No, you are supposed to start a flame-war on lkml about how SSD cache is a stupid idea that will never amount to anything. Next hundreds of kernel developers will start develop the code to prove you wrong.
I can't believe it's impossible to view Goatse in Linux!
I'm not sure I understand your point. NOBODY would have been able to use it without licensing it until now. The way it has already played out, plenty of people (including Apple!) were never affected.
Uh, no, it's considerably worse to have broad patents. If your patent is valid outside of the market you have gone into, then it's worth much much more than in its current limited state. Thay means way more effort by the Apples of the world to patent generic things and demand licensing.
As for trivial... I have to ask: If the mag-safe connector has been around so long, and the idea is so good everybody wants it, why did it take twenty years to finally turn up?
Microsoft was helping to oppress innocent people by a totalitarian regime to get a chance to sabotage the Free Software movement? Wow. Just wow. This is low. Even for Microsoft.
You're right, this is pretty low for a company who needs successful P.R. to keep printing money. So, Mensa Babe, I have a question for you: When you said "This is low even for Microsoft", how come you landed with all four paws on the assumption was that Bill Gates personally ordered it instead of asking whether or not this story wasn't spun to sell ads?
Lo and behold one of the first people I meet is some little twerp telling me how Apple was going to rule the 3D world like it did desktop publishing...
He was wrong but it was a good bet at the time. Back then you had Apple and Amiga machines which were capable of doing the graphics work. The suggestion that the PC would wipe them both off the map would either result in a laugh or a fart noise. Funny how that played out.
...but Lightwave is still going strong AFAIK.
I'm sorry to tell you, but it's not what it was. They're working on rectifying that, though.
That's not entirely directly related to Apple but he was an Apple user and had the same fucking nasty attitude that we see today...
No, it's not. I knew those Mac zealots back then and right now you're on easy street in comparison. I have no doubt in mind that the guy you met was a jerk, I'm not trying to suggest otherwise, only that in the simple sense he had a point. iPhone users aren't like that. They may love their phones a lot, they may even be ignorant of the other options out there, but they are nowhere near as abrasive as the early/mid-90's Mac fans. I know a LOT of people with iPhones and only one has ever pulled me aside and ever tried to 'convert' me. I can honestly say I've listened to a lot more Android and, believe it or not, webOS zealotry than I have iPhone nonsense.
I'll tell you something else while we're on the topic: I am seeing a rise of Android fanboys acting, in person (not talking about the net), exactly the way you hate, trying to 'convert' people and ptbtbt'ing about Apple. The best part is these people don't know much about the product, instead they're parroting what they read on-line. And you know what that does? It sparks debates.
Fanboyism sucks and hate breeds it. I can't wait until this stupid flamewar subsides.
But somehow Apple's move into the cellphone market turned Apple fans into foaming at the mouth batshit insane cultists.
Apple fans turn up, they babble a lot. Android fans turn up, they babble about how sheeple'ish Apple fans are. Apple fans fight back, pointing out strengths in their choices. Android fans fight back, pointing out the strengths in their choices. Apple gets bad news, Android fans laugh. Android gets bad news, Apple fans laugh louder. Then it escalates from there.
Let's just face facts, we like the side we're on and we like antagonizing the other side. There really is no real substance here outside of that.
Does anyone other than Samsung and Lenovo really care?
Speaking as somebody who owns an iPad, I would love to see something like the Tab (which is pretty nice, actually) light a fire under Apple to try even harder.
It's one way of announcing the product without announcing it. It lets people know it is nearly ready without having a formal announcement where all the specifications are laid down and dissected by the media.
Uh, yeah, because creating a potential backlash would be way better than giving people a firm list of what it's got, how much it it'll be, and when it's out.
Oh, and here's an interesting coincidence: Headlines about Apple that end with a question mark earn lots of ad views on sites like Slashdot and Gizmodo.
Even completely free mods for other games, if they impinged on the intellectual property of another company have been taken down through the typical use of cease and desist letters.
Now that it has been posted on Slashdot, it's almost a certainty. If they had laid low it probably wouldn't have been a problem. Now Nintendo knows about it and has to do something.
Sometimes we prefer to hear from someone directly about their experiences. That's partly why the internet has a lot of discussion forums and isn't just made up of one big wikipedia.
A page hit is a page hit whether you're expressing an negative or positive opinion.
Also correct. Additionally, you are creating more content for people to read. This means more ads served etc.
The wonderful thing about Slashdot is that if you don't want to see Apple stories (which are typically slanted as fanbois fodder, or Apple-hater jerky), block them
Again correct. You'd think the people bitching would do that. Personally, I enjoy bitching about it. At least I can admit it.
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The questions is, will the patent fees be reasonable enough that we will see this technology for less than $200 a DIMM?
The monopoly granted by a patent doesn't mean what you think it means.
A Windows phone would've prevented the plane from taking off at all!
A BlackBerry plane would have used a more reliable propeller driven motor!
An Android phone would have lasted until the search party arrived!
Heh yeah, it'd still be broadcasting a signal of all the phone's personal data.
Apparently not. They got an overly broad patent.
Fuckin Apple.
No, you are supposed to start a flame-war on lkml about how SSD cache is a stupid idea that will never amount to anything. Next hundreds of kernel developers will start develop the code to prove you wrong.
I can't believe it's impossible to view Goatse in Linux!
No, we don't. We have that situation with laptop computers. Huge difference.
I'm not sure I understand your point. NOBODY would have been able to use it without licensing it until now. The way it has already played out, plenty of people (including Apple!) were never affected.
