Requires a special printer though. How much does it cost? There is also a potential time cost. How long does it take to print compared to a copy machine? A copy machine can do between 20 and 80 sheets per minute.
Poeple in the middle east need theme parks as well. It doesn't really mater what the theme is. If it still has roller coasters, water slides, and a reasonalbe ticket price it will do well. Not much added cost in making it trekkie themed. Cheap uniforms, plastic props, and paint will get you 90% there.
I am not sure Google honestly wanted to win those patents. At some point they were bidding to raise the amount the others would spend. They were able to drain the competition's cash without spending any cash.
It is likely. It nearly happened with the bilski v. kappos case heard before the supreme court. A low chance but a better chance than a lot of other things. Lots of patent cases going before the high court recently.
But they are immediately available to everyone else because no one reads patents. You think China is looking at patents? They bairly pay attention to copyright. You think the guy in his garage working on a startup is looking at patents? He doesn't have the time to go through 200000 patents every year.
That is a bit misleading. Those companies have "invested" in IV patent funds. These funds allow the companies to use the patents in the fund and they get a portion of the revenue the fund generates. They are basically companies that have paid the ransom IV has demanded. IV has taken patents out of these funds and sold them to independent lawyers. These lawyers then go out and sue non investors. That is why apple app developers are being sued instead of Apple.
There would be a decrease in valuation of holding companies that larger companies own. This would have some effect on there ability to hide money from tax collectors using accounting tricks. I bet there is also a trade in patent derivatives on some market. This would collapse and a few stupid investors would lose money. Nothing on the scale of the housing market. Companies on the brink of collapse would be hit the worst. They would have one less asset to sell off in bankruptsy.
What companies other than Intellectual Ventures would collapse? Apple, HTC, Google, and Microsoft would still be in buisness. They make money by selling products protected by copyright. These are patents that have been largely uninforced for the last 20 years. Other than IV and a bunch of 2 lawyer operations in Texas there is not much buisness in software patents.
Ultimate Spider-Man has been pretty good with not having those kinds of publicity stunts. They got close to it in the Ultimatum arc, but that was just a 1 issue cliff hanger. Generally those kind of things happen when a book changes writers. The new writer doesn't want to go back and read 40 years of books so they hand wave the past away. USM has been written by the same guy since 2000. This book is also written by him.
Nick Fury is not WHITE in the comic books. In the Ultimate books he is black and has looked like Samuel Jackson for the past 11 years. So I really doubt you were a reader of Ultimate Spider-Man who was upset with this change.
Race is a social invention. Caucasion as a race is a recent invention. (last couple 100 years) Prior to that you identified with tribes. Race and nationality was the same thing.
I went to buy this comic today and had lot of trouble. I left on my lunch hour to buy the book. The store is down town. Its 20 min dirve to get there and a 20 min drive back. Parking is a parking deck. No air conditioning in the store. They had copies of the book but were not selling them. They were all held for "subscribers." So a huge waist of my time for a 3$ book. I have read that the ultimate line is available digitally day and date. But I have looked and this is not true. The marvel chrome webstore does not carry ultimate spider-man day and date. I suppose it might be available on the IPad but I don't own one of those. I have been buying USM for 11 years and the experiance of getting the books sucks.
Bendis is still writing the books. He has written good books for the last 11 years. I think we can give this a chance. If he had introduced a spider-man that was too close to the old peter parker this title would have jumped the shark. There is no reason to retread that ground in this title. If you want peter parker read amazing spider-man.
Slashdot Mirror
Requires a special printer though. How much does it cost? There is also a potential time cost. How long does it take to print compared to a copy machine? A copy machine can do between 20 and 80 sheets per minute.
So what is the lifespan of this non patent? 5, 10, 20, 100 years?
My only exposure to Opera is on the Wii. Not impressed with Wii version.
Ok I did. I read it again. Nothing. No Clue. What link is the summary summarizing?
There are too many links in this summary. I don't want to hunt around for 5 minutes trying to find the correct article.
