Damn, hate it when I do that. "I think it was naive of Google to assume these handset vendors would defend themselves and still remain loyal to Android if things go badly."
Just in case anyone is curious and doesn't want to read TFA, the issue is that MS allowed an oust side consultant to view the source code provided my Motorola. Motorola's beef is that they had confidentiality agreements with MS. The judge stated that Google has no stake in the game and that Motorola would have to file a complaint.
The gist of the article is that MS believes their consultant found some dirt on Android and it's code, which Google seems to think will be very damaging to it's (Motorola's) case, and as a result, all Android devices.
Google's complaint centered around Stevenson, who Microsoft allowed to review Android source code. Google said it had not been told beforehand that Stevenson would see what it called "confidential" code so "highly proprietary...that Google does not even share with its partners, such as Motorola."
In an interview last week, German patent activist and analyst Florian Mueller said that Google's attempt to block Stevenson was no more than a speed bump in the case, which he sees as potentially harmful to Android if Microsoft wins.
"I think Google is extremely afraid of the outcome of this particular ITC investigation," said Mueller last week. "If this investigation finds Motorola and, in fact, all Android devices to infringe various valid Microsoft patents, all of Google's hardware partners will have to pay royalties to Microsoft."
I can't help but feel Google has really blundered here. I don't know if its' simply because they never had such intense competition in markets they were in (primarily search/ad revenue) and just taken by surprise, or they just assumed they could make agreements with companies who are in it for the long haul and unwilling to bargain. They know they have Google over a barrel or at least think they do, and Google has nothing to bargain with. I think it was naive of Google to assume these handset vendors would descend themselves and still remain loyal to Android if things go badly.
An accurate assessments in my opinion. Markets change, although I can't speak to WoW since I've spent all of 3 hours on it these last two days. I couldn't see myself paying monthly for this. It's boring and there would just be no value there for me. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'goal' like a typical RPG, other than to increase in level. I guess I'm a bit confused by the lack of apparently plot line or story (keep in mind my Diablo roots here).
I'm guessing I'm not the target audience (read young). I assumed for years that I was a typical player of these types of games but I've come to learn I'm very odd. I don't spend hours grinding for gear, I don't race through, I don't trade, I don't do guilds, etc. I have zero interest in the online community. I just played them through, over and over, either in LAN games or solo, trying various different builds. I've never glanced at or even tried a cookie cutter build. It sounds incredibly boring to strive to do what thousands of other people have done and written a guide to do. I spent attribute points all over the place without much thought to what would 'optimize' death dealing, etc.
I guess my biggest beef with it, is that I just seem very disconnected and 'blah' about the whole experience so far. I'll probably play it through to the freebie cap at 20, and possibly try another build (not a sure thing at this point), and then forget about it. It just lacks any draw so far.
Although I agree with what you are saying about group dynamics, a group of people can panic just as easily as an individual. I don't think this is a panic move. There are actually a large number of patents with value to Google in the purchase, but the decision to buy them at such a high cost probably wasn't the best deal they could have made without larger cash reserves. I think that is the root of the decision to downgrade projections on Google stock. They are simply overextended somewhat.
This sounds like the opinion of someone without any age under their belt. Although NASA subcontracts for 'parts' and equipment, they are pretty much a top down organization, much like Apple in that respect. It doesn't mean they aren't in full control of their projects. Without NASA, we wouldn't have been the first on the Moon. A feat still unrepeated for over 40 years. They had a unique style to getting things done in the beginning. Something that got lost over the years under regulation and administration overhead somewhat, but the spark was still there.
I'm very curious to see how this turns out, and I'm hopefully that private industry can step in and spur competition, but you shouldn't dismiss NASA's achievements to 'administration' work when they literally went where no man has gone before.
God I hope they haven't turned Diablo into a WOW clone. If they did, it doesn't bode well for playability. I just tried the free Wow (lvl 20 cap), and it's pretty boring not to put too fine a point on it. I've no interest in PVP, and if that's the only thing that makes this game interesting, it's bad news for old school D3 fans. This is all I keep reading on the D3 boards regarding turning it into a WOW clone, from the character customizations, the art, the play style, etc.
This seems like the classic go-fetch type of experience for an old D1/D2 player. I don't see the draw, but then again I'm getting long in the tooth. Is this thing the same for all 85 levels? I realize this is supposed to make you familiar with the game, but Blizzard used to accomplish this with quests that were at least interesting to a story line. Now it's all Go to X and Kill Y number of Creature Z.
Maybe if you stopped to read before you started foaming at the mouth? No where did I claim that "Apple did it first". Apple owns the patents on these, and they open sourced them after acquiring the patents. Is there some inaccuracy to that statement? They could, and still can, close the source on any of the above.
