Patents have being playing cards all the big boys use to trade when wheeling and dealing.
I know that Sun offers a few green for filing a patent, and up to 5k for a successful application. People regularily get their BONUS by filing lots of meaningless patents.
So... who is to blame. The company encouraging the employee to file patents as a form of bonus, or the employee filing the patent to get the bonus?
Your case for better intelligence didn't turn up any WMD! That was the justification for the loss of hundreds of American lives, and thousands of Iraqi lives... and for what? Because Jr wanted to follow up on Sr grudge? This is the same guy who thinks an "Arbolist" is a guy who knows trees...
Red Baiting was bad. Lots of forward thinking Americans, regardless of political brand, were blacklisted - unable to work - or at worse incarserated. Nothing this bad has happened since the loss of civil liberties after 9/11 where you can be held without charge for months.
But back to military strategies and tactics.
Satelites can give you decent recon... WEATHER permitting. Satelites can jam only specific types of communication with very short range. You need a LOT of power to jam low FM, and thats a big distance [from space.] Its not workable - bad physics. Even in Iraq, the solution was to take out broadcast towers.
Its also easy to take out a satelite. Any space ground-based weapons are way, way, way cheaper and more effective. All you need to do is put up a missle with a payload of... gravel.
We're not talking about the little wars here where big superpowa first world nation walks all over 30 year behind the times dune dwellers. The Chinese have a lot of heavy industry. Any their politics, devoid of the same fiscal fiascos as the USofA, can quickly gear up to nullify the space based "advantage".
My Cube is silent. And I don't mean its off. The only time I hear anything is when the DVD drive is being accessed. And it never was "too hot" about the vent.
What about Dresden, Hamburg, Bremen? The British/US firebombing of civilian targets at the end of WWII illustrated that CIVILIAN targets are preferred. Has anything changed?
I agree - the push for space weapons is founded by the same push for Mars by the Bush administration (the latter being totally smoke and mirrors.) The thought that another country, such as China, might put colonies in space before the USofA (the planned moon base), is abhorent, so the threat of suppression and violence is paramount. It is afterall cheaper to destroy than to create.
North Korea doesn't have the economics or science to be involved in a space race.
Sure, the Chinese have space ambitions, but they suffer from the same economic and technological hurdles... they want to put a man on the moon to stir national pride. Why the hell would they want to spend billions in Star Wars when they already have numerical superiority? In a conventional ground war, hi-tech technology is not decided advantage.
I like your McCarthyism though - keeps Boeing going.
Buddy is really happy about XP's PNP automatically detecting and installing drivers... as if it is some major innovation.
Well, let's see, ADB, SCSI, FireWire... for the most part even ancient Macs you could plug in devices and they just worked.
And don't forget seamless networking. In the 80s over LocalTalk/AppleTalk, we were plugging in computers, printers, and such and they just worked. And we were playing network games too... I fondly remember playing SpacewardHo with 6 buddies in my backyard.
As a 20yr industry grumpy who is more up on current technology that most compsci graduates, I can definitely say it depends on individual merrit. I've been the "high priced consultant" on several projects that were low-balled and handed to bright kids out of school, ripping out "cool ideas" that just didn't work because they didn't have the experience to know better. At school, you don't get to work on multi-discipline, multi-person projects of any real scale. Greens tend to re-write everything themselves, have odd biases (like everythings gotta be open source, or this or that brand, or gotta be written from scratch.)
So I agree. Its a balance - but the green need to be willing to learn as much as the grey need to listen to new ideas.
Maybe you missed it... they had no intention of delivering with our stuff. While they were negotiating to see the jewels, they were working on their own.
What recourse does a $5M company have against a $5B one in the legal/marketting fud department? Time/money are precious resources for smaller companies that can't actually afford to play the same nasty game. We lost revenue as a direct result of this. The Sherman Anti-trust act supposedly prevents "conspiracy in restraint of interstate and foreign trade." This supposedly is beyond simple tarrifs and includes fair play. But I'm not a lawyer... I can't cite precidence.
I don't think Kaplan's complaints are without merrit... because it happened to us.
I worked at a company making "digital delivery" ware - stuff that allowed try-before-buy and key-based product unlocking from CD.
Microsoft approached us with interest in the product. However, we could never get them to sign an agreement where they would commit to deploying the technology. They wanted absolutely every detailed spec including code for evaluation, without committing... it suffices to say after a few months with no agreement, we told them we would not release the jewels without an agreement where a product resulted.
