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From what I've seen, they didn't pay anything for the iPhone name from Cisco. There was supposed to be a marketing alliance that never materialized.

These kinds of naming conflicts have not stopped Apple before. In 2007, on the eve of the introduction of the iPhone, the technology giant Cisco Systems pointed out that it already sold an Internet handset called the iPhone. Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, led the negotiation for the name, peppering Cisco executives with calls at all hours, and telling them he was prepared to claim that Cisco was underutilizing the trademark.

Mr. Jobs finally persuaded Cisco to surrender the trademark with a vague promise to market their products jointly - a partnership that never materialized.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/technology/29name.html?hp

Even then, the iPhone use was exactly what Apple wanted. Fujitsu's is much more peripheral.
> Those skeptical of man-made global warming say the temperature anomaly supports their case. Others say it is merely a blip, and that warming remains the long-term trend.

Are they the only two options? What about "natural systems will adapt reducing the likelihood of runaway AGW though more vegetation and increased water vapour"
Actually, as I understand it, only the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit entity. The Mozilla Corporation is for-profit and makes considerable amounts of money from search engine (currently Google) sponsorship. Estimates of $5mil for an H.264 licence for Firefox were being thrown around which is feasible for MoCo to pay. However, Firefox is just one product. Mozilla also have a mission to enable downstream projects, and buying a licence for Firefox wouldn’t cover these. They’d then be promoting a format on the web that would hurt long-term dependant projects of theirs; not a feasible solution in their eyes.
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x264 is an encoder. Browsers need a decoder. The most popular open source H.264 decoder is the one that's part of FFmpeg, which is used both by applications that do pay a license fee (Google Chrome) and applications that don't (VLC).
Except nothing moms consider cool work on this thing..
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There is a lot of interesting data to analyze. Like most of the ads have <1% CTR but two out of them have >1%: one contains a human face and the other contains a terminal. Rest contain some text/images over mostly white background.
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There's also the Pixel Qi screen, originally developed for OLPC and looking to be launched in actual products this year.

It has a mode that switches off the backlight and becomes a high-res monochrome screen perfect for reading and use in sunlight. It can even emulate the e-ink capability of turning off the power and the screen stays on with static content to some extent, though this requires more engineering to support than just plugging it in the place of a standard LCD.

I find the B&W mode charmingly retro (particularly when showing 1080p video) and would very much like to buy a linux&arm based tablet or netbook using it.

Recent demo videos:

http://armdevices.net/2010/01/08/mary-lou-jepsen-shows-pixel...

http://armdevices.net/2010/01/08/charbax-tests-pixel-qi-at-c...

http://armdevices.net/2010/01/08/notion-ink-pixel-qi-tablet-...
Try using the name iMac for something close to but not quite an iMac and see how well that defense plays with apple on the receiving side.

They even sued woolworths for this logo:

http://www.theage.com.au/business/apple-bites-over-woolworth...
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This is the first blog post (or article or anything) which perfectly captured my own feelings on the subject of the iPad. Thanks to Rory Marinich for writing it. Great piece.

I had been dragging my feet about writing down my own thoughts, felt it both necessary and unappealing. But thanks to Rory, I have another option. I'll do what hackers (or in my case, aspiring hackers) do when they find what somebody else has which both a) accomplishes what they would've/intended to accomplish and b) accomplishes it in a superior manner: forget about mine and just use theirs.

I'mma link to this here post all over the fuckin' place.
Sure you can. You just can't load it via the App Store. Where do you think those apps were developed?
... and so is Linux, apparently, since the world is about to switch to Macs on the desktop. That comes naturally once the admins have had to to learn BSD by picking non-Linux-based server/backend solutions. Excuse me while I go hold my breath.
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There's nearly always a filesystem. It is not visible on iPad, though. I talk only about usability and user's perspective.

No need to go into details. From the hackerish perspective, the internals of iPad might be nothing but BSD/Mach combined with touch screen.
"The terms are not onerous or the fee excessive"

No matter how low the fee, it will rule out most open source and hobby projects.
I think moving metadata from flat file to sqlite will be a huge improvement. svn export will almost be obsolete with this move (but still useful for automated tools).
I'm pretty much the same hate stuff kinda mindset. So I'm curious did you get the DX or the original. DX seems more useful for pdfs/studying but less pocketable.
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like FF's private browsing, I suppose.
Whats the deal with private sale sites?
Off late this segment seems to be getting a lot of attention. See http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/28/private-sales-site-beyond-the-rack-raises-2-million/.
Anybody has any insight on how this works? What are the drivers for the high end brands to give such deep discounts? Do they buy inventory and hold or does the brand do the order fulfillment etc?
I fail to see how this has anything to do with Rackspace.

