Is this rationale by the same idiot how thinks it's a good idea not to have a way to exit a program?
Today a button on my G2 got bumped, result, a sound player playing a sound over and over again. So obviously I should just exit and it stops? Noooooooo. Instead my choices are: 1) force close 2) figure out the braindamaged UI on the sound player to pause the playback. And then... the app which I don't want running is just sitting there all ready to annoy me again. Force close. Sheesh. What drugs do they put in the iced tea in Mountain View anyway?
Judge Posner of the Seventh US Distric court just ruled that software patents are useless, and basically invalid. I don't see a storm of cases being brought all of the sudden citing this precedent.
Einstein is easily history's most brilliant physicist. The fact that he failed, while succeeding in putting in place much of the groundwork for modern quantum mechanics, is indicative of the difficulty of the problem.
Apple prefer that the font is drawn as close as possible to the correct (on paper) drawing even that does not fit in the grid.
That's just so much self serving Apple blather. Freetype gives you the option, it's just a flag on the render command. Apple just didn't feel like putting in the work to implement hinting, and for some unexplainable reason decided not to use Freetype. As a result, Apple is forced to install higher resolution displays that suck battery, not to mention the battery sucking quad GPUs to got with it. Just to get back to the quality they should have implemented in the first place.
Droid is a great font. I think Roboto (which they introduced in ICS) is even better.
Interesting fact I didn't know until I stumbled on it right now: Apple's iOS font renderer can't do hinting. Apple probably spins this as a "feature" but the practical effect is, they require a much higher pixel density (according to signal theory, as much as 2X) to get text display subjectively as crips as hinted text. Which explains the crazy overprovisioning on iPad 3. It's not so much that Apple thought that shipping lots of extra pixels would be cool, it's that they had no choice because their font renderer is deficient. Of course if Apple were Linux we would just have fixed that. Oh wait, we already did. Apple's big blunder here was rolling their own font render engine in a technical space where Freetype is already definitive.
As someone who hopes that the fragmented android market can compete with apple's patent war... We'll take this victory.. a sour victory... but we'll take it.
What's sour about it? The judge was making fun of Apple, make not mistake about it. As far as fragmented goes... half full/half empty. Where you may see fragmented, I see diversity. Where you may see a divided defense I see strength in numbers.
There are those who still insist Apples are inherently better for graphics, which really isn't true anymore.
I loved the concept of Android, but used an iPhone for the past 3 years. Android has really come a long way in that time. It should be noted that most iOS 5 features existed in Android first. The notion that Android isn't as cool, slick or intuitive as iOS was once true, but no longer is.
I made the switch to a Galaxy S III and it actually exceeded my expectations. The OS is very intuitive, slick and looks really good. The surprising thing is I think the typography is better, which is an area where Apple normally excels. Roboto is just a great looking scalable font.
I find great features every day that I didn't even know about. For example, I set an alarm on my phone to take a nap. It slowly woke me up with soft music like a zen alarm clock.
Android uses Freetype, as all Linux devices do. Freetype is really excellent, especially when using the Droid font family that Google commissioned and released under an open source license.
Apple's signature "band" of metal is one of the few things that stands out on all-screen phones.
They should keep that, and keep selling bumpers to make it work. It's a kind of marker for Apple product lovers, roughly equivalent to hanging fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror.
See, that's the beauty of it. The judge doesn't have to define cool, Apple does. Apple is in court claiming their devices are indistinguishable from Samsung's, at the same time as going on TV claiming there's no comparison. Busted.
the logic of "Samsung's device is sufficiently different from Apple's device as to not risk customer confusion" is sound, but the way the judge went about positing it ('Aw man, this Samsung thing isn't as hip and cool and trendy as the iPad my GGD got me for Kwanzaa") is a bit 3rd grade.
It was just a way to get Apple to shut up. And why should Apple not be treated as a 3rd grader?
for kernel code I'd agree with the C++ exception mechanism complaint
That's a blatant logical falacy from Linus - a straw man. Linus is the only one who talks about using exceptions in kernel. An experienced C++ programmer would just compile with exceptions disabled, as I do in cases like this. And by the way, avoiding exceptions on error paths in normal application programming is just sheer stupidity, usually justified by some kind of ancient lore about overhead.
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2) figure out the braindamaged UI on the sound player to pause the playback.
If you can't figure out how to pause the playback on your sound player, I think you've got bigger problems.
How thoughtful of you. See "brain damaged UI" above.
That just removes the application from the list, doesn't stop it.
Is this rationale by the same idiot how thinks it's a good idea not to have a way to exit a program?
Today a button on my G2 got bumped, result, a sound player playing a sound over and over again. So obviously I should just exit and it stops? Noooooooo. Instead my choices are: 1) force close 2) figure out the braindamaged UI on the sound player to pause the playback. And then... the app which I don't want running is just sitting there all ready to annoy me again. Force close. Sheesh. What drugs do they put in the iced tea in Mountain View anyway?
