The first iPhone was launched January 9, 2007, a full year after the LG Prada
Nope. From the very same Wikipedia you linked (emphasis mine): "[The LG Prada] was first announced on December 12, 2006. An official press release showing an image of the device appeared on January 18, 2007. Sales started in May 2007." Sales of iPhone began in June, 2007.
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."... "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product."...
Those statements are entirely consistent. In the first case, Jobs is talking about ideas; in the second, he is talking about the implementation of ideas. It's the difference between an artist creating original art after being inspired by another artist, and an art student painting yet another copy of the Mona Lisa.
Did you just google "Samsung sue Apple" and posted the first link that you found without reading the article? Wow.
I read the article, and, unlike you, I comprehended it as well. If you'll notice, the sentence that you quoted and bolded says that Apple filed a complaint in U.S. federal court. The suit that so badly backfired on Samsung was filed by them, against Apple, in Germany.
Um, your link itself explains that Apple sued Samsung first...
Um, my link itself explains that Apple sued Samsung first in the United States, but that Samsung sued Apple first in Japan and Germany. This article is about the lawsuit that Samsung brought against Apple in Germany.
Samsung filed this suit against Apple, not the other way around. How weak must their case be that after suing Apple, the judge rules that Samsung's own products be pulled from the shelves?
I don't think it's a matter of charging $4 "for the privilege." Having an iPod-optimized version of the movie available on the DVD is an added value. It's not always a trivial matter to rip a DVD and transcode it efficiently for an iPod. It's time-consuming, if nothing else. Being able to drag a single file from a DVD into iTunes and onto your iPod is definitely more convenient. Whether that convenience is worth $4 is up to you.
I saw these guys perform a couple of years ago at a Howard Dean rally. They appeared as "The Folksmen" from "A Mighty Wind," and they rocked the house. (Or, more accurately, I guess, they folked the house.)
No matter how cool "You had me at scrolling" is, you can't tell iPhone to do something with your voice. You can in fact do with with a Windows Mobile 5.0 device.
Just because Steve Jobs didn't announce voice control as a feature doesn't mean that the iPhone can't do it. The iPhone runs OS X Leopard, and voice control has been a standard feature of OS X since Tiger. Apple calls it Speech. It ties in automatically with the names in your Address Book, too, so Apple would have to expend roughly zero effort making it all work on an iPhone. I'd be willing to bet that voice control shows up as a feature of the iPhone eventually. There's no technological reason for it not to be.
"What's next, the NY Times not agreeing with the president on Iraq?"
Unless that was an attempt at irony, you really should pay closer attention to current events. The New York Times was pro-war from the beginning. Remember Judith Miller, the NY Times reporter who ended up in jail for contempt during Scooter Libby's grand jury hearing? She wrote one article after another for the Times backing up the Bush Administration's false claims of WMD. She was their star reporter, their headlining act, the woman with the (erroneous) inside information. When Joseph Wilson wrote his op-ed piece calling out Bush on his State of the Union lie, Scooter Libby leaked information to Judith Miller that he hoped would discredit Wilson. That's how she ended up in jail, because she refused to reveal Libby as her source. There's lots more to the story, but the crux of the matter is that the only difference between the New York Times and the New York Post as regards the war in Iraq is that the Times uses a classier typeface.
Since Apple's move to Intel processors and the recent releases of Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation, running Windows within or beside Mac OS X is suddenly all the rage. My question is, has anyone thought to use Boot Camp to load Windows, and then use a Windows virtualization solution to run OS X inside of Windows-on-a-Mac? I'd try it myself, but I fear that I might rip a hole in the fabric of space-time.
I think some of the bad response is from other actual musicians. The generally amazing reception this guy is getting is a real shot to musicians who know it's just a hack job.
I was speaking as a musician myself. I went to Berklee College of Music as a composition/arrangement major, and played in some of their very top bands -- world-class by any measure. I also won a sizable scholarship to go there in a nationwide, Berklee-sponsored jazz competition. I mention this only because I consider myself a pretty fair judge of musical ability, and i have the credentials to back it up.
That said, I think this guy is both "amazing" and "accomplished." And yes, he's a little sloppy, too, but I suspect that with a few more years under his belt (he's only 18, after all), and some more training, he'll clean up his act. Still, that's beside the point. Even if he sucked -- which he clearly doesn't -- he's still doing interesting and innovative stuff for the love of the art. In particular, I was impressed with his community-based sheet music archive. That's the sort of thing that I figured a bunch of Linux programmers could appreciate and applaud. I figured wrong.
The majority of the replies in this forum are downright contemptible.
