On the one hand, I can see this guy's point of view. He made an agreement with some people and his own moral code won't allow a breach of that agreement. I am the same way.
On the other hand, the clock is ticking on the charge state of those cells... The sooner you can read the data, the better.
And he might not even KNOW that these devices have a limited lifespan...
Honestly, it's hard to predict with Amazon.
On one hand you have Rings of Power and Foundation, but on the other hand, you also have Reacher, The Boys, and The Terminal List.
I am going to be cautiously optimistic.
Rings of Power: Let's make a show about a time period in a beloved franchise but we have rights to maybe 1% of the source material, what could go wrong?
Foundation: Let's make a show about a much beloved franchise and use only about 1% of the source material, what could go wrong?
While I hope I'm wrong, I'm not going to go into this with very high expectations...
and yet I can still get my 1960s vintage Omega worked on and repaired.
You can probably get parts for just about any Benz ever made, EVER too, at least if you are willing to pay.
Apple watch parts - not available at any price quite possibly.
You could probably get parts from a donor watch but Apple is notorious for not allowing components to be interchangeable.
it's a hardware feature that unilaterally overrides and disables my ability to automate the software
That's the entire point of the switch. If you need to silent your phone quickly for a period of time, regardless of the software settings, you just flip the switch. Personally, I use it all the time.
What I REALLY wish phone manufacturers would bring back is the option to silence your phone if you set it face down. Some earlier phones had this and it was a great feature.
On top of trying to patent the tech, Nintendo seeks to patent the loading screen that shows up when the player is fast-traveling across Hyrule. This specifically refers to the screen that shows the map transition from the player's starting point to their destination. Sure, that's pretty specific and not something every game utilizes, but it's still such a general concept that it feels almost petty to patent it when it's hardly an iconic draw of Tears of the Kingdom.
Something similar has been in The Division games for many years already.
https://slashdot.org/story/23/... Same stuff, now behind a paywall. Thanks slashdot, very useful. But at least we keep a good ratio of AI vs anything else stories, right?
Yeah, I was going to ask if it was dumber than it was last month, when Slashdot reported on it...
I have a $1500 phone.
It costs me something like $130 to have Apple replace the battery.
The battery needs to be replaced something like 1 every 3 or 4 years.
This is NOT a fucking problem. I mean, fucking Christ!
I will GLADLY pay that money to have a more compact, more liquid resistant device.
While I'm in complete agreement with you regarding the liquid resistance issue for a device with a removable section, I'd love a replaceable battery not because of when the battery dies, but for the times when I'm using my phone for long periods of time and suddenly notice that my battery is almost dead. I can just swap the battery and continue using my device without having to find a place where I can charge it while I'm still using it...
If that's how it was pitched to the partner, then yeah he got tricked, but also not really. For example, if he'd refused to sell his 15% its entirely possible the CEO would have just spun it up into a new company instead in a case like I described above. On the other hand, if the shareholder's original 15% investment was used to create the IP, and then the CEO lied and said it didn't work out and pretended it was dead then, bought him out on false pretenses then... yeah... that's probably fraud.
It could be that the aggrieved party had some claim to the IP that was used in the AI and spinning off a new company could have opened them up to possibly more litigation. Getting the shareholder to relinquish any claim to the company would be a good way to get hold of any IP that was developed for the initial venture.
If you are the founder of the company and don't have any idea of its value or the market potential, you deserve to get scammed out of your company.
I don't know the full story, my comment is based on what little information I have read...
He may have been one of the founders but he was a minority shareholder and may not have been 'in the loop' regarding R&D that was being done outside the primary scope of what he believed was the companies goals. The courts give minority shareholders a bit more wiggle room regarding major decisions made by the company as a whole. If he was intentionally misled or kept from knowing the potential that other shareholders believed were possible, then he might have a pretty good case.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
