For the GPL to have the power of sharing, it requires copyright law.
Saying sharing isn't bad, piracy is sharing, and therefore piracy isn't bad is a leap in logic. Piracy is directly ripping artists and other content creators off, making sure they don't get paid while you still enjoy the fruits of their labor. It's the OPPOSITE of sharing.
Is that a thinly veiled Hitler comparison? Give me a break, you melodramatic kook.
I don't understand how it's a "mystery" to you. Apple is obviously successful due to his decisions. Compare to companies like Microsoft and Google who are steered by multiple engineering groups and end up with products that go nowhere because they lack a single focus or direction for the company as a whole. By putting everyone on one path and avoiding throwaway projects that won't serve the company's best interests, Apple doesn't lose focus, and its revenues remain high.
Some people just don't like strong-minded personalities who don't back down on their positions and get what they want done; e.g., Steve Jobs. Well, he's a millionaire steering a successful company, and you're posting on Slashdot. I'd say it's working out for him.
How do you know he's taking the fall for anything? The article is 100% speculation with no facts backing it. Maybe he just wasn't a fit at Apple and decided to leave. But watch as the comments here automatically assume that correlation equals causation.
Why would he be fired over the antenna? Papermaster was supposedly brought in for chip design. IBM's lawsuit wasn't over Papermaster's knowledge of mobile phone antenna design. In fact, the iPhone 4 antenna design might have been in the pipeline before he even arrived at Apple. If he was responsible for the antenna, he wasn't in any of the iPhone 4 promotional videos to talk about it like the other engineers were.
The ADDITIONAL problem with the iPhone 4 is it detunes the antenna when you hold in in a certain spot. No other phone has that problem.
If you recall, Steve Jobs brought this up at the press conference, mentioning that a design mistake they made with the phone was that the line on the frame was like a bullseye, drawing users' fingers to it. In that context, it's not surprising this guy is leaving Apple.
That's the real problem. Apple has tried to distract folks by both claiming at one point that it was a software problem, and then later by saying it's the same problem all other phones have.
Both are lies.
They're neither distractions nor lies. The bar display algorithm was making signal loss appear more dramatic than it was, and other smartphones do have this same attentuation problem, as countless YouTube videos can demonstrate for you if you do a simple search. Some phones even have stickers on the back indicating the areas you should not hold the phone so you don't experience signal loss.
That's probably the source of frustration at Apple and why they decide to hold the press conference. Journalists were acting as if this was a unique issue to the iPhone 4 and no other phone. Frankly, if this was such a huge issue, there would have been lines of people returning their iPhone 4s. That didn't happen. In fact, the iPhone saw a record usage increase in July, over twice that of Android and nullifying the recent story about the Android outselling the iPhone in the last six months, which didn't include iPhone 4 sales or take into account that customers were waiting for the new model.
Personally, I can't detune the iPhone 4 antenna with my hands. I suspect that, for most customers, this controversy only existed on tech blogs.
They said that the bar display algorithm was making the signal loss appear more drastic than it was. When media outlets continued with the story and acted as if only the iPhone 4 had signal attenuation when gripped, Apple had to hold a press conference to point out, "Hey, this happens to every smartphone," which is true and something that journalists seemed to be completely ignoring so they could have a phony controversy over an anticipated device. It really was an exagerrated non-story that most people have already forgotten about.
The hatred is a little worse on Slashdot because of the ideologues around here who hate popular, shiny things and hate Steve Jobs because he doesn't back down on his positions when a few entitled morons whine at him via email.
You're extrapolating a lot of things they never said and completely making up some things. They never said "stfu."
What Apple has said all along was two things--that the bar display was making the signal loss appear more drastic than it was, and that the signal attenuation itself is suffered by every smartphone. There are countless YouTube videos illustrating this with non-Apple phones. Nobody "lied."