Do these things come with a stun setting?
Uh, no, it's considerably worse to have broad patents. If your patent is valid outside of the market you have gone into, then it's worth much much more than in its current limited state. Thay means way more effort by the Apples of the world to patent generic things and demand licensing.
As for trivial... I have to ask: If the mag-safe connector has been around so long, and the idea is so good everybody wants it, why did it take twenty years to finally turn up?
But in this case it is, they've taken that idea and applied to another kind of appliance, how does that deserve patent protection?
If it didn't, then the company who made the mag-safe fryer would have a ridiculously broad patent.
Microsoft was helping to oppress innocent people by a totalitarian regime to get a chance to sabotage the Free Software movement? Wow. Just wow. This is low. Even for Microsoft.
You're right, this is pretty low for a company who needs successful P.R. to keep printing money. So, Mensa Babe, I have a question for you: When you said "This is low even for Microsoft", how come you landed with all four paws on the assumption was that Bill Gates personally ordered it instead of asking whether or not this story wasn't spun to sell ads?
Lo and behold one of the first people I meet is some little twerp telling me how Apple was going to rule the 3D world like it did desktop publishing...
He was wrong but it was a good bet at the time. Back then you had Apple and Amiga machines which were capable of doing the graphics work. The suggestion that the PC would wipe them both off the map would either result in a laugh or a fart noise. Funny how that played out.
...but Lightwave is still going strong AFAIK.
I'm sorry to tell you, but it's not what it was. They're working on rectifying that, though.
That's not entirely directly related to Apple but he was an Apple user and had the same fucking nasty attitude that we see today...
No, it's not. I knew those Mac zealots back then and right now you're on easy street in comparison. I have no doubt in mind that the guy you met was a jerk, I'm not trying to suggest otherwise, only that in the simple sense he had a point. iPhone users aren't like that. They may love their phones a lot, they may even be ignorant of the other options out there, but they are nowhere near as abrasive as the early/mid-90's Mac fans. I know a LOT of people with iPhones and only one has ever pulled me aside and ever tried to 'convert' me. I can honestly say I've listened to a lot more Android and, believe it or not, webOS zealotry than I have iPhone nonsense.
I'll tell you something else while we're on the topic: I am seeing a rise of Android fanboys acting, in person (not talking about the net), exactly the way you hate, trying to 'convert' people and ptbtbt'ing about Apple. The best part is these people don't know much about the product, instead they're parroting what they read on-line. And you know what that does? It sparks debates.
Fanboyism sucks and hate breeds it. I can't wait until this stupid flamewar subsides.
But somehow Apple's move into the cellphone market turned Apple fans into foaming at the mouth batshit insane cultists.
Apple fans turn up, they babble a lot. Android fans turn up, they babble about how sheeple'ish Apple fans are. Apple fans fight back, pointing out strengths in their choices. Android fans fight back, pointing out the strengths in their choices. Apple gets bad news, Android fans laugh. Android gets bad news, Apple fans laugh louder. Then it escalates from there.
Let's just face facts, we like the side we're on and we like antagonizing the other side. There really is no real substance here outside of that.
Does anyone other than Samsung and Lenovo really care?
Speaking as somebody who owns an iPad, I would love to see something like the Tab (which is pretty nice, actually) light a fire under Apple to try even harder.
Let's get some competition going.
This is why tablets are overpriced.
No, it's not.
It's one way of announcing the product without announcing it. It lets people know it is nearly ready without having a formal announcement where all the specifications are laid down and dissected by the media.
Uh, yeah, because creating a potential backlash would be way better than giving people a firm list of what it's got, how much it it'll be, and when it's out.
Oh, and here's an interesting coincidence: Headlines about Apple that end with a question mark earn lots of ad views on sites like Slashdot and Gizmodo.
Apple is a cult. Android is a religion. Here's the difference:
Apple Sheeple: "I want to be like other Apple users!"
Android Sheeple: "Apple fans are the enemy!"
On a serious note, impersonating any police officer is a BFD! As in, the employee will be facing jail time and the company fined.
Which is exactly why you shouldn't believe this story until there's some actual proof that it really happened.
Don't ever forget that Apple-Hate sells ad views.
You'll make fewer errors if you only jump on the disc when Coily is right behind you.
Even completely free mods for other games, if they impinged on the intellectual property of another company have been taken down through the typical use of cease and desist letters.
Now that it has been posted on Slashdot, it's almost a certainty. If they had laid low it probably wouldn't have been a problem. Now Nintendo knows about it and has to do something.
It's days like this that I miss the fine editing that CmdrTaco used to provide.
Wait, when was this golden era of non-sensationalism on Slashdot?
Sometimes we prefer to hear from someone directly about their experiences. That's partly why the internet has a lot of discussion forums and isn't just made up of one big wikipedia.
Uh, by that logic, you're doing the same thing.
You are correct.
A page hit is a page hit whether you're expressing an negative or positive opinion.
Also correct. Additionally, you are creating more content for people to read. This means more ads served etc.
The wonderful thing about Slashdot is that if you don't want to see Apple stories (which are typically slanted as fanbois fodder, or Apple-hater jerky), block them
Again correct. You'd think the people bitching would do that. Personally, I enjoy bitching about it. At least I can admit it.
Every time you post, you're saying: "Please Slashdot, give me more stories about this topic!"
So, yes, there is. Use your brain to work it out.
A multi-threaded app would process data more quickly. It's a way of getting more processor power out without raising the clock speed any more.