So as far as I can tell we have (at least) 3 companies claiming to hold a patent on sending telephone calls over a network.
Why are they all allowed to sue Vonage but aren't forced to settle the obvious patent disputes they have between them. Let's assume for a second that any one of them has a valid patent and had it first. Why aren't they suing the other 2 for getting settlement money out of Vonage that they as the rightful patent holder should have received?
I agree 100% that they could have sold the iPhone in Apple stores unlocked and it would have been great. Someone obviously did some cost analysis and decided they could make more money with the kickbacks from AT&T.
Along with the kickbacks they were able to work with AT&T to create the visual voicemail which according to those who have used it (I haven't) is a pretty nice step forward in telephone service. Who knows if they could have gotten that technology created by AT&T, T-Mobile and other GSM providers. If I were Apple I wouldn't want to advertise a feature like that and have to add "*not available on all service providers" and then have people complain when it didn't work on their Joe Schmoe GSM Provider account.
Verizon over charges, disables features to charge you too much again T-Mobile doesn't work in non-metro or interstate corridors Sprint/Nextel just plain sucks in most places and if I could stuff a damn push-to-talk phone down some a-hole's throat I would.
Personally of the options I've found for me that AT&T has found a good price/service ratio and I have no urge to switch to any of the other crappy cell phone companies, I'll stick with my crappy cell phone company.
You're probably right. I just tried to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was a typo. I haven't looked at the numbers but I assumed that the south west got a fair amount of power from hoover and the glen canyon dam.
They saw "breeder" and instantly thought "nuclear weapons" even though the IFR waste material would have been useless for producing weapons-grade fissiles. I don't know if "fissiles" is an actual term but I am totally going to be using it to describe nuclear missiles.
If I'm the user of the code e.g. Tivo and I don't decide that I want to comply with gpl v3 I don't have to in that case. For you to force me to comply with v3 you have to relicense it as v3 (or later) it's not a retroactive license which probably wouldn't be legally enforceable anyway.
so what? They're still trying to convince the Mississippi river to not go where it wants to. It wants to be in the middle of New Orleans but the levies force it elsewhere. It will end up going where it wants to again even if the new levies are equally as strong as the old ones.
If your card was originally issued by MBNA and was bought up by Bank of America, the funds you think you're giving to the Linux fund are really just going into the pockets of BoA.
SO if beers two bucks and I have ten of them and a burger, beer's 30 bucks? No. Your burger costs you $30 if it requires the purchase of 10 $2 beers as well.
Why not just ban children next? Not in Utah... in Utah it's your job to have as many children as possible and force them to believe in the cults^H^H^H^H^H churches view.
That's the problem with the fact that AMT isn't pegged to inflation at all. I've seen stats that show 60+% of people could be in an AMT situation in a few years time just based on annual cost of living raises.
If you want to bitch about some part of tax law AMT would be a great place to start.
It seems more likely that they are being pricks because they are assuming that you are running a server or uploading media. I'd say it's a pretty safe assumption on their part. What legitimate (according to their TOS) way could you even hit the upload cap for an extended period? Remember the TOS probably says no servers and they can easily argue that includes your bit torrent client so there goes the "linux iso's" argument.
Like I said below. All novel has to do is fork all the FSF projects now while the licensing says GPL Version 2 or later. It's not like 'ls' or 'cd' changes all that often.
Why am I starting to get the feeling that outside of the FSF no one is going to adopt v3?
So what? Novell just goes ahead and forks all the FSF stuff now and leaves the licensing as GPL 2 they're well within their rights not to accept a more restrictive (to them) license.
I see Subaru wagon's pretty much everyday with 3-4 teenagers with snowboards or ski equipment on the top or in the back. The newer Legacy wagons get between 19 and 30 mpg depending on the configuration.
Yeah I'll be the first to admit that 19mpg doesn't sound that great until you consider that the Ford Explorer, one of if not the most popular vehicles of the last 15 years, gets between 15 and 21mpg.
They released the DVD of the first (couple?) episodes the day after it aired. Of course they leaked from the DVD supply chain. You don't seriously think they aired the episode, and then pressed a million DVDs and had them on the shelves the next day do you?
Ask for one that doesn't do all of the stuff you don't want it to do.
I have a friend who just started working for a three letter acronym who can't have a cell phone in his building that does anything other than send and receive calls. This means no Internet, Bluetooth, SMS, etc. He was told to go into the Verizon store and tell them what he needed and they would likely have exactly what he needed in the back.
I wouldn't be surprised if you can do the same with Cingular or T-Mobile too.
