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Apple Files Lawsuit Against HTC Over Alleged iPhone Patent Infringement
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Another problem that Vista faced is that its resource requirements
were a bit high for the times.
Windows 7 is coming out at a time when a dual-core 64-bit CPU with
4 GiB of RAM and 256 GiB of VRAM is a mid-range to lower-mid-range
system.
(My two Win7 desktops - the 12 GiB one shows 10.2 GiB in use, 202 MiB free,
the other 8 GiB one shows 1.7 GiB in use, 111 MiB free.)
Amusing, since most "polish a turd" stories refer to what the
turtlenecked overlord can sell to the fanbois!
Don't talk to spirits children. You'll be talking to the devil himself.
For all you japanese people
私は不名誉を意味しないo
Did I say that right? I haven't taken Japanese in ages.
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I was about to say that I remember a system where you signed your name, but that doesn't match the "predefined displayed path".
Then it hit me that I've seen (and might even have coded) touch unlocks where you rotated and aligned concentric combination dials shown on the screen. That sounds a little bit like the above, except in a circular path. (Have to find some notes. It would've been almost twenty years ago.)
Pretty sure I've seen such a thing in a movie as well. Anyone remember something similar? Maybe in a Mission Impossible, Laura Croft, ST-TNG, or other film?
Btw, haven't looked at the patent yet, but if it requires the "predefined displayed path", HTC doesn't display that on their WM unlock sliders. They just say "slide left or right to unlock".
For the most part, Star Trek movies and serials have illustrated touch interfaces but not gestures. The one exception that I remember is that one of the movies used two fingers running along a series of switches to "energize" a transporter.
Note sure if rotating virtual dials would count, but probably not since the path doesn't matter. (In other words, I can rotate a bit, take my hand off the screen, rotate some more, rotate a bit in the opposite direction, and finally rotate back the right way, and unlock would work in your example).
Does HTC display an object moving along with the gesture?
NeXT Distributed Object System is the Father to modern Distributed Object Systems deployed today.
NeXT Portable Distributed Objects and NetInfo have both been copied up one side and down the next.
NeXT Display Postscript co-developed with Adobe was then rewritten to Display PDF solely written by NeXT [now Apple Engineers].
The Quartz Engine everyone wants Apple to open source is around 10 million lines of innovative code.
People want to have it for free.
NeXT Enterprise Object Frameworks were copied up one side and down the other by the entire Java and .NET industries.
Java is the direct descendant of Objective-C wrapped in C++ syntax and a sprinkle from C++ methodologies while extending forward with some of it's own innovations.
All borrow from C and Smalltalk. Smalltalk borrows from Simula67.
Again. What about your post is impressive?
Apple continues to evolved Objective-C with 2.0 and more to come, and funds the LLVM Virtual Machine project which is hot on the heals of GCC's latest revision because they got tired of all the politics with GCC and the time to get ObjC changes into the mix, not to mention the creator of the LLVM project even offered his vision to GCC and Redhat who rebuked his view.
Apple funds the LLVM and gives it back to the World. The same for CUPS which is in every operating system now, built-in to all Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, OpenSolaris etc., and I'd imagine it would be in Windows if they want to add it seeing as it's jointly licensed.
Apple absorbed any royalty for IEEE1394 and opened it up.
The amount of projects Apple contributes back to the BSD/FOSS communities is highly impressive and we all benefit from these innovations, freely.
And you think Apple is some maggot taking from the BSD/FOSS communities?
Get real.
Tell that BSD knock to the creator and former head of FreeBSD now at Apple. That relationship is still evolving between the communities.
FreeBSD is damn thankful Apple pushed UNIX and a certified UNIX 03 back into the limelight for the general consumer.
No other company in the history of computing has pulled that off.
I found Apple press release interesting. First time they haven't used their standard closing paragraph:
They used this:
They used this:
Couldn't half of these patents be also applied to any one using Android? Maybe they are going after the smallest significant company that OS?
Thank you for posting, so I could read your location: "The post is coming from inside the house!", and redeem this entire thread!
Did you even look at some of the patents? One of them was a patent on unlocking a touchscreen.... That's like patenting a door lock and key.....
I don't think LTD understands the difference...you're better off just dropping it.
Should we tell him Dell and Macs are both made in China?
Completely agree. HTC patent 7,508,412 (filed May 4, 2005; granted March 24, 2009) is video conferencing on a portable electronic device. I'm guessing Apple really wants that capability, and is using the lawsuit against HTC to get it.
What's your point? Apple's patent is closer to patenting the whole idea of a lock and key, not a specific type or function of a lock and key. Either way, in my opinion it is ridiculously stupid and unfair to patent a form of security.
Except the fact that whole iPhone homescreen is infringement of Palm graphic grid patent. Can't get any more major than that.
Choice, I can chose to be wherever I want because, you know, if I use Linux at home, or Windows, or OS X, or if I have an iPhone or an Android device, it doesn't define as a person.
I came here because I wanted to get a macbook and just wanted to check out some apple related websites. At first, I would get kinda pissed off at anti-anything-not-from-apple because most times it just FUD being spread around. I stay around because I just like being informed.
Then I realized you make a good point. When I'm brand/name neutral sites, you can see this **** going on from both sides. It's like monkeys throwing **** at each other.
I for one, just spend too much time and too much different sites, blogs, forums. Thankfully I'm able to maintain a rational and objective opinion about things, in most cases. I also like to have fun, I make fun of MS users, I make fun of FOSS advocates, I make fun of Apple users.
As you can see, **** like this is completely meaningless, especially on a forum on the internet. I've learned to simply laugh at or ignore comments from certain members.
Back on topic; this thread? This thread if ****ing hilarious (it would've been a boring day at work if it wasn't for this). Out of the 700+ comments, there are probably 20 or so with actually useful information.
You really are quite dangerous. I'm not being a jaded comic, but in all sincerity think you have lost it in your ability to stay in the realm of logic.
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The first guy to invent lock and key deserved a patent. The next guy to improve on it deserved a patent. The first guy to invent slide-to-unlock deserved a patent.
That's my point. If you think all this is so obvious, go file a patent on all your brilliant ideas and you, too, can be a patent troll. Or, more likely, you'll learn that everything seems obvious in retrospect.
1) in two seconds apple can change to a completely different springboard visual presentation
2) what graphic grid patent? What's the patent number?
