Assuming , of course, that our actions ended up making a better world. Some of them undoubtedly would, stop polluting, etc., but our history of "fixing" nature is not a very successful one because it seems we're shown time and again that we don't really have as good of an understanding how a man made change to fix one thing will cause problems in another area. I think just stopping pollution and researching and building clean renewable sources of energy like solar and wind would be the smart move and stay away from trying to manipulate nature. Our record on that kind of sucks.

Easy there champ, you're gonna give yourself an ulcer.

He makes very good points about the cult like status of this issue on both sides, the politicization of the issues, and the fact that it's a bit presumptuous to think that we (mankind in general) understand nature enough to be certain of all this considering we've F'd nature up every time we've interfered, even with the intent of doing good.

Who LICENSED it from Xerox for Apple stock. Feel free to know what you're talking about before you post.

I think any massive "wake up" in voters that would get Ron Paul elected would also get rid of man representatives of the current two parties too. I'm voting for him and voting 3rd party candidates for anything else, but I doubt the masses will. They "occupy" a bunch of places and then vote for the same retards all over again.

All this drivel to present a case where the Apple patents are invalid. So let's think this through, the patents are valid, Samsung copied their asses off (look pre-iPhone and after iPhone, it's blatantly obvious they turned on the copiers at Samsung) and Samsung gets deservedly smacked down. Not a popular opinion for many myopic Apple haters on Slashdot, but more than likely the outcome. If they redesign and do their own homework then fine, but their current Galaxy line is a blatant rip off of what Apple released first.

Nope, you just need to follow the hater Herd!

Put your spreadsheet away (how pathetic that you have one) and realize that Google does not currently have an offering that does what Siri does. They have snippets of it, but Siri does much more than just commands.

Try not to be a retard and read his post again. Google does not currently have an equivalent to Siri. I know that pisses the Fandroids off, but it's reality. On the other side, Siri is not a translation app, so it doesn't do what Google's translation app does. While they both accept voice as input, they functions are completely different.

Multitasking first? No. Every iPhone has had it from day 1, just not on every app sucking your battery dry.

" shiny object hipster yuppie market"

Trying pretty hard to fit in with the rest of the trendy Apple haters aren't ya?

Whoa! Very astute post, which means you'll probably be modded down as a troll or fanboy for injecting some common sense amongst all the blind Apple hatred exhibited on Slashdot.

If you think Apple is simply going after Samsung because of rectangle with rounded corners then you are probably being deliberately obtuse or you're not as smart as you think you are.

Just to reply to your bullshit, ignorant post.

optical media authoring (DVD Studio Pro and iDVD are dead)
-you can still buy the previous version of Final Cut Studio and these are included.

tape-based video (Final Cut Pro X is tapeless-only)
- see above reply

design and build web pages (iWeb is gone, as is DashCode)
-you can design and build web pages on numerous apps on OS X. Are you retarded?

generate HTML from your word processor (Pages did, but not anymore)
- Office for Mac

You're either stupid or the worst liar ever

Wow, seems like you just wanted to be cool so you joined the Apple bashing crowd. I saw no goose-stepping Steve Jobs, just someone who obviously had a different vision than you. I think your BS rant makes you look a bit transparent and foolish.

You know it's one heck of a lot more than the simplistic nonsense you just said. Look at their models before the iPhone and after. Blatant copying of design, interface, heck they even use Apple icons in their stores.