It's a patent based on the services part of knowing where you are. It means they have a patent on offering you a service once they determine your location.
So we have to give up that feature. Whoa unto me.
I don't care to have them know anything about me and where I am, especially Apple (well, and Microsoft).
Patents are anti-competitive, anti-innovative, and anti-capitalism.
Personally, I would prefer no one be able to use it but Apple. I can live with no one knowing my location as it related to services and selling me shit. I won't be buying any Apple products so I'd be safe there. I actually like open products and Apples aren't.
But, getting a patent on such a broad concept rather than on the implementation of it is wrong.
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It's an attempt to water down the meaning and importance of the Occupy Wall Street. These people are out there fighting for something they think is important.
CNN has no clue about what it really means to give up on the content delivery system that provides 75% of video on the web. I can't remember the last time I went to CNN and certainly didn't go there for the purpose of watching any of their videos.
Flash is a workable technology and has proven so for over a decade.
YOU DO NOT LOOSE YOUR WARRANTY UNLESS, your modifications were directly and significantly attributable to the malfunction of the device. This is established law. Jailbreaking is does not violate your warranty. There's even an exemption to the DMCA to allow you to break it to enable other content and providers.
There's an app out there called gingerbreak that you can download and it will do all the work of rooting that device (if it is running gingerbread).
It's not that people don't have the skill, it's that the device doesn't have hardware flexibility to make rooting it worthwhile. Maybe just to modify the/etc/hosts file to rid ourselves of advertisements.
Rooting will probably happen overnight. It is an older version of Android. Amazon stated they realized it would be rooted but asked people not to do it.
It doesn't have a GPS, nor cameras, nor external flash, nor HDMI, nor microphone, and has a limited amount of flash and RAM.
Android altogether has issues with codecs other than h.264.
The point is, that even if they did root it and hack away there's too little to work with as far as the hardware goes.
It is 7" and $200. That's the first problem. If it were 8.9" at $200 then maybe.
It doesn't have a microphone. Lots of people are going to be looking for that, especially since apps are going to be available to take advantage of it. Can't voice search, can't Skype, can't VOIP with apps like SipDroid. Big mistake by Amazon. It doesn't have to be a phone. It just needs a microphone.
It is limited in the amount of storage. Only a fool tries to belittle this limitation. When you install apps not all apps can be moved off to a card, and most apps create data. After a while, especially with such limited storage, they'll fill it up and have issues getting new stuff installed.
Cloud storage is really just a marketing tactic. Hey, the CEO actually thinks it is fair to charge $9.99 for an ebook--heh, they don't even have the expense of print. Movies? No way are you going to store your movies on the cloud and stream those. You'll eat up your bandwidth sooner than later. The cloud will help but it won't be seen by the average person as a major selling point. Most people don't even know what the cloud is or why it has a place, or even if it has a place.
It has only 512mb of RAM. It needs 1gb at a minimum. This limitation is going to be another one of those big things that people scream about.
The device lacks some very basic things we find on phones. No camera. Means no photos, no photos in the cloud, no video, no home videos in the cloud. It also means no video chat.
It also lacks a GPS which is a huge selling point for most tablets. I bought a B&N NookColor first and ended up wiping it in order to put a full version of android on it. That has worked well, but it didn't have a microphone. I tried to get the bluetooth to work, but Skype didn't support bluetooth on Android. There were too many difficulties. Though I have the B&N NookColor still and still use it, I upgraded to a full 10" tablet, that has all of that and more. I also was lucky and bought a $149.99 HP Touchpad.
So, it is a cloud device without a real purpose for the vast majority of people. It has no microphone, limited to 8gb of flash and 512mb of RAM, no gps, no front and no rear camera, and it has no external flash storage.
I can't wait to buy these second hand as people come to reality after their disillusionment wears off.
Please don't attribute to one man what his thousands of employees accomplished. Steve did nothing in this regard. His employees did everything. Give Apple's employees credit here and for nearly all things. Steve was just a figure head with some neat ideas and a philosophy of his own, but he did nearly nothing.
This is a ridiculous patent. It doesn't pass the obviousness test. Did Apple buy off the auditor handling this case? How on earth could a patent like that be granted with such obvious mechanisms. Everyone needs to challenge this and bury Apple in paperwork on this patent.
This law isn't about civil lawsuits. It's about granting private entities police authority. It is the promotion and extension of fascism.
Legislatures need to understand that not all laws need to be passed and that not all even need to be considered. They also need to understand that they are inept at the law governing intellectual property. I'm sayind that they are clueless about intellectual property, copyright, etc. I'm saying that it takes years of experience and special courses covering IP for attorney's to work in that area of law.
