But was this specific combination of software made, used, or sold publicly for the stated purpose prior to the patent filing? A patent can cover a new, useful, and non-obvious combination of existing methods.
Post a link to the actual text (not just a paraphrase) of the deal
I'm assuming that the text of the contract between Apple Computer Inc. and Apple Corps Ltd. is a trade secret. Nobody who has a copy is authorized to disclose it to you.
One thing is popular projects like Mozilla that might get some licences for free
Mozilla is licensed under the disjunction of the Mozilla Public License, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. The GNU licenses typically demand that the author license the patent for all uses in derivative programs.
but what about the smaller projects that don't have these ressources.
They'll probably just GPL their code and include a hundred or so lines of Mozilla code to get the patent license.
Also i can save a pdf on disk or print it. Try this with a web page.
And I get a nice, little self-contained.mhtml file.
I wonder what problems everybody has with the page nature of pdf.
You try reading pdf on a handheld device. Unlike HTML, PDF can't adapt one set of content to stylesheets customized for each medium. Maybe it can, but if so, I've never seen it used in any publicly distributed PDF file.
there is nothing wrong with defining a fixed lines per page relation
What about a fixed characters per line restriction? Either the text becomes too small to read comfortably, or reading each line of text requires horizontal scrolling. A column of text should never be wider than the viewport.
but you can't patent "hero comes along to overthrow the evil empire and save humanity".
That's because the novel is a mature art form, having been around long enough for prior art to accumulate. I'd bet that were a new literary form to be discovered in the next decade, you'd see all sorts of patents on "methods of writing literature" for the next couple decades, and then they'd die down after the prior art has become established.
That is why Ghostscript ps2pdf and all those other tools are allowed to exist.
But don't you have to install a multimegabyte Cygwin in order to use Ghostscript tools on Windows? Or has Ghostscript improved since I last saw it, to the point where its GUI installer is as slick as Adobe's?
Schwa (which I can't type here because Slashdot is configured to delete all HTML character entities) is pronounced as an indistinct, unaccented central vowel, roughly the 'a' in English "about".
The Walt Disney Company did not lose the proverbial Super Bowl. Miyazaki's Spirited Away, which won Best Picture in Japan and Best Animated Feature in the States, was distributed by Disney, and is reportedly bringing in the bucks on home video. Or does Disney not make much money in its contract with Studio Ghibli?
I know that ABC/ESPN/and probably everything else not Time/Warner is owned by them
More specifically, Disney owns what's listed here. Fox isn't included; neither are MGM, Sony, Universal, Viacom, and especially the non-MPAA studio/distributor Artisan Entertainment.
El Torito bootable CDs have nothing to do with multisession. An ISO contains only one data track of one session, and CDs burned from ISOs can be bootable.
The problem here is that El Torito may need to be extended to cover DVD media, and this is in part a firmware issue.
But still, the trackers served a lot more people before being flooded than an FTP server in the same situation would have. Having several trackers and making a.torrent pointing at each one would be a good idea for a file that you expect to be extremely popular.
If that sounds too silly for you, like Disney's Tigger trying to say "ka-night" or "ka-nife", try whispering the schwa that you insert between the K and the N. After a few times of saying that, you'll fall into the correct pronunciation of a non-English KN cluster (which is incidentally how KN was pronounced in English before it lost initial stop-nasal clusters).
Yes, but the RPM sensitivity also means that an electric motor is more likely to be connected to a continuously variable transmission, and the prices of such CVTs will fall once economies of scale kick in.
How about "Excise tax theory"? Hybrid vehicles use less petrol but tear up the roads just as much, government has less money for road repairs, government increases petrol excise, price at pump goes up.
You chose to buy a product that it came bundled with.
Please prove that prospective non-Mac laptop purchasers aren't forced to buy Windows by answering the following question: Where can I purchase a new x86 architecture laptop computer that a Microsoft Windows OS doesn't come bundled with?
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The date prior art has to come before is Oct. 17, 1993, not 1994.
As far as I know, the one-year allowance comes into play only if the prior art was published on behalf of the inventor.
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But was this specific combination of software made, used, or sold publicly for the stated purpose prior to the patent filing? A patent can cover a new, useful, and non-obvious combination of existing methods.
Post a link to the actual text (not just a paraphrase) of the deal
I'm assuming that the text of the contract between Apple Computer Inc. and Apple Corps Ltd. is a trade secret. Nobody who has a copy is authorized to disclose it to you.
Copyright can be reformed easily. Just make the copyright term 50 years, period.
And watch the United States get dropped from the World Trade Organization for violating the Berne Convention.
The only good thing about such patents is that they expire in 20 years
Not if Eolas teams up with major drug companies and lobby Congress for something like the Cher Patent Term Harmonization Act.
