Low end models in each familar are almost always a rebadge of the high end models from the previous family. This has been the case for a very long time. It allows the manufacturer to better move inventory that would otherwise be unsold.
I would expect that to be the case. Even if the clean room wasn't affected by physical damage, the air purification system was flooded with smoke, not to mention the heat and debris released by the fire.
If I recall correctly, Foxconn increased worker wages dramatically a couple of years ago. Partly under pressure from Apple. Another interesting fact is that the suicide rate amongst Foxconn is actually lower than the Chinese national average
The Quebec government has repeatedly used the notwithstanding clause to limit the use of languages other than French (mostly aimed at English) on matters that fall under provincial legislative purview. Only federal matters are fully bilingual.
It's a TV drama set in Albuquerque, New Mexico (also produced there for authenticity). It's won a lot of awards, and rightfully so because the show is outstanding.
What it does best is blur the lines of morality. Rather than fall upon the hollywood cliche of "good guy versus bad guy", the viewer is never quite sure where the cast's motivations lay.
If Apple doesn't want to pay up, then they can settle it in court. However, an injunction is not appropriate unless the party seeking the injunction can demonstrate that they will suffer irreparable harm without an injunction. That's the whole purpose of an injunction, to stop something before it causes irreparable harm. By licencing the patents in question to over 30 other companies under FRAND terms, Samsung had almost no way to demonstrate that Apple's infringement would cause irreparable harm. They can still seek damages the good old fashioned way if Apple doesn't want to play ball, but an injunction is very hard to get for FRAND infringement.
The Samsung owned patents that Apple was found to have infringed are FRAND patents. This indicates that Samsung is willing to licence those patents out to anyone willing to pay the appropriate licencing fees.
The Apple owned patents that Samsung was found to have infringed are not FRAND patents. Apple made no implied or express promises to licence them.
Both sides sought equitable remedies in the form of sales injunctions and import bans. Equitable remedies are by their very definition appropriate only when financial remedies are insufficient to make the plaintiff whole.
Since the Samsung patents were available for licence under FRAND terms, there's no reason to believe that Samsung could not be made whole through monetary remedies. The ITC ordered the import ban on the iPhone devices not because they infringed on FRAND patents, but because Apple had made little to no effort to negotiate a licencing agreement.
The opposite is not automatically true for the Apple patents as they are not available for licence under FRAND terms.
I don't doubt it. It's fairly easy to port Android apps between different tablets and different ARM based SoCs. As a result, Android sells well on ARM devices. It would have the same problem as the Surface were it shipped on a device using an x86 processor. Consumers would be pissed when they found out that their favorite Google Play applications aren't available on it because they're not compatible. For most consumers, the biggest turn off of the Surface wasn't the lack of outlook, it was the fact that it was a device that ran Windows without being able to run any of the Windows applications out there. For consumers that don't read tech blogs every single day, that's going to stick for a very long time. The Surface brand is tarnished and I am very doubtful that it will be able to recover in a saturated market.
Had Microsoft not released Windows RT at all and simply sold the Surface Pro as the Surface they most likely wouldn't be in this mess.
Right, because the NVidia Tegra based Surface sold so damn well. No one wanted an ARM version of Windows and Microsoft's recent financial results showed that. I see no reason for that to change given that the tablet market has only become more saturated in the past year.
They could go with an 86 based processor and couple it with a low power NVidia GPU through some sort of Optimus technology. It doesn't make as much sense as a full blown SoC, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than redoubling their efforts on a venture that resulted in a 900 million dollar writedown.
Another Tegra based Surface is a disaster waiting to happen.
Saying that "it didn't have outlook" is nothing more than a scapegoat.
No they don't. There are plenty of companies, universities and government agencies with access to significant amounts of the Windows source code. Access is of course tightly controlled but it's not as if Microsoft is the only entity out there with the ability to modify Windows, they're simply the only entity out there with the ability to push patches from upstream through Windows Update. Antivirus developers have been playing with core components of Windows for ages and continue to push for Microsoft to relax restrictions including Kernel Patch Protection so that they can modify it to their hearts content.
That's not true at all. Linux support is only maintained if someone is actually maintaining the driver in the kernel. If the kernel driver interface changes, the driver breaks. If it doesn't get maintained, it gets removed. The same is true for Windows.
That's a horrible example. Car manufacturers do stop making parts for old vehicles after a while. Fixing up old junkers can be expensive because the parts can be quite rare. Owners certainly have the option of buying aftermarket parts just as PC users have the option of third party software.
