By using their own port, they can ensure that every device/cable that will ever be plugged into it (by a sane person) will work as expected.
Right, because Chinese suppliers of unauthorized cables and accessories just do not exist. And what is that cable that comes with you iDevice. Oh that's right, an adapter cable from standard USB to the iPod Dock connector.
implementations of video and audio over USB are not so standardized across the industry.
USB audio has been standardized since 1998. Video not so much, but MHL seems to be catching on now, and HDMI is now more standard than the S-Video and component outputs supported in the 30 pin connector (I'm guessing the new connector will drop at least component out, as it has far fewer pins to play with).
And if you go by the standards, USB doesn't carry anywhere close to enough power for modern devices to charge quickly for most people
Firewire charging was deprecated years ago, and modern iDevices only charge via USB. Even with their proprietary connectors. So this doesn't seem to be a concern to Apple.
Nowhere in the USB specification that if you connect your player to a car stereo which format the data should be in. Please cite anywhere in USB specification this information.
Try here, but it's only been around since 1998 so I guess you haven't had time to find it yet.
All iProducts ship with chargers equipped with standard USB ports.
No they are non-standard USB ports, as they follow Apple's own incompatible standards for charging ports rather than the USB consortium's standards. Also, iPad charging ports need non-standard connectors, as they draw 2.1A, which is above the 1.5A rating for a standard USB connector.
And the essential 3G patents which Apple has steadfastly refused to pay a single dime for for the last 5 years? Can we award Samsung their dollar back and ban sales of iPhones for that too. What a great idea, and if we do the same to HTC and Motorola, the cellphone division of Microsoft can move from Finland to the US and have their very own protected market!
It really doesn't matter whether 50 cents worth of your shiny new Samsung toy goes to Apple, or vice versa.
Except that isn't what Apple is asking for. They are asking for $24 of your new Samsung toy, plus 100% of the profit of Samsung's mobile division. If you were Samsung, would you want to settle out of court when that was the offer on the table?
Yes, they objected to.islam and.shia as well (I'm not sure about.koran or.quran, maybe noone tried to register those yet), and their justification as you said, was about keeping one organization from controlling a domain that may then exclude others who are not in 100% agreement with them. I suspect the press focus on.gay and other domains that they objected to on the grounds that they found them "offensive" is intended to deflect attention away from the other objections that western readers might agree with once they see the reasoning. If the Vatican gets the domain.catholic as proposed (and objected to by Saudi Arabia), do you think they will allow Eastern Orthodox organizations to set up subdomains?
They would probably object to.jew on the same basis they objected to.catholic. Which, unlike their objection to.gay, actually makes some sense (not handing exclusive control over a religious term to one organization which may exclude others with a legitimate claim to the label from using it).
In turn, the Buddhists have been doing things like setting themselves on fire to protest
The guy who set himself on fire near the PM's office a few weeks ago was from some extremist Islamic cult, not Buddhist, if that's what you're referring to.
First of all, sexual assault is a species of sexual harassment
Harassment implies a long term pattern of behaviour. Sexual assault can be part of a history of sexual harassment, but can also occur as a one-off event, so is a separate criminal charge.
Why are you spreading this false meme? Hackers don't lack social skills. If hacker can socially engineer people via the internet or in person how is that lacking social skills?
Those are not social skills. They are sociopath skills. Which probably explains the misogyny in the rest of your post.
It also looks like they sold out to Samsung. They seem to support even samsungs older phones which are worse off then some of there unsupported phones!
Samsung gives good support to third party developers, so their phones are well supported in return. Rather than blaming the Cyanogenmod developers for your device manufacturer's lack of support, and tossing out accusations of "sell-out", perhaps you would be better directing your anger at the device manufacturer that does not release specs or full source for their customized Android build.
it is primarily used in the DPRK DMZ, where it makes sense
No, it doesn't make sense. Anywhere. That is the consensus that has been reached globally, ironically led by the US in 1992, but now you're one of two countries left still deploying anti-personnel landmines.
But ide's and other tools have things like debuggers and other tools you can use integrated in, in a more modern sense. Of course emacs users claim they have that. But it is a bunch of macros in lisp to cli tools like gnu db.
Pretty much every IDE is just a bunch of macros in some language to cli tools that do the heavy lifting. Just because Emacs gives you the source code to make it obvious, does not make it inferior.
Samsung being a supplier for the iPhone would have access to these designs during the development stage.
Unlikely, from a company as secretive about their plans as Apple. Samsung supplied some internal components and the display. They wouldn't need access to the designs for that. Only the plastics supplier would have any significant information about the cosmetic design before release, and I recall at the time that Apple was throwing out a lot of flak so that even the plastics suppliers would not know which of the many designs they'd been given was the one that would be used in production.
