with specialized antennas, routers, and the additional transmitter power allowed by a ham radio license it is possible to quickly create a mesh network in the event of an emergency. http://hsmm-mesh.org/
there are also the data services provided by d-star, and much of our country is already covered by dstar repeaters, many with backup power etc. i have heard of some joint operation with first responders using these.
failing data, there is always the worldwide and local voice communication network provided by hams in times of emergency.
if it happened no one would think of it that way, at least not any more than we currently think about driving cars around at some fraction of light years per second.
Capacitive touch screens large enough for a tablet and at a consumer-friendly price point did not exist before. Now, they do. Technological advances drive new products. Suppose a car manufacturer comes out with the first mass market popular electric car - does this mean that this car manufacturer should have a 20 year monopoly on electric cars, free market be damned?
This.
What these rabid Apple disciples just can't wrap their heads around is that, as Heinlein said in The Door To Summer: "when it's time to railroad, people start railroading". Actually, that entire book is newly interesting when put in the context of today's bizarre patent situation.
All these "before iPhone, after iPhone" comparisons used as exhibits by Apple should be torn to pieces by Samsung's attorney, because what they actually show is "before cheap mass produced capacitive touch screens" and after. That, and a few other innovations like smaller/cheaper components and higher capacity batteries are what changed the style of smartphones. Apple did not invent those elements, or they might have a leg to stand on. Apple merely packaged them just like everyone else did. Of course they know this and are obviously trying to snow the jury with misinformation. I just hope Samsung is able to make it clear enough that any reasonable people will see the truth of it.
If Samsung can find all these examples of prior art, how is it that Apple was granted patents in the first place? These are hardly the only examples of Apple being given patents on things that were obviously done by others well before they "innovated" them.
Look for the Filco Tenkeyless, there are several variations with different switch types in them. I use one with the blue cherries. It is by far the best thing I have ever typed on and probably the best money I ever spent on a computer upgrade. Every time I have to type on something else, I am reminded how freaking nice the Filco is.
Got this one a few years back when you had to use a japanese buying service to get em, now there are US dealers and they can be found for under $100 iirc.
The problem (for me) is that none of those languages allow the creation of modern applications that work on all modern platforms. That, and that finding a job doing any of them would be a real pita.
IANAL but since Oracle has now designated OpenJDK (GPLed) as the official reference platform in place of their own, I don't think there are many (any?) legal problems to worry about. Can a company that contributes heavily to a GPLed language turn around and sue somebody for using that code? I didn't think so... but again ianal.
Good old C did manage to dethrone Java as the programming language with the most "skilled engineers world-wide" recently, but Java is still #2.
If the 2nd most popular language is indeed in "extremely short stock of skill", please let me take this opportunity to let everyone know that I can provide skilled Java work at reasonable rates (well... reasonable considering it's scarcity).
Are you saying all these major corps are idiots for choosing Java in the first place? That doesn't lend much credibility to your use of them as an example of producing well written software. Certainly these major corporations didn't just randomly choose to use Java.. so how does your logic work exactly?
2004 called, they want their blind hate for Java back.
Used intelligently by a skilled programmer, Java can deliver great results and provide exactly the sort of cross platform capabilities it was designed for. Used by idiots and/or kids who just earned that undergrad CS degree, it tends to provide less.
I've purchased web hosting, computer hardware, and beers with it. Had you done the slightest amount of research, you would know that is only a tiny fraction of the goods and services available.
Obviously MSDOS was slavishly copied from CPM! How can you not see it?
From 10 feet away, I can't tell which is which. MSDOS obviously used the black square screen in an attempt to fool customers into thinking they were buying CPM.
Agreed. It would be a shame to see Apple forget the values it was built on: Steal ideas, Maximize profits, Lock in the consumer, and most importantly, lie. Always lie.
good info and something I'll have to check out, but I'd add that at least OpenDNS is practically malware in itself due to their screwing around with dns records to advertise to you. they even break SMTP by returning MX results for *everything*, which point to them.... a user on your network fat fingers an email address and the message ends up with opendns? I don't think so.
well, when you have billions and billions of dollars in cash laying around, maybe you have a little influence on which judge ends up handling your frivolous lawsuit? just a thought...
"The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700,"
sure
"it had a real smartphone OS,"
means nothing, as Apple's claim is not about the OS
"a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard."
all meaningless, as far as your argument that Samsung copied Apple goes..