Within two weeks, Microsoft announced their own vapour competetive technology. Its FUD department was publishing slander against our product (their security experts saying DES was better than FEAL, lol). Microsoft was lobbying NTT against us as well as some of our clients. Some new clients bailed because they said "We'll wait for that microsoft solution."
I guess you don't remember the company propaganda of the day. "One company does it all." It was not uncommon then for Microsoft to slander other companies, or re-invented their "partners" technologies subverting licensing agreements. The pen based microsoft stuff took a long while to come out, and the argument is that unfair practices were used before this. The argument then is that Go didn't have the opportunity to mature into a "good" technology.
Remember stacker, dr-dos, and microsoft's printing division... all good examples of microsoft naughtiness.
yes and no - tfa says that it doesn't apply because of continued illegal activity on behalf of microsoft
its a valid claim too - for example - statute for contracts only gives you a few years - but if you don't become aware of a breach until after - the date at which you become aware is interpretted as the date the statute starts
least thats my interpretation given what my lawyer told me
46m of revenue, 200m, that means fines account for 1/4 of their expendature... its the ONLY thing they have control over - and there has been a trend increase over the last 5 years when actually crime statistics have decreased
Your uncle was totally correct. The police exist to keep the law abiding citizens in line, because when They figure out that something is actually messed up, They are the threat that needs to be controlled.
In our city, of the 2 top revenue generating civic agencies, were... 1) the police department 2) the transit system
Why does it seem I was the only one to think that it was really wrong for these "public services" to turn a profit?
A group of persons engaged in trying to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of a specific cause.
In the Great Republic, government is driven by the lobby. It is a mistake to believe that elected officials implement the will of the public. Most affect comes from the lobby groups.
Those persons elected get wined, dined, and otherwise gladhanded to by the lobbyists and in turn "lend an ear" and possibly promote their position.
So why is this news? The NRA, Tobacco companies, farmers/producers of xyz, oil companies, ad nauseum have been pressing issues since inception of the Great Republic. Why should Microsoft's lobby be considered any different from any other?
No revelation that there is parity between "independant growers/farmers" in the US and the open source/free software communities. Both end up getting crushed by the well funded corporate entities... What is the different between giving away IE/Messenger/Player and keeping commodity prices artificially low? Not much IMHO. Mindshare and financial musle is what its about...
Its all propaganda. Google stock explodes and they are doing really cool things with really smart people. So much so, there is even attrition in the M$ camp...
The corporate culture is SO beaten into most M$ employees that seeing people wearing iPods and hearing of Google defections is totally abhorrent.
What do you do when you are not the biggest kid on the block? You make the loudest noise.
Choose your favorite fan fiction: - War of the Worlds - Mars Attacks - Contact - Red Planet...
By the by, the Seti project has discovered not one but a handful of interesting candidate signals. The results of this, and reobservation of one of the most interesting signals, was for the Seti group to totally downplay the news. As such, not many people know about it.
I suspect the same thing for any find - a brief news bite that is downplayed by the experts and ordinary people focus on what they can relate to right-in-front-of-their-noses.
1) "Outcool the Competition" means bring innovative technology to the table. A recent trip to Japan for a friend brought me in touch with a Whole Bunch of technology toys - all that were also MP3 players - that I would rather have than an iPod. The coolest was a digital camera, but others included cell phone, watch, and a pair of funky sun-glasses with LEDs that flashed to your toons. 2) Apple is Apple's worst enemy. Exploit Apple's failures in that they build a clique of zealots that promote isolation and self-reinforcing evangelism. "Fit in and stand out" was an old Apple mantra that Apple continually ignored - so make damn sure to embrace various formats and convenient ways bridge technology. I would buy an integrate car MP3/portable MP3 technology in a heart beat, yet I have not seen one.
But the newspaper doesn't have a monkey dancing around I get to swat with a club! Just moments ago I got one of those Spank the Monkey flash ads to win a new iPod. After it loaded, the page content didn't come up. The result? After clicking stop, refresh, and getting a different flash add that seemed to stop everything, I gave up. I'll never visit the site again. And its not their fault per se... its DoubleClick... but they use DoubleClick therefore are guilty by association. There was no branding. No information. Just dancing monkies and end-user frustration. Is it really cost effective to piss off your potential clients?
From TFA "In an offline world, what would happen in that case is that the 25c newspaper would cost $5," he said.
