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Authored by: mrisch on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT |
We can't know that computer systems will work in practice.
We might think it
will work, but there's a reason we hammer
with QA testing. And sometimes the
hardware just doesn't
behave like we think it should.
That said, your "hard"
problems point is well taken. I'm
happy to have experts say which problems were
not hard -
though there's often a hindsight bias. I would prefer that
they say
so before they see what the solution was.
Please show us patents
that actually have claims that depend
on this difference. Your trouble is of
course that the
difference is entirely philosophical and not connected to
the
actual operation of the general purpose computer so your
task is hopeless. For
the computer everything is on/off
switches.
The Swype patent is
an example. I installed a ROM that
didn't have the .apk. My keyboard didn't
swipe. It didn't
have the capability in the "will it do it" sense even though
it had the capability in the "can it do it" sense. I
reinstalled the old ROM,
and suddenly my phone had the
capability in the "will it do it" sense.
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