I don't pretend that I understand the internal machinations or politics of WikiPedia, but I have had several edits reverted because someone out there didn't like certain information being revealed. I included proper references for those edits, but when they go against the agenda of someone on the inside, you can't compete.
LK
Sometimes it's necessary - you can find "references" for almost anything these days. Three examples: Evolution, Obama being born in Hawaii and global warming all have opponents with pages to quote and an axe to grind even though the facts strongly support all of these and there isn't any real controversy surrounding them.
I'm not a Wikipedia editor or contributor (other than financially), and I don't know your issue either, but I do believe that some manual oversight is needed.
"First you don't need a USB DVD (optical drive) to install anything anymore ever. That's just dumb. Every software is available for download. Office to Adobe to drivers to games."
When I went to college, my school "gave" out software packs containing the software I needed to complete the coursework. They were DVDs. There was no download option.
When I went to university, I got the software on floppy disks. Doesn't mean I can't live without it today.
It would be interesting to see the median cost savings, vs. average cost savings. For most, I'm guessing that the cost would be rather low - less than the cost of new hardware and setting the system up again if you lose it - but that you have some extreme outliers.
This is completely unrelated.. and this guys is obviously panicking, Sweden is very soft even to real criminals, they might be even softer then their neighbor Norway (where a man executed 77 children and only got max of 21 years in a comfy prison cell with a laptop and TV). The prison there is more like a rehab.
The 21 year sentence is subject to extension if he is considered a danger to society. He's never going to get out. He might deserve anything, but we like to think we have progressed somewhat.
MS is not to be trusted? But somehow Google and Apple are paragons of virtue? Sure, it always pays to be skeptical of Microsoft, but no more so than any of the other major players in the phone wars.
It looks like samsung ships 20 to 45 million smart phones and tablets per quarter
This case only covers the US. In the US, from the summer of 2010 to the summer of 2012 Samsung sold approx 21 million phones and just over 1 million tablets.
I'll assume you're being facetious, but the general idea is that a company can patent an idea and profit from it on an exclusive basis for a short time. Unfortunately the 'short time' part has been twisted beyond recognition.
That is for copyright. Patents don't last much longer than they used to - in fact, due to killing submarine patents the problem has decreased somewhat.
Indeed. Antibacterial is a-okay; I use bleach derivative, personally. Antibiotic? Who the hell would do that?
Actually, antibacterial isn't too good either - you create bacterial communities of resistant bacteria. Use of antibiotics and antibacterial should be avoided when it's not strictly needed, so that it continues to work when it is.
Premium products? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Inflated prices give them a perceived value. Doesn't make them better. And yes I had one. Don't get it. While it was only one of the first intel imacs, a 3 year old PC (at a fraction of the price) ran rings around it. True the imac is pretty much a laptop on a stand with no cover but I'd never go back to one. Too slow and clunky.
A pickup truck can carry more than a Porsche, but a Porsche would still be considered the premium of the two. Apple seems to put it resources into support, screens, differentiation via OS X, and design rather than performance they can't win anyway using standard parts - or to sum it up: the complete user experience plus "pretty". Not performance.
There are probably many more peaceful/tolerant muslims in the world than there are Christians, but it's the "Fred Phelp's" groups that get all the attention, not the Lutherans down the block.
Not likely, as there are more Christians than Muslims, and at least a large portion of the Muslims are notparticularly tolerant. Of course, many of the muslims in the west are those who can't stand this religious oppression.
Apple and Microsoft don't fight. They already have cross licensing deals in place. I've always wondered why Apple didn't take it's cash pile and discount macbooks to put a big dent into PC sales.
Because Apple want to earn money doing so - they keep increasing their market share already, and they want to keep their brand identity - premium products at a premium price, with industry leading design. They don't want to become another Dell.
Unfortunately, Musopen provided the content in Apple lossless format instead of a widely used, open, non-patent-encumbered format such as FLAC. Plus, the official torrent contains a single gigantic zip file.
Or put another way, imagine if I started a car company and decided that I wanted all of my cars to look exactly like a 2005 Nissan Altima because I'd decided that was the height of style and function. []
I mean, let's be brutally honest. How many people are going to go in a store wanting an iPhone, get confused, and come out with a Galaxy instead? Nobody. I can almost guarantee you that no one has ever gotten home and thought, "Hey waaaait a minute... This isn't an iPhone!"
I doubt the only test is if there is sufficient confusion. If Dodge decided that "The Aston Martin DB9 coupe looks much better than our Viper. Let's copy the complete design of the car, put our engine in it and a Dodge emblem on the bonnet. As we only sell it in Dodge stores, no customer will buy this thinking it is an Aston Martin so we should be safe!", I'm sure Dodge have legal issues anyway despite no actual customers being fooled into buying the Viper instead of the DB9.
