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[IceIpor]

LOL, that is hate mail? I just messaged him to let him know he was on ignore and to grow up.

It certainly wasn't civil, now was it?

 

[No_Style]

Since when are PMs sacred. Especially when someone is clearly just name calling. Maybe name calling through PMs is normal. I have never experienced it.

They're not but there's this Bell dude that wishes they were.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Fuck patents and fuck patent trolling.

That is all I have to say on the matter.

Please register your thoughts on the sanctity of private messages before you depart.

 

[BocoDragon]

I'm 99% sure I've seen people banned on GAF for posting PM's, but it's been a while and I can't remember if that's a hard and fast/consistent rule, or if it was something specific to those cases (I think it was always on the Gaming side). Regardless of how hilarious it is (I don't know why you would both putting someone on ingnore and doing that, since you wouldn't see a reply PM) I would probably edit that out. Also even if you think he's an idiot, still kind of a dick move.

I dont see how it's a dick move in the slightest.

 

[The Faceless Master]

maybe they need a distraction from the asswhooping samsung got today.

yeah, the verdict was almost as entertaining as SummerSlam

 

[Sir Abacus]

I don't give a shit about their trade dress/software patent spat. Samsung gets kicked in the nuts for trying to abuse standards essential FRAND patents? Happy days.

 

[buhdeh]

hear hear.

lol @ people calling for MT to be banned over that. I know some of you are fans of Samsung and all that, but you're letting your salt get in the way of reasonable thinking. Calling for long-time, quality posters to be banned is...you're in too fucking deep. Come up for air, because you're fucking drowning in bitterness.

Yeah a quality poster = lawlllll galaxy note is so big what a dumb phone derp

 

[Amagon]

He isn't a quality poster, go read his first post in this thread on his intent to troll in here.

I'm supposed to go biking. I want to hear this first though.

What am I supposed to see????

 

[sruckus]

I agree...WTF kind of crazy place is this that it bans people for posting messages they receive? You're not allowed to tell anyone if you receive unsolicited messages just because they're "private"? When did he consent?

 

[Dreams-Visions]

How fucked?

well, they lost a ton of money. hopefully they'll make some interesting and creative changes in the areas where the violations were found to have occurred, so that they can deliver to consumers a more unique product that can stand on its own two.

 

[btkadams]

LOL, that is hate mail? I just messaged him to let him know he was on ignore and to grow up.

you sent him a pm so you could call him a dipshit and tell him to grow up....


what is hate mail to you?

 

[rozay]

i bet he still reads all of your posts regardless



yep. samsung has no one but themselves to blame for this.

Until neogaf allows quotes of a user's post to be blocked, he has no choice but to. Don't fault him for that when he has no choice.

 

[Davidion]

I cant buy a GS3 now?
.....
Feels bad man :-(

I don't *think* GS3 infringes on anything, actually.

 

[Dead Prince]

It certainly wasn't civil, now was it?

especially his subject line was dipshit.

 

[Dynedom]

This thread is now a PM etiquette thread.

Oh man. Does anyone have a gif of the Etiquette Lesson from Frasier?

 

[LiK]

can you guys take this PM argument into the PMs?

 

[The M.O.B]

Calling for long-time, quality posters to be banned is...you're in too fucking deep.

debatable

But also, I've recieved hate messages, I delete em right away and block the person. I feel no need to show them off to others.

Thread is off rails, Patents system is completely broken, sky is blue, sometimes.

 

[KHarvey16]

I don't give a shit about their trade dress/software patent spat. Samsung gets kicked in the nuts for trying to abuse standards essential FRAND patents? Happy days.

No no no, the jury are just big dumb idiots! Poopy faces!

 

[KingJ2002]

Can't feel bad for Samsung. The only large corporation who had no shame to go out of its way to produce borderline Apple KIRFs, from packaging to hardware to software to wall chargers, cases, etc. Fuck that. That was unfair to Apple and all the other non-shameless companies that compete for the same marketplace, including the rest of Android OEMs.

yeah samsung was pretty shameless about it. Hopefully this encourages them to design unique products from this point on.

I can't lie though... when the iPhone first released I was working at AT&T and it literally made everything look obsolete around it. I don't blame Samsung or any company for copying to stay in the game. This billion dollar hit is small considering they could have been wiped out of mobile if they didn't copy.

