People assume that fandoms are a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
Beyond that, the Crunchpad imitated the ipod touch. Yes, the iPad's a giant ipod touch, but, when you make the ipod touch, you're allowed to ape your own design.
When you fire up Forza one of the legal notices, and yes I noticed this bit of fine print because of Apple's litigation crap, is that design patents are among the things that car manufacturers licensed to Turn Six for Forza.
Try again?
I don't think you're allowed to patent the steering wheel, but AFAIK you are allowed to patent things that make your product different from your competitors.
I disagree. The dock and quick launch bar both are great features. I don't keep more than I need in my dock and I can tell if it's running by the dot underneath. It takes discipline to determine what should be running and what shouldn't but that's not a regular vs power user issue.
The problem the TSA was meant to solve, that lax, and often inconsistent security at individual airports was solved. Unfortunately it's solved in a very WTFy kind of way.
The TSA, or any other massive organization, works in theory, and it only works in practice when morons aren't running it. Unfortunately for us...
As long as the binary format's correct and/or you're not filling/usr/bin or/usr/sbin, or wherever your OS stores binaries with interpreters... What's the problem? I mean, there's the problem of understanding the intricacies of a given language, but...
The real problem is that when all the clever names are taken.
The only language where this is a real problem is javascript.
For web server side scripting, you can replace say. PHP with Python or Ruby with relatively little pain. Sure, you're rewriting all of your logic, but, in the end, moving languages is only as massive as the size of your projects.
For stuff that's more bare metal, replacing anything with anything else this is true too; assuming the linker gives you a binary in the required binary format. Not a big deal right?
The problem with Javascript is that it's the only language we have for web frontend development, and it's horrible too. It's deceptive. It looks simple, but making dynamic changes to HTML entities requires having some idea how classes work so you can do operations on the DOM. Sure, there are frameworks that might simplify this stuff, but, for artistic and creative people(read: largely bad at math), this is problematic. It's very CS202 and having to think rather linearly.
When you realize carriers sell to people who aren't just tech savvy dweebs, and that the number of people who buy smart phones now that don't want the data plan is relatively small....
Yeah, it becomes suddenly not the worst things that Telcos do.
this wasn't even the basis of why Telcos are scum. Smartphones are best when you've got a data plan. A smartphone - data plan = fancy brick that can sometimes make calls.
Could we mod this +1,...something? it's not funny, or even remotely insightful or interesting. But it's nice to see a copy/paste troll have something other than racist, sexist, homophobic or outright ridiculous flame bait.
Although I'm wondering what kind of specs are they going to see out of these things. I'm guessing the MemoryStick Duo experience might have taught Sony a lesson about relying on fungible media. Both MSD and SD Cards have the massive downside of being a nice range of crap to awesome. By restricting the kinds of memory cards the Vita can take, I'm guessing they're trying to make the experience consistent. Like the Mini Disc. The specs of current generation discs were pretty consistent. So, say what you will about MiniDisc, atleast it was consistently awful.
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People assume that fandoms are a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
Duh.
Beyond that, the Crunchpad imitated the ipod touch. Yes, the iPad's a giant ipod touch, but, when you make the ipod touch, you're allowed to ape your own design.
Go on, look at their history - then come back and tell us that Apple hasn't intentionally aped a single Motorola feature.
iTunes compatible music player on a phone. :)
Oh wait...
Cars are not allowed design patents or copyrights
Err, no.
When you fire up Forza one of the legal notices, and yes I noticed this bit of fine print because of Apple's litigation crap, is that design patents are among the things that car manufacturers licensed to Turn Six for Forza.
Try again?
I don't think you're allowed to patent the steering wheel, but AFAIK you are allowed to patent things that make your product different from your competitors.
I disagree. The dock and quick launch bar both are great features. I don't keep more than I need in my dock and I can tell if it's running by the dot underneath. It takes discipline to determine what should be running and what shouldn't but that's not a regular vs power user issue.
