There were some really shady problems going on for a case of this level. (One Billion Dollars - Cue MiniMe!) So you'd think that some part of the procedures would have really tried to put Quality Control into the process. I think the Judge made a couple of mistakes, and the Jury made a couple of mistakes, I won't go quite as far as to say as it was a total sham.
But "Mistakes" are different between Small Claims Court and the Future of Mobile Computing. Sorry, but you just have to apply a little more policy than happened here. Industrial contracts for 100K get more review!
So Samsung has a few nice openings to weaken the damage. I think they'll lose and I think I see why, but maybe they can take it down from One Billion Dollars (with pinky) to something "boring" like 50 million.
Another Slow Service user here. I did play a numbers game and pick my plan, I have something pretty low, (too lazy to detail it, maybe 1mbit?).
However I carefully considered my internet habits and discovered I can live with 5 seconds of buffering, and overall the $20 or whatever per month saved is worth more to me than having a "better experience". Generally, you can "spend for experience" until you go broke.
Misc Tips: I have a Verizon Dry Loop. That means it's Data Only. No Phone. But who needs a "landline"? $400+ saved per year. (Guess). Meanwhile, I have an AT&T GoPhone, that charges per minute, not per month. Another $700/year saved there. Here's the fun part. Get a VOIP service (I like Magic Jack Plus) and plug it in, and then you have a landline after all! Whee!
So instead of spending cumulative $150+ per month, I think I spend $40 per month tops.
"Completely off-topic, but love the sig - Brent Spiner is an *excellent* addition to Warehouse 13 this season. They've written him particularly well in that it's still rough to tell whether he's a tyrant attempting to cling to power, or genuinely concerned about the fate of the world. A friend and I were discussing it, and of all the Star Trek actors of all the different series, we concluded that just about the only regular character who could have done a similarly convincing job was Chief O'Brien. "
Someone noticed! Glad you like it! At least a quarter of the Star Trek actors (from all the series!) have been "ruined" by that show. Brent Spiner went through a period where even his side roles came out a little like Data. In a couple of lines I thought he almost came out sounding like Lore, but then he recovered and went into a different character zone. I have to say I don't exactly care for Colm Meany, and I *don't* think he could have pulled off the new role as well. If I had to pick an "Alternate" I'd go with John DeLancie aka Q, or, with a little "work", Robert Picardo, the Hologram Doctor from Voyager. ("Work" = give him two extra cups of coffee then run over his cat! Watch him go from doctor to snarling beast!)
AC replied below, but yes, look how the mood has changed, what used to be a fun programmer's trick when computing was all shiny and new is now a Back Door Security Threat.
Somewhere in that process of loss-of-innocence is how we as a race are struggling, because I don't see us going back to that worldview. I guarantee you (mostly) no one thought of "international hackers" in the 1980's when we were doing cute little tricks like that on Commodores and old Macs and early PC's etc.
Fast Forward to 2012. There's stuff going on, but it just doesn't have the child-like feel of the 1980's innocence.
I was exactly in the target demographic for the Atari 2600, "too young to know better". If I had about 20 more IQ points at the time I would have seen the immense leap in quality between 1982ish to about 1986 when the 8 Bit era was in full swing.
"Citations as needed" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 "...in 1982, the VCS was renamed "Atari 2600", after the unit's Atari part number, CX2600" "It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in." "The console had only 128 bytes of RAM for run-time data that included the call stack and the state of the game world. There was no frame buffer, as the necessary RAM would have been too expensive. Instead the video device had two bitmapped sprites, two one-pixel "missile" sprites, a one-pixel "ball," and a 40-pixel "playfield" that was drawn by writing a bit pattern for each line into a register just before the television scanned that line.... "The video hardware gave the 2600 a reputation as one of the most complex machines in the world to program..."
If we talk about "progress per year" I was lucky enough to experience it in exactly the correct order, because once I got my Commodore 128 in about 1987 I could never go back to the Atari 2600. Compare that to me being a holdout of Windows XP today and the difference is telling.
While this doesn't measure up to the depth of your post, on the topic of weird hardware merges, one of my old favorite games Ataxx struck my notice years later when I looked it up. While probably underpowered at the raw level for its time, the practice of arcade games (and maybe later consoles) may have pushed along the mindset of obscure hardware add-ons that work beautifully for say 1-5-10 or whatever games, but then no one else can do it ever again because the five people who knew that system cold went elsewhere.
