Not sure it's just for patent protection (though that is an excellent reason why they'd want to do it), but all the settop boxes that they produce too? Having GoogleTV rolling out there should work well for them.
Yeah, I find it very odd the staff aren't making much more of this. Anywhere else, there's strict regulations about being near radiation emitters. Does the TSA have a union? And if so, why aren't they bashing the door down on this issue?
Next, actual testing? Not a chance, they took the manufacturers own testing as proof it was all ok. Even CATSA does more testing in this regard than the US. They WANT to know the risks, and does it actually do what they're told it'll do instead of lining the guy's pocket who was in charge of purchasing them.
Truly amazing that the profiteering going on here to the detriment of citizens.
If Google offers an easy way for bands to host their own content (Google Music and Youtube) without a label, allowing people to search for music (that's doable), and splitting revenue for ad sales when people listen/watch, then... Do you need labels anymore? In the old days, wasn't most of their job distribution? Hate to break it to the music industry, but I think the Internet has that aspect neatly taken care of. Promotion? For a new band? That's not the winner/runner ups of the latest Idol/Factor show? hmmm...
For windows machines, the device would ID itself, download the drivers, then be seen in whatever format it needed to be. For macos/linux, ext partitions would be read natively? Don't know, just throwing it out there, that it might not be needed to be in FAT format, if the device you plug into can easily (operative word!) download the required drivers to get access.
That'd cover most people perhaps, then a market download to cover FAT access if you really need it (and for camera access?)
Plug in the device, first thing it does is download the drivers to translate the files as needed, whilst still keeping them on ext3? (though probably a patent for that too). Bah, when does FAT patent run out?
I'm curious what the actual patents are, if it's just using FAT on SDCards, can't these devices format to ext(something) to work around that?
I also feel a bit sorry for Microsoft in regards to tablets, BillG was pushing for all this YEARS ago, WinCE, whilst not good, was quick to... hmm.. rip off? the layout of other stuff whenever possible, When WinCE was codenamed... Pegasus? Showed they were really trying to get into the PalmPilot Factor, when before they were aiming for the mini-netbook layouts. If they'd have kept the pressure up, and admitted that the Windows UI, as is, just isn't suitable for the formfactor it was aiming for, they'd have been perfectly positioned to take over the tablet market before ANYONE else got a look in I suspect. Boss in.. 2002 I think it was had a Toshiba that had a reasonable touchscreen you could swivel around and scribble on too, but there just wasn't the software for a long time to really make use of it.
But MS DID do a huge amount of research, tried a massive amount of things out on what would be needed, which is why they've got the patent folio they have. I wish they'd have used them to make a decent tablet 6-7 years ago, but that's MS without BillG now. Unable to 'get' the paradigm shifts occurring in computing.
Not fully a patent troll, they're using a lot of the things they patented, but they've not really invested in the hardware that others have. Nor made the deals (until now with WP7.5) that could have placed them in a far better position to compete.
Of course, that's not to say they're using these patents to bash over the heads of all the WindowsPhone capable producers for decent licensing rates, but as the market has spoken so far, it just doesn't appear to want WindowsPhone. As MS continues to fail, I can see them raising the Android cost until the phone makers start getting just as aggressive back and go after Nokia, MS's newest subsidary. (and it really is only a matter of time before Nokia gets absorbed).
MS were worried the Playstations in the home were going to take over the market for PCs, they missed the phones, and are scrambling to recover. Patent wars will continue to grow.
There isn't much point. I think the next BIG (well, currently happening) change is the availability/easy mode gaming. iphone/android/appleTV/GoogleTV. A quick AngryBirds/Whatever 2 minute game session whilst the adverts are on, then back to the program. dollar or 2 for a game, short duration. Done. The costs for new platforms in both hardware and development are making games crazy prices when our phones aren't far off the same gfx ability as gaming rigs of only a few short years ago.
Trouble is, even looking at that list, when you see; https://plus.google.com/u/0/100241261662852079434/posts/En6cqNeQqDJ on shows aired in 2003, that were rectangular glass fronted, rounded edges portable machines, it all appears obvious that Apple haven't really invented much, just taken what's out there and put polish on it. The move to better screens, everyone was leaving resistive behind. Why do people link to just some of Samsung's designs with dates and skips things like; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo that was released March 2010 and shown before the iPad was even publically admitted to exist.
