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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 05:31 PM EDT |
How A (Non-Apple) U.S. Patent Might Just
Change the World
This is just puke making. Sorry, but I felt all
queasy after reading this.
I'd like to meet this guy, and the double entry
book-keeping guy, and
lock them in a room with a box of pencils and
unlimited paper...
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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 06:50 PM EDT |
Top court struggles to decide...
The court still doesn't get it.
No computer is capable
of performing any operation that a human can't duplicate with
pencils and
paper. Or, to put it another way, no human can design a computer that
is
capable of performing any operation he can not duplicate. You MUST
understand the
operation thorougly before you can design a machine to
perform it. The only reason
you give the job to a computer is speed. And
maybe saving a bunch of trees.
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Don't open that!!
It's the original can of worms![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 09:17 PM EDT |
"So what can we do? Well, for starters, we need to get Linux booting on
UEFI. Period. Because, with the exception of Macs, few PCs use UEFI instead of
BIOS, there's been little effort to getting Linux to boot straight from
UEFI."
My ThinkPad E520, which I bought last October has UEFI, but not secure boot and
has no problem installing and booting Linux.
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| Authored by: argee on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 09:24 PM EDT |
"But a "data structure" is just a way of organizing basic numbers
and symbols. Performing calculations on data structures might be more tedious
than ordinary arithmetic, but it's entirely possible to perform such
calculations with a pencil and paper."
But that is not what a Patentee does. When he goes to
write a piece of software to process, say, a database of
4 million entries, he does not pore thru such a database.
Instead he use the same database with a small handful
of entries. say 5 or 6. Then he writes his program to
work with those few. He may need to check boundary
conditions, and optimize the speed. But for the purposes
of the Patent application, he just states the method
used to work on just a few. Sure, he will state it
works with Millions of Entries. He would.
I bet his program will work fine with 5 or 6 entries as
well.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 06:26 AM EDT |
| AKA Judge angers world taking bribes from Apple! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 04:24 PM EDT |
Interesting article.
They do fail to mention a couple of
points though. Such as:
Since Elop took over in late 2010, the share price
has dropped from $10 down to $1.73 before it started bouncing back a
bit.
An increase of 50%1 on a dollar is much lower then an
increase of 50% on ten dollars.
Prior to the 20 year seven-day gain of
46%, Nokia had a loss of 83% over the past 2 years on the stock price when Elop
took control.
The management purchasing back "more then $1 Million
worth of shares" could very well be solely responsible for a large portion of
the 46% gain.
Given the points conveniently not mentioned in the article,
it makes me wonder if the article - and the stock buyback - wasn't deliberately
designed to try and stimulate interest in Nokia's stock.
1) Not the exact
numbers in the article, this is used to highlight the difference between a
particular percentage gain when the stock is at it's 10 year historical low vs
at the value when Elop took control. The historicaly low may actually be much
longer, I only - quickly - perused the last 10 years worth of stock
quotes.
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 07:54 PM EDT |
| It seems that Oracle can't do anything right these days. I suspect that they are
now the second most hated company in the industry. I think we all know who is
the most hated! It really does not pay to anger your customers, collaborators,
developers, or anyone else on whom your business depends, in this case a
hardware supplier. Oracle are discovering that. They have made at least two
large companies, Google and HP, very angry. One day soon, so will M$, whose
next reason for being hated will be insecure boot, as it will no doubt be
called when the inevitable security problems arise. Play nicely with those
with whom you do business, and you avoid all the nastiness, court cases,
billions in settlements and legal expenses, and contempt from the majority of
honest people. But neither Ellison nor Ballmer (and before him, Gates) seem to
be capable of understanding that. Yet Red Hat, for instance, has come from
nothing to a billion dollar company without behaving like that, and there are
many more honest, non-aggressive, non-litiguous comapnies with good reputations
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| Authored by: TennSeven on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 08:33 PM EDT |
It looks like the two parties got switched around in the
article title in newspicks (going to the site reveals the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 09:13 PM EDT |
I guess advertising is not the kind of thing we want our economy to be based on,
otherwise we might as well have everyone nuke most of their brain cells. Not
that we as a society in general is not doing it already.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 10:24 PM EDT |
I suppose Oracle can't wiggle out of this one. When did they sign the original
agreement for this in the first place?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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