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Stanley Kubrick invented the tablet computer
The inquirer ^
| Wed Aug 24 2011
| Dave Neal
Posted on 08/25/2011 12:55:12 AM PDT by Wooly
FRUIT THEMED FIRM Apple's arguments that Samsung stole the tablet design from it have been debunked by the latter's lawyers, who found the devices in Stanley Kubrick's classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Apple versus Samsung tablet argument is keeping patent lawyers in sports cars and tailored suits at the moment and stopping judges from going on their summer breaks. Apple has argued that Samsung is aping its design and is fighting for a ban on imports, but Samsung has argued that you can see the design in 2001, a film that ironically starts with a bunch of apes hitting what looks like a rather large tablet.
2001 is a great film and we are always glad of a reminder, even when it appears on the Fosspatents blog. According to Florian Mueller, Samsung filed its defence against an injunction on imports last night, and included a screenshot from the film masterpiece that shows two tablets in use.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: apple; appleiicin2011; ipad; samsung; tablet
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To: Cincinatus
Would you trust that computer?
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posted on
08/25/2011 2:31:34 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
To: Wooly
two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers The guys in that clip never interact with the 'computers.' It looks like they are just flat screen TVs.
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posted on
08/25/2011 2:49:46 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
Yeah, and Arthur C. Clarke “invented” the communications satellite, and the creator of semaphor invented the modem.
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posted on
08/25/2011 2:56:40 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: sten
The design of the hand-held devices in Star Trek was meant so that the details of their use would have been intuitive, both to the audience and to the actors. Similarly, subsequent real world devices, such as the cell phone, the tablet computer and the Kindle, look and operate in the same way so that a user will know how to use them without much training.
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posted on
08/25/2011 3:12:50 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
To: jmcenanly
Let's all remember that there was a Star Trek episode,
"COURT MARTIAL" that prominently featured "real" books versus the "computer" (Kindle).
Samuel T Cogley, Kirk's attorney proudly boasts his love of books over a computer.
So, Star Trek gave us the mobile phone (communicator copied by Motorola), the iPad and the Kindle.
To: SunkenCiv
I think Clarke invented the geosynchronous communications satellite, and I'm not aware of anyone contesting his claim.
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posted on
08/25/2011 3:44:15 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Wooly; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ...
Apple iPad invented by Stanley Kubrick in "2001, a Space Oddysey" AGAIN retread thread PING! Except, the tablets in 2001 have been shown to have been flat personal TVs with ten buttons across the wide bar at the bottom for channel selection, and not used interactively, like computers, as noted in comments by folks talking about the clip boards. Bowman and his fellow crewman were watching the news on their TVs, while talking to HAL, the only computer in the movie.
Apple didn't invent the iPad claim!
Please, No Flame Wars,
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
08/25/2011 3:46:18 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
To: jmcenanly
Ever since they came out, I've noted that the typical "thumb drive" is actually smaller than the little memory device that Spock or Kirk can be seen sometimes inserting into a "computer" in order to "read" it's contents. As optimistic and visionary as Roddenbery was, he actually underestimated the performance of today's information storage technology, 45 years after ST-TOS.
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posted on
08/25/2011 3:49:56 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Cincinatus
“The problem is, what purpose does writing down numbers from a display serve? Especially on a multi-year manned trip to Jupiter? Is someone going to check those numbers later?”
Remember how it went with HAL in the story??? I would say, yes. :-)
To: Steely Tom
I think Clarke invented the geosynchronous communications satellite, and I'm not aware of anyone contesting his claim.
He originated the concept of the communications satellite in 1945 in a letter to the editor in the periodical
Peacetime Uses for V2.
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:00:15 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: DB
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:06:51 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Wooly
Stanley Kubrick invented the tablet computer
As someone has pointed out, the little panels on 2001 were TVs, not computers or computer terminals.
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:08:03 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Proud_USA_Republican
Apple also stole the mouse from Xeroxs Palo Alto research center when Steve Jobs saw it demonstrated on a visit and to this day many people still believe Apple invented it. Uh, no. First of all, Apple stole nothing from their visit to PARC. Apple PAID Xerox 1 million shares of pre-IPO Apple stock worth $7million for two eight hour visits to Xerox's PARC and the rights to what they learned there. They TOOK nothing but memories with them when they left, no code, hardware, or documents. Xerox SOLD those shares after the IPO for over $16,000,000. had they kept them, those shares would be worth over $1.4 billion today after splits.
Secondly, Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute (SRI) who invented the Mouse and patented it in 1967 (granted in 1970), and who later did work at PARC, would be surprised to hear you say that Apple stole the Mouse. Apple LICENSED The computer mouse from SRI for $40,000. Engelbart got no royalties at all.
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:09:06 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
To: Erik Latranyi
So, Star Trek gave us the mobile phone (communicator copied by Motorola), the iPad and the Kindle. Nah! Dick Tracy gave us the cell phone!
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:13:25 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
To: aruanan
Just saying Apple didn’t invent it.
I didn’t know there was Apple stock exchanged for it. Thank you.
Pretty amazing that the higher ups in Xerox didn’t recognize what they had...
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:26:44 AM PDT
by
DB
To: Swordmaker
The GUI was not a new idea.
Cavemen used images to convey information on the side of rocks.
Marketing people and sign-makers knew the power of images to rapidly impart messages to people.
For many years, computer graphics capabilities were insufficient for any decent GUI to be implemented.
Once graphics capabilities started increasing, GUI was a natural next step.
Apple gets credit for rolling it out on a commercial scale, but should not be praised for a concept that cavemen understood.
To: DB
Pretty amazing that the higher ups in Xerox didnt recognize what they had... When a sufficiently revolutionary product is invented, such as the GUI interface, the reaction from the established business community is often befuddlement if not rejection. It is too outside the envelope to fit in.
Interestingly enough, before Xerox was Xerox, the concept of xerography was shopped around to 20 companies such as IBM and GE. The reaction at the time from these big companies was less than enthusiastic. Sort of, "who needs it, we already have a mimeograph machine".
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posted on
08/25/2011 4:55:36 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: jmcenanly
"My God, it's full of iPads!"
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posted on
08/25/2011 5:00:51 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: 6SJ7
My God, it's full of maxiPads!"
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posted on
08/25/2011 5:04:09 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Secede? Y'all should hope that we don't invade!)
To: Wooly
George Jetson is going to be a wealthy man
.
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posted on
08/25/2011 5:07:16 AM PDT
by
Elle Bee
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