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        <title><![CDATA[control and timing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If Apple wants to have some control over what it sells, up to the point of sale, that's fine.  It's when Apple &quot;sells&quot; something, then -- after the sale -- tells its users what they are or aren't allowed to do with what they own, that I get annoyed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apotheon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:19:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah hah...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I knew there was a lack of innovation still permeating the walls in Redmond.  Thanks for the insight my friend!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rpollard@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:37:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm referring to getting the GUI right and setting the standard for how computers should interact with human beings.  After all, they were the only ones that bothered writing a book about how a human should interact with a computer (Humain Interface Guidelines).I'm referring to being the first ones to bravely let go of the floppy disk, etc.Yes, Steve did use other technology when it made sense but it took vision to see what would work.  Xerox didn't have that vision.  Bill Gates told IBM to ask somebody else if they wanted to produce the OS for their PCs and if they didn't want it he would take it.  Where's the vision???If you weren't wrapped up in your anti-Apple religion you would realize that control is a good thing when it comes to making things work extremely well with fewer problems and integrating really well with hardware.  People get caught up in too much anti-Apple rhetoric that they don't see any good in controlling both the hardware and software to give the best user experience available in the market today.I do expect a response about how Microsoft is this and that but bottom line is they aren't innovative and don't have vision.  Innovation isn't limited to only original ideas.  It also encompasses recognizing a good idea and taking advantage (not stealing) it.  He did not steal the GUI.  He tried to pay for it and Xerox didn't want anything for it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rpollard@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:34:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Kinect]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft didn't invent the kinect, they bought the camera tech from another company.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#Technology) Its the usual Embrace Extend Extinguish, but they've changed it to Embrace, Extend Extort in this case.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zenoscope]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:56:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Patents]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the moral of the story is WHAT are the patent infringements! Don't you people get it. if we KNOW what the patent is maybe there is a work around &amp; Microsoft doesn't get squat. This is just like Apple is doing with the tablet. Without the 'facts' we are pissing in the wind &amp; wasting our time which I am doing now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vquest55@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:20:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[But...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You assume that Xerox had patented it in the first place.  If there were no patents on the GUI and Apple bought the idea wouldn't they have full rights to the idea not just part as you stated?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rpollard@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:02:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[good point]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On the other hand, I often feel compelled to respond to bad arguments even if the guy to whom they're directed can't be bothered to do so himself.I'm stunned that I'm wasting time on this today, though.  I have a lot of other stuff to do right now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apotheon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:52:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That is a problem.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On the other hand, if it has the applications you want, but allows some malicious security cracker to access all your customer data, keep your Website shut down for long periods of time, change all your order and shipment information, and stall payroll for three months -- is it doing more harm than good?I don't dispute the fact that needing the applications you need is not just important, but tautological.  I'm just fed up to my eyebrows with the way people think that settles the matter.  It doesn't.  It ignores the fact that when &quot;it runs my apps&quot; is the cure, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.If you just want to run a fly-by-night business for the sole purpose of putting a few bucks in your own pocket -- at the expense of your customers, employees, and investors -- and are willing to drop the whole thing at a moment's notice when the law of averages catches up with you, so be it.  Just don't fool yourself into thinking that using a crap system just because it supports a particular application is a no-brainer and a final answer to the question of what's the best choice for you.Sometimes, it's cheaper in the long run to pay someone to write a replacement app than it is to take the hits from choosing a bad platform that can eventually cause more problems than it's worth.edit: Ultimately, my point is that you asked &quot;Is there any other criteria for an OS?&quot; and the answer is, as I said, &quot;Many.&quot;  Period.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apotheon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:49:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What I don't get]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is why we're doing Jack's heavy lifting for him.  Enough of this.  He can respond himself; I'm too busy trying to eliminate cursive from the curriculum ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:47:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And if an OS has all these features]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[but won't run the apps I want, what good is it to me?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:38:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't intend to have it long.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I hope to be out of it next summer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[thanks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I appreciate it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apotheon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:07:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Market caps]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Market caps don't just measure my &quot;parochial little market&quot; but the strength of the whole company.Diversity or globally competitive have nothing to do with lawyer buying power.If we're talking globally competitive, MS is losing ground.  Their pissing off whole cities and they are dumping Windows.  Even tiny little Linux has more momentum than MS across the pond.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rpollard@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:16:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oops]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yep, I'll give them that.  I'm impressed.  Sort of pissed me off that they came up with it but I'm still impressed.  I guess I was sort of thinking about just in the computing industry not the gaming.  But, yes, it's still pretty cool.I read where some college kids have actually come up with an eye tracking system that allows you to move your eyes to where you want the cursor to go and you can blink to click the mouse button.Good stuff will come of this.So, we'll give them 2 innovations.  Not bad given their track record.  ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rpollard@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:09:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[True...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...tho' it seemed quiescent for a while.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:35:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OK, I dood it. (NT)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:23:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I could hope...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...that Google, seeing a reduction in Android implementations, would lodge a complaint with the FTC for anti-competitive actions.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:54:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Non productive tactics]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well not exactly the assumption is that its a peice of indispensable software.The reality is that software cycles at this point of market behaviour are less than five years..So samsung would probably have been working on a new replacement code/product cutting out this contension whilst the court case is contested.Designing out problems is a constant evolution legal action is just buying time it comes down to a figure less than the lawyers charge before it becomes irrelevent.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[The Management consultant]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:42:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[that explains a lot]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&gt;  Ford FocusThey're not exactly designed to go fast.  They're powered by a diesel-drinking hamster in a wheel under the hood.I had a Toyota pickup in the '90s that did best at about 70.  I had a Hyundai Tiburon that did best between 75 and 80.  There's a couple examples.This isn't about examples, though.  It's about the fact that because you drive a wind-up toy, nobody else has a car that gets good gas mileage above 55MPH.  Therefore, you feel like you need to start your comment with a ridiculing &quot;Ha Ha&quot; and start spouting BS on a subject about which you know little or nothing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apotheon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:42:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[incorrect]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&gt;  NOBODY coughs up cash without seeing the evidence at least.A bunch of businesses coughed up money for &quot;UNIX licenses&quot; when SCO started threatening lawsuits for anyone who used Linux-based systems.  Several years later, SCO had been destroyed by the costs of dragging out litigation without any evidence to show for it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[apotheon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:34:05 -0700</pubDate>
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