you're completely wrong fucker! many telcos bond the serial number
to the SIM for registration and activation - you can bet Apple does
it if only to connect that unit to your credit card and name for
repair purposes. so WRONG!
Hey moron, who do you think will be supplying the weapons if your American Idiot decides to invade Iran?
Let's face it, there's no bigger asshat on the planet than Bush.
RIM didn't design the cell phone network, dorkwad. RIM the other devices work over the approved and paid for data channels. If you are paying $80/mo for "unlimited data" you better damn well get what the system can handle. And FYI, CDMA and GSM systems use a time division multiplex method so it's not like a cable modem link shared with the neighbourhood; you can't choke the whole system by being a data-hog, at most you can consume your alloted time-slice.
I'm on the first paragraphs and there is almost an error per sentence.
1. the 6502 did NOT have an on chip oscillator, it had logic input for clock,
unlike the 6800 which needed a more complex two phase clock generator
2. it did NOT have a built in crystal or timing of any sort that
generated 1.023 Mhz - that may be the effective clock rate on the Apple, but
nothing inherent in the 6502.
3. the cycle stealing was done to refresh dynamic memory not the cpu.
the early cpu was dynamic, that is that it needed refrsh mos cells, but
this was done without cycle stealing using the normal phi clock.
4. the 6502 had 16 address lines, hence 2^16 addresses or 64K bytes of addressing.
not "over 65K". If this guy doesn't know the difference between K=1024 for computers
vs K=1000 SI prefixes, he's in real trouble.
Clear Singh has no proper engineering background, can't understand schematics,
nor even read a data sheet. Just goes to show that any moron can publish a book.
I for one won't waste my money on erroneous bullshit.
however none of Tilden's robots walk. The insects
all craw, and robosapiem shuffles. The bd card trick
is merely using the tone chip as a sequencer, which
could have easily been a counter/decoder or PLD. Other
'walkers' use his ~inverter neuron~ for sequencing, but
this simple R/C linear amp trick cannot control a
dynamically balanced walker.
You mean the integrated MP3 player, camera, video playback, SD expansion and touch sensitive screen etc?
I guess not. Those are all the things missing from RIM that are offerced by competitors on even entry level Microsoft PDAs. Face it. RIM only does one thing well: email. Period. They totally suck as PDAs and are the worst cellphones I have ever seen or used. Until they get the price down on a cheap and reliable text message service plan for $20, most people will be reluctant to drop $600 on a RIM and pay 60$+ monthly on a 3 year lock-in. How many of us really need portable browsing when most cheap cell phones can do WAP?
you've obviously never worked in a theatre or any movie related business.
The exhibitor doesn't get a cut of ticket sales at all - they make their
profit on concessions - ie 7$ cokes and 3$ chocolate bars. Educate YOURSELF!
Actually, Campana's company Telefind did have working products, albeit prototypes, exhibited at Comdex in 1990. There weren't terrible reliable - as the networks weren't either, only one way email to pagers but they worked. AT&T was online as primary customer but ducked out leaving Telefind high and dry. Campana inherited tha patents after a lawsuit against Telefind."Mr. Narayanan liked Telefind's products, thinking they might fit well with the Safari project. AT&T had an e-mail system and a prototype computer; what it lacked was a paging service that could put the two together. But after a year of flirting with Telefind, even demonstrating Telefind's system at the Comdex computer show in Las Vegas, AT&T opted for a larger partner in Skytel." RIM's 800 and 900 series pagers were released in 1990 - well after Telefind. Mind you they were true 2-way pagers operating on Motorola's wireless packet Mobitel network. What brought on the NTP lawsuit was RIM's own arrogance in suing othe companies like Palm for having the audacity to incorporate tiny keyboards in their products. C'mon RIM! Who's the troll now?
wrong - they won the first suit. RIM just refused to pay the settlement they agreed to.
they wanted relicensing rights as well and NTP didn't include them. NTP wanted more cash
for that and RIM refused to pay. Serve's RIM's stupid lawyers for signing a one page agreement
and splitting town on pressing matters.. it's not like the company's future was at stake! wait..
um.. dickwad...
do a little googling and you'll see the Campana DID have a working system with hardware and software. It just wasn't as popular as RIM's has now become. RIMs luck was to pick an otherwise underused Mobitex service and put some usable devices on it. Campana did have a system, hardware, and customers - but he didn't have Mobitex. Now it's largely irrelevant since the messaging is carried on cell networks.
So when YOU come up with the next earth shattering idea, prove the concept, build hardware, you have every right to NOT sell it, while retaining the rights to the patent. Right? Otherwise why patent? Just give up your royalities and put it in the public domain? yeah right...