Vista has a legendary story behind it that sorta no one knows. One day about 2003 in room 312 (storyteller's license) some senior engineer looked at the XP codebase and said "Oh... dear.... Gawd...."
Then he went to a meeting in room 312. In that meeting he reported to the Top Brass that the XP code was fundamentally unusable ever again, and that MS had to start from scratch. THAT's why Vista was so terrible: They raced to get the underlying raw security side down, and basically sacrificed every user feature. They covered it up as best they could with Aero, and basically borrowed the time being Too Big To Fail to get Windows 7 out, which is almost sensible.
Vista was all Under-The-Hood mess. So if you could tie up your local friends and wait until Windows 7 it went away. (Or the few that purchased a late-Vista machine, upgrade them, it still went away.)
This is different, it's much more The Man trying to bully in to the exact generation that paid them the most, and who *knows the most about The Man bullying them*. So it's a HUGE gamble about the "naive new users" vs the Old Timers. Rough times ahead.
Me, myself, I'm DEAD SURE there will be a tweak-app that will fix it and then I'll shut up and stay out of it. But that's just me. Millions more of MS-Core users won't be so quiet.
You might have captured the mood of the management meetings, but oh, this is at such a cost.
Power Users have really been MS's bread and butter in the Enterprise space.
This is SO risky. However MS is probably Too Big To Fail, so if they screw it up we'll hear about SP2 that gives back "abilities to go to the old way of doing things". At which point the entire exercise becomes useless.
I would like to try a counter that sometimes the graph *is* the analysis. To (hopefully respectfully) paraphrase Stephen Wolfram from one of his books, "this/these graphs represent thousands of hours of data collation, and should be considered copyrighted works not to be reproduced (etc.) "
So for example faced with a graph of of "sites actually hurt by adblock" (with a paragraph of study assumptions) then the rest of the article full of inflammatory rhetoric might go to the sideline if the % of sites actually hurt = 7%. One graph makes the story and then you can almost visualize the entire article.
Careful there, you're almost heading into the discussion topic of entertainment vs the **AA.
How are you ever going to hear about a band like Cube To The Third? (Ultra Small Indie Project that (used to be?) in my area.)
If you then found it through this post, that's Word Of Mouth Advertising. I absolutely you would never ever have heard of it otherwise. You'll just have to take my word for it I'm no shill, it was a random example of an obscure indie band.
Advertising *does* have a function but it's SO abusable that consumers took a little power back in their own hands and now this story is about some-strange-aggregated-collection-of-LittleGuys-and-advertisers getting upset that this isn't TV.
Actually, you just stumbled on a rough draft of the answer. "Random measurement systems, hmm?"
So if I had a list per advertiser per webpage with footnotes per executive and per employee, in my choice of PDF or other formats, I'd turn advertising for that agency and that page on. Oh wait, that's what they collect on *us*. Silly me to think we "deserve" that on them!
Try the box that says "Thank you for contributing, your ads are disabled". It's non-money contribution in the form of posts that are rated highly as User-Generated-Content. That's one way. What the poster next to me is saying that for once instead of TV where we got ads shoved at us, these companies have to get *just a little smarter*.
Damn, you just (re)discovered another right that corps have over individuals. When Corps do strange nasty things, they can siphon it off to "lower level managers" and disclaim it. Everything and anything an Individual does becomes part of their record.
"Personally, I don't think you should regulate these."
See, this is a really tricky topic because almost unlike any other category, people's lives are at stake. I know it's fun to joke about "snake oil" (see posts above) but "old school legit doctors" are pretty good, so an app they use could directly affect a patient's life. Remember, this was "Medical Apps", not just "communication between people who happen to be doctors". So I'd want a review of a "Medical App" because so help me if it includes "advice to the doctor" I'd want *someone* looking at it.
Maybe, just maybe not. Agreed with a little help afterwards, you could pull ahead of it such that "nothing can shock you ever again". They do it in the Military all the time, though in a more physical style.
See that's what I've been saying for ages. Way back around 2003 and then executed in 2006 I planned a solid-spec XP machine I nicknamed "Twilight" (In the Asimovian sense, not the teen romance!) The idea was that by 2003 "Longhorn" was in ugly trouble, then when I did it, was the early days of the Vista disaster, true to form, Windows 7 is "Vista Fixed". But I tried to think farther than that. So here we are with Win8 Metro. The PR is blinding. So if it doesn't croak, I DO want to see the "Post Windows 8 World" and I thing that will FINALLY be the context to upgrade in. But I gotta survive the next 3 years.
