This article seems like pure FUD. I know we all here hate the patent system, but doesn't every patent becomes "obvious" once someone invented it?
Of course, once someone shows an invention to the world, there's no the know-how to re-produce the thing.
On top of that, there's this Apple co-founder complaining about MS suing everyone, when Apple has been suing around all this past months. This is just an attempt to make Apple look like "good guys" and keep throwing the dirty water on MS.
Just because it doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't mean it won't appeal to the rest of the users. I switched to the Netbook remix when it came out, even though I didn't put it on a netbook, and I liked the way it felt and having everything on my desktop permanently. Some people for example enjoy having a desktop wallpaper that never see because it's always in the background, but they just complain because they can't put a background
Now, if you were to ask me if I ever had a problem with Ubuntu, I've only had a problem once when I was trying to install it on a G5 PowerPC. Other than that, 3G modems, WiFi, Video Cards (always a pain in the ***) and handling multiple displays work perfectly, which, for a new user is perhaps enough for their needs. I sincerely don't know why people is complaining about the direction Ubuntu is taking, and I just assume is people that don't want to be moved from their comfort zone and are used to the same thing (just like many people are stuck with Windows XP and don't want to move to Vista or 7 or anything else).
I like it, and it works. Isn't that what people want from an OS?
I don't know what the linked article says, but a quick Google search returned this page
It says that Samsung manufactures an Apple designed processor, and Intel may start a business of manufacturing non-Intel designed processors. So, at this point is very simple: Apple can take advantage of the manufacturing process of Intel to mass produce their own processors. I.e. none of your options.
Also, in my culture, you know that serving at a fast food chain or working as a barman doesn't give you as much income, stability and options to keep going with your life. Which means that you should probably make a decision sooner rather than later. I see in the US you can make a living an support a whole family out of serving tables and for many, that's enough and plenty. No matter they have access or not to college. Then again, as I said, prices should be controlled to more realistic^H^H affordable ones, because in the US the cost of health, litigation and education is in the roof.
That doesn't mean people HAVE to do it. My point is merely encouraging in some way, people to go to careers with lower demand to spread apart people in search for jobs. Now, it's also their job to promote and market their programs!
My second comment clarified the issue about "poor remaining poor" and lastly, not understanding something at least in traditional school means that you're not getting good grades. People should jump into programs because 1. they like them and 2. because they are convenient.
For what I've seen in the US, many people just "go to school" and wait for the major to figure out itself. Some others jump with passion because they like it (even though their hopes of getting a full time job afterwards is very unlikely).
In my culture, university programs are very focused in the material related to your program (i.e. you don't have to have minors, take history or english classes if you're in a math program). That makes the student to analyze a bit better their options before starting. If at some point you want to change your program, it will cost you in both money and time. So you, as a high school graduate want to make a good choice.
I haven't RTFA but the summary says the data is not linked to anything. Contrary to Apple devices that require you to use iTunes to buy stuff from their store, synchronize, backup and/or update and such is linked to your name.
I quite don't see the usefulness of the whole data gathered by the iPhone. TomTom actually has an important application: Traffic patterns/jams and information delivered to users (Go figure if Google isn't actually using it already for their traffic updates).
I see TomTom strategy as the easiest way to provide information about traffic conditions, if done properly.
I want to clarify, that this needs to be somewhat regulated to avoid high income families going into high income careers (but that would imply also forced choices).
It should be significantly cheaper to get a degree in a field where their is demand
I'll go with the other way around. If there's demand, means that more people would go, so they should charge actually more. With this behavior you achieve:
1. You (as university) get more money out of all the people wanting to get a degree in the same thing.
2. You help students make up their mind about what they want based on their economical capabilities (I know this is perhaps not good, but many undergrads I've known in the US reach 3rd year without knowing what they want)
3. Hopefully, more focused careers. People are allowed to take only classes within certain range and so Engineering students don't need/have to take Music History or the sort.
4. Hopefully: Job Market: Universities contribute to spread people around careers instead of having a bunch of people getting business degrees (and wanting to be CEOs/Managers out of school), some may actually get an engineering one.
5. Same as before, this may actually trigger more people jumping into quantum physics if the lower demand and prices altogether are lower.
Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not from the US and the system used where I come from seems to be based on demand and post-graduation average income (high demand/income like health-medical/law related is very expensive, low demand/high income like engineering is middle priced, low demand/low income like some philosophy/history is low priced).
