fidget42 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:"Look and feel" bullshit (Score 1) 172

by fidget42 on Sunday July 03, 2011 @04:46PM (#36648122) Attached to: Samsung Withdraws Counter-Suit Against Apple

I've posted this before, but what the hell. Everyone with common sense can see Samsung was imitating the iPhone was recent releases.

Imitation is a necessary aspect of fair competition. Without it competitors would be forced to engage in conscious avoidance of competing designs, which I generally see as an overly burdensome thing. I think our IP-centric culture has blinded us to the fact that human progress owes a great deal to people imitating and even duplicating what others have done in the past.

There is imitation and the the is what Samsung did, but you knew that. I find it hard to believe that you are that misinformed.

Comment Re:"Look and feel" bullshit (Score 1) 172

by fidget42 on Sunday July 03, 2011 @02:13PM (#36647412) Attached to: Samsung Withdraws Counter-Suit Against Apple

"Also, note that Apple is only suing Samsung for producing a device that looks a lot like the iPhone in many more ways than just a rectangular icon grid."

Such as, say, the phone's shape?

Apple isn't suing Google over the Android UI, just Samsung for making the Android UI look more like the iPhone UI than other Android phones.

Which particular aspects of the iPhone UI do you think should be owned exclusively by Apple? If Apple were to sell its UI as a product (just the UI, not the operating system), what would the sales brochure look like?

Good thing you were able to find a Samsung phone that doesn't look like an iPhone, rather than looking at every news article about the suit. Like this one. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/yowza-apple-hits-samsung-with-lawsuit-over-iphone-clones/12360

Comment Re:Palm (Score 1) 172

by fidget42 on Sunday July 03, 2011 @01:45PM (#36647290) Attached to: Samsung Withdraws Counter-Suit Against Apple

Too bad Palm is sort of out of business. They came up with the buttons-below-the-touchscreen concept that's been copied by just about every touchscreen-enabled device since 1997.

You mean, like this pre-Palm device? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Newton_MP100.jpg

Comment Re:500,000 New Android Devices A Day (Score 0) 203

by fidget42 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @09:09PM (#36606376) Attached to: Another Android Device Maker Signs Patent Agreement With Microsoft

The fact that the entire mobile developer world is now doing Android IS the reason Microsoft has been reduced to this humiliating desperation.

Wha? When did Android take over "the entire mobile developer world"?

Comment They are complying, I guess. (Score 2) 186

by fidget42 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @02:29PM (#36601474) Attached to: Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market

I suppose that is one way to comply with the law.

Comment Re:Well, duh? (Score 2) 302

by fidget42 on Friday June 17, 2011 @11:10PM (#36482644) Attached to: Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad'

What do you buy if you just want a good tablet experience? Most people don't want an iPad or Android experience.

Comment Re:Root Knowledge (Score 1) 321

by fidget42 on Sunday May 22, 2011 @10:42PM (#36213470) Attached to: Rooted Devices Blocked From Android Movie Market

That's east, they ask the OS to do something that only a rooted phone can do, like running a process that requires root privileges.

Submission + - Facebook Sued For Using Children's Images In Ads (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @09:52AM

RedEaredSlider writes: Facebook is getting sued in New York over the use of kids' images in the social ads the site hosts. The problem is that the law says you need to get a parent's consent to do that. Facebook hasn't been asking. Oops.

Comment They are telephone manufacturers (Score 1) 451

by fidget42 on Friday April 29, 2011 @10:41PM (#35982030) Attached to: Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets

The Aandroid phone manufacturers were all cell phone manufacturers. Going to Android wasn't that much of a jump, they just changed the vendor of the OS. None of them have ever built a tablet before, or probable even dreamt of a tablet. They don't have any starting point so don't know what goes into making a good tablet.

Also, Android was good enough for a phone, but good enough doesn't scale.

Comment Royal Pains (Score 1) 151

by fidget42 on Thursday April 28, 2011 @03:58PM (#35967758) Attached to: Yes, an Armadillo Can Give You Leprosy

Anyone who has watch "Royal Pains" knows this.

Comment Re:The other thing people dislike about Apple (Score 0) 194

by fidget42 on Thursday April 28, 2011 @02:45PM (#35966512) Attached to: iPhone 3G and iOS4 Lack Chemistry

Where can I get a prescription to the drugs that you are taking? When Apple went from the 68K to the PPC, they supported 68K apps via a 68K emulator. When they transition to Intel, they supported (an still support) PPC via Rosetta.

Now, if you would have said that they don't feel a need to be held hostage to backward compatibility (in that the Intel Macs don't support 68K emulation), that would be correct. Plenty of time is given to allow people to transition away from reliability on older systems. After all, IMNSHO, Windows would be a far better OS if they didn't maintain compatibility with poorly written DOS and Windows 3.x applications.

Comment Re:Why not free? (Score 2) 532

by fidget42 on Thursday April 28, 2011 @11:45AM (#35963710) Attached to: University Proposes Tuition Based On Major

Shouldn't they all be free or have just a symbolic fee in the public university?

Because it costs money to provide the education, even with state support.

Comment Re:liberal pres vs conservative pres (Score 1) 638

by fidget42 on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:48AM (#35920714) Attached to: Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users

You are asking a bigot to think. Now stop that!

Submission + - Blackberry Playbook Disappoints

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Thursday April 14, 2011 @03:19PM

adeelarshad82 writes: After months of anticipation, RIM's debut tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, is finally here. Good-looking, well-built tablet, the 14.4-ounce, 5.1-by-7.6-by-0.4-inch BlackBerry PlayBook features a black frame. Its 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1,024 by 600 pixels, which is lower than the iPad 2's, but since it's a smaller display, it actually seems sharper. The back panel features a 5-megapixel camera—far higher resolution than the rear-facing lens on the iPad 2. The 3-megapixel front-facing camera sits above the screen, and blows away the VGA-quality lens on the iPad 2. The bottom panel houses a micro HDMI output, a micro USB connector, and a magnetic charging port. The tablet supports 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. As far as the OS goes, the good news is that the user interface for the new BlackBerry Tablet OS is beautiful, graceful, and operates with a simplicity that rivals that of the Apple iPad 2 and bests the Motorola Xoom's oft-cluttered screens. The bad news is that, at launch, there are a lot of features missing.

Submission + - Flash on Android: Look But Don't Touch (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Thursday April 14, 2011 @02:38PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Neil McAllister test-drives Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 and finds its shortcomings too sweeping to be chalked up to beta status. 'The worst part is the player's inconsistent behavior. This gets really frustrating when there's lots of HTML and Flash content mixed on a Web page. The UI turns into a tug-of-war between the browser and the Flash Player, where each touch produces varying effects, seemingly at random,' McAllister writes. 'As far as I could tell, there was one thing and one thing only that the Flash Player for Android 3.0 accomplished successfully. On the stock Android browser, Flash content is invisible, so you don't notice Flash-based advertising. With the Flash Player installed, however, all those ads suddenly appear where once there were none, their animated graphics leaping and scuttling under your fingertips like cockroaches on a dinner tray — some achievement.'"

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