Yup, Google Maps is one big panoramic photo. Though the article says largest with "commercial" camera, but doesn't define what that is. If you can buy it, even if you have to be a very rich company to do so, then it's still a commercial camera...
Quoting from the BBC (I didn't read the German ruling):
"However, as part of its ruling the court in Munich said that too few people were using Eyeo's products for it to be judged to have a "dominant" position that might justify an antitrust intervention."
I think the expensive clothing items with the giant company logo on them are hilarious. Pay extra to wear an item that is essentially a billboard, what an ingenious business model!
However part of the ruling says that there were so few adblock users that it was not a serious concern. If adblock suddenly showed up on 90% of all viewers the courts might have to rethink it...
This reminds me of the giant blow up over paid mods to Skyrim. The player community went nuts. But the modding community also went nuts and split a bit, some still wanting to treat their modding as just a hobby same as any other open source, but others who stopped modding altogether because "we deserve to be paid", "no one ever voluntarily donates", "you're a bunch of freeloaders". Ugliest mess you ever saw.
All because it was a system that worked well for a very long time, and then one day money entered the picture.
Seriously, the advertising model on the internet is very screwed up at a times. Like a Buick advertisement on a cycling site. Too many sites just accept random ads that are provided by a third party advertising service. Ie, they've got a blog, they want to make some money to pay for hosting their blog, so they accept scripts from someone they heard about then sit back and wait for money to roll in. And the advertisers who are not paying their fair share of the cost of providing the ad, instead of paying third class postage they pay almost nothing and instead rely on the viewers' own ISPs to deliver their crap for free.
Adblock is used as a self defense mechanism. If we keep getting punched in the face then we're going to start wearing head protection, no matter how much someone whines that they make their living by punching me in the face.
If your livelihood depends upon annoying your customers, or even harming them, then you need a better job. If it's just a hobby then stop demanding that we pay for it.
Seriously, who is the freeloader, me for protecting my computer and my bandwidth, or the advertisers who use my bandwidth without permission and sites who offer up any ads without testing for malware first? Try living for a month on dialup only or pay per megabyte, then see how much you learn to hate advertisers.
- Treat your viewers and customers with respect - Be responsible - Stop tracking viewers - Stop stealing their bandwidth. - Provide the ads from your own server, not from a third party provider that you have no control over. - Stop annoying users with ugly crap, stupid animations, pop ups, pop unders, blaring sound, etc. - No videos! - Provide relevant ads - Stop sending out malware - if you do not vet your ads then you are at fault if malware gets through.
If you have an advertisement that you feel is appropriate, then submit it to adblock and see if it gets on their whitelist.
However, I agree with Supreme Court that "good faith" is not enough to be a valid defense. This is Cisco after all, they will lie, cheat, and steal just as much as patent trolls. Give them a free pass of "oh, that didn't sound like a valid patent, so we just ignored them" and then pretty soon that excuse gets used for everything.
The entire summary, and many people here, are using PowerPoint and presentations interchangeably. So what do they REALLY mean, do they hate PowerPoint itself, the tool, or do they hate the idea of a presentation or slides, a concept used for many decades, or do they hate the person who does a lousy job at making and performing a presentation?
I don't like PowerPoint, as it's painful to use and oozes Microsoft out of every pore, but I don't hate presentation software as a general concept.
They used to be called engineers in the UK, in the early days, then the term fell out of use. The original term was "engine-man". BBC articles are so helpful.
But we don't want to get to know the person better. This is about news and information, not warm fuzzy feelings. I could read a reasonable summary in 20 seconds and move on, without every worry about what the writer looked like or what the facial expressions were while writing.
People get rich, other people think they must be a true genius.
I got recruiter spam to work for a company. It pointed out in parentheses that the CEO was the cousin of Elon Musk. Just raw name dropping, because no one could be so stupid as to think someone's relatives say anything about him. Just more celebrity worship.
It's basically just a baby monitor, inside a teddy bear. Not sure what's so creepy about it, it's not for google to spy, but for parents and homeowners. I swear I've heard of something just like this before, and not just in a movie. I've definitely heard of less fuzzy things that people use to monitor their house while at work, and remotely yell at the cat to get off the table.