Protect IP is bad law and it should never see the pen of the President. He would be a fool to sign it. But hey, he's signed ACTA which is unconstitutional as it restricts Congress from making law and creating treaties with foreign countries. Obama was my choice for President but I would never vote for him knowing this awful stuff he's been doing.
It is not possible to reinvent. That's an oxymoron. They are simply building upon what they and others have developed. Radical technology change, yes, but you can't reinvent anything, especially a compiler.
You also are confusing theft with competition. Many CEOs are on friendly boards. Every board knows the possibility of information crossover that leads to duplicate products. It has happened from the beginning of the concept of business.
And, again, you mistake the time frame and persons behind these companies. Apple and other companies have stolen from each other for years and Jobs is notorious for stealing a quote from Picasso who stole the quote from TS Elliot. The fact remains, stealing ideas and either denying or reducing competitive advantage is the game of business. I see Jobs's reality distortion field active in you. It will decline over the years to come.
There is NO one as arrogant as Steve around to tell the world he didn't like the President's favorite desert during a business meeting with him enough to push the issue thus alienating those around him. Let's be real, that was nasty and showed Steve Jobs has a vision of himself that most other people don't share. He was arrogant, abusive, manipulative, and a cry-baby for a long time before he was fired (for the second time). What he must have learned is to be more Howard Hughes-like in that he only let certain people around him thus insulating his bad demeanor toward others.
This doesn't mean to say that he's a bad manager or can't run a company or make a company profitable. Obviously he can, but it does mean he can't do it outright in front of everyone. He has to insulate himself. His wealthy friends and his fanboi's, all were caught up in him. He was smart and he was in the right place at the right time, but he is no different than any other person--he makes mistakes.
Obama should NEVER make the country more business friendly as Steve Jobs wanted. And to stick kids in school for extremely long periods of time have side affects that go beyond advanced learning.
For all his quirks we'll miss him and mourn him today. We'll also forget him sometime. We'll go on. Steve would never have made a good President. He would have damaged the country. He's too focused on singular things and too easily angered without reasoning it all out. He relied on his ability to condense the complex to make it more simplistic. He would have damaged the country to no end. What Steve needed to know is that you help the people and those people will help the country. You don't make the rich richer.
Apple licenses the interface back then in exchange for several things, one of which was Apple stock, which was skyrocketing (in 1980's terms). But not everything they used did they license, and on top of that they stole many of the employees from Xerox in order to complete projects. So, again, Job's was apparently caught in his own reality distortion field feedback. He was in a loop and couldn't differentiate the beginning from the end. I hate to say it, but really, he was way overboard on this one and I'm sorry he's not here to defend or clarify the rebuke he's receiving from all of us.
Everyone stole from everyone else back then. Hell Jobs and Wozniak stole from the phone company. Bill Gates and Paul Allen stole from Harvard. Everyone stole the basic programming language. Hell, even the concept of programming languages were stolen from someone else.
You can never innovate without taking from others. You can't create something new without considering everything around you.
Google did no more and no less with Android. Apple did no more and no less with their OS, their phones, their music store, their social networking site, their cloud storage, their voice recognition. Apple copied everything.
The big mistake our illustrious distortionist of reality was making is confusing competition with theft.
Android is nothing like iOS except in the application of common concepts predicated on building a device with a small screen with limited input capabilities. These limits drove the solution for one, and for all. I think he was caught up in his own Jobsian distortion field on this one and wasn't willing to think out what he'd actually done in taking from others. And, their iOS5 has taken most of its new feature sets from Android, so what goes around comes around.
ACTA has no basis in law in the US. Though it is a treaty the Whitehouse is treating it as an executive agreement. It is also a violation of the Constitution to have signed it. It restrains Congress from making laws and treaties, which the Constitution explicitly empowers them to do.
The IP Czar has already been caught with her pants down in collusion with the content industry. One needs to find out if her actions are illegal and/or an impropriety. This forces the other nations to comply with US law, but ACTA lets them disregard any part of it. The Whitehouse has enabled itself a lever to wedge the other countries into action, but really has no basis in law nor in the Constitution of the US.
It's all pointless. It's moot. At 550,000 new activations a day that massively puts Ballmer back in his place. The numbers themselves plugs his cock hole.
You act like you are speaking to others that have no idea what the windows phone is about. That has two possible conclusions. Either we have no idea, because it is that bad of a product, or we have, and choose not to buy it because it is that bad. So, Win Mobile 7 is not the kind of product we want, and hence the man preaching is all the worse for what he says. He has no clue what we want and he can't understand why he and his products are being rejected.