They are there to provide infrastructure, not to support you on an application level.

Rackspace's responsibility is to keep the infrastructure running and help with backups if you are compromised. They aren't there to fix your wordpress plugin's spaghetti php.

FWIW I used to run a dedicated box with Rackspace and now run about half a dozen cloud servers with them. I think they are pretty great, personally.

If the OP wants ssh, logs and all that - fire up a Cloud Server and you have an instant linux box of your flavour preference. Stop using Cloud Sites if you want more control. You're using the wrong product.
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People are already using Twitter from space, so seems they're ahead in the game.
link: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...
Indeed. And while OSX might have a BSD heritage the command line isn't exactly where it's at with OSX.

Strikes me as being written by someone that does more reading than building.
This sounds to me more like an introversion/extraversion thing. Introverts tend to prefer thinking to themselves while extraverts tend to prefer thinking off of other people.

If you're an extravert, it wouldn't surprise me that you would prefer a workspace that encourages more social interaction.
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> I will stay away from free products based on Linux and some comodity servers, I will focus only on commercially supported products with provide reliability.

A company will feel no shame in using Linux and commodity servers. Not everything needs to have a support contract attached to it, quite the contrary.

My rule is simpler: laptops are macs, servers are linux on commodity machines (or VPS) and windows sits in virtual machines for testing.
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Why not just use Xichekolas's script at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 ? It is very flexible and does a bit more.
I would not call Mozilla's Firefox a hobby project.

The hobby projects which use H.264 have not been prosecuted, as far as I know, though I feel it's wrong for this possibility to exist.
Safari hasn’t chosen it as the default, it’s chosen it as the solitary option. If they’d integrated Theora then every single browser that supports the <video> tag would also support Theora and the argument would be moot.
I think the author is miscalculating the memory bandwidth requirements. There is a big difference between hitting the cache and hitting main memory, and it could very well be that what he interpreted as main memory accesses were in fact meant as cache hits.

Given what we know about GDDR5 if Intel chooses to use a 512 bit wide interface then at 900 Mhz you'd get 512/8 *.9 = 57.6GB/sec.

That's at 900 MHz, by upping that to 1066 you'd get 68.2 GB/sec.

High end graphics cards are now around 150 GBps, so larrabee is fast but not requiring a revolution in memory architecture.

The fastest demoed version of larrabee was around 1Tflop, which in terms of GPU performance puts it somewhere around december 2006, which is the major reason it wasn't released, a high end Nvidia card does about 1.7.
This is for a broadcast license, from an article in 2002, for an older technology (straight MPEG-4, not the newer superset H.264 which is now widely embraced.) I don't know whether or not this proposed broadcast license fee was ever even enacted, though QuickTime does support plain MPEG-4, so I imagine not.
Several problems with this article:

1: Critique against mouse and keyboard rings hollow. It's stuck around so far because it "just works" for a large number of apps. Touchscreens not similarly proven.

2: Limitations of the hardware is touted as a "great opportunity". Opportunity how? An opportunity to unleash gosh-darned ugly hacks to get around said limitations?

3: Written by Miguel de Icaza, known troll/closed source afficionado. Notably, nothing is mentioned about how hard it is to develop on an entirely closed platform (see iPhone troubles). Considering who the author is, not surprising in the least. Generally i try to avoid ad hominem but in this case the author's own bias gets ahead of dispassionate analysis.
> How come there hasn't been any excitement about the potential of Android-based tablets?

In the propaganda video Apple has on their site there is a brief talk by the tech guy. Incidentally he is the only guy in the video who doesn't come across to me as a total douche-bag when talking about the iPad.

He mentions that Apple owns the hardware and the software. Usually that is just Apple marketing BS but in this case I think it actually really applies. There is a tight integration between all of the hardware, software and even the uni-body aluminum casing. The decisions they've made for everything (from chip design to UI design) is with the entire device in mind.