Not true anymore. Just come up with the idea, then threaten to sue. The patent office no longer requires a working or scale model before granting a patent.
Not how I remember it. IBM was still big and the big name, not Microsoft. The home market was split between a lot of choices, it was the small to medium business market where PC was more dominant. The PC was falling behind too in the microcomputer world. Windows may have been catching up, but 3.0 did not make it caught up.
The problem was that the microcomputer market was reinventing the wheel all the time. Existing workstations, minis, and mainframes did so much more. But people who grew up on PC or Macs would naively ask "what's the point of multitasking?" That's one of the reasons IBM flubbed the market as they thought it wasn't ever going to be that big except as a front-end for major back office applications or localized spreadsheet type stuff.
So when Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS came out they all had so much better graphics and sound than even a higher quality PC had at the time. It really took a while for the PC to catch up, and I think Windows pushed it along by being a resource hog and wanting graphics. Amiga beat those other systems out quite well by having a decent modern operating system too, not just another DOS type thing to run apps.
At the time of windows 3.0, windows jobs were scarce too. Bigger market for some other systems at the time. Huge market for people not even on microcomputers, which was sort of a joke at the time.
I think a major flaw with Maxis is that they thought they had a must-buy title. As in Too Big To Fail. If a company thinks they can do anything, then they'll do things to screw with customers without them leaving. Ie, start to "monetize" things more. Horse armor, no one can bitch about that can they?
Thing is, it sort of works for awhile. There is a class of game buyers who just don't care. If the game is new they will buy it. Three months later they're on to something else and don't care about how they got screwed, and the price doesn't matter since they probably snuck the card of of mom's purse. Or they're the idiot on the forums who says "dude, lighten up, it's only the cost of 4 family size pizzas".
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Yup, Google Maps is one big panoramic photo. Though the article says largest with "commercial" camera, but doesn't define what that is. If you can buy it, even if you have to be a very rich company to do so, then it's still a commercial camera...
Quoting from the BBC (I didn't read the German ruling):
"However, as part of its ruling the court in Munich said that too few people were using Eyeo's products for it to be judged to have a "dominant" position that might justify an antitrust intervention."
I think the expensive clothing items with the giant company logo on them are hilarious. Pay extra to wear an item that is essentially a billboard, what an ingenious business model!
However part of the ruling says that there were so few adblock users that it was not a serious concern. If adblock suddenly showed up on 90% of all viewers the courts might have to rethink it...
This reminds me of the giant blow up over paid mods to Skyrim. The player community went nuts. But the modding community also went nuts and split a bit, some still wanting to treat their modding as just a hobby same as any other open source, but others who stopped modding altogether because "we deserve to be paid", "no one ever voluntarily donates", "you're a bunch of freeloaders". Ugliest mess you ever saw.
All because it was a system that worked well for a very long time, and then one day money entered the picture.
And never actually buy any of the products.
Seriously, the advertising model on the internet is very screwed up at a times. Like a Buick advertisement on a cycling site. Too many sites just accept random ads that are provided by a third party advertising service. Ie, they've got a blog, they want to make some money to pay for hosting their blog, so they accept scripts from someone they heard about then sit back and wait for money to roll in. And the advertisers who are not paying their fair share of the cost of providing the ad, instead of paying third class postage they pay almost nothing and instead rely on the viewers' own ISPs to deliver their crap for free.
Adblock is used as a self defense mechanism. If we keep getting punched in the face then we're going to start wearing head protection, no matter how much someone whines that they make their living by punching me in the face.
If your livelihood depends upon annoying your customers, or even harming them, then you need a better job. If it's just a hobby then stop demanding that we pay for it.
Seriously, who is the freeloader, me for protecting my computer and my bandwidth, or the advertisers who use my bandwidth without permission and sites who offer up any ads without testing for malware first? Try living for a month on dialup only or pay per megabyte, then see how much you learn to hate advertisers.
- Treat your viewers and customers with respect
- Be responsible
- Stop tracking viewers
- Stop stealing their bandwidth.
