Applications do not equal Operating System. The features that are disabled in an iOS application are easily replaced by third-party application running on that same version of OS. The newest version of iOS will run all recent phones (iPhone 3GS and newer).
Unlike the Android environment where applications written to take advantage of new features of the newest version of OS will not run on the older versions of Android which is stilly likely installed on a phone that you purchase TODAY.
The big red elephant in the room is that the easiest way to keep taxes low is to borrow, and boy do they borrow. The trick is to retire from politics before you run out of road on which you are kicking the can. This has been SOP for both parties especially the so called conservative one.
Much as I like NASA, if that's what it takes to get the deficit under control, then that's what needs to happen.
NASA's budget is insignificant compared to the entitlement programs and DOD spending. Cutting NASA's budget doesn't upset the old people, the welfare recipients, and the retired military veterans. Cutting NASA's budget does little for actually balancing the budget. It's just the least important to that good o' red blooded american voter that is so important this time of year.
The problem with the budget has always been that politicians do not look at what will be good for the nation's future when making decisions. Instead they look at what is good for their individual political future and saying "I cut welfare, defense spending, and social security" won't win them any votes. They particularly love the elderly vote since they outnumber the rest of us and they don't let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy story.
Contrast this with today where absolute NO TV and virtually no newspaper coverage exists for this event. Why?
Because Fox News Corp. and AOL Time Warner doesn't want to show the republicans as the reason nothing gets done during the election season. This way if the republicans sweep all the elections, they can brag about how they were the ones to finally get something passed.
Why are you comparing features of iOS applications being disabled in older hardware, with differing OS level features on Android hardware that are currently sold now?
If they didn't want people to use their source code and possibly compete with them, then why make it open?
#1 Marketing. Android was a startup and needed to generate buzz fast. So they adopted an open source development model to win over the geeks and distinguish themselves from Apple, Microsoft, and RIM.
#2 Market growth. Google doesn't need to make money off of every handset sold. They need to increase the number of potential buyers of Android software. The OS marketshare determines the value of Google Play. So the larger the number of handset manufacturers making Android based phones, the more potential money Google can make.
I'm not the biggest fan of Garmin which owns Navigon. My current Garmin GPS is out of date, and they charge more for the update than what I can spend on a new GPS unit. Thanks for the suggestion and Navigon does look like the app I need. I don't mind paying for quality software, but I do draw the line at being overcharged for updated data.
Not sure if you enjoy watching everyone get fucked, but that's what proprietary connectors do.
I love how people are supposedly getting fucked by a proprietary cable. Jeez it's a fucking cable. If you're so bent out of shape go get an adapter that allows you to use the micro-USB (I think it comes gratis with the phone in the EU).
Personally I like the idea of not having to worry about plug orientation since my eye sight isn't getting better with age. I don't care what signals the cable may or may not have, and I think the vast majority of the people don't care either.
My carrier doesn't have the iPhone, and I don't value the iPhone enough to change carriers. I'll settle with my Android phone (warts and all) and may get another one with wireless charging. I suggest you be happy with your choice of phone too.
No this isn't one of those asinine Apple did it first posts, but do try to remember back to the days of the original iPhone. The SDK wasn't available and people had to make do with Web based apps. There were screams for Apple to hurry up and release a native SDK.
I wish them luck, and I do think cheap web based phones are a underserved market. However I think Brendan Eich isn't doing Mozilla OS any favors by trying to compare it to the likes of iOS or Android. They may find themselves in the same grave as WebOS as people wonder when or if a native SDK will come out.
I agree. In my case both Wifi and GPS are off. I use an "old fashion" Garmin GPS for driving, because in all honesty Google Navigator and MapQuest both still suck where I'm at (no reliable data connection while driving). However for some strange reason when I'm in a town with less than 2,000 people in the middle of nowhere, I have 4G. I drive to the nearest large city, which is more than a hour away, I'm lucky I get 2G. You'd think it would be the other way around.
Note: Yes I have tried caching the map data prior to leaving. Unfortunately the distance I must drive fills up my phone's memory card.
The LG Prada design patent USD557239 (filed: Aug 16, 2006 / granted: Dec 11, 2007) references Apple's design patent USD504889 (filed: Mar 17, 2004 / granted: May 10, 2005.).
