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[Winapp2.ini]

Article here: http://www.theverge....msung-sales-ban

[Keatah]

This whole apple lawsuit thing disgusts me.. And I'm sure it will affect my choices when it comes time for new hardware.

[Winapp2.ini]

I will agree, it is getting pretty obnoxious.

[rridgely]

I think its interesting that apple is losing everywhere except the US. Kind of shows how broken the patent system is.

[login123]

rridgely, on 24 September 2012 - 02:45 AM, said:

I think its interesting that apple is losing everywhere except the US. Kind of shows how broken the patent system is.

And the court system.  

[Winapp2.ini]

That's definitely true. Apple is less of a competitor globally than in the US from what I understand, since, if I understand correctly, carriers in Europe etc make you pay full price for the handset, as opposed to the US which subsidizes it, so I gather that it carries less favor in those places.

[Corona]

Winapp2, I couldn't help but notice "Location: Long Island". Babylon? West Islip? Sayville? Oak Beach? If your answer is Jamaica Plains I don't envy you. Actually don't answer specifically. Mid-Suffolk county southern shore, Queens/Nassau county borders northern shore, etc. is specific enough. I grew up on L.I.

[Winapp2.ini]

Rockville Centre

I used to have it listed specifically, I don't even remember changing it, but I must've at some point.

[Nergal]

lol I read that as 30 rock center, I thought maybe you were secretly Brian Williams

[Winapp2.ini]

3'rd Rock Center, I'm actually John Lithgow

[Corona]

Rockville Center, that sounds like west/central Nassau County. I grew up in the towns I mentioned earlier in southern Suffolk County. If I wasn't taking the LIRR to Penn Station then the D train to Flatbush, I was driving the crazy L.I.E. to the even crazier Cross Island Parkway...and from there it's all a blur. (I had a friend in Brooklyn.)
Long Island does have it's good points. Being a bottleneck into Manhattan isn't one of them.

[Super Fast]

I agree. It's getting out of hand. When billionaire phone companies sue each other into the dirt, while the average Joe is still trying to scrape by.

This is ridiculous!!!

[Keatah]

It is "us" users that supply the money for this type of frivolity. But I digress..

[Andavari]

I find it rather interesting how one huge company can sue another so easily, however thinking back to the bricked Sony PS3's caused by a Final Fantasy game where consumers were trying to sue Sony and Square Enix that went absolutely nowhere.

[Winapp2.ini]

On topic: The worst part of these lawsuits is that they're over things like center radii of rounded corners.

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Corona, on 25 September 2012 - 07:32 PM, said:

Rockville Center, that sounds like west/central Nassau County. I grew up in the towns I mentioned earlier in southern Suffolk County. If I wasn't taking the LIRR to Penn Station then the D train to Flatbush, I was driving the crazy L.I.E. to the even crazier Cross Island Parkway...and from there it's all a blur. (I had a friend in Brooklyn.)
Long Island does have it's good points. Being a bottleneck into Manhattan isn't one of them.

Southern Nassau and certainly not, the traffic leaving the island can be is always horrible

[Super Fast]

Andavari, on 25 September 2012 - 08:59 PM, said:

I find it rather interesting how one huge company can sue another so easily, however thinking back to the bricked Sony PS3's caused by a Final Fantasy game where consumers were trying to sue Sony and Square Enix that went absolutely nowhere.

$$$ talks... We the people are governed by big businesses fat $$$ wallets. Now, get back to work & do as I say!!!

Come on man, did u really think the average poor bloke, trying to get by, scraping for anotha dolla has a real chance?

[Andavari]

Super Fast, on 26 September 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

Come on man, did u really think the average poor bloke, trying to get by, scraping for anotha dolla has a real chance?

No I don't, but it's the court systems themselves that are the big fail. And possibly a judge or two getting some pay to favour his decision to the corporations side.