Let's look at what made Silicon Valley grow so fast (I'm talking about 1970's here, which for some factors is very different than the situation today):
1. Cheap office / factory rent
2. Proximity to top tech universities and government research labs
3. Pleasant climate
Do any of those apply to East London? It seems to me the politicians proposing this are only seeing...
If you bothered to read yourself, you would see that the Apple patent tries to cover both what Locale does (claims 1 - 14), and what you claim the patent is for (claims 15 - 29).
Most of the claims in that patent are standard features of Locale, one of the Google Android Developer Challenge winners from the launch period of Android. Locale was publically demonstrated at MIT in early May 2008, almost 2 months before Apple filed their patent. Only claim 10 (phone refusing to leave sleep mode within an area), which probably is not technically feasible unless by "sleep mode" they just mean display backlight off, and claims 15 onward (which require infrastructure) are not preempted by Locale.
you can't patent ideas, most of the iOS patents are for specific implementations on the current touch screen tech. the fact that we had some kind of pinch to zoom 20 years ago has no bearing on current tech. different screens, different algorithms need to be created.
9 May 2008: Android application to dynamically change device settings based on location publically reported on in tech press. 22 June 2008: Apple files patent for that exact idea. Now that's what I call innovation.
Meanwhile, Apple was granted a number of new patents on Tuesday, including one for changing settings on a wireless device depending on its location
It seems like an interesting strategy for Apple to protect the reputation of their restricted development platform by patenting technologies that are already used in Android applications which demonstrate clearly the benefit of a more open approach. Sadly the patent will probably hold up, as the first public release of Locale seems to have been in October 2008, 3 - 4 months after the Apple patent was filed. The patent application would have still been non-public at that point, so rather than the Locale developers copying Apple, I suspect both were inspired by the same presentation from somewhere; Apple's approach was to patent the ideas they'd got from elsewhere and sit on it, the Android approach was to make an app and get it out there.
If I had teenaged daughters, between Cher Wang and Paris Hilton, I know which daughter of the rich and powerful I'd want them to aspire to be like. There's nothing wrong with making the most of your huge head start to produce something wonderful of your own. It certainly beats pissing it away in an attention seeking life devoid of any real value.
Likewise, I write with my left hand, but I've always used mice and trackpads right handed, and even feel awkward using them left handed when I tried. Unlike you, I play bat and club sports left handed, but in racquet sports I switch hands at random, and I shave and brush my teeth with my right hand. Like you, I broke my left arm as a child and spent about 4 months learning to do everything with my right hand.
If phones can be banned for using pinch to zoom, why not ban them all?
Apple would have to start a new court case for that. They named the phones up front for this case, extending the scope now after the trial is over is not legally possible. As for the ban, it has been in place since the start of the case, Apple is just requesting it to become permanent for these phones, so unless Samsung manages somehow to get the appeal court to quickly overturn the ban until the case is heard, I'd expect the ban to be enforced immediately. I wonder how much of their bond Apple will need to fork over for the Nexus S, and Galaxy Tab though, since they were not found to be infringing.
it's already running Jelly Bean to boot which afaik the S2 isn't yet.
CM10 runs quite nicely on the S2, but the outcome of this case probably scuttles any future official JB release, as the budget for continued support for this phone won't be justifiable if the sales have to suddenly halt like this.
Not indirectly. They licensed it from the chip maker. They presented the receipts in court which is why Samsung's patents were considered exhausted.
Wait, so Samsung could have provided third party receipts in defence of Apple's allegations of patent infringement too? Why didn't their lawyers think of that one?
PJ has been extremely anti-Apple and pro-Samsung in this case
Not really. She stated quite clearly at the start of her coverage that she was concentrating on presenting Samsung's side of the story, not because she was anti-Apple, or pro-Samsung, but because Apple was doing a good job of promoting its side in the mainstream media and Samsung's case was not getting much press outside the Android supporter community. She said then that she didn't know which way the case would go, and that Apple probably had more of a case than widely believed.
