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RIM - The Whole Story
khendron writes "The Globe and Mail has published an article titled Patently Absurd, detailing the whole history of the RIM vs. NTP wireless war. It is a blow by blow account of how a dispute that could have been settled for a few million dollars is now 'a billion-dollar dagger hanging over RIM.' The article reads like a fairy-tale of egos, legal blunders, and patent stupidity."
no pun inteded, I guess.
Fleur de Sel
You mean "Snow White, 6 Lawyers, and The One-Click Dwarf?"
I loved that one as a kid.
"Sexual identity is fundamentally meaningless," says Baudrillard; however, according to Pickett[1] , it is not so much sexual identity that is fundamentally meaningless, but rather the collapse of sexual identity. Werther[2] states that we have to choose between the textual paradigm of narrative and postmaterialist dialectic theory. Thus, in Robin's Hoods, Spelling examines precapitalist narrative; in Melrose Place he affirms dialectic submodernist theory.
The main theme of von Junz's[3] analysis of the textual paradigm of narrative is the futility, and eventually the fatal flaw, of textual reality. Bataille's critique of socialist realism suggests that the goal of the participant is social comment, but only if the premise of precapitalist narrative is valid; otherwise, we can assume that narrative must come from the masses. But if predeconstructive materialism holds, the works of Spelling are an example of cultural nihilism.
Any number of narratives concerning the difference between sexual identity and class exist. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a textual paradigm of narrative that includes language as a reality.
The primary theme of the works of Spelling is the role of the poet as artist. Thus, Derrida uses the term 'socialist realism' to denote the meaninglessness, and subsequent dialectic, of neomodern sexual identity.
A number of theories concerning precapitalist narrative may be discovered. However, the subject is interpolated into a dialectic paradigm of consensus that includes narrativity as a whole.
I got this from a waitress friend of mine...
A lot of times, people come into the restaruant she works in and while she's trying to take their order and ask them things like: "What kind of dressing do you want, what do you want to drink, etc...", they'll be looking at their crackberry and findling with the butons. Of course, they're asking her to repeat what she said and thy always get pissed when their order isn't what they thought they asked for. So, to make their rudness fun, while she's (other waitresses are doing this, too) taking their order, she'll interject a "meow", as in a cat's meow. The contest amoung the waitresses is to see how many "meows" they can say to the crackberryheads before they say "excuse me?". It's really fun to watch!
*giant cane appears and pulls flok off the stage*
This poo is cold.
After reading that blow by blow summary, I worry that many Research in Motion employees will have to say goodbye to their RIM jobs.
Who could have scripted it any better? Company seeking to cash in on stupid patent is hoist by its own petard. The resulting patent dispute threatens communications between lawmakers who rely on the stupid company with the stupid patent, so they pass a law exempting themselves from the laws they created. Can they really outlaw their own karma? Stay tuned to find out!
Shhh! Be careful, or Disney'll get you for copyright infringment!!!11
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
but you know what they say: "Fill it to the RIM ... with Grim!"
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Why bother. You're on Slashdot and frankly the most entertaining posts are the ones that have absolutely no clue what they're talking about.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Wow its worse than I thought. I think you are a republican. Obviously also suffering from short man syndrome and penis envy.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.