*Stake*holders. As in people with an interest in donations having the best possible impact.
From TFA: “Donor nations were shocked last month, when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.”
Why am I reminded of the Iraqi Propaganda Minister?
“The Apple infidels are committing suicide at the gates of...”... wait, let me check where they're incorporated... Wait, what? “Waterloo”? God, this is the good stuff...
You may be surprised that a summary on/. is less than correct... OK I'll leave the snark out.
Repeat after me: *There is NO “mandatory 2 years warranty” in the European Union*
What there is, is a “Maengelhaftung”, which is usually translated to “Liability for defects”. This is to be granted by the *seller* of a consumer good to a consumer. It is valid for 2 years from the date of purchase. Any defect showing in the first 6 months is assumed to be a manufacturing error, burden of proof of the opposite is with the seller, for the remaining 18 months the customer has to proof that the defect was already present at time of purchase.
As Apple sells its products in its own stores in europe (online included) it adheres to EU law, if Apple products are sold through a third party, the consumer has to deal with that third party.
Apple grants a voluntary 1 year warranty. This actually strengthens the purchasers position, because the above mentioned “burden of proof” now lies with Apple for the first *12* months. No consumer advocacy group in Europe has a problem with this.
But Apple additionally sells “Apple Care” contracts, which extend Apples warranty to three years. If you read closely this far, you'll notice that this is a much better protection for the consumer than the mandatory “Liability for defects” the EU imposes and absolutely doesn't touch this EU Directive. Regardless of any voluntary or sold warranty the EU Directive still stands.
Now, what the european consumer advocacy groups say is that Apple misleads the already (through the “Liability for defects” EU Directive) fine protected consumer into believing they wouldn't be protected after 12 months without buying Apple Care. If people are very stupid, and often they are, this could very well be the case.
Uhuh. Right... when he was at Next... That's not even in the linked articles. You made that up.
"... a good strategy for ensuring that Apple remains a hungry, growth-oriented entrepreneurial company might be for it to distribute much of its cash to shareholders."
LOL. Stay hungry, stay entrepreneurial, send me your money!
In fact Tim Cook didn't suggest any dividend, that's just wishful thinking. Why should Apple do that when the stock price is still rising? There are one or two chinese people they can some iStuff to...
You actually read the submission and checked the facts, possibly avoiding a flame fest. This is totally unacceptable and goes against everything/. stands for.
I thought it was a Mach kernel and a BSD userland. How exactly that's quintessentially different from me installed Cygwin on my Windows machine and calling it a Unix machine is beyond me.
Thanks for the answer. I checked that article right after reading your post and before replying. The part you quote is preceded by: Interface Builder first made its appearance in 1988 as part of NeXTSTEP 0.8.“. Hence my curiosity. So it wasn't publicly released before 1988?
I introduced Steve to Interface Builder in 1986 (at NeXT). (It was written in ExperLISP for the Mac - completely OO, and deeply integrated with the toolbox.).
Whaa...? I didn't know it existed before NeXT. Anywhere I can read up on that?
I see nowhere in it that they are "considering exiting the PC hardware business."
HP says:
"HP also reported that it plans to announce that its board of directors has authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG). HP will consider a broad range of options that may include, among others, a full or partial separation of PSG from HP through a spin-off or other transaction."
"According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory."
From the original source (http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110803-36703.html):
"Johannes Caspar, Hamburg’s data protection official, on Tuesday said the feature was a serious violation of people’s rights to determine what is done with their personal data. He added that German authorities would take quick legal action if Facebook did not comply with his demands.
This could include fines of up to €300,000 ($426,000), Caspar said.
“Should Facebook maintain the function, it must ensure that only data from persons who have declared consent to the storage of their biometric facial profiles be stored in the database,” he said."
At the moment this is just an opinion of the appointed guy for data protection of the city state of Hamburg. Not even a minister/secretary. Although he certainly has a point and Facebook could be fined, Germany is not Iran. We don't just "ban" stuff.
And half that NYT article consists of: "Florian Mueller, an intellectual property analyst...", "Mr. Mueller said...", "Mr. Mueller said...", "Mr. Mueller said..." and "... said Mr. Mueller".
Why does that guy still get such an amount of attention?
Didn't Windows copy the Lisa & Mac "trade dress"? How did that turn out Apple?
Pretty good actually: patent cross licensing, MS investing in Apple shares, securing of MS Office for their platform and if IIRC even money.
As to TFS: "If Samsung is found to be infringing on the software, all the Android OEMs could be vulnerable". BZZT. Wrong. Play again. This suit is about Samsungs design and GUI customizations.
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Huh? It's much more complicated then you want it to look like, I guess:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._Robins
It has an actual etymology: "PC" is a relic of the original "IBM PC" in 1981.
Nope. Apple at least since 1977 referred to their Apple II as a ”personal computer“:
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/AisFor1.jpg
Check out the rest of their ads from the late 70s, for many more occurrences of the term, here:
http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery1.html
In 1974 HP published this:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/journals/65a.htm
Dig a little bit more in history and you may find who used the term first:
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
*Stake*holders. As in people with an interest in donations having the best possible impact.
From TFA: “Donor nations were shocked last month, when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.”
Why am I reminded of the Iraqi Propaganda Minister?
“The Apple infidels are committing suicide at the gates of ...” ... wait, let me check where they're incorporated ... ...
Wait, what? “Waterloo”? God, this is the good stuff
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Confusing Warranty (Garantie) and the EU mandated "Gewährleistung" (what you referred to as "Mangelhaftung") is actually quite a common mistake.
