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I do not blame anyone, nor do I support anyone. My fair view is that Samsung DID cross the border by making their phones look too similar to the iPhone..BUT Apple shouldn't have won either, because what they have is a bunch of Bullshit patents just to hinder their competitors' success. (Rounded rectangles, Slide to unlock, Elastic bounce, seriously?)

One thing I can conclude honestly (also from my own personal experience) is that we live in a very unfair world, being ruled by an unfair system, where someone who has the highest amount money will always WIN and RULE the system. Our governments are in bed with the entertainment industries for a reason. Think about it (ACTA, SOPA..etc). I was expecting the result to be something like what happened in Korea, where Samsung And Apple were found guilty and BOTH had to pay for damages. But this is a ridiculous - Apple has been sued by numerous competitors and yet it didn't infringe even a single patent? Come on...clearly this system is biased.

For those who think Apple deserved to win, Apple did not do this to protect their IP, they are just suppressing their competitors by suing them. Why is Apple going after HTC and Motorola? I personally own a HTC and it looks and feels nothing like an iPhone. Apple might have 'innovated' as many claim it to have, but it has hindered more innovation than it has ever contributed. The case for HTC, Samsung and others today might be the case for you and me tomorrow as well, considering we start a phone company tomorrow. We are as vulnerable as they are. And Apple is the most innovative company in the world? Come on..innovation by litigation??

Well Apple, your end is very near, which is reflected by your panic, suing your competitors. This won't last very long and there will be someone to say 'Fuck you' to you very soon. Till then, enjoy your happiness while it lasts.
There was also the HTC Wizard, introduced in October 2005.

It was pretty much the best thing out there for quite a while.
but curl is a programming language itself. This is intended to be safe and primarily for markup. I did change from parens to angle brackets because of curl. It made much more sense because brackets are much less used in everyday chat, on non programmer sites. I made this after I made an html parser, so it's parsed in very much the same way. Curl is very very different.
Did he just describe a DVD/BluRay video recorder or a HD recorder which the harddrive is removable (basically all of them)?

That patent is ridiculous.
Ah well. Somebody already has obtained the sample from the url for us. Most likely bruteforced the address.

http://twitter.com/jduck1337/status/239875285913317376
If your PNGs were coming out larger than your SVGs you were probably plotting more points and precision than needed at the given resolution. You can greatly reduce filesize just by rounding up some decimals.
"We felt like we were 100 percent fair, but we wanted something more than a slap on the wrist." That's a direct quote. Ars Technica might have taken it out of context, but it looks like the jury was going for a punitive amount instead of damages.
You don't know how juries work but yet according to you they weren't impartial.

Can't fault that logic.
So, basic software development on new hardware.

Gotcha.
The Blackberry App Store isn't going to be irrelevant, since Blackberries won't be running Google Play. Android developers will have to submit their apps to the Blackberry App Store for them to be available for BB10 users to buy.
Confessions of a left-handed technology user.
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> github's issue tracker doesn't allow attachment, and thus it inadvertently promotes this "pull requests from out of nowhere" behavior.

"Refs #XXX" in the description (PR or any commit) ?
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You're probably thinking of the ~10-page verdict form? This is the jury instructions: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/ApplevSamsung-1903.pdf
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Using my old notebook with Core 2 Duo and Intel graphics I manged to play all the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games with decent details and resolution.
For those not watching the stock marker: Nokia (NOK) up nearly 9% on this ...
No. That's the point of the case. Samsung DIDN'T have a completely different end to end execution. It was a blatant copy from the packaging, hardware design, software UI elements, connectors etc. And Samsung had documents demonstrating this.

Microsoft and Palm are examples of unique end to end execution.
Anyone still defending Apple as the underdog now needs to sit up and realize that Apple is now the 800lb gorilla.
Most of us use some amount of open source software. I think it is in our benefit to support those who make the effort to create and maintain the software we use every day.
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Because the Android default browser had no SVG support until version 2.3, allegedly to save 1MB of space. These older versions will remain in widespread use for a while yet (slower upgrade rate than iOS) and Raphael doesn't fill the gap, unfortunately.

Opera Mobile and Mobile Firefox do support SVG, even on old Android, by the way. (Disclaimer: I work for Opera.)
"As a game developer, I'm excited by them. My games will run badly, but at least now they'll run on even the cheapest computers."

As a sidenote, John Carmack was reasonably enthusiastic about the latest generation Intel integrated graphics at QuakeCon 2012 (at YouTube you can find the whole 3,5 hour talk).

