There's so much fun to be had in 20 years time. It will be a delight to see that the polar caps haven't melted, the pacific islands still exist, there has been no mass extinction of various animals the planet has not become unhabitable and so on. The whole climate change discussion will go the way of acid rain, ozone layer hole, acid ocean, etc. All FUD created by green political parties and their cronies in academic circles in order to scare us out of our savings.
Because geoengineering en entire planet based on a discutable theory, which is based on a decade of green-politics sponsored science, is not "fucking up the Earth"?
Create a raid array of 3 stacked 32GB micro SDs, then chain 16 of those to create one huge filesystem. If you leave out all the redundant crap, that could be about the size of a finger.
Yes it is. There are several things wrong with this patent.
1) "[0001] The disclosed embodiments relate generally to portable electronic devices, and more particularly, to portable devices for photo management, such as digital photographing, 5 photo editing, and emailing photos." The Galaxy phone is a phone; not a portable device for photo management. Its main function is to call and provide PIM functionality. But this is not related to software patents.
2) "5 [0008] One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a portable electronic device with a touch screen: displays an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of photographic images; replaces the displayed array of thumbnail images with a user-selected photographic image upon detecting a user contact with a corresponding thumbnail image in the array, wherein the user-selected photographic image is"
The above is clearly software.
3) "programs. The one or more program are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs include: instructions for displaying an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of photographic images; instructions for detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of user contact with the touch screen display; and instructions for responding to the scrolling"
Clearly describing software.
4) "[0012] Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-program product that includes a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded"
Also software. The whole patent describes a software program that is used on a generic touchscreen device and describes the user interaction with photos. Flowcharts and process descriptions are given.
I tried to find where I can object to this patent, but somehow it seems this is not possible with the EPO.
I am really confused now. I thought software patents weren't valid in the EU? How can this happen? Did the members of the Europarliament sneakily approve software patents anyway? Wouldn't be the first time they ignored the population. (I didn't say voters; they are not elected and the EU is not democratic) Can someone explain how software patents became valid in the EU?
You call it "closing everything off" because you want to keep nerd playgrounds like the PC around indefinitely.
Hello - this is Slashdot.. please read the site motto. Nice framing by the way, calling an open environment a nerd playground. Would you prefer a closed environment then? IPad for internet, xbox for gaming, cloud for office applications?
He would call it making simple products that mere mortals want to use. The public has spoken, and appliance computing is here to stay.
The public is not stupid. People have been using computers for the last 20 years. You make it sound like the average person is too stupid to tie his own shoes. Or did you mean that Apple products are meant for the mentally challenged?
It's also a bit of an odd opinion to have considering how much Apple has contributed to open source, from WebKit to Clang.
Some people beg to differ... quote "Mr. Walker-Morgan saying that Apple makes open source better is like saying the Mafia made the police better. It would be better if they didn't have to!"
The company doesn't make shady moves to be #1 in a market or maintain monopolies. They're more interested in being the perceived "best" in a market and appealing to customers in that way. In other words, comparing them to Microsoft is pretty baseless.
*cough* samsung *cough* htc *cough* microsoft - Apple's lawyers seem to disagree.
Just wait. In twenty years time, everything possible will have been patented and these patents will then expire, and there will be a boom in innovation starting 2030.
The HP iPaq was manufactured between 2001 and 2004, contained gps, cell phone, wifi, touch screen and had 3 buttons. It was even preceded by the compaq Aero and Jornada , somewhere around 1998. These did not have color screens but were definitively grandparent of the iDevices. The had a touchscreen, icons, could play games, connect to the internet etc. Apple should stop pretending they are inventors, they are designers. The concept of the iPhone had existed for years in many forms before Jobs announced that he had come up with something revolutionary. What Apple did was adding a mix of marketing and design.
Not true. Take two glasses, one with seawater, one with fresh water. Add an ice cube to both, and measure volume afterwards. The salt which causes the fresh water to obtain a higher volume, has to come from the sea water. Which loses some of its salt in the process, getting a tiny smaller volume, negating the effect you described.
When was the last time you actually researched the subject? It looks like you are basing your argument on feelings and misinformation. The modern Thorium / molten salt reactors are extremely safe, efficient and clean; actually the cleanest possible method to produce energy en masse. The remaining waste needs to be stored for only a few hundred years, and there is enough thorium to power the entire earth for many generations to come.
Would you argue that building wind mills is a more sustainable solution? The initial waste from building one windmill pollutes more than a cole plant would pollute given the same amount of energy produced over the lifetime of the windmill, were it to run in optima forma. And we all know how that turned out.. The same can be said for all the batteries in 'green' electric cars, which contain extremely polluting materials such as toxic rare-earths. But hey, at least you are not exhausting as much CO2 as a regular petrol engine, right? Keep that head down in the sand allright.
