I'm not trying to bash Apple here, but I'm not sure innovate is necessarily the right word to use. Product design seems more appropriate. So much of Apple's product line seems to be UI and attractive exterior, as opposed to Really New Ideas (tm).
Don't get me wrong. That's two things more than anyone else seems to be doing these days.
I've always wanted to hook a PC to a 8" USB Touchscreen and use it as a multimedia center for the car. Audio, navigation, video (when appropriate), maybe even wifi here and there...
Slap a 16-32 gig thumb drive for media storage, and it sounds perfect.
Decline the laptop, and the Blackberry, and the pager, and the company cellphone... If it's that important, call me at home and I'll drive in. It never has been, though.
My coworker (with the Blackberry) regularly gets called for trivial things. Like: Where's that log printout? Hmm? You put it on my desk, you say?
Free as in Freedom, that is. Like it or not, Free means being able to charge for it if you want to. If someone wants to take Ubuntu's gift to the world and sell it, that's their right under the GPL. And someone will buy it. Distasteful? Sure. But you can't have this "Freedom" thing both ways.
Looks like a fun toy, what does it actually cost to make anything with it though? Would it be cheaper to buy a coat hook from Wal-Mart or to print my own?
At the top, it says "RepRap makes its first complete working replicated copy!"
But below, it says: "You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself."
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Stand in line for a pill to make me muscular, or stand in line for the new iPhone?
At least the iPhone won't leave me as soon as I talk.
Is this like changing the user agent in a browser?
No privacy when it comes to public record.
I'm not trying to bash Apple here, but I'm not sure innovate is necessarily the right word to use. Product design seems more appropriate. So much of Apple's product line seems to be UI and attractive exterior, as opposed to Really New Ideas (tm).
Don't get me wrong. That's two things more than anyone else seems to be doing these days.
You mean the most /. subscribers?
About 95% of those going online connect to 86% of the Internet via high-speed links.
Why would anyone need anything other than VBScript for client-side web scripting? :)
So... it's a blank note pad with a different cover?
Sounds like the machine that these patents are going to be tied to is the Titanic.
+Regenerative braking.
And who pays for this? You do. Whether you use it or not.
I've always wanted to hook a PC to a 8" USB Touchscreen and use it as a multimedia center for the car. Audio, navigation, video (when appropriate), maybe even wifi here and there...
Slap a 16-32 gig thumb drive for media storage, and it sounds perfect.
Paypal could use some regulation.
Here I am, looking up "Money Laundering" in the dictionary trying to figure it out.
Let's just shoot it into the sun and get it over with. What could possibly go wrong?
But I've made it perfectly obvious that I don't want Vista!
...Or even goatse'd.
Decline the laptop, and the Blackberry, and the pager, and the company cellphone... If it's that important, call me at home and I'll drive in. It never has been, though.
My coworker (with the Blackberry) regularly gets called for trivial things. Like: Where's that log printout? Hmm? You put it on my desk, you say?
I'm not sure you read your own link. From the first definition you linked to:
to take exclusive possession of
That DOES imply that the original owner is deprived of their property. You aren't taking exclusive possession when you copy.
Free as in Freedom, that is. Like it or not, Free means being able to charge for it if you want to. If someone wants to take Ubuntu's gift to the world and sell it, that's their right under the GPL. And someone will buy it. Distasteful? Sure. But you can't have this "Freedom" thing both ways.
Don't laugh, $420 is a tank of gas.
Now it's the Web plus plastic.
It's a for loop that spits out "Your mom's basement".
Looks like a fun toy, what does it actually cost to make anything with it though? Would it be cheaper to buy a coat hook from Wal-Mart or to print my own?
At the top, it says "RepRap makes its first complete working replicated copy!"
But below, it says: "You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself."
(Emphasis added)