Hopefully this is going to be a bit easier over time as everyones moves to LTE (does this mean that CDMA finally bites the dust?) and phones become standardized like the rest of the civilized world.
My understanding here is that while they will be using the same standard, the hardware will still be different. This is because the US utilizes different portions of the wireless spectrum than other countries because those are reserved for the military's use. Is this not correct?
2. Have a good keyboard with that wonderful red cl... mousey thing.
To be honest, I just find that it gets in the way while typing sometimes and it doesn't add much utility for me. But I see how others find it useful.
In all honesty, I wish vendors would give you a damn choice when choosing parts like these! I can't imagine that it would that that difficult to design a chassis with replaceable pieces like that. Too bad...
Hypothetical situation: I sell you a device. It is now your property (unless you, like Apple and Microsoft, believe that the vendor is still the proprietor after the sale, which is even worse...) You pay me money for it.
At some point, I decide that I don't like what you're doing with the item I sold you and decide to turn it into a brick using a backdoor that only I know about. That is theft of your property.
Suppose I decide to take away features that were a large factor in your decision to make the purchase (in other words, what Sony did) - that is also theft of your property.
Blocking you from installing an alternative operating system, one which may enhance the properties of the device infringes on your freedom.
Perhaps the consequences are not as severe (although these events take place on a far more massive scale), but nevertheles, it enables means to manipulate and harm other people - it is still evil.
It's feeble because you're examining one thing that he said, in a rant, out of millions of other things that he said, and treating it like it's an answer in an exam question.
Except he backed up this rant with countless lawsuits across the world. People wouldn't make as big a deal of this comment as they do if he hadn't actually done exactly what he said!
GP is spot on, because most of the lawsuits failed, further suggesting that he lacks understanding of what can and cannot be patented. Like you said, Jobs worked in the tech industry. He did not have any work or expertise in the legal industry. And outside of one case in California which was decided by a single juror who wasn't remotely unbiased, none of their lawsuits have proven fruitful.
How is it remotely possible for someone to have 17 drunk driving offenses? I would think that in any jurisdiction, the offender would have lost all privileges to drive (and probably even leave prison) after any more than a few.
Which is why it is shameful for anyone to measure the strength of a school based on the percentage of students admitted. I would think this is obvious. You want to judge an undergraduate institution? See what students are doing when they graduate, not when they're accepted. Or whether they make it graduation for that matter.
Politicians who make decisions based on the bribes they are going to receive, rather than what serves best the public interest causes people to suffer like this. This is why ignorance is one of the strongest poisons in a democracy.
It has nothing to do with usability. They're leveraging their monopoly on the desktop OEMs (again) to push their mobile platform. It's a business decision, not a user decision. If they wanted to make it usable, they're disable the tablet mode interface.
The issue is not whether they will approve it or not. The issue is in the principle of acting as if the hardware vendor has the right to choose what software the user and proprietor chooses to run.
As developers, we should not be complicit this terrible precendent, and we should not contribute in any way to the positive health of this system.
It's not just about good and bad patents. We've seen what happens when we allow software patents to fly and I don't have figures on this, but I'm guessing at least 90% have been struck down in courts!
We can't just settle for revoking patents. I don't think it is necessary to go so far as to ban them altogether, but it is absolutely crucial to
1) fix the defintions of what is patentable and what is not 2) impose penalties and a loser-pays system to ensure fairness of court cases
But simply settling for removing abstract patents when all software patents are bad effectively legitimizes something that shouldn't even be allows in the first place. That doesn't work - nobody wins that way.
No. The system has always been equally broken before, but it's a select few companies (Apple, Microsoft, Oracle) which have found it more profitable to compete in the market place. You don't see Samsung or HTC or Google trying to crush competition with lawsuits in the way that the above-named companies do.
Just because the law says it's okay to be a jerk doesn't mean it's okay when you actually do it.
If I were a stockholder I'd be worried. Technology these days seems to be about a combination of giving people what they want and convincing people of what they want.
Interesting point. Back in 90s and 00s, the field was advancing at the rate that the technology improved. These days, the technical power of the devices we buy have pretty much surpassed average users' needs. Then came the ultrabook fad, which introduced new, lighter form-features and longer battery life. At this point, outside of increasing battery life and perhaps introducing more asinine screen resolutions, there isn't much more innovation to be done, and ultimately, it'll just come down to whatever catches on. But it's not really a race for technical performance and superiority, so the game becomes a lot harder to predict.
Hey, at least they're not going the way of SCO, Nokia, Ericsson, and dare I say it, Apple by just suing people left and right as they slowly cease to produce anything of value in their industry. They're still trying to innovate their way out of their troubles. They should be given a medal, not under normal circumstances, but when you compare to their corporate peers...
Definitely recommend NOT using the interpreter here, unless you're doing simple calculations. Saving your work to a file will allow you to check and edit mistakes. Interpreter is good for testing out functionality, but not for making a product that will ultimately be delivered.
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Hopefully this is going to be a bit easier over time as everyones moves to LTE (does this mean that CDMA finally bites the dust?) and phones become standardized like the rest of the civilized world.
My understanding here is that while they will be using the same standard, the hardware will still be different. This is because the US utilizes different portions of the wireless spectrum than other countries because those are reserved for the military's use. Is this not correct?
2. Have a good keyboard with that wonderful red cl... mousey thing.
To be honest, I just find that it gets in the way while typing sometimes and it doesn't add much utility for me. But I see how others find it useful.