Frankly I have no intention of ever paying Microsoft for anything, ever. I find the other products better. It's that simple.
I've used gnome3 for some time. I also used kde for a long time. Every misstep by kde tookk me back to gnome 2. Now the missteps take me no where because canonical seems to have crippled gnome classic and gnome 3 does suck horribly. Unity is insulting and almost degenerative. Offensive might be the best word.
All the pundits need to reevaluate this direction and find something inbetween to promote like gnome 3 with the gnome 2 interface. I could always get rid of the bottom panel an dput AWN, so nothing having one for gnome 3 means nothing to me.
When I say they must have crippled gnome classic they made some very strange configuration changes that makes the dm operate poorly and confusing when prior versions were nothing like it. Check out their implementation and you'll be shocked at how bad it is, when all prior releases were very nice. Is this how Shuttleworth takes out his revenge on all the users giving him bad press?
Most of it stems from people's prejudices. When they should be fighing against criminal activities by government and corporations they fall back into the weaker area of their lives and attack anything different. Some of it stems from their desire to not learn something new. They spent years learning simple things over and over, that to learn something that requires a modicum of thought horrifies them. Some make a living off what they learned, and they just don't want to go back and relearn, they are the sorts that have given up on all things exept what they know well and like, anything different is to be hated. They don't have to know anything about it, it is just that they get to voice it without restraint and that makes them feel good emotionally. They feel this is something they can make a difference in, be an activitist from their basement caves, so to speak. They can't see themselves doing much more than playing games where they get to abuse their cohorts and they try to extend that to a more real aspect of their lives, the web in general. Linux is just big enough to be a real target for them, the unwilling unthinkers.
No I'm not counting Android. Android has 550,000 activations a day. In one year that's roughly 200 million. Ubuntu alone has around 25 million users, not including servers. Redhat has nearly that amount if not more. Again, he's a troll. Kick him back to Mordor.
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Patents most certainly do stifle competition and innovation. No one in their right mind has ever suggested otherwise.
It's a patent based on the services part of knowing where you are. It means they have a patent on offering you a service once they determine your location.
So we have to give up that feature. Whoa unto me.
I don't care to have them know anything about me and where I am, especially Apple (well, and Microsoft).
Patents are anti-competitive, anti-innovative, and anti-capitalism.
Personally, I would prefer no one be able to use it but Apple. I can live with no one knowing my location as it related to services and selling me shit. I won't be buying any Apple products so I'd be safe there. I actually like open products and Apples aren't.
But, getting a patent on such a broad concept rather than on the implementation of it is wrong.
It's an attempt to water down the meaning and importance of the Occupy Wall Street. These people are out there fighting for something they think is important.
CNN has no clue about what it really means to give up on the content delivery system that provides 75% of video on the web. I can't remember the last time I went to CNN and certainly didn't go there for the purpose of watching any of their videos.
Flash is a workable technology and has proven so for over a decade.
Maybe we should have an Occupy CNN.
YOU DO NOT LOOSE YOUR WARRANTY UNLESS, your modifications were directly and significantly attributable to the malfunction of the device. This is established law. Jailbreaking is does not violate your warranty. There's even an exemption to the DMCA to allow you to break it to enable other content and providers.
There's an app out there called gingerbreak that you can download and it will do all the work of rooting that device (if it is running gingerbread).
It's not that people don't have the skill, it's that the device doesn't have hardware flexibility to make rooting it worthwhile. Maybe just to modify the /etc/hosts file to rid ourselves of advertisements.
Rooting will probably happen overnight. It is an older version of Android. Amazon stated they realized it would be rooted but asked people not to do it.
It doesn't have a GPS, nor cameras, nor external flash, nor HDMI, nor microphone, and has a limited amount of flash and RAM.
Android altogether has issues with codecs other than h.264.
The point is, that even if they did root it and hack away there's too little to work with as far as the hardware goes.
It is 7" and $200. That's the first problem. If it were 8.9" at $200 then maybe.
It doesn't have a microphone. Lots of people are going to be looking for that, especially since apps are going to be available to take advantage of it. Can't voice search, can't Skype, can't VOIP with apps like SipDroid. Big mistake by Amazon. It doesn't have to be a phone. It just needs a microphone.
It is limited in the amount of storage. Only a fool tries to belittle this limitation. When you install apps not all apps can be moved off to a card, and most apps create data. After a while, especially with such limited storage, they'll fill it up and have issues getting new stuff installed.
