... and don't even start with the death penalty. How come that anti-abortion and the support for the death penalty mostly comes from the same corner? Makes you think, doesn't it.
This is a civil matter, as a result Motorola has to act for the injunction to become effective. There are many cases where that ruling basically brought the parties back to the table, though on less favorable terms and the injunction was never enforced. I doubt that court procedures will be changed just because some US judge does nonsense.
Actually, the US court decision does not interfere with the German court, but with what Motorola does on German soil. Since the act of enforcing the injunction is separate, as I mention elsewhere. But it renders that decision meaningless and the end result is the same. It is still not what I would expect a US court to do...
Pure software patents are illegal in Europe and Germany, yes, that is totally correct. The Problem is that patents that relate to hardware and information systems are absolutely patentable. And since you can implement H.264 in hardware and probably the patent is about this, the patent is valid. This is especially thorny since software emulations of hardware are also infringing on the given patent.
In Germany the court only does the ruling and deciding. The winning party then has to go to the police and customs and instruct them to execute the given ruling. But going to the police is at the discretion of the winning party.
The way this works in Germany is that the court gives you a paper that says can order an injunction and what terms apply (in most cases you must post a bond). You then can take that paper to the Gerichtsvollzieher (marshal / bailiff) which then executes the injunction. The interesting point is that these two steps are independent and you can chose not to execute the injunction.
So the judge ordered Motorola not to execute the injunction. How that is interfering with German sovereignty is a different and debatable point.
Right, when "Can I invite you to coffee?" becomes a sexual harassment suit... something is ajar with society. Where there is REAL sexual harassment, fine; but in that case it does not matter if it is sexual... just harassment should not happen and be punished.
Yea right like you all understood "99 Luftballons"... (Yes I know that is it German, but that is not the point.) Oh, yea how come the rest of the wold has no problem to listen (and badly sing) English music? What ever, you probably heard Daft Punk and did not know it. (At least if you saw Ton Legacy...) Most (if not all) Music from them is either English or no lyrics at all.
Can you name music, that was published it the aforementioned time frame? You know, stuff where the people who like the music don't yet own each and every CD from the artist...
And THAT is the problem... There is NOTHING worthwhile that is also mainstream. You know; in some places of the world, there is stuff that is mainstream and you can listen to it...
I grew up in France and the last good (and popular) music i heard from there was made in the 90s. There are many small bands that rock, but nothing that gets played in the radio. The forced quota does not help much, it just results in the radio playing either old stuff or crap. If you contrast that to Germany, where artists need to actively compete with the international markets, there is more stuff that is worth your while.
Actually you both are right, to a certain degree. You have a contractual relationship with the retailer, the retailer is obliged to give you a warranty. But then the retailer is in a contractual relationship with the manufacturer (sometimes by multiple levels of indirection) and part of the deal is that they service this warranty. But that is up to the retailer and the manufacturer to agree upon. They can, for example agree to lower the price and drop the repair service; they often do that on small things, where they just give you a new item when the original broke.
Ok that might be overkill for this, but you are wrong here. That is what mailing lists are for. Now if there where an easy way to form and disband mailing lists. Hmmm I have an idea here...
On my 10'' netbook, when I feel like I need more space while browsing some page I simply hit F11 and Firefox goes into full screen mode. You can have both world if you want... Metro is just fail. Especially since it feels like you are going back and forth. What, I need to *close* my email application so that I can copy this piece of text? Why can't I have two applications open, then I swipe to the bottom of the screen (or wherever) and I see my running applications... Not each and every application. There are way saner usability concepts out there.
That is the big thing that will kill W8 on the desktop.Metro is really a nice idea on a small screen and with touch controls. But I have a 24 inch screen and screens are getting bigger and bigger... It looks like a big joke, as if I am visually impaired. If Ms would have handled Metro like Media Center, an overlay over the normal desktop, it would have been a nice thing. My desktop and (x86) Tablet are running the same OS, I can run the same programs if I want and on the tablet I have a handy presentation optimized for touch. With all their ideas of interconnecting the devices, not such a bad idea. But the way W8 is built now, that thing will not go on my desktop, end of story... Btw. The tablet I want to buy runs W7...
A corporation can be disbanded by a judgment, that is basically the death penalty. It does not mean much though, since if the real criminals (CEO & friends) are not convicted of some crime, they can simply open a new one.
Ok here in Germany the libraries require from you an annual fee of something like 10 EUR; I am not sure you are referring to something like that, but that is basically to cover their operation costs. But yes there is a deal between the "copyright owners" (GEMA and friends, some shady royalty collection agency.)
I don't get it! What makes creative commons better than releasing it to the public domain?! The creative commons is supposed to be a well deffined middle ground between hard copyright and public domain. The minimum requirement is attribution, if don't even care about that, why not stick with public domain.
Actually not that hard. Get the content providers together with the sanitation installation providers (SIP not ISP) and mandate a law that requires installation a copyright monitoring devices. Ask the Australians, they know how that works.
You should invest an hour of your life, it really is worth it.
To the discussion at hand, sure it is not an end all, but how often I see people doing the same thing in a debugger, only with mouse over variable / watch windows. His approach is essentially the same as many people do in the debugger, only the feedback look is tighter. Sure you still need to know about the problem and solution domain, to isolate boundary conditions; but it surly changes the way you program.
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... and don't even start with the death penalty. How come that anti-abortion and the support for the death penalty mostly comes from the same corner? Makes you think, doesn't it.
