Samsung abused FRAND patents towards Apple. The Whitehouse said "No Way".
The White House explicitly stated that they were not making a statement regarding the validity of Samsung's case, but argued that SE patents should not be used as a basis for Cease and Desist orders. The ITC has found that Samsung was in the right about that patent. Neither the White House, nor the ITC, nor any court of law has determined that Samsung was abusing their FRAND patent.
They are ergonomically bad, after 10 minutes I get pain in my wrists and elbows. The only place I have found desktop sized touch screens to be useful is when stood up, for example at a point of sale.
Maybe that's the better way to sue desktops anyway: standing up rather than sitting down. Sitting down for hours is an ergonomic disaster in the first place, maybe we could kill two birds with one stone there.
It's just one file which has the wrong permissions. That's correctable with "chmod". That's not a cork in the hole, it's someone building a huge castle with all sorts of fortifications and then not locking the door. Stupid, but trivially easy to fix.
I don't think so. I usually agree with him - I often dislike the way how he says things though. Also there is his insistence on the "GNU/Linux" thing, which not only goes against the FSF ideals (you don't get to keep naming rights) it's also a really stupid name.
It's not fraud, but it may well be misleading advertising. It confuses customers about their rights, and creates wrong impressions about the rights they have if they were to buy competing products. In many European jurisdictions misleading advertising is also against the law.
That's only regarding advertising, btw - Apple is still entitled to offer extended warranties with more comprehensive coverage than what the law requires, provided they state clearly what the customer gets.
Well, in general I can only advise to walk away from any deal which sounds fishy - there is no amount of money which can compensate for that. That's because a con-man will *know* what the con is about, so anything he'll offer as guarantee will always be worth less than what he expects to gain. Trying to outwit a con man is a fool's game.
Otherwise it wouldn't be irrational to accept bitcoins per se, but it's difficult to see how that would ever make sense - it's not impossible, merely not compelling. You could also offer to pay in silkworm futures - if you just happen to have a large amount of those - you will similarly have problems finding someone to accept the deal, and for similarly reasons: your potential business partners will not have any idea how much silkworm futures are worth, how to convert them into money, how to transfer and handle them. Just looking into that is effort, and most people will be unwilling to invest that effort.
That's why money is such a great trading tool, and has almost completely replaced bartering with goods.
You could achieve the very same thing without using bitcoins. Disregarding the risk of using bitcoin exchanges, and disregarding the quality of this particular market - if I get paid in USD, I can buy gold or gold futures for that. The extra step of converting into bitcoins first gains me exactly nothing.
In the same way I could convert my USD into EUR and trade on the Athens Derivatives Exchange. But why?
I don't really see anything compelling about your example. If you want me to do some work for you and we agree on the price, I would prefer not to receive payments in bitcoin - it's a hassle for me. Certainly I would want to be compensated for that hassle - if I bother at all - so using bitcoin for that transaction would be a disadvantage to you.
Assuming you would offer me more significantly more than the amount asked, simply by going the redundant bitcoin step, I'd step away from the deal since I'd take that as an indication that something fishy is going on.
They bought the data from different sources, but apparently messed up merging it. E.g. in Japan a slightly different GPS standard is used - which can shift your location by 250m or so if you get it wrong. They apparently also used data from openstreetmaps, which doesn't seem to be quite as good as they hoped for. Still considering all the data they bought, it's surprising the result is so bad.
Dialing *2767*3855# seems slightly more complicated than going through the menus and selecting factory reset, though. So in that sense I think it's not a problem. Apart from that, I recommend NoTelURL - then you can set that as default when the "choose dialer" dialog comes up, and it won't do anything with USSD codes in websites. (It's free, too.)
Lame. "in their work, that is their attribution" - that's most definitely not what we were talking about in this thread, and you could have made your point in the first post without this whole dance. What we were talking about is whether you have to keep that note intact in derivative copies. Do you think you have contributed to clarify that point through your posts? Seriously: this style of discussion sucks.
That's a somewhat useless comment. If you think I'm missing something at least tell me what that is. If you want to talk about some legal technicality: either tell us what it is or have a hard look whether it's relevant in the context of this thread. Surely you can do better than this "I know something and you common people couldn't possibly understand" act?
Not sure what you mean by that. GPL v2 is incompatible with attribution requirements, v3 allows you to amend the terms to require attribution. It's not a requirement by default.
I worked on one of those. The customer needed a PCB with an FPGA on it, which was to be the prototype. They already had VC funding. They contracted us for the hardware design and were developing the software themselves. The effort for the hardware design was two engineers for 6 months (at contracting rates) plus material, PCB manufacturing etc. On top of that they had to live of something while they developed the software, so for a few individuals that hard to pull off without any funding.
I don't see how these changes help in those cases at all. If you are simply copying another person's idea, having a prototype and showing how it works is trivial. It's only hard to do if you actually invent something.
The whole thing seems really puzzling, it wants to differentiate kickstarter from being a store by moving it closer to being a store. And if you want to develop something you can't show how you envision the final product to look like. Why is that useful?
