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News flash! Act now and Apple will throw in a collection of nude celebrity pics with every subscription.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA No idea what your last post has to with this article... But based on the post I responded to, Tesla should replace Edison. Tesla was an amazing eccentric genius who wanted to contribute to…
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When I was a teen my family temporarily moved to Canada, and I went to Canadian high school. In Canadian History class in HS they taught us that Alexander Graham Bell was a famous Canadian inventor and that the telephone was a Canadian invention t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ash471 First of all, the NTP patents are not as broad as you suggest. You are accusing NTP of claiming only the function. That isn't true. see wikipedia entry on NTP. The Wikipedia page …
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This is the software equivalent of an overly-broad patent on "a machine for moving people from one place to another" a long time ago. And then, after the widespread invention/adoption of trains, stagecoaches, cars, airplanes, etc, suddenly coming …
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How much more evidence do we need that the US patent system is fundamentally broken? People have been using wireless mail since the days of carrier pigeons. In the past years it was discovered that there were descriptions of wireless email "prior …
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Quote: "We have a very talented pool of resources in Silicon Valley and across (the) U.S. to develop new process technologies and do cost effective manufacturing, while protecting critical intellectual property," Jain said. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Uh uh. It would appear you missed the point of my post. If you really wanted to be math-y about "a completely different line of thought or action" the word you would be searching for is "orth…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ShinySteelRobot On a tangent, this reminds me of how Bill Gates wrote that being able to factor large prime numbers would be a huge advance in mathematics in his book "The Road Ahead". …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ShinySteelRobot On a tangent, this reminds me of how Bill Gates wrote that being able to factor large prime numbers would be a huge advance in mathematics in his book "The Road Ahead". Think about th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iVlad Hmmm, RIM, NOKIA, Microsoft all laughed at Apple back in 2007. Wow, tables have turned. 360! That's karma for you, betch! Tables have turned 360? I LOL'd. In other news, we Americans s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JustinKatz I was really looking forward to a new desktop that unfortunately, there is nothing new with. As a video editor and digital media associate, the lack of a new iMac is pushing me s…
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WHY go back to the T connector? I have laptops with both the T and L connectors, and the L connector is much better.
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Wow, they couldn't even bother to add USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt? Same excessively ginormous case? Looks like they simply updated the EFI to support the new CPUs and that's about it. Edit: Article title is misleading. Apple isn't using the new E…
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Hmm, the director's highest rating at Rotten Tomatoes is 38%. Not promising. That said, I'll probably watch it anyway.
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The preferred term is "head up display" (no "S" in "head"). That is, unless you have more than one head. It's for the same reason it's not "heads set" or "headsphones". "Heads up", on the other hand, is what you yell before someone gets hit in th…
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Nice "Umi No Toriton" avatar, Phil.
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Stood in line for 3 hours at the Bellevue, WA Apple Store with about 1,500 other people. They ran out of AT&T iPads when I was about 50 feet from the door so I went home and ordered online. Now I'm scheduled to receive my new iPad 2 on APRIL 1…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacOldTimer [Apple] can't figure out how to make a Netbook for less than $1000. Apple could buy netbooks OEM'd from Acer, writer drivers for the Acer hardware that's not out-of-the-box compatible with OS X, slap an …
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I'm no M$ apologist, but let me set clarify a few things... Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater 2. Apple is in the smartphone arena, Microsoft is not. Actually, the Windows Mobile OS (formerly Win CE) is used on a lot of smart phones.…