Cloud storage is really just a marketing tactic. Hey, the CEO actually thinks it is fair to charge $9.99 for an ebook--heh, they don't even have the expense of print. Movies? No way are you going to store your movies on the cloud and stream those. You'll eat up your bandwidth sooner than later. The cloud will help but it won't be seen by the average person as a major selling point. Most people don't even know what the cloud is or why it has a place, or even if it has a place.
It has only 512mb of RAM. It needs 1gb at a minimum. This limitation is going to be another one of those big things that people scream about.
The device lacks some very basic things we find on phones. No camera. Means no photos, no photos in the cloud, no video, no home videos in the cloud. It also means no video chat.
It also lacks a GPS which is a huge selling point for most tablets. I bought a B&N NookColor first and ended up wiping it in order to put a full version of android on it. That has worked well, but it didn't have a microphone. I tried to get the bluetooth to work, but Skype didn't support bluetooth on Android. There were too many difficulties. Though I have the B&N NookColor still and still use it, I upgraded to a full 10" tablet, that has all of that and more. I also was lucky and bought a $149.99 HP Touchpad.
So, it is a cloud device without a real purpose for the vast majority of people. It has no microphone, limited to 8gb of flash and 512mb of RAM, no gps, no front and no rear camera, and it has no external flash storage.
I can't wait to buy these second hand as people come to reality after their disillusionment wears off.
At more than $99 it's theft regardless of your views on capitalism.
At $99 per I am willing to buy several. Sure wish they'd trigger the Honeycomb update on the one I have. At $300 it was theft.
Adobe is being stupid. I use flash on mobile every day, most of the day. Very stupid move Adobe.
Please don't attribute to one man what his thousands of employees accomplished. Steve did nothing in this regard. His employees did everything. Give Apple's employees credit here and for nearly all things. Steve was just a figure head with some neat ideas and a philosophy of his own, but he did nearly nothing.
This is a ridiculous patent. It doesn't pass the obviousness test. Did Apple buy off the auditor handling this case? How on earth could a patent like that be granted with such obvious mechanisms. Everyone needs to challenge this and bury Apple in paperwork on this patent.
This law isn't about civil lawsuits. It's about granting private entities police authority. It is the promotion and extension of fascism.
Legislatures need to understand that not all laws need to be passed and that not all even need to be considered. They also need to understand that they are inept at the law governing intellectual property. I'm sayind that they are clueless about intellectual property, copyright, etc. I'm saying that it takes years of experience and special courses covering IP for attorney's to work in that area of law.
Protect IP is bad law and it should never see the pen of the President. He would be a fool to sign it. But hey, he's signed ACTA which is unconstitutional as it restricts Congress from making law and creating treaties with foreign countries. Obama was my choice for President but I would never vote for him knowing this awful stuff he's been doing.
Bogus response. Compilers are on programmer's computers and they are used in production and suffer the same potential as you describe.
It is not possible to reinvent. That's an oxymoron. They are simply building upon what they and others have developed. Radical technology change, yes, but you can't reinvent anything, especially a compiler.
You also are confusing theft with competition. Many CEOs are on friendly boards. Every board knows the possibility of information crossover that leads to duplicate products. It has happened from the beginning of the concept of business.
And, again, you mistake the time frame and persons behind these companies. Apple and other companies have stolen from each other for years and Jobs is notorious for stealing a quote from Picasso who stole the quote from TS Elliot. The fact remains, stealing ideas and either denying or reducing competitive advantage is the game of business. I see Jobs's reality distortion field active in you. It will decline over the years to come.
There is NO one as arrogant as Steve around to tell the world he didn't like the President's favorite desert during a business meeting with him enough to push the issue thus alienating those around him. Let's be real, that was nasty and showed Steve Jobs has a vision of himself that most other people don't share. He was arrogant, abusive, manipulative, and a cry-baby for a long time before he was fired (for the second time). What he must have learned is to be more Howard Hughes-like in that he only let certain people around him thus insulating his bad demeanor toward others.
This doesn't mean to say that he's a bad manager or can't run a company or make a company profitable. Obviously he can, but it does mean he can't do it outright in front of everyone. He has to insulate himself. His wealthy friends and his fanboi's, all were caught up in him. He was smart and he was in the right place at the right time, but he is no different than any other person--he makes mistakes.
Obama should NEVER make the country more business friendly as Steve Jobs wanted. And to stick kids in school for extremely long periods of time have side affects that go beyond advanced learning.
