You are completely wrong. If the patent just covered a browser implementation using cookies specifically, then Apple wouldn't have had to license it for itunes. It covers any one click purchasing on a computer over the internet.
Actually, when caught, they just removed the developer's names from the dictionary. When a big deal of it was made, *then* they went to town 'not doing evil'. They still haven't said how it happened; I bet they will quietly settle it, and we will never hear more.
LEO isn't a big deal at all; things catch air there and eventually slow enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Tiny golf ball sized things do it even faster, because smaller things have less mass per unit surface area (which incidentally is why a squirrel can survive a fall from the top of an oak tree while an elephant cannot).
"Google search won out for a lot of the same reasons that Apple products win out, simplicity of design and usability"
You're forgeting a patented search algorithm that was at the time thousands of times better than anything the competition had. If they had had a simple design, and a search engine that didn't work, they wouldn't have come close to where they are.
"Again, Apple and Google succeed at being cool because..."
You do realize Google failed at 'being cool' with Google Video, and they did exactly what the article talks about, only moreso; they literally bought 'cool', that is to say, they bought Youtube.
Are you serious? These rich idiots are what is *right* with the world. They controlled a giant chunk of money and spent it on a *diamond*. If they paid to have people dig a big hole and then fill it back up, then we would have some serious waste to worry about. As it is, people like this are just trading for a limited number of worthless trinkets without hurting anyone (except the diamond miners in africa who had their hands cut off, etc. etc.)
The shock was that now my dad wants to know about Wii Bowling. I'm calling the Department of Domestic Abuse right now. You're a brave little boy, hang in there.
Oh wow, Mr. Armchair Politician just solved the whole patent problem! How, Mr. Armchair Politician, do you suppose we would measure 'building something or licensing the patent'? I could license it to my grandma. I could build a purposely shitty implementation with virtually no public visibility just so I could pull the same shit that happens today.
That's the most neurotic post I've read in a long while. Do you worry that random strangers in the supermarket are talking about you each time you turn your back to them?
If you're working on the weekend so that you can do other work tuesday, it is like you are competing in a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie.
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Yeah Ace, you're really voting with your wallet by going for DVD--one of the most DRM laden technologies ever (even if it has been broken).
You are completely wrong. If the patent just covered a browser implementation using cookies specifically, then Apple wouldn't have had to license it for itunes. It covers any one click purchasing on a computer over the internet.
Actually, when caught, they just removed the developer's names from the dictionary. When a big deal of it was made, *then* they went to town 'not doing evil'. They still haven't said how it happened; I bet they will quietly settle it, and we will never hear more.
It constantly sucks battery life searching for other zunes.
The 360 can be programmed with openGL; how do you think id games are making it over?
Sounds like you are the one who wants to waste time--one or two years to be exact.
A pidgin is a language used to bridge two or more other languages, and is usually simplified, lol.
LEO isn't a big deal at all; things catch air there and eventually slow enough to burn up in the atmosphere. Tiny golf ball sized things do it even faster, because smaller things have less mass per unit surface area (which incidentally is why a squirrel can survive a fall from the top of an oak tree while an elephant cannot).
Wow, Due West has the highest per capita concentration of engineers in the country?
Frank Zappa tells all.
"Google search won out for a lot of the same reasons that Apple products win out, simplicity of design and usability"
You're forgeting a patented search algorithm that was at the time thousands of times better than anything the competition had. If they had had a simple design, and a search engine that didn't work, they wouldn't have come close to where they are.
Sure, I'll give you that. More convenient.. for the giant creature with a mouth that looks like a cave.
"Again, Apple and Google succeed at being cool because..."
You do realize Google failed at 'being cool' with Google Video, and they did exactly what the article talks about, only moreso; they literally bought 'cool', that is to say, they bought Youtube.
Forget Darfur--the GPL has been violated and people can't record TV!
Are you serious? These rich idiots are what is *right* with the world. They controlled a giant chunk of money and spent it on a *diamond*. If they paid to have people dig a big hole and then fill it back up, then we would have some serious waste to worry about. As it is, people like this are just trading for a limited number of worthless trinkets without hurting anyone (except the diamond miners in africa who had their hands cut off, etc. etc.)
So it would be awesome if we all were still playing Atari's?
Me too. This feature is long awaited.
So, a patent on a nuclear reactor design would have the same per unit licensing fee as a new toothbrush?
Do summer of code students get to work on some cool techmology with Ali G?
Oh wow, Mr. Armchair Politician just solved the whole patent problem! How, Mr. Armchair Politician, do you suppose we would measure 'building something or licensing the patent'? I could license it to my grandma. I could build a purposely shitty implementation with virtually no public visibility just so I could pull the same shit that happens today.
That's the most neurotic post I've read in a long while. Do you worry that random strangers in the supermarket are talking about you each time you turn your back to them?
If you're working on the weekend so that you can do other work tuesday, it is like you are competing in a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie.
You forgot to mention that Blueray titles won't play with a simple HDMI->DVI converter, but cause the HDCP 'protection' is lost.
Reality: under your flawed view, Google can't index the web.