The testes are towards the outside of the body and vulnerable to all sorts of things, while the ovaries are better protected
Which doesn't have anything to do with genetic damage to the cells within. We already knew that older mothers are more susceptable to passing on genetic mutation as they age, all this research is showing is that men's DNA gets damaged too. Previously we blamed the genetic damage passed on by mothers to the fact that eggs are created in a woman's body before puberty, and slowly released, while men manufacture fresh sperm throughout their lifetimes. But if men are similarly passing on genetic damage as they age, then this theory needs to be rethought. Probably egg cells are no more likely to mutate as they age than any other cell in your body, and cell division of mutated cells produces... mutated cells, so the benefit of manufacturing fresh sperm cells is non-existent from a genetic damage point of view.
Isn't it illegal in Germany to work more than 45 (or 48?) hours a week, long term? I thought that was a Europe-wide thing, and only UK law lets the employee opt-out "voluntarily".
In UK, NZ, and I presume Australia too, the reason people pay for private health insurance is to get a bed in a private room when/if they require hospitilization, and to get on a shorter waiting list for tests and treatments for non-life-threatening conditions. If you're prepared to slum it in a shared ward with other patients and wait a few months to get surgery on that low level knee pain that's been annoying you for years, then the NHS is perfectly adequate, and will kick into action quickly and efficiently when you really need it.
The result is that how Mexicans are treated is very much a function of where they live. Lucila Rivera Díaz, 36, comes from one of the poorest regions in Guerrero. She said doctors there told her to take her mother, who they suspected had liver cancer, for tests in the neighboring state of Morelos.
Sounds like the problems the opponents to universal health care in the States are always worried about.
So these opponents of universal health care have an alternate system where people from the poorest areas get top class care without needing to travel to better equipped areas?
I notice one of them actually works, the other is a piece of plastic with a print of a newspaper stuck to it.
The creator of which one should be rewarded? (think carefully before you answer)
It is perfectly reasonable to expect both to be rewarded. What is not reasonable is to reward the creator of the second, working, tablet by blocking any competition that also produces a working tablet with a similar design to the first non-working tablet.
But the RAZR has enumerated, the PC just doesn't have any drivers for any of the protocols it supports. At that point, it would still be entirely within the standard to ramp up to 500mA (ramp up, because it needs to allow for unpowered hubs with other devices connected, in which case the total current available to it may be less than the 500mA the PC port can provide).
I somehow it' would be less expensive for the host hardware (radio, alarm clock, etc.) to have a USB host controller chip + decoding hardware to decode the signal and translate it to audio/video + developing (or licensing the software than.... connecting to the appropriate pin and letting the device that already has the hardware do the work.
Only because Bose's patent extortion for "an amplified speaker with digital input" is more expensive than Apple's license fee for their patented connector.
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Do any of those apply to East London? It seems to me the politicians proposing this are only seeing...
If you bothered to read yourself, you would see that the Apple patent tries to cover both what Locale does (claims 1 - 14), and what you claim the patent is for (claims 15 - 29).
Most of the claims in that patent are standard features of Locale, one of the Google Android Developer Challenge winners from the launch period of Android. Locale was publically demonstrated at MIT in early May 2008, almost 2 months before Apple filed their patent. Only claim 10 (phone refusing to leave sleep mode within an area), which probably is not technically feasible unless by "sleep mode" they just mean display backlight off, and claims 15 onward (which require infrastructure) are not preempted by Locale.
Vel, is that you?
9 May 2008: Android application to dynamically change device settings based on location publically reported on in tech press. 22 June 2008: Apple files patent for that exact idea. Now that's what I call innovation.
It seems like an interesting strategy for Apple to protect the reputation of their restricted development platform by patenting technologies that are already used in Android applications which demonstrate clearly the benefit of a more open approach. Sadly the patent will probably hold up, as the first public release of Locale seems to have been in October 2008, 3 - 4 months after the Apple patent was filed. The patent application would have still been non-public at that point, so rather than the Locale developers copying Apple, I suspect both were inspired by the same presentation from somewhere; Apple's approach was to patent the ideas they'd got from elsewhere and sit on it, the Android approach was to make an app and get it out there.
Maybe he didn't go to hospital, maybe he went to Utah where he now lives with his 3 wives and 11 children.
