I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advise. If you want legal advice, pay my retainer.
That's just plain nonsense.
Filing this stuff in a Nevada court was, shall we say, less than brilliant to start with. Neither our state or federal judges have much tolerance for trying to game the system with technicalities.
Righthaven's "bright" idea was to technically assign the copyright to righthaven, which would sue, while leaving the beneficial ownership with the original holder.
This violates so many basic principles that it's hard to list them all (lawyers owning an interest in the suit, a no lawyer firm practicing law, real parties in interest bring suit, . . )
This is how righthaven lost, as it should have. It was also predicable, as log as someone stuck it the litigation.
Now, if the papers had simply sued on their own behalf, some of the suits would have bee winnable. some, not all.
The one that came across m desk involved an editor at the paper givng oral permission to use the articles, as long as they he full attribution. Turns out that righthaven was searching for the links back to the articles to find the "infringing" articles.
Most of the uses out there probably were indeed infringing. However, it seems like the copyrights were only sent to righthaven after "violations" we're found, and only then registered with the copyright office' meaning that only actual damages were available up to the time of filing. With the articles remaining available from the papr for something like three bucks, this put a rather small cap on damages . . .
It was about the only way to get out of the alley behind my house in PA . . . Which predated automobiles being common.
Take a running start in the lower area that wasn't steep, continue rolling as the grade went up enough that you couldn't accelerate on the ice, then gun the V8 enough to cut the wheels lose and allow the torque to spin the car clockwise so that it was pointed in a drivable direction.
Generally speaking, experience is preferable for a physician.
However, recent research has shown that when choosing a physician at retirement time, you're better off with a recent med school graduate, because
A) he's not going to retire on you, forcing you to go to someone without experience with you and your conditions, and B) the more recent training, including newer knowledge, actually outweighs experience in this category.
It would be tough to come up with a definition of "monopoly" which includes having a competitor (android) which has a larger market share than your own (iphone).
While someone in such a position *could* be part of an oligopoly, the notion of "oligopoly" includes cooperation by the oligopolists--not bitter, to-the-death litigation.
But what do I know; I'm just an antitrust attorney and economist . . .
>the first example of a realtime spell checker i encountered in 1997 with MS Word.
Yeah, but that was Word 5.1 (Mac), which was released in '92 or '93--it just took that long to do "realtime" checking . . .
I got 5.1 when it came out, and had the fastest mac available at the time (SE/30). I saw the grammar checker, and thought it a cool idea, and turned it on.
Then I made the mistake of running it.
It took a full minute for every paragraph,
That might have been bearable, but *every* *single* suggestion it made was *wrong*.
I believe, though, that it flagged spelling errors in the background, but it's been 20 years.
Still, that was the last microsoft product I met that was worth buying (coupled with its companion Excel 4 (mac)).
A couple of years later, I'd switch from mac to unix over LyX' equation editing capacity
What it *does* mean is that google, when designing this tie-in to their services, decided that it was in google's interest that noone be able to make their own improvements which google couldn't share.
Had they wanted to keep it to themselves, they could have based it on NetBSD instead--and if android was the product, like MacOS, they would have made such a choice.
Android isn't the product though; it's a gateway to the google advertising behometh (and if Darwin, rather than MacOS was the product, it, too, would have a viral license).
> In 10 years most corporates will still run >Windows/Office/Exchange/SQL, can you say the same >about the your latest smartphone?
They *may* be using that particular software (which is currently losing ground,' or they may be using another. They *will* be using the software on hardware. Microsoft is in one of those markets, and apple in the other.
>Apple's steadily becoming more common on the desktop, >and they make very highly rated laptops, tablets, and >phones. Yet, they're not a monopoly in any of these >markets, and Android is overtaking the iPhone.
Apple has a minority of the market share, yet they make more profit than the rest of the handset makers in their market put together . . .
Apple makes sew real times the profit per unit than their competitors.
Exactly. I first installed junkbuster years ago when two open web pages brought my system to its knees.
If it blinks, I block it.
If my web page hangs while loading it, I block it.
If t makes noise, I block it.
And if it tries to track me, I block it.
If Chrome or Safari had a full implementation do Adblock, instead of that half-baked begware, it would become my primary browser.
