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Once I circumvented a circuit breaker with a piece of magnet wire and then shorted an outlet on the circuit it was protecting with a coat hanger until the wire glowed.
 
It was pretty hardcore.

You only like Steam because of it's largest selling point but you'd rather spend more? Which is it? Those two statements are in contradiction.
 
Of course you must call it GNU/Linux because whiny Stallman didn't get the credit he wanted. Too late. The world doesn't care.
 
So yeah, Microsoft didn't license the DRM. You blame the DRM for that? That's just bullshit. It's clearly a case of Microsoft just trying to be an asshole to get more people on Windows which if I'm not mistaken you're a pretty big fan of, right? Microsoft INVENTED DRM. If you hate DRM you probably shouldn't be using Windows. Hell even Apple is better about DRM than Microsoft and you hate them even more. Such a damn fucking hypocrite.

I hope everyone that said the iPhone was doomed because of no flash and that Jobs was wrong about HTML5 is crying quietly in a corner somewhere.
 
Strange how Apple always manages to stay so far ahead of the curve...

Yes and no.
So far this video has been mostly made up of "rumors", but on the note of the Chinese factory workers: That's not directly Apple, it's Foxconn's deal really, and also that's a typical probablem with a lot of factory jobs in China, so nothing new.

I actually like Apple - hate me, I don't care - and feel that it's mostly justifiable to sell the low end iMacs at a price like that. I can also (almost) agree with the price point of Alienware laptops. But I cannot stand the Alienware desktops, not to mention the people who buy prebuilt computers for gaming anyway...
But hey, just feel lucky that your school didn't buy HP crapboxes with Pentiums and 1 GB of RAM

Actually MacBooks are the best value you can get right now. Unmatched build quality, industry leading battery life...the list goes on.

So really your rant is not about Apple but rather your inability to make money?

Too many think wrongly towards DRM, tho most don't even know that DRM has been part of a lot of software for over a century now. Windows itself even has built in DRM. Tho most look at it like it's a piece of software designed to destroy content. I can agree there are bad practices of implementing DRM into content. Personally the implementation of it into the HTML5 standard I don't foresee being a problem. It's not snooping or partaking in anything malicious, all it basically does is open up vendors to utilize encryption standards to protect their content. Take Netflix for an example, this is a case where DRM is used properly. It's there to help resolve a legitimate problem. As a software developer, I would hate to see something I spent weeks on writing to be leaked to the public as warez. I've written my own class for locking my software to a specific machine using hardware serials, this is also a type of DRM. Lots of people get it confused and the confusion needs to stop. Now I am not saying to accept all DRM, as I have stated before that there are some extremely bad implementations of it. Tho not all DRM is bad.

Not for nothing, but Apple does not fuck around when they want to push something 

Source : http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/apple-beginning-february-2015-app-store-submissions-need-to-be-64-bit/
 
 

 
 
I wish Google was as strict about mandating things like this so the industry can go forward ):  Anyone know if the K1 on the Nexus 9 is 64-bit?  Not too knowledgeable about Tegras

People can be stopped. A gun makes you unstoppable in a normal situation if you have any level of experience using it. It's not the great equalizer. You and the NRA shills need to step back and look at the damage you have done and the lives you have cost with your ideology, zealotry, and egotism. Guns make everything worse. People aren't good, and inventing more killing tools helps no one. If you want to be helpful, go get Armageddon started or pull an archangel out of the skies to fix everything. The elegance and nobility of war was lost the moment ranged weaponry was conceived. It's only an enabling force for cowards and the arrogant. Being able to kill from a distance is what allows psychopaths to go on killing sprees. How many serial killers do ou hear about these days who strangle/knife their victims? It's in the low double digits.

That is a really hypocritical statement about "outlaws" with honor. If there is victimization there is no honor. And no blind eye should be turned to the underbelly of Japan because of any idea that their "honor" trumps any aggression they act out.
 
I must note there is a difference between an outlaw that does illegal things and an outlaw that preys on people. A smuggler is not victimizing anyone, a "protection" peddler is.

Yeah their tablet sales are faltering because people are buying large phones instead.
 
I'd like to see these examples of all the smartphones with multitouch screens before the iPhone. Capacitive multitouch, that is.
 
