Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 05:15 AM EST |
I can see it already.
On an Apple TV, you may only receive signal from cableTV providers having $igned
up with Apple and these may only provide programming approved by Apple.
Once sales have peaked (that is, when the die-hard must-have-an-Apple-device has
bought theirs) and Apple is stuck with warehouses full of unsellable design
icons, it's time to drag other TV-set makers to court for violating the Apple
concept patents, their design patents, and their style patents.
That will be Apple's ups-we-hit-an-iceberg-good-thing-we're-unsinkable moment.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Apple TV - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 05:39 AM EST
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Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 07:54 AM EST |
People have already been using Arduino boards to provide I/O expansion and other
facilities, or more specific boards using the same AVR microcontrollers, e.g.
the Gertboard. But this has just come
to my attention. At a very Pi or Arduino price you get a rather good ARM based
microcontroller with features for use in safety critical systems, including
self-checking hardware with two cores, multiple timers, ADCs, CAN busses and and
lots and lots of I/O pins. It will not replace the Pi itself, having only 2MB
flash and 160k RAM, but these are huge amounts for a real time control system,
and the Pi would be able to run the GUI etc. But it gets better. There is a
free RTOS, funnily enough called FreeRTOS
which supports it and a variety of other microcontrollers, with the
possibility of simple upgrade to a similar OS certified for safety critical systems, which runs in much the same 7k to 14k
footprint. Now, whether you need the certified OS or can use the free one, that
is still a huge leap forwards compared to what was state of the art only a year
or so ago. We are in a new era where people can make software-controlled
things for themselves, easily and cheaply. I just hope that it is not all
wrecked by a bunch of patent trolls somewhere, who are incapable of inventing
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 09:39 AM EST |
Link.
I don't always agree with
the tactics of Anonymous, which
at times descend from noble protest to
rable-rousing
vigilantism. At a minimum, they are often entertaining at
least.
The above article links to a video posted by
Anonymous, attacking the Westboro
Baptist Church for their
hate campaigns. I was really, really impressed with
the
wording of the message. Very well spoken!
In the end, in this
instance at least, Anonymous is no
more to be condemned than the Westboro
Baptist Church. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: stovring on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 11:10 AM EST |
The ongoing battle between Apple and Google has reached the Danish newspaper
cartoons:
http://heltnormalt.dk/striben/20
12/12/16
The Danish text says: "Future wars"
Not sure whether this
is completely off-topic, though...
Regards,
stovring [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 12:17 PM EST |
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2768
"We’ve been amazed by the
variety of software that people have written for, or ported to, the Raspberry
Pi. Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we’re launching
the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games,
applications, tools and tutorials with the rest of the community.
The Pi
Store will, we hope, become a one-stop shop for all your Raspberry Pi needs;
it’s also an easier way into the Raspberry Pi experience for total beginners,
who will find everything they need to get going in one place, for free." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Steve Martin on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 12:34 PM EST |
It takes more than the side mural to turn the
fastest
supercomputer dedicated to Open Science into the
fastest computer in the world.
The same room and cabinets
that held supercomputer Jaguar, now holds
Titan.
... Boasting proven speeds at 17.59 petaFLOPS, or
the
ability
to perform 17.59 quadrillion calculations per second, and
theoretical
speeds topping 20 petaFLOPS, Titan unseated
Lawrence Livermore's IB
M Sequoia supercomputer.
Clicky
299,
008 processor cores, 710 terabytes RAM, and of
course, it runs
Linux.
--- "When I say something, I put my
name next to it." -- Isaac Jaffe, "Sports Night" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 01:54 PM EST |
Editorial: Does
Windows Phone even have a chance without
Google? --- 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 Monday, December 17 2012 @ 02:52 PM EST |
Crowd Funding the Right to Know
Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 03:36 PM EST |
Quote:
"Dear [redacted],
Thank you for your email regarding the European Unitary
Patent.
There has been a lot of confusion on what the new European
Patent would cover, and it is important to make clear that
this new patent package does not cover software patents as
many have been led to believe. Software patents are outside
the scope of the European Unitary Patent and not concerned
by these rules.
The Patent Package proposed by the European Commission was
voted upon on 11 December by the European Parliament. It
will allow for a unitary patent which will be valid
throughout the EU. This package contains three parts: a
draft regulation which sets up the unitary patent, another
regulation on translation rules, and a draft
intergovernmental agreement setting up the patent court
system.