Android, not so much. It must necessarily be a more generalized framework. There are some reasons that is a benefit but for this type of device I wager it is actually a detriment.

The main positive the media is taking away from the iPad is its speed. I was impressed by the claimed battery life. I don't believe any Android tablet will be capable of delivering a similar level of performance on these two key factors.
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But us power users want the nice hardware too ?

Why should we have to have the horrible experience...
I don't think it's asking to have our cake and eat it, to be able to play with the toys we've bought?

Should all developers just stick to linux and windows ? - Your walled garden will be a much duller place for it.
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What do you mean by "broadcast licence"?. Streaming web video was part of that dispute, and fees for web video providers are a cruicial part of Mozilla's argument. As they're only due to announce what the fees for publishing H.264 will be at the end of this month we'll have to wait for then to see if they are onerous or not.

I've also heard that the only reason Microsoft's VC-1 codec is in the Blu-Ray standard is because MPEG-LA were playing hardball on their H.264 licence fees.

Here's the manager of Blu-Ray making the very simple point that surrendering to a single patented standard is only going to let them ratchet up prices:

"There are other advantages to having two compression techniques," Doherty says. "Moving forward, the technologies can have competition to help drive down licensing fees and improve picture quality."

from here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/117681/bluray_disc_to_support...

If Apple (who also fell out with them about AAC payment terms) and Blu-ray need to play games to achieve reasonable terms then what hope do the small businesses have, especially when the standard response is "let's all lock ourselves into this one codec, what could possibly go wrong?"
I would imagine vast scales of nothing are 'easier' (in the cosmis sense) to accomplish and maintain.

Humongulous amounts of something leads to complications.
Such articles leave me with the feeling that there are probably a couple hundred people on earth who truly understand cryptography. The rest of us either blindly follow them (good thing) or try to understand and apply the algorithms ourselves (very bad thing). I'd love to see some sort of crypto-recipes.org site: with a listing for use-cases, recipes underneath and implementations in different languages. I'm sure crypto experts will look down on this, but I believe it would greatly benefit the community.
Ok, can someone explain this to me: if H.264 licensing is an issue, why not offload the whole thing to the platform's video codec APIs?

If the OS vendor already pays license fees for the decoders, than that should cover it. If the vendor doesn't, well, then that's a problem.
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"my experience is that people do that with "old school" computers too. Only then it does break their computers."

So basically we're looking at a product that will function well instead of breaking when a typical user uses it in a typical fashion? Surely that's a good thing?
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I love the idea of Open Source, and I (think I would) love to release my startup's code as Open Source, both for moral/worldview reasons and because I believe doing so would (indirectly) make the company more profitable.

But I can't seem to get rid of one last concern: user security.

[Note: I won't go into too much detail about what my future startup will be because
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b) leaving such variables undefined means others with similar concerns but different startups can gain more from this discussion.]

Among other things, my startup will involve such "features" as user login (id/password), user-to-user communication (not just text but files, etc. as well), and user storage (again, files etc.). In essence, given the nature of my startup, user security will be a big issue for buyers, as well it should be.

So, the ultimate question becomes:
Is it possible to release all code as open source without risking security issues? Or should I just release all code unrelated to security as open source? If the latter, how can I be certain which code could risk security if released open source and which code would not?

Thanks in advance for all comments.
It's not a general-purpose computer (much like an iPhone or an iPod). It's a browser and e-mail and e-book reader you can use while on the bus. For reading, it's less cumbersome than a netbook.

But there's that keyboard dock. That should make composing long-emails (or using the iWork suite) less of a painful experience. Since it doesn't allow connecting a mouse, I will wait until there is emacs ported to it ;-)
There was a google tech talk given by Quicklaunch (that this article is about) that was reasonably interesting which also covers other methods and why they are insufficient if you want more details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IXYsDdPvbo
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Well, what if I decide to make a toy web application that works with video and I decide to use HTML5 video standard? Will I have to pay royalties only to serve this webpage? And what if I put the source code of this application on github or any other repository that's open to anyone? And if I want to found a company that wants to make a living working with video online but nothing charging users directly, will I have to pay royalties only because every new user will expect that I should support the patented codec that he uses? Now, what's about that's is open?
I believe it was meant as a thought experiment - even when actively avoiding free solutions, your best shot is a non-microsoft setup. That's how I understood the article.
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Sorry, would like to, but can't find it anymore, was in 2 discussions recently about the self imposed Wikileak blackout. Wish I could supply a citation, sorry.
No, but there could be other projects than Mozilla?
There's an Apple that's sells pickaxes without a problem. TM just isn't much protection unless someone is trying to address the same use with the same name (and/or similar image). From that article:

Apple is spooked by the fact Woolworths has gone for a blanket trademark that would allow it to slap its branding and logo on every imaginable product.

