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Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU

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are you sure?

as far as i know there's a separate lawsuit in Holland, since they have different rules and different law. and as far as i know that should happen today.

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ok

that's fine if you don't want to buy apple. you don't need to shout about it, we get it.

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well, it's not hw

it's the looks what this patent talks about not chips

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Microsoft vs Google patent ding dong gets stuck on repeat

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nice one

but wrong, it's not Nortel patents what's been discussed here but Novell patents

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NORTEL != NOVELL

please, follow the subject

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Microsoft skewers Google's anti-Android conspiracy claim

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and MS responds

https://twitter.com/fosspatents/status/99219240342654976

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Google claims 'bogus patent' conspiracy against Android

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well

they actually have 'saved' them looong time ago with a big investment

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great article

on this topic can be found here: http://brianshall.com/content/google-are-pussies

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google fanboys!!!

nice to see that you're active and all fine downrating every single comment which is against google. grow up you freetards!

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was about

to post the same thing ;)

also, so google cries now because they couldn't get nortel patents. what they forgot to mention is that their bid was $3.14b, much higher than apple's.

liars, bunch of liars. of course, they don't care that patent trolls are attacking developers but as soon as somebody attack them they write up BS like that.

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you've got it wrong

that comment is related to Novell patents, not Nortel patents

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who is worried?

and which android phones beat iPhone? and in what exactly? and don't come back with the BS mantra 'you can root it'

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Canon EOS 600D 18Mp DSLR

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photo samples

why is every single one overexposed? seriously, just use exposure compensation, you've ruined those shots

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yes and no

"Also most if not all, the f/4 L lens are sharper than the f/2.8 lens equivalent."

when you stop f/2.8 lens down they're sharper than f/4 lenses. with f/4 lens you need to compromise in low light situation either by bumping ISO up (moving subjects) or use longer exposures (tripod)

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Ten... in-ear headphones

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what about

Apple In-Ear Dual Drive headphones? They're pretty good and as far as I know the cheapest (cca £50) dual drive headphones on the market. All they need is comply foam tips (supplied ones didn't really fit in my ears although 3 sizes are supplied).

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News Corp kills BSkyB bid amid 'difficult climate'

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not that i know much about this

but i welcome these news, not big fan of his empire

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ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind

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seen this?

TeaMp0isoN - http://www.pastie.org/2173213

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Nice try, Amazon: 'One-click' payment too obvious to patent

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nice to see

common sense in place

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Apple site hacked 'by LulzSec' - report

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FAIL

apple hacked?

seriously, is register also reporting on this non-story? business intelligence survey server is what they 'hacked' and got 26 user names and hash passwords.

they don't hack, they can't. they use pre-made tools for DDoS and SQLi. they just try wherever they can and if they are successful and manage to 'steal' something they tweet about it.

nothing has been stolen here, no customer data, nothing

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Aussie retailer accuses UK shops of HDMI 'scam'

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idiot?

calling me an idiot because i stated what i tested and shared my findings? no sir, you're an idiot! go do comparisons yourself and then call somebody idiot!

i stated many times to my customers: if you can't see/hear the difference between cheap and more expensive cables you're lucky one and you can save money.

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there are expensive but shit and expensive and good cables

i've worked with hi-fi/high-end for several years and i can tell that good cable does make difference. i'm talking about good ones, monster isn't part of this camp. monster together with few others (oehlbach, monitor cable...) use the same factory, if you buy bulk even model numbers share the same code. good cable companies are the ones who invest a lot of R&D in to technology, surface of the cable and so on (audioquest, cardas, vad den hull...) so yes, there are expensive and expensive cables, the question is which expensive cables are the good ones or are not rip-off ones. always research.

when it comes to digital cables, i suggest anyone to compare cheap hdmi and hdmi from audioquest for example. if you can't see the difference then you probably don't need that hd telly you're buying cable for

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'Lion' Apple Mac OS X 10.7: Sneak Preview

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re: 3

can't you code normally? i mean, any text editor will do

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Apple quietly Trims MacBook Air SSDs

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Happy

try this

http://www.groths.org/?p=387 i just installed it on my mbp late 2009 with 120GB Vertex2 SSD and it works! Sys. profiler says that TRIM enabled = yes ;)

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wrong link

correct one: http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322

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TRIM

is a ATA command AFAIK, why not support it?

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Apple’s long divorce from Samsung near final

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gizmodo

is your website for trolling, no gtfo

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Anonymous claims LulzSec merger

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anon = lulzsec

the same kids, team p0ison released yesterday another dox of another member of lulzsec. lulzesc needed to end, too much heat from everywhere, not just team p0ison but also jester and whitehats forums

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Pentax Q takes mini system camera crown

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quite a lot to ask

for a camera with sensor as small as this. interchangeable lens, ok but the sensor size will lead to noise results on higher ISO. sure there will be customers for this but i'd rather save some money and get fujifilm x100 - if the size matters

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Apple iMac 27in

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here you go

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?tag=duckduckgo-b-20&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=fw800%20to%20fw400

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pics on network

i'm not sure about the speed - if she keeps aperture library on ssd it's gonna be fast but over gb network it might be slow - depends on the filesize of raw images.

when i used aperture i kept my files on external usb drive, slow

moved them to internal drive, was much better

now i've got ssd and use lightroom and all originals are on fw800 disk and the 'processed' ones or the ones i decided to import are on ssd but i still keep originals on external fw disk (you never know, maybe photos you didn't import week ago aren't that bad after all and you might need them in the future)

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"although the company still insists on including a Firewire 800 port. What is it for?"

for FW800 devices, as simple as that. there are plenty of external harddrives with FW800 interface, yes it's much faster than usb

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Wii U has 50 per cent more power than rivals

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anybody surprised

that it has more processing power than 5 years old consoles?

