It's pretty screwed up that anyone could lose $200K for saying something thats true; sounds like the English/Australians should petition their governments. I'm glad I have no legal ties to those countries.
Actually, the USA version has twice the RAM(2GB vs 1GB) and is much faster per core so single-threaded things are much faster. The Benchmarks for quad core phones are nice, but real-world usage shows that a fast dual-core CPUs make a lot more sense(for both speed and power use).
I do hate how Samsung brands a bunch of different phones with the same tag... I'm guessing they are lumping them together for sales numbers. There were roughly 3 extremely different "Galaxy SII" phones stretching 2 CPUs, 3 GPUs, 2 screen sizes. The "Galaxy SIII" has two major models(so far) with either 1GB or 2GB of memory, quad or dual core CPUs, and 2 GPUs. While it's neat that Samsung lets you easily pull out the battery, it's probably easier to do it on an iPhone since you have to sort through at least a dozen incompatible batteries for the "Galaxy SII".
One thing to know is even the fastest microSD cards are much slower than the internal flash on an iPhone... Sadly, most Androids just use regular microSD tech for their internal storage.
I think it's very possible he didn't intentionally lie. He did talk about a more-recent lawsuit he'd been involved in and the contract dispute was nearly 20 years ago(Samsung took a stake in Seagate in 2011).
Samsung is probably due a new trial for this though.
and set it to 10yr, Google even lets you compare it to the Nasdaq and Dow Jones averages (putting your money into a fund that tracked the Nasdaq over the last 10 years would have netted you 100% more money than MSFT stock).
On Android jailbreaking makes no difference to the OS or most apps. It just means that apps which would like root permissions can ask for them.
Actually, on iOS mere jailbreaking does even less than rooting on Android. Jailbreak just disables the code-sign check when an executable runs(so you don't have to sign your code with Apple). The problems for iOS and Android come later when people start modifying everything(which a lot of packaged jailbreak/root-exploits do).
It would have been interesting to know what apps they were really logging crashes for(I'm guessing all apps that use Crittercism). Were they including only non-beta internal builds in these numbers? That would have driven the iOS5 WAY up since you normally develop on the latest platform.
Of the apps that send their crash data to Crittercism and were included in this report; iOS apps crash more. The writeup here makes it seem like they were logging crashes of normal apps...
You really don't get much more protection with Java then you do with native code on iOS. Exceptions only help you when you know you need to catch them. Null pointer dereferencing is pretty much a non-issue in ObjC/Cocoa because of the way messages are passed(at least no more than java.lang.NullPointerException). When you are multithreaded in Java it's trivial to make the simplest code throw a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException or NullPointerException when you hava your logic wrong.
The data we are looking at is from the small subset of apps which use Crittercism rather than TestFlight (why is anyone not using TestFlight?). It's not meant to be representational of the real-world. It would be interesting to know what iOS-based and what Android-based apps use Crittercism.
I'd expect the cost to get their Enterprise License was at least several thousand on top of the $399. You need the DUNS number, incorporation papers, and signatures... I'd figure at least 100 man hours went into shuffling paper around between the contractor and various government employees.
shows how spitefull(sic) the current administration is
Really?
US waste of money in the financial system created the crisis which now pushes the European to borrow money from the PRC, how long do you think it will take till you have to pay the interests(sic) ?
At what time and against whom has Google used a single patent offensively?
Oh please: Google funds patent trolls, gives patents to other companies to sue, and patents the absurd. Intellectual Ventures was suing Motorola Mobility while Google bought it, Google gave HTC patents to sue Apple with, and Google has patented Doodles on homepages...
Should they just allow themselves to remain defenseless against the Apple MS Oracle et al onslaught? Yeah right.
Should Apple just allow themselves to be sued? Yeah right.
Google isn't an altruistic international corporation.
I think you are way out of line for faulting the judge here. He didn't rule that one patent was better than the other, it was made on the contracts that Samsung had agreed to and the law. Samsung was obviously in the wrong(possibly to the point of fraud).
Make sure you include Google and IBM in your list of opponents to free software.
In reality, this legal crap between Apple and Sumsung is how progress is made. What's awesome about the Samsung/Apple cases are they AREN'T SETTLING! Out of court settlements don't move law forward.
Samsung is claiming to own an international telecommunications standard(and they might)... Samsung could take every 3G capable piece of equipment off the market if this was allowed which is why patent's covering this technology are by law required to be fairly licensed to everyone.
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Compliance costs... like dealing with subpeonas from Parliament.
Employees cost at least 2x what their salary is, which is one of the many reason programmer freelancers get paid MUCH more.
The actual multiplier is ~2.7X http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-cost.html
The linked article doesn't say it, but other articles say Google may appeal this decision.
I hope they do appeal and don't let this sit as precedence, although it will likely cost them more than $200K just to try to fix this.
It's pretty screwed up that anyone could lose $200K for saying something thats true; sounds like the English/Australians should petition their governments. I'm glad I have no legal ties to those countries.
Actually, the USA version has twice the RAM(2GB vs 1GB) and is much faster per core so single-threaded things are much faster. The Benchmarks for quad core phones are nice, but real-world usage shows that a fast dual-core CPUs make a lot more sense(for both speed and power use).
