Ah, the faked heart attack, longtime fallback plan of British MP's when anyone get's close to hauling them before a court. Depressingly it works every fscking time here.
What makes you think that's enough? Adobe have the source but can't get a working Flash compiled for x64 (and dropped ARM), Mozilla just gave up trying to build FireFox for x64 and I've spent far too much of my life patching around the platform dependencies porting other peoples source.
It's not easy even if you plan ahead and design portability in. It's almost impossible if you're a typical Windows shop with no expectations your code will ever need to run anywhere else.
"due diligence would include seeing if his name was a party to a lawsuit"
...which doesn't work very well if the case records are no longer available to be found, as Samsung point out in their filings. The only reason anyone knows about the Seagate case is one lawyers personal recollection and Hogan incriminating himself, both occurring after the trial.
You completely miss the point. This wasn't just a court battle, it was a PR war. It had to be because the legal side is bogus and courts around the world are waking up to that. The PR war will survive longer than the legal one.
Yes, the jury saw the unredacted version. The court saw it. The lawyers saw it.
We didn't. The tame journalists Apple fed a pack of lies to before, during and after, didn't.
The jury didn't seem to fall for it, if rejecting Apples design patent claims means anything. Now we see the pack of lies is exposed and perhaps some of the idiot journalists will realise they were played.
I like that level of hopping but do sometimes wonder if they're just trying to hide an otherwise lacklustre beer behind a palate bludgeoning wall of hop. The original IPAs used excess hops for preservation, the beer was powerfully flavoured before adding them. US craft brewers sometimes seem to forget beer is much more than hop bitterness.
Proper GB cellar temp is 12-13C and beer should be served at cellar temp. GB styles cellared or served at 'a few C' are an abomination and it's done to hide the bloody awful flavour (or lack of) of a bad beer. Might as well not put hops in it at those temps - and indeed the places fond of superchilling sell insipid, sweet crap instead of beer.
Even continental beers aren't usually designed to be served that cold.
Last time I had unlimited quantities of free beer available in the US, it was so cold I couldn't down it quickly enough to get drunk - not helped by the appalling low alcohol content in the mass market crap they'd stuffed into bins full of ice. It never warmed enough to detect if there was any flavour at all in the crap.
Right now we're at the stage where a bunch of parasitic, piss poor vertical search companies in league with Microsoft and a posse of other sworn enemies, have filed 400 pages of *allegations*. I confidently predict between 390 and 400 of those pages are outright lies.
The EU tried to get Google to volunteer to punish themselves based on those *unproven* allegations. Google didn't bend over far enough and have essentially called their bluff. Now the EU needs to actually spend time and money proving there's a case to answer. This isn't going to end in a 10% fine, however often Fairsearch+MS+posse tell the world it will, it will most likely end with a very embarassed EU accepting the same offer Google already made but most important, the vertical search scum exposed for what they are.
Actually a bank note QR code wouldn't hold a URL at all. QR codes encode arbitrary strings. Unless they're incredibly dumb implementing it the worst that would happen is it mistaking a serial number for a phone number and trying to call it. Not much chance of a scanner getting infected trying that!
Bullshit. Samsung's copying made it the easiest target and one with the best chance of an Apple win. Easiest starting point, not the only attack, not even the real target.
Apple expected to get a precedent setting win for their ludicrous design patents from a jury that had to rule on the blatant Samsung UI copying, must have seemed guaranteed that jury would find it easy to give Apple everything. That's the precedent needed to simplify going after every Android device and Android itself. What actually happened is a tainted jury decided they could punish Samsung without bothering with the work involved in assessing the design patent claims, so they just skipped those claims as not infringed.
Apple had every intention of attacking Android, not just Samsungs skin on it. A lazy jury just put a huge obstacle on that plan, if Samsung's devices didn't infringe it's hard to imagine anyone's devices could infringe. An Apple friendly jury just wrecked Apples war against Android.
One of the things that continues to puzzle me about live tiles on the desktop: you can see them in the Metro desktop but apps run fullscreen and you can't see any tiles... if I'm at my PC I'm running apps not staring at the desktop so what's the point of live tiles?
