Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 07:55 AM EDT |
I still have a copy of Lotus Smart Suite for OS/2 here. Anyone need it? ;-)
I bought it back in the late 90s when I was working at IBM. The employee price
was about $35 or so, IIRC.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 01:36 PM EDT |
Live: Apple addresses Senate on taxes
12:14 p.m.: McCain jokes about why
he has to constantly update his apps.
[What Cook should have said] Senator,
America is now 236 years old. Why are you still passing laws? Shouldn't you have
gotten it right by now?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 02:44 PM EDT |
[PJ: How frustrating is this exchange? -
12:14 p.m.:
McCain jokes about why he has to constantly update his apps. "Sir, we try to
make them better all the time," says Cook.
The senator is not
as un-knowledgeable as he is being made out to be. They do this sort of thing
all of the time when getting testimony from people. They make small talk and/or
joke with the person testifying to make them feel more at ease and to try to get
them to let their guard down to try to catch them off guard with the serious
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 21 2013 @ 08:15 PM EDT |
Forbes
Newspick
"We pay all the taxes we owe every single
dollar," Cook said. "We don't depend on tax gimmicks." NZ Herald, and the photo shown with this article looks slightly
less
than "Tim Cool". The Herald's print edition carries instead a story
syndicated from Bloomberg for which Google can find only this video version. The Herald runs a sidebar on
the
story, observing that Apple NZ reported sales to September 2012 of $571
million, resulting in a tax-paid profit of $5.5 million. Now, where did
those juicy
margins go?
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 12:32 AM EDT |
The availability of patents and the property
rights they secure
are driving technological innovations
once imagined only as science fiction -
tablet computers,
smart phones...
I would like to know
what evidence they have for that.
Furthermore, how can they prove that in the
absence of
patents technology would not thrive? I think patent
advocates
repeat that mantra so often that for them it
becomes fact, without any
evidence.
Back in the day, it was always the race to be first to
market
that drove technology. I'm sure it still is an
enormous factor today. When you
go out to buy a new
electronic device, you are more likely to buy it from an
established company with a proven track record in that
niche, perhaps the same
the pioneered the market in the
first place. Johnny-Come-Latelies often don't
do very well
(Microsoft's Windows Phone, for example).
I don't believe
patents drive technology. I think common
sense can inform us that the overhead
involved in supporting
this humongous infrastructure called the "Patent system"
composed of the USPTO, courts, judges, thousands of lawyers,
navigating the
patent thicket, and billions of dollars and
endless disruption caused by
discovery cannot possibly lead
to increased innovation. I think this meme, that
patents
drive technology, has to be challenged at every turn.
Say it
with me, out loud and clear: "I demand you prove
to me that it is worth the
cost of the infrastructure
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 22 2013 @ 08:19 AM EDT |
USPTO:
No Change to Software Patentability
Evaluation (IPwatchdog)
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Authored by: MadTom1999 on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 12:50 PM EDT |
Jury Nullification:
link
While this
may not be 'allowed' in current (US) law I've always been under the impression
this is one of the functions of a jury - its a statistically significant
representation of the population that can say 'well the law may have been broken
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 03:15 PM EDT |
Link
A
Google engineer has called Microsoft out on a recent security flaw in the
Windows operating system, and even said that the Windows creator is hostile
toward third-party vulnerability researchers.
Scroogled?
Who? :-)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 04:24 PM EDT |
Was that a
Newspick or an
advertisement? Embedded in the body of the text with blatant
highlight an invitation to Let's Talk.
Why would I take a $70/mth
contract with Sprint, when I have a $20/yr
contract with Vodafone that lets me use any of
these phones. This is Samsung's competition in India and
Africa. Apple is a sideshow.
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