Sure you can, it's just that $25 of the price of your phone (the deal Apple offered Samsung in 2010) will have to go to Apple in addition to the $12 per phone that Samsung are already giving to Microsoft.
Isn't the US the country of shysters who are happy to take big companies to court for a cut of the spoils ? Also see my answer above, it's not exactly unprecedented.
Apple spent 7.8 billion dollars on Samsung parts in 2011. Since both its Mac and iOS sales are only increasing that figure likely increased. So for Samsung even a billion dollar loss only amounts to about a 12.5% discount on all gear they sold Apple for a year.
Microsoft loses Excel patent case : "Microsoft has been found guilty of patent infringement and ordered to pay a Guatamalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado almost $9m in damages. [...] In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database using a single spreadsheet. He said he tried to sell this technology to Microsoft in 1992 but they turned him down."
This precedent could also protect a small developer from a corporation like Samsung sweeping in and copying their work and crushing them. There are 2 sides to that coin.
Read about the verdict, not all phones were found to be infringing. You bought the BS about this being about Apple patenting a rectangle, it's not about that but about overt rip off jobs.
We could all win if this forces Apple's competitors to stop riding on Apple's coattails and get out there and take changes on doing new and exciting things. Or it could have a chilling effect on the market. Check back in 10 years.
"I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes. What God does is God's business, I have no idea. But I'll tell you this: whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus -- there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it,'" - Glenn Beck on the Japan tsunami.
I have the older style Mini and when the HDD goes to sleep and it runs on SSD-only it's damn near completely silent. The fan will only come on when really stressing the cpu.
Footprint, noise (or lack thereof), the ability to run all major OS (OSX, Windows, Linux) on the same machine, low power usage and nice looking sturdy construction. If you're going to be putting it on a desk the Mini is a nice little package.
The mac desktop provides an enjoyable experience (for most people, some can't stand it as is their right) for users of all proficiencies from beginner to pro. I can drop down to the unix level if I need to or want to or just do everything through the gui and not worry about what lies beneath, and every combination in between. That's what makes the mac desktop attractive: there's middle ground. There is no such middle ground on Linux desktops you either get a cramped, locked down experience on something pre-configured by an admin or you need to be an expert and spend your time tweaking things to get them to work properly (and make sure they keep working.)
Sure you'll get to ridicule us and then we'll all move on to something else that works and Linux desktop users will still be a small and diminishing minority because it's all ideology first and usability second. When the choice is between open and better, the latter will always win.
"the learnings (sic) Apple gains from building the 32nm A5 will pay off later this year as Apple ramps up production of a 32nm SoC for use in the next iPhone."
They're further developing their A5 and ramping up production by introducing it first in an existing product. Smart.
They're bureaucrats, they want something nice and official. File a piece of paper in triplicate, get a recorded conversation. Nothing too messy, error prone and work intensive. If you have to do the work and you fail, it's your ass but if it's nice and bureaucratic you can blame "the process."
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Sure you can, it's just that $25 of the price of your phone (the deal Apple offered Samsung in 2010) will have to go to Apple in addition to the $12 per phone that Samsung are already giving to Microsoft.
Isn't the US the country of shysters who are happy to take big companies to court for a cut of the spoils ? Also see my answer above, it's not exactly unprecedented.
Apple spent 7.8 billion dollars on Samsung parts in 2011. Since both its Mac and iOS sales are only increasing that figure likely increased. So for Samsung even a billion dollar loss only amounts to about a 12.5% discount on all gear they sold Apple for a year.
I call bullshit, that jury was stacked. You can't sift through such a complex case in 22 hours and come to an informed decision.
The fact that there was a court case preceding the deliberations during which the jurors could form an opinion may have had something to do with it.
Yes he can :
Microsoft loses Excel patent case :
"Microsoft has been found guilty of patent infringement and ordered to pay a Guatamalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado almost $9m in damages.
[...]
In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database using a single spreadsheet. He said he tried to sell this technology to Microsoft in 1992 but they turned him down."
After they paid them with stock in the company.
Plenty of phones with rounded corners were found to not be infringing. Can the talking points.
This precedent could also protect a small developer from a corporation like Samsung sweeping in and copying their work and crushing them. There are 2 sides to that coin.
Read about the verdict, not all phones were found to be infringing. You bought the BS about this being about Apple patenting a rectangle, it's not about that but about overt rip off jobs.
s/changes/chances/
We could all win if this forces Apple's competitors to stop riding on Apple's coattails and get out there and take changes on doing new and exciting things. Or it could have a chilling effect on the market. Check back in 10 years.
"I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes. What God does is God's business, I have no idea. But I'll tell you this: whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus -- there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it,'" - Glenn Beck on the Japan tsunami.
Also kind of ironic you guys have to read about these things on a Russian site. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
I have the older style Mini and when the HDD goes to sleep and it runs on SSD-only it's damn near completely silent. The fan will only come on when really stressing the cpu.
Footprint, noise (or lack thereof), the ability to run all major OS (OSX, Windows, Linux) on the same machine, low power usage and nice looking sturdy construction. If you're going to be putting it on a desk the Mini is a nice little package.
Remote GUI is an edge case. X11 was built with that edge case in mind and OSX wasn't, it's that simple.
The mac desktop provides an enjoyable experience (for most people, some can't stand it as is their right) for users of all proficiencies from beginner to pro. I can drop down to the unix level if I need to or want to or just do everything through the gui and not worry about what lies beneath, and every combination in between. That's what makes the mac desktop attractive: there's middle ground. There is no such middle ground on Linux desktops you either get a cramped, locked down experience on something pre-configured by an admin or you need to be an expert and spend your time tweaking things to get them to work properly (and make sure they keep working.)
OSX would be better if it had more Xisms.
I guess that's why OpenDarwin was so wildly successful, right ?
Sure you'll get to ridicule us and then we'll all move on to something else that works and Linux desktop users will still be a small and diminishing minority because it's all ideology first and usability second. When the choice is between open and better, the latter will always win.
People are so emotionally attached to him for some reason that they refuse to acknowledge it.
Sunk cost effect.
Yeah, we should send the little guy back to the Congo so the locals can eat him.
Send your username and password to me and I'll check for you.
Whatever else you may think of Lamo one thing is abundantly clear: he's untrustworthy.
No mystery; From the article :
"the learnings (sic) Apple gains from building the 32nm A5 will pay off later this year as Apple ramps up production of a 32nm SoC for use in the next iPhone."
They're further developing their A5 and ramping up production by introducing it first in an existing product. Smart.
They're bureaucrats, they want something nice and official. File a piece of paper in triplicate, get a recorded conversation. Nothing too messy, error prone and work intensive. If you have to do the work and you fail, it's your ass but if it's nice and bureaucratic you can blame "the process."