Congratulations on the copy-paste job. Now, my suddenly lucid friend, I pose this question to you: why did you, in your previous post, conflate plain induction charging with magnetic resonance?
I can think of three reasons: (a) you didn't bother reading the article before commenting, (b) you didn't actually know the difference at the time you wrote it, or (c) you were attempting to make a very questionable point by being deliberately misleading.
Pray tell, good sir, which one of those options you would prefer us to believe? Because someone who actually had a fucking clue about how the OralB toothbrush actually worked would be unlikely to make such a glaring fucking mistake.
There's nothing more amusing than a slashdotter who thinks he knows everything about patents completely failing to actually grok the technology being discussed.
Imagine, just for a moment, that your Sony DVD player would only play Sony Movies' films. When you decided to buy a new DVD player from Samsung, none of those media files would work on your new kit without some serious fiddling.
That's the walled garden that so many companies are now trying to drag us into. And I think it stinks.
This is a terrible analogy. Actually, it's deliberately misleading. Actually, it's a deliberate distortion, a veritable lie. The iPad (and the iPhone, and for that matter all the Android devices) are perfectly happy to play media from other lots of other sources. This has always been the case, and there's every reason to believe that it will continue to be the case.
The fact that you had to stoop to outright lies and fabrications to make your point speaks volumes about your point. The fact that you felt it necessary to post as an Anonymous Coward speaks volumes about you.
That's not a citation. That's speculation. Just some asshat (much like yourself) who thinks they know what's involved in a global rollout of a mass-market product.
It's a great sign. VC money distorts reality in Silicon Valley. I've lived here for 20-odd years, and VC money is at the root of nearly every problem Silicon Valley has.
Am I expecting grandma to do it? No. Am I the one who sets everything up for Grandma anyways, whether it is an iPad or a Windows box? Yes.
That kind of thinking is what keeps otherwise good products from being considered mass market. It's the kind of thinking that makes linux a nonstarter on the desktop, too. If you had any sense at all, you would realize what a completely stupid attitude that is.
Note the modding abuse. Giving the correct definition of a patent troll gets modded "off topic". The person misusing the term "insightful". How low slashdot has stooped.
Yep. Used to be that Slashdot was merely overrun with misguided linux fanboys pontificating on things that they somehow believed they were experts in (politics, religion, etc) in between bouts of chronic masturbation.
Nowadays, Slashdot is overrun with loudmouth fandroids who are on some kind of god-given mission to prove to everyone around them that Android is The Way and the Truth (or something like that) in between bouts of chronic masturbation.
Having spent the last ten-odd years hanging around slashdot, I feel comfortable making the observation that while the linux fanboys were occasionally annoying, they were on the whole actually intelligent and occasionally had insightful things to say. The fandroids, though, are merely chronic masturbators.
And since I've spent the last decade here amassing a pretty healthy karmic war chest, I can afford to get modded down once in a while.
In English, if you understood it, it's a word. It may not be common or even considered correct, but it's still a word. There is no governing body of the English language.
Slashdot Mirror
Or little-endian.
Congratulations on the copy-paste job. Now, my suddenly lucid friend, I pose this question to you: why did you, in your previous post, conflate plain induction charging with magnetic resonance?
I can think of three reasons: (a) you didn't bother reading the article before commenting, (b) you didn't actually know the difference at the time you wrote it, or (c) you were attempting to make a very questionable point by being deliberately misleading.
Pray tell, good sir, which one of those options you would prefer us to believe? Because someone who actually had a fucking clue about how the OralB toothbrush actually worked would be unlikely to make such a glaring fucking mistake.
There's nothing more amusing than a slashdotter who thinks he knows everything about patents completely failing to actually grok the technology being discussed.
Imagine, just for a moment, that your Sony DVD player would only play Sony Movies' films. When you decided to buy a new DVD player from Samsung, none of those media files would work on your new kit without some serious fiddling.
That's the walled garden that so many companies are now trying to drag us into. And I think it stinks.
This is a terrible analogy. Actually, it's deliberately misleading. Actually, it's a deliberate distortion, a veritable lie. The iPad (and the iPhone, and for that matter all the Android devices) are perfectly happy to play media from other lots of other sources. This has always been the case, and there's every reason to believe that it will continue to be the case.
The fact that you had to stoop to outright lies and fabrications to make your point speaks volumes about your point. The fact that you felt it necessary to post as an Anonymous Coward speaks volumes about you.
My sources say they are going to call the sequel "Vista 2 - Electric Boogaloo"
FTFY.
Go to desktop, go to control panel, in the search box type 'print'.
What is this 'print' you speak of?
I didn't make the allegation. I demanded some evidence for said allegation.
Surely you see the difference.
No, strike that. You almost certainly don't.
That's not a citation. That's speculation. Just some asshat (much like yourself) who thinks they know what's involved in a global rollout of a mass-market product.
You don't. Neither does he. Try again.
Sadly, the guy with mod points (and it was almost certainly a guy) who just modded me down merely proves my point.
You seem confused, bro. Vulture capitalism is a derogatory term for the private equity industry, not the venture capital industry.
You must not live in Silicon Valley.
Citation needed. Provide one or shut the fuck up.
Unfortunately, on Slashdot, "patent troll" means "company I don't like using their patents".
This.
Deliberate production caps on new releases just so they can say they sold out.
Citation, please. Provide it or shut the fuck up.
It's a great sign. VC money distorts reality in Silicon Valley. I've lived here for 20-odd years, and VC money is at the root of nearly every problem Silicon Valley has.
Not trolling. Just expressing the opinion that vulture capital money does more harm than good in Silicon Valley.
Good.
Am I expecting grandma to do it? No. Am I the one who sets everything up for Grandma anyways, whether it is an iPad or a Windows box? Yes.
That kind of thinking is what keeps otherwise good products from being considered mass market. It's the kind of thinking that makes linux a nonstarter on the desktop, too. If you had any sense at all, you would realize what a completely stupid attitude that is.
Nowadays it's Foxconn that creates the products. Apple just tells them how many rows they should add when they increase the version number.
You need to put down the crack pipe, AC. That's about the most retarded thing I've heard anyone on slashdot say, today.
Note the modding abuse. Giving the correct definition of a patent troll gets modded "off topic". The person misusing the term "insightful". How low slashdot has stooped.
Yep. Used to be that Slashdot was merely overrun with misguided linux fanboys pontificating on things that they somehow believed they were experts in (politics, religion, etc) in between bouts of chronic masturbation.
Nowadays, Slashdot is overrun with loudmouth fandroids who are on some kind of god-given mission to prove to everyone around them that Android is The Way and the Truth (or something like that) in between bouts of chronic masturbation.
Having spent the last ten-odd years hanging around slashdot, I feel comfortable making the observation that while the linux fanboys were occasionally annoying, they were on the whole actually intelligent and occasionally had insightful things to say. The fandroids, though, are merely chronic masturbators.
And since I've spent the last decade here amassing a pretty healthy karmic war chest, I can afford to get modded down once in a while.
In English, if you understood it, it's a word. It may not be common or even considered correct, but it's still a word. There is no governing body of the English language.
How about not having a registry to begin with? That seems like maybe a better idea.
mounts it into C:
Didn't you just commit the equivalent of Godwining the thread?
Yeah, I think you did.
Slashdot is a discussion forum?
Huh. Interesting.
So much rage. So little content.
This is easily the stupidest slashdot article I've seen today.