It's possible that the jury instructions regarding prior art were misinterpreted but you are wrong about what was said in the post interviews. In the post interviews the foreman said that the jury was having trouble reaching consensus on one patent relating to prior art and decided to move on to deliberate easier patents. When they were done with those easier patents they returned to the difficult issue that they skipped earlier. This is standard behavior in jury deliberations and not against the jury instructions. The false belief that they completely skipped it is commonly posted here and probably stems from a series of erroneous and biased Groklaw articles that were posted on Slashdot in August.
The supreme court ruled that these laws are illegal when applied to mail and phone-order from out of state. The internet isn't a magic modifier to existing laws. New York also passed a similar law a few years ago and Newegg told the state to go fuck themselves. If a retailer has no physical presence in the state of California there is nothing the state can do to compel them to comply with the law.
So you don't download iTunes songs, don't watch Youtube videos, don't download Apps and don't listen to streaming audio? What about your phone data usage would you say qualifies as "pretty extensive"? I checked my iPhone data usage and I use about 1GB a month over the past year. I consider myself a light user because my data is consumed primarily by Email. If I actually used the advertised features of the phone it would be easy to exceed 2GB a month. For now I'm also happy to be saving $5 per month.
a Porche is found sitting in a parking lot. Someone looks in the car and tries to find the owner, no luck. The person decides not to tell the parking lot attendent about his discovery The person decides not to tell the police about his discovery The person takes the Porche off the lot and parks it in his garage at home The person calls an employee of the owner to tell them they have the car The employee of the owner says the have no knowledge of the car It gets hauled off and sold at auction. The buyer from the auction strips the car down into individual parts possibly causing damage in the process The buyer from the auction contacts the employee of the owners and offers to GIVE YOU THE CAR back without repaying them for what ever the paid at auction.
The employee still denys the car is his The buyer from the auction posts pictures of the car parts on the internet and also brags that he knows who the real owner is but never bothers to contact him directly The owner of the car reports it stolen to the police The buyer of the car reassembles the car and returns it to the owner The police execute a search warrant while investigating a report of a stolen car
Crimes: Grand Theft Auto. Possession of stolen goods. Bad analogies.
The ES 350 and most other modern vehicles are equipped with power-assisted brakes, which operate by drawing vacuum power from the engine. But when an engine opens to full throttle, the vacuum drops, and after one or two pumps of the brake pedal the power assist feature disappears.
As a result, a driver would have to apply enormous pressure to the brake pedal to stop the car, and if the throttle was wide open might not be able to stop it at all, safety experts say.
"I don't think you can stop a car going 120 mph and an engine at full throttle without power assist," said Ditlow, the safety center director.
"There's a standard where you have to be able to stop the car without power-assisted brakes, but obviously I don't think it includes situations where the throttle is wide open," he added.
Drivers in other crashes also found it difficult to rein in a runaway Toyota. Guadalupe Gomez of Redwood City said he was held hostage for 20 miles on a Bay Area freeway by a 2007 Camry traveling more than 100 mph.
Gomez was unable to turn off the engine or shift into neutral and then burned out his brakes before slamming into another car and killing that driver, said attorney Louis Franecke, who represented that victim's family.
From the publishers point of view it does not matter. The great majority of games generate revenue at the time of sale only. It doesn't matter to the publisher if the buyers play the game for 5 hours or 50. The publisher sees each instance of this as a lost chance to make revenue. The only type of game where I could see this making a difference is a game that has a monthly fee, but these games don't have a piracy problem because they are server based like World of Warcraft and access can be easily controlled by the developers.
That fact is that for your average popular PC game 70-90% of the people who played the game at some time never bought a copy. I've read similar developer accounts for the last few years. It's the reason publishers feel they have to include restrictive DRM in their PC games. For whatever reason, the vast majority of PC gamers don't pay for their games and developers are beginning to notice and shift their focus over to the consoles e.g. Gears of War 2 was abandoned on the PC due to piracy concerns. Only games that use online authentication like Steam or niche games with an established fanbase stand a chance on the PC platform. Even Call of Duty 4 had 90% of the people playing it on the PC never buy a copy.
Part of the reason is that it has already been explored. All the current theories of intelligent design have already been proven false by philosophers in the 18th & 19th century and there really isn't anything new to discuss. There is no new evidence to examine, no theories that are not old philosophy, nothing new at all in hundreds of years. There definitely is no shortage of believers willing to explore intelligent design and test it's viability. They have tried for hundreds of years and produced no verifiable results. Intelligent design continues to exist today because man evolved to believe in God, not science.
