The Prada was announced in December 2006...Also, the Prada was in the stores by February, whereas the iPhone hit the stores in the end of June, four months later. (Not that it matters, since as people pointed out to me, that quote wasn't actually really a quote...)
"Apple reinvented the mobile phone in 2007 with its revolutionary iPhone®, and did it again in 2008 with its pioneering App Store, which now offers more than 150,000 mobile applications in over 90 countries. Over 40 million iPhones have been sold worldwide.
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "We would like other companies to compete by re-reinventing their own phones, not stealing ideas like a screen you can touch or a program you can download for local use. These innovations are clearly thanks to us."
Yes, this phenomenon is known as Reality Distortion Field (or to use technical jargon, "lying scumbag executive").
A program you can download on your phone for local use? You mean like JavaME JAR files? Like the app store that GetJar started years and years before Apple?
A screen you can touch? Like the LG Prada, announced before the IPhone, or like hundreds of other touchscreen kiosks in the last three decades?
Yup. Apple. Re-inventing marketing.
Uh, you realize that Jobs's 'quote' above wasn't real, right?
No I didn't, though I knew the parent was being sarcastic... To my defense: reading through the actual complaint, he might as well have said that: Half of the claimed patents are about displaying documents on touchscreens, most others are such gems as "Conserving power by reducing voltage supplied to an instruction-processing portion of a processor"... Pointing out prior art and obviousness is left to some other humour-impaired slashdotter.
"Apple reinvented the mobile phone in 2007 with its revolutionary iPhone®, and did it again in 2008 with its pioneering App Store, which now offers more than 150,000 mobile applications in over 90 countries. Over 40 million iPhones have been sold worldwide.
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "We would like other companies to compete by re-reinventing their own phones, not stealing ideas like a screen you can touch or a program you can download for local use. These innovations are clearly thanks to us."
Yes, this phenomenon is known as Reality Distortion Field (or to use technical jargon, "lying scumbag executive").
A program you can download on your phone for local use? You mean like JavaME JAR files? Like the app store that GetJar started years and years before Apple?
A screen you can touch? Like the LG Prada, announced before the IPhone, or like hundreds of other touchscreen kiosks in the last three decades?
- The company is not public, so it's pointless to ask for filings -- their investors are pros and presumably know what they are doing. If/when they do an IPO, there will be filings too.
- The tech in CIGS is proven (not just by Nanosolar but by other big players who have to be more public such as First Solar), so allegiations of vaporware ring hollow.
- There are photos and journalist reports of the new German panel factory itself, and those 640MWpeak/year will be going somewhere...
I edit wikipedia occasionally, and one thing I remove is unmotivated links to companies, or unnecessary mentioning of specific products. So yes, I consider it a case of vandalism. Since my edits are usually (always?) kept, I think most people agree. There is probably some policy about it, but I act on common sense there.
The policy is on the page Wikipedia:Spam, quite logically. It's probably one of the oldest official polices, given that it was already needed back in 2003...
Trademarks which have lost their legal protection in the US due to a lack of zealous lawyering include "aspirin," originally a trademark of Bayer AG [snip]
The Aspirin case at least has nothing to do with genericised trademarks, but with victor's justice in the First World War. From Wikipedia's article on Aspirin:
As part of war reparations specified in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles following Germany's surrender after World War I, Aspirin (along with Heroin) lost its status as a registered trademark in France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where it became a generic name and can be spelled in lower case.
So, an interesting development, but no big breakthrough. There's a claim that it might be a cheaper way to make solar cells, but everybody who comes up with a new design makes that claim. (Nanosolar comes to mind; their technology is supposed to be cheaper, but so far they've spent half a billion dollars and apparently have only produced sample panels.)
From Nanosolar's website, it sounds like they've been shipping panels commercially for the last two years, and that they have panel assemblies in both the US and Germany...
Do you know any other language other than American English? Didn't think so.
In German, for instance, "Amerika" actually means the whole continent, and USA citizens are called "US-Amerikaner". Similarly, in Spanish (especially the American kind), people from the US are "estadounidense" or "norteamericano", not just "americano"...
Compared to modern times, yes, they were. Battles where 500 men participated were considered huge.
Bullshit. Even in Roman times a legion had 5-6000 men, and a handful of them were deployed at once. In the middle ages a decent-sized army had more than 20,000 people - the Ottoman army that conquered eastern Europe in the 1500s and laid siege to Vienna consisted of more than 120,000 people, and there were a number of battles with 50,000+ people on each side, both on land and water (e.g. Mohács or Lepanto).
