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Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls 434

Posted by Soulskill from the that-sounds-a-great-idea dept.
bizwriter writes "Apple has had quite a week in patents for the iPhone, and it's only Tuesday. First was the victory at the International Trade Commission over HTC. And now there's a shiny new patent on switching to an app during a live phone call (#8,082,523). There may be non-infringing ways of doing something similar, but they probably will be clumsy in comparison."
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So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts 238

Posted by timothy from the gonna-let-you-finish-but dept.
With CmdrTaco moving on to his temporary retirement home, the Slashdot editors who will continue to poke and prod at reader submissions (the heart and soul of this site: without readers, there'd be nothing to talk about as well as no one to talk about it) would like to offer an extended 'Thank You' to Rob, and offer some thoughts on the years so far, as well as what comes next. (Of late, though, we're lucky to have the growing contributions of Clinton Ebadi, aka Unknown Lamer, who got an oddball start on the Slashdot page a long time back.) Read on for a few words from Samzenpus, timothy, and Soulskill.

Comment The 'unlocked' price was too high... (Score 1) 196

by cowmix (#32222300) Attached to: Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone

I have to imagine that if the unlocked price was below $400 (or even the price of a locked phone) it would of sold like hot cakes but unfortunately I think Google had too many external pressures to that prevented them from pricing it accordingly.

Instead, Google *flooded* the net with ads for the N1 hoping their marketing muscle would overcome all other obstacles.
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Submission + - The definitive evisceration of The Phantom Menace. (youtube.com) 4

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cowmix
cowmix writes: "When TPM came out ten years ago, its utter crappiness shocked me to the core and wounded a entire generation of geeks. My inner child had been abused and betrayed. I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks. I couldn't bring myself to see #2 or #3, whatever they were called. Now, a decade later, comes "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review" the ultimate seven part, seventy minute analysis of this mother of all train wrecks. Not only does it nail how the film blows, but tells us why. Time, apparently, does not heal all wounds."

Comment I call BS on the whole thing... (Score 1) 193

by cowmix (#29344311) Attached to: How Hollywood Tie-Ins Saved Lego

The movie tie-ins are pure genius and uniquely Lego.. They have a good sense of humor and the new Lego sets are fun. As a 35 year Lego guy, it find the new stuff simply awesome.

The irony is that the Star Wars Lego sets are MORE Lego like than their 'original' sets they put out now. The piece on the Star Wars sets are more interchangeable while their "Mars" series has these HUGE molded pieces that can not really be used outside of the ship you are 'supposed' to build.

However, if you want to find something that sucks the soul out of Lego.. look no further than Bionicle.

Comment Re:Krugman's prognostication skills aren't all tha (Score 1, Interesting) 127

by cowmix (#29019709) Attached to: Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future

Yes, it couldn't have been the artificially low interest rates, which means they are increasing the monetary supply much more than they should, which caused the housing bubble (not to mention the NASDAQ bubble), its that darn "deregulation," which of course means different regulations and happened over the course of 3 decades.

Of course, Krugman actually advocated created a housing bubble in 2002.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip.html

Krugman is just an organ for the Federal Reserve and the state.

I just reread that post and I don't understand how in that op-ed piece Krugman advocated creating the housing bubble.

Can you explain this to me?

thanks

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