A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
In "Apple attacks Motorola's efforts to block iPhone 4S using standards patents, asks for huge damages", Qualcomm backs Apple (more info at "Apple looks to end Motorola patent attack in Germany with U.S. suit"):
Qualcomm, the company building the baseband chips in Apple's iPhone 4S, reports in the complaint that "On January 11, 2011, Mr. Kirk Dailey, Motorola's Corporate Vice President, Intellectual Property, sent a letter to Qualcomm, copying Apple, purporting 'to terminate any and all license and covenant rights with respect to Apple, effective February 10, 2011 (30 days from the date of this letter).'"
The complaint further notes, "On April 25, 2011, Mr. Derek Aberle, Executive Vice President of Qualcomm and President of Qualcomm Technology Licensing responded to Motorola’s letter of January 11, 2011. Mr. Aberle disagreed with Motorola’s contention that it could invoke the Defensive Suspension Provision with respect to Apple. He noted that the Defensive Suspension provision did not entitle Motorola to terminate rights based on suits brought by Apple."
Forum comment by "island hermit":
In the back room at Google:
Okay… if you carry the two and subtract 5 and then multiple it by 7 and then add 4… hmmm… "Hello, Motorola, we've just been crunching the numbers and we've decided that it will cost us less if we just pay you the $2.5 billion and back out of the deal. Oh… and good luck with that thing you have going with Apple. Bye."
"Apple ][", in an AppleInsider forum post:
… maybe there are some other plans in existence which we do not yet know about. Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison were pretty close, and I'm sure that they discussed Google more than a few times. Hopefully Oracle's lawsuits against Google and their Android OS makes some headway soon.
Apple can attack from the North, while Oracle has the South covered. Apple can hand over a few more patents to a Patent Troll company and they can hold the Eastern front while some of the other companies which are suing Google, like BT, can take care of the Western front, leaving Google encircled with no chance of escape.
These good folks couldn't possibly be more consistently wrong about the iPhone and tablets (a.k.a. iPad).
It now takes two clicks to locate a downloaded files in the Finder from Safari. Joe Borzellino writes:
Ok, I solved the problem. I think this is new behavior from the last version of Safari. But this is what I have found out.
In order for the magnifier to activate and open the Finder window, the item to be located in the "Show Downloads" drop down must be highlighted by clicking somewhere in the row where it is listed. In my setup this highlights the item in blue and then clicking the magnifier will open the Finder window. If the item is not highlighted, then clicking the magnifier does nothing, even though the magnifier icon itself indicates feedback that it has been clicked.
Like I said, I think this is different behavior from the previous version of Safari and thus it takes 2 mouse clicks to open the Finder window rather than one.
I much prefer the older method where you just need to click once on the magnifier icon next to the file you want to open in the Finder.
McLaren 1995 F1 GTR video clips by Kanal von rr2user on YouTube.
Video list for all cars and tracks – contributed by multiple users.
Best and average times, and other statistics, by car, track and driver. The related discussion thread is at Firemint Real Racing 2 forums.
The Lotus Evora or the Volvo C30 can match almost any F1!!! Try it:-) But with any car- driving skills are capital, with these small cars you have to do wide, soft curves to maintain speed!
One-word reviews for the cars of RR2.
Real Racing 2 car data tabulated in a Google Spreadsheet – Includes handling rating, top speed, 0-100, 0-200, 100-0 and 0-200-0 times, speeds at gear shifts and total gears.
Pictures of the actual cars used in the game.
How the Real Racing 2 cars actually sound like in real life.
On the overall decline of the client PC market in Q4 2011 in comparison with Apple's phenomenal earnings and product growth for the December quarter of 2011, Mikey Campbell writes the following in Apple passes HP as top PC maker when counting iPad sales:
Last year was said to be "The Year of the Tablet," and Apple CEO Tim Cook quipped during the company's earnings conference call that he thinks "most people would agree, it was the year of the iPad for the second year in a row."
Here's a related YouTube clip with extracts of Steve Jobs on 2010: Year of iPad, 2011: Year of the copycats? and 2011: Year of iPad 2 during the Apple Special Event, March 2011.