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Is there a reason the OP thinks this is the apology? It isn't named as such, the URL doesn't help, and they don't apologise at all. It's just a summary of their legal battles with Samsung. How has the OP come to the conclusion this is the apology (am I missing something)?
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<strike>This does not say 'Samsung do not infringe on our patent', which I had thought it was supposed to. It says 'this judge who think s our stuff is cool also thinks Samsung do not infringe'</strike>

Either way the whole thing's ridiculous in the extreme. A flat panel with a screen isn't a novel design whoever made it, the magic is getting all the bits small and low-power and high resolution and bright and powerful enough for it to work.

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The actual text as specified by the judge forms the first part of the page, the rest is Apple giving it a little PR spin and casting doubt on the whole thing.

Using the 1 billion US judgement as an example of how ou've been wronged is a bit of a stretch though, that thing's leakier than a colander.
For me, it wasn't surprising to hear this happening. The scale of it, however, was surprising.
Well, add a last row with the first column larger than the previous rows, assume people don't know about column-mode editing, and you can imagine what they are doing to align...

I think I'll just "preprocess" the file, looking for something like !csvtable(filename.csv).
> Specs are important but I'd argue a conformance test is equally or even more important.

I agree, but the article mentions tests prominently. They didn't miss that out.
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Not about sales... Definitely not "ugly".
I couldn't agree more, Apples response here is childish and to be quite frank doesn't do much in the way of apologizing to Samsung. I for one hope that they get found in contempt of court for this, I doubt very much it's what the presiding judge had in mind.
It has always bothered me that _text_ is not underlined text, but italicized text. Why not /text/ for italicized text. It shows exactly what it is doing. And text for bold text.

I also see no reason for text and _text_ to produce the same output. It just seems like a fault in the original spec to me.
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I would say that's entirely reasonable. There's no reason to dump on more laws to try and enforce (and poorly I might add) already existing laws.
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Jesse Schell's "the art of game design". It will give you a solid understanding of what game design is and how you can do it. Also, it's a very good read, which doesn't hurt when you're trying to learn something.

I disagree strongly with the advice consisting of: "start hacking and see what happens". For any kind of product design, starting something without any kind of direction is the surest way to go nowhere.
I hope I will be forgiven a me-too comment for once; but this is a really, really childish response.

When your big advantage is that you and your products exude class where others don't, gloating about it like a little kid just feels very wrong.
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Didn't the order require the statement to be:

1. Made on the home page itself
2. In a 14pt font which (according to http://www.getallfix.com/2011/11/convert-empxpt-and-in-css/) should be some 19px high.

Instead this is a link to the statement (in a div with the class sosume - little gag there) in a 11px font size... not to mention the fact that the additional paragraphs after the statement itself somewhat go against the spirit of the order.
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(If anyone missed it, read the last paragraph of his comment to understand).
Wow. That's pathetic.
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Based on the wording of the order, it would seem that the statement should be on their homepage, not a link to it. Of course, I'm sure Apple's legal counsel has decided their actions are within the scope of the ruling, so we'll have to see if Samsung asks a judge to declare them not in compliance with the order.
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One would think that a company with $.12 trillion in the bank could afford to be classy once in a while.
And Facebook? Why even bother adding Facebook into this? They're making like only $1 billion revenue per quarter. Whether you add them or not, it doesn't make a difference.
http://www.apple.com/uk/ links to it (at the bottom, the link title is Samsung/Apple UK judgement)
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I don't really get why everyone is so down on Apple on HN (I am a Google/Android user FWIW).

Sure they have pursued some questionable patent cases - but it is hard to deny they are one of the pre-eminent creators and makers in the world today - they have been truly innovative and brought massive change to multiple technology streams. They are about as far from being a hoarding patent troll as one could imagine yet that is how they seem to be portrayed in some parts of social media.

Even if you strongly disagree with their approach to suing competitors, I would have thought the real innovation and change Apple has brought to the scene would count for something and result in some more balanced coverage.

