Does this mean we are finally going to eliminate some of the layers of X and go with a more sane and modern approach to video display or did we just throw in a few new bells and do some performance tweaks. We really need a better, more responsive/modern display system.

login problems (sigh) and double posts before edits. Some days you can't win for losing.

If Apple wants to claim that other people are stealing their ideas and their work, then I would love to know how they justify all the stealing that they have done. I would love to know how Apple can justify stealing other people's work and then patenting it.

I want to know how Apple thinks it is ok to steal the trade dress of legal tablets/paper and act like they invented it and that they can be protected from others using the exact same thing. Is Apple licensing the legal tablet/paper look from one of the paper companies? If not then Apple needs to be sued for stealing too. I also recall several programs that used this exact icon for their simple note editor program that wasn't a full blown word processor. I recall it being used on almost every OS, Apple IIgs, Windows (all versions), Linux, Mac, etc. Apple point blank stole this from earlier programs because people have already been trained that the picture of a notepad means a small note taking program, not full blown word processor. So Apple is not original or the first, so they never should have been given a patent, not to mention so obvious and not at all innovative.

The same goes for the envelope for email. I believe that either one of the early graphic computer BBSes or Prodigy might want a word with Apple for stealing their interface icons. I would look at Prodigy, Hawayii FYI, Minitel, Habitat (pre-AOL) or early NAPLPS BBS (TurBoard, Searchlight, TBBS, Renegade, etc) or the Excalibur BBS, the first windows BBS. They all used an envelope of somSo ae sort to represent email. Apple point blank stole this from earlier programs because people have already been trained that the picture of an envelope means email. So again not original or the first so they never should have been given a patent, not to mention so obvious and not at all innovative.

I also believe that the cartoon bubble was used by early graphic BBS to indicate chat with the SYSOP as well. I know it was in fact used in Habitat as well (pre-AOL). So all Apple did here was re-purpose the icon for SMS chat/msgs. So many Windows, Internet programs (chat, IRC, Palace chat, etc) and communication software packages have used the cartoon bubble as an icon over the years. Apple point blank stole this from earlier programs because people have already been trained that the picture of cartoon bubble means talk/chat/message. Again not original or the first, so they never should have been given a patent, not to mention so obvious and not at all innovative.

The patent on the dial icon is going to fall into the exact same problems. Apple point blank stole this from earlier programs because people have already been trained that the picture of a phone or a handset means to call or use phone functions. I am pretty sure some of the early BBS programs used the phone handset and the phone itself as icons in the graphic terminal programs they used. So once again Apple is not original or the first here. Apple may have even stolen from their own developers. Early Apple II BBS programs used the mouse characters to make a full blown graphic interface for a BBS. I remember GBBS and a couple of others did this. I might even still have the floppies around here for those BBS programs and the dialers. You should also look at any of the contact managers that would dial a number for you as well. Apple point blank stole this from earlier programs because people have already been trained that the picture of a phone or handset means to call or use telephone functions. Again not original or the first, so they never should have been given a patent, not to mention so obvious and not at all innovative.

The settings icon of gears, once again Apple is not the first to use this. In fact they point blank stole this from earlier programs that used the gears icon for settings. The gears icon with gears interlocking and without gears interlocking have been used long before the iPhone, which is exactly why they used this icon because people had already been trained as to what it meant. Again not original or the first so they never should have been given a patent, not to mention so obvious and not at all innovative.

Sorry the same is true of the contact icon. All they did is combine two icons that were already long in use before the icon. They combine the outline of a person for contacts and the address book icon of the image of a typical address book. There are also several address book programs and several email programs that have already used this idea of an outline of person on top of an image of an address book. Apple once again took this icon because people have already been trained as to what it meant by earlier programs, not to mention it is just common sense to use something like this.

Apple apparently thinks it is ok to steal icons from other programs and then patent them and try to pass them off as their own brand new completely original idea that deserves a patent.

Apple also did not invent the form factor for tablets. Apple might want to go back and talk with Alan Key who came up with the idea of a tablet computer with that form factor back in 1972 and called it a Dynabook. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook Then Apple should go talk with Gridpad, invented by GRiD Systems, who actually invented the first tablet that you could put your hands on and use, not to mention it had stylus input system even though it was running on DOS. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/gridpad/index.html Tandy was the company who actually got in stores for the public to buy. Jeff Hawkins, father of GRiD system pitched the company a new device, but they deemed it was too risky. So he left GRiD System with a license of their software and founded Palm in 1992. GO Computing came out with the pen OS that used pen gestures called the PenPoint Operating System in 1992.