Sure, the rulers didn't have the finance or logistics (or the sheer population for that matter) for million-man battles like Stalingrad, but 500 is preposterous...
I tried to look up the sources you cited. As far as I could see, none of them contained scientific studies or experimental evidence. They are "proposing models" of behavior (without trying to falsify them), or just spinning some literary narrative about catharsis based on spotty anecdotes. (I.e. your "rejected by science" claim is BS as far as I can see.)
I don't know whether the hydraulic theory has any more evidence to support it, but I think the onus of evidence is on those psychologists who want to jail people based on their urges rather than their crimes...
Does this mean kids learn better from virtual sim's than from real people? Or that virtual teachers are better than poorly trained teachers?
I think it just means that kids learn better (a) by doing things themselves and (b) by learning through a medium that keeps their attention engaged. Virtual "teachers" (as in ex-cathedra frontal teaching) are probably not even better than their real-world counterparts.
But building in the necessity of applying knowledge in order to "win" is easier in virtual simulation -- although there are real-world ways of doing it: those famous engineering school competitions where you have to drop eggs from building roofs, or building in actual classroom debates into history/citizenship/language classes etc.
Typically what is happening in one of these situations where some certain politician has one of these "epiphanies" is that he just wants to change his position on something because he has decided that it will benefit him. He makes out like he's been misinformed and has discovered the light. By implying that the opposing side is an unjust position, he's making a persuasive argument for people to support his position.
You know what's the mistake with your argument? Ralph Lucas is not an electioneering politician and does not need to be. He is a hereditary peer for life.
That means more customers for Nintendo and Blizzard Entertainment / Activision then...
You are really using Blizzard as an example of a non-pay for multiplayer company?
Well, they do have the most popular non-pay multiplayer service in town... Don't tell me you never played Diablo 2 or Starcraft on Battle.net -- and with the release of D3 and SC2, free Battle.net could well become more popular than WoW again...
I'm sure someone will prove me wrong, showing that it only takes the 10 minutes to get to Stansted and 1.5 days to Heathrow, but the above is my personal experience.
Well, if you live right next to Heathrow and 50 miles from Stansted, the results shouldn't surprise you... I live and work in central London, from my experience all five airports are about an hour away using tube/train (Gatwick and City a bit less, Luton and Heathrow a bit more).
"Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level," says Ann Barrett, managing director of the English language proficiency exam at Waterloo University.
AHHHH!!!! It's percent not per cent!!
British English vs. American English. From Wikipedia: In British English, percent is sometimes written as two words (per cent, although percentage and percentile are written as one word). [...] The form "per cent." is still in use as a part of the highly formal language found in certain documents like commercial loan agreements (particularly those subject to, or inspired by, common law), as well as in the Hansard transcripts of British Parliamentary proceedings. While the term has been attributed to Latin per centum, this is a pseudo-Latin construction and the term was likely originally adopted from the French pour cent.
Except, you know, you're not required to pay AT&T anything
...but if you don't pony up the $15 a month, you don't get internet access - unlike the Kindle...
and you CAN read it outside the house,
Have you tried to read and work on a laptop in the sun? I have used both LCDs and e-ink and know the difference.
and the battery life is supposed to be 9-10 hours, so maybe if you read REALLY slow...
Which means daily recharging, which means lugging cables and adapters on every trip - unlike the Kindle which fits in my coat pocket and keeps going for a month even if I read a lot...
And webcam? Why the hell would anyone want to run around with a huge ass tablet trying to take pictures of people?
Not photos, skyping.
Who fucking cares what granny wants? Bitch probably doesn't even have a cellphone yet! Granny ain't the target audience here.
I was trying to find a demographic for whom this is not just another gadget, but actually more useful than a netbook or Kindle would be at less than half the price. The ease of use would be great for the Granny demographic. Of course if you put it like that, I see that the real use case is as a hipster status symbol...
"..the FBI, CIA, or NSA does the stuff you were spouting off about.." FTFY.
It is fairly well-known that the NSA has been listening in since 9/11
The CIA/NSA has been listening in since the 70s or even the 60s -- they are not allowed to spy domestically (even if they do), but they are allowed to monitor all cross-border voice and data traffic - and they've been doing so for a long time (just google for Echelon).
