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Friday, May 13, 2011

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black and white cat. These Black amp; White Cat Socks
  • These Black amp; White Cat Socks



  • primalman
    Aug 23, 09:02 PM
    So, in summary...

    Apple pays Creative a one time fee of $100M to licence their patents.

    Creative joins the 'Made for iPod' program making accessories for their competitor, Apple, who gets money for 'Made for iPod'.

    Creative still HAS to defend it's patent against other competitors - that's the nature of patents - or licence it to them. If they do, Apple takes some of that money too. In a round-a-bout way, Apple is getting money back from it's competitors. Nice.

    Creative have a much better case because Apple settled.

    Creative still owns a valid patent. If Apple had won, there would be no patent so anyone could copy the Creative/Apple style interface.

    Apple continues on as if nothing has happened. No long court case delaying sales. No injunctions to halt imports.

    Explain to me why people think Apple lost here?

    Creative knew it was about to get reamed by Microsoft's Zune which it's players aren't compatible with. They knew to get out of the market. Instead of legitimising Microsoft's offering, they've tied up with Apple. It might bug us that Apple have legitimised a bogus patent but it's otherwise very, very smart.

    Yes, this is the reality. It was a wise business move, thinking long-term. Someone said it earlier, but Apple plays good chess, this is why they have over $8 billion in the bank.

    The quote above should have been the last post.





    black and white cat. lack amp; white cat who
  • lack amp; white cat who



  • PghLondon
    Apr 30, 07:10 PM
    I beg to differ, My iMac 7,1 looks like the new ones. I have had it for over 3 years.

    Similar, but not the same. The new design came out in October 2009.

    New sizes, new aspect ratio, removal of plastic from the enclosure, removed the outer aluminum bezel, etc. And new guts, of course.





    black and white cat. lost Black and white cat
  • lost Black and white cat



  • Chimera
    Oct 12, 12:21 PM
    Red in the aluminum would be nice I guess, although 5% isn't much to give away.





    black and white cat. Pictures of dogs, pics of cats
  • Pictures of dogs, pics of cats



  • dime21
    Apr 15, 03:42 PM
    http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/testing-real-world-speed-of-usb-3-0-hard-drives/

    That is horrible scaling given that USB 2.0 lasted 10 years.
    Of course, what did you expect from an interface designed for keyboards, joysticks, and mice?

    Even USB 2.0 has a pathetic 50% effective utilization rate, while Firewire is ~95%. USB 2.0 is 480 Mb/s, which equals 60 MB/s, yet in real world speeds, you're lucky if you see 30 MB/s - HALF it's rated bandwidth. USB is just plain horrible for bulk data transfer, and the new 3.0 iteration is no different. The protocol overhead is atrocious.

    Of course USB also operates in slow horrible PIO mode, meaning it has to run everything through the host CPU. PATA, SATA, SCSI, Firewire, and Thunderbolt all operate in DMA mode, bypassing the host CPU for much much faster transfers.





    black and white cat. Poly Black and White Cat
  • Poly Black and White Cat



  • Ingot
    Apr 20, 01:17 PM
    This is great for my alcoholic blackouts. Fire up the program and find out where I've been. Although on my last trip to San Diego it put me across the border and into a Tijuana cat house.

    SEE? A positive use for this. Keep it up Pollyana! I love it!





    black and white cat. Black And White Cat With Blue
  • Black And White Cat With Blue



  • Eidorian
    Aug 28, 12:15 PM
    I think I'll just purchase a Core 2 Duo myself and drop it in my iMac.
    Conroe, right?Merom... (http://guides.macrumors.com/Merom)





    black and white cat. Lost Male Black and White Cat
  • Lost Male Black and White Cat



  • RollTide
    Apr 30, 02:49 PM
    Ill be in Panama city Florida a couple days after the release, may pick one up on the way home if we go by a store. Have to find a list of stores.





