Actually, no... I would bet Samsung (by virtue of owning basically everything significant on the peninsula) was easily able to round up and encourage these "plaintiffs" for the lawsuit, as a sort of counter-strike for what Apple is doing in Germany. I would be shocked if they weren't somehow directly involved in this.
Or perhaps Korean's aren't as blinded as other nations by blatant fanboyism and actually expect companies to respect their freedom.
For years Microsoft has been sued over it's anti competitive actions in Korea, I'm willing to bet they aren't the only ones, even Samsung has been indited on collusion charges before.
But hey, it's easier to create a conspiracy then to admit that Apple broke the law and people are justifiably angry over it.
Taking a joke seriously and flaming people because of it is dumb.
Yeah, I'm so sick of those scamming USian 419 idiots.
so I can tell Nigeria from other african countries.
You've failed to demonstrate that.
Now you're making this up to cover for the fact someone called you on your ignorance.
If you wanted to make a joke about Kenya, you could at least do it about something Kenya is actually famous for, such as fast runners or very tall women.
Please take you ignorance somewhere else, you are not entertaining in the slightest.
I bought one of the original 8150s, and have been very happy with it. As long as you keep an eye on the number of running apps, it's responsive enough and does as much as any other Froyo phone.
To be fair, things like the U8150 are for people who dont want to run a lot of applications and just want a simple smart phone with web/mail access.
Contrary to the iPropaganda, there are a a lot of people who couldn't care less about the "apps".
Because, lets be perfectly honest for a moment, there is no Android phone that comes to the simplicity and ease of use as an iPhone.
Yes, lets be honest here.
90% of people could handle using an Android phone such as a HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S or Huawei X5. 90.5% of people could use an Iphone. So technically that's correct but the margin is so tiny that it doesn't compensate for the loss in functionality.
A lot of people who've had Iphones are now switching to Android and loving it, this is why Apple is suing as hard as it can to keep Android products off the market. The minute someone uses an Android product, this myth about them being hard to use flies out the window.
Worldwide it's much grimmer for MS, but in the US it's pretty bad.
Somewhere around 7% and that includes a few WM 6.5 devices still being sold. The HD2 has only just stopped being offered by Aussie carriers meanwhile there's been a huge WP7 push but I know one person with a WP7 phone and he's a complete MS fanboy, but before WP7 was released he was looking at an Android powered HTC Desire.
Yes, I read TFA. It wasn't very illuminating; the author essentially says that since the client side can alter the transactions, HTML5 has security problems.
Since when has security issues stopped anyone?
Somewhere around point 9 the author gets to the actual problems, HTML5 isn't one standard, it's a bunch of competing standards. MS, Apple and Google have their own ideas about HTML 5 and are implementing them independently from each other. MS and Apple are trying to lock people into their platforms. Not being able to agree in a video codec alone will kill HTML 5 viablity as an application platform and ensure that Flash remains relevant. Lets not get into interactive web applications, what's the point of having to write one for 3 or more HTML 5 browsers when you can just it in Flash and have it run on all browsers with that plugin.
It stuns me that a rag-tag group of enthusiasts can so thoroughly spank a billion dollar corporation's highly funded professional developer group.
I'd hardly call the CM community "rag-tag" but I'll answer that point. Some of the CM releases were abysmal. frequent reboots, radio dropouts, FC galore, pretty much to the point that you had to go back to the previous version. Whilst I haven't seen this in recent days the fact that CM can put out a release with a lot of bugs without any recourse gives them the advantage they need to innovate. If Samsung or HTC released a buggy OS update there'd be riots in the street, but CM gets a pass because it's free and community produced, which is a good thing(TM). Put simply:
Stock ROM: Old and stable.
Community ROM: innovative and unstable.
That being said, I've been running CM 6 (2.2) and 7 (2.3) on my HTC Desire Z and haven't had a single issue and I'm looking forward to CM 8 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Steve Kondik and co have gotten a lot better at putting out damned good releases, the maturing of the Android code base also helped.
I don't think Steve Kondik is the type that would stop supporting what he started. Plus there are a bunch of other devs that also work on it. Samsung gave 5 of the CyanogenMod devs free Galaxy S2 phones and only asked that they make CyanogenMod work on it. Hiring Steve may allow for Samsung to ship their phones already running CyanogenMod. That gives them 1up on other vendors, hardware that officially supports CyanogenMod.
