> From looking at the photos, it appears to be designed for use with a landscape orientation.
I'm not quite sure where you were going with this. And? The Apple design patent shows a guy using the iPad in landscape orientation. In any case, I don't accept that Apple "owns" either landscape or portrait orientation.
> It lacks a home button centred on the bottom border. And the Apple design patent drawings also lack any button whatsoever. Your point again? That Apple owns putting a home button centered on the bottom side portrait wise?
Does that mean Always Innovating morally deserves ownership of a home button on the bottom side landscape wise?
>Without these protections there would be far less innovation.
Apple didn't innovate. It copied from a plethora of existing tablet designs.
By its own standard of "can you tell the difference at 10 feet with identifying markers obscured", it would be difficult for normal people (non-Apple engineers) to tell the iPad and Knight Ridder apart.
Do you mostly use your laptop at 1 or 2 fixed locations, or a lot of different places?
If the former, it's much more comfortable to have the laptop at somewhat of a distance, and a separate keyboard and mouse, instead of scrunching forward toward the laptop keyboard and angling your neck downward to the screen.
I can't speak for the profit margins of manufacturers, and I'm no Apple fan, but:
Higher screen resolution definitely has the advantage of clearer text. You can get more pixels in to define the shape of a character, instead of barely having a few pixels in a kinda-sorta curve to simulate.
Do you find it strange that most of the comments pro-Facebook on this thread are anonymous? (Remember when Facebook hired an astroturf company to go against Google?)
Anyway, as far as study groups and whatnot: That's what Moodle's for!
The user is acting as part of the corporation. The corporation is one body (literally, even), even thought it has many parts (real people). So Google is interacting with the corporation, and the corporation can, of course, monitor its own communications.
Yeah, but which ready-to-go Linux firewall/proxy combo really supports whitelists.
I've research (though not used) ClearOS and a bunch of the others, and whitelist seem to be a feature that people ask about in the forums as opposed to something that's a first-class feature.
For a restricted use environment, like elementary school, it would great to add 10, 100, 1000, or even 10000 or 100,000 websites to a list and be done as opposed to chasing every new weird site.
As far as 1st Amendment issues, think of it like this: The library doesn't subscribe to every magazine on Earth, right. At most, it gets 100 or so. So just consider whitelists as subscribing to ten thousand websites.
What would be awesome would be: You (attempt) to go to a non-whitelisted site. You get an error message with an HTML form. Since you believe it to be useful, you fill in your whitelist request along with a reason, hit Submit, and it instantly goes to the librarian (?) or whoever's in charge of whitelisting, and they have a quick look at the site and approve or deny.
In defense of the PTO, and against Apple, the patent itself doesn't mention "rectangular". The entire text of the patent is this:
"We claim the ornamental design for an electronic device, substantially as shown and described."
(Yeah, really)
Then they give some line drawings.
That, in itself, should be OK.
The problem is Apple taking the "penumbras" and "emanations" from the patent to mean that they own round rectangles, which the patent clear as day does not state in any which way or form.
It would seem it's in its interest to have Flash as widely used as possible.
I would say the RDF does exist: It means having a different standard for Apple than for everybody else.
1) Witness the story yesterday where people were besides themselves trying to define smartphone, and finally came up with "can create apps in the same environment in which the basic apps (phone, addressbook) run". The only problem being the original iPhone only had web apps, but nobody called the iPhone out as not being a smartphone.
2) If any other company had tried to patent the idea of a tablet design publicly available for the past 17 years, they would have been portrayed as villains in the mainstream media (as opposed to geek media).
Well, for one, they may not even need all the stuff that Open/Liberty/Libre/Whatever Office has.
I'd venture go guess Calligra loads faster too, without all the StarOffice baggage.
Finally, I don't know if it has a macro language, but it would great if they bolted on a GamBas-style Basic language, API, and editor as opposed to the hellish OOBasic environment where you're supposed to start writing stuff from memory apparently, instead of Intellisense-type code completion you get with Gambas.
I'm surprised there isn't more ransomware that turns your webcam on, perhaps catching you in something you'd rather not have on the interwebs, and blackmails you with that.
>Which would not be CSV anymore. CSV is by its format definition purely plain text tabular data separated by a delimiter.
Well, basically it all comes down to the environment that you're importing into. There's no law that says you can't put less-than and greater-than signs into a CSV field. Once you have that, you've got HTML.
The environment I'm importing into (Drupal) handles newlines within quoted fields just fine.
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How abouts a duel?
> From looking at the photos, it appears to be designed for use with a landscape orientation.
I'm not quite sure where you were going with this. And? The Apple design patent shows a guy using the iPad in landscape orientation. In any case, I don't accept that Apple "owns" either landscape or portrait orientation.
> It lacks a home button centred on the bottom border.
And the Apple design patent drawings also lack any button whatsoever. Your point again? That Apple owns putting a home button centered on the bottom side portrait wise?
Does that mean Always Innovating morally deserves ownership of a home button on the bottom side landscape wise?
>Without these protections there would be far less innovation.
Apple didn't innovate. It copied from a plethora of existing tablet designs.
By its own standard of "can you tell the difference at 10 feet with identifying markers obscured", it would be difficult for normal people (non-Apple engineers) to tell the iPad and Knight Ridder apart.
Don't we already have this on Linux?
If not, why not?
We're still in the era of bitmapped fonts and icons?
And what's the point of all the required 3D and compositing business if you're not going to have scalable icons and text?