I think in the retail game you will see the population balance change, with Destruction being outnumbered. The makeup of people in beta doesn't reflect what will be seen in retail. Most people prefer to play as humans and Destruction has too many ugly races. With a combination of normal looking humans and high elves, Order will dominate in population. I think the best you can hope for is that Order only slightly outnumbers Destruction. My fear is that Order overpopulation will completely unbalance the game.
I remember signing up for the Visa MasterCard Discovery Currency lawsuit. Calculating foreign purchases yourself was one of several options offered. Another option was to claim a default amount of $25. Signing up for $25 took me less than 2 minutes of time.
Every other Vista feature equals what exactly? I bought Vista on release day and also turned UAC off. The only other features of Vista I can think of that I vaguely care about are
1. Aero 2. The Apple Spotlight clone 3. The Google Sidebar clone 3. Windows Explorer now allows you to filter by file extension
Not worth the $220 and 10% to 15% performance reduction I paid. I recently reinstalled XP after using Vista everyday for over a year.
It is highly likely that he sent his Xbox in due to the Red Ring of Death(he said his Xbox 'died'). When this happens Microsoft does not return the same console that you sent them. Instead they send you a refurbished system with a similar manufacture date. The console they return has a completely different serial number.
I don't like Opera Mini because the HTML rendering is done on Opera servers before it is transmitted to your phone as a picture file. What this means is that when Opera servers are overloaded your pages load slowly. If you combine this with an absolutely shit OS like Windows Mobile 5 or 6 with its omnipresent task bar and menu bar eating away at your already small (compared to the iPhone) screen real estate then you really feel the suck. Opera Mini on a Windows Mobile OS really sucks.
Because I'm too lazy to look for my XP key, backup my data, and then reinstall XP. I've decided to wait for Intel to release Penryn and then I'll upgrade to a new PC with XP or switch to Apple.
Just my own anecdotal evidence from using Vista for a year on my primary PC well above minimum specs. (FYI I have 2GB of RAM and 1GB of Readyboost flash RAM.)
-Vista takes fucking forever to shut down or restart. It's frustrating enough to make me hard reset the PC everytime. One time I corrupted my iTunes library doing this. I still hard reset everytime because corrupted files are less annoying that waiting 5 minutes to restart. FUCK.
-Vista takes fucking forever to boot up. After booting it continues to prefetch apps from the hard disk for 10 minutes before I can use the PC. FUCK.
-When running Vista my soundcard crashes a few times a week. I know this is probably due to shitty soundblaster drivers but I never had sound card crashes in XP.
-Vista refused to stay in sleep mode for me or even start the screensaver automatically. This bug was aknowledged by Microsoft 11 months ago and only just got a fix in SP1. I've been running SP1 for about a month now and while it is an improvement (my PC will sleep now) it's still fucking Vista.
-Vista runs all my games slower than XP. Shitty graphics card drivers? Perhaps. Luckily I don't do much gaming on the PC anymore. Vista helped cure me of that addiction.
-Fucking UAC drove me insane until I downloaded TweakUAC to disable the prompts
-Vista refused to remember my folder view settings in Windows Explorer and to this day it still does.
-Vista refused to autostart my RAID monitoring application. I go into Windows Defender to set it to allow at start and the option is fucking greyed out. Nothing I could do would ungrey it. This garunteed 1 annoying UAC prompt at every boot. Fixed by disabling UAC prompts. FUCK.
-When troubleshooting some bad RAM Vista deactivated itself. How did I manage this? By rebooting my PC 1 DIMM at a time until I found the bad RAM. After 3 or 4 reboots Vista thought I had a new PC. I had to call India at 3AM and the call lasted over 30 minutes to resolve this. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
-Vistas continuous flow of security updates seem to garuntee me at least 1 horrible reboot experience a week
DVDs look great on my HDTV (40" LCD). I have seen HD content on the same TV and though it looks better it doesn't look better enough for me to care. Sometimes HD can even be distracting. I don't want to see every wrinkle and pore on the 90 year old grandma in the movie Titanic. I hope to skip HDDVD and Bluray completely.
The internet is designed to carry porn, therefore passengers expect other people using the internet, of varying ages to be surfing porn with them. Surfing porn is my social norm. Your argument is flawed.
A Google search returns quite a few hits on this issue
Translation: a grand total of 5 users say they are experiencing this problem, probably including the author of this story.
After reading the posts linked in the article it seems the problem might be related to Yahoo toolbar crapware being installed on the PCs. You can use use system restore to fix the problem. Stop clicking "accept" when UAC warns you not to install crapware. Stop posting Vista FUD stories to Slashdot. Thank you.