It's another feature that works on a phone, a device that spends most of it's time waiting for user action on its home screen. Makes sense in a windowed desktop environment where you can leave widgets exposed - especially if you have a taskbar or notification area to put them in. But make no sense at all in the Metro "workflow is more efficient if every app runs fullscreen" environment!
What's frightened MS is the realisation that consumers are beginning to realise they don't need Windows to consume content. Their requirements are often so simple they don't even need a PC. Just like MS had to play catchup with Internet support after dismissing it, MS again noticed the danger barely in time and are doing whatever it takes to buy into in the new market.
The only difference is: with the Internet they screwed competition by leveraging their desktop monopoly to destroy any commercial market for other browsers. This time they're more desperate and happy to screw their own customers to buy survival in a post PC world, leveraging the same desktop monopoly.
They've dumbed down Win8 Metro so much that users will find it no more challenging adapting to IOS or Android than Metro on tablets or phones. It's the world Google saw coming when they created Chrome. It's just a matter of time till Win8 is given away free, funded completely by their app store, they can't tax Android enough to make anything above zero look like a bargain. The blatant attempt to use the desktop monopoly won't work in a world that doesn't need the desktop.
Will we? My arms won't magically stretch an extra couple of inches so I can reach the screen without stretching. It won't get any less tiring holding my arm horizontally either.
Touch is a solution to problems I simply don't have on the desktop. On a space limited device like a phone touch frees valuable surface for the display but I don't have a space problem on the desktop. Touch on a phone means I don't have to find somewhere to put down an input device where ever I am, my PC has a convenient desk for my keyboard/mouse/joystick/graphics pad.
Touch works where the benefits of a built in, no space used controller outweigh the downside of a pathetically inprecise pointing device with kludgy multitouch standing in for the many&precise degrees of freedom key+mouse offers.
Touch on the desktop is this years version of 3D on TV. Someone needs to sell it more than anyone needs to use it.
"they're trying to unify the interfaces so that the tablet experience mirrors the desktop experience"
You have it back to front. They're modifying the desktop to expose PC users to their tablet/phone product UI. Not because it's a good UI for PC. Not because any user ever asked for the same UI on such different devices. Certainly not because anyone wants this shitty UI.
This is leveraging a monopoly to support a failed product. They cant sell phones so they need to train users on the phone interface so the sheep will all choose Win8 on tablet and phone.
They also need to ditch the traditional desktop because it's too open, so open MS cant tax users on every app sale like Apple and to a lesser extent Google can.
This is monopoly abuse as a form of marketing and it has no benefit for users. It remains to be seen if it benefits MS profits or if the backlash sinks Win8 as well as their phone business.
Frankly a root exploit is one of their lesser sins.
Then their cardinal sins must be Hitlerian; (from David Arlie's write-up)
You forget the episodes like their broken hardware accelerated NIC, that dropped random bits.
First the spent months claiming there was no bug. Then they spent months claiming they'd fixed it (they hadn't). Then they claimed they'd fixed it when they'd actually just disabled the acceleration and fallen back to software!
Over a year of data loss for anyone that believed them.
Same thing happened with their attempt at accelerated sound hardware. And pretty much everything else they've tried accelerating apart from GPUs. GPUs have a whole different class of problems to do with not listening to feedback.
Nvidia are just serial fuckups. Wasted half my saturday trying to find a driver release that would work on my wifes Kubuntu 11 PC. Eventually gave in and upgraded to 12.04 instead of manually erasing the broken install yet again... to find another fscking broken driver and no X. These idiots are completely incompetent and simply don't respond to error reports or much of anything else from ordinary users.
Nvidia, still haven't forgotten all the accelerated functions in your chipsets that gradually got turned of as drivers updated, because the hardware was rotten to the core and couldn't be made to work. Or the ongoing multi year saga of begging for working PAL TV support, all of it falling on deaf ears. Or the magically vanished TV out support when Vista shipped.
Frankly a root exploit is one of their lesser sins.
Brittle infrastructure is a problem for the developed world and our comfort but pretty minor.