You can look at Apple's kit and say 'yeah, they look great, but truly innovative? or just another design style that the industry was moving to anyway, for some things, Apple got there first, for some things, they got there late, but still claimed they invented it.
I think that's what winds most people up about this, we've got devices on our desks that are claimed to be infringing that are obviously not, or other devices that came out before the ipad/phone but did all the same stuff.
Well, if not Samsung, at least their lawyers arguing all this, as the amount of prior art for that shape is just crazy. Not that 'tablets before ipad/tablets after' pic, but there's a huge amount of prior art that the iPad closely copies.
Aye, never really got this. There'll always be a top 5%, and thus always a way to dump people until you get down to people who never use your service, but you can charge mad money. At what point do they stop getting rid of people who are paying to use their service and only keep customers who pay for, but don't use anything?
Didn't he get the memo about how SUICIDE bombers work? And a remote control plane? Great, now the TSA's going to be doing strip searches in toy stores. (always figured groping kids was their main plan all along, this just helps them achieve it faster).
I don't get people saying the samsung device was a design copy when it if it was/that/ close, why did Apple photoshop the screen?
Is it just the shape (and there were other devices that had a big glass front and buttons on the bottom of the screen). Was it the placement of the icons? (a grid? really? Like Palm Pilots were doing on mobile devices 10+ years ago, albeit in monochome!)
I see all these devices as logical evolutions from things like the Palm Life...whatever it was called. Treo's, Sony devices, even controllable IR remote controls.
From the article, "People are fleeing to AT&T"? Really? Don't know what TMobile are doing wrong (decent range of phones, cheaper plans), but I'd be curious on the fleeing to AT&T part. Time for my weekly rant; Just open up the airwaves and share bandwidth whilst keeping separate customers. Phones ID' themselves when they connect so you could work out who should be paying who for the use of the towers, there'd be reason to install multiple towers to improve speed/reception, and far out in the wilds customers wouldn't need a tower for each network, just one if it wasn't profitable for everyone to chuck one up.
Then the customer could choose which phone they wanted, on which plan, on which network, and still everyone wins, especially the customer.
With the creator of Elite, then yeah, it/is/ rather reminiscent isn't it? So many schoolkids in the UK got started with the Beeb, I even got into minor 6502 ASM with that inline coding you could do. This PI thing really does feel like a return to form, funny how things go around in circles, from Beeb, to ARM, to PI. Hopefully education sees these as the fantastic opportunity they are.
They're installing 'traffic circles' in a few places in Miami now and they're making a mess of it.
A). No-one knows what todo at a roundabout. Both approaching it, and whilst on it. Whilst I've been on a roundabout, I've had people hurtling into my path. As I'm waiting for someone to pass in front of me, they stop in the middle of the roundabout and try to wave me on. (I'll let the fact that no-cars appear to have indicators in Miami go amiss...) Actually, no I won't let it go amiss, as it continues with lack of education that when there IS a roundabout, no-one ever gets the correct positioning it appears. Luckily, it's usually single lane roads, but the occasional 2 lanes feeding into it? NO-ONE gets into the correct lane for their turning (and I recall plenty of public service announcements in the UK to drill it home). So, education of what' they're trying to achieve needs to be implemented.
B) They have STOP signs AT the roundabout in many places. Apparently the city wants them, but the county has different rules, leading to Yield/Stop signs next to each other, not helping people learn what's supposed to actually happen. (Sure this part will be resolved shortly, but it's confusing everyone who's first experience of a roundabout is this).
C) Some places (key biscayne), they've filled the middle of the roundabouts with beautiful plants. That in Miami climes, grows RAPIDLY. Many roundabouts now, the vision is blocked horribly on your exit. There's going to be accidents, and it'll be totally avoidable..
