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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 06:11 PM EDT |
| Apple "Patents"
Flexible Displays
This is really getting disgusting. Did Apple
"invent"
flexible displays? No. Innovative companies did that.
Apple
watched these innovative companies who actually
invented the flexible
displays and are now trying to get
a patent on "actually using" flexible
displays on a device.
Taken to the extreme that would mean the
companies
that invented this technology couldn't use it and could
only
sell their flexible screens to Apple.
The Apple patent trolls keep sinking
lower and lower.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 07:50 PM EDT |
| Entertaining podcast "The iHole" from the BBC
International
Short Story Award
is here. (28
minutes)
The interview at the end tells us they went as
close
as the
BBC
lawyers would permit to using present day
Apple
personalities.
Anyone who
thinks it is getting beyond silly at
about the
15 minute mark should remember
that Microsoft
did
have a
cloud product called "POS".
"To the pure all is
pure"
Available for 14 days and to IP addresses
outside
the UK.
indyandy
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 08:29 PM EDT |
Posing as consultants, the authors asked 3,700 incorporation agents
in 182 countries to form
companies for them. Overall, 48% of the agents who
replied failed to ask for proper identification; almost half
of these did not
want any documents at all. Contrary to conventional wisdom, providers in tax
havens, such as
Jersey and the Cayman Islands, were much more likely to comply
with the standards than those from the
OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.
Even poor countries had a better compliance rate, suggesting the
problem in the
rich world is not cost but unwillingness to follow the rules (see chart). Only
ten out of 1,722
providers in America required notarised documents in line with
the FATF standard.
Economist
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 10:43 PM EDT |
PJ wrote (in the sidebar) ... "This is what people really
love about Apple, not the beauty alone, but the service. The
company seems to really want to delight users, and when
things go wrong, they do what they need to do to make it
right."
Uh ... does "antennagate" or "batterygate" come to mind?
What exactly did Apple do to solve these problems and please
their customers? And what are they doing now with thei Apple
Map debacle? "You can download somebody else's product ...
except the best ... Google Maps." I think that's what would
really please Apple users, getting their Google Maps back.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 03:23 AM EDT |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CayMeza487M&feature=player_embedded
Yes, it is in Klingon. Mao. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 09:49 AM EDT |
A
survey finds that even hard-core Windows 8 fans
prefer
Windows 7 by a two to one margin.
Windows 8 fans
don't love the Metro user
interface either. In their ranking of favorite
Windows 8
features, Metro came in the lower-end of the pack.
Gartner
analysts say "We really don't think Windows 8
will get significant traction as
a PC OS in a corporate
environment."
What kind of smart
phone do these Windows 8 fans like?
Android with 42%,
followed by Windows Phone
8, 29% and iPhone, 22%. This does not bode well for
Microsoft making any progress in the smartphone
market.
According to a current newspick item, Google is
nearing
Microsoft's value. I will confidently predict that this
final quarter
will see Google surpass Microsoft when Windows
8 launches with the buoyancy of
a lead balloon.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 11:22 AM EDT |
Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be
able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man
whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade (more than three million
copies sold)... the man who has said publicly that he "loves" working with Microsoft on the Xbox... is the
same man who can say...
Stephen Totilo, Kotaku[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 05:37 PM EDT |
| Android control code issue affects almost
all manufacturers ---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 08:04 PM EDT |
Microsoft v.
Motorola
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2012/09/28/1
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 08:32 PM EDT |
There is, however, an end run around Heisenberg's uncertainty
principle
If you choose to measure things that aren't paired, the precision
with which we measure these properties is limited only by how good our measuring
stick is. It is important to realize that these measurements are not back-action
free, but that the back-action is self-canceling. In the past, researchers have
decided that these types of measurements, called quantum non-demolition (QND)
measurements, are either trivial or useless.
Now, a paper in Physical
Review X uses a more general description of QND, along with examples, to
show that it is useful and that it is being applied already.
Chris Lee, ars technica[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: MadTom1999 on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 03:44 AM EDT |
| wow really
cool
Shame they don't ban paper shaped formats too... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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