I wouldn't say that Samsung would officially support CM but Samsung recognise that they make the hardware, all of their money comes from the HW and they've got practically no stake in the software beyond making sure it works on the HW.
But on the other hand, they know the Android community is a force to be reckoned with and clearly want to remain onside so that they will continue to support and recommend Samsung products to non technical people.
But Steve Kondik was hired simply because he's a proven good coder who clearly cares about his work. Why hire a new coder and train him up in Android when you can simply hire one ready made and already familiar with your product.
Are you really trying to make the argument that having a conversation with someone who is not in the car while driving should be banned?
Fixed that for you.
Nice attempt to frame the argument but this is not black and white and you conveniently missed out the two most important points.
1) The other person is not in the car and has no awareness of the situation.
2) The driver has one hand off the controls.
When someone is in the car with me, talking to me they know what I am doing and when I need to concentrate. A person on the phone has no such awareness. Secondly and more importantly, the drivers ability to turn or change gears is diminished severely due to one of the drivers hands being off the controls. If you drive a manual, you may as well just drive yourself into a telephone poll then answer your phone whilst moving.
How about listening to the radio?
If listening to the radio distracts you as much as being on the phone then yes, but I'd rather just ban dingbats who make analogies between radios and phones from holding a license as they obviously dont understand what is and isn't safe when operating a vehicle.
If he managed to pull that off without crashing or injuring someone, my guess is he (would be/is) actually a fairly safe driver.
The fact he was caught proves he is a terrible driver, but the fact everyone around him can actually drive and was paying attention to the road is what prevented this from becoming a pileup. Someone who willingly ignores not only road rules but basic common sense should not be driving, let alone teaching other people how to drive.
People like him rarely injure themselves. It's the people they hit that get killed.
How do I know, because if you did you would know what it's like to almost be taken out by some complete dingbat talking on the phone and not watching where he's bloody well driving.
Damned right they should clamp down on this hard, IMHO they didn't come down on him hard enough, if there was ever a reason for the courts to crush someone's car this is it, and make sure the moron's phones are in the centre console.
However the saddest part is, this punishment will not stick, he'll be back on the road in a few weeks with an exemption license (whatever the UK equivalent is), the ruling overturned as being unfair or just plain driving illegally. This moron is going to kill someone and as sods law would have it, not himself and you cry "nanny state", now that is sad.
they would be advocating wildly for Nuclear power in whatever form.
We are.
But these complete dingbats who keep trying to label us alarmists and have to liken science to a region because they have no clue as to the science involved are drowning the voice of reason out with pointless, inaccurate and completely idiotic rants.
You dont understand the science behind it, you dont want to understand it or the arguments recommending what we should do, you just want to whine because you don't understand it. The fact you think Al Gore has anything to do with actual science proves how much you want to learn, the only people who listen to him are his detractors.
So leave this discussion to people who have a clue and go back to listening to Fox News, the comforting blanket of ignorance.
However there are those of us that still remember that it was much better than it is today. It's only a matter of time.
Oh I dunno. I'm no historian, but I see plenty of examples of domestic spying, nasty foreign politics, corporate greed, etc. from well before I was born that make today's US look like a hippie love-in.
Indeed, you dont have a McCarthy at the moment, as hard as some might be trying.
Looking at known history of mankind, I think it's pretty safe to bet at least 100:1 against you. Sadly.
Armed rebellion removed the French monarch and installed...
Armed rebellion removed the Russian Czar and installed...
The list goes on but you get the point. Taking a cursory look at history, we'll find more harm then good has come from armed rebellion. More often then not, you remove one tyrant to replace him with another.
Add to this the long term destructive issues. What the glorified history books you've read dont say is how economies are destroyed during rebellions. Do you think once you've managed to hang a few politicians everything goes back to normal? Lenin had this problem as they killed most of the decision makers, Napoleon had a navy of fail because he killed most of the captains (They were monarchists) and both had no-one to take over. Even the US had a heap of problems in it's early years.
Armed rebellions fail more often then not as well, what would be happening in Libya if the Europeans hadn't intervened. The Northern alliance fought for years against the Taliban and got nowhere.
Rebellion is an absolute last resort. The only people who treat it otherwise are people with an agenda, I.E. future tin pot dictators.