What if the iPhone really is that innovative in the smartphone arena that only Apple can provide smartphones? Then they have a monopoly, and the DoJ tends to get upset with monopolies that appear to be unreasonably restraining consumer choice raising prices, or both.
Just ask Microsoft. They, arguably, have never recovered from the antitrust suit. Does Apple want to go down that path?
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, and I doubt they claim to. There were plenty of smartphones before the iphone - Nokia had e.g. N95 (and other N-series) and their Communicator, Blackberry had many phones, Sony Ericsson had their P900 series, HTC had Windows mobile phones. They behaved in different ways, and had many interesting styles. So obviously, there are many other ways than iPhone and iPhone OS to look and behave.
Samsung just put an awful lot of work into looking and behaving the same. Where the legal limit for copying goes I don't know, but Samsung wasn't exactly trying a brand new design they had been working on and polishing for the last five years... it seems as if they even copied marketing materials.
And even today, there are many different ways. E.g. the Nokia Lumia 900 - it is a full screen touch mobile, but has its own design and user interface. I certainly wouldn't buy one - Microsoft has already said that they are obsolete - but they have put (different) thoughts into design and behaviour.
Of course,I might hope that people would they no longer need any crutches to explain the world and would meditate on "why do I believe in this? Is it because I was brainwashed into it? What about all the other religious systems, that also claim to be unique? And why do none of them have any effect on the world today?". But people seems to get less sense (homeopathy, new age, birthers, tea party) rather than the opposite
"Windows 8 Style UI" doesn't quite have the catchiness that Metro and Cocoa do, not to mention how old applications using this will sound in Windows 9...
You can't send HD resolution video across WiFi (or even Gigabit Ethernet) uncompressed, so AirPlay mirroring requires compression. AppleTV hardware only supports the H.264 codec, so the format has to be H.264. While it's very efficient in terms of compression ratio, it's also very difficult to implement in software -- as in, it probably takes almost all of a quadcore CPU's cycles to encode 1080p in realtime. Since that would be pointless (you want to use your computer normally while mirroring, not have its fans howling just to send its display to the TV), Apple requires hardware H.264 encoding to implement AirPlay mirroring.
This would be a decent reason if the source material was uncompressed HD video.
However, it almost certainly is not. It's ridiculous (for multiple reasons) that if you have an existing H.264 encoded file, you need a Mac capable of realtime H.264 encoding to stream it to an AppleTV.
If it is a H.264 encoded file, you can stream it directly from iTunes already. The new feature does full screen mirroring - perfect for streaming those services who are desktop only (Hulu and other flash players). There is a non-apple solution with some some technical trade offs if you have an older Mac or a Windows system.
Seriously, this is BS. How does a 7" device look too similiar to a 10" device?
If it looks the same at 10 inches because of copying the trade dress, shrinking it isn't going to make the problem go away... I can't copy a 0.35 litre Coca-Cola bottle, make 0.2 litre one and claim "it's smaller, it's different!".
This is disingenuous, because it says nothing about what you're actually *buying* for that price. If an iPad is $500 worth of hardware in a $700 package, and a Galaxy Tab is $600 worth of hardware in a $700 package, then it really doesn't matter that they're the same price; the Galaxy Tab is the better deal, all other things considered.
I disagree on that one... the better deal is what gives you the best experience, and fits best with your needs. Things like software, future software upgrades, software ecosystem, support etc don't show up in hardware costs either, but might have a large effect on my experience with the unit the next couple of years.
Even if games was a major factor in holding Linux back, just making Steam available is not going to fix that.
Steam was launched for Mac two years ago, but other than Valve's own games the only top game that has been made available is Civilization V. Some indie games, sure, and Blizzard's games are available outside Steam, but all the other games are just as absent as they were before Steam was ported.
I can understand having R and L line in and out, but why in the world do they need firewire AND USB in the cable?
They added the connector to allow an iPod to use either USB or Firewire - before this, they used firewire only. If Apple makes a new connector, this would probably be something that is removed.
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I don't pretend that I understand the internal machinations or politics of WikiPedia, but I have had several edits reverted because someone out there didn't like certain information being revealed. I included proper references for those edits, but when they go against the agenda of someone on the inside, you can't compete.
LK
Sometimes it's necessary - you can find "references" for almost anything these days. Three examples: Evolution, Obama being born in Hawaii and global warming all have opponents with pages to quote and an axe to grind even though the facts strongly support all of these and there isn't any real controversy surrounding them.
I'm not a Wikipedia editor or contributor (other than financially), and I don't know your issue either, but I do believe that some manual oversight is needed.
Everyone knows Microsoft has the best marketing engine in the world
You're joking, right? Microsoft has some of the worst marketing ever. Their ads and marketing campaigns are terrible...