It's going to be a tough thing for Samsung to argue against.
I don't see why. The document is a report showing things the Galaxy S (widely believed to be the Samsung phone most similar to an iPhone) does differently to iPhone. If the comments in this document suggesting to make it more like an iPhone were never implemented, how does this help Apple (apart from hoping to confuse the jury into thinking this document provides evidence of copying)?
Yes it's obvious. The gasp/applause was because in early 2007, smartphones did not have the GPU power to smoothly scroll the entire screen in pace with the user's finger like that. There is a very good reason that the iPhone was launched with a 480x320 display at a time that the trend in Windows Mobile smartphones was moving from 640x480 to 800x480; they didn't have the GPU power to do the visual effects they wanted on such a high resolution screen.
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You'd have to completely rewrite it from scratch, possibly using something like Cairo, for it to work at a tolerable speed on modern hardware. CDE expects everything to be a flat unaccelerated bitplane. It's slow as hell.
Are you suggesting that modern hardware is slower than hardware of 19 years ago at rendering flat unaccelerated bitplanes?
My first thought on seeing the title was WTF...Microsoft are releasing their own 0-day exploits ahead of a product launch?
I guess marketing should be careful next time to write some exclusions into their company-wide email requesting staff to spread the word Surface as widely as possible to get it into peoples' subconscious.
The pre-trial blockade of Samsung devices based on a few flimsy patents that might be worth a few cents at most (though Apple wants to claim $24 + 100% of Samsung's mobile division profit). The fact that that Samsung has been sanctioned for failing to issue orders to its staff to retain evidence before August 28 2010 (6 months before the case was filed) with the jury informed that they should assume this equates to willful destruction of evidence, while Apple did not issue such orders until April 2011, after they had filed suit, with no consequence.
They also use electoral roll information (or some other source), as they kept sending me personally addressed letters when I moved into a new flat without ever purchasing a TV. Every second letter would include a form to return if you wanted to declare that you don't own a TV, with the promise that the harassment would stop if you returned it. The rest were just accusing me of avoidance and threatening to start court action if I did not start paying. After a while I gave up returning the forms, as they obviously had no effect, then inspectors started turning up on my doorstep, and when I politely declined to invite them inside, the "detector van" parked itself outside for an evening.
Copying from the command line is fast on both DOS and Linux (and I presume OS X, though I don't know about older generation MacOS - did it even have a command line, or was it just AppleScript driving the GUI?). But on all platforms these days copy from the GUI is extremely slow. It didn't used to be on Linux, but spending far too many CPU and GPU cycles on calculating estimated times and displaying animations for a trivial operation seems to be one of the misfeatures that GNOME 3 and Unity have decided to copy from Windows and OS X.
For my mother, the hard drive was that big box under the desk. The computer was the monitor. So any symptom that displayed on the screen (blue screens etc), were caused by the computer, things like the switch being off at the wall were "my hard drive stopped working". Now she has a laptop, I've yet to get a call about the hard drive for that, but if I do, the first thing to check will be the power supply brick.
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Right, because Chinese suppliers of unauthorized cables and accessories just do not exist. And what is that cable that comes with you iDevice. Oh that's right, an adapter cable from standard USB to the iPod Dock connector.
USB audio has been standardized since 1998. Video not so much, but MHL seems to be catching on now, and HDMI is now more standard than the S-Video and component outputs supported in the 30 pin connector (I'm guessing the new connector will drop at least component out, as it has far fewer pins to play with).
Firewire charging was deprecated years ago, and modern iDevices only charge via USB. Even with their proprietary connectors. So this doesn't seem to be a concern to Apple.
Try here, but it's only been around since 1998 so I guess you haven't had time to find it yet.
No they are non-standard USB ports, as they follow Apple's own incompatible standards for charging ports rather than the USB consortium's standards. Also, iPad charging ports need non-standard connectors, as they draw 2.1A, which is above the 1.5A rating for a standard USB connector.
And the essential 3G patents which Apple has steadfastly refused to pay a single dime for for the last 5 years? Can we award Samsung their dollar back and ban sales of iPhones for that too. What a great idea, and if we do the same to HTC and Motorola, the cellphone division of Microsoft can move from Finland to the US and have their very own protected market!
Except that isn't what Apple is asking for. They are asking for $24 of your new Samsung toy, plus 100% of the profit of Samsung's mobile division. If you were Samsung, would you want to settle out of court when that was the offer on the table?
Yes, they objected to .islam and .shia as well (I'm not sure about .koran or .quran, maybe noone tried to register those yet), and their justification as you said, was about keeping one organization from controlling a domain that may then exclude others who are not in 100% agreement with them. I suspect the press focus on .gay and other domains that they objected to on the grounds that they found them "offensive" is intended to deflect attention away from the other objections that western readers might agree with once they see the reasoning. If the Vatican gets the domain .catholic as proposed (and objected to by Saudi Arabia), do you think they will allow Eastern Orthodox organizations to set up subdomains?
