Educate yourself about how George W Bush destroyed American public education with "No Child Left Behind". "Teach the Test" is all that matters now and unless you can afford private education, continuing through college (because professors are inundated with "teach the test" students now) all you will end up with is people that want every answer handed to them and refuse any challenge in life.
Just because you have some patents doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable. Just because you've convinced some companies to license your patents and pay you royalties doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable.
That's pretty much EXACTLY what that means. If you remember (which of course you don't) early versions of Android did not have multi-touch. Android being designed as a Blackberry competitor didn't need it. So Apple uses multi-touch as a main point on their iPhone and suddenly Google adds it. Google doesn't actually infringe on any of these because they don't make their own hardware nor do they sell Android. In the end, manufacturers are free to remove the infringing features from their product, after all, Android is open source so if they choose not to alter Android, it is wilful infringement.
As a company, why bother to spend money to innovate if you can just copy someone else's work? As an innovator, why bother if companies are going to copy your work and eliminate your market advantage, as well as waste all that R&D money?
Research is an incredible money sink, companies that take the financial and image risks on new ideas deserve to be protected and rewarded. The idea that all the WELL-KNOWN research and development that Microsoft has accomplished with their Surface project is not worth anything is just asinine.
BTW, Apple and Microsoft had a patent truce that includes the work MS did in multi-touch.
Seriously, did you fail high school Spanish or just jack up your Google translate? "Huevos" means "eggs". It is as much slang for "testicles" as "nuts". The word is "idiom" which is not the same as slang at all.......
You can install anything you like but that doesn't mean it will work. Microsoft famously broke QuickTime more than once on purpose because they didn't like that installing QuickTime associated all media files with it. This is why all media applications now request which media files you would like to associate with it--has nothing to do with giving consumers choice.
Turning profitable doesn't magically mean your division still isn't in the red. That was an awfully deep hole dug with the originally Xbox to the point that a Sony exec commented that Microsoft's Xbox could bleed money forever and it wouldn't matter to the company while Sony needed PlayStation to be profitable.
Apple locks up component supplies by negotiating massive amounts, this has been known for years. The retina displays may be available to other manufacturers, but most likely not until 2015 or so
I think of Uncharted's cutscenes as the story in between the action, just like Indiana Jones. There is a lull in between the action and, um, that doesn't translate well into game play. Otherwise you have a game like Silent Hill where it's like American Football: a bunch of nose digging punctuated by violence.
OK, just so we are straight here... You think it's OK for an Internet site to teach my daughter about anal sex, when she is obviously looking for something else?
What we need to get straight is that the internet doesn't belong to you, your daughter, your dog, et al. The internet belongs to everyone else. If you have a web site, that belongs to you.
Secondly, as far as forcing lifestyles on people, the Christian church has that whole category dominated and has since, oh, CE 325.
Amazon was first with (legal) DRM-free music (although I personally believe their store sucks in a lot of ways.)
Amazon was also first with showing exactly how grotesque DRM can be by deleting 1984 off of people' Kindles without notification. I mean, the irony to that was so delicious I had to bring tupperware for the leftovers.
Well, the latest data suggests that the egg determines the sex of the baby by which sperm it allows inside (more than one sperm reaches the egg, you know). How that figures in with the day of the week, I don't know. Modern ovum have dayrunners?
I think that you will find in the technology world MBAs and the type typically destroy companies. Look at HP, Yahoo!, AOL...how'd them MBAs work out for 'em?
Um, third party statistic Companies do satisfaction and reliability ratings and surveys all the time. Your Google ain't broke. Apple is not always the most reliable in terms of hardware but it is typically top 3 in reports (Asus is often right with them). I have yet to see a report personally that does not have Apple as number 1 in satisfaction.
Most PC laptops are of garbage build quality. The case is the only thing that differentiates PC laptops from each other and can even be the single most expensive component on a laptop and it is the prime target for reducing cost because it is the one thing OEMs have direct control over.