- Provide the ads from your own server, not from a third party provider that you have no control over.
- Stop annoying users with ugly crap, stupid animations, pop ups, pop unders, blaring sound, etc.
- No videos!
- Provide relevant ads
- Stop sending out malware - if you do not vet your ads then you are at fault if malware gets through.
If you have an advertisement that you feel is appropriate, then submit it to adblock and see if it gets on their whitelist.
However, I agree with Supreme Court that "good faith" is not enough to be a valid defense. This is Cisco after all, they will lie, cheat, and steal just as much as patent trolls. Give them a free pass of "oh, that didn't sound like a valid patent, so we just ignored them" and then pretty soon that excuse gets used for everything.
The entire summary, and many people here, are using PowerPoint and presentations interchangeably. So what do they REALLY mean, do they hate PowerPoint itself, the tool, or do they hate the idea of a presentation or slides, a concept used for many decades, or do they hate the person who does a lousy job at making and performing a presentation?
I don't like PowerPoint, as it's painful to use and oozes Microsoft out of every pore, but I don't hate presentation software as a general concept.
They used to be called engineers in the UK, in the early days, then the term fell out of use. The original term was "engine-man". BBC articles are so helpful.
You sound offended. Need a hug?
But we don't want to get to know the person better. This is about news and information, not warm fuzzy feelings. I could read a reasonable summary in 20 seconds and move on, without every worry about what the writer looked like or what the facial expressions were while writing.
People get rich, other people think they must be a true genius.
I got recruiter spam to work for a company. It pointed out in parentheses that the CEO was the cousin of Elon Musk. Just raw name dropping, because no one could be so stupid as to think someone's relatives say anything about him. Just more celebrity worship.
You can skip this add in 10, 9, 8, 7...
It's basically just a baby monitor, inside a teddy bear. Not sure what's so creepy about it, it's not for google to spy, but for parents and homeowners. I swear I've heard of something just like this before, and not just in a movie. I've definitely heard of less fuzzy things that people use to monitor their house while at work, and remotely yell at the cat to get off the table.
Not true anymore. Just come up with the idea, then threaten to sue. The patent office no longer requires a working or scale model before granting a patent.
Not how I remember it. IBM was still big and the big name, not Microsoft. The home market was split between a lot of choices, it was the small to medium business market where PC was more dominant. The PC was falling behind too in the microcomputer world. Windows may have been catching up, but 3.0 did not make it caught up.
The problem was that the microcomputer market was reinventing the wheel all the time. Existing workstations, minis, and mainframes did so much more. But people who grew up on PC or Macs would naively ask "what's the point of multitasking?" That's one of the reasons IBM flubbed the market as they thought it wasn't ever going to be that big except as a front-end for major back office applications or localized spreadsheet type stuff.
So when Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS came out they all had so much better graphics and sound than even a higher quality PC had at the time. It really took a while for the PC to catch up, and I think Windows pushed it along by being a resource hog and wanting graphics. Amiga beat those other systems out quite well by having a decent modern operating system too, not just another DOS type thing to run apps.
At the time of windows 3.0, windows jobs were scarce too. Bigger market for some other systems at the time. Huge market for people not even on microcomputers, which was sort of a joke at the time.
I think a major flaw with Maxis is that they thought they had a must-buy title. As in Too Big To Fail. If a company thinks they can do anything, then they'll do things to screw with customers without them leaving. Ie, start to "monetize" things more. Horse armor, no one can bitch about that can they?
Thing is, it sort of works for awhile. There is a class of game buyers who just don't care. If the game is new they will buy it. Three months later they're on to something else and don't care about how they got screwed, and the price doesn't matter since they probably snuck the card of of mom's purse. Or they're the idiot on the forums who says "dude, lighten up, it's only the cost of 4 family size pizzas".
But they don't last half as long.
Smart phones with a huge battery charge? Which are those?
Third parties have won in the past. Not often of course, but it should mean the odds are above "no chance".
Take the pictures down; repost them all the day that the diploma is received.
Lawmakers have never understood the issue, no matter what the issue is.