If not, they should be. I mean, if they're going to continue being the best in the business, it makes sense for them to build and run an environment as part of their business which simulates the extremes of the challenges that their clients experience. If they build a competitor to Amazon's EC2 or SliceHost or other systems which make heavy use of virtualization, they could really increase their own bottom line. In fact, there's no reason that they couldn't get big enough to convince those sorts of companies to outsource their infrastructure.
Right. You missed my point. It was HORRIBLE in early betas. Got better over time. And by release, it did not seem to me to be significantly different from iOS4, especially given that I knew I was using some services quite a bit more. For example the addition of iCloud photo sharing meant that every time I took a picture, a multi-MB file was being zapped up to the cloud. Since I take a lot of pictures (I've got a little kid), the release-time change in battery life was well within what I expected from a production unit.
Between email, pictures, SMS, and several social networking apps, not to mention web browsing and *oh yeah* phone calls, I'm a pretty heavy user of my device, and it happily lasts from the time I wake up in the morning until the time I put it on the charger on my nightstand, usually no more than 50% down.
...but if there's any truth to the argument, here must be some reason--perhaps something to do with local laws in Luxembourg--that is motivating Apple to do this. A simple search on Google shows that there are dozens of businesses even here in the states named "Apple A Day [something]", and unless Apple is planning on suing them, this random lawsuit makes little enough sense that there must be something that we're not aware of.
It's happened before, though. Some time back, I remember reading an article about a restaurant run by a woman whose first name was Sony (probably short for something, but that's what she'd gone by her whole life), which restaurant was named "Sony's". I think it was in San Jose, California. Anyway, they were sued by the Japanese consumer electronics mega corp. I don't know how it turned out. Who knows? Maybe the real reason they were being sued was because they were playing music from the Sony catalog without paying royalties. Probably not, though, as I think that ASCAP are the ones that go after those things.
Point being, I'm intrigued and would love to see more of the actual facts, since I can't think of a single good reason that Apple would even consider providing such wonderful flame bait for their detractors. Also: I can't wait to see the NMA adaptation of this.
My guess: Steve Jobs once had a bad coffee at the place, and his will included them as a target for retribution along with 600 other companies against which he had an un-settled grudge at the time of his passing. Insane? Yes. But at least it would be internally consistent.
Further, they have been working on it from various angles. Early versions of the iOS 5 beta were TERRIBLE on the battery. You could have nothing running, and the phone would randomly heat up, slow down, and burn through the battery in 4 or 5 hours. And it's gotten better with each release. But show me an OS whose GM release didn't have any bugs. They draw a line in the sand, decide if something is a showstopper or not, and then move forward, fixing things incrementally.
It's amazing the level of perfection that people expect from Apple. And the level of communication. Steve's gone, and I don't think Tim is going to take over the pithy one-liner emails. Imagine: "You're charging it wrong."
Well, you can have a lot of undue stress before pain comes; don't confuse "undue" with "acute". You could sit, maybe without noticing it at all, in a chair that has a 2-degree lean without feeling any pain for a long time. But that tilt could conceivably train your body to work at a less-than-optimal angle, and you could be building up strength to support it which later--when you get a good chair--causes your body to pull even further out of alignment.
Or another undue-vs-acute example might be pack-a-day smokers. They often feel great about it. For years! Until suddenly they don't, and it's difficult to quit. Just because they weren't feeling pain doesn't mean they weren't stressing their bodies.
You may still be missing it. It's not the B tags that are the problem, but rather the fact that the CAPTCHA text is embedded into the HTML. If you're trying to prevent robots from getting into a system, displaying the text as, well, text (i.e. instead of actual images that need to be OCR'd) doesn't help anything.
Total security theater; probably worse than not having it at all, because with it in place, somebody at Sony thinks that they've got adequate protections in place when they don't.
My first semester's registration fee at UC Berkeley: $600.00
My final semester's registration fee, also at UCB: $2400
Granted, I took five years, but still, 400% change in four years is really something. The state pulled back funding, the universities increased their costs to make up for it (and more?), and yes, private U's probably do take advantage of the situation by raising their own bars.