I have an iPad (1st gen bought in June 2010) and a nook color I bought new in November 2011. I prefer my nook. It is lighter and the screen size makes it easier to hold. I will replace my year old 17" MacBook pro with an Asus Eee pad transformer prime when it comes to retail.
For once I don't think Apple is keeping up with the future. Yes, tablets are where it is going but you can't replace democracy with communism and say it is a better choice because comrade Apple knows how to take care of you because you can't be trusted to take care of yourself.
I had a G1 in May 2009 before I got an iPhone in Feb 2010 and I had it rooted and on the current Cyanogen Mod until then.
#1 Everything about Android says "we don't do polish". It TRULY is the Linux of the smartphone world. I have never been told by anyone at Apple "fix it yourself" after filing a bug report.
#2 Dalvik is SLOOOOOOOW. Every review of Android talks about this magical future where there will be hardware fast enough to run that dog without hiccups and frame drops during even light tasks such as OS transitions.
#3 Hardware less than 6 months old is routinely declared obsolete and will not run the current update. Palm and Apple both have supported their hardware for at least 2 years (wow, that matches up with a cell phone contract) and Apple's support cycle is lengthening with the 3GS being supported for 2+ years already and will run iOS 5.
#4 There is no guarantee that buying the newest, most expensive Android phone is going to be able to run all current Android software. i.e. Flash, Netflix
#5 Android hardware is routinely shipped without software to support it. Yay! I have a forward facing camera! Oh, but I have no way to use it without scouring the Market for a crappy piece of 3rd party software.
#6 Google gladly accepts malware to the Market.
#7 Google seems to believe it never has to update its own built-in apps. There are dumb phones and feature phones that have better media players than what Google ships. Plus have you ever tried to use the Email application? Boy, you better hope you never have to. It feels like trying to get email to work on a Newton and pretty much looks like email on the Newton.
#8 There is no standard way to connect peripherals of any kind. Apple OWNS this. Palm definitely has some great ideas with this using Touchstone tech.
#9 Uh, multitouch, where are you?
#10 Entering any personal information on Android is like writing on a bathroom stall at a gas station. That's Google's fault for not putting safeguards in place that don't allow 3rd party apps to access it. But that would be counter to Google's insatiable appetite for personal information gathering.
I really liked WebOS and that as coming from using both Android (which just always seemed unfinished) and iPhone. I just thought the hardware was garbage after returning 3 Pre Plus for different reasons. And after iPhone 4 you just can't market a smartphone without a retina display and charge as much if not more than an iPhone, it just looks like you're not serious about competing.
Optical disc drives are slow, bulky, not easily RW and have limited capacity. In fact, every disc-based drive is slow when compared to solid state. Solid state was heralded as the future of discs in the late 90's, and would have been, except all of a sudden hard drives shot up in capacity and prices plummeted.
Optical discs are the new cassette tape. Go back to telling kids to get off your lawn.
Meh, depends on the flash drive. If it's not read only and is slick, I would buy another version of Lion just for the novelty of an Apple flash drive, no different than collector's edition video games.
Lion's install is like Snow Leopard's install. It creates a temporary system folder on the boot drive and then reboots using that (my install didn't delete the folder after reboot, had to do it manually). Windows installs do the same thing, IIRC.
The InstallESD.dmg is a generic installation disk. If you don't purchase Lion (or use an App Store account that has) you cannot use the internet recovery option that is on the recovery partition, though.
Microsoft and Apple have switched positions. You have GOT to know how much this stings executives at Microsoft and pisses off MS shareholders. MS has already blown that chance at corporate with their phone OS by fucking over the 6.x using companies.
Until 7, it was an easy migration path for corps and simple to upgrade phones for users. Now there is no upgrade path, so the door is open to choose another platform. No other platform than iOS offers businesses the control and abilities they need with a standard hardware interconnect for custom applications. Vertical markets are choosing iOS.
Their only chance really was the consumer market and they fucked that opportunity with the Zune and Kin fiascos.
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Educate yourself about how George W Bush destroyed American public education with "No Child Left Behind". "Teach the Test" is all that matters now and unless you can afford private education, continuing through college (because professors are inundated with "teach the test" students now) all you will end up with is people that want every answer handed to them and refuse any challenge in life.