 

[The Faceless Master]

I'm 99% sure I've seen people banned on GAF for posting PM's, but it's been a while and I can't remember if that's a hard and fast/consistent rule, or if it was something specific to those cases (I think it was always on the Gaming side). Regardless of how hilarious it is (I don't know why you would both putting someone on ingnore and doing that, since you wouldn't see a reply PM) I would probably edit that out. Also even if you think he's an idiot, still kind of a dick move.

can you find one?

and how is POSTING the PM "a dick move" considering the content of the PM?

 

[FStop7]

Is this how neogafers roll now

My first hate PM ever. Good stuff.

welp, enjoy your gaf vacation for being a dick and posting a private message

Where is it against the rules to post a PM, especially when it's a personal attack?

Phone wars have really become the new console wars, haven't they?

 

[Valnen]

Intelligent people = people who agree with you.

Intelligent people would never remove consumer choice. EVER. For ANY reason.

 

[Nevasleep]

Now on to Motorola/Google abusing FRAND patients.

 

[MThanded]

Had that PM just said. I'm ignoring you, I would not have posted it. With the title of the PM being "Dipshit" it was basically asking me to post it.

 

[iamblades]

Damages owed by Samsung:
* $1.05 billion in TOTAL damages

Yeah that 1.05 billion for the Tab 10.1 made no sense at all.

1.05 total seems like an acceptable number, but they should have invalidated those two bullshit patents, then I would have very little complaint with the ruling overall.

 

[solarus]

That's what's amazing. It's like people are willfully ignoring all the internal Samsung documents that explicitly read like an instruction manual on how to make their phones more like iPhones. The level of cognitive dissonance required to try to pretend that Samsung didn't outright copy the iPhone is beyond me.

Agreed. But suggesting that samsung copied apple on gaf will just make people call you an apple fanboy :/

 

[LordCanti]

Samsung loses a landmark patent case, GAF argues over whether PM's are sacred.

None of the phones in the lawsuit matter, they are almost all either off the market already or in the free-$50 tier. Even the $2 billion dollars isn't really important. What matters is that those nonsense patents were upheld, that hurts everyone in the industry.

I mostly weep for the S3; It seems like a nice iPhone alternative. I understand that the precedent is the important takeaway though.

 

[Wario64]

This PM talk is more interesting than the case decision itself

 

[Tapiozona]

Is this how neogafers roll now

My first hate PM ever. Good stuff.

Haha, congratulations. He thought he had the last laugh with the message then the ignore but your post gives it back to you.

 

[Priz]

Some people ask "Greatest pc guy of all time, Gates or Jobs?"

I say "Wozniak." ;D

*brofist* Yep, been a Woz fan since I was a kid since he really did all the tech.

<- Apple //c & IIgs owner

RoadHazard: A friend of mine went to a job fair. He's been doing various EE jobs over the years... his first job out of school, his college roommate started a company doing 3rd party titles for the Atari 2600 called Imagic. My friend Gary was the one who did Demon Attack for Intellivision. Amusing side note there... so he was talking to the engineer at Synaptics about working there and the guy tells him this story about how they've had multitouch in their pads for YEARS and most people thought it was stupid so they just left it disabled in the code. Once it became popular due to Apple, everyone who'd been buying these pads from them wanted that feature and told them "You NEED to add Multitouch to the pads you're making for us!""You want us to add it?""Sure.""Ok, just go into the config file and change this 0 to a 1. Done." lol

 

[BY2K]

Damages owed by Samsung:
* $1.05 billion in TOTAL damages

God damn.

 

[gcubed]

That's what's amazing. It's like people are willfully ignoring all the internal Samsung documents that explicitly read like an instruction manual on how to make their phones more like iPhones. The level of cognitive dissonance required to try to pretend that Samsung didn't outright copy the iPhone is beyond me.

i can care less about their trade dress infringement, the only part that i can't understand is the patents for pinch to zoom and bounce back, they should have clearly been invalidated.

 

[Hoo-doo]

I agree...WTF kind of crazy place is this that it bans people for posting messages they receive? You're not allowed to tell anyone if you receive unsolicited messages just because they're "private"? When did he consent?

It's not happening.

It's faux outrage at it's finest.

 

[RoadHazard]

so is my galaxy nexus going to be a collectors item now?

That phone wasn't involved in this.

 

[victreeb3l]

It's not happening.

