Apple doesn't bother with anything which isn't selling. If Windows Phone was actually selling in droves they would be suing MS as well. And lose since there Apple can't play the jingoistic card.
What can you expect? The same thing happened to the NEC SX line of vector supercomputers in the past. Eventually Cray went belly up and now vector supercomputers don't matter. In the meantime US consumers had to pay inflated prices if they wanted high performance computing.
AMOLED screens, pressure sensitive pens that don't suck on capacitive displays. You know Samsung is a hardware company. Google does most of the software development on Android they just make a skin and a theme for it.
Just because Apple hasn't sued someone yet doesn't mean they won't or that they don't intend to do it. In fact the phones the "judge" threw out of the case were thrown out just because they weren't even sold in the US yet Apple added them to the lawsuit regardless!
More likely is that it could lead to a chilling effect where US cellphone technology stops evolving while the rest of the world moves forward. It has happened before in other segments...
$25 per phone goes to Apple, Apple gets to use all your patents for free, plus Apple gets to keep any patents they deem to provide their unique look and feel (whatever that means) to themselves and not license them at all. Great deal uh?
Because Apple got a patent for doing multi-touch in a cellphone. If you don't think it was obvious that you could do it in a cellphone after there were people doing it with other kinds of surfaces like Mitsubishi you clearly have little imagination. Even Microsoft was working with such concepts before Apple. The fact is there were plenty of other touch sensitive devices including cellphones before Apple even thought of making a cellphone. After capacitive displays started getting used in cellphones (already present in devices such as the LG Prada released before the iPhone) multi-touch was going to happen.
Great. You can keep buying your iPhones at twice the markup while we can get a Samsung Galaxy Note or some other Android device with better hardware and software for cheaper. Thankfully here in the EU software patents are unenforceable so Apple can't sue people for implementing multi-touch, which was not invented by them, in a phone.
Yeah and if traveling faster than the speed of sound was possible birds would do it.
Just because it has not been observed yet does not mean it is not possible. Regardless of this it is possible to do interstellar travel using known physics with nuclear pulse propulsion which was what the article was all about.
Great she says she has psychic powers so let's give her the modern equivalent of a lobotomy. Then she turns into a walking vegetable. Much more useful for society.
I guess you never heard about how we successfully eradicated smallpox worldwide with vaccination. We haven't eradicated more diseases because of idiots like you.
Smoking in a public space and spreading a contagious disease in a public space because you haven't been vaccinated is certainly my problem if I also use that space.
The difference is AMD's only chip manufacturing plant was at Dresden while Intel has lots of fabs including in Oregon, Arizona, Israel. Last I heard about it their Irish fab was getting passed over by the others in manufacturing tool upgrades so for example the other fabs got 22nm tools first. A lot of people thought this means their Irish fab is eventually to be closed or sold off to someone else. If the information in Wikipedia is up to date the Irish Intel fab is still using 65nm tools so they are two process generations behind already.
Possible forms of interstellar propulsion have been proposed since the 1950s and 1960s. These include nuclear pulse propulsion and anti-matter catalyzed versions of it if you want to shrink the spaceship at the cost of more exotic engineering. I never said it was easy but it is neither impossible nor unheard of. Any manned mission will most likely be preceded by robotic missions (fly-bys and one-way trips to the actual destination). Tsiolkovsky proposed multiple stage LOX/LH2 rockets in 1903. The actual engineering work had not been done back then either. Yet the Saturn V rocket had two working LOX/LH2 stages in the late 1960s. In my opinion were it not for political restrictions on nuclear engineering we would have nuclear rockets already even if they were just of the comparatively boring nuclear thermal variety.
A lot of advances happened in the second part of the XXth century and more are happening now even if a lot of people fail to notice them. The most well known is integrated circuits but you also have advances in optics including lasers, adaptive optics, superconductors, anti-matter production and storage, uranium separation, composite materials, inflatable heat shields, ion propulsion, solar sails, etc.