I think the reason this is such a pervasive myth has a lot to do with the history and geography of the USA. Not only is this a huge land of plenty, but it's also just a huge land, where, if you're just deficient enough in the moral fiber department, you can do your damage, collect your profit, and move on to leave someone else to clean up.
From farms and mines to factories and, well, derivative trading, the very nature of this country has created a huge set of precedents for socializing the cost of an enterprise and privatizing the rewards. Sure, there are other big countries in the world, but as of the time that the US was founded, there was no place that was so big, and so welcoming--in terms of resources and live-ability--over so much of its territory while being so very sparsely populated. So many have made their fortune by extracting wealth from a community and moving on, with no sense of responsibility.
Contrast this with island cultures, where you couldn't go anywhere without a much greater risk, or places like Europe where, if you went more than a few hundred miles in any direction (again, around the time of America's founding), you'd end up in a place where the language and culture were foreign enough that it was not simple to start over. It's not like people don't take advantage of each other in places like that; it's just that they assume a higher risk to do so.
One of my favorite examples is Balinese rice farming politics. The farmer with the plot at the top of the hill has the most physical power. He could divert water or put chemicals into the stream which would kill all the other paddies below his. If that were in America, the guy on the top of the hill would wield incredible power and would demand all sorts of payment from those below him in order to keep him from taking advantage of his situation. In Bali, however, it's run as a collective. The weight of a farmer's vote increases as you move down the hill, so if the guy at the top wants to do something that could hurt the guy at the bottom, he's got to convince almost everyone else (who might also be affected) that what he's doing is a good idea.
We're a young country with enough space and resources that people still feel they can take advantage of those around them and move on with no penalty, taking the profits and leaving the cost. In a smaller country, with thousands of years of history, they have learned that the only way to make it work is to embrace the dynamic tension between profit and cost.
That's right. My poor doctor is living hand-to-mouth! His auto leases alone amount to half of what I take home a month! And that 16-room house isn't paying for itself! And lord almighty, there's no way that his four kids are going to a public school where they may have to sit next to someone with brown skin! Thank goodness for the generosity of pharmaceutical companies, or he would never get that fourth, fifth and sixth golf vacation per year!
And I'm sure that administrative and profit overhead for private insurance providers have NOTHING to do with general costs in the industry, either!
The problem with your note here is that education--if it's a good education--has an intrinsic value. Diamonds do not. If you spend $5,000 on a diamond ring, you have a $5,000 diamond ring that you could probably pawn for $2,000 if you needed money quickly. If you spend $5,000 getting certified as an automotive transmission technician, then there are 10,000 new places you could work where you couldn't work before.
You know, of course, that name-calling was on Saturday Night Live, a comedy show. It was a comedy sketch, and while I'm sure there was more than a grain of truth in the sentiment, it was also quite funny, as it was meant to be. Best line? "You! Have you ever kissed a girl?"
So you're saying that you think that this dispute is all about how the appliance looks from one angle? I don't think that's correct; if it were, they'd have been laughed out of court. The Samsung devices look like iPads from a lot more than one angle, and that's not even addressing the UI.
Yeah, I've answered this one. Look at the slate from the side--at least the one that was announced before the iPad--and it was an ugly industrial behemoth. Nobody would confuse it with either existing iPad. And the Joojoo? Gimme a break. You know, don't you, that the design patents in dispute cover more than just "rounded corners". Anyone looking at a functioning JooJoo next to an iPad would never confuse the two.
Is it legally defensible or not? I don't know. But I don't think there's any doubt that Samsung is doing whatever it can to copy Apple's design success.
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If not, they should be. I mean, if they're going to continue being the best in the business, it makes sense for them to build and run an environment as part of their business which simulates the extremes of the challenges that their clients experience. If they build a competitor to Amazon's EC2 or SliceHost or other systems which make heavy use of virtualization, they could really increase their own bottom line. In fact, there's no reason that they couldn't get big enough to convince those sorts of companies to outsource their infrastructure.
Right. You missed my point. It was HORRIBLE in early betas. Got better over time. And by release, it did not seem to me to be significantly different from iOS4, especially given that I knew I was using some services quite a bit more. For example the addition of iCloud photo sharing meant that every time I took a picture, a multi-MB file was being zapped up to the cloud. Since I take a lot of pictures (I've got a little kid), the release-time change in battery life was well within what I expected from a production unit.