Nobody denies the existence of touchscreen devices prior. But they were all single touch and I believe all resistive as well, not capacitive.
 
I'm also not saying they're the only driver for innovation. Their devices would not exist if not for the hundreds of components within them.
 
Apple is very good at getting together high quality components and integrating them nicely with software so anyone can use their products. They depend on other manufacturers for the ability to do this, because everyone does.
 
What Apple is good at doing is seeing where the market will go before it goes there. Keep in mind the whole wearable revolution (at least the watches) was started because of the original iWatch rumors three years ago. Three years. Let that sink in. They worked on a product for three years with the entire industry fearing them and building up an arsenal of devices to compete with it ranging from awful to decent to good enough. And yet when the Apple Watch comes out it will still be far more popular, both you and I know this, regardless of whether or not you think it's a good thing.
 
If they didn't invent the touchscreen centric smartphone, they definitely perfected it with the iPhone and brought it to the masses. They took the smartphone from a geeky tool used by the technological and business elite and turned it into an accessible toy for everyone to play with. But almost eight years later, it's not just a great toy, it's an immensely powerful computing platform.
 
The computing platform the iPhone created simply did not exist before. I still have my doubts about whether or not it exists on Android, because browser share skews heavily towards iOS, as do app downloads and purchases. There's an entire culture around apps in popular entertainment that was completely nonexistent before. Most casual users never downloaded programs on their computers, either for fear of viruses or lack of knowledge with how to install them. The iPhone changed that. All of a sudden people were exposed to hundreds of thousands of applications, a good portion of which free, that were just begging for you to click download. There was no fear of infection, they were easy to manage, you could see them all in one place, delete them intuitively, and choose precisely which ones you wanted.
 
That's what I credit Apple with. Not inventing the touchscreen, not inventing the smart phone, not inventing the app store. Bringing all of those concepts together into a powerful computing platform that disguises itself incredibly well as plain old fun. If I were sentimental I would say they brought portable computing to the masses, but that's a tough assertion to back intuitively.

Yeah their tablet sales are faltering because people are buying large phones instead.
 
I'd like to see these examples of all the smartphones with multitouch screens before the iPhone. Capacitive multitouch, that is.
 
Nobody denies the existence of touchscreen devices prior. But they were all single touch and I believe all resistive as well, not capacitive.
 
I'm also not saying they're the only driver for innovation. Their devices would not exist if not for the hundreds of components within them.
 
Apple is very good at getting together high quality components and integrating them nicely with software so anyone can use their products. They depend on other manufacturers for the ability to do this, because everyone does.
 
What Apple is good at doing is seeing where the market will go before it goes there. Keep in mind the whole wearable revolution (at least the watches) was started because of the original iWatch rumors three years ago. Three years. Let that sink in. They worked on a product for three years with the entire industry fearing them and building up an arsenal of devices to compete with it ranging from awful to decent to good enough. And yet when the Apple Watch comes out it will still be far more popular, both you and I know this, regardless of whether or not you think it's a good thing.
 
If they didn't invent the touchscreen centric smartphone, they definitely perfected it with the iPhone and brought it to the masses. They took the smartphone from a geeky tool used by the technological and business elite and turned it into an accessible toy for everyone to play with. But almost eight years later, it's not just a great toy, it's an immensely powerful computing platform.
 
The computing platform the iPhone created simply did not exist before. I still have my doubts about whether or not it exists on Android, because browser share skews heavily towards iOS, as do app downloads and purchases. There's an entire culture around apps in popular entertainment that was completely nonexistent before. Most casual users never downloaded programs on their computers, either for fear of viruses or lack of knowledge with how to install them. The iPhone changed that. All of a sudden people were exposed to hundreds of thousands of applications, a good portion of which free, that were just begging for you to click download. There was no fear of infection, they were easy to manage, you could see them all in one place, delete them intuitively, and choose precisely which ones you wanted.
 
That's what I credit Apple with. Not inventing the touchscreen, not inventing the smart phone, not inventing the app store. Bringing all of those concepts together into a powerful computing platform that disguises itself incredibly well as plain old fun. If I were sentimental I would say they brought portable computing to the masses, but that's a tough assertion to back intuitively.

well done,  I work in special education, My job is to ensure those without access to education gets it.  You on the other hand, what's your excuse for such a low ability to comprehend basic English?   Everyone is telling you you are wrong but you refuse to accept it to the point of insulting disabled people.

