Checking is not the big problem - even if its makes it impossible for small firms to write computer programs since the minimum number of patent checker to be able to follow the patents applied to will be too much too handle for a small 1-man firm. Sadly programs like Minecraft that was initially written by 1 person will probably never see the day of light if everyone would do what you suggest.
The bigger problem are code. Because then you have to rewrite the program to go from A to B. Without patents you can write straighforward code. If you got 1 patent you have to program around its doable. But with 1000 patents you have to program around your straightforward code will soon look more like a maze of twisty passages that you have to navigate to be able to write your program.
The cost of development go up the more hinders you have to program around. Think about it like if the city suddenly would close the traffic on a highway and everyone have to find another way - traffic will have to go around and it will take longer to get to work. For the programmers it will take longer and cost more to program. The time to get to B can increase alot more just because of one more patent since it affect alot of other patents that now form a wall you have to go around trippling the distance (the number of lines of code you have to write ) which you have to travel to get to point B.
Oracle used to want billions of dollars in settlment. But after the patent office - after Googles arguments - found most of the patents Oracle had for invalid the settlement demands nowadays are alot less. Given that the copyright claims looks very scetchy to get through it looks like the outcome will be that Oracle loses some patents and get about zilch in compensation.
The reason they could not agree is that Oracle has not realized how badly its been going so far in the pretrial motions. Oracles demands has nothing to do with what they should hope to get in court.
Fosspatents reporting has been very onsided and has been wrong every time in his predictions Dont listen to Florian.
If you want an indepth analysis and diskussion of this and other computor science related IP cases in our courts then its only one site on the net that provides that with bravur and thats
Yes, but there is cost in collecting the information and presenting it in a comprehensiv way and that are basically what people pay for.
The same is for all type of intelligens reports like the Gartner and Forrester etc. Collecting and presenting the information by an informed person are large part of what they get payed to do.
Note that the above is also why people buy newspapers. Its easier and cheaper then collect the information yourself.
Thats not true. Actually the opposite are more valid. The reason many rich countries of today has strong IP laws is not because they had them when they become rich - but because they think they can use them to stay rich. In reality the economic power of western europe and USA has been weakend the latest decades and thats because of strong IP laws and enforcement. Instead other countries like Chine and the rest of asia has been growing fast and steadily with much more weaker IP laws.
The reason Hollywood today is the movie capital of the world is because the moviemakers fled from the patents over movie making that existed in New York. Those movie pirates has grown into the major movie studios of today because of the weak IP laws in california 100 years ago.
So weak IP laws/enforcement means more opportunities and higher growth.
No, actually whats happend is that the time an examiner has to check a patent has gone down. So its not a silly examiner but a system error that make bad patents get approved all the time. The time they have to examine a patentet is not much more then whats needed to read it and halvway understand it. They leave it to the courts to decide which patent is valid or not. The courts thinks the patent office actually throw out bad patents...
But they too seldom does. The goal of the patent office is to approve patents and not to disprove them.
Nom the EU commission still has alot more clout then the EP parlament. The EU parlament is basically toothless with little power.
In the end the EU parlament, over 99% of the time, affirm the EU commissions directives. The EU parlament can get some minor changes in - but thats all.
Yes, the Pirate party will not have to pay to attend since they got banned even though they was on the billboards in the subway on the events ads.
No, they had not had any big expenses from this.
Pirate Party youth section was there and gave away their t-shirts outside the doors, The ban meant alot of goodwill for the Pirate party and some good press.
So all in all this made the pirate party the talk of the event and got some good press. Kinda strange that getting banned gave the pirate party more positive attention then attending the event would have.
Looking at the article; the 16GB is because they compile the code in parallell so need lots of memory. They get the 5 hours of build time down to 25 min.
Even if we did not do anything bad - we still die of starvation and drowning.
If a vulcano starts to erupt we need to move away or else we die. The same with the global warming we now experience - if we do nothing our life is dead. We need to do something to fix this. But yes some people insist on saying vulcanus is natural so just stay put and we will all be just fine.
if you by office mean microsoft office - so is the support for 1.0 so that is already ancient and useless since Microsoft deliberatly made sure their implementation differ from all other implementations of ODF 1.0
The part that was made incompatible was the spreadsheet part where everyone else just used microsofts office format - and microsoft used something else....
Microsofts implementation shows that they are intentionally trying to undermine the standardardisation on ODF by making incompatible versions. Microsofts normal embrace and extend practice. So stop buying Ms office and get a real office package witch full support of ODF1.2
Many office packages - except for Microsoft office - supports ODF1.2 already.
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So since when is FBI sanction to perform official criminal investigations in NZ ?
No what microsoft is objecting to is poeple using software without paying them.
Does not matter which software.
Checking is not the big problem - even if its makes it impossible for small firms to write computer programs since the minimum number of patent checker to be able to follow the patents applied to will be too much too handle for a small 1-man firm. Sadly programs like Minecraft that was initially written by 1 person will probably never see the day of light if everyone would do what you suggest.
The bigger problem are code.
Because then you have to rewrite the program to go from A to B. Without patents you can write straighforward code. If you got 1 patent you have to program around its doable. But with 1000 patents you have to program around your straightforward code will soon look more like a maze of twisty passages that you have to navigate to be able to write your program.
The cost of development go up the more hinders you have to program around. Think about it like if the city suddenly would close the traffic on a highway and everyone have to find another way - traffic will have to go around and it will take longer to get to work. For the programmers it will take longer and cost more to program. The time to get to B can increase alot more just because of one more patent since it affect alot of other patents that now form a wall you have to go around trippling the distance (the number of lines of code you have to write ) which you have to travel to get to point B.
