This is the LTE network for 4G... which will give mobile users faster broadband speed than their home broadband!
The current fastest home broadband on copper is 24Mb/s - and cable runs at 50Mb/s... LTE will give 100Mb/s on the move and more if stationary...why exactly do we need this and who is paying ?
Voting machines can never be trusted... unless the manufacturer and everyone who works for them, and everyone at the polling station is unbiased... which they cannot be
A voting machine that prints out, you check and then but in a box in the old fashioned way, stops spoilt papers and unclear intentions, and is easily verified No purely electronic voting machine can be as open and verifiable as this...?
E-voting with a print out as the last option stops spoilt papers (well unless you are using old hanging chad machines) and can speed up counting as there are no longer any unclear choices
E-voting where everything is kept electronically is always suspect, and always open to fraud/hacking etc...
Reporters without borders includes self censorship and financial pressure on journalists, which unfortunately means that in the US where you *can* publish anything, people tend not to publish anything too controversial, or that will lose them money, or that will annoy their sponsors, or that people will sue them over... which means that a lot goes unreported
There are other countries were you cannot publish specific things, but almost anything else is allowed and not discouraged in the same way as it is in the US...
We have the same system in the UK.... All petitions with enough signatures get considered... and the ones they don't agree with get considered and rejected
...But this is more like trying to trademark "4 wheel drive", when you did not invent it and were not the first to use it... it is just the terminology in the industry..and Apple did not invent the phrase, it was around long before they got into mobile phones...
They didn't trademark it... because the term was in common usage then, by all the people working on Multi-Touch, many of whom were referenced in their founder Wayne Westerman's doctoral dissertation
It shows it was the common term in the field and well understood in the field
Everyone in the field who was working on it commonly referred to it as Multi-Touch or Multitouch as a technical term that they assumed would be understood,usage outside the field is not important...
Try and trademark a widely used technical term from any field and see how far you get
Apple bought it from Fingerworks, who based their innovations on the work of Wayne Westerman's doctoral research, his dissertation explicitly references Bill Buxton's work, including this paper where Buxton uses the term Multi-Touch...
This would seem to be a case of this is the common term used in the field, and so not a trademarkable word
They did not invent Multi-Touch, or the phrase, They bought the company that did invent it for mobile devices...but Touch screens were around long before Apple, and Multi-Touch was invented in academia... the first implementation for a mobile device (long after others had used it in other devices) was by Fingerworks who were bought by Apple after they had been making devices with multi-touch for 6 years...
What Innovation did Apple do, they made a popular device incorporating it, and for many people this was the first use of the term... but popularity does not factor in trademarks...
The problem with working on-Line is that that cheating that is just about being kept ahead of in colleges would be unstoppable, you might as well just print the certificate and get the candidate to fill in their name....
The problem is not that the teaching is lower quality, it is that the students don''t need to learn anything to pass... and often many employers regard getting a qualification at college to be a sign that they are a well rounded person because of the college experience, regardless of the actual course they took.. you do not get this working on-line
I remember the PC salesman coming to the college I was at, with the cutting edge latest Windows PC, which they ran Excel on with a load of Whizzy macros to show the speed... and they ran the same one on a new(ish) Mac, at much the same speed, then the Maths Department head came down with his rather old Archimedes and ran up a PC emulator, with Excel and loaded the same macro.... and wiped the floor with both of them...
A machine ahead of it's time, but did not run Windows and was not a Mac and so it died....
It's Object Pascal Only designed to look like Dephi as far as I know - so is difficult to compare (but so was NetBeans originally)
Interesting selection of Propitiatory Corporate backed IDE's
Eclipse - Opensource cross platform NetBeans - Crossplatform Opensource. Was written independently then bought by Sun/Oracle VS - Vastly propitiatory Windows Only
Please come to the UK, where a Computer Science degree means you are a nobody who cannot program, cannot manage, cannot use a PC, cannot do Tech-support but know a lot of theory...and so are basically unemployable until you acquire some real-world skills
This obviously is a title that does not translate...
If your local mechanic cannot design a car (badly but it would work), and your car designer cannot maintain one (again not perfectly due to lack of experience) then you are serious trouble
The site you visit has a link to a Facebook like button, it enquires if you have a facebook account, and when you don't it does not show the button, just like every other Like/share button... now go and look how much traffic goes to Google, and block that....
Slashdot Mirror
We in the UK have multiple elections at the same time (Local, National, EU) but have a ballot paper for each, clear and not difficult to do?
Logically Attocell ...but the range would be about 10cm ...
This is the LTE network for 4G ... which will give mobile users faster broadband speed than their home broadband!
The current fastest home broadband on copper is 24Mb/s - and cable runs at 50Mb/s ... LTE will give 100Mb/s on the move and more if stationary ...why exactly do we need this and who is paying ?