Good catch. I tend to save my best spelling for those that pay me.;-)
Apparently, you have the same rule for your "best arguments", too.
So, if Webkit is so unusable, then why does it form the basis of nearly every browser and nearly everything else that wants to renter HTML these days?
Gekko (Firefox) does fine, Trident (IE) at a pinch, I haven't used Opera in a while but I'll bet it can still hold it's own..
Webkit has a heap of problems with some sites that work fine on Firefox.
The KDE foundation made KHTML, Apple that forked KHTML into Webkit but it was Google that made WebKit usable. That's why Chrome is over 5 times more popular then Safari, even with Apple shoehorning it onto everyone's system by forcing it to be installed with Itunes, more people choose Chrome.
What's the point of holding onto stock that doesn't pay dividends?
A: Wait for it to peak and sell it.
This is one of the big reasons it's considered a volatile stock, that and the fact that their market is extremely fickle. Considering that the majority of Apple shareholders are finance companies (I.E. Westminster Naiontal/Washington Mutual) when they think APPL has peaked they'll sell and re-invest in stocks that will make them money or have potential to grow. At the point where there is no potential to grow, why would anyone keep a stock that doesn't pay divs?
Apple is in a bubble, this would be considerably less if they paid dividends, there would be an incentive to keep the stock after it peaks.
The only nasty side effect that might take place is a huge leap in the evolution of viruses. The stuff that does survive will be some extremely nasty sci-fi shit, including, I wouldn't be surprised, viruses that "hold the body hostage" by infecting critical cells and the biological equivalent of polymorphic viruses.
Becoming a neo-nazi is considered a negative thing by everyone, except neo-nazis and morally impaired monkeys. Really, there are some things in life that are unambiguously, morally good.
Surely you mean "unambiguously, morally bad" as I think it's pretty clear that Neo-Nazism is not a good thing(TM).
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Actually, no... I would bet Samsung (by virtue of owning basically everything significant on the peninsula) was easily able to round up and encourage these "plaintiffs" for the lawsuit, as a sort of counter-strike for what Apple is doing in Germany. I would be shocked if they weren't somehow directly involved in this.
Or perhaps Korean's aren't as blinded as other nations by blatant fanboyism and actually expect companies to respect their freedom.
For years Microsoft has been sued over it's anti competitive actions in Korea, I'm willing to bet they aren't the only ones, even Samsung has been indited on collusion charges before.
But hey, it's easier to create a conspiracy then to admit that Apple broke the law and people are justifiably angry over it.
Yeah, I'm so sick of those scamming USian 419 idiots.
You've failed to demonstrate that.
Now you're making this up to cover for the fact someone called you on your ignorance.
If you wanted to make a joke about Kenya, you could at least do it about something Kenya is actually famous for, such as fast runners or very tall women.
Please take you ignorance somewhere else, you are not entertaining in the slightest.
I bought one of the original 8150s, and have been very happy with it. As long as you keep an eye on the number of running apps, it's responsive enough and does as much as any other Froyo phone.
To be fair, things like the U8150 are for people who dont want to run a lot of applications and just want a simple smart phone with web/mail access.
Contrary to the iPropaganda, there are a a lot of people who couldn't care less about the "apps".
B.O.A.T.
Bring On Another Thousand
As the GP said, what fantasy world are you living in.
People view Android as a phone that does things they want it to, not a locked down device like an Iphone.
These still exist.
There is no true user accessible multitasking on an Iphone, the app store is still restrictive.
Because, lets be perfectly honest for a moment, there is no Android phone that comes to the simplicity and ease of use as an iPhone.
Yes, lets be honest here.
90% of people could handle using an Android phone such as a HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S or Huawei X5. 90.5% of people could use an Iphone. So technically that's correct but the margin is so tiny that it doesn't compensate for the loss in functionality.
A lot of people who've had Iphones are now switching to Android and loving it, this is why Apple is suing as hard as it can to keep Android products off the market. The minute someone uses an Android product, this myth about them being hard to use flies out the window.
No matter what Microsoft says, it is obvious why Google bought Motorola.
Patents.
Google never denied it, but it's not the only reason. Right up there with patents is Google's need to diversify.
Not current sales.
And it's only in the US.
Worldwide it's much grimmer for MS, but in the US it's pretty bad.