I'm getting tired of these RIMboi's that don't know what the eff they're talking about...
hey moron! PDA,fancy caluclators and many many other devices had small keyboards long before RIM.
just because you make something smaller doesn't mean it's worth a patent. Just because it costs money to manufacture (everything does!) doesn't meant it's worth a patent! RIM is not a PDA. It has some pitiful PDA functions. At best it's cellphone mode is barely usable. All it does well is email. period.
Did you think that somebody would try to patent a computer with a keyboard? Any PDA or phone is a computer.
Can you say "pior art" ?
Basically - if their NOC shuts down due to power (or backup) failure, virus infestation etc. the entire world's population of CrapBerries is dead in the water. Even with a backup NOC, there are about 5 million units worldwide that route through the Waterloo NOC and rely on it's monitoring their status, so they can "push". At least with this workaround (ahem, subterfuge) there will be other storage locations to store the messages, but also many new points of failure. Presumably the NOC must still tell the remote message stores (BES or carrier servers) to start sending - still making the NOC the Achilles heel. Suerly they must have redundant internet and dedicated links to the major US carriers, but also routed through common routers - but what if all their fibre is cut by a bulldozer?
Wrong! They'd still be on the hook of about a billion dollars
if the judge ruled against them later this month. The NTP patent
was legal and binding, at the time RIM ignored it, were warned and'
refused to pay. Nothing has changed that situation.
hey RIMboi - read the friggin article. It says Campana designed and operated working message/pager system. Whether is was a huge commercial success is not an issue. The facts are that he did get a perfectly legal pattent on. The courts can only work with the facts and the law.
hear hear! you are absolutely correct! I've said this before,
but everybody here seems to suck RIM's ass...
speaking of useless patents, RIM has a few of their own !
the tiny keyboard is patented! prior art? tons!
you mean RIM's patents on tiny keyboards? moron...
RIM has almost nothing of value in their patent portfolio.
And if you do your homework, you'll find Campana's company
had working 2 way pagers long before RIM ever existed.
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you're completely wrong fucker! many telcos bond the serial number to the SIM for registration and activation - you can bet Apple does it if only to connect that unit to your credit card and name for repair purposes. so WRONG!
The only things they brought to Peru were horses, guns and syphilis! The only thing they took away was gold!
yeah.. you can always use Winblows drivers and NDIS wrappers, but that sucks!
no, dickwad. It's called fair use! look it up.
hey yankee dickwad.. own money is worth more than yours today! $1.04
except for PIN to PIN messages which are apparently sent completely in the clear, having only the A5 protection (in the case of GMS/GPRS)...
Hey moron, who do you think will be supplying the weapons if your American Idiot decides to invade Iran? Let's face it, there's no bigger asshat on the planet than Bush.
and by "democracy" you mean Bush and Afghanistan style? need I remind you that Bush wasn't elected by the people either..
complimentary! nice shoes! (that was a COMPLIMENT) oh.. you meant COMPLEMENTARY!
RIM didn't design the cell phone network, dorkwad. RIM the other devices work over the approved and paid for data channels. If you are paying $80/mo for "unlimited data" you better damn well get what the system can handle. And FYI, CDMA and GSM systems use a time division multiplex method so it's not like a cable modem link shared with the neighbourhood; you can't choke the whole system by being a data-hog, at most you can consume your alloted time-slice.
I'm on the first paragraphs and there is almost an error per sentence. 1. the 6502 did NOT have an on chip oscillator, it had logic input for clock, unlike the 6800 which needed a more complex two phase clock generator 2. it did NOT have a built in crystal or timing of any sort that generated 1.023 Mhz - that may be the effective clock rate on the Apple, but nothing inherent in the 6502. 3. the cycle stealing was done to refresh dynamic memory not the cpu. the early cpu was dynamic, that is that it needed refrsh mos cells, but this was done without cycle stealing using the normal phi clock. 4. the 6502 had 16 address lines, hence 2^16 addresses or 64K bytes of addressing. not "over 65K". If this guy doesn't know the difference between K=1024 for computers vs K=1000 SI prefixes, he's in real trouble. Clear Singh has no proper engineering background, can't understand schematics, nor even read a data sheet. Just goes to show that any moron can publish a book. I for one won't waste my money on erroneous bullshit.
seriously don't change it. the colour scheme is boring and the fonts suck. are you guys crazy?
however none of Tilden's robots walk. The insects all craw, and robosapiem shuffles. The bd card trick is merely using the tone chip as a sequencer, which could have easily been a counter/decoder or PLD. Other 'walkers' use his ~inverter neuron~ for sequencing, but this simple R/C linear amp trick cannot control a dynamically balanced walker.
