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Apple's iOS 13.2 release bricks HomePod for some users [u]
Exactly right. When you have that many devices out there changing anything will cause problems, will even “brick”, some subset of them.flydog said:
Given that there are over 1.5 billion iOS devices, the odds of a device being bricked are lower than being struck by lightning.jungmark said:I always wait at least a week before updating.
But wait away if it makes you feel better.
Happens to all of Apple’s OSs.
Happens to Windows systems.
Happens to Android systems.
Heck it even happens to non computer manufacturers.
It even happens if the manufacturer does NOT update their OS.
Yes, it is a PITA when its your system that is down.
Yes, Apple needs to fix it ASAP.
But it’s not due to negligence or incompetence, or even malice toward you personally.
S*** happens. I know, I work for a manufacturer. We even make our own software for our systems.No matter how completely and studiously stuff is tested, there is always that one situation, that one combination, that you never thought of.
In QC, where I work, we usually call it tolerance stacking. Everything is as designed and works perfectly when tested, but this part, and that actuator, and the new software don’t like each other.It happens.
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WARF fails to convince Supreme Court to reinstate $506M award from Apple
You see I worked for ten years at a major, Big 10 research University. I did IT support for The Controllers Office. Next to my office was the Office of Patents and Licensing. Some of their job involved the results of publicly funded pure research, but most of it was cooperative projects with private companies. They made sure the U got their cut from any products. Those were funded by private, corporate funds.flydog said:
Another brainless opinion. The research that leads to the patents that UW licenses are not funded by companies. They are for the most part the product of students, faculty, and researchers who receive grants from the University to perform their work.DAalseth said:
I agree. A publicly funded institution should make all of its research available to the public. If you are a company that funds research at a University, you should do so with the understanding that the basic science, how to make a processor more efficient or what gene is connected with a particular disease, will be public.OutdoorAppDeveloper said:Universities should not be allowed to file patents. It goes against the basic purpose of institutes of learning: The open sharing of knowledge.One of the departments I maintained was the Office Of Research and Technology Transfer Administration. They for the most part oversaw grants and grant proposals. They managed money coming into the U. Some was NIH and NSF, and such. The overwhelming majority was from private industry.
Prior to that I spent a couple of years doing Administrative and IT work in a department. We had several faculty members whose whole income was from grants. Private research grants for corporations. they would not have been able to stay at the U without them.For seven years prior to that I worked for a company started by a couple of Professors. They developed some devices, patented them personally, and then started the company on the side. Nothing went back to the U.So don’t tell me that most money for University research is public money. Because I know for a gold plated rock solid fact it isn’t. The UW is much like the University I worked for, and like the rest of the top end American Universities.
The whole point of a University is that it is a place of learning for everyone and research for everyone. Nothing done there should be locked behind a paywall, a patent, or a copywrite. The University, academia at all levels should be 100% publicly supported and everything made agailable to everyone. That is was the point of Universities, at least before my generation decided they needed to be profit centres.flydog said:
Moreover, freely distributing IP would provide zero benefits to UW, its students, and the community that supports UW. To the contrary, it would result in higher tuition and less funds available for research.
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Apple called 'modern tape pirate' in copyright lawsuit
Music copyright is a mess. You wright it, he records it, they put out the record, someone else converts it to a download or a stream. Everyone is entitled to a cut right down to the backup horn player that played one note. Unless of course someone along the way signed away their rights or bought the rights from someone else, or inherited the rights from their long lost uncle Friggy who arranged the piece. Add a few mergers and acquisitions, and copyright expirations, and it's damn near impossible to know who owns what. Somebody comes to you with a document saying they have the rights to this song, would you put it on iTunes, how the hell are you to know if it's real, fake, a partial ownership, or what?
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Confusion reigns over iPhone 11 Pro RAM, benchmarking tests
So, actual Geekbench testing said 4GB. Unnamed, unverified sources of unknown reliability say 6Gb. Uh, yeah I'd go with the actual measurement until I get more data. I suppose it is possible that the base version has 4 and ones with more RAM, or the Max version has 6. But the only way to know for sure is an actual measurement, not rumours.
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Patent troll targets iOS and Mac app update system in lawsuit
Nope. There was an article a few weeks ago. The new head of the court in West Texas is a former patent troll attorney. He has stated that he wants his jurisdiction to become THE place for patent litigation in the US.macseeker said:Now the WESTERN District of Texas. Hope the people there are smarter.
