Even though the wireless LAN stuff puts out non-ionizing radiation, it still can have an effect on your health, just like a cell phone. I would reccommend not holding your Visor with the Bluetooth module up to your ear to listen to a RealAudio stream.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's a difference between fair use and making money from a product. In the original article the idea was of reverse enginnering and making money from that. That's illegal, as it should be. But reverse engineering and never making money, or reverse engineering with permission is a totally different matter.
Well, ideas have been patented in the mechanical industry before (tounge in cheek: that's why they were originated!) but as far as I can tell, there's never been a successful suit about a clean-room implementation. Even Microsoft just gave up trying to force a "clean room" implementation of NTFS for Linux. (The company participating also licenced the NTFS source from MS.)
Once the patent runs out, go ahead and clean-room all you like.
Whoa! You have fair use rights as an individual, not as a company. Fair use does not extend to making money off of somebody else's copyrighted work. That is legally defined as theft.
Lol... that project was killed when Jobs joined the team. OS X is completely different, and it's right on target for their rollout schedule (+- usual computer timeline drift)
What Jobs says is true on more levels than you think - you think he's talking fruit interface, but in reality he's also talking technology. Just like the Audi TT is not much more than an incremental improvement in look, so is MacOS X (probably Aqua was not even in planning whan the Enlightenment project started). But in more ways than not, MacOS X is the true realisation of the evolution of computer OS's - one of the first revolutionary 80's OS's, NeXT finds its way into the consumer-level device. Be, Inc., an early 90's revolutionary, has their BeIA finding its way into consumer-level devices. It's finally happening.
Believe it or not, Cocoa will eventually catch on, and be emulated. Expect.NET to be not just a Java competitor, but a Cocoa-like layer - Microsoft knows their API is outdated and needs replacing. That's what Jobs means with his statement - OSX has the right combination of (r)evolutionary ideas that will be emulated in things like Microsoft.NET.
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IPv6, wherefore art thou? My watch needs an IP!
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's a difference between fair use and making money from a product. In the original article the idea was of reverse enginnering and making money from that. That's illegal, as it should be. But reverse engineering and never making money, or reverse engineering with permission is a totally different matter.
Once the patent runs out, go ahead and clean-room all you like.
Whoa! You have fair use rights as an individual, not as a company. Fair use does not extend to making money off of somebody else's copyrighted work. That is legally defined as theft.
Lol... that project was killed when Jobs joined the team. OS X is completely different, and it's right on target for their rollout schedule (+- usual computer timeline drift)
Believe it or not, Cocoa will eventually catch on, and be emulated. Expect .NET to be not just a Java competitor, but a Cocoa-like layer - Microsoft knows their API is outdated and needs replacing. That's what Jobs means with his statement - OSX has the right combination of (r)evolutionary ideas that will be emulated in things like Microsoft .NET.