According to TFA it might run Win 32 apps under an emulator of some sort, but no-one is saying yet. Also that will be slow.
They will sell them to the 90% of people who do light to moderate tasks and want a 2 day battery.
No they won't, those people already own an iPad or an Android device, or they remember the last time Microsoft tried this and then abandoned their devices.
I was wondering why this would be different from the Surface RT, and after reading TFA I still don't know.
Also, who are they going to sell these to? The people who bought Surface RT won't want to be fooled again (presumably) and everyone else already has an iPad or some sort of Android tablet, or maybe a Microsoft Surface device which runs x86 and so has access to whatever Windows software the user might need.
This looks like all the other Microsoft "new market" type efforts. Doomed to failure and then irrelevance, then death.
When Firewire was competing with USB to be the new standard connector, I was told by my Apple using friend that Firewire would win because it was faster, also "better" although he could not really quantify the "better" bit.
I assumed that USB would kill firewire stone dead because it was cheaper, and I've been right so far.
First impressions:
There is a typo on the homepage. (Turn you TV into a content filled home theatre system enjoying thousands of...). Seriously?
It won't tell me how much the thing costs until I enter my email address, which makes me suspicious. Also I need to act fast, as the 40% discount won't last long, which just sounds like one of those late night shopping channel hucksters.
Apart from that, it looks like any one of hundreds of cheap Chinese Kodi boxes I can buy from Aliexpress or Banggood.
I actually built myself something similar for about $60 using an old Atom powered Acer box I bought second hand. It runs LibreElec and works pretty well.
Replaceable battery? Rugged/IP68? SD card slot? Headphone jack? You know.. things that actually matter?
Also:
Google's new Pixel 2s manage to outpace similarly configured smartphones in certain benchmarks by significant margins (Basemark, PCMark and 3DMark).
Why would I care? Any mid-price Android phone works fine in 2017.
They also boot dramatically faster than any other Android handset on the market, in as little as 10 seconds
I can't remember the last time I restarted my phone. If it takes 60 seconds twice a year why would I care?
Also, that's a pretty ugly phone. Also it costs way too much.
The relevant aspect of the troll metaphor is trying to charge people for something you don't own...
No, I think you've misunderstood what a patent troll is. Here's a definition.
Ownership or not is not the point:
Patent trolls often do not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question. However, some entities which do not practice their asserted patent may not be considered "patent trolls" when they license their patented technologies on reasonable terms in advance.
Did they offer to license the tech to Apple? TFA does not say.
Some call VirnetX a patent troll[1][2] because they expanded their Patent Portfolio beyond the original four Internet Security Patents to include more than 100 related patents, thus securing their position as a leader in mobile security technology, and based on the fact that the majority of their employees are lawyers and they have yet to commercialize any of their patents in commercial products.
So I guess it depends on your definition of Troll really.
I'm happy to call any company that produces nothing a patent troll, but in this case there might be a defense:
Emails from Apple's engineering staff indicated that they knew they were violating various patents...
Which fits your point well, and is also why I have no sympathy for Apple.
Indeed VirnetX would appear to be a patent troll, and will probably be first against a wall when the revolution comes, but it's a bit hard to have sympathy for Apple.
Live by the sword is the phrase that comes to mind.
Foyle's War sounds really good, I wonder why I've never heard of it.
It is probably not available here, so I will have to pirate it if I want to watch it.
Are you a communist?
Longing for the days when shareholder value was not being extracted from each worker in an efficient way!
You're probably one of those people who kneels during the national anthem too!
My ISP supplied email was hosted by Yahoo!.
After the breach they forced a password change and bought the hosting back in house.
I suspect Yahoo! hosted mail for a lot of organisations.
It was a Chrysler 300, can't remember the exact model, but it would have been around 2010.
Absolute rubbish compared with the Mazda I bought. I also drove a Nissan (can't remember the model) a Toyota Camry and some sort of Hyundai, all of which had better manufacturing standards than the Crysler.
My sister in law bought a Jeep at about the same time, but got rid of it after it stopped running for the third time inside the warranty period.
I test drove a GM car the last time I was in the market for a new one, and it was the worst of the 4 or 5 different models.
Poor quality finish to everything, handled like a bus, and braked like an eel.
