Because Apple already submitted images into evidence dating back to 2003 for the iPad and from 2005 for the iPhone. The images linked above are from 2006, making them irrelevant 'noise'.
According to the link from TFA, the only reason the judge is not allowing Samsung's image from 2006 is because it was submitted too late in the discovery process. It has nothing to do with any earlier images for the iPhone/iPad. Sucks for Samsung, but that's the way the law works. At any rate, is the trial over Samsung's designs looking too much like early iPhone/iPad prototypes, which IIRC, differ significantly from the final product? Earlier images only count if they incorporate the same features that are being contested now.
Everyone seems to forget that Samsung was machining these phones for Apple, so of course they knew exactly what they looked like and operated long before they hit the public.
So Samsung, not Foxconn, "machines" the phones for Apple? Samsung supplies some of the ICs. I doubt that Apple would give them any more information than absolutely necessary on what the phone was going to look like.
Quick question, at what point does your sampling turn into tracking?
The hardware gets cheap enough to put at every intersection with a stoplight, the camara is already there to control the timing of the lights. They record every plate going through those intersections and store the date and time. A year from now your significant other wants to know where you were on Halloween, the lawyer subpeonas the records and now the lawyer has access to your location all night long.
The cameras they use now to control traffic lights don't have the resolution to grab license numbers. Even if they did, they still couldn't under common lighting conditions. That's why red light cameras often have high-intensity strobes that fire even during the day, so they can use a high enough shutter speed to freeze the image and and get good contrast. The plate scanners must be closer or the speed differential between the camera and plate must be low enough so a good image can be captured. I don't think it's going to be cheap enough in the near future to put cameras at every intersection. Which is a good thing.
I just saw a brief blurb on the local news in LA, that the state troopers down here, were looking closely at peoples' plates to see if they were obscured....due I guess to some problems lately with the traffic cams catching them, and I think I heard some police cars are now being outfitted here with plate readers.
Awhile back officers in Texas started ticketing people who had license plate frames that obscured too much of the plate--typically the "Texas" portion. I suspect it's to make it easier for the red light cameras to verify the state info as well as the license number.
Well, I don't think the courts would be sympathetic toward the police if, say, they posted someone in a car right outside of your door to follow you whenever you leave your property. Certainly that wouldn't pass muster for the framers of the constitution if someone did the same thing when people walked/rode horses to get around. This is only different in that the scanners are either mobile or at fixed locations, so rather than continual surveillance you have discrete data points, some of which are random wherever you pass a mobile scanner. But it's still surveillance w/o a warrant.
As far as people taking video/images of your license number, it seems that most of the time I see those images the license number is blurred out. I'm presuming that there's some legal liability or no one would do that.
A quick search of apple inc in books on amazon returns plenty of results. Some are obviously positive and others negative about Apple, and some are probably neutral. The author suggests that Apple doesn't allow mentions of competitors, or at lest Amazon, in their bookstore. So which of the two, if either, is evil?
Exactly. Something upstream will either be slower or will have traffic congestion and keep your transfer rates well below 100Mbps. It's marketing drivel that everyone pays for because of useless network upgrades.
It seems that competition really does improve service quality when it comes to ISPs.
No, it just means that they spends wads of cash going for "look at me, look at me" meaningless specmanship games, which the consumer eventually pays for. Raw speed != quality.
The most controversial issue in RAND licensing is whether the "reasonable" license price should include the value contributed by the standard-setting organization's decision to adopt the standard.
In other words, reasonable license price *might* take into account how valuable your patents are worth. Quality rather than quantity.
A quick search shows claims that Samsung has a strong LTE patent portfolio and there's speculation that that might hurt Apple in the next round for a 4G iPhone. Do you have any sources indicating that Apple actually has a strong LTE patent portfolio relative to Samsung?
Point of FRAND is that anyone can walk up to patent holder and get a license for the standard technology on same terms as everyone else.
I think FRAND allows you to get a license for the standard technology on FAIR terms, not the SAME terms as everyone else. If you enter the FRAND agreement w/o a patent portfolio to add to FRAND, it seems fair to me that you should pay more than those who do. They did the work and spent money to develop the technology used in 3G and covered by the patents. If you did not, pay more to those who did.