D), Some states have no 'right of way' rule. Florida for example, if you're on a roundabout, you don't have right of way, no-one does. If you have an accident of someone plowing into you from the side, they may be able to fight in on court that you crossed their path. (never underestimate the power of lawyers to make a further mess of something). "He drove in front of me!" "yes, I was on the roundabout" "this court doesn't recognise a roundabout as a valid traffic item'
E) They've done a great job of building roads in the US, but without any though for the placement of a roundabout. Retro fitting them in some places is making some odd designs. (that probably just need a single stop sign, and a yield in the other direction, but no doubt funds are already appropriated)
F) And, like many other places, they put crossings RIGHT on the nearest part of the road, that with the amount of Flora previously mentioned, and the requirements to give way to pedestrians crossing, no indicators, no education on how to drive round a roundabout, means there's going to be issues.
G) odd planning. To place a roundabout at a junction, requires the 4 homes on each corner to give permission. If anyone disagrees, it won't be built (at least that's how I'm understanding it in Coral Gables). Many, not understanding what it's about, say no. The next junction, all the people may allow it. Leading to a confusing road journey filled with Stop sign, roundabout, roundabout, stop sign, roundabout, yield, roundabout with a stop sign, stop sign, roundabout. With some roads having more, some less. If you're going to do it, at least be consistent.
So, when I'm a passenger in a car and the driver encounters a roundabout and starts cursing that it's a terrible thing, and that they cause accidents, and don't improve traffic flow, I mumble under my breath "yeah, but only in America it appears..."
Which is why you have dual roundabouts/traffic lights. Traffic flow light to moderate, let the roundabout self regulate. Rush Hours, you let the traffic lights direct. Best of both worlds.
Looking at a 3.0 gallery app, and the 2.3 gallery app, they appear to do the same thing. Wonder what the difference actually is that allows one to be ok and the other not.
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Not sure it's just for patent protection (though that is an excellent reason why they'd want to do it), but all the settop boxes that they produce too? Having GoogleTV rolling out there should work well for them.
Please don't give the buggers any ideas!
Yeah, I find it very odd the staff aren't making much more of this. Anywhere else, there's strict regulations about being near radiation emitters. Does the TSA have a union? And if so, why aren't they bashing the door down on this issue?
Next, actual testing? Not a chance, they took the manufacturers own testing as proof it was all ok. Even CATSA does more testing in this regard than the US. They WANT to know the risks, and does it actually do what they're told it'll do instead of lining the guy's pocket who was in charge of purchasing them.
Truly amazing that the profiteering going on here to the detriment of citizens.
If Google offers an easy way for bands to host their own content (Google Music and Youtube) without a label, allowing people to search for music (that's doable), and splitting revenue for ad sales when people listen/watch, then...
Do you need labels anymore?
In the old days, wasn't most of their job distribution? Hate to break it to the music industry, but I think the Internet has that aspect neatly taken care of.
Promotion? For a new band? That's not the winner/runner ups of the latest Idol/Factor show? hmmm...
For windows machines, the device would ID itself, download the drivers, then be seen in whatever format it needed to be.
For macos/linux, ext partitions would be read natively?
Don't know, just throwing it out there, that it might not be needed to be in FAT format, if the device you plug into can easily (operative word!) download the required drivers to get access.
That'd cover most people perhaps, then a market download to cover FAT access if you really need it (and for camera access?)
Plug in the device, first thing it does is download the drivers to translate the files as needed, whilst still keeping them on ext3? (though probably a patent for that too).
Bah, when does FAT patent run out?
I'm curious what the actual patents are, if it's just using FAT on SDCards, can't these devices format to ext(something) to work around that?
I also feel a bit sorry for Microsoft in regards to tablets, BillG was pushing for all this YEARS ago, WinCE, whilst not good, was quick to... hmm.. rip off? the layout of other stuff whenever possible, When WinCE was codenamed... Pegasus? Showed they were really trying to get into the PalmPilot Factor, when before they were aiming for the mini-netbook layouts. If they'd have kept the pressure up, and admitted that the Windows UI, as is, just isn't suitable for the formfactor it was aiming for, they'd have been perfectly positioned to take over the tablet market before ANYONE else got a look in I suspect. Boss in.. 2002 I think it was had a Toshiba that had a reasonable touchscreen you could swivel around and scribble on too, but there just wasn't the software for a long time to really make use of it.