Apple didn't even invent the idea of mixing a PDA with a cell phone to get a smartphone. The IBM Simon, released to the public in 1993, had a touch screen and no buttons at all on the face of the phone. There was also the Kyocera 6035, the first Palm smartphone released February 2001. The first iPhone wasn't released until June 29, 2007.

All Apple did was remove the buttons down to 1 on the face of phone compared to other smartphones. The form factor wasn't original. The interface wasn't original. The iPhone interface was very much like the Palm interface. In fact nothing about the iPhone was original other than Apple would make and control the iPhone rather than just selling it to the carriers.

Nothing Apple did with the iPhone or iPad was original or innovative. If Apple hadn't made the products eventually someone else would have since the interface design and form factors were already headed in that direction or had already gotten there. Apple didn't invent these devices in a vacuum. They looked at what was currently going on and where things were headed. Apple looked at science fiction and movies for ideas, and even looked to Japan for form factor ideas. They pretty much admitted all this when the iPhone first came out. Apple getting patents on any of this is completely absurd and shows just how broken the patent system is world wide. If I had thought of the idea first of patenting other people's work, designs, graphics and idea and then use those patents to sue people to make a fortune. Oh wait someone already did that even before Apple, the patent trolls. Seems nothing Apple is doing these days is truly innovative and original.

I called it as soon as I heard the deal was closed and it wasn't Google who won the patents. There is no way that Google or the government was going to let that go unchallenged.

They already do that. Exactly how many cases have the media companies actually taken to trial and all the way to a jury verdict? Why is that? Exactly how many case of software "piracy" have be taken to trial and all the way to a jury verdict? Once you look at these numbers you see they are not worried about "pirates" or their filed court dates set for trials would be through the roof.

It is about one thing and one thing only, preserving the status quo. It's about ripping off artists of their copyrights. It's about controlling what music gets out and the music that does get out all the expenses are paid by the artists before they see any money. You only have to look at cases against the artists who try and leave the record companies to see they are far more worried about keeping artists in line and keeping control of the distribution channel for as long as they possibly can. Take a look at what the record company did to 30 seconds from Mars, telling them they couldn't leave because they owe the record company money for "a poor album that didn't recover costs". Your telling me a platinum record can't pay for the costs? Give me a break. How about what New Line Cinema did to Peter Jackson, trying to tell him that the Lord of the Rings didn't make a profit so there was nothing to split with him. He ended up suing them and won, which is extremely usual. "Pirates" are absolutely the last thing they are worried about. if demonizing "pirates' allows them to grab more control or keep control longer term.

That's your best reply to defend your position is to call people names? How old are you, because that is the kind of thing a child does.

You going to post the entire conversation you are quoting there so it can been seen in context and the other parts of what he said about that or would that invalidate your position so you won't bother to mention it? You do actually know what Christ said about full filling that law and what he came to and what the greatest law above all others and replaced them is right? Or did you just read that on some web site without knowing the full details around this supposed information.

You clearly are letting your political bias override the raw facts that show you are 100% incorrect. You really need to do a lot more study of societies across the world and in the US before you can claim what you did, because it simply isn't true and has never been true. Only those on the far radical left want to see their community change in to anything other than what it currently is because they are not the ones in charge or feel like the community owes them something that they shouldn't have to work for.

The only problem with this is that if you read the guy's whole manifesto yourself, which I have done. It becomes very clear that he is not right wing but a radical leftist in every sense of the word. Go read the entire thing yourself and then tell me his ideas would match up in any way with conservative right wing politics. If after reading the whole thing you believe that then either your reading comprehension is low or your trying to be blind to the facts so you can blame the conservatives when in fact yet again it is a leftist going radical and shooting up people again. Yea he must be a right wing conservative when he says he wants a one world government. He is clearly right wing when he says that the entire world should have 1 currency. He is right wing when he says that governments should give away more services and money to people and to "redistribute the wealth". Yep sounds exactly like a right wing conservative, oh wait those are all the things the radical leftists believe.

