They didn't have to pt it on the home page. That ruling was changed on appeal
"The appeal judges decided not to overturn the decision on the basis that a related Apple design-rights battle in the German courts risked causing confusion in consumers' minds.
"The acknowledgment must come from the horse's mouth," they said. "Nothing short of that will be sure to do the job completely."
However, they added that the move need not "clutter" Apple's homepage as it would only have to add a link entitled "Samsung/Apple judgement" for a one-month period."
182. The extreme simplicity of the Apple design is striking. Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back. There is a crisp edge around the rim and a combination of curves, both at the corners and the sides. The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold. It is an understated, smooth and simple product. It is a cool design.
190. The informed user's overall impression of each of the Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool. The overall impression produced is different.
"The extreme simplicity of the Apple design is striking. Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back. There is a crisp edge around the rim and a combination of curves, both at the corners and the sides. The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold. It is an understated, smooth and simple product. It is a cool design."
"The informed user's overall impression of each of the Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool."
I tend to agree, I see the news as a feeder to documentaries or web searches. It the editorialising on C4 I don't like, but the reporting is top notch.
Similar here. I hardly ever watch TV now apart from documentaries and the BBC news. Popular entertainment seems to consist of shows where a crowd is encouraged to yell and scream at talentless twats or Soap Operas that aim to entertain people with no lives by distracting them with a fictional one.
Great reply, thanks. I've been awake for a long time so it wasn't the best post I could have made.
Your point about not pissing off other OEMs is well made considering the history of MS and it's 'strategic partners'. It was what i was alluding to. Asymco had a great post about this but I can't find it right now.
Yoir reply is Thoughtful, directed and appreciated
Income this quarter is lower than the same quarter last year but overall revenues are up 45% from the same time last year. So that means that its income is less in proportion to how big it is, 19% of revenues last quarter against 37% last year. Google as a business is getting bigger but its profits are dwindling. Bigger but not better
Moto is loosing money (the rate does seem to have slowed) on top of the 12 Bn purchase price
Why in earth Google is releasing the new Nexus phone made by any one else other than Moto doesn't make any sense to me at all, apart from google not wishing to piss off other OEMs who aren't raking it either.
Othe contributing factors I'd imagine are people using apps instead of browsers, so there's less opportunity for google to place ads directly and ad rates aren't as lucrative a they once were.
As for the timing. Today or tomorrow? Wouldn't the stock have taken a dive anyway? Just off the top of my head thoughts
The ReWalk isn't robotic this one from Nasa is robotic. The difference is Rewalk is passive and merely supports the user, while the Nasa version can add resistance to movement to aid exercise and stop muscle atrophy
"another random user" is, if I remember correctly, an actual users name. I've had a couple of stories posted where my user name is up there but is not a link. It sometimes happens like here
It's not going to be a smooth ride. Microsoft will have to keep an eye on software updates to existing products as it attempts to shift it's position
Other than Xbox MS is largely unproven on the devices front. Surface could be a winner like Xbox or it could be a complete disaster like the Kin.
Windows 8 OS will either be a success or annoy users completely. It seems there's little to no middle ground. If you're gonna have to learn a new OS why does it have to windows?.
They're probably gonna piss off some OEMs as well. In the short term if they're lucky, long term if they're not.
Ballmer's track record is not great. Ballmer completely missed the way things were going with mobile and search. Sure, MS now has competitive products and services (some yet to launched (Surface), some not finished (updates to Windows after it was RTM)), but its behind Google on search and mobile. MS never misses and opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Now we're supposed to believe that Ballmer knows devices and services as well? They're at least three years behind Apple and Google. If they had been on the ball they could have predicted trends and even set trends, they could have had huge profits like apple and market share like google. There's only one reason they haven't. Ballmer.
Even the board knows it, this years bonus for him was 9% less than last year. That's three years in the trot he hasn't made his maximum bonus. Some of that is due to the economy, some of it is because he's simply missed opportunities to create or expand markets.
This ten year stuff is a quote the juror gave Bloomberg in an interview
Hogan, in a phone interview yesterday, denied that there was any misconduct, saying the court instructions for potential jurors required disclosure of any litigation they were involved in within the last 10 years -- and that the 1993 bankruptcy and related litigation involving Seagate fell well outside that time range.
I don't understand why they're doing this. There has been a browser choice screen shipped with it and via windows update for ages now. It stinks of profitteering on the part of the EU. You don't hear them suing the crap out of pharmaceutical companies for a monopoly either.
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They didn't have to pt it on the home page. That ruling was changed on appeal
"The appeal judges decided not to overturn the decision on the basis that a related Apple design-rights battle in the German courts risked causing confusion in consumers' minds.
"The acknowledgment must come from the horse's mouth," they said. "Nothing short of that will be sure to do the job completely."
However, they added that the move need not "clutter" Apple's homepage as it would only have to add a link entitled "Samsung/Apple judgement" for a one-month period."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19989750
In what way were the words rearranged?
What the judge said
182.
The extreme simplicity of the Apple design is striking. Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back. There is a crisp edge around the rim and a combination of curves, both at the corners and the sides. The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold. It is an understated, smooth and simple product. It is a cool design.
190.
The informed user's overall impression of each of the Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool. The overall impression produced is different.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/1882.html
What apple said
"The extreme simplicity of the Apple design is striking. Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back. There is a crisp edge around the rim and a combination of curves, both at the corners and the sides. The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold. It is an understated, smooth and simple product. It is a cool design."
