Not quite so simple. Some people have auto-immune diseases which decrease insulin production as they age and they have hyperglycemia even when below their weight. Why do you think there are so many drugs specifically for Type 2 patients? Some of them eventually have to take insulin just like a Type 1 diabetic would. Then there are the people with viral pancreatitis which have no genetic predisposition for the disease and get it anyway.
Yeah no kidding. Developing the GSM stack is worthless but rounded corners in a case is worth barring your competitor. I'm looking at my rounded corner non-Apple LCD screen right now. Is it that surprising that cellphones or tablets have a similar format to the display device?
I don't care much. The US can keep paying their Apple tax while us in the rest of the developed world use our more sophisticated and cheaper Android devices.
Which trademark issues? Samsung isn't using Apple's logo or brands. Patents can be granted on such flimsy grounds that you need to evaluate them on a case by case basis to see if they even make sense under the premises they are granted on.
You really don't get it do you? Samsung sold more Galaxy phones so clearly they manufacture even larger quantities. They are also a vertically integrated company so you can be damned sure they are able the eek more margins than others can. In fact Apple is one of their clients... Samsung also uses the same CPUs on their phones and tablets (which have been embargoed in the US by a court case with Apple). Samsung manufactures the A5 CPU for Apple as well. Only an idiot would bet on Apple winning on a battle like this. Samsung is the world's largest electronics manufacturer encompassing just about every single piece of hardware required to manufacture a phone. They are the world's leading DRAM, Flash, Display manufacturer.
Apple manufactures next to nothing of their phones. They do industrial design and software work. All the hardware and assembly is done by contractors who will work for anyone who can pay for it. To me the alleged value of the company is highly inflated and completely inane but what to expect from a market where Facebook gets an overblown IPO?
If Samsung and LG stopped manufacturing hardware Apple wouldn't have components to make a single phone. Screens, CPUs, DRAMs, Flash, you name it.
I would be more concerned with dam failures. The biggest dam disaster in history in terms of fatalities happened in China several decades ago when there was a cascade failure there. Between that and the gargantuan amounts of coal they burn to generate electricity, nuclear power is panacea.
Who is to say they didn't stop flying the damned things until they could figure out the cause for the crash? It isn't like there were supposed to be many of them flying after all. The project was secret enough that you can find no official US government photos of that drone type.
The drone does not need to be as large as a regular aircraft because it has no pilot hence it will be less visible to radar and need less stealth technology to have the same invisibility to radar. Since the drone has no human it can do high-G maneuvers that would incapacitate or kill a human pilot. If the drone is downed you have no human casualties. All of these facts mean drones will be used one way or another.
All aircraft and strategic missiles of the 1980s used so called INS+Stellar navigation which is to say a combined system with both inertial navigation and GPS (or GLONASS). This was because global positioning systems were seem to be susceptible to an attack (e.g. using strategic missiles to blow up the satellites in space) in an all out war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It seems people are overly reliant on the GPS satellites today because the wars being fought are with low tech opponents which cannot directly target the satellites in orbit. However the signals can still be jammed and spoofed.
2/3rds of the surface of the planet is is ocean. Is it that surprising if trees, which only grow on land, are not as important to global CO2 sequestering as algae?
There is a C++ version of Xerces as well. But yeah since we don't have machine portable binaries it is less common to use libraries in C++ projects than in Java projects. More code to maintain. Then there is the fact that the Java standard itself includes way more stuff (including multiple obsoleted APIs for doing the same thing) compared with standard C++.
I learned J2EE along the way. It includes some of the worst APIs I've had the displeasure of using. I had to program so much boilerplate code I could have written a simpler servlet which did the same thing in way less time. Halfway through I realized I should have been using a Java IDE earlier because it can generate most of the code. Still doesn't make the thing easier to debug. Still had to understand how it worked on a low level before I used the generators. Java requires you to write too much code to do anything and J2EE only makes it worse.
They still support SPARC and POWER so who cares... A lot of HP's old clients already saw the writing on the wall a long time ago and switched to one of those. Meanwhile x86 keeps getting more features so eventually that won't matter.
Bulldozer basically does what processors like Niagara did before i.e. it shares the FPU among cores to reduce die space. It works marvelously for web servers or java applications servers i.e. multi-threaded integer applications but sucks for everything else.
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The AC adapter is black and has sharper edges so its different. Apple does all white and flimsy peripherals.
Not quite so simple. Some people have auto-immune diseases which decrease insulin production as they age and they have hyperglycemia even when below their weight. Why do you think there are so many drugs specifically for Type 2 patients? Some of them eventually have to take insulin just like a Type 1 diabetic would. Then there are the people with viral pancreatitis which have no genetic predisposition for the disease and get it anyway.
