At least the lawyers are happy about it. This sort of thing drives innovation in the field of lawsuits. Granted the consumer doesn't get to see anything, but you can be sure that behind every lawsuit there are a ton of happy lawyers.
Was reading this with quite some interest. I wonder what they could do with this. User Adaptive systems which help choose films you might like based on the parts you enjoyed. Some way of choosing channels automatically based on your mood...
"The collected data is then sold to marketers". End of fantasy.
"That’s enough power, according to Duplo, to theoretically lift a truck, so you can be sure it’ll put a rather large dent in the average hard disk."
Now I'm rather confused. I'm pretty sure they mean pressure not force, since I honestly doubt that a 2.5 'ton' of force is needed to punch through a hard disk.
Now when the 'truck lifting' part got mentioned it only made things worse.
Right, so when you have a 7 inch touchscreen and you can make it as thin as you want, you're meant to pad it out such that it looks like 17 (!!) year old technology?
Wouldn't you rather have apple try to outdo Samsung by creating some awesome new features in their next phone/tablet? Instead of tryign to push Samsung backwards?
Technology is kinda like a race. You can either win by having the better technology/features/whatever, or you can win by pushing everyone else back.
I would rather everyone focuses their efforts on pushing technology forward instead. The consumers are the ones who end up winning in the end.
How else is it supposed to look? It has to be rectangular, since its the most natural shape. And it has to be thin. If you put sharp edges, it'll feel uncomfortable , so you round them. Simple.
"“Samsung’s Galaxy Tab computer tablet also slavishly copies a combination of several elements of the Apple Product Configuration Trade Dress,” Apple says in its suit, noting that Samsung’s tablet, like Apple’s, uses a similar rectangular design with rounded corners, similar black border and array of icons."
You now have a large amount of people using the same services, who are giving you a ton of personal information. They're not going to pay for this service.
How else are you going to make your money? Its just asking to be advertised.
You're in space. If you haven't gotten the infection before you came on, you're not going to get sick from the microbes in space. You're pretty much in a quarantined area.
Granted if you have say heart problems you might need your pills, but otherwise there's no real bacteria to worry about.
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Nobody is suing Oracle because Oracle doesn't have any mobile devices. Its just suing Google over Android's use of Java.
Oracle always was horrible in the field of open-source...
At least the lawyers are happy about it. This sort of thing drives innovation in the field of lawsuits. Granted the consumer doesn't get to see anything, but you can be sure that behind every lawsuit there are a ton of happy lawyers.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Was reading this with quite some interest. I wonder what they could do with this. User Adaptive systems which help choose films you might like based on the parts you enjoyed. Some way of choosing channels automatically based on your mood...
"The collected data is then sold to marketers". End of fantasy.
"disks with between 2.5 and 3 tons of force"
"That’s enough power, according to Duplo, to theoretically lift a truck, so you can be sure it’ll put a rather large dent in the average hard disk."
Now I'm rather confused. I'm pretty sure they mean pressure not force, since I honestly doubt that a 2.5 'ton' of force is needed to punch through a hard disk.
Now when the 'truck lifting' part got mentioned it only made things worse.
Lolcat sez: Kubuntu is better than Mac
It starts off with a teaspoon of sugar in your coffee...
Before long, you're eating tons of it, snorting it, injecting it into the blood.
Then you need harder stuff...
Right, so when you have a 7 inch touchscreen and you can make it as thin as you want, you're meant to pad it out such that it looks like 17 (!!) year old technology?
Wouldn't you rather have apple try to outdo Samsung by creating some awesome new features in their next phone/tablet? Instead of tryign to push Samsung backwards?
Technology is kinda like a race. You can either win by having the better technology/features/whatever, or you can win by pushing everyone else back.
I would rather everyone focuses their efforts on pushing technology forward instead. The consumers are the ones who end up winning in the end.
Its a Tablet.
How else is it supposed to look? It has to be rectangular, since its the most natural shape. And it has to be thin. If you put sharp edges, it'll feel uncomfortable , so you round them. Simple.
"“Samsung’s Galaxy Tab computer tablet also slavishly copies a combination of several elements of the Apple Product Configuration Trade Dress,” Apple says in its suit, noting that Samsung’s tablet, like Apple’s, uses a similar rectangular design with rounded corners, similar black border and array of icons."
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Yeah, all other tablets should have a parallelepiped shape.
I can't think of any other natural shape for a tablet to be honest...
"uses a similar rectangular design with rounded corners, similar black border"
What is wrong with these people?
You now have a large amount of people using the same services, who are giving you a ton of personal information. They're not going to pay for this service.
How else are you going to make your money? Its just asking to be advertised.
Lets give controls of the keys to the Homeland Security.
I'm sure we can trust them with our internet.
You're in space. If you haven't gotten the infection before you came on, you're not going to get sick from the microbes in space. You're pretty much in a quarantined area.
Granted if you have say heart problems you might need your pills, but otherwise there's no real bacteria to worry about.
After all, courts are not meant to be used for business, they're meant for solving actual real problems.
You're not from around these parts are you?
...is there anything it can't do?
What about the flying cars and robot servants we're going to have by 2010 ?
Scientist discovers that sun doesn't move around the earth after all.
Retro-slashdot.
The most surprising part is that this'll ship by the end of the month...
With extreme prejudice.
"saying an al-Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in."
Why did you have to tell them that? Now they'll consider everyone blending in to be potential al-Qaeda terrorists.
Lets toss money at this team of lawyers to save our children
Actually given that the name is
"OpenOffice.org" ... I think I prefer LibreOffice...