After that, Samsung loses the contract once and for all.
I believe Samsung has already told Apple they'd be terminating the contract next year or so... so it's not like they're at risk of losing a contract they've already decided they don't want any more.
Samsung knows that Apple will NOT be their customer forever. It's well-known that Apple's new A6 leaves other ARM-based chips in the dust. Now there's speculation that they are going to ditch Intel for their desktop chips (which they really don't do). I'm a bit surprised that Apple doesn't seem interested in AMD.
IIRC, Tim Cook was the guy that thought ahead to procure large inventories of flash memory. That kept the cost low and ensured they could meet consumer demand --something Apple has famously struggled with. This patent spat was initiated by Jobs, not Cook (remember Jobs saying he'd use the last cent of the company to sue any other company using 'their' ideas??). Cook has the option to make peace and get back to making computers, not enemies.
In India, we call it KLPD. Apple lost all the way, and Samsung recovered what they lost elsewhere.
And those that continue to support Apple during their fanatical litigious phase will lose out with higher prices. Lawyers cost a lot. Apparently, payback is costly, too.
That being said, I paid my blood and my first born, thank you very much, and I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
I'm thinking the same because I paid a ton of money for an education, but that's not the point and not in the spirit of positive change/reform. Education is way too expensive. I'm not sure, but I have a feeling the cost of an education is exceeding the cost-of-living index and the yearly inflation rate. Why can't people pay tuition based on their income? If you can pay back your loans at a rate commensurate with your yearly earnings, why not get an education at a cost relative to your (or parents') income? To me, that would seem fair, but to others it may seem 'socialist'.
I prefer not to exchange (parts of) my friends and family for my groceries, nor do I seek to acquire other peoples friends and family. How exactly do they qualify as 'currency'?
Gold and silver, apart from their their industrial applications, are worthless. They have no intrinsic value, only perceived value. Surely that disqualifies them as a 'real' currency?
Worth is found in something that satiates a recurring need. You need food and water, therefore they are worth something. However, I've often thought that the greatest resource (or currency) is the human being. Without more humans, you will struggle to find comfort (also something that has value or worth). You won't have human comforts like laughter and sex unless there's another human there. So that's why I think it's OK to include family and friends in a list of 'currency'.
Religious orders and governments know that humans are the greatest resource. When you have a bunch of people working together to not only keep society going, but to build new and interesting layers upon it, you have the greatest synergy that comes from humans mingling.. you get ideas. Ideas always have value, whether they're novel or forgotten, then remembered and reused.
It makes you ask the question - "Then, why can't they make a Cell Phone that can't be left in a bar?"
You'd have to have a separate device that you always carry that syncs/pings the other device. I'm thinking Bluetooth. Once the phone is out of range, your Bluetooth headset or a similar device on your keychain can beep/vibrate. Using signal strength, you might be able to devise a tracking scheme where you get more beeps as you get closer to the device (in the case someone took your phone, at least you will be close to them; then ask a friend to call your phone, hear the ring, see the person answer it and bust em!). I'm not really sure this is possible given the low bandwidth of Bluetooth and I'm pretty sure you'd need low latency, too. I configured my computer to lock the screen if my phone leaves the range of its Bluetooth signal.
I for one do not believe American's at least are getting any smarter.
Exactly. You've just proven your assumption.
And I'm not trying to be a dick.. In all actuality, I think there's too much to have to pile into a person's brain. You have to be selective with the information you think will be of importance at a later date. For instance, we trust that spellcheck will properly highlight misspellings, however several properly spelled words, in a row, doesn't make proper grammar. We trust that there will always be Bic lighters to make a fire, yet how many people actually know how to make a fire with only the stuff you'd find in the wilderness? And why would someone commit information to their brain, unless they thought it would be needed in the future? It's true that there will always be something inane that you saw (probably on YouTube) that you can't 'unthink', but what's of real importance is retrieval. Stored information is of no value unless you can retrieve it in a timely fashion.
