User Jaywalker over at Groklaw has an interesting comment:
"JGD Management Corporation has its principal executive offices at 1118 East
Green Street
Pasadena, California 91106 (http://www.secinfo.com/d12TC3.v51a.htm)
If you google the address the first match is a reference to a page on Edgar
which provides the Form 4 (any of you US business types know what that is?) for
a comany known as Arrowhead Research Corp which has one R Bruce Stewart as its
CEO and Chairman of the Board.
(http://edgar.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?Sessi
onID=T-hII2bI2EHwHrP&ID=3669175)
R Bruce Stewart founded Acacia Research Corporation in March 1991.
(http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromPersonIdPersonTearshe
et.jhtml?passedPersonId=927443).
You forgot that it was announced way too early by Sculley, which gave the competitors years to get their shit together. He announced a PDA in early 1992 and had a Newton demo that summer. I'd say Jobs' tight secrecy is a good thing.
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/0207.html
The law does not prohibit the copying of DVDs or CDs; it disallows the circumvention of anti-copying technologies like Macrovision et al.
Yes. I am still allowed to make a private copy of the movie I just bought on DVD. I even paid for that right in a form of a levy on the DVD-R media and my DVD-burner. I'm not sure... but I think even my Mac mini had that levy in its price. Now, as most movies this DVD comes wth a bunch of copy protection mechanisms. According to new laws I'm not allowed to by-pass them. So... can I make that private copy or not? And... do I get the money back I paid for that right in form of those levies on media and hardware? (Don't tell me there are DVDs without any copy-protection, those won't make up more than 1% sold in Germany.)
I miss the days when I gave my computer commands not suggestions. This whole "protected area" stuff just pisses me off. So, is using a Vista PC like talking to the bomb in Dark Star?
Now please stop that. I am a Mac user for 8 years and own an XDA Neo (HTC Prophet) for almost a year. After one week of using it I wished Apple to bring out something similar. I need a phone with calender and address book synching, maybe a simple camera, bluetooth and wlan. And I don't want to jump through hoops or read a manual to pair a headset or connect to a wlan. Windows Mobile is even a worse user experience then Windows:)
If there was a way to put Linux on it and still be able to use o2s phone network, I'd do it in an instance. If you think the XDAs can compare to the iPhone you are clearly not in the target group.
What is this? After the month of Apple Bugs, now on/. comes the week of the unsubstantiated Apple flame?
Go and criticize Apple where it fits, there's enough to be pissed off about for me as a Mac user. But this and the last article are just cheap flamebaits.
"Cisco owns the iPhone trademark. We have since 2000, when we bought a company called Infogear Technology, which had developed a product that combined web access and telephone. Infogear's registrations for the mark date to 1996, before iMacs and iPods were even glimmers in Apple's eye. We shipped and/or supported that iPhone product for years. We have been shipping new, updated iPhone products since last spring, and had a formal launch late last year. Apple knows this; they approached us about the iPhone trademark as far back as 2001, and have approached us several times over the past year."
Come again? Are you trolling? Do you really think releasing exploits to the public without giving the vendor advance notice isn't anything but irresponsible?
Memo to toby:
I doubt the guy wants to work with anyone. As I just quoted in another post:Washington Post: "As with the kernel bugs project, Apple will be given no advance notice with the Month of Apple bugs, LMH said in an interview conducted over instant message." I guess his emphasis is on page views and ad revenue. Not making the world of computers a saver place. Hope that doesn't shatter your weltanschauung.
whether Apple has previously had any chance to respond to any of the issues that will be disclosed.
No they hadn't and they won't. From the Washington Post: "As with the kernel bugs project, Apple will be given no advance notice with the Month of Apple bugs, LMH said in an interview conducted over instant message." Just a publicity stunt.
I would like to see how it compares to comparable players, instead of overall
I bet the next time when there's a discussion about the tiny tiny Macintosh market share, when I'll say something like "Gee, I'd like to see how it compares to comparable PCs, instead of overall", I'll get branded as a fanboy and cult follower...
a month or two of sales data isn't enough for me to see whether a product is effective or not
It's the frickin holiday shopping season! Q1 2002 Apple sold 125,000 iPods. That was when the iPod was Mac-only and there wasn't an established digital audio player market. And oh, did I mention: It's the frickin holiday shopping season!
