Maybe Apple isn't just getting this patent to create an offensive, but rather as a defense.
Companies are attempting to overcome their lack of creativity/ingenuity by litigating a profit. Thanks to the patent office's less-than-picky gratning process, there are a LOT of seemingly obvious and redundant patents floating out there.
I think that more situations will come up as companies attempt to assault Apple's #1 iPod/Music Store slot and incresingly their other software and hardware ventures.
What I'm talking about is the Creative situation - Creative gets mad that they're getting their ass handed to them by Apple and they can't pull together a decent product - so they look in their patent portfolio and find something to beat Apple with and shut them down legally . . .
Except that Apple turned around with a stack of way scarier patents to shove in Creative's face and said "Ok, we were playing nice and just plain out-smarting you but you've made us mad and we're going to match your 'play dirty' scheme" Creative didn't really stand a chance.
A patent like this, and probably many others that Apple has, means that Apple can defend off OTHER company's offensive patent challenges.
Do we actually want flexible computers? Do we really want to roll up our processors like a newspaper?
Every other new future technology seems to include the phrase "and then you can roll it up just like paper!"
But there's a whole industry out there selling things to PREVENT paper from rolling up and being flexible! We store paper so it doesn't roll up or bend, we print it in such a way to prevent rolling or curling and now I'm supposed to believe in the future we're magically going to WANT paper-thin electronics so we call roll them up??
I don't want my computer rolled up. I want it small, cool, quiet, and light - but heavy enough that my box doesnt blow off my desk when someone walks by or I sneeze wrong . . .
Studies don't take into account the 'work' being done on the program that those people were doing
You don't get sober by simply attending a meeting. No kidding.
And, if you read any other addiction books - dealing with an addiction and digging up the root cause is extremely painful and takes a lot of time, energy, patience and faith. When you're going through that stuff and digging up pain - your first inclination is to numb it with your drug of choice.
In these types of treatments things ALWAYS get worse before they get better.
AA works for some people. AA doesn't work for others.
It's a voluntary program that has a lot of reliance upon the attendees behavior, attitude, honesty and the amount of work they're willing to do.
If it were *just* the Death/Rebirth cycle, I would agree.
However, it's much more than that. There are many more allusions in this chapter and especially in the following books that continue to act as metaphors for stories in the Bible.
Not to mention the fact that CS Lewis is one of the foremost Christian writers of our time - so we can be pretty sure it wasn't about Buddhism or other religious concepts . . .
Without a decent general overview of Biblical stories, you probably would have a hard time identifying the parallels.
I was talking with my friend just the other day about this concept (i didnt know it was this further along, despite the fact that I have a Sonicare toothbrush . . . duh)
The exciting thing is when appliances and their stands/desks/cabinets are able to become conduits for power. No more messy wires.
Eventually, I would think this could be built into flooring and moulding in houses so there would be power running everywhere and we'd no longer have to worry about wires, placement of electronics close to outlets, extension cords, etc, etc.
I cant stand the ratsnest of wires I've got with my Mac, cell, ipod, speakers, scanner, printer. Ugh.
I recently cancelled my two World of Warcraft accounts. I'd been playing since Beta and with my guild and friends had defeated all but 1 of the 'end game' bosses, excluding the very new Blackwing Lair.
Despite what is being generally assumed in the gaming media, many servers are still not stable despite being 1 year into development after a lengthy alpha and beta test.
My server, Blackrock, being the highest population server must represent some extra challenges but why have you not been vocal and communicative about the almost constant instance and server crashes during peak play times? (Before I canceled last week, one of the last nights I played Blackrock crashed 5 times in a row consecutively over the span of 2-3 hours AFTER a lengthy extra maintenance period that same week)
There have been reports that instance farmers, dupers and Raid cascading guilds are to blame for the massive server problems we've had in the last month but all of these are rumors, unconfirmed - and yet the problems continue with no official response of any form nor, more importantly, no specific drastic action to fix this long-standing problem.
In addition, why has Blizzard not locked out new players from starting off for the first time on Blackrock? You have had 3 transfers periods for people to move from Blackrock to other servers and yet all it has done is allowed more free space to open up for other people to start over or for the first time on the "popular" server. Why have you not 'locked' Blackrock and prevented the massive population problems that continuously plague it?
(For those unaware of the annoyance of instance resets or server restarts - it often meant that after spending 3-4 hours clearing through an end-game instance and defeating 3-4 bosses the instance server would boot you and you would eventually login back at the beginning with all of the 'trash' monsters respawned - requiring you to spend another 1-2 hours to clear back to where you left off. Sometimes this would happen more than once a night.)
I have read one. It was pretty easy to understand.
What wasn't easy to understand was the other contract that came along with it that included the part "if you sell X number of albums on this label you're signing to, you automatically became an artist on this major label"
BUT, the small group of kids you DO reach will greatly appreciate any insight or guidance you can give them. (or hell, even any attention or positive reinforcement)
It sounds better to say that the 20GB and 40GB have dropped in price instead of saying the 15GB and 20GB capacities have been increased to 20GB and 40GB.
Plus, it removes confusion of what happened to the original 40GB.
