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The Original iPad in 2001... from LG
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 11:57 PM EDT
2001-03-23

LG demonstrates wireless Linux Web pad at CeBIT

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Corporations against Prop 37
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 01:41 AM EDT
"Monsanto, E.I. Dupont, Pepsico INC., Basf Plant Science, Bayer Cropscience, Dow Agroscience LLC, Nestle USA, INC., Coca-Cola, Conagra Foods, Syngenta Corporation, Kellog Company, General Mills ", link

This whole GMO issue is analogous to the Open Source/Closed Source/proprietary software issue. In the future will people look back at this period as a golden age !(anarchistic free-for-all) where people could grow crops from unlicensed seeds without being sanctioned to the full extent of the law.

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Matt Taibbi takes a look at Bain Capital
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 04:30 AM EDT
This might be too political for Groklaw, but it is always a pleasure to read clear and well researched writing.

The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.

The critics couldn't be more wrong.

Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal.

Romney has a vision, and he's trying for something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation.

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

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Whatever you do, don’t lose a WP7 handset
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 11:45 AM EDT
http://www.gomonews.com/whatever-you-do-dont-lose-a-wp7-handset-2/

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Girls Need Math - if ever a column needed a follow up, this is it
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 01:04 PM EDT
1997
The other day a programmer-friend sent an e-mail to me and three other women. It read:

"Hey, I have a favor to ask of you Silicon Valley women types. My 14-year-old sister Lila is taking this networking/C++ (computer programming) class at her high school. Pretty heady stuff for a freshman. . . . She sent me this desperate e-mail today (see below) and I'm trying to encourage her to stick with it. It bugs me that my little sister is starting to buy into the whole 'girls are dumber than boys' BS.

"I already sent her a big motivational e-mail, but it would be more genuine if it came from people who are proving that women can do this stuff. She just started and it is way too early to let the boys have their little class without her. A short note of encouragement would make a world of difference right now. And I'd be eternally grateful."

Rebecca L. Eisenberg

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Samsung's awesome reply to a customer
Authored by: Torinir on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 05:27 PM EDT
<a href=http://i.imgur.com/xhKhx.png>Image Link</a>

Unrelated to topic. Just something someone noticed on their Facebook page.

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Gaming like it's going out of style.
West/Zampella vs Activision should be covered on Groklaw. :o

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Decline of MS at Talking Points Memo
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 07:45 PM EDT
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo notes the decline of Microsoft at his site:

. . . August 2012 was the first month in TPM’s almost 12 year history when the percentage of visits coming from computers running on a Windows Operating System fell below 50%.

Relatedly, the percentages of users using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen to just 16.8%.

. . . This time in the last presidential cycle (August 2008), the Operating System percentage was 72% and the browser number was 39%.

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  • Human advantage - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 01:08 AM EDT
SHARP Downgraded to JUNK STATUS... no iPhone 5 Screens = Trouble Ahead
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 01:54 AM EDT
There has been no actual confirmed reports of which chip Apple is using in iPhone 5. Some rumors say it's a redesigned Exynos, built by Samsung in Austin, capped with Apple's A6 logo. Others are saying it's a Qualcomm S4 re-capped as Apple's A6 chip, to enable LTE and that would make the most sense. Because Samsung is suing Apple in So. Korea over using LTE in that country. Other's say Apple has finally got TSMC to bring up capacity on their own A6 Design.

But that's also unlikely, because TSMC has had so many problems with chip Yields on Intel's touted higher Yielding Gate Last HKMG Process. But those high yields are on Intel's own chips at 32nm full node.

Anyway it's beginning to look like Intel sold us all a bill of goods on the Gate Last producing higher chip yields. At least on ARM chips, that is. Because of their problems, despite spending Billions on CAPEX Upgrades, all the problems have been sending their traditional ARM customer base scurrying off to SAMSUNG.

It seems SAMSUNG has Proven that on ARM chip production, they are still the Reigning King of both Quality and Higher Yields. But of course that may be because of their direct partnership ARM in the first place. TSMC is just a chip Fabrication Plant and do not produce any of their own chips. Yet it's SAMSUNG that has proven their loyalty time after time in the chip business. Now Apple is only contracted (rumors only) to fabricate A4, A5 and A5x production. If Apple did make A6 for production by TSMC, they will most likely experience the same problems others have been plagued with at TSMC.

Now comes the "Wrench thrown into Works" even if they get consistent high yields will TSMC have the capacity to supply their needs on iPhone 5? But the bigger question right now, is what's gone wrong at SHARP.... to make Hon Hai withdraw their highly touted $800 Million Investment in SHARP. So far both Apple and Hon Hai have invested over a Billion Dollars in Sharp with their new Screen technology. But.... so far Sharp has yet to have any screens rolling off the production lines and iPhone 5 is just 2 weeks from launch.

"Something has gone amiss" in the Magical World of Apple's iPhone 5. There are talks of delays, but how long when Hon Hai pulled that investment and they recorded losses of over Billion Dollars in one quarter, that can't be good. Since now Standards and Poor's have given their stock a "JUNK" rating. This could spell a disaster of major proportions on the horizon for Apple!

SHARP STOCKS NOW JUNK STATUS

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Dilbert 2012-09-02
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 04:41 AM EDT
Look at:
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-09-02/

A fitting comment.

Sorry has never learned how to make a link

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Now They're Patenting Our Food
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT
From New Zealand, with a strong anti-GM/GE food lobby,
where we almost banned software patents,
comes this leap into a dystopian future.

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