Can we all just agree that the patent system is idiotic and far too overbearing already?
How would we know? When patents are discussed around here they're assumed to be six words long, mainly because not one person here has ever actually read any of the patents in question. If we can't do that, then no, we cannot agree the patent system is idiotic We actually have to understand it, first.
Do as I say, not as I do. It's a standard mantra amongst religious folk....
You may be unaware of this, but if you bring up religious zealotry at times that have absolutely nothing to do with religious zealotry, you're going to bring religious zealotry in to defend it. Understand?
Cut it out. If you want to discuss religious silliness, you need go no further than the smartphone OS wars.
I wish the dude with the mod-points to burn had read the context of this conversation. But, since he didn't catch the original post about inspiration vs. duplication, I guess I have to expand my point even though that nice simple little picture very clearly shows a not-iPad.
- Wrong size. - Wrong aspect ratio. - Wrong color. - Recessed screen. - Buttons on the bezel. - No rounded corners. - Access panels in the back, presumably for upgrades or replacable battery. - Bulge on the back of the device. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrSbfQFP2Q)
So what's similar about it? Umm.. well... Sisko's using an app that does look strikingly like something from the iPad app store. And beyond that? Well... erm, no, it's really not similar at all, especially when this conversation only comes up when talking about Apple's lawsuit over the Galaxy Tab. And you know what? That detail alone really makes this discussion amusing. In an attempt to show how iPad like a Star Trek PADD is, a screengrab of a prop that would fail ALL of Apple's objections to the Tab is presented to us!
The silliness of this doesn't stop here. That app we see running on Sisko's PADD is what makes this reference come up. Most of the time we see a PADD on Star Trek, besides not physically looking at all like an iPad, the actors we see using it aren't tapping on the screen with their finger, they're tapping at buttons at the bottom of it or using a stylus! If 15 seconds of Star Trek canon were erased this discussion would be over before it began!!
*Sigh*. Shame on me for being an obsessed Star Trek fan who also owns an iPad. That makes me a loser. I accept that. However, type 'PADD' into Google Image Search and see for yourself.
Because Apple is their highest profile customer. They're raking in massive profits while utilizing a company that leverages the low pay of Chinese laborers and the lack of real labor laws, which has had some high profile incidents.
It's because some guy wearing thick glasses and a haircut more fashionable than yours told you his iPhone was better than your phone and this is your revenge.
GPL code must be protected because it's free shit, yet copyright must also be abolished so we can get free shit--even though the GPL is a copyright license!
Result of GPL enforcement: More work available to the public.
Result of shortening copyright: More work available to the public.
Do you understand now or do you still have some homework to do?
A simpler version of what you said is that as long as people are having fun, they'll part with their money. History has proven this over and and over again but the *AA seems to think that making it so music CDs cannot play will increase sales.
You think so? Maybe I'm being dense here but I've been following this hostility against BYOD for months now and the common complaint is that Jimmy the Marketing Droid barges into IT, demands his iPad be hooked up to the mail server, and for some reason IT is forced to do this and if only the other Marketing Droids would value the security of the company IT'd have more time for Youtube.
I've never understood this. I've worked at places where there were too many devices to support. People would say "Can I get my iPhone on the wifi?" The answer was "Not unless it's work related." The result? Lots of people did not get their devices connected, but those who could make their case got what they needed. IT made their case to management, policy was set, end of story.
I can easily imagine the suits being obnoxious, I've seen it before. I just don't understand the hostility towards the users when all it takes to get a policy made is to put a dollar sign followed by a number in front of a suit to get the power to decline the request.
Slashdot Mirror
Can we all just agree that the patent system is idiotic and far too overbearing already?
How would we know? When patents are discussed around here they're assumed to be six words long, mainly because not one person here has ever actually read any of the patents in question. If we can't do that, then no, we cannot agree the patent system is idiotic We actually have to understand it, first.
Do as I say, not as I do. It's a standard mantra amongst religious folk....
You may be unaware of this, but if you bring up religious zealotry at times that have absolutely nothing to do with religious zealotry, you're going to bring religious zealotry in to defend it. Understand?
Cut it out. If you want to discuss religious silliness, you need go no further than the smartphone OS wars.
So, in Canada, a rate plan is considered 'technology'.
it's tacit approval from Paramount over the PADD design.
No, it isn't. It's a marketing tool from CBS. Heh.
