As far as I can make out, each claim specifically mentions a multipoint touchscreen. Unlike the touchscreens normally used in PDAs, it can register pressure at several points simultaneously. Furthermore all described gestures need the screen to be touched at several places at once. But since the patent mentions virtual controls, I wouldn't really describe the interaction as a gesture. Gestures typically are not performed on a control.
Please take that into account when you try to come up with prior art.
The GVU ( German Federation Against Copyright Theft ) is suspected of having regularly paid at least one administrator of one of the major warez servers in Germany. In exchange for their payment, the GVU got access to logfiles. Furthermore the GVU is accused of having provided hardware for the server, which was located in Frankfurt. The office of the GVU in Ellwangen was raided and there also is an investigation against the central in Hamburg.
Actually over in Germany, you are only allowed to seed plants approved by the Bundessortenamt. You only get plants approved if you can convincingly make the claim that yours is in some way superior to existing ones. Furthermore the process is prohibitively expensive and can take up to three years.
I'm not sure whether there are any plants left that you can grow without paying license fees.
And AFAIK other european countries have similar regulations (and probably the US, too).
I agree about breaking the neck. However, a lot of medieval knights lost their eysight. While their helmets withstood the impact of weapons, the resulting forces ruptured their optic nerves.
Not long ago, many psychologists thought that imitation was a simple, primitive action compared with figuring out the intentions of others. But that is changing. "Maybe imitation is a lot more sophisticated than people thought," Mr. Lyons said.
Since the children performed worse at reasoning and better at imitating, imitation is suddenly proposed to be the more sophisticated behaviour.
This is perfectly along the lines with claiming that being able to do math or play chess is proof of high intelligence - until a simple computer can do it.
What's more, the european commission and the council of the EU are considering to make patent infringement a criminal offense, too. Since the european patents office granted 173000 applications last year, it means we basically get 474 new laws each day. This does not take into account the national patent offices.
If it's inaudible, I don't have anything about watermarking, and I think it's better for the customer than DRM.
But what would it prove if watermarked files appear in P2P applications? Only that someone or something legally or illegally gained access to the files and put them there.
Your computer is infected with the Sony DRM Rootkit. It compromises the security of your machine, leaving it open to various attacks. Due to legal restrictions imposed by the DMCA, the infection can not be removed. It is recommended to disconnect the computer from the internet and reinstall the operating system.
It assumes, arrogantly, that the others are too dumb to match your R&D efforts or to produce their own culture.
Maybe it just assumes that you can enforce your IP over the IP of developing countries whether it's valid or not. Being a large economic power with the best funded army in the world does have its merits.
Most mutations are harmful. In the few cases where they help survival, there is an improved chance that these mutations are passed on to the next generation. That is true whether the mutation is minor or a major.
One argument of creationists is that some changes do not have useful intermediate steps and therefore cannot be the result of a chain of minor mutations. What I'm arguing is that this argument is without merit because major mutations do provably occur within a single generation.
...psuedo-scientists take advantage of the fact that verifying first hand the effects of macroevolutionary process would require a study over a million years or more.
This is plain and provably wrong. I don't know why so many people think major evolutionary changes only occur over many generations. The truth is that the DNA is designed to change in many interesting, major ways. There are not only point mutations, but also things like crossovers and reversals. Snakes with two heads and people with six fingers per hand are not myths or urban legends. They exist. These major changes are caused by mutations that happened within a single generation.
1. A touchscreen is not perfectly transparent, and it noticeably lowers the image quality. 2. Using a touchscreen with the fingers will smear it, and you'll never stop polishing the display. 3. All the touchscreens I know are not nearly as sensitive as the touch pads used in mp3 players and they don't give any tactile feedback at all. I don't know whether pressing the buttons behind the scroll wheel of the iPod gives tactile feedback (hopefully), but you can at least feel the position of the wheel itself.
What you describe is a serial hybrid. One of the first serial hybrids was presented at the Paris Expo in 1900. The Lohner-Porsche Electric Car also featered wheel hub motors.