Microsoft's marketing has humour, at least - they made a great youtube video.
"First you don't need a USB DVD (optical drive) to install anything anymore ever. That's just dumb. Every software is available for download. Office to Adobe to drivers to games."
When I went to college, my school "gave" out software packs containing the software I needed to complete the coursework. They were DVDs. There was no download option.
When I went to university, I got the software on floppy disks. Doesn't mean I can't live without it today.
It would be interesting to see the median cost savings, vs. average cost savings. For most, I'm guessing that the cost would be rather low - less than the cost of new hardware and setting the system up again if you lose it - but that you have some extreme outliers.
That said, for OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and similar for others, I'm sure) and Windows 7 it is trivial to enable.
This is completely unrelated.. and this guys is obviously panicking, Sweden is very soft even to real criminals, they might be even softer then their neighbor Norway (where a man executed 77 children and only got max of 21 years in a comfy prison cell with a laptop and TV). The prison there is more like a rehab.
The 21 year sentence is subject to extension if he is considered a danger to society. He's never going to get out. He might deserve anything, but we like to think we have progressed somewhat.
MS is not to be trusted? But somehow Google and Apple are paragons of virtue? Sure, it always pays to be skeptical of Microsoft, but no more so than any of the other major players in the phone wars.
They screwed the owners of their last two attempts - Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
To compare, Apple's iPhone 3GS will get support for iOS 6 - and it was released more than 3 years ago.
So buying a Windows Phone falls into the category of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".
It looks like samsung ships 20 to 45 million smart phones and tablets per quarter
This case only covers the US. In the US, from the summer of 2010 to the summer of 2012 Samsung sold approx 21 million phones and just over 1 million tablets.
I'll assume you're being facetious, but the general idea is that a company can patent an idea and profit from it on an exclusive basis for a short time. Unfortunately the 'short time' part has been twisted beyond recognition.
That is for copyright. Patents don't last much longer than they used to - in fact, due to killing submarine patents the problem has decreased somewhat.
Indeed. Antibacterial is a-okay; I use bleach derivative, personally. Antibiotic? Who the hell would do that?
Actually, antibacterial isn't too good either - you create bacterial communities of resistant bacteria. Use of antibiotics and antibacterial should be avoided when it's not strictly needed, so that it continues to work when it is.
Premium products? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Inflated prices give them a perceived value. Doesn't make them better. And yes I had one. Don't get it. While it was only one of the first intel imacs, a 3 year old PC (at a fraction of the price) ran rings around it. True the imac is pretty much a laptop on a stand with no cover but I'd never go back to one. Too slow and clunky.
A pickup truck can carry more than a Porsche, but a Porsche would still be considered the premium of the two. Apple seems to put it resources into support, screens, differentiation via OS X, and design rather than performance they can't win anyway using standard parts - or to sum it up: the complete user experience plus "pretty". Not performance.
There are probably many more peaceful/tolerant muslims in the world than there are Christians, but it's the "Fred Phelp's" groups that get all the attention, not the Lutherans down the block.
Not likely, as there are more Christians than Muslims, and at least a large portion of the Muslims are not particularly tolerant. Of course, many of the muslims in the west are those who can't stand this religious oppression.
Apple and Microsoft don't fight. They already have cross licensing deals in place. I've always wondered why Apple didn't take it's cash pile and discount macbooks to put a big dent into PC sales.
Because Apple want to earn money doing so - they keep increasing their market share already, and they want to keep their brand identity - premium products at a premium price, with industry leading design. They don't want to become another Dell.
Unfortunately, Musopen provided the content in Apple lossless format instead of a widely used, open, non-patent-encumbered format such as FLAC. Plus, the official torrent contains a single gigantic zip file.
There is a torrent containing all 145 separate tracks in FLAC format here: http://pirateproxy.net/torrent/7536456/2012_Musopen_Kickstarter_Project_%5BFLAC%5D
Apple Lossless is officially open sourced by Apple. And there have been unofficial open source implementations around for six years or so.
Or put another way, imagine if I started a car company and decided that I wanted all of my cars to look exactly like a 2005 Nissan Altima because I'd decided that was the height of style and function. []
I mean, let's be brutally honest. How many people are going to go in a store wanting an iPhone, get confused, and come out with a Galaxy instead? Nobody. I can almost guarantee you that no one has ever gotten home and thought, "Hey waaaait a minute... This isn't an iPhone!"
I doubt the only test is if there is sufficient confusion. If Dodge decided that "The Aston Martin DB9 coupe looks much better than our Viper. Let's copy the complete design of the car, put our engine in it and a Dodge emblem on the bonnet. As we only sell it in Dodge stores, no customer will buy this thinking it is an Aston Martin so we should be safe!", I'm sure Dodge have legal issues anyway despite no actual customers being fooled into buying the Viper instead of the DB9.