"So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine"
no, they have not said that anywhere
"because the iPhone was in development long before 2006"
maybe it was, but what is your proof? simply the assumption that these things take a while? how then can you argue that Samsung's own device must also have been in the works for just as long?
much more importantly, where is your proof that the design elements specifically being claimed were copied were "in development" long before 2006? how long does it really take to make a square with round corners? I can do it in photoshop in about 3 seconds.
"and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device."
again, completely irrelevant.
How can you somehow think your statements support Apple's claims of copying? Are you so blinded by love for a corporation that all common sense and reason has failed you?
This is obviously not a simple issue as evidenced by conflicting court decisions around the world. In such a case, you really need a thoughtful and unbiased judge who can interpret rather than react.
I don't think Lucy Koh fits the bill, at least not at this point in time. This seems like the kind of thing that disintegrates into a fancy form of "I don't like you" instead of a rational process.
There is certainly the "talk to people" aspect in many facets of amateur radio, but there is plenty of other interesting stuff going on too. Like you, I am not very interested in the social side of things, but still I find a lot to do with my license, for instance http://hsmm-mesh.org/
One thing I had to learn after being in the hobby for a while is that you really have to specialize if you want to get technical. The social crew mostly floats from whatever technology is popular to the next but never really understand it beyond "how do I talk". The technical guys are less likely to appear in public, but they enjoy actually making it work and many rarely even get on the air, thats not where their interest lies and thats ok.
consider an inexpensive FPGA board like the Altera DE1. There are nearly unlimited things you can build based off such a kit, whether you decide to look at it from the viewpoint of hardware, software or both. http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de1/unv-de1-board.html (there are several other low cost FPGA boards, I just happen to use the DE1. It's quite adequate for a great many things, but there may be even better options out there by now)
Also, consider amateur radio. If you have an active local club, it will server as a gateway into a whole realm of interesting things (many only tangentially related to radio) and an introduction to the people who are doing them locally.
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with specialized antennas, routers, and the additional transmitter power allowed by a ham radio license it is possible to quickly create a mesh network in the event of an emergency. http://hsmm-mesh.org/
there are also the data services provided by d-star, and much of our country is already covered by dstar repeaters, many with backup power etc. i have heard of some joint operation with first responders using these.
failing data, there is always the worldwide and local voice communication network provided by hams in times of emergency.
if it happened no one would think of it that way, at least not any more than we currently think about driving cars around at some fraction of light years per second.
great, now Nintendo is copying Apple's innovations
It is obvious that Samsung has indeed copied Apple
obvious to whom? other judges have already ruled that samsung did not copy apple, even going so far as to force Apple to publicly admit that Samsung never copied them... http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/18/apple-patent-ruling-judge-samsung-copy-ipad/
this is hardly the clear cut case that iDiots would have you think it is.
There is no post-PC world. There is just the same PC dominated world we've had for the last 20 years, and some tablets. It mostly works fine.
Capacitive touch screens large enough for a tablet and at a consumer-friendly price point did not exist before. Now, they do. Technological advances drive new products. Suppose a car manufacturer comes out with the first mass market popular electric car - does this mean that this car manufacturer should have a 20 year monopoly on electric cars, free market be damned?
This.
What these rabid Apple disciples just can't wrap their heads around is that, as Heinlein said in The Door To Summer: "when it's time to railroad, people start railroading". Actually, that entire book is newly interesting when put in the context of today's bizarre patent situation.
All these "before iPhone, after iPhone" comparisons used as exhibits by Apple should be torn to pieces by Samsung's attorney, because what they actually show is "before cheap mass produced capacitive touch screens" and after. That, and a few other innovations like smaller/cheaper components and higher capacity batteries are what changed the style of smartphones. Apple did not invent those elements, or they might have a leg to stand on. Apple merely packaged them just like everyone else did. Of course they know this and are obviously trying to snow the jury with misinformation. I just hope Samsung is able to make it clear enough that any reasonable people will see the truth of it.
If Samsung can find all these examples of prior art, how is it that Apple was granted patents in the first place? These are hardly the only examples of Apple being given patents on things that were obviously done by others well before they "innovated" them.
Look for the Filco Tenkeyless, there are several variations with different switch types in them. I use one with the blue cherries.
It is by far the best thing I have ever typed on and probably the best money I ever spent on a computer upgrade. Every time I have to type on something else, I am reminded how freaking nice the Filco is.
Got this one a few years back when you had to use a japanese buying service to get em, now there are US dealers and they can be found for under $100 iirc.
The problem (for me) is that none of those languages allow the creation of modern applications that work on all modern platforms.
