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2010-01-17 , 18:24
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Anyone that thinks this forum is a cesspool can get some perspective over here:

Apple retaliates: requests US import ban on Nokia phones

Unfortuneately, or fortuneately, depending on how you see things, the most offensive person (and their posts), has already been banned, so the thread flow is quite jerky.

Granted, sites like Engadget aren't communities, but that particular thread makes me wonder how slashdot, IMO, generally seems more civil, yet they allow uncensored anonymous posting. Even though the audiences are not the same, I still think the two forum philosophies are an interesting contrast.
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2010-01-19 , 13:18
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I cant believe big companies like Nokia and Apple fight like kids!!

GROW UP U 2!!
 
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I cant believe big companies like Nokia and Apple fight like kids!!

GROW UP U 2!!
They don't. That's what lawyers are for.

All the posts seem to be centered around who is going to pay, and how much.

The answer is: We all are.

...and win, loose or draw the costs of all this will be included in both products purchase price.

I should have listened to my GrandPa when I was maybe 9 or 10 years old.
He said: "Be a Lawyer or a Dentist when you get older. They always get paid... even when they screw things up!"
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2010-01-19 , 14:29
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^ LOOOLz

Lawyers are EVIL!!!

If your not a lawyer, then what have you become?!
 
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If your not a lawyer, then what have you become?!
Bait.


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Either side of the fence is plain horrible at the extremes.

The whole "taste great, less filling" argument is downright funny from the sidelines to me.
 
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2010-01-19 , 14:45
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
that particular thread makes me wonder how slashdot, IMO, generally seems more civil, yet they allow uncensored anonymous posting. Even though the audiences are not the same, I still think the two forum philosophies are an interesting contrast.
Posts at slashdot start with low mod points (esp. when posting as anonymous), so comments actually need to be modded up to be displayed by default when amount of comments increase.

The drawback of slashdot moderation scheme is that unless you happen to be among 50 first posters, it's very unlikely that anyone ever sees your comment, no matter how insightful it is.

The Engadget story comments OTOH seems to work as news story comments usually do: comments start modded at 0, and anything that's not negative gets shown.

BTW it's hilarious that Engadget managed to dig out some very ancient (and ugly) Nokia logo for their story
 
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The drawback of slashdot moderation scheme is that unless you happen to be among 50 first posters, it's very unlikely that anyone ever sees your comment, no matter how insightful it is.
Yeah, the nature of the beast. I think they should implement personal moderation. Meaning, I can mod posts up and down that only affect me. And those mod points accumulate for that username and don't reset after every article. Then, over time, an interesting picture might start to emerge. I could start playing all sorts of games. I could possibly say, "show me a highly-rated contrarian view to my own." Or, "add the mod points of my modded user's modded users." Wouldn't it be cool if I could create a forum view based on an SQL query. The data's all there; it could happen.

BTW it's hilarious that Engadget managed to dig out some very ancient (and ugly) Nokia logo for their story
They use that image so often it's starting to grow on me.

Oh, and by the way, Welcome!
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They use that image so often it's starting to grow on me.
Before I left Nokia I scheduled an internal blog post for a couple months in the future. It was entitled "so long, and thanks for all the fish!" and used that logo.

And I wonder if this lawsuit will go on as long as the Nokia-Qualcomm debacle...
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Before I left Nokia I scheduled an internal blog post for a couple months in the future. It was entitled "so long, and thanks for all the fish!" and used that logo.
English humor from an American working at a Finnish company. That has funk written all over it.

And I wonder if this lawsuit will go on as long as the Nokia-Qualcomm debacle...
I don't know much about these things, but one comment gave me food for thought: If I'm a device manufacturer and I buy a patented component from a 3rd party, hasn't somebody already paid the licensing fee to resell that component? Or does the patent holder get paid anytime that the component gets resoled by a retailer? And how does all this work when you cross international boundries? My head hurts; back to my grind.
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