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by mrich 14y ago
No, I don't think the exact statement was specified.
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by mrich 14y ago
It is amazing how they use complicated language in the statement to hide the real message as far as possible. Kind of different from the simple, on point communication they normally employ. I wonder why :)
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by mrich 14y ago
I wondered that too. I believe many of these traders who circumvent the rules are thinking of a freeroll: If they can pull it off, they are set for life. Otherwise they just have to find another 9~to-5, at worst in another industry.
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by mrich 14y ago
They have been targeted many times, and paid quite some millions (billions?) over the years [1] [2]. The thing is, the big players like Microsoft all have large patent portfolios and are using them to keep up the oligopoly, they have no int
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by mrich 14y ago
The pitches were aggressive, fast-paced, and competitively defensive: they often mentioned “other tablets” and didn’t let me forget which features were “not available on any other tablet”. This sounds like a description of
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by mrich 14y ago
D basically is this restart of C++ you are referring too. Unfortunately it sees basically no adoption in the industry as far as I can tell.
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by mrich 14y ago
In comparison to relatively simple mechanical devices it is also mindboggling in how many more ways software can fail. - failures from the underlying hardware - out of memory may occur in many places - handle each corner case that may be re
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by mrich 14y ago
Not to hate on the great top-voted answer, but isn't it a bit strange that it was posted a mere five minutes after the question?
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by mrich 14y ago
libc (both GNU and BSD)
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by mrich 14y ago
However apple has been know as a being a brilliant kid with short attention span and tantrums to remember. It is interesting how companies often exhibit traits of their influential founders. This would be a good characterization
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by mrich 14y ago
That solves your update problem. But you are still under control of a central entity that has its own interests and tightly controls their ecosystem and the apps you can install on the product you bought. You have replaced your carrier with
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by mrich 14y ago
What is your alternative?
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by mrich 14y ago
Well played, I was only wondering a bit at the DHH reference since I cannot imagine Linus caring about web frameworks much.
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MacRumors: 40% of iPhone 5's have small scratches out of the box(forums.macrumors.com)
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by mrich 14y ago
For C/C++, also try just compiling with clang. It has great diagnostics. Also it has the static analyer whose C++ support just improved greatly in trunk.
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by mrich 14y ago
This. I cannot help but think "old-fashioned" when seeing an iOS UI. It is smooth and functional, but it looks a bit from the seventies.
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by mrich 14y ago
It seems the easiest way to get publicity and free advertising these days is to create a brand somehow involving an apple and wait for the lawyers.
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by mrich 14y ago
Most markets where money can be made are like that, though...
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by mrich 14y ago
I would not say this for any other company, but Apple somewhat deserves it.
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by mrich 14y ago
Customers will become aware of this more and more, and Apple's trials are further helping it. It is a slow process, but it happens. Microsoft also seemed invincible once but they lost the goodwill of developers and customers over the years.
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by mrich 14y ago
"Slide to unlock" has been thrown out in the UK http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/05/slide-to-unlo... "Data detectors" looks completely ridiculous to everyone who has programmed for more than a year. I would be shocked if this s
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by mrich 14y ago
More detailed info would be helpful. What infringement is Apple alleging in this case? For the S III, they have to rely more and more on bogus software patents since it is very different from an iPhone. Their fear is very visible.
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by mrich 14y ago
But what is your point? Is a majority of the world population going to fly one of those airplanes as part of their daily routine soon?
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by mrich 14y ago
That's interesting. It gives the other argument why they withheld the evidence (Apple would have countered it) more weight.
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by mrich 14y ago
I believe they used this trial to buy some time. They have many grounds to file an appeal now (think of the evidence they introduced too late, which was rejected). Until then, the verdict will not be final. Meanwhile, their old products whi
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by mrich 14y ago
> As an aside, it's not clear how Samsung's legal team let this guy onto the jury in the first place. I think it has become clear now :)
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by mrich 14y ago
As a myopic geek I am looking forward to ultra flat glasses :)
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by mrich 14y ago
Samsung played it well. They knew that they would sooner or later lose in court against Apple because the Galaxy S was just too similar. But they were able to drag it out so long that they now have their third-generation high end phone S II
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by mrich 14y ago
A sane voice. Trademark/copyright is enough to protect your product, only in rare cases should a patent be awarded for an algorithm (think RSA).
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by mrich 14y ago
But the Android vendors are already using a commodity OS in Linux, but still have to pay Microsoft patent royalties on it.

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