Webkit was forked from KHTML and became it's own implementation, developed by Apple. Are you going to claim that all Linux distributions are the 'same'? They have a common ancestor but they are by no means the same. The simple fact remains that Apple did open the source and they actively contribute to Webkit, and as a result the KHTML developers in turn incorporated many of the code changes from Webkit into KHTML.
Apple also owns the patents to CUPS. They can close the source at any time, yet have failed to do so. They also own the patents to OpenCL and they also open sourced that as well.
Kindly point out the inaccuracy in my previous post?
Given that they already open sourced CUPS, and don't have any profit in printers, it's more likely than not they would simply open source it like OpenCL, CUPS, Webkit, etc.
Actually TFA mentions that 8 grams would last the entire lifetime of the vehicle, not the equivalent of one tank of gas.
Within that system 1 gram of thorium produces the equivalent of 7,500 gallons of gasoline. So if you fit the Thorium engine with 8 grams of Thorium, it will run the vehicle for its entire lifetime without needing to be refueled while all the time not producing any emissions.
Not an accurate comparison. D3 is not an MMO. It was never designed to be an MMO and is currently not an MMO. The online requirement is purely fabricated by Blizzard, and not a requirement to play the game. For those who have no interest in the online 'community' such as it is, this is all negatives with no benefit whatsoever. In fact, without the choice, they are forced to deal with lag, even on good connections. I consistently get sub 20ms to major sites, yet I also experience lag on BNet, the fast forward effect, etc.
Those claiming it makes the game 'more secure' are deluding themselves. It's trivial to monitor packets on your local machine. One has to wonder exactly how much of this decision is based on Blizzards new parent company.
Why would you pay for a lesser product, done purely for DRM and/or profit which adds nothing to that group of users who prefer local/lan play and in fact takes away features/benefits that existed in the prior version? I suspect this will do more to spur on pirating than any other choice Blizzard could have made.
Actually my 5 year old Macbook Pro is still worth $500 according to the website. I would assume that some of these are reconditioned and sold as used equipment.
It is my understanding that the search of your person is basically a requirement for an officers safety and no court would undo that. An officer must ask to search your home, or your car and you can refuse them consent. They can and sometimes do proceed without consent, which will often make any evidence they find inadmissible unless they can prove they had due cause for the search (for instance you are drunk driving and they search your vehicle for open containers, or they smell it on your breath through the window for example.
"The method for a quick boot process includes the steps of performing a power-on self test (POST) operation when a personal computer system is powered on or a reset button is pressed; performing a normal boot process after the POST operation; saving the contents of memory and the status of the attached devices to a hard disk; checking if a reboot is requested; restoring the saved boot configuration information from the hard disk, after POST is completed during the reboot process; checking whether or not an initial device configuration file and/or an automatic batch file were changed; and executing commands in the two files and saving a newly created boot configuration information to the hard disk for future boot," the patent reads.
"The personal computer system, may reboot quickly because of omission of execution of the initial device configuration filed and the automatic batch file."
Yes, the patent specifically discusses CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, carefully laying out the entire boot process for an IBM PC running MS-DOS. But it says the scope of the method is broader. "Though the description hereinbefore may refer to terms commonly used in describing particular computer systems and software, such as IBM personal computer and Windows95 operation system, the concepts equally apply to other systems and software," it reads.
All the bench marks show the intel integrated graphics are signigficantly worse than the NVIDIA discrete graphics chip in the previous generation of MacBook Air.
I've done something similar. I've started migrating all of my mail, calendars, etc out of Google. I enjoy the social networks and I can get free services anywhere that aren't all interlinked. I don't want to risk losing access to other Google services in order to use Google+.
Well that and the fact that they are all linked together. Everything in my online life seems to be touched by Google lately. I'm not comfortable with that anymore.
The setting on FB has been there some time? It's in the account privacy settings under the 'Custom' setup:
"Photos and videos you're tagged in"
You set it to be viewable only by yourself and only you will see what photo's you've been tagged in.
Of course, as with all things FB, they screw it up so that if someone then posts a link to the photo on your wall, the cats out of the bag, but you can prevent others from seeing where you've been tagged.
Actually the patent system was created to protect and control printed copies, specifically of the bible. It originally had nothing to do with 'innovation' and honestly it doesn't have much to do with it today either.
Love it or hate it, the patent system allows the patent holder to recoup losses for invested time and/or money to create and produce new ideas and inventions. Claims that it fosters innovation are a stretch at best. It does serve a purpose, but that has been twisted over the years so that it is more often used to strangle innovation.
