Well, it really does depend on the perspective of the reader. Here, I'll translate the joke to you from the point of view of either an iFan or just anybody that uses an iPad:
"You can tell that webserver runs Linux because it isn't working!"
See? There is a group of people that'd find that funny, but there' d also be a group of people, not necessarily limited to fanboys, scratching their heads and wondering how it got modded up.
Well, speaking as an owner of a Tab, he sorta has a point. The odds are pretty good that when you press the power button the word 'Samsung' will fill the screen... because it just rebooted.
I have both a Tab and an iPad and they are hard to tell apart sometimes. I can think of a couple of times where I've reached for one thinking it was the other.
They are pretty simliar, even at distances closer than 10 feet.
That wasn't true for the iPhone 4. For quite a while that thing had a 3 week wait. I doubt it'll be that extreme this time around, but 'the next day' is pretty unlikely.
Not necessarily. They'd either have to license it (bonus to the inventors, that'll get them to spend even more time on R&D ) or they'd have to come up with their own alternatives. Those alternatives are how innovation starts. Maybe Pages aren't good enough, maybe auto-scrolling is even better. In that effort to get around that patent, we'd find out, instead of becoming complacent and settling for poor carbon copies of features.
Nobody here is going to like what I'm saying, and I'm cool with that. All I can say to that is at least with the patent approach they'd have to detail every little aspect that makes it work. If software patents only lasted a year or so, that'd be pretty bad ass all around.
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Well, it really does depend on the perspective of the reader. Here, I'll translate the joke to you from the point of view of either an iFan or just anybody that uses an iPad:
"You can tell that webserver runs Linux because it isn't working!"
See? There is a group of people that'd find that funny, but there' d also be a group of people, not necessarily limited to fanboys, scratching their heads and wondering how it got modded up.
Foreshortening.
Well, speaking as an owner of a Tab, he sorta has a point. The odds are pretty good that when you press the power button the word 'Samsung' will fill the screen... because it just rebooted.
I have both a Tab and an iPad and they are hard to tell apart sometimes. I can think of a couple of times where I've reached for one thinking it was the other.
They are pretty simliar, even at distances closer than 10 feet.
High number of video streams, megapixels, battery life, re-projection, data management....
It's not a easy problem.
That's not true. The number of marks you have after you write it is itself information. You'd be writing infinite data on a match stick!
(Sorry, I've had a terrible week programming.)
HyperTension? Is that a new feature in Intel processors?
pics or it didn't happen!
Yeah, if only they could do something more constructive like spending their evenings criticizing people on the internet.
That wasn't true for the iPhone 4. For quite a while that thing had a 3 week wait. I doubt it'll be that extreme this time around, but 'the next day' is pretty unlikely.
My favorite bit is people operating on bad 'facts' then pointing at others shouting 'Reality Distortion Field!!!'
Apparently the Haterade drinkers copied the technology and are performing a live-fire exercise.
Shush, I'm trying to get the word 'Informative' next to my post!
Isn't that sorta like testing a bullet proof vest by using blanks?
Hahaha! Oops. :)
Seriously, what does the iPhone have to do with a Blackberry outage?
Akward timing, like the summary said.
What'd the iPhone owner say to the Android owner?
I like my phone!
What did the Android owner say to the iPhone owner?
I hate your phone!
You really do hope one day to post at +2, don't you?
Why did you shoot your own theory in the foot?
Yes, a Nokia 5160 would have had a different result, you are right. Congrats on the big win, there.
Look at FireFox and Opera.
No, people still compete. Removing patents doesn't stop that.
Who pays for the resources and the patent?
Not necessarily. They'd either have to license it (bonus to the inventors, that'll get them to spend even more time on R&D ) or they'd have to come up with their own alternatives. Those alternatives are how innovation starts. Maybe Pages aren't good enough, maybe auto-scrolling is even better. In that effort to get around that patent, we'd find out, instead of becoming complacent and settling for poor carbon copies of features.
Nobody here is going to like what I'm saying, and I'm cool with that. All I can say to that is at least with the patent approach they'd have to detail every little aspect that makes it work. If software patents only lasted a year or so, that'd be pretty bad ass all around.
Yeah we're seeing a lot more of that now that FireFox isn't so fanboy'licious anymore.
Ignorance + elitism = .... wait, you're from Ohio?!