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CueCat Patent Granted, Finally
RobertB-DC writes "Who could forget the :CueCat, the amazing device that would bring 'convergence' between the real world and the online marketing Utopia of the late '90s? Belo, the Dallas-based newspaper and TV conglomerate, spent millions of dollars on the project, only to be ridiculed from the start and eventually becoming a sort of poster kitty for the Dot-Com Bust. Well, the device's inventor and chief cheerleader, J. Jovan Philyaw, didn't forget. His patent application, in progress since 1998, has finally been granted. The story comes from a Dallas alternative weekly, since the local Belo paper is still smarting from its $40-million-dollar black eye."
and write the book ":CueCat for Dummies"? I'll be an instant millionaire!
So, the cueCat was in a box (the patent office) and its state was unknown for years until someone finally opened the box and looked at it? I can only assume the cueCat was dead, but that assumption probably changed the outcome.
First again?
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.
A barcode scanner at every normal person's PC that "allows" them to view advertisements on products they've already purchased? Count me in!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Does anyone know if I can still pick these up for free at Radio Shack? I remember having a stack of them but my Grandma threw them away because she thought they were pens that were defective. No, really, she did.
The plastic bag that my copy of Wired came in had a big hole in it when it got to my house. The CueCat was either stolen or it fell out.
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What happens when your Access DB is what needs to be recovered from the backup tapes? What then?
What do I do with the box of these that a frustrated Radio Shack manager gave me?
I went in asking for one and he told me I can't have one unless I take his entire inventory of them. I ended up with dozens of them.
On a side note, I then went to the bank and asked for a dollar, but they didn't give me a boxful of them... no fair...
Awesome! I still have a brand new unused CueCat in my desk drawer next to me right now! My ship has come in! ...I think. Wait, what's going on here?
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet might be running loose in your pants."
-Calvin
Ummm....Most authors only get paid if their books actually sell...(Hence the reason JonKatz lives in abject poverty.)
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it looks like a sex toy
all its good for anymore
i guess
i said i guess!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
What happens when your Access DB is what needs to be recovered from the backup tapes? What then?
He gets stuck in an infinite loop!
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> That is, if I set up a server which returns a redirect for "8972" of
> http://www.cat.example.com/ and "1513" to
> http://www.dog.example.com/ and I send you
> (via US mail) "8972", which you then enter at my site and get
> redirected to the cat site, the patented method has been used.
Are you saying that makeashorterlink.com and tinyurl.com (for example) are infringing on this patent? Holy vague claims, Batman!
ON DELETE CASCADE
Maybe their business plan is to sue tinyurl?
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
Oh no! Are you saying that the book that I read "Writing Dummy Books for Dummies" was inaccurate on how much money I can make?
You should have looked at the book next to it on the shelf, "Reading about Writing Dummy Books for Dummies". It explained in great detail that it's usually a bad idea.
The Internet is generally stupid
Why do I get the feeling that the :CueCat could find new life as a support peripheral to some stupid new Facebook "application"? "Here are the barcodes from everything in my room! L0lz!!1!!"
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