You obviously haven't used 8 on an SSD system. It's like using a faster, better iPad.
Just because you have some patents doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable.
Just because you've convinced some companies to license your patents and pay you royalties doesn't mean that they are valid or enforceable.
That's pretty much EXACTLY what that means. If you remember (which of course you don't) early versions of Android did not have multi-touch. Android being designed as a Blackberry competitor didn't need it. So Apple uses multi-touch as a main point on their iPhone and suddenly Google adds it. Google doesn't actually infringe on any of these because they don't make their own hardware nor do they sell Android. In the end, manufacturers are free to remove the infringing features from their product, after all, Android is open source so if they choose not to alter Android, it is wilful infringement.
As a company, why bother to spend money to innovate if you can just copy someone else's work? As an innovator, why bother if companies are going to copy your work and eliminate your market advantage, as well as waste all that R&D money?
Research is an incredible money sink, companies that take the financial and image risks on new ideas deserve to be protected and rewarded. The idea that all the WELL-KNOWN research and development that Microsoft has accomplished with their Surface project is not worth anything is just asinine.
BTW, Apple and Microsoft had a patent truce that includes the work MS did in multi-touch.
Seriously, did you fail high school Spanish or just jack up your Google translate? "Huevos" means "eggs". It is as much slang for "testicles" as "nuts". The word is "idiom" which is not the same as slang at all.......
You can install anything you like but that doesn't mean it will work. Microsoft famously broke QuickTime more than once on purpose because they didn't like that installing QuickTime associated all media files with it. This is why all media applications now request which media files you would like to associate with it--has nothing to do with giving consumers choice.
Turning profitable doesn't magically mean your division still isn't in the red. That was an awfully deep hole dug with the originally Xbox to the point that a Sony exec commented that Microsoft's Xbox could bleed money forever and it wouldn't matter to the company while Sony needed PlayStation to be profitable.
Overhead of the OS. MS tried the "stripped down PC" with the Xbox...it's already been tried. Didn't work.
Apple locks up component supplies by negotiating massive amounts, this has been known for years. The retina displays may be available to other manufacturers, but most likely not until 2015 or so
I think of Uncharted's cutscenes as the story in between the action, just like Indiana Jones. There is a lull in between the action and, um, that doesn't translate well into game play. Otherwise you have a game like Silent Hill where it's like American Football: a bunch of nose digging punctuated by violence.
What we need to get straight is that the internet doesn't belong to you, your daughter, your dog, et al. The internet belongs to everyone else. If you have a web site, that belongs to you.
Secondly, as far as forcing lifestyles on people, the Christian church has that whole category dominated and has since, oh, CE 325.
Amazon was first with (legal) DRM-free music (although I personally believe their store sucks in a lot of ways.)
Amazon was also first with showing exactly how grotesque DRM can be by deleting 1984 off of people' Kindles without notification. I mean, the irony to that was so delicious I had to bring tupperware for the leftovers.
Well, the latest data suggests that the egg determines the sex of the baby by which sperm it allows inside (more than one sperm reaches the egg, you know). How that figures in with the day of the week, I don't know. Modern ovum have dayrunners?
I think that you will find in the technology world MBAs and the type typically destroy companies. Look at HP, Yahoo!, AOL...how'd them MBAs work out for 'em?
Um, third party statistic Companies do satisfaction and reliability ratings and surveys all the time. Your Google ain't broke. Apple is not always the most reliable in terms of hardware but it is typically top 3 in reports (Asus is often right with them). I have yet to see a report personally that does not have Apple as number 1 in satisfaction.
Most PC laptops are of garbage build quality. The case is the only thing that differentiates PC laptops from each other and can even be the single most expensive component on a laptop and it is the prime target for reducing cost because it is the one thing OEMs have direct control over.
I have an iPad (1st gen bought in June 2010) and a nook color I bought new in November 2011. I prefer my nook. It is lighter and the screen size makes it easier to hold. I will replace my year old 17" MacBook pro with an Asus Eee pad transformer prime when it comes to retail.
