let us say a car manufacturer invents a wireless device that unlocked your car when you are within a certain range automatically.
let us also say they patented this
technically, there are devices that sort of do this, except you have to press a button. Suddenly every car manufacturer realizes this is a much better method of opening doors and they decide to implement the same design in their cars.
The original car manufacturer has spend time and money conducting usability studies, adding this, removing that in an effort to give their customers greater satisfaction.
suddenly they see every car company has copied their design and have piggy-backed on the research they spent money on, on the grounds that there is already prior art (the button keys) and the idea is obvious anyway.
Don't the inventors of the wireless door have the right stop and say "hey you guys didn't invent this, there was something similar but it's not the same thing, we spent money perfecting the things that in hindsight seem startlingly obvious, don't steal our work"?
This is why the current state of patent law is stupid
google could have done this in-house easily (it's basically just PPP with bloat), this is just google mitigating the possibility of future trouble with with a company that has an absurdly general patent.
They should have canceled standard MAD and left MADkids and Classic MAD
The problem with mad is that its gone stale, every joke is just a copy of a joke they used on another TV show that was based on another TV show.
With MADkids they could have thrown in a fart toy (or something else vulgar), put the latest cartoon character on the cover and they were pretty much guaranteed sales.
with MAD classics, they could have appealed to the die hard part of their audience thats been buying MAD for 50 years religiously.
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This is called humour, oh Spock descendant mods
yes i see the time problem in my statement
It defeats the purpose of the game
However this could come in handy for suspected bots and cheaters
Don't read too much into half the charges being dropped, its common practice
The nitty-gritty begins about now.
If you cache mammoth size data for too long, it can negatively effect your browsers speed.
who else read this as "blah blah blah Open Source New " and then summarsied it as "another useless technique that does nothing practical"?
google could have done this in-house easily (it's basically just PPP with bloat), this is just google mitigating the possibility of future trouble with with a company that has an absurdly general patent.
and the bizzare thing is, most of us will think it's plausile no matter how much it contradicts itself.
to install yap you have to compile the code.
and sumatra just fail in terms of resource management (70meg to open a document that says "test 123")
it seems very for malware to be installed like this
Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but shouldn't Firefox stop extensions being installed this way?
It'll be stagnant for a few years and when we've all forgotten about it, a press release will reveal it'll be delayed until further notice.
They should have canceled standard MAD and left MADkids and Classic MAD The problem with mad is that its gone stale, every joke is just a copy of a joke they used on another TV show that was based on another TV show. With MADkids they could have thrown in a fart toy (or something else vulgar), put the latest cartoon character on the cover and they were pretty much guaranteed sales. with MAD classics, they could have appealed to the die hard part of their audience thats been buying MAD for 50 years religiously.