The real question is how you guarantee data integrity. If there's no selective pressure maintaining the data, mutations, insertions, deletions, etc, *will* occur. How do you checksum DNA?
Huh? DNA is being use as a storage medium. There is a chance for the protein strains to deteriorate or denature but DNA is no different than any other strain of proteins. You are assuming that this is being stored in a organism of some sort which could "evolve" or that is it laid out in any sort of helix pattern with a self-replication mechanism intact.
Apple makes good hardware, and the prices are surprisingly competitive these days. Linux is the de-facto standard for serious software development if you want to do anything beyond making a few crApps and hobbyist tinkering. Makes perfect sense to me.
I don't know what planet you are on but on earth, Windows is the de-facto standard for serious software development and OS X is the de-facto standard for content creation. If you want to do anything beyond making a few crap apps like Amarok or crappy abstract wallpapers with Gimp, then you would want to use either OS X or windows. OS X offers the cocoa frameworks for creating amazing desktop apps but those are only useful if you are making a mac specific application or if your common code is separated from the platform specific code.
What is wrong with OSX? The vast majority of software package available on linux are also available on OSX, it is POSIX compliant and certified as a commercial UNIX, ships with a rich set of frameworks and has many free and commercial apps not available on linux.
Maybe you could explain to me why linux is a better desktop OS than OS X given than the latter has more software availability than the former.
I have to admit, I agree with the wingnut theory. I lived in Canada till the end of the 90s. No development in infrastructure for decades; not enough hospital beds but grand parking lots and shopping malls. The destruction of Studio D (in favour of the American content Mafia) and the relentless attacks on culture and the poor through a decade of prosperity, the 90s finally did me in. I had grown up country that gradually, but surely disappeared.
Last summer, I visited my brothers in BC (Victoria). American SUV parking lot. Practically impossible to cycle (safely) on the Island. And it's evident that people live in fear! They're afraid to have opinions. They're afraid to drink a beer in the park.
There isn't much difference between Canada and the US any more.
I've been in Berlin, Germany for a decade now. I'm not going back. The cost of living here is less and I have MORE space in a smaller country. Absurd, but to my advantage as it is.
You "visited" Victoria and I lived there most of my life. Big difference. No infrastructure for decades? Really? So the HD television, phone and high speed internet that I get through my phone line is my imagination? The Dual HSDPA and LTE that I enjoy is my imagination? The fully automated (driverless) skytrain system in Vancouver did not launch in 1986 and continue to expand over the decades? The Coquihalla highway did not see upgrades over the years? The Sea to Sky project never happened? I suppose the bypass in Nanaimo Bypass was never built and that Duke Point Ferry Terminal does not exist either?
So you never heard of the Galloping Goose Trail? It is famous for cycling in Victoria and the the Western Communities. Try googling "cycling vancouver island". The majority of buses in the Greater Victoria region have bike racks on the front of the bus.
Yeah, drinking in a park is considered taboo in a lot of countries. Parks are generally meant for everyone to enjoy but especially families. If you want to drink beer, go to your friends house in their backyard or go to a pub. There is on on every block practically in downtown Victoria.
I was born in Europe and I have visited several European cities in the last decade including London, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Frankfurt and Helsinki. Perhaps you should visit some other countries including other European ones before you start judging Canada. I hate to break it to you but Berlin is not representative of the whole of Europe.
To be honest, the Nexus 7 blows the iPad out of the water. The Nexus 7 is the best tablet device I've ever gotten my hands on, for less than half the price of an iPad.
It also has a lower resolution, less storage, a smaller battery and less app for it.
It's more customizable, easier to get content, and with the soft back - easier to hold.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Google-Nexus-7,Apple-iPad-3/phones/7143,5715 More customizable? I guess you need to fiddle with it because it comes setup so poorly and you have to do something out of boredom whereas iPad users "use" their devices. I can customize the lockscreen background, wallpaper, notifications and alert sounds. What more do I need? I could also jailbreak it if I really wanted to do more tweaking but I prefer stability and security over futzing around. Content? Yeah, as long and the music is in MP3 format whereas the iPad supports MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless). For video, the iPad also supports more formats and third party apps easily support additional formats. Games and apps are more plentiful on the IPad as well.
