Is he talking about iPad fever or lame tablet/netbook fever?
If the former, he can wait until Apple's next quarterly results. If the latter, well, he's probably right. Maybe he's talking from his own sales numbers?
Paper is decent for information consumption, but not for content creation. And even in information consumption, paper is only applicable where the information can be consumed on a small, low-resolution display
I don't think, for instance, that day traders with their arrays of cheap monitors will want to limit themselves to paper.
Flipping is a reasonably nice interface for many info browsing traversal mechanisms, though.
The thing about the Motorola patents is that they're already licensed. Moto has a patent on the cell phone. Don't you think that the makers have already licensed that patent?
The US manufacturers have already done a cross-licensing deal with Moto. How could they sell cellphones if they hadn't? Google bought a pig in a poke.
Since you haven't actually invented anything, it's easy for you to say that patents are crap.
However, for the people involved, they may have actually put a lot of hard work, thought, and know-how into what the patent covers. Things that are obvious today aren't obvious when you're the first mover in the space.
Mechanical patents can seem just as ridiculous as software patents, if you bother to read them. Does the patent regime make sense?
Let's put it this way: if you were going to spend a few hundred million of your own dollars, wouldn't you want some protection against some yahoo coming along, copying your work, and selling it for less?
1. Compromise the pilot via blackmail, family hostages, etc 2. Profit!
Of course the pilot is flying a big bomb, so they don't have to bring a weapon with them through security if they want to do damage. There's no real reason to screen them...so maybe this -is- a good idea after all. Hey, wait!
Oracle is suing Google for patent infringement - the Dalvik VM appears to directly infringe the old Sun patents. They have emails that seem to show that Google knew about the possible infringement and proceeded anyway.
The Apple patents are a sideshow - Oracle vs Google is where it's at.
Oh, then once Oracle is done then Apple is next in line.
When Mac OS X was released, Mac OS 9 still worked. It took until 10.3 or 10.4 before Mac OS X was used extensively, if I remember correctly.
It takes around 4 years for an OS to develop, and another 2 to fully bake. The iPad got an early start, since it's mostly the same as the iPhone. WebOS lost a year due to the acquisition.
They need to keep iterating. The embedded market is huge, and can afford to wait. Apple will never embed iOS, and Android has licensing issues vis-a-vis Microsoft. That leaves the embedded market to...HP?
Well actually, the status quo will probably last until it gets better. The US is very, very good at coming up with technological solutions to its environmental problems. Have you read the article about the horseshit crisis of the 1890s-1910s?
In addition, it would make the US much, much bigger. Most countries are small, and if measured in metric seem bigger (blah is x kilometers from end to end). In the US the area measurements would become ridiculously large, and might rupture people's brains.
112 kph. That's sounds fast, but that's a normal highway speed (70mph) in the Western US for people that don't consider themselves to be speeding.
All the mile marker signs will have to get 3-4 times bigger to fit the extra digits.
Exit numbers will be ridiculous. "I'm exit 784 on the NJ Turnpike."
All the glasses will have to be recalibrated. "I'll have a quarter liter of soda, please."
All the hamburger sizes will change. "I'd like a 100-gram burger, please."
Luckily illegal narcotics tend to be metric already, so at least that won't change.
In any discussion of revamping the reserve currency, there's only one question that you need to ask:
Is the entity behind the currency willing to do what it takes to preserve the financial system?
Money talks, and bullshit walks. Do you think China is going to send billions of Yuan to Europe during a crisis? Fuck no. Their currency doesn't even float because their government is too chickenshit to expose their currency to the real market.
Russia, Brazil, South Africa, India, China - 4 out of 5 of those countries don't have functioning property rights regimes. I'm assuming South Africa does, but who cares about them - their biggest contributor to the world economy is a diamond monopoly that artificially inflates diamond prices.
What about the Euro? Anyone? Anyone?
These sort of articles are pathetic. Being n-1 has some substantial advantages, but it has substantial disadvantages as well. The choice of a reserve currency is a political as well as a financial decision. A bunch of countries getting together to denominate their loans in their respective local currencies isn't a new regime. It's not even a common market. It's a bunch of bilateral trade agreements. Come back when they start talking about a uniform way of handling disputes and enforcing rulings.