The iPhone is the design USD504889 (2004 mentioned above) in the form factor of media device patent USD548747 (2005). The actual iPhone design patent was not filed until just before Steve Jobs announced the phone USD558757 (filed: Jan 7, 2007 / granted: Jan 1, 2008) and it references both previously mentioned design patents.
The interesting part of the patent search was that the iPad was designed in 2004.
no but the palm pre did. and as for a phone being thicker they have been getting thinner since there inception. the combining of traits into one phone is obvious evolution in the technology.
Longer answer: While trademark and design patents are very similar, I believe that design patents doesn't require proof that consumer confusion could result like a trademark does.
Samsung could have made their tablet look very different than the iPad. Just look at the Nook Color, Nokia's N810, or the many mock-ups of a Nokia Tablet that look like an oversized Nokia Lumia 900 (which I think looks good).
Anyway, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet and the iPad are almost indistinguishable from each other when the power is off.
The iPhone 2G only uses the edge network. 3G is more power hungry than 2G (LTE even more so). This is the point everyone is making. The article is flawed because it doesn't take this into consideration. People upgraded their phone to take advantage of the more advance features, so increased power usage should be taken into account.
My android phone battery has a much shorter battery life when I travel to some locations. I believe its a function on how much power is required to maintain contact with the nearest tower (using "4G" doesn't help). Right now I'm on the road and I'm lucky to get 24 hours of "standby" time on a single charge (standby being in quotes due to email client running in background so data is being transmitted on occasion).
My iPad2 seems to last a very long time (charge once a week range), but it's WiFi only and therefore doesn't need to use power to maintain contact with a tower miles away. Also the iPad2 models that have a wireless modem built in (CDMA or GSM) has the luxury of being able to put that modem to sleep to increase battery life since it doesn't have to accept incoming phone calls (especially when a WiFi connection is available). Also the iPad2 is able to have a physically larger battery.
My point being that "Your milage may vary" due to factors like usage pattern, location in respect to cellphone towers, and the data protocol being used.
I, for one, despise design patents. The whole point of patents were to be novel (ie, new), non-obvious (to those versed in the art), and **useful** - that's the three-prong test for a valid invention. Design patents are only allowed on non-functional (hence non-useful) stuff and have therefore mangled the entire inventive process.
The idea behind a design patent is to protect the manufacturer and the consumer from counterfeit products. I see nothing wrong with that design patent. The evidence presented during the trial that showed products before and after the Apple iPad was introduced was pretty damning for Samsung.
Show's how little you know, the year BEFORE iphone was even announced, samsung released a little device f700. If you compare the 2 side by side they look very similar so on topic of who copied who first, that would be apple copied samsung.
The original iPhone was announced on Jan 2007.
The Samsung F700 was announced on Feb 2007 (a month after Steve Job's demonstration) during the 3GSM World Congress, and released on November 2007.
The Samsung F700 may have had rounded corners, but it was substantially thicker and had a sliding keyboard. The UI running on their Croix OS did not resemble the iPhone at all. When the F700 was announced it was immediately compared to the newly announced iPhone by the press.
I agree with your comments concerning URL encoding. The only risk I can think of with QR codes is the possibility of a buffer overflow that allows executable code embedded in the QR code to execute. You'd think we now reached the age of thoroughly testing our code and managing our buffers well enough to keep the possibility of such attack in the realm of fantasy.
Of course there is always a software company out there that proves us wrong.
Yes, let's go ahead and presume that the institutions that figuratively and in some cases literally built the first world nations we sit on our asses in have no idea how to sandbox and bound check a code read from a scanner in order to stop an "infection" from taking over...
Let me paraphrase a famous disclaimer given by the banks themselves, "Past performance is not an indicator of future results". These are the same institutions that played hard and fast with complicated financial instruments that ultimately blew up and dragged most of the world economies into a deep recession and needed government intervention to prevent full collapse.
On a topic actually related to IT, there are news reports of banks sending out letters to customers about possible breaches of security and the customer's personal information may have been collected for the purpose of identity theft (My bank sent me a notice several years ago).
Why people can't just be happy that there is innovation and competition in the smartphone market....
Quiet! If people did that then the amount of traffic going to news websites would drop dramatically. How would slashdot, macworld, and cnet make advertising revenue?
I was thinking there were similarities too. Except it seemed similar to Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes" especially the mirror maze. The house of mirrors scene storyboarded in that article reminded me of a scene in Disney's movie version that was released in 1983.