Voting machines can never be trusted... unless the manufacturer and everyone who works for them, and everyone at the polling station is unbiased ... which they cannot be
A voting machine that prints out, you check and then but in a box in the old fashioned way, stops spoilt papers and unclear intentions, and is easily verified ...?
No purely electronic voting machine can be as open and verifiable as this
E-voting with a print out as the last option stops spoilt papers (well unless you are using old hanging chad machines) and can speed up counting as there are no longer any unclear choices
E-voting where everything is kept electronically is always suspect, and always open to fraud/hacking etc ...
Reporters without borders includes self censorship and financial pressure on journalists, which unfortunately means that in the US where you *can* publish anything, people tend not to publish anything too controversial, or that will lose them money, or that will annoy their sponsors, or that people will sue them over ... which means that a lot goes unreported
There are other countries were you cannot publish specific things, but almost anything else is allowed and not discouraged in the same way as it is in the US ...
We see your cold hard steel and raise you a sherman tank
We have the same system in the UK .... All petitions with enough signatures get considered... and the ones they don't agree with get considered and rejected
Brilliant system of voter appeasement
..You are probably right ... but that means a 486 card in Archimedes still outperformed a dedicated PC (which was a fast 486)...?!
...But this is more like trying to trademark "4 wheel drive", when you did not invent it and were not the first to use it... it is just the terminology in the industry ..and Apple did not invent the phrase, it was around long before they got into mobile phones ...
In relation to another post - Multi-Touch as implemented in the iPhone came from Academia ....
Yes, but it still has the obvious clause, so if the idea is well known before you patent then it is deemed obvious ...
They didn't trademark it ... because the term was in common usage then, by all the people working on Multi-Touch, many of whom were referenced in their founder Wayne Westerman's doctoral dissertation
It shows it was the common term in the field and well understood in the field
Everyone in the field who was working on it commonly referred to it as Multi-Touch or Multitouch as a technical term that they assumed would be understood,usage outside the field is not important ...
Try and trademark a widely used technical term from any field and see how far you get
Apple bought it from Fingerworks, who based their innovations on the work of Wayne Westerman's doctoral research, his dissertation explicitly references Bill Buxton's work, including this paper where Buxton uses the term Multi-Touch ...
This would seem to be a case of this is the common term used in the field, and so not a trademarkable word
Interesting peak around 1987 when Multi-Touch was first demonstrated and when Apple were in crisis after Steve Jobs left ...
They did not invent Multi-Touch, or the phrase, They bought the company that did invent it for mobile devices ...but Touch screens were around long before Apple, and Multi-Touch was invented in academia ... the first implementation for a mobile device (long after others had used it in other devices) was by Fingerworks who were bought by Apple after they had been making devices with multi-touch for 6 years ...
What Innovation did Apple do, they made a popular device incorporating it, and for many people this was the first use of the term ... but popularity does not factor in trademarks ...
The problem with working on-Line is that that cheating that is just about being kept ahead of in colleges would be unstoppable, you might as well just print the certificate and get the candidate to fill in their name....
The problem is not that the teaching is lower quality, it is that the students don''t need to learn anything to pass ... and often many employers regard getting a qualification at college to be a sign that they are a well rounded person because of the college experience, regardless of the actual course they took .. you do not get this working on-line
I remember the PC salesman coming to the college I was at, with the cutting edge latest Windows PC, which they ran Excel on with a load of Whizzy macros to show the speed ... and they ran the same one on a new(ish) Mac, at much the same speed, then the Maths Department head came down with his rather old Archimedes and ran up a PC emulator, with Excel and loaded the same macro .... and wiped the floor with both of them ...
A machine ahead of it's time, but did not run Windows and was not a Mac and so it died ....
It's Object Pascal Only designed to look like Dephi as far as I know - so is difficult to compare (but so was NetBeans originally)
Interesting selection of Propitiatory Corporate backed IDE's
Eclipse - Opensource cross platform
NetBeans - Crossplatform Opensource. Was written independently then bought by Sun/Oracle
VS - Vastly propitiatory Windows Only
Please come to the UK, where a Computer Science degree means you are a nobody who cannot program, cannot manage, cannot use a PC, cannot do Tech-support but know a lot of theory ...and so are basically unemployable until you acquire some real-world skills
This obviously is a title that does not translate ...
If your local mechanic cannot design a car (badly but it would work), and your car designer cannot maintain one (again not perfectly due to lack of experience) then you are serious trouble
The site you visit has a link to a Facebook like button, it enquires if you have a facebook account, and when you don't it does not show the button, just like every other Like/share button ... now go and look how much traffic goes to Google, and block that ....
Lazarus - OpenSource IDE, written in OpenSource language, not tied to a corporation - actually written because Corporation abandoned them ...
Note the iPhone contains quite a few components made by ... Samsung (they are one of the major manufacturers of Semiconductors)
The Apple A4 processor that is the heart of the iPhone is made by ... Samsung
Smartphones have been around since 1992
Cellphones since 1979
How old does technology have to get before we can pry it out of the hands of the Patent holders ....