As a device that does that, for a similar price point, it kicks the shit out of media readers like the kindle,
Except that in reality it costs about 2 to 3 times as much (plus additional monthly fees to AT&T), has to be recharged after three chapters of a book and is unreadable outside the house...
and it does (frankly) all the crap I'd ever actually use a tablet pc to do.
Yeah, even Granny might want to download the pictures from her digicam to view them on a bigger screen... Oops, no USB host port. Or she might want to video chat over Skype with the grandkids... Oops, no webcam - or USB host port to attach one.
Netbook sales were 33.3M with $11.4B in revenue in 2009, this thing isn't going to put any kind of dent in that.
iPhone sales were 9M in the last three months alone - and that is for a $2000+ TCO device. The iPad is even more of a status symbol than the iPhone, so I wouldn't wonder if it captures 80% of the nongeek market (which is 10x as large as the geek market)...
XP--Nobody actually knows what this stands for, but you can call it Windows 5.1 if that makes you feel better..
You're welcome.
Well, officially it stands for eXPerience, but unofficially it probably evolved from the codeword for the Windows NT codebase that it is based on: XP = Chi Rho = Cairo...
The list of licensees is extensive for H.264. The only Web browsers currently out of the loop are Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and WebKit browsers for Linux that aren't developed by Google. I'd imagine the list of licensees that includes Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, DirecTV, Samsung, Sorenson, LG, Toshiba, Sony, Mitsubishi, HBO, Fuji, Fujitsu, Sandisk, Sun Microsystems, Facebook, etc:
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx
It's rather obvious that Mozilla pushing Ogg/Theora should target Viacom, Time Warner and other content producers before they license H.264.
But it's extremely predictable that the MAFIAA won't mind at all that their files are distributed in a format where only huge corporations can afford to be "gatekeepers". It's a lot easier to get MS, Google, Apple, Adobe and the hardware OEMs around the table to make sure they conform to some draconian closed-source end-to-end DRM scheme once all the small independent open-source software clients are out of the picture.
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A screen you can touch? Like the LG Prada, announced before the IPhone...
I call bullshit. The Prada, and the touchscreen feature, was announced nine days after the iPhone announcement.
The Prada was announced in December 2006...Also, the Prada was in the stores by February, whereas the iPhone hit the stores in the end of June, four months later. (Not that it matters, since as people pointed out to me, that quote wasn't actually really a quote...)
Ahem.
"Apple reinvented the mobile phone in 2007 with its revolutionary iPhone®, and did it again in 2008 with its pioneering App Store, which now offers more than 150,000 mobile applications in over 90 countries. Over 40 million iPhones have been sold worldwide.
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "We would like other companies to compete by re-reinventing their own phones, not stealing ideas like a screen you can touch or a program you can download for local use. These innovations are clearly thanks to us."
Yes, this phenomenon is known as Reality Distortion Field (or to use technical jargon, "lying scumbag executive").
A program you can download on your phone for local use? You mean like JavaME JAR files? Like the app store that GetJar started years and years before Apple?
A screen you can touch? Like the LG Prada, announced before the IPhone, or like hundreds of other touchscreen kiosks in the last three decades?
Yup. Apple. Re-inventing marketing.
Uh, you realize that Jobs's 'quote' above wasn't real, right?
No I didn't, though I knew the parent was being sarcastic... To my defense: reading through the actual complaint, he might as well have said that: Half of the claimed patents are about displaying documents on touchscreens, most others are such gems as "Conserving power by reducing voltage supplied to an instruction-processing portion of a processor"... Pointing out prior art and obviousness is left to some other humour-impaired slashdotter.
Ahem.
"Apple reinvented the mobile phone in 2007 with its revolutionary iPhone®, and did it again in 2008 with its pioneering App Store, which now offers more than 150,000 mobile applications in over 90 countries. Over 40 million iPhones have been sold worldwide.
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "We would like other companies to compete by re-reinventing their own phones, not stealing ideas like a screen you can touch or a program you can download for local use. These innovations are clearly thanks to us."
Yes, this phenomenon is known as Reality Distortion Field (or to use technical jargon, "lying scumbag executive").
A program you can download on your phone for local use? You mean like JavaME JAR files? Like the app store that GetJar started years and years before Apple?
A screen you can touch? Like the LG Prada, announced before the IPhone, or like hundreds of other touchscreen kiosks in the last three decades?
Yup. Apple. Re-inventing marketing.
- The company is not public, so it's pointless to ask for filings -- their investors are pros and presumably know what they are doing. If/when they do an IPO, there will be filings too.
