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| Authored by: tiger99 on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 04:25 PM EDT |
| I was in the local Teco supermaket the other day, and noticed several
rectangular things with rounded corners, in various sizes, and very nice they
were too. Good prices too, and I would have been tempted if I did not already
have the Motorola Xoom, also rectangular with rounded corners. They were all
Samsung. I don't think any of the several legal systems within the UK are
going to allow a particularly stupid case to proceed here, and stores like
Tesco, being cheaper than the likes of PC World, shift these things in serious
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| Authored by: Tim on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 10:25 PM EDT |
| Before we all start congratulating ourselves on what a wonderful company Samsung
is and how it is a beacon of freedom (compared
to Apple), perhaps we should all
read this: Link -
China Labor Watch - Warning very slow!
However, new
investigations by CLW have revealed that the treatment of Samsung’s Chinese
factory workers is far from model.
Indeed, the list of illegal and inhumane
violations is long, including but not limited to well over 100 hours of forced
overtime work per
month, unpaid work, standing for 11 to 12 hours while
working, underage workers, severe age and gender discrimination, abuse of
student and labor dispatch workers, a lack of worker safety, and verbal and
physical abuse. Moreover, workers lack of any effective
internal grievance
channel by which to rectify these transgressions.
Samsung has a network of 12
factories that it directly owns and operates in China. In addition, it has
countless contracted factories
which it does not operate but which are part of
Samsung's supply chain, including the HEG Electronics factory, which was exposed
by
CLW on August 12 for child labor abuse. From May to August 2012, CLW
conducted an investigation of 8 factories, including 6
directly-operated by
Samsung and 2 Samsung supplier factories.
I am, frankly, appalled
and as result will not be buying anything else from Samsung - I was considering
purchasing a Galaxy III, but
not now - I hope that my clapped out Nokia will
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 08:17 AM EDT |
| Samsung of course [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 10:47 AM EDT |
| Ernie
Ball, off course... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 12:16 PM EDT |
| When Apple announced last year that all
iPhones would come with a voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of
answering spoken questions, Michael Phillips’s heart sank. ---
The
following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 12:26 PM EDT |
I just received my latest issue of the Windows magazine, PCPro and went straight
to the Labs Mega Review.
They were reviewing some of the most popular Linux distributions including Mint
(the top recommendation), Ubuntu (the second top), Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and
several more.
They were impressed with how the leading distributions handled two finger laptop
gestures (stop that sniggering) out of the box, but they thought the touchscreen
support needed extra work: it was no better than the Windows 8 Beta.
Hang-on - did I just dream that?
No, it really does start on page 142. It starts with the words 'Linux has many
advantages over operating systems such as Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion'.
The 'View from the Labs' said 'We expected this to be a shock to the system
especially when our previous attempt to do this - running PCPro on Ubuntu for a
day for a feature in 2011 - proved limiting. This time, however, the process has
been far more productive. The fact is that Linux - at least as far as the major
distributions are concerned - has improved dramatically since then...'.
They are wrong. I remember that feature from 2011 and the criticisms are along
the line of 'LibreOffice Writer is not the same as the latest version of
Microsoft Word'. The window managers have only had incremental changes since
then.
My theory is that their eyes have been opened by the changes that Windows 8 and
Office will make to their preferred ways of working. Suddenly, Linux is a much
more comfortable prospect.
Anyway, as a result of reading the review, this post was made using Puppy Linux
off of a 4GB SD Card. It boots much more quickly from CD and SD card than
Kubuntu does off of the hard drive! It also saves the system on close-down and
boots up that version on the next boot.
I wanted to browse for advice. It offered me a small selection of browsers. I
chose my beloved free, but not open, Opera. It is still there with all my
bookmarks on rebooting my SD card. I am not sure which window manager it is
running, but it is very responsive. It might be OpenBox.
I will get a fast USB stick to act as my new rescue system. It is so much easier
to use than System Rescue.
