Comment Donation to earnings ratio (Score 2) 397
How does Apple's donation to earnings ratio compare to that of, say, The Walt Disney Company or ExxonMobil?
Strangely, design patents are not standard-essential
If someone had a design patent on brake on the left and accelerator on the right, would that be standard-essential? Or what about a design patent on red light means stop, green light means go?
Speeding does not count as civil disobedience
Does running a red light when the vehicle sensor under the road is defective count as civil disobedience?
With videos it's even harder, my new phone only records in *.3gp files
Wikipedia says 3GP, 3G2, and MP4 are essentially the same thing as MOV (the ISO base media file format), and video can be ASP or AVC. Did you try just renaming it to
Or you could use the time constructively.
That's what I currently do. But my Dell Inspiron mini 1012 laptop will eventually break. With affordable 10" laptops having reached end of manufacturing at the end of last year, doing constructive work on a device that fits on a crowded bus has become far more expensive.
He certainly is using someone else's creation
Where does standing on shoulders of giants (as Bernard of Chartres put it) end and misappropriation begin? Where should it?
users should be able to legitimately watch content from anywhere in the world at any time
Does "anywhere" include on a city bus? What I'd like to be officially able to do is queue up some 1- to 10-minute videos to watch, download them (possibly using encryption) while connected to the Internet, disconnect, and watch them. Even if offline viewing were restricted to 360p, that'd still be better than having to pay hundreds of USD per year for cellular Internet for my Nexus 7 tablet.
You realise the Internet is not a broadcast medium, right?
Whose fault is it that IP multicast over the public Internet remains unimplemented?
[People who bought a GNU/Linux netbook tended to be unsatisfied] because they didn't know how to use Linux. They'd buy the machine, get it home, unbox it, boot up, then suddenly ask 'What the hell is this crap?' and 'Why can't I install my software?'.
Unfamiliarity with the GUI didn't stop people from taking to the iPad. The reason has to be more subtle.
Sorry, but if it's not directly built in as a user accessable option, then who cares if the hooks are there.
There is a user-accessible option to open Internet Explorer, type windows 8 classic shell into the Bing search box (which produces this SERP), and click the first result. Or is your complaint that Microsoft provides no means to discover that such a classic shell exists in the first place? If that's true, then the same is true of obscure registry settings that do exist in Windows, and it's true of the existence of web browsers other than IE.
Speaking of IE, Microsoft got in trouble with competition law for including things with Windows. I'm guessing this is why Microsoft declined to ship MSE bundled with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 so as not to be perceived as using its Windows market power to gain antivirus market power.
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