- The tech in CIGS is proven (not just by Nanosolar but by other big players who have to be more public such as First Solar), so allegiations of vaporware ring hollow.
- There are photos and journalist reports of the new German panel factory itself, and those 640MWpeak/year will be going somewhere...
I edit wikipedia occasionally, and one thing I remove is unmotivated links to companies, or unnecessary mentioning of specific products. So yes, I consider it a case of vandalism. Since my edits are usually (always?) kept, I think most people agree. There is probably some policy about it, but I act on common sense there.
The policy is on the page Wikipedia:Spam, quite logically. It's probably one of the oldest official polices, given that it was already needed back in 2003...
Trademarks which have lost their legal protection in the US due to a lack of zealous lawyering include "aspirin," originally a trademark of Bayer AG [snip]
References and more info are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
The Aspirin case at least has nothing to do with genericised trademarks, but with victor's justice in the First World War. From Wikipedia's article on Aspirin:
As part of war reparations specified in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles following Germany's surrender after World War I, Aspirin (along with Heroin) lost its status as a registered trademark in France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where it became a generic name and can be spelled in lower case.
So, an interesting development, but no big breakthrough. There's a claim that it might be a cheaper way to make solar cells, but everybody who comes up with a new design makes that claim. (Nanosolar comes to mind; their technology is supposed to be cheaper, but so far they've spent half a billion dollars and apparently have only produced sample panels.)
From Nanosolar's website, it sounds like they've been shipping panels commercially for the last two years, and that they have panel assemblies in both the US and Germany...
And someone from the Americas is not American.
Do you know any other language other than American English? Didn't think so.
In German, for instance, "Amerika" actually means the whole continent, and USA citizens are called "US-Amerikaner". Similarly, in Spanish (especially the American kind), people from the US are "estadounidense" or "norteamericano", not just "americano"...
Compared to modern times, yes, they were. Battles where 500 men participated were considered huge.
Bullshit. Even in Roman times a legion had 5-6000 men, and a handful of them were deployed at once. In the middle ages a decent-sized army had more than 20,000 people - the Ottoman army that conquered eastern Europe in the 1500s and laid siege to Vienna consisted of more than 120,000 people, and there were a number of battles with 50,000+ people on each side, both on land and water (e.g. Mohács or Lepanto).
Sure, the rulers didn't have the finance or logistics (or the sheer population for that matter) for million-man battles like Stalingrad, but 500 is preposterous...
I don't know whether the hydraulic theory has any more evidence to support it, but I think the onus of evidence is on those psychologists who want to jail people based on their urges rather than their crimes...
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Does this mean kids learn better from virtual sim's than from real people? Or that virtual teachers are better than poorly trained teachers?
I think it just means that kids learn better (a) by doing things themselves and (b) by learning through a medium that keeps their attention engaged. Virtual "teachers" (as in ex-cathedra frontal teaching) are probably not even better than their real-world counterparts.
But building in the necessity of applying knowledge in order to "win" is easier in virtual simulation -- although there are real-world ways of doing it: those famous engineering school competitions where you have to drop eggs from building roofs, or building in actual classroom debates into history/citizenship/language classes etc.
Typically what is happening in one of these situations where some certain politician has one of these "epiphanies" is that he just wants to change his position on something because he has decided that it will benefit him. He makes out like he's been misinformed and has discovered the light. By implying that the opposing side is an unjust position, he's making a persuasive argument for people to support his position.
You know what's the mistake with your argument? Ralph Lucas is not an electioneering politician and does not need to be. He is a hereditary peer for life.
That means more customers for Nintendo and Blizzard Entertainment / Activision then...
You are really using Blizzard as an example of a non-pay for multiplayer company?
Well, they do have the most popular non-pay multiplayer service in town... Don't tell me you never played Diablo 2 or Starcraft on Battle.net -- and with the release of D3 and SC2, free Battle.net could well become more popular than WoW again...
I'm sure someone will prove me wrong, showing that it only takes the 10 minutes to get to Stansted and 1.5 days to Heathrow, but the above is my personal experience.
Well, if you live right next to Heathrow and 50 miles from Stansted, the results shouldn't surprise you... I live and work in central London, from my experience all five airports are about an hour away using tube/train (Gatwick and City a bit less, Luton and Heathrow a bit more).
OK, I can't resist, I'll start us off. From TFA:
AHHHH!!!! It's percent not per cent!!