Between email, pictures, SMS, and several social networking apps, not to mention web browsing and *oh yeah* phone calls, I'm a pretty heavy user of my device, and it happily lasts from the time I wake up in the morning until the time I put it on the charger on my nightstand, usually no more than 50% down.
That's as silly an idea as a wood products company turning into one of the world's largest sellers of mobile phones (until recently, that is).
The fact that ITWorld submitted it somehow excuses Apple's asshole behavior?
Nobody can use "An Apple A Day" anymore?
I don't think anyone said that.
...but if there's any truth to the argument, here must be some reason--perhaps something to do with local laws in Luxembourg--that is motivating Apple to do this. A simple search on Google shows that there are dozens of businesses even here in the states named "Apple A Day [something]", and unless Apple is planning on suing them, this random lawsuit makes little enough sense that there must be something that we're not aware of.
It's happened before, though. Some time back, I remember reading an article about a restaurant run by a woman whose first name was Sony (probably short for something, but that's what she'd gone by her whole life), which restaurant was named "Sony's". I think it was in San Jose, California. Anyway, they were sued by the Japanese consumer electronics mega corp. I don't know how it turned out. Who knows? Maybe the real reason they were being sued was because they were playing music from the Sony catalog without paying royalties. Probably not, though, as I think that ASCAP are the ones that go after those things.
Point being, I'm intrigued and would love to see more of the actual facts, since I can't think of a single good reason that Apple would even consider providing such wonderful flame bait for their detractors. Also: I can't wait to see the NMA adaptation of this.
My guess: Steve Jobs once had a bad coffee at the place, and his will included them as a target for retribution along with 600 other companies against which he had an un-settled grudge at the time of his passing. Insane? Yes. But at least it would be internally consistent.
That's stupid! I have a really, really long extension cord for mine, so I never have to rely on the battery at all!
Further, they have been working on it from various angles. Early versions of the iOS 5 beta were TERRIBLE on the battery. You could have nothing running, and the phone would randomly heat up, slow down, and burn through the battery in 4 or 5 hours. And it's gotten better with each release. But show me an OS whose GM release didn't have any bugs. They draw a line in the sand, decide if something is a showstopper or not, and then move forward, fixing things incrementally.
It's amazing the level of perfection that people expect from Apple. And the level of communication. Steve's gone, and I don't think Tim is going to take over the pithy one-liner emails. Imagine: "You're charging it wrong."
Well, you can have a lot of undue stress before pain comes; don't confuse "undue" with "acute". You could sit, maybe without noticing it at all, in a chair that has a 2-degree lean without feeling any pain for a long time. But that tilt could conceivably train your body to work at a less-than-optimal angle, and you could be building up strength to support it which later--when you get a good chair--causes your body to pull even further out of alignment.
Or another undue-vs-acute example might be pack-a-day smokers. They often feel great about it. For years! Until suddenly they don't, and it's difficult to quit. Just because they weren't feeling pain doesn't mean they weren't stressing their bodies.
You may still be missing it. It's not the B tags that are the problem, but rather the fact that the CAPTCHA text is embedded into the HTML. If you're trying to prevent robots from getting into a system, displaying the text as, well, text (i.e. instead of actual images that need to be OCR'd) doesn't help anything.
Total security theater; probably worse than not having it at all, because with it in place, somebody at Sony thinks that they've got adequate protections in place when they don't.
I think a caldera is just the left over empty bowl of a volcano that collapses in on itself or explodes out. Like Crater Lake in Oregon.
...at least that'll cool off the globe by a few degrees. I guess I won't sell my Hummer just yet.
Hey, bro, I heard you liked rumors, so here's a rumor about rumors about rumors.
or something like that.
No, you missed the best part: its waste product is 50% pure gold, 50% unicorn rainbow.
My first semester's registration fee at UC Berkeley: $600.00
My final semester's registration fee, also at UCB: $2400
Granted, I took five years, but still, 400% change in four years is really something. The state pulled back funding, the universities increased their costs to make up for it (and more?), and yes, private U's probably do take advantage of the situation by raising their own bars.
