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This patent stuff really freaked me out at first but there seem to 
be ways to circumenvent it until (hopefully) the government kicks 
in and solves this mess. The BGH said software patents apply as soon 
as your software's design is influenced by the device it runs on, 
so if your software targets a virtual machine like Java it should 
be okay because then patents don't apply because no device influenced 
your software, you wrote it to run on software (the VM), not on a 
hardware device. That it runs on hardware is a mere coincidence but 
didn't influence you while writing the software. Could be the BGH 
will just revise their comment on this of course to also include 
virtual machines. Cross platform software could be okay too with 
this argumentation as long as you only write features that work on 
more than one device. So no iPhone specific stuff for example, but 
if the app runs without modification on an iPad, the iPhone and an 
iPod Touch it should be okay again, those are three completely different 
devices (computer, cell phone, music player) so you should be able 
to argue that you weren't influenced by them at all. You would argue 
instead that you were influenced by Cocoa Touch, which is software 
and not a device, so patents don't apply. This would also mean REBOL 
apps are okay, since your software is made to run in the REBOL interpreter 
and not on any specific device (unless you put some Mac specific 
calls in there but then you could argue you targeted the operating 
system which is software and not a device). If you can really get 
away with this kind of argumentation is a big question of course. 
The judge can decide on a whim if you're guilty or not, all the laws 
are open to interpretation for him.


I read one comment on this that gives me some hope. The german government 
uses a lot of Linux and they spent a lot of money to train their 
workers to use Linux. With this decision by the BGH, Linux is suddenly 
patent hell, so it's in the government's best interest to kick in. 
Sadly, they could just say "patents don't apply to the government" 
and be done with it.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/nvidia-ceo-netbooks-and-tablets-to-meld-hints-at-tegra-powered-webos-devices

Meego 1.0 core and netbook user experience released


http://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2010/meego-v1.0-core-software-platform-netbook-user-experience-project-release

Czech server put prototype of iPhone 4G/HD under microscope, and 
found out, that the panel is not OLED, but IPS, resolution is 640x960, 
so that old apps will by probably scaled by system by using 2x2 pixels 
.... some photos here - http://iphonemania.mobilmania.cz/iPhone-HD-v-redakci-teste-se-na-fantasticky-displej

they could have found out that it's an IPS panel by simply reading 
apple's product description, no :) ?

Have you seen Apple's name for the new iPhone OS:  "iOS" !!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2440

This looks nice - http://www.onilabs.com


I've never heard of Stratified JavaScript, but it sound quite good 
from reading the blog at:

http://www.croczilla.com/blog

AdrianS, looks cool...
So many cool technologies coming out its hard to keep up.

It required JS to make functional programming "mainstream"... :)

better late than never

yep, the above is pretty nice  :-)

Microsoft kill the Kin. Rumors are that only around 500 devices were 
sold.

Kin was not so kind ;-)

Today is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the future, after hitting 
88mph in the immense Delorean back in 1985.

What? That was 2015, as far as I know

http://925rebellion.com/today-is-the-day-marty-mcfly-went-back-to-the-future/

That's not right, the correct year is 2015

(october 21)

Hmm... well, than we need to watch the movie and check the scene.

I did, twice (some time ago, though). All the years end in 5, no 
0.

{7303}{7418}And this is the year 2015?|- October 21, 2015. (subtitles)

{6676}{6746}We're descending toward|Hill Valley, California...
{6762}{6801}{y:i}...at 4:29 p.m...
{6803}{6885}{y:i}...on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Future_date_hoax

Good, we have 5 more years to make hover boards :)

They do exist - just not yet anywhere near the movie's standards 
 ;)

Genesi is ready with their Efika MX Smartbook ... I think the design 
is rather nice, I like the keyboard. Reminds me of ZX Spectrum 48K 
:-)  (press image to enlarge it)


http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=1755+2020297306215527660

$249 for smart client

What do you mean by "smart client"? Efika is not only a terminal. 
It can have full OS you can install. It is just that they use something 
like VNC/Citrix aproach, to get you SW you don't have installed physically 
on the machine itself ...

That's what they call it.  Their name.

I was thinking that it sounds expensive .. but perhaps it is not.

Well, many ppl will ask for AmigaOs/MorphOS option. But all they 
get is various Linuxes ... hmm, maybe AROS, who knows ...

I presume they call it client because it is supposed to run google 
apps ...with a years subscription

https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/details/5

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/3896841/Guilty-of-5-3m-technology-fraud

I've been waiting to see this trend pick up speed, for years now 
(looks a lot like Scratch): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html?scp=1&sq=googleapp inventor&st=cse

Looks like everyone needs their own systems programming language 
- this one, from Mozilla, is called Rust. Seems to have some interesting 
features. 

http://wiki.github.com/graydon/rust/language-faq

Epic fail: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/france-launches-multi-lingual-tourist-website-it-goes-down-and-stays-down/

(can't find the Humour group anymore)

strange is a private group.

but yeah... this is very good press   especially since its a tourist 
site   :-)

Max: btw, the site development costed 800k€ to french administration 
;-)

so there where 5 programers, one sysadmin, and 25 management in the 
group?   ;-)

well, probably :-P

DocKimbel, if only the IT problems were that small for the Danish 
government...

Doc: it was much worse in Italy. costed like 2x that, when they opened 
it it was basically empty, and then they realized it was the most 
useless thing.

Jolicloud  - netbook UI based on Ubuntu + HTML 5 .... nice looking 
design ....


http://digitizor.com/2010/07/17/jolicloud-1-0-brings-a-new-html5-interface/

I looked at that, including a demo. The interface doesn't have an 
obvious way to switch between running applications or tell which 
applications are running. And it *does* have multiple running applications. 
It looks semi-pretty (with the exception of the WinXP Luna colors) 
but not very usable.

wow a nice XP skin for the ipad, running web applications.... 

yes I'm being ironic  ;-)

it even has loads of "spy on my friends" apps  yay!     not!  :-0

for the ipad
 - it's not very touch-friendly either; better use a mouse.