I thought that the whole point of a patent application was that you had to supply enough detail that an expert in the field would be able to implement the thing covered by the patent?
If that's the case and it's not being stuck to, then that's the fault of the patent office, for letting it slide, and the fault of patent applicatants, for gaming the system.
Huh? In the UK at least, when I send an sms, it costs me (about 10p each). When I send one to a friend, it costs them nothing. Now, there are some services that, when they receive an sms (perhaps with an appropriate code) from me, will send a reply or replies, for which I will be charged - that's the sort of "premium" smses that were alluded to in the summary.
Has the US really got a "receiver pays" system, or is one of us confused?
If you had a portable game thingy (not connected to any network) to play 'Mosquitoes', you wouldn't have to worry about this!
No, then I'd have to worry about
a) yet another gadget to pay for b) yet another gadget to lose, break, have borrowed by my daughter, etc c) yet another gadget to cart around with me
I have a 'phone. It plays games, makes calls, takes pictures, etc. It does all of these things adequately. No, the games aren't amazing - I have a PC for that. But when I'm at a lose end and feel like playing something quickly, it's great. Similarly the camera isn't the best quality, but it's convenient and great for snapshots. If I was going on holiday/sightseeing, I'd take my digital camcorder with me.
I don't want to live in that world either, but nor do I want to live in a world where I have to carry a separate gadget with me for all the things I may want to do. I carry quite enough crap with me as it is. And really, why would your toaster or alarm clock even be networked, let alone store sensitive information or be able to charge you for anything?
It probably varies from provider to provider, but even free calls, etc show up on my bill - they're just charged at "0.00" and have an "F" beside them. Thus a cursory glance should reveal this sort of thing going on if it does it a lot, especially if it does it at odd times (ie I wouldn't be smsing anyone at 3am on a Tuesday...)
The only things I care about politically are the things that affect me and the things that affect my principles., and whether Adam and Steve get to file a joint tax return just isn't one of those things.
So, your principles don't extend to all people being treated equally? I'm stupid because mine do, and that might influence my vote?
To each their own, I suppose, but personally I care about more than just myself...
Really? That's rather like saying that by running an ssh or telnet server, etc, then you authorise me to run code on your machine, should I manage to gain access to it. If you don't want me to do so, how about not running software that enables me to do so?
Or, if you prefer, that by not shutting and locking my front door, I authorise you to enter my house and go through my stuff. Open or not, if I don't invite you in, you have no right to enter.
If you reproduce that CD, even though there is nothing saying you can't, you are still breaking the law.
But that's the point - the law says that you can't, unless the copyright holder explicitly says that you can. There isn't nothing saying that you can't, there's nothing saying that you can.
I believe you - I've had in excess of 4.5MB/s (again, bytes not bits), downloading at work here in the UK. It was a nice little demonstration to one of our corporate hosting centres that actually, the problem we were experiencing with slow/dropping connections probably wasn't at our end, just like I'd been telling them all along...
(Turns out they'd managed to configure their servers to be in "half-duplex" mode, but everything else was assuming full-duplex)
Did the copyright owners say that copying their service patch file isn't allowed?
Go read up on copyright law - unless they explicitly say that you're allowed to, you're not. No ifs, no buts.
As a practical matter, I'd think Microsoft wouldn't mind that people are distributing their file for them.
That's great, right up until the point that people start distributing hacked/compromised versions (yeah, I know, cryptographically signed - they'll find a way, not to mention that 90%+ of typical users don't know about that anyway). Then suddenly, they have "official" MS patches being distributed that do far more damage than not patching at all, and have major damage control problems. This way, they can say "well, did you get it from us? No? Well of course we sympathise, but..."
The editors of Slashdot seem to love posting articles whose sole purpose is to evoke flame wars between Intel fans and AMD fans.
Not just Intel and AMD fanboys, but anything with two (or more) highly-polarised camps. You see exactly the same thing with regard to Microsoft vs Linux, Closed vs Open Source, etc.
Were I being cynical, I'd say two things:
1) the editors have an agenda to push 2) the editors want to post flamebait articles in order to drive hits (and therefore ad impressions) up.
Hell, just last week there was a story about an autonomous plane, that mentioned in the summary here that it was running XP Embedded. What the hell does that have to do with the actual story?
Can you really call it piracy if you download something you can't buy yet, just to be able to play the game, and then buy it as soon as it's released where you live?
Legally-speaking, you've still comitted copyright infringement, yes.
Also, don't carry your laptop around in one of those $200 leather laptop cases. I use a backpack.
My brother does so too, and I really can't say I blame him. I remember the first time I saw someone on a train with a laptop in a "proper" laptop bag. It had "Dell" embossed right across it, and woven into the straps. You might as well slap a badge on it saying "Expensive laptop - please don't steal".
