A phone may not reveal a human's address or, through inaction, allow a human being to be spammed. A phone must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Umm.. if a human is intentionally telling the phone to do it, why should it refuse?
Wrong. They're constantly coming up with useless gimmicks to justify a console with no 3rd party games and 1st party games that are all basically the same.
Aren't we supposed to stop calling them gimmicks when the rest of the industry starts standardizing on them?
A lot of us are tired of rehashes, and Nintendo is the worst offender...or maybe tied with Capcom for that crown.
How is Nintendo the worst offender? Are you seriously going to put New Mario Brothers up against Super Mario Galaxy and say that's a bigger offense than the three thousand "you're a soldier running around with a gun to watch cut-scenes" games out on the market today?
Obviously you've never heard of WinAmp or the Diamond Rio MP3 player, both of which debuted about half a decade before the first iPod. Apple didn't innovate shit, they copied other people's designs then told you, 'hey, look at this awesome new thing we came up with!' and you got down on your knees like a good little sucker.
The Diamond Rio had a whopping 64 megabytes of storage that, if you felt like dropping the money on it, could be expanded to 128. At best that got you two hours of music. The Nomad (I'm assuming you meant the Nomad and not an MP3 player for Windows....) had more storage than the iPod, but it was physically larger, nearly the size of a portable CD player. Both of those players also required a very slow and clumsy parallel port connection to sync the music and neither came with rechargeable batteries. Let's not forget that iTunes came along and.. well you know the history, there.
They most certainly did innovate. Commercials of silohuetted people dancing on the screen wouldn't account for that many sales over the years.
I'm not even going to dignify that ignorant bullshit with a response (beyond calling it out as ignorant bullshit, of course).
I'm still holding on to an ancient Dell, simply because nobody builds a replacement in 2012. After 5 years I demand at least equal resolution, and aghast improving on the 1920x1200 WUXGA screen is not an option.
The word 'invent' doesn't necessarily apply here, either.
I've heard this bullshit repeated so many times, that I am very hesitant to believe you when you say that you have never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone.
It makes perfect sense to me. You're hanging out in places where they babble and hearing what you want to hear. Two of the three examples you gave only really mean "This is finally accessible to me". The word 'invent' just magically appeared in your head... which is exactly what I'm talking about. Heh.
The reality distortion field is what causes Apple fanboys to think that Apple invented the mouse.
Wow I've never actually heard this. I've never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone or the mp3 player, either. I sometimes think people think they heard the word 'invent' when the word used was 'innovate'.
How can it show the obviousness of an idea if the technology cannot even fit within the prop's casing without lots of work needed to attain that goal?
If I write a short story that involves a cell phone so small that it can be embedded in one's fingernail, please explain how that detracts from the people who come up with processors, batteries, antennae, and casings that can make something so small a reality.
Seriously, 2001 predates put current notion of an LCD by so many years that this whole discussion has been labeled a form of birth control.
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Why? Are you thinking that a technology like this would instantly fit within whatever an Art Director would design as a casing intended to be readable to a television audience?
I really do wonder if anybody who thinks what they see on TV can invalidate a patent has ever seen what goes into making a show. Here's a hint: Nobody on 2001 held a prop that displayed anything like a an LCD screen does.
Why? Are you thinking that a technology like this would instantly fit within whatever an Art Director would design as a casing intended to be readable to a television audience?
Isn't the implocation that in this case there's a lot less time between the transaction getting made and that data being committed to non-volitile memory?
In the case of Turing, if his death was indeed by accidental cyanide poisoning within a home laboratory as a result of careless lab procedure, then it is indeed qualified as Darwin Award worthy.
No, it doesn't, not automatically. For that to work he'd have to have died just an hour after giving a big speech on cyanide gas safety.
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A phone may not reveal a human's address or, through inaction, allow a human being to be spammed.
A phone must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Umm.. if a human is intentionally telling the phone to do it, why should it refuse?
Wrong. They're constantly coming up with useless gimmicks to justify a console with no 3rd party games and 1st party games that are all basically the same.
Aren't we supposed to stop calling them gimmicks when the rest of the industry starts standardizing on them?
A lot of us are tired of rehashes, and Nintendo is the worst offender...or maybe tied with Capcom for that crown.
How is Nintendo the worst offender? Are you seriously going to put New Mario Brothers up against Super Mario Galaxy and say that's a bigger offense than the three thousand "you're a soldier running around with a gun to watch cut-scenes" games out on the market today?
Or you can just play an Old Super Mario, because they're basically the same thing.