What if the iPhone really is that innovative in the smartphone arena that only Apple can provide smartphones? Then they have a monopoly, and the DoJ tends to get upset with monopolies that appear to be unreasonably restraining consumer choice raising prices, or both.
Just ask Microsoft. They, arguably, have never recovered from the antitrust suit. Does Apple want to go down that path?
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, and I doubt they claim to. There were plenty of smartphones before the iphone - Nokia had e.g. N95 (and other N-series) and their Communicator, Blackberry had many phones, Sony Ericsson had their P900 series, HTC had Windows mobile phones. They behaved in different ways, and had many interesting styles. So obviously, there are many other ways than iPhone and iPhone OS to look and behave.
Samsung just put an awful lot of work into looking and behaving the same. Where the legal limit for copying goes I don't know, but Samsung wasn't exactly trying a brand new design they had been working on and polishing for the last five years... it seems as if they even copied marketing materials. And even today, there are many different ways. E.g. the Nokia Lumia 900 - it is a full screen touch mobile, but has its own design and user interface. I certainly wouldn't buy one - Microsoft has already said that they are obsolete - but they have put (different) thoughts into design and behaviour.
You can't pick and choose. Baby Jeebus says the old Testament rules are valid.
Did he?
Care to tell us where he said that?
Matthew 5:17: Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Thankfully, the Bible is interpreted differently at different times: The Bible, as interpreted back in e.g. the 15th century was not very tolerant. While Islam was much more open and tolerant a millenium ago, but had a backlash and today is rather backwards and intolerant.
Of course,I might hope that people would they no longer need any crutches to explain the world and would meditate on "why do I believe in this? Is it because I was brainwashed into it? What about all the other religious systems, that also claim to be unique? And why do none of them have any effect on the world today?". But people seems to get less sense (homeopathy, new age, birthers, tea party) rather than the opposite
A couple of classics from Microsoft's marketing department:
"Windows 8 Style UI" doesn't quite have the catchiness that Metro and Cocoa do, not to mention how old applications using this will sound in Windows 9...
For me. I usually like to wait about 3 months for upgrades. But will do this one very soon. The feature I want is the enhanced video drivers for rMBP.
Other stuff I like:
1) iMessage 2) Share / autosave / iCloud tightly wound together. 3) Launchpad search (for my parent's computers) 4) Fine control over mail notifications 5) iCloud tabs 6) X11 install on demand (for distribution) 7) Expanding scroll bars
And powernap might be cool.
Another very useful parent feature is automatic download and install of software and OS updates. Saves time when I go home.
This would be a decent reason if the source material was uncompressed HD video.
However, it almost certainly is not. It's ridiculous (for multiple reasons) that if you have an existing H.264 encoded file, you need a Mac capable of realtime H.264 encoding to stream it to an AppleTV.
If it is a H.264 encoded file, you can stream it directly from iTunes already. The new feature does full screen mirroring - perfect for streaming those services who are desktop only (Hulu and other flash players). There is a non-apple solution with some some technical trade offs if you have an older Mac or a Windows system.
Seriously, this is BS. How does a 7" device look too similiar to a 10" device?
If it looks the same at 10 inches because of copying the trade dress, shrinking it isn't going to make the problem go away... I can't copy a 0.35 litre Coca-Cola bottle, make 0.2 litre one and claim "it's smaller, it's different!".
which is selling products at the same price.
This is disingenuous, because it says nothing about what you're actually *buying* for that price. If an iPad is $500 worth of hardware in a $700 package, and a Galaxy Tab is $600 worth of hardware in a $700 package, then it really doesn't matter that they're the same price; the Galaxy Tab is the better deal, all other things considered.
I disagree on that one... the better deal is what gives you the best experience, and fits best with your needs. Things like software, future software upgrades, software ecosystem, support etc don't show up in hardware costs either, but might have a large effect on my experience with the unit the next couple of years.
You need to keep in mind, Linux has roughly the same market share as OSX - more if you believe MS' and Valve's numbers.
The Linux market share is in servers, while the OSX market share is on the desktop.
Even if games was a major factor in holding Linux back, just making Steam available is not going to fix that.
Steam was launched for Mac two years ago, but other than Valve's own games the only top game that has been made available is Civilization V. Some indie games, sure, and Blizzard's games are available outside Steam, but all the other games are just as absent as they were before Steam was ported.
I can understand having R and L line in and out, but why in the world do they need firewire AND USB in the cable?
They added the connector to allow an iPod to use either USB or Firewire - before this, they used firewire only. If Apple makes a new connector, this would probably be something that is removed.
Plus since they just announced they've come up with a new version of it, it seems unlikely they'll switch to something different so soon.
That's not announced, that's a guess/rumour. No product announcement or press release has been made.