British English vs. American English. From Wikipedia: In British English, percent is sometimes written as two words (per cent, although percentage and percentile are written as one word). [...] The form "per cent." is still in use as a part of the highly formal language found in certain documents like commercial loan agreements (particularly those subject to, or inspired by, common law), as well as in the Hansard transcripts of British Parliamentary proceedings. While the term has been attributed to Latin per centum, this is a pseudo-Latin construction and the term was likely originally adopted from the French pour cent.
HTML5 video. Or the custom IPhone app.
Of course you missed the tiny adapter that allows you to plug inyour camera via usb or insert the SD card.
Yes I did. It wasn't in TFA (or any other), was it? How much does it cost extra?
Read before whine, it will save you some humiliation.
Flamebaiter. By all means, go ahead and buy it - just spare me the withering fanboy invective before you haven't even used it.
Except, you know, you're not required to pay AT&T anything
...but if you don't pony up the $15 a month, you don't get internet access - unlike the Kindle...
and you CAN read it outside the house,
Have you tried to read and work on a laptop in the sun? I have used both LCDs and e-ink and know the difference.
and the battery life is supposed to be 9-10 hours, so maybe if you read REALLY slow...
Which means daily recharging, which means lugging cables and adapters on every trip - unlike the Kindle which fits in my coat pocket and keeps going for a month even if I read a lot...
And webcam? Why the hell would anyone want to run around with a huge ass tablet trying to take pictures of people?
Not photos, skyping.
Who fucking cares what granny wants? Bitch probably doesn't even have a cellphone yet! Granny ain't the target audience here.
I was trying to find a demographic for whom this is not just another gadget, but actually more useful than a netbook or Kindle would be at less than half the price. The ease of use would be great for the Granny demographic. Of course if you put it like that, I see that the real use case is as a hipster status symbol...
"..the FBI, CIA, or NSA does the stuff you were spouting off about.." FTFY.
It is fairly well-known that the NSA has been listening in since 9/11
The CIA/NSA has been listening in since the 70s or even the 60s -- they are not allowed to spy domestically (even if they do), but they are allowed to monitor all cross-border voice and data traffic - and they've been doing so for a long time (just google for Echelon).
As a device that does that, for a similar price point, it kicks the shit out of media readers like the kindle,
Except that in reality it costs about 2 to 3 times as much (plus additional monthly fees to AT&T), has to be recharged after three chapters of a book and is unreadable outside the house...
and it does (frankly) all the crap I'd ever actually use a tablet pc to do.
Yeah, even Granny might want to download the pictures from her digicam to view them on a bigger screen... Oops, no USB host port. Or she might want to video chat over Skype with the grandkids... Oops, no webcam - or USB host port to attach one.
Netbook sales were 33.3M with $11.4B in revenue in 2009, this thing isn't going to put any kind of dent in that.
iPhone sales were 9M in the last three months alone - and that is for a $2000+ TCO device. The iPad is even more of a status symbol than the iPhone, so I wouldn't wonder if it captures 80% of the nongeek market (which is 10x as large as the geek market)...
XP--Nobody actually knows what this stands for, but you can call it Windows 5.1 if that makes you feel better..
You're welcome.
Well, officially it stands for eXPerience, but unofficially it probably evolved from the codeword for the Windows NT codebase that it is based on: XP = Chi Rho = Cairo...
The list of licensees is extensive for H.264. The only Web browsers currently out of the loop are Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and WebKit browsers for Linux that aren't developed by Google. I'd imagine the list of licensees that includes Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, DirecTV, Samsung, Sorenson, LG, Toshiba, Sony, Mitsubishi, HBO, Fuji, Fujitsu, Sandisk, Sun Microsystems, Facebook, etc: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx It's rather obvious that Mozilla pushing Ogg/Theora should target Viacom, Time Warner and other content producers before they license H.264.
But it's extremely predictable that the MAFIAA won't mind at all that their files are distributed in a format where only huge corporations can afford to be "gatekeepers". It's a lot easier to get MS, Google, Apple, Adobe and the hardware OEMs around the table to make sure they conform to some draconian closed-source end-to-end DRM scheme once all the small independent open-source software clients are out of the picture.
All the areas you want to select are automatically obscured by the very finger(s) that are doing the selecting. How stoooopid is that?
It makes you wonder how Michaelangelo managed to paint so well, what with his brush covering up the painting all the time...
Well, he used a stylus when needed (a fine-tipped paintbrush). There might be a reason why the most famous artworks aren't fingerpainted...