"3d glasses have seen a resurgence in sales recently as 3-dimensional rendering in graphics programs becomes utilitarian and accessible to the masses. Says one 3-d reader, "It's like watching those movies back in the 80's all over again! I love it!' "
On a more serious note, I would be interested in seeing how the vectoring works on stuff like this as Photoshop is the gold standard upon which vectoring is based, so if there are improvements to be made in the algorithmic calculations - design could become even more amazing as a field of study!
So now developers should gamble their knowledge and skills at this in hopes of the payoff and publicity instead of getting a contract for 1/100th of that to accomplish the same objective over likely the same time frame? Hmmm....let me consider that one for a while...
Apple, in my opinion, is shooting itself in the foot here. Regardless of the legal rationale and basis, another company's use of a derivation of "pod" for it's own product will not harm them in any way - in fact quite the opposite.
Furthermore, I seem to remember a few new words that hit the official Webster dictionary this past year, with podcast being one of them. Once words become part of the public domain like that, doesn't fair use kick in?
If I correctly follow their logic here, the Pod is unique to the iPod that they coined. Does that mean they will also want to own the word "Life"? Last time I checked, common words cannot be owned. Sure, I can't use Coca Cola in my own materials, but if I want to, soda should be fair game. Isn't there also something called "fair use"?
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"3d glasses have seen a resurgence in sales recently as 3-dimensional rendering in graphics programs becomes utilitarian and accessible to the masses. Says one 3-d reader, "It's like watching those movies back in the 80's all over again! I love it!' " On a more serious note, I would be interested in seeing how the vectoring works on stuff like this as Photoshop is the gold standard upon which vectoring is based, so if there are improvements to be made in the algorithmic calculations - design could become even more amazing as a field of study!
So now developers should gamble their knowledge and skills at this in hopes of the payoff and publicity instead of getting a contract for 1/100th of that to accomplish the same objective over likely the same time frame? Hmmm....let me consider that one for a while...
Apple, in my opinion, is shooting itself in the foot here. Regardless of the legal rationale and basis, another company's use of a derivation of "pod" for it's own product will not harm them in any way - in fact quite the opposite. Furthermore, I seem to remember a few new words that hit the official Webster dictionary this past year, with podcast being one of them. Once words become part of the public domain like that, doesn't fair use kick in?
If I correctly follow their logic here, the Pod is unique to the iPod that they coined. Does that mean they will also want to own the word "Life"? Last time I checked, common words cannot be owned. Sure, I can't use Coca Cola in my own materials, but if I want to, soda should be fair game. Isn't there also something called "fair use"?