What's a Star Wars force field? I've heard of Star Wars deflector shields but never any mention of force fields. Perhaps the author was thinking of Star Trek.
See comment below. And then hand in your geek badge, you Trekkie! I kid..I'm a Trekkie.
I think we all know that the Death Star shield was not impenetrable... All it took to take it down was a small group of rebels and a clever social hack (aka, "we've got the rebels on the run, sir!")
Where was the helmet cam? I watched the event live from their site and thought that we'd see his perspective as he fell. Is there no tech available to do that? I find that surprising with seven years in the making. Did I miss something? Now that I'm thinking of it, it would have been much better if he jumped with a couple sharks sporting lasers --wearing live helmet cams, too.
In my mind, that seems to be the problem... too much STEM and not enough time to be truly creative. Gone are the art, music, drama and gym classes.. disappearing is the recess that grades 1-6 need... And now they're thinking that kids should be in class 8-10 hours a day??
The brain needs time to decompress from strictly analytic modes to ones that don't have rules and boundaries, like art and physical expression. Personally, I don't think I'd have as much focus in algebra class if I didn't have a gym class in the daily mix. Much like new studies that show modest physical output increases the mental alacrity of elderly folk, I've witnessed, first-hand, how a bit of exercise (pushups, stretching, quick bike ride) can make me feel fresh again, and I might actually solve a problem (or find a creative workaround) I was having while working on the computer.
Plus, more exercise at a younger age might be the start of a good habit that influences one for a lifetime.
Looks like Kickstarter is trying to combat the idea which seems pretty popular around here - that crowdfunding is a bubble waiting to burst.
I don't see a bubble waiting to burst with the crowd-sourcing paradigm. If Kickstarter wants to limit how a project can be introduced, there is no reason that someone else can't start a similar system. A friend of mine started a similar site in the city I live - communityfunded.com - and several projects have now been funded by locals for locals (and abroad).
With the success of 'pay-what-you-want' (Radiohead's "In Rainbows") and 'donate-what-you-want' (Humble Bundle), and micropayment systems like Flattr, traditional systems of funding have gone out the window. If NFC takes off, expect it to allow all sorts of micropayments to be given to all sorts of people... imagine 'bumping' the tip jar with your phone to show appreciation for your favorite barista..
Not at all, you can still have drawings and pre-production units. Just not renders, since they can easily confuse people into believing you have a near complete product.
Since when is a drawing not a rendering of something that doesn't yet exist?
Dr. Miller admits to being banned from the Google app store as well. In fact Miller's wife was also recently denied a developer account by the Google Play Store.
Depends. What exactly did he say? I mean, I've often been annoyed at the noise some kids were making and muttered (as many people have done) "I'm gonna kill those fucking kids if they don't shut the fuck up..."
Or was it..."I am going to come over there and kill little Stevie, I'll skin him with a knife, etc..."
See the difference?
One would garner an R-rating in a movie and the other a PG-13, respectively.
The death penalty is very civilized. It saves the tax payer thousands upon thousands of dollars. And frankly, I see it as a release. Given the option of life without parole and death, I will take death over an 8'x6' room. Keeping people in jail for life, now THAT is not civilized.
Fuck that... do the crime, do your time.. and no little death penalty is going to get in the way of you getting out of here any earlier than you think you can. No one escapes bureaucracy... Life is suffering, no matter if it's inside an 8'x6' jail cell (or a cubicle). But really, I'm against the death penalty. I don't think I could ever pull that switch or press that button that kills another person (much less the one that lets the nukes fly).
No he's not. Disabling the NFC chip, if possible, is the second thing I'd do if I was forced to own a phone that had such functionality -first, I'd not buy one. RFID was a precursor to NFC. It's main benefit is two-way communications, not just one-way.