Somewhere around 7% and that includes a few WM 6.5 devices still being sold. The HD2 has only just stopped being offered by Aussie carriers meanwhile there's been a huge WP7 push but I know one person with a WP7 phone and he's a complete MS fanboy, but before WP7 was released he was looking at an Android powered HTC Desire.
Since when has security issues stopped anyone?
Somewhere around point 9 the author gets to the actual problems, HTML5 isn't one standard, it's a bunch of competing standards. MS, Apple and Google have their own ideas about HTML 5 and are implementing them independently from each other. MS and Apple are trying to lock people into their platforms. Not being able to agree in a video codec alone will kill HTML 5 viablity as an application platform and ensure that Flash remains relevant. Lets not get into interactive web applications, what's the point of having to write one for 3 or more HTML 5 browsers when you can just it in Flash and have it run on all browsers with that plugin.
I'd hardly call the CM community "rag-tag" but I'll answer that point. Some of the CM releases were abysmal. frequent reboots, radio dropouts, FC galore, pretty much to the point that you had to go back to the previous version. Whilst I haven't seen this in recent days the fact that CM can put out a release with a lot of bugs without any recourse gives them the advantage they need to innovate. If Samsung or HTC released a buggy OS update there'd be riots in the street, but CM gets a pass because it's free and community produced, which is a good thing(TM). Put simply:
Stock ROM: Old and stable.
Community ROM: innovative and unstable.
That being said, I've been running CM 6 (2.2) and 7 (2.3) on my HTC Desire Z and haven't had a single issue and I'm looking forward to CM 8 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Steve Kondik and co have gotten a lot better at putting out damned good releases, the maturing of the Android code base also helped.
I don't think Steve Kondik is the type that would stop supporting what he started. Plus there are a bunch of other devs that also work on it. Samsung gave 5 of the CyanogenMod devs free Galaxy S2 phones and only asked that they make CyanogenMod work on it. Hiring Steve may allow for Samsung to ship their phones already running CyanogenMod. That gives them 1up on other vendors, hardware that officially supports CyanogenMod.
I wouldn't say that Samsung would officially support CM but Samsung recognise that they make the hardware, all of their money comes from the HW and they've got practically no stake in the software beyond making sure it works on the HW.
But on the other hand, they know the Android community is a force to be reckoned with and clearly want to remain onside so that they will continue to support and recommend Samsung products to non technical people.
But Steve Kondik was hired simply because he's a proven good coder who clearly cares about his work. Why hire a new coder and train him up in Android when you can simply hire one ready made and already familiar with your product.
There's nothing wrong with a zombie that a Remington 870 can't fix...be it computer or ex-human.
However the Buckshot over IP BoIP protocol still needs work. Apparently the packets aren't arriving fragmented.
Are you really trying to make the argument that having a conversation with someone who is not in the car while driving should be banned?
Fixed that for you.
Nice attempt to frame the argument but this is not black and white and you conveniently missed out the two most important points.
1) The other person is not in the car and has no awareness of the situation.
2) The driver has one hand off the controls.
When someone is in the car with me, talking to me they know what I am doing and when I need to concentrate. A person on the phone has no such awareness. Secondly and more importantly, the drivers ability to turn or change gears is diminished severely due to one of the drivers hands being off the controls. If you drive a manual, you may as well just drive yourself into a telephone poll then answer your phone whilst moving.
How about listening to the radio?
If listening to the radio distracts you as much as being on the phone then yes, but I'd rather just ban dingbats who make analogies between radios and phones from holding a license as they obviously dont understand what is and isn't safe when operating a vehicle.
The fact he was caught proves he is a terrible driver, but the fact everyone around him can actually drive and was paying attention to the road is what prevented this from becoming a pileup. Someone who willingly ignores not only road rules but basic common sense should not be driving, let alone teaching other people how to drive.
People like him rarely injure themselves. It's the people they hit that get killed.
That you dont even have your license.
How do I know, because if you did you would know what it's like to almost be taken out by some complete dingbat talking on the phone and not watching where he's bloody well driving.
Damned right they should clamp down on this hard, IMHO they didn't come down on him hard enough, if there was ever a reason for the courts to crush someone's car this is it, and make sure the moron's phones are in the centre console.