If there're we're a multi-windowed iPad browser with user configurable cookie, script, and image blocking, I'd do mot of my browsing on it. Heck, if it existed, I'd be happy with junkbuster on the iPad (no, I'm not going to run it on one of my websites)
Get your own facts straight, and stop regurgitating urban legends.
The PARC visit influenced the Lisa's GUI, but apple was already working on a GUI. Google a bit, and you'll find pr-visit mockups of the proposed Lisa GUI.
Also, the xerox design itself owes something to Raskin's 1968 (?) master's thesis, and who was Raskin working for?
a2ps ca do some a amazing stripping; I use it when a client can't handle a scanner well enough to strip permissions control that stops me from filing dockets.
I don't have adobe reader, but acrobat pro 8; it came with my snapscan.
It does a co hole of things that preview doesn't do or do well, including actually modifying documents (ok, it doesn't Dothan well,but preview doesn't do it at all, save for manipulating entire pages).
It redacts (properly, now).
It does better at n-up with small margins, but not as well as accorded Linux.
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I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advise. If you want legal advice, pay my retainer.
That's just plain nonsense.
Filing this stuff in a Nevada court was, shall we say, less than brilliant to start with. Neither our state or federal judges have much tolerance for trying to game the system with technicalities.
Righthaven's "bright" idea was to technically assign the copyright to righthaven, which would sue, while leaving the beneficial ownership with the original holder.
This violates so many basic principles that it's hard to list them all (lawyers owning an interest in the suit, a no lawyer firm practicing law, real parties in interest bring suit, . . )
This is how righthaven lost, as it should have. It was also predicable, as log as someone stuck it the litigation.
Now, if the papers had simply sued on their own behalf, some of the suits would have bee winnable. some, not all.
The one that came across m desk involved an editor at the paper givng oral permission to use the articles, as long as they he full attribution. Turns out that righthaven was searching for the links back to the articles to find the "infringing" articles.
Most of the uses out there probably were indeed infringing. However, it seems like the copyrights were only sent to righthaven after "violations" we're found, and only then registered with the copyright office' meaning that only actual damages were available up to the time of filing. With the articles remaining available from the papr for something like three bucks, this put a rather small cap on damages . . .
hawk, esq.
We hire the second world for such things . . . :)
hawk
That's because it's license doesn't allow it to be assimilated by the GPL; so it can't run in the kernel, but needs to go through FUSE or some such.
hawk
In fact, when asked about Gandalf's "Servant of the Secret Fire," Tolkien confirmed that that was indeed the Holy Spirit.
His mother was turned out by her Church of England family when she converted to Catholicism.
hawk
But the finger is still optional, isn't it? :)
hawk
In PA, we could tell when it was deer season by the numbered of cars damaged by deer filling out their tags . . .
I believe that the insurance companies were rejecting claims for damage from avoiding deer.
hawk
It was about the only way to get out of the alley behind my house in PA . . . Which predated automobiles being common.
Take a running start in the lower area that wasn't steep, continue rolling as the grade went up enough that you couldn't accelerate on the ice, then gun the V8 enough to cut the wheels lose and allow the torque to spin the car clockwise so that it was pointed in a drivable direction.
I'll never live in snow country again . . .
hawk
>A better system would be a Personal Rapid Transit system like SkyTran, . . .
>and eliminates the human factor,
I thought that that was skynet . . .
hawk
>The car to your left has his right turn signal on. Do you . . .
Around here (las vegas), I start by praying, assume he's crazy, whimper pitifully, and then wait while he makes a 90 degree turn in front of me . . .
hawk
Generally speaking, experience is preferable for a physician.
However, recent research has shown that when choosing a physician at retirement time, you're better off with a recent med school graduate, because
A) he's not going to retire on you, forcing you to go to someone without experience with you and your conditions, and
B) the more recent training, including newer knowledge, actually outweighs experience in this category.
hawk
personally, I welcome our new overlords that will feed all the lawyers . . .
hawk, esq.
Are you sure it's a Newton patent? I didn't 2k35hl any spelling errands in 453k;jk15k . . . :)
hawk
It would be tough to come up with a definition of "monopoly" which includes having a competitor (android) which has a larger market share than your own (iphone).
While someone in such a position *could* be part of an oligopoly, the notion of "oligopoly" includes cooperation by the oligopolists--not bitter, to-the-death litigation.
