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by _Simon 13y ago
> This is not correct. You're thinking of the Novell patents. Google did make a bid on the Nortel patents, but was not offered a place within Rockstar. This is not correct. See http://www.networkworld.com/community
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by _Simon 13y ago
Sorry, I don't, because where does it end? IMHO, it's nothing more than a token gesture. Financial compensation won't change the wrong that has been done. It's superficial and ever so slightly patronising. It's symp
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by _Simon 13y ago
"If it was my tax pound I'd support this." Well that's easy to say when it isn't. It is my tax pound and I don't. I don't support the posthumous pardon at all, and those calling for the posthumous knight
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by _Simon 13y ago
Reading the article, it sounds like it should carry an "Advertising Feature" sub heading. I've long thought Scofield is a hack. This piece confirms it.
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by _Simon 13y ago
This is so tiresome. The 30% is a service charge. It covers hosting, distribution and credit card processing to name but a few things. Before the AppStore, entities such as handango we're charging more than double as a percentage. It&#
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by _Simon 13y ago
The legality of the currency isn't confirmed either.
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by _Simon 13y ago
> ""piece of glass encased in plastic/metal, with maybe a button underneath"" That isn't what the design patent says. It's far more nuanced.
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by _Simon 13y ago
By 'people like you' I mean those that continue to perpetuate the meme in an incorrect and dismissive manor.
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by _Simon 13y ago
No. The argument re "rounded rectangles" (actually a meme invented by people like yourself) is about trade dress, which in the US is covered by a design "patent", which is not the same thing as a technical patent. This i
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by _Simon 13y ago
Getting a little bored of RMS now. He's becoming increasingly like chicken little rather that the boy that tells the emperor he's naked.
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by _Simon 13y ago
3) That is just meaningless anecdote. Conversly, I'm seeing as many (possibly more) shattered S3 and S4 devices as iPhones. I've owned a 3Gs, a 4s and a 5 and not had to replace the glass ever. 4) So if there is a market for keybo
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by _Simon 13y ago
You don't have to use the desktop (I assume that is what you mean) version now. But hey, you keep on rattling out those 2007 memes...
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by _Simon 13y ago
Fanboyism? Oh please. How old are you? Paraonid jerk.
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by _Simon 13y ago
Bullshit.
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by _Simon 13y ago
Too much faith in the Guardian around these parts at the moment.
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by _Simon 13y ago
Yet more intelligentsia bullshit from the Guardian. No. Economics is categorically not a science. It's not even a social science. It is, at best, one of the humanities.
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by _Simon 13y ago
It's worth pointing out that Kiplin lost his only son, Jack, to the Great War.
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by _Simon 13y ago
> One way of getting it is by donation to the British Legion. It the only way.
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by _Simon 13y ago
I personally find this deeply offensive. This polemic is featured in the Guardian practically every year and its just more of the same sanctimonious bullshit we're becoming accustomed to from them. There is a lot of good feeling toward
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by _Simon 13y ago
> Don't let the fragmentation FUD scare you. But we should all just accept that Google does no wrong by listening to a perennial Apple troll? Do me a favour! That's the problem with you open source terrorist; it all black and
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by _Simon 13y ago
Article's author is Dan Goodin. I'd take everything he says with a quarry full of salt. This guy is symptomatic of all that is wrong with Ars these days.
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by _Simon 13y ago
I have a Nexus 4. Had a Nexus S. I find it irritating, in a papercut kind of way.
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by _Simon 13y ago
Considering how many people end up with it by default because it's the cheap (or free) option would suggest otherwise...
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by _Simon 13y ago
To pretend that for the majority this isn't annoying is disingenuous.
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by _Simon 13y ago
You fandroids are just ridiculous. The author is an Android developer who blogs an awful lot about how much better Android is than just about anything else. He criticises one aspect and you lot (usual suspects) come out and ardently defend
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by _Simon 13y ago
What a prig...
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by _Simon 13y ago
Get over yourself. Your glib dismissal (incorrectly) assumes that Jobs' contribution was merely financial and therefore completely without merit. My comment was that his bankrolling of Pixar, as well as the foresight not to meddle where h
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by _Simon 13y ago
He gets and is due some credit. To insinuate that Jobs had nothing to do with Pixar's success is wide of the mark. If what Jobs achieved is so easy, go and do it...
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by _Simon 13y ago
But he had the sense to bankroll and not meddle. He had the courage to let Lassiter, Catmull and Co. to run things their way, which has produced some of the finest story telling and animation of the last 100 years. Did he assemble the tea
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by _Simon 13y ago
Th idea of WIMP really wasn't "invented" at PARC. That organisation gets way too much credit. They amalgamated several concepts that had been developed since the late 1940's. I'm not suggesting that PARC's work wasn't important, but to blit

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