Whenever emissions or road standards change the car manufacturers don't retroactively update every previous production model to meet them. The owners either pay for a custom fix up, are SOL, or get grandfathered in.
I played EVE for years and I concur completely. It's more of a chore at times than a game. Ultimately I think that it's more fun to talk about EVE than it is to actually play EVE.
This is correct. P code isn't very easy to use as it requires first acquiring CA code and then transferring the lock to a decoder. The newer M code is quite a bit more versatile but very little is known about it.
Yes, the article is very confused. Wifi standards do not measure just the amplitude of one stream to separate ones from zeroes. It has to measure the amplitude of two separate streams as well as their phase angle. The exact method of coding depends on the data rate but in general most methods boil down to Binary Phase-Shift Keying (1 bit per symbol), and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (2, 4, or 6 bits per symbol for 4-QAM, 16-QAM, and 64-QAM respectively).
>Commercial power reactors, other than breeders, run off of Uranium, and the Uranium not only isn't weapons grade, it *can't* be, since if it were, the reactors wouldn't operate properly
Heavy water moderated reactors such as CANDU can burn a mixture of fuel (known as Mixed Oxide Fuel, or MOX) which can include various isotopes of Uranium and Plutonium at the same time. The process of deweaponizing highly enriched plutonium pits is well understood, but there's simply not a very high demand for it right now as it's much cheaper to acquire uranium fuel the normal way. Right now there are thousands of decommissioned plutonium pits sitting in storage awaiting reprocessing.
Furthermore, there are nuclear reactors that burn weapons grade uranium, namely those powering the US Navy's submarines and aircraft carriers. However, the USA has not manufactured a uranium based weapon in over 50 years.
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Low end models in each familar are almost always a rebadge of the high end models from the previous family. This has been the case for a very long time. It allows the manufacturer to better move inventory that would otherwise be unsold.
MMO accounts? Battle.net?
That's... the worst thing that could possibly happen in South Korea
I would expect that to be the case. Even if the clean room wasn't affected by physical damage, the air purification system was flooded with smoke, not to mention the heat and debris released by the fire.
If I recall correctly, Foxconn increased worker wages dramatically a couple of years ago. Partly under pressure from Apple. Another interesting fact is that the suicide rate amongst Foxconn is actually lower than the Chinese national average
I believe that he did this last year as well.
Good on him, especially considering that Lenovo has been quite successful recently in a contracting PC market
White phosphorous is only banned as a chemical weapon. It is permitted as an incendiary weapon, or as an illumination tool.
No it is not.
The Quebec government has repeatedly used the notwithstanding clause to limit the use of languages other than French (mostly aimed at English) on matters that fall under provincial legislative purview. Only federal matters are fully bilingual.
If it's signed by a judge or a magistrate, it's a legitimate order. Follow the order and fight it on appeal.
It's a TV drama set in Albuquerque, New Mexico (also produced there for authenticity). It's won a lot of awards, and rightfully so because the show is outstanding.
What it does best is blur the lines of morality. Rather than fall upon the hollywood cliche of "good guy versus bad guy", the viewer is never quite sure where the cast's motivations lay.
Yes, I am aware that it doesn't stand for FREE.
If Apple doesn't want to pay up, then they can settle it in court. However, an injunction is not appropriate unless the party seeking the injunction can demonstrate that they will suffer irreparable harm without an injunction. That's the whole purpose of an injunction, to stop something before it causes irreparable harm. By licencing the patents in question to over 30 other companies under FRAND terms, Samsung had almost no way to demonstrate that Apple's infringement would cause irreparable harm. They can still seek damages the good old fashioned way if Apple doesn't want to play ball, but an injunction is very hard to get for FRAND infringement.
It's not the exact same situation.
The Samsung owned patents that Apple was found to have infringed are FRAND patents. This indicates that Samsung is willing to licence those patents out to anyone willing to pay the appropriate licencing fees.
The Apple owned patents that Samsung was found to have infringed are not FRAND patents. Apple made no implied or express promises to licence them.
Both sides sought equitable remedies in the form of sales injunctions and import bans. Equitable remedies are by their very definition appropriate only when financial remedies are insufficient to make the plaintiff whole.
Since the Samsung patents were available for licence under FRAND terms, there's no reason to believe that Samsung could not be made whole through monetary remedies. The ITC ordered the import ban on the iPhone devices not because they infringed on FRAND patents, but because Apple had made little to no effort to negotiate a licencing agreement.
