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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 06:40 AM EDT |
It's been a few months since Linus Torvalds got
verbal about
NVIDIA's support for the semi-eponymous OS,
prompting the chip-maker to say
"supporting Linux is important
to us." Proving that its word is good, NVIDIA
will be
releasing programming documentation for its Tegra architecture
graphics core.
James Trew,
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Authored by: dobbo on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 09:38 AM EDT |
Okay, so Apple v. Samsung is going back for some kind of
a do over. Not
surprised by that, whichever side lost was
there was likely to be an appeal,
more so if it was Samsung.
But we also have Motorola Mobility starting the
processes of
stopping Apple selling it's products over patient
infringement
claims, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised to
find that Google has some other
patients waiting for their
turn.
Could we get to the point where it is
all but impossible
to sell a smartphone in the US because of injunctions
against them? What is that going to do to the US smartphone
market?
And how
is that going to effect Apple?
The figures I've seen show that Android is the most
popular platform
worldwide.
iPhones are top line smartphones that come with a high
purchase cost. Also iOS runs on a very small number of
platforms, so a block
in the richest market where it has the
largest penetration (US) is likely to
have a big impact on
how Apple target their R&D dollars, and therefore
innovation or iOS, iPhone, and iPad.
As I see it Android is not so
effected. Many of
the Android powered smartphone producers are not US centric
(as Apple is). So long as there is a market which can fund
innovation (via
the more expensive models - Europe or Asia
maybe), and mass volume markets were
older models still have
a profitable life there is plenty to keep innovation
going.
When the US finally get back to having a vibrant
smartphone
market will Apple (and iPhone) be so far behind
the curve that it has lost it's
edge to Android?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 11:58 AM EDT |
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Authored by: DCFusor on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 12:04 PM EDT |
They only sold half the whistper number on Wall Street, and their stock is
starting to fall. This is going to be an epic short, if put on at the right
time. Every hedge fund and mutual fund on the planet is in this trade, long.
When they all go for the very crowded exit ramp at the same time, anytime now -
it's going to be amusing.
Apple is in the hedge fund motel - like roaches
that can't get out. Who's going to buy a falling knife when they all want to
sell at once? Yes, I'm a trader...
Zerohedge article on the
topic --- Why guess, when you can know? Measure it! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 02:13 PM EDT |
Nike Receives Interim
Injunction Against adidas for Flyknit Patent Infringment
(guess where:
Germany) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 02:41 PM EDT |
Mark Shuttleworth: "Don't trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with
your data already."
Read it all at
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2207679/mark-shuttleworth-defends-ubunt
u-1210-amazon-integration
Go for Debian, now.
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IMANAL
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- I'm good with Gentoo - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 02:53 PM EDT
- Shuttleworth: "we have root. You do trust us with your data already" - Authored by: dio gratia on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 04:36 PM EDT
- lubuntu != ubuntu ? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 05:04 PM EDT
- Oh, come on - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 01:04 AM EDT
- launchpad removes bug report #1054776 - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT
- It's a legit point - if badly worded - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 11:20 PM EDT
- Boneheaded - Authored by: matth on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 09:56 AM EDT
- Trust Shuttleworth? Not so much. - Authored by: Kilz on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 12:56 PM EDT
- BS? - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 01:21 PM EDT
- BS? - Authored by: Kilz on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 05:37 PM EDT
- Trust Shuttleworth? Not so much. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 09:47 PM EDT
- Xbuntu is nice and yeah I trust Mark and the Team. - Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 01:17 PM EDT
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 02:57 PM EDT |
Waiting for an
iPhone 5...for no reason --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 03:35 PM EDT |
The man known
to a generation of Americans as “The Science Guy” is condemning efforts by some
Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and lawmakers who want to bring the
Bible into science classrooms. --- The following program contains
immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 07:30 PM EDT |
Judge Ronald Whyte of the US District Court of the Northern District
of California ruled that Rambus destroyed records that could have been used in
the lawsuit between Rambus and Hynix. According to
Hynix, Judge Whyte's ruling could limit any royalties it might have to pay
Rambus for infringing its patents.
Despite Judge Whyte's ruling, he said
Rambus' patents are still valid and that the firm could collect royalties.
However he said in his ruling that the destruction of evidence, "should preclude
[Rambus] from entitlement to a royalty that places Hynix at a competitive
disadvantage".
Lawrence Latif, the Inquirer[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 02:35 AM EDT |
linky [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 09:01 AM EDT |
Will the mainstream press pick up on it when it appears?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 09:23 AM EDT |
New combatants this
time [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 10:05 AM EDT |
Guessing that Eric Schmidt is mildly amused by the situation.
Link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 10:17 AM EDT |
The entire field of particle physics is set to switch to open-access
publishing, a milestone in the push to make research results freely available to
readers.
Particle physics is already a paragon of openness, with most papers
posted on the preprint server arXiv. But peer-reviewed versions are still
published in subscription journals, and publishers and research consortia at
facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have previously had to strike
piecemeal deals to free up a few hundred articles.
After six years of
negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle
Physics (SCOAP3) is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics
articles — about 7,000 publications last year — are made immediately free on
journal websites. Upfront payments from libraries will fund the
access.
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT |
On the heels of the Apple/Samsung
lawsuit, Apple drops IOS 6 on the public. Just like IOS 5, there are plenty of
features stolen directly from Android, alleges Jack Wallen. --- The
following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 11:24 AM EDT |
BBC Toy tablets at that, with rounded corners, but
fortunately with sides that are not straight, otherwise I expect Apple would be
suing too. But I have to wonder whether the soft surround is removable, and if
so, what shape is the main casing? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT |
Link Well, if
they don't care about anything else, including the law, why should they care
about the environment? But I do wonder why they had to use obviously ancient
diesel generators that were belching black smoke. Moderd diesels, at least of
the variety sold in the EU, are very clean. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: squib on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 02:06 PM EDT |
I can not read Japanese so I can't follow this up.
According to the New York
Times
, much of apple maps
troubles in Japan stem from the taking
information
from Open street map
Japan that uses a different
geo-grid system. … And possibly this
is the same problem in Europe whose maps do not
use
World Geodetic
System
My question is: Has apple compiled with the OpenMap licence
and given them full acknowledgment -or have they stolen this information as
well?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 02:10 PM EDT |
Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly
designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative
patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a
way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these
trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer.
When trials
throw up results that companies don’t like, they are perfectly entitled to hide
them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any
drug’s true effects.
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 02:22 PM EDT |
Adobe’s first open source type family
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html
Licen
se Open Font License 1.1 (OFL
1.1) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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