Wish I hadn't commented so I could mod your comment up. Ditto no fan of Obama, but really, he's getting way too much of the blame here. I read an article on some financial news site that compared the economic recovery during the first three years of Regan's administration versus Obama's and taking Obama to task. What the author failed to point out is that the prior recession was local while the current one is global. I remember that financial advisers were recommending diversifying into global markets, on the idea that not all markets would be down at the same time. Also, the CEO of the company I worked for at the time (IC manufacturing) took pains to point out that while our domestic revenue was significantly down, our Asian and European markets were holding their own. Certainly not the same as today.
Please keep in mind that nearly half of the population-- at the bottom-- pays NO income tax. There's a problem at the other end, too.
I keep hearing this, and it's a misleading statement. Most of the time it's stated as "half of the people pay no taxes." You're closer; "NO [federal] income tax." But federal income tax in only about half of the federal revenue, most of the rest comes from FICA, which you never get back on your taxes. It's estimated that federal income tax is only about 1/5th of the total taxes/fees paid by the average person. State and local taxes are harder to evade.
Keep in mind also that many of those people paying no income tax are on SS and have little if any other income. Some of the others are teenagers making a few thousand a year, making enough to have to file but so little that they don't pay any federal taxes. But the way it's stated we're lead to think that it's all welfare cheats and deadbeats.
Pressed music CD's DVDs are not the same as the ones you use to burn. Pressed CDs/DVDs are not made of the same materials as those used for burning, and will last decades if properly taken care of.
Obviously I knew that pressed disks are different from those used in CD writers--I did mention that the older disks were pressed. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned them at all since it seemed to confuse you. There was some concern about the longevity of the pressed CDs and some thought the upper lifetime might be as little as 10 years. The failure mechanisms are mostly different between the two types.
As I pointed out, I have some fairly old CR-Rs that are still readable, despite similar concerns about the longevity of CD-R as with pressed CDs. Those concerns may be pessimistic, as they were with pressed CDs. You correctly point out that there is a difference in the type/quality of writable media. Your mileage may vary.
Semiconductors are made by diffusing impurities to make junctions for transistors and to create resistors. Diffusion is done at high temperatures. However, even at room temperature diffusion is still happening, even if it's very slow. So there is an upper limit to how long semiconductor devices can last--we're talking decades if not hundreds of years. There are other issues that could be shorter term, including but not limited to: metal migration, corrosion, both on die and on the interconnects, loss of programming in the EEPROM cells and so on. Metal migration is usually happens under current flow, but there are some defect mechanisms that can cause metal breaks even if the IC is just sitting there.
I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.
I started buying CDs in 1984. They're still playable today. I also have some still-readable CD-R disks that are pretty old, but of course not as old as the pressed disks. So is is possible that optical media could be readable after 25 years--assuming there are working players available? Yes. Guaranteed? Not so much.
AP and Reuters have been around for decades and were once considered excellent sources. They've been downsizing for at least the last decade and provide nowhere near the quality they use to.
There are 209,618,386 licensed drivers in the US (Source: 2009, DoT). Number of drivers who can drive more than one block without commiting a traffic violation: 0. Conclusion: There are 209,618,386 crimes committed in the US each day.
Actually, OBDIII might require a cellular or satellite transceiver in every new vehicle. That would allow the car to immediately alert the government when your vehicle does not meet emissions requirements. They would then contact you and require immediate repair. That the system could also include GPS and could potentially be used for tracking is beside the point. http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/093_OBD_Service_Info/Organizational_Statements/SEMA/SEMA_OBD_frequent_questions.htm
The electronics have a limited lifetime, the satellites probably have no maneuvering fuel, and aren't designed to be taken apart or refueled.
Use an ion-drive, solar powered 'tug' that goes from LEO to Geo-stationary orbit. Take a new satellite up, drop it off, find the nearest dead satellite, and use the tug to de-orbit the satellite as it returns to LEO. Using an ion-drive vehicle keeps refueling costs for multiple missions low.
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Wow, way to take a joke waaaaay too seriously.
Honest question. How many of those banned users are fabricated by the facebook anti google pr machine?
Since you're AC, we're assuming that you were banned by /. Are YOU fabricated?
Because Apple already submitted images into evidence dating back to 2003 for the iPad and from 2005 for the iPhone. The images linked above are from 2006, making them irrelevant 'noise'.