In all honesty, I wish vendors would give you a damn choice when choosing parts like these! I can't imagine that it would that that difficult to design a chassis with replaceable pieces like that. Too bad...
Hypothetical situation: I sell you a device. It is now your property (unless you, like Apple and Microsoft, believe that the vendor is still the proprietor after the sale, which is even worse...) You pay me money for it.
At some point, I decide that I don't like what you're doing with the item I sold you and decide to turn it into a brick using a backdoor that only I know about. That is theft of your property.
Suppose I decide to take away features that were a large factor in your decision to make the purchase (in other words, what Sony did) - that is also theft of your property.
Blocking you from installing an alternative operating system, one which may enhance the properties of the device infringes on your freedom.
Perhaps the consequences are not as severe (although these events take place on a far more massive scale), but nevertheles, it enables means to manipulate and harm other people - it is still evil.
It's feeble because you're examining one thing that he said, in a rant, out of millions of other things that he said, and treating it like it's an answer in an exam question.
Except he backed up this rant with countless lawsuits across the world. People wouldn't make as big a deal of this comment as they do if he hadn't actually done exactly what he said!
GP is spot on, because most of the lawsuits failed, further suggesting that he lacks understanding of what can and cannot be patented. Like you said, Jobs worked in the tech industry. He did not have any work or expertise in the legal industry. And outside of one case in California which was decided by a single juror who wasn't remotely unbiased, none of their lawsuits have proven fruitful.
There is no such thing as an evil that is innocuous enough to be ignored.
Oppression is bad. Famine is bad. Economic inequality is bad. Intellectual repression is bad. I oppose all of them (and many others) equally.
I would think at some point, you would go to prison for a Very Long Time, but I guess not...
Why stop at Lotus? Pretty much anything that comes out of IBM is a monstrosity... even Eclipse!
Leave to where? Is there somewhere that the Global Police Force doesn't give itself jurisdiction?
Actually, it's about 2.715 times more frequently than that.
And even worse, he's infringing copyright by posting The Doors on Youtube!
How is it remotely possible for someone to have 17 drunk driving offenses? I would think that in any jurisdiction, the offender would have lost all privileges to drive (and probably even leave prison) after any more than a few.
How do Harvard and Columbia make the list when UIUC, Berkeley, Michigan, Cornell don't?
Which is why it is shameful for anyone to measure the strength of a school based on the percentage of students admitted. I would think this is obvious. You want to judge an undergraduate institution? See what students are doing when they graduate, not when they're accepted. Or whether they make it graduation for that matter.
Politicians who make decisions based on the bribes they are going to receive, rather than what serves best the public interest causes people to suffer like this. This is why ignorance is one of the strongest poisons in a democracy.
It has nothing to do with usability. They're leveraging their monopoly on the desktop OEMs (again) to push their mobile platform. It's a business decision, not a user decision. If they wanted to make it usable, they're disable the tablet mode interface.
The issue is not whether they will approve it or not. The issue is in the principle of acting as if the hardware vendor has the right to choose what software the user and proprietor chooses to run.
As developers, we should not be complicit this terrible precendent, and we should not contribute in any way to the positive health of this system.
Yes, I was editing far too aggressively, and meant to say that they have found it more profitable to compete in the courtroom, not the marketplace.
It's not just about good and bad patents. We've seen what happens when we allow software patents to fly and I don't have figures on this, but I'm guessing at least 90% have been struck down in courts!
We can't just settle for revoking patents. I don't think it is necessary to go so far as to ban them altogether, but it is absolutely crucial to
1) fix the defintions of what is patentable and what is not
2) impose penalties and a loser-pays system to ensure fairness of court cases
But simply settling for removing abstract patents when all software patents are bad effectively legitimizes something that shouldn't even be allows in the first place. That doesn't work - nobody wins that way.
Right. The source that has been accepting money from companies which are trying to kill Android would _clearly_ be less biased!
Priceless irony.
No. The system has always been equally broken before, but it's a select few companies (Apple, Microsoft, Oracle) which have found it more profitable to compete in the market place. You don't see Samsung or HTC or Google trying to crush competition with lawsuits in the way that the above-named companies do.
Just because the law says it's okay to be a jerk doesn't mean it's okay when you actually do it.
If I were a stockholder I'd be worried. Technology these days seems to be about a combination of giving people what they want and convincing people of what they want.
Interesting point. Back in 90s and 00s, the field was advancing at the rate that the technology improved. These days, the technical power of the devices we buy have pretty much surpassed average users' needs. Then came the ultrabook fad, which introduced new, lighter form-features and longer battery life. At this point, outside of increasing battery life and perhaps introducing more asinine screen resolutions, there isn't much more innovation to be done, and ultimately, it'll just come down to whatever catches on. But it's not really a race for technical performance and superiority, so the game becomes a lot harder to predict.
Hey, at least they're not going the way of SCO, Nokia, Ericsson, and dare I say it, Apple by just suing people left and right as they slowly cease to produce anything of value in their industry. They're still trying to innovate their way out of their troubles. They should be given a medal, not under normal circumstances, but when you compare to their corporate peers...
Why not leave AT&T then?
Yikes... the MAFIAA are getting into hiring shills too now!
Definitely recommend NOT using the interpreter here, unless you're doing simple calculations. Saving your work to a file will allow you to check and edit mistakes. Interpreter is good for testing out functionality, but not for making a product that will ultimately be delivered.