Slashdot Mirror
Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK
MattSparkes writes "Apple has all but admitted that a British man invented the iPod over three decades ago in the 1970s. Unfortunately, he let the patent run out. When another company tried to grab a portion of its iPod profits, though, Apple went running to him to defend them in court. In return, it looks like he's in for a share of the cash generated from the sale of 163 million iPods."
greed, fear & ego are unprecedented evile's primary weapons. those, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' life0cidal hired goons' agenda. most of yOUR dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'wars', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid schemes. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & the notion of prosperity, not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one. see you on the other side of it. the lights are coming up all over now. conspiracy theorists are being vindicated. some might choose a tin umbrella to go with their hats. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1216734813&hl=en&topic=n
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/world/29amnesty.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/nasa.global.warming.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/05/severe.weather.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/02/honore.preparedness/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=744b7cebc86723e5&ei=5087%0A
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/05/senate.iraq/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/washington/17contractor.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/world/middleeast/03kurdistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080708/cheney_climate.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080805/pl_politico/12308;_ylt=A0wNcxTPdJhILAYAVQms0NUE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/ts_nm/environment_arctic_dc;_ylt=A0wNcwhhcb5It3EBoy2s0NUE
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=weather+manipulation&btnG=Search
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? gener
F1RST P0ST!
Ignorance filter circumvented.
GTFO, first RTFA then RTFM and then STFU.
Smart people need to use acronyms, it's like learning. Complex things just can't be properly conveyed by repeating the same way too long expression over and over again. If you leave them out you confuse things.
At least I can rest assured that you'll never work at the UN, WTO, BMW, DMV, KBR or NASA.
Shut up you M$ Fanboy.
apple sucks.
if Justin Long and Steve Jobs ever met face-to-face their combined gayness would cause the earth to explode.
You mean the most retarded part.
The interface is for mouth-breathing plebes.
The design amounts to shiny, solid colors, and horrible build quality.
Hogwash. The Internet was invented in October 1969 if you take ARPANet's going live into account, or 1983 if you want to consider the cutover to TCP/IP the birth date of the Internet. Considering that the basic infrastructure was the same and it was merely a cutover to a new protocol, I'd consider the ARPANet to be the birth of the Internet. In any case, 1979 does not predate 1969 at all, and if you want to consider the cutover to TCP/IP to be the birth of the Internet (sorry, it doesn't; internet email predates TCP/IP), 1979 is not "many" years prior to 1983.
What a crappy sensationalist rag. By their logic, I'd consider Tracy Dick to be the origin of the cellphone because he had a wrist telephone back in what, the 1930s? (1931; I just googled to verify). Also, what about wireless sound/data gadgets in Star Trek or even buck rogers? Both predate that "ipod" drawing by more than a decade (in the case of Buck Rogers, it's many decades).
A doodle != an invention, IMHO. If it is, then the time machine has already been invented, along with interstellar spacecraft and death stars.
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
FTA: He is currently working on a new device which will record telephone calls and send the audio file via email.
My VOIP already does this. I check my voicemail by playing .wav email attachments.
War as we knew it was obsolete
Nothing could beat complete denial
- Emily Haines
Tens of thousands of years ago pre-ice age man invented the first iPod when he remembered the very first song and was able to play it back on his iBrain+iMemory+iVoiceBox, aka the first iPod. In addition to being the first singer he was the first song writer. At the time it was an Earth Shattering event and it spread fast and far beyond his pod. Of course all was not well since the iMemory wasn't perfect to say the least. The iVoiceBox also wasn't so good. Man would evolve and get the full iBrain + iMemory + iVoiceBox upgrades that were needed for the likes of Prince and Michael only to be obsoleted by the Apple iPod! What's next? iPod inBrain!
imagine all the things Gene Roddenberry (startrek) could have "patented". Flat panel monitors, PDAs, hand held electronic devices in general, cellphones, wireless communication, Hypospray/sonoprep, telepresense/net conferencing, voice recognition... its good his patent expired. such patents are a bit absurd.