An attempt at redesigning this chart from The Guardian to make the plaintiffs and defendants a bit more clear.
Edit: HTC has agreed to licensing terms on Microsoft’s patents and there is currently no lawsuit.
Another Edit: Updated to show Motorola’s Lawsuit targeting Apple.
What has oracle to do with google?
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Keyboard cat at SXSW!
That’s the coolest cat ever!
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NO BLASTERS!: My TSA Encounter -
“You don’t need to see his identification.”
On November 21, 2010, I was allowed to enter the U.S. through an airport security checkpoint without being x-rayed or touched by a TSA officer. This post explains how.
Edit: Minor edits for clarity. I have uploaded the audio and it is available
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My dictionary is bigger than your dictionary. This OED 2nd Ed was payment for a pair of chapters written in the Oxford Handbook for Surgical Cross-cover
. Having carried it up four flights of stairs today, at some cost to my back, I’m looking forward to long lazy games of Scrabble, using this behemoth as the house dictionary.
Ninite Blog: How Ninite was named by a computer program -
Naming is easy. I like to pick something that suggests the concept and has a good sound to it. Our product was initially Volery. The internal name for the web code is dancecard. You get the idea.
The problem is the flat .com namespace. Context disappears. In the real world apple can refer to…
Ninite Blog: apt-get for Windows: Ninite gets command-line app selection -
We’re incredibly excited about this announcement because we think it’s a giant advance for application management and third-party patching on Windows. Ninite One now supports selecting applications to install or update on the command-line.
When you combine this with Ninite’s /silent switch…
Ninite Blog: Ninite Turns One -
We launched Ninite exactly one year ago: 22 October 2009. It has been a great year.
In that time we’ve added a boatload of new features to both Ninite and Ninite Pro. From download acceleration to automatic language selection and much more, there’s an enormous amount of technology behind…
In der Debatte um Kultursubventionen regt sich Unmut. Längst gehört es zum guten Ton, vor allem die Opernhäuser anzugreifen. Dabei sind sie viel besser als ihr Ruf.
Seit November 2010 fragt der Berliner Tagesspiegel auf seiner Website: Sollen Tickets für die Oper subventioniert werden? Aktuell wurden rund 8500 Stimmen abgegeben, 58 Prozent davon antworteten mit Ja, 42 Prozent mit Nein. Eine knappe Mehrheit. Inspiriert wurde die Umfrage von Zahlen aus dem Hauptausschuss des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses, wonach “der Steuerzahler” 2009 eine Eintrittskarte für die Staatsoper Unter den Linden mit 186,10 Euro, für die Komische Oper mit 181,10 Euro und für die Deutsche Oper mit 171,40 Euro bezuschusst hat. Und schon ratterte und rechnete es in den Köpfen vieler selbst ernannter Sarrazine, was sich nicht alles Vernünftigeres, Schöneres, ja Besseres (ökonomisch wie moralisch) mit diesem Geld anfangen ließe.
(Quelle: janrymon)
