it certainly doesn't provide the polished overall experiences that Microsoft or Apple do.
I'll agree with you on the apple comparison, but the MS comparison is a little more difficult. I think it is more polished in some ways but less reliable and certainly less crisp than Ubuntu as one example. I moved away from Windows when Vista became unusable -- boot times of several minutes, even starting from hibernate. Windows 7 was okay at the beginning but it now boots slowly and is sluggish. Anti-vir checks don't find any viruses and I haven't installed any software on it since the beginning. Ubuntu has worked on all my desktops (one PC and two laptops) in a consistent manner from the start, boots quickly and reacts to what I want to do. My Windows laptops do not.
I recently was requested to install Linux on a friend's laptop which had Vista on it for the same reason. I know the Windows apologists will shout that Vista doesn't count -- even MS admits it was bad. Of course they did, when it was time boost sales of the next OS. Let's see what they say about Windows 7 and Windows 8 comes out.
Kind of sad that a dictatorship where people can be jailed for criticizing the government is doing more in space than the US and that we are dependent on the Russians with a 40 year old design to bring astronauts to the ISS.
Yes, Illusian planes come to mind with theirn stellar safety record and the famous Lada manufacturer where cars can go sometimes hundreds of miles before a major breakdown.
The saying goes that the reason why the US got to the moon before the Russians was that our German scientists were better than their German scientists.
After the fall of the wall, we had East German students working at our DEC facility in Germany who were fairly current in VMS. The East Germans had copied the VAX and VMS exactly and were only a couple of VMS versions behind.
Russian copy of the US Space Shuttle.... built on German rocket technology.... built on principles in great part first outlined by Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
The more we do to please the world, the further behind we fall.
It's not about pleasing the world, it's about using a unified system. Maybe the US should invent a new system altogether. The metric is really a base-10 system. That's 'cause there were no computers back then. Let's make a base-2 system to make the programming easier. I've gotta call Apple to find out how to patent that idea.
Well, gotta go, I've only another 101101 minutes to read these posts.
The interesting thing is that any MIC (as with any other big organization) lead to abuse. Because there is so much power there, it leads to some terrible abuses. But this is true and always has been throughout the history of the world. The US was one of the first countries to expend a huge amount of power for really good purposed and to bring a lot of beneficial technology to the civilian world.
I don't like where it's going now but sometimes it helps to put it into perspective. It's been a really rare example of a powerful country which has used that power for a lot of good. I think it will take a long time before we see that again. The amount of technological innovation that has come out of the US since WW2 won't be matched by any country for a long long time.
In fact, the patent is specific about using a unique id to transmit the meeting request. If you transmit the data it would seem that you are not infringing on any patents. That being said, using a unique id to represent a packet of data is already obviously prior use and obviously "obvious".
But this is how Microsoft earns their money. They don't make good products, they have a large legal team.
Even if you might not use it often, it's the fact that you could do things like:
* check out a price on the internet without having to drive home from the store to check it on you pc * Use GPS is case you are someplace new and get lost * Re-read the email with the friends address because, although it was super easy to remember, you can't seem to remember it now * Show friends pictures on your Picasa web album when you coincidentally meet at the supermarket. * Take and send a picture when you see that fantastic sunset without always having to cart your camera around.
I don't constantly use those features but it's nice to have them available when some unexpected comes along.
It claims the use of a finger gesture, so pressing a button doesn't sound like it would break the patent, and it involves showing an icon to return back to the phone call, but I firmly believe that Apple would claim it anyway to make competitors lives difficult. For example, on my Galaxy i9000 I can press the app button during a call and bring up my home screen from which I can bring up another app or switch to another app which is running.
Apple has permanently lost me as a customer. They are abusing the patent system with patents like this. This has prior art written all over it.
No one is forming cogent, well-thought out rebuttals to the "problem,"
Then you're not listening (or reading). The problem is software patents. There have been plenty of responses showing why they are bad. The very fact that companies like Apple and Microsoft couldn't exist if they started today should be enough reason.
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Spain is bankrupt.
The US's financial situation isn't much better, actually.
That's what I use it for and several of my friends, some of whom were Windows users but got frustrated with sluggish systems and malware.
it certainly doesn't provide the polished overall experiences that Microsoft or Apple do.