Don't Panic. The government will be selective, only a few people will go to jail.
If I had teenaged daughters, between Cher Wang and Paris Hilton, I know which daughter of the rich and powerful I'd want them to aspire to be like. There's nothing wrong with making the most of your huge head start to produce something wonderful of your own. It certainly beats pissing it away in an attention seeking life devoid of any real value.
Likewise, I write with my left hand, but I've always used mice and trackpads right handed, and even feel awkward using them left handed when I tried. Unlike you, I play bat and club sports left handed, but in racquet sports I switch hands at random, and I shave and brush my teeth with my right hand. Like you, I broke my left arm as a child and spent about 4 months learning to do everything with my right hand.
Apple produced receipts from Intel as a defense for their use of Samsung technology inside Qualcomm chips? Even curiouser.
Apple would have to start a new court case for that. They named the phones up front for this case, extending the scope now after the trial is over is not legally possible. As for the ban, it has been in place since the start of the case, Apple is just requesting it to become permanent for these phones, so unless Samsung manages somehow to get the appeal court to quickly overturn the ban until the case is heard, I'd expect the ban to be enforced immediately. I wonder how much of their bond Apple will need to fork over for the Nexus S, and Galaxy Tab though, since they were not found to be infringing.
CM10 runs quite nicely on the S2, but the outcome of this case probably scuttles any future official JB release, as the budget for continued support for this phone won't be justifiable if the sales have to suddenly halt like this.
Wait, so Samsung could have provided third party receipts in defence of Apple's allegations of patent infringement too? Why didn't their lawyers think of that one?
Not really. She stated quite clearly at the start of her coverage that she was concentrating on presenting Samsung's side of the story, not because she was anti-Apple, or pro-Samsung, but because Apple was doing a good job of promoting its side in the mainstream media and Samsung's case was not getting much press outside the Android supporter community. She said then that she didn't know which way the case would go, and that Apple probably had more of a case than widely believed.
Which doesn't have anything to do with genetic damage to the cells within. We already knew that older mothers are more susceptable to passing on genetic mutation as they age, all this research is showing is that men's DNA gets damaged too. Previously we blamed the genetic damage passed on by mothers to the fact that eggs are created in a woman's body before puberty, and slowly released, while men manufacture fresh sperm throughout their lifetimes. But if men are similarly passing on genetic damage as they age, then this theory needs to be rethought. Probably egg cells are no more likely to mutate as they age than any other cell in your body, and cell division of mutated cells produces... mutated cells, so the benefit of manufacturing fresh sperm cells is non-existent from a genetic damage point of view.
Isn't it illegal in Germany to work more than 45 (or 48?) hours a week, long term? I thought that was a Europe-wide thing, and only UK law lets the employee opt-out "voluntarily".
In UK, NZ, and I presume Australia too, the reason people pay for private health insurance is to get a bed in a private room when/if they require hospitilization, and to get on a shorter waiting list for tests and treatments for non-life-threatening conditions. If you're prepared to slum it in a shared ward with other patients and wait a few months to get surgery on that low level knee pain that's been annoying you for years, then the NHS is perfectly adequate, and will kick into action quickly and efficiently when you really need it.
So these opponents of universal health care have an alternate system where people from the poorest areas get top class care without needing to travel to better equipped areas?
And since when did Eugenics become socially acceptable outside of Nazi Germany?
It is perfectly reasonable to expect both to be rewarded. What is not reasonable is to reward the creator of the second, working, tablet by blocking any competition that also produces a working tablet with a similar design to the first non-working tablet.
I think you'll find it easier to find a DAC and a few resistors and capacitors at your local tinkerers shop than an iPod connector.
I think the GP is referring to Samsung's tablets. They do have a proprietary connector.
But the RAZR has enumerated, the PC just doesn't have any drivers for any of the protocols it supports. At that point, it would still be entirely within the standard to ramp up to 500mA (ramp up, because it needs to allow for unpowered hubs with other devices connected, in which case the total current available to it may be less than the 500mA the PC port can provide).
Only because Bose's patent extortion for "an amplified speaker with digital input" is more expensive than Apple's license fee for their patented connector.