The purpose of a patent is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts". (Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution)

Since sitting on a patent cannot possibly promote progress of any sort, doing so ~should~ invalidate the patent.

Well, if Apple sues Samsung for making a tablet with the same dimensions, but black, despite prior art (Space Odysessy 2001)

I can dislike someone and still think they are a genius, and I can like someone and think they aren't a genius. Most of the time, Jobs wasn't even the best person in the room to apply the term 'genius' to.

Yeah sure, the 30% cut being exactly the same as Apple wants on everything else sold through them is a complete coincidence ... the fact that items sold through other venues can't be offered cheaper exactly like their policy for apps in their appstore with in app purchasing ... all a complete coincidence.

The agency model has DESIGNED BY APPLE all over it ...

They cost more than paperbacks because publisher is trying to get its money back with the higher cost. You are right people tend to complain a lot about pricing. My only problem is when the ebook price is MORE than a version of the physical book. I'll chose to buy the physical book instead,

The best case performance doesn't determine success, worst case does. How well do they perform when, for example, they have a month of overcast skies?

I was thinking that. Maybe they meant that average power output, over one hour, was 22 GW?

0 of course. That's when they're buying power from France's nukes though.

Nooo...he is saying what Apple and Foxconn is doing is simply a variation of a Potemkin Village where you build a front to please the suits but in reality the vast majority of Foxconn workers will be living like shit.

And? They already killed Mac OS X Server and removed X11 support,

The most recent version of SkyDrive just shows up as a folder on your PC. Any app can read and write files to it using normal filesystem APIs, and they get automatically synced. And, of course, said app doesn't have to be distributed through the Windows Store.

Siri results are pretty basic as it is. The Yelp iPhone app is a much better tool for finding restaurants or such.

I hate siri 1.0 because it removed the standard apple voice control that was in the 3GS and 4.0 that works when you dont have a internet connection.

Some of us prefer not to degrade individual liberties for the sake of a brand fetish or corporate power.

Try asking Microsoft for the source code of their OS (particularly Winsock which is a ripoff of BSD sockets) and see how far you get. Even if you get the source you will not be able to modify it and redistribute the changes.