"The informed user's overall impression of each of the Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool."
http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/
I tend to agree, I see the news as a feeder to documentaries or web searches. It the editorialising on C4 I don't like, but the reporting is top notch.
Similar here. I hardly ever watch TV now apart from documentaries and the BBC news. Popular entertainment seems to consist of shows where a crowd is encouraged to yell and scream at talentless twats or Soap Operas that aim to entertain people with no lives by distracting them with a fictional one.
Watch, rinse, repeat.
It's on Gutenburg
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h/15491-h.htm [gutenberg.org]
In the UK and we get them. I usually say two words and hang up. One of the Words begins with Fuck, the other one begins with Off.
I'm getting less of them.
Great reply, thanks. I've been awake for a long time so it wasn't the best post I could have made.
Your point about not pissing off other OEMs is well made considering the history of MS and it's 'strategic partners'. It was what i was alluding to. Asymco had a great post about this but I can't find it right now.
Yoir reply is Thoughtful, directed and appreciated
Oh dear
Income this quarter is lower than the same quarter last year but overall revenues are up 45% from the same time last year. So that means that its income is less in proportion to how big it is, 19% of revenues last quarter against 37% last year. Google as a business is getting bigger but its profits are dwindling. Bigger but not better
Moto is loosing money (the rate does seem to have slowed) on top of the 12 Bn purchase price
Why in earth Google is releasing the new Nexus phone made by any one else other than Moto doesn't make any sense to me at all, apart from google not wishing to piss off other OEMs who aren't raking it either.
Othe contributing factors I'd imagine are people using apps instead of browsers, so there's less opportunity for google to place ads directly and ad rates aren't as lucrative a they once were.
As for the timing. Today or tomorrow? Wouldn't the stock have taken a dive anyway? Just off the top of my head thoughts
My god! It actually is a series of tubes!
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/tech/8
That was a ReWalk for Argo
http://www.argomedtec.com/technology.asp
The ReWalk isn't robotic this one from Nasa is robotic. The difference is Rewalk is passive and merely supports the user, while the Nasa version can add resistance to movement to aid exercise and stop muscle atrophy
"another random user" is, if I remember correctly, an actual users name. I've had a couple of stories posted where my user name is up there but is not a link. It sometimes happens like here
http://slashdot.org/submission/2281279/microsoft-calls-for-5b-investment-in-us-education
I think google may have beaten them to it
According to this article, the images are even clearer in google maps
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/9/3477836/taiwan-radar-defense-system-apple-ios-6-maps-complaint
It's not just car parts. It's happening in the aircraft industry and else where. There's also the issue of refurbished parts being sold as new...
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=67ee8eb6-54ae-403c-bcd5-3c76b6f95506
It's not going to be a smooth ride. Microsoft will have to keep an eye on software updates to existing products as it attempts to shift it's position
Other than Xbox MS is largely unproven on the devices front. Surface could be a winner like Xbox or it could be a complete disaster like the Kin.
Windows 8 OS will either be a success or annoy users completely. It seems there's little to no middle ground. If you're gonna have to learn a new OS why does it have to windows?.
They're probably gonna piss off some OEMs as well. In the short term if they're lucky, long term if they're not.
Ballmer's track record is not great. Ballmer completely missed the way things were going with mobile and search. Sure, MS now has competitive products and services (some yet to launched (Surface), some not finished (updates to Windows after it was RTM)), but its behind Google on search and mobile. MS never misses and opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Now we're supposed to believe that Ballmer knows devices and services as well? They're at least three years behind Apple and Google. If they had been on the ball they could have predicted trends and even set trends, they could have had huge profits like apple and market share like google. There's only one reason they haven't. Ballmer.
Even the board knows it, this years bonus for him was 9% less than last year. That's three years in the trot he hasn't made his maximum bonus. Some of that is due to the economy, some of it is because he's simply missed opportunities to create or expand markets.
No, the captain was thawing out and they needed to calm down a bomb who had a god complex
Jumping from that height, he'll be lucky if he doesn't miss the earth
The British Rail (a railway company!) flying saucer has been public knowledge for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer
Of course, it never flew, as far as we know...
I'm sure apple weren't. Why would they?
However, the MS lawyers will be working all weekend to find ways of recovering potentially lost licence fees...
15 years and no mention of Linux?
next year... will be the year
where are you getting this 10 years stuff?
This ten year stuff is a quote the juror gave Bloomberg in an interview
Hogan, in a phone interview yesterday, denied that there was any misconduct, saying the court instructions for potential jurors required disclosure of any litigation they were involved in within the last 10 years -- and that the 1993 bankruptcy and related litigation involving Seagate fell well outside that time range.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-03/samsung-claims-jury-foreman-misconduct-tainted-apple-case.html
It might not be in the transcript, perhaps it was in written instructions - I don't know the procedure
But people on't buy a phone to take high end pictures, just a simple point and shoot to 'capture the moment' (was that someones slogan?)
I wonder if this is common across all iPhone 5 cameras or just a particular batch
Long gone as the Emacs vs. vi holy wars, to be replaced with the Android vs. iOS wars. How long ago the late 90s seem now.
I used to like coming here when apple was nearly dead and you could guarantee a good MS bashing. How times have changed indeed
Here you go
In 2008 MS was fined US$ 1.35 billion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#February_2008_fine
I don't understand why they're doing this. There has been a browser choice screen shipped with it and via windows update for ages now. It stinks of profitteering on the part of the EU. You don't hear them suing the crap out of pharmaceutical companies for a monopoly either.
Here's a little back ground
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case
Sometimes I wish the dash to the bathroom was...