Apple's iPad is compelling to the public (and difficult to sell) because it's not a PC and it's not a phone. It really is something different.
Android is selling because people know what they're buying: a phone. The basic uses are pretty obvious. You don't need a lot of marketing, etc to understand. It may be that "Android" itself is irrelevant - it's a cheap OS that's being promoted as the secret sauce, but who knows if the public cares about the sauce or the price.
The iPad, as you can see from the comments here, is a bit harder to pigeonhole. It's not a laptop, even though it's portable. It's not a "computer" as it's known today. It's not a TV.
However, you can watch TV on it (MLB, Cablevision, Netflix, AirVideo, YouTube, etc). You can check email. You can play games, make music, etc. You can do lots of stuff with it. It's basically the equivalent of a portable Apple ][, in that it's a "Personal Computer." The rest of the industry has no idea what that means. Most technical people have no idea what that means either.
If I was to coin a phrase, it's a "casual computer." What do I do with my iPad? Play games. Check email. Do a quick browse with Pulse across 75 websites. Take notes and organize my thoughts. FaceTime occasionally. There are things my MBP does better, and that my desktop(s) do better. That's not the point.
But the key thing is, the casual use cases are what most people use their home computers for. Very few people write papers on their home computers. Very few people write anything in real life, except forum posts, facebook/myspace comments, IM/chats, and emails. Very few people write code, do spreadsheets, or any of the thousands of things that require an i7 or a core 2 duo.
It's the "Computer for the rest of us", and the rest of us means "people that aren't computer people." Geeks think it's ridiculous, but anyone who's been paying attention to computing is aware that the public thinks PCs are too hard to use, too hard to maintain, and too complicated...and if they don't believe it they act that way. How many of us have answered questions that seem completely ridiculous to us? "No, that's not a cupholder."
There really isn't any of that complexity with the iPad. The only really complicated iPad thing is whether the switch is the orientation lock or mute. Do people want heavy-duty games? Not really - most people have lives, and don't have time to invest hours in learning how to play a game. Heavy-duty apps? Probably not - they just want to kick out an email etc. They want to see their data wherever they are. And they want to be entertained. The iPad does those very, very well.
You may not know it, but the website you're reading RIGHT NOW is a festering hotbed of evil. EVIL. Evil code that will steal your information, kill your wife and children, and damage the transmission on your car.
The ONLY way around that is to use our new FSF GnuWebScript, which is Totally Open and Free. Not only is it a Force for Good, it whitens your teeth and makes your toes smell nicer. It will never do those evil and nasty things that the Javascript does, because it's not Javascript - it's GnuWebScript!
GnuWebScript is a free side-set* of ECMAscript, a tragically unfree industry standard. GnuWebScript implements everything in ECMAscript slightly differently using free, non-proprietary language extensions.
GnuWebScript - to be free you must chain yourself to it!
* side set is not a superset or a subset - it's a sideset.
3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law. No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.
When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures.
Does this mean that if you ship something that contains an lgplv3 item:
1. you can't prevent anyone from circumventing any sort of DMCA protection? 2. you can't prevent anyone from circumventing any sort of DMCA protection if that covered work can be used to assist with that circumvention?
While the license can be read to #1 ("with respect to the covered work"), it can also be read as #2 ("and you disclaim"). If it was only relating to #1, then why do the "and by the way" section?
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Is he talking about iPad fever or lame tablet/netbook fever?
If the former, he can wait until Apple's next quarterly results. If the latter, well, he's probably right. Maybe he's talking from his own sales numbers?
Paper is decent for information consumption, but not for content creation. And even in information consumption, paper is only applicable where the information can be consumed on a small, low-resolution display
I don't think, for instance, that day traders with their arrays of cheap monitors will want to limit themselves to paper.
Flipping is a reasonably nice interface for many info browsing traversal mechanisms, though.
The thing about the Motorola patents is that they're already licensed. Moto has a patent on the cell phone. Don't you think that the makers have already licensed that patent?
The US manufacturers have already done a cross-licensing deal with Moto. How could they sell cellphones if they hadn't? Google bought a pig in a poke.