I think some of the specific patent cases Apple is pursuing against Samsung are a bit ridiculous (rounded corners), but I also think when you look at what Samsung has done as a whole, it is pretty clear they were ripping off Apple designs for a while (try and play spot the difference between a Apple 3GS and a Galaxy S1). Maybe Apple had to pursue the more silly specific patent cases because there was no way to patent the overall look-and-feel of a device (no lawyer here).

Anyway just my 2c
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It says websites, it does then go on to give URL's, but these are the top level URLs for various EU countries, so I guess they could argue it is on their website.

Open to interpretation, IMHO, though I would have assumed the judge meant the front pages.
I accidentally upvoted you after your initial correct argument before reading on and discovering that you're a complete asshole. Trust me when I say that pretty much the entirety of HN will be much more glad to see tambourine_man stick around than anyone who talks the way you do.
I'm thinking now I should write an internal client for my APIs. I admittedly don't have one, and it would show me what's wrong with them.
Here are the tests we wrote for HTML-to-Markdown conversion. Could be useful when switched the other way around :-)

https://github.com/bergie/to-markdown/blob/master/test/tests...
I think in this case, the story is more about Apple's disregard for the spirit of the court order than being down on Apple in general. I'm generally an Apple fan, but this seems kind of petty and oddly antagonistic towards the court.
I think it's the association factor and not revenue factor. Ask most lay-people to name the top 5 tech companies and you'd most likely get all of the above plus amazon.
Apple tends to be fairly ruthless in their dealings with other companies and act without remorse (like many other companies, Samsung of course included) and it's become the only way to survive in the horrific world of IP law suits.

Unfortunately, the class you mention tends to be overshadowed by this. Apple can't afford to be classy, if it gives up it's bullying ways for even a short period of time, it will find that Samsung responds not in kind, but will sense weakness and launch an even stronger offence.

What we have now is a case of mutually assured destruction, eventually both companies will be so wrapped up in legal dealings and spiteful actions that they will lose sight on what's really important: giving your customers cool and functional gadgets to play with, which as well as being bad for both of these companies is also bad for the industry and we, the consumers.
It looks like Schedule 1 is what Samsung requested, ie, " post ... the notice ... on the home pages of its EU websites", but what they were granted is what paragraph 57 says, ie, "I will require the statement to be on the United Kingdom website of Apple corporation".

It doesn't explicitly say that the notice should appear on the home page of the Apple UK site, but I guess these legalistic things are quite fuzzy, so who knows what it means.
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Putting together communist and welfare state nations is a bit of a stretch. Most of Europe countries are welfare states
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It's just a win/win situation.
One one side, business partners are happy to show their support to young startups and spread the news about their service by offering their software for free (for a limited period).
On the other side, startups can access great tools for free.
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We get your point. But there are no open source versions of the services offered there. It's not only "software", it's "service".

Example: Textmaster is a marketplace for copywriting & translating. Do you think that they could offer some "debian authors"? No, because they have to pay them, otherwise it would be slavery.

It is logic assign a value to the service that is offered. Tens or hundreds of thousands of businesses pay for these services. What they are paying is the value.

When you issue a coupon to offer free access to a service, you don't write it off as a marketing expense... At least, this is not what we're doing at Mailjet. And I don't think it's possible for anyone to do this, it would make things a bit too easy ^^

Imagine: "Hey friend, here's a coupon for 1000 billion emails, it doesn't matter if you don't use it, just activate the coupon so I can write the value off, this way, there won't be any benefits this year."
From the judgement text:

"The following notice shall be posted and displayed upon the Defendant's Websites currently at..."

Doesn't specifically say homepage. The text is 14px, which arguably isn't 14pt at anything other than 72 dpi.
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I wonder if the US office had any say in how this is written.