I bought a Mazda for about 2/3 the price, and have been happy.
They might be better now, but probably not.
If he wants relief it's up to New Zealand to stop cow-towing to the beltway thugs...
Ha ha ha! That would be the same New Zealand Government that gave Hollywood $50 million of local taxpayers money when they threatened to move the Hobbit movies away.
Sorry, I just checked, actually nearly $200 million of our local money.
Arseholes, all of them.
The next bunch of rich wankers coming with their hands out will be the American Cup sailing pricks, I think last time that cost the general public here nearly $40 million, and what did we get?
Fuck all.
Sorry, rant over.
What lax copyright laws?
Kim Dotcom is a permanent resident of New Zealand, which has even more restrictive copyright laws than the US, no fair use for example.
The reason they chose to arrest him in New Zealand is because the US knows that the NZ government will do what they are told, no questions asked.
It is starting to unravel a bit, because the courts here have at least some independence, and have ruled that our spies broke the law which might make the evidence go away also.
I don't imagine that will get Kim his money back however.
I am not a lawyer, but I do play one on the Internet sometimes.
Corrupt Chinese businessmen already have a great money laundering scheme for getting money out of the country.
Have a look at property prices in Australia and New Zealand, (there are probably other places too).
Added bonus (in NZ anyway), no capital gains tax.
Another added bonus, make friends with the right people, and you can be a citizen.
Nothing suspicious about that though, oh no.
He's not suing Google. He's bringing the prior art to the attention of WIPO.
Quite right, I should have taken more care when I read TFA, but I think my point is still valid.
If Google is challenged over this they have the money to resist for as long as they want, and the system is set up so they can.
I guess if they decide there is no value in resisting, they won't.
That's exactly what patents are for: To ensure huge corporations like Google keep tight hold on any new (or not so new) technologies.
It almost makes no difference whether Prof Duda can prove he invented this, if Google have a mind to they have the money to keep any case he might bring in court for as long as they like.br.
The system is set up that way.
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They will sell them to the 90% of people who do light to moderate tasks and want a 2 day battery.
No they won't, those people already own an iPad or an Android device, or they remember the last time Microsoft tried this and then abandoned their devices.
I was wondering why this would be different from the Surface RT, and after reading TFA I still don't know.
Also, who are they going to sell these to? The people who bought Surface RT won't want to be fooled again (presumably) and everyone else already has an iPad or some sort of Android tablet, or maybe a Microsoft Surface device which runs x86 and so has access to whatever Windows software the user might need.
This looks like all the other Microsoft "new market" type efforts. Doomed to failure and then irrelevance, then death.
When Firewire was competing with USB to be the new standard connector, I was told by my Apple using friend that Firewire would win because it was faster, also "better" although he could not really quantify the "better" bit.
I assumed that USB would kill firewire stone dead because it was cheaper, and I've been right so far.
First impressions: ...). Seriously?
There is a typo on the homepage. (Turn you TV into a content filled home theatre system enjoying thousands of
It won't tell me how much the thing costs until I enter my email address, which makes me suspicious. Also I need to act fast, as the 40% discount won't last long, which just sounds like one of those late night shopping channel hucksters.
Apart from that, it looks like any one of hundreds of cheap Chinese Kodi boxes I can buy from Aliexpress or Banggood.
I actually built myself something similar for about $60 using an old Atom powered Acer box I bought second hand. It runs LibreElec and works pretty well.
Quick, what's Chicago in German?
Kaltesdreckloch.
Replaceable battery? Rugged/IP68? SD card slot? Headphone jack? You know.. things that actually matter?
Also:
Google's new Pixel 2s manage to outpace similarly configured smartphones in certain benchmarks by significant margins (Basemark, PCMark and 3DMark).
Why would I care? Any mid-price Android phone works fine in 2017.
They also boot dramatically faster than any other Android handset on the market, in as little as 10 seconds
I can't remember the last time I restarted my phone. If it takes 60 seconds twice a year why would I care?
Also, that's a pretty ugly phone. Also it costs way too much.
The relevant aspect of the troll metaphor is trying to charge people for something you don't own...
No, I think you've misunderstood what a patent troll is.
Here's a definition.
Ownership or not is not the point:
Patent trolls often do not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question. However, some entities which do not practice their asserted patent may not be considered "patent trolls" when they license their patented technologies on reasonable terms in advance.
Did they offer to license the tech to Apple? TFA does not say.
Some call VirnetX a patent troll[1][2] because they expanded their Patent Portfolio beyond the original four Internet Security Patents to include more than 100 related patents, thus securing their position as a leader in mobile security technology, and based on the fact that the majority of their employees are lawyers and they have yet to commercialize any of their patents in commercial products.
So I guess it depends on your definition of Troll really.
I'm happy to call any company that produces nothing a patent troll, but in this case there might be a defense:
Emails from Apple's engineering staff indicated that they knew they were violating various patents...
Which fits your point well, and is also why I have no sympathy for Apple.
Indeed VirnetX would appear to be a patent troll, and will probably be first against a wall when the revolution comes, but it's a bit hard to have sympathy for Apple.
Live by the sword is the phrase that comes to mind.
According to this not that surprised.
Foyle's War sounds really good, I wonder why I've never heard of it.
It is probably not available here, so I will have to pirate it if I want to watch it.
Are you a communist?
Longing for the days when shareholder value was not being extracted from each worker in an efficient way!
You're probably one of those people who kneels during the national anthem too!
My ISP supplied email was hosted by Yahoo!.
After the breach they forced a password change and bought the hosting back in house.
I suspect Yahoo! hosted mail for a lot of organisations.
You're right, it is owned by Fiat now.
I checked up on Jeep as well. Also owned by Fiat Chrysler. No wonder they're so terrible.
It was a Chrysler 300, can't remember the exact model, but it would have been around 2010.
Absolute rubbish compared with the Mazda I bought. I also drove a Nissan (can't remember the model) a Toyota Camry and some sort of Hyundai, all of which had better manufacturing standards than the Crysler.
My sister in law bought a Jeep at about the same time, but got rid of it after it stopped running for the third time inside the warranty period.
I test drove a GM car the last time I was in the market for a new one, and it was the worst of the 4 or 5 different models.
Poor quality finish to everything, handled like a bus, and braked like an eel.
I bought a Mazda for about 2/3 the price, and have been happy.
They might be better now, but probably not.
Oh, OK. Fair enough.
If he wants relief it's up to New Zealand to stop cow-towing to the beltway thugs...
Ha ha ha! That would be the same New Zealand Government that gave Hollywood $50 million of local taxpayers money when they threatened to move the Hobbit movies away.
Sorry, I just checked, actually nearly $200 million of our local money.
Arseholes, all of them.
The next bunch of rich wankers coming with their hands out will be the American Cup sailing pricks, I think last time that cost the general public here nearly $40 million, and what did we get?
Fuck all.
Sorry, rant over.
What lax copyright laws?
Kim Dotcom is a permanent resident of New Zealand, which has even more restrictive copyright laws than the US, no fair use for example.
The reason they chose to arrest him in New Zealand is because the US knows that the NZ government will do what they are told, no questions asked.
It is starting to unravel a bit, because the courts here have at least some independence, and have ruled that our spies broke the law which might make the evidence go away also.
I don't imagine that will get Kim his money back however.
I am not a lawyer, but I do play one on the Internet sometimes.
Never mind, both you and the other Groove Music user will be getting a Spotify account.
Ha! Ha! Leftists. Good one.
As if the US has any leftist politicians.
Corrupt Chinese businessmen already have a great money laundering scheme for getting money out of the country.
Have a look at property prices in Australia and New Zealand, (there are probably other places too).
Added bonus (in NZ anyway), no capital gains tax.
Another added bonus, make friends with the right people, and you can be a citizen.
Nothing suspicious about that though, oh no.
He's not suing Google. He's bringing the prior art to the attention of WIPO.
Quite right, I should have taken more care when I read TFA, but I think my point is still valid.
If Google is challenged over this they have the money to resist for as long as they want, and the system is set up so they can.
I guess if they decide there is no value in resisting, they won't.
That's exactly what patents are for: To ensure huge corporations like Google keep tight hold on any new (or not so new) technologies.
It almost makes no difference whether Prof Duda can prove he invented this, if Google have a mind to they have the money to keep any case he might bring in court for as long as they like.br. The system is set up that way.