Do you think that it's only Apple and Microsoft? There are lots of big companies with the same idea.
Yet fanboys and companies themselves cry bloody murder, when their favourite company gets sued by a patent troll using the same "infrastructure" that the big players spend billions to maintain and enlarge...
FRAND != patent pool. Those are totally different things.
Since 3G patents aren't actually in a pool, Apple owns no such thing. Remember the issue with Nokia? Same thing.
Big problem with Microsoft is that XBox360 does not correlate with Microsoft in ordinary people's minds. PlayStation always reminds people of Sony. Mac reminds people of Apple. XBox, not so much. But maybe that is a good thing for XBox. Maybe Microsoft has to rename itself to XBox to have more appeal.
Did that statement make you fanboyish heart bleed? Bribe implies immoral or corrupt behaviour, it even may be legal. For example, it's not criminal to bribe the matradee yet it's considered unethical.
There is design and ornamental elements that make the design unique. Apple has made a lot of effort in removing most of ornamental design features, for which the design patents were created. Not to say that iPad doesn't have ornamental design features, because it does, but they are subtle and Galaxy Tab(in it's design) does have a different design in those areas. 2 main elements of the ornamental design of an iPad2 are the speaker grill and the sharp edges. Everything else is pretty much a blank piece of Al/glass.
FYI: Apple has sued Moto for XOOM in Germany on the same grounds as Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Dutch judge has specifically noted that the lack of distinct features of iPad can't be held against Galaxy Tab.
I do believe that Samsung has to be slapped for imitating iOS too much, however Galaxy Tab has only the flat front panel in common with the iPad. Packaging is a different matter though.
PS: The lawyers must be blind if they didn't notice the button on the iPad at 10ft.....
The irony, is that all tablets will be infringing then. I mean, the Touchpad looks almost identical at 10ft. A win for Apple solely on the clean looks will be a loss for everyone.
People that try to create something for someone else's benefit usually screw up. Physicists and EE usually create the most down to earth tools, because they do most down to earth development. Mathematicians are crazy bastards and computer scientists should be shot. I mean it in the most respectful way possible - computer scientists(academics) should not be creating actual tools for engineers.
Let's begin at the beginning. C# and.NET 1.0 were blatant ripoffs of Java. Libraries to VM. Just look at Hello World to see that C# was created as a direct copy of Java. I mean "public static void Main(string[] args)" vs "public static void main(String[] args)". How many more languages have the same entry point method name?
Today is quite a bit different, but the fist release was a copy of Java with some features added.
Since I actually developed a lot in Delphi, I don't really know what Pascaly or Delphiesque you see in.NET/C#...
which means, in other words, that while they remain "logical", they can't comprehend us.
As long as they don't have species preservation logic, we're OK. All of our emotions and logic is based strictly on species preservation and expansion.
Sorry, but ALGOL is just as awful as Pascal for an engineer. It's a freaking language developed by academics for developers. C on the other hand was the language by developers for developers. Obviously academics chose what's best for them, thus Pascal still survives...
Go read The Paradox of Choice. And it's exactly Jobs' marketing style. But, hey! Do continue to think that Jobs listened to people much and marketing is PR. What the fuck do I care.
They make money off tracking you and your activity, so why should they make it easy? Remember, that Google is nothing compared to Facebook on privacy and personal tracking. There is no advertising profile editing page on Facebook, like Google provides. Opt out of Facebook? Are you kidding? If you ask me, Facebook is the limit I am ready to give up my provacy. I atleaast have a clue what Google knows about me. I have no idea what Facebook knows about me. Thank god, that I can demand all info on me from Facebook or they could have some serious issues in their European operations.
The brilliance of Steve Jobs is that he gave people exactly what they wanted. The product simply can't be a scam when the public specifically asked for it.
Nope. Jobs gave the people what Jobs wanted and nothing more. He is most known for not listening what the public wants.
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Do you think that it's only Apple and Microsoft? There are lots of big companies with the same idea.
Yet fanboys and companies themselves cry bloody murder, when their favourite company gets sued by a patent troll using the same "infrastructure" that the big players spend billions to maintain and enlarge...
FRAND != patent pool. Those are totally different things.
Since 3G patents aren't actually in a pool, Apple owns no such thing. Remember the issue with Nokia? Same thing.
