Curious...

"The invention is directed to a communications protocol which facilitates the exchange of interface information between a host processor and a terminal, such as a workstation, smart phone, portable computer, etc.,"

Filing date 1992.

First use of term "Smart Phone", 1997....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Origin_of_the_term

Seems to me that the summary is really an expansion. And I'd wager their broad patent was done on the mainframe decades before hand.

Yes, I know there were links to entire other articles. Including ones I knew would have mention of the patent, and likely a link to THE patent. But I was lazy today, and this story wasn't that intriguing for me.

So I just wanted to know what they were actually being sued for. I figured they had 2-3 paragraphs they could have simply mentioned "Patent involving....2-3 words"

Some days we'd like to just relax and be lazy. ;-)

Yes, and it also means more mild winters and more mild summers.

Global climate change pretty much encompasses ANY state, and as such is a non-testable hypothesis (!= science)

Really, cause every prediction I heard pretty much failed. And the global warming alarmists have changed their predictions almost as much as the Jehovah's Witnesses.

(but I kind of consider both to be in the same boat)

Might I inquire if you read anything I posted?

Yes, I rather acknowledged that the poles shift. My point was, are you assuming that the poles shift uniformly over history. Or might it in fact be more common to have little bursts and lulls. Which does nature tend to model. My arguement is not that the poles are shifting but is it a uniform steady rate or not. Problem is you really don't know that fact. And that is an UBER important fact needed to make anything more than scientific conjecture.

"But they're shifting faster"

Shifting faster than what? then when? The last 20 years? The last 100 years...oh,...wait....you're arguing science by saying the mere observation of a centimeter of beach of sand gives you a full understanding of the entire coastline.

The big problem is a double standard in your guy's science. You want to embrace every storm, earthquake, and axis shift as proof of climate change. Then lambast others and exclaiming weather is not climate. Agreed. So stop using it as such.

Nor is the observation of a mere few decades or even a century, a basis to establish a process that has occurred for milennia.

Right....so why the heck dow GW alarmists tout every earthquake, every drought, every flood as proof of global warming.

You can't have it both ways. You can't keep telling us to shut up, weather is not climate, and then constantly point to weather as signs of climate change.

That is unscientific and incredulous.

Yes....

But Adobe didn't have the balls to go around bad mouthing other company's software while their own pants were down.

I've actually met a lot of those software packages. But no, nothing in my entire life of computers has caused me to expend more time than iTunes. It is the single most hated and despised piece of software that I have ever installed.

In fact 80% of what I hate about the iPhone involved iTunes/synching/DRM issues.

Of the patent(s) at hand would have been nice...

Then you drive through Maryland on highway 70. Receive this threatening letter for violating a toll plaza. Except none exists, it's an automated license plate capture camera that autogenerates a bill.

But they still use the same letter as if you'd run the toll booth.

*priceless*

Government is FAIL on almost every level.

Okay, for the past five years or so I've experience some of the most frigid winters. We had an extremely cold winter. Followed by a winter with record snow (4 ft in two days). Followed by a year with a mild winter but a huge snow in fall and a late frost in April. Then this past winter we've had snow flurries on about 1/2 the days. And now, in the middle of may we had a frost wipe out my second planting of sweet potatoes and peppers.

This is well past the Farmer's Almanac.

So seriously, F-GW, F-AlGore, F-Idiots who shout doom and gloom. I'm going to light my fire pit, burn some carbon filled wood. And pour used motor oil over it just to help warm things up.

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EXPLANATIONS for Polar Shift.

1. Global Warming, heck maybe they're right. Maybe the ice melting is rotating the planet.
  (Or maybe the planet rotating is melting the ice, though I would think that would mean the ice would merely shift directions.)

2. Maybe Three Gorges Dam in China

3. Maybe Fukishima earthquake, tidal wave, what not also contributed to the shift.

4. Perhaps we're applying the sure and steady scientific error. Where we assume things ALWAYS happen at the same rate. So if we see that the pole moved 1 meter in 300 years. We assume that it moved a centimeter a year. Rather than having any proof that the average movement is consistent. It may have moved 3 centimeters one year and 1/2 a centimeter another year.

5. If we used logic, we'd quit feeding the poor, quit having wars and devote ALL of our money to get us to a second planet and solar system. I mean seriously, what's the point of saving the poor only to have them wiped out by an asteroid. Just saying....Bruce Willis can't save us every time. I mean yes, he stopped Armageddon, and Cobra...but really. Can we rely on him to bail our butts out of every mess?

The People of the World should burn Mosanto to the ground.

90% of the American soy is Mosanto. And Mosanto "owns" all the seed. This is fucking ludicrous. Dangerous. And potentially such a threat to humanity. That I don't see how the mere "benefit for innovation" does not outweigh the threat. In which case, these patents should be deemed null and void.

So if Mosanto winds up destroying a key crop such as corn or soy. What then? risking such is unacceptable. Nor is letting a company claim ownership of an entire food product (eg: soy, corn, etc).

Seriously, nearly 1/2 a dozen times I have followed severely drunk drivers. Not a tipsy slowed down reflexes drunk. A swerving all over the road drunk. And guess how many times the police gave a damn to even respond.

Meanwhile I had to follow these cars, flash my lights and honk my horn every time they almost hit another vehicle or guardrail. So if 0.20% alcohol doesn't mean crap to police. Than why should we lower the limit?

Steve Jobs death I believe was because his accusation of accusing Flash as being crappy software while iTunes remained by far the worse POS ever written, literally guilted Mr. Jobs to death.

Seriously though...I've never wasted more time than I have with iTunes. Never had any app cause my system to become unresponsive more. I would wager $5,000 Apple deliberately chose to make for a sucky experience on Windows.

Simply create a Wikipedia article. And than post the design file in the article.

One would be hard pressed to argue that Wikipedia is NOT a library or similar resource.