Samsung however did agree to license certain patents at a fair price, and they are trying to charge some vendors (who compete more aggressively and charge them a lot for patents, e.g. Apple) significantly different terms than others
I was under the impression that the vendors that got lower prices did so because of cross-licensing agreements.
Samsung: "Oh, you want this FRAND patent but don't want to pay $6? Okay, well how about you license us the technology for your patent xxxxx, and we'll lower the rate to $1"
Normal Vendor: "That sounds reasonable. Patent xxxxx is trivial compared to your standards essential patents. Deal."
There is evidence (but not definitive proof). The evidence is why Iran is under heavy sanctions. Iran refuses to provide proof that the evidence is invalid (allowing inspectors to survey site purportedly used for nuclear testing for example).
So, as it stands, the burden of proof is on Iran to refute the evidence of nuclear weapons testing.
I think it's because you had a phone that had bad reception. I've never had a dropped call on Verizon networks. My experiences are mostly limited to the east coast of the US.
I pay too much for my cellphone bill, but I've found Verizon to have the best coverage and speed. Don't expect good customer service from any of them. They all are horrible. I was lucky to get grandfathered into real unlimited data with Verizon though, and even was able to keep it through and upgrade from 3G to 4G (Droid 2 to Droid 4). Sprint is really good if you can keep your travels into their coverage area. AT&T seems to be just mediocre overall, so it's really not bad, but it's not exactly good either. If you stay within the city and don't ever go anywhere, there's lots of services like MetroPCS that are SUPER cheap, however I can't vouch for their speed or quality as I don't know anyone that has used it for a smartphone.
If you look at the responses to the ScienceDebate.org questionnaire, it's clear where each party stands. Romney (and the GOP) want the NASA budget to stay fixed, and want to focus on developing technology that serves for military purposes. Obama (and the Democratic party) have solid goals for space exploration that includes utilizing the private sector to achieve asteroid mining and mars exploration.
From what I've read, it's because Motorola has been ignoring the ND part of that acronym.
Any sources? I've read the opposite. From what I've read, they've tried to reach licensing agreements, but Apple wants special lower prices than everyone else because they think they're special and should be treated differently.
Take a game like Quake. It plays perfectly, in all its dark, murky, brown palette, on CRTs. Throw it on an LCD without boosting the game's brightness and it can be quite difficult to pick out the details.
I think what you're seeing are the differences between the hardware accelerated and software renderer.
I made a level for Quake 2 that had a forest. In the software renderer, you could pretty easily navigate the dark forest. When you switched to hardware accelerated it was more or less pitch black.
Link to the level: http://www.fileaholic.com/cgi-sql/file-info.sql/12799
I think the point is that both should be treated as adults.
Why exactly in your example is the man NOT responsible?
Double standards I guess in favor of your own gender.
Both are responsible for the pregnancy. The woman is responsible for giving birth.
She didn't take a morning after pill, nor did she didn't get an abortion. She decided, like an adult, that she would keep the child throughout the entire pregnancy, despite knowing nothing of the father.
If she were to find the father however, I'm sure that she would seek child support payments. She would probably get those payments as well, and the father, while having to pay them, would unlikely get much in the way of visitation rights. Hell, she would probably even get back-pay.
So the court, treats her like a child, where it was completely the man's fault for getting her pregnant, and her giving birth. This is why he has to pay for the child, because the court sees the child as the fault of the man.
In a world where everything was fair, things would be quite different.
I would imagine something like this:
If the woman wanted to keep the baby, she would have to actively seek out the father until it was too close to the birth date for an abortion to be an option. If she were unable to find him, she would forfeit any child support claims (as it was he fault she is unable to find the father - she should have known more information before sleeping with him in this case). If she were to find them, then he would have options. 1. He wants her to get an abortion. 2. He wants them to try to have a relationship and keep the child. 3. He wants nothing to do with the child, but wants her to keep it. 4. He wants custody of the child. 5. He wants joint custody of the child. For case 1, if she didn't want to have an abortion, then he should not have to pay child support. Keeping the child in this case would be her decision and her responsibility. In case 2, it would work like a marriage I would think. If things went bad he'd have to pay alimony and child support. If she is not up for the relationship then he should not have to pay child support since it is her decision to keep the child without trying to create a home with both parents for it. For case 3, he would be required to pay child-support if she keeps it. For case 4, I'm not sure what would happen. That's a complex issue. For case 5, if that's how they agree to it, then neither should pay the other for child-support. They both made a bad decision, and they are both owning up to it responsibility-wise.