One thing is popular projects like Mozilla that might get some licences for free
Mozilla is licensed under the disjunction of the Mozilla Public License, the GNU General Public License, and the GNU Lesser General Public License. The GNU licenses typically demand that the author license the patent for all uses in derivative programs.
but what about the smaller projects that don't have these ressources.
They'll probably just GPL their code and include a hundred or so lines of Mozilla code to get the patent license.
Also i can save a pdf on disk or print it. Try this with a web page.
And I get a nice, little self-contained .mhtml file.
I wonder what problems everybody has with the page nature of pdf.
You try reading pdf on a handheld device. Unlike HTML, PDF can't adapt one set of content to stylesheets customized for each medium. Maybe it can, but if so, I've never seen it used in any publicly distributed PDF file.
there is nothing wrong with defining a fixed lines per page relation
What about a fixed characters per line restriction? Either the text becomes too small to read comfortably, or reading each line of text requires horizontal scrolling. A column of text should never be wider than the viewport.
but you can't patent "hero comes along to overthrow the evil empire and save humanity".
That's because the novel is a mature art form, having been around long enough for prior art to accumulate. I'd bet that were a new literary form to be discovered in the next decade, you'd see all sorts of patents on "methods of writing literature" for the next couple decades, and then they'd die down after the prior art has become established.
That is why Ghostscript ps2pdf and all those other tools are allowed to exist.
But don't you have to install a multimegabyte Cygwin in order to use Ghostscript tools on Windows? Or has Ghostscript improved since I last saw it, to the point where its GUI installer is as slick as Adobe's?
Schwa (which I can't type here because Slashdot is configured to delete all HTML character entities) is pronounced as an indistinct, unaccented central vowel, roughly the 'a' in English "about".
The k is strongly aspirated
Which is exactly what I was trying to get across by telling readers to whisper the schwa.
I'll hafta buy it when it's released on video too
Rent it instead. That way, you still see the movie, but less of your money goes toward reforming copyrights in the entertainment industry's favor.
Hey, after you lose the Super Bowl
The Walt Disney Company did not lose the proverbial Super Bowl. Miyazaki's Spirited Away, which won Best Picture in Japan and Best Animated Feature in the States, was distributed by Disney, and is reportedly bringing in the bucks on home video. Or does Disney not make much money in its contract with Studio Ghibli?
Would you rather let your child play with a stuffed Mickey Mouse, or a stuffed Clippy?
How about a plush MSN butterfly? Go to the Microsoft store, click "Non Microsoft" to create a new customer account, then click "Toys".
Walter Elias Disney is dead, burned, and buried.
The Walt Disney Company will die only when Americans stop patronizing.
I know that ABC/ESPN/and probably everything else not Time/Warner is owned by them
More specifically, Disney owns what's listed here. Fox isn't included; neither are MGM, Sony, Universal, Viacom, and especially the non-MPAA studio/distributor Artisan Entertainment.
Before a doubled stop (such as the PP), vowels are typically short. Yes, a German short O is higher[1] than an American English short O.
[1] "High" in phonetics refers more often to position of the tongue than to pitch of the voice.
El Torito bootable CDs have nothing to do with multisession. An ISO contains only one data track of one session, and CDs burned from ISOs can be bootable.
The problem here is that El Torito may need to be extended to cover DVD media, and this is in part a firmware issue.
Except your joke doesn't work. My full binary installation of GNU Emacs is 40 MB, half of that being Elisp bytecode. A CD is at least 640 MB.
But still, the trackers served a lot more people before being flooded than an FTP server in the same situation would have. Having several trackers and making a .torrent pointing at each one would be a good idea for a file that you expect to be extremely popular.
Ka-nop-ix
If that sounds too silly for you, like Disney's Tigger trying to say "ka-night" or "ka-nife", try whispering the schwa that you insert between the K and the N. After a few times of saying that, you'll fall into the correct pronunciation of a non-English KN cluster (which is incidentally how KN was pronounced in English before it lost initial stop-nasal clusters).
Yes, but the RPM sensitivity also means that an electric motor is more likely to be connected to a continuously variable transmission, and the prices of such CVTs will fall once economies of scale kick in.
what econ course did you take?
How about "Excise tax theory"? Hybrid vehicles use less petrol but tear up the roads just as much, government has less money for road repairs, government increases petrol excise, price at pump goes up.
"Petrol" is two letters shorter than "gasoline" and is less ambiguous than "gas".
You weren't forced to buy shit.
And you weren't forced to breathe either.
You chose to buy a product that it came bundled with.
Please prove that prospective non-Mac laptop purchasers aren't forced to buy Windows by answering the following question: Where can I purchase a new x86 architecture laptop computer that a Microsoft Windows OS doesn't come bundled with?