For once I don't think Apple is keeping up with the future. Yes, tablets are where it is going but you can't replace democracy with communism and say it is a better choice because comrade Apple knows how to take care of you because you can't be trusted to take care of yourself.
It's obvious you've never used CUPS. Even legacy and exotic printers work perfect on Linux. Linux uses the exact same printing system as Mac OS X.
I had a G1 in May 2009 before I got an iPhone in Feb 2010 and I had it rooted and on the current Cyanogen Mod until then.
#1 Everything about Android says "we don't do polish". It TRULY is the Linux of the smartphone world. I have never been told by anyone at Apple "fix it yourself" after filing a bug report.
#2 Dalvik is SLOOOOOOOW. Every review of Android talks about this magical future where there will be hardware fast enough to run that dog without hiccups and frame drops during even light tasks such as OS transitions.
#3 Hardware less than 6 months old is routinely declared obsolete and will not run the current update. Palm and Apple both have supported their hardware for at least 2 years (wow, that matches up with a cell phone contract) and Apple's support cycle is lengthening with the 3GS being supported for 2+ years already and will run iOS 5.
#4 There is no guarantee that buying the newest, most expensive Android phone is going to be able to run all current Android software. i.e. Flash, Netflix
#5 Android hardware is routinely shipped without software to support it. Yay! I have a forward facing camera! Oh, but I have no way to use it without scouring the Market for a crappy piece of 3rd party software.
#6 Google gladly accepts malware to the Market.
#7 Google seems to believe it never has to update its own built-in apps. There are dumb phones and feature phones that have better media players than what Google ships. Plus have you ever tried to use the Email application? Boy, you better hope you never have to. It feels like trying to get email to work on a Newton and pretty much looks like email on the Newton.
#8 There is no standard way to connect peripherals of any kind. Apple OWNS this. Palm definitely has some great ideas with this using Touchstone tech.
#9 Uh, multitouch, where are you?
#10 Entering any personal information on Android is like writing on a bathroom stall at a gas station. That's Google's fault for not putting safeguards in place that don't allow 3rd party apps to access it. But that would be counter to Google's insatiable appetite for personal information gathering.
I really liked WebOS and that as coming from using both Android (which just always seemed unfinished) and iPhone. I just thought the hardware was garbage after returning 3 Pre Plus for different reasons. And after iPhone 4 you just can't market a smartphone without a retina display and charge as much if not more than an iPhone, it just looks like you're not serious about competing.
Optical disc drives are slow, bulky, not easily RW and have limited capacity. In fact, every disc-based drive is slow when compared to solid state. Solid state was heralded as the future of discs in the late 90's, and would have been, except all of a sudden hard drives shot up in capacity and prices plummeted.
Optical discs are the new cassette tape. Go back to telling kids to get off your lawn.
Meh, depends on the flash drive. If it's not read only and is slick, I would buy another version of Lion just for the novelty of an Apple flash drive, no different than collector's edition video games.
Lion's install is like Snow Leopard's install. It creates a temporary system folder on the boot drive and then reboots using that (my install didn't delete the folder after reboot, had to do it manually). Windows installs do the same thing, IIRC.
The InstallESD.dmg is a generic installation disk. If you don't purchase Lion (or use an App Store account that has) you cannot use the internet recovery option that is on the recovery partition, though.
Visa charges $33 a chargeback, whether it was authorised or not.
Can't it be both?
Microsoft and Apple have switched positions. You have GOT to know how much this stings executives at Microsoft and pisses off MS shareholders. MS has already blown that chance at corporate with their phone OS by fucking over the 6.x using companies.
Until 7, it was an easy migration path for corps and simple to upgrade phones for users. Now there is no upgrade path, so the door is open to choose another platform. No other platform than iOS offers businesses the control and abilities they need with a standard hardware interconnect for custom applications. Vertical markets are choosing iOS.
Their only chance really was the consumer market and they fucked that opportunity with the Zune and Kin fiascos.