I'm fairly confident that if they study video games, they're going to disregard the results showing video games to not be a cause (as hundreds of studies have shown) and blame video games anyway.
It hasn't even been treated as valid. There are many steps before that's a real $1B award, one of which is reality and facts which tend to stand in the way of "Enormous verdicts which don't reflect on reality".
The fact that the jury awarded damages to devices they ruled were not infringing as well as damages on invalidated patents means that there's a guarantee that even if Samsung does have to pay apple as a hypothetical, it's not going to be $1B under any circumstances whatsoever.
The reality is, most people would like games to be programmed for actual quality and let the hardware be the issue for 60FPS and not simply let people be lazy by aiming for a low bar. You don't get double detail at 30 FPS, you get 1/4 the detail because it's targeted at consoles.
I'm sure your significant other would approve. (OS instead of SO, haha)
Meanwhile, I do wish SSD's were a little cheaper, but I'm happy at the direction they are going, same as you and the OP. I've been holding off this entire time, but not for much longer at there rate the prices are dropping.
Doh, saw this right after I posted. Exactly. This also explains why she is refusing any current request for a retrial as well. you'd think people can understand the difference between "somewhat frustrated judge" and actually being biased, but apparently not.
why? She's showing signs that she might not even accept damages. She basically said flat out samsung has substantial noninfringing use. That is usually the bar for defining patent infringement in the first place.
So the question is more like "why does she need a retrial if the result is no damages awarded"?
That's not a "trend", that's increased functionality and expanding the market - the idea is anything from 4" to 10" you can buy. Don't expect that to go away at any point, even if smartphones lose desire entirely.
Well, single function devices tend to do better at that single function. Unless we can get 30 day charge tablets, there will still be somewhat of a use for them. I don't see that happening yet - although I wouldn't say that it won't happen. That's not to say that it couldn't be a small enough dwindling demand to completely kill the e-readers margin off completely - it certainly could.
Did he damage all that crap? possibly so, if it ever went to court. Did he do stupid things involving computers? possibly so, if it ever went to court. Was it " intentional and calculated to influence and affect the US Government by intimidation and coercion"? That's beyond laughable and imaginary hypothetical rhetoric, to say the least. It actually puts the US prosecutors into question as far as sanity.
The company that does is called none. As in, does not exist. Not even apple, not google, not Nvidia, not AMD.
If people are so idiotic to not be able to understand that whether your physical product is from a good batch at the manufacturer or not has a significant correlation between whether the product falls apart or not, and not anything to do with a brand whatsoever?
Uh, what? At the moment, its' easier to opt out of anyone but Apple. Nor is that even relevant, honestly. Just because restrictions are there doesn't mean you tolerate it simply because you can opt out later.
the TLDR is that it's the speculation resulting from derails, which originates with articles that are completely without fact in the first place. Happens constantly.
I find both Apple and Microsoft equally deserving of a complete and total boycott. I was never unaware of Apple's restrictions or MS's RT restrictions. It doesn't mean that one is somehow any more or less complicit in completely restricting user freedom and general computer usage freedom. RMS has been correct on this.
I focus on MS when MS does bad things, I focus on Apple when they do. It's no different. Both companies are a bane and not a boon when it comes to modern technology. To think I am focused on bashing MS is simply to believe the trolls who proclaim it. I will call out any tech related company, including Google, Apple, MS, Amazon, B&N, HTC, Samsung etc if they do bad shit. As long as it's not speculative, and if it is speculative I'm going to call out the people who are full of shit for speculating. I find speculation to be the most offensive thing, as it results in misinformation and completely skews entire conversations.
The irony of dev freedom on Apple is that the argument is sometimes "but it's BSD and therefore ok!" not realizing that a complete lack of restrictions doesn't mean "Freedom" even if it is free - as things can be restricted afterwards as a result, vs GPL where people portray it as "restrictive" for daring to require that freedoms cannot be taken away.
I agree that the entire thing is complex, and actually that is the fault of this mismash of technology being subverted in a variety of fashions from vested interests. Causes: proprietary software, copyright, patents, global adjustment to change in technology and the fear resultant, a complete lack of the US being willing to be an actual leader in innovation, giving the big corps the finger and not being a leader in mercantilism (which encourages the rest of the world to do the same), etc. The future will improve, but right now things are fucking mislead constantly and are complicated by all of the above being applied to technology. Our government is failing us in this regard.
It sure is fun to watch the company that was a gigantic bully when leading be completely screwed when they realize they have to compete. Karma's a bitch.
Apple's rules are apple's rules, and there's no reason they should compromise their own ethics and policies for their entire app store just because MS asked them to. Apple would be opening floodgates for negotiating for every single company if they did this.
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I'm fairly confident that if they study video games, they're going to disregard the results showing video games to not be a cause (as hundreds of studies have shown) and blame video games anyway.
It hasn't even been treated as valid. There are many steps before that's a real $1B award, one of which is reality and facts which tend to stand in the way of "Enormous verdicts which don't reflect on reality".
The fact that the jury awarded damages to devices they ruled were not infringing as well as damages on invalidated patents means that there's a guarantee that even if Samsung does have to pay apple as a hypothetical, it's not going to be $1B under any circumstances whatsoever.
That's not a choice or *the* choice.