Well, someone needs to set a precedent that some large corporations are abusing the system. Seems to me a first step to provide insight about the need of a reform. Fighting small patent trolls is not going to make it.
while I see this as a desperate attempt from B&N, they may also have a point. Besides, what is it exclusive to B&N that MS is attacking, that is not in any other reader, including the iPad?
Well, I'm thinking the same way EAP/TTLS PAP does. You can either send passwords hashed but then you have to have them in the clear at the server, or you can send them in the clear and perform the hashing in the server.
Provided that you have a secured tunnel, transmitting passwords "in the clear" and perform the hashing in the server works almost like https.
Mmm.. it's not a locker. It's a sync service. I used long time ago, but just checking I think it's called Windows Live Mesh.
When I used it, you had some online storage that you could sync, or you could leave your computer on, and remotely access it through your account. That is, you could have your files in their servers or on your computer and they would help you to remotely access them (which was particularly useful also to connect to computers connected to the internet through ISPs doing NAT).
Anyway, yes that service has been around already commercially available besides what a geek could attempt on their side.
No, 1.5Gbps is data transfer speed. Binary data transfer speed. You normally measure bandwidth in Hz. You can use a lot of bandwidth to inefficiently transmit 1.5 Gbits per second. Or you can efficiently use your bandwidth to to transmit 1.5Gbps in under 1GHz or 1MHz or what ever. I think it's you the one who has it wrong.
It also appears to be downloaded to your computer everytime you synchronize your phone with your computer. While I see some need on the carriers to know the cell tower people is near to (and of course not necessarily saving/holding information about your patterns), I don't see the need of having a log of your whereabouts and sync those with your computer.
Yes, but shouldn't this behavior be an "opt-in" rather than an "opt-out" type?
I know it can bring great features such as recovering your stolen phone. But that doesn't mean your phone should be tracking that information and storing it anywhere.
Laptops are and have been more popular than any other mobile devices. They are also more powerful. Why jumping to write this application for iOS or any other cellphone where you know the lack of a light source is very random.
Go ahead and modify a logitech or other webcam with your own light sources IR, laser, LED, whatever and sell your company to them or start the competition.
A "phone app" seems just nor appropriate for the job, just hype.
Hey, perhaps WM never worked for you, as you expectations were different. I switched from mi HTC wizard to an iPhone, and I gained lots of applications, but I started losing calls. As a phone WM worked well and with a fairly powerful browser it gave me what I needed, and its processor speed was less than 200Mhz. I never recovered from that. And eventually has to switch to a 1Ghz android. Now... As time passes I realize that for the actual processing power, WM5 worked quite well.
Please mod parent up too! If carriers and manufacturers don't upgrade we don't get the benefits of simple bug fixes. My samsung captivate recently started to produce cracks and pops when I'm on a phone call. I thought it was the headset, but it seems to be doing this in many calls, which lead me to believe there may be a codec issue.
But then again, since Samsung and ATT don't let updates flow, the quality of their products and the brand just go to the floor. I'm considering not buying Samsung anymore. My gf's HTC hasn't had a single issue. (Then again, through ATT and not much support).
And wouldn't the Newton itself be prior art (but in B&W)? I mean is a "device with a screen larger than a phone one, which uses touch gestures as an input"
What made the iPad a different tablet? I don't know, the lack of a stylus?
If we can stop all illegal firesharing, we can save up to $13 trillion a year in damages!! That's several times more than the technology market makes in a year!
Yes! And this money is going to feed many people! mmm... At least, as many as the singer/artist wants to donate.
None? I sort of hate this kind of thinking. Why did we let them do that. I'm just going to ask for a fairly good solution. Because this is going out of hands already with their "unlimited capped Internet" that makes no sense. What's next? a 1Gbps service that sends you to random places and doesn't let you even pick your URL? (Yes, that's probably coming soon, the type of hijacking of "hey I noticed you wanted to go to Slashdot. We thought you wanted instead to go to Gizmodo. Here it is!" or "You wanted to read AlJazeera, but we thought Fox News is a better source!" )
Just like your bloated new computer from various vendors: "If you want it cheap and better, you'll get what ever the heck we want to put on it".
Sincerely. I think is ridiculous, it makes no sense. But honestly, I have no idea where to start looking for solutions.
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This article seems like pure FUD. I know we all here hate the patent system, but doesn't every patent becomes "obvious" once someone invented it?
Of course, once someone shows an invention to the world, there's no the know-how to re-produce the thing.
On top of that, there's this Apple co-founder complaining about MS suing everyone, when Apple has been suing around all this past months. This is just an attempt to make Apple look like "good guys" and keep throwing the dirty water on MS.