The big issue is migration, the normal response to climate change. Migration causes conflict. That worked OKish before we filled the planet, today mass migration will be a catastrophe that could push half the planet to war.
Sure, the species will survive. The well armed ones.
Users of signal amplifiers are likely to see 4G transmissions drive the amps into clipping, taking out everything. That's the main reason they don't know how many households will be affected, regional signal prediction can't give good enough estimates of individual conditions.
I'm sitting right on the border between 2 transmitters, both needed masthead amps for good reception on all multiplexes. One of them has 5 muxes in the 4G danger zone. I'm not pleased.
...is irrelevant since sales appear to have collapsed. Whatever it is, it's stopped working.
The deep integration of Amazon and it's sales operation is what put me off Fire. I want a general computing device on my sofa, not a shop front that happens to do other things as well with a brand owner trying to sneak lockdown back in with every update.
I guess all the folk that want the Amazon experience already bought in. Now its time to sell to the rest of us.
The Sony build of ICS isn't really an upgrade over Gingerbread. Some bits run better, others worse and on low end (512Mb) devices it really struggles with RAM. It is worth trying 3rd party builds, without so much Sony crapware ICS feels noticeably faster and smoother.
If you play games, don't do it. ICS broke a significant number of games and we're still waiting for updates. Gameloft and EA seem worst.
Pretty certain I had the same issue on my Xperia Play with Gingerbread, except trying to connect to any other network, encrypted or not cleared it. The ICS beta misbehaved exactly the same way.
After switching to AOKP ICS 4.0.4 I'm struggling to understand how Sony could screw up their ICS build so much, it's like using a different phone. It doesn't run out of RAM, runs smoother, has more free internal space and hasn't crashed at all, the exact opposite of the pile of shit Sony released.
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Ah, the faked heart attack, longtime fallback plan of British MP's when anyone get's close to hauling them before a court. Depressingly it works every fscking time here.
Nice to see it didn't work this time ;)
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What makes you think that's enough? Adobe have the source but can't get a working Flash compiled for x64 (and dropped ARM), Mozilla just gave up trying to build FireFox for x64 and I've spent far too much of my life patching around the platform dependencies porting other peoples source.
It's not easy even if you plan ahead and design portability in. It's almost impossible if you're a typical Windows shop with no expectations your code will ever need to run anywhere else.
"due diligence would include seeing if his name was a party to a lawsuit"
...which doesn't work very well if the case records are no longer available to be found, as Samsung point out in their filings. The only reason anyone knows about the Seagate case is one lawyers personal recollection and Hogan incriminating himself, both occurring after the trial.
You completely miss the point. This wasn't just a court battle, it was a PR war. It had to be because the legal side is bogus and courts around the world are waking up to that. The PR war will survive longer than the legal one.
Yes, the jury saw the unredacted version. The court saw it. The lawyers saw it.
We didn't. The tame journalists Apple fed a pack of lies to before, during and after, didn't.
The jury didn't seem to fall for it, if rejecting Apples design patent claims means anything. Now we see the pack of lies is exposed and perhaps some of the idiot journalists will realise they were played.
How does that work? My tablet and phone run Android, my laptop runs Kubuntu.
I like that level of hopping but do sometimes wonder if they're just trying to hide an otherwise lacklustre beer behind a palate bludgeoning wall of hop. The original IPAs used excess hops for preservation, the beer was powerfully flavoured before adding them. US craft brewers sometimes seem to forget beer is much more than hop bitterness.
Proper GB cellar temp is 12-13C and beer should be served at cellar temp. GB styles cellared or served at 'a few C' are an abomination and it's done to hide the bloody awful flavour (or lack of) of a bad beer. Might as well not put hops in it at those temps - and indeed the places fond of superchilling sell insipid, sweet crap instead of beer.
Even continental beers aren't usually designed to be served that cold.
Last time I had unlimited quantities of free beer available in the US, it was so cold I couldn't down it quickly enough to get drunk - not helped by the appalling low alcohol content in the mass market crap they'd stuffed into bins full of ice. It never warmed enough to detect if there was any flavour at all in the crap.