Judge Posner of the Seventh US Distric court just ruled that software patents are useless, and basically invalid. I don't see a storm of cases being brought all of the sudden citing this precedent.
You will.
Einstein used only one apparatus for experiments: his mind.
Insightful, plausible, and wrong. Which is not in question. He may have failed to notice which country he was talking about.
Einstein is easily history's most brilliant physicist. The fact that he failed, while succeeding in putting in place much of the groundwork for modern quantum mechanics, is indicative of the difficulty of the problem.
Apple prefer that the font is drawn as close as possible to the correct (on paper) drawing even that does not fit in the grid.
That's just so much self serving Apple blather. Freetype gives you the option, it's just a flag on the render command. Apple just didn't feel like putting in the work to implement hinting, and for some unexplainable reason decided not to use Freetype. As a result, Apple is forced to install higher resolution displays that suck battery, not to mention the battery sucking quad GPUs to got with it. Just to get back to the quality they should have implemented in the first place.
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What's offtopic about that?
It was electroweak unification. Important enough.
(So far, all attempts at grand unification have failed, including Einstein's.)
the Concept of civil law has yet to cross the Channel...
The Celts got rid of their Romans long ago and aren't in any particular hurry to have them back.
Droid is a great font. I think Roboto (which they introduced in ICS) is even better.
Interesting fact I didn't know until I stumbled on it right now: Apple's iOS font renderer can't do hinting. Apple probably spins this as a "feature" but the practical effect is, they require a much higher pixel density (according to signal theory, as much as 2X) to get text display subjectively as crips as hinted text. Which explains the crazy overprovisioning on iPad 3. It's not so much that Apple thought that shipping lots of extra pixels would be cool, it's that they had no choice because their font renderer is deficient. Of course if Apple were Linux we would just have fixed that. Oh wait, we already did. Apple's big blunder here was rolling their own font render engine in a technical space where Freetype is already definitive.
WindowsTOGO makes it possible to use a Windows bootcd like Linux users have done for a decade.
Glad to see MS is finally catching up !
These days, ten years is a "fast follow" for Microsoft.
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Common law
Note, it says "is law". Clear enough?
As someone who hopes that the fragmented android market can compete with apple's patent war... We'll take this victory.. a sour victory... but we'll take it.
What's sour about it? The judge was making fun of Apple, make not mistake about it. As far as fragmented goes... half full/half empty. Where you may see fragmented, I see diversity. Where you may see a divided defense I see strength in numbers.
There are those who still insist Apples are inherently better for graphics, which really isn't true anymore.
I loved the concept of Android, but used an iPhone for the past 3 years. Android has really come a long way in that time. It should be noted that most iOS 5 features existed in Android first. The notion that Android isn't as cool, slick or intuitive as iOS was once true, but no longer is.
I made the switch to a Galaxy S III and it actually exceeded my expectations. The OS is very intuitive, slick and looks really good. The surprising thing is I think the typography is better, which is an area where Apple normally excels. Roboto is just a great looking scalable font.
I find great features every day that I didn't even know about. For example, I set an alarm on my phone to take a nap. It slowly woke me up with soft music like a zen alarm clock.
Android uses Freetype, as all Linux devices do. Freetype is really excellent, especially when using the Droid font family that Google commissioned and released under an open source license.
Apple's signature "band" of metal is one of the few things that stands out on all-screen phones.
They should keep that, and keep selling bumpers to make it work. It's a kind of marker for Apple product lovers, roughly equivalent to hanging fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror.
It's doubtful the judge meant it in a complimentary way.
See, that's the beauty of it. The judge doesn't have to define cool, Apple does. Apple is in court claiming their devices are indistinguishable from Samsung's, at the same time as going on TV claiming there's no comparison. Busted.
A judge's decision is not "law". It may serve as precedent, depending, but it is not law.
Wrrrrrrrrronnnnnnnnnggg. The core concept of common law seems to escaped you.
the logic of "Samsung's device is sufficiently different from Apple's device as to not risk customer confusion" is sound, but the way the judge went about positing it ('Aw man, this Samsung thing isn't as hip and cool and trendy as the iPad my GGD got me for Kwanzaa") is a bit 3rd grade.
It was just a way to get Apple to shut up. And why should Apple not be treated as a 3rd grader?
That just might be one shrewd Judge!
That is apparent, and with a dry sense of humour.
for kernel code I'd agree with the C++ exception mechanism complaint
That's a blatant logical falacy from Linus - a straw man. Linus is the only one who talks about using exceptions in kernel. An experienced C++ programmer would just compile with exceptions disabled, as I do in cases like this. And by the way, avoiding exceptions on error paths in normal application programming is just sheer stupidity, usually justified by some kind of ancient lore about overhead.