Coincidently (as some has pointed out), there was a B-movie called "Carnival of Souls" that was released in 1963. I haven't seen this movie, so I can't comment on if it was inspired by Ray Bradbury's novel.
In any case, Jazan Wild's concept of a horror story set in a carnival is far from original and his title is the same of as a 1963 horror movie about a carnival.
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I've used PowerPC based CPUs in radiation environments without issues.
CNN has a corporate bias which tends to favor conservatives much more than liberals.
Obviously deceptive.
Applications do not equal Operating System. The features that are disabled in an iOS application are easily replaced by third-party application running on that same version of OS. The newest version of iOS will run all recent phones (iPhone 3GS and newer).
Unlike the Android environment where applications written to take advantage of new features of the newest version of OS will not run on the older versions of Android which is stilly likely installed on a phone that you purchase TODAY.
The big red elephant in the room is that the easiest way to keep taxes low is to borrow, and boy do they borrow. The trick is to retire from politics before you run out of road on which you are kicking the can. This has been SOP for both parties especially the so called conservative one.
NASA's budget is insignificant compared to the entitlement programs and DOD spending. Cutting NASA's budget doesn't upset the old people, the welfare recipients, and the retired military veterans. Cutting NASA's budget does little for actually balancing the budget. It's just the least important to that good o' red blooded american voter that is so important this time of year.
The problem with the budget has always been that politicians do not look at what will be good for the nation's future when making decisions. Instead they look at what is good for their individual political future and saying "I cut welfare, defense spending, and social security" won't win them any votes. They particularly love the elderly vote since they outnumber the rest of us and they don't let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy story.
Because Fox News Corp. and AOL Time Warner doesn't want to show the republicans as the reason nothing gets done during the election season. This way if the republicans sweep all the elections, they can brag about how they were the ones to finally get something passed.
Why are you comparing features of iOS applications being disabled in older hardware, with differing OS level features on Android hardware that are currently sold now?
#1 Marketing. Android was a startup and needed to generate buzz fast. So they adopted an open source development model to win over the geeks and distinguish themselves from Apple, Microsoft, and RIM.
#2 Market growth. Google doesn't need to make money off of every handset sold. They need to increase the number of potential buyers of Android software. The OS marketshare determines the value of Google Play. So the larger the number of handset manufacturers making Android based phones, the more potential money Google can make.
Right next to the pet rocks and lava lamps.
Leela: I didn't know monkeys could cry.
Guenter: They can't. It's all the hat.
I'm not the biggest fan of Garmin which owns Navigon. My current Garmin GPS is out of date, and they charge more for the update than what I can spend on a new GPS unit. Thanks for the suggestion and Navigon does look like the app I need. I don't mind paying for quality software, but I do draw the line at being overcharged for updated data.
I love how people are supposedly getting fucked by a proprietary cable. Jeez it's a fucking cable. If you're so bent out of shape go get an adapter that allows you to use the micro-USB (I think it comes gratis with the phone in the EU).
Personally I like the idea of not having to worry about plug orientation since my eye sight isn't getting better with age. I don't care what signals the cable may or may not have, and I think the vast majority of the people don't care either.
My carrier doesn't have the iPhone, and I don't value the iPhone enough to change carriers. I'll settle with my Android phone (warts and all) and may get another one with wireless charging. I suggest you be happy with your choice of phone too.
No this isn't one of those asinine Apple did it first posts, but do try to remember back to the days of the original iPhone. The SDK wasn't available and people had to make do with Web based apps. There were screams for Apple to hurry up and release a native SDK.
I wish them luck, and I do think cheap web based phones are a underserved market. However I think Brendan Eich isn't doing Mozilla OS any favors by trying to compare it to the likes of iOS or Android. They may find themselves in the same grave as WebOS as people wonder when or if a native SDK will come out.
I agree. In my case both Wifi and GPS are off. I use an "old fashion" Garmin GPS for driving, because in all honesty Google Navigator and MapQuest both still suck where I'm at (no reliable data connection while driving). However for some strange reason when I'm in a town with less than 2,000 people in the middle of nowhere, I have 4G. I drive to the nearest large city, which is more than a hour away, I'm lucky I get 2G. You'd think it would be the other way around.