Yes you can get several options for Linux. The first point about not having DRM support on Linux is complete crap. The idea that Linux users won't pay for closed source programs is also complete and total crap that people just make up with no evidence to support it. If you have any doubt about that look at the Humble Indie Bundle and see how Linux users pay more per user for closed source games than Linux or Mac by a large percentage. There are multiple set top boxes running Linux that offer DRM movie and video streaming without any problems. So it isn't an issue of a technical problem. It's an issue of a political one with companies. You have Roku, Tivo, Neuros, Boxee, MeeGo, Videoscape, WD Live TV and the list just keeps on going. So clearly streaming movies/video even DRM videos on Linux is possible and is done all the time.

If you want to look at your current options under Linux. You can look at Hulu, Hulu Plus, Crackle, YouTube Movie rentals, WB tv show site, Slash Control, Veoh, CBS, NBC, ABC, TNT, Zediva, SyFy, Cartoon Network, South Park, usanetwork.com, tvland.com, jaman.com, Fear.net, PBS Frontline, Uncle Earl's Classic Television, Shocker Internet Drive-In, mevio.com, mylifetime.com, Free Film Source, MGM.com, asiapacificfilms.com, current.com, movieflix.com, cinemanow.com, joost.com, truveo.com, vudu.com, documentarystorm.com, blinkbox.com, mubi.com, ireel.com, and memocast.com just to name a few of the options out there.

You might want to tell that same nonsense to law enforcement the world over who use the Glock on a regular basis for their standard firearm. Your comments makes me even wonder if you have ever actually used one or if your just one of those people who hates all guns just on principal alone.

How in the world can he possibly claim to be a Knight's Templar and at the same time return to conservative Roman Catholicism? Seems a number of people need to learn their history a whole lot better, since trying to claim both at the same time is insanity and makes zero sense.

You might want to learn about what you are talking about before making yourself look so foolish showing that you clearly have no idea what you are talking about at all. Using your justification method to slam religion you might as well use the same method to slam every single country in the world and every society in history since they all have done the exact same thing, even the country your in now. No it doesn't matter which one because they all have done it. Your just spouting blind hate which while interesting to watch, ultimately it means nothing other than to show someone who clearly has no idea what they are talking about.

What exact makes him right wing? That he doesn't want people coming in and changing everything, that he wants it to stay the same? Sorry that isn't right wing at all. It isn't even political. Lots of people want that exact thing and will go to amazing lengths to try and make it happen. Just look at small town politics anywhere in the world and you will see this. People want to protect their way of life and for things to be the same forever. That has zero to do with politics, and everything to do with people hating change. Not wanting things to change isn't even weird or insane. It's a very very common attitude with a large portion of society.

You might want to actually look in to the rules that were set up for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to be run by Congress about 7-8 years ago and who exactly it was who put those rules in place and told Freddie and Fannie how they must approve mortgages. If you really look at the history of both of them and how Democrats in Congress were involved you might be very surprised at where the problems lie and when they were created. Democrats in Congress made this whole mess and they were told point blank it was going to blow up in their faces with some of the asinine rules that they forced on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Economist and the banking sector all told them their messed up rules were going to create a nightmare and that is exactly what has happened. If you force them to give out loans no matter what, regardless of how bad a loan it is, don't be surprised when it all goes to hell in a hand basket. Democrats have made a game out of blaming Wall Street for this mess and refusing to acknowledge their main role in this whole mess. If Congress says they are class A securities what are you suppose to do stand up and say you guys are insane and they aren't? A number of people did exactly that and were told to sit down and shut up and stop trying to take advantage of the middle class and the poor. Once again Democrats blame anyone but themselves for the problem. We are seeing now more of the exact same thing.

Someone needs to go back and learn their history correctly. Seems someone bough in to some serious historical rewriting that seems to be so common these days. Try and do you own research and find out for yourself rather than just repeating what seems to popular but clearly so very wrong. I would bet your going to try and bring the Crusades into it. Well if that is your point then you clearly have no understanding of the Crusades and need to go back and learn the actual full history of the Crusades, as well as other commonly misunderstood historical events that I hear people complaining about when clearly they haven't researched the history completely themselves or were taught really bad history which seems to be very common in schools and universities these days.