The award was reduced based on the fact that the jury used an impermissible legal theory to calculate them. That is a straight up reduction.
And yet, all of the jury's decisions still stand in principle. And some will still get larger, simply by the fact that Samsung keeps selling infringing products.
I thought the sitting CEO said he never wanted to sue to begin with, that the case was already in play when jobs died. If that were true, why a new lawsuit??
Could be related to the fact that this "new" lawsuit was filed long before he said it.
So how much is the power supply it needs? Yeah, a cable that needs a power supply to work. Not to mention the fact that it can cut out phone and wireless signal.
What we need is an iPocketwatch. Make it fit into old gold watch cases and work as a cell phone.
Eh. Do you know why pocket watches went out of fashion in favor of wristwatches? Because people don't like having to reach into their pockets and take a device out in order to tell the time.
Tell that to the people insisting people would rather draw their phones from their pockets to tell time.
Could have been the 'fashion accessory' nature of the thing. Could have been that it might be 'pocketable', as long as it was alone in the pocket and you don't move enough to shake it.
Could have been you didn't see them in the pockets because they were in the pockets - nah, too obvious.
Not really. You had to install iTunes and connect it to a Firewire port. Then you had to carefully tag all your music because it didn't understand directories and file names.
There were better products on the market, but no-one could match the Apple hype machine.
Yeah, simply playing wnnfzshw.mp3 was sooooo much easier.
Second, are you really arguing that plugging in the device and hitting 'sync' or, in the case that you had a lot of music (remember, desktop hard drives were in the 20-40GB range when the iPod launched, so more than 5GB of music was unusual) selecting a playlist and hitting 'sync' is harder than copying files across? If you've got your music arranged in folders (which, basically, means that either you're a geek or you're using a program that does it for you like... iTunes) then it's not a massive pain to copy it across, but it's still far more time consuming than just pressing the sync button. And you'd better hope that all of your M3U playlists used relative paths (lost of players created them with absolute paths by default) and that you created exactly the same hierarchy on the device, or your playlists wouldn't transfer.
The funny sad thing is. even with non-ipods, moving music over is much easier from iTunes than from the file system. Select the (filtered) songs (or podcasts) from iTunes and drag them to your mounted player. Bam!
They can... but they can't tell ME I can't read or watch it. They can do like we always say on./ ("turn the channel")... if they want to voice their opinion on the matter by complaining, fine. If they want to boycott it themselves, fine. But pressuring the company to avoid running it (or showing it on TV...) gets into MY rights to decide for myself.
Censorship does exist outside of the government's will... when someone tells ME I can't watch or read something.
They didn't pressure the company not to publish it. There where simply too many who said they wouldn't buy it to make it viable. Find enough rabid homophobes who would buy a Superman story and tell DC about it. If you can't, don't complain that Capitalism works.
The interesting thing here is that the story Didn't push his agenda yet his story was still rejected. Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"? Have his opponents not heard of Barbra Streisand?
Democracy means he can say what ever he wants - it doesn't mean I have still have to buy his stuff if he does.
The only reason the iPhone was as successful as it was is because the total cost in the US was concealed inside phone plans. If it had been for sale at the full price of $800-$1000 that carriers were paying it would have been a commercial failure in the US.
The US market is highly price sensitive, a do everything product that everyone wants might not sell at all because it's $50 outside people's price threshold.
I'm sure you will now find an excuse why the iPhone is the best selling smartphone worldwide.
It really doesn't matter hugely if you can put the connector in first time without looking. It saves the user only a few seconds at most.
You can do that with every USB cable too, the USB logo is required to be embossed on the cable and always on the side facing the user. Ports are required to be aligned to accommodate that. Even a blind person can put a USB cable in the right way round every time, sadly most people don't know this.
Even if companies actually kept to that standard (which they don't) - which way is "up" in a vertical USB port?
Everyone was clapping that Apple embraced open source. Happy, happy, happy. And they were just certain what was coming next. Then Steve moved a new slide onto the screen. With only one word, “KHTML” — six-foot-high white letters on a blue background.
If you listen to that video I posted, notice that no one applauds here. Why? I’m guessing confusion and complete lack of recognition.
What you also can’t hear on the video is someone about 15 to 20 rows behind where we were sitting — obviously expecting the word “Gecko” up there — shout at what seemed like the top of his lungs:
“WHAT THE FUCK!?”
KHTML may have been a bigger surprise than Apple doing a browser at all. And that moment was glorious. We had punk’d the entire crowd.
