I can't remember his name at the moment. But there was a scientist who raised a chimpanzee along side his own son. His name was W.N. Kellogg. It wasn't hard to find the webpage.
There really needs to be a distinction made in this discussion between frivolous patents, patent trolls and legitimate patents. This distinction becomes worthless if the USPTO can't make it.
I'm pretty sure they [scrollbars] aren't. When they were initially created, there were essentially no software patents. And, in any case, they wouldn't be patented by MS, since they were invented before MS (or Apple) ever developed any GUI. All that didn't hinder Microsoft to patent f.e. double clicking. The relevant patent number is 6,727,830 and was granted on April 27, 2004.
But AFAIK the Linux kernel does not contain any GUI code, so you're probably looking at he wrong kind of patents.
However, the patent would be sufficient to go after any Linux distributors that contain desktop environments like KDE or Gnome.
So how could Microsoft license 'Plays for Sure' for so long? And why were so many online stores allowed to distribute music owned by major labels, using 'Plays for Sure'?
Well - I know we're all geeks around here. But perhaps it's still worth mentioning that the quote is from the game "Deus Ex", released in the year 2000?
Apart from the absurdity of valuing locking away a single paedophile over the basic rights granted to everybody by the constitution, what the hell is going on with the sentence? Fifteen years for looking at forty-odd photos that he deleted afterwards? Some of them were just thumbnails too! What the hell?
Unless I'm mistaken, porn depicting people under the age of 21 is considered to be child porn in several states. So there's little evidence that he's a pedophile at all.
I think Runescape is mostly popular because every kid with an internet connection can enter it. You don't have to install additional software and you can play the free version for an unlimited time. Even the commercial version is cheap by comparison ($5).
Well - it's no fun to mow your lawn in a scuba suit, either. But compared to a pressurized suit where you can hardly bend the joints, it should be like a stroll int the park.
It looks like the whole suit is pressurized. Is there actually any need for this or could the material be permeable like with a scuba diving suit? That way there wouldn't be any problems with the joints, and a small rip would not cause much of a problem.
Both the new version of the Sony ebook reader and the Illiad are supposed to be available in April. Seeing how Sony is treating its customers, I would go for the Iliad - even if the updated Sony product is supposed to be allowed to display open formats.
The Iliad supports reading PDF, XHTML, TXT and playing MP3. It is provided by iRex, a company backed by Philips. Other than that, the products appear to be very similar.
PS: Don't forget that project Gutenberg provides a load of good literature for free.
I think the majority of Westerners are confused by how there aren't riots when someone blows themselves up in the name of a prophet, but when when they make cartoons about a prophet then all hell breaks loose.
I vividly remember how riots swept all over the US and the rest of the western world when the torture pictures of Abu Ghraib were published.
Personally I'd like to say we shouldn't listen to religous zealots and make no compromises about the freedom of speech and press. But I think we should also have a look at what standards are applied when christians get offended to avoid bigotry.
Over in Italy, a muslim became angered when the hospital refused to remove the crucifix in the room his mother was stationed in. He threw the cross out of the window. As a result, he was sentenced to 8 months of jail time.
And over in Germany it was forbidden to offer a t-shirt depicting a crucified pig.
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The relevant patent number is 6,727,830 and was granted on April 27, 2004.
But AFAIK the Linux kernel does not contain any GUI code, so you're
probably looking at he wrong kind of patents.
However, the patent would be sufficient to go after any Linux distributors
that contain desktop environments like KDE or Gnome.
You could combine a cell phone with a RFID reader.
This would give you an electronic shackle where the
critical part is implanted.
So how could Microsoft license 'Plays for Sure' for so long?
And why were so many online stores allowed to distribute music
owned by major labels, using 'Plays for Sure'?
Using the basic math tutorial, I've measured up to over 6000 FLOPS for the GPU of a Quatro FX 4500 card.
The author of the song died in 1916, but the co-author lived until 1946. So at least in Europe, the copyright lasts until 2016 (1946 + 70 years).
Especially on a song that never really had any financial use anyway.
According to the German version of the Wikipedia article, it earns Warner Chappell $2.000.000 in license fees a year.
Have a look at what unsupervised wiretapping has lead to in Italy.
Well done, citizen.
Yes. Everyone working for a company that sells goods in the US.
Well - I know we're all geeks around here. But perhaps it's still worth
mentioning that the quote is from the game "Deus Ex", released in the
year 2000?
Does this imply that managers like to be yelled at and aren't interested in new toys?
Well - I don't know much about King Charles I.
But I see some frightening parallels to the Reichstag Fire Decree.
Apart from the absurdity of valuing locking away a single paedophile over the basic rights granted to everybody by the constitution, what the hell is going on with the sentence? Fifteen years for looking at forty-odd photos that he deleted afterwards? Some of them were just thumbnails too! What the hell?
Unless I'm mistaken, porn depicting people under the age of 21 is considered to be child porn in several states. So there's little evidence that he's a pedophile at all.
AFAIK the first serial hybrid was the Lohner-Porsche Electric Car, which was presented at the Paris Expo in 1900.
I think Runescape is mostly popular because every kid with
an internet connection can enter it. You don't have to
install additional software and you can play the free version
for an unlimited time. Even the commercial version is cheap
by comparison ($5).
The majority of Runescape players are teenagers.
And if they had to, could they?
So you should have to become a security guard to satisfy your voyeuristic desires?
Horror movies are not a good source for scientific information.
Have a look at this page about vacuum exposure.
Well - it's no fun to mow your lawn in a scuba suit, either.
But compared to a pressurized suit where you can hardly bend
the joints, it should be like a stroll int the park.
It looks like the whole suit is pressurized. Is there actually any need for this or could the material be permeable like with a scuba diving suit?
That way there wouldn't be any problems with the joints, and a small rip would not cause much of a problem.
Both the new version of the Sony ebook reader and the Illiad are supposed to be available in April. Seeing how Sony is treating its customers, I would go for the Iliad - even if the updated Sony product is supposed to be allowed to display open formats.
The Iliad supports reading PDF, XHTML, TXT and playing MP3. It is provided by iRex, a company backed by Philips. Other than that, the products appear to be very similar.
PS: Don't forget that project Gutenberg provides a load of good literature for free.
I think the majority of Westerners are confused by how there aren't riots when someone blows themselves up in the name of a prophet, but when when they make cartoons about a prophet then all hell breaks loose.
I vividly remember how riots swept all over the US and the rest of the western world when the torture pictures of Abu Ghraib were published.
Personally I'd like to say we shouldn't listen to religous zealots
and make no compromises about the freedom of speech and press.
But I think we should also have a look at what standards are applied
when christians get offended to avoid bigotry.
Over in Italy, a muslim became angered when the hospital refused to
remove the crucifix in the room his mother was stationed in. He threw
the cross out of the window. As a result, he was sentenced to 8 months
of jail time.
And over in Germany it was forbidden to offer a t-shirt depicting a
crucified pig.