It's been a good day.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jplatt39 on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 12:54 PM EDT |
| the true legal vulnerability of linux
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/301421/true-legal-vulnerab
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
| In an attempt to create the “definitive resource” for all open Web technologies,
Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera
have joined the W3C to launch a new website called ‘Web Platform‘
The new website will
serve a a single source of relevant, up-to-date
and quality information on the latest HTML5, CSS3, and other Web
standards, offering tips on web development and best practises for the
technologies.
According to the W3C, the website will also display the
status of a particular technology’s standardisation and cross-browser
implementation. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 04:05 PM EDT |
| When Apple announced last year that all iPhones would come with a
voice-activated assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken questions,
Michael Phillips’s heart sank...
New York Times - The Patent, Used
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
Previously redacted documents presented in
the Apple-Samsung
case seem not to offer actual evidence
that Samsung told its designers to copy
the iPhone.
Chris Matyszczyk,
CNet
I am grateful to Groklaw for reading and reading
and reading
until its eyeballs were larger and more oblong than a Galaxy
S3
screen.
Much of its reading seems to center on personal information
about jury foreman Velvin Hogan and his bankruptcy issues.
However, the part
that fascinated me concerned the
allegations that Samsung might have told its
designers to
"make something like the iPhone."
Groklaw locates the
fuller version of the Samsung internal
documents in question and something
peculiar appears. The
senior executive at Samsung who presided over internal
meetings actually is heard to say: "I hear things like this:
Let's make
something like the iPhone."
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 04:58 PM EDT |
Examples are pointedly Australian, but the argument is universal,
theconversation.edu.au
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 05:12 PM EDT |
The game is at the Frankensteinian lab where
TPPA is being
cobbled together.
Hollywood lays down its own law,
says
Prof. Jane Kelsey
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| Authored by: hAckz0r on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 05:54 PM EDT |
| Just released for download
This documentation provides detailed support information
for the Open Document Format (ODF) and Open XML (ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC-29500)
file formats implemented in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft
PowerPoint.
I wonder what is broken in this implementation.
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The Investors IP Law: The future health of a Corporation is
measured as the inverse of the number of IP lawsuits they are currently
litigating. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SirHumphrey on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 06:19 PM EDT |
| The Pentium Floating Point Bug turns 18 this month. The Intel P4.999983036729
certainly came in to this world kicking and screaming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
i/Pentium_FDIV_bug [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 10:04 PM EDT |
| http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/idUS97477+08-Oct-2012+HUG20121008 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 01:48 AM EDT |
| Computerworld - American Airlines said it
plans to purchase about 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices for
use by cabin crew members during flights. ---
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: tiger99 on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 08:03 AM EDT |
| Link Botty seems to have aged a lot in his picture.
And, as usual, he talks a lot of nonense. Both the Gateway and Acer
units also toss in something called the “PC Essentials 22A Standard Software
DVD,” which is a classic collection of shovelware. The 19 included programs are
the very antithesis of what one expects in a modern PC, with a bunch of Corel
products (Office, PaintShop Pro X4, and PDF Fusion) and a scrapbooking program
and My Perfect Wedding Planner and TurboFloorPlan 3D Home & Landscape Deluxe
16 and a whole lot more. That might be exactly what the HSN audience wants. As
long as the contents of that DVD aren’t preinstalled, I’d classify the programs
as “mostly harmless.” I can't agree with his conclusions, in fact I
would really like one of those DVDs, but not to run on Windoze 8. There are a
number of very fine products included, the Corel ones at least. No way is that
"shovelware". I guess that such fine software, way ahead of Monopoly Office, is
just too advanced for him. Oh, and PSP is the finest non-Linux tool ever for
converting between graphics file formats, even if you never use its other
capabilities.My version of WordPerfect, admittedly quite old, fails to run
properly (can't save files) on Windoze 7. I could really use one that did work,
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| Authored by: ailuromancy on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
I found out about this a
few hours ago. I have now calmed down enough
to post without using bad
language. Excuse me - I have
some swearing to do. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: cricketjeff on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
| try this ---
There is
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