Faster than light travel? You don't need that for interstellar flight. Proxima Centauri is 4.24 light-years away. Even Epsilon Eridani is only 10.5 light-years away. Develop suspended animation or artificial wombs, which do not require new physics to be developed, and the amount of consumables required to make a trip are reduced.
You are concerned about lack of resources or space on Earth. The fact is we don't even use all the land on Earth for living and that is only 1/3 of the surface of the planet. There are proposals to build kilometer high buildings and the current tallest building in the world is 829.84 m high. Lack of living space is not a problem. Lack of food is not a problem because our food supply (plants and animals) also increases at a geometric rate.
In the long run life forms which do not expand get out competed.
an unsustainable economy (basically a Ponzi scheme based on perpetual growth) on a collision course with the laws of physics in a finite world
Bam! There it is. Pointless regurgitation of Malthusian economic theory. It is as true today as when Malthus spouted his nonsense in the XIXth century. The fact is the world is large enough that it doesn't matter and if it did there is the rest of the solar system and lots of other solar systems in the galaxy. There are also other galaxies. The resources are as good as infinite. The only issue is how to economically extract the resources and that is solvable with technology.
All I see is a bunch of buzzwords. Gatekeeper seems to have pinched the icon from Windows Defender. Bloody certificates. It gets even more flimsy when you try to pass off business decisions as technical features like the ability to buy "Server" as an addon. Quartz was interesting but it was just a rebranding of the NeXTStep Display Postscript facility to avoid paying Adobe royalties.
It seemed to work just fine in the past. Don't know why you think adding patents will fix what wasn't broken in the first place. Copyright is enough for software.
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Apple doesn't bother with anything which isn't selling. If Windows Phone was actually selling in droves they would be suing MS as well. And lose since there Apple can't play the jingoistic card.
What can you expect? The same thing happened to the NEC SX line of vector supercomputers in the past. Eventually Cray went belly up and now vector supercomputers don't matter. In the meantime US consumers had to pay inflated prices if they wanted high performance computing.
AMOLED screens, pressure sensitive pens that don't suck on capacitive displays. You know Samsung is a hardware company. Google does most of the software development on Android they just make a skin and a theme for it.
The Neonode also had swipe to unlock. The patent was dismissed in Europe and elsewhere. Not in the US of course...
Just because Apple hasn't sued someone yet doesn't mean they won't or that they don't intend to do it. In fact the phones the "judge" threw out of the case were thrown out just because they weren't even sold in the US yet Apple added them to the lawsuit regardless!
More likely is that it could lead to a chilling effect where US cellphone technology stops evolving while the rest of the world moves forward. It has happened before in other segments...
$25 per phone goes to Apple, Apple gets to use all your patents for free, plus Apple gets to keep any patents they deem to provide their unique look and feel (whatever that means) to themselves and not license them at all. Great deal uh?
Because Apple got a patent for doing multi-touch in a cellphone. If you don't think it was obvious that you could do it in a cellphone after there were people doing it with other kinds of surfaces like Mitsubishi you clearly have little imagination. Even Microsoft was working with such concepts before Apple. The fact is there were plenty of other touch sensitive devices including cellphones before Apple even thought of making a cellphone. After capacitive displays started getting used in cellphones (already present in devices such as the LG Prada released before the iPhone) multi-touch was going to happen.
Neither did Apple invent multi-touch. Oh and getting the USPTO to grant you a patent for implementing it in a phone doesn't make it so either.
Great. You can keep buying your iPhones at twice the markup while we can get a Samsung Galaxy Note or some other Android device with better hardware and software for cheaper. Thankfully here in the EU software patents are unenforceable so Apple can't sue people for implementing multi-touch, which was not invented by them, in a phone.
They Shuttle program is dead. NASA human spaceflight budget either goes to funding SLS or ISS related activities.
Yeah and if traveling faster than the speed of sound was possible birds would do it.