Services are more integrated than the iPad, IMHO, you could get by fine without having a computer to sync up with the Nexus 7.
What services? Google services? What if I don't want to use Google+? You can get by without syncing to a computer on an iPad since the release of iOS 5.0.
With the Nexus 7 you can download Torrent clients and apps such as Music Paradise to get all of your content, while there really isn't any alternative to the iTunes store with the iPad unless you root it.
Oh, I get it, you mean pirated shit. I thought you meant quality content.
Google Now works very well, I rarely type things in because the voice recognition is so accurate.
The Nexus 7 is a very nice device. I don't see why anyone would choose an iPad over the Nexus 7 right now.
How much did you get paid for that post Mr. Google shill? Yeah, why would anyone choose an iPad with its higher resolution and more apps and commercial games when you can get a device with less apps and less storage.
Yeah, Our 'fiscal conservative' govn't that blew through the liberal's surplus, and is creating the largest deficit in the history of the nation. Some fucking fiscal conservatism that is.
I'm old enough to have lived through provincial NDP governments, and they've been the most fiscally sound we've ever had, while at the same time increasing social programs.
tory times are tough times.
Right, because the Liberal surplus had nothing to do with the booming world economy at the time and the deficit has nothing to do with the world-wide economic downturn. Did you notice that it took this long for us to start feeling the effects?
Nah, the Canuks are shitting the bed as fast as the other western nations. They just have further to fall, so they look better right now.
They've let a bunch of ultra-conservative wingnuts get hold that are trying their damn hardest to turn the place in to the 52nd state. If you want to see Canada in 10 years, see Australia.
Let me guess, you are either a teenaged Canadian who never lived under an NDP government and you get your news from American liberal media or you are an American Obama supporter who is completely clueless about Canadian politics.
The Canadian conservative party is "fiscally" conservative. Our prime minister is a boring economist with a masters degree and that is the way we like it. Americans have no clue what the conservative party stands for. Our economy is still doing better than the American and European countries and our Canadian dollar is currently on cent above the US dollar.
Mars have crappy latency and bandwidth, and that is IF you can find a working rover and hack your signal in... Have you taught about Canada? Montreal is big in IT stuff and life is great there.
the tsa needs to be abolished, but no one wants to copy the israelis where everyone has bomb shelters and it is considered normal.
Even if what you said was true, what that have to do with airport security generally and more specifically the effectiveness of the israelis method? Nothing. It is precisely your type of attitude which prevents any "real" progress in the US. I am guessing that you are democrat because it is typical of what is wrong with the democratic party in the US. They find fault or change the subject instead of dealing with the situation at hand. You seem to be prejudiced against israelis for some ideological reason but you should be able to put aside your anti-semitism and learn from them. How you feel about them should be irrelevant because their approach works whereas yours does not. If you can accept that then there is hope for progress.
You see, your neighbours to the north have various political parties but we are able to sometimes put aside our ideological beliefs and "learn" for each other. That is something that you American could learn from us. Here in Canada, almost everyone supports the continued existence of our public health system regardless of their political stripe out of pure pragmatism. It actually saves us money both for total expenditures for healthcare alone and the reduced loss of productivity that would be incurred if workers were unable to get the help they needed.
As an actual software developer with over a decade of actual "work" experience, I can tell you that the best specs in the world don't mean shit if the platform you are running on is not optimized to run on the hardware and if the API for third party developer does not give you access to all of that power.
Optimization is extremely important on mobile platforms where battery life is a limited quantity and the end user expect to run unplugged for an extended period of time.
The reason why iOS on the tablet is so popular is that Apple developed a unique set of controls for the iPad form factor from the first release of the iPad OS and they also provided an easy way to have "universal" apps that target both phones and tablets.
The other major reasons are the power of the API and Apple's promotion of paid apps. At first, Google did not give a rat's arse about whether developers could make money on Android because Google is an advertising company at heart. They view the users as the "product" that they sell to advertisers. They really don't care about you at all unless if they see you start leaving their platform. Privacy is seen as a nuisance at Google which gets in the way of making money for them.
In a nutshell, users of Android devices and developers are seen as a means to an end rather than customers and partners.
Android 4.x is pretty clearly superior to iOS... which is primitive in comparison.