But MS DID do a huge amount of research, tried a massive amount of things out on what would be needed, which is why they've got the patent folio they have. I wish they'd have used them to make a decent tablet 6-7 years ago, but that's MS without BillG now. Unable to 'get' the paradigm shifts occurring in computing.
Not fully a patent troll, they're using a lot of the things they patented, but they've not really invested in the hardware that others have. Nor made the deals (until now with WP7.5) that could have placed them in a far better position to compete.
Of course, that's not to say they're using these patents to bash over the heads of all the WindowsPhone capable producers for decent licensing rates, but as the market has spoken so far, it just doesn't appear to want WindowsPhone. As MS continues to fail, I can see them raising the Android cost until the phone makers start getting just as aggressive back and go after Nokia, MS's newest subsidary. (and it really is only a matter of time before Nokia gets absorbed).
MS were worried the Playstations in the home were going to take over the market for PCs, they missed the phones, and are scrambling to recover. Patent wars will continue to grow.
I thought they'd already had this stuff years ago.
There isn't much point. I think the next BIG (well, currently happening) change is the availability/easy mode gaming.
iphone/android/appleTV/GoogleTV. A quick AngryBirds/Whatever 2 minute game session whilst the adverts are on, then back to the program.
dollar or 2 for a game, short duration. Done.
The costs for new platforms in both hardware and development are making games crazy prices when our phones aren't far off the same gfx ability as gaming rigs of only a few short years ago.
Go to Hulu, look up John Doe, episode The Rising, 20 seconds in. Play it for 20 seconds and note all those iPads.
In 2003.
Trouble is, even looking at that list, when you see;
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100241261662852079434/posts/En6cqNeQqDJ
on shows aired in 2003, that were rectangular glass fronted, rounded edges portable machines, it all appears obvious that Apple haven't really invented much, just taken what's out there and put polish on it. The move to better screens, everyone was leaving resistive behind.
Why do people link to just some of Samsung's designs with dates and skips things like;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo
that was released March 2010 and shown before the iPad was even publically admitted to exist.
You can look at Apple's kit and say 'yeah, they look great, but truly innovative? or just another design style that the industry was moving to anyway, for some things, Apple got there first, for some things, they got there late, but still claimed they invented it.
I think that's what winds most people up about this, we've got devices on our desks that are claimed to be infringing that are obviously not, or other devices that came out before the ipad/phone but did all the same stuff.
Once again, Samsung need to watch TV to show this amazing rectangle with rounded edges;
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100241261662852079434/posts/En6cqNeQqDJ
air date of that show, april 2003.
Well, if not Samsung, at least their lawyers arguing all this, as the amount of prior art for that shape is just crazy. Not that 'tablets before ipad/tablets after' pic, but there's a huge amount of prior art that the iPad closely copies.
Aye, never really got this. There'll always be a top 5%, and thus always a way to dump people until you get down to people who never use your service, but you can charge mad money. At what point do they stop getting rid of people who are paying to use their service and only keep customers who pay for, but don't use anything?
Didn't he get the memo about how SUICIDE bombers work?
And a remote control plane? Great, now the TSA's going to be doing strip searches in toy stores. (always figured groping kids was their main plan all along, this just helps them achieve it faster).
This might be a play to get the Google code published under senate orders, so their competition can use/abuse it.
I don't get people saying the samsung device was a design copy when it if it was /that/ close, why did Apple photoshop the screen?
Is it just the shape (and there were other devices that had a big glass front and buttons on the bottom of the screen).
Was it the placement of the icons? (a grid? really? Like Palm Pilots were doing on mobile devices 10+ years ago, albeit in monochome!)
I see all these devices as logical evolutions from things like the Palm Life...whatever it was called. Treo's, Sony devices, even controllable IR remote controls.
From the article, "People are fleeing to AT&T"? Really? Don't know what TMobile are doing wrong (decent range of phones, cheaper plans), but I'd be curious on the fleeing to AT&T part.