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It's possible that the jury instructions regarding prior art were misinterpreted but you are wrong about what was said in the post interviews. In the post interviews the foreman said that the jury was having trouble reaching consensus on one patent relating to prior art and decided to move on to deliberate easier patents. When they were done with those easier patents they returned to the difficult issue that they skipped earlier. This is standard behavior in jury deliberations and not against the jury instructions. The false belief that they completely skipped it is commonly posted here and probably stems from a series of erroneous and biased Groklaw articles that were posted on Slashdot in August.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bellas_Hess_v._Illinois
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2328647,00.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota
So you don't download iTunes songs, don't watch Youtube videos, don't download Apps and don't listen to streaming audio? What about your phone data usage would you say qualifies as "pretty extensive"? I checked my iPhone data usage and I use about 1GB a month over the past year. I consider myself a light user because my data is consumed primarily by Email. If I actually used the advertised features of the phone it would be easy to exceed 2GB a month. For now I'm also happy to be saving $5 per month.
How about an analogy about what really happened?
a Porche is found sitting in a parking lot.
Someone looks in the car and tries to find the owner, no luck.
The person decides not to tell the parking lot attendent about his discovery
The person decides not to tell the police about his discovery
The person takes the Porche off the lot and parks it in his garage at home
The person calls an employee of the owner to tell them they have the car
The employee of the owner says the have no knowledge of the car
It gets hauled off and sold at auction.
The buyer from the auction strips the car down into individual parts possibly causing damage in the process
The buyer from the auction contacts the employee of the owners and offers to GIVE YOU THE CAR back without repaying them for what ever the paid at auction.
The employee still denys the car is his
The buyer from the auction posts pictures of the car parts on the internet and also brags that he knows who the real owner is but never bothers to contact him directly
The owner of the car reports it stolen to the police
The buyer of the car reassembles the car and returns it to the owner
The police execute a search warrant while investigating a report of a stolen car
Crimes: Grand Theft Auto. Possession of stolen goods. Bad analogies.
The ES 350 and most other modern vehicles are equipped with power-assisted brakes, which operate by drawing vacuum power from the engine. But when an engine opens to full throttle, the vacuum drops, and after one or two pumps of the brake pedal the power assist feature disappears.
As a result, a driver would have to apply enormous pressure to the brake pedal to stop the car, and if the throttle was wide open might not be able to stop it at all, safety experts say.
"I don't think you can stop a car going 120 mph and an engine at full throttle without power assist," said Ditlow, the safety center director.
"There's a standard where you have to be able to stop the car without power-assisted brakes, but obviously I don't think it includes situations where the throttle is wide open," he added.
Drivers in other crashes also found it difficult to rein in a runaway Toyota. Guadalupe Gomez of Redwood City said he was held hostage for 20 miles on a Bay Area freeway by a 2007 Camry traveling more than 100 mph.
Gomez was unable to turn off the engine or shift into neutral and then burned out his brakes before slamming into another car and killing that driver, said attorney Louis Franecke, who represented that victim's family.
Or just arrive exactly on time for work each day. Or don't turn your computer off at night. These two suggestions work for me.
From the publishers point of view it does not matter. The great majority of games generate revenue at the time of sale only. It doesn't matter to the publisher if the buyers play the game for 5 hours or 50. The publisher sees each instance of this as a lost chance to make revenue. The only type of game where I could see this making a difference is a game that has a monthly fee, but these games don't have a piracy problem because they are server based like World of Warcraft and access can be easily controlled by the developers.
That fact is that for your average popular PC game 70-90% of the people who played the game at some time never bought a copy. I've read similar developer accounts for the last few years. It's the reason publishers feel they have to include restrictive DRM in their PC games. For whatever reason, the vast majority of PC gamers don't pay for their games and developers are beginning to notice and shift their focus over to the consoles e.g. Gears of War 2 was abandoned on the PC due to piracy concerns. Only games that use online authentication like Steam or niche games with an established fanbase stand a chance on the PC platform. Even Call of Duty 4 had 90% of the people playing it on the PC never buy a copy.
http://kotaku.com/5056532/why-no-gears-of-war-2-for-pc-well-piracy-for-one
Part of the reason is that it has already been explored. All the current theories of intelligent design have already been proven false by philosophers in the 18th & 19th century and there really isn't anything new to discuss. There is no new evidence to examine, no theories that are not old philosophy, nothing new at all in hundreds of years. There definitely is no shortage of believers willing to explore intelligent design and test it's viability. They have tried for hundreds of years and produced no verifiable results. Intelligent design continues to exist today because man evolved to believe in God, not science.
I think in the retail game you will see the population balance change, with Destruction being outnumbered. The makeup of people in beta doesn't reflect what will be seen in retail. Most people prefer to play as humans and Destruction has too many ugly races. With a combination of normal looking humans and high elves, Order will dominate in population. I think the best you can hope for is that Order only slightly outnumbers Destruction. My fear is that Order overpopulation will completely unbalance the game.