Except that Google had no entry in the market prior to Apple. Apple started development of what is now 'iOS' back in 2004 for the iPad. Jobs killed it and the OS was instead placed in the iPhone. Google on the other hand, had a rather clunky idea for the Android operating system which they tossed shortly after, they got a glimpse of the iPhone and instead came out with a phone OS and interface strikingly similar to the iphone (albeit a year later into the market than Apple).
I'm sorry, but Google has basically pushed a product out, given it to third parties, and then washed it's hands of any IP issues. They have taken a similar tack with VP8. Google fans immediately assumes that Google is the 'good guy' and also points out that Google never sues anyone without considering that none of these other companies were invested in the search engine business with the exception of MS Bing. They didn't compete directly with any 'product' that Google had prior to this. Google released a product in a heavily patented field without patents protection, and is now whining that they are getting sued or that their third party vendors are getting sued for patent infringement. Did they seriously think the folks who own these patents would just sit idly buy while Google just gives away tech and/or ideas that they hold patents for?
You may not like the legal system, the patent system, or anything in between the two, but frankly, Google is being a dumb ass here and playing the victim when a blind man could have seen this coming a mile away. Apple is already getting the pants sued off of them for their entry in to the market for the same reason. They were the 'new' kid on the block prior to Google, with the exception that they went in and bought patents or patented their ideas along the way. Google had no such foresight.
A company Amazon's size shouldn't have issues in clearly communicating the terms of the deal. Every email was poorly worded, and then they turned around and showed a profit of 54K when none was actually there. This smacks of the same sort of deals that record companies make. They prey on the new artists who need exposure and don't realize their own worth.
Making excuses from Amazon doesn't change the fact that it's a dirty tactic.
It's not as profitable to Google if they can't link an online identity to a fake/anonymous account. Having a 'real' person linked to those accounts would be very profitable indeed, especially to bidders in the marketing/sales areas. Google has always been a pimp of sorts for your personal data. They just haven't gone to these extremes before.
I still spend very little time on Google+. There just isn't any activity there as of yet, and not many personal friends. I expected it to reach a critical point sooner but that hasn't happened in my circles as of yet.
I'll hold on to the account, if just to reserve my account name, but other than that? Meh...
I always enjoy when someone comes along and says a movie isn't original, not noting the fact that there are no previous big release movies with Cowboys and Aliens that I can recall. I'm sure there may be some hidden in some B-Movie treasure trove, but the fact that a main line studio did this is refreshing rather than re-rehashing some remake done 4 times already.
The movie itself has familiar 'themes' but that's about it. If you go to that extreme, every movie and story told today has similar themes (boy meets girl, good vs bad, yada yada). The movie was better than usual summer fare, with an interesting plot and an unusual story idea. That is to be encouraged, especially when they managed to pull it off as well as they did.
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Damn, hate it when I do that.
"I think it was naive of Google to assume these handset vendors would defend themselves and still remain loyal to Android if things go badly."
Just in case anyone is curious and doesn't want to read TFA, the issue is that MS allowed an oust side consultant to view the source code provided my Motorola. Motorola's beef is that they had confidentiality agreements with MS. The judge stated that Google has no stake in the game and that Motorola would have to file a complaint.
The gist of the article is that MS believes their consultant found some dirt on Android and it's code, which Google seems to think will be very damaging to it's (Motorola's) case, and as a result, all Android devices.
I can't help but feel Google has really blundered here. I don't know if its' simply because they never had such intense competition in markets they were in (primarily search/ad revenue) and just taken by surprise, or they just assumed they could make agreements with companies who are in it for the long haul and unwilling to bargain. They know they have Google over a barrel or at least think they do, and Google has nothing to bargain with. I think it was naive of Google to assume these handset vendors would descend themselves and still remain loyal to Android if things go badly.
An accurate assessments in my opinion. Markets change, although I can't speak to WoW since I've spent all of 3 hours on it these last two days. I couldn't see myself paying monthly for this. It's boring and there would just be no value there for me. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'goal' like a typical RPG, other than to increase in level. I guess I'm a bit confused by the lack of apparently plot line or story (keep in mind my Diablo roots here).
I'm guessing I'm not the target audience (read young). I assumed for years that I was a typical player of these types of games but I've come to learn I'm very odd. I don't spend hours grinding for gear, I don't race through, I don't trade, I don't do guilds, etc. I have zero interest in the online community. I just played them through, over and over, either in LAN games or solo, trying various different builds. I've never glanced at or even tried a cookie cutter build. It sounds incredibly boring to strive to do what thousands of other people have done and written a guide to do. I spent attribute points all over the place without much thought to what would 'optimize' death dealing, etc.