"And the 40GB capacity has been increased to being discontinued" (There's going to be a 60GB soon, I'm sure, just not now)
You know the type. You pick up a CD/DVD of theirs off of the stack on top of their TV and notice that every single damn disc has a scratch on it. You put it in to play/listen - it starts to skip and they're like, "Oh weird, how'd that happen?"
The worst is the scratcher-friends who craftily ask to borrow your favorite CD/DVD. (Because all of theirs are unwatch/unlistenable) So, you're all like "sure!" You get it back after 2 months after bugging them for weeks about it and you open up the case to find . . . SCRATCHES ALL OVER THE DAMN DISC.
And you call them on it - and they say "What? I didn't put those there! It must've been like that when you gave it to me." Even if you obsessively carefully handle your discs, put them away when you're done and never abentmind-edly store stacks of them on sandpaper. THEY get offended?!
Do these people have no respect for personal property?
The secret, Bill, is to just put things away when you're done with them.
Either that, or someone will invent un-scratchable coatings, which I find far more likely in the next 10 years.
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Maybe Apple isn't just getting this patent to create an offensive, but rather as a defense.
Companies are attempting to overcome their lack of creativity/ingenuity by litigating a profit.
Thanks to the patent office's less-than-picky gratning process, there are a LOT of seemingly obvious and redundant patents floating out there.
I think that more situations will come up as companies attempt to assault Apple's #1 iPod/Music Store slot and incresingly their other software and hardware ventures.
What I'm talking about is the Creative situation - Creative gets mad that they're getting their ass handed to them by Apple and they can't pull together a decent product - so they look in their patent portfolio and find something to beat Apple with and shut them down legally . . .
Except that Apple turned around with a stack of way scarier patents to shove in Creative's face and said "Ok, we were playing nice and just plain out-smarting you but you've made us mad and we're going to match your 'play dirty' scheme"
Creative didn't really stand a chance.
A patent like this, and probably many others that Apple has, means that Apple can defend off OTHER company's offensive patent challenges.
Do we actually want flexible computers?
Do we really want to roll up our processors like a newspaper?
Every other new future technology seems to include the phrase "and then you can roll it up just like paper!"
But there's a whole industry out there selling things to PREVENT paper from rolling up and being flexible!
We store paper so it doesn't roll up or bend, we print it in such a way to prevent rolling or curling and now I'm supposed to believe in the future we're magically going to WANT paper-thin electronics so we call roll them up??
I don't want my computer rolled up.
I want it small, cool, quiet, and light - but heavy enough that my box doesnt blow off my desk when someone walks by or I sneeze wrong . . .
I got mine last week, from a friend of a friend who works at Nintendo.
:)
Sadly, I opened it to find two stuck pixels (red and green)
Apparently, Nintendo won't replace the unit unless there are three or more.
Anyone know how to 'stick' a pixel . . ?
Studies don't take into account the 'work' being done on the program that those people were doing
You don't get sober by simply attending a meeting. No kidding.
And, if you read any other addiction books - dealing with an addiction and digging up the root cause is extremely painful and takes a lot of time, energy, patience and faith.
When you're going through that stuff and digging up pain - your first inclination is to numb it with your drug of choice.
In these types of treatments things ALWAYS get worse before they get better.
AA works for some people.
AA doesn't work for others.
It's a voluntary program that has a lot of reliance upon the attendees behavior, attitude, honesty and the amount of work they're willing to do.
The site wasn't an internal Microsoft site.
It was done by a larger outside design company who specializes in web
Do completely misguided hyperbolic newspost titles generate fervent responses?
Yes, they do.
99% of statistics are made up.
There are a lot of great flash websites, applications, applets.
Banners, however, are never good, no matter what technology they use.
If it were *just* the Death/Rebirth cycle, I would agree.
However, it's much more than that.
There are many more allusions in this chapter and especially in the following books that continue to act as metaphors for stories in the Bible.
Not to mention the fact that CS Lewis is one of the foremost Christian writers of our time - so we can be pretty sure it wasn't about Buddhism or other religious concepts . . .
Without a decent general overview of Biblical stories, you probably would have a hard time identifying the parallels.
The Armed Forces are populated by exclusively 'Christ fundies'?
Their html page naming convention and hierarchy organisation are as mysterious and secretive as their operations . . .
I was talking with my friend just the other day about this concept (i didnt know it was this further along, despite the fact that I have a Sonicare toothbrush . . . duh)
The exciting thing is when appliances and their stands/desks/cabinets are able to become conduits for power.
No more messy wires.
Eventually, I would think this could be built into flooring and moulding in houses so there would be power running everywhere and we'd no longer have to worry about wires, placement of electronics close to outlets, extension cords, etc, etc.
I cant stand the ratsnest of wires I've got with my Mac, cell, ipod, speakers, scanner, printer. Ugh.
You are using the record industries definition of success to judge this band.
This band and the individuals in it have had a HUGE influence on the Seattle music scene.
Obviously, they have much less to lose since they all have "real" jobs and families - but it's gotta start somewhere.
"And anyone who has listen to the radio the last few years could certainly use some unique music."
