And I didn't actually litigate a case against the person who mugged me, though I did file the complaint and pointed at him in the line-up.
Unlike civil cases, criminal cases always proceed regardless of what the actual victim says.
A complaint is only one piece of proof to start an investigation. I mean, otherwise why would a murder case be investigated at all? Since the victim never files a complaint or a lawsuit.
Granted the side of the type of complaint is most definitely overblown, but Apple is definitely the one's behind the complaint. Why in hell would they even think of lodging a complaint that could lead to a criminal investigation?
But we already know that Jobs was a major dick and I wouldn't be surprised that the best dicks among the dicks are the lawyers.
You mean the "application of doughnuts shaped rubber implements for flying apparati rolling elements"?
Though ski's or rails could be cool for aircraft:-D
No, they don't have to buy anything. They have to pay for the lost sales. I just hope that the German lawsuit falls through for Apple and they actually have to pay a lot. Samsung is no NT-K in volumes and price is comparable to iPad.
I doubt that. The judge prevented Google from redacting the "smoking gun" email where the founder of Android (which Google bought) is quoted saying, that, yes, in fact, Android does infringe on Java, and no amount of obfuscation via tech named after frosty European fishing villages (Dalvik) will get around that.
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Nope. The letter implies that they knew that they needed to negotiate a license.
Stability is awesome, to say the least. But I'm not complaining about stability, it's the usability. It's the UI consistency, which Win7 does not have. There are some productivity features that are interesting. Hell, I even have an atechnical "study group" at home. 7 y/o niece, 30 y/o sister and 60 y/o mother. Windows 7 fails with them, and my sister uses Vista on her laptop.
What are you talking about? Windows 7 is by far the best OS Microsoft has put out and, in my opinion, far easier to use than any other desktop OS (I feel like Apple's OS has stagnated and KDE and GNOME are just poor man's copycats). The swtich from XP to 7 is an easy choice for any company since it is more secure, more stable, and more user-friendly.
I will not use my mod points just because I disagree with you. But here's my response:
Windows 7 has been nothing like usable. Usability seriously dropped compared to XP. I mean there are so many small quirks that are damn annoying and not intuitive. I still am baffled by the overwrite dialogue every time it appears. It's the worst usability offender by far, because it uses two UX elements at the same time. Even if Gnome and KDE are "poor man's copycats"(which they no longer are), they are much more consistent. In short, I am able to operate KDE/Gnome while I'm drunk and can't understand how to do most tasks in Win7.
Considering that the greatest men in history are almost exclusively bad or very bad - Alexander the Great,... , Caesar, Nero, Trajan, Charlemagne,... , Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, founders of US(not really perfect, were they?), Ghandi(he was a massive racist) and so on...
Noteable excptions include people like Salk and Fleming .
Finland will not enact ACTA, that is guaranteed. You can't get over the fact that access to the Internet is a human right there. Unfortunately, there is this puppet with a baby called Sarcozy, that tramps on French definition of human right via HADOPI. And there are still some sane people in the governments and EP. And since London's riots and other riots across Europe, they should remember that people still have a lot more power than those BoD controlled corporations*.
Do you know why Soviet Union was called "soviet"? Do you know what the word "soviet" means? Do you know how Board of Directors is translated into Russian? I set it up, you do the checks;)
Equivalent experience means 4 years of commercial and provable experience. Now how are you going to get commercial experience if everyone has the same old "degree or equivalent experience"? Given that you are not a genius or something similar.
I don't have a degree myself, but I was lucky enough to be practising software development since I was 13 and I got scooped up by IBM in my third year of 4 year university. Obviously, now 5 years later, no one cares about my diploma. But had it been another field, where initial investment was more than a computer, I would have not fared so well.
Doesn't the constitution say that no one shall be convicted of a crime, other than in a court of law?
Killing someone without legal proceedings isn't constitutional either. A person is a person and is not the same as a citizen.
The economic reality dictates that you have Meego/Maemo/Tizen or Android as options at the moment. Qt or Android UI framework go well with touch, but Android might have a bigger community oriented at touch input devices.
Yet when I come into an electronics store, I take a glance ant the tablets stall I can distinguish only the 7" from the 10-ish inch tablets. And yes, that includes iPad1, iPad2, Sony S1, XOOM, ASUS Transformer, Iconia and other tablets.