Previously, an individual wishing to protect a patent had to
make a request through the national patent offices in the
different Member States in which the patent was to be
protected. An alternative was to go through the European
Patent Office, but this route still required a validation
process in each EU Member State, which was very burdensome
and also very costly. The package will reduce patenting
costs by up to 80% and improve European competitiveness as
US patents, for example, are currently substantially cheaper
than patents in the EU. In addition, this unitary patent
will avoid legal confusion as there will be one united
European Patent legal basis.
I hope that this is helpful."
---
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 Monday, December 17 2012 @ 07:01 PM EST |
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-chief-pate
nts-pay-up-or-disconnect-scheme-121217/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=fee
d&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29
Looks like a
business method patent to me...
... and stunningly un-innovative [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 09:53 PM EST |
You may remember iiNet, the Australian ISP that Hollywood attacked
(with support of US State Department officials) after they decided that it was
too small to fight back, but big enough that people would
notice. They guessed incorrectly, and iiNet not only fought
back by taking a strong pro-consumer
view, but won in convincing
fashion.
Even more importantly, as we noted, the courts made it clear why
it's silly to expect third party service providers like ISPs to be
copyright cops, since establishing infringement "is not a straight 'yes' or
'no' question," but rather involves going through a lot of evidence and
evaluating it.
Since then, Hollwyood has continued (via the Australian
government) to pressure ISPs to step up to become copyright cops anyway, and
iiNet has participated in those discussions. But late last week it walked
away from the discussions after Hollywood folks kept demanding a system
similar to the US's in which ISPs would send along notices to people they
accused of infringement.
iiNet gave a bunch of good reasons for walking away,
but the basic message was that piracy is a problem that the entertainment
industry could solve itself by making all of its content available more
conveniently and at better prices. Until it does that, it's silly to
rope in third parties to try to hold back the tide.
Mike Masnick, Techdirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- an alternative - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 02:42 AM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 11:39 PM EST |
Apple does not succeed in its request to ban the sale of
Samsung devices http://www.scribd.com/doc/117196812/Sales-Ban
Samsung also loses its case for Jury Misconduct.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/18/us-apple-
samsung-idUSBRE8BH06620121218[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 12:49 AM EST |
Just in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20765334
So some of those who were predicting Judge Koh's findings owe the lady an
apology. She does understand the mess created by software and 'looks like'
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 03:33 AM EST |
I've just picked up a copy of the 1908 Dent edition of
The Travels of Marco Polo, and towards the end of a
four page introduction John Masefield says
>> It may be that the Western mind will turn to
Marco Polo for a conception of Asia long after
"Cathay" has become an American colony. <<[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 05:52 AM EST |
BBC They admit
they have a problem: "If you look at the amount of energy we spend on
Apple, it pales in comparison to what we spend on Android. And that's right - we
agree with the audience." But he then outlined the challenges
involved: One of the alleged problems:"It's not just
fragmentation of the operating system - it is the sheer variety of devices.
Before Ice Cream Sandwich (an early variant of the Android operating system)
most Android devices lacked the ability to play high quality video. If you used
the same technology as we've always used for iPhone, you'd get stuttering or
poor image quality. So we're having to develop a variety of approaches for
Android." Lots more good stuff follows, and they seem to be intent
on making it work on just about every Android device.DD: "By the end
of 2013, it will be a distant memory of when Android was vastly different from
iOS. We're moving very quickly now. We've just solved the experience on
seven-inch tablets, we've upgraded for Jellybean 4.2. It will never be as easy
to develop for Android as Apple because of the variety of devices, but we're not
upset about that - it's where the audience is. Apple may punch above its weight
in users accessing video and so on, but much of the Android audience are just
the kind of people we want to reach, people who've never used their phones
before in this way. And I like his final statement very
much:"And there are big advantages to the Android platform. Whenever
we want to launch something new we just do it, without waiting for
approval (My bold). And then there is multi-tasking, which you can't
do on Apple. Once we solve the basics, there are a lot of things about the
platform that will be extremely powerful." I suspect that Cook will
not be very pleased! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 08:11 AM EST |
BBC I wonder if
Facebook will apply the change everywhere. It is one of the basic essentials if
you want to retain your privacy to some degree, while being able to communicate
with your friends, who mostly will be using Facebook, despite its many problems. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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