My brother, on the other hand, does as you do, and uses an ordinary-looking rucksack. Much less likely to be targetted by a thief, and no doubt holds more stuff, too.
If I send an e-mail to my friend using my Work's e-mail address the government should not be allowed to view that e-mail without a warrant.
But how do they know that what you sent was a personal email, without reading it? When you send an email from your work account, you are effectively speaking on behalf of your company. If you want to send a personal email, you should use a personal email account.
How many years worth of company paper memo's were stored? I suspect the ability was much reduced so in which case so why do they need so much more data?
I suspect that if paper records were as easy to store as electronic ones, they would have required just as much to be retained. A couple of SAN-type things the size of an office filing cabinet would no doubt be capable of storing all the records your company is likely to ever create; the actual filing cabinets may only be sufficient for a couple of years' worth of paper records.
Yes it uses some technology, but who remembers technical achievements?
Well, I for one will never forget the first time I saw GLQuake, or the first few games that I patched to use my new 3D accelerator card.
Broadly speaking, I agree with you - but don't be too quick to write-off new technology. Sometimes it does have quite an impact for those around to see the transition.
In other words, most of them weren't reviews at all; sounds like removing them was fair enough then.
The same thing happened to all the glowing reviews of Half Life 2 (iirc) on amazon.co.uk - there were literally dozens of 5 star reviews for it (and Doom3, etc). A few weeks ago, I checked the page to see if they had an updated release date, and all the "reviews" had gone.
No, I'm sure that internally at least they know only too well that they stuffed up big time. That's got nothing to do with not calling these chips "AMD compatible". They don't want to do that because in the public's eye, that would make AMD chips the real deal, and Intel's ones a copy. If they're the same speed (all most people care about) and about the same price, then people will buy the "genuine" ones, not the Intel "copies".
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we'd have a nation of mindless, workaholic zombies with few differences between one person and another.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, that sounds like most large company's wet dream...
I thought that the whole point of a patent application was that you had to supply enough detail that an expert in the field would be able to implement the thing covered by the patent?
If that's the case and it's not being stuck to, then that's the fault of the patent office, for letting it slide, and the fault of patent applicatants, for gaming the system.
Receivers of SMS are those that pay for it.
Huh? In the UK at least, when I send an sms, it costs me (about 10p each). When I send one to a friend, it costs them nothing. Now, there are some services that, when they receive an sms (perhaps with an appropriate code) from me, will send a reply or replies, for which I will be charged - that's the sort of "premium" smses that were alluded to in the summary.
Has the US really got a "receiver pays" system, or is one of us confused?
If you had a portable game thingy (not connected to any network) to play 'Mosquitoes', you wouldn't have to worry about this!
No, then I'd have to worry about
a) yet another gadget to pay for
b) yet another gadget to lose, break, have borrowed by my daughter, etc
c) yet another gadget to cart around with me
I have a 'phone. It plays games, makes calls, takes pictures, etc. It does all of these things adequately. No, the games aren't amazing - I have a PC for that. But when I'm at a lose end and feel like playing something quickly, it's great. Similarly the camera isn't the best quality, but it's convenient and great for snapshots. If I was going on holiday/sightseeing, I'd take my digital camcorder with me.
I don't want to live in that world either, but nor do I want to live in a world where I have to carry a separate gadget with me for all the things I may want to do. I carry quite enough crap with me as it is. And really, why would your toaster or alarm clock even be networked, let alone store sensitive information or be able to charge you for anything?
It probably varies from provider to provider, but even free calls, etc show up on my bill - they're just charged at "0.00" and have an "F" beside them. Thus a cursory glance should reveal this sort of thing going on if it does it a lot, especially if it does it at odd times (ie I wouldn't be smsing anyone at 3am on a Tuesday...)
Godwin's.
But if you're sure of winning, and have a point to prove, then buying them is
a) a waste of money
b) likely to be seen by some at least as implicit admission that they had a case
The only things I care about politically are the things that affect me and the things that affect my principles., and whether Adam and Steve get to file a joint tax return just isn't one of those things.
So, your principles don't extend to all people being treated equally? I'm stupid because mine do, and that might influence my vote?
To each their own, I suppose, but personally I care about more than just myself...
Really? That's rather like saying that by running an ssh or telnet server, etc, then you authorise me to run code on your machine, should I manage to gain access to it. If you don't want me to do so, how about not running software that enables me to do so?
Or, if you prefer, that by not shutting and locking my front door, I authorise you to enter my house and go through my stuff. Open or not, if I don't invite you in, you have no right to enter.
Any network-aware service or program can potentially be exploited; what would you have people do, simply stop developing new network-aware stuff?
Besides, I'm sure many similar comments were made about redsktop, and yet I don't recall any exploits appearing for that.