"The Fall" is the one major game I know that was scripted with Python. It was horribly buggy upon release, and AFAIK still is. Especially the scripting was broken for many quests.
This could have happened with other languages, but using Python did not prevent them from producing crappy code.
Make sure you have installed the latest official release and create a new profile. It is known that keeping profiles from older versions of Firefox can cause instabilities. This also makes sure that no fragments from outdated extensions cause problems etc.
PS: The bookmarks of your old profile are stored in a html document. Once you found it, you can load the page to migrate them.
Witness the War on some Drugs which... not only fails to do that but costs billions of dollars...
On the contrary. For all I know, the real problem is that the "War on Drugs" is self financing. Anyone even accused of growing drugs looses his property with only a slim chance of getting it back. This "war" is a cash cow for at least some people involved.
(The witch hunts that raged Europe in the middle ages got out of hand for the same reason. It was largely an extortion scheme.)
This is just in time for the so called Lex A380. The US house of representatives is working on a law that would make a missile defence system mandatory for passenger jets with a maximum of 800+ seats or 450+ tons of weight. The only airplane with such a capacity is the brand new Airbus A380. Boeing does not offer any passenger plane of that size...
For example it has been long known that you can have very long lasting nuclear batteries using betavoltaics (couple of a source of beta radiation and a p-n junction and you have your battery), but would you put it on your lap that is the question.
Considering that plutonium beta cell batteries were used in pacemakers, I wouldn't be too worried about that. I think the shielding could be lightweight enough. But getting rid of used batteries could be a real problem.
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As far as I can make out, each claim specifically mentions a multipoint touchscreen. Unlike the touchscreens normally used in PDAs, it can register pressure at several points simultaneously. Furthermore all described gestures need the screen to be touched at several places at once. But since the patent mentions virtual controls, I wouldn't really describe the interaction as a gesture. Gestures typically are not performed on a control.
Please take that into account when you try to come up with prior art.
The GVU ( German Federation Against Copyright Theft ) is suspected of having regularly paid at least one administrator of one of the major warez servers in Germany. In exchange for their payment, the GVU got access to logfiles. Furthermore the GVU is accused of having provided hardware for the server, which was located in Frankfurt. The office of the GVU in Ellwangen was raided and there also is an investigation against the central in Hamburg.
Now I am seriously considering ripping my entire DVD collection so that it is instantly available.
Keep in mind that ripping any CSS protected DVDs is likely to be illegal in your country.
Actually over in Germany, you are only allowed to seed plants approved by the Bundessortenamt. You only get plants approved if you can convincingly make the claim that yours is in some way superior to existing ones. Furthermore the process is prohibitively expensive and can take up to three years.
I'm not sure whether there are any plants left that you can grow without paying license fees.
And AFAIK other european countries have similar regulations (and probably the US, too).
I agree about breaking the neck. However, a lot of medieval knights lost their eysight. While their helmets withstood the impact of weapons, the resulting forces ruptured their optic nerves.
I think the bad guys have done this repeatedly.
Not long ago, many psychologists thought that imitation was a simple, primitive action compared with figuring out the intentions of others. But that is changing. "Maybe imitation is a lot more sophisticated than people thought," Mr. Lyons said.
Since the children performed worse at reasoning and better at imitating, imitation is suddenly proposed to be the more sophisticated behaviour.
This is perfectly along the lines with claiming that being able to do math or play chess is proof of high intelligence - until a simple computer can do it.
What's more, the european commission and the council of the EU are considering to make patent infringement a criminal offense, too.
Since the european patents office granted 173000 applications last year, it means we basically get 474 new laws each day. This does not take into account the national patent offices.
Doesn't seem to have helped.
That's called watermarking and not poisoning.
If it's inaudible, I don't have anything about
watermarking, and I think it's better for the
customer than DRM.
But what would it prove if watermarked files
appear in P2P applications? Only that someone
or something legally or illegally gained access
to the files and put them there.
