Probably just playing the same game they play with tablet sales numbers over there at Samsung. They won't tell us how many phones actually sell (unlike Apple) but they claim increased shipments.
How much do you want to bet that Trip is quarterbacking for Samsung?
Who said that there should be an alternative? My point is that just because somebody claims to be a scientist, we should not take him at his word. A real scientist would not have done the things that the fake scientists at the CRU did.
This is why I call science a religion, and why I think it's clear that you are simply interested in believing scientists without questioning them. If science were not a religion, you would be appalled at the so-called climatologists working at Hadley for their statistical manipulation, cooked data, and destroyed original data. Instead, you tell me that I need to "take science classes." If you can't see the irony in that, you would make a fine Jew or Jesuit.
"Looks to me like you got the Fox News Highlights of the emails."
I think there's a scratch in your record.
"Take some time to learn about what science is, maybe take a class or two at your local high school. It's not like a religion at all - ask Bill Nye"
Of course it's a religion. Your statements above prove it. I don't need to investigate the data myself to know that many other scientists wanted it, needed it to replicate the research of the CRU, and were denied it.
You can stay with your religion if you want. It's almost impossible to reason with somebody regarding their faith, anyway. Your shoddy attempts at discrediting me, coupled with your sophomoric insults, proves that you're not interested in reason.
You really should read the mails, though, because it's clear that you haven't even done that. I would consider it the bare minimum of due diligence that should be undertaken when looking at a topic like this. Of course, if you're happy to leave the interpretation of the facts to the priests, there's no reason to investigate them motivations, poor character, or ridiculous subversion of the process of science for yourself.
I have all the emails, and read many of them. In it we are privy to descriptions of how to subvert the peer review process, threats to "beat the shit" out of people who disagree with the very questionable statistical maneuverings that the CRU team has foisted off on the world, talks about selective gridding (ie the west coast of S. America was gridded so the highest temperature reporting stations were the only ones included in the data set), talks about how to waste the yearly budget without attracting the auditors, conspiracies on how to avoid the requests for original data (all deleted to avoid the requests), collusion with the media to paint the people who were skeptical as nuts, loonbags, and oil company employees, etc.
It's clear to me that you didn't actually read any of the mails. If you did, you'd be appalled not only at the CRU team, but also at the media and the bodies that investigated the leaks themselves.
It doesn't really matter, though. The cat's out of the bag, the third world will not go along with any Copenhagen-style schemes, China and India won't, and it's partly because of these mails.
Your continued tactical use of insults, insinuation, and other dirty schemes also shows you to be irrational and unable to critically think. Denier is the new nigger, right?
I've been using Fink and MacPorts for years and years, and haven't ever had a single problem. If you follow the instructions, you'll find that everything works great.
On the other hand, with Ubuntu, upgrading and pagkage management can be a nightmare. After installing MythTV, I found that I had two different versions of MySQL running, which irritated me greatly. The ultimate insult, though, was the complete borkage of the entire system after Ubuntu's upgrade in place.
"The big scandal of "climategate" was someone had an insecure email server."
Hahaha. OK, man, keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, people whose critical thinking organs are still intact see this for what it really was - a scandal of titanic proportion that blew the AGW carbon doomsday scenarios out of the water.
It's pretty sad that you work in a company run by incompetents who won't give you the freedom to implement a solution that doesn't have buttons to push.
So what you're saying is that you're *not* a Samsung engineer or lawyer? Those guys have their heads so far up their asses that even in court, they can't tell the difference between their own devices and Apple's products.
Personally, I think the decision's great because it will cause a bunch of huge companies to unleash patent war upon each other. Perhaps when the dust settles, and there are clear winners and huge losers, these companies will lobby Congress into reforming our fucked up patent system.
For now, it's delicious to see a company like Samsung, which can't create a single innovative consumer product, get their comeuppance. If Samsung has proved anything to the world, it's that the stereotype that Asians copy more than they innovate is true.
The research has been under contention for years. The gridding scandal alone is worthy of consideration, as are the selective tree-ring samples.
My point is that the people chosen to investigate the Climategate principals were not interested in the truth of the matter, they were there to create a whitewash.
And your last statement is pretty telling. All you need to do is label somebody a denier, then you can claim they don't know what they're talking about, and then they can be safely ignored. This is the kind of thinking that caused the entire third world to walk out on Copenhagen, once the cat was out of the bag.