They would probably object to .jew on the same basis they objected to .catholic. Which, unlike their objection to .gay, actually makes some sense (not handing exclusive control over a religious term to one organization which may exclude others with a legitimate claim to the label from using it).
The guy who set himself on fire near the PM's office a few weeks ago was from some extremist Islamic cult, not Buddhist, if that's what you're referring to.
Harassment implies a long term pattern of behaviour. Sexual assault can be part of a history of sexual harassment, but can also occur as a one-off event, so is a separate criminal charge.
... WebOS never had a market share that threatened Apple's dominance of the smartphone market.
FTFY.
Dragging down the notification bar is an extra step.
Those are not social skills. They are sociopath skills. Which probably explains the misogyny in the rest of your post.
Samsung gives good support to third party developers, so their phones are well supported in return. Rather than blaming the Cyanogenmod developers for your device manufacturer's lack of support, and tossing out accusations of "sell-out", perhaps you would be better directing your anger at the device manufacturer that does not release specs or full source for their customized Android build.
No, it doesn't make sense. Anywhere. That is the consensus that has been reached globally, ironically led by the US in 1992, but now you're one of two countries left still deploying anti-personnel landmines.
Pretty much every IDE is just a bunch of macros in some language to cli tools that do the heavy lifting. Just because Emacs gives you the source code to make it obvious, does not make it inferior.
Unlikely, from a company as secretive about their plans as Apple. Samsung supplied some internal components and the display. They wouldn't need access to the designs for that. Only the plastics supplier would have any significant information about the cosmetic design before release, and I recall at the time that Apple was throwing out a lot of flak so that even the plastics suppliers would not know which of the many designs they'd been given was the one that would be used in production.
I don't see why. The document is a report showing things the Galaxy S (widely believed to be the Samsung phone most similar to an iPhone) does differently to iPhone. If the comments in this document suggesting to make it more like an iPhone were never implemented, how does this help Apple (apart from hoping to confuse the jury into thinking this document provides evidence of copying)?
Yes it's obvious. The gasp/applause was because in early 2007, smartphones did not have the GPU power to smoothly scroll the entire screen in pace with the user's finger like that. There is a very good reason that the iPhone was launched with a 480x320 display at a time that the trend in Windows Mobile smartphones was moving from 640x480 to 800x480; they didn't have the GPU power to do the visual effects they wanted on such a high resolution screen.
Are you suggesting that modern hardware is slower than hardware of 19 years ago at rendering flat unaccelerated bitplanes?
My first thought on seeing the title was WTF...Microsoft are releasing their own 0-day exploits ahead of a product launch?
I guess marketing should be careful next time to write some exclusions into their company-wide email requesting staff to spread the word Surface as widely as possible to get it into peoples' subconscious.
Maybe you should, before reading the situation. Apple introduced the F700 in the context of Samsung designs after the iPhone, not before.
The pre-trial blockade of Samsung devices based on a few flimsy patents that might be worth a few cents at most (though Apple wants to claim $24 + 100% of Samsung's mobile division profit). The fact that that Samsung has been sanctioned for failing to issue orders to its staff to retain evidence before August 28 2010 (6 months before the case was filed) with the jury informed that they should assume this equates to willful destruction of evidence, while Apple did not issue such orders until April 2011, after they had filed suit, with no consequence.
They also use electoral roll information (or some other source), as they kept sending me personally addressed letters when I moved into a new flat without ever purchasing a TV. Every second letter would include a form to return if you wanted to declare that you don't own a TV, with the promise that the harassment would stop if you returned it. The rest were just accusing me of avoidance and threatening to start court action if I did not start paying. After a while I gave up returning the forms, as they obviously had no effect, then inspectors started turning up on my doorstep, and when I politely declined to invite them inside, the "detector van" parked itself outside for an evening.
Copying from the command line is fast on both DOS and Linux (and I presume OS X, though I don't know about older generation MacOS - did it even have a command line, or was it just AppleScript driving the GUI?). But on all platforms these days copy from the GUI is extremely slow. It didn't used to be on Linux, but spending far too many CPU and GPU cycles on calculating estimated times and displaying animations for a trivial operation seems to be one of the misfeatures that GNOME 3 and Unity have decided to copy from Windows and OS X.
For my mother, the hard drive was that big box under the desk. The computer was the monitor. So any symptom that displayed on the screen (blue screens etc), were caused by the computer, things like the switch being off at the wall were "my hard drive stopped working". Now she has a laptop, I've yet to get a call about the hard drive for that, but if I do, the first thing to check will be the power supply brick.