I'll agree with you on the apple comparison, but the MS comparison is a little more difficult. I think it is more polished in some ways but less reliable and certainly less crisp than Ubuntu as one example. I moved away from Windows when Vista became unusable -- boot times of several minutes, even starting from hibernate. Windows 7 was okay at the beginning but it now boots slowly and is sluggish. Anti-vir checks don't find any viruses and I haven't installed any software on it since the beginning. Ubuntu has worked on all my desktops (one PC and two laptops) in a consistent manner from the start, boots quickly and reacts to what I want to do. My Windows laptops do not.
I recently was requested to install Linux on a friend's laptop which had Vista on it for the same reason. I know the Windows apologists will shout that Vista doesn't count -- even MS admits it was bad. Of course they did, when it was time boost sales of the next OS. Let's see what they say about Windows 7 and Windows 8 comes out.
Kind of sad that a dictatorship where people can be jailed for criticizing the government is doing more in space than the US and that we are dependent on the Russians with a 40 year old design to bring astronauts to the ISS.
what major breakthroughs have they made in comparison?
For example, the shuttle.
Thanks!
Only if the Liion is under 18.
Yes, Illusian planes come to mind with theirn stellar safety record and the famous Lada manufacturer where cars can go sometimes hundreds of miles before a major breakdown.
LOL
Well put.
You might want to listen to Steve Jobs, 1994: http://youtu.be/CW0DUg63lqU
He was happy to steal other people's ideas and now Apple is upset that others are playing are playing on the playground as well.
The saying goes that the reason why the US got to the moon before the Russians was that our German scientists were better than their German scientists.
After the fall of the wall, we had East German students working at our DEC facility in Germany who were fairly current in VMS. The East Germans had copied the VAX and VMS exactly and were only a couple of VMS versions behind.
99.99% of "progress" is "stealing" ideas from each other and building on them.
"Good Artists Copy Great Artists Steal" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas" -- Steve Jobs
Russian copy of the US Space Shuttle .... built on German rocket technology .... built on principles in great part first outlined by Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Don't forget about Goddard.
ROTFLMAO!
The more we do to please the world, the further behind we fall.
It's not about pleasing the world, it's about using a unified system. Maybe the US should invent a new system altogether. The metric is really a base-10 system. That's 'cause there were no computers back then. Let's make a base-2 system to make the programming easier. I've gotta call Apple to find out how to patent that idea.
Well, gotta go, I've only another 101101 minutes to read these posts.
You had me right up to where you wrote Folgers. Damn!
The interesting thing is that any MIC (as with any other big organization) lead to abuse. Because there is so much power there, it leads to some terrible abuses. But this is true and always has been throughout the history of the world. The US was one of the first countries to expend a huge amount of power for really good purposed and to bring a lot of beneficial technology to the civilian world.
I don't like where it's going now but sometimes it helps to put it into perspective. It's been a really rare example of a powerful country which has used that power for a lot of good. I think it will take a long time before we see that again. The amount of technological innovation that has come out of the US since WW2 won't be matched by any country for a long long time.
So much inconvenience for so little benefit at such a staggering cost.'"
Like so much that Bush and his Oil cabinet did.
The fact is that their products are way ahead of the curve which is why KDE, Gnome and others are always playing catch-up.
That's why no one is buying Windows Phone and they have to make their money off of Android lawsuits.
In fact, the patent is specific about using a unique id to transmit the meeting request. If you transmit the data it would seem that you are not infringing on any patents. That being said, using a unique id to represent a packet of data is already obviously prior use and obviously "obvious".
But this is how Microsoft earns their money. They don't make good products, they have a large legal team.
Even if you might not use it often, it's the fact that you could do things like:
* check out a price on the internet without having to drive home from the store to check it on you pc
* Use GPS is case you are someplace new and get lost
* Re-read the email with the friends address because, although it was super easy to remember, you can't seem to remember it now
* Show friends pictures on your Picasa web album when you coincidentally meet at the supermarket.
* Take and send a picture when you see that fantastic sunset without always having to cart your camera around.
I don't constantly use those features but it's nice to have them available when some unexpected comes along.
It claims the use of a finger gesture, so pressing a button doesn't sound like it would break the patent, and it involves showing an icon to return back to the phone call, but I firmly believe that Apple would claim it anyway to make competitors lives difficult. For example, on my Galaxy i9000 I can press the app button during a call and bring up my home screen from which I can bring up another app or switch to another app which is running.
Apple has permanently lost me as a customer. They are abusing the patent system with patents like this. This has prior art written all over it.
No one is forming cogent, well-thought out rebuttals to the "problem,"
Then you're not listening (or reading). The problem is software patents. There have been plenty of responses showing why they are bad. The very fact that companies like Apple and Microsoft couldn't exist if they started today should be enough reason.