Time for my weekly rant;
Just open up the airwaves and share bandwidth whilst keeping separate customers. Phones ID' themselves when they connect so you could work out who should be paying who for the use of the towers, there'd be reason to install multiple towers to improve speed/reception, and far out in the wilds customers wouldn't need a tower for each network, just one if it wasn't profitable for everyone to chuck one up.
Then the customer could choose which phone they wanted, on which plan, on which network, and still everyone wins, especially the customer.
With the creator of Elite, then yeah, it /is/ rather reminiscent isn't it? So many schoolkids in the UK got started with the Beeb, I even got into minor 6502 ASM with that inline coding you could do.
This PI thing really does feel like a return to form, funny how things go around in circles, from Beeb, to ARM, to PI. Hopefully education sees these as the fantastic opportunity they are.
They're installing 'traffic circles' in a few places in Miami now and they're making a mess of it.
A). No-one knows what todo at a roundabout. Both approaching it, and whilst on it. Whilst I've been on a roundabout, I've had people hurtling into my path. As I'm waiting for someone to pass in front of me, they stop in the middle of the roundabout and try to wave me on. (I'll let the fact that no-cars appear to have indicators in Miami go amiss...) Actually, no I won't let it go amiss, as it continues with lack of education that when there IS a roundabout, no-one ever gets the correct positioning it appears. Luckily, it's usually single lane roads, but the occasional 2 lanes feeding into it? NO-ONE gets into the correct lane for their turning (and I recall plenty of public service announcements in the UK to drill it home). So, education of what' they're trying to achieve needs to be implemented.
B) They have STOP signs AT the roundabout in many places. Apparently the city wants them, but the county has different rules, leading to Yield/Stop signs next to each other, not helping people learn what's supposed to actually happen. (Sure this part will be resolved shortly, but it's confusing everyone who's first experience of a roundabout is this).
C) Some places (key biscayne), they've filled the middle of the roundabouts with beautiful plants. That in Miami climes, grows RAPIDLY. Many roundabouts now, the vision is blocked horribly on your exit. There's going to be accidents, and it'll be totally avoidable..
D), Some states have no 'right of way' rule. Florida for example, if you're on a roundabout, you don't have right of way, no-one does. If you have an accident of someone plowing into you from the side, they may be able to fight in on court that you crossed their path. (never underestimate the power of lawyers to make a further mess of something). "He drove in front of me!" "yes, I was on the roundabout" "this court doesn't recognise a roundabout as a valid traffic item'
E) They've done a great job of building roads in the US, but without any though for the placement of a roundabout. Retro fitting them in some places is making some odd designs. (that probably just need a single stop sign, and a yield in the other direction, but no doubt funds are already appropriated)
F) And, like many other places, they put crossings RIGHT on the nearest part of the road, that with the amount of Flora previously mentioned, and the requirements to give way to pedestrians crossing, no indicators, no education on how to drive round a roundabout, means there's going to be issues.
G) odd planning. To place a roundabout at a junction, requires the 4 homes on each corner to give permission. If anyone disagrees, it won't be built (at least that's how I'm understanding it in Coral Gables). Many, not understanding what it's about, say no. The next junction, all the people may allow it. Leading to a confusing road journey filled with Stop sign, roundabout, roundabout, stop sign, roundabout, yield, roundabout with a stop sign, stop sign, roundabout. With some roads having more, some less. If you're going to do it, at least be consistent.
So, when I'm a passenger in a car and the driver encounters a roundabout and starts cursing that it's a terrible thing, and that they cause accidents, and don't improve traffic flow, I mumble under my breath "yeah, but only in America it appears..."
Which is why you have dual roundabouts/traffic lights. Traffic flow light to moderate, let the roundabout self regulate. Rush Hours, you let the traffic lights direct.
Best of both worlds.
Well, that's was unexpected.
The hot grits are now cold.
Natalie Portman is now 'legal'
Goatse man is able to sit down comfortably without losing the chair.
The world has changed in this time, that's for sure.
(and this comment is NO WAY going to make the filter surely)
Looking at a 3.0 gallery app, and the 2.3 gallery app, they appear to do the same thing.
Wonder what the difference actually is that allows one to be ok and the other not.
is rumoured to have Flash, USB ports, AND a 3.5" floppy disk.
And explained perfectly.