As someone who has been a guest in the UK for nearly a decade, to me this reads like someone, as the British say, taking the piss.
OK. But please fix one thing first:

1. hello
something
2. foobar

Should not render as:

1. hello
something
1. foobar

There's the start= attribute for <ol>, at least use it!
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You could have written the same about MS in the 90s.

It's not just that they're suing folks, it's that their actions seem to be deliberately designed to suppress the market and suppress competition. It doesn't feel genuine.

And while they do innovate, I don't think they do half as much they're given credit for. They didn't invent the smartphone, nor the mp3 player, yet most people likely think they did.
Of cause NYT will be blocked after the this report, otherwise the gfw guys will lost their job..
Hey, Mailjet is actually in this program. And I can testify that the other companies are in it too. i.e. we met the COO from Box last week, and he confirmed that were also "in".
Im pretty sure they will have to post an actual apology which will be compliant with the court order. Because this has less than nothing to do with that. Try again, Apple.
In addition to all the other great answers here:

1. You can pry my {Emacs,vim} from my cold, dead hands.

2. Version controlled markdown is much easier to deal with.
Must admit I haven't read the judgement. But still, if that is the case, this statement does everything it can to devalue the ruling.
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Court said

However, they added that the move need not "clutter" Apple's homepage as it would only have to add a link entitled "Samsung/Apple judgement" for a one-month period.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19989750
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Two of the problems can be easily avoided: 'cofounder disputes' and 'investors' are not problems in case of single-founder bootstrapped startups. :)

One thing I would add to the topic of 'determination': Are we speaking about determination to make a startup successful or determination to try out as many ideas in our life as possible, learn as much as possible and try to make at least one startup successful in our life?

I mean first we have to analyze what we optimize for:

If we optimize for the success of a given startup then it is obvious that the optimal strategy is to never give up on the startup.

If we optimize for the success of a person in his lifetime then it is different. In this case we have to examine all kinds of opportunity costs. Could it be a better strategy to very quickly abandon a startup when it seems that people do not want the product, so that we can start much more startups in our life, to increase the chance of at least one becoming successful?
I think SignalR and WebApi would be perfectly suited to this type of project, @neoveller. Add some KnockoutJS and host in on Azure for the total package - all for free with BizSpark. Anyhow, I'm being slightly facetious, but you really can't blame the tech stack :)
> Why are people still interested in Markdown - what problem is it solving and for whom?

For techie types it is familiarity: as a programmer I've used mark-down style syntax in code comments (and emails back when plain text was the norm) for years so it feels natural. I can type and edit text with mark-down faster then with full WYSIWYG control (even if the editor has good keyboard shortcuts). Also I can use the same text+markdown in code, emails and documentation that is desired to look a little fancier - I don't need to reformat for a second audience. Markdown isn't perfect, but for me it is a better solution for some things than WYSIWYG.

Simplicity and resulting cleanliness of mark-up can be an issue sometimes. I've seen WYSIWYG editors get tied in knots over bad HTML that they generated themselves.

Simplicity is another bonus for sites taking in user content, particularly sites like the StackExchange family. By effectively having a while-list of formatting options you can keep a consistent look on your site more easily. If you aren't sure what problem this solves, think Geocities.

It makes security a little easier to: you don't have to worry so much about potential injection attacks that are very possible if trying to generate/accept full HTML and filter it for the bad stuff afterwards (you still have to be careful to think about these issues of course, but your available attack surface is much smaller and therefore easier to manage).

> Github vs Bitbucket vs Assembla display issues

This is the very problem that people are actually discussing - competing interpretations make mark-down less useful then it could otherwise be, and a global standard might help that issue if it gets widely adopted. Of course many incompatible interpretations already exist and any new standard will face adoption friction, so we may end up in a situation like parodied in http://xkcd.com/927/ (it worked well enough for Javascript in the long run, but I think there were fewer common and slightly incompatible implementations of that at the time than there are of markdown now).
I'm pretty sure a significant minority (majority even?) of HN readers make their living by writing software for Apple devices, or use them every day at work and at home as their technology of choice.

