Posts by William Donelson

"Don't Be Evil"

How long did that last, then?

Hint: Check date of IPO...

Two words for Dr. Who:

1. Silly

2. Boringggggggggggggg

Jeez, what a bunch of whiners and confused commenters.

What needs to happen is for the LICENSE fee to be required of Apple, and set by arbitration. Just like grownups do.

So much of what Apple and Samsung BOTH do are just skirmishes for market share and profits, and have nothing to do with actual technology.

Dream list by dreamers

If the DOJ get 1/3 of these things they will sing and drink champagne.

If only the DOJ would go after real criminals, like Wall Street & banks.

Such is the price of food...

I applaud all who stand up for truth, and especially against corporations like Google who have become parodies of their founders' original ideals. "Don't Be Evil" has been a laugh since Brin and Page sold out to Wall Street.

Where are the jobs? Where are fair taxes for the rich and corporations?

Where are the jobs? Where are fair taxes for the rich and corporations?

Yet they waste time with this?

Only voters can change this, but...

Only voters can change this, but...

The rich and the corporation know that when they make it hard to earn a living, and create fear for the loss of food and shelter and health, then they can do what they like with politicians and the law.

Oh, Joy! -Samsung, HTC, et al

Google's Android partners will be thrilled!

PDP-8 disk drive

Yes, it was about 20" x 30" x 14" high, and it held .....

... 48K bytes in 1969, hooked up to the Choate School's new PDP-8 with FOUR teletypes, and a high speed paper tape reader (300 chars per second) and punch (50 chars per second). The main CPU had 12K bytes of CORE memory.

To start it up, you had to use the front panel keys to toggle in a boot loader to read the startup from the tape drive, which then booted from the Disk...

Wow

One-handed operation is key to Many buyers' needs

You should always keep in mind that many people want a handset they can operate easily with one hand. The iPhone 5 is at the limit of that, really.

When out shopping, carrying things, holding a child's hand, etc, you want to be able to work the phone with one hand.

I rarely see this mentioned.

Super large batteries only really are found in two-handed phones. If you have battery life figures for one-hand phones, please show them.

Wow, the blatant hatred of Apple really comes through in this headline...

Relax, take a pill. Cool down.

Most companies have give-aways and special offers, regularly, you idiot.

Visioinary

I true visionary and believer in the power of computing to make people's lives better.

RIP, Doug.

"produces Javascript that is (just for a few years) compatible with non-Chrome"

It produces Javascript that is (just for a few years) compatible with non-Chrome browsers. Then the cow droppings will hit the fan.

Austerity Kills Demand

Austerity kills demand. Without demand, no company will invest.

Tories and Republicans are addicted to the rich.

Austerity only benefits the top 2-5% of society.

Never vote Tory or Republican.

Awesome!

Perhaps matter itself is a fractal; the deeper you go, the more you find.

Underfunded USPTO

The primary problem is funding. The USPTO does only a tiny fraction of searching for prior art when reviewing software patents. And god forbid they trust the applicants.

Several Apple patents are clearly shown to be prior art in videos from the 1970s Architecture Machine Group under Nicholas Negroponte, yet the USPTO appears to have ignored these. For example: page flipping as part of my Master's Thesis; The Spatial Data Management System (SDMS) 1978

Many other examples of current software patents can be seen to have appeared in the 1970s at MIT and other universities and research groups.

The USPTO gets pressed over and over by rich companies to award patents, and they "let the courts decide" with the results we see today.

The system is broken.

Specs: Does it penetrate walls? Useful range?

Could someone tell me:

Specs: Does it penetrate walls? Useful range?

Google's Evil ?

When did Google actually become Evil? .. and it surely is now.

Charts: Mb/s or MB/s ?

I assume Mb/s is Mega bytes per second?

Google: Repeating the mistakes of Microsoft

Amazing that in the 21st century, the amazing Google is still repeating the broken security philosophy of Microsoft.

Open hooks are disease vectors.

How many of these harebrained ideas will it take to really sour their users?

Each one of these ideas is fundamentally abusive and dishonest.

Why not just say: We are going to charge each of you $1 per year for Facebook.

That's a billion, good enough you wankers.

Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China,

Headline wrong, again.

Republicans are about Campaign Cash from Big Business and the Rich

Want to know why Republicans do what they do?

Republicans are about Campaign Cash from Big Business and the Rich.

Period.