It's faux outrage at it's finest.

yeah. its like MThanded is apple's gaf account and him banned would be symbolic or something. i dunno

Until neogaf allows quotes of a user's post to be blocked, he has no choice but to. Don't fault him for that when he has no choice.

i mean intentionally clicking "read post" even though its blocked. you know he is

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

A billion dollars?!

Goddamn!

 

[Davidion]

@Scobleizer

I think this is a sizable win for Samsung. Why? It only cost them $1.05 billion to become the #2 most profitable company in mobile.

Interesting enough perspective

 

[MrDaravon]

I dont see how it's a dick move in the slightest.

It's the equivalent of shitting your pants at school, hiding it until recess so you can tell your teacher, then the teacher runs outside and tells everyone. Hilarious yes, but there should also be some expectation of privacy in a private message. I don't personally care, and there were actually a couple of times that I thought about doing the same thing, but I didn't because like I said I swear I've seen people get banned for it.

i can care less about their trade dress infringement, the only part that i can't understand is the patents for pinch to zoom and bounce back, they should have clearly been invalidated.

This is what's really getting me, some of the software stuff seems absurd that it was held up for Apple. Samsun deserved to get sent to the cleaners on a lot of this stuff though.

 

[Nevasleep]

But also, I've recieved hate messages, I delete em right away and block the person. I feel no need to show them off to others.

Then other members won't realise what a dick the sender is.

 

[Blizzard]

Wasn't Apple already the single richest company in the world, now with $1 billion USD more to them?

 

[TCRS]

Samsung loses a landmark patent case, GAF argues over whether PM's are sacred.

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[The Faceless Master]

yeah samsung was pretty shameless about it. Hopefully this encourages them to design unique products from this point on.

I can't lie though... when the iPhone first released I was working at AT&T and it literally made everything look obsolete around it. I don't blame Samsung or any company for copying to stay in the game. This billion dollar hit is small considering they could have been wiped out of mobile if they didn't copy.

The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

 

[rozay]

i can care less about their trade dress infringement, the only part that i can't understand is the patents for pinch to zoom and bounce back, they should have clearly been invalidated.

yeah this is what has me "enraged" right now. Don't understand why the jury validated them.

 

[KHarvey16]

It's the equivalent of shitting your pants at school, hiding it until recess so you can tell your teacher, then the teacher runs outside and tells everyone.

Uh

 

[Levyne]

Oh. I didn't catch that the title of the PM was "dipshit". Changes how I read that pm a lot..

 

[Kusagari]

Wasn't Apple already the single richest company in the world, now with $1 billion USD more to them?

1 billion is chump change to Apple.

 

[EvilDick34]

If the government is smart they will have already opened up an anti-trust investigation into Apple but i have little faith in that happening.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

you sent him a pm so you could call him a dipshit and tell him to grow up....


what is hate mail to you?

seriously.

it takes quite a bitter person to go out of their way to PM someone just to insult them, then say, "i'm going to cover my ears and sing "lalalalalala i can't hear you now".

that's some toddler shit. If you're man enough to insult someone, be man enough to accept what they have to give back in return. Or be a man don't send the message at all.

 

[SRG01]

*brofist* Yep, been a Woz fan since I was a kid since he really did all the tech.

<- Apple //c & IIgs owner

RoadHazard: A friend of mine went to a job fair. He's been doing various EE jobs over the years... his first job out of school, his college roommate started a company doing 3rd party titles for the Atari 2600 called Imagic. My friend Gary was the one who did Demon Attack for Intellivision. Amusing side note there... so he was talking to the engineer at Synaptics about working there and the guy tells him this story about how they've had multitouch in their pads for YEARS and most people thought it was stupid so they just left it disabled in the code. Once it became popular due to Apple, everyone who'd been buying these pads from them wanted that feature and told them "You NEED to add Multitouch to the pads you're making for us!""You want us to add it?""Sure.""Ok, just go into the config file and change this 0 to a 1. Done." lol

I've heard similar stories about Synaptic too. They have a lot of gesture controls too.

 

[MThanded]

It's the equivalent of shitting your pants at school, hiding it until recess so you can tell your teacher, then the teacher runs outside and tells everyone. Hilarious yes, but there should also be some expectation of privacy in a private message. I don't personally care, and there were actually a couple of times that I thought about doing the same thing, but I didn't because like I said I swear I've seen people get banned for it.

Amazing analogy. EvilDick shit his pants.