It's shocking how cumbersome the user interface is on iOS compared to the newer versions of android
Fanboys say fanboy shit all the time. If it is so damn cumbersome then how is it that toddlers, grandmothers and even apes can pick up and use an iPad? Maybe the problem is between your ears and not with the device itself.
"The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
"Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-F700
The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700, it had a real smartphone OS, a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard. So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine because the iPhone was in development long before 2006 and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device.
We've seen ALL of these devices on Star Trek: TNG. Devices with buttons, devices without buttons, rectangular devices, etc.
Someone should make a smash-up video of all the hand-held computer devices shown in Star Trek:TNG, it would destroy a lot of design patents.
I hate to break it to you but ST TNG is a fictional TV show. They used props made out of painted wood with some plastic pieces and a silkscreened "display" rather than an animated one. Any animation that you saw on screen would have been added later on in post production. They could have easily just used a solid grey rectangle and added everything onto the surface in post but that would have been a lot of work to since most prop PADDs only appeared either on desks in the background or briefly on screen with the screen facing the camera. Sometimes the silkscreen may have had backlighting and a pulsing effect to simulate rudimentary "animation" like you might have seen for a warp core readout in the background or blinking lights to simulate a pulsing button.
You cannot use something that is completely fake like that as "prior art".
Assad? Bullshit. This is a coup that the US and Saudi Arabia are funding the rebels with. Weapons, communications equipment, etc. You honestly condone the suicide bombing that took out Assad's brother in law, and his top defense ministers? Or the massacre that was plastered all over the news saying that children were slaughtered by the Assad regime, only found to be a complete fabrication? Do you really want to fuck with a country that has an arsenal of WMD's sitting on your fat, pimply ass in the US to have bragging rights? You're just asking for a bitch slap from China and Russia, both good friends with Assad and Syria. Here's an idea: don't provoke them and mind your own business.
So are you saying that Assad did not kill innocent civilians who were peacefully protesting when there were no rebels to speak of? Are you saying none of that happened? Are you allowing your politics to blind you to the atrocities? Typical liberal. Instead of discussing the real danger of harm posed to civilians before and after the protests and rebellion, you would instead shift focus onto who is supplying weapons to the rebels. People on the left often change the subject instead of examining the "big picture" on the ground because they feel an uncomfortable incongruity between their ideology and their emotions so they instead turn their focus on a side issue ignoring the real human toll. I have seen the same changing of subject and goal post moving so many times before. Just admit that you have no skills instead of trying to turn it into an American politics issue.
You are doing humanity a disservice by pandering to ideology instead of examine who is being hurt by the status quo. If you expended as much effort in looking for solutions instead of problems then you could possibly change the world for the better.
Ironic how apple is competing through litigation arguing patent infringement and then blatantly copies the Nexus S 4G earphone location (http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-galaxy-nexus/143389-headset-jack-bottom-yea-nay.html)
Do you really believe this is a real leaked part? It is more likely a chinese knock off based on "rumours" about a taller iPhone. The clones have their jack at the bottom and a smaller "dock" port like this one.
Didn't all of the major news outlets believe that a teardrop LTE iPhone 5 was coming out last year? Did you all forget that?
Do you really believe Apple is going to abandon their ecosystem of dock connector accessories? Really? These reporters need to go back to school because they have become as bad as "bloggers" believing rumours and random parts that could be fake or part of a chinese knockoff designed based on the rumours about a taller iPhone.
Every other phone manufacturer seems okay with USB and a headphone socket. Same accessories, standard connector and charger.
Right, they should then abandon their advantage that they have built up over years with dock connectors on alarm clocks, portable stereos and car connection kits?
Wouldn't they have to replace the dock connector with two ports being an USB port and a mini HDMI port for video and audio? Even still, they would loose the serial interface for controlling/being controlled by accessories present in the dock connector.
That back piece could be a decoy to weed out leakers at Apple or it could even be a part for chinese iPhone clone. The appearance of the back plate does not look consistent with previous iDevices put out by Apple before. The speaker/microphone grills do not match in size with larger holes than I would expect and there is no benefit to having the headphone jack at the bottom if it means sacrificing symmetry and reducing the docking port. Also, the back panel having an "Apple" logo means nothing. There have been clone phone made in china before with an Apple logo and iPhone moniker. Also, the font kerning a family is wrong for "iPhone" and there are no regulatory symbols or text such as "Made in China, Designed in California".
