There are a series of 7" Android devices already shipping in the $100 range. They're similar to this but run version 1.5 or 1.6. The processor is generally slower as well. They should be able to actually ship for this price.
Replying to negate an accidental bad mod. While I'm here , how does importing goods/software from companies that do not have software patents work? Does it completely bypass the silliness or are there imports costs, etc?
Seems to me this is a bunch of people standing up for what they believe in even though it may cost them financially. It would be nice to see a few Apple employees do the same.
I seem to remember seeing the trick of using hard drive sensors for picking up and analysing seismic data a few years ago. If it wasn't them (from the article I remember reading) there's prior art out there for at least part of the patent.
It would be very nice if they licenced it such that the phone carriers can't do to it what they did to Android with non-removable UI features, etc. I hate to say it, but slightly less free in this case would be better, as long as it kept freedom for the user to upgrade more easily.
Apple does have a fairly long history of keeping their plans secret as long as possible, so they may actually have one. They still don't seem to be targeting the "enterprise", so may be continuing that way here.
Seriously, shouldn't you be able to invalidate a patent by showing prior art for only one claim? They should at least have to re-submit without that claim.
First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women.
The attitude towards open source seems to be changing.. it's getting almost trendy, with people mentioning it when they don't even know what it means. The big software companies seem to be using the buzzwords to get contracts, but behinds closed doors are doing everything they can to reverse the trend.
And there's new people adopting it at least as often as before. Do your MS running friends a favour and show them what you can do with a Linux desktop these days. They'll (hopefully) thank you for it, especially if they're the 'virus prone' sort of folks.
Whenever I hear people say "I realize it's a closed system, a walled garden, tends toward vendor lock-in, and the company that produces it has tended to be extremely arrogant and is practicing censorship, but it's really nice phone" I hear "Come to the dark side, we have cookies". Sometimes you need to show a little idealism, otherwise things get worse, not better. I'm fairly sure sure it's the existence of Android that has made Apple back off on a few of their more draconian policies.
At some point technology will be so advanced that couldn't be distinguished from magic..
For many people we reached that point years ago. It's not so much a sudden thing, but something that happens gradually as technology improves or education fails to keep up.
I read TFS and the first thing I thought was that mimicking human decisions is a silly idea. It's probably just the summary, not what they're actually doing. i do see some value in the AI determining likely reactions of other drivers though.
Do you honestly think that the Chinese for some reason are inherently more stupid than us Westerners and cannot come up with anything innovative? Especially "innovative according to patent office standards"?
Stupid, no, but cultural differences do seem to have an effect on innovation. Cultures do change though, and the bar on 'innovation' is pretty low, especially in the software patent world. China will be able to hold their own in no time.
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There are a series of 7" Android devices already shipping in the $100 range. They're similar to this but run version 1.5 or 1.6. The processor is generally slower as well. They should be able to actually ship for this price.
Replying to negate an accidental bad mod. While I'm here , how does importing goods/software from companies that do not have software patents work? Does it completely bypass the silliness or are there imports costs, etc?
Seems to me this is a bunch of people standing up for what they believe in even though it may cost them financially. It would be nice to see a few Apple employees do the same.
Don't forget fanboi-ism. It's not any fun blindly bashing Apple with anyone blindly defending them.
I seem to remember seeing the trick of using hard drive sensors for picking up and analysing seismic data a few years ago. If it wasn't them (from the article I remember reading) there's prior art out there for at least part of the patent.
To be fair, they already covered the "Unnatural disaster" with "Lotus Notes".
It would be very nice if they licenced it such that the phone carriers can't do to it what they did to Android with non-removable UI features, etc. I hate to say it, but slightly less free in this case would be better, as long as it kept freedom for the user to upgrade more easily.
... basically, they're getting better at doing IQ tests, as they're more used to solving that sort of problem.
without ANY concrete plans on a way forward.
Apple does have a fairly long history of keeping their plans secret as long as possible, so they may actually have one. They still don't seem to be targeting the "enterprise", so may be continuing that way here.
Seriously, shouldn't you be able to invalidate a patent by showing prior art for only one claim? They should at least have to re-submit without that claim.
First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women.
.. it's getting almost trendy, with people mentioning it when they don't even know what it means. The big software companies seem to be using the buzzwords to get contracts, but behinds closed doors are doing everything they can to reverse the trend.
The attitude towards open source seems to be changing
I assume the next version will be Office 366. How long have I been asleep?
My apologies, it was meant as a joke. Your English is unquestionably far better than my Danish will ever be.
I need nothing, abshttp://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/18/1312214/Desktop-Linux-Is-Dead#olutly nothing exception playable games.
Dude, you need a proportional font and a grammar/spell-checker.
And there's new people adopting it at least as often as before. Do your MS running friends a favour and show them what you can do with a Linux desktop these days. They'll (hopefully) thank you for it, especially if they're the 'virus prone' sort of folks.
generally purpose computers that can do anything.
Unless you jailbreak it, you can currently only do what Apple says you can do. I'm hoping that eventually changes.
It would be nice if they'd allow in one to help people learn to program. As far as I know Alan Kay/MIT's Scratch app is still rejected.
This translates to "It can't currently be done cheaply".
Whenever I hear people say "I realize it's a closed system, a walled garden, tends toward vendor lock-in, and the company that produces it has tended to be extremely arrogant and is practicing censorship, but it's really nice phone" I hear "Come to the dark side, we have cookies". Sometimes you need to show a little idealism, otherwise things get worse, not better. I'm fairly sure sure it's the existence of Android that has made Apple back off on a few of their more draconian policies.
The summary is Apple advertising ... again.
Except that there are multiple versions of Windows. They are less varied, but still varied.
At some point technology will be so advanced that couldn't be distinguished from magic..
For many people we reached that point years ago. It's not so much a sudden thing, but something that happens gradually as technology improves or education fails to keep up.
I read TFS and the first thing I thought was that mimicking human decisions is a silly idea. It's probably just the summary, not what they're actually doing. i do see some value in the AI determining likely reactions of other drivers though.
Han shot first.
Oh, sorry, wrong conversation.
Do you honestly think that the Chinese for some reason are inherently more stupid than us Westerners and cannot come up with anything innovative? Especially "innovative according to patent office standards"?
Stupid, no, but cultural differences do seem to have an effect on innovation. Cultures do change though, and the bar on 'innovation' is pretty low, especially in the software patent world. China will be able to hold their own in no time.