But what do I know; I'm just an antitrust attorney and economist . . .
hawk, j.d., ph.d., esq.
>the first example of a realtime spell checker i encountered in 1997 with MS Word.
Yeah, but that was Word 5.1 (Mac), which was released in '92 or '93--it just took that long to do "realtime" checking . . .
I got 5.1 when it came out, and had the fastest mac available at the time (SE/30). I saw the grammar checker, and thought it a cool idea, and turned it on.
Then I made the mistake of running it.
It took a full minute for every paragraph,
That might have been bearable, but *every* *single* suggestion it made was *wrong*.
I believe, though, that it flagged spelling errors in the background, but it's been 20 years.
Still, that was the last microsoft product I met that was worth buying (coupled with its companion Excel 4 (mac)).
A couple of years later, I'd switch from mac to unix over LyX' equation editing capacity
hawk
In today's news, microsoft was hit with a CentOs bullet aimed directly at its heart.
MicRosoft is reportedly quite irritated about having to straighten out a fold in its silk pocket handkerchief that was missed by the bullet.
hawk
Sure.
With a BSD car, you can give put in a fancy carburetor and give someone a ride. You can even sell them the car later!
With a GPL car, you can still soup up the carb, but if you give someone a ride, he gets to keep the cr. :)
hawk
No, that's not at all what that means.
What it *does* mean is that google, when designing this tie-in to their services, decided that it was in google's interest that noone be able to make their own improvements which google couldn't share.
Had they wanted to keep it to themselves, they could have based it on NetBSD instead--and if android was the product, like MacOS, they would have made such a choice.
Android isn't the product though; it's a gateway to the google advertising behometh (and if Darwin, rather than MacOS was the product, it, too, would have a viral license).
hawk
> In 10 years most corporates will still run
>Windows/Office/Exchange/SQL, can you say the same
>about the your latest smartphone?
They *may* be using that particular software (which is currently losing ground,' or they may be using another. They *will* be using the software on hardware. Microsoft is in one of those markets, and apple in the other.
>Apple's steadily becoming more common on the desktop,
>and they make very highly rated laptops, tablets, and
>phones. Yet, they're not a monopoly in any of these
>markets, and Android is overtaking the iPhone.
Apple has a minority of the market share, yet they make more profit than the rest of the handset makers in their market put together . . .
Apple makes sew real times the profit per unit than their competitors.
hawk
The good new for you is that Kucunich has chance prefer actually getting elects president :)
And the headlines should it be lost . . . "USS Kucunich pickled by chinese"
hawk
One of the thing the Brits discovered the Falklands is that CIWS isn't very effective when you forget to turne bloody thing on in a combat zone . . .
hawk
Exactly. I first installed junkbuster years ago when two open web pages brought my system to its knees.
If it blinks, I block it.
If my web page hangs while loading it, I block it.
If t makes noise, I block it.
And if it tries to track me, I block it.
If Chrome or Safari had a full implementation do Adblock, instead of that half-baked begware, it would become my primary browser.
If there're we're a multi-windowed iPad browser with user configurable cookie, script, and image blocking, I'd do mot of my browsing on it. Heck, if it existed, I'd be happy with junkbuster on the iPad (no, I'm not going to run it on one of my websites)
hawk
Get your own facts straight, and stop regurgitating urban legends.
The PARC visit influenced the Lisa's GUI, but apple was already working on a GUI. Google a bit, and you'll find pr-visit mockups of the proposed Lisa GUI.
Also, the xerox design itself owes something to Raskin's 1968 (?) master's thesis, and who was Raskin working for?
hawk
Yeh, but it drops to 20 minutes if you fast-forward through the weird music while they show the characters operating the algorithms . . . :)
hawk
a2ps ca do some a amazing stripping; I use it when a client can't handle a scanner well enough to strip permissions control that stops me from filing dockets.
hawk
I don't have adobe reader, but acrobat pro 8; it came with my snapscan.
It does a co hole of things that preview doesn't do or do well, including actually modifying documents (ok, it doesn't Dothan well,but preview doesn't do it at all, save for manipulating entire pages).
It redacts (properly, now).
It does better at n-up with small margins, but not as well as accorded Linux.
It does o r.
hawk