Here is a humble and talented teenager who is producing fun and original arrangements of video game music because he obviously loves to do it. He set up a free video game sheet music archive and community, and his videos and audio are free to download as well. Read some of his words, and you'll find that he's a really smart and sweet guy, and there's not a picture in his gallery where he's not wearing an ear-to-ear grin. For good measure, he's even a chess champion.
And yet, all anyone here seems to be concerned about is his tempo and the occasional wrong note, instead of appreciating his ability and his spirit. "He's not that great." "This is nothing special." "Anyone can do it with a little practice." I would have thought that a unique young talent who's doing what he does for the love of the art would find a better reception on Slashdot. I'm sorry to see that I'm so very wrong.
As Cartman says, "Screw you guys. I'm going home."
On OS-X, at least, it installs itself automatically when doing an Acrobat Reader installation. I had to manually uninstall it from the Internet Plug-ins folder in order to use the significantly faster Schubert PDF Browser Plugin.
A few others have mentioned examples of their own docks, so I guess I should do likewise. (This is off-topic, perhaps, because I didn't use DHTML - I used Flash.)
Here's an early attempt I did a couple of years ago for my very first Flash site. The icons magnify when scrubbing through them, but the dock doesn't grow dynamically when it's moused over (although it does make noise).
Here's a much more robust version that I did last week. There's a lot of functionality that's not being exploited in this version, for design reasons. For example, it can handle drop shadows which get blurrier and move further away from the magnified icon, so it looks more realistically like it's lifting off the page. Also, I can make my dock work just like the now-defunct Google dock just by changing a few variables.
True, except that in the case of Zoe Baird, her nanny problem was the actual reason for her withdrawal from consideration. For Kerik, it's a smokescreen. His real problems involve shady business dealings, a 1998 arrest warrant, and mob ties, among other things.
((( Let Apple take BSD, let them sell it. But they should also contribute their code back to the projects as everyone else does. )))
that's precisely what they did with their darwin operating system, available here
if you poke around a bit, you'll also find rendezvous and quicktime streaming server available for download, as well as the significant changes made to khtml and kjs (called "webcore" and "javascriptcore" on apple's site) ? this all rather puts the lie to your statement that apple doesn't give back to the community
note that apple was not compelled to release any of this, but rather, they chose to do so
((( Yes, it is neat and does look cool, but is still not a programming language, nor does it have any tie-in to a programming language. )))
it is a programming language, and a robust one at that -- in fact, i'm hard-pressed to think of a task that actionscript can't handle: it can parse xml, dynamically load and play mp3 files, create accessible content, play video, access databases, control other flash movies, create user-editable vector shapes... it's got editable interface components like scroll bars and radio button clusters, it handles unicode and rich text fields, it can converse with director and javascript, it can integrate with application servers to create dynamic content, and it has chat functionality
((( ActionScripting is great, but it can't handle the functions required to create a commercial application, apart from CBT type educational programs, and even then Director is preferred over Flash. )))
having programmed in both director and flash, i can tell you that there is very little that director can do that flash can't, short of controlling video hardware or manipulating 3d content; flash, on the other hand, by virtue of its capacity for multiple timelines, can do quite a few things, simply and elegantly, that are impossible to replicate in director
((( Flash can NOT replace html, because flash is not an open standard. You can not write flash with vi. Flash is a commercial and proprietary product.)))
flash isn't "open," but it is publicly viewable, and the actionscript spec is open as well... you probably wouldn't want to write flash with vi, because your actionscripts are always attached to a flash object or frame, but there are plenty of third-party programs that edit and generate.swf files, and adobe even sells a competing program (livemotion) that uses actionscript (or perhaps a clone) as its scripting language
((( IF you're looking for "Potential power potent enough to alter the web" you need to look into XML. )))
among its many, many other talents, flash can parse and generate xml
((( Flash holds nothing for the power of the web. )))
spoken like someone who's never programmed in flash
having downloaded a few loops (they'll make great screensavers), i'm now torn between two equal desires: part of me wants to research the proof of fermat's last theoren, while another part of me wants to put on some hendrix, drop some acid and stare at an endless escher loop for a few days
(((...unless, of course, they do something to sweeten the deal, like give me a bunch of extra storage... )))
well, actually, they did: the new.mac service comes with 100 megs of storage, plus 15 megs for e-mail... it also comes with a retail copy of macafee antivirus, and backup software that will save to cd-r, dvd or idisk... all in all, a pretty decent deal for $49/$99
you and your ten friends, besides being thieves, are windows users -- you buy (or steal) windows software, play windows games, live a windows lifestyle... you've done more to help microsoft than to hurt them
if everyone did what you did, microsoft might be poorer, but they'd still be the dominant operating system vendor, and they'd probably be putting even more copy protection software like product activation into their wares, which is a hassle for legitimate users
if you want to be part of the solution instead of remaining a petty thief, look into linux (and legitimately give it away to all your friends) or mac os-x, and stop giving microsoft more market share
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Nope. From the very same Wikipedia you linked (emphasis mine): "[The LG Prada] was first announced on December 12, 2006. An official press release showing an image of the device appeared on January 18, 2007. Sales started in May 2007." Sales of iPhone began in June, 2007.
