In other news today...
-
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Apple Seeks Patent for iBag
I looked at the header of the site:
LOWERING THE BAR
LEGAL HUMOR. SERIOUSLY.
...and I laughed. But then I noticed a link:
Which...seems to be the US Patent and Trademark Office's site.
-
@boomzilla Curious perversions in
Information TechnologyLegal
-
@boomzilla It takes very little innovation to get a patent on a (presumably) improved product. However, merely specifying a recycled content seems to me not at all innovative. At least not in 2016.
-
@HardwareGeek A patent on a paper bag cannot be worth anyone's time. I presume someone is looking to pad out his resume (hoping no one will look at the details) and some lawyer's retainer was being under utilized.
-
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
merely specifying a recycled content seems to me not at all innovative.
Since this is an Apple patent, the next move will be to remove the handles.
This is technology from last century after all.The only way forward is wireless !!!
-
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla It takes very little innovation to get a patent on a (presumably) improved product. However, merely specifying a recycled content seems to me not at all innovative. At least not in 2016.
Hey! It's WHITE.
-
-
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Hey! It's WHITE.
Will the next version remove the handles?
Just one.
-
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Just one.
Wow, I can't imagine how much courage that will take.
-
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Just one.
Wow, I can't imagine how much courage that will take.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense. You see, there is two handles, and you only have two hands. If you remove one handle, then you can have one hand free to hold your iPhone while carrying your bag.
Only Apple's engineer could think of that !
-
@abarker said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
It has passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate. Obama will probably veto it.
If it passed unanimously, a veto override should be easy, unless they are going into this just for show.
Yeah, they're probably doing it just for show.
There ya go:
@Dragoon said in 🔥 The Inflamed Political Trollery thread:
-
@anotherusername I find it terribly amusing that during such a contentious administration, Clowngress managed to get exactly one veto override together in eight years.
I suppose there would be time still for one or two more, but I doubt it. Those are difficult to do for a reason.
-
@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
I find it terribly amusing that during such a contentious administration, Clowngress managed to get exactly one veto override together in eight years.
Eh...but the Administration's party in Congress has backed him fiercely, so it's not really that surprising.
-
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
But then I noticed a link:
Which...seems to be the US Patent and Trademark Office's site.
So, are we talking a Patent or a Design Patent? Apple seems fond of the latter, and they're more of a variant on a trademark than anything else. (OK, it's not exactly that, because the form is the function when it comes to designs; that's why it is its own named thing I guess…)
-
@dcon I wonder how long it would take for people to start 'holding it wrong'
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
So, are we talking a Patent or a Design Patent?
Everything on there just says "Patent." I think it's supposed to be a patent Patent. There are what look like fairly technical diagrams in there, beyond what my ignorance would expect of a Design Patent:
-
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
OK; they might be doing something non-trivial with the layering in the cardboard/paper outer to make it strong enough to carry a heavy object (such as a laptop). OTOH, it looks like it is a pretty specific patent (it'd have to be; paper bags have been around for a long time) so the impact will be fairly small.
I guess I'll read the Claims (no idea if that link will work…)
Hmm. I guess you need to be really into the manufacturing of paper bags to be able to figure out how any of this is novel or otherwise. The handle process itself must be covered by another patent somewhere (perhaps a non-Apple one) since this patent really doesn't say much about it. The use of reinforcements is hardly a novel thing (though not usually done as it makes the bags more expensive). It just looks really specific to me.
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
It just looks really specific to me.
And you have to wonder why someone at Apple was doing this. I guess that mountain of cash won't spend itself.
-
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I guess that mountain of cash won't spend itself.
I volunteer to assist with that!
-
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
It just looks really specific to me.
And you have to wonder why someone at Apple was doing this. I guess that mountain of cash won't spend itself.
We actually have a place around here with that problem: Liberty University is a non-profit, so they're constantly building/buying stuff. They even bought the local mall and took a wing a wing of it as a place for some (testing?) facilities for their online school.
-
@Dreikin Sounds more useful than trying to reinvent the paper shopping bag.
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I guess that mountain of cash won't spend itself.
I volunteer
to assist with thatas tribute!FTFY . Have fun being an Apple sacrifice!
-
Beef patties all round...
A news article that has, for me, a local impact and flavour. Poor, poor footie fans.
The real question is: Where are the missing cows?
-
-
@loose said in In other news today...:
some conspiracy
Brexit ... they are going to flood the tunnel!
-
@groo said in In other news today...:
@DogsB 30 years later and we're back using devices without resizable windows
The ARMv7 series of CPU they used in WinPhone 7 and early WinPhone 8 don't support full multiprocessing, so WinPhone does what other mobile OSs did - make everything to run fullscreen to make sure except the carefully crafted system firmwares you can have exactly one active application at a time.
It's bad only because it has the name "Windows" in it.
With newer CPU they should ease this limitation.
-
@cheong said in In other news today...:
The ARMv7 series of CPU they used in WinPhone 7 and early WinPhone 8 don't support full multiprocessing
That's an odd-sounding claim. What exactly is it that you're saying an ARMv7 can't do?
-
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
What surprise me is after all the years, Apple still not getting the iapple.com domain yet.
-
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
merely specifying a recycled content seems to me not at all innovative.
Since this is an Apple patent, the next move will be to remove the handles.
This is technology from last century after all.The only way forward is wireless !!!
