Also to add, BP is consistently ranked as either the 4th or 5th largest company in the world. Google doesn't even rank in the top 100 (most recent rankings put them in the 150s).
Compared to Google, BP is the mom and pop grocery on the corner.
In what world do you live in? BP is a $246 billion dollar global energy company. In comparison, Google is a dinky little $24 billion dollar company. Not to mention how BP has 4.5 times as many employees. One can go on and on about how your characterization is plainly wrong.
Do you think that a dialog, warning a user who is switching from one screen to another with a 'allow always/never/this time/stay on this page' in case a site is running scripts on the background and then white-listing the site if the 'allow always' button is pushed is such an outrageous concept?
Yes. That would be a huge annoyance to many users similar to all the UAC dialogs in Vista.
The web SUCKS when compared to the quality of pristine digital broadcasts.
And where are you getting these "pristine" digital broadcasts? Most digital broadcasts are overcompressed pieces of shit due to the cable/satellite providers trying to cram way too many channels for how much bandwidth they actually have available.
The control scheme is pretty complicated and you do also have to keep track of 4 ghosts at the same time you are moving around. Those damn Namcoers are too smart for their own good.
Perhaps the OP would enjoy a line of work that involves shovels and dirt.
Yeah, but shovels are too complicated an unintuitive. I mean it would probably take theodp hours to figure out which end he is supposed to hold and which end goes into the dirt.
Because there is nothing in either statutory or case law to give any legal force behind such a ridiculous clause. It's the same as those idiots who used to put up disclaimers on FTPs or IRC servers that said something to the effect of: "If you're a police officer you can't look at this". Yeah, those were real big in stopping the FBI or other police groups from going there anyway and busting them. Oh wait...
What exactly is hard to use or cryptic about a RESTful API? If such a thing strains your brain too much you probably are in the wrong line of work. I'd recommend you get a job flipping burgers but even that may be way more than your intellectually capable of.
Oh and just so you know doing a patent search I can barely come up with a half dozen patents held by On2. That hardly sounds like they'd be able to make any "serious" patent retaliation.
No, that alone wouldn't but they would be able to throw enough infringement claims back to either make On2 step back or they would drain the company dry in legal fees.
after all how many millions has MS and various other large companies been paying out in court to small patent holding companies?
You mean the chump change that barely makes up a few percent of their total yearly revenue?
With or without the authority to sublicense these patents?
They are explicitly not providing patent protection for anyone else.
How about adding something like this to the TOS of an unrelated, widely used Google service: "By entering a query into Google Search, you agree not to sue users of WebM multimedia technology for infringement of any patent that you believe is essential to WebM multimedia technology."
Because that wouldn't stand up in any court of law?
Maybe I'm thick, but I don't understand why, if Google's so interested in freeing up a video codec for use as a standard, they don't just apply some of their legendary minds to fixing OGG Vorbis.
Because Vorbis is an audio codec?
Google and their legions of high-powered open-source minds can't make it better than H.264?
Not without likely infringing a number of patents in the process.
Yeah because On2 is going to be able to takedown Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi, Fujitsu, LG, Philips, Fraunhofer, Sharp, Seimens? You're joking right? These companies have a far more vast patent portfolio than some little dinky company like On2 could ever dream of having.
True, it's not technically true but if a submarine patent did arrive since you did license the patents it would be a sign that you were working in good faith with all the knowledge you had and weren't trying to willfully infringe any patents. Such a thing is very important in patent lawsuits.
Except for the fact that Google has already placed themselves in the crosshairs by using VP8/WebM themselves.
But Google has already licensed the MPEG-LA patents so they have nothing to worry about.
Are you worth more than Google? Didn't think so.
Apparently you don't know who makes up the patent pool for H.264. It's pretty much the biggest conglomerates in the world and pretty much all the biggest names in the technology industry. They could crush Google like nothing.
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Also to add, BP is consistently ranked as either the 4th or 5th largest company in the world. Google doesn't even rank in the top 100 (most recent rankings put them in the 150s).
Compared to Google, BP is the mom and pop grocery on the corner.
In what world do you live in? BP is a $246 billion dollar global energy company. In comparison, Google is a dinky little $24 billion dollar company. Not to mention how BP has 4.5 times as many employees. One can go on and on about how your characterization is plainly wrong.