I think Apple's problem is, at least in part, one of standards - we hold them up to very high standards, both technology-wise, and also at an ethical level, Apple give out the message that they are "the good guys".

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I am in love with plain-text files. I edit them easily no matter what device I am on, whether it is my desktop, my phone, over SSH, in a browser. I can use my more powerful text-editing software instead of being stuck in a weak WYSIWYG editor.

My blog is just a directory of Markdown files that get compiled into HTML files. No cumbersome WordPress or other blog software installation I need to maintain, just copy the HTML to the server. Simple.

Same thing with documentation. Write once, from anywhere, output clean code to multiple formats: HTML, LaTeX (and PDF, DVI, etc. from there). No need to worry about making sure complex documentation toolchains are installed, just a Markdown compiler. A huge advantage of Markdown is that the source is as readable as the output. JavaDoc, for example, sucks in this regard if you try to do any formatting (lists, tables, etc.). If I am reading the source code--and I prefer to read the source if I can--then the javadoc is often useless for complex functions where it is most needed, because the HTML formatting is unreadable. I am actually building my own documentation system because of this (see https://github.com/jdbernard/jlp if you are interested).
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Not at all an apology, but I assume you were being sarcastic? :)
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>* "I want to pay something, but retail costs too much" -- if you pay without getting anything useful in return, you're donating. Why not donate to charity?

Because your sense of fair play says you've got something from MS so they, and not some random charity, deserve some of your money? Do you follow the same logic and donate to charity instead of tipping at restaurants?
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You can't imagine some site like sourceforge and slideshare once blocked by gfw...
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It would be nice if they bothered to fix Xcode so that it wasn't buggy, crashy, and a burden to develop with. They could do that in parallel.
On the other hand, it is still literally true that the internet also contains (although minuscule in proportion) precious works from some of the greatest geniuses in history, that you will not finish reading in your lifetime.

My point is that it's not like there's any shortage of great reading materials. Unless you want some specific materials from the library of Alexandria, it does not make much sense to miss it.

More here: http://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics
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>The Librarian ruled that "the record lacked a sufficient basis to develop an appropriate definition for the 'tablet' category of devices, a necessary predicate to extending the exemption beyond smartphones." //

This just say secondary-legislation-fail to me. Like man this stuffs hard (we can't do it logically and satisfy industry) lets just not bother.
The same principle is applied here on HN too. You no longer see scores on comments and it seems to be working out quite nicely. I wonder if PG would ever go a step further and take them off submissions too.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Apple has only really gone hard against Samsung over the design patents? There are lots of other Android makers who produce models very different to the iPhone but haven't come under attack (maybe because they aren't as successfully though). So it doesn't really seem right to say they trying to suppress the whole market.

At least with Apple they are trying to protect (justifiably or not) genuine, recent innovation, and they are being open about it. MS is suing more Android makers than Apple over alleged Linux patent violations in Android that it will not disclose (thus prevent Linus from fixing the supposed infringements), but probably relate to some ancient, legacy FAT file-system standard. This is just as dirty as the worst of MS misbehaviour in the 90s and shows they have not changed at all.
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the reason they dont block it is because then on the front page of the site they will report NYT website blocked by china and their reports will ask all the chinese officials why they are blocked. Instead they get blocked on article by article basis. This article was blocked almost instantly in china. The whole NYT website is now currently blocked in china
Nobody credits them for inventing the smartphone. They invented the iPhone. Nobody credits them for inventing the mp3 player. They invented the iPod.
Speaking of Apple lawsuits, MS and the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
I have yet to encounter a spec that was not in some way ambiguous.
This is a bit iOS centric. Not to bash on Apple, but on a stock Android ICS device there is a clear distinction between "all the apps" and the launcher, which is more like a desktop. Metro seems to take a similar approach.
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