Why? I think we DO have handfree bags for a long time.
The next move is gonna be to put the bags inside your glasses!
-
@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@cheong said in In other news today...:
The ARMv7 series of CPU they used in WinPhone 7 and early WinPhone 8 don't support full multiprocessing
That's an odd-sounding claim. What exactly is it that you're saying an ARMv7 can't do?
Not can't do, but very difficult to get it done correctly.
Say this one:
More specifically, the second last paragraph:
Furthermore, the CPU might be a little sloppy in its monitoring and monitor not the address itself but the cache line. If somebody modifies a different memory location which happens to reside in the same cache line, the store_conditional might fail even though you would expect it to succeed. The ARM architecture allows a processor to be so sloppy that any write in the same block of 2048 bytes can cause a store_conditional to fail.
I think with little "glitches" like this here and there, you'd need huge effort to do multiprocessing right for those Apps.
And btw, I won't call a CPU arch that there's no practical way to avoid Application hangs freeze the whole system "support full multiprocessing".
-
@HardwareGeek @TimeBandit @cheong Extrapolating from extant Apple business logic, then next move is going to be having the iPhone n refusing to be moved in anything other than an approved iBag Short of developing a iPoint iSingularity or similar localized gravity generator (to make itself too heavy to be carried); it will be implemented by refusing to work whilst in the not-iBag or ever again after being removed from it. Unless, of course, you purchase the iBag-iAdapter - this is an IBag comes with a cable that has an iCable with an proprietary iConnector at each end.
ooo! A toaster keeps popping up and going away before I can read it. Had to reload the page to complete the post.
-
@loose said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek @TimeBandit @cheong Extrapolating from extant Apple business logic, then next move is going to be having the iPhone n refusing to be moved in anything other than an approved iBag Short of developing a iPoint iSingularity or similar localized gravity generator (to make itself too heavy to be carried); it will be implemented by refusing to work whilst in the not-iBag or ever again after being removed from it. Unless, of course, you purchase the iBag-iAdapter - this is an IBag comes with a cable that has an iCable with an proprietary iConnector at each end.
ooo! A toaster keeps popping up and going away before I can read it. Had to reload the page to complete the post.
That's simple. Just remove the GSM and WiFi part from the iPhone. If you want to connect to anything, you need to connect to iBag's iAdapter that's transferring data through an technology named iCable (no actual wires, except the iConnector to keep the phone charged, okay?) that in turn relay signals from WiFi or GSM network.
Of course the signal is too weak that if you take the phone out from iBag, you'll not able to use it. So to prevent your hand from getting tired by holding the phone, you need that iBag be upgraded to version with latest iPoint iSingularity technology.
Am I a genius?
-
@cheong I think I will refrain from the joke I was just about to make; it was, well, it was related to the old MAD TV skit from before the iPad came out...
Filed Under: A pun that bad would be triggering on its own, never mind all the rest of it
-
@cheong Just force the screen on when it's outside the iBag.
-
@loose You do know about
®
, right?
-
@dkf said in In other news today...:
I volunteer to assist with that!
Buy Apple stock and collect the dividends.
-
@loose said in In other news today...:
The real question is: Where are the missing cows?
Has anybody checked the kitchen?
-
@loose said in In other news today...:
The real question is: Where are the missing cows?
-
@anotherusername Yeah, but I wanted to do something simple and common in a unique and stupid way ®
-
@loose ah! I get it now.
Think Differently.
-
Armitage discovered the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed at the site — complete with soft fiber and bone tissues that were stretchy.
He published his findings...
“We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!”
-
-
@boomzilla wow, for once I actually wanted the "click the image... load the image in a new tab" onebox behavior.
-
-
After the penis mural Brussels is now ... expanding ... For NFSW reasons you'll have to follow the (Dutch) link to see the images
So far we now have a penis, penetration, an asshole and birth ... It shouldn't become crazier ... before you know it we have giant images of a guy urinating in his mouth ... oh wait we already have that ... at least we don't have statues of little boys and girls peeing in public ...
-
@Luhmann Or a midget brandishing a butt plug. Cause that one's in Rotterdam, IIRC.
-
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
“We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!”
That's entirely too straightforward to be believable. No professor would say something that simply. It would have to have been at least four sentences long.
-
In a telephone interview Monday with The College Fix, Reinach declined to state the exact amount of Armitage’s settlement, only that it was a six-figure dollar amount, “a substantial settlement representing about 15 times his annual part-time salary.”
“in our view, they certainly would not have paid that kind of money if they did not recognize that we had them dead to rights. The state doesn’t put large, six-figure settlement money out unless they are really concerned they are going to lose.”
15 times my part-time salary at a public university is approximately $105,000. That is six figures. I would not call it large, nor would I call it unreasonable to assume that this court case would have cost much more money than that even if the university won the case.
This seems to indicate that he probably made more than me, as a lab technician at CSUN, but that income is at CSU, not CSUN, so it's still not enough to say "they wouldn't have settled unless they are really concerned they are going to lose."
-
@Fox NOPE. Found him. His salary was only slightly higher than mine.
So his settlement was about $111,000. Yeah, that totally means they were admitting guilt. Good job, guys.
-
Here's a CSUN newspaper article with a lot more background (including how soft tissue can be preserved for millions of years in rare conditions and the name of the professor that allegedly yelled at him).