Hey, I just applied for a patent for using THREE displays!!!
NOW THAT'S INNOVATION !!!
Trying different approaches that yield different pros and cons... yes, that it is exactly what innovation is. Thanks for explaining how patents actually do spur innovation, even though that was completely unintentional.
I actually did read that patent and I am not sure how "patent on rounded rectangles" is not a decent summary. I even looked at the diagrams.
Please elaborate on what you think a simple summary of the pantent should include.
Seeing as how Apple doesn't actually have a patent on rounded rectangles I'm going to venture a guess that you ran across a story with a headline that says something like "Apple claims rounded rectangles!" and skimmed whatever they linked to, nodded your head, and went 'yup yup yup!' If I'm right, what you saw was a design patent that included a number of details about the particular non-functional shape of the device. Apple didn't sue Samsung because the Tab has rounded corners. They sued because Samsung copied twenty five details of the iPad, rounded-corners being one of them. It's a lawsuit over the sum of its parts.
The big difference is he has probably read the patents, but that isn't a prerequisite for discussion around here. You can tell by the way everybody here thinks Apple has a patent on rounded rectangles. If he spoke up, he'd be chased out of here by a bunch of torches and pitchforks, plus a guy shouting 'lightning bolt!'
What a fucking lie. If we look at human history, it's obvious that Mankind is a warrior race.
No, it isn't obvious at all Notice, for example, we're not all wearing goatees, swords, and radiation suits.
Seriously, next time you head into the office, look around at the people around you. Try to picture Ted from Accounting slashing the throat of his superior to become your boss.
So you are angry because people care enough to call 911 ?
He's angry because poo-poo'ing something routinely gets you the word "insightful" next to your comment and it didn't occur to him before the mad rush to hit the 'post' button that a more solid complaint would be about privacy/tracking.
This is what the Slashdot moderation system buys you.
And exactly how is the rest of society supposed to benefit from that research if they, like, you know, are PREVENTED FROM USING IT ???
By licensing it. It's fun to poo-poo patents and all, but at the end of the day, it costs a lot more to create than it does to copy. This has to be addressed if you're going to push the idea of abolishing patents, especially in this e-world we live in now.
On last thing there is no "sent from my iPhone/HTC/Samsung" defaulted in my email sigs like a pompous fuck. (Score:3)
Pompous? Really? I always thought that just meant: "Please excuse my brevity and all the typos." Guess I better update my hate definitions accordingly.
I realize this is anecdotal, but every Android malware story I've seen also mentioned the Marketplace is where they get it. I doubt users 'trust' it so much as they hope there is safety in numbers.
Where they failed is that they don't allow other stores/repositories in spite of the fact that the FOSS world has been living with multiple trusted repositories for many, many years now.
After all, with outside-the-box thinking, we can proactively re-prioritize synergies to get cloud-based enterprise solutions that go viral in mobile social media.
They bought what they thought were the world-wide rights to the trademark. What Apple did that you really should be bitching about is they created a dummy corp and lied to Proview about what the trademark was for. "Oh well we're just a piddly lil company that needs that acronymn, it's hardly worth anything but if you'd like to part with it..."
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Is that your final answer?
Hey, I just applied for a patent for using THREE displays!!!
NOW THAT'S INNOVATION !!!
Trying different approaches that yield different pros and cons... yes, that it is exactly what innovation is. Thanks for explaining how patents actually do spur innovation, even though that was completely unintentional.
As a matter of interest, if you aren't typing with your brain, what are you typing with? Your liver? Your kidneys?
Your fingers.
No, you don't sound as smart as you thought you would.
Serious question: How do they get caught on Android?
I actually did read that patent and I am not sure how "patent on rounded rectangles" is not a decent summary. I even looked at the diagrams.
Please elaborate on what you think a simple summary of the pantent should include.
Seeing as how Apple doesn't actually have a patent on rounded rectangles I'm going to venture a guess that you ran across a story with a headline that says something like "Apple claims rounded rectangles!" and skimmed whatever they linked to, nodded your head, and went 'yup yup yup!' If I'm right, what you saw was a design patent that included a number of details about the particular non-functional shape of the device. Apple didn't sue Samsung because the Tab has rounded corners. They sued because Samsung copied twenty five details of the iPad, rounded-corners being one of them. It's a lawsuit over the sum of its parts.
You were mislead by a click-hungry site.
The big difference is he has probably read the patents, but that isn't a prerequisite for discussion around here. You can tell by the way everybody here thinks Apple has a patent on rounded rectangles. If he spoke up, he'd be chased out of here by a bunch of torches and pitchforks, plus a guy shouting 'lightning bolt!'
What a fucking lie. If we look at human history, it's obvious that Mankind is a warrior race.
No, it isn't obvious at all Notice, for example, we're not all wearing goatees, swords, and radiation suits.
Seriously, next time you head into the office, look around at the people around you. Try to picture Ted from Accounting slashing the throat of his superior to become your boss.
Don't you think you're generalizing? Not everything has to be so absolute!
So you are angry because people care enough to call 911 ?
He's angry because poo-poo'ing something routinely gets you the word "insightful" next to your comment and it didn't occur to him before the mad rush to hit the 'post' button that a more solid complaint would be about privacy/tracking.
This is what the Slashdot moderation system buys you.
The only
people it will save are those who crash with nobody else around.
I've never been to Europe but I have trouble imagining it looks like Coruscant.
3ms? He said friend, not coworker!
That's what she said!
Algebra? That sounds Arabic. Must be a terrorist training camp. Shut it down!
I heard they were working on weapons of math destruction!
Don't worry, you're in no imminent danger of female hands working your stick shift.
And exactly how is the rest of society supposed to benefit from that research if they, like, you know, are PREVENTED FROM USING IT ???
By licensing it. It's fun to poo-poo patents and all, but at the end of the day, it costs a lot more to create than it does to copy. This has to be addressed if you're going to push the idea of abolishing patents, especially in this e-world we live in now.
On last thing there is no "sent from my iPhone/HTC/Samsung" defaulted in my email sigs like a pompous fuck. (Score:3)
Pompous? Really? I always thought that just meant: "Please excuse my brevity and all the typos." Guess I better update my hate definitions accordingly.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/15/183209/more-malware-infected-apps-found-in-android-market
I realize this is anecdotal, but every Android malware story I've seen also mentioned the Marketplace is where they get it. I doubt users 'trust' it so much as they hope there is safety in numbers.
What I'm describing would, for example, apply to the original Super Mario Brothers.
Where they failed is that they don't allow other stores/repositories in spite of the fact that the FOSS world has been living with multiple trusted repositories for many, many years now.
Heh. It's just Android that hasn't.
How about games like Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden (excluding 3), and other more Timing based games where a small timing mistake is a nice big game over.
a. Humans aren't that fast.
b. A lot of the button pushes people do are a chain of reflex actions and not a direct 1:1 response to what happens on the screen.
It works better than you might expect.
Okay, so Like and Want... are we going to get "Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"?
Obama? Is that you? You summed up every loser on this site.
Rush? Is that you? You summed up every dittohead who thinks they understand the topic they have an opinion on.
After all, with outside-the-box thinking, we can proactively re-prioritize synergies to get cloud-based enterprise solutions that go viral in mobile social media.
Bingo, sir!
Except... that's not what happened.
They bought what they thought were the world-wide rights to the trademark. What Apple did that you really should be bitching about is they created a dummy corp and lied to Proview about what the trademark was for. "Oh well we're just a piddly lil company that needs that acronymn, it's hardly worth anything but if you'd like to part with it..."
Actually... Apple paid for the name in good faith.