Prior to the Apple mouse, mice had two circular rollers instead of a a spherical ball.
Hmm... Actually, Apple was about ten years late to the game. They must have noticed the Xerox Alto I mouse while they were stealing everything else. (I'm pretty sure the two small steel balls at the bottom were just for "sliding" purposes - although I must admit I've not used the depicted mouse for almost 30 years).
Gee, they obviously didn't steel the "You didn't really 'own' a mouse when you had possesion of an Alto, you just checked then out cause they weren't too reliable. They would pick up dirt, get gummed up and not track anymore. When that happened, you would just unplug it, take it into the lab and put it into the box that said 'Dead Mice' on it, grab a cleaned one from the 'Clean Mice' box and you were back in business." bit - at least the Apple mice you could clean yourself.
Next thing you know, holding a cell phone with the thumb and forefinger by the top right corner will become the fashionable way for any of the cognoscenti to hold their phones.
So how come this problem was not identified during the system test of the device? Were all the testers instructed to hold it that way? Or maybe they identified it, but did not have the courage to report it?
One iPhone 4 demonstrated the issue everytime it was held in our left hand (...) Our second UK-purchased iPhone 4 was fine, showing none of these handling symptoms. (...) P.P.S. Since some of you are asking, our review unit showed none of these issues.
Lesson #1 on deciphering patents: Ignore the title and abstract- read the claims. Claims are far more specific, and are the only enforceable part of the patent.
Here is the patent you're referring to.
Here are the claims:
Claims:
1-59. (canceled)
Obvious stuff found in lots of wire-full networks cut. IOW nothing left.
The iPhone is a neat toy, not for getting actual work done. Maybe that's why Slashdotters don't like it that much. It's a phone whose primary market is spoiled teenagers.
If Slashdotters were interested in getting actual work done, they wouldn't waste time here - let alone posting to every Apple story.
Yes, it's pretty clear from (failed) anti-trust proceedings in the EU against the telecoms operators that patents are the underlying long term reason for high costs that even regulators cannot correct.
If that were true, Nokia wouldn't need to sell phones anymore. Instead they desperately do.
Nokia did start the battle, but contrary to what Apple did they originally only asked the court to set the price for their patents(read the damn complaint, but this is./...). Apple, however, went for the throat with plain patent violation lawsuit.
Citation desperately needed. But not actually expected.
At least Nokia's patents were proper *hardware* patents related to GSM technologies *they developed*
Ohh, so they changed their suit to not include all the "Method to" patents? Which were about half of them? Not to mention the fluffyness of the rest of the patents:
Data transmission in a radio telephone network
Abstract
For bidirectional transmission of packet data, a packet data service unit (Agent) is disposed in a digital cellular system connected to be in association with a Mobile Switching Center, and connecting the cellular network to the date network. As a mobile station is connected to the packet data service unit, signalling related to connection formation characteristics of the network is first accomplished. As a result thereof, the mobile station and the data service unit are provided with a number of stored parameters relating to each other. This situation creates or is called a virtual channel. When a mobile station wants to transmit or receive data packets between the mobile station and the data service unit a packet data transfer channel is established making use of the parameters of the virtual channel and thereby using substantially less signalling than the channel establishment signalling characteristic of the network, one part thereof being a radio channel and the other part a time slot in a digital trunk line. On termination of data packet transfer, at least said radio channel is disassembled but the virtual channel is maintained until the disconnection of the mobile station from the data service.
Translation: when a device connects to a network, both sides keep the connection open - over RADIO. Wow.
The fact that it is our first female PM is what makes it news.
Why? Because at least you got your first female head of state before the USA? Instead of years after dozens of other countries did? Including at least one Islamic country?
Presumption 1: People would prefer real itemization.
Conclusion 1: The 3G phone companies are keeping two books, at least for the iPhone. One tracks the actual data you used, packet by packet. The sum of this is accurate, and is what you are actually billed for.
Conclusion 2: The other book contains the connections as and data usage as reported
Jesus Fucking Christ - can nobody here remember the infamous "300 page iPhone bill"? Detailed billing was the default until a few days after people loudly complained about it. Detailed on paper now costs money, detailed is still available online.
Look at the Zino HD. We have three of these at work. The model with 4 gigs or RAM and a Bluray player is around the same price as the vanilla Mini. Apple still seems to have a 20% premium on price, not to mention the price of Apple care.
And the Zino (at best) has a 1.8 GHz CPU, while the mini has at least a 2.4 GHz CPU. And that will be more useful at work
than a BluRay player.
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If it's a clear coating, I can't think of one that would allow it to still look like aluminum and also hold up after years of wear and tear.
Why would somebody want to make stainless steel look like aluminum?
And the real question is why they made the bottom strip out of metal since it's not an antenna.
Well, its still part of the antenna. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54g6Td0RBE0 3:30 on.
Hmm... Actually, Apple was about ten years late to the game. They must have noticed the Xerox Alto I mouse while they were stealing everything else. (I'm pretty sure the two small steel balls at the bottom were just for "sliding" purposes - although I must admit I've not used the depicted mouse for almost 30 years).
Gee, they obviously didn't steel the "You didn't really 'own' a mouse when you had possesion of an Alto, you just checked then out cause they weren't too reliable. They would pick up dirt, get gummed up and not track anymore. When that happened, you would just unplug it, take it into the lab and put it into the box that said 'Dead Mice' on it, grab a cleaned one from the 'Clean Mice' box and you were back in business." bit - at least the Apple mice you could clean yourself.
