No company, huh? Provably wrong. Lowe's Home Improvement does for one.

http://careers.lowes.com/benefits_part.aspx

I'm not sure that he fancied himself an expert. More likely he knows just how invalid his patent is and is more interested in propping up the whole broken system.

Seriously, how did it every get through the USPTO? That's rhetorical, I worked at IBM for too long and saw way too many of the patents that my group got.

rel="nofollow" is what you use with a link to indicate that it should not be considered for page rank. Slashdot already uses that as you note.

It will still show up as a hit in a search.

All books have an isbn bar code on the inside flap (plus the isbn can be generated from the upc12+5, but many cheap scan guns won't see the last 5). I scan in all my books with a $20 scan gun and the database is populated from look up to google. Really handy to be able to see if I have a book while at B&N.

That was the old IBM. Today's IBM is more: "work quickly, like a scared little bunny! You don't want to be the one with your head on the chopping block tomorrow."

My wife does fine art photography. I wish you could see the three canvases currently up in the DAC gallery in Manteo, NC. They are quite stunning.

The same images also look amazing on Kodak metallic paper.

This sounds just like IBM eReview (internal project). I was on the development team in 2001 and the architect from 2003-6. It's still used internally to review many of the external products' documentation. Amazon's patent goes beyond what we did, but many of their dependent and independent claims would have been covered.

While we never did follow through on making it an external product, it was shown to Adobe and others.

The problem there is that you generally need to euthanize the animal after the experiment. With lawyers it'll be too much fun and the researches will too often do it before the experiment is over.

It's only funny because at this point the polls show her as having no chance.

As an independent I can vote in the Democrat primaries. I voted against her. Jim Neal was much better, but had no chance because openly gay in NC == unelectable.

Honeycomb does not have this behavior. It takes me back so I can take more pictures. Obviously I disagree about the back button being a bad design, but I certainly wouldn't be happy if I came across an app that overrode the default behavior of that button. Overriding the expected behavior of that button is not something I would put into one of my apps.

Gave it a day. It takes me back to my app as expected. In fact the previous apps button (or whatever they're calling that) shows me and takes me back to the apps I was using 3 days ago, in the state I left them. Checked task killer and they weren't backgrounded.

Double clicking on the home button is not intuitive. I would never have thought to try it, but a back button is pretty obvious. The gestures in a Pre weren't obvious, but the video that came up when you bought it taught them to you in under 5 minutes.

I still stack them up best to worse as:
WebOS
Android
iOS
Blackberry

I keep trying to figure out what people mean by iOS's user experience. I've got a transformer with the dock. Absolutely love it. Notifications are simple and unobtrusive. There is a back button that works.

I borrowed an iPad for a week and had to keep reminding myself NOT to throw it against the wall since it wasn't mine. At any point the damned thing needed to open a browser or map from one app the way back was not apparent and I ended up hitting the home button and needing to navigate back to where I was in the original app. In Honeycomb, I just hit the back button and I'm back. I guess if all you do is play Angry Birds it would seem pretty simple.

Don't take this as a flame. I'm really interested in why someone who uses both iOS and Android on a regular basis would say that iOS has a better user experience. I develop on and use both, but my personal iPod Touch is used for nothing more than a source of music on my alarm clock and in my Jeep. I dread using it for anything else.

And as an owner of the original Palm Pre I can certainly say that WebOS beats them both by a mile. Too bad the hardware was such shite and the limitations in the API were woeful.

Because it was the cheapest option for doing full iOS development. It never gets used beyond that because MacOS sucks.

My laptop that was only $100 more dual boots to Windows for .Net development and Linux for everything else and yes, it does run circles around the Mac.