Yup, the German Civil Code (BGB) now uses terms like “Sachmaengelhaftung”. Doubtful that it will help Otto Normalverbraucher*, though :)
*= Joe Sixpack
You may be surprised that a summary on /. is less than correct ... OK I'll leave the snark out.
Repeat after me: *There is NO “mandatory 2 years warranty” in the European Union*
What there is, is a “Maengelhaftung”, which is usually translated to “Liability for defects”. This is to be granted by the *seller* of a consumer good to a consumer. It is valid for 2 years from the date of purchase. Any defect showing in the first 6 months is assumed to be a manufacturing error, burden of proof of the opposite is with the seller, for the remaining 18 months the customer has to proof that the defect was already present at time of purchase.
As Apple sells its products in its own stores in europe (online included) it adheres to EU law, if Apple products are sold through a third party, the consumer has to deal with that third party.
Apple grants a voluntary 1 year warranty. This actually strengthens the purchasers position, because the above mentioned “burden of proof” now lies with Apple for the first *12* months. No consumer advocacy group in Europe has a problem with this.
But Apple additionally sells “Apple Care” contracts, which extend Apples warranty to three years. If you read closely this far, you'll notice that this is a much better protection for the consumer than the mandatory “Liability for defects” the EU imposes and absolutely doesn't touch this EU Directive. Regardless of any voluntary or sold warranty the EU Directive still stands.
Now, what the european consumer advocacy groups say is that Apple misleads the already (through the “Liability for defects” EU Directive) fine protected consumer into believing they wouldn't be protected after 12 months without buying Apple Care. If people are very stupid, and often they are, this could very well be the case.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0044:EN:HTML
"... which Jobs suspended in 1995 ..."
Uhuh. Right ... when he was at Next ... That's not even in the linked articles. You made that up.
"... a good strategy for ensuring that Apple remains a hungry, growth-oriented entrepreneurial company might be for it to distribute much of its cash to shareholders."
LOL. Stay hungry, stay entrepreneurial, send me your money!
In fact Tim Cook didn't suggest any dividend, that's just wishful thinking. Why should Apple do that when the stock price is still rising? There are one or two chinese people they can some iStuff to ...
Limua phones are heavily promoted
Well, no wonder then :)
You actually read the submission and checked the facts, possibly avoiding a flame fest. This is totally unacceptable and goes against everything /. stands for.
This is a blog entry, and a short one at that.
With 2217 words? Ok for me ...
I thought it was a Mach kernel and a BSD userland. How exactly that's quintessentially different from me installed Cygwin on my Windows machine and calling it a Unix machine is beyond me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx//arch.html
From Wikipedia article on IB:
History ...
Thanks for the answer. I checked that article right after reading your post and before replying. The part you quote is preceded by: Interface Builder first made its appearance in 1988 as part of NeXTSTEP 0.8.“. Hence my curiosity. So it wasn't publicly released before 1988?
I introduced Steve to Interface Builder in 1986 (at NeXT). (It was written in ExperLISP for the Mac - completely OO, and deeply integrated with the toolbox.).
Whaa ...? I didn't know it existed before NeXT. Anywhere I can read up on that?
we don't betray our own principles over an extended period of time in a calculated conscious manner
Say what? If that were even remotely what the world is like, all our problems would be solved.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2011/08/23/samsungs-digital-picture-frame-was-no-ipad
I see nowhere in it that they are "considering exiting the PC hardware business."
HP says:
"HP also reported that it plans to announce that its board of directors has authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG). HP will consider a broad range of options that may include, among others, a full or partial separation of PSG from HP through a spin-off or other transaction."
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110818006301/en/HP-Confirms-Discussions-Autonomy-Corporation-plc-Business
"According to one source who has seen internal HP reports, Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000, or less than 10 percent of the units in its inventory."
http://allthingsd.com/20110816/ouchpad-best-buy-sitting-on-a-pile-of-unsold-hp-tablets/
For all who haven't seen it yet:
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
Do I understand their presentation correctly? Users in said Enterprise have admin privileges?
From the original source (http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110803-36703.html):
"Johannes Caspar, Hamburg’s data protection official, on Tuesday said the feature was a serious violation of people’s rights to determine what is done with their personal data. He added that German authorities would take quick legal action if Facebook did not comply with his demands.
This could include fines of up to €300,000 ($426,000), Caspar said.
“Should Facebook maintain the function, it must ensure that only data from persons who have declared consent to the storage of their biometric facial profiles be stored in the database,” he said."
At the moment this is just an opinion of the appointed guy for data protection of the city state of Hamburg. Not even a minister/secretary. Although he certainly has a point and Facebook could be fined, Germany is not Iran. We don't just "ban" stuff.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/technology/15nokia.html?_r=1
And half that NYT article consists of: "Florian Mueller, an intellectual property analyst ...", "Mr. Mueller said ...", "Mr. Mueller said ...", "Mr. Mueller said ..." and "... said Mr. Mueller".
Why does that guy still get such an amount of attention?
could mark the low point for Nokia
Nope, not yet.
I thought I read that they were running an unpatched version of Apache on a system without a firewall, including here on /..
Yup. Don't remember the post, but this is the linked article:
http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html
Didn't Windows copy the Lisa & Mac "trade dress"?
How did that turn out Apple?
Pretty good actually: patent cross licensing, MS investing in Apple shares, securing of MS Office for their platform and if IIRC even money.
As to TFS: "If Samsung is found to be infringing on the software, all the Android OEMs could be vulnerable". BZZT. Wrong. Play again. This suit is about Samsungs design and GUI customizations.