The iMac was released in 1998, so a phone from 2004 isn't prior art.
What does the iMac, a Desktop Computer, released in 1998 (iMac in 1998) have to do with Pocket PC Phones released in 2004? IMHO you are wrong, it is prior art.
These type of devices never took off because they were hacked together and ran an OS that was designed for a mouse.
And who cares whether the devices never took off? The fact remains that they existed well BEFORE the iPhone.
And the design looks nothing like an iPhone.
These may not look completely like an iPhone, but they were rectangular, with some curved edges (especially if you consider the fact that antenna now usually lies within the phone, not outside as used to happen then because of technology limitations for smartphones), which Apple is claiming a design patent on.
Here you are HP iPAQ 6315 Pocket PC Phone: http://pocketnow.com/review/hp-ipaq-h6315-pocket-pc-phone-edition
99% touchscreen - with both stylus and fingers.
Rectangular with very slightly curved edges, with external antenna (as around that time, they hadn't figured out a way to incorporate the big-ass antenna into the phone, although this was somewhat rectified by the time HP iPAQ rz1715 came out).
I owned it - from sometime 2004 to sometime in 2005.
Based on this, I would say there's prior art for two things - touchscreen phones with rectangular shape with slightly rounded corners, and the "i" in front of a device name.
The 360 is a good console. It's not that bad. Calling people moron cause they use the 360 doesn't make sense if you ask me. It has a good gaming library, good graphics and good sound (7.1 if my memory serves me right ? idk, i don't own one). What's bad about it or why are people morons ?
Actually, as far as I remember, 360 supports upto 5.1 in surround sound, and so far has only used Dolby Digital.
The PS3 supports upto 7.1 audio and Dolby Digital, DTS, has Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master audio support, and 7.1 PCM.
Story - Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices - Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 18, @05:38PM.
First comment praising Microsoft - a properly worded, properly paragraphed, properly punctuated, comment, with a link with description - all of this taking up a 100 words not including punctuation - Posted by kdps (2642743) on Friday May 18, @05:38PM.
Video gamse are bad for your health, and they are a disservice to our Nation's morals. Anyone who plays video games should have to do equal time community service washing my cars. Everyone knows I am right so don't even bother modding me down or flaming me you pathetic nerd vergins.
Kinda sad that the guy who modded you a troll did not recognize bilious sarcasm.
When Sony announced the forced arbitration agreement, with an option to opt-out, gamers everywhere were furious. When Microsoft introduced forced arbitration, I didn't hear a peep about it. I found out only by actually reading the new EULA (and fully rejected it. Now, some of my downloaded games no longer work).
The quantity of evilness has little to do with reputation. Sometimes it just depends on who moves first.
True - And actually, on Slash-I-love-Microsoft-and-the-360-and-hate-Sony-dot, there was no mention of the forced arbitration on the 360 (even though, with MS, there wasn't even a choice to opt-out via snail mail).
You obviously didn't read it carefully, as if you send this in, your PSN account is immediately closed and you forfeit any money you have in your PSN wallet.
Welcome to Slashdot, home of the anti-Sony trolls, where even the most outrageous lies about Sony will be welcomed with open arms, and has a 99.99 % chance of being modded "Informative", "Insightful" or "Interesting".
Carry on, my trolling friends, both posters as well as the Mods.
"Anti-Sony stories are one of Slashdot's most common page-view drawing tactics, so I'm always a little suspicious of any stories Slashdot posts....it's a well-known company that Slashdotters love to hate. Strangely, Nintendo gets a lot of love even though it has a history of being even more evil than Sony.
True. No one on Slashdot reported it when Microsoft added the no-sue clause with no way to opt-out (not even snail mail ala Sony) in their latest dashboard update. Probably 360 fanboys like reporting anti-Sony stories.
I presume the 360's proprietary and ridiculously expensive hard drive, proprietary and ridiculously expensive WiFi adapter, and proprietary component/composite cables in the original launch 360s - didn't bother you at all, right?
Troll - both you and the haters who modded you "Insightful".
Valve would also have to do the following "to be on Sony's level":
7. Offer up to 4 free games
8. If Valve had anything like a premium subscription offering, offer their customers up to 2 months of free premium sub.
9. Offer a month of free movie and music service.
10. Offer a year of free ID Theft protection.
Except that the person above was asking about a citation for the CC info on PSN being unencrypted, NOT the passwords.
Nice of you to so NEATLY sidestep that particular question and go off onto your Sony-bashing tangent. Good (troll)work.
Well, the PSN network requires you register a credit card to make any real use of it (like playing games online, for example). This card must be registered directly with Sony
Ah, a lie from someone who has never played a game on PSN.
Not sure if you are a 360 fanboy or just your standard/. Sony-hater, but FYI, Sony does NOT require you to register your CC for playing games online.
3D was a brief fad in the 1950's, with another brief fad in the 1980's.
We're already at the "it's 20 years later" stage and I could argue that what you say has actually happened to some degree; the current influx of 3D movies has already lasted longer than either fad, and the technology to make them is *much* better than it was back then.
