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Maybe Lexmark could say, give us $140 per month and we will ship you a new cartridge every month with a return label. For every cartridge you ship back, you get a $20 credit on your monthly bill. Then adjust the amount of ink or timing unti
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Where did they land on the foreign territory scenario? I only saw that the lower courts thought foreign territories did not cause patent rights to expire.
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If Apple purchased Qualcomm chips and then resold them as part of the iPhone, then it might affect those suits, but this is not the case. Apple licenses proprietary Qualcomm technology from Qualcomm. Apple uses the technology, but builds it
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9y ago
Same model as before where you are contractually required to return it, except you get a rebate after the cartridge is returned within a certain timeframe.
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9y ago
So a company signs a contract for cheaper ink that requires them to return the cartridges to Lexmark and only Lexmark. Then companies willfully break the contract and send their cartridges to a 3rd party. Lexmark sues the third party and co
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9y ago
The conclusion of "old things must be preserved" leads to a sticky wicket as you call it. Maybe it is the wrong conclusion. What if we started instead with a question: "What is the best use for this land" and then work o
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Even better. The EU should purchase that entire property and pay the market price for wooded land, pay annual property taxes to Poland and hire Polish workers to maintain and preserve the land for as long as they value preservation over the
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9y ago
I am really under-utilizing my echo dot. I just have it turn lamp lights off and on every couple weeks as a gimmick.
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Email and phone spam also works everywhere. It's time someone did something about it with a whole new system. Calls that are not pre-whitelisted should be blocked and logged. Then at the end of the day, you should get an email summariz
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If they are going to enable calling, I sincerely hope they learn from the current phone spam and email spam mess and don't let just anyone call you at any time. Ideally, you could authorize people to call you by giving each person/
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10y ago
If it's mandatory, then it's not a bonus. It's just salary.
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10y ago
A bonus that is designed to reward individual performance/behavior is the ideal place to cut when individual performance/behavior suffers.
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Because there is probably no system in place to get that photo in the hands of anyone relevant to the case. Think of the DMV like mcdonalds. The staff there is trained on how to perform a specific set of tasks and the task she needs complet
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The marginal benefit of money decreases the more money you earn. Each extra dollar earned is less valuable to you than the previous dollar earned. Eventually the costs of earning that dollar in time, stress, etc. overpower the benefits of t
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"The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" by Marc Levinson This book is an amazing breakdown of the shipping container and the impact that seemingly insignificant details can have on
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10y ago
I literally just decided to jump into the world of password managers this past weekend. I went with LastPass
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All the patents from 30+ years ago have surely expired. What's to stop someone from creating a kickstarter to recreate all the CAD files/designs for these older machines and open source them. The control system could even be modul
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Risk aggregated among a large pool is lower than the sum of all the individual risks. Systemically, it makes sense to pool risk.
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If clear ownership existed beforehand, then the conflict would never have occurred. Now that clear ownership will be established, all future conflict can be avoided or quickly solved. Ownership, regardless of who owns it provides a path to
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I thought it was a nod to the windows command for pivoting to another application. Alt + Tab => Altaba
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I'm curious about what your network connects to in order to access the broader internet. Do you call up an existing ISP, like Verizon and say you want to set up a peering arrangement, or do you have to purchase a business account with
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Congratulations! This made my day.
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Motivation: I had better solve this issue myself or I will need an external motivator which will inconvenience me in some way.
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10y ago
Rather than calling it "something you know", it should be called "something you can forget if needed."
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10y ago
Can you imagine a raspberry pi for every student where you just buy a new microSD card for each class and all notes/assignments are stored in the cloud or a gitlab type site for higher-education? That way it's a snap to set up wit
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If it is my responsibility to pay for something, then just say so. Happy to fix my own messes. But don't tell me it's fixed 12 times over the course of a year and then complain when I demand it be fixed for real. Even though the p
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The moment you disagree with someone's free speech is precisely the moment when that freedom needs to be defended the most. You can disagree with the contents of the speech, but not with the freedom to express ones self. Shame on Marco
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While you can add some interactivity without JavaScript, it doesn't necessarily mean you should do this. If you ask yourself, what is the purpose of CSS vs JavaScript, you will see that this type of functionality probably falls outside
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A cloud of circumstellar material could be the explanation but no simple cloud model can explain the strange transit ingress and duration that has been observed.
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10y ago
Occam's razor: If you see mysterious dimming in a star, it's definitely aliens.
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