Samsung really doesn't need to astroturf anything. Apple's recent attempts to patent everything in sight, including Star Trek's "PADD" haven't earned them a lot of friends.
Samsung still has several times as many patents as Apple. Esp. design patents.
Well, they kind of are a gigantic company present in a lot of markets and market segments. Samsung likely is a direct competitor of all of the companies they outspend (Coca Cola is active in certain segments of chemical research). You'll have to compare to a company of similar breath to get a realistic picture.
If only we were talking about all of Samsung and not just Samsung Electronics. But we aren't talking about Samsung (Fine) Chemicals, nor Insurances, nor Engineering, nor Heavy Industries, nor etc. Only Samsung Electronics. Not that much breadth left.
Sad isn't it? And look at how they practically call me the devil for daring to speak about the holy company?
No, honey, we are calling you a MORON, because your claims make no business sense. A devil? Don't flatter yourself - this just shows how far off your views are from reality.
For storage, the Mini loses badly, as it can only hold two 2.5" drives, and cannot easily or securely connect to a SAN (as it would have to be on the same layer 2 network as the Ethernet connection to the Internet).
Ermm, no it wouldn't. That's what a Thunderbolt-Ethernet-Adapter is for. Not to mention Firewire (which can also be used for IP-networking).
With that standard you'll have a good estimate for hight, but even if you stick to 19" full width rack the actual width can vary. Nothing to mention of depth.
If you had ever actually replaced one xU Server with another, you would know it almost always required also replacing the mounting brackets even when buying a new generation of the same device. Not to mention the rerouting of all the cables.
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The award was reduced based on the fact that the jury used an impermissible legal theory to calculate them. That is a straight up reduction.
And yet, all of the jury's decisions still stand in principle. And some will still get larger, simply by the fact that Samsung keeps selling infringing products.
Having won the last lawsuit to the tune of $1B
The award has already been chopped almost in half, and the case hasn't even gotten to appeals yet.
Errm, nope. The judgement is that parts of the award have been calculated wrong - and the end result may go down or even go up.
I thought the sitting CEO said he never wanted to sue to begin with, that the case was already in play when jobs died. If that were true, why a new lawsuit??
Could be related to the fact that this "new" lawsuit was filed long before he said it.
10 seconds searching Amazon turned up an MHL cable for £3.50, extremely cheap.
So how much is the power supply it needs? Yeah, a cable that needs a power supply to work. Not to mention the fact that it can cut out phone and wireless signal.
Dear Mozilla,
Please don't worry about what Apple wants, release Firefox for iOS in Cydia.
And while you're at it, stop blocking other browser on Firefox OS - not that anybody will care.
What we need is an iPocketwatch. Make it fit into old gold watch cases and work as a cell phone.
Eh. Do you know why pocket watches went out of fashion in favor of wristwatches? Because people don't like having to reach into their pockets and take a device out in order to tell the time.
Tell that to the people insisting people would rather draw their phones from their pockets to tell time.
Everybody I saw had them in a iPod holster.
Could have been the 'fashion accessory' nature of the thing. Could have been that it might be 'pocketable', as long as it was alone in the pocket and you don't move enough to shake it.
Could have been you didn't see them in the pockets because they were in the pockets - nah, too obvious.
It worked out of the box
Not really. You had to install iTunes and connect it to a Firewire port. Then you had to carefully tag all your music because it didn't understand directories and file names.
There were better products on the market, but no-one could match the Apple hype machine.
Yeah, simply playing wnnfzshw.mp3 was sooooo much easier.
Second, are you really arguing that plugging in the device and hitting 'sync' or, in the case that you had a lot of music (remember, desktop hard drives were in the 20-40GB range when the iPod launched, so more than 5GB of music was unusual) selecting a playlist and hitting 'sync' is harder than copying files across? If you've got your music arranged in folders (which, basically, means that either you're a geek or you're using a program that does it for you like... iTunes) then it's not a massive pain to copy it across, but it's still far more time consuming than just pressing the sync button. And you'd better hope that all of your M3U playlists used relative paths (lost of players created them with absolute paths by default) and that you created exactly the same hierarchy on the device, or your playlists wouldn't transfer.
The funny sad thing is. even with non-ipods, moving music over is much easier from iTunes than from the file system. Select the (filtered) songs (or podcasts) from iTunes and drag them to your mounted player. Bam!
They can... but they can't tell ME I can't read or watch it. They can do like we always say on ./ ("turn the channel")... if they want to voice their opinion on the matter by complaining, fine. If they want to boycott it themselves, fine. But pressuring the company to avoid running it (or showing it on TV...) gets into MY rights to decide for myself.