Next thing you know, holding a cell phone with the thumb and forefinger by the top right corner will become the fashionable way for any of the cognoscenti to hold their phones.
So how come this problem was not identified during the system test of the device? Were all the testers instructed to hold it that way? Or maybe they identified it, but did not have the courage to report it?
Or maybe it doesn't happen on all iPhones. http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/some-iphone-4-models-see-signals-drop-to-0-when-held-left-handed/
Please tell me where I can touch my Nexus One (with a single finger, mind you) that will cause it to drop a call.
The on/off button?
Hexagons? What are they doing to Civ? :D
Heh, a true fan I see, learning of new features through a comment on Slashdot, months after the developer released this info to the world.
And a true Slashdotter - as we discussed it several times since then.
Claims == Obvious OVER RADIO
Lesson #1 on deciphering patents: Ignore the title and abstract- read the claims. Claims are far more specific, and are the only enforceable part of the patent. Here is the patent you're referring to. Here are the claims:
Claims: 1-59. (canceled)
Obvious stuff found in lots of wire-full networks cut. IOW nothing left.
The iPhone is a neat toy, not for getting actual work done. Maybe that's why Slashdotters don't like it that much. It's a phone whose primary market is spoiled teenagers.
If Slashdotters were interested in getting actual work done, they wouldn't waste time here - let alone posting to every Apple story.
Oh please...those are fluff. Soft keyboards are silly for enterprise business users who are not concerned with 'looking cool'.
As opposed to tiny calculator button keyboards?
flash 10.1 released for all other phones.
If by "all other phones" you mean "some Android phones".
Yesterday at the Droid X launch, the quote was of 160.000 Android phones being sold per day.
Nitpick: that Android devices per day, not phones. Which get compared to iPhones, not iOS devices.
Yes, it's pretty clear from (failed) anti-trust proceedings in the EU against the telecoms operators that patents are the underlying long term reason for high costs that even regulators cannot correct.
If that were true, Nokia wouldn't need to sell phones anymore. Instead they desperately do.
Nokia did start the battle, but contrary to what Apple did they originally only asked the court to set the price for their patents(read the damn complaint, but this is ./ ...). Apple, however, went for the throat with plain patent violation lawsuit.
Citation desperately needed. But not actually expected.
At least Nokia's patents were proper *hardware* patents related to GSM technologies *they developed*
Ohh, so they changed their suit to not include all the "Method to" patents? Which were about half of them? Not to mention the fluffyness of the rest of the patents:
Data transmission in a radio telephone network
Abstract
For bidirectional transmission of packet data, a packet data service unit (Agent) is disposed in a digital cellular system connected to be in association with a Mobile Switching Center, and connecting the cellular network to the date network. As a mobile station is connected to the packet data service unit, signalling related to connection formation characteristics of the network is first accomplished. As a result thereof, the mobile station and the data service unit are provided with a number of stored parameters relating to each other. This situation creates or is called a virtual channel. When a mobile station wants to transmit or receive data packets between the mobile station and the data service unit a packet data transfer channel is established making use of the parameters of the virtual channel and thereby using substantially less signalling than the channel establishment signalling characteristic of the network, one part thereof being a radio channel and the other part a time slot in a digital trunk line. On termination of data packet transfer, at least said radio channel is disassembled but the virtual channel is maintained until the disconnection of the mobile station from the data service.
Translation: when a device connects to a network, both sides keep the connection open - over RADIO. Wow.
The fact that it is our first female PM is what makes it news.
Why? Because at least you got your first female head of state before the USA? Instead of years after dozens of other countries did? Including at least one Islamic country?
"We told Adobe: 'If you ever have this thing running fast, come back and show us' - which they never did."
"(Providers are ending unlimited contracts, so iPhone users are paying more attention to how much data they are using.)"
AT$T is ending unlimited contracts.... those of us on sprint or verizon or whatever arent having this problem.
But then, we arent using iphones are we?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/06/19/1315202 Poor schmuck.
Presumption 1: People would prefer real itemization.
Conclusion 1: The 3G phone companies are keeping two books, at least for the iPhone. One tracks the actual data you used, packet by packet. The sum of this is accurate, and is what you are actually billed for.
Conclusion 2: The other book contains the connections as and data usage as reported
Jesus Fucking Christ - can nobody here remember the infamous "300 page iPhone bill"? Detailed billing was the default until a few days after people loudly complained about it. Detailed on paper now costs money, detailed is still available online.
Perhaps if you fucking fan bois could take a fucking joke, we wouldnt need to.
There was no fucking in your joke - I want my money back.
D'oh! And as I was hitting submit, I realized: He even removed the Dick from the original joke ;-)
Perhaps if you fucking fan bois could take a fucking joke, we wouldnt need to.
There was no fucking in your joke - I want my money back.
That many American reports on this did not show images of the manhood in question either.
Look at the Zino HD. We have three of these at work. The model with 4 gigs or RAM and a Bluray player is around the same price as the vanilla Mini. Apple still seems to have a 20% premium on price, not to mention the price of Apple care.
And the Zino (at best) has a 1.8 GHz CPU, while the mini has at least a 2.4 GHz CPU. And that will be more useful at work than a BluRay player.
You can choose a dual-core Athlon for $45 more than the $250 one.
Sure. You also go from 1.6 GHz down to 1.5 GHz.
The first thing that comes to mind: why the hell doesn't the Dell site have a way to find this item in even one of their stores?