Yes, and during each of those phases/fads, they tried some things, and found that when technology/expense didn't work, it fizzled out. This time around, the tech has progressed somewhat, and the quality is better, Better, but it could always be even better. But folks seem to be saying that one day it should no "no 3D" and then there should be only R&D for 3D without any returns for the next 5-10-20 years or so "until we are there", and then suddenly we should get "perfect 3D". I don't think it works that way. We will always go through iterations until we reach relative perfection. And those iterations may be spread apart by decades, or may be contiguous.
And they had to go through the color-related gimmicks to get to proper color. It cannot be an off-on switch like approach where one day you have black and white, and the next day you have perfect color.
In much the same way, I anticipate we will have to go through certain other approaches before we approach something like true life-like 3D. It cannot be a sudden jump from high-quality 2D to high-quality 3D. There will always be growing pains.
A very well-deserved award. That extension right there is the primary reason I always use Firefox. Well, that, Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and Nuke Anything Enhanced. Makes viewing almost every webpage/site a clean, 99% ad-free readable experience.
Are you saying the games industry and the movie industry are similar? Because from what I understand, both of them don't work the same way.
Also, if I understand correctly, this is for the Online MP aspect of the games, NOT for the SP games themselves. If so, I can kinda-sorta understand their reasoning in that, the Game Devs and Publishers are willing to support Online Play for people who have paid THEM (Publishers and by extension, Developers) for the game, and that they will NOT support Online Play for people who have NOT paid them for the game. In my opinion, that perspective seems reasonable, if a bit extreme.
I wonder at the Moderators who are modding up posts praising Anon and LulzSec while ignoring your post, which so ably highlighted what these antics by these immature hypocrites may cause to the Internet we use every day.
But far be it from/. moderators to actually mod objectively.
First, they hacked and brought the Network down, and I cheered the hackers, because I was not one of the victims and I hated Sony.
Then they hacked and stole and publicized personal and financial details, and I cheered the hackers, because I was not one of the victims and I hated Sony.
Then they hacked and stole my personal and financial details from some other location, and THEN I was outraged and was no longer cheering them, but was impotent as the very ones I had cheered were the ones now committing a crime against me.
Ah so you guys (similar_name and TheCount22) take issue with him not caring about something that didn't affect him personally - yet you were okay and did not take issue with the hundreds of/. users who DID NOT CARE about the millions of PSN users and were jubilantly cheering the PSN hack - precisely because they were not affected. And wanted too much for Sony to fail, even if that was the expense of millions of people.
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The iMac was released in 1998, so a phone from 2004 isn't prior art.
What does the iMac, a Desktop Computer, released in 1998 (iMac in 1998) have to do with Pocket PC Phones released in 2004? IMHO you are wrong, it is prior art.
These type of devices never took off because they were hacked together and ran an OS that was designed for a mouse.
And who cares whether the devices never took off? The fact remains that they existed well BEFORE the iPhone.
And the design looks nothing like an iPhone.
These may not look completely like an iPhone, but they were rectangular, with some curved edges (especially if you consider the fact that antenna now usually lies within the phone, not outside as used to happen then because of technology limitations for smartphones), which Apple is claiming a design patent on.
Here you are HP iPAQ 6315 Pocket PC Phone: http://pocketnow.com/review/hp-ipaq-h6315-pocket-pc-phone-edition
99% touchscreen - with both stylus and fingers.
Rectangular with very slightly curved edges, with external antenna (as around that time, they hadn't figured out a way to incorporate the big-ass antenna into the phone, although this was somewhat rectified by the time HP iPAQ rz1715 came out).
I owned it - from sometime 2004 to sometime in 2005.
Based on this, I would say there's prior art for two things - touchscreen phones with rectangular shape with slightly rounded corners, and the "i" in front of a device name.
The 360 is a good console. It's not that bad. Calling people moron cause they use the 360 doesn't make sense if you ask me. It has a good gaming library, good graphics and good sound (7.1 if my memory serves me right ? idk, i don't own one). What's bad about it or why are people morons ?
Actually, as far as I remember, 360 supports upto 5.1 in surround sound, and so far has only used Dolby Digital.
The PS3 supports upto 7.1 audio and Dolby Digital, DTS, has Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master audio support, and 7.1 PCM.
Story - Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices - Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 18, @05:38PM .
First comment praising Microsoft - a properly worded, properly paragraphed, properly punctuated, comment, with a link with description - all of this taking up a 100 words not including punctuation - Posted by kdps (2642743) on Friday May 18, @05:38PM .
Video gamse are bad for your health, and they are a disservice to our Nation's morals. Anyone who plays video games should have to do equal time community service washing my cars. Everyone knows I am right so don't even bother modding me down or flaming me you pathetic nerd vergins.
Kinda sad that the guy who modded you a troll did not recognize bilious sarcasm.
When Sony announced the forced arbitration agreement, with an option to opt-out, gamers everywhere were furious. When Microsoft introduced forced arbitration, I didn't hear a peep about it. I found out only by actually reading the new EULA (and fully rejected it. Now, some of my downloaded games no longer work).
The quantity of evilness has little to do with reputation. Sometimes it just depends on who moves first.
