Patents only give you a right to enforce. Hence you need to come up with legal costs. aka a corporations knows that you can't afford to litigate, they may not even bother offering a crap deal and just infringe. I know of one person personally where this was the case.
So in summary if you are poor forget patents. You just told everyone your invention.
The only winners in the current system are the lawyers.
There already is MASSIVE software copyright infringement going on globally.
No there isn't. Software patents are not valid outside the US. In fact patent trolling seems to be far worse in the US than most other countries. I don't know why that is. Patent offices world wide approve of equally lame patents. Perhaps its just the litigious culture in the US?
I personally have found swing no harder than other widget toolkits to get right. Regardless of what I use, I am still reminded of heavy goto usage in BASIC with event models.
He/she never said they fail. In fact they never mentioned the sales figures. He/she also never said anything about *not* using a publisher but not just one of the big publishers.
However you have a good point. But its not limited to the air force. The US military complex is the last relic of the cold war.
Your example make a good case with the F-22 vers the unmanned aircraft. But the difference is even bigger. You can't just design and build a next generation combat aircraft in a year. For that reason alone there is no hope of another air force pulling out a surprise. (and don't get me started about the eurofighter).
Properly written swing is fine, and i have used without complaints from clients. It looks and performs rather well with openJDK. The problem is that 99% of swing out there are by 1st year students learning how to write any code at all, let alone competent GUI front end. But it is just another gui api with all the pros and cons that seem to come with them all.
And yet we have short stories and such that have all these things in them long long ago. Early versions of GPS where *used* in the 60s for example. ARPANET started "construction" in 1969. Mobile computing was discussed from the inception of radio. CCD in telescopes is not really new (60s) and digital cameras have been discussed since we have had computers also voyager 1 and 2 had them. The CD (aka digital audio) has been avalible since 1982, and digital video was being experimented with in labs. Somethings we have had far far longer. Instant messaging has been used first with wired systems like telegraph and then telex like systems and networks and with radio. in fact they were instant back then.
There is nothing surprising in that list and nothing new. Just some got mainstream and some things got rather popular. But thats not the same as inventive, creative or new. There are all engineering evolution.
Something like the iPhone is suppose to be so cheap that we all have one and should be able to have a holiday on the moon without fear of roaming charges. This is the 21 century after all.
You mean like RSA cryptography? Or perhaps a method of allocating registers. Or "transforming a magnetic tape of a greater length to a shorter length while still be able to extract the original bit pattern". Or that a inventation A and B AT the same time is now invention C?
Even worse you put in 100 even 1000 of hours and then file your patent only to find that someone else patented something rather disimilar but describe in such a broad way that anyone wanting to use your patent needs to also licence the other patent. Only that person does not licence at any price.
And worse still your patented is "scoped". And you get nothing because the system fundamentally assumes that only one person can invent something and that no one else will think of the same thing. Some much for "incentive".
Or that it so blindly obvious that you don't publish it (its obvious right) but that doesn't stop the patent office granting someone else the patent. Now even though you can prove that you have been doing this since way before they filed for the patent--you are screwed.
Patents are pork for patent lawyers and little else.
I have a strong feeling that, were it a postscript printer, I would not have these issues.
Actually you probably would. Without proper (colour) calibration with both the screen and printer its not easy getting colours to "look" the same. Low end gear generally can't be calibrated without some cheating. You even need to take the lighting conditions into account. Also you can represent more colours on a printed sheet than you can on a monitor. But BW is easy to calibrate;) .
My printer is a BW HP P1005 (without ps) and i run only slackware. The OS drivers worked better than the HP ones and its so fast to print from cold. I have already printed >10000 pages without a hitch. It cost only 80EU. Thats all good. For colour I take stuff to a copycenter. Top end gear for only about twice my printers per page cost. They are calibrated and let you preview on calibrated monitors. Its perfect. But then we don't do that much colour work really.
What percentage of windows users can install it? It pretty dam low. Pre installed doesn't really count. How many times has some "windows" expert told me the best thing to do is reinstall? So in short even with windows someone else is stuck with "tech support" with Grandma. So which one will take the lest time? Probably the OS the Grandson knows best.
And yet we can take Li based batteries onto planes that have a history of starting fires.
Once enough people want it, especially business people who want to use their laptops on longer flights. Then the airlines push back, and usually get their way. At the end of the day, you can't cost the airlines too much money up front.
You do realize that it was not just sony. In fact there are some companies still doing this. The German release of Mr and Mrs Smith come to mind as one such case. Also unlike in the sony version, the company makes you enter a n digit code to remove it, and only permit you to remove it *once*.
The enemy here is not Sony. Its corporations in general, but in particular the ones that are scared to death by the internet and our ability to copy bits.
Religion does not have to be about God. But even less so a fanatics response. In the past is was the religious folk who said this sort of thing. Note that I do not equate religion to god.
Debate is good, and everyone is permitted to have there opinion and ideas, more so when there is perhaps new data.
Why should we not discuss them? Being denied to speak anything against the consensus is what church and queen have done for centuries to keep everyone inline. It not science when you must agree with consensus or get silenced.
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Patents only give you a right to enforce. Hence you need to come up with legal costs. aka a corporations knows that you can't afford to litigate, they may not even bother offering a crap deal and just infringe. I know of one person personally where this was the case.
So in summary if you are poor forget patents. You just told everyone your invention.
The only winners in the current system are the lawyers.
There already is MASSIVE software copyright infringement going on globally.
No there isn't. Software patents are not valid outside the US. In fact patent trolling seems to be far worse in the US than most other countries. I don't know why that is. Patent offices world wide approve of equally lame patents. Perhaps its just the litigious culture in the US?