Apples and Oranges bud. In a paper, the ad doesn't redirect you to a [potentially rogue] site. How many users get linked to a Flash or JavaScript heavy ad with pop-ups? These ads are the bane of users everywhere, in particular those with slow connections.
I absolutely HATE a js or flash ad that I can't get rid of, that prevents me from seeing page content, or slows/hangs my machine.
Besides, click-through ads do NOT work as a form of advertising. 90% of internet users do not click through intentionally. Read: dot-crash, not a revenue model.
Given the opportunity to NOT download that 500k jpg... I'd take the opportunity.
Here is why... How can something that a lot of email servers (including sendmail) do already be a bad thing? First, you can turn on ident support or host name resolution on a bunch of servers to make the reception restrictive. This is a good thing. I saw this in sendmail 15 years ago.
The scary thing, is that Microsoft has patented Sender ID. That's right! Toodle on down to the Microsoft link and look for the royalty free license. Something that a lot of people have done for a long time - is now patented by Microsoft. How did that happen?
Don't forget Microsoft bought FoxBase and killed MacOS support to kill databases on MacOS.
And Microsoft bought OneTree and promptly killed commercial quality version control for MacOS (they dead-ended the format and only with much begging allowed others {MW} to make clients.)
However, Bungie sold themselves because they didn't have deep pockets, were starving, and the gaming industry drove them that way. Microsoft needed that flagship killer app. They didn't just wax the MacOS release, they delayed the Windows release to make it non-relevant.
Unfortunately this case would not make it to court outside of the US because all the UI does is list things by category with a field for cover art and throw on a few buttons... I have a Hypercard stack circa 1988 that does almost exactly the same thing for sampled sounds! The BS here is that both patent and TM in the US discounts prior use, so guys like this can appear...
As a side point, I worked with Tim Wasko on the Vendor System (used by TypeOnCall, SoftwareDispatch...) before 1995 and a LOT of the UIs for unlocking the software dumped information this way for software packages. There are so few ways to display tabular data with images... I'm surprised he got a patent because anyone doing UIs for 2-tiers does this!
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Don't blame Apple.
Patents have being playing cards all the big boys use to trade when wheeling and dealing.
I know that Sun offers a few green for filing a patent, and up to 5k for a successful application. People regularily get their BONUS by filing lots of meaningless patents.
So... who is to blame. The company encouraging the employee to file patents as a form of bonus, or the employee filing the patent to get the bonus?
My take on it is this... "SOSUMI". -beep
Holy Ann Coulter batman!
Your case for better intelligence didn't turn up any WMD! That was the justification for the loss of hundreds of American lives, and thousands of Iraqi lives... and for what? Because Jr wanted to follow up on Sr grudge? This is the same guy who thinks an "Arbolist" is a guy who knows trees...
Red Baiting was bad. Lots of forward thinking Americans, regardless of political brand, were blacklisted - unable to work - or at worse incarserated. Nothing this bad has happened since the loss of civil liberties after 9/11 where you can be held without charge for months.
But back to military strategies and tactics.
Satelites can give you decent recon... WEATHER permitting. Satelites can jam only specific types of communication with very short range. You need a LOT of power to jam low FM, and thats a big distance [from space.] Its not workable - bad physics. Even in Iraq, the solution was to take out broadcast towers.
Its also easy to take out a satelite. Any space ground-based weapons are way, way, way cheaper and more effective. All you need to do is put up a missle with a payload of... gravel.
We're not talking about the little wars here where big superpowa first world nation walks all over 30 year behind the times dune dwellers. The Chinese have a lot of heavy industry. Any their politics, devoid of the same fiscal fiascos as the USofA, can quickly gear up to nullify the space based "advantage".
My Cube is silent. And I don't mean its off. The only time I hear anything is when the DVD drive is being accessed. And it never was "too hot" about the vent.
I love my cube. Its the last Mac I'll ever buy.
Why limit your discourse to that?
What about Dresden, Hamburg, Bremen? The British/US firebombing of civilian targets at the end of WWII illustrated that CIVILIAN targets are preferred. Has anything changed?
I agree - the push for space weapons is founded by the same push for Mars by the Bush administration (the latter being totally smoke and mirrors.) The thought that another country, such as China, might put colonies in space before the USofA (the planned moon base), is abhorent, so the threat of suppression and violence is paramount. It is afterall cheaper to destroy than to create.
North Korea doesn't have the economics or science to be involved in