True - And actually, on Slash-I-love-Microsoft-and-the-360-and-hate-Sony-dot, there was no mention of the forced arbitration on the 360 (even though, with MS, there wasn't even a choice to opt-out via snail mail).
You obviously didn't read it carefully, as if you send this in, your PSN account is immediately closed and you forfeit any money you have in your PSN wallet.
Welcome to Slashdot, home of the anti-Sony trolls, where even the most outrageous lies about Sony will be welcomed with open arms, and has a 99.99 % chance of being modded "Informative", "Insightful" or "Interesting".
Carry on, my trolling friends, both posters as well as the Mods.
"Anti-Sony stories are one of Slashdot's most common page-view drawing tactics, so I'm always a little suspicious of any stories Slashdot posts....it's a well-known company that Slashdotters love to hate. Strangely, Nintendo gets a lot of love even though it has a history of being even more evil than Sony.
True. No one on Slashdot reported it when Microsoft added the no-sue clause with no way to opt-out (not even snail mail ala Sony) in their latest dashboard update. Probably 360 fanboys like reporting anti-Sony stories.
Why?
It could cost $5 and I wouldn't buy it because it comes stamped with 'Sony' on the front. Screw that and screw them.
On top of which there's a whole new proprietary memory card format! Hooray!
Trolls chanting "Screw Sony" marked "Insightful".
Only on Slashdot.
which is why I don't buy Sony anymore...
I presume the 360's proprietary and ridiculously expensive hard drive, proprietary and ridiculously expensive WiFi adapter, and proprietary component/composite cables in the original launch 360s - didn't bother you at all, right?
Troll - both you and the haters who modded you "Insightful".
On Slashdot, all you have to do to be modded up is go off on a rant of Sony-bashing. /. = Bunch of hypocrites
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Valve would also have to do the following "to be on Sony's level":
7. Offer up to 4 free games
8. If Valve had anything like a premium subscription offering, offer their customers up to 2 months of free premium sub.
9. Offer a month of free movie and music service.
10. Offer a year of free ID Theft protection.
Nice of you to forget all that though.
Except that the person above was asking about a citation for the CC info on PSN being unencrypted, NOT the passwords.
Nice of you to so NEATLY sidestep that particular question and go off onto your Sony-bashing tangent. Good (troll)work.
Well, the PSN network requires you register a credit card to make any real use of it (like playing games online, for example). This card must be registered directly with Sony
Ah, a lie from someone who has never played a game on PSN. Not sure if you are a 360 fanboy or just your standard /. Sony-hater, but FYI, Sony does NOT require you to register your CC for playing games online.
Further, anyone over the age of 12 who has a Sony Vita PS will be widely seen as a cunt.
Ah, a troll. Quite possibly a Microsoft (or Nintendo) fanboy.
Please see my below reply to Jiro (131519) for a response to your point.
3D was a brief fad in the 1950's, with another brief fad in the 1980's.
We're already at the "it's 20 years later" stage and I could argue that what you say has actually happened to some degree; the current influx of 3D movies has already lasted longer than either fad, and the technology to make them is *much* better than it was back then.
Yes, and during each of those phases/fads, they tried some things, and found that when technology/expense didn't work, it fizzled out. This time around, the tech has progressed somewhat, and the quality is better, Better, but it could always be even better. But folks seem to be saying that one day it should no "no 3D" and then there should be only R&D for 3D without any returns for the next 5-10-20 years or so "until we are there", and then suddenly we should get "perfect 3D". I don't think it works that way. We will always go through iterations until we reach relative perfection. And those iterations may be spread apart by decades, or may be contiguous.
In much the same way, I anticipate we will have to go through certain other approaches before we approach something like true life-like 3D. It cannot be a sudden jump from high-quality 2D to high-quality 3D. There will always be growing pains.
A very well-deserved award. That extension right there is the primary reason I always use Firefox. Well, that, Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and Nuke Anything Enhanced. Makes viewing almost every webpage/site a clean, 99% ad-free readable experience.
Also, if I understand correctly, this is for the Online MP aspect of the games, NOT for the SP games themselves. If so, I can kinda-sorta understand their reasoning in that, the Game Devs and Publishers are willing to support Online Play for people who have paid THEM (Publishers and by extension, Developers) for the game, and that they will NOT support Online Play for people who have NOT paid them for the game. In my opinion, that perspective seems reasonable, if a bit extreme.
And each book cost tens of millions to create as well, right?
Hardcore gamers werent the Gamecubes demographic either, nor the Wii's. Nintendo seems to not really care what a niche of gamers think.
Is that why Nintendo are trying to say their new console is geared towards that "niche of gamers"?
I wonder at the Moderators who are modding up posts praising Anon and LulzSec while ignoring your post, which so ably highlighted what these antics by these immature hypocrites may cause to the Internet we use every day.
But far be it from /. moderators to actually mod objectively.
Then they hacked and stole and publicized personal and financial details, and I cheered the hackers, because I was not one of the victims and I hated Sony.
Then they hacked and stole my personal and financial details from some other location, and THEN I was outraged and was no longer cheering them, but was impotent as the very ones I had cheered were the ones now committing a crime against me.
Hypocrisy - look it up.