From http://pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/John-Carmacks-QuakeCon-20...:

"Several factors have pushed iD in this direction. First off the hardware is now good enough overall for gaming. The latest Intel processors have a graphics portion that is entirely able to run games at decent resolutions and quality settings."

Personally I started playing Counterstrike: Global Offense last week on my 2012 MacBook Air and it performs well (medium settings) on the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000.
I'm not sure how you can remotely compare kinect to wii. Move sure, but kinect isn't even close.
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It's different from a mouse, but the basics should work reasonably well; at least, they did when I used to own a laptop which was admittedly a while ago.
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And I fully agree with that.

Plus, a lot of documentation you're going to look at will be the same black on white background.

Maybe it's just me, but while I like darker schemes, I've found that switching between dark and light backgrounds really really hurts.
https://github.com/trapd00r/neverland-vim-theme

I have used this for the past year. I've tried Solarized, Github and many others on the list, but I always return to neverland. It's very dark and with high contrast, but it's also the only colorscheme that doesn't strain my eyes after long periods of coding. Bonus points for being primarily written for 256 color terminals.

It's also one of the few colorschemes that actually utilize _all_ of the syntax groups that vim handles. Many schemes use highlight links, and having differing colors between Repeat and Statement usually shows that the author knows what he is doing.
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It's great for discovering photography by professional or near-professional photographers. Flickr was sleeping at the wheel by letting 500px steal the market for "simple, beautiful portfolios for pros."

Still, the norms of the 500px culture and its strict use as a portfolio hosting platform means that you won't see "life" there. You won't see candids, artwork or experiments on 500px, only slick "brochures" for someone's best work. So, it is less of a community/bazaar and more like vanity ads in a photo magazine, slick and formally dressed to sell.
Line by line parsers are extremely limited and markdown makes use of everyday characters we use in text for their formatting. The page itself uses style tags at the top so not sure what you mean. This is just showing off my progress so far of something I plan to use. Not an announcement telling you this is the future.
"cherry-picking" the first sentence? Disproving your title in your first phrase is... well, bad writing skills.
Use a micro-format. Problem solved.
That's an extremely cynical view. You really don't think that people spend money on gyms so that they can go into the place and use the equipment?
Given that a number devices were excluded and the maximum damages were not awarded it is clear that they at least evaluated the merits of each specific infringement.

So do you have some evidence that they ignored the proper damages awarding process ?
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Worse. It’s a typical YouTube comment. Utterly devoid of content and insight. Also incredibly dumb.
They used 100 pages, but it's hardly a small book.

Consider this is a 'full' page.

FINAL JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 83
MONOPOLIZATION—INTERSTATE CONDUCT
The federal antitrust laws apply only to conduct that affects interstate commerce. In this case, there
is no dispute that Samsung’s conduct affected interstate commerce.
The pay-per-use gym is an interesting idea, but compared to the fixed-fee gym it creates a bit of a disincentive to get in shape. If going to the gym more often means that you'll have to pay more, you'll probably go less often.
Oops, that's what I meant.
It describes a DVR-like device that has the ability to copy media from the Internet to some sort of flash drive to later view on a television. It can also function as a web browser and a video editor.

It's quite specific, so I'm not sure why you find it ridiculous.
Agree. This post of yours sums it up nice and impartial. I have a hard time trying to convince myself the jury wasn't prejudiced in a way or other.

But at the same time Samsung still ventured bit too far into the imitation land. They should have got fined just enough to act as a deterrent but this verdict enables more than that - it virtually guarantees Apple a monopoly over selling touchscreen devices by asserting their patents' validity to the extent that they will have little trouble shutting off competition from anyone other than Microsoft. That's the _real_ bad news here.
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How come the flag is waving in a environment with no atmosphere ?
Ditto. I lost about 40 lbs cutting out snacks at all, and sticking to highly regulated meals (high in protein - not carb-less, general caloric restriction, avoidance of processed high-fat foods like most sauces, dips, etc).

And then I gained 30 lbs of that back by moving to a new city and letting myself go. Physical activity did not really change.

What goes in has way more to do with your weight than what goes out.
Well considering only one of the jurors had an iPhone and two had Android phones maybe it would be Google needing to add this feature ?
I'm not sure if it fits the story 100%, but this is exactly how I felt when Sparrow got acquired by Google. I use Sparrow on iOS daily and I hate the fact that there's a possibility we'll never get push notifications.
This is a ridiculous farce and it's going to end up destroying all three phone OS manufacturers and dealing massive damage to the entire mobile technology space, especially to smaller developers and possible innovators. Everyone knew if the patents came out it was a MAD situation but I guess someone thought they could win.