    black and white cat. lack and white: Cat (D) Dog
  • lack and white: Cat (D) Dog



  • aiqw9182
    Apr 25, 03:26 PM
    You mean this one, a single card, running FarCry at 3840 X 2160 almost two years ago. Since this was almost two years ago, I'm sure its a little dated. :)

    http://gizmodo.com/#!5277116/asus-mars-gtx-295-smoothly-running-far-cry-at-3840-x-2160-pixels
    Single card? Do you even know what SLI is? Did you even read the article? :rolleyes:

    I'm still waiting.





    black and white cat. Black-And-White Kitten Walking
  • Black-And-White Kitten Walking



  • psxtreme
    Apr 14, 01:06 PM
    Thunderbolt will never replace USB because they serve different functions. You will never see low-bandwidth devices such as keyboard/mice/USB stick using thunderbolt because it doesn't make sense.

    The real question that I haven't seen anyone ask, is will this be Intel only or will other chipsets/manufacturers support it as well.

    Also I don't know if anyone mentioned it but one of the reasons Firewire never took off was because of royalty fees that need to be paid for implementing it. Thunderbolt has no royalties on it and this should help drive adoption.

    From the looks of it Thunderbolt will be able to replace eSata, Firewire, and maybe Expresscards.





    black and white cat. lack and white cat with green
  • lack and white cat with green



  • cube
    Mar 30, 01:14 PM
    Interesting. Microsoft calls these files "Programs" and always has. Nothing called an application exists in Windows, it only has programs. Seems maybe MS is a little late to this game, and they're gonna piss all over it for everyone else.

    Applications are a type of program. They have been called so since the dawn of time.





    black and white cat. Black and White Kitty Pair -
  • Black and White Kitty Pair -



  • LarryC
    Mar 23, 10:34 AM
    Call me spoiled by all things thin, I think the iMac is looking pretty chunky these days. Not sure why it isn't significantly thinner than it is. The next time they do update the form factor it should essentially look like a giant first gen iPad.

    That would be just fine if all you wanted was iPad performance.





    black and white cat. Linda Kennedy Photography
  • Linda Kennedy Photography



  • Squonk
    Sep 12, 02:59 PM
    In the past, when Apple has released new models, on the "deals" page, they would sell off the old *new boxed* stock for a little less than the new models. Sometimes these were a great deal, other times, not so much. Anyway, with the iMac and Mac Mini updates last week and the iPod updates today, it appears that there is no "old stock" products for sale from Apple. I was hoping to pick up the 5G/60GB to replace my 4G/60GB as I'd now like the bigger screen. Yes, I am looking for a deal... Or how about a 1G/1G shuffle for $49???

    Does anyone know how Apple is getting rid of the old?





    black and white cat. Black amp; White Cat Bowl - Black
  • Black amp; White Cat Bowl - Black



  • lkrupp
    Apr 4, 12:07 PM
    I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen more often. Applestores must be filled with cash. I would think one would be a bit easier to rob than a bank.

    I would bet there is actually very little cash in the typical Apple store. I personally have never observed a single customer pay with cash for anything at the two stores in my area. Everybody pays with credit or debit cards.

    These guys were after the products, probably iPhones and iPads, which would bring in some hefty cash on the black market.





    black and white cat. Black and White Cat Piggy Bank
  • Black and White Cat Piggy Bank



  • Unspeaked
    Sep 19, 02:18 PM
    NI am, however, starting to see why they allowed a sneak preview of iTV. Look how many of us are saying "I can't wait for iTV!" now that we've had some time to experiment with iTunes movie downloads!


    Yes, we're all looking forward to a product to come out in 3 or 4 months that will actually make the product they released last week bearable!

    Brilliant!!





    black and white cat. LONG HAIR!
  • LONG HAIR!