I think you're right, though I think it has 50-50 or better of being a 3rd party app. I think there already is something like "StartDock" out there, but I'm too lazy to confirm it. Meanwhile, that leads us to whether MS will do Apple-Style Bitching about "Jail Breaking Terrorists".
I suggested in another forum elsewhere that we make a browser plugin that *user side* blocks the first post and all succeeding posts with the same title name. Statistically the real discussions start when someone not-first-post-or-wannabe starts a new thread.
As I see it, software OS'es aren't a normal product. With the anomaly that XP was where it was at for some 8 years, sure Win7 is cute, it seems like a natural option, but the Windows 8 hype is some of the most desperately aggressive I have ever seen, way more than Windows 7. It looks as if it were an attempt to blind rational decision making by screaming "stop thinking and open your wallet and buy this now!"
Except it's a bit like D&D, if Win8 is awesome, why would we buy Win7? The computer world is different from the emerging days of Win95 Win 98 Win 2000 WinXP, when vital new tech was being thrashed out. Comp processing power came of age, so we don't need that hardware upgrade as importantly as we used to. Not counting some potential wear on the HD, I have a 1.75 Terabyte Quad Core system from 2006 that will do anything I ever (currently) need. So the mood is different, these frenetic changes feel wrong. The UI-Formerly-As-Metro really bothers me. I'm not a tablet/phone guy.
This feels like the marketing of the Zune, which shared a lot of "let's get our favorite 12 analysts to pummel the blogosphere with it!" So I am trying to hold on to the "Post Win8 World" and by then we'll have the perspective, but not today.
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Yep. You're ahead of me, with better formatting.
There were some really shady problems going on for a case of this level. (One Billion Dollars - Cue MiniMe!) So you'd think that some part of the procedures would have really tried to put Quality Control into the process. I think the Judge made a couple of mistakes, and the Jury made a couple of mistakes, I won't go quite as far as to say as it was a total sham.
But "Mistakes" are different between Small Claims Court and the Future of Mobile Computing. Sorry, but you just have to apply a little more policy than happened here. Industrial contracts for 100K get more review!
So Samsung has a few nice openings to weaken the damage. I think they'll lose and I think I see why, but maybe they can take it down from One Billion Dollars (with pinky) to something "boring" like 50 million.
Another Slow Service user here. I did play a numbers game and pick my plan, I have something pretty low, (too lazy to detail it, maybe 1mbit?).
However I carefully considered my internet habits and discovered I can live with 5 seconds of buffering, and overall the $20 or whatever per month saved is worth more to me than having a "better experience". Generally, you can "spend for experience" until you go broke.
Misc Tips: I have a Verizon Dry Loop. That means it's Data Only. No Phone. But who needs a "landline"? $400+ saved per year. (Guess). Meanwhile, I have an AT&T GoPhone, that charges per minute, not per month. Another $700/year saved there. Here's the fun part. Get a VOIP service (I like Magic Jack Plus) and plug it in, and then you have a landline after all! Whee!
So instead of spending cumulative $150+ per month, I think I spend $40 per month tops.
"Completely off-topic, but love the sig - Brent Spiner is an *excellent* addition to Warehouse 13 this season. They've written him particularly well in that it's still rough to tell whether he's a tyrant attempting to cling to power, or genuinely concerned about the fate of the world. A friend and I were discussing it, and of all the Star Trek actors of all the different series, we concluded that just about the only regular character who could have done a similarly convincing job was Chief O'Brien. "
Someone noticed! Glad you like it! At least a quarter of the Star Trek actors (from all the series!) have been "ruined" by that show. Brent Spiner went through a period where even his side roles came out a little like Data. In a couple of lines I thought he almost came out sounding like Lore, but then he recovered and went into a different character zone. I have to say I don't exactly care for Colm Meany, and I *don't* think he could have pulled off the new role as well. If I had to pick an "Alternate" I'd go with John DeLancie aka Q, or, with a little "work", Robert Picardo, the Hologram Doctor from Voyager. ("Work" = give him two extra cups of coffee then run over his cat! Watch him go from doctor to snarling beast!)