The key here is being equal with regards to responsibility.
I was under the impression that Apple did not wanted to only pay the licensing from "here-on-out" and get away with not paying any fees for the past sales, whereas everyone else either has paid or had a licensing agreement since the beginning. Samsung wanted to use the back-pay as a leverage point to negotiate a cross-licensing agreement, which I do believe is perfectly legal. It is my understanding that if Apple were willing to pay the normal licensing fee for all sales current and old that there would be no issue and Samsung would agree to the deal, however Apple doesn't want to pay the fees for prior sales. This has been my impression from following the cases at least.
Well, actually, 1/3 are leaving, and 1/3 are going with a cheaper plan (streaming only). I'm going to go with the streaming only plan, which is cheaper than my current plan. I'd imagine that many others would do the same. I don't think this will work out well for Netflix.
Quantum entangled communication device?
Think of a walkie-talkie set, but instead of radio waves each has one of a pair of entangled photons or electrons. How are we to know that the entangled state isn't lost when traveling back in time?
No array bounding, no memory protection, casts all over the place without any errors, subtleties like '==' vs '='. C is a language for people who already know how to program (well), not those who're learning.
I like C a lot, however I'd hate to have learned to program in it. Fortunately I'd learned and had a strong foundation in Pascal first.
Did you somehow forget that Pascal also differentiates between an comparison and assignment? '=' vs ':='
C is a language that is closely tied to machine language. If you know assembly, you should be able to figure out how your code would compile. That's the whole point. It forces you to write good, clean code. It doesn't let you get away with things and does EXACTLY what you tell it to do. This is precisely what you want taught to someone who is new to programming.
I went to a private school and we also had 3 hours of homework per class per day. The scary part is that sometimes we really were assigned 3 hours of homework per class per day. We also were required to write a term paper for each non-english class per semester. For english classes we generally had 2-4 papers to do per semester depending on grade and level. Term papers and preparation for them (reading source material) did not factor into the 3 hours. I REALLY hated high school.
Let these kids play some games for 3 hours.
Why should some rich Western countries who already have nuclear weapons get together and decide who can enage in nuclear technology them or who can't.
It wasn't some rich Western countries. Also, the countries that came up with the NPT and the first to sign did not even have nuclear weapons.
I'm proud that my own country despite major political pressure from the West block has completed the contract for building the peaceful Busher nuclear power station and is continuing to engage in peaceful nuclear cooperation with Iran.
While the power plant may be completed, it is not fully operational yet. Also, your country also has an agreement to supply Iran with fuel for this power plant. Despite this, Iran has TWO PUBLIC enrichment plants creating fuel for the SINGLE power plant... that isn't even operational.
Iran is not ruled by mad suicidal clerics,
This is debatable. It can be proven they are mad. It can be argued they are not. When it boils down to it, this is a matter of opinion. Mine's for insanity.
Iran is a great country of 70 million people with a unique culture, a unuque brand of eastern democracy sometimes not compatible with the West.
Very true. I am however scared of a culture that teaches that lying is ok in addition to the many other crazy things that Islam teaches.
Yes we need less weapons
Agreed.
we need denuclearization
Not possible. At least a handful of nations will always require nuclear weapons simply for the fact that they exist in the first place. As technology progresses it becomes easier for the DIYer or smaller nations to do really fancy and dangerous things. In a couple hundred years or less it will be possible to build a nuclear weapon in your basement. Have you built an accurate short range missle yet? I have, and they cost VERY VERY little to make as long as you don't want to blow something up. Firing them legally is where the difficulty comes into play.