Edit:

Changed the wording on the first sentence. Good points from replies about it really being smaller innovators getting caught in the crossfire.
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I think that's precisely the point the author was making. Google could set up shop there and build a massive development centre that would make it easier for them to do stuff for Latin America and Africa - and yet they don't, other than a dinky office selling AdWords.
POST is perform, PUT is replace or set.
In my opinion, if you start speaking to the press, it's fair game for the public to criticize. You don't want to be knocked for a controversial decision? Don't go blabbing on record.
I don't think a comment on HN, of all places, is going to do any raising of awareness of Apple's patent position.

Reddit, Youtube, MSNBC, etc., maybe. HN? C'mon.

Also, to get the comment, you already had to have that awareness. It wouldn't make any sense to someone who doesn't know about the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit.
Whom are you thinking of that left after the fall of the USSR in 1991? I do not mean to challenge you, but others will, so I would like some details.
My instant thought is backstreet barbequed guinea pig that's been on a warmer for days, with people picking thir choice with bare hands. Peru has amazing vegetarian food luckily!
Developer here.

Take this as a proof of concept. New update (a native one) will change everything.

Btw:

1. The 486 emulation engine I have been working on is intended for DOS game emulation. It happens to be fast enough to run TeX, although it is at least ten times slower than the native version.

2. Next time, don't pretend to be a customer in the email. Be clear that you are a developer (working on TeX apps), I'll be more open to your questions.
Well this is just hyperbole.

Since when are pinch to zoom and the specific Apple bounce back effect mandatory requirements for making a touchscreen device ? Especially given how for the bounce back effect there are now at least three non-infringing alternatives in shipping devices from Samsung, HTC and Motorola.
And Apple quickly went to all black... The differences between anything Samsung makes and an iPhone are quite apparent too if you use them for a minute.
The main issue I see with this philosophy is that you are pushing the responsibility for understanding the format upstream, similar to all the problems people used to have with malformed RSS feeds.

If you want to have a feed of some kind that is machine-readable then you need to have a spec that is unambiguous. Using JSON or XML helps. Having a clear understanding of what could be in each field, including currencies, timezones, etc, is required.
I wonder what the likelihood of a cross-license deal between Apple and Google would be, and if their OEM manufacturers would be covered. Apple could stand to make a lot of money from Android if every maker is paying them, much in the way Microsoft makes money from Android OEMs. Using the free mobile OS could become very expensive.

As much as I'd like to see the marketshare of Windows Phone increase, it concerns me that the obvious result of this lawsuit is that the only way to make a smartphone is to be in position to have a cross-license, no-copy-no-lawsuit agreement like Apple and Microsoft have. This severely restricts competition. I'd like to see Windows Phone succeed in the market, but I wouldn't want to see more independent OSes crushed underfoot in the process.
You can replicate almost all of this in most email platforms as they all have folders and filters/rules.
I set it to parse attributes with this syntax {b_class="text"_id="foo" content}. It only supports the style attribute at the moment, because I was worried about people using stuff like onclick or inheriting a class with a huge width. I structured it like this mostly because it was easy to parse. I also support tags like p, span, cite, section, article, aside, sub, sup, hr and pre. I don't know what you mean in the last part about the macros.
Copying files, even a specific implementation, doesn't seem worthy of patent protection.
> Neither of which has really taken off for gaming.

I don't know about that. Last I checked, Kinect was doing well. In fact Kinect Adventures is #1 [1]

> The Wii wasn't really a success either.

Nintendo, until most recently, was the only console manufacturer to actually profit.

[1] http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/7/xbox-360/
Why is the service named after a widely speculated outcome of the Euro crisis -- "Grexit"?

Is that some form of SEO, that is, are they hoping to hijack a popular neologism?
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Perhaps you should write a strongly-worded letter to your congressman.
"Now if you look at the numbers it's not doing super amazing currently but I believe that's because not enough people back it at the moment and for a while that was mostly because getting money out of there was not yet easy enough."

The issue of getting money out seems to be solved:
http://blog.gittip.com/post/30116848405/with-payouts-gittip-...
(Posted previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429225)
Look at yourself objectively
A new BR for every enter I press. The goal was to make the text in the textarea readable. Maybe that's why markdown uses 2 line breaks for every <br/> but I'm not sure I want to do that.
I can relate to this quite a lot.

Protip: Now it's time to go outside, the satisfaction of running outside exceeds that of running on the mill by far!
Correct. For me, the post is quite manipulative and borders on deception, ordering it the other way around would make it better and honest.

(You can make a good product and sell it, even without succumbing to the temptations of using temptation tactics.)
Using a public field removes one of the major benefits of object-oriented design. Don't misunderstand me: in many cases, really all you need is a collection of related fields and making them public is indeed OK - like a struct in C.