Wow, they can make Logitech Revue v2, one of the few devices with negative sales. Except now you can't return it because it's part of your STB.
Google TV: we couldn't sell it, so we'll force it down your throats as part of your cable box.
Since you haven't actually invented anything, it's easy for you to say that patents are crap.
However, for the people involved, they may have actually put a lot of hard work, thought, and know-how into what the patent covers. Things that are obvious today aren't obvious when you're the first mover in the space.
Mechanical patents can seem just as ridiculous as software patents, if you bother to read them. Does the patent regime make sense?
Let's put it this way: if you were going to spend a few hundred million of your own dollars, wouldn't you want some protection against some yahoo coming along, copying your work, and selling it for less?
1. Compromise the pilot via blackmail, family hostages, etc
2. Profit!
Of course the pilot is flying a big bomb, so they don't have to bring a weapon with them through security if they want to do damage. There's no real reason to screen them...so maybe this -is- a good idea after all. Hey, wait!
I can play Pirates! on my iPad - WTF would I want any other gaming device,?
Oracle is suing Google for patent infringement - the Dalvik VM appears to directly infringe the old Sun patents. They have emails that seem to show that Google knew about the possible infringement and proceeded anyway.
The Apple patents are a sideshow - Oracle vs Google is where it's at.
Oh, then once Oracle is done then Apple is next in line.
They're like a startup, in that they willfully infringe patents?
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/oracle-and-google-keep-wrangling-over.html
I guess they are willing to make mistakes.
The thundering turd has arrived! Pew pew pew!
When Mac OS X was released, Mac OS 9 still worked. It took until 10.3 or 10.4 before Mac OS X was used extensively, if I remember correctly.
It takes around 4 years for an OS to develop, and another 2 to fully bake. The iPad got an early start, since it's mostly the same as the iPhone. WebOS lost a year due to the acquisition.
They need to keep iterating. The embedded market is huge, and can afford to wait. Apple will never embed iOS, and Android has licensing issues vis-a-vis Microsoft. That leaves the embedded market to...HP?
If you kill yourself now, you'll remove the burden of you and your future generations. Reduce your carbon footprint the ultimate way!
"do not mess with complex systems you don't fully understand"
You might as well kill yourself now, if you believe that.
Looks like the lucky senate.gov webmaster gets to see if the key revocation process actually works.
Well actually, the status quo will probably last until it gets better. The US is very, very good at coming up with technological solutions to its environmental problems. Have you read the article about the horseshit crisis of the 1890s-1910s?
OMG THE INTERTUBES ARE FINDING ME OUT!
Oh wait, it's a GSM phone. The network already knows where you are.
Maybe it's tracking roam points?
It works, why change it?
In addition, it would make the US much, much bigger. Most countries are small, and if measured in metric seem bigger (blah is x kilometers from end to end). In the US the area measurements would become ridiculously large, and might rupture people's brains.
112 kph. That's sounds fast, but that's a normal highway speed (70mph) in the Western US for people that don't consider themselves to be speeding.
All the mile marker signs will have to get 3-4 times bigger to fit the extra digits.
Exit numbers will be ridiculous. "I'm exit 784 on the NJ Turnpike."
All the glasses will have to be recalibrated. "I'll have a quarter liter of soda, please."
All the hamburger sizes will change. "I'd like a 100-gram burger, please."
Luckily illegal narcotics tend to be metric already, so at least that won't change.
In any discussion of revamping the reserve currency, there's only one question that you need to ask:
Is the entity behind the currency willing to do what it takes to preserve the financial system?
Money talks, and bullshit walks. Do you think China is going to send billions of Yuan to Europe during a crisis? Fuck no. Their currency doesn't even float because their government is too chickenshit to expose their currency to the real market.
Russia, Brazil, South Africa, India, China - 4 out of 5 of those countries don't have functioning property rights regimes. I'm assuming South Africa does, but who cares about them - their biggest contributor to the world economy is a diamond monopoly that artificially inflates diamond prices.
What about the Euro? Anyone? Anyone?
