Posts by waldobushman

This sounds like a relatively obvious result. The general idea is that parties need to litigate their entire case before the court. Litigation is expensive, takes resources and time and substantial taxpayer money to support, so when you...

MacBook has been replaced by a more expensive and less adequate Air. Too little storage, too high a price.

Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie This just proves one thing that I've been saying about accountants for years... they're pricks. They are overly complicating what should be a simple affair. Why does accounting have to get...

Use of local storage is increasing substantially, especially as the technology improves and decreases in price. A global financial collapse would changes things, but otherwise, no way. However, the future is likely to be just the...

RIM and no player can beat Apple at its own game -- and they own the whole stadium at this point. RIM has not responded to the iPhone and determined how to make the Blackberry, their core product, preferable to the iPhone in their...

Quote: Originally Posted by lamewing I guess you forget that Apple has stolen/misused others' patents and has had to pay out. Apple is NO BETTER than any of these other companies when it comes to patent infringement. You're missing a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody What absolute hyperbole and nonsense. Linux can indeed "be touched." A lot has been done to ensure that Linux is not patent encumbered, but it's just a copy of Unix after all,...

Yeah the patent system is messed up and very arcane, and it is quite a legitimate complaint that, much of what is patented seems to be obvious to those us programmers who have been in the business and read some of seminal research over...

Ballmer is correct that PC's are not dead. And Jobs is correct that this is a post-PC era. The iPad will continue to evolve until they are as capable as the current crop of laptops just like the laptops are more capable than the...

Who ever is leading the video section of Apple has got to go. If the push is from Jobs, then Jobs should have is head examined. I stopped using iMovie when Apple changed a useful consumer product iMovie 6 to the current lousy...