No, they didn't patent anything. They did obtain a trademark, though. Something completely different. You failed at reading comprehension in school, didn't you?
Those acquisitions are common knowledge to anyone who knows Google. And the products weren't as refined when purchased. People forget that Google Maps, for example, took the better part of a decade to reach its level of quality. It was not that way for its first years of life.
Or at some point they might want to put it in the main tree, and have a new killer feature.
Again, how does that benefit Samsung? The whole point of making the feature was to have something on their devices that no one else does. Merging it into the base defeats that.
To show that they are always ahead and what sort of things they bring to the party.
Which they can already do without merging the feature.
There are plenty of battery chargers that has a simple usb connection to it so you can swap your charger cable to whatever your phone uses for it's plug.
Main Entry: 2leverage Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): leveraged; leveraging Date: 1957 1 : to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage 2 : to use for gain : exploit
Mozilla does allow you to load it. It's called "Click To Play". Apple's reaction is more extreme but most parties agree it's a bad idea to have those versions installed at all.
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This sounds like one of those patents
It's not a patent.
Apple Granted Trademark For Its Stores
*facepalm*
Yes, through payment of stock to use the ideas.
No, they didn't patent anything. They did obtain a trademark, though. Something completely different. You failed at reading comprehension in school, didn't you?
This has nothing to do with patents. The title of the submission even says "trademark" quite clearly. Are you illiterate?
Not really. Apple lost that case based on a poorly-worded contract that gave Microsoft a perpetual license to the look-and-feel of their GUI.
Or the "least skanky crackwhore".
Those acquisitions are common knowledge to anyone who knows Google. And the products weren't as refined when purchased. People forget that Google Maps, for example, took the better part of a decade to reach its level of quality. It was not that way for its first years of life.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
Yep, that violates anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA not copyrights.
"Would have been possible without him"? Is there a typo there?
Or at some point they might want to put it in the main tree, and have a new killer feature.
Again, how does that benefit Samsung? The whole point of making the feature was to have something on their devices that no one else does. Merging it into the base defeats that.
To show that they are always ahead and what sort of things they bring to the party.
Which they can already do without merging the feature.
Why would Samsung want it in the base OS? It is a differentiating feature of their devices.
BTW, is it just me, or would the ideal phone use AAA (or possibly even AA) form factor batteries?
It's just you. That is a stupid idea.
There are plenty of battery chargers that has a simple usb connection to it so you can swap your charger cable to whatever your phone uses for it's plug.
Main Entry: 2leverage
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): leveraged; leveraging
Date: 1957
1 : to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage
2 : to use for gain : exploit
From here
FAIL.
Sorry I keep expecting spaces and newlines to be respected. Reposted formated.
You need to choose "plain old text" rather than "HTML formatted" as the comment post mode.
Kill a person: 10 years in prison.
No, it's more like:
First-degree murder: Manadatory death sentence or life-imprisonment
Second-degree murder: Manadatory minimum 10-years to life inprisonment.
That explains a lot, thanks for the link.
Actually it doesn't. Notice the date: "November 27, 2007"
What exactly was on Jstor that they want kept quiet?
Kept quiet? Why would they be keeping journal articles and primary sources "quiet" when they are a digital library?
"putting them on the Internet for free" that is.
Except that wasn't what he was doing. He was downloading journal articles from JSTOR and putting them on internet the for free.
What "public airwaves" does C|NET use exactly?
Jazelle has pretty much nothing to do with the Oracle JRE.
Where are you buying $1000 cases (since you mentioned the 100x claim).
Mozilla does allow you to load it. It's called "Click To Play". Apple's reaction is more extreme but most parties agree it's a bad idea to have those versions installed at all.
And since they have critical security vulnerabilities they should no longer be supported.