Your computer is infected with the Sony DRM Rootkit.
It compromises the security of your machine, leaving
it open to various attacks.
Due to legal restrictions imposed by the DMCA, the
infection can not be removed. It is recommended to
disconnect the computer from the internet and
reinstall the operating system.
It assumes, arrogantly, that the others are too dumb to match your R&D efforts or to produce their own culture.
Maybe it just assumes that you can enforce your IP over the IP of developing countries whether it's valid or not. Being a large economic power with the best funded army in the world does have its merits.
Most mutations are harmful. In the few cases where they help survival, there is an improved chance that these mutations are passed on to the next generation. That is true whether the mutation is minor or a major.
One argument of creationists is that some changes do not have useful intermediate steps and therefore cannot be the result of a chain of minor mutations. What I'm arguing is that this argument is without merit because major mutations do provably occur within a single generation.
...psuedo-scientists take advantage of the fact that verifying first hand the effects of macroevolutionary process would require a study over a million years or more.
This is plain and provably wrong. I don't know why so many people think major evolutionary changes only occur over many generations. The truth is that the DNA is designed to change in many interesting, major ways. There are not only point mutations, but also things like crossovers and reversals.
Snakes with two heads and people with six fingers per hand are not myths or urban legends. They exist. These major changes are caused by mutations that happened within a single generation.
1. A touchscreen is not perfectly transparent, and it noticeably lowers the image quality.
2. Using a touchscreen with the fingers will smear it, and you'll never stop polishing the display.
3. All the touchscreens I know are not nearly as sensitive as the touch pads used in mp3 players and they don't give any tactile feedback at all. I don't know whether pressing the buttons behind the scroll wheel of the iPod gives tactile feedback (hopefully), but you can at least feel the position of the wheel itself.
The copyright is necessary as an incentive to produce subway maps in the first place.
What you describe is a serial hybrid. One of the first serial
hybrids was presented at the Paris Expo in 1900.
The Lohner-Porsche Electric Car also featered wheel hub motors.
and at a time when we had just raided the piggy bank in tax giveaways and were still running an operation in Afghanistan!
You are still running an operation in Afghanistan. And so are several allied countries.
"The Fall" is the one major game I know that was scripted with Python. It was horribly buggy upon release, and AFAIK still is. Especially the scripting was broken for many quests.
This could have happened with other languages, but using Python did not prevent them from producing crappy code.
What you experience certainly is not normal.
Make sure you have installed the latest official release and create a new profile. It is known that keeping profiles from older versions of Firefox can cause instabilities. This also makes sure that no fragments from outdated extensions cause problems etc.
PS: The bookmarks of your old profile are stored in a html document. Once you found it, you can load the page to migrate them.
Witness the War on some Drugs which ... not only fails to do that but costs billions of dollars ...
On the contrary. For all I know, the real problem is that the "War on Drugs" is self financing. Anyone even accused of growing drugs looses his property with only a slim chance of getting it back. This "war" is a cash cow for at least some people involved.
(The witch hunts that raged Europe in the middle ages got out of hand for the same reason. It was largely an extortion scheme.)
Maybe you could also use 8 character constants (8cc) like 'NoString'. But the compiler wornings would drive you crazy. ;-)
This is just in time for the so called Lex A380. The US house of representatives is working on a law that would make a missile defence system mandatory for passenger jets with a maximum of 800+ seats or 450+ tons of weight.
The only airplane with such a capacity is the brand new Airbus A380. Boeing does not offer any passenger plane of that size...
For example it has been long known that you can have very long lasting nuclear batteries using betavoltaics (couple of a source of beta radiation and a p-n junction and you have your battery), but would you put it on your lap that is the question.
Considering that plutonium beta cell batteries were used in pacemakers, I wouldn't be too worried about that. I think the shielding could be lightweight enough.
But getting rid of used batteries could be a real problem.
This article provides a nice overview of how robust bacteriae and their spores can be.