Result, pretty much what every tablet is. Or a PADD...
And.. here's where your argument falls apart. There are no PADD designs that are confusable for an iPad. They all look like... wait for it... a prop from Star Trek.
Also, I can do magic. If I hold a Galaxy Tab in the perspective it is designed to be used in, it suddenly doesn't look like an iPad. Magic!
I've accidentally reached for my Tab when intending to reach for my iPad. People I work with have asked me what I put on my iPad to make it look 'cooler', not realizing I was holding the Galaxy Tab. (I think the people I work with ache for Android's most sophisticated home screen.) This has never happened with my HP TouchPad.
You're confusing "Meets a small handful of broad requirements" with "one can be confused for another." Samsung copied Apple, the other competition has not, it is *very* obvious.
If you really want to see what that would look like, go to Best Buy, then go one aisle over from the Apple display. What you'll find is thirty other tablets that don't look like an iPad. They even pass the 'ten foot' test.
I have a cable that plugs from the iPhone to the HDMI port on my TV. I have another cable, it's similar, that does an RCA-like connection to the TV/stereo. The short version is your iDevices have extra output options that their cable has pinouts for.
Apple apologists will mod me down but screw it. This is completely asinine. A very tiny minority of of the install base ever uses those features. Miniscule. Infinitesimal. The next thing to non-existent.
A very tiny minority of iPod owners dock their device and send its output somewhere?
I really think you should reconsider that philosophy. You're only thinking of 'official channels'. There's no reason that boss of yours wouldn't tell stories about you to his buddies over a round of beers.
The law may restrict what can be said of a former employee, but it does not guarantee your bridges are fireproof.
This entire stupid fucking argument is why Slashdot is becoming less and less the place for me to get my tech news and discussion.
That and a bunch of people using their mod-points to fight Smartphone OS Flame Wars. I miss the days when I enjoyed coming in here wanting to contribute positively to the site.
I really wish Slashdot would stop deputizing random people who think mod points are there to express their opinion.
My memory on this is fuzzy.... but wasn't there a bit that said the farther in the future you go, the more accurate the prediction? For example, you couldn't predict that a group of soldiers would do something horrific next month, but you could predict that a year from now hostilities would begin... the same ones partially caused by previously mentioned incident.
There are entire industries that are dunked into the toilet, many of the employees of whom live in tiny huts/dorms with hardly more than the clothes on their backs, why should your industry benefit at the expense of all others?
We can't have this conversation yet until you answer the question I originally posed: What exactly is better about your model?
People can send money to these 'creative' charities if they want to, who then have an obligation to spend the money on creative endeavors, and of course a world where personal income is capped at some reasonable level.....
C) that people should be rewarded from ideas, instead of the labor time they spent in implementing ideas..
What exactly is better about this model? Now the little guy still doesn't get rewarded and the entire content industry would get dunked into the toilet, taking lots of employed people with it. What is the problem you're trying to solve and why would it be better than just shortening the length of copyright?
The composer should have been paid for the of work he performed, as the function of the investment it takes to perform the work and value, not for how useful the work ended up being.
Why? His unique contribution helped bring in a good deal of money, so much so that they enter into agreements that basically equate to profit sharing. Your approach would just mean the big nasty corp gets all the dollars.
Likewise I have a hard time developing devices without running afoul of someone's patent...
This really is a different topic from patents and, as such, a separate discussion. I would like to point out, though, that it's implied that the people you're accusing of sitting fat and lazy off your work did that work before you got to it. You're being encouraged to either license their work or try another approach. That means rewarding the inventor who sunk the time into it (like you do for a living) or developing the technology even further by trying other approaches. That actually is how the patent system is supposed to work and I'm willing to bet that's helping the company you work for out. Getting back on topic, if your complaint about their patent is that it's overly broad, then we're back to the problem not being with the system, but how its enforced. That is a legitimate complaint, but it takes a different approach to get something done about it.
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Would you trust a convicted monopolist with your keys?
As opposed to their competition? Uh.. yeah.
Result, pretty much what every tablet is. Or a PADD...
And.. here's where your argument falls apart. There are no PADD designs that are confusable for an iPad. They all look like... wait for it... a prop from Star Trek.
Also, I can do magic. If I hold a Galaxy Tab in the perspective it is designed to be used in, it suddenly doesn't look like an iPad. Magic!
I've accidentally reached for my Tab when intending to reach for my iPad. People I work with have asked me what I put on my iPad to make it look 'cooler', not realizing I was holding the Galaxy Tab. (I think the people I work with ache for Android's most sophisticated home screen.) This has never happened with my HP TouchPad.
You're confusing "Meets a small handful of broad requirements" with "one can be confused for another." Samsung copied Apple, the other competition has not, it is *very* obvious.