> - If the current window is not fullscreen, moving the mouse over another one does not change the focus, so I can reach the menubar.
Ubuntu, please implement this for Unity. Thanks.
A 500ms delay for changing the focus would be great.
Do you mostly use your laptop at 1 or 2 fixed locations, or a lot of different places?
If the former, it's much more comfortable to have the laptop at somewhat of a distance, and a separate keyboard and mouse, instead of scrunching forward toward the laptop keyboard and angling your neck downward to the screen.
I can't speak for the profit margins of manufacturers, and I'm no Apple fan, but:
Higher screen resolution definitely has the advantage of clearer text. You can get more pixels in to define the shape of a character, instead of barely having a few pixels in a kinda-sorta curve to simulate.
Are you talking about Win or Lin?
AFAIK, if you install an LTS like Ubuntu 12.04 a few months after the release date, first you'll download and install a CD's worth of OS.
Then you'll download and install an equivalent amount of updates, since just about every package in the system has had an update in the meantime.
FYI, if you're on Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04), hit the Unity button and type "Drivers". Click on Additional Drivers.
Why do you say that?
After all, Abraham Lincoln built the log cabin he was born in with his own hands.
Do you find it strange that most of the comments pro-Facebook on this thread are anonymous? (Remember when Facebook hired an astroturf company to go against Google?)
Anyway, as far as study groups and whatnot: That's what Moodle's for!
The only way OpenDNS works is by setting the DNS. So couldn't people just reset their DNS to something else?
Or, if you're going to rely on Group Policy to prevent that, then
Couldn't they just find out the numerical address (at home) and type that in (for various sites)?
That's a good argument.
The other might be:
The user is acting as part of the corporation. The corporation is one body (literally, even), even thought it has many parts (real people). So Google is interacting with the corporation, and the corporation can, of course, monitor its own communications.
Yeah, but which ready-to-go Linux firewall/proxy combo really supports whitelists.
I've research (though not used) ClearOS and a bunch of the others, and whitelist seem to be a feature that people ask about in the forums as opposed to something that's a first-class feature.
For a restricted use environment, like elementary school, it would great to add 10, 100, 1000, or even 10000 or 100,000 websites to a list and be done as opposed to chasing every new weird site.
As far as 1st Amendment issues, think of it like this: The library doesn't subscribe to every magazine on Earth, right. At most, it gets 100 or so. So just consider whitelists as subscribing to ten thousand websites.
What would be awesome would be: You (attempt) to go to a non-whitelisted site. You get an error message with an HTML form. Since you believe it to be useful, you fill in your whitelist request along with a reason, hit Submit, and it instantly goes to the librarian (?) or whoever's in charge of whitelisting, and they have a quick look at the site and approve or deny.
Anything like that available for Linux?
>Yes, Judges become judges so they judge the exciting world of Patent Ownership rights.
She was a patent (troll) lawyer before donning black robes.
in favor of Apple.
Now I think her wild mood swings must mean she's medicating?
In defense of the PTO, and against Apple, the patent itself doesn't mention "rectangular". The entire text of the patent is this:
"We claim the ornamental design for an electronic device, substantially as shown and described."
(Yeah, really)
Then they give some line drawings.
That, in itself, should be OK.
The problem is Apple taking the "penumbras" and "emanations" from the patent to mean that they own round rectangles, which the patent clear as day does not state in any which way or form.
So, this is actually "Apple fail".
Look around your office. You'll see rounded corners everywhere (yes of greater than 1mm radius).
Apple did not invent them.
Pinch to zoom is not mentioned in the design patent for the iPad.
In nothing is mentioned in the design patent whatsoever, other than a few line drawings of a tablet. (Seriously.)
Didn't Adobe sell a Flash-creation tool?
It would seem it's in its interest to have Flash as widely used as possible.
I would say the RDF does exist: It means having a different standard for Apple than for everybody else.
1) Witness the story yesterday where people were besides themselves trying to define smartphone, and finally came up with "can create apps in the same environment in which the basic apps (phone, addressbook) run". The only problem being the original iPhone only had web apps, but nobody called the iPhone out as not being a smartphone.
2) If any other company had tried to patent the idea of a tablet design publicly available for the past 17 years, they would have been portrayed as villains in the mainstream media (as opposed to geek media).
So, are all transactions beyond a certain timestamp reversed? Or only those relating to a specific stock or trader?
#1 would be more understandable than #2.
Well, for one, they may not even need all the stuff that Open/Liberty/Libre/Whatever Office has.
I'd venture go guess Calligra loads faster too, without all the StarOffice baggage.
Finally, I don't know if it has a macro language, but it would great if they bolted on a GamBas-style Basic language, API, and editor as opposed to the hellish OOBasic environment where you're supposed to start writing stuff from memory apparently, instead of Intellisense-type code completion you get with Gambas.
Are they committing suicide?
First they give up on Linux Flash, now Android Flash. Can't quite figure it out.
Have they been afflicted by the RDF?
I'm surprised there isn't more ransomware that turns your webcam on, perhaps catching you in something you'd rather not have on the interwebs, and blackmails you with that.
>Which would not be CSV anymore. CSV is by its format definition purely plain text tabular data separated by a delimiter.
Well, basically it all comes down to the environment that you're importing into. There's no law that says you can't put less-than and greater-than signs into a CSV field. Once you have that, you've got HTML.
The environment I'm importing into (Drupal) handles newlines within quoted fields just fine.
Oops, I meant "some field", "<b>Bold text<b/> Non bold text", "next field"