NFC standards cover communications protocols and data exchange formats, and are based on existing radio-frequency identification (RFID) standards including ISO/IEC 14443 and FeliCa.[3] The standards include ISO/IEC 18092[4] and those defined by the NFC Forum, which was founded in 2004 by Nokia, Philips and Sony, and now has more than 160 members. The Forum also promotes NFC and certifies device compliance.[5] NFC builds upon RFID systems by allowing two-way communication between endpoints, where earlier systems such as contactless smart cards were one-way only.[6] Since unpowered NFC "tags" can also be read by NFC devices,[2] it is also capable of replacing earlier one-way applications.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
Besides, as we use these little computers (with cellphone functionality, attached), we can expect our information on them to be compromised through many vectors. If I were Apple, I'd have made sure that all personally identifying info (contacts list, notes, browser history, etc) on the iPhone was encrypted out of the box. No app could take data from any other app if they were secured with powerful encryption. I'm not a Luddite, but I'm at the point where I'm giving up my iPhone for a cheap Motorola clamshell. I just don't need all those 'bells and whistles', nor the headaches from losing my entire checking account to someone with a sniffer in a crowd... nor the poor service from AT&T, inconsistent billing, and their iPhone tax.
It's just the same modius operandi that Bill Gates has used, that Andrew Carnegie and other "robber barons" have used for centuries - make shitloads of money by various immoral / unethical / illegal means and then use 'philanthropy' to gain admission to heaven or at least public acceptance of their previous behaviors. This isn't new, it's not helpful to the world at large and society would be better off if it prevented the immoral / unethical and / or illegal behaviors in the first place.
Foundations aren't just for changing public perception of past misdeeds. They're a massive tax-shelter. Why didn't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation want to fund Dean Kaman's Slingshot? They'd be known for solving one of the greatest problems that developing countries face; access to clean drinking water.
I don't think that's how it works. The NSA doesn't work with local law enforcement; that's the job of the FBI. And when the FBI does work with them, they effectively take over all operations.
'Inventing new toilets is one of the most important things we can do to reduce child deaths and disease and improve people's lives,
No, providing clean water will do more to reduce anyone's death or disease. I don't see how having advanced toilets is going to keep children in third world countries from not drinking dirty water. Most third world countries lack plumbing to connect a toilet to, nevermind a water treatment facility. I'm sick of politicians (foundations are all politically motivated) using the 'think of the children' cry when everyone has the same basic needs.
Screw the Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation... They (among many other 'humanitarian' foundations) told Dean Kaman to take a hike when he brought forward his amazing invention, the Slingshot. That foundation doesn't give a rat's ass about the welfare of the Third World... they only care to use their 'foundation' status as a massive tax shelter.
Unfortunately, you and I are outvoted by the majority of the general public, which has already chosen to trust the mass media. So how do you recommend that people outside the mass media convince the majority of the general public to stop trusting the mass media?
As Jello Biafra says, You become the media. We have access to publishing tools on the internet that have toppled several regimes in as many years. We have devices that can circumvent digital blockades. We have the technology to 'get the word out' something's rotten. I'm not sure why things haven't moved in a more-positive direction in the United States in the past 13 years, but I'd wager it has to do something with a lack of general education. Perhaps people are just scared for themselves and their family if they end up bucking the status quo. I can understand, though.... I have a feeling most people don't want to have to be 'policy makers' for the rest of us.. they just want to live their life in peace and be left alone. Plus, the government's guns are bigger.
I agree that police have no reason to be trolling through social media sites on the taxpayers dime. It's nothing short of illegal surveillance to me. Let the community police itself and inform the proper authorities when they see something wrong, like Craigslist does. Besides, it will get expensive when some idiot tries to intentionally raise red flags making it seem they've committed crimes they didn't, thus leading authorities on a wild goose chase.
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I believe Samsung has already told Apple they'd be terminating the contract next year or so ... so it's not like they're at risk of losing a contract they've already decided they don't want any more.
Samsung knows that Apple will NOT be their customer forever. It's well-known that Apple's new A6 leaves other ARM-based chips in the dust. Now there's speculation that they are going to ditch Intel for their desktop chips (which they really don't do). I'm a bit surprised that Apple doesn't seem interested in AMD.