You mean the integrated MP3 player, camera, video playback, SD expansion and touch sensitive screen etc? I guess not. Those are all the things missing from RIM that are offerced by competitors on even entry level Microsoft PDAs. Face it. RIM only does one thing well: email. Period. They totally suck as PDAs and are the worst cellphones I have ever seen or used. Until they get the price down on a cheap and reliable text message service plan for $20, most people will be reluctant to drop $600 on a RIM and pay 60$+ monthly on a 3 year lock-in. How many of us really need portable browsing when most cheap cell phones can do WAP?
you've obviously never worked in a theatre or any movie related business. The exhibitor doesn't get a cut of ticket sales at all - they make their profit on concessions - ie 7$ cokes and 3$ chocolate bars. Educate YOURSELF!
Actually, Campana's company Telefind did have working products, albeit prototypes, exhibited at Comdex in 1990. There weren't terrible reliable - as the networks weren't either, only one way email to pagers but they worked. AT&T was online as primary customer but ducked out leaving Telefind high and dry. Campana inherited tha patents after a lawsuit against Telefind."Mr. Narayanan liked Telefind's products, thinking they might fit well with the Safari project. AT&T had an e-mail system and a prototype computer; what it lacked was a paging service that could put the two together. But after a year of flirting with Telefind, even demonstrating Telefind's system at the Comdex computer show in Las Vegas, AT&T opted for a larger partner in Skytel." RIM's 800 and 900 series pagers were released in 1990 - well after Telefind. Mind you they were true 2-way pagers operating on Motorola's wireless packet Mobitel network. What brought on the NTP lawsuit was RIM's own arrogance in suing othe companies like Palm for having the audacity to incorporate tiny keyboards in their products. C'mon RIM! Who's the troll now?
wrong - they won the first suit. RIM just refused to pay the settlement they agreed to. they wanted relicensing rights as well and NTP didn't include them. NTP wanted more cash for that and RIM refused to pay. Serve's RIM's stupid lawyers for signing a one page agreement and splitting town on pressing matters.. it's not like the company's future was at stake! wait..
um.. dickwad... do a little googling and you'll see the Campana DID have a working system with hardware and software. It just wasn't as popular as RIM's has now become. RIMs luck was to pick an otherwise underused Mobitex service and put some usable devices on it. Campana did have a system, hardware, and customers - but he didn't have Mobitex. Now it's largely irrelevant since the messaging is carried on cell networks. So when YOU come up with the next earth shattering idea, prove the concept, build hardware, you have every right to NOT sell it, while retaining the rights to the patent. Right? Otherwise why patent? Just give up your royalities and put it in the public domain? yeah right...
I'm getting tired of these RIMboi's that don't know what the eff they're talking about... hey moron! PDA,fancy caluclators and many many other devices had small keyboards long before RIM. just because you make something smaller doesn't mean it's worth a patent. Just because it costs money to manufacture (everything does!) doesn't meant it's worth a patent! RIM is not a PDA. It has some pitiful PDA functions. At best it's cellphone mode is barely usable. All it does well is email. period. Did you think that somebody would try to patent a computer with a keyboard? Any PDA or phone is a computer. Can you say "pior art" ?
Basically - if their NOC shuts down due to power (or backup) failure, virus infestation etc. the entire world's population of CrapBerries is dead in the water. Even with a backup NOC, there are about 5 million units worldwide that route through the Waterloo NOC and rely on it's monitoring their status, so they can "push". At least with this workaround (ahem, subterfuge) there will be other storage locations to store the messages, but also many new points of failure. Presumably the NOC must still tell the remote message stores (BES or carrier servers) to start sending - still making the NOC the Achilles heel. Suerly they must have redundant internet and dedicated links to the major US carriers, but also routed through common routers - but what if all their fibre is cut by a bulldozer?
Wrong! They'd still be on the hook of about a billion dollars if the judge ruled against them later this month. The NTP patent was legal and binding, at the time RIM ignored it, were warned and' refused to pay. Nothing has changed that situation.
hey RIMboi - read the friggin article. It says Campana designed and operated working message/pager system. Whether is was a huge commercial success is not an issue. The facts are that he did get a perfectly legal pattent on. The courts can only work with the facts and the law.
hear hear! you are absolutely correct! I've said this before, but everybody here seems to suck RIM's ass... speaking of useless patents, RIM has a few of their own ! the tiny keyboard is patented! prior art? tons!
you mean RIM's patents on tiny keyboards? moron... RIM has almost nothing of value in their patent portfolio. And if you do your homework, you'll find Campana's company had working 2 way pagers long before RIM ever existed.
features ~complimentary~ to IBM's
that's a pair you got there... why don't
you sell them and buy a dictionary!