Big problem with Microsoft is that XBox360 does not correlate with Microsoft in ordinary people's minds. PlayStation always reminds people of Sony. Mac reminds people of Apple. XBox, not so much. But maybe that is a good thing for XBox. Maybe Microsoft has to rename itself to XBox to have more appeal.
Ahem... XBox? Their softwarez?
My 14" ThinkPad fits in most hotel room safes. My W500, however barely fit into any. I bet 17" MacBook Pro will not fit anywhere, though.
Did that statement make you fanboyish heart bleed? Bribe implies immoral or corrupt behaviour, it even may be legal. For example, it's not criminal to bribe the matradee yet it's considered unethical.
Pass by reference was added from C.
objects are manipulated by value
C# does that?
There is a clear issue of lack of requirement for distinct ornamental design features.
There is design and ornamental elements that make the design unique. Apple has made a lot of effort in removing most of ornamental design features, for which the design patents were created. Not to say that iPad doesn't have ornamental design features, because it does, but they are subtle and Galaxy Tab(in it's design) does have a different design in those areas. 2 main elements of the ornamental design of an iPad2 are the speaker grill and the sharp edges. Everything else is pretty much a blank piece of Al/glass.
If you consider Jobs as the best, then newsflash - he wasn't in it for the moneyz!
FYI: Apple has sued Moto for XOOM in Germany on the same grounds as Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Dutch judge has specifically noted that the lack of distinct features of iPad can't be held against Galaxy Tab.
I do believe that Samsung has to be slapped for imitating iOS too much, however Galaxy Tab has only the flat front panel in common with the iPad. Packaging is a different matter though.
PS: The lawyers must be blind if they didn't notice the button on the iPad at 10ft.....
The irony, is that all tablets will be infringing then. I mean, the Touchpad looks almost identical at 10ft. A win for Apple solely on the clean looks will be a loss for everyone.
Free Speech Office Suite, as the next logical step from potentially trademark violating Free Word Suite.
Ahem... PASCAL?
People that try to create something for someone else's benefit usually screw up. Physicists and EE usually create the most down to earth tools, because they do most down to earth development. Mathematicians are crazy bastards and computer scientists should be shot. I mean it in the most respectful way possible - computer scientists(academics) should not be creating actual tools for engineers.
+10000 to the .NET dev. Community is everything in Java world and .NET can benefit from the same community also.
Let's begin at the beginning. C# and .NET 1.0 were blatant ripoffs of Java. Libraries to VM. Just look at Hello World to see that C# was created as a direct copy of Java. I mean "public static void Main(string[] args)" vs "public static void main(String[] args)". How many more languages have the same entry point method name? .NET/C#...
Today is quite a bit different, but the fist release was a copy of Java with some features added.
Since I actually developed a lot in Delphi, I don't really know what Pascaly or Delphiesque you see in
which means, in other words, that while they remain "logical", they can't comprehend us.
As long as they don't have species preservation logic, we're OK. All of our emotions and logic is based strictly on species preservation and expansion.
Sorry, but ALGOL is just as awful as Pascal for an engineer. It's a freaking language developed by academics for developers. C on the other hand was the language by developers for developers. Obviously academics chose what's best for them, thus Pascal still survives...
In other words, your statement just stinks of medieval thinking - when people cared a lot about self-sufficiency.
Go read The Paradox of Choice. And it's exactly Jobs' marketing style. But, hey! Do continue to think that Jobs listened to people much and marketing is PR. What the fuck do I care.
They make money off tracking you and your activity, so why should they make it easy? Remember, that Google is nothing compared to Facebook on privacy and personal tracking. There is no advertising profile editing page on Facebook, like Google provides. Opt out of Facebook? Are you kidding? If you ask me, Facebook is the limit I am ready to give up my provacy. I atleaast have a clue what Google knows about me. I have no idea what Facebook knows about me. Thank god, that I can demand all info on me from Facebook or they could have some serious issues in their European operations.
How many active users does Facebook have? 12%? They have 800'000'000 accounts, congratulations... While actual user count is below 200'000'000.
Is that why he made them on his personal page and it took 5 days for them to surface on /. ?
The brilliance of Steve Jobs is that he gave people exactly what they wanted. The product simply can't be a scam when the public specifically asked for it.
Nope. Jobs gave the people what Jobs wanted and nothing more. He is most known for not listening what the public wants.