So far, Tim Cook is making QUITE the splash.
IIRC, Tim Cook was the guy that thought ahead to procure large inventories of flash memory. That kept the cost low and ensured they could meet consumer demand --something Apple has famously struggled with. This patent spat was initiated by Jobs, not Cook (remember Jobs saying he'd use the last cent of the company to sue any other company using 'their' ideas??). Cook has the option to make peace and get back to making computers, not enemies.
In India, we call it KLPD. Apple lost all the way, and Samsung recovered what they lost elsewhere.
And those that continue to support Apple during their fanatical litigious phase will lose out with higher prices. Lawyers cost a lot. Apparently, payback is costly, too.
That being said, I paid my blood and my first born, thank you very much, and I don't support the next generation getting the free ride, particularly for students who are the most likely to have no trouble paying their loans back! This is silly popularism striking again.
I'm thinking the same because I paid a ton of money for an education, but that's not the point and not in the spirit of positive change/reform. Education is way too expensive. I'm not sure, but I have a feeling the cost of an education is exceeding the cost-of-living index and the yearly inflation rate. Why can't people pay tuition based on their income? If you can pay back your loans at a rate commensurate with your yearly earnings, why not get an education at a cost relative to your (or parents') income? To me, that would seem fair, but to others it may seem 'socialist'.
I prefer not to exchange (parts of) my friends and family for my groceries, nor do I seek to acquire other peoples friends and family. How exactly do they qualify as 'currency'? Gold and silver, apart from their their industrial applications, are worthless. They have no intrinsic value, only perceived value. Surely that disqualifies them as a 'real' currency?
Worth is found in something that satiates a recurring need. You need food and water, therefore they are worth something. However, I've often thought that the greatest resource (or currency) is the human being. Without more humans, you will struggle to find comfort (also something that has value or worth). You won't have human comforts like laughter and sex unless there's another human there. So that's why I think it's OK to include family and friends in a list of 'currency'.
Religious orders and governments know that humans are the greatest resource. When you have a bunch of people working together to not only keep society going, but to build new and interesting layers upon it, you have the greatest synergy that comes from humans mingling.. you get ideas. Ideas always have value, whether they're novel or forgotten, then remembered and reused.
It makes you ask the question - "Then, why can't they make a Cell Phone that can't be left in a bar?"
You'd have to have a separate device that you always carry that syncs/pings the other device. I'm thinking Bluetooth. Once the phone is out of range, your Bluetooth headset or a similar device on your keychain can beep/vibrate. Using signal strength, you might be able to devise a tracking scheme where you get more beeps as you get closer to the device (in the case someone took your phone, at least you will be close to them; then ask a friend to call your phone, hear the ring, see the person answer it and bust em!). I'm not really sure this is possible given the low bandwidth of Bluetooth and I'm pretty sure you'd need low latency, too. I configured my computer to lock the screen if my phone leaves the range of its Bluetooth signal.
Then you have a really small living room. 84" is big for a TV, but not for a wall. In portrait mode you'll be able to mount it to a regular door.
You probably haven't seen the size of some studios in NYC or SanFran.
I for one do not believe American's at least are getting any smarter.
Exactly. You've just proven your assumption.
And I'm not trying to be a dick.. In all actuality, I think there's too much to have to pile into a person's brain. You have to be selective with the information you think will be of importance at a later date. For instance, we trust that spellcheck will properly highlight misspellings, however several properly spelled words, in a row, doesn't make proper grammar. We trust that there will always be Bic lighters to make a fire, yet how many people actually know how to make a fire with only the stuff you'd find in the wilderness? And why would someone commit information to their brain, unless they thought it would be needed in the future? It's true that there will always be something inane that you saw (probably on YouTube) that you can't 'unthink', but what's of real importance is retrieval. Stored information is of no value unless you can retrieve it in a timely fashion.
What's a Star Wars force field? I've heard of Star Wars deflector shields but never any mention of force fields. Perhaps the author was thinking of Star Trek.