Right now we're at the stage where a bunch of parasitic, piss poor vertical search companies in league with Microsoft and a posse of other sworn enemies, have filed 400 pages of *allegations*. I confidently predict between 390 and 400 of those pages are outright lies.
The EU tried to get Google to volunteer to punish themselves based on those *unproven* allegations. Google didn't bend over far enough and have essentially called their bluff. Now the EU needs to actually spend time and money proving there's a case to answer. This isn't going to end in a 10% fine, however often Fairsearch+MS+posse tell the world it will, it will most likely end with a very embarassed EU accepting the same offer Google already made but most important, the vertical search scum exposed for what they are.
Ed Sheeran is remarkably popular. However when they claimed 1:10 of the entire UK population BT'd his music, he's not that popular. No one is.
Makes it hard to take any of the claims seriously, simple arithmetic says they're lying.
Actually a bank note QR code wouldn't hold a URL at all. QR codes encode arbitrary strings. Unless they're incredibly dumb implementing it the worst that would happen is it mistaking a serial number for a phone number and trying to call it. Not much chance of a scanner getting infected trying that!
Bullshit. Samsung's copying made it the easiest target and one with the best chance of an Apple win. Easiest starting point, not the only attack, not even the real target.
Apple expected to get a precedent setting win for their ludicrous design patents from a jury that had to rule on the blatant Samsung UI copying, must have seemed guaranteed that jury would find it easy to give Apple everything. That's the precedent needed to simplify going after every Android device and Android itself. What actually happened is a tainted jury decided they could punish Samsung without bothering with the work involved in assessing the design patent claims, so they just skipped those claims as not infringed.
Apple had every intention of attacking Android, not just Samsungs skin on it. A lazy jury just put a huge obstacle on that plan, if Samsung's devices didn't infringe it's hard to imagine anyone's devices could infringe. An Apple friendly jury just wrecked Apples war against Android.
One of the things that continues to puzzle me about live tiles on the desktop: you can see them in the Metro desktop but apps run fullscreen and you can't see any tiles... if I'm at my PC I'm running apps not staring at the desktop so what's the point of live tiles?
It's another feature that works on a phone, a device that spends most of it's time waiting for user action on its home screen. Makes sense in a windowed desktop environment where you can leave widgets exposed - especially if you have a taskbar or notification area to put them in. But make no sense at all in the Metro "workflow is more efficient if every app runs fullscreen" environment!
What's frightened MS is the realisation that consumers are beginning to realise they don't need Windows to consume content. Their requirements are often so simple they don't even need a PC. Just like MS had to play catchup with Internet support after dismissing it, MS again noticed the danger barely in time and are doing whatever it takes to buy into in the new market.
The only difference is: with the Internet they screwed competition by leveraging their desktop monopoly to destroy any commercial market for other browsers. This time they're more desperate and happy to screw their own customers to buy survival in a post PC world, leveraging the same desktop monopoly.
They've dumbed down Win8 Metro so much that users will find it no more challenging adapting to IOS or Android than Metro on tablets or phones. It's the world Google saw coming when they created Chrome. It's just a matter of time till Win8 is given away free, funded completely by their app store, they can't tax Android enough to make anything above zero look like a bargain. The blatant attempt to use the desktop monopoly won't work in a world that doesn't need the desktop.
Will we? My arms won't magically stretch an extra couple of inches so I can reach the screen without stretching. It won't get any less tiring holding my arm horizontally either.
Touch is a solution to problems I simply don't have on the desktop. On a space limited device like a phone touch frees valuable surface for the display but I don't have a space problem on the desktop. Touch on a phone means I don't have to find somewhere to put down an input device where ever I am, my PC has a convenient desk for my keyboard/mouse/joystick/graphics pad.
Touch works where the benefits of a built in, no space used controller outweigh the downside of a pathetically inprecise pointing device with kludgy multitouch standing in for the many&precise degrees of freedom key+mouse offers.
Touch on the desktop is this years version of 3D on TV. Someone needs to sell it more than anyone needs to use it.