Actually, Climategate showed us that scientists would rather plug their fingers in their ears and scream than confront serious flaws in a field that is mainly dealing in prognostications. Then they are investigated by other scientists, with a vested interest in keeping their priesthood's reputation intact. It's little surprise that, similar to Catholics investigating child molestation and pedophilia, these scientists claimed they found nothing wrong.
Sorry, you can't build a reputation back up by simply shouting down the critics. It has to be done with honesty. Of course, this is a heresy against the priesthood of Science, who would have us believe that their credibility never suffered after Climategate.
VirtualBox has long had support for centralized data, moving running virtual machines between physical hosts, HA, etc. In fact, the whole thing can be controlled and scripted from the command line. Last I checked ESXi still had features that can not be accessed thusly.
Perhaps the 2.x branch of VirtualBox didn't compete with ESXi, but times have changed.
Science has been subverted as a tool. It used to be a tool for understanding the world, and forming theories about how it works. Now Science is a church, that demands obedience, and which even has rabid followers that have special words equivalent to heretic. The Climategate fiasco proved this to anybody who has a brain. Science is now a tool to force the masses to assent to whatever massive societal engineering methods that our new priests decide is right.
Science is great, it's just that the scientists have many agendas, many of which are unsavory, and all of which require subterfuge in order to make the public go along with them.
Actually, they are beating everybody else. Apple's making way more money in smartphones than all their competitors, put together. They aren't making as many units, sure, but those units that they do sell represent a very substantial profit on the hardware, and a continuing revenue source as people buy apps. Hell, most people with Android phones wouldn't have paid for them - they get them free with their contract. Or maybe I just missed all the 3+ block long lines around the world of customers waiting to be the first on the block with the newest Samsung phone? Heck, Samsung would have to sell 100x the phones that Apple does in order to make a similar profit. I think Samsung makes about $9 a phone on their most recent models. Of course, mobile phone salesmen love Samsung because they can apply a 300%+ markup and the little piece of shit still comes in cheaper than an entry-level iPhone.
Even Google admits that 2/3rds of their smartphone revenue comes from Apple.
Why isn't Apple going after Nokia or RIM? Maybe because their phones aren't blatant knockoffs of the Apple product?
You can delude yourself all day with your talk about Apple's reasons for going after Samsung. The truth is that they are simply going after the most blatant of Apple knockoff makers.
Because they are stupid. They aren't very easy to use, they are thick in the pocket, and they have very little to offer except as a phone.
Here's the problem that other phones have: they stink. Even when they go flat-out and copy every little nuance of the iPhone, they still can't get it right.
Apple spent years and years studying phones that already existed, determining why they suck, figuring out that you can't simply keep slapping more and more features on them without also increasing the suckage (their Sony-Ericsson iTunes phone was perhaps the height of this) and finally going to the drawing board with a clean slate and designing a new UI from the ground up. They spent the better part of a decade on this project, and lord knows how much money and man-power before releasing this product.
Then a torpedo board member from Google (the world experts at copying a product and releasing a half-finished clone) comes in, steals the design, brings it to his little shop in Mountain View, California, and has a bunch of guys who designed the horrific piece of garbage that the pre-iPhone clone Android was reverse engineer the UI to the best of their ability - which was clearly none too spectacular.
Apple releases the iPhone, and suddenly everybody else's hapless products look like aborted fetuses left out in the sun by comparison. And this was in comparison to the original iPhone, which was extremely light on features and had only a fraction of the functionality of the modern successors. Then Apple continues to improve the product markedly with each release, until it reached a level of refinement such that any major additions would actually start to be a bad thing.
Where's Samsung in all of this? Well, they are carrying the Google banner, dressed in full armor that's painted with every iOS icon! They're Google's Major General, leading the charge to get the massive suck-pile of fail called Android into every hand too cheap or dumb to actually purchase the superior product. They're whispering into the ear of the mobile phone carriers and stores, weaving tales of how much more money they can make because they can mark up the Samsung phones 300% and still come in cheaper than the iPhone. Then we get people like you who think that just because Apple spent a shitload of time, effort, and money to come up with what was a TOTALLY UNIQUE product at the time of its introduction - even their most rabid competitors admitted that fact - that everybody should be allowed to copy them because clearly they did it the right way!
Fuck that. I hope Apple blocks every Samsung product that even remotely resembles a smartphone or tablet. Samsung is a blight on the phone market, and they clearly don't have a single person with an imagination in that whole corporation.
You know that Samsung copied a lot more than the general look and feel of the the exterior of the device. Go ahead and delude yourself about that. It's just like 9/11 - they attacked us "because of our freedom" eh?