Other manufacturers such as HTC, Motorola, Sony, have had bits and pieces of their products inspired by Apple (and Apple by them, such as the new notification center in iOS clearly taking from Android). But the whole product produced by these companies is still unique with its own stylings.
About Moto... Remember German lawsuit against Galaxy Tab 10.1? There is a lawsuit on the same grounds against the XOOM. So, please.... Apple's actions speak more than your statements. Apple clearly believes that they own the right to produce tablet design mobile computers. That makes them assholes of the highest degree.
Here's an analogy that even a closed-minded geek can understand. You have a Wii, XBox 360, and a PS3. Which one of them looks like the other? They all have an optical drive and a bunch of A/V output ports. Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
Quite a flawed analogy. The part that is very similar is the input part. I could mistake a Nintendo controller with XBox controller quite easily. And if you flip over the tablet, there is no way in hell will you not be able to mistake Galaxy Tab from iPad. From the front? Yes. That is the input area. And given that touch is the method of input, the input area will be very similar.* Whereas Wii, PS3 and XBox input methods are different - Nunchuck, Move and Kinect. While the controllers are very similar between the devices.
But I have to repeat myself - I hope Samsung gets slapped for their TouchWiz UI and smartphone designs. Galaxy Tab? iPad is does not have enough ornamental design to warrant protection, except for the home button.
* - And if you start with "But Apple isn't suing other tablet manufacturers..." I will remind that Apple has sued Moto over XOOM(of all tablets...) in Germany for the same CD as Galaxy Tab.
Seriously. Look at how the other tablets differ visibly from an iPad other than the Galaxy Tab. Just add a trim piece or something and the lawsuit would be meaningless. Maybe a stripe around the screen?
And that visibly different look got XOOM in Apple's legal radars in Germany... Sorry, but I don't buy it.
LOL! What's the point in denying anything to a loonie? Best defence is ignoring them, maybe they'll forget about the issue and move on to another shiny conspiracy theory.... remember tin foil hats?
I hate to say it, but this time I have to agree with Florian Mueller... This decision, on it's own, is a win for the industry. Simply because it reaffirms the fact that you can't use FRAND'ed patents for an injunction.
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And I didn't actually litigate a case against the person who mugged me, though I did file the complaint and pointed at him in the line-up.
Unlike civil cases, criminal cases always proceed regardless of what the actual victim says.
A complaint is only one piece of proof to start an investigation. I mean, otherwise why would a murder case be investigated at all? Since the victim never files a complaint or a lawsuit.
Granted the side of the type of complaint is most definitely overblown, but Apple is definitely the one's behind the complaint. Why in hell would they even think of lodging a complaint that could lead to a criminal investigation?
But we already know that Jobs was a major dick and I wouldn't be surprised that the best dicks among the dicks are the lawyers.
You mean the "application of doughnuts shaped rubber implements for flying apparati rolling elements"? :-D
Though ski's or rails could be cool for aircraft
No, they don't have to buy anything. They have to pay for the lost sales. I just hope that the German lawsuit falls through for Apple and they actually have to pay a lot. Samsung is no NT-K in volumes and price is comparable to iPad.
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I doubt that. The judge prevented Google from redacting the "smoking gun" email where the founder of Android (which Google bought) is quoted saying, that, yes, in fact, Android does infringe on Java, and no amount of obfuscation via tech named after frosty European fishing villages (Dalvik) will get around that.
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Nope. The letter implies that they knew that they needed to negotiate a license.
Their devices have become very attractive all of a sudden.
Stability is awesome, to say the least. But I'm not complaining about stability, it's the usability. It's the UI consistency, which Win7 does not have. There are some productivity features that are interesting. Hell, I even have an atechnical "study group" at home. 7 y/o niece, 30 y/o sister and 60 y/o mother. Windows 7 fails with them, and my sister uses Vista on her laptop.
News flash: this isnt just a US problam.
I "problam-e" the education system.
My problem is that they are effectively exporting that broken system.
What are you talking about? Windows 7 is by far the best OS Microsoft has put out and, in my opinion, far easier to use than any other desktop OS (I feel like Apple's OS has stagnated and KDE and GNOME are just poor man's copycats). The swtich from XP to 7 is an easy choice for any company since it is more secure, more stable, and more user-friendly.
I will not use my mod points just because I disagree with you. But here's my response:
Windows 7 has been nothing like usable. Usability seriously dropped compared to XP. I mean there are so many small quirks that are damn annoying and not intuitive. I still am baffled by the overwrite dialogue every time it appears. It's the worst usability offender by far, because it uses two UX elements at the same time. Even if Gnome and KDE are "poor man's copycats"(which they no longer are), they are much more consistent. In short, I am able to operate KDE/Gnome while I'm drunk and can't understand how to do most tasks in Win7.