No, they're not.
Obviously you've never heard of WinAmp or the Diamond Rio MP3 player, both of which debuted about half a decade before the first iPod. Apple didn't innovate shit, they copied other people's designs then told you, 'hey, look at this awesome new thing we came up with!' and you got down on your knees like a good little sucker.
The Diamond Rio had a whopping 64 megabytes of storage that, if you felt like dropping the money on it, could be expanded to 128. At best that got you two hours of music. The Nomad (I'm assuming you meant the Nomad and not an MP3 player for Windows....) had more storage than the iPod, but it was physically larger, nearly the size of a portable CD player. Both of those players also required a very slow and clumsy parallel port connection to sync the music and neither came with rechargeable batteries. Let's not forget that iTunes came along and.. well you know the history, there.
They most certainly did innovate. Commercials of silohuetted people dancing on the screen wouldn't account for that many sales over the years.
I'm not even going to dignify that ignorant bullshit with a response (beyond calling it out as ignorant bullshit, of course).
I do agree with this part.
I'm still holding on to an ancient Dell, simply because nobody builds a replacement in 2012. After 5 years I demand at least equal resolution, and aghast improving on the 1920x1200 WUXGA screen is not an option.
Have you been to Apple's website lately?
"Jobs has put the Internet in my pocket"
That doesn't mean 'invented the smart phone'.
"We have apps on the phone thanks to Apple"
The word 'invent' doesn't necessarily apply here, either.
I've heard this bullshit repeated so many times, that I am very hesitant to believe you when you say that you have never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone.
It makes perfect sense to me. You're hanging out in places where they babble and hearing what you want to hear. Two of the three examples you gave only really mean "This is finally accessible to me". The word 'invent' just magically appeared in your head... which is exactly what I'm talking about. Heh.
What fool thinks that any computer system is immune to one sort of malware or another?
Linux zealots.
The reality distortion field is what causes Apple fanboys to think that Apple invented the mouse.
Wow I've never actually heard this. I've never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone or the mp3 player, either. I sometimes think people think they heard the word 'invent' when the word used was 'innovate'.
I think AC's point is that you can patent the technology that makes the device work, but you can't patent the user interface.
Right, it still doesn't make sense. Somebody designing a prop for a movie isn't actually designing a product. It only serves as an inspiration.
Great, I've only waited a good chunk of a year for it.
It amazes me that this isn't a bigger issue for the Android base.
Still no ICS on my Galaxy Tab. I don't have any plans to buy any more Android devices.
Hahaha! Its funny cos I hate other products!
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How can it show the obviousness of an idea if the technology cannot even fit within the prop's casing without lots of work needed to attain that goal?
If I write a short story that involves a cell phone so small that it can be embedded in one's fingernail, please explain how that detracts from the people who come up with processors, batteries, antennae, and casings that can make something so small a reality.
Seriously, 2001 predates put current notion of an LCD by so many years that this whole discussion has been labeled a form of birth control.
If you mean that I haven't worked within an unreleased product yet... you're right. Praise be unto ye for that revelation.
I apologize, accidentally clicked submit instead of preview. Here's the whole message:
Why? Are you thinking that a technology like this would instantly fit within whatever an Art Director would design as a casing intended to be readable to a television audience?
I really do wonder if anybody who thinks what they see on TV can invalidate a patent has ever seen what goes into making a show. Here's a hint: Nobody on 2001 held a prop that displayed anything like a an LCD screen does.
Why? Are you thinking that a technology like this would instantly fit within whatever an Art Director would design as a casing intended to be readable to a television audience?
I really do wonder if anyb
Can films be used as prior art to invalidate patents?
So if somebody invented the matter replicator right now you wouldn't think they'd deserve a patent on it?
Isn't the implocation that in this case there's a lot less time between the transaction getting made and that data being committed to non-volitile memory?
16:10 and 16:9 are not really useful for anything except watching movies.
Myth. People keep forgetting we work in a window'd environment.
In the case of Turing, if his death was indeed by accidental cyanide poisoning within a home laboratory as a result of careless lab procedure, then it is indeed qualified as Darwin Award worthy.
No, it doesn't, not automatically. For that to work he'd have to have died just an hour after giving a big speech on cyanide gas safety.
That's not what a Darwin Award is.
Which is easier to predict: Tomorrow's exact temperature or generally how warm the weather will be in August?
Cali's weather is pretty moderate. The summers there are much nicer than virtually everywhere else in the US.
I could ask you that. When the prices go up, it's O's fault. But when they go down....