I think the reason this is such a pervasive myth has a lot to do with the history and geography of the USA. Not only is this a huge land of plenty, but it's also just a huge land, where, if you're just deficient enough in the moral fiber department, you can do your damage, collect your profit, and move on to leave someone else to clean up.
From farms and mines to factories and, well, derivative trading, the very nature of this country has created a huge set of precedents for socializing the cost of an enterprise and privatizing the rewards. Sure, there are other big countries in the world, but as of the time that the US was founded, there was no place that was so big, and so welcoming--in terms of resources and live-ability--over so much of its territory while being so very sparsely populated. So many have made their fortune by extracting wealth from a community and moving on, with no sense of responsibility.
Contrast this with island cultures, where you couldn't go anywhere without a much greater risk, or places like Europe where, if you went more than a few hundred miles in any direction (again, around the time of America's founding), you'd end up in a place where the language and culture were foreign enough that it was not simple to start over. It's not like people don't take advantage of each other in places like that; it's just that they assume a higher risk to do so.
One of my favorite examples is Balinese rice farming politics. The farmer with the plot at the top of the hill has the most physical power. He could divert water or put chemicals into the stream which would kill all the other paddies below his. If that were in America, the guy on the top of the hill would wield incredible power and would demand all sorts of payment from those below him in order to keep him from taking advantage of his situation. In Bali, however, it's run as a collective. The weight of a farmer's vote increases as you move down the hill, so if the guy at the top wants to do something that could hurt the guy at the bottom, he's got to convince almost everyone else (who might also be affected) that what he's doing is a good idea.
We're a young country with enough space and resources that people still feel they can take advantage of those around them and move on with no penalty, taking the profits and leaving the cost. In a smaller country, with thousands of years of history, they have learned that the only way to make it work is to embrace the dynamic tension between profit and cost.
That's right. My poor doctor is living hand-to-mouth! His auto leases alone amount to half of what I take home a month! And that 16-room house isn't paying for itself! And lord almighty, there's no way that his four kids are going to a public school where they may have to sit next to someone with brown skin! Thank goodness for the generosity of pharmaceutical companies, or he would never get that fourth, fifth and sixth golf vacation per year!
And I'm sure that administrative and profit overhead for private insurance providers have NOTHING to do with general costs in the industry, either!
The problem with your note here is that education--if it's a good education--has an intrinsic value. Diamonds do not. If you spend $5,000 on a diamond ring, you have a $5,000 diamond ring that you could probably pawn for $2,000 if you needed money quickly. If you spend $5,000 getting certified as an automotive transmission technician, then there are 10,000 new places you could work where you couldn't work before.
He paid for his education with military service
So you're saying that he took advantage of a program funded by federal taxes in order to get an education? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it sort of reminds me of Dan Quayle, staunch opponent of affirmative action, who just happened to get into law school via an affirmative action program.
When we went into Afghanistan, I told my friends we were entering into an era of Pax Americana.
Since 1776 or since 3000 BC?
You know, of course, that name-calling was on Saturday Night Live, a comedy show. It was a comedy sketch, and while I'm sure there was more than a grain of truth in the sentiment, it was also quite funny, as it was meant to be. Best line? "You! Have you ever kissed a girl?"
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? I mean, it's totally impossible that those people might turn into flesh-eating zombies. Isn't it? Isn't it?!
So you're saying that you think that this dispute is all about how the appliance looks from one angle? I don't think that's correct; if it were, they'd have been laughed out of court. The Samsung devices look like iPads from a lot more than one angle, and that's not even addressing the UI.
Yeah, I've answered this one. Look at the slate from the side--at least the one that was announced before the iPad--and it was an ugly industrial behemoth. Nobody would confuse it with either existing iPad. And the Joojoo? Gimme a break. You know, don't you, that the design patents in dispute cover more than just "rounded corners". Anyone looking at a functioning JooJoo next to an iPad would never confuse the two.
Is it legally defensible or not? I don't know. But I don't think there's any doubt that Samsung is doing whatever it can to copy Apple's design success.
To your point: Apple is not, as far as I know, suing Archos, Acer and Dell for any design patent issues.