I guess my biggest beef with it, is that I just seem very disconnected and 'blah' about the whole experience so far. I'll probably play it through to the freebie cap at 20, and possibly try another build (not a sure thing at this point), and then forget about it. It just lacks any draw so far.
Although I agree with what you are saying about group dynamics, a group of people can panic just as easily as an individual. I don't think this is a panic move. There are actually a large number of patents with value to Google in the purchase, but the decision to buy them at such a high cost probably wasn't the best deal they could have made without larger cash reserves. I think that is the root of the decision to downgrade projections on Google stock. They are simply overextended somewhat.
This sounds like the opinion of someone without any age under their belt. Although NASA subcontracts for 'parts' and equipment, they are pretty much a top down organization, much like Apple in that respect. It doesn't mean they aren't in full control of their projects. Without NASA, we wouldn't have been the first on the Moon. A feat still unrepeated for over 40 years. They had a unique style to getting things done in the beginning. Something that got lost over the years under regulation and administration overhead somewhat, but the spark was still there.
I'm very curious to see how this turns out, and I'm hopefully that private industry can step in and spur competition, but you shouldn't dismiss NASA's achievements to 'administration' work when they literally went where no man has gone before.
God I hope they haven't turned Diablo into a WOW clone. If they did, it doesn't bode well for playability. I just tried the free Wow (lvl 20 cap), and it's pretty boring not to put too fine a point on it. I've no interest in PVP, and if that's the only thing that makes this game interesting, it's bad news for old school D3 fans. This is all I keep reading on the D3 boards regarding turning it into a WOW clone, from the character customizations, the art, the play style, etc.
This seems like the classic go-fetch type of experience for an old D1/D2 player. I don't see the draw, but then again I'm getting long in the tooth. Is this thing the same for all 85 levels? I realize this is supposed to make you familiar with the game, but Blizzard used to accomplish this with quests that were at least interesting to a story line. Now it's all Go to X and Kill Y number of Creature Z.
Who thought this was a good idea exactly?
Maybe if you stopped to read before you started foaming at the mouth? No where did I claim that "Apple did it first". Apple owns the patents on these, and they open sourced them after acquiring the patents. Is there some inaccuracy to that statement? They could, and still can, close the source on any of the above.
Webkit was forked from KHTML and became it's own implementation, developed by Apple. Are you going to claim that all Linux distributions are the 'same'? They have a common ancestor but they are by no means the same. The simple fact remains that Apple did open the source and they actively contribute to Webkit, and as a result the KHTML developers in turn incorporated many of the code changes from Webkit into KHTML.
Apple also owns the patents to CUPS. They can close the source at any time, yet have failed to do so. They also own the patents to OpenCL and they also open sourced that as well.
Kindly point out the inaccuracy in my previous post?
Given that they already open sourced CUPS, and don't have any profit in printers, it's more likely than not they would simply open source it like OpenCL, CUPS, Webkit, etc.
Actually TFA mentions that 8 grams would last the entire lifetime of the vehicle, not the equivalent of one tank of gas.
Actually they indicated 8 grams to last the entire life of the vehicle, not just the equivalent of one tank of gas.
Not an accurate comparison. D3 is not an MMO. It was never designed to be an MMO and is currently not an MMO. The online requirement is purely fabricated by Blizzard, and not a requirement to play the game. For those who have no interest in the online 'community' such as it is, this is all negatives with no benefit whatsoever. In fact, without the choice, they are forced to deal with lag, even on good connections. I consistently get sub 20ms to major sites, yet I also experience lag on BNet, the fast forward effect, etc.
Those claiming it makes the game 'more secure' are deluding themselves. It's trivial to monitor packets on your local machine. One has to wonder exactly how much of this decision is based on Blizzards new parent company.
Why would you pay for a lesser product, done purely for DRM and/or profit which adds nothing to that group of users who prefer local/lan play and in fact takes away features/benefits that existed in the prior version? I suspect this will do more to spur on pirating than any other choice Blizzard could have made.
Actually my 5 year old Macbook Pro is still worth $500 according to the website. I would assume that some of these are reconditioned and sold as used equipment.
It is my understanding that the search of your person is basically a requirement for an officers safety and no court would undo that. An officer must ask to search your home, or your car and you can refuse them consent. They can and sometimes do proceed without consent, which will often make any evidence they find inadmissible unless they can prove they had due cause for the search (for instance you are drunk driving and they search your vehicle for open containers, or they smell it on your breath through the window for example.