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"JGD Management Corporation has its principal executive offices at 1118 East Green Street Pasadena, California 91106 (http://www.secinfo.com/d12TC3.v51a.htm)
If you google the address the first match is a reference to a page on Edgar which provides the Form 4 (any of you US business types know what that is?) for a comany known as Arrowhead Research Corp which has one R Bruce Stewart as its CEO and Chairman of the Board.
(http://edgar.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?Sessi onID=T-hII2bI2EHwHrP&ID=3669175)
R Bruce Stewart founded Acacia Research Corporation in March 1991. (http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromPersonIdPersonTearshe et.jhtml?passedPersonId=927443).
Has anyone heard of Acacia Research before?
Hmmmm.
It has to be a coincidence."
And hear him yourself: http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=48644&CID=133678
For me too, the real news is that the Tintin movies are really going to be made.
You forgot that it was announced way too early by Sculley, which gave the competitors years to get their shit together. He announced a PDA in early 1992 and had a Newton demo that summer. I'd say Jobs' tight secrecy is a good thing. http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/0207.html
Yes. I am still allowed to make a private copy of the movie I just bought on DVD. I even paid for that right in a form of a levy on the DVD-R media and my DVD-burner. I'm not sure
Above comment should be modded insightful instead of funny ...
A Blackberry-fanpage "received word from one of our friends inside AT&T"? Come on ...
/. submission doesn't make sense. News at 11.
[...] the $5bn that was spent on Vista development [...] br Does not compute.
Appearantly it was the third thing.
Hey, Boies, Schiller and Flexner, did you hear that? It's the sound of the Nazgûl sharpening their swords.
I think he's fairly pro Microsoft. I mean I am Anti-MS, and when I read this I say: "Yay, go Microsoft! Just go on like that."
Haven't seen it. I found this sad, sad picturedepressing enough for one day.
Now please stop that. I am a Mac user for 8 years and own an XDA Neo (HTC Prophet) for almost a year. After one week of using it I wished Apple to bring out something similar. I need a phone with calender and address book synching, maybe a simple camera, bluetooth and wlan. And I don't want to jump through hoops or read a manual to pair a headset or connect to a wlan. Windows Mobile is even a worse user experience then Windows :)
If there was a way to put Linux on it and still be able to use o2s phone network, I'd do it in an instance. If you think the XDAs can compare to the iPhone you are clearly not in the target group.
Go and criticize Apple where it fits, there's enough to be pissed off about for me as a Mac user. But this and the last article are just cheap flamebaits.
And: look at the crazy monkey!
Commentary from Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, on Apple's infringement of Cisco's iPhone trademark:
"Cisco owns the iPhone trademark. We have since 2000, when we bought a company called Infogear Technology, which had developed a product that combined web access and telephone. Infogear's registrations for the mark date to 1996, before iMacs and iPods were even glimmers in Apple's eye. We shipped and/or supported that iPhone product for years. We have been shipping new, updated iPhone products since last spring, and had a formal launch late last year. Apple knows this; they approached us about the iPhone trademark as far back as 2001, and have approached us several times over the past year."
Come again? Are you trolling? Do you really think releasing exploits to the public without giving the vendor advance notice isn't anything but irresponsible?
Memo to toby:
I doubt the guy wants to work with anyone.
As I just quoted in another post:Washington Post: "As with the kernel bugs project, Apple will be given no advance notice with the Month of Apple bugs, LMH said in an interview conducted over instant message."
I guess his emphasis is on page views and ad revenue. Not making the world of computers a saver place. Hope that doesn't shatter your weltanschauung.
No they hadn't and they won't. From the Washington Post: "As with the kernel bugs project, Apple will be given no advance notice with the Month of Apple bugs, LMH said in an interview conducted over instant message."
Just a publicity stunt.
I bet the next time when there's a discussion about the tiny tiny Macintosh market share, when I'll say something like "Gee, I'd like to see how it compares to comparable PCs, instead of overall", I'll get branded as a fanboy and cult follower
It's the frickin holiday shopping season! Q1 2002 Apple sold 125,000 iPods. That was when the iPod was Mac-only and there wasn't an established digital audio player market. And oh, did I mention: It's the frickin holiday shopping season!
Seriously, were you able to tape that without cringing?