Those statements are entirely consistent. In the first case, Jobs is talking about ideas; in the second, he is talking about the implementation of ideas. It's the difference between an artist creating original art after being inspired by another artist, and an art student painting yet another copy of the Mona Lisa.
Steve Jobs didn't steal the quote. He attributed it to Picasso .
...I'm still not dumb enough to confuse a Galaxy with an iPad.
Looks like you've got Samsung's lawyers beat, then: Even Samsung’s Lawyers Can’t Tell the Difference Between Its Tablet and an iPad
I read the article, and, unlike you, I comprehended it as well. If you'll notice, the sentence that you quoted and bolded says that Apple filed a complaint in U.S. federal court. The suit that so badly backfired on Samsung was filed by them, against Apple, in Germany.
Um, my link itself explains that Apple sued Samsung first in the United States, but that Samsung sued Apple first in Japan and Germany. This article is about the lawsuit that Samsung brought against Apple in Germany.
Samsung filed this suit against Apple, not the other way around. How weak must their case be that after suing Apple, the judge rules that Samsung's own products be pulled from the shelves?
Samsung Electronics Counter Sues Apple as Patent Row Deepens
3: Plan disconnection of HAL.
I'm sorry you feel the way you do, Dave. If you'd like to check my service record, you'll see it's completely without error.
I would literally go down the list of every decision George Bush has made in office, and then do the opposite.
I don't think it's a matter of charging $4 "for the privilege." Having an iPod-optimized version of the movie available on the DVD is an added value. It's not always a trivial matter to rip a DVD and transcode it efficiently for an iPod. It's time-consuming, if nothing else. Being able to drag a single file from a DVD into iTunes and onto your iPod is definitely more convenient. Whether that convenience is worth $4 is up to you.
I saw these guys perform a couple of years ago at a Howard Dean rally. They appeared as "The Folksmen" from "A Mighty Wind," and they rocked the house. (Or, more accurately, I guess, they folked the house.)
"What's next, the NY Times not agreeing with the president on Iraq?"
Unless that was an attempt at irony, you really should pay closer attention to current events. The New York Times was pro-war from the beginning. Remember Judith Miller, the NY Times reporter who ended up in jail for contempt during Scooter Libby's grand jury hearing? She wrote one article after another for the Times backing up the Bush Administration's false claims of WMD. She was their star reporter, their headlining act, the woman with the (erroneous) inside information. When Joseph Wilson wrote his op-ed piece calling out Bush on his State of the Union lie, Scooter Libby leaked information to Judith Miller that he hoped would discredit Wilson. That's how she ended up in jail, because she refused to reveal Libby as her source. There's lots more to the story, but the crux of the matter is that the only difference between the New York Times and the New York Post as regards the war in Iraq is that the Times uses a classier typeface.
Since Apple's move to Intel processors and the recent releases of Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation, running Windows within or beside Mac OS X is suddenly all the rage. My question is, has anyone thought to use Boot Camp to load Windows, and then use a Windows virtualization solution to run OS X inside of Windows-on-a-Mac? I'd try it myself, but I fear that I might rip a hole in the fabric of space-time.
I was speaking as a musician myself. I went to Berklee College of Music as a composition/arrangement major, and played in some of their very top bands -- world-class by any measure. I also won a sizable scholarship to go there in a nationwide, Berklee-sponsored jazz competition. I mention this only because I consider myself a pretty fair judge of musical ability, and i have the credentials to back it up.
That said, I think this guy is both "amazing" and "accomplished." And yes, he's a little sloppy, too, but I suspect that with a few more years under his belt (he's only 18, after all), and some more training, he'll clean up his act. Still, that's beside the point. Even if he sucked -- which he clearly doesn't -- he's still doing interesting and innovative stuff for the love of the art. In particular, I was impressed with his community-based sheet music archive. That's the sort of thing that I figured a bunch of Linux programmers could appreciate and applaud. I figured wrong.