For all his quirks we'll miss him and mourn him today. We'll also forget him sometime. We'll go on. Steve would never have made a good President. He would have damaged the country. He's too focused on singular things and too easily angered without reasoning it all out. He relied on his ability to condense the complex to make it more simplistic. He would have damaged the country to no end. What Steve needed to know is that you help the people and those people will help the country. You don't make the rich richer.
Apple licenses the interface back then in exchange for several things, one of which was Apple stock, which was skyrocketing (in 1980's terms). But not everything they used did they license, and on top of that they stole many of the employees from Xerox in order to complete projects. So, again, Job's was apparently caught in his own reality distortion field feedback. He was in a loop and couldn't differentiate the beginning from the end. I hate to say it, but really, he was way overboard on this one and I'm sorry he's not here to defend or clarify the rebuke he's receiving from all of us.
Everyone stole from everyone else back then. Hell Jobs and Wozniak stole from the phone company. Bill Gates and Paul Allen stole from Harvard. Everyone stole the basic programming language. Hell, even the concept of programming languages were stolen from someone else.
You can never innovate without taking from others. You can't create something new without considering everything around you.
Google did no more and no less with Android. Apple did no more and no less with their OS, their phones, their music store, their social networking site, their cloud storage, their voice recognition. Apple copied everything.
The big mistake our illustrious distortionist of reality was making is confusing competition with theft.
Android is nothing like iOS except in the application of common concepts predicated on building a device with a small screen with limited input capabilities. These limits drove the solution for one, and for all. I think he was caught up in his own Jobsian distortion field on this one and wasn't willing to think out what he'd actually done in taking from others. And, their iOS5 has taken most of its new feature sets from Android, so what goes around comes around.
ACTA has no basis in law in the US. Though it is a treaty the Whitehouse is treating it as an executive agreement. It is also a violation of the Constitution to have signed it. It restrains Congress from making laws and treaties, which the Constitution explicitly empowers them to do.
The IP Czar has already been caught with her pants down in collusion with the content industry. One needs to find out if her actions are illegal and/or an impropriety. This forces the other nations to comply with US law, but ACTA lets them disregard any part of it. The Whitehouse has enabled itself a lever to wedge the other countries into action, but really has no basis in law nor in the Constitution of the US.
It's all pointless. It's moot. At 550,000 new activations a day that massively puts Ballmer back in his place. The numbers themselves plugs his cock hole.
You act like you are speaking to others that have no idea what the windows phone is about. That has two possible conclusions. Either we have no idea, because it is that bad of a product, or we have, and choose not to buy it because it is that bad. So, Win Mobile 7 is not the kind of product we want, and hence the man preaching is all the worse for what he says. He has no clue what we want and he can't understand why he and his products are being rejected.
Frankly I have no intention of ever paying Microsoft for anything, ever. I find the other products better. It's that simple.
I've used gnome3 for some time. I also used kde for a long time. Every misstep by kde tookk me back to gnome 2. Now the missteps take me no where because canonical seems to have crippled gnome classic and gnome 3 does suck horribly. Unity is insulting and almost degenerative. Offensive might be the best word.
All the pundits need to reevaluate this direction and find something inbetween to promote like gnome 3 with the gnome 2 interface. I could always get rid of the bottom panel an dput AWN, so nothing having one for gnome 3 means nothing to me.
When I say they must have crippled gnome classic they made some very strange configuration changes that makes the dm operate poorly and confusing when prior versions were nothing like it. Check out their implementation and you'll be shocked at how bad it is, when all prior releases were very nice. Is this how Shuttleworth takes out his revenge on all the users giving him bad press?
Most of it stems from people's prejudices. When they should be fighing against criminal activities by government and corporations they fall back into the weaker area of their lives and attack anything different. Some of it stems from their desire to not learn something new. They spent years learning simple things over and over, that to learn something that requires a modicum of thought horrifies them. Some make a living off what they learned, and they just don't want to go back and relearn, they are the sorts that have given up on all things exept what they know well and like, anything different is to be hated. They don't have to know anything about it, it is just that they get to voice it without restraint and that makes them feel good emotionally. They feel this is something they can make a difference in, be an activitist from their basement caves, so to speak. They can't see themselves doing much more than playing games where they get to abuse their cohorts and they try to extend that to a more real aspect of their lives, the web in general. Linux is just big enough to be a real target for them, the unwilling unthinkers.
No I'm not counting Android. Android has 550,000 activations a day. In one year that's roughly 200 million. Ubuntu alone has around 25 million users, not including servers. Redhat has nearly that amount if not more. Again, he's a troll. Kick him back to Mordor.