Trademarks are not copyrighted they are trademarked. There is no time limit on trademarks.
Actually they are right.
But also what should be in the news:
cars affect climate change
houses affect climate change
everyone by breathing affect climate change.
So its nothing new - move along. Everything affects climate change even the wings of a colibri in the amazonas...
Strange - why is it not then a huge amount of Linux viruses ?
Cause a large part of all servers is running Linux.
But on the other hand - maybe size has nothing to do with how many viruses exists on each platform
Maybe quality of the software has a big part too.
Oracle used to want billions of dollars in settlment. But after the patent office - after Googles arguments - found most of the patents Oracle had for invalid the settlement demands nowadays are alot less. Given that the copyright claims looks very scetchy to get through it looks like the outcome will be that Oracle loses some patents and get about zilch in compensation.
The reason they could not agree is that Oracle has not realized how badly its been going so far in the pretrial motions. Oracles demands has nothing to do with what they should hope to get in court.
Fosspatents reporting has been very onsided and has been wrong every time in his predictions Dont listen to Florian.
If you want an indepth analysis and diskussion of this and other computor science related IP cases in our courts then its only one site on the net that provides that with bravur and thats
http://www.groklaw.net/
Groklaw deliver the goods. Its prediction of the outcome has been correct in this and many other legal cases.
Yes, but there is cost in collecting the information and presenting it in a comprehensiv way and that are basically what people pay for.
The same is for all type of intelligens reports like the Gartner and Forrester etc. Collecting and presenting the information
by an informed person are large part of what they get payed to do.
Note that the above is also why people buy newspapers. Its easier and cheaper then collect the information yourself.
Thousands of years actuallty. As far back as the roman empire - or maybe even earlier then that - mankind has used crop rotation.
But as always, those that dont learn from history will repeat the mistakes. So its been forgotten many times.
Thats not true. Actually the opposite are more valid. The reason many rich countries of today has strong IP laws is not because they had them when they become rich - but because they think they can use them to stay rich. In reality the economic power of western europe and USA has been weakend the latest decades and thats because of strong IP laws and enforcement. Instead other countries like Chine and the rest of asia has been growing fast and steadily with much more weaker IP laws.
The reason Hollywood today is the movie capital of the world is because the moviemakers fled from the patents over movie making that existed in New York. Those movie pirates has grown into the major movie studios of today because of the weak IP laws in california 100 years ago.
So weak IP laws/enforcement means more opportunities and higher growth.
They got lucky with a silly examiner, that's all.
No, actually whats happend is that the time an examiner has to check a patent has gone down. So its not a silly examiner but a system error that make bad patents get approved all the time. The time they have to examine a patentet is not much more then whats needed to read it and halvway understand it. They leave it to the courts to decide which patent is valid or not. The courts thinks the patent office actually throw out bad patents...
But they too seldom does. The goal of the patent office is to approve patents and not to disprove them.
"The IPCC messed up over 'Amazongate' â" the threat to the Amazon is far worse"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/jul/02/ipcc-amazongate-george-monbiot
Somehow IPCC underestimated the global warming.
No its the reverse - IPCC has underestimated climate change:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322232229.htm
Most countries has a pirate party that wants to remove software patents.
So yes there is - just vote for them.
They can only sue where the patents are valid. If it's US patents - they have to sue in the US.
Britain har been much more restrictive in allowing software patents. So I doubt they got british patent
for those 'inventions'.
Many of them have sold off the shares. Nokias shares are down ... alot.
It was the board that decided to select an alliance with Microsoft.
Nom the EU commission still has alot more clout then the EP parlament. The EU parlament is basically toothless with little power.
In the end the EU parlament, over 99% of the time, affirm the EU commissions directives. The EU parlament can get some minor changes in - but thats all.
Yes, the Pirate party will not have to pay to attend since they got banned even though they was on the billboards in the subway on the events ads.
No, they had not had any big expenses from this.
Pirate Party youth section was there and gave away their t-shirts outside the doors, The ban meant alot of goodwill for the Pirate party and some good press.
So all in all this made the pirate party the talk of the event and got some good press.
Kinda strange that getting banned gave the pirate party more positive attention then attending the event would have.
There are about 14000 security bonds rated AAA like some subprime morgage bonds:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-31/subprime-mortgage-bonds-getting-aaa-rating-s-p-denies-to-u-s-treasuries.html
Meanwhile US treasury bonds is rated as AA+.
Looking at the article; the 16GB is because they compile the code in parallell so need lots of memory. They get the 5 hours of build time down to 25 min.
Even if we did not do anything bad - we still die of starvation and drowning.
If a vulcano starts to erupt we need to move away or else we die. The same with the global warming we now experience - if we do nothing our life is dead. We need to do something to fix this. But yes some people insist on saying vulcanus is natural so just stay put and we will all be just fine.
I promise to pay you for this item in 10 s time.
Dont make it harder then it is.
Well if they search long enough. They will find the collected work of shakespear hiding in pi.
if you by office mean microsoft office - so is the support for 1.0 so that is already ancient and useless since Microsoft deliberatly made sure their implementation differ from all other implementations of ODF 1.0
The part that was made incompatible was the spreadsheet part where everyone else just used microsofts office format - and microsoft used something else....
Microsofts implementation shows that they are intentionally trying to undermine the standardardisation on ODF by making incompatible versions.
Microsofts normal embrace and extend practice. So stop buying Ms office and get a real office package witch full support of ODF1.2
Many office packages - except for Microsoft office - supports ODF1.2 already.