Ever hear of Windows 95? The unit of measurement for BSOD's on that OS wasn't "n times per year".
Apple has modified it in a software update to make clear that Apple is claiming rights to the .ibook format itself and not the content therein:
Bet the ball on this got rolling just after somebody in Cupertino read the knee-jerk comments on Slashdot.
Not to be a dick, but your argument comes about half a decade late.
There's nothing dickish about it. Blue Screen jokes still fly at full score around here even after a decade of the BSOD being virtually extinct.
You're curing their ignorance, no dickery here.
Too bad his point was way more interesting than yours.
Why, does that app change the shape of the device when you install it?
Oh? Do you have some specific info on that? I know some of the illustrators from the various shows and they're all working on movies...
I wish the dude with the mod-points to burn had read the context of this conversation. But, since he didn't catch the original post about inspiration vs. duplication, I guess I have to expand my point even though that nice simple little picture very clearly shows a not-iPad.
- Wrong size.
- Wrong aspect ratio.
- Wrong color.
- Recessed screen.
- Buttons on the bezel.
- No rounded corners.
- Access panels in the back, presumably for upgrades or replacable battery.
- Bulge on the back of the device. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrSbfQFP2Q)
So what's similar about it? Umm.. well... Sisko's using an app that does look strikingly like something from the iPad app store. And beyond that? Well... erm, no, it's really not similar at all, especially when this conversation only comes up when talking about Apple's lawsuit over the Galaxy Tab. And you know what? That detail alone really makes this discussion amusing. In an attempt to show how iPad like a Star Trek PADD is, a screengrab of a prop that would fail ALL of Apple's objections to the Tab is presented to us!
The silliness of this doesn't stop here. That app we see running on Sisko's PADD is what makes this reference come up. Most of the time we see a PADD on Star Trek, besides not physically looking at all like an iPad, the actors we see using it aren't tapping on the screen with their finger, they're tapping at buttons at the bottom of it or using a stylus! If 15 seconds of Star Trek canon were erased this discussion would be over before it began!!
*Sigh*. Shame on me for being an obsessed Star Trek fan who also owns an iPad. That makes me a loser. I accept that. However, type 'PADD' into Google Image Search and see for yourself.
He started it!
No, it doesn't, not even one detail.
No, it doesn't.
There was also never a PADD that actually looked like an iPad.
Because Apple is their highest profile customer. They're raking in massive profits while utilizing a company that leverages the low pay of Chinese laborers and the lack of real labor laws, which has had some high profile incidents.
It's because some guy wearing thick glasses and a haircut more fashionable than yours told you his iPhone was better than your phone and this is your revenge.
You'd rather your job reap all the benefits of your contribution than have your family get it? More power to corps, smart.
GPL code must be protected because it's free shit, yet copyright must also be abolished so we can get free shit--even though the GPL is a copyright license!
Result of GPL enforcement: More work available to the public.
Result of shortening copyright: More work available to the public.
Do you understand now or do you still have some homework to do?
Then Angry Birds was released and everyone talks about it as if it's ... totally new and original.
I have never heard one person ever say that. Are you sure it's not just the typical geek hipsterism? "Angry Birds is so mainstream..."
A simpler version of what you said is that as long as people are having fun, they'll part with their money. History has proven this over and and over again but the *AA seems to think that making it so music CDs cannot play will increase sales.
Twenty five.
Oh, please. Money talks and those dudes won't care if they get wifi on their iPads and Johnny marketing droid doesn't.
Try again.
Funny how nobody was saying Star Wars wasn't scifi before the prequels came about.
My wife calls it Soy Fy, not made from real sci-fi.
You think so? Maybe I'm being dense here but I've been following this hostility against BYOD for months now and the common complaint is that Jimmy the Marketing Droid barges into IT, demands his iPad be hooked up to the mail server, and for some reason IT is forced to do this and if only the other Marketing Droids would value the security of the company IT'd have more time for Youtube.
I've never understood this. I've worked at places where there were too many devices to support. People would say "Can I get my iPhone on the wifi?" The answer was "Not unless it's work related." The result? Lots of people did not get their devices connected, but those who could make their case got what they needed. IT made their case to management, policy was set, end of story.
I can easily imagine the suits being obnoxious, I've seen it before. I just don't understand the hostility towards the users when all it takes to get a policy made is to put a dollar sign followed by a number in front of a suit to get the power to decline the request.