Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Mar 2010 21:55 UTC
I guess this is what some people would call "karma". Apple may shout off the rooftops that it invented multitouch, and that anyone else using it is clearly stealing it from them - but another company has taken offence to that, and has slapped the Cupertino giant with a patent infringement suit over multitouch.
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"a totally stable desktop computer with a wonderful interface in a tasteful and well constructed enclosure, a beautifully designed music player that means I can take my whole music collection anywhere I want and is a dream to use, a phone thats almost as powerful as a desktop computer with a finely engineered touch interface that does stuff that literally makes my friends gasp in admiration and which has a vast library of inexpensive apps that I can easily download and safely install and - oh wait a minute - uh?"
I'm sure you believe that the ipad is magical too 
Member since:2006-07-14
... in a tasteful and well constructed enclosure, a beautifully designed ....that does stuff that literally makes my friends gasp in admiration
Apple. There was a brief period of time earlier this decade, that they were a really nice combination of form and function, with function preceding form. I think they've really lost their way. Many of my friend's who bought Mac's during this time period are migrating away. The useful tech hasn't kept pace.
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To be fair, the latest generation of Macbook is quite nice and it gets battery life I've never seen in a typically-designed PC laptop with as much computing power. Of course that form and battery come at a price, namely that you can no longer change it yourself unless you want to void your warranty.
Member since:2005-07-06
I'm glad Apple's stuff is working out so well for you...
The OS is hardly 'totally stable'. It suffers from bugs like anything else. We've had our mac pro at work kernel panic once and the UI has locked up (beach ball of death) me times than I can count.
The phone is hardly as powerful as a desktop. Claiming so is laughable and just shows ignorance. It IS a fairly powerful handheld device. But there have been as/more powerful phones for awhile now.
I'll give you the iPod one. It is designed pretty well. Too bad I despise iTunes :p
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I'm glad Apple's stuff is working out so well for you...
I think I was, as they say, gilding the lilly for sarcastic effect. The main point is that when people talk about Apple being evil it just sounds silly. Saddam Hussein was evil, children molesters are evil. At best all one could say about Apple is that you don't like their products (which is fine as they are not a monopoly so you are always free to buy some other companies products) or that their corporate image irritates you.
Endless hyperbole just degrades the language and hinders communication.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:25 UTC
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:45 UTC
"I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:32 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)".
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:58 UTC
"The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:52 UTC
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 21:03 UTC
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 20:46 UTC
"And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 17:32 UTC
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 11:39 UTC
"The key takeaway we've reached (after two less than 24 hours playing with the iOS 7 Beta release) is this - every App must consider even basic updates to its UI to survive in a post-iOS 6 world." Great. Telling developers to update their entire application - user interface and behaviour alike - to target a look and behaviour that isn't final yet. Seems like potential for a lot of wasted work here.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 11:32 UTC
"Overall the app is really basic, and designed for on the go editing. Microsoft says it's not planning to create an iPad version, noting that tablet users can utilize the Office Web Apps instead. We'd like to see some additional options for editing, including more clear options for text formatting and the ability to insert and change images, but it's a solid attempt for something you're only really going to use for editing in emergencies." A resounding meh can be heard from all over the world.More News »
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" I know, I know - I mean look at the evil stuff they have done for me - given me a totally stable desktop computer with a wonderful interface in a tasteful and well constructed enclosure, a beautifully designed music player that means I can take my whole music collection anywhere I want and is a dream to use, a phone thats almost as powerful as a desktop computer with a finely engineered touch interface that does stuff that literally makes my friends gasp in admiration and which has a vast library of inexpensive apps that I can easily download and safely install and - oh wait a minute - uh?"
If think Apple is "evil" you really need to get out more.