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  1. Re:ARM hard blocks are always laid out by hand... on iPhone 5 A6 SoC Teardown: ARM Cores Appear To Be Laid Out By Hand · · Score: 5, Informative

    When someone buys a design from ARM, they buy one of two things:

    Which is not what Apple did.

    Apple has probably collaborated with ARM to get a hand layout done with apples chosen modifications. I can't see anything new or innovative here.

    No, they designed it themselves since they are an architectural licensee like Qualcomm. You remember how they bought PA Semi?

  2. Re:And made by Samsung on iPhone 5 A6 SoC Teardown: ARM Cores Appear To Be Laid Out By Hand · · Score: 4, Informative

    Display is LG, Flash is Hynix, the RAM is from Elpida and their chip is their own design with Samsung just acting as a fab no different than Global Foundries or TSMC.

  3. Re:Ahh.. idiotic Slashdot Editor "commentary" on iPhone 5 A6 SoC Teardown: ARM Cores Appear To Be Laid Out By Hand · · Score: 1

    Or maybe with their $100 billion in cash and 10s of billions of dollars in revenue that they can easily absorb the costs?

  4. Re:Risk is risky! on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, Kickstarter should do all it can to prevent scammers from ruining their reputation.

  5. Re:How does this affect game developers? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 1

    It doesn't effect them at all. The first sentence of the summary made it pretty clear on what categories this affected.

  6. Re:Is this being a little too protective? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 1

    Kickstarter has introduced some more stringent guidelines and requirements specifically for the Hardware and Product Design categories.

    Geez it's spelled out in the first sentence of the summary. Couldn't even read that far?

  7. Re:Netcraft confirms Kickstarter is dead? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You didn't understand him. 3D renders can be made such that it looks like a picture of a competed product which can be deceiving. No one will confuse a drawing with a picture of a completed product.

  8. Re:Conflicting message? on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 1

    To get money to produce it in quantity beyond the prototype.

  9. Re:Yay!!! on Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking · · Score: 4, Informative

    So then why all the sympathy for Samsung? They have their own history of patent suits long before their current spat with Apple. They have also been part of cartels that have conspired in price fixing on DRAM chips and LCD panels, etc. Samsung is one of the companies least worthy of sympathy right up their with Apple themselves. Samsung has contributed to the patent idiocy and should have no sympathy when it is brought to bear on them.

  10. Re:bad for consumers on Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking · · Score: 1

    You seem to be responding to someone else or didn't actually understand my post.

  11. Re:Fuck it. on Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, there are no mobile phone companies that don't hold patents and use them either as weapons or as barriers to entry for potentially new competitors, This is why it's silly when people take sides in these fights since neither side is some angelic cmoany. Fanboism overrides logic every time.

  12. Re:They've Been Doing This For Years on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 1

    Wow, they pay for your airfare and accomodations? So basically like almost any company will do when you have to travel to see them? What exactly am I supposed to be impressed about?

  13. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 1

    Because you have no evidence showing my drives don't whereas Seagate lying would be fraud? Prove the assertion rather than merely repeating it.

  14. Re:Is this a real problem? on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 1

    They do despite the people parroting his words without being able to back up the statements beyond a fallacious appeal to authority.

  15. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 1

    So it's claimed. Provide evidence by listing the models which do so rather than handwaving supposition.

  16. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 2

    Falllacious appeal to authority. I know who he is yet if it was as common as he claims he could do better than nebulous handwaving.

  17. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's all a Seagate conspiracy to lie to me. Sorry, but A 7-year-old LJ post hardly has much weight considering NCQ didn't become common in consumer drives until late 2005/early 2006.

  18. Re:Sorry, what? on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 1

    Wrong. ATA is the original name of what was renamed to PATA once SATA was introduced. So if he is saying what you claim he is using the term incorrectly.

  19. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 2

    Ok. All my drives, which range in age of at least 4-5 years, support it and they are all the same models that Seagate lists support for. So once again, this sounds like overinflated sensationalism. If it was really such a problem he could have listed a few models to support his claim instead of nebulous handwaving, no?

  20. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As weighty of an argument as your bet might seem to you, I'd refer actual evidence.

  21. Re:almost clicked the link... on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And yet fails to name any. Looking at Seagates site about NCQ pretty much every consumer model since 2004 has NCQ. This seems overblown.

  22. Re:The Obama This Is Very Funny on Cloud Firm MediaFire Flags Malware Samples For DMCA Violation, Bans Researcher · · Score: 0

    Obama is responsible for the DMCA that was passed before he was ever in political office?

  23. Re:It's not broken. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 0

    Who manually installs Windows? Anyone with a brain just does a drive clone.

  24. Re:It's not broken. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Fsckload easier than installing Windows.

    And how many average users install Windows themselves? Oh right, almost none. It's preinstalled by the OEM or the dude they got to do it for them.

  25. Re:It's not broken. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 2

    With a learning curve like that, why would anyone want to run Windows?

    Because most users don't install Windows themselves?