This guy leaving probably has more to do with how Apple mentioned that the design mistake they made was how the horizontal line on the side of the frame was like a bullseye telling users where to place their fingers. But I realize saying this is pointless because Apple-haters have taken over the site. It's been non-stop Apple bashing in the comments for months now, usually directed at Steve Jobs, as if he can hear them or cares. For crying out loud, the iPhone 4 gets signal in locations that the 3GS doesn't at all, but people are going to ignore that so they can take out their tired, predictable hatred toward a successful company that has given them Clang/LLVM, WebKit, and more.
For as much as you don't like him for being an asshole, it's because of him that Apple is successful and currently shaping multiple industries, so maybe it takes a strong personality who doesn't back down in order to get things done. Being stubborn and strong-willed with one's opinions bothers some people, but I say screw 'em if it works. This isn't about people's feelings. It's business.
The guy who should be taking the fall is Jobs, for putting aethetics before technical considerations in the team's mindset
How the heck do you know this is what happened? It's the job of the engineering team to report to the CEO and let him know if a particular design decision would cause problems, and there's no evidence at all that Jobs was alerted to a problem and forced the design anyway (the single anonymously sourced article that claimed this was called bullshit at Apple's press conference).
On that note, why is it so many Slashdotters are obsessed with Steve Jobs lately? Every Apple discussion ends up referencing him now.
You sound like the guy with his arms crossed who's too cool for the room, bashing something because it's popular. Other than Apple selling an image, 100% of your post was baseless flamebait. You sound like an angry old dinosaur ("whatever term kids use for 'cool' these days").
10 years ago, Linux was the hip, cool thing too, especially around these parts. Everyone was waiting for the floodgates of mass Linux adoption on the desktop--which never happened because Apple stole that thunder with OS X and the iPod. Perhaps there's some lingering bitterness because of that.
Does it really count if it's not the primary OS or used for the majority of their actual schoolwork? Having some hobbyist Linux partition for fun isn't what they were trying to find out here.
Call it fanboyism, but I do not think Linux is such a terrible operating system that it would see no use whatsoever, or practically so.
Neither the article or summary said that. It's merely reporting the fact that, for whatever reason, Linux usage has dropped to a statistically insignificant level. Though I will say that merely being free doesn't mean anything to non-ideological people if the desktop experience is poor.
Another Apple-hater who obsesses over Steve Jobs and thinks he can hear them if they reference him by name. Even your anti-Apple story submissions have been rejected, haha.
The specific lie is the headline--"Apple mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas." It's a 100% lie. Even the submission, when read carefully, proves so.
I correctly described your opinion, of which you were pretty blunt--you're obsessively criticizing someone whose views on patents you apparently disagree with.
The complaints were based on her record. Also, some of her terrible answers--she couldn't answer the question of whether or not the government has the power to tell you what to eat.
It's much harder with the fanboyism surrounding Google. You have a CEO flat-out stating that people who care about privacy have something to hide, and that online anonymity, one of the core features of the internet, will go away thanks to his wonderful indexing technologies, yet people still defend this company. Google has been a scary organization for years now.
We get it, you're obsessed with patents and can be easily riled up just by mentioning them regardless of any facts whatsoever. To you, it's okay to flat-out lie about Apple on Slashdot because it reinforces your existing opinions.
The patent has nothing to do with the application. Did anyone read the damn thing? Hell, did anyone read the submission which flat-out states that the illustration is just an example of a possible use of the technology?
It's amazing how easy it is to emotionally rile up Slashdot regardless of any facts. Just mention one of the following:
1.) Patents 2.) GPL theft 3.) MPAA/RIAA
Boom, 500 angry comments from people who didn't RTFA. How many ignorant people aren't going to read the update or the patent and subsequently go on thinking Apple is "mining app store submissions for patent ideas" because they saw it in a Slashdot headline?
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For the GPL to have the power of sharing, it requires copyright law.
