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Comment: In case you missed, what patents is it about (Score 1) 168

by Kartu (#43476609) Attached to: Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft

Here is it, thanks to Barns & Nobles:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105113-microsofts-android-bullying-revealed-by-barnes-noble

More details
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2011111122291296

TLDR:
1) Background image loading
2) Operating system provided tabs.
3) Handles when selecting text.
4) Annotation of electronic documents. (annotating them without changing the original document)
5) Web browser loading status icons.
6) Simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices. (basically everything with a touchscreen infridges)

Comment: SuSe Linux (Score 1) 573

by Kartu (#43270071) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro?

I'm neither "experienced Linux user" nor "very new to Linux", somewhere in between.
When I looked for Linux as a secondary desktop (internet banking, development) I tried Ubuntu first.
It drove me mad with the "ubuntu one" interface.

Tried SuSe Linux, and still using it. While being free, it also has a bit of commercial polish.

Comment: Re:I hope Nokia's lawyers wreaks havoc (Score 1) 180

by Kartu (#43263051) Attached to: Nokia Officially Lists Patents Google's VP8 Allegedly Infringes

Sorry but I don't get how patent being just a "basic concept" makes this article or the fact that Google will have problems FUD?
Microsoft managed to get 20-25$ per device for patents like "loading status icon":
http://androidcommunity.com/barnes-noble-reveals-microsofts-android-patents-in-detail-20111114/

USPO grants patents for such crap, and it is SUCCESSFULLY used as a weapon.
And here we come, Nokia, multi-billion company, former leader of the mobile industry, now de-facto delivery boy of the Microsoft (and, what a coincidence, ran bu ex MS manager) goes after Google with this crap.

Comment: Re:life-long updates (Score 3, Interesting) 687

by Kartu (#43230233) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy?

Apple hater here.

After "Clouds and Sheeps" game running on my android tablet managed to charge me 9 Euro (non-refundable) for "5000 happy stars" (some in game crap) without asking for password or anything like that, simply because I was silly enough to buy something from google's appstore USING A PC and google support said "oh uh, so what" I see quite a number of reasons to be paranoid with payment systems.

Apple at least asks for password.

Comment: Re:having said that (Score 1) 127

by Kartu (#43197441) Attached to: Physicists Discover 13 New Solutions To Three-Body Problem

Mm, but Bells result only show that there are no hidden local variables assuming function can be written in form blahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory#Local_hidden_variables_and_the_Bell_tests

So strictly speaking it doesn't prove that no hidden local variables theory is possible. (even though hidden local vars functions that could be chosen to match quantum results do not "feel natural")

Comment: No he wasn't (Score 1) 433

by Kartu (#43063639) Attached to: Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size?

It took Android a while to start grabbing tablet market share, 10" tablet's weren't particularly successful either. Android didn't start with 7" exclusively. There was 10" Galaxy tab from Samsung, there were Motorola Xoom, Acer A500 and probably many others which I've have never heard of. None of them were particularly successfull in 2011, regardless of size.

Comment: Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 433

by Kartu (#43063559) Attached to: Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size?

You are downplaying media's role in Apple success, and it's very very wrong.
Next to NOBODY tried gazillion of cool mp3 players, many of which (Sony's Walkman 8xx series for instance) were superior in all regards (price, build quality, features, easy of use) to iPods (and what not).
People don't go out trying various things.
Most choose from a couple of hyped devices.

Comment: Could you vote with your wallet vs Standard Oil Co (Score 1) 369

by Kartu (#43048909) Attached to: Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars

Could you "vote with your wallet' vs "Standard Oil Co."?

There is a fixed price of what do you pay for a movie (adjusted for length, 3D), finished.
How come, where is a "free market"?

Guess what, a game or a movie is an exclusive product, you can't just "go to the other publisher" and get the same thing there.
How can it come down to a choice "buy it or you won't get it at all" in a free market?
So "free market" doesn't really apply here.

And oh, maybe money pumped into industry is spent on improving movies? I bet 50 million $ for Tom Hanks's role in "Illuminati" improved movie a lot...
(And while prices went down, yes, number of customers has exploded. Blizzard, in the times when WoW population hit 10 million, mentioned that its total expenses were about 300 million. They made 4 times more on the subscriptions alone.)

I repeat: there is no competition on price.
And when major players on the market go DRM/always on/don't resell route, "voting with your wallet" turns you into a kind of Don Quixote.

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