You can kiss my shiny metal ass!
I personally have found swing no harder than other widget toolkits to get right. Regardless of what I use, I am still reminded of heavy goto usage in BASIC with event models.
will eventually restrict your ability to post your opinion in a public forum if it differs from what is "acceptable".
You mean like /. moderation system perhaps? -Sure you get to say anything, but no one gets to read it much outside /. group think.
Current UAVs have effectively NO air to air capability.
I was referring to the *in* production F22 etc.
He/she never said they fail. In fact they never mentioned the sales figures. He/she also never said anything about *not* using a publisher but not just one of the big publishers.
There is something else about books. We like the hard copy and printing it yourself sux more than the 10 dollars you pay at a book store.
In the navy/army by any chance? ;)
However you have a good point. But its not limited to the air force. The US military complex is the last relic of the cold war.
Your example make a good case with the F-22 vers the unmanned aircraft. But the difference is even bigger. You can't just design and build a next generation combat aircraft in a year. For that reason alone there is no hope of another air force pulling out a surprise. (and don't get me started about the eurofighter).
Properly written swing is fine, and i have used without complaints from clients. It looks and performs rather well with openJDK. The problem is that 99% of swing out there are by 1st year students learning how to write any code at all, let alone competent GUI front end. But it is just another gui api with all the pros and cons that seem to come with them all.
You have a point, and many countries are following suit or have equally stupid laws. I live in Austria, and its pretty good... For now.
Really, most people are quite happy living where they are.
For the same reason that all life is sacred, but killing abortion doctors is a ok.
Extreme groups are (almost) always wrong.
And yet we have short stories and such that have all these things in them long long ago. Early versions of GPS where *used* in the 60s for example. ARPANET started "construction" in 1969. Mobile computing was discussed from the inception of radio. CCD in telescopes is not really new (60s) and digital cameras have been discussed since we have had computers also voyager 1 and 2 had them. The CD (aka digital audio) has been avalible since 1982, and digital video was being experimented with in labs. Somethings we have had far far longer. Instant messaging has been used first with wired systems like telegraph and then telex like systems and networks and with radio. in fact they were instant back then.
There is nothing surprising in that list and nothing new. Just some got mainstream and some things got rather popular. But thats not the same as inventive, creative or new. There are all engineering evolution.
Something like the iPhone is suppose to be so cheap that we all have one and should be able to have a holiday on the moon without fear of roaming charges. This is the 21 century after all.
In fact in my area its hard to find a EEE without windows in the shops now.
You mean like RSA cryptography? Or perhaps a method of allocating registers. Or "transforming a magnetic tape of a greater length to a shorter length while still be able to extract the original bit pattern". Or that a inventation A and B AT the same time is now invention C?
Even worse you put in 100 even 1000 of hours and then file your patent only to find that someone else patented something rather disimilar but describe in such a broad way that anyone wanting to use your patent needs to also licence the other patent. Only that person does not licence at any price.
And worse still your patented is "scoped". And you get nothing because the system fundamentally assumes that only one person can invent something and that no one else will think of the same thing. Some much for "incentive".
Or that it so blindly obvious that you don't publish it (its obvious right) but that doesn't stop the patent office granting someone else the patent. Now even though you can prove that you have been doing this since way before they filed for the patent--you are screwed.
Patents are pork for patent lawyers and little else.
I have a strong feeling that, were it a postscript printer, I would not have these issues.
Actually you probably would. Without proper (colour) calibration with both the screen and printer its not easy getting colours to "look" the same. Low end gear generally can't be calibrated without some cheating. You even need to take the lighting conditions into account. Also you can represent more colours on a printed sheet than you can on a monitor. But BW is easy to calibrate ;) .
My printer is a BW HP P1005 (without ps) and i run only slackware. The OS drivers worked better than the HP ones and its so fast to print from cold. I have already printed >10000 pages without a hitch. It cost only 80EU. Thats all good. For colour I take stuff to a copycenter. Top end gear for only about twice my printers per page cost. They are calibrated and let you preview on calibrated monitors. Its perfect. But then we don't do that much colour work really.
Or if you'll install it for her, get her Linux.
What percentage of windows users can install it? It pretty dam low. Pre installed doesn't really count. How many times has some "windows" expert told me the best thing to do is reinstall? So in short even with windows someone else is stuck with "tech support" with Grandma. So which one will take the lest time? Probably the OS the Grandson knows best.
and how long does your laptop battery last?
I would have thought would be almost equally valid for Apples latest piece of over priced junk.
And yet we can take Li based batteries onto planes that have a history of starting fires.
Once enough people want it, especially business people who want to use their laptops on longer flights. Then the airlines push back, and usually get their way. At the end of the day, you can't cost the airlines too much money up front.
You do realize that it was not just sony. In fact there are some companies still doing this. The German release of Mr and Mrs Smith come to mind as one such case. Also unlike in the sony version, the company makes you enter a n digit code to remove it, and only permit you to remove it *once*.
The enemy here is not Sony. Its corporations in general, but in particular the ones that are scared to death by the internet and our ability to copy bits.
"I am not going to say it again children, Now come closer!" - Kindel in Christopher Walken mode.
But the more they tighten their grip on copyright, the more copyright works will slip through their fingers.
Religion does not have to be about God. But even less so a fanatics response. In the past is was the religious folk who said this sort of thing. Note that I do not equate religion to god.
Typical response, from a religo nut job.
Debate is good, and everyone is permitted to have there opinion and ideas, more so when there is perhaps new data.
Why should we not discuss them? Being denied to speak anything against the consensus is what church and queen have done for centuries to keep everyone inline. It not science when you must agree with consensus or get silenced.