You can see a bunch of postage-stamp sized thumbnails of them.
Check out these not-iPads: http://tablets-planet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Best-Buy-Tablet-Central-in-store-display.jpg
Oh, hey, here's more: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=best+buy+tablet+section&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=BvUOUOK6IaKMiAKsuYGQBA&biw=1334&bih=848&sei=CPUOULanJ4WXiAKMwIHgCQ
Follow instructions next time.
If you really want to see what that would look like, go to Best Buy, then go one aisle over from the Apple display. What you'll find is thirty other tablets that don't look like an iPad. They even pass the 'ten foot' test.
I have a cable that plugs from the iPhone to the HDMI port on my TV. I have another cable, it's similar, that does an RCA-like connection to the TV/stereo. The short version is your iDevices have extra output options that their cable has pinouts for.
Apple apologists will mod me down but screw it. This is completely asinine. A very tiny minority of of the install base ever uses those features. Miniscule. Infinitesimal. The next thing to non-existent.
A very tiny minority of iPod owners dock their device and send its output somewhere?
Heh.
...and clearly it all converts to USB.
No, data connection and power convert to USB, everything else goes unused until a different peripheral is attached. \
Fun Fact: The Galaxy Tab uses a similar cable that Apple does.
Take Portals for example. It's an extremely fulfilling game with a gun, that doesn't kill anyone.
Small nitpick: I doubt I'm the only one that has fun picking up turrets, using them as a shield, and tricking his buddies into shooting him up.
You really need to get out of your mother's basement more often and find out by personal experience why there are two sexes.
Only two? Pffft. You obviously haven't seen my browsing history.
I really think you should reconsider that philosophy. You're only thinking of 'official channels'. There's no reason that boss of yours wouldn't tell stories about you to his buddies over a round of beers.
The law may restrict what can be said of a former employee, but it does not guarantee your bridges are fireproof.
That's because you rely on digital zoom.
This entire stupid fucking argument is why Slashdot is becoming less and less the place for me to get my tech news and discussion.
That and a bunch of people using their mod-points to fight Smartphone OS Flame Wars. I miss the days when I enjoyed coming in here wanting to contribute positively to the site.
I really wish Slashdot would stop deputizing random people who think mod points are there to express their opinion.
Troll? What Windows 95 era computer with Linux is going to become a powerful workstation.
What, powerful text editing?
*who's :)
... posted the Slashdotter on a Saturday.
I have more than one browser installed. This is precisely one of the reasons why.
1. don't you have enough channels already in the US that 26 (potentially mediocre) channels get pulled
Do you watch channels or TV shows?
If Apple fans are so annoying, why are you trying to bait them? They're just going to talk more.
Hmmm... okay. So let me ask you this: If your way suddenly happened overnight, what all do you think we would lose?
My memory on this is fuzzy.... but wasn't there a bit that said the farther in the future you go, the more accurate the prediction? For example, you couldn't predict that a group of soldiers would do something horrific next month, but you could predict that a year from now hostilities would begin... the same ones partially caused by previously mentioned incident.
I hope I'm remebering the correct story...
What's that say?
Oh, I give up.
There are entire industries that are dunked into the toilet, many of the employees of whom live in tiny huts/dorms with hardly more than the clothes on their backs, why should your industry benefit at the expense of all others?
We can't have this conversation yet until you answer the question I originally posed: What exactly is better about your model?
People can send money to these 'creative' charities if they want to, who then have an obligation to spend the money on creative endeavors, and of course a world where personal income is capped at some reasonable level.. ...
C) that people should be rewarded from ideas, instead of the labor time they spent in implementing ideas. .
What exactly is better about this model? Now the little guy still doesn't get rewarded and the entire content industry would get dunked into the toilet, taking lots of employed people with it. What is the problem you're trying to solve and why would it be better than just shortening the length of copyright?
The composer should have been paid for the of work he performed, as the function of the investment it takes to perform the work and value, not for how useful the work ended up being.
Why? His unique contribution helped bring in a good deal of money, so much so that they enter into agreements that basically equate to profit sharing. Your approach would just mean the big nasty corp gets all the dollars.
Likewise I have a hard time developing devices without running afoul of someone's patent...
This really is a different topic from patents and, as such, a separate discussion. I would like to point out, though, that it's implied that the people you're accusing of sitting fat and lazy off your work did that work before you got to it. You're being encouraged to either license their work or try another approach. That means rewarding the inventor who sunk the time into it (like you do for a living) or developing the technology even further by trying other approaches. That actually is how the patent system is supposed to work and I'm willing to bet that's helping the company you work for out. Getting back on topic, if your complaint about their patent is that it's overly broad, then we're back to the problem not being with the system, but how its enforced. That is a legitimate complaint, but it takes a different approach to get something done about it.