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by GHFigs 15y ago
It is understood that the judge involved in the German case made his ruling based on a physical examination of the two tablets, rather than relying Apple's paper submission alone. -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14542200
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Speaking of serious comments: It used to be possible to have a submission related to Apple on Hacker News wherein the top comment was something other than shitting on John Gruber.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
But $/patent is a silly measurement, and there is no indication that HP is interested in selling or Google interested in buying.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
And not a single word about the patents themselves.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Exactly how many possible styles are there for a handheld LCD device with a touchscreen as its primary / only input? Certainly more than one. Just as not every smartphone has to look like an iPhone, not every tablet has to look like an iP
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by GHFigs 15y ago
google never cried sour grapes on nortel The argument for this is pretty simple: They bid up several billion dollars. They lost. Suddenly, they decry the bidding as anti-competitive. Sour grapes. "The winning $4.5 billion for Nortel’s pat
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I don't see a bit of sense in that. On the one hand, you're complaining about his supposed "near-obsession" (as opposed to every other person writing on the subject? what's the measurement here?) but on the other you're saying that one sent
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by GHFigs 15y ago
So now we're down to judging entire stories based on whether the last sentence includes what you think is the most important thing about it? Why even read the whole thing if you're going to ignore almost all of it?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
"I think Motorola knew they had Google by the balls. Google needed Motorola’s patent library to defend Android as a whole, Motorola knew it, and they made Google pay and pay handsomely." I don't see how you're getting a reversal out of that
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by GHFigs 15y ago
What about every other ad-supported site on the internet? How on earth are you concluding that having an audience makes you a "paid and bribed shill"?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
So the dispute is partly over the similarity of aspect ratio? No. The accusation is that Apple's image makes it look like it has the same aspect ratio, and that that falsely makes them look more similar. But the actual text of Apple's com
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Having ads on your site makes you a "paid and bribed shill"?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I don't mean to say it was accidental. Only that it's not as though Apple's case hinges on precise proportions or trick photography. The resemblance being claimed[1] isn't fabricated, even if it's been embellished. They got an injunction be
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by GHFigs 15y ago
By "disagrees with you" I mean one can find more examples of you complaining about it happening than of it actually happening. Even CamperBob's comment is (in context) referring to commenters on sites like InformationWeek. Even if we genero
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by GHFigs 15y ago
accusations of commenters being paid MS shills, which happens all the time here on HN hnsearch disagrees with you.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
So the images... In fact, the charge is that one image is so modified. The original document[1] contains many images, in which you can clearly see the difference that is supposedly being covered up. While I can totally see Apple being r
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I think you would get a big kick out of the work of Eric Hoffer.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
What the policy actually describes as suspicious behavior is: "Engages security personnel in questions focusing on sensitive subjects (security information, hours of operation, shift changes, what security cameras film, etc.)." "Draws diagr
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Macmillan didn't withdraw their books from Amazon. It was Amazon that dropped Macmillan. Edit, for the [citation needed] crowd: "We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sa
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I'm sorry, but "it's wrong because a lot of people think it" is plainly stupid, and no better than "it's wrong because fanboys think it". I am only pointing out that it isn't just supposedly fanboy sources stating it. Insinuating that I thi
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by GHFigs 15y ago
...as the first world descends into the kind of place we all see it becoming. Which is what?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
What is that supposed to mean?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
"There's an iPad market," said Tim Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies, "and then there's everyone else." Where was this rabid fanboyism printed? The Wall Street Journal , in an article titled "Tablet War is an Apple Rout". http:
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I honestly don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry you were insulted by something I didn't say, and that you feel the argument you didn't make was unfairly reduced to absurdity. I was only trying to help.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
That isn't what's being said in that paragraph at all. You're fixating one one sentence (the second) and completely ignoring the latter two. It's not about ubiquity, it's about software and mechanical parts being equivalent in their ability
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by GHFigs 15y ago
"One thing I do feel pretty certain of is that if you're against duck patents, you're against patents in general. Gradually our machines consist more and more of ducks. Things that used to be done with levers and cams and gears are now done
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I don't buy that at all. "Look -- prior art in Kleinberg!" is your opinion, not some kind of objective truth that was nefariously "slipped past" the patent office. The differences between PageRank and that prior work are crucial --they are
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I'll attempt to clarify, but these my own words, not Nilay's: 1. There is nothing inherent about "software" that suggests you can't create a patentable invention with it, therefore statements like "software patents shouldn’t be allowed" are
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by GHFigs 15y ago
No one reads them. Nobody reads patents. I do. I do with some regularity, and each time I come away more convinced that the majority of the press and discussion on the subject is complete garbage precisely because people don't bother to r
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by GHFigs 15y ago
What difference does it make?

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