Authored by: designerfx on Monday, January 07 2013 @ 07:48 AM EST |
Forbes actually posted this? From a completely unknown and
unheard of firm? With sketchy wording?
I can't wait to hear the actual explanations/retractions.
sentence 1: 4q 2012 apple sold more than android
sentence 2: apple's marketshare is now >50%
entire article: compares last year 2011 to now, claims android
lost 11% sales. Hilarious, considering samsung in general and
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 07 2013 @ 02:31 PM EST |
The problem is exactly as P.J. says:
Software is not patentable because
software is an abstract concept and will never be anything but!
Because the
underlying truth is that there is no physical embodiment to software...
ever.
Software is abstract - always. It "exists" in the form of human
interpretation of the pattern of flow of the electricity.
No matter what
kind of wording the USPTO tries to put together to somehow reconcile the fact
that software has no physical embodiment and is merely the pattern of electrical
flow (either there is electricity or there isn't):
To treat any amount of
abstract concept equal to the physical, there will always be the
problem!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 07 2013 @ 03:41 PM EST |
Build and
deploy your app on your own cloud with OpenShift Origin
I went to
link and it is for a discussion in February so I looked on web for more about
"OpenShift Origin"
and found this
Redhat Wiki
well I tried to read the first two headings under General Overview.
Often
it is mentioned here about lawyers having specific meaning for words that have a
different meaning to "Real Life." Also there are complaints about the "woolly"
broad language used in Patents by lawyers. This is by software types and it is
totally incomprehensible to me. So would somebody care to explain what
they are talking about?
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Brokers are person (or company) that acts as
intermeadiary in transaction.
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Gears are used in mechanical gearboxes to
provide different speeds or direction or torque.
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Cartridges are a small
physical container for explosive or ink or paint.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 10:41 AM EST |
I've got issues with this.
1) I don't like excessive secrecy. The people have a right to know what their
hired lackeys are doing.
2) The so-called leaks seemed to be targeted on the Agency itself, as if
outsiders were attempting to steer the investigation the way they wanted,
rather than how the law required.
Something smells in the State of Denmark. Good old Shakespeare. You
can always fit one of his lines into any comment.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 11:20 AM EST |
Wow, that really shows why the Federal Circuit court needs to go! So arguing
over the obviousness of placement of a finger tab in a soda 12 pack carton to
peel open a corner to remove one can at a time, is where we are reduced to in
patent law. It's not just software patents they don't understand. Now I can see
why they have such a hard time understanding how to limit software patents. Only
the dissenting judge seems to have a grasp here. I hope this gets appealed to
SCOTUS. I'd love to see if they have more common sense than the CAFC.
They had two pieces of prior art, one with the finger opening on the side and
one with the finger opening on the top, but for a different kind of container
(beer bottles or some such). They focused on the first prior art and argued
moving the finger tab to the top was non-obvious, even in the face of another
prior art showing a finger tab on top, and the fact there's only a very few ways
you could but a finger tab into a carton.
Amazing. And these people all have advanced degrees, one presumes. Maybe I
expect too much. It should be noted, I've been doing this for decades, with and
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 01:44 PM EST |
The perverse incentives
created by locked-down platforms promote insecurity. by
Peter
Bright --- 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 Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 03:52 PM EST |
Dear blogosphere, Samsung always had an alternative mobile OS (think
Bada). Launching a tizen phone is called bet hedging, not dumping Android -
Carlo Daffara, Twitter
Tizen is the platform that Samsung is
basing their new version of Bada on. Bada is Samsung's platform for low end
smart phones that are intended to compete directly with feature phones.
Android is aimed at medium to high end smart phones. Handset vendors
have been addressing the low end by shipping older (2.3) versions of Android on
them. This is the "Android fragmentation" that the Apple fan boys have been
talking about.
So far, Google hasn't come up with a clear strategy for
the low end of the market. Mozilla is aiming Firefox OS there, and Canonical is
aiming Ubuntu Phone there (or at least talking up the advantages of native apps
for that market). Nokia's Symbian also filled that niche. Samsung's plans
revolve around Bada (Tizen). Bada is an existing platform, which by the way has
been outselling Windows Phone. The original version of Bada ran on some
proprietary OS (Samsung never really said what). The new plan is to move the
Bada "platform" (UI and API) to run on Linux - specifically Tizen.
So
no, Samsung isn't planning on dropping Android. If anything, Bada/Tizen is more
of a threat to the remaining Symbian market share.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 04:38 PM EST |
Link
This might explain that ghastly Unity
UI.
albert
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 04:57 PM EST |
PJ commented:
<<Imagine if the post office were to allow someone to steam open all the
mail.>>
The USPTO has engaged in such practices. The mail gets handed off to a
third party, who opens, inspects, and reseals the mail, then gives it back to
the
post office. The major issues are that it is labour intensive, and requires
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 06:32 PM EST |
Um, I don't think so. I use voice sometimes, when I'm alone. In public it is
too likely to pickup on someone else's voice. I've had this happen, and it is
a real hassle.
Of course voice recognition is improving...
And I can see the downside to that. Think of a device that only responds to
my voice. An emergency happens, and I'm injured. No one else can use it,
and they need to, because it's the fastest way to call for help.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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