Censorship does exist outside of the government's will... when someone tells ME I can't watch or read something.
They didn't pressure the company not to publish it. There where simply too many who said they wouldn't buy it to make it viable. Find enough rabid homophobes who would buy a Superman story and tell DC about it. If you can't, don't complain that Capitalism works.
The interesting thing here is that the story Didn't push his agenda yet his story was still rejected. Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"? Have his opponents not heard of Barbra Streisand?
Democracy means he can say what ever he wants - it doesn't mean I have still have to buy his stuff if he does.
The only reason the iPhone was as successful as it was is because the total cost in the US was concealed inside phone plans. If it had been for sale at the full price of $800-$1000 that carriers were paying it would have been a commercial failure in the US.
The US market is highly price sensitive, a do everything product that everyone wants might not sell at all because it's $50 outside people's price threshold.
I'm sure you will now find an excuse why the iPhone is the best selling smartphone worldwide.
It really doesn't matter hugely if you can put the connector in first time without looking. It saves the user only a few seconds at most.
You can do that with every USB cable too, the USB logo is required to be embossed on the cable and always on the side facing the user. Ports are required to be aligned to accommodate that. Even a blind person can put a USB cable in the right way round every time, sadly most people don't know this.
Even if companies actually kept to that standard (which they don't) - which way is "up" in a vertical USB port?
Samsung Electronics also covers their home appliances. I've seen more advertising for Samsung fridges and washing machines than phones/tablets.
Good one. And still doesn't account for spending more on advertising than Coke.
Do any of Samsung's design patents attempt to teleport Star Trek's designs into the future so they can't qualify as "prior art"?
Yes. And way before Apple too. Why do you ask?
http://donmelton.com/2013/01/10/safari-is-released-to-the-world/
But back to Steve’s presentation.
Everyone was clapping that Apple embraced open source. Happy, happy, happy. And they were just certain what was coming next. Then Steve moved a new slide onto the screen. With only one word, “KHTML” — six-foot-high white letters on a blue background.
If you listen to that video I posted, notice that no one applauds here. Why? I’m guessing confusion and complete lack of recognition.
What you also can’t hear on the video is someone about 15 to 20 rows behind where we were sitting — obviously expecting the word “Gecko” up there — shout at what seemed like the top of his lungs:
“WHAT THE FUCK!?”
KHTML may have been a bigger surprise than Apple doing a browser at all. And that moment was glorious. We had punk’d the entire crowd.
Samsung really doesn't need to astroturf anything. Apple's recent attempts to patent everything in sight, including Star Trek's "PADD" haven't earned them a lot of friends.
Samsung still has several times as many patents as Apple. Esp. design patents.
Well, they kind of are a gigantic company present in a lot of markets and market segments. Samsung likely is a direct competitor of all of the companies they outspend (Coca Cola is active in certain segments of chemical research). You'll have to compare to a company of similar breath to get a realistic picture.
If only we were talking about all of Samsung and not just Samsung Electronics. But we aren't talking about Samsung (Fine) Chemicals, nor Insurances, nor Engineering, nor Heavy Industries, nor etc. Only Samsung Electronics. Not that much breadth left.
People who can set Macs up don't need you anymore.
People who can set up Macs to run websites about their pet cats can't afford us in the first place.
Dear Anonymous Colo Provider: if a Mac user can't afford your service, nobody can.
And I notice that ALL you can do is call names
No, all you notice is that I call you names - mostly because my other abilities would be wasted on a moron like you.
Sad isn't it? And look at how they practically call me the devil for daring to speak about the holy company?
No, honey, we are calling you a MORON, because your claims make no business sense. A devil? Don't flatter yourself - this just shows how far off your views are from reality.
For storage, the Mini loses badly, as it can only hold two 2.5" drives, and cannot easily or securely connect to a SAN (as it would have to be on the same layer 2 network as the Ethernet connection to the Internet).
Ermm, no it wouldn't. That's what a Thunderbolt-Ethernet-Adapter is for. Not to mention Firewire (which can also be used for IP-networking).
um.. ever heard of the 'Rack Unit' standard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit
With that standard you'll have a good estimate for hight, but even if you stick to 19" full width rack the actual width can vary. Nothing to mention of depth.
If you had ever actually replaced one xU Server with another, you would know it almost always required also replacing the mounting brackets even when buying a new generation of the same device. Not to mention the rerouting of all the cables.
8) No FORTRAN.
Or rather a What-If: http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
What if there was a robot apocalypse? How long would humanity last?
—Rob Lombino