This is a civil matter, as a result Motorola has to act for the injunction to become effective. There are many cases where that ruling basically brought the parties back to the table, though on less favorable terms and the injunction was never enforced. I doubt that court procedures will be changed just because some US judge does nonsense.
Actually, the US court decision does not interfere with the German court, but with what Motorola does on German soil. Since the act of enforcing the injunction is separate, as I mention elsewhere. But it renders that decision meaningless and the end result is the same. It is still not what I would expect a US court to do...
Pure software patents are illegal in Europe and Germany, yes, that is totally correct. The Problem is that patents that relate to hardware and information systems are absolutely patentable. And since you can implement H.264 in hardware and probably the patent is about this, the patent is valid. This is especially thorny since software emulations of hardware are also infringing on the given patent.
In Germany the court only does the ruling and deciding. The winning party then has to go to the police and customs and instruct them to execute the given ruling. But going to the police is at the discretion of the winning party.
The way this works in Germany is that the court gives you a paper that says can order an injunction and what terms apply (in most cases you must post a bond). You then can take that paper to the Gerichtsvollzieher (marshal / bailiff) which then executes the injunction. The interesting point is that these two steps are independent and you can chose not to execute the injunction.
So the judge ordered Motorola not to execute the injunction. How that is interfering with German sovereignty is a different and debatable point.
The perils of posting from a virtual keyboard without haptic feedback.
That is what she said!
Right, when "Can I invite you to coffee?" becomes a sexual harassment suit... something is ajar with society. Where there is REAL sexual harassment, fine; but in that case it does not matter if it is sexual... just harassment should not happen and be punished.
Until YOU are the one they trow into jail for a few years and you can never get a proper job...
Yea right like you all understood "99 Luftballons"... (Yes I know that is it German, but that is not the point.) Oh, yea how come the rest of the wold has no problem to listen (and badly sing) English music? What ever, you probably heard Daft Punk and did not know it. (At least if you saw Ton Legacy...) Most (if not all) Music from them is either English or no lyrics at all.
Can you name music, that was published it the aforementioned time frame? You know, stuff where the people who like the music don't yet own each and every CD from the artist...
And THAT is the problem... There is NOTHING worthwhile that is also mainstream. You know; in some places of the world, there is stuff that is mainstream and you can listen to it...
I grew up in France and the last good (and popular) music i heard from there was made in the 90s. There are many small bands that rock, but nothing that gets played in the radio. The forced quota does not help much, it just results in the radio playing either old stuff or crap. If you contrast that to Germany, where artists need to actively compete with the international markets, there is more stuff that is worth your while.
Actually you both are right, to a certain degree. You have a contractual relationship with the retailer, the retailer is obliged to give you a warranty. But then the retailer is in a contractual relationship with the manufacturer (sometimes by multiple levels of indirection) and part of the deal is that they service this warranty. But that is up to the retailer and the manufacturer to agree upon. They can, for example agree to lower the price and drop the repair service; they often do that on small things, where they just give you a new item when the original broke.
Glest? No further questions, your honor.
Yea, get Agent Richard Gill on the task! Pronto!
Except there is no such thing as group email.
Ok that might be overkill for this, but you are wrong here. That is what mailing lists are for. Now if there where an easy way to form and disband mailing lists. Hmmm I have an idea here...
On my 10'' netbook, when I feel like I need more space while browsing some page I simply hit F11 and Firefox goes into full screen mode. You can have both world if you want... Metro is just fail. Especially since it feels like you are going back and forth. What, I need to *close* my email application so that I can copy this piece of text? Why can't I have two applications open, then I swipe to the bottom of the screen (or wherever) and I see my running applications... Not each and every application. There are way saner usability concepts out there.
That is the big thing that will kill W8 on the desktop.Metro is really a nice idea on a small screen and with touch controls. But I have a 24 inch screen and screens are getting bigger and bigger... It looks like a big joke, as if I am visually impaired. If Ms would have handled Metro like Media Center, an overlay over the normal desktop, it would have been a nice thing. My desktop and (x86) Tablet are running the same OS, I can run the same programs if I want and on the tablet I have a handy presentation optimized for touch. With all their ideas of interconnecting the devices, not such a bad idea. But the way W8 is built now, that thing will not go on my desktop, end of story... Btw. The tablet I want to buy runs W7...
A corporation can be disbanded by a judgment, that is basically the death penalty. It does not mean much though, since if the real criminals (CEO & friends) are not convicted of some crime, they can simply open a new one.
Ok here in Germany the libraries require from you an annual fee of something like 10 EUR; I am not sure you are referring to something like that, but that is basically to cover their operation costs. But yes there is a deal between the "copyright owners" (GEMA and friends, some shady royalty collection agency.)
I don't get it! What makes creative commons better than releasing it to the public domain?! The creative commons is supposed to be a well deffined middle ground between hard copyright and public domain. The minimum requirement is attribution, if don't even care about that, why not stick with public domain.
Actually not that hard. Get the content providers together with the sanitation installation providers (SIP not ISP) and mandate a law that requires installation a copyright monitoring devices. Ask the Australians, they know how that works.
There are more benefits from porting games to MacOS and Linux aside from the Sales...
In the words Jeff from Wolfire: Why you should support Mac OS X and Linux
You should invest an hour of your life, it really is worth it.
To the discussion at hand, sure it is not an end all, but how often I see people doing the same thing in a debugger, only with mouse over variable / watch windows. His approach is essentially the same as many people do in the debugger, only the feedback look is tighter. Sure you still need to know about the problem and solution domain, to isolate boundary conditions; but it surly changes the way you program.