Επιστήμη & Τεχνολογία (τελευταία νέα/εξελίξεις)

[Tsolias.Psolias]

http://www.zurmat.com/2012/08/29/sa...llion-sending-30-trucks-full-of-5-cent-coins/

Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins


PaperBlog – This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California. Initially, the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.
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The funny part is that the signed document does not specify a single payment method, so Samsung is entitled to send the creators of the iPhone their billion dollars in the way they deem best.

This dirty but genius geek troll play is a new headache to Apple executives as they will need to put in long hours counting all that money, to check if it is all there and to try to deposit it crossing fingers to hope a bank will accept all the coins.

Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of “geeks with style” and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it.

    [u][i]You can use your coins to buy refreshments at the little machine for life or melt the coins to make computers, that’s not my problem, I already paid them and fulfilled the law.[/i][/u]

    A total of 20 billion coins, delivery hope to finish this week.

Let’s see how Apple will respond to this.

 

[sferdeklos]

http://www.zurmat.com/2012/08/29/sa...llion-sending-30-trucks-full-of-5-cent-coins/

Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins

...γι'αυτο το προβλημα δεν εχουν application;

 

[Tsolias.Psolias]

τύπε εγώ μόνο και μόνο γι' αυτό πήγα και πήρα έναν ssd samsung έτσι γιατί είναι μάγκες.


το έκανε και ένας οικοδόμος αυτό στο Aγρίνιο de Janeiro πριν κάτι χρόνια με τις δραχμές.
του ήρθε πρόστιμο από το ΤΕΒΕ 1-2 εκατομύρια και γέμισε ένα καρότσι που κουβαλάνε το χαρμάνι με τάληρα, πήρε και το τοπικό κανάλι και πήγε στο ΤΕΒΕ και τους ανάγκασε να τα μετρήσουν ένα ένα.

 

[kosnik26]

μια ζυγαριά ακριβείας θα έκανε την δουλειά

 

[sferdeklos]

τύπε εγώ μόνο και μόνο γι' αυτό πήγα και πήρα έναν ssd samsung έτσι γιατί είναι μάγκες.


το έκανε και ένας οικοδόμος αυτό στο Aγρίνιο de Janeiro πριν κάτι χρόνια με τις δραχμές.
του ήρθε πρόστιμο από το ΤΕΒΕ 1-2 εκατομύρια και γέμισε ένα καρότσι που κουβαλάνε το χαρμάνι με τάληρα, πήρε και το τοπικό κανάλι και πήγε στο ΤΕΒΕ και τους ανάγκασε να τα μετρήσουν ένα ένα.

Ειναι υποχρεωμενος ο αλλος, εφοσον δεχεσαι να πληρωσεις, να δεχτει οποιαδηποτε μορφη πληρωμης (νομισμα ή χαρτι),
αρκει να μην υπαρχει ορος και κριτηριο για την συναλλαγη.

Γι'αυτο οποτε σας ζητησει κανενας ταριφας να πεταχτειτε απεναντι να χαλασετε το 50αρικο,
γειωστε τον και στειλ'τον να το χαλασει ο ιδιος.

 

[sferdeklos]

μια ζυγαριά ακριβείας θα έκανε την δουλειά

Ωρες ωρες αυτες οι εκλαμψεις ιδιοφυιας σου, με φοβιζουν...

 

[kosnik26]

Ωρες ωρες αυτες οι εκλαμψεις ιδιοφυιας σου, με φοβιζουν...

θα στείλω μέιλ στην apple και θα μου δώσουν και πόστο

 

[Tsolias.Psolias]

το ωραίο είναι ότι η apple θα πρέπει να πληρώσει μισό εκατομύριο ($600000 βγαίνει σχεδόν) δολλάρια για την μεταφορά και εξαργύρωση όλων αυτών των νομισμάτων.

 

[sferdeklos]

το ωραίο είναι ότι η apple θα πρέπει να πληρώσει μισό εκατομύριο ($600000 βγαίνει σχεδόν) δολλάρια για την μεταφορά και εξαργύρωση όλων αυτών των νομισμάτων.

Ε, οχι και 600 κατοσταρικα. Πολλα ζητας ρε μαστορα.

Βασικα τη συμφερει να λιωσει, στη ζουλα, τον χαλκο και να τον πουλησει... εαν ειναι απο ατοφιο χαλκο.

 

[sferdeklos]

θα στείλω μέιλ στην apple και θα μου δώσουν και πόστο

Προσεχε ομως για στην Apple δεν αφηνουν να σερφαρεις στη δουλεια στο bou....

 

[kinks]

...γι'αυτο το προβλημα δεν εχουν application;

Μάλλον μούφα είναι

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/aug/29/apple-samsung-trucks-nickels-fake

 

[Tsolias.Psolias]

Steve Jobs: So I came out with this new iPad today.

Bill Gates: What's new about it?

Steve Jobs: The price.

Both: LOL!

 

[alexm4n]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409010,00.asp

While everyone is all crazy about Apple's billion-dollar patent victory over Samsung, the psychological effect on consumers has been ignored.

Several times throughout the case, the same point was driven home: the Android phone is identical to, and perhaps better than, the iPhone. This "revelation," which Android users have always known, will easily cost Apple more than a billion dollars in sales.

Much of this case revolved around the fact that Samsung obviously copied certain icons already used by Apple. The most blatant is the white phone on the green background that indicates that you want to bring up the keypad or initiate the actual call.

My Galaxy Nexus shows a blue phone on a transparent background.

Locking itself to the Apple icon was arbitrary but it was Apple's idea first. Nokia or Motorola should have patented the color green to indicate the dialer and red to indicate the disconnect button. Both companies would be in trouble, but why dwell on opportunities lost? Green and red stem from stop and go traffic signals, which are also arbitrary. Someone could have patented that and everyone would be in trouble.