According to the link from TFA, the only reason the judge is not allowing Samsung's image from 2006 is because it was submitted too late in the discovery process. It has nothing to do with any earlier images for the iPhone/iPad. Sucks for Samsung, but that's the way the law works. At any rate, is the trial over Samsung's designs looking too much like early iPhone/iPad prototypes, which IIRC, differ significantly from the final product? Earlier images only count if they incorporate the same features that are being contested now.
Everyone seems to forget that Samsung was machining these phones for Apple, so of course they knew exactly what they looked like and operated long before they hit the public.
So Samsung, not Foxconn, "machines" the phones for Apple? Samsung supplies some of the ICs. I doubt that Apple would give them any more information than absolutely necessary on what the phone was going to look like.
Quick question, at what point does your sampling turn into tracking?
The hardware gets cheap enough to put at every intersection with a stoplight, the camara is already there to control the timing of the lights. They record every plate going through those intersections and store the date and time. A year from now your significant other wants to know where you were on Halloween, the lawyer subpeonas the records and now the lawyer has access to your location all night long.
The cameras they use now to control traffic lights don't have the resolution to grab license numbers. Even if they did, they still couldn't under common lighting conditions. That's why red light cameras often have high-intensity strobes that fire even during the day, so they can use a high enough shutter speed to freeze the image and and get good contrast. The plate scanners must be closer or the speed differential between the camera and plate must be low enough so a good image can be captured. I don't think it's going to be cheap enough in the near future to put cameras at every intersection. Which is a good thing.
I just saw a brief blurb on the local news in LA, that the state troopers down here, were looking closely at peoples' plates to see if they were obscured....due I guess to some problems lately with the traffic cams catching them, and I think I heard some police cars are now being outfitted here with plate readers.
Awhile back officers in Texas started ticketing people who had license plate frames that obscured too much of the plate--typically the "Texas" portion. I suspect it's to make it easier for the red light cameras to verify the state info as well as the license number.
Well, I don't think the courts would be sympathetic toward the police if, say, they posted someone in a car right outside of your door to follow you whenever you leave your property. Certainly that wouldn't pass muster for the framers of the constitution if someone did the same thing when people walked/rode horses to get around. This is only different in that the scanners are either mobile or at fixed locations, so rather than continual surveillance you have discrete data points, some of which are random wherever you pass a mobile scanner. But it's still surveillance w/o a warrant.
As far as people taking video/images of your license number, it seems that most of the time I see those images the license number is blurred out. I'm presuming that there's some legal liability or no one would do that.
A quick search of apple inc in books on amazon returns plenty of results. Some are obviously positive and others negative about Apple, and some are probably neutral. The author suggests that Apple doesn't allow mentions of competitors, or at lest Amazon, in their bookstore. So which of the two, if either, is evil?
Exactly. Something upstream will either be slower or will have traffic congestion and keep your transfer rates well below 100Mbps. It's marketing drivel that everyone pays for because of useless network upgrades.
It seems that competition really does improve service quality when it comes to ISPs.
No, it just means that they spends wads of cash going for "look at me, look at me" meaningless specmanship games, which the consumer eventually pays for. Raw speed != quality.
And wanting that to be so doesn't make it true.
Also, Apple has a huge portfolio of LTE patents which are licensed (to all comers) under FRAND terms--so the premise of your argument is also wrong.
From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing
The most controversial issue in RAND licensing is whether the "reasonable" license price should include the value contributed by the standard-setting organization's decision to adopt the standard.
In other words, reasonable license price *might* take into account how valuable your patents are worth. Quality rather than quantity.
A quick search shows claims that Samsung has a strong LTE patent portfolio and there's speculation that that might hurt Apple in the next round for a 4G iPhone. Do you have any sources indicating that Apple actually has a strong LTE patent portfolio relative to Samsung?
Point of FRAND is that anyone can walk up to patent holder and get a license for the standard technology on same terms as everyone else.
I think FRAND allows you to get a license for the standard technology on FAIR terms, not the SAME terms as everyone else. If you enter the FRAND agreement w/o a patent portfolio to add to FRAND, it seems fair to me that you should pay more than those who do. They did the work and spent money to develop the technology used in 3G and covered by the patents. If you did not, pay more to those who did.