Everything about the supposed leaked case scream "clone" to me. There were iPhone 4 "clones" released in China after the prototype was "lost" in a bar so it is entirely possible that someone leaked information about the dimensions of the new iPhone 5 to a cloner.
Apple would be giving up a vast eco-system of dock connectors on alarm clocks in homes and hotels.
If you don't feel patriotic or disagree with your current government, consider using your leet skills for the benefit of all mankind by taking on people like Assad. He is killing his own people. Think about forming a temporary partnership/truce for the good of all people. Get him where it hurts by taking out his bank accounts, taking out his internal networks. Help out the people of Syria and the world at large by helping the NSA/CIA find and seize his offshore accounts.
Assad obviously does not give a crap about his own people but he does care about his money. Steal it from him in a concerted effort with your temporary allies in the western nation governments.
They protect their own innovations to an extent they deem reasonable.
What innovations? Apple is an imitator, marketer, and polisher of other people's products. Did they invent the cellphone? Did they invent tablets? Did they invent mp3 players, touch screens, gridded icons, rounded corners or anything else of substance? Have they ever actually created a new product category? The best people can say is that Samsung imitated an imitator. At best.
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The real question is how you guarantee data integrity. If there's no selective pressure maintaining the data, mutations, insertions, deletions, etc, *will* occur. How do you checksum DNA?
Huh? DNA is being use as a storage medium. There is a chance for the protein strains to deteriorate or denature but DNA is no different than any other strain of proteins. You are assuming that this is being stored in a organism of some sort which could "evolve" or that is it laid out in any sort of helix pattern with a self-replication mechanism intact.
Exactly... I wonder how well OS X worked the first time Apple ran it on this hardware. I bet it didn't even boot.
Right, because Apple would never build multiple iterations of prototypes and write the drivers as they went along?
Apple makes good hardware, and the prices are surprisingly competitive these days. Linux is the de-facto standard for serious software development if you want to do anything beyond making a few crApps and hobbyist tinkering. Makes perfect sense to me.
I don't know what planet you are on but on earth, Windows is the de-facto standard for serious software development and OS X is the de-facto standard for content creation. If you want to do anything beyond making a few crap apps like Amarok or crappy abstract wallpapers with Gimp, then you would want to use either OS X or windows. OS X offers the cocoa frameworks for creating amazing desktop apps but those are only useful if you are making a mac specific application or if your common code is separated from the platform specific code.
I do it with a macbook air.
The hardware is nice, but OSX is terrible.
What is wrong with OSX? The vast majority of software package available on linux are also available on OSX, it is POSIX compliant and certified as a commercial UNIX, ships with a rich set of frameworks and has many free and commercial apps not available on linux.
Maybe you could explain to me why linux is a better desktop OS than OS X given than the latter has more software availability than the former.
Didn't the U.S. buy Canada to silence Jon Stewart?
No, but we are in the process of buying up the US.
See:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/got-milk-canadian-shoppers-get-it-at-us-costco-2012-08-16?link=home_carousel
and if you google "Canadians buy real estate in US" you will find a bunch of stories.
I have to admit, I agree with the wingnut theory. I lived in Canada till the end of the 90s. No development in infrastructure for decades; not enough hospital beds but grand parking lots and shopping malls. The destruction of Studio D (in favour of the American content Mafia) and the relentless attacks on culture and the poor through a decade of prosperity, the 90s finally did me in. I had grown up country that gradually, but surely disappeared.
Last summer, I visited my brothers in BC (Victoria). American SUV parking lot. Practically impossible to cycle (safely) on the Island. And it's evident that people live in fear! They're afraid to have opinions. They're afraid to drink a beer in the park.
There isn't much difference between Canada and the US any more.
I've been in Berlin, Germany for a decade now. I'm not going back. The cost of living here is less and I have MORE space in a smaller country. Absurd, but to my advantage as it is.