That, and that finding a job doing any of them would be a real pita.
IANAL but since Oracle has now designated OpenJDK (GPLed) as the official reference platform in place of their own, I don't think there are many (any?) legal problems to worry about. Can a company that contributes heavily to a GPLed language turn around and sue somebody for using that code? I didn't think so... but again ianal.
Good old C did manage to dethrone Java as the programming language with the most "skilled engineers world-wide" recently, but Java is still #2.
If the 2nd most popular language is indeed in "extremely short stock of skill", please let me take this opportunity to let everyone know that I can provide skilled Java work at reasonable rates (well... reasonable considering it's scarcity).
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
This is a strange argument logically...
Are you saying all these major corps are idiots for choosing Java in the first place? That doesn't lend much credibility to your use of them as an example of producing well written software. Certainly these major corporations didn't just randomly choose to use Java.. so how does your logic work exactly?
2004 called, they want their blind hate for Java back.
Used intelligently by a skilled programmer, Java can deliver great results and provide exactly the sort of cross platform capabilities it was designed for. Used by idiots and/or kids who just earned that undergrad CS degree, it tends to provide less.
Don't be a dumbass, it's unbecoming.
I've purchased web hosting, computer hardware, and beers with it. Had you done the slightest amount of research, you would know that is only a tiny fraction of the goods and services available.
Obviously MSDOS was slavishly copied from CPM! How can you not see it?
From 10 feet away, I can't tell which is which. MSDOS obviously used the black square screen in an attempt to fool customers into thinking they were buying CPM.
Agreed. It would be a shame to see Apple forget the values it was built on: Steal ideas, Maximize profits, Lock in the consumer, and most importantly, lie. Always lie.
this is why we can't have nice things
What I really think needs investigation is why all of Lucy Koh's statements end with "Sent from my iPhone".
good info and something I'll have to check out, but I'd add that at least OpenDNS is practically malware in itself due to their screwing around with dns records to advertise to you. they even break SMTP by returning MX results for *everything*, which point to them.... a user on your network fat fingers an email address and the message ends up with opendns? I don't think so.
the others might be great tho, will try them.
well, when you have billions and billions of dollars in cash laying around, maybe you have a little influence on which judge ends up handling your frivolous lawsuit? just a thought...
"The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700,"
sure
"it had a real smartphone OS,"
means nothing, as Apple's claim is not about the OS
"a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard."
all meaningless, as far as your argument that Samsung copied Apple goes..
"So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine"
no, they have not said that anywhere
"because the iPhone was in development long before 2006"
maybe it was, but what is your proof? simply the assumption that these things take a while? how then can you argue that Samsung's own device must also have been in the works for just as long?
much more importantly, where is your proof that the design elements specifically being claimed were copied were "in development" long before 2006? how long does it really take to make a square with round corners? I can do it in photoshop in about 3 seconds.
"and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device."
again, completely irrelevant.
How can you somehow think your statements support Apple's claims of copying? Are you so blinded by love for a corporation that all common sense and reason has failed you?
This is obviously not a simple issue as evidenced by conflicting court decisions around the world.
In such a case, you really need a thoughtful and unbiased judge who can interpret rather than react.
I don't think Lucy Koh fits the bill, at least not at this point in time. This seems like the kind of thing that disintegrates into a fancy form of "I don't like you" instead of a rational process.
There is certainly the "talk to people" aspect in many facets of amateur radio, but there is plenty of other interesting stuff going on too.
Like you, I am not very interested in the social side of things, but still I find a lot to do with my license, for instance http://hsmm-mesh.org/
One thing I had to learn after being in the hobby for a while is that you really have to specialize if you want to get technical. The social crew mostly floats from whatever technology is popular to the next but never really understand it beyond "how do I talk". The technical guys are less likely to appear in public, but they enjoy actually making it work and many rarely even get on the air, thats not where their interest lies and thats ok.
consider an inexpensive FPGA board like the Altera DE1. There are nearly unlimited things you can build based off such a kit, whether you decide to look at it from the viewpoint of hardware, software or both. http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de1/unv-de1-board.html
(there are several other low cost FPGA boards, I just happen to use the DE1. It's quite adequate for a great many things, but there may be even better options out there by now)
Also, consider amateur radio. If you have an active local club, it will server as a gateway into a whole realm of interesting things (many only tangentially related to radio) and an introduction to the people who are doing them locally.
how about an article about Mac malware that doesn't feel compelled to mention Windows?