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I'm using the iPhone, but I would support a ban in the US - so all the supplies would go to Europe!     
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When will this f***ing patent madness end?
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I want to know who started it. Have a feeling Apple did.
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Let me answer this: When the parties file for bankruptcy and get closed!
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Apple in turn is planning to sue Microsoft for infringing on one of their patents. Apparently GraphicsPath[^] can be used to create rounded rectangles, which as everyone knows, were invented by Apple.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Apparently GraphicsPath[^] can be used to create rounded rectangles, which as everyone knows, were invented by Apple.
Prior art: Rectangle Functions [^]
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Didn't Apple also invent the rectangle? Or was it Al Gore? No - he invented the information superhighway.
/ravi
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Master plan: Patent the icosahedron, then sue Wizards of the Coast and everyone else who uses the d20 system!
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No! According to new findings in a soon to be published article, Al Gore created the Universe and got robbed of it from the Dark GWB!
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Don't joke: rounded rectangles? That can't exist! Either they are rounded or rectangles!
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"Rounded" is an attribute of a rectangle. Just as "squared" is an attribute of a circle.
/ravi
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According to wikipedia: In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is any quadrilateral with four right angles.
Sorry, but there is no room for rounded corners...  . Splitting hairs is one of the favourite pass times for lawyers!
But now, I think that Samsung can sue Apple for using a 16:9 aspect ratio! 
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Based on your findings, I'm going to patent rounded wikis and sue both Apple and Wikipedia.
/ravi
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A corporate lawyer once told in a seminar that before you sue, you need first looking if your target has cash. If not, it is not worth to sue (well a few exceptions apply)!
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The hacker group that attacked Google in 2009 has launched hundreds of other cyber assaults since then, focussing on US defense companies and human rights groups, according to new research from security software maker Symantec.
Google said in January 2010 that it and more than 20 other companies were the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack - later dubbed Operation Aurora - from China-based hackers that resulted in the theft of intellectual property.
More..[^]
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That's the same Symantec[^] that provides the FBI with a backdoor to your computer. Ironic to have them complain about hackers.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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When I criticize China, I get marked as a racist. Apparently the PC police won't let anyone criticize a country that isn't the U.S.
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Article from Times of India,
Bill Moggridge, the British industrial designer credited with creating the first laptop computer, has died aged 69 after losing a battle with cancer.
Moggridge is best known as the creator of the GRiD Compass, the device with a keyboard and yellow-on-black display.
Priced at more than $8,000 it was encased in magnesium and considered to be rugged with a 340kb memory, the Telegraph reports.
The device released in 1982, was used by the US military and even made its way into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985.
Muggridge was also the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York since 2010.
The museum said that Moggridge had died on Saturday.
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This was reported only a few threads down. If you are going to post news, try to at least look at what's on the current page.
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When you look around the web, there are two major approaches out there which try to building something which can scale to deal with Twitter-firehose-scale amounts of data. One is starting with a MapReduce framework like Hadoop and somehow finagle real-time or at least streaming capabilities on it. The other approach starts with some event-driven “streaming” computing architecture and makes it scale on cluster. There is data there that does not MapReduce.
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JavaScript brings the mobile Web to life. It brings interactivity to HTML5 and CSS3 mobile Web apps. This Q&A with Oren Farhi, front-end architect and JavaScript expert, explores what JavaScript does for mobile sites/apps and when, where, how and why it should be used... and when it shouldn’t. A bit simple, but a good introduction to what JavaScript enables in mobile apps.
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For a long time the accepted wisdom has been to always buy when possible and only build when no suitable packaged solution exists in the market. In this article series, I want to explore the reasons behind the existing preference for buying and, more importantly, I want to challenge the accepted wisdom and explain why I believe that the changes that have occurred in software development over the last decade have shifted the answer to the buy-or-build question away from buy and more towards build. A paradigm shift to Let's-Build-It-Here syndrome?
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Two years ago, I stood on my soapbox and yelled. I told the FP community that their languages were bad, and that they should feel bad. It was a post full of vitriol and frustration, but also a little bit of truth. I believed then (and still do) that functional languages are a poor solution if what you're looking for is a way to get B grade programmers to build scalable, concurrent systems. When a good idea becomes a fad.
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In the pursuit of a more globally harmonious online experience, let’s take a look at 10 lessons relating to aspects of web development with a cultural bent. Some of this may not be new to you, but all of it is relevant if you want to play nice with people from all cultural walks of life. A primer for playing nice on a global scale.
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Data Center Knowledge recently went inside the company’s huge primary data center in Phoenix, and had a chance to discuss Go Daddy’s approach to its infrastructure. The access marked a change, as Go Daddy has historically said little about its data centers. It’s part of a concerted effort to present a fuller picture of the company’s services. ...and when it all goes down, a big chunk of the web goes with it.
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