Just because it doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't mean it won't appeal to the rest of the users. I switched to the Netbook remix when it came out, even though I didn't put it on a netbook, and I liked the way it felt and having everything on my desktop permanently. Some people for example enjoy having a desktop wallpaper that never see because it's always in the background, but they just complain because they can't put a background
Now, if you were to ask me if I ever had a problem with Ubuntu, I've only had a problem once when I was trying to install it on a G5 PowerPC. Other than that, 3G modems, WiFi, Video Cards (always a pain in the ***) and handling multiple displays work perfectly, which, for a new user is perhaps enough for their needs. I sincerely don't know why people is complaining about the direction Ubuntu is taking, and I just assume is people that don't want to be moved from their comfort zone and are used to the same thing (just like many people are stuck with Windows XP and don't want to move to Vista or 7 or anything else).
I like it, and it works. Isn't that what people want from an OS?
I don't know what the linked article says, but a quick Google search returned this page
It says that Samsung manufactures an Apple designed processor, and Intel may start a business of manufacturing non-Intel designed processors. So, at this point is very simple: Apple can take advantage of the manufacturing process of Intel to mass produce their own processors. I.e. none of your options.
In the US this case would be laughed out of court.
You're talking non-sense. Judge Judy would have taken this case very seriously.
Also, in my culture, you know that serving at a fast food chain or working as a barman doesn't give you as much income, stability and options to keep going with your life. Which means that you should probably make a decision sooner rather than later. I see in the US you can make a living an support a whole family out of serving tables and for many, that's enough and plenty. No matter they have access or not to college. Then again, as I said, prices should be controlled to more realistic^H^H affordable ones, because in the US the cost of health, litigation and education is in the roof.
That doesn't mean people HAVE to do it. My point is merely encouraging in some way, people to go to careers with lower demand to spread apart people in search for jobs. Now, it's also their job to promote and market their programs!
My second comment clarified the issue about "poor remaining poor" and lastly, not understanding something at least in traditional school means that you're not getting good grades. People should jump into programs because 1. they like them and 2. because they are convenient.
For what I've seen in the US, many people just "go to school" and wait for the major to figure out itself. Some others jump with passion because they like it (even though their hopes of getting a full time job afterwards is very unlikely).
In my culture, university programs are very focused in the material related to your program (i.e. you don't have to have minors, take history or english classes if you're in a math program). That makes the student to analyze a bit better their options before starting. If at some point you want to change your program, it will cost you in both money and time. So you, as a high school graduate want to make a good choice.
What article? The link seems to be pointing to a 403 Error page. At least to me.
I haven't RTFA but the summary says the data is not linked to anything. Contrary to Apple devices that require you to use iTunes to buy stuff from their store, synchronize, backup and/or update and such is linked to your name.
I quite don't see the usefulness of the whole data gathered by the iPhone. TomTom actually has an important application: Traffic patterns/jams and information delivered to users (Go figure if Google isn't actually using it already for their traffic updates).
I see TomTom strategy as the easiest way to provide information about traffic conditions, if done properly.
I want to clarify, that this needs to be somewhat regulated to avoid high income families going into high income careers (but that would imply also forced choices).
It should be significantly cheaper to get a degree in a field where their is demand
I'll go with the other way around. If there's demand, means that more people would go, so they should charge actually more. With this behavior you achieve:
1. You (as university) get more money out of all the people wanting to get a degree in the same thing.
2. You help students make up their mind about what they want based on their economical capabilities (I know this is perhaps not good, but many undergrads I've known in the US reach 3rd year without knowing what they want)
3. Hopefully, more focused careers. People are allowed to take only classes within certain range and so Engineering students don't need/have to take Music History or the sort.
4. Hopefully: Job Market: Universities contribute to spread people around careers instead of having a bunch of people getting business degrees (and wanting to be CEOs/Managers out of school), some may actually get an engineering one.
5. Same as before, this may actually trigger more people jumping into quantum physics if the lower demand and prices altogether are lower.
Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not from the US and the system used where I come from seems to be based on demand and post-graduation average income (high demand/income like health-medical/law related is very expensive, low demand/high income like engineering is middle priced, low demand/low income like some philosophy/history is low priced).
Well, someone needs to set a precedent that some large corporations are abusing the system. Seems to me a first step to provide insight about the need of a reform. Fighting small patent trolls is not going to make it.
while I see this as a desperate attempt from B&N, they may also have a point. Besides, what is it exclusive to B&N that MS is attacking, that is not in any other reader, including the iPad?