I doubt you're jumping onto the pro-Samsung bandwagon because they're the little guy. Nobody would allege that - they're a huge, corrupt, shady company that has its hands in everything from money laundering to buying politicians to literally sending managers out to whip the slave children at their factories overseas. In fact, it's difficult to even imagine a more corrupt company than Samsung.
No, you must be on the pro-Samsung bandwagon for different reasons. Maybe you really like the look and feel (and icons!) of the iOS products but you can't, for professional allegiances, purchase one?
Apple is only creating ill-will among Google employees and the proprietors of mobile phone stores. Really, all told, there aren't that many put together.
If you leave the geek hive, go outside, and talk to people on the street, you'll see that most everybody actually supports Apple's attempt to stop Samsung's blatant copying. They will applaud this move as something that will help a US company over some extremely corrupt Korean conglomerate. And, they will continue to buy Apple products simply because anybody can see that they are better than the flimsy shit Samsung pumps out.
Samsung's pretty good at applying lipstick to pigs, but only Apple can make them fly.
They patented it years before Android copied it. You see, Google sent a spy into the Apple boardroom, who copied everything willy-nilly without regards to usability. Only later did Apple choose to go with the Notification Center which they had patented earlier.
Samsung's shady as fuck. They have been linked to so much high-level corruption in Korea and in their slave-labor shops overseas that it's ridiculous.
OK, sure, Apple is the bad guy for trying to stop blatant copying. I guess they should just roll over and wait for every Korean and Chinese company out there to copy every nuance and scrap of their UI - WHICH IS THEIR MAIN SELLING POINT!
Strangely enough, though, outside of Slashdot, you'll find that people actually think Apple did the right thing by suing a company that has a history of blatant copying. I know we have a bunch of Google fluffers trying to keep Android up in here, but fuuuuck. Wake up you idiots!
VirtualBox costs a very reasonable $50 if you want to deploy it commercially. It competes well with VMware on features and speed, and is user-friendly enough to recommend to small businesses.
VMware is expensive, the licenses are confusing, and overall it's just become a gigantic pain in the ass.
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Probably just playing the same game they play with tablet sales numbers over there at Samsung. They won't tell us how many phones actually sell (unlike Apple) but they claim increased shipments.
How much do you want to bet that Trip is quarterbacking for Samsung?
I usually call the ISP or the person listed in the DNS info and talk to them directly. It seems to shock and / or surprise many ISPs into action.
Of course this won't likely help if the attacker is from the Great Motherland of Scripted Attacks, the PRC.
Who said that there should be an alternative? My point is that just because somebody claims to be a scientist, we should not take him at his word. A real scientist would not have done the things that the fake scientists at the CRU did.
This is why I call science a religion, and why I think it's clear that you are simply interested in believing scientists without questioning them. If science were not a religion, you would be appalled at the so-called climatologists working at Hadley for their statistical manipulation, cooked data, and destroyed original data. Instead, you tell me that I need to "take science classes." If you can't see the irony in that, you would make a fine Jew or Jesuit.
"Looks to me like you got the Fox News Highlights of the emails."
I think there's a scratch in your record.
"Take some time to learn about what science is, maybe take a class or two at your local high school. It's not like a religion at all - ask Bill Nye"
Of course it's a religion. Your statements above prove it. I don't need to investigate the data myself to know that many other scientists wanted it, needed it to replicate the research of the CRU, and were denied it.
You can stay with your religion if you want. It's almost impossible to reason with somebody regarding their faith, anyway. Your shoddy attempts at discrediting me, coupled with your sophomoric insults, proves that you're not interested in reason.
You really should read the mails, though, because it's clear that you haven't even done that. I would consider it the bare minimum of due diligence that should be undertaken when looking at a topic like this. Of course, if you're happy to leave the interpretation of the facts to the priests, there's no reason to investigate them motivations, poor character, or ridiculous subversion of the process of science for yourself.
Used it for years, never had a segfault. Perhaps you hit the wrong button?
I have all the emails, and read many of them. In it we are privy to descriptions of how to subvert the peer review process, threats to "beat the shit" out of people who disagree with the very questionable statistical maneuverings that the CRU team has foisted off on the world, talks about selective gridding (ie the west coast of S. America was gridded so the highest temperature reporting stations were the only ones included in the data set), talks about how to waste the yearly budget without attracting the auditors, conspiracies on how to avoid the requests for original data (all deleted to avoid the requests), collusion with the media to paint the people who were skeptical as nuts, loonbags, and oil company employees, etc.
It's clear to me that you didn't actually read any of the mails. If you did, you'd be appalled not only at the CRU team, but also at the media and the bodies that investigated the leaks themselves.