Just because it has not been observed yet does not mean it is not possible. Regardless of this it is possible to do interstellar travel using known physics with nuclear pulse propulsion which was what the article was all about.
Great she says she has psychic powers so let's give her the modern equivalent of a lobotomy. Then she turns into a walking vegetable. Much more useful for society.
I guess you never heard about how we successfully eradicated smallpox worldwide with vaccination. We haven't eradicated more diseases because of idiots like you.
Smoking in a public space and spreading a contagious disease in a public space because you haven't been vaccinated is certainly my problem if I also use that space.
AMD means Advanced Micro Devices. Yes they are based in Sunnyvale California but that is not the name of the company.
I made a mistake there. They aren't two process generations behind. They are three process generations behind: 45nm, 32nm, 22nm.
The difference is AMD's only chip manufacturing plant was at Dresden while Intel has lots of fabs including in Oregon, Arizona, Israel. Last I heard about it their Irish fab was getting passed over by the others in manufacturing tool upgrades so for example the other fabs got 22nm tools first. A lot of people thought this means their Irish fab is eventually to be closed or sold off to someone else. If the information in Wikipedia is up to date the Irish Intel fab is still using 65nm tools so they are two process generations behind already.
Who do you think the corporations get their money from?
Possible forms of interstellar propulsion have been proposed since the 1950s and 1960s. These include nuclear pulse propulsion and anti-matter catalyzed versions of it if you want to shrink the spaceship at the cost of more exotic engineering. I never said it was easy but it is neither impossible nor unheard of. Any manned mission will most likely be preceded by robotic missions (fly-bys and one-way trips to the actual destination). Tsiolkovsky proposed multiple stage LOX/LH2 rockets in 1903. The actual engineering work had not been done back then either. Yet the Saturn V rocket had two working LOX/LH2 stages in the late 1960s. In my opinion were it not for political restrictions on nuclear engineering we would have nuclear rockets already even if they were just of the comparatively boring nuclear thermal variety.
A lot of advances happened in the second part of the XXth century and more are happening now even if a lot of people fail to notice them. The most well known is integrated circuits but you also have advances in optics including lasers, adaptive optics, superconductors, anti-matter production and storage, uranium separation, composite materials, inflatable heat shields, ion propulsion, solar sails, etc.
Faster than light travel? You don't need that for interstellar flight. Proxima Centauri is 4.24 light-years away. Even Epsilon Eridani is only 10.5 light-years away. Develop suspended animation or artificial wombs, which do not require new physics to be developed, and the amount of consumables required to make a trip are reduced.
You are concerned about lack of resources or space on Earth. The fact is we don't even use all the land on Earth for living and that is only 1/3 of the surface of the planet. There are proposals to build kilometer high buildings and the current tallest building in the world is 829.84 m high. Lack of living space is not a problem. Lack of food is not a problem because our food supply (plants and animals) also increases at a geometric rate.
In the long run life forms which do not expand get out competed.
an unsustainable economy (basically a Ponzi scheme based on perpetual growth) on a collision course with the laws of physics in a finite world
Bam! There it is. Pointless regurgitation of Malthusian economic theory. It is as true today as when Malthus spouted his nonsense in the XIXth century. The fact is the world is large enough that it doesn't matter and if it did there is the rest of the solar system and lots of other solar systems in the galaxy. There are also other galaxies. The resources are as good as infinite. The only issue is how to economically extract the resources and that is solvable with technology.
All I see is a bunch of buzzwords. Gatekeeper seems to have pinched the icon from Windows Defender. Bloody certificates. It gets even more flimsy when you try to pass off business decisions as technical features like the ability to buy "Server" as an addon. Quartz was interesting but it was just a rebranding of the NeXTStep Display Postscript facility to avoid paying Adobe royalties.
More like they didn't sue them because they don't have significant market share.
It seemed to work just fine in the past. Don't know why you think adding patents will fix what wasn't broken in the first place. Copyright is enough for software.