Well, I'm thinking the same way EAP/TTLS PAP does. You can either send passwords hashed but then you have to have them in the clear at the server, or you can send them in the clear and perform the hashing in the server.
Provided that you have a secured tunnel, transmitting passwords "in the clear" and perform the hashing in the server works almost like https.
If you don't agree, you can't use your phone... or get any updates Thank you.
I gave up on the iPhone also for this attitude when it comes to them updating their devices.
Mmm.. it's not a locker. It's a sync service. I used long time ago, but just checking I think it's called Windows Live Mesh.
When I used it, you had some online storage that you could sync, or you could leave your computer on, and remotely access it through your account. That is, you could have your files in their servers or on your computer and they would help you to remotely access them (which was particularly useful also to connect to computers connected to the internet through ISPs doing NAT).
Anyway, yes that service has been around already commercially available besides what a geek could attempt on their side.
Well, Microsoft launched their online drives that you were able to mount on any computer and synchronize among all your devices to keep local copies.
That was sometime ago that I tried, I think that what they now call skydrive (and you see product placement all over the tv series).
So the only difference is that this is Apple, and this is limited to music... for now.
No, 1.5Gbps is data transfer speed. Binary data transfer speed. You normally measure bandwidth in Hz. You can use a lot of bandwidth to inefficiently transmit 1.5 Gbits per second. Or you can efficiently use your bandwidth to to transmit 1.5Gbps in under 1GHz or 1MHz or what ever. I think it's you the one who has it wrong.
It also appears to be downloaded to your computer everytime you synchronize your phone with your computer. While I see some need on the carriers to know the cell tower people is near to (and of course not necessarily saving/holding information about your patterns), I don't see the need of having a log of your whereabouts and sync those with your computer.
Yes, but shouldn't this behavior be an "opt-in" rather than an "opt-out" type?
I know it can bring great features such as recovering your stolen phone. But that doesn't mean your phone should be tracking that information and storing it anywhere.
Laptops are and have been more popular than any other mobile devices. They are also more powerful. Why jumping to write this application for iOS or any other cellphone where you know the lack of a light source is very random.
Go ahead and modify a logitech or other webcam with your own light sources IR, laser, LED, whatever and sell your company to them or start the competition.
A "phone app" seems just nor appropriate for the job, just hype.
Hey, perhaps WM never worked for you, as you expectations were different. I switched from mi HTC wizard to an iPhone, and I gained lots of applications, but I started losing calls. As a phone WM worked well and with a fairly powerful browser it gave me what I needed, and its processor speed was less than 200Mhz. I never recovered from that. And eventually has to switch to a 1Ghz android. Now... As time passes I realize that for the actual processing power, WM5 worked quite well.
Please mod parent up too! If carriers and manufacturers don't upgrade we don't get the benefits of simple bug fixes. My samsung captivate recently started to produce cracks and pops when I'm on a phone call. I thought it was the headset, but it seems to be doing this in many calls, which lead me to believe there may be a codec issue.
But then again, since Samsung and ATT don't let updates flow, the quality of their products and the brand just go to the floor. I'm considering not buying Samsung anymore. My gf's HTC hasn't had a single issue. (Then again, through ATT and not much support).
Dude, try to smoke or inhale it... And boom, you're death
And wouldn't the Newton itself be prior art (but in B&W)? I mean is a "device with a screen larger than a phone one, which uses touch gestures as an input"
What made the iPad a different tablet? I don't know, the lack of a stylus?
If we can stop all illegal firesharing, we can save up to $13 trillion a year in damages!! That's several times more than the technology market makes in a year!
Yes! And this money is going to feed many people! mmm... At least, as many as the singer/artist wants to donate.
so which system is better?
None? I sort of hate this kind of thinking. Why did we let them do that. I'm just going to ask for a fairly good solution. Because this is going out of hands already with their "unlimited capped Internet" that makes no sense. What's next? a 1Gbps service that sends you to random places and doesn't let you even pick your URL? (Yes, that's probably coming soon, the type of hijacking of "hey I noticed you wanted to go to Slashdot. We thought you wanted instead to go to Gizmodo. Here it is!" or "You wanted to read AlJazeera, but we thought Fox News is a better source!" )
Just like your bloated new computer from various vendors: "If you want it cheap and better, you'll get what ever the heck we want to put on it".
Sincerely. I think is ridiculous, it makes no sense. But honestly, I have no idea where to start looking for solutions.