If you reproduce that CD, even though there is nothing saying you can't, you are still breaking the law.
But that's the point - the law says that you can't, unless the copyright holder explicitly says that you can. There isn't nothing saying that you can't, there's nothing saying that you can.
I've seriously gotten 500KB/s from them before.
I believe you - I've had in excess of 4.5MB/s (again, bytes not bits), downloading at work here in the UK. It was a nice little demonstration to one of our corporate hosting centres that actually, the problem we were experiencing with slow/dropping connections probably wasn't at our end, just like I'd been telling them all along...
(Turns out they'd managed to configure their servers to be in "half-duplex" mode, but everything else was assuming full-duplex)
Did the copyright owners say that copying their service patch file isn't allowed?
Go read up on copyright law - unless they explicitly say that you're allowed to, you're not. No ifs, no buts.
As a practical matter, I'd think Microsoft wouldn't mind that people are distributing their file for them.
That's great, right up until the point that people start distributing hacked/compromised versions (yeah, I know, cryptographically signed - they'll find a way, not to mention that 90%+ of typical users don't know about that anyway). Then suddenly, they have "official" MS patches being distributed that do far more damage than not patching at all, and have major damage control problems. This way, they can say "well, did you get it from us? No? Well of course we sympathise, but..."
The editors of Slashdot seem to love posting articles whose sole purpose is to evoke flame wars between Intel fans and AMD fans.
Not just Intel and AMD fanboys, but anything with two (or more) highly-polarised camps. You see exactly the same thing with regard to Microsoft vs Linux, Closed vs Open Source, etc.
Were I being cynical, I'd say two things:
1) the editors have an agenda to push
2) the editors want to post flamebait articles in order to drive hits (and therefore ad impressions) up.
Hell, just last week there was a story about an autonomous plane, that mentioned in the summary here that it was running XP Embedded. What the hell does that have to do with the actual story?
You need two for SLI, but of course one will work just fine on its own.
Can you really call it piracy if you download something you can't buy yet, just to be able to play the game, and then buy it as soon as it's released where you live?
Legally-speaking, you've still comitted copyright infringement, yes.
Also, don't carry your laptop around in one of those $200 leather laptop cases. I use a backpack.
My brother does so too, and I really can't say I blame him. I remember the first time I saw someone on a train with a laptop in a "proper" laptop bag. It had "Dell" embossed right across it, and woven into the straps. You might as well slap a badge on it saying "Expensive laptop - please don't steal".
My brother, on the other hand, does as you do, and uses an ordinary-looking rucksack. Much less likely to be targetted by a thief, and no doubt holds more stuff, too.
If I send an e-mail to my friend using my Work's e-mail address the government should not be allowed to view that e-mail without a warrant.
But how do they know that what you sent was a personal email, without reading it? When you send an email from your work account, you are effectively speaking on behalf of your company. If you want to send a personal email, you should use a personal email account.
How many years worth of company paper memo's were stored? I suspect the ability was much reduced so in which case so why do they need so much more data?
I suspect that if paper records were as easy to store as electronic ones, they would have required just as much to be retained. A couple of SAN-type things the size of an office filing cabinet would no doubt be capable of storing all the records your company is likely to ever create; the actual filing cabinets may only be sufficient for a couple of years' worth of paper records.
I like to think that he got it, and was agreeing with you.
Of couse, I like to think a lot of things; doesn't make any of them so...
Yes it uses some technology, but who remembers technical achievements?
Well, I for one will never forget the first time I saw GLQuake, or the first few games that I patched to use my new 3D accelerator card.
Broadly speaking, I agree with you - but don't be too quick to write-off new technology. Sometimes it does have quite an impact for those around to see the transition.
In other words, most of them weren't reviews at all; sounds like removing them was fair enough then.
The same thing happened to all the glowing reviews of Half Life 2 (iirc) on amazon.co.uk - there were literally dozens of 5 star reviews for it (and Doom3, etc). A few weeks ago, I checked the page to see if they had an updated release date, and all the "reviews" had gone.
3) We are not being unwillingly exposed to anything. You have to voulentarily search for things.
Well, not to be too nit-picky, but there's quite a bit of stuff on the P2P networks that is less than accurately-named, shall we say...
In this context, I rather suspect that "award" means "grant", ie "pile o' cash", rather than "prize for doing something cool".
Because of course that's the only reason they'd have chosen it...
Intel is having a lot of trouble facing the facts
No, I'm sure that internally at least they know only too well that they stuffed up big time. That's got nothing to do with not calling these chips "AMD compatible". They don't want to do that because in the public's eye, that would make AMD chips the real deal, and Intel's ones a copy. If they're the same speed (all most people care about) and about the same price, then people will buy the "genuine" ones, not the Intel "copies".
It's marketing, pure and simple.