Note: Yes I have tried caching the map data prior to leaving. Unfortunately the distance I must drive fills up my phone's memory card.
The LG Prada design patent USD557239 (filed: Aug 16, 2006 / granted: Dec 11, 2007) references Apple's design patent USD504889 (filed: Mar 17, 2004 / granted: May 10, 2005.).
The iPhone is the design USD504889 (2004 mentioned above) in the form factor of media device patent USD548747 (2005). The actual iPhone design patent was not filed until just before Steve Jobs announced the phone USD558757 (filed: Jan 7, 2007 / granted: Jan 1, 2008) and it references both previously mentioned design patents.
The interesting part of the patent search was that the iPad was designed in 2004.
The palm pre was debut during CES in 2009.
Longer answer: While trademark and design patents are very similar, I believe that design patents doesn't require proof that consumer confusion could result like a trademark does.
Samsung could have made their tablet look very different than the iPad. Just look at the Nook Color, Nokia's N810, or the many mock-ups of a Nokia Tablet that look like an oversized Nokia Lumia 900 (which I think looks good).
Anyway, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet and the iPad are almost indistinguishable from each other when the power is off.
Nope.
The iPhone 2G only uses the edge network. 3G is more power hungry than 2G (LTE even more so). This is the point everyone is making. The article is flawed because it doesn't take this into consideration. People upgraded their phone to take advantage of the more advance features, so increased power usage should be taken into account.
My android phone battery has a much shorter battery life when I travel to some locations. I believe its a function on how much power is required to maintain contact with the nearest tower (using "4G" doesn't help). Right now I'm on the road and I'm lucky to get 24 hours of "standby" time on a single charge (standby being in quotes due to email client running in background so data is being transmitted on occasion).
My iPad2 seems to last a very long time (charge once a week range), but it's WiFi only and therefore doesn't need to use power to maintain contact with a tower miles away. Also the iPad2 models that have a wireless modem built in (CDMA or GSM) has the luxury of being able to put that modem to sleep to increase battery life since it doesn't have to accept incoming phone calls (especially when a WiFi connection is available). Also the iPad2 is able to have a physically larger battery.
My point being that "Your milage may vary" due to factors like usage pattern, location in respect to cellphone towers, and the data protocol being used.
The idea behind a design patent is to protect the manufacturer and the consumer from counterfeit products. I see nothing wrong with that design patent. The evidence presented during the trial that showed products before and after the Apple iPad was introduced was pretty damning for Samsung.
The original iPhone was announced on Jan 2007.
The Samsung F700 was announced on Feb 2007 (a month after Steve Job's demonstration) during the 3GSM World Congress, and released on November 2007.
The Samsung F700 may have had rounded corners, but it was substantially thicker and had a sliding keyboard. The UI running on their Croix OS did not resemble the iPhone at all. When the F700 was announced it was immediately compared to the newly announced iPhone by the press.
I agree with your comments concerning URL encoding. The only risk I can think of with QR codes is the possibility of a buffer overflow that allows executable code embedded in the QR code to execute. You'd think we now reached the age of thoroughly testing our code and managing our buffers well enough to keep the possibility of such attack in the realm of fantasy.
Of course there is always a software company out there that proves us wrong.
Let me paraphrase a famous disclaimer given by the banks themselves, "Past performance is not an indicator of future results". These are the same institutions that played hard and fast with complicated financial instruments that ultimately blew up and dragged most of the world economies into a deep recession and needed government intervention to prevent full collapse.
On a topic actually related to IT, there are news reports of banks sending out letters to customers about possible breaches of security and the customer's personal information may have been collected for the purpose of identity theft (My bank sent me a notice several years ago).
Pardon me for being skeptical...
Quiet! If people did that then the amount of traffic going to news websites would drop dramatically. How would slashdot, macworld, and cnet make advertising revenue?
I was thinking there were similarities too. Except it seemed similar to Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes" especially the mirror maze. The house of mirrors scene storyboarded in that article reminded me of a scene in Disney's movie version that was released in 1983.
Coincidently (as some has pointed out), there was a B-movie called "Carnival of Souls" that was released in 1963. I haven't seen this movie, so I can't comment on if it was inspired by Ray Bradbury's novel.
In any case, Jazan Wild's concept of a horror story set in a carnival is far from original and his title is the same of as a 1963 horror movie about a carnival.