I remember signing up for the Visa MasterCard Discovery Currency lawsuit. Calculating foreign purchases yourself was one of several options offered. Another option was to claim a default amount of $25. Signing up for $25 took me less than 2 minutes of time.
Every other Vista feature equals what exactly? I bought Vista on release day and also turned UAC off. The only other features of Vista I can think of that I vaguely care about are
1. Aero
2. The Apple Spotlight clone
3. The Google Sidebar clone
3. Windows Explorer now allows you to filter by file extension
Not worth the $220 and 10% to 15% performance reduction I paid. I recently reinstalled XP after using Vista everyday for over a year.
It is highly likely that he sent his Xbox in due to the Red Ring of Death(he said his Xbox 'died'). When this happens Microsoft does not return the same console that you sent them. Instead they send you a refurbished system with a similar manufacture date. The console they return has a completely different serial number.
I don't like Opera Mini because the HTML rendering is done on Opera servers before it is transmitted to your phone as a picture file. What this means is that when Opera servers are overloaded your pages load slowly. If you combine this with an absolutely shit OS like Windows Mobile 5 or 6 with its omnipresent task bar and menu bar eating away at your already small (compared to the iPhone) screen real estate then you really feel the suck. Opera Mini on a Windows Mobile OS really sucks.
Because I'm too lazy to look for my XP key, backup my data, and then reinstall XP. I've decided to wait for Intel to release Penryn and then I'll upgrade to a new PC with XP or switch to Apple.
Suspend was broken for me until installing SP1 about a month ago.
Just my own anecdotal evidence from using Vista for a year on my primary PC well above minimum specs. (FYI I have 2GB of RAM and 1GB of Readyboost flash RAM.)
-Vista takes fucking forever to shut down or restart. It's frustrating enough to make me hard reset the PC everytime. One time I corrupted my iTunes library doing this. I still hard reset everytime because corrupted files are less annoying that waiting 5 minutes to restart. FUCK.
-Vista takes fucking forever to boot up. After booting it continues to prefetch apps from the hard disk for 10 minutes before I can use the PC. FUCK.
-When running Vista my soundcard crashes a few times a week. I know this is probably due to shitty soundblaster drivers but I never had sound card crashes in XP.
-Vista refused to stay in sleep mode for me or even start the screensaver automatically. This bug was aknowledged by Microsoft 11 months ago and only just got a fix in SP1. I've been running SP1 for about a month now and while it is an improvement (my PC will sleep now) it's still fucking Vista.
-Vista runs all my games slower than XP. Shitty graphics card drivers? Perhaps. Luckily I don't do much gaming on the PC anymore. Vista helped cure me of that addiction.
-Fucking UAC drove me insane until I downloaded TweakUAC to disable the prompts
-Vista refused to remember my folder view settings in Windows Explorer and to this day it still does.
-Vista refused to autostart my RAID monitoring application. I go into Windows Defender to set it to allow at start and the option is fucking greyed out. Nothing I could do would ungrey it. This garunteed 1 annoying UAC prompt at every boot. Fixed by disabling UAC prompts. FUCK.
-When troubleshooting some bad RAM Vista deactivated itself. How did I manage this? By rebooting my PC 1 DIMM at a time until I found the bad RAM. After 3 or 4 reboots Vista thought I had a new PC. I had to call India at 3AM and the call lasted over 30 minutes to resolve this. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
-Vistas continuous flow of security updates seem to garuntee me at least 1 horrible reboot experience a week
DVDs look great on my HDTV (40" LCD). I have seen HD content on the same TV and though it looks better it doesn't look better enough for me to care. Sometimes HD can even be distracting. I don't want to see every wrinkle and pore on the 90 year old grandma in the movie Titanic. I hope to skip HDDVD and Bluray completely.
Normal DVDs look great on my HDTV so I don't consider it a waste at all.
Fly Delta and you can get those seats at no additional charge.
The internet is designed to carry porn, therefore passengers expect other people using the internet, of varying ages to be surfing porn with them. Surfing porn is my social norm. Your argument is flawed.
Where are you getting your figures on how much money was invested in the Xbox from? A link would be helpful. Thanks.
Translation: a grand total of 5 users say they are experiencing this problem, probably including the author of this story.
After reading the posts linked in the article it seems the problem might be related to Yahoo toolbar crapware being installed on the PCs. You can use use system restore to fix the problem. Stop clicking "accept" when UAC warns you not to install crapware. Stop posting Vista FUD stories to Slashdot. Thank you.