The majority of the replies in this forum are downright contemptible.
Here is a humble and talented teenager who is producing fun and original arrangements of video game music because he obviously loves to do it. He set up a free video game sheet music archive and community, and his videos and audio are free to download as well. Read some of his words, and you'll find that he's a really smart and sweet guy, and there's not a picture in his gallery where he's not wearing an ear-to-ear grin. For good measure, he's even a chess champion.
And yet, all anyone here seems to be concerned about is his tempo and the occasional wrong note, instead of appreciating his ability and his spirit. "He's not that great." "This is nothing special." "Anyone can do it with a little practice." I would have thought that a unique young talent who's doing what he does for the love of the art would find a better reception on Slashdot. I'm sorry to see that I'm so very wrong.
As Cartman says, "Screw you guys. I'm going home."
On OS-X, at least, it installs itself automatically when doing an Acrobat Reader installation. I had to manually uninstall it from the Internet Plug-ins folder in order to use the significantly faster Schubert PDF Browser Plugin .
Here's an early attempt I did a couple of years ago for my very first Flash site. The icons magnify when scrubbing through them, but the dock doesn't grow dynamically when it's moused over (although it does make noise).
Here's a much more robust version that I did last week. There's a lot of functionality that's not being exploited in this version, for design reasons. For example, it can handle drop shadows which get blurrier and move further away from the magnified icon, so it looks more realistically like it's lifting off the page. Also, I can make my dock work just like the now-defunct Google dock just by changing a few variables.
that's precisely what they did with their darwin operating system, available here
if you poke around a bit, you'll also find rendezvous and quicktime streaming server available for download, as well as the significant changes made to khtml and kjs (called "webcore" and "javascriptcore" on apple's site) ? this all rather puts the lie to your statement that apple doesn't give back to the community
note that apple was not compelled to release any of this, but rather, they chose to do so
it is a programming language, and a robust one at that -- in fact, i'm hard-pressed to think of a task that actionscript can't handle: it can parse xml, dynamically load and play mp3 files, create accessible content, play video, access databases, control other flash movies, create user-editable vector shapes... it's got editable interface components like scroll bars and radio button clusters, it handles unicode and rich text fields, it can converse with director and javascript, it can integrate with application servers to create dynamic content, and it has chat functionality
((( ActionScripting is great, but it can't handle the functions required to create a commercial application, apart from CBT type educational programs, and even then Director is preferred over Flash. )))
having programmed in both director and flash, i can tell you that there is very little that director can do that flash can't, short of controlling video hardware or manipulating 3d content; flash, on the other hand, by virtue of its capacity for multiple timelines, can do quite a few things, simply and elegantly, that are impossible to replicate in director
((( Flash can NOT replace html, because flash is not an open standard. You can not write flash with vi. Flash is a commercial and proprietary product.)))
flash isn't "open," but it is publicly viewable, and the actionscript spec is open as well... you probably wouldn't want to write flash with vi, because your actionscripts are always attached to a flash object or frame, but there are plenty of third-party programs that edit and generate .swf files, and adobe even sells a competing program (livemotion) that uses actionscript (or perhaps a clone) as its scripting language
((( IF you're looking for "Potential power potent enough to alter the web" you need to look into XML. )))
among its many, many other talents, flash can parse and generate xml
((( Flash holds nothing for the power of the web. )))
spoken like someone who's never programmed in flash
having downloaded a few loops (they'll make great screensavers), i'm now torn between two equal desires: part of me wants to research the proof of fermat's last theoren, while another part of me wants to put on some hendrix, drop some acid and stare at an endless escher loop for a few days
well, actually, they did: the new .mac service comes with 100 megs of storage, plus 15 megs for e-mail... it also comes with a retail copy of macafee antivirus, and backup software that will save to cd-r, dvd or idisk... all in all, a pretty decent deal for $49/$99
hey, me too, particularly the part about 10 raised to an irrational exponent z defined as e^(z ln[10])
here's my simple, two-step process for improving your math skills:
(1) put a calculus book in your bathroom
(2) eat a lot of spicy food
you and your ten friends, besides being thieves, are windows users -- you buy (or steal) windows software, play windows games, live a windows lifestyle... you've done more to help microsoft than to hurt them
if everyone did what you did, microsoft might be poorer, but they'd still be the dominant operating system vendor, and they'd probably be putting even more copy protection software like product activation into their wares, which is a hassle for legitimate users
if you want to be part of the solution instead of remaining a petty thief, look into linux (and legitimately give it away to all your friends) or mac os-x, and stop giving microsoft more market share