For fucks sake, you're dense.
 
You'd rather have them not enforce patents at all. Just say it. Please. That's what your argument boils down to. Despite multiple attempts from numerous community members you still don't understand what makes a patent troll a patent troll and not just exceptionally litigious. Appealing to authority won't help you here. You've shown your inability to comprehend what a non practicing entity is and instead dodge the question by suggesting that you're right because other people agree with you.
 
It's not a business model. It's trolling. Hence the phrase patent trolling. Corporations have been litigating patents since long before you were born and they will continue to do so until after you die. 
 
If you'd like to call it a business model, because hey, we're all being idiots here, bringing it to practicing entities would mean they would stop selling products. That's the whole reason a patent troll is a troll and not just a concerned party, because they don't actually use the patents they litigate. That's the difference here. You here patent litigation and you think TROLL, but you're so completely wrong it's laughable.
 
But you know all of this. You're just using it to further your anti-patent agenda.

For fucks sake, you're dense.
 
You'd rather have them not enforce patents at all. Just say it. Please. That's what your argument boils down to. Despite multiple attempts from numerous community members you still don't understand what makes a patent troll a patent troll and not just exceptionally litigious. Appealing to authority won't help you here. You've shown your inability to comprehend what a non practicing entity is and instead dodge the question by suggesting that you're right because other people agree with you.
 
It's not a business model. It's trolling. Hence the phrase patent trolling. Corporations have been litigating patents since long before you were born and they will continue to do so until after you die. 
 
If you'd like to call it a business model, because hey, we're all being idiots here, bringing it to practicing entities would mean they would stop selling products. That's the whole reason a patent troll is a troll and not just a concerned party, because they don't actually use the patents they litigate. That's the difference here. You here patent litigation and you think TROLL, but you're so completely wrong it's laughable.
 
But you know all of this. You're just using it to further your anti-patent agenda.

Resorting to such insults and derogatory discourse is surely the last resort of a failed argument. I can handle being told I am ignorant, I can handle being accused of being a liar (because I know the score), I can handle being called arrogant or have it insinuated that I don't properly understand the subject matter, I even accuse others of the same things,  but the second you accuse me of having a mental disability you insult every single person who struggles with mental illness, you trivialize their condition and belittle them to an throwaway insult when you can't handle yourself.  Using such rhetoric is beyond a doubt the actual disability here, as it clearly shows an inability to articulate yourself without resorting to cheap degradation of an entire demographic. 

I take it back, I did not know that.

He does understand, he's just ignoring the facts because he doesn't like patents.

That thing is fugly. Jesus.
 
If you're going to make a smart watch it has to look good without borrowing the reasons why mechanical watches look good. You have to let the watch be a watch. Don't carry over unnecessary design baggage that only weights down your product. Imitating mechanical watches is a physical manifestation of skeuomorphism. That's what's wrong with the Moto 360.

I doubt this will affect 10% of the people here but yet the reactions are hilarious. If it was Google doing it there would be praise and comments about how they are so great. See apples name attached to it and all of sudden it's the most outrageous crime against mankind.
You guys aren't Jason Bourne. You don't need to swap SIM cards on the fly to avoid being traced. This will have absolutely little impact on anyone so might be time to reevaluate your life.

What do you mean non perpendicular lines, the ones in the diagram i made in ms paint?
 
For the time being I'm just trying to make each part of my website on my own. Such as no outside libraries

Yes, yes you were. That's the one true thing you've said this entire thread.
 
Patent trolls do not make products. Samsung, Apple, Nvidia, and all of the companies involved in this do. Patent trolls exist specifically to make money off of patent litigation.
 
Litigating patents is not trolling. Only recently has the "patents are black magic" bullshit arisen. There's a difference between protecting your inventions and basing your business model off of exploiting the system that allows inventions to be protected. And let me tell you, if Apple, Samsung, and Nvidia were making more money off of patent litigation than they were from their products, they wouldn't be making good products anymore.
 
But they are making vastly more money from their products, so no, they aren't trolls. None of them are.

But that's a huge word. I know what Intellectual Ventures is. You're simply hijacking the term to use in your greater anti-patent war.
 
It's pretty clear what a patent troll is.
 
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