Pick ANY other fast food joint! Taco Bell is tasty!
AC replied below, but yes, look how the mood has changed, what used to be a fun programmer's trick when computing was all shiny and new is now a Back Door Security Threat.
Somewhere in that process of loss-of-innocence is how we as a race are struggling, because I don't see us going back to that worldview. I guarantee you (mostly) no one thought of "international hackers" in the 1980's when we were doing cute little tricks like that on Commodores and old Macs and early PC's etc.
Fast Forward to 2012. There's stuff going on, but it just doesn't have the child-like feel of the 1980's innocence.
This is a nice piece of (presumed true) trivia from an AC. Does a ROM-bootable copy of an OS hold implications for security recovery today?
Nah, they will never get rid of Ballmer. He gave us one of the top 100 internet memes of all times! :: )
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I was exactly in the target demographic for the Atari 2600, "too young to know better". If I had about 20 more IQ points at the time I would have seen the immense leap in quality between 1982ish to about 1986 when the 8 Bit era was in full swing.
"Citations as needed" ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600
"...in 1982, the VCS was renamed "Atari 2600", after the unit's Atari part number, CX2600"
"It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in."
"The console had only 128 bytes of RAM for run-time data that included the call stack and the state of the game world. There was no frame buffer, as the necessary RAM would have been too expensive. Instead the video device had two bitmapped sprites, two one-pixel "missile" sprites, a one-pixel "ball," and a 40-pixel "playfield" that was drawn by writing a bit pattern for each line into a register just before the television scanned that line.
"The video hardware gave the 2600 a reputation as one of the most complex machines in the world to program..."
If we talk about "progress per year" I was lucky enough to experience it in exactly the correct order, because once I got my Commodore 128 in about 1987 I could never go back to the Atari 2600. Compare that to me being a holdout of Windows XP today and the difference is telling.
Hi there.
While this doesn't measure up to the depth of your post, on the topic of weird hardware merges, one of my old favorite games Ataxx struck my notice years later when I looked it up. While probably underpowered at the raw level for its time, the practice of arcade games (and maybe later consoles) may have pushed along the mindset of obscure hardware add-ons that work beautifully for say 1-5-10 or whatever games, but then no one else can do it ever again because the five people who knew that system cold went elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataxx
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=ataxx&page=detail&id=141
"Main CPU : (2x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound CPU : I80186 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 8 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1024"
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There's something different here.
Vista has a legendary story behind it that sorta no one knows. One day about 2003 in room 312 (storyteller's license) some senior engineer looked at the XP codebase and said "Oh ... dear.... Gawd...."
Then he went to a meeting in room 312. In that meeting he reported to the Top Brass that the XP code was fundamentally unusable ever again, and that MS had to start from scratch. THAT's why Vista was so terrible: They raced to get the underlying raw security side down, and basically sacrificed every user feature. They covered it up as best they could with Aero, and basically borrowed the time being Too Big To Fail to get Windows 7 out, which is almost sensible.
Vista was all Under-The-Hood mess. So if you could tie up your local friends and wait until Windows 7 it went away. (Or the few that purchased a late-Vista machine, upgrade them, it still went away.)
This is different, it's much more The Man trying to bully in to the exact generation that paid them the most, and who *knows the most about The Man bullying them*. So it's a HUGE gamble about the "naive new users" vs the Old Timers. Rough times ahead.
Me, myself, I'm DEAD SURE there will be a tweak-app that will fix it and then I'll shut up and stay out of it. But that's just me. Millions more of MS-Core users won't be so quiet.
You might have captured the mood of the management meetings, but oh, this is at such a cost.
Power Users have really been MS's bread and butter in the Enterprise space.
This is SO risky. However MS is probably Too Big To Fail, so if they screw it up we'll hear about SP2 that gives back "abilities to go to the old way of doing things". At which point the entire exercise becomes useless.
Hi PopeRatzo.
I would like to try a counter that sometimes the graph *is* the analysis. To (hopefully respectfully) paraphrase Stephen Wolfram from one of his books, "this/these graphs represent thousands of hours of data collation, and should be considered copyrighted works not to be reproduced (etc.) "
So for example faced with a graph of of "sites actually hurt by adblock" (with a paragraph of study assumptions) then the rest of the article full of inflammatory rhetoric might go to the sideline if the % of sites actually hurt = 7%. One graph makes the story and then you can almost visualize the entire article.