Do you see how stupid the current patent system is? But I digress.

The white handset icon set against a green background is a critical part in fully understanding how similar the Samsung phone is to the iPhone. In fact, Apple designer Susan Kare actually testified that when she was playing with the Samsung phone, she swore it was an Apple iPhone! Her testimony was quite convincing. It convinced millions of people that for a lot less money, they can get an iPhone by buying Samsung's phone. Genius!

But it gets worse.

Apple made a big deal about its patents on the bezel, the angles of the corner curves, and other designs it apparently patented. People in general reacted with astonishment that anyone could get a patent for a curve or straight line or flat surface.

This sent two messages through the brains of consumers: First, this is an idiotic patent and Apple is grasping for straws. Second, the company is spending too much time on minutiae rather than actual functionality.

And now, go back and compare Samsung's calling icon with Apple's. The Samsung art for the handset is better than Apple's simplistic art. Samsung's just looks more modern. I'm sure this is one of the reasons Susan Kare confused the Android phone with the Apple phone as she assumed the slicker version of the exact same phone would be Apple, by default.

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This is a disaster for Apple no matter what Samsung does to its interface and its rounded corners. The case and its results, because of Apple testimonies, make it sound as if Apple was suing because a better product evolved.

Will the public stick with the iPhone just to be loyal to the creator of the modern smartphone concepts? In a down economy where every penny counts, it's doubtful. Samsung is not only a cheaper alternative but has many more models. Combine this with the scandals at Foxconn, Apple's manufacturer, and Apple is in trouble.

Keep in mind that Samsung makes many of the iPhone components, including the custom CPU, and Samsung has not even begun to leverage that sort of information.

I consider this situation to be dire for Apple. When the iPhone 5 arrives shortly, it will be crunch time for the company. If this is the end of the line for the iPhone, you can point to this lawsuit as the tipping point. It may be the last important iPhone.

I'm reminded of how the little-known MP3 gained popularity when the RIAA filed various lawsuits. [size=20pt]Apple may have pulled a similar stunt by alerting the public that the Samsung phone is the exact same thing as an iPhone, or better. [/size]

A billion dollars well spent.

 

Maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle after all

Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.

Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed the famous Higgs particle. Physicists agree that the CERN experiments did find a new particle that had never been seen before, but according to an international research team, there is no conclusive evidence that the particle was indeed the Higgs particle.
The research team has scrutinized the existing scientific data from CERN about the newfound particle and published their analysis in the journal Physical Review D. A member of this team is Mads Toudal Frandsen, associate professor at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark.
"The CERN data is generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations, we would also get this data from other particles", Mads Toudal Frandsen explains.
The researchers' analysis does not debunk the possibility that CERN has discovered the Higgs particle. That is still possible - but it is equally possible that it is a different kind of particle.
"The current data is not precise enough to determine exactly what the particle is. It could be a number of other known particles", says Mads Toudal Frandsen.

But if it wasn't the Higgs particle, that was found in CERN's particle accelerator, then what was it?
"We believe that it may be a so-called techni-higgs particle. This particle is in some ways similar to the Higgs particle - hence half of the name", says Mads Toudal Frandsen.
Although the techni-higgs particle and Higgs particle can easily be confused in experiments, they are two very different particles belonging to two very different theories of how the universe was created.
The Higgs particle is the missing piece in the theory called the Standard Model. This theory describes three of the four forces of nature. But it does not explain what dark matter is - the substance that makes up most of the universe. A techni-higgs particle, if it exists, is a completely different thing:

"A techni-higgs particle is not an elementary particle. Instead, it consists of so-called techni-quarks, which we believe are elementary. Techni-quarks may bind together in various ways to form for instance techni-higgs particles, while other combinations may form dark matter. We therefore expect to find several different particles at the LHC, all built by techni-quarks", says Mads Toudal Frandsen.
If techni-quarks exist, there must be a force to bind them together so that they can form particles. None of the four known forces of nature (gravity, the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force) are any good at binding techni-quarks together. There must therefore be a yet undiscovered force of nature. This force is called the the technicolor force.
What was found last year in CERN's accelerator could thus be either the Higgs particle of the Standard Model or a light techni-higgs particle, composed of two techni-quarks.
Mads Toudal Frandsen believes that more data from CERN will probably be able to determine if it was a Higgs or a techni-higgs particle. If CERN gets an even more powerful accelerator, it will in principle be able to observe techni-quarks directly.

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-wasnt-higgs-particle.html

Έδῶ ὁ κόσμος καίεται καὶ τὸ αἰδοῖον καλλωπίζεται.

 

[raopau]

Έδῶ ὁ κόσμος καίεται καὶ τὸ αἰδοῖον καλλωπίζεται.

ποιος ακριβως κοσμος καιγεται και γιατι???

 

ποιος ακριβως κοσμος καιγεται και γιατι???

Ὁ ἰδικὸς μας. Λόγῳ ἀνεχείας. Ἐπισυμβάσης καὶ ἐκ τῆς ὑποχρεώσεως διασφαλίσεως τὼν παχυλῶν μισθῶν τῶν κ.κ. καθηγητῶν/ἐρευνητῶν.

 

[raopau]

Ὁ ἰδικὸς μας. Λόγῳ ἀνεχείας. Ἐπισυμβάσης καὶ ἐκ τῆς ὑποχρεώσεως διασφαλίσεως τὼν παχυλῶν μισθῶν τῶν κ.κ. καθηγητῶν/ἐρευνητῶν.

δηλαδη εσυ απο ολα τα εξοδα που γινονται στον πλανητη,βρηκες να κοψεις τους μισθους των καθηγητων/ερευνητων για να αντιμετωπισεις την φτωχεια.....