The fact is that Iran signed an international agreement to not develop nuclear weapons. The fact is that Iran is not abiding by the agreement. If it were up to me I would prevent all nations from trading with Iran and cut off Iran's internet access until it conforms to the international community. I would do that with a lot of nations though, and I do know that the rest of the world would suffer for it.
It may be also of interest to note that Islam promotes lying in order to spread the word of Islam. It's my opinion that Iran flat out lies to the international community on a regular basis on these matters. I truly believe that Iran will do anything it can including total destruction to ensure "peace". The only thing is that their idea of peace is global genocide. When there's no one left the world truly is a peaceful place.
Best reply ever. Could not agree more. I was looking for this reply before I was going to write almost the exact same thing. "OMG Linux has only a 1% desktop market share! That's nothing!" The desktop isn't what makes the world these days. Where I work, even our domain is run using SAMBA. Windows clients on Linux servers. All of our backend? Linux. Linux Linux Linux. It's a mix of gentoo and Fedora b/c that's what our staff knows. Could it be BSD if we wanted? probably. Yeah. Mac? Sure, but no one's going to pay those rediculous overheads. If any company is using mac servers they seriously need to stop and start buying x86 and putting linux on them. There's no difference. "Oh, but apple uses better class hardware". Even when you buy enterprise class drives the shit is way cheaper than going through apple. Real companies that use Exchange for their mail server do so b/c their IT is incompetent and doesn't know how to learn a different system or actually learn what the programs their using actually do. They learn to configure on a proprietary system. Instead of learning how to fix all cars and learning how they work, how a transmission works, a combustion engine's mechanics, they learn the parts that are needed to replace the failed parts. They don't learn why that part failed or how to fix it. Linux won't go anywhere. Desktop linux.... It's nice that you can do it. Until Desktop linux has a development suite like ms does though, desktop linux will still be a minority. Even though ballmer is definitely certifiably insane, he was right when he said "Developers, Developers, Developers!!!"... Windows desktop development is the easiest thing in the world.
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Samsung: That's our standard rate for those that don't want to cross-license.
Samsung however did agree to license certain patents at a fair price, and they are trying to charge some vendors (who compete more aggressively and charge them a lot for patents, e.g. Apple) significantly different terms than others
I was under the impression that the vendors that got lower prices did so because of cross-licensing agreements.
Samsung: "Oh, you want this FRAND patent but don't want to pay $6? Okay, well how about you license us the technology for your patent xxxxx, and we'll lower the rate to $1"
Normal Vendor: "That sounds reasonable. Patent xxxxx is trivial compared to your standards essential patents. Deal."
Apple: "NO WAY! We don't want to pay a dime!"
There is evidence (but not definitive proof). The evidence is why Iran is under heavy sanctions. Iran refuses to provide proof that the evidence is invalid (allowing inspectors to survey site purportedly used for nuclear testing for example). So, as it stands, the burden of proof is on Iran to refute the evidence of nuclear weapons testing.
I think it's because you had a phone that had bad reception. I've never had a dropped call on Verizon networks. My experiences are mostly limited to the east coast of the US.
I've never had a dropped call with Verizon. Are you sure it wasn't your phone that had the issue?
I pay too much for my cellphone bill, but I've found Verizon to have the best coverage and speed. Don't expect good customer service from any of them. They all are horrible. I was lucky to get grandfathered into real unlimited data with Verizon though, and even was able to keep it through and upgrade from 3G to 4G (Droid 2 to Droid 4). Sprint is really good if you can keep your travels into their coverage area. AT&T seems to be just mediocre overall, so it's really not bad, but it's not exactly good either. If you stay within the city and don't ever go anywhere, there's lots of services like MetroPCS that are SUPER cheap, however I can't vouch for their speed or quality as I don't know anyone that has used it for a smartphone.
If you look at the responses to the ScienceDebate.org questionnaire, it's clear where each party stands. Romney (and the GOP) want the NASA budget to stay fixed, and want to focus on developing technology that serves for military purposes. Obama (and the Democratic party) have solid goals for space exploration that includes utilizing the private sector to achieve asteroid mining and mars exploration.
From what I've read, it's because Motorola has been ignoring the ND part of that acronym.