  • dime21
    Apr 14, 03:41 PM
    What about the MacBook and MacBook Air?
    you missed the point. entirely. it flew right over your head like a bird.





    black and white cat. Black amp; White Cat Dining
  • Black amp; White Cat Dining



  • diamond.g
    Apr 19, 01:26 PM
    Heh, if you can do it in 35 hours then it is not 40 hours worth of work, is it? :)

    Touche!





    black and white cat. Future Cinema, Black Cat White
  • Future Cinema, Black Cat White



  • combatcolin
    Oct 27, 09:56 AM
    Liked the short advert.

    Did make me laugh.

    Apple should rip out all there roofing at there HQ and replace it with Solar Panels and replace the heating systems with CHRP systems.

    That would help a lot.





    black and white cat. Lazy Black and White Cat
  • Lazy Black and White Cat



  • twoodcc
    Aug 28, 11:49 PM
    Anyone else voting that they drop the price on the BlackBook to match the white MB? What are the chances, eh?

    that would be nice





    black and white cat. Black and white, Cat,
  • Black and white, Cat,



  • vitaboy
    Aug 24, 04:52 AM
    The cost of litigation would not even remotely approached 100 million. The cost of losing (ie, having a judgement against apple), now that would have probably exceeded 100 million. When a company is not sure about it's position, the best thing is to settle. You don't see IBM settling their Linux suit, do you?. And SCOunix hasn't even paid close to 100 mil in lawyers fees yet and they are fighting a losing battle..

    I think you are seriously underestimating how expensive these type of patent battles can be. Check out the following story:

    http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3402321

    Regarding its ongoing legal battles with IBM (Quote, Chart) and Novell over Linux code claims, SCO announced an agreement with its legal firm that would cap its legal costs at $31 million. As part of the deal, SCO's legal firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner could be awarded between 20 and 33 percent of any potential settlement that may arise from SCO's claims.

    So SCO obviously expected its legal costs to spiral beyond $31 million to make a special deal with its law firm to cap costs. The fact they are willing to give as much as 33% of any potential winnings with the legal firm indicates that the final tally could easily approach $100 million if not for the cap.

    It is quite clear that Apple would have made life very, very expensive and excruciating for Creative's legal team. $100 million in legal costs is not unrealistic considering that you not only had the original suit, but countersuits by Apple involving 4 bonafide patents.





    RMXO
    Mar 3, 05:15 PM
    In related news:

    BBC News - Android hit by rogue app viruses

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12633923

    Ouch

    This is the downside of "Open Source". I have both Android & iP4. I have to watch what I install on my Android but not with my iP4 (The plus side to "Closed Walled Garden".





    brian636
    Mar 17, 07:16 PM
    Of course McAfee would say that, they want to sell software.





    nospleen
    Sep 10, 08:52 AM
    My computers will of course not be slower. But the apps, on the other hand, will become more and more demanding. For example, I cant run Aperture on my MDD (2*1.25/2GB RAM/128MB VRAM). Hell, I cant even run Civ IV on it...lol
    I think this fact will be more and more emphasized as the "core-war" replaces the "GHz war".

    Gotcha! That would get old quick, at least the old apps would work. It is kind of cool now that a G3 can still run Tiger. Oh well, can't have everything! :)





    milo
    Aug 28, 04:03 PM
    ah yes. just like they did with the eMac back in the day. that was popular... you know, not having a product to ship for weeks.

    Well, assuming they announced and shipped about the same time as the PC companies, there's really not that much to complain about. Don't forget, they did it with the MPB as well.

    And if people are really unwilling to wait a couple weeks, nothing is stopping them from buying the yonah models.





    daneoni
    Sep 12, 03:24 PM
    what do you mean my windows is close not to upgrade??

    and also, is there any chance that i might be succeeding in returning it... or even getting a refund??? i mean i took the vinyl cover off and just totally used it... can i return it right back to the apple store??

    I meant return window..its just one day. Im not sure about the return but just give it a shot. If they ask, tell them you'd like to buy the new version. Be polite but firm as much as possible and you should be fine. Worst case scenario is they say no BUT you won't feel bad because you're current iPod is definately not out of date from what i see today