The reality is, most people would like games to be programmed for actual quality and let the hardware be the issue for 60FPS and not simply let people be lazy by aiming for a low bar. You don't get double detail at 30 FPS, you get 1/4 the detail because it's targeted at consoles.
I'm sure your significant other would approve. (OS instead of SO, haha)
Meanwhile, I do wish SSD's were a little cheaper, but I'm happy at the direction they are going, same as you and the OP. I've been holding off this entire time, but not for much longer at there rate the prices are dropping.
Doh, saw this right after I posted. Exactly. This also explains why she is refusing any current request for a retrial as well. you'd think people can understand the difference between "somewhat frustrated judge" and actually being biased, but apparently not.
why? She's showing signs that she might not even accept damages. She basically said flat out samsung has substantial noninfringing use. That is usually the bar for defining patent infringement in the first place.
So the question is more like "why does she need a retrial if the result is no damages awarded"?
That's not a "trend", that's increased functionality and expanding the market - the idea is anything from 4" to 10" you can buy. Don't expect that to go away at any point, even if smartphones lose desire entirely.
What celeb actually uses their twitter or instagram?
90% of them pay someone else to manage their "direct connection" with their fans. As in, does not exist.
Well, single function devices tend to do better at that single function. Unless we can get 30 day charge tablets, there will still be somewhat of a use for them. I don't see that happening yet - although I wouldn't say that it won't happen. That's not to say that it couldn't be a small enough dwindling demand to completely kill the e-readers margin off completely - it certainly could.
Oh man....wait....it's almost like they *FIXED* this.
but yeah yeah collateral damages, etc etc. keep up the imagination there.
Did he damage all that crap? possibly so, if it ever went to court. Did he do stupid things involving computers? possibly so, if it ever went to court. Was it " intentional and calculated to influence and affect the US Government by intimidation and coercion"?
That's beyond laughable and imaginary hypothetical rhetoric, to say the least. It actually puts the US prosecutors into question as far as sanity.
If the priority is "not voting with their feet", then you are correct. Otherwise, no.
The company that does is called none. As in, does not exist. Not even apple, not google, not Nvidia, not AMD.
If people are so idiotic to not be able to understand that whether your physical product is from a good batch at the manufacturer or not has a significant correlation between whether the product falls apart or not, and not anything to do with a brand whatsoever?
no worries, those are already being raised under the excuse of "fiscal cliff"
except a statement "consistently producing quality goods" is simply inaccurate all of the time, because no brand consistently produces quality goods.
So the statement that you are replying to, was correct. That includes HP and Sony.
except that you can, and you're wrong.
you can still turn off safesearch, and when you search at the bottom is an option to turn off filtering.
This is not to say this is okay - it isn't okay to obfuscate search options, but this isn't "you can't turn it off" shit either.
People should vote with their feet. They don't.
anandtech wasn't particularly pleased with the monitor, either.
Superwide + can't rotate 90 degrees + poor refresh rate? you bet.
Uh, what? At the moment, its' easier to opt out of anyone but Apple. Nor is that even relevant, honestly. Just because restrictions are there doesn't mean you tolerate it simply because you can opt out later.
the TLDR is that it's the speculation resulting from derails, which originates with articles that are completely without fact in the first place. Happens constantly.
I find both Apple and Microsoft equally deserving of a complete and total boycott. I was never unaware of Apple's restrictions or MS's RT restrictions. It doesn't mean that one is somehow any more or less complicit in completely restricting user freedom and general computer usage freedom. RMS has been correct on this.
I focus on MS when MS does bad things, I focus on Apple when they do. It's no different. Both companies are a bane and not a boon when it comes to modern technology. To think I am focused on bashing MS is simply to believe the trolls who proclaim it. I will call out any tech related company, including Google, Apple, MS, Amazon, B&N, HTC, Samsung etc if they do bad shit. As long as it's not speculative, and if it is speculative I'm going to call out the people who are full of shit for speculating. I find speculation to be the most offensive thing, as it results in misinformation and completely skews entire conversations.
The irony of dev freedom on Apple is that the argument is sometimes "but it's BSD and therefore ok!" not realizing that a complete lack of restrictions doesn't mean "Freedom" even if it is free - as things can be restricted afterwards as a result, vs GPL where people portray it as "restrictive" for daring to require that freedoms cannot be taken away.
I agree that the entire thing is complex, and actually that is the fault of this mismash of technology being subverted in a variety of fashions from vested interests. Causes: proprietary software, copyright, patents, global adjustment to change in technology and the fear resultant, a complete lack of the US being willing to be an actual leader in innovation, giving the big corps the finger and not being a leader in mercantilism (which encourages the rest of the world to do the same), etc. The future will improve, but right now things are fucking mislead constantly and are complicated by all of the above being applied to technology. Our government is failing us in this regard.
This is why people say Apple is even more restrictive than MS, and it's true. The question is whether the users realize it.
It sure is fun to watch the company that was a gigantic bully when leading be completely screwed when they realize they have to compete. Karma's a bitch.
Apple's rules are apple's rules, and there's no reason they should compromise their own ethics and policies for their entire app store just because MS asked them to. Apple would be opening floodgates for negotiating for every single company if they did this.
they're already fucked. these guys are so mislead that they'll be lucky if they can even get an ISP to comply - which they won't.
What makes you think people give a shit? Windows 8 adoption is abysmal, to say the least.
Hey guys I have a flagship plz buy kthx? Doesn't work that way.