But I tend to err on the side of safety with my fields - private member, public accessors - while I work out my modeling and refactoring. When the design settles, then I can relax access if it's OK. And when something changes in the design (atomicity requirements, immutability, etc) I already have most of the boilerplate in place. Mostly though, I keep my accessors.

On a related note, do Java IDEs not provide boilerplate code? I'm more an Objective-C guy and the language now supports "here's a property" and "create the accessors" alongside my needs for custom ivar names, custom setters, etc. Even if Java the language doesn't have similar features, I'd expect IDEs to give you this kind of boilerplate stuff.
Even newer browsers don't seem to announce their SVG support in the Accept header, so you'd have to whitelist specific browser versions or script in feature testing and progressive enhancement.
their guilt/punishment is a separate legal case, Kasparov said he is planning to sue the arresting officers in court
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Business owners seem to enjoy being acqui-hired -- not as much as selling company for a couple millions, but it's still quite good nonetheless. On the other hand, investors may get little, if any, of return on an acqui-hire. See article in which Michael Arrington admits openly that http://uncrunched.com/2012/08/26/investors-dont-like-acqui-h...

If an acqui-hire is failure for anybody, then it's a failure first and foremost for the investors.

In his `About', Jacques states openly that he represents investors' point of view:

>I do this [[verifying that what a company says it sells and owns is actually true]] work for several renowned Venture Capital firms in Europe(...)
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There's an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit on this very subject. I'd guess 10-15% of gym members go to the gym regularly.
Once Portuguese employees are always wanted everywhere in the world, I only can think that the root of our problems is the lack of good "bosses".

In Portugal, "bosses" are less educated than employees. 71,3% have a maximum of 9 years of school! http://economia.publico.pt/Noticia/qualificacao-media-dos-pa... (portuguese language, sorry)
How can these people invest in something they don't understand? They understand about carrying bricks and painting walls, that's why we have thousands of empty houses in Portugal and Spain. There is no place for VC and marketable innovation.

We come from a time where we needed to be rich to study. Salazar regime didn't want people to study and emancipate. Now the old regime is over but mentality is still there, people are too used to obbey and are full of preconcepts.

2 wrong things my parents generation did bad because of their ignorance:

a) made children to only focus on studies (cause they never had that chance). People get completely out of the market till they are 23-24. Then of course there are no available positions for high skilled employees. We have no companies with that demand. They were never created! New companies were created by the uneducated bullies. If their families have no capital and they are having first contact with money and market at middle 20's they have no money to risk. 2 solutions appear: unemployment or emmigration.

b) strong left wing (as bare reaction to Salazar right wing regime, without any thinking and ponderation): For example somebody lower than 16 years old caught working is considered crime in Portugal. If these kids are not making it to provide for their families or skipping school I see no problem with this.
Ah I did not know it was used in that way. Still, it seems that you both have very long toes. Generalizations often are there because they go for a large part of the population. And things I see happening here is simply something I say out loud. Of course they don't go for everyone and everywhere, but I'm not a hermit, I spend a lot of time with people who live here and have lived here for generations. In the village where I live all but one (yes, all but one) of the guys under 25 are NiNis. And proud of it. Card-carrying NiNis. They seriously ask me why they should work as they get money from the state and their parents; what's the use? I try to explain them things best I can, but (because of dubbing?) their English is bad/non existent and my Spanish is ok for day to day use, but not for deep conversations like this. And usually discussions end in them going 'pffff, that's no reason, I get free money, I don't need work and oh yeah, there is no work anyway'.

I can see you might find it annoying to hear because it might be different in your part of country. As someone said already; Spain is a BIG country with a lot of different cultures, I'm seeing only one up close.

And swimming crosscurrent; isn't packing your bags and moving crosscurrent? It's quite a big step. My point is that there is enough work IN Spain/Portugal if you want it, and although you won't get paid as much as in Germany, you don't live in Germany; prices are simply much lower and you do have all healthcare and such covered. To the extend, if you carefully check, that you can find an insurer and make terms which allow you to go to Germany (or wherever, even the US) if you have something bad. Of course you should get a job abroad if you like it, but only for money it, to me, doesn't make sense.
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Its easy to be critical of JFK's admission to Harvard as a result of priviledge. I think it natural and correct.

Lots of people go to Harvard, ordinary (my niece) and priviledged. Those with money and power, use it to get good things for their progeny.

Else why gain money and power? Its not just scorekeeping. If I can't work hard to get better things for my children, then its all a game.

In a free market things are for sale, and good things cost more. Harvard is a private institution. They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. And it has served them well.