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jji7skyline wrote:

I don't watch tv either. It's too mainstream.

I don't watch cable, but I do watch films; Seinfeld is so stupid and easy to watch though so it's nice to no have to think sometimes.

I was pretty sure of it before, but I am now sure this is a sarcasm/troll topic.

Last edited by 16Skittles (2012-09-24 07:39:35)

i think all topics are troll topics

Dinoclor wrote:

I'm not a huge fan of vista. I used to use it, then I used linux, and then I realized how sucky and slow vista was.

Also, Win 7 is shinier and stuff.

Windows 7 still doesn't visually please me, but it does compared to Vista.

I didn't know Skyline was such a rebel. 

I've never understood how Vista is uglier than Windows 7, it looks fine to me. The only other OS I've used for long enough to kind of know about it is XP on my school computers and I think they both look OK but in different ways. I don't know about it being slower though.

I'm using Vista, I don't seem to mind the fact that it's supposedly bad.

stevetheipad wrote:

BirdByte wrote:

I like the new look of Windows 8.

*Faints*

*faints because he did*
But it's mainly because it's only for touchscreen tablets....

I'll amend my feelings about Windows 8, as I really don't think I've expressed my feelings properly.

I think the Metro interface of Windows Phone is beautiful, and not the bland iOS/Android rows of icons. On a desktop PC interface though, I think it's the wrong direction.

Firedrake969 wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

I have an absolute hatred for Vista. It's ugly, slow, insecure, and has completely been screwed up about five times. XP and 7 all the way. And will you shut up about the taskbar copying OSX? I know [color-red]Apple has a patent on a "rectangular shaped device with rounded corners"[/color] but do they have a claim to sole owners of a row of icons that allows you to launch applications?

In other words, Apple owns any rectangle with round corners?  0.o  It owns all computer screens, pretty much.  Nothing is perfectly 90 degrees.

http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/patd593087.pdf
For those that don't know how to read patents properly (let's be honest, unless you are a lawyer you probably don't), the solid black lines represent the part of the design being patented. The dotted lines are not part of the patent, they are just to provide context for the rest of the application. As you can see, the rounded corner shape of the iPhone is covered under the patent.

Last edited by 16Skittles (2012-09-24 21:19:08)

@skittles

Wow. That's a really specific thing to patent.

Also I read over the patent and I'm not a lawyer (by the way: do you know how to read patents properly? because I never thought of you as a lawyer type) but it looks like they're patenting:

-the shape (rounded rectangle of those proportions)
-the fact that there's some kind of smaller rectangle inside the rectangle
-the home button? this wasn't really consistent, neither was the speaker thing at the top.
-the screen itself, which is only in a solid line sometimes so I'm not really sure.

Anyway I think it's only if the electronic that's stealing has all those things. It's not just that rounded rectangle shapes of around that size are patented because then all phones would have to be weirdly shaped and pointy.

Last edited by luiysia (2012-09-24 21:46:08)

luiysia wrote:

@skittles

Wow. That's a really specific thing to patent.

Also I read over the patent and I'm not a lawyer (by the way: do you know how to read patents properly? because I never thought of you as a lawyer type) but it looks like they're patenting:

-the shape (rounded rectangle of those proportions)
-the fact that there's some kind of smaller rectangle inside the rectangle
-the home button? this wasn't really consistent, neither was the speaker thing at the top.
-the screen itself, which is only in a solid line sometimes so I'm not really sure.

Anyway I think it's only if the electronic that's stealing has all those things. It's not just that rounded rectangle shapes of around that size are patented because then all phones would have to be weirdly shaped and pointy.

I'm not a lawyer, and it's quite possible that I'm reading them wrong    The thing is that I like to know things. If someone tells me "Apple has a patent on rounded corners," I'm going to want to find the evidence. So, I went through looking at patents, and one of the articles that I read (On Engadget I think) it said that quick guide. 

Anyway, the analysis you had is pretty much spot on. The shape, the screen (as opposed to the entire front, the smaller rectangle is the LCD itself), and the home button. As I am not a lawyer I don't know if all of the elements must be infringed upon to make the case suable.

The validity of this patent is not part of the question: the general consensus is that the patent is invalid, and the patent system isn't ready for the digital age.

or just use the start key

assuming you have one