It doesn't really matter, though. The cat's out of the bag, the third world will not go along with any Copenhagen-style schemes, China and India won't, and it's partly because of these mails.
Your continued tactical use of insults, insinuation, and other dirty schemes also shows you to be irrational and unable to critically think. Denier is the new nigger, right?
I've been using Fink and MacPorts for years and years, and haven't ever had a single problem. If you follow the instructions, you'll find that everything works great.
On the other hand, with Ubuntu, upgrading and pagkage management can be a nightmare. After installing MythTV, I found that I had two different versions of MySQL running, which irritated me greatly. The ultimate insult, though, was the complete borkage of the entire system after Ubuntu's upgrade in place.
Pretty much every computer already comes with these codecs you god damned idiot.
"The big scandal of "climategate" was someone had an insecure email server."
Hahaha. OK, man, keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, people whose critical thinking organs are still intact see this for what it really was - a scandal of titanic proportion that blew the AGW carbon doomsday scenarios out of the water.
It's pretty sad that you work in a company run by incompetents who won't give you the freedom to implement a solution that doesn't have buttons to push.
So what you're saying is that you're *not* a Samsung engineer or lawyer? Those guys have their heads so far up their asses that even in court, they can't tell the difference between their own devices and Apple's products.
Samsung's still playing the copy iOS game to the fullest extent possible. I guess maybe your definition of "past" is my definition of "future."
Personally, I think the decision's great because it will cause a bunch of huge companies to unleash patent war upon each other. Perhaps when the dust settles, and there are clear winners and huge losers, these companies will lobby Congress into reforming our fucked up patent system.
For now, it's delicious to see a company like Samsung, which can't create a single innovative consumer product, get their comeuppance. If Samsung has proved anything to the world, it's that the stereotype that Asians copy more than they innovate is true.
The research has been under contention for years. The gridding scandal alone is worthy of consideration, as are the selective tree-ring samples.
My point is that the people chosen to investigate the Climategate principals were not interested in the truth of the matter, they were there to create a whitewash.
And your last statement is pretty telling. All you need to do is label somebody a denier, then you can claim they don't know what they're talking about, and then they can be safely ignored. This is the kind of thinking that caused the entire third world to walk out on Copenhagen, once the cat was out of the bag.
Actually, Climategate showed us that scientists would rather plug their fingers in their ears and scream than confront serious flaws in a field that is mainly dealing in prognostications. Then they are investigated by other scientists, with a vested interest in keeping their priesthood's reputation intact. It's little surprise that, similar to Catholics investigating child molestation and pedophilia, these scientists claimed they found nothing wrong.
Sorry, you can't build a reputation back up by simply shouting down the critics. It has to be done with honesty. Of course, this is a heresy against the priesthood of Science, who would have us believe that their credibility never suffered after Climategate.
VirtualBox has long had support for centralized data, moving running virtual machines between physical hosts, HA, etc. In fact, the whole thing can be controlled and scripted from the command line. Last I checked ESXi still had features that can not be accessed thusly.
Perhaps the 2.x branch of VirtualBox didn't compete with ESXi, but times have changed.
If you think it's just about rounded corners, than you're a bigger idiot than you seem to be.
Science has been subverted as a tool. It used to be a tool for understanding the world, and forming theories about how it works. Now Science is a church, that demands obedience, and which even has rabid followers that have special words equivalent to heretic. The Climategate fiasco proved this to anybody who has a brain. Science is now a tool to force the masses to assent to whatever massive societal engineering methods that our new priests decide is right.
Science is great, it's just that the scientists have many agendas, many of which are unsavory, and all of which require subterfuge in order to make the public go along with them.
Actually, they are beating everybody else. Apple's making way more money in smartphones than all their competitors, put together. They aren't making as many units, sure, but those units that they do sell represent a very substantial profit on the hardware, and a continuing revenue source as people buy apps. Hell, most people with Android phones wouldn't have paid for them - they get them free with their contract. Or maybe I just missed all the 3+ block long lines around the world of customers waiting to be the first on the block with the newest Samsung phone? Heck, Samsung would have to sell 100x the phones that Apple does in order to make a similar profit. I think Samsung makes about $9 a phone on their most recent models. Of course, mobile phone salesmen love Samsung because they can apply a 300%+ markup and the little piece of shit still comes in cheaper than an entry-level iPhone.
Even Google admits that 2/3rds of their smartphone revenue comes from Apple.
Why isn't Apple going after Nokia or RIM? Maybe because their phones aren't blatant knockoffs of the Apple product?
