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Like retired COBOL programmers who were trotted out to help fix the Y2K bug in all sorts of card deck "apps", I'm waiting to unretire by 03:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038 to work on the Unix Millennium Bug for all the C code still out there. That …
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singularity said: fascinating, just need to get something that utilises it. Perhaps they already have. E.g. the teardown of the 6s from: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/09/25/fixit-iphone-6s-teardown/ describes 96 "capacitive pres…
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Referencing that August 2015 10Q (amendment #3 to the master agreement), it sure looks like Apple has section 9(A) "First Notice and First Right of Refusal" thru much of 2018, at least for "consumer electronics" applications/patents as previously sp…
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gatorguy said: tmay said: Your concern, and the reason that you want the Court to rule in favor of Samsung, is that Apple was granted 100% of the profits on the finished product. In this case, I happen to agree with that. The Court …
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Ah, ye olde principal of "laches", the hey-you-cannot-lay-in-wait-longer-than-six-years thing. Other than that, universities, being NPE's (non-practicing entities) vs. PAE's (patent assertion entities) are a different breed of troll. What's reall…
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Apple's purchase of Ogmento/Flyby elicited cogent commentary (by the seller) on Apple's potential plans here: http://fortune.com/2016/02/19/super-ventures-augmented-reality/
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Apple's modus operandi has been bringing better things to the table for existing markets, from PCs to music players to phones to tablets to watches. This has all been hashed out before, but involving not being first-to-market, but not being "me too…
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It's still a gimmick if in addition you have to scribble a signature, as in many cases (large grocery stores in S.F. Bay Area), or otherwise retry the transaction again after it already says "done" because the taker didn't push the right button, etc.
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Re: UK/other "British Isles" confusion, that's OK -- cue the classic:
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jameskatt2 said: With Brexit, English corporations like Apple in Ireland, no longer have to worry about taxes from other European nations. Perhaps misunderstood, but the Republic of Ireland (hosting Apple's European headquarters) is part o…
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I wonder how they will sidestep the (entirely bogus, in many an opinion) claims by SAIC/VirnetX that they have "zero-click" end-to-end encryption patented. VHC claims that when iMessages are blue-colored (end-to-end protected) they read upon their …
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sockrolid said: Never used Spotify. Never will. Good luck with that. Excellent senryu: 6-3-4 Syllables rule.
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gatorguy said: Here's something that might change the way Apple and Google and other large companies handle these 3rd party patent claims: SCOTUS yesterday lowered the bar for the determination of willful infringement and treble damages. It…
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lorin schultz said: bigdo said: Cool. Thanks for the tip! Any idea what changed in 2011 that eliminated the need for Silverlight? That's about when you could be sure that all Macs could do hardware/GPU-assisted H.264 decoding, a…
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I posit that Berkshire/Buffett are finally coming around to realize that Apple is a "wide moat" brand-name consumer products company (Apple Inc.), rather than a narrow-moat tech company (ye olde Apple Computer Inc.), as detractors would have it. No…
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It is possible for Apple to not introduce hardware at WWDC. However, it would be funny/not funny for Apple to have sessions on things like H.265 encode-in-hardware, and Thunderbolt 3, and even fat binaries for ARM (if it comes to that) without an …
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ericthehalfbee said: maestro64 said: As you said this pre-dates google, This goes back to Andy Rubin, he is the one who stole this as well as other things to make Android. Google has no choice now but to define this case and hope to…
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ericthehalfbee said: rotateleftbyte said: IMHO, that site is hardly a bastion of impartiality. Except that in this case he's been correct on most issues, even predicting the Appeals Court outcome. Meanwhile, PJ at Groklaw (who, …
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cornchip said: A( I am so insanely excited about Apple's car project. B( I can never get over how ridiculously hideous that Google car is. Subconsciously, the car shape always reminded me of the determinedly cutesy logo of the Bell Labor…
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ireland said: I wouldn't in a million years edit a FCP project on a 12" display. I even find a 13" display small for watching films on. That's more of why I think Apple should move to 14" and 16" models now that's it's obvious the 12" models …