Thanks for downmodding my logged in post Apple loser...
Yeah no kidding. Developing the GSM stack is worthless but rounded corners in a case is worth barring your competitor. I'm looking at my rounded corner non-Apple LCD screen right now. Is it that surprising that cellphones or tablets have a similar format to the display device?
I don't care much. The US can keep paying their Apple tax while us in the rest of the developed world use our more sophisticated and cheaper Android devices.
Which trademark issues? Samsung isn't using Apple's logo or brands. Patents can be granted on such flimsy grounds that you need to evaluate them on a case by case basis to see if they even make sense under the premises they are granted on.
AFAIK Microsoft copied Apple which copied Xerox so who cares. Please send your money to Xerox then.
Perhaps when IPv6 comes out self-hosting will be more of an option again. ISPs charge a pretty penny if you want to have a static IP.
You really don't get it do you? Samsung sold more Galaxy phones so clearly they manufacture even larger quantities. They are also a vertically integrated company so you can be damned sure they are able the eek more margins than others can. In fact Apple is one of their clients... Samsung also uses the same CPUs on their phones and tablets (which have been embargoed in the US by a court case with Apple). Samsung manufactures the A5 CPU for Apple as well. Only an idiot would bet on Apple winning on a battle like this. Samsung is the world's largest electronics manufacturer encompassing just about every single piece of hardware required to manufacture a phone. They are the world's leading DRAM, Flash, Display manufacturer.
If Samsung and LG stopped manufacturing hardware Apple wouldn't have components to make a single phone. Screens, CPUs, DRAMs, Flash, you name it.
It failed less hard than the Lumia that's for sure.
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The IBM Watson had a touchscreen long before the iPhone ever came out. The iPhone was just another iteration in the evolution of cellphones.
I would be more concerned with dam failures. The biggest dam disaster in history in terms of fatalities happened in China several decades ago when there was a cascade failure there. Between that and the gargantuan amounts of coal they burn to generate electricity, nuclear power is panacea.
Who is to say they didn't stop flying the damned things until they could figure out the cause for the crash? It isn't like there were supposed to be many of them flying after all. The project was secret enough that you can find no official US government photos of that drone type.
The drone does not need to be as large as a regular aircraft because it has no pilot hence it will be less visible to radar and need less stealth technology to have the same invisibility to radar. Since the drone has no human it can do high-G maneuvers that would incapacitate or kill a human pilot. If the drone is downed you have no human casualties. All of these facts mean drones will be used one way or another.
If it did crash it was incredibly well preserved...
All aircraft and strategic missiles of the 1980s used so called INS+Stellar navigation which is to say a combined system with both inertial navigation and GPS (or GLONASS). This was because global positioning systems were seem to be susceptible to an attack (e.g. using strategic missiles to blow up the satellites in space) in an all out war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It seems people are overly reliant on the GPS satellites today because the wars being fought are with low tech opponents which cannot directly target the satellites in orbit. However the signals can still be jammed and spoofed.
Just like the A-Team's battlewagon eh?
What the heck do you think iOS uses as a base? Ever noticed you program iOS apps in Objective-C?
They would probably gravitate towards a monopoly if it wasn't for anti-trust laws.
2/3rds of the surface of the planet is is ocean. Is it that surprising if trees, which only grow on land, are not as important to global CO2 sequestering as algae?
There is a C++ version of Xerces as well. But yeah since we don't have machine portable binaries it is less common to use libraries in C++ projects than in Java projects. More code to maintain. Then there is the fact that the Java standard itself includes way more stuff (including multiple obsoleted APIs for doing the same thing) compared with standard C++.
I learned J2EE along the way. It includes some of the worst APIs I've had the displeasure of using. I had to program so much boilerplate code I could have written a simpler servlet which did the same thing in way less time. Halfway through I realized I should have been using a Java IDE earlier because it can generate most of the code. Still doesn't make the thing easier to debug. Still had to understand how it worked on a low level before I used the generators. Java requires you to write too much code to do anything and J2EE only makes it worse.
They still support SPARC and POWER so who cares... A lot of HP's old clients already saw the writing on the wall a long time ago and switched to one of those. Meanwhile x86 keeps getting more features so eventually that won't matter.
Bulldozer basically does what processors like Niagara did before i.e. it shares the FPU among cores to reduce die space. It works marvelously for web servers or java applications servers i.e. multi-threaded integer applications but sucks for everything else.