayonet mount.
Sadly, with the current patent office, April fools jokes are indistinguishable from reality.
Why didn't you complain at the first patent for a photographic bayonet mount, let alone for all the others? Because they weren't granted to Apple?
BTW, these "bayonet" mounts were used long before bayonets, so cease and desist calling them that.
And there, right in the summary we have:
At the moment, there is no adjustable camera lens system in existence for smartphones, although there are lots of third party macro lens products that consumers can buy to clip onto their smartphone."
The need have been shown by third party, the next natural step is to integrate it. There is no reason for this patent to be granted. Hopefully it is a joke but sadly enough it as obvious as it should be.
Okay, from all the silly things said in this discussion, this sure is in the top three - "because there are third party products, doing it different than any of them is totally obvious."
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