I think this is the info you are hinting at. the patent in question specifically mentions config.sys and auto exec.bat, as well as POST processes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/apple_sued_over_mac_x_fast_boot/
Actually the benchmarks show that the 2011's are pretty much on par with the 2010's, within 3-4 FPS. I wouldn't call that significant.
http://lowendmac.com/bookrev/11br/0805.html
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/intel-integrated-graphics-not-hampering-sandy-bridge-macs.ars
I'm confused. Are you being sarcastic, or instructing us in the finer use of non-compliant HTML tags?
I assume this is similar to recycling systems used for space missions? Don't they also recycle waste for H20?
Should be a short voyage since they know the world is flat. Either that or it will come to a rather abrupt ending...
I've done something similar. I've started migrating all of my mail, calendars, etc out of Google. I enjoy the social networks and I can get free services anywhere that aren't all interlinked. I don't want to risk losing access to other Google services in order to use Google+.
Well that and the fact that they are all linked together. Everything in my online life seems to be touched by Google lately. I'm not comfortable with that anymore.
The setting on FB has been there some time? It's in the account privacy settings under the 'Custom' setup:
"Photos and videos you're tagged in"
You set it to be viewable only by yourself and only you will see what photo's you've been tagged in.
Of course, as with all things FB, they screw it up so that if someone then posts a link to the photo on your wall, the cats out of the bag, but you can prevent others from seeing where you've been tagged.
Actually the patent system was created to protect and control printed copies, specifically of the bible. It originally had nothing to do with 'innovation' and honestly it doesn't have much to do with it today either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Love it or hate it, the patent system allows the patent holder to recoup losses for invested time and/or money to create and produce new ideas and inventions. Claims that it fosters innovation are a stretch at best. It does serve a purpose, but that has been twisted over the years so that it is more often used to strangle innovation.
Except that Google had no entry in the market prior to Apple. Apple started development of what is now 'iOS' back in 2004 for the iPad. Jobs killed it and the OS was instead placed in the iPhone. Google on the other hand, had a rather clunky idea for the Android operating system which they tossed shortly after, they got a glimpse of the iPhone and instead came out with a phone OS and interface strikingly similar to the iphone (albeit a year later into the market than Apple).
http://www.quora.com/Android-OS/What-did-Android-look-like-before-the-iPhone-was-unveiled
I'm sorry, but Google has basically pushed a product out, given it to third parties, and then washed it's hands of any IP issues. They have taken a similar tack with VP8. Google fans immediately assumes that Google is the 'good guy' and also points out that Google never sues anyone without considering that none of these other companies were invested in the search engine business with the exception of MS Bing. They didn't compete directly with any 'product' that Google had prior to this. Google released a product in a heavily patented field without patents protection, and is now whining that they are getting sued or that their third party vendors are getting sued for patent infringement. Did they seriously think the folks who own these patents would just sit idly buy while Google just gives away tech and/or ideas that they hold patents for?
You may not like the legal system, the patent system, or anything in between the two, but frankly, Google is being a dumb ass here and playing the victim when a blind man could have seen this coming a mile away. Apple is already getting the pants sued off of them for their entry in to the market for the same reason. They were the 'new' kid on the block prior to Google, with the exception that they went in and bought patents or patented their ideas along the way. Google had no such foresight.
A company Amazon's size shouldn't have issues in clearly communicating the terms of the deal. Every email was poorly worded, and then they turned around and showed a profit of 54K when none was actually there. This smacks of the same sort of deals that record companies make. They prey on the new artists who need exposure and don't realize their own worth.
Making excuses from Amazon doesn't change the fact that it's a dirty tactic.
It's not as profitable to Google if they can't link an online identity to a fake/anonymous account. Having a 'real' person linked to those accounts would be very profitable indeed, especially to bidders in the marketing/sales areas. Google has always been a pimp of sorts for your personal data. They just haven't gone to these extremes before.
I still spend very little time on Google+. There just isn't any activity there as of yet, and not many personal friends. I expected it to reach a critical point sooner but that hasn't happened in my circles as of yet.
I'll hold on to the account, if just to reserve my account name, but other than that? Meh...
I always enjoy when someone comes along and says a movie isn't original, not noting the fact that there are no previous big release movies with Cowboys and Aliens that I can recall. I'm sure there may be some hidden in some B-Movie treasure trove, but the fact that a main line studio did this is refreshing rather than re-rehashing some remake done 4 times already.
The movie itself has familiar 'themes' but that's about it. If you go to that extreme, every movie and story told today has similar themes (boy meets girl, good vs bad, yada yada). The movie was better than usual summer fare, with an interesting plot and an unusual story idea. That is to be encouraged, especially when they managed to pull it off as well as they did.
No regrets seeing this one.