Wish I hadn't commented so I could mod your comment up. Ditto no fan of Obama, but really, he's getting way too much of the blame here. I read an article on some financial news site that compared the economic recovery during the first three years of Regan's administration versus Obama's and taking Obama to task. What the author failed to point out is that the prior recession was local while the current one is global. I remember that financial advisers were recommending diversifying into global markets, on the idea that not all markets would be down at the same time. Also, the CEO of the company I worked for at the time (IC manufacturing) took pains to point out that while our domestic revenue was significantly down, our Asian and European markets were holding their own. Certainly not the same as today.
Please keep in mind that nearly half of the population-- at the bottom-- pays NO income tax. There's a problem at the other end, too.
I keep hearing this, and it's a misleading statement. Most of the time it's stated as "half of the people pay no taxes." You're closer; "NO [federal] income tax." But federal income tax in only about half of the federal revenue, most of the rest comes from FICA, which you never get back on your taxes. It's estimated that federal income tax is only about 1/5th of the total taxes/fees paid by the average person. State and local taxes are harder to evade.
Keep in mind also that many of those people paying no income tax are on SS and have little if any other income. Some of the others are teenagers making a few thousand a year, making enough to have to file but so little that they don't pay any federal taxes. But the way it's stated we're lead to think that it's all welfare cheats and deadbeats.
Dye type in CD-Rs makes a difference in longevity, at least with exposure to light: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R
Pressed music CD's DVDs are not the same as the ones you use to burn. Pressed CDs/DVDs are not made of the same materials as those used for burning, and will last decades if properly taken care of.
Obviously I knew that pressed disks are different from those used in CD writers--I did mention that the older disks were pressed. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned them at all since it seemed to confuse you. There was some concern about the longevity of the pressed CDs and some thought the upper lifetime might be as little as 10 years. The failure mechanisms are mostly different between the two types.
As I pointed out, I have some fairly old CR-Rs that are still readable, despite similar concerns about the longevity of CD-R as with pressed CDs. Those concerns may be pessimistic, as they were with pressed CDs. You correctly point out that there is a difference in the type/quality of writable media. Your mileage may vary.
Semiconductors are made by diffusing impurities to make junctions for transistors and to create resistors. Diffusion is done at high temperatures. However, even at room temperature diffusion is still happening, even if it's very slow. So there is an upper limit to how long semiconductor devices can last--we're talking decades if not hundreds of years. There are other issues that could be shorter term, including but not limited to: metal migration, corrosion, both on die and on the interconnects, loss of programming in the EEPROM cells and so on. Metal migration is usually happens under current flow, but there are some defect mechanisms that can cause metal breaks even if the IC is just sitting there.
do something else. How weak minded do you have to be to be unable to to think what should go in a box.
They're not having trouble thinking of what to put into the box. It's parsing what will LAST from what won't that they are having trouble with.
I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
I started buying CDs in 1984. They're still playable today. I also have some still-readable CD-R disks that are pretty old, but of course not as old as the pressed disks. So is is possible that optical media could be readable after 25 years--assuming there are working players available? Yes. Guaranteed? Not so much.
mythological things like...female breasts.
Spoken like a true nerd.
You had me until the last 2 words. After reading "more better", I then wanted to punch you.
Actually, I read this to mean that the people at the store think it makes the image "more better." Same mentality.
AP and Reuters have been around for decades and were once considered excellent sources. They've been downsizing for at least the last decade and provide nowhere near the quality they use to.
There are 209,618,386 licensed drivers in the US (Source: 2009, DoT). Number of drivers who can drive more than one block without commiting a traffic violation: 0. Conclusion: There are 209,618,386 crimes committed in the US each day.
Actually, OBDIII might require a cellular or satellite transceiver in every new vehicle. That would allow the car to immediately alert the government when your vehicle does not meet emissions requirements. They would then contact you and require immediate repair. That the system could also include GPS and could potentially be used for tracking is beside the point. http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/093_OBD_Service_Info/Organizational_Statements/SEMA/SEMA_OBD_frequent_questions.htm
The electronics have a limited lifetime, the satellites probably have no maneuvering fuel, and aren't designed to be taken apart or refueled.
Use an ion-drive, solar powered 'tug' that goes from LEO to Geo-stationary orbit. Take a new satellite up, drop it off, find the nearest dead satellite, and use the tug to de-orbit the satellite as it returns to LEO. Using an ion-drive vehicle keeps refueling costs for multiple missions low.