Any sources? I've read the opposite. From what I've read, they've tried to reach licensing agreements, but Apple wants special lower prices than everyone else because they think they're special and should be treated differently.
Take a game like Quake. It plays perfectly, in all its dark, murky, brown palette, on CRTs. Throw it on an LCD without boosting the game's brightness and it can be quite difficult to pick out the details.
I think what you're seeing are the differences between the hardware accelerated and software renderer. I made a level for Quake 2 that had a forest. In the software renderer, you could pretty easily navigate the dark forest. When you switched to hardware accelerated it was more or less pitch black. Link to the level: http://www.fileaholic.com/cgi-sql/file-info.sql/12799
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Surprisingly it says he didn't vote.
You want men to treated as kids instead?
I think the point is that both should be treated as adults.
Why exactly in your example is the man NOT responsible?
Double standards I guess in favor of your own gender.
Both are responsible for the pregnancy. The woman is responsible for giving birth.
She didn't take a morning after pill, nor did she didn't get an abortion. She decided, like an adult, that she would keep the child throughout the entire pregnancy, despite knowing nothing of the father.
If she were to find the father however, I'm sure that she would seek child support payments. She would probably get those payments as well, and the father, while having to pay them, would unlikely get much in the way of visitation rights. Hell, she would probably even get back-pay.
So the court, treats her like a child, where it was completely the man's fault for getting her pregnant, and her giving birth. This is why he has to pay for the child, because the court sees the child as the fault of the man.
In a world where everything was fair, things would be quite different.
I would imagine something like this:
If the woman wanted to keep the baby, she would have to actively seek out the father until it was too close to the birth date for an abortion to be an option. If she were unable to find him, she would forfeit any child support claims (as it was he fault she is unable to find the father - she should have known more information before sleeping with him in this case). If she were to find them, then he would have options. 1. He wants her to get an abortion. 2. He wants them to try to have a relationship and keep the child. 3. He wants nothing to do with the child, but wants her to keep it. 4. He wants custody of the child. 5. He wants joint custody of the child. For case 1, if she didn't want to have an abortion, then he should not have to pay child support. Keeping the child in this case would be her decision and her responsibility. In case 2, it would work like a marriage I would think. If things went bad he'd have to pay alimony and child support. If she is not up for the relationship then he should not have to pay child support since it is her decision to keep the child without trying to create a home with both parents for it. For case 3, he would be required to pay child-support if she keeps it. For case 4, I'm not sure what would happen. That's a complex issue. For case 5, if that's how they agree to it, then neither should pay the other for child-support. They both made a bad decision, and they are both owning up to it responsibility-wise.
The key here is being equal with regards to responsibility.
I really want to see what Google does with the Droid series. I can't wait for the Droid 5.
I was under the impression that Apple did not wanted to only pay the licensing from "here-on-out" and get away with not paying any fees for the past sales, whereas everyone else either has paid or had a licensing agreement since the beginning. Samsung wanted to use the back-pay as a leverage point to negotiate a cross-licensing agreement, which I do believe is perfectly legal. It is my understanding that if Apple were willing to pay the normal licensing fee for all sales current and old that there would be no issue and Samsung would agree to the deal, however Apple doesn't want to pay the fees for prior sales. This has been my impression from following the cases at least.
Well, actually, 1/3 are leaving, and 1/3 are going with a cheaper plan (streaming only). I'm going to go with the streaming only plan, which is cheaper than my current plan. I'd imagine that many others would do the same. I don't think this will work out well for Netflix.
Quantum entangled communication device? Think of a walkie-talkie set, but instead of radio waves each has one of a pair of entangled photons or electrons. How are we to know that the entangled state isn't lost when traveling back in time?
No array bounding, no memory protection, casts all over the place without any errors, subtleties like '==' vs '='. C is a language for people who already know how to program (well), not those who're learning.
I like C a lot, however I'd hate to have learned to program in it. Fortunately I'd learned and had a strong foundation in Pascal first.