So your reasoning is, in order to free yourself from possible legal trouble, you will kill a person instead of injuring said person. Nice reasoning and it show just how much respect you have for another person's life. Responsible gun owner my ass, you just wanna shoot up your neighbours, you freak.
Remember the 'developers developers developers' mantra.. MS will lose lots of developers over this change, such as myself. I did not invest thousands in.NET certifications to see it thrown away for html/javascript. This will lead to the end of Windows.
The universities should just have stayed with teaching C, Pascal, Haskell and assembly. Picking up a language because it is popular does not guarantee that it will still exist after graduation. They should pick only languages which are open, free to implement, extend and distribute. Universities used that logic for the last 25 years to not teach anything Microsoft related, they should apply it to java as well (and Apple too, now that I'm at). By the way, to counter my own trolling, you spend money in college as well to learn Haskell. Ever used that for a real-world client?
You are definitely correct here, and I'll assume with you that they will leave out stuff such as regular and pinch harmonics, inversions, alternate tunings, etcetera. However your assumption is based on 48 unique semi-tones, and mine on 144 unique tonalities;-) so the best guitar game solution will probably involve a different pickup which will relay which string was hit as well as the sound.
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> C) Work to privatize social security, but those who've paid in need to get the money that was taken from them by force and promised to them. If the government wants to run social security, make it a voluntary program
That's more like private security then social security, isn't it? How can you run social security without it being mandatory? That would lead to most employed having no social security, and most unemployed begging to get in.
The whole idea is that in general, worldwide, of a thousand people eligible for work, around 60-65% can actually make a living. These 65% all chip in a percentage to support the 35% that is unable to work. I know, that's all evil communism and horribly unfair to the hard working 'Joe the Plumber'. But it works surprisingly well and keeps down a lot of other costs, most notably crime-related.
The same goes for medicare. You may save a few bucks by not participating, but people who cannot get medical help will not be able to earn an income and pay taxes. In the long run, ROI is positive there too.
They should just have added an extra octet to IPv4. IPv6 is overly complicated, who wants to remember the internal IPv6 address range? sure, let's ping::::::3e:1f:00:7a - oh wait, I have one colon too many.
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Sounds awfully like a process and not a device. One-click all over again! At least this will be gone in 20 years as well.
There's so much fun to be had in 20 years time. It will be a delight to see that the polar caps haven't melted, the pacific islands still exist, there has been no mass extinction of various animals the planet has not become unhabitable and so on. The whole climate change discussion will go the way of acid rain, ozone layer hole, acid ocean, etc. All FUD created by green political parties and their cronies in academic circles in order to scare us out of our savings.
Because geoengineering en entire planet based on a discutable theory, which is based on a decade of green-politics sponsored science, is not "fucking up the Earth"?
Then again, the number of bars you visit in the evening correlates with the chance to be behind bars in the morning.
And WiFi helps this how? It's not like there's an open WiFi available at the average photo scenery.
So what's new about this? This was available 10 years ago: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/tips/sandisk_SD_wifi.htm
Or are they applying for a patent?
Create a raid array of 3 stacked 32GB micro SDs, then chain 16 of those to create one huge filesystem. If you leave out all the redundant crap, that could be about the size of a finger.
Yes it is. There are several things wrong with this patent.
1) "[0001] The disclosed embodiments relate generally to portable electronic devices, and more particularly, to portable devices for photo management, such as digital photographing, 5 photo editing, and emailing photos."
The Galaxy phone is a phone; not a portable device for photo management. Its main function is to call and provide PIM functionality. But this is not related to software patents.
2) "5 [0008] One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a portable electronic device with a touch screen: displays an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of photographic images; replaces the displayed array of thumbnail images with a user-selected photographic image upon detecting a user contact with a corresponding thumbnail image in the array, wherein the user-selected photographic image is"
The above is clearly software.
3) "programs. The one or more program are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs include: instructions for displaying an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of photographic images; instructions for detecting a scrolling gesture comprising a substantially vertical movement of user contact with the touch screen display; and instructions for responding to the scrolling"
Clearly describing software.
4) "[0012] Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-program product that includes a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded"
Also software. The whole patent describes a software program that is used on a generic touchscreen device and describes the user interaction with photos. Flowcharts and process descriptions are given.
I tried to find where I can object to this patent, but somehow it seems this is not possible with the EPO.
I am really confused now. I thought software patents weren't valid in the EU? How can this happen? Did the members of the Europarliament sneakily approve software patents anyway? Wouldn't be the first time they ignored the population. (I didn't say voters; they are not elected and the EU is not democratic)
Can someone explain how software patents became valid in the EU?
You call it "closing everything off" because you want to keep nerd playgrounds like the PC around indefinitely.
Hello - this is Slashdot .. please read the site motto. Nice framing by the way, calling an open environment a nerd playground. Would you prefer a closed environment then? IPad for internet, xbox for gaming, cloud for office applications?
He would call it making simple products that mere mortals want to use. The public has spoken, and appliance computing is here to stay.