See comment below. And then hand in your geek badge, you Trekkie! I kid..I'm a Trekkie.
I think we all know that the Death Star shield was not impenetrable... All it took to take it down was a small group of rebels and a clever social hack (aka, "we've got the rebels on the run, sir!")
Where was the helmet cam? I watched the event live from their site and thought that we'd see his perspective as he fell. Is there no tech available to do that? I find that surprising with seven years in the making. Did I miss something? Now that I'm thinking of it, it would have been much better if he jumped with a couple sharks sporting lasers --wearing live helmet cams, too.
Also there's Vista, named after Steve Ballmer's daughter, Vista Ballmer.
No, no it's not. Ballmer only has three sons. I'm pretty sure none of them are named Vista.
In my mind, that seems to be the problem... too much STEM and not enough time to be truly creative. Gone are the art, music, drama and gym classes.. disappearing is the recess that grades 1-6 need... And now they're thinking that kids should be in class 8-10 hours a day??
The brain needs time to decompress from strictly analytic modes to ones that don't have rules and boundaries, like art and physical expression. Personally, I don't think I'd have as much focus in algebra class if I didn't have a gym class in the daily mix. Much like new studies that show modest physical output increases the mental alacrity of elderly folk, I've witnessed, first-hand, how a bit of exercise (pushups, stretching, quick bike ride) can make me feel fresh again, and I might actually solve a problem (or find a creative workaround) I was having while working on the computer.
Plus, more exercise at a younger age might be the start of a good habit that influences one for a lifetime.
Looks like Kickstarter is trying to combat the idea which seems pretty popular around here - that crowdfunding is a bubble waiting to burst.
I don't see a bubble waiting to burst with the crowd-sourcing paradigm. If Kickstarter wants to limit how a project can be introduced, there is no reason that someone else can't start a similar system. A friend of mine started a similar site in the city I live - communityfunded.com - and several projects have now been funded by locals for locals (and abroad).
With the success of 'pay-what-you-want' (Radiohead's "In Rainbows") and 'donate-what-you-want' (Humble Bundle), and micropayment systems like Flattr, traditional systems of funding have gone out the window. If NFC takes off, expect it to allow all sorts of micropayments to be given to all sorts of people... imagine 'bumping' the tip jar with your phone to show appreciation for your favorite barista..
But, but, but then I have to choose for myself and will have no one to blame/sue if I get scammed!!!
Caveat emptor! However, I have a feeling you're just being sarcastic.
Not at all, you can still have drawings and pre-production units. Just not renders, since they can easily confuse people into believing you have a near complete product.
Since when is a drawing not a rendering of something that doesn't yet exist?
I found this:
Dr. Miller admits to being banned from the Google app store as well. In fact Miller's wife was also recently denied a developer account by the Google Play Store.
here: http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/438/1/
Depends. What exactly did he say? I mean, I've often been annoyed at the noise some kids were making and muttered (as many people have done) "I'm gonna kill those fucking kids if they don't shut the fuck up..."
Or was it..."I am going to come over there and kill little Stevie, I'll skin him with a knife, etc..."
See the difference?
One would garner an R-rating in a movie and the other a PG-13, respectively.
The death penalty is very civilized. It saves the tax payer thousands upon thousands of dollars. And frankly, I see it as a release. Given the option of life without parole and death, I will take death over an 8'x6' room. Keeping people in jail for life, now THAT is not civilized.
Fuck that... do the crime, do your time.. and no little death penalty is going to get in the way of you getting out of here any earlier than you think you can. No one escapes bureaucracy... Life is suffering, no matter if it's inside an 8'x6' jail cell (or a cubicle). But really, I'm against the death penalty. I don't think I could ever pull that switch or press that button that kills another person (much less the one that lets the nukes fly).
Ok, dumb-dumb, you're mixing up NFC with RFID.