It's about uses not simple names or images. In my opinion, Fujitsu has no legal standing. Heck, if Cisco didn't get any compensation for the iPhone TM then this story to me is much ado about nothing. Fujitsu sells a device for mobile retail sales. That's not a use Apple is claiming at this time. If it's a use they're after, they'll have to work something out with Fujitsu.
why not? if you distribute h.264 videos on a large scale (>100k viewers), you need to pay licensing fees.

if you want to bundle a h.264 decoder with your software, you need to pay, too. Only if you use the OS' native decoder, you don't need to pay. But Firefox is multiplatform. WinXP, Linux do not support h.264 out of the box.
Shouldn't be to hard to make an HTML5 based programming tutorial or programming environment that exposes javascript via eval and saves the resulting snippets in the local storage...
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do you know why VLC does not have to pay a fee?
Rather, stick to some existing and heavily tested open-source security solution. That way, users of your code can also use it without concern. Security by obscurity is known not to last very long in the wild.

On an unrelated note, "Penny for your thoughts" would be an awesome name for a micropayment startup.

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I intend to buy iPad. I don't intend to carry it much: I see it being used at home, comfortably on the couch.
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OSX makes me feel nostalgic. Every time I open the terminal, I feel like I am on a VT-100 running Unix on a VAX...

Seriously: having no package management as a central part of the OS is so 70's... The next step could be charging extra for compilers...
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I only wanted to make the point that it is not because it is so easy or safe that people install apps.

It's certainly a good thing if people can not load the computers with spyware anymore. But there is a price, so it can not be universally said that it is worth it.
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Great, my vendor (Apple) is on the list. Just use their decoding functionality please--it works beautifully.
I have multi-touch scroll on one of my notebooks under Ubuntu. The other's trackpad, unfortunately, doesn't support multi-touch.

Imagine my surprise when finding out my old, cheap notebook knew how to work such magic...
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This is only tangentially related to the original post, but the name eBay is not a case of e-prefixing, it's a shortening of "echo bay", because echobay.com was already taken.
I can see why this post was downvoted but you've got some good points.
> They even sued woolworths for this logo:

Well come on now. It's a W shaped like an apple! It doesnt' have a bite out of it, but overlap them and they're practically identical.
I merged menubar and toolbar a few years ago: http://akkartik.name/akkartik.firefox.png
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I remember I spent a long time changing the tooltip on the throbber. Every new version I'd open up one of the jar files to update the tooltip. By the time of this screenshot I had gotten rid of the throbber altogether.
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Why would a jailbreak be needed? What am I missing?

An iPad developer could compile up copies of some of life's goodies like bash, emacs, Perl, Ruby, Python, some lisp variants, Apache, etc.

Then the developer write a little Mac-application which let the user apply for the Apple Developer program. When that is granted, the application installs the developer tools and downloads the iPad projects for emacs, etc.

Every user which use scripting applications will be his/her own developer. Without jailbreaks.
Well, what if I decide to make a toy web application that works with video and I decide to use HTML5 video standard?

Nobody is going to come after you. You're not even worth their time. Is it stupid that technically this may be interpreted as a possibility under law? Yes, but that's the stupid country we live in. The same thing could happen with Theora if someone claimed to hold a patent covering it, and you'd be equally screwed.

And what if I put the source code of this application on github or any other repository that's open to anyone?

No problems there.

And if I want to found a company that wants to make a living working with video online but nothing charging users directly, will I have to pay royalties only because every new user will expect that I should support the patented codec that he uses?

Talk to your lawyer. You're a company, right?

Now, what's about that's is open?

The standard is open. You are free to implement it. The licensing terms are open. You are free to license it. You are not free to distribute implementations to users without licensing the technology that has been openly provided.
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Here's me thinking you had a source!

;0)
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