The public is not stupid. People have been using computers for the last 20 years. You make it sound like the average person is too stupid to tie his own shoes. Or did you mean that Apple products are meant for the mentally challenged?
It's also a bit of an odd opinion to have considering how much Apple has contributed to open source, from WebKit to Clang.
Some people beg to differ ... quote "Mr. Walker-Morgan saying that Apple makes open source better is like saying the Mafia made the police better. It would be better if they didn't have to!"
The company doesn't make shady moves to be #1 in a market or maintain monopolies. They're more interested in being the perceived "best" in a market and appealing to customers in that way. In other words, comparing them to Microsoft is pretty baseless.
*cough* samsung *cough* htc *cough* microsoft - Apple's lawyers seem to disagree.
Just wait. In twenty years time, everything possible will have been patented and these patents will then expire, and there will be a boom in innovation starting 2030.
The HP iPaq was manufactured between 2001 and 2004, contained gps, cell phone, wifi, touch screen and had 3 buttons. It was even preceded by the compaq Aero and Jornada , somewhere around 1998. These did not have color screens but were definitively grandparent of the iDevices. The had a touchscreen, icons, could play games, connect to the internet etc. Apple should stop pretending they are inventors, they are designers. The concept of the iPhone had existed for years in many forms before Jobs announced that he had come up with something revolutionary. What Apple did was adding a mix of marketing and design.
They already know what you are watching, this is reported by your cable set top box. What, you thought those had one way communication only?
Not true. Take two glasses, one with seawater, one with fresh water. Add an ice cube to both, and measure volume afterwards.
The salt which causes the fresh water to obtain a higher volume, has to come from the sea water. Which loses some of its salt in the process, getting a tiny smaller volume, negating the effect you described.
When was the last time you actually researched the subject? It looks like you are basing your argument on feelings and misinformation. The modern Thorium / molten salt reactors are extremely safe, efficient and clean; actually the cleanest possible method to produce energy en masse. The remaining waste needs to be stored for only a few hundred years, and there is enough thorium to power the entire earth for many generations to come.
Would you argue that building wind mills is a more sustainable solution? The initial waste from building one windmill pollutes more than a cole plant would pollute given the same amount of energy produced over the lifetime of the windmill, were it to run in optima forma. And we all know how that turned out ..
The same can be said for all the batteries in 'green' electric cars, which contain extremely polluting materials such as toxic rare-earths. But hey, at least you are not exhausting as much CO2 as a regular petrol engine, right? Keep that head down in the sand allright.
So your reasoning is, in order to free yourself from possible legal trouble, you will kill a person instead of injuring said person. Nice reasoning and it show just how much respect you have for another person's life. Responsible gun owner my ass, you just wanna shoot up your neighbours, you freak.
With neighbouring countires a hundred kilometers away for many, it would be rather rewarding to get cheap gasoline just across the border.
Remember the 'developers developers developers' mantra .. MS will lose lots of developers over this change, such as myself. I did not invest thousands in .NET certifications to see it thrown away for html/javascript. This will lead to the end of Windows.
.. people spent money in College learning it.
The universities should just have stayed with teaching C, Pascal, Haskell and assembly. Picking up a language because it is popular does not guarantee that it will still exist after graduation. They should pick only languages which are open, free to implement, extend and distribute. Universities used that logic for the last 25 years to not teach anything Microsoft related, they should apply it to java as well (and Apple too, now that I'm at).
By the way, to counter my own trolling, you spend money in college as well to learn Haskell. Ever used that for a real-world client?
How about turning on your car radio unstead?
Oh noes, everybody does it, so it's justified, right?
You are definitely correct here, and I'll assume with you that they will leave out stuff such as regular and pinch harmonics, inversions, alternate tunings, etcetera. ;-) so the best guitar game solution will probably involve a different pickup which will relay which string was hit as well as the sound.
However your assumption is based on 48 unique semi-tones, and mine on 144 unique tonalities
> C) Work to privatize social security, but those who've paid in need to get the money that was taken from them by force and promised to them. If the government wants to run social security, make it a voluntary program
That's more like private security then social security, isn't it? How can you run social security without it being mandatory? That would lead to most employed having no social security, and most unemployed begging to get in.
The whole idea is that in general, worldwide, of a thousand people eligible for work, around 60-65% can actually make a living. These 65% all chip in a percentage to support the 35% that is unable to work. I know, that's all evil communism and horribly unfair to the hard working 'Joe the Plumber'. But it works surprisingly well and keeps down a lot of other costs, most notably crime-related.
The same goes for medicare. You may save a few bucks by not participating, but people who cannot get medical help will not be able to earn an income and pay taxes. In the long run, ROI is positive there too.
They should just have added an extra octet to IPv4. IPv6 is overly complicated, who wants to remember the internal IPv6 address range? sure, let's ping ::::::3e:1f:00:7a - oh wait, I have one colon too many.
this!