"While Apple's technology is a 'very nice invention', the technique used in Android differs from the iOS solution, argued Bas Berghuis van Woortman, one of Samsung's lawyers. Because the Android based method is more hierarchical the system is more complex and therefore harder for developers to use, he said. [...] Apple disagrees. 'They suggest that they have a lesser solution, but that is simply not true', said Apple's lawyer Theo Blomme to judge Peter Blok, who presided over a team of three judges, in a response to Samsung's claim." I just wish these companies and their lawyers could see and hear themselves. If only for a few seconds. Not even Monty Python could write this. By the way, all these patents were already thrown out last year by the Dutch courts, but Apple started a 'bottom procedure', a more thorough handling of the case. Three expert IP judges preside, and due to the earlier ruling, Apple is fighting an uphill battle.
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Ahh, Ultima V - at least I guessed right that it's some RPG, when asking recently IIRC ;p
Well, I never really got into Ultimas, never really had the chance; more a thing or two about Fallout, Planescape, Icewind Dale (but strangely, not Baldur's...), with a touch of "middle-gen" FFs. Just some brief contact with Ultima VIII Pagan.
But looking at http://www.mobygames.com/game/ultima-v-warriors-of-destiny/screensh... I suspect "just the way Richard Garriot intended it to be" is not the most fortunate choice of words...
PS. Clear cache/proxy? And maybe load a new version of that Avatar avatar ( 
) - the one you have seems to be getting automatically up-converted in a "modern & nice" way at some stage, blurring the pixels ...which just doesn't fit it, IMHO.
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Yes, you did mention it earlier, but you have an annoying habit of replying just before the replying-deadline so I can't replay back. :-p
Yeah, I cleared all the caches, but I couldn't get the Avatar to appear on any computer or phone in any place. But after reading your reply I noticed it did appear! An now I'm on another computer and there it is too.
Regarding Ultima V, maybe "as intended" doesn't describe what I meant the best way. Richard may have wanted it different, but hardware restrictions held him back. So let's change it to: how he (and his co-programmers) made it. The rest are conversions.
The Amiga being a very bad one. Music would play, you'd pick something up, the music would stop, the picking-something-up sound would play, the music would start again... at the beginning! How on earth did that ever get past play testing or deemed acceptable!?
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
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"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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Sadly a number of people see this, the Avatar from Ultima V, but I keep seeing my previous graphic, the Commodore logo. :-(
But it is a great game! I haven't played it on the Apple ][, but since it was designed on one it should be great there too. And it would be the original one, just the way Richard Garriot intended it to be.
I just can't seem to get hold of an Apple ][.