Did you somehow forget that Pascal also differentiates between an comparison and assignment? '=' vs ':='
C is a language that is closely tied to machine language. If you know assembly, you should be able to figure out how your code would compile. That's the whole point. It forces you to write good, clean code. It doesn't let you get away with things and does EXACTLY what you tell it to do. This is precisely what you want taught to someone who is new to programming.
I went to a private school and we also had 3 hours of homework per class per day. The scary part is that sometimes we really were assigned 3 hours of homework per class per day. We also were required to write a term paper for each non-english class per semester. For english classes we generally had 2-4 papers to do per semester depending on grade and level. Term papers and preparation for them (reading source material) did not factor into the 3 hours. I REALLY hated high school. Let these kids play some games for 3 hours.
Why should some rich Western countries who already have nuclear weapons get together and decide who can enage in nuclear technology them or who can't.
It wasn't some rich Western countries. Also, the countries that came up with the NPT and the first to sign did not even have nuclear weapons.
I'm proud that my own country despite major political pressure from the West block has completed the contract for building the peaceful Busher nuclear power station and is continuing to engage in peaceful nuclear cooperation with Iran.
While the power plant may be completed, it is not fully operational yet. Also, your country also has an agreement to supply Iran with fuel for this power plant. Despite this, Iran has TWO PUBLIC enrichment plants creating fuel for the SINGLE power plant... that isn't even operational.
Iran is not ruled by mad suicidal clerics,
This is debatable. It can be proven they are mad. It can be argued they are not. When it boils down to it, this is a matter of opinion. Mine's for insanity.
Iran is a great country of 70 million people with a unique culture, a unuque brand of eastern democracy sometimes not compatible with the West.
Very true. I am however scared of a culture that teaches that lying is ok in addition to the many other crazy things that Islam teaches.
Yes we need less weapons
Agreed.
we need denuclearization
Not possible. At least a handful of nations will always require nuclear weapons simply for the fact that they exist in the first place. As technology progresses it becomes easier for the DIYer or smaller nations to do really fancy and dangerous things. In a couple hundred years or less it will be possible to build a nuclear weapon in your basement. Have you built an accurate short range missle yet? I have, and they cost VERY VERY little to make as long as you don't want to blow something up. Firing them legally is where the difficulty comes into play. The fact is that Iran signed an international agreement to not develop nuclear weapons. The fact is that Iran is not abiding by the agreement. If it were up to me I would prevent all nations from trading with Iran and cut off Iran's internet access until it conforms to the international community. I would do that with a lot of nations though, and I do know that the rest of the world would suffer for it. It may be also of interest to note that Islam promotes lying in order to spread the word of Islam. It's my opinion that Iran flat out lies to the international community on a regular basis on these matters. I truly believe that Iran will do anything it can including total destruction to ensure "peace". The only thing is that their idea of peace is global genocide. When there's no one left the world truly is a peaceful place.
Best reply ever. Could not agree more. I was looking for this reply before I was going to write almost the exact same thing. "OMG Linux has only a 1% desktop market share! That's nothing!" The desktop isn't what makes the world these days. Where I work, even our domain is run using SAMBA. Windows clients on Linux servers. All of our backend? Linux. Linux Linux Linux. It's a mix of gentoo and Fedora b/c that's what our staff knows. Could it be BSD if we wanted? probably. Yeah. Mac? Sure, but no one's going to pay those rediculous overheads. If any company is using mac servers they seriously need to stop and start buying x86 and putting linux on them. There's no difference. "Oh, but apple uses better class hardware". Even when you buy enterprise class drives the shit is way cheaper than going through apple. Real companies that use Exchange for their mail server do so b/c their IT is incompetent and doesn't know how to learn a different system or actually learn what the programs their using actually do. They learn to configure on a proprietary system. Instead of learning how to fix all cars and learning how they work, how a transmission works, a combustion engine's mechanics, they learn the parts that are needed to replace the failed parts. They don't learn why that part failed or how to fix it. Linux won't go anywhere. Desktop linux.... It's nice that you can do it. Until Desktop linux has a development suite like ms does though, desktop linux will still be a minority. Even though ballmer is definitely certifiably insane, he was right when he said "Developers, Developers, Developers!!!"... Windows desktop development is the easiest thing in the world.