Help me out. Why does a better search function require ANY change in UI?
"they're trying to unify the interfaces so that the tablet experience mirrors the desktop experience"
You have it back to front. They're modifying the desktop to expose PC users to their tablet/phone product UI. Not because it's a good UI for PC. Not because any user ever asked for the same UI on such different devices. Certainly not because anyone wants this shitty UI.
This is leveraging a monopoly to support a failed product. They cant sell phones so they need to train users on the phone interface so the sheep will all choose Win8 on tablet and phone.
They also need to ditch the traditional desktop because it's too open, so open MS cant tax users on every app sale like Apple and to a lesser extent Google can.
This is monopoly abuse as a form of marketing and it has no benefit for users. It remains to be seen if it benefits MS profits or if the backlash sinks Win8 as well as their phone business.
Frankly a root exploit is one of their lesser sins.
Then their cardinal sins must be Hitlerian; (from David Arlie's write-up)
You forget the episodes like their broken hardware accelerated NIC, that dropped random bits.
First the spent months claiming there was no bug.
Then they spent months claiming they'd fixed it (they hadn't).
Then they claimed they'd fixed it when they'd actually just disabled the acceleration and fallen back to software!
Over a year of data loss for anyone that believed them.
Same thing happened with their attempt at accelerated sound hardware. And pretty much everything else they've tried accelerating apart from GPUs. GPUs have a whole different class of problems to do with not listening to feedback.
Nvidia are just serial fuckups. Wasted half my saturday trying to find a driver release that would work on my wifes Kubuntu 11 PC. Eventually gave in and upgraded to 12.04 instead of manually erasing the broken install yet again... to find another fscking broken driver and no X. These idiots are completely incompetent and simply don't respond to error reports or much of anything else from ordinary users.
Nvidia, still haven't forgotten all the accelerated functions in your chipsets that gradually got turned of as drivers updated, because the hardware was rotten to the core and couldn't be made to work. Or the ongoing multi year saga of begging for working PAL TV support, all of it falling on deaf ears. Or the magically vanished TV out support when Vista shipped.
Frankly a root exploit is one of their lesser sins.
Brittle infrastructure is a problem for the developed world and our comfort but pretty minor.
The big issue is migration, the normal response to climate change. Migration causes conflict. That worked OKish before we filled the planet, today mass migration will be a catastrophe that could push half the planet to war.
Sure, the species will survive. The well armed ones.
...and Gmail is not a good answer to anything.
Users of signal amplifiers are likely to see 4G transmissions drive the amps into clipping, taking out everything. That's the main reason they don't know how many households will be affected, regional signal prediction can't give good enough estimates of individual conditions.
I'm sitting right on the border between 2 transmitters, both needed masthead amps for good reception on all multiplexes. One of them has 5 muxes in the 4G danger zone. I'm not pleased.
the thing that drives Amazon tablet sales
...is irrelevant since sales appear to have collapsed. Whatever it is, it's stopped working.
The deep integration of Amazon and it's sales operation is what put me off Fire. I want a general computing device on my sofa, not a shop front that happens to do other things as well with a brand owner trying to sneak lockdown back in with every update.
I guess all the folk that want the Amazon experience already bought in. Now its time to sell to the rest of us.
...because typing in the 1st few letters of an app name really makes sense on a touchscreen!
The Sony build of ICS isn't really an upgrade over Gingerbread. Some bits run better, others worse and on low end (512Mb) devices it really struggles with RAM. It is worth trying 3rd party builds, without so much Sony crapware ICS feels noticeably faster and smoother.
If you play games, don't do it. ICS broke a significant number of games and we're still waiting for updates. Gameloft and EA seem worst.
Pretty certain I had the same issue on my Xperia Play with Gingerbread, except trying to connect to any other network, encrypted or not cleared it. The ICS beta misbehaved exactly the same way.
After switching to AOKP ICS 4.0.4 I'm struggling to understand how Sony could screw up their ICS build so much, it's like using a different phone. It doesn't run out of RAM, runs smoother, has more free internal space and hasn't crashed at all, the exact opposite of the pile of shit Sony released.