The opposite is not automatically true for the Apple patents as they are not available for licence under FRAND terms.
I don't doubt it. It's fairly easy to port Android apps between different tablets and different ARM based SoCs. As a result, Android sells well on ARM devices. It would have the same problem as the Surface were it shipped on a device using an x86 processor. Consumers would be pissed when they found out that their favorite Google Play applications aren't available on it because they're not compatible. For most consumers, the biggest turn off of the Surface wasn't the lack of outlook, it was the fact that it was a device that ran Windows without being able to run any of the Windows applications out there. For consumers that don't read tech blogs every single day, that's going to stick for a very long time. The Surface brand is tarnished and I am very doubtful that it will be able to recover in a saturated market.
Had Microsoft not released Windows RT at all and simply sold the Surface Pro as the Surface they most likely wouldn't be in this mess.
Right, because the NVidia Tegra based Surface sold so damn well. No one wanted an ARM version of Windows and Microsoft's recent financial results showed that. I see no reason for that to change given that the tablet market has only become more saturated in the past year.
They could go with an 86 based processor and couple it with a low power NVidia GPU through some sort of Optimus technology. It doesn't make as much sense as a full blown SoC, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than redoubling their efforts on a venture that resulted in a 900 million dollar writedown.
Another Tegra based Surface is a disaster waiting to happen.
Saying that "it didn't have outlook" is nothing more than a scapegoat.
Hopefully it'll include a more power efficient Haswell chip. The Surface Pro was promising but lacked sufficient battery life.
No they don't. There are plenty of companies, universities and government agencies with access to significant amounts of the Windows source code. Access is of course tightly controlled but it's not as if Microsoft is the only entity out there with the ability to modify Windows, they're simply the only entity out there with the ability to push patches from upstream through Windows Update. Antivirus developers have been playing with core components of Windows for ages and continue to push for Microsoft to relax restrictions including Kernel Patch Protection so that they can modify it to their hearts content.
That's not true at all. Linux support is only maintained if someone is actually maintaining the driver in the kernel. If the kernel driver interface changes, the driver breaks. If it doesn't get maintained, it gets removed. The same is true for Windows.
That's a horrible example. Car manufacturers do stop making parts for old vehicles after a while. Fixing up old junkers can be expensive because the parts can be quite rare. Owners certainly have the option of buying aftermarket parts just as PC users have the option of third party software.
Whenever emissions or road standards change the car manufacturers don't retroactively update every previous production model to meet them. The owners either pay for a custom fix up, are SOL, or get grandfathered in.
The post claims about 40 m/s which seems pretty reasonable given the video footage, that's about 120 feet per second.
and programs will continue to run like it's 1987
I played EVE for years and I concur completely. It's more of a chore at times than a game. Ultimately I think that it's more fun to talk about EVE than it is to actually play EVE.
This is correct. P code isn't very easy to use as it requires first acquiring CA code and then transferring the lock to a decoder. The newer M code is quite a bit more versatile but very little is known about it.
Yes, the article is very confused. Wifi standards do not measure just the amplitude of one stream to separate ones from zeroes. It has to measure the amplitude of two separate streams as well as their phase angle. The exact method of coding depends on the data rate but in general most methods boil down to Binary Phase-Shift Keying (1 bit per symbol), and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (2, 4, or 6 bits per symbol for 4-QAM, 16-QAM, and 64-QAM respectively).
>Commercial power reactors, other than breeders, run off of Uranium, and the Uranium not only isn't weapons grade, it *can't* be, since if it were, the reactors wouldn't operate properly
Heavy water moderated reactors such as CANDU can burn a mixture of fuel (known as Mixed Oxide Fuel, or MOX) which can include various isotopes of Uranium and Plutonium at the same time. The process of deweaponizing highly enriched plutonium pits is well understood, but there's simply not a very high demand for it right now as it's much cheaper to acquire uranium fuel the normal way. Right now there are thousands of decommissioned plutonium pits sitting in storage awaiting reprocessing.
Furthermore, there are nuclear reactors that burn weapons grade uranium, namely those powering the US Navy's submarines and aircraft carriers. However, the USA has not manufactured a uranium based weapon in over 50 years.
Damn it, I let my mod points expire.
It's the greatest mediocre game of all time.
It's not a bad or broken game in any way, just feels dated. Worth checking out for a few bucks.