Saying sharing isn't bad, piracy is sharing, and therefore piracy isn't bad is a leap in logic. Piracy is directly ripping artists and other content creators off, making sure they don't get paid while you still enjoy the fruits of their labor. It's the OPPOSITE of sharing.
If the games are "utterly crap," why are they getting pirated?
Yeah, you kinda didn't think through your statement before posting it...
Seems to be working pretty well for Battle.net and Steam. Steam's DRM is so non-intrusive that I forget it even has any.
Is that a thinly veiled Hitler comparison? Give me a break, you melodramatic kook.
I don't understand how it's a "mystery" to you. Apple is obviously successful due to his decisions. Compare to companies like Microsoft and Google who are steered by multiple engineering groups and end up with products that go nowhere because they lack a single focus or direction for the company as a whole. By putting everyone on one path and avoiding throwaway projects that won't serve the company's best interests, Apple doesn't lose focus, and its revenues remain high.
Some people just don't like strong-minded personalities who don't back down on their positions and get what they want done; e.g., Steve Jobs. Well, he's a millionaire steering a successful company, and you're posting on Slashdot. I'd say it's working out for him.
How do you know he's taking the fall for anything? The article is 100% speculation with no facts backing it. Maybe he just wasn't a fit at Apple and decided to leave. But watch as the comments here automatically assume that correlation equals causation.
Why would he be fired over the antenna? Papermaster was supposedly brought in for chip design. IBM's lawsuit wasn't over Papermaster's knowledge of mobile phone antenna design. In fact, the iPhone 4 antenna design might have been in the pipeline before he even arrived at Apple. If he was responsible for the antenna, he wasn't in any of the iPhone 4 promotional videos to talk about it like the other engineers were.
I smell bullshit.
If you recall, Steve Jobs brought this up at the press conference, mentioning that a design mistake they made with the phone was that the line on the frame was like a bullseye, drawing users' fingers to it. In that context, it's not surprising this guy is leaving Apple.
They're neither distractions nor lies. The bar display algorithm was making signal loss appear more dramatic than it was, and other smartphones do have this same attentuation problem, as countless YouTube videos can demonstrate for you if you do a simple search. Some phones even have stickers on the back indicating the areas you should not hold the phone so you don't experience signal loss.
That's probably the source of frustration at Apple and why they decide to hold the press conference. Journalists were acting as if this was a unique issue to the iPhone 4 and no other phone. Frankly, if this was such a huge issue, there would have been lines of people returning their iPhone 4s. That didn't happen. In fact, the iPhone saw a record usage increase in July, over twice that of Android and nullifying the recent story about the Android outselling the iPhone in the last six months, which didn't include iPhone 4 sales or take into account that customers were waiting for the new model.
Personally, I can't detune the iPhone 4 antenna with my hands. I suspect that, for most customers, this controversy only existed on tech blogs.
They said that the bar display algorithm was making the signal loss appear more drastic than it was. When media outlets continued with the story and acted as if only the iPhone 4 had signal attenuation when gripped, Apple had to hold a press conference to point out, "Hey, this happens to every smartphone," which is true and something that journalists seemed to be completely ignoring so they could have a phony controversy over an anticipated device. It really was an exagerrated non-story that most people have already forgotten about.
The hatred is a little worse on Slashdot because of the ideologues around here who hate popular, shiny things and hate Steve Jobs because he doesn't back down on his positions when a few entitled morons whine at him via email.
You're extrapolating a lot of things they never said and completely making up some things. They never said "stfu."
What Apple has said all along was two things--that the bar display was making the signal loss appear more drastic than it was, and that the signal attenuation itself is suffered by every smartphone. There are countless YouTube videos illustrating this with non-Apple phones. Nobody "lied."
This guy leaving probably has more to do with how Apple mentioned that the design mistake they made was how the horizontal line on the side of the frame was like a bullseye telling users where to place their fingers. But I realize saying this is pointless because Apple-haters have taken over the site. It's been non-stop Apple bashing in the comments for months now, usually directed at Steve Jobs, as if he can hear them or cares. For crying out loud, the iPhone 4 gets signal in locations that the 3GS doesn't at all, but people are going to ignore that so they can take out their tired, predictable hatred toward a successful company that has given them Clang/LLVM, WebKit, and more.