No he's not. Disabling the NFC chip, if possible, is the second thing I'd do if I was forced to own a phone that had such functionality -first, I'd not buy one. RFID was a precursor to NFC. It's main benefit is two-way communications, not just one-way.
NFC standards cover communications protocols and data exchange formats, and are based on existing radio-frequency identification (RFID) standards including ISO/IEC 14443 and FeliCa.[3] The standards include ISO/IEC 18092[4] and those defined by the NFC Forum, which was founded in 2004 by Nokia, Philips and Sony, and now has more than 160 members. The Forum also promotes NFC and certifies device compliance.[5]
NFC builds upon RFID systems by allowing two-way communication between endpoints, where earlier systems such as contactless smart cards were one-way only.[6] Since unpowered NFC "tags" can also be read by NFC devices,[2] it is also capable of replacing earlier one-way applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
Besides, as we use these little computers (with cellphone functionality, attached), we can expect our information on them to be compromised through many vectors. If I were Apple, I'd have made sure that all personally identifying info (contacts list, notes, browser history, etc) on the iPhone was encrypted out of the box. No app could take data from any other app if they were secured with powerful encryption. I'm not a Luddite, but I'm at the point where I'm giving up my iPhone for a cheap Motorola clamshell. I just don't need all those 'bells and whistles', nor the headaches from losing my entire checking account to someone with a sniffer in a crowd... nor the poor service from AT&T, inconsistent billing, and their iPhone tax.
It's just the same modius operandi that Bill Gates has used, that Andrew Carnegie and other "robber barons" have used for centuries - make shitloads of money by various immoral / unethical / illegal means and then use 'philanthropy' to gain admission to heaven or at least public acceptance of their previous behaviors. This isn't new, it's not helpful to the world at large and society would be better off if it prevented the immoral / unethical and / or illegal behaviors in the first place.
Foundations aren't just for changing public perception of past misdeeds. They're a massive tax-shelter. Why didn't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation want to fund Dean Kaman's Slingshot? They'd be known for solving one of the greatest problems that developing countries face; access to clean drinking water.
Then again, they could just ask the NSA for it.
I don't think that's how it works. The NSA doesn't work with local law enforcement; that's the job of the FBI. And when the FBI does work with them, they effectively take over all operations.
'Inventing new toilets is one of the most important things we can do to reduce child deaths and disease and improve people's lives,
No, providing clean water will do more to reduce anyone's death or disease. I don't see how having advanced toilets is going to keep children in third world countries from not drinking dirty water. Most third world countries lack plumbing to connect a toilet to, nevermind a water treatment facility. I'm sick of politicians (foundations are all politically motivated) using the 'think of the children' cry when everyone has the same basic needs.
Screw the Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation... They (among many other 'humanitarian' foundations) told Dean Kaman to take a hike when he brought forward his amazing invention, the Slingshot. That foundation doesn't give a rat's ass about the welfare of the Third World... they only care to use their 'foundation' status as a massive tax shelter.
Unfortunately, you and I are outvoted by the majority of the general public, which has already chosen to trust the mass media. So how do you recommend that people outside the mass media convince the majority of the general public to stop trusting the mass media?
As Jello Biafra says, You become the media. We have access to publishing tools on the internet that have toppled several regimes in as many years. We have devices that can circumvent digital blockades. We have the technology to 'get the word out' something's rotten. I'm not sure why things haven't moved in a more-positive direction in the United States in the past 13 years, but I'd wager it has to do something with a lack of general education. Perhaps people are just scared for themselves and their family if they end up bucking the status quo. I can understand, though.... I have a feeling most people don't want to have to be 'policy makers' for the rest of us.. they just want to live their life in peace and be left alone. Plus, the government's guns are bigger.
I agree that police have no reason to be trolling through social media sites on the taxpayers dime. It's nothing short of illegal surveillance to me. Let the community police itself and inform the proper authorities when they see something wrong, like Craigslist does. Besides, it will get expensive when some idiot tries to intentionally raise red flags making it seem they've committed crimes they didn't, thus leading authorities on a wild goose chase.