What does google have to gain? Unless chrome is spying on you and they're reselling that data... Seems like a giant waste of effort and money.
The problem the TSA was meant to solve, that lax, and often inconsistent security at individual airports was solved. Unfortunately it's solved in a very WTFy kind of way.
The TSA, or any other massive organization, works in theory, and it only works in practice when morons aren't running it. Unfortunately for us...
The Do Not Call list worked pretty well.
The fact that the Cuyahoga doesn't catch fire anymore is also another great indicator...
Names!
As long as the binary format's correct and/or you're not filling /usr/bin or /usr/sbin, or wherever your OS stores binaries with interpreters... What's the problem? I mean, there's the problem of understanding the intricacies of a given language, but...
The real problem is that when all the clever names are taken.
The only language where this is a real problem is javascript.
For web server side scripting, you can replace say. PHP with Python or Ruby with relatively little pain. Sure, you're rewriting all of your logic, but, in the end, moving languages is only as massive as the size of your projects.
For stuff that's more bare metal, replacing anything with anything else this is true too; assuming the linker gives you a binary in the required binary format. Not a big deal right?
The problem with Javascript is that it's the only language we have for web frontend development, and it's horrible too. It's deceptive. It looks simple, but making dynamic changes to HTML entities requires having some idea how classes work so you can do operations on the DOM. Sure, there are frameworks that might simplify this stuff, but, for artistic and creative people(read: largely bad at math), this is problematic. It's very CS202 and having to think rather linearly.
err.
My point was this wasn't a baseless lawsuit. As far as the iPad product name, oops. Granted.
I'm not saying its great, but Myanmar its not.
Shenzhen sold apple the international trademark to "iPad" back in 2006. That's what is up for grabs here.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2011-12/09/c_131297760.htm
Plus never mind they have no product named, "iPad" either.
I could name dozens of companies that are more hated in this world than apple. Xe, Halliburton, BP, News Corp, etc.
Just because you don't like them doesn't mean that it's universal.
When you realize carriers sell to people who aren't just tech savvy dweebs, and that the number of people who buy smart phones now that don't want the data plan is relatively small....
Yeah, it becomes suddenly not the worst things that Telcos do.
Very well actually. We do not live in a dystopian state.
Despite what some people would have you believe.
Windows 95's worst problems weren't the UI.
The UI was quite nice, actually. Especially coming from Windows 3.1/3.11 and never having touched NT4.
this wasn't even the basis of why Telcos are scum. Smartphones are best when you've got a data plan. A smartphone - data plan = fancy brick that can sometimes make calls.
I thought they conclusively demonstrated that it's plausible if not outright confirmed most of the time, it actually IS Lupus.
never mind.
They'd still be the #1 scumbag. Telcos are fucking evil.
are you the same Archangel Michael from The Church of Awesome podcast?
err, turd in a white box? First gen AppleTV, iPod HiFi... I could name a few actual turds in a white box with fruit stamped on the side.
The audience for any given apple product isn't preexisting because we're all hard wired to automatically lust after anything from Cupertino.
Could we mod this +1, ...something? it's not funny, or even remotely insightful or interesting. But it's nice to see a copy/paste troll have something other than racist, sexist, homophobic or outright ridiculous flame bait.
I kind of like it.
I hope Michael Dell take his own advice..
What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders"
This isn't so much a deal breaker for me, I think it's a ridiculously bad idea on Sony's part. This is assuming this is how it all actually pans out.
The real deal breaker for me is if they don't deliver games. I can live with out having a pile of
Although I'm wondering what kind of specs are they going to see out of these things. I'm guessing the MemoryStick Duo experience might have taught Sony a lesson about relying on fungible media. Both MSD and SD Cards have the massive downside of being a nice range of crap to awesome. By restricting the kinds of memory cards the Vita can take, I'm guessing they're trying to make the experience consistent. Like the Mini Disc. The specs of current generation discs were pretty consistent. So, say what you will about MiniDisc, atleast it was consistently awful.