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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Isn't the current iMac about as thin? Go to Apple Store and take a look. You won't mistake those two. 1. iMac has a big ugly chin. 2. iMac has bulges in the rear center. The iMac is significantly heavi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The new iMacs are pretty damn thin. If not for the chin I wouldn't think they were complete systems. People used to say the "damn Macbook is pretty thin" too. Imagine the next iMac looks like the curren…
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I think the bigger story (which everyone ignores) is Apple's ability to squeeze everything into a little board, which is smaller than any PC-on-a-board out there. Imagine the next revision of iMac....it may well look like a regular display. LCD's…
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Among all the MacWorld reviews, I think WSJ got it. Macbook Air looks hot, but it is just a product line extension. Apple TV/iTunes movie rental doesn't look like a big deal, but it will be a quarter to half of Apple's revenue in 5 years. A…
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I cannot believe there are so many close-minded Mac users. There are a lot of PC sub-notebooks without optical drives. Actually, EVERY single brand had this segment covered except Apple. I don't see PC users complaining about that. If it is n…
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A LOT OF sub-notebooks have the optical drives as an external option. What's the big deal? I cannot believe people are obsessed over this. Regarding the footprint - I am sure pretty soon, some third party will introduce a dock-like external drive…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign You mean like 1986's Amiga Mandala system or Sony's EyeToy ? Great as they were, you'd look like a buffoon operating a computer in Starbucks like that. Maybe not computer, but how about Apple TV? Forg…
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OK, let's imagine something crazy. Anyone seen this video? http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ Forget about multitouch on a surface. How about multitouch (or single touch) in the air? Move your finger tip(s) in the air as the next com…
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IPTV + movie/TV rental is my bet. AT&T will be the primary partner. AT&T wants to push IPTV as an alternative to cable. AppleTV will be the set top box. Yes, this will be big.
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It has to be wireless something....however, what? "In the air" could be partnership with certain airlines to deliver movies to iPod Touch/iPhone on the airplane, even phone calls via Wifi->airplane's satellite connection. It could also mean…
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Quote: Originally Posted by broadbean Some of the ideas seem very similar to Apple's PowerTalk back in the 90s with System 7... Oh, stop, you are making Apple look worse.... PowerTalk was introduced in 1993 with System 7 Pro.
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Quote: Originally Posted by reallynotnick You guys all own me $1,000,000,000,000 because I patented the ability to read your emails out of order! This is just stupid, the one case I support communism on. Actually, if you patented it 15 year…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Divebus This process was a patent issued to Quantel Limited of the U.K. in 1992 called "Image keying generator for video special effects." It replaced the need for blue screen chroma key backgrounds by using a snapshot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Of course their is a lot of gray area in this as the reason it ends up going to court. But I haven't seen a patent upheld for any entire vague concept where one company gets to dominate one product. Someone in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I don't believe that they can patent the entire idea if keying off of a static background. Especially when no one holds a patent on the basic idea of chroma key. They can patent their particular software or te…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R Well, Apple did lift it. The technologies been around for... how long? I'm all for suing Apple if it is justified. I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that in this case, it's not. Technologically,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by killroy They better sue ATI and Nvidia. Apple wrote only code to use a function of the graphics chips. I can hear it now, get the F**k out of my court room. Graphics chips only have the ability to do overlay with b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA I stood in front of a waterfall (as used in a backdrop) once so I have the copyright. I'm gonna sue and make million$. Wait, I mean I'm gonna rigorously defend my copyright. My god, how clueless can peo…
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People need to start reading those patents before talking. It does not use blue screen/green screen. It is about recognizing a static background. Of course, everything's obvious in hindsight. At this moment, I would say that's a pretty easy th…
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In hindsight, everything's obvious. As one post said, predictive word completion has been available for years. However, this patent is particular on sorting based on usage, and display them by the ranking order so user can pick. Although the p…