Considering that the greatest men in history are almost exclusively bad or very bad - Alexander the Great, ... , Caesar, Nero, Trajan, Charlemagne, ... , Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, founders of US(not really perfect, were they?), Ghandi(he was a massive racist) and so on...
Noteable excptions include people like Salk and Fleming .
So what you are saying is that Apple bought a company that invented multitouch, that was invented by Bill Buxton? Reinventing the wheel, indeed....
Finland will not enact ACTA, that is guaranteed. You can't get over the fact that access to the Internet is a human right there. Unfortunately, there is this puppet with a baby called Sarcozy, that tramps on French definition of human right via HADOPI. And there are still some sane people in the governments and EP. And since London's riots and other riots across Europe, they should remember that people still have a lot more power than those BoD controlled corporations*.
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Do you know why Soviet Union was called "soviet"? Do you know what the word "soviet" means? Do you know how Board of Directors is translated into Russian? I set it up, you do the checks
Equivalent experience means 4 years of commercial and provable experience. Now how are you going to get commercial experience if everyone has the same old "degree or equivalent experience"? Given that you are not a genius or something similar.
I don't have a degree myself, but I was lucky enough to be practising software development since I was 13 and I got scooped up by IBM in my third year of 4 year university. Obviously, now 5 years later, no one cares about my diploma. But had it been another field, where initial investment was more than a computer, I would have not fared so well.
Doesn't the constitution say that no one shall be convicted of a crime, other than in a court of law?
Killing someone without legal proceedings isn't constitutional either. A person is a person and is not the same as a citizen.
The economic reality dictates that you have Meego/Maemo/Tizen or Android as options at the moment. Qt or Android UI framework go well with touch, but Android might have a bigger community oriented at touch input devices.
Other manufacturers such as HTC, Motorola, Sony, have had bits and pieces of their products inspired by Apple (and Apple by them, such as the new notification center in iOS clearly taking from Android). But the whole product produced by these companies is still unique with its own stylings.
About Moto... Remember German lawsuit against Galaxy Tab 10.1? There is a lawsuit on the same grounds against the XOOM. So, please.... Apple's actions speak more than your statements. Apple clearly believes that they own the right to produce tablet design mobile computers. That makes them assholes of the highest degree.
Yep, you have to ignore CrunchPad that looked very much like a flat slab with a single flat front surface.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/ - Ooops... That's 6 months before iPad...
Here's an analogy that even a closed-minded geek can understand. You have a Wii, XBox 360, and a PS3. Which one of them looks like the other? They all have an optical drive and a bunch of A/V output ports. Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
Quite a flawed analogy. The part that is very similar is the input part. I could mistake a Nintendo controller with XBox controller quite easily. And if you flip over the tablet, there is no way in hell will you not be able to mistake Galaxy Tab from iPad. From the front? Yes. That is the input area. And given that touch is the method of input, the input area will be very similar.* Whereas Wii, PS3 and XBox input methods are different - Nunchuck, Move and Kinect. While the controllers are very similar between the devices.
But I have to repeat myself - I hope Samsung gets slapped for their TouchWiz UI and smartphone designs. Galaxy Tab? iPad is does not have enough ornamental design to warrant protection, except for the home button.
* - And if you start with "But Apple isn't suing other tablet manufacturers..." I will remind that Apple has sued Moto over XOOM(of all tablets...) in Germany for the same CD as Galaxy Tab.
And no other company has made goofy screen caps? Apple is no exception.
Seriously. Look at how the other tablets differ visibly from an iPad other than the Galaxy Tab. Just add a trim piece or something and the lawsuit would be meaningless. Maybe a stripe around the screen?
And that visibly different look got XOOM in Apple's legal radars in Germany... Sorry, but I don't buy it.
LOL! What's the point in denying anything to a loonie? Best defence is ignoring them, maybe they'll forget about the issue and move on to another shiny conspiracy theory.... remember tin foil hats?
Him being a paid troll doesn't make the point false. I believe Florian has his own Slashdot account...
I hate to say it, but this time I have to agree with Florian Mueller... This decision, on it's own, is a win for the industry. Simply because it reaffirms the fact that you can't use FRAND'ed patents for an injunction.