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by veemjeem 14y ago
I guess it depends if you are a GV user or not. If you route all your phones through GV and only give out your GV number, you probably only use GV for texting. When I use my carrier for texting, recipients see it coming from a number they
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I'm curious how their device might be configured. The eyefi includes a usb dongle that require you to use a computer to configure the wifi settings with. They could do something like the electric imp where you configure it via sending it
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Sadly not all software is posix compliant, there's still tons of stuff that just doesn't work in windows without lots of painful work. For example, if you use nodejs, around 40% of the npm modules that use native code doesn't compile prope
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Surprisingly, there are quite a few prepaid data plans from major carriers in the US. For example, I'm using T-Mobile's 4G Monthly plan which provides me with 5GB of data for $30 a month, no contract. You can actually get a nano sim from T
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think everyone understands the reasoning behind preferring micro usb, but why can't engineers consider users when designing a new connector? I feel like Apple is probably the only company who would go that extra mile to make cables user
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by veemjeem 14y ago
The same could be said about the first gen ipod, when compared against the current lineup of mp3 players at the time. The ipod didn't even have wifi or a color display!
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by veemjeem 14y ago
What about the reversible cable connector? When was the last time you had a cable that didn't require looking at the cable before plugging it in? I know it's not really an innovation, but I don't understand why all cables can only have on
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by veemjeem 14y ago
That's what people in semiconductors do -- they try to take a bunch of features and package it in a single chip to reduce costs. There are chips out there with temperature, accelerometer, and proximity sensors packaged in a single unit. T
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by veemjeem 14y ago
blame the carriers. they know iphone's target market has money. buy an unlocked phone and use it with a prepaid data plan.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I like that their new cables are reversible. I hate how the micro-usb connectors can only fit one way, and it's not obvious which way the connector is when viewing from a distance. I always have to squint at the hole & cable every tim
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Design matters even when it's not art. There's a great little documentary called "Objectified". It's worth watching if you want to see a rebuttal for your opinion.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I don't really think it has anything to do with egos. Maybe this goes back to steve yegge's conservative vs liberal languages. clojure & python have communities that are much more conservative than ruby's. Yegge's argument that pytho
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Maybe you have a crappy monitor, but the picture looks quite sharp from here.
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How is that not considered entrapment?
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Should have ordered from element14 -- 4 day delivery time for me. I also heard that mcm electronics is pretty fast too. You should be blaming the distributors, not RPi. There are many distributors, so choose one that doesn't suck.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I guess you need to google "design patents". I feel like 95% of the people on HN don't know the difference between the two. FWIW, philip morris patented rounded corners on their cigarette boxes. If you think that's crazy, you should see
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by veemjeem 14y ago
You can patent icons and fonts, why would a user interface be different here? We could revoke the ability to patent icons & fonts, but then there would be no financial motivation for companies to design fonts to sell.
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I think it's only disgusting because it's a very visible case, and affects consumers directly. There are probably hundreds of patent wars that happen in the enterprise space that nobody reads about because nobody would understand even if t
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by veemjeem 14y ago
So I'm curious, how should design be protected? Unique designs come from other places besides technology -- fashion industry files design patents on almost every "unique" accessory they produce. If we were to remove design patents, someth
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think it's only obvious in hindsight. The massively popular Ugg boots are not seemingly "obvious design".
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by veemjeem 14y ago
What types of protection do you suggest a country implement to protect design/form? Trademark, copyright, and trade dress protection will not cover "design objects". If Louis Vuitton were to come out with a new fall handbag, what would th
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Is that the point of the design patent though? Fashion designers always apply for design patents. The other day I saw that Philip Morris has a patent for rounded corners on their cigarette boxes. Gucci has a patent for the shape of their
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I'm sure several commenters will soon note, the LG Prada was not multitouch, the Prada II was multitouch, but it came out after the iPhone. The Prada's "touch" was a really fake touch... like it would show buttons but you would have to pr
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Is the update for the Nexus S OTA? I haven't gotten mine yet. In fact, I haven't gotten the 4.0 (ICS) OTA yet. I heard they released a version but pulled it... I have yet to see anything beyond 2.3 for my Nexus S.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
all their phones have micro usb connectors. the 30pin adapter is only for their tablets.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Hm, I'd argue it's not that obvious, otherwise companies would just try to miniaturize everything hoping that there's a market for it. Companies won't typically make this leap because it's fairly costly and their product manager may not ge
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I agree with your statement on LCD monitors, but where does one draw the line between design that can be patented, and one that cannot? While googling around, I found that philip morris has a patent on rounded corners for their cigarette b
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Yes, because design patents expire, there's even greater reason to need to defend them while they exist. Design patents and trade dress protection often go hand in hand. In order to show trade dress infringement, one needs to show consume
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I'd argue there are certain aspects of the iPhone that are truly revolutionary, even if the ideas may have existed in other contexts before. For example, the scrolling mechanism on the iPhone was not done by anyone else prior Apple's produ
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by veemjeem 14y ago
> This isn't the case with patents You're confusing "utility" patents with "design" patents. You have obligation to defend the design patents because you'll need this to apply for trade dress protection.

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