These sort of articles are pathetic. Being n-1 has some substantial advantages, but it has substantial disadvantages as well. The choice of a reserve currency is a political as well as a financial decision. A bunch of countries getting together to denominate their loans in their respective local currencies isn't a new regime. It's not even a common market. It's a bunch of bilateral trade agreements. Come back when they start talking about a uniform way of handling disputes and enforcing rulings.
You can choose to eat shit or not. For most people that's not a valid choice.
Apple's iPad is compelling to the public (and difficult to sell) because it's not a PC and it's not a phone. It really is something different.
Android is selling because people know what they're buying: a phone. The basic uses are pretty obvious. You don't need a lot of marketing, etc to understand. It may be that "Android" itself is irrelevant - it's a cheap OS that's being promoted as the secret sauce, but who knows if the public cares about the sauce or the price.
The iPad, as you can see from the comments here, is a bit harder to pigeonhole. It's not a laptop, even though it's portable. It's not a "computer" as it's known today. It's not a TV.
However, you can watch TV on it (MLB, Cablevision, Netflix, AirVideo, YouTube, etc). You can check email. You can play games, make music, etc. You can do lots of stuff with it. It's basically the equivalent of a portable Apple ][, in that it's a "Personal Computer." The rest of the industry has no idea what that means. Most technical people have no idea what that means either.
If I was to coin a phrase, it's a "casual computer." What do I do with my iPad? Play games. Check email. Do a quick browse with Pulse across 75 websites. Take notes and organize my thoughts. FaceTime occasionally. There are things my MBP does better, and that my desktop(s) do better. That's not the point.
But the key thing is, the casual use cases are what most people use their home computers for. Very few people write papers on their home computers. Very few people write anything in real life, except forum posts, facebook/myspace comments, IM/chats, and emails. Very few people write code, do spreadsheets, or any of the thousands of things that require an i7 or a core 2 duo.
It's the "Computer for the rest of us", and the rest of us means "people that aren't computer people." Geeks think it's ridiculous, but anyone who's been paying attention to computing is aware that the public thinks PCs are too hard to use, too hard to maintain, and too complicated...and if they don't believe it they act that way. How many of us have answered questions that seem completely ridiculous to us? "No, that's not a cupholder."
There really isn't any of that complexity with the iPad. The only really complicated iPad thing is whether the switch is the orientation lock or mute. Do people want heavy-duty games? Not really - most people have lives, and don't have time to invest hours in learning how to play a game. Heavy-duty apps? Probably not - they just want to kick out an email etc. They want to see their data wherever they are. And they want to be entertained. The iPad does those very, very well.
You may not know it, but the website you're reading RIGHT NOW is a festering hotbed of evil. EVIL. Evil code that will steal your information, kill your wife and children, and damage the transmission on your car.
The ONLY way around that is to use our new FSF GnuWebScript, which is Totally Open and Free. Not only is it a Force for Good, it whitens your teeth and makes your toes smell nicer. It will never do those evil and nasty things that the Javascript does, because it's not Javascript - it's GnuWebScript!
GnuWebScript is a free side-set* of ECMAscript, a tragically unfree industry standard. GnuWebScript implements everything in ECMAscript slightly differently using free, non-proprietary language extensions.
GnuWebScript - to be free you must chain yourself to it!
* side set is not a superset or a subset - it's a sideset.
He'll have an aneurysm when he finds out about the case insensitive/preserving filesystem.
If it just fell from the sky, get some kind of infrared detector. It'll be hotter than ambient for a while.
mkdir android
cd android
repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git
repo sync
make
As an example:
3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.
No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.
When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures.
Does this mean that if you ship something that contains an lgplv3 item:
1. you can't prevent anyone from circumventing any sort of DMCA protection?
2. you can't prevent anyone from circumventing any sort of DMCA protection if that covered work can be used to assist with that circumvention?
While the license can be read to #1 ("with respect to the covered work"), it can also be read as #2 ("and you disclaim"). If it was only relating to #1, then why do the "and by the way" section?
Actually, you didn't use lmgtfy, which is lame.
The license itself doesn't mean anything, because like any legal document the provisions are open to interpretation by the courts and others.
Where is the legal opinion stating the above, that can be used in a court of Law?