You "visited" Victoria and I lived there most of my life. Big difference. No infrastructure for decades? Really? So the HD television, phone and high speed internet that I get through my phone line is my imagination? The Dual HSDPA and LTE that I enjoy is my imagination? The fully automated (driverless) skytrain system in Vancouver did not launch in 1986 and continue to expand over the decades? The Coquihalla highway did not see upgrades over the years? The Sea to Sky project never happened? I suppose the bypass in Nanaimo Bypass was never built and that Duke Point Ferry Terminal does not exist either?
So you never heard of the Galloping Goose Trail? It is famous for cycling in Victoria and the the Western Communities. Try googling "cycling vancouver island". The majority of buses in the Greater Victoria region have bike racks on the front of the bus.
Yeah, drinking in a park is considered taboo in a lot of countries. Parks are generally meant for everyone to enjoy but especially families. If you want to drink beer, go to your friends house in their backyard or go to a pub. There is on on every block practically in downtown Victoria.
I was born in Europe and I have visited several European cities in the last decade including London, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Frankfurt and Helsinki. Perhaps you should visit some other countries including other European ones before you start judging Canada. I hate to break it to you but Berlin is not representative of the whole of Europe.
To be honest, the Nexus 7 blows the iPad out of the water. The Nexus 7 is the best tablet device I've ever gotten my hands on, for less than half the price of an iPad.
It also has a lower resolution, less storage, a smaller battery and less app for it.
It's more customizable, easier to get content, and with the soft back - easier to hold.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Google-Nexus-7,Apple-iPad-3/phones/7143,5715
More customizable? I guess you need to fiddle with it because it comes setup so poorly and you have to do something out of boredom whereas iPad users "use" their devices. I can customize the lockscreen background, wallpaper, notifications and alert sounds. What more do I need? I could also jailbreak it if I really wanted to do more tweaking but I prefer stability and security over futzing around. Content? Yeah, as long and the music is in MP3 format whereas the iPad supports MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless). For video, the iPad also supports more formats and third party apps easily support additional formats. Games and apps are more plentiful on the IPad as well.
Services are more integrated than the iPad, IMHO, you could get by fine without having a computer to sync up with the Nexus 7.
What services? Google services? What if I don't want to use Google+? You can get by without syncing to a computer on an iPad since the release of iOS 5.0.
With the Nexus 7 you can download Torrent clients and apps such as Music Paradise to get all of your content, while there really isn't any alternative to the iTunes store with the iPad unless you root it.
Oh, I get it, you mean pirated shit. I thought you meant quality content.
Google Now works very well, I rarely type things in because the voice recognition is so accurate.
The Nexus 7 is a very nice device. I don't see why anyone would choose an iPad over the Nexus 7 right now.
How much did you get paid for that post Mr. Google shill? Yeah, why would anyone choose an iPad with its higher resolution and more apps and commercial games when you can get a device with less apps and less storage.
Yeah, Our 'fiscal conservative' govn't that blew through the liberal's surplus, and is creating the largest deficit in the history of the nation. Some fucking fiscal conservatism that is.
I'm old enough to have lived through provincial NDP governments, and they've been the most fiscally sound we've ever had, while at the same time increasing social programs.
tory times are tough times.
Right, because the Liberal surplus had nothing to do with the booming world economy at the time and the deficit has nothing to do with the world-wide economic downturn. Did you notice that it took this long for us to start feeling the effects?
Nah, the Canuks are shitting the bed as fast as the other western nations. They just have further to fall, so they look better right now.
They've let a bunch of ultra-conservative wingnuts get hold that are trying their damn hardest to turn the place in to the 52nd state. If you want to see Canada in 10 years, see Australia.
Let me guess, you are either a teenaged Canadian who never lived under an NDP government and you get your news from American liberal media or you are an American Obama supporter who is completely clueless about Canadian politics.
The Canadian conservative party is "fiscally" conservative. Our prime minister is a boring economist with a masters degree and that is the way we like it. Americans have no clue what the conservative party stands for. Our economy is still doing better than the American and European countries and our Canadian dollar is currently on cent above the US dollar.
Mars have crappy latency and bandwidth, and that is IF you can find a working rover and hack your signal in... Have you taught about Canada? Montreal is big in IT stuff and life is great there.
You taught you taw a putty cat?
the tsa needs to be abolished, but no one wants to copy the israelis where everyone has bomb shelters and it is considered normal.