However the saddest part is, this punishment will not stick, he'll be back on the road in a few weeks with an exemption license (whatever the UK equivalent is), the ruling overturned as being unfair or just plain driving illegally. This moron is going to kill someone and as sods law would have it, not himself and you cry "nanny state", now that is sad.
We are.
But these complete dingbats who keep trying to label us alarmists and have to liken science to a region because they have no clue as to the science involved are drowning the voice of reason out with pointless, inaccurate and completely idiotic rants.
You dont understand the science behind it, you dont want to understand it or the arguments recommending what we should do, you just want to whine because you don't understand it. The fact you think Al Gore has anything to do with actual science proves how much you want to learn, the only people who listen to him are his detractors.
So leave this discussion to people who have a clue and go back to listening to Fox News, the comforting blanket of ignorance.
However there are those of us that still remember that it was much better than it is today. It's only a matter of time.
Oh I dunno. I'm no historian, but I see plenty of examples of domestic spying, nasty foreign politics, corporate greed, etc. from well before I was born that make today's US look like a hippie love-in.
Indeed, you dont have a McCarthy at the moment, as hard as some might be trying.
Looking at known history of mankind, I think it's pretty safe to bet at least 100:1 against you. Sadly.
Armed rebellion removed the French monarch and installed...
Armed rebellion removed the Russian Czar and installed...
The list goes on but you get the point. Taking a cursory look at history, we'll find more harm then good has come from armed rebellion. More often then not, you remove one tyrant to replace him with another.
Add to this the long term destructive issues. What the glorified history books you've read dont say is how economies are destroyed during rebellions. Do you think once you've managed to hang a few politicians everything goes back to normal? Lenin had this problem as they killed most of the decision makers, Napoleon had a navy of fail because he killed most of the captains (They were monarchists) and both had no-one to take over. Even the US had a heap of problems in it's early years.
Armed rebellions fail more often then not as well, what would be happening in Libya if the Europeans hadn't intervened. The Northern alliance fought for years against the Taliban and got nowhere.
Rebellion is an absolute last resort. The only people who treat it otherwise are people with an agenda, I.E. future tin pot dictators.
Good catch. I tend to save my best spelling for those that pay me. ;-)
Apparently, you have the same rule for your "best arguments", too. So, if Webkit is so unusable, then why does it form the basis of nearly every browser and nearly everything else that wants to renter HTML these days?
Gekko (Firefox) does fine, Trident (IE) at a pinch, I haven't used Opera in a while but I'll bet it can still hold it's own..
Webkit has a heap of problems with some sites that work fine on Firefox.
The KDE foundation made KHTML, Apple that forked KHTML into Webkit but it was Google that made WebKit usable. That's why Chrome is over 5 times more popular then Safari, even with Apple shoehorning it onto everyone's system by forcing it to be installed with Itunes, more people choose Chrome.
Intel will again offer CPU upgrades through software. [snip] This time upgrades will actually increase CPU frequency
Micro(processor)transactions.
Cant wait for Intels version of DLC.
Now no-one needs to wonder why I keep buying AMD. Hyper expensive processors is what Intel offered in the late 90's when they had no competition.
What's the point of holding onto stock that doesn't pay dividends?
A: Wait for it to peak and sell it.
This is one of the big reasons it's considered a volatile stock, that and the fact that their market is extremely fickle. Considering that the majority of Apple shareholders are finance companies (I.E. Westminster Naiontal/Washington Mutual) when they think APPL has peaked they'll sell and re-invest in stocks that will make them money or have potential to grow. At the point where there is no potential to grow, why would anyone keep a stock that doesn't pay divs?
Apple is in a bubble, this would be considerably less if they paid dividends, there would be an incentive to keep the stock after it peaks.
If they're updating us that they lost it with Twitter they should've just had it check in with Foursquare when it landed so they could find it. Duh!
Actually it went back in time, They've just received an update from the glider on Friendster.
The only nasty side effect that might take place is a huge leap in the evolution of viruses. The stuff that does survive will be some extremely nasty sci-fi shit, including, I wouldn't be surprised, viruses that "hold the body hostage" by infecting critical cells and the biological equivalent of polymorphic viruses.
Which will then zombify people.
Surely you mean "unambiguously, morally bad" as I think it's pretty clear that Neo-Nazism is not a good thing(TM).
The Unobomber.
Surely you dont mean El Unobombardeo