I do hate how Samsung brands a bunch of different phones with the same tag... I'm guessing they are lumping them together for sales numbers. There were roughly 3 extremely different "Galaxy SII" phones stretching 2 CPUs, 3 GPUs, 2 screen sizes. The "Galaxy SIII" has two major models(so far) with either 1GB or 2GB of memory, quad or dual core CPUs, and 2 GPUs. While it's neat that Samsung lets you easily pull out the battery, it's probably easier to do it on an iPhone since you have to sort through at least a dozen incompatible batteries for the "Galaxy SII".
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That's definitely what happened last time
Be interesting to know how many times they can do this...
I think it's very possible he didn't intentionally lie. He did talk about a more-recent lawsuit he'd been involved in and the contract dispute was nearly 20 years ago(Samsung took a stake in Seagate in 2011).
Samsung is probably due a new trial for this though.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120923233451725
The real inflation numbers in USA vary between 11 and 15% year to year
Even if you actually believe the numbers on the Shadowstats site, the month-month stats put the 90s between 5-10% and 2000-2012 is 5-13%.
Two sovereign states with the name "China" exist.
ROC = Republic of China = Democratic China = Taiwan
PRC = People's Republic of China = Communist China = Mainland China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Chinas. Prior to 1971 "China" was the ROC in the UN, it is now the PRC...
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and set it to 10yr, Google even lets you compare it to the Nasdaq and Dow Jones averages (putting your money into a fund that tracked the Nasdaq over the last 10 years would have netted you 100% more money than MSFT stock).
They support all browsers when not editing content(the way most people use this site)... this article is also rather old
On Android jailbreaking makes no difference to the OS or most apps. It just means that apps which would like root permissions can ask for them.
Actually, on iOS mere jailbreaking does even less than rooting on Android. Jailbreak just disables the code-sign check when an executable runs(so you don't have to sign your code with Apple). The problems for iOS and Android come later when people start modifying everything(which a lot of packaged jailbreak/root-exploits do).
It would have been interesting to know what apps they were really logging crashes for(I'm guessing all apps that use Crittercism). Were they including only non-beta internal builds in these numbers? That would have driven the iOS5 WAY up since you normally develop on the latest platform.
Of the apps that send their crash data to Crittercism and were included in this report; iOS apps crash more. The writeup here makes it seem like they were logging crashes of normal apps...
I disagree
You really don't get much more protection with Java then you do with native code on iOS. Exceptions only help you when you know you need to catch them. Null pointer dereferencing is pretty much a non-issue in ObjC/Cocoa because of the way messages are passed(at least no more than java.lang.NullPointerException). When you are multithreaded in Java it's trivial to make the simplest code throw a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException or NullPointerException when you hava your logic wrong.
The data we are looking at is from the small subset of apps which use Crittercism rather than TestFlight (why is anyone not using TestFlight?). It's not meant to be representational of the real-world. It would be interesting to know what iOS-based and what Android-based apps use Crittercism.
It looks like at some point the Lumia 800 was on the top of Expansys' Swedish top20 page and Expansys' Australian top20 page.
So "it was on top of sales charts of Sweden and Australia" isn't an outright lie...
I'd expect the cost to get their Enterprise License was at least several thousand on top of the $399. You need the DUNS number, incorporation papers, and signatures... I'd figure at least 100 man hours went into shuffling paper around between the contractor and various government employees.
Why not Ackee Inc?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ackee-Inc-of-Florida/147345628643555
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackee
shows how spitefull(sic) the current administration is
Really?
US waste of money in the financial system created the crisis which now pushes the European to borrow money from the PRC, how long do you think it will take till you have to pay the interests(sic) ?
Really?
At what time and against whom has Google used a single patent offensively?
Oh please: Google funds patent trolls, gives patents to other companies to sue, and patents the absurd. Intellectual Ventures was suing Motorola Mobility while Google bought it, Google gave HTC patents to sue Apple with, and Google has patented Doodles on homepages...
Should they just allow themselves to remain defenseless against the Apple MS Oracle et al onslaught? Yeah right.
Should Apple just allow themselves to be sued? Yeah right.
Google isn't an altruistic international corporation.
I think you are way out of line for faulting the judge here. He didn't rule that one patent was better than the other, it was made on the contracts that Samsung had agreed to and the law. Samsung was obviously in the wrong(possibly to the point of fraud).
Make sure you include Google and IBM in your list of opponents to free software.
In reality, this legal crap between Apple and Sumsung is how progress is made. What's awesome about the Samsung/Apple cases are they AREN'T SETTLING! Out of court settlements don't move law forward.
Samsung is claiming to own an international telecommunications standard(and they might)... Samsung could take every 3G capable piece of equipment off the market if this was allowed which is why patent's covering this technology are by law required to be fairly licensed to everyone.
It was on Slashdot a couple days ago. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1748236/apple-says-samsung-3g-patents-violate-rand-requirements
Oooh, actually if they capture video on the way up and nothing is moving they could do a 3d model like this http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/urbanscape/