For as much as you don't like him for being an asshole, it's because of him that Apple is successful and currently shaping multiple industries, so maybe it takes a strong personality who doesn't back down in order to get things done. Being stubborn and strong-willed with one's opinions bothers some people, but I say screw 'em if it works. This isn't about people's feelings. It's business.
How the heck do you know this is what happened? It's the job of the engineering team to report to the CEO and let him know if a particular design decision would cause problems, and there's no evidence at all that Jobs was alerted to a problem and forced the design anyway (the single anonymously sourced article that claimed this was called bullshit at Apple's press conference).
On that note, why is it so many Slashdotters are obsessed with Steve Jobs lately? Every Apple discussion ends up referencing him now.
You sound like the guy with his arms crossed who's too cool for the room, bashing something because it's popular. Other than Apple selling an image, 100% of your post was baseless flamebait. You sound like an angry old dinosaur ("whatever term kids use for 'cool' these days").
10 years ago, Linux was the hip, cool thing too, especially around these parts. Everyone was waiting for the floodgates of mass Linux adoption on the desktop--which never happened because Apple stole that thunder with OS X and the iPod. Perhaps there's some lingering bitterness because of that.
How are Macs a "potential monopoly" in any way?
We're the center of the galaxy if you count the sun as orbiting the earth.
If Windows boxes are unavoidable, how could skills using them not be the most logical thing to learn over a more esoteric platform?
Does it really count if it's not the primary OS or used for the majority of their actual schoolwork? Having some hobbyist Linux partition for fun isn't what they were trying to find out here.
Neither the article or summary said that. It's merely reporting the fact that, for whatever reason, Linux usage has dropped to a statistically insignificant level. Though I will say that merely being free doesn't mean anything to non-ideological people if the desktop experience is poor.
Another Apple-hater who obsesses over Steve Jobs and thinks he can hear them if they reference him by name. Even your anti-Apple story submissions have been rejected, haha.
One of the lamest anti-Apple trolls on Slashdot. You're one of these Apple-hater who obsesses over Steve Jobs and references him by name.
You're really bad at this.
The specific lie is the headline--"Apple mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas." It's a 100% lie. Even the submission, when read carefully, proves so.
I correctly described your opinion, of which you were pretty blunt--you're obsessively criticizing someone whose views on patents you apparently disagree with.
Next.
The complaints were based on her record. Also, some of her terrible answers--she couldn't answer the question of whether or not the government has the power to tell you what to eat.
You tell me why the Android sales argue completely left out iPhone 4 sales.
It's much harder with the fanboyism surrounding Google. You have a CEO flat-out stating that people who care about privacy have something to hide, and that online anonymity, one of the core features of the internet, will go away thanks to his wonderful indexing technologies, yet people still defend this company. Google has been a scary organization for years now.
We get it, you're obsessed with patents and can be easily riled up just by mentioning them regardless of any facts whatsoever. To you, it's okay to flat-out lie about Apple on Slashdot because it reinforces your existing opinions.
But that would interfere with Google's anti-Apple astroturfing campaign.
The patent has nothing to do with the application. Did anyone read the damn thing? Hell, did anyone read the submission which flat-out states that the illustration is just an example of a possible use of the technology?
Here's an update saying the initial knee-jerk reaction is wrong.
It's amazing how easy it is to emotionally rile up Slashdot regardless of any facts. Just mention one of the following:
1.) Patents
2.) GPL theft
3.) MPAA/RIAA
Boom, 500 angry comments from people who didn't RTFA. How many ignorant people aren't going to read the update or the patent and subsequently go on thinking Apple is "mining app store submissions for patent ideas" because they saw it in a Slashdot headline?
Shameful.