Actually, there is music beyond what gets played on the radio.
And a lot of it is very, very good.
This, however, is not good.
Reminds me of a less creative version of MetaSynth
I recently cancelled my two World of Warcraft accounts.
I'd been playing since Beta and with my guild and friends had defeated all but 1 of the 'end game' bosses, excluding the very new Blackwing Lair.
Despite what is being generally assumed in the gaming media, many servers are still not stable despite being 1 year into development after a lengthy alpha and beta test.
My server, Blackrock, being the highest population server must represent some extra challenges but why have you not been vocal and communicative about the almost constant instance and server crashes during peak play times?
(Before I canceled last week, one of the last nights I played Blackrock crashed 5 times in a row consecutively over the span of 2-3 hours AFTER a lengthy extra maintenance period that same week)
There have been reports that instance farmers, dupers and Raid cascading guilds are to blame for the massive server problems we've had in the last month but all of these are rumors, unconfirmed - and yet the problems continue with no official response of any form nor, more importantly, no specific drastic action to fix this long-standing problem.
In addition, why has Blizzard not locked out new players from starting off for the first time on Blackrock?
You have had 3 transfers periods for people to move from Blackrock to other servers and yet all it has done is allowed more free space to open up for other people to start over or for the first time on the "popular" server.
Why have you not 'locked' Blackrock and prevented the massive population problems that continuously plague it?
(For those unaware of the annoyance of instance resets or server restarts - it often meant that after spending 3-4 hours clearing through an end-game instance and defeating 3-4 bosses the instance server would boot you and you would eventually login back at the beginning with all of the 'trash' monsters respawned - requiring you to spend another 1-2 hours to clear back to where you left off. Sometimes this would happen more than once a night.)
What I would find much more interesting would be the DEATH of the Federation.
That would be interesting.
Empire rise and fall - but the Federation collapsing beneath corruption and war would be amazing.
(this was supposedly a show idea, starring Frakes and Sirtis - but I'm not sure they could carry it themselves)
I have read one.
It was pretty easy to understand.
What wasn't easy to understand was the other contract that came along with it that included the part "if you sell X number of albums on this label you're signing to, you automatically became an artist on this major label"
Don't expect to reach a large amount of kids.
BUT, the small group of kids you DO reach will greatly appreciate any insight or guidance you can give them.
(or hell, even any attention or positive reinforcement)
Slashdot has turned into Livejournal.
There is no Photoshop for Linux, so, no. No professional photographers use Linux.
I would say you're going to have a hard time getting a pro-sumer scanner to output professional image quality.
Most pros are either digital, digital+film or use scanning services (who can afford a expensive drum-scanner)
Here's a funny thing to think about . . .
So Disney owns the characters in Toy Story - their likeness, etc.
Did Disney buy the models?
Are they able to get the wireframe models with all animation handles, etc and just drop em into their modeling program?
Or does Disney actually have to re-model the characters??
I'll bet you that Pixar retain ownership of the models and that Disney has to re-create them.
How hard is that to do?
Is Disney gonna end up with some bizarre Frankenstein model of Buzz Lightyear?
Plus Disney's gotta re-create shaders, cloth and hair systems, etc.
Haha!
That's quite a stretch of the imagination . . .
but a car is not a computing device - it's primary function is driving
Regardless, the description beyond that isn't even remotely close.
Headlamps and illuminated dashboards != LED-lit computer housing
Vegans are gonna be forced to use slower, less compatible soy-protein alternatives.
It's a marketing choice.
It sounds better to say that the 20GB and 40GB have dropped in price instead of saying the 15GB and 20GB capacities have been increased to 20GB and 40GB.
Plus, it removes confusion of what happened to the original 40GB.
"And the 40GB capacity has been increased to being discontinued"
(There's going to be a 60GB soon, I'm sure, just not now)
Bill is wishing for digital "On-Demand" video.
He's a scratcher.
You know the type.
You pick up a CD/DVD of theirs off of the stack on top of their TV and notice that every single damn disc has a scratch on it.
You put it in to play/listen - it starts to skip and they're like, "Oh weird, how'd that happen?"
The worst is the scratcher-friends who craftily ask to borrow your favorite CD/DVD. (Because all of theirs are unwatch/unlistenable)
So, you're all like "sure!"
You get it back after 2 months after bugging them for weeks about it and you open up the case to find . . . SCRATCHES ALL OVER THE DAMN DISC.
And you call them on it - and they say "What? I didn't put those there! It must've been like that when you gave it to me."
Even if you obsessively carefully handle your discs, put them away when you're done and never abentmind-edly store stacks of them on sandpaper.
THEY get offended?!
Do these people have no respect for personal property?
The secret, Bill, is to just put things away when you're done with them.
Either that, or someone will invent un-scratchable coatings, which I find far more likely in the next 10 years.
Are you running 1.2?
.
.
It's only available on Panther . .
It's pretty darn close to being bug-free from what I can tell.
and it's based on Konqueror, not Mozilla
similar accuracy and speed, wayyy less application bloat.
If your code sucks . .
go here
www.alistapart.com