Even if what you said was true, what that have to do with airport security generally and more specifically the effectiveness of the israelis method? Nothing. It is precisely your type of attitude which prevents any "real" progress in the US. I am guessing that you are democrat because it is typical of what is wrong with the democratic party in the US. They find fault or change the subject instead of dealing with the situation at hand. You seem to be prejudiced against israelis for some ideological reason but you should be able to put aside your anti-semitism and learn from them. How you feel about them should be irrelevant because their approach works whereas yours does not. If you can accept that then there is hope for progress.
You see, your neighbours to the north have various political parties but we are able to sometimes put aside our ideological beliefs and "learn" for each other. That is something that you American could learn from us. Here in Canada, almost everyone supports the continued existence of our public health system regardless of their political stripe out of pure pragmatism. It actually saves us money both for total expenditures for healthcare alone and the reduced loss of productivity that would be incurred if workers were unable to get the help they needed.
As an actual software developer with over a decade of actual "work" experience, I can tell you that the best specs in the world don't mean shit if the platform you are running on is not optimized to run on the hardware and if the API for third party developer does not give you access to all of that power.
Optimization is extremely important on mobile platforms where battery life is a limited quantity and the end user expect to run unplugged for an extended period of time.
The reason why iOS on the tablet is so popular is that Apple developed a unique set of controls for the iPad form factor from the first release of the iPad OS and they also provided an easy way to have "universal" apps that target both phones and tablets.
The other major reasons are the power of the API and Apple's promotion of paid apps. At first, Google did not give a rat's arse about whether developers could make money on Android because Google is an advertising company at heart. They view the users as the "product" that they sell to advertisers. They really don't care about you at all unless if they see you start leaving their platform. Privacy is seen as a nuisance at Google which gets in the way of making money for them.
In a nutshell, users of Android devices and developers are seen as a means to an end rather than customers and partners.
Android 4.x is pretty clearly superior to iOS... which is primitive in comparison.
It's shocking how cumbersome the user interface is on iOS compared to the newer versions of android
Fanboys say fanboy shit all the time. If it is so damn cumbersome then how is it that toddlers, grandmothers and even apes can pick up and use an iPad? Maybe the problem is between your ears and not with the device itself.
"The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
"Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-F700
The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700, it had a real smartphone OS, a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard. So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine because the iPhone was in development long before 2006 and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device.
If Microsoft's tablet has round corners, then we know they will be in serious legal trouble.
The MS tablet will be brown and it'll "squirt". Remember the Zune? Wasn't very ipod like.
It will also have frequent core dumps.
We've seen ALL of these devices on Star Trek: TNG. Devices with buttons, devices without buttons, rectangular devices, etc.
Someone should make a smash-up video of all the hand-held computer devices shown in Star Trek:TNG, it would destroy a lot of design patents.
I hate to break it to you but ST TNG is a fictional TV show. They used props made out of painted wood with some plastic pieces and a silkscreened "display" rather than an animated one. Any animation that you saw on screen would have been added later on in post production. They could have easily just used a solid grey rectangle and added everything onto the surface in post but that would have been a lot of work to since most prop PADDs only appeared either on desks in the background or briefly on screen with the screen facing the camera. Sometimes the silkscreen may have had backlighting and a pulsing effect to simulate rudimentary "animation" like you might have seen for a warp core readout in the background or blinking lights to simulate a pulsing button.
You cannot use something that is completely fake like that as "prior art".
Assad? Bullshit. This is a coup that the US and Saudi Arabia are funding the rebels with. Weapons, communications equipment, etc. You honestly condone the suicide bombing that took out Assad's brother in law, and his top defense ministers? Or the massacre that was plastered all over the news saying that children were slaughtered by the Assad regime, only found to be a complete fabrication? Do you really want to fuck with a country that has an arsenal of WMD's sitting on your fat, pimply ass in the US to have bragging rights? You're just asking for a bitch slap from China and Russia, both good friends with Assad and Syria. Here's an idea: don't provoke them and mind your own business.