You can delude yourself all day with your talk about Apple's reasons for going after Samsung. The truth is that they are simply going after the most blatant of Apple knockoff makers.
"So why those phones did not sell?"
Because they are stupid. They aren't very easy to use, they are thick in the pocket, and they have very little to offer except as a phone.
Here's the problem that other phones have: they stink. Even when they go flat-out and copy every little nuance of the iPhone, they still can't get it right.
Apple spent years and years studying phones that already existed, determining why they suck, figuring out that you can't simply keep slapping more and more features on them without also increasing the suckage (their Sony-Ericsson iTunes phone was perhaps the height of this) and finally going to the drawing board with a clean slate and designing a new UI from the ground up. They spent the better part of a decade on this project, and lord knows how much money and man-power before releasing this product.
Then a torpedo board member from Google (the world experts at copying a product and releasing a half-finished clone) comes in, steals the design, brings it to his little shop in Mountain View, California, and has a bunch of guys who designed the horrific piece of garbage that the pre-iPhone clone Android was reverse engineer the UI to the best of their ability - which was clearly none too spectacular.
Apple releases the iPhone, and suddenly everybody else's hapless products look like aborted fetuses left out in the sun by comparison. And this was in comparison to the original iPhone, which was extremely light on features and had only a fraction of the functionality of the modern successors. Then Apple continues to improve the product markedly with each release, until it reached a level of refinement such that any major additions would actually start to be a bad thing.
Where's Samsung in all of this? Well, they are carrying the Google banner, dressed in full armor that's painted with every iOS icon! They're Google's Major General, leading the charge to get the massive suck-pile of fail called Android into every hand too cheap or dumb to actually purchase the superior product. They're whispering into the ear of the mobile phone carriers and stores, weaving tales of how much more money they can make because they can mark up the Samsung phones 300% and still come in cheaper than the iPhone. Then we get people like you who think that just because Apple spent a shitload of time, effort, and money to come up with what was a TOTALLY UNIQUE product at the time of its introduction - even their most rabid competitors admitted that fact - that everybody should be allowed to copy them because clearly they did it the right way!
Fuck that. I hope Apple blocks every Samsung product that even remotely resembles a smartphone or tablet. Samsung is a blight on the phone market, and they clearly don't have a single person with an imagination in that whole corporation.
You know that Samsung copied a lot more than the general look and feel of the the exterior of the device. Go ahead and delude yourself about that. It's just like 9/11 - they attacked us "because of our freedom" eh?
I doubt you're jumping onto the pro-Samsung bandwagon because they're the little guy. Nobody would allege that - they're a huge, corrupt, shady company that has its hands in everything from money laundering to buying politicians to literally sending managers out to whip the slave children at their factories overseas. In fact, it's difficult to even imagine a more corrupt company than Samsung.
No, you must be on the pro-Samsung bandwagon for different reasons. Maybe you really like the look and feel (and icons!) of the iOS products but you can't, for professional allegiances, purchase one?
Apple is only creating ill-will among Google employees and the proprietors of mobile phone stores. Really, all told, there aren't that many put together.
If you leave the geek hive, go outside, and talk to people on the street, you'll see that most everybody actually supports Apple's attempt to stop Samsung's blatant copying. They will applaud this move as something that will help a US company over some extremely corrupt Korean conglomerate. And, they will continue to buy Apple products simply because anybody can see that they are better than the flimsy shit Samsung pumps out.
Samsung's pretty good at applying lipstick to pigs, but only Apple can make them fly.
They patented it years before Android copied it. You see, Google sent a spy into the Apple boardroom, who copied everything willy-nilly without regards to usability. Only later did Apple choose to go with the Notification Center which they had patented earlier.
Samsung's shady as fuck. They have been linked to so much high-level corruption in Korea and in their slave-labor shops overseas that it's ridiculous.
OK, sure, Apple is the bad guy for trying to stop blatant copying. I guess they should just roll over and wait for every Korean and Chinese company out there to copy every nuance and scrap of their UI - WHICH IS THEIR MAIN SELLING POINT!
Strangely enough, though, outside of Slashdot, you'll find that people actually think Apple did the right thing by suing a company that has a history of blatant copying. I know we have a bunch of Google fluffers trying to keep Android up in here, but fuuuuck. Wake up you idiots!
VirtualBox costs a very reasonable $50 if you want to deploy it commercially. It competes well with VMware on features and speed, and is user-friendly enough to recommend to small businesses.
VMware is expensive, the licenses are confusing, and overall it's just become a gigantic pain in the ass.