Poeple in the middle east need theme parks as well. It doesn't really mater what the theme is. If it still has roller coasters, water slides, and a reasonalbe ticket price it will do well. Not much added cost in making it trekkie themed. Cheap uniforms, plastic props, and paint will get you 90% there.
Easier to truck the people out than to truck people in. I doubt his town is so important that it couldn't be located elseware for a few months.
I am not sure Google honestly wanted to win those patents. At some point they were bidding to raise the amount the others would spend. They were able to drain the competition's cash without spending any cash.
It is likely. It nearly happened with the bilski v. kappos case heard before the supreme court. A low chance but a better chance than a lot of other things. Lots of patent cases going before the high court recently.
But they are immediately available to everyone else because no one reads patents. You think China is looking at patents? They bairly pay attention to copyright. You think the guy in his garage working on a startup is looking at patents? He doesn't have the time to go through 200000 patents every year.
That is a bit misleading. Those companies have "invested" in IV patent funds. These funds allow the companies to use the patents in the fund and they get a portion of the revenue the fund generates. They are basically companies that have paid the ransom IV has demanded. IV has taken patents out of these funds and sold them to independent lawyers. These lawyers then go out and sue non investors. That is why apple app developers are being sued instead of Apple.
There would be a decrease in valuation of holding companies that larger companies own. This would have some effect on there ability to hide money from tax collectors using accounting tricks. I bet there is also a trade in patent derivatives on some market. This would collapse and a few stupid investors would lose money. Nothing on the scale of the housing market. Companies on the brink of collapse would be hit the worst. They would have one less asset to sell off in bankruptsy.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h_counts.htm More patents were granted this year than in the first 100 years of usa history. Most of them useless. Many of them duplicates of other patents. Some of them on DNA found in nature.
What companies other than Intellectual Ventures would collapse? Apple, HTC, Google, and Microsoft would still be in buisness. They make money by selling products protected by copyright. These are patents that have been largely uninforced for the last 20 years. Other than IV and a bunch of 2 lawyer operations in Texas there is not much buisness in software patents.
Scratch the above. I just remembered he killed of Gwen Stacy and brought her back to life. It was a real low point for the series.
Ultimate Spider-Man has been pretty good with not having those kinds of publicity stunts. They got close to it in the Ultimatum arc, but that was just a 1 issue cliff hanger. Generally those kind of things happen when a book changes writers. The new writer doesn't want to go back and read 40 years of books so they hand wave the past away. USM has been written by the same guy since 2000. This book is also written by him.
That because its a Slashdot summary. duhh
A wizard did it.
Nick Fury is not WHITE in the comic books. In the Ultimate books he is black and has looked like Samuel Jackson for the past 11 years. So I really doubt you were a reader of Ultimate Spider-Man who was upset with this change.
I think there were already three or four spider-mans in the main book anyway. You had:
Peter Parker Spider-Man
Ben Reilly Spider-Man
Scarlet Spider
Kaine
Spider-Woman
Worst. Post. Ever.
Awesome reference. At first your joke wooshed by me. Then I got it. That is the best kind of joke.
Race is a social invention. Caucasion as a race is a recent invention. (last couple 100 years) Prior to that you identified with tribes. Race and nationality was the same thing.
I went to buy this comic today and had lot of trouble. I left on my lunch hour to buy the book. The store is down town. Its 20 min dirve to get there and a 20 min drive back. Parking is a parking deck. No air conditioning in the store. They had copies of the book but were not selling them. They were all held for "subscribers." So a huge waist of my time for a 3$ book. I have read that the ultimate line is available digitally day and date. But I have looked and this is not true. The marvel chrome webstore does not carry ultimate spider-man day and date. I suppose it might be available on the IPad but I don't own one of those. I have been buying USM for 11 years and the experiance of getting the books sucks.
Same time white became a race. As apposed to English, German, or Russian.
Bendis is still writing the books. He has written good books for the last 11 years. I think we can give this a chance. If he had introduced a spider-man that was too close to the old peter parker this title would have jumped the shark. There is no reason to retread that ground in this title. If you want peter parker read amazing spider-man.