So are you saying that Assad did not kill innocent civilians who were peacefully protesting when there were no rebels to speak of? Are you saying none of that happened? Are you allowing your politics to blind you to the atrocities? Typical liberal. Instead of discussing the real danger of harm posed to civilians before and after the protests and rebellion, you would instead shift focus onto who is supplying weapons to the rebels. People on the left often change the subject instead of examining the "big picture" on the ground because they feel an uncomfortable incongruity between their ideology and their emotions so they instead turn their focus on a side issue ignoring the real human toll. I have seen the same changing of subject and goal post moving so many times before. Just admit that you have no skills instead of trying to turn it into an American politics issue.
You are doing humanity a disservice by pandering to ideology instead of examine who is being hurt by the status quo. If you expended as much effort in looking for solutions instead of problems then you could possibly change the world for the better.
PS. I'm not an American.
Ironic how apple is competing through litigation arguing patent infringement and then blatantly copies the Nexus S 4G earphone location (http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-galaxy-nexus/143389-headset-jack-bottom-yea-nay.html)
Do you really believe this is a real leaked part? It is more likely a chinese knock off based on "rumours" about a taller iPhone. The clones have their jack at the bottom and a smaller "dock" port like this one.
Here is an example of a clone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhowtIJQS8
And another one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-4mYehiNpI
Didn't all of the major news outlets believe that a teardrop LTE iPhone 5 was coming out last year? Did you all forget that?
Do you really believe Apple is going to abandon their ecosystem of dock connector accessories? Really? These reporters need to go back to school because they have become as bad as "bloggers" believing rumours and random parts that could be fake or part of a chinese knockoff designed based on the rumours about a taller iPhone.
Every other phone manufacturer seems okay with USB and a headphone socket. Same accessories, standard connector and charger.
Right, they should then abandon their advantage that they have built up over years with dock connectors on alarm clocks, portable stereos and car connection kits?
Wouldn't they have to replace the dock connector with two ports being an USB port and a mini HDMI port for video and audio? Even still, they would loose the serial interface for controlling/being controlled by accessories present in the dock connector.
See below:
http://irq5.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/the-apple-30-pin-dock-connector/
The dock connector supplied not only USB data but by-directional control signals, audio and video.
That back piece could be a decoy to weed out leakers at Apple or it could even be a part for chinese iPhone clone. The appearance of the back plate does not look consistent with previous iDevices put out by Apple before. The speaker/microphone grills do not match in size with larger holes than I would expect and there is no benefit to having the headphone jack at the bottom if it means sacrificing symmetry and reducing the docking port. Also, the back panel having an "Apple" logo means nothing. There have been clone phone made in china before with an Apple logo and iPhone moniker. Also, the font kerning a family is wrong for "iPhone" and there are no regulatory symbols or text such as "Made in China, Designed in California".
Everything about the supposed leaked case scream "clone" to me. There were iPhone 4 "clones" released in China after the prototype was "lost" in a bar so it is entirely possible that someone leaked information about the dimensions of the new iPhone 5 to a cloner.
Apple would be giving up a vast eco-system of dock connectors on alarm clocks in homes and hotels.
If you don't feel patriotic or disagree with your current government, consider using your leet skills for the benefit of all mankind by taking on people like Assad. He is killing his own people. Think about forming a temporary partnership/truce for the good of all people. Get him where it hurts by taking out his bank accounts, taking out his internal networks. Help out the people of Syria and the world at large by helping the NSA/CIA find and seize his offshore accounts.
Assad obviously does not give a crap about his own people but he does care about his money. Steal it from him in a concerted effort with your temporary allies in the western nation governments.
Samsung copied the PADD, not the iPad. (See: LCARS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad
That was a real product whereas the PADD in STNG was a prop made out of plastic and/or wood.
The second link was pretty funny. However your first link has a link to Psion in it. Psion is generally accepted as the actual inventor of the PDA.
Did you even bother looking at the picture at the link? No grids of icons, no touch screen and no GUI to speak of. It was a glorified calculator.
They protect their own innovations to an extent they deem reasonable.
What innovations? Apple is an imitator, marketer, and polisher of other people's products. Did they invent the cellphone? Did they invent tablets? Did they invent mp3 players, touch screens, gridded icons, rounded corners or anything else of substance? Have they ever actually created a new product category? The best people can say is that Samsung imitated an imitator. At best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt