Will they only be and/or "prefer" hiring Native Americans? I'm from Oklahoma where there is a bunch of Indian stuff (I even have an underutilized CDIB card) and one of the crazy things I always came across was that a lot of businesses only seemed to hire native americans. If federal law applies to them, I never could see how this was legal...
Cheap chargers are fine... unless they fail in some way. A lot of the extra cost goes to higher quality components (such as double insulated transformers instead of single), so that failure is much less likely, and if it does fail then it's not going to shock you. Also, cheap knock offs use don't use a full-wave bridge rectifier usually, so your charger will give the device a very noisey DC waveform, which may mess up the charging components or cause device malfunction (such as people complaining with off-brand chargers that the touch screen messes up)
I'm sure Apple make a good margin off their chargers, but you can only reduce the cost so much before you have to reduce quality and safety as well
What's interesting about this story, at least for me, is that iPad sales have tanked. Maybe that suggests that Android on tablets has matured somewhat from the early days of few, clunky tablet apps, and that tablets are commodities now too.
No, it rather means that people are finally understanding that a tablet is a novelty. The only time I hear someone talking about how great their iPad (or other tablet) is when they are talking about how much their (less than 10 year old) kid enjoys it
I expect to get modded down, but what's so bad about not having to keep track of a silver disk to play a game? Steam has that model. It enables a huge amount of awesome things, such as being able to play the game anywhere, and publishers like it. Publishers end up getting more money, so they end up with a much better relationship with the service and can offer ridiculous sales (like Steam) because used sales aren't a "problem".
Am I the only one that very strongly hates that if I buy a new game from Gamestop and sell it back a month later, i'll get $10 back, but they'll gladly sell it to other people for $55. (woo, $5 cheaper). Gamestop provides absolutely no value to the gaming market with their used game money.
The big problem I had with their plan was the phone home being every day (why not every week or two?), the fact that they were going to half-way support some broken used game model, that would've been terrible(they should've just left it out completely). And lacking the ability to permanently play a game offline (like Steam)
In summary, their plan wasn't perfect, parts of it were really horrible, but at least it was advancement from this $60 for a 12 month old game on a piece of spinning aluminum(that if you lose, you might as well have never have bought it) crap we currently have.
... and protecting consumers with better protections against being sued for patent infringement.
How's that new? I thought consumers were exempt from these type of lawsuits. Should I have been reading patents before wasting money on my iPhone?
Do you not remember that case of the people who "invented wifi" in patent form? They went around suing small businesses using wifi. They did an interview where they were asked "have you gone after any home users?" to which they replied "not at this point".
No one is safe from the reach of their filth. It's just that suing home users probably isn't profitable. I would be curious though as to what would happen if you acquired an obvious patent and tried to sue a politician with it
To do nothing is to be nothing.