Just because they don't push it on you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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So as far as I can tell we have (at least) 3 companies claiming to hold a patent on sending telephone calls over a network.
Why are they all allowed to sue Vonage but aren't forced to settle the obvious patent disputes they have between them. Let's assume for a second that any one of them has a valid patent and had it first. Why aren't they suing the other 2 for getting settlement money out of Vonage that they as the rightful patent holder should have received?
I agree 100% that they could have sold the iPhone in Apple stores unlocked and it would have been great. Someone obviously did some cost analysis and decided they could make more money with the kickbacks from AT&T.
Along with the kickbacks they were able to work with AT&T to create the visual voicemail which according to those who have used it (I haven't) is a pretty nice step forward in telephone service. Who knows if they could have gotten that technology created by AT&T, T-Mobile and other GSM providers. If I were Apple I wouldn't want to advertise a feature like that and have to add "*not available on all service providers" and then have people complain when it didn't work on their Joe Schmoe GSM Provider account.
Name a US cell service that doesn't suck
Verizon over charges, disables features to charge you too much again
T-Mobile doesn't work in non-metro or interstate corridors
Sprint/Nextel just plain sucks in most places and if I could stuff a damn push-to-talk phone down some a-hole's throat I would.
Personally of the options I've found for me that AT&T has found a good price/service ratio and I have no urge to switch to any of the other crappy cell phone companies, I'll stick with my crappy cell phone company.
who the hell cares about PCI-E in this case? It's an old machine with built in video, it's not PCI-E and there's a decent chance it's not AGP either
You're probably right. I just tried to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was a typo. I haven't looked at the numbers but I assumed that the south west got a fair amount of power from hoover and the glen canyon dam.
oh well we can't always be right when we guess.
the previous poster probably meant South West US where there are significant hydroplants.
Thanks!
wrong.
If I'm the user of the code e.g. Tivo and I don't decide that I want to comply with gpl v3 I don't have to in that case. For you to force me to comply with v3 you have to relicense it as v3 (or later) it's not a retroactive license which probably wouldn't be legally enforceable anyway.
so what? They're still trying to convince the Mississippi river to not go where it wants to. It wants to be in the middle of New Orleans but the levies force it elsewhere. It will end up going where it wants to again even if the new levies are equally as strong as the old ones.
If your card was originally issued by MBNA and was bought up by Bank of America, the funds you think you're giving to the Linux fund are really just going into the pockets of BoA.
Hey if you're going to do a podcast (as such) why not bring back Geeks in Space?
Is a plain text editor one of them?
Using a database for bookmarks is just plain stupid.
That's the problem with the fact that AMT isn't pegged to inflation at all. I've seen stats that show 60+% of people could be in an AMT situation in a few years time just based on annual cost of living raises.
If you want to bitch about some part of tax law AMT would be a great place to start.
Like I said below. All novel has to do is fork all the FSF projects now while the licensing says GPL Version 2 or later. It's not like 'ls' or 'cd' changes all that often.
Oh crap I agree with Cr0w T Trollbot. What's this world coming to when a troll makes sense?
Why am I starting to get the feeling that outside of the FSF no one is going to adopt v3?
So what? Novell just goes ahead and forks all the FSF stuff now and leaves the licensing as GPL 2 they're well within their rights not to accept a more restrictive (to them) license.
IANAL either and I didn't RTFM either but I would assume that this is being used to show premeditation of the crime they can prove otherwise.
Put them in a box with a cat?
yeah that's the point.
Microsoft: "You stole our code, pay up"
Linux Fanboys: "Prove it or shut up and go sit in the corner"
http://www.epa.gov/emissweb/wgn-07.htm
I see Subaru wagon's pretty much everyday with 3-4 teenagers with snowboards or ski equipment on the top or in the back. The newer Legacy wagons get between 19 and 30 mpg depending on the configuration.
Yeah I'll be the first to admit that 19mpg doesn't sound that great until you consider that the Ford Explorer, one of if not the most popular vehicles of the last 15 years, gets between 15 and 21mpg.
They released the DVD of the first (couple?) episodes the day after it aired. Of course they leaked from the DVD supply chain. You don't seriously think they aired the episode, and then pressed a million DVDs and had them on the shelves the next day do you?
Ask for one that doesn't do all of the stuff you don't want it to do.
I have a friend who just started working for a three letter acronym who can't have a cell phone in his building that does anything other than send and receive calls. This means no Internet, Bluetooth, SMS, etc. He was told to go into the Verizon store and tell them what he needed and they would likely have exactly what he needed in the back.
I wouldn't be surprised if you can do the same with Cingular or T-Mobile too.
Just because they don't push it on you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.