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Nokia and Apple bury patent beef

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you're wrong

nokia started

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Apple iCloud: Same old cage, new height

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iCloud - good title eh?

iCloud is brilliant idea and i recommend everyone to read this article, it says it all http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/08/apple-icloud-google-cloud/

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in app purchase and apple's cut

"Based on the nascent but growing backlash to Apple's in-app purchasing restrictions, revealed by the Financial Times opting for an HTML5 approach rather than run Apple's 30-per-cent of sales gauntlet, it's increasingly looking like Apple's control freakishness will get a slap from its customers."

not true anymore, apple updated terms and cons, no need to offer the same price, nothing, link:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/09/apple-reverses-course-on-in-app-subscriptions/

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Apple uncloaks top 10 tools of iOS 5

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iMessage

i don't get this... so they have FaceTime, they have iChat and now iMessages, why???? why not have one simple app which handles all this? let's say iChat (you use your @me address the same way as you will in iMessage and FaceTime). What's the point, am i missing something here?

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Apple ignores dozens of iCloud domains

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FAIL

so

what is this article all about again????

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Mac trojan evades Apple's brand new security fix

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soon, with lion

i guess, app store fully integrated and from the rumors will be preferred way of installing apps - i wouldn't mind that move at all

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Amazon opens online Macware store

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as a mac owner

you should give mac store a go. simple, fast, link to my itunes account, simple to update an app and also install. not sure what you're talking about but from the looks of it i doubt you've tried it. and as mentioned in previous response to your comment, exposure of small devs on mac app store is something you don't get on amazon or anywhere else. i dont' give a shit about overpriced adobe products or office. there's pixelmator and iwork which replaced former products entirely.

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German salesmen rewarded with meticulously organised orgy

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I shall speak to our HR

that vouchers aren't that great idea after all

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How to choose the right screen size

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yep

that's why i suggest ppl to do their own observations with existing gear to work out what's best for them. i used to sell projectors and never really understood my customers wanting huge screens and viewing distance wasn't far enough and it was at the times HD was just starting.

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all depends on your vision

you can use 'retina' calculations to calculate the right size of a tv for your room and depending on the content you mostly watch. you can use wiki or other sources to get it right. from my findings it looks like THX is using calculations based on 'retina' of human eye as they usually state closer viewing distances than others. on my 40" while watching 1080p source i can't go closer than 1.2metres, i start to recognize pixels, my vision is ok, not perfect but don't need glasses. for SD content i need to be at least 3 metres away from the screen. so it really depends on the content and your vision.

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California Do-Not-Track web privacy law moves forward

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this line:

"that would hurt companies that use an advertising based economic model to survive" - yeah, fuck em

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The Sandy Bridge Hackintosh

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i've been

running hackintosh on my old box successfully for almost one year. the problem with running a hackintosh is reliance on 'gurus' from different communities online and how fast are they able to tweak their packages and/or drivers (kexts) to support software updates.

It's nice, it's fast but by no means it's stable, every software update can possibly 'brick' your installation. so there's a tradeoff.

I've given up after a year and got myself macbook pro.

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Sony shows MacBook Air-like Vaio notebook

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macbook air like?

not even close to air

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So, what's the best sci-fi film never made?

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and Dune

of course

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Blade Runner

must be one of them, that theme with flying ads and so on has been copied so many times in other films. Also Stalker from Tarkowski

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Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed

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nah, no title needed

I finished first Shift and am roughly 50% in Shift 2 and I simply don't see what others are complaining about. I use Logitech DrivingForce GT and I find handling OK (different from GT5 of course). Yes it is more arcade than GT5 but you have a bit more fun here than in GT5. If you find handling hard you must really suck in racing games :D. I play both, Shift and GT5. GT5's collisions are utter joke but the handling (feel of suspension and force feedback) are better than in Shift(2). These two games are different, not the same kind. If you're into racing and are prepared to be frustrated then GT5 is for you. If you want to have more fun, try Shift 2. As simple as that.

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WTF is... 4K x 2K?

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yep

the problem is that most of the ppl don't know how to set their TVs, sharpening on max, contrast on max and so on. properly set tv (a good one) can provide quite surprising results even on SD.

when it comes to 1080p vs 720p vs SD (576p). the 1080p vs 720p I can see from distance of 1.5m, beyond that the difference is negligible. between 720p and SD I need to move good 3-4m away from the screen. my screen is 40incher.

4K is really good but to fully enjoy it you need bigger screen. there's no point to put 4K on 40-90 inchers, you wouldn't see any difference.

what's really bad is the fact that not that many recent movie are worth watching and those are the ones shot in 4K so the problem will be with the source material.

even 1080p versions of old films (re-mastered ones) don't look that good like natively shot films in 1080p.

you can use retina calculations to work out how far/close you need to sit from your screen to stop recognizing individual pixels.

if most of my video material was 1080p i'd go for 50inch TV, but that's not the case, it's mostly SD and that's why i've got 40incher and sit almost 4m away from it.

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Google admits Android 'both open and closed'

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when

will you keep this bullshit for yourself? are you retarded? their systems are not open source

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