Careful there, you're almost heading into the discussion topic of entertainment vs the **AA.
How are you ever going to hear about a band like Cube To The Third? (Ultra Small Indie Project that (used to be?) in my area.)
If you then found it through this post, that's Word Of Mouth Advertising. I absolutely you would never ever have heard of it otherwise. You'll just have to take my word for it I'm no shill, it was a random example of an obscure indie band.
Advertising *does* have a function but it's SO abusable that consumers took a little power back in their own hands and now this story is about some-strange-aggregated-collection-of-LittleGuys-and-advertisers getting upset that this isn't TV.
Actually, you just stumbled on a rough draft of the answer.
"Random measurement systems, hmm?"
So if I had a list per advertiser per webpage with footnotes per executive and per employee, in my choice of PDF or other formats, I'd turn advertising for that agency and that page on. Oh wait, that's what they collect on *us*. Silly me to think we "deserve" that on them!
Try the box that says "Thank you for contributing, your ads are disabled". It's non-money contribution in the form of posts that are rated highly as User-Generated-Content. That's one way. What the poster next to me is saying that for once instead of TV where we got ads shoved at us, these companies have to get *just a little smarter*.
Damn, you just (re)discovered another right that corps have over individuals. When Corps do strange nasty things, they can siphon it off to "lower level managers" and disclaim it. Everything and anything an Individual does becomes part of their record.
"Powered by Windows 8"
"Personally, I don't think you should regulate these."
See, this is a really tricky topic because almost unlike any other category, people's lives are at stake. I know it's fun to joke about "snake oil" (see posts above) but "old school legit doctors" are pretty good, so an app they use could directly affect a patient's life. Remember, this was "Medical Apps", not just "communication between people who happen to be doctors". So I'd want a review of a "Medical App" because so help me if it includes "advice to the doctor" I'd want *someone* looking at it.
Maybe, just maybe not.
Agreed with a little help afterwards, you could pull ahead of it such that "nothing can shock you ever again". They do it in the Military all the time, though in a more physical style.
But then we're on XP SP3 + 50-100 upgrades since. So that's your metric, not SP2.
See that's what I've been saying for ages. Way back around 2003 and then executed in 2006 I planned a solid-spec XP machine I nicknamed "Twilight" (In the Asimovian sense, not the teen romance!) The idea was that by 2003 "Longhorn" was in ugly trouble, then when I did it, was the early days of the Vista disaster, true to form, Windows 7 is "Vista Fixed". But I tried to think farther than that. So here we are with Win8 Metro. The PR is blinding. So if it doesn't croak, I DO want to see the "Post Windows 8 World" and I thing that will FINALLY be the context to upgrade in. But I gotta survive the next 3 years.
I think you're right, though I think it has 50-50 or better of being a 3rd party app. I think there already is something like "StartDock" out there, but I'm too lazy to confirm it. Meanwhile, that leads us to whether MS will do Apple-Style Bitching about "Jail Breaking Terrorists".
Hi there.I'll reply to you.
I suggested in another forum elsewhere that we make a browser plugin that *user side* blocks the first post and all succeeding posts with the same title name. Statistically the real discussions start when someone not-first-post-or-wannabe starts a new thread.
As I see it, software OS'es aren't a normal product. With the anomaly that XP was where it was at for some 8 years, sure Win7 is cute, it seems like a natural option, but the Windows 8 hype is some of the most desperately aggressive I have ever seen, way more than Windows 7. It looks as if it were an attempt to blind rational decision making by screaming "stop thinking and open your wallet and buy this now!"
Except it's a bit like D&D, if Win8 is awesome, why would we buy Win7? The computer world is different from the emerging days of Win95 Win 98 Win 2000 WinXP, when vital new tech was being thrashed out. Comp processing power came of age, so we don't need that hardware upgrade as importantly as we used to. Not counting some potential wear on the HD, I have a 1.75 Terabyte Quad Core system from 2006 that will do anything I ever (currently) need. So the mood is different, these frenetic changes feel wrong. The UI-Formerly-As-Metro really bothers me. I'm not a tablet/phone guy.
This feels like the marketing of the Zune, which shared a lot of "let's get our favorite 12 analysts to pummel the blogosphere with it!" So I am trying to hold on to the "Post Win8 World" and by then we'll have the perspective, but not today.