Do you think that a dialog, warning a user who is switching from one screen to another with a 'allow always/never/this time/stay on this page' in case a site is running scripts on the background and then white-listing the site if the 'allow always' button is pushed is such an outrageous concept?
Yes. That would be a huge annoyance to many users similar to all the UAC dialogs in Vista.
But highly inconvenient to many users so they will get mad and disable such a feature thus negating the entire purpose.
Think of the licensing fees we'd all owe his estate!
0 dollars?
What would be the point? It wouldn't be legally enforceable.
Why do you assume there has to be a profit motive in order to run amok of patents?
The web SUCKS when compared to the quality of pristine digital broadcasts.
And where are you getting these "pristine" digital broadcasts? Most digital broadcasts are overcompressed pieces of shit due to the cable/satellite providers trying to cram way too many channels for how much bandwidth they actually have available.
My mother is not 60 years old yet and will NOT touch a computer. She is not alone.
This is about as relevant as saying in the 1920s: "My mother is not 60 years old yet and she will NOT drive a car. She is not alone." Or in the
Why would you have speakers on in an office environment anyway?
The control scheme is pretty complicated and you do also have to keep track of 4 ghosts at the same time you are moving around. Those damn Namcoers are too smart for their own good.
Perhaps the OP would enjoy a line of work that involves shovels and dirt.
Yeah, but shovels are too complicated an unintuitive. I mean it would probably take theodp hours to figure out which end he is supposed to hold and which end goes into the dirt.
Yes but you are making the huge assumption that either theodp or kdawson actually know anything about programming. Such a claim is highly suspect.
anything that is user facing should be able to be explained to a common 5 year old
Why would an API be user facing? Are you an idiot who doesn't know the difference between a UI and an API?
Because there is nothing in either statutory or case law to give any legal force behind such a ridiculous clause. It's the same as those idiots who used to put up disclaimers on FTPs or IRC servers that said something to the effect of: "If you're a police officer you can't look at this". Yeah, those were real big in stopping the FBI or other police groups from going there anyway and busting them. Oh wait...
What exactly is hard to use or cryptic about a RESTful API? If such a thing strains your brain too much you probably are in the wrong line of work. I'd recommend you get a job flipping burgers but even that may be way more than your intellectually capable of.
Oh and just so you know doing a patent search I can barely come up with a half dozen patents held by On2. That hardly sounds like they'd be able to make any "serious" patent retaliation.
There is already something like that in the common law tradition. It's called laches.
That won't invalidate the patents though,
No, that alone wouldn't but they would be able to throw enough infringement claims back to either make On2 step back or they would drain the company dry in legal fees.
after all how many millions has MS and various other large companies been paying out in court to small patent holding companies?
You mean the chump change that barely makes up a few percent of their total yearly revenue?
With or without the authority to sublicense these patents?
They are explicitly not providing patent protection for anyone else.
How about adding something like this to the TOS of an unrelated, widely used Google service: "By entering a query into Google Search, you agree not to sue users of WebM multimedia technology for infringement of any patent that you believe is essential to WebM multimedia technology."
Because that wouldn't stand up in any court of law?
Maybe I'm thick, but I don't understand why, if Google's so interested in freeing up a video codec for use as a standard, they don't just apply some of their legendary minds to fixing OGG Vorbis.
Because Vorbis is an audio codec?
Google and their legions of high-powered open-source minds can't make it better than H.264?
Not without likely infringing a number of patents in the process.
Yeah because On2 is going to be able to takedown Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi, Fujitsu, LG, Philips, Fraunhofer, Sharp, Seimens? You're joking right? These companies have a far more vast patent portfolio than some little dinky company like On2 could ever dream of having.
True, it's not technically true but if a submarine patent did arrive since you did license the patents it would be a sign that you were working in good faith with all the knowledge you had and weren't trying to willfully infringe any patents. Such a thing is very important in patent lawsuits.
Except for the fact that Google has already placed themselves in the crosshairs by using VP8/WebM themselves.
But Google has already licensed the MPEG-LA patents so they have nothing to worry about.
Are you worth more than Google? Didn't think so.
Apparently you don't know who makes up the patent pool for H.264. It's pretty much the biggest conglomerates in the world and pretty much all the biggest names in the technology industry. They could crush Google like nothing.
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