Yes, and of course prison is a deterrent for murders, too. However people commit murders anyway. That's to be expected, so you need to measure statistically whether the death penalty deters more people. Which is very difficult to measure, since all sorts of factors could affect murder rates. However looking at US states, there is no indication that the death penalty helps with that:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state
I think the qualification side of it, is only half of the story. Yes, someone can teach themselves and end up being better than others who have a degree - on average that's not going to be the case though.
That's not all there is to it though: if you have e.g. $100k today, or if you manage to save that amount within a few years by living *very* frugally (which many students do) and working a second job (which many students do), then you can invest that money.
Let's say you invest in stocks - that should get you an average return of about 10%. In 30 years (assuming all gains go back into the investment account) those savings will have grown to about 1.75 million.
So take a hard look what it costs to get a degree. Also think about how much money you could save if you were working as hard and living as frugally as you would as a student for the duration a degree takes, but working a normal job. Then think about whether that's a good investment.
At the very least, carefully evaluate how much the school costs, and see if your chances of earning more money are really *that* much better when going to a school with higher fees.
Sounds like a business plan. I think I would like to start a PAC PalinForPresident2016.com Also the activities would be centered around traveling on a yacht around the world, as a "Good Will Tour".
(Of course I mean Michael Palin, I'm not *that* evil.)
Yes, it would make it easier. So why do they still object? Because for many religious people (and not just them) it's not enough to live their own lives according to their own ideas - they could do that already and have no censorship of the internet at all. No, they want to meddle in other people's lives as well.
And then of course there is what many corrupt and morally bankrupt politicians do: they pander. Acting "against immorality" - no matter how pointless and ineffectual - conveys the impression that they actually care about their purported principles.
[...] they don't seem to be able to decide who they ripped off the idea from. First Sony and now some guy. It can't be both.
That doesn't really matter for Samsung. They don't need to decide whether this Professor, or Sony or anyone else came up with the idea first, they just need to convince the jury that it wasn't Apple. If the jury doesn't believe one theory they might still accept the other. Apple needs to argue against both.
BTW: those two USB plugs in your picture look just about as dissimilar as two USB plugs can do. That's what you get for using a standard. As for the tablet side: the plug from Samsung is a lot uglier and a little more practical - the raised border should afford a better hold when unplugging.
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The White House explicitly stated that they were not making a statement regarding the validity of Samsung's case, but argued that SE patents should not be used as a basis for Cease and Desist orders. The ITC has found that Samsung was in the right about that patent. Neither the White House, nor the ITC, nor any court of law has determined that Samsung was abusing their FRAND patent.
Some of the Samsung tablets have that - e.g. I have a Note 10.1 which comes with an IR transmitter. I think the newer Galaxy Tabs also have them.
They are ergonomically bad, after 10 minutes I get pain in my wrists and elbows. The only place I have found desktop sized touch screens to be useful is when stood up, for example at a point of sale.
Maybe that's the better way to sue desktops anyway: standing up rather than sitting down. Sitting down for hours is an ergonomic disaster in the first place, maybe we could kill two birds with one stone there.
It's just one file which has the wrong permissions. That's correctable with "chmod". That's not a cork in the hole, it's someone building a huge castle with all sorts of fortifications and then not locking the door. Stupid, but trivially easy to fix.
I don't think so. I usually agree with him - I often dislike the way how he says things though. Also there is his insistence on the "GNU/Linux" thing, which not only goes against the FSF ideals (you don't get to keep naming rights) it's also a really stupid name.
It's not fraud, but it may well be misleading advertising. It confuses customers about their rights, and creates wrong impressions about the rights they have if they were to buy competing products. In many European jurisdictions misleading advertising is also against the law.
That's only regarding advertising, btw - Apple is still entitled to offer extended warranties with more comprehensive coverage than what the law requires, provided they state clearly what the customer gets.
Well, in general I can only advise to walk away from any deal which sounds fishy - there is no amount of money which can compensate for that. That's because a con-man will *know* what the con is about, so anything he'll offer as guarantee will always be worth less than what he expects to gain. Trying to outwit a con man is a fool's game.
Otherwise it wouldn't be irrational to accept bitcoins per se, but it's difficult to see how that would ever make sense - it's not impossible, merely not compelling. You could also offer to pay in silkworm futures - if you just happen to have a large amount of those - you will similarly have problems finding someone to accept the deal, and for similarly reasons: your potential business partners will not have any idea how much silkworm futures are worth, how to convert them into money, how to transfer and handle them. Just looking into that is effort, and most people will be unwilling to invest that effort.
That's why money is such a great trading tool, and has almost completely replaced bartering with goods.
You could achieve the very same thing without using bitcoins. Disregarding the risk of using bitcoin exchanges, and disregarding the quality of this particular market - if I get paid in USD, I can buy gold or gold futures for that. The extra step of converting into bitcoins first gains me exactly nothing.
In the same way I could convert my USD into EUR and trade on the Athens Derivatives Exchange. But why?
I don't really see anything compelling about your example. If you want me to do some work for you and we agree on the price, I would prefer not to receive payments in bitcoin - it's a hassle for me. Certainly I would want to be compensated for that hassle - if I bother at all - so using bitcoin for that transaction would be a disadvantage to you.
Assuming you would offer me more significantly more than the amount asked, simply by going the redundant bitcoin step, I'd step away from the deal since I'd take that as an indication that something fishy is going on.
They bought the data from different sources, but apparently messed up merging it. E.g. in Japan a slightly different GPS standard is used - which can shift your location by 250m or so if you get it wrong. They apparently also used data from openstreetmaps, which doesn't seem to be quite as good as they hoped for. Still considering all the data they bought, it's surprising the result is so bad.
But NZ is not responsible for the servers, or are they? They'd point to the US government for that, and I think that would be correct in this case.
Dialing *2767*3855# seems slightly more complicated than going through the menus and selecting factory reset, though. So in that sense I think it's not a problem. Apart from that, I recommend NoTelURL - then you can set that as default when the "choose dialer" dialog comes up, and it won't do anything with USSD codes in websites. (It's free, too.)
Lame. "in their work, that is their attribution" - that's most definitely not what we were talking about in this thread, and you could have made your point in the first post without this whole dance. What we were talking about is whether you have to keep that note intact in derivative copies. Do you think you have contributed to clarify that point through your posts? Seriously: this style of discussion sucks.
That's a somewhat useless comment. If you think I'm missing something at least tell me what that is. If you want to talk about some legal technicality: either tell us what it is or have a hard look whether it's relevant in the context of this thread. Surely you can do better than this "I know something and you common people couldn't possibly understand" act?
Not sure what you mean by that. GPL v2 is incompatible with attribution requirements, v3 allows you to amend the terms to require attribution. It's not a requirement by default.
I worked on one of those. The customer needed a PCB with an FPGA on it, which was to be the prototype. They already had VC funding. They contracted us for the hardware design and were developing the software themselves. The effort for the hardware design was two engineers for 6 months (at contracting rates) plus material, PCB manufacturing etc. On top of that they had to live of something while they developed the software, so for a few individuals that hard to pull off without any funding.
I don't see how these changes help in those cases at all. If you are simply copying another person's idea, having a prototype and showing how it works is trivial. It's only hard to do if you actually invent something.
The whole thing seems really puzzling, it wants to differentiate kickstarter from being a store by moving it closer to being a store. And if you want to develop something you can't show how you envision the final product to look like. Why is that useful?
The Colombia University Law School has done a study, which suggests the error rates are high: http://www2.law.columbia.edu/instructionalservices/liebman/liebman_final.pdf
is the death penalty a deterrent against murder?
Yes, and of course prison is a deterrent for murders, too. However people commit murders anyway. That's to be expected, so you need to measure statistically whether the death penalty deters more people. Which is very difficult to measure, since all sorts of factors could affect murder rates. However looking at US states, there is no indication that the death penalty helps with that: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state
Yeah, maybe we can rewrite the headline to: "Ignorant CEO of irrelevant company is wrong about future software trends".
Don't know anything about the Archos tablets, but would this help? http://liliputing.com/2011/07/cyanogenmod-7-brings-android-2-3-to-more-archos-tablets.html
I think the qualification side of it, is only half of the story. Yes, someone can teach themselves and end up being better than others who have a degree - on average that's not going to be the case though.
That's not all there is to it though: if you have e.g. $100k today, or if you manage to save that amount within a few years by living *very* frugally (which many students do) and working a second job (which many students do), then you can invest that money. Let's say you invest in stocks - that should get you an average return of about 10%. In 30 years (assuming all gains go back into the investment account) those savings will have grown to about 1.75 million.
So take a hard look what it costs to get a degree. Also think about how much money you could save if you were working as hard and living as frugally as you would as a student for the duration a degree takes, but working a normal job. Then think about whether that's a good investment.
At the very least, carefully evaluate how much the school costs, and see if your chances of earning more money are really *that* much better when going to a school with higher fees.
Sounds like a business plan. I think I would like to start a PAC PalinForPresident2016.com Also the activities would be centered around traveling on a yacht around the world, as a "Good Will Tour".
(Of course I mean Michael Palin, I'm not *that* evil.)
Yes, it would make it easier. So why do they still object? Because for many religious people (and not just them) it's not enough to live their own lives according to their own ideas - they could do that already and have no censorship of the internet at all. No, they want to meddle in other people's lives as well.
And then of course there is what many corrupt and morally bankrupt politicians do: they pander. Acting "against immorality" - no matter how pointless and ineffectual - conveys the impression that they actually care about their purported principles.
[...] they don't seem to be able to decide who they ripped off the idea from. First Sony and now some guy. It can't be both.
That doesn't really matter for Samsung. They don't need to decide whether this Professor, or Sony or anyone else came up with the idea first, they just need to convince the jury that it wasn't Apple. If the jury doesn't believe one theory they might still accept the other. Apple needs to argue against both.
BTW: those two USB plugs in your picture look just about as dissimilar as two USB plugs can do. That's what you get for using a standard. As for the tablet side: the plug from Samsung is a lot uglier and a little more practical - the raised border should afford a better hold when unplugging.