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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 06:34 PM EDT |
I accidentally just put a long post on the voting machine
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 10:17 PM EDT |
The
Slate comment
makes a good car analogy in terms of the interface. So there's a way to
solve this problem: the carriers simply specify how icons should appear on
devices connected to their system, and how scrolling works, and as much else as
they can possibly mandate. Sure the phone makers will bang the carriers' heads
together
so we all end up with the same looking and behaving screens. And if
that sounds too boring, have a look at how many different designs diverged from
the Carter-phone
line. There's always opportunity for
bling
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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 07:02 AM EDT |
(Link to news pick)
This is a collateral effect that I think Apple
might
have overlooked. Commodity products from other
manufacturers are now
closing in on their own luxury
products, and this lawsuit has made it clear that
even Apple
think that their competition is closing in on them.
Apple is not
posed to compete with commodity products,
not in terms of economy, not in terms
of technology,
and from the look of it, neither in terms of ideology
and
corporate culture.
The corporate health of Apple depends on them
coming
up with something revolutionary every few years -
market changers to
leave the competition in the
dust. I do not envy Apple of their task right
now,
but I hope they have another really bright idea soon
so they can stop this
stupid and destructive legal
battle.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 07:09 PM EDT |
I remember when the bios was on a chip, and you could not
flash it. Sounds like maybe should go back to that.
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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, August 27 2012 @ 12:39 PM EDT |
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/ants-mimic-internet-082312.html
On ants using equivalent protocols to TCP for foraging.
Who knows what other protocols might be found... And some major prior art :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2012 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
consortiuminfo.org
Here was me thinking "Off with their
heads!", which would make as much sense as
most things in this case. But
Updegrove's hint that cross-licenses may be the sanest way out of the mire is
indeed a
contrary thing before breakfast. How could Tweedledum and Tweedledee
possibly agreee after the very public nonsense
we have just witnessed in San
Jose? Prior to this jury verdict Samsung had an advantage they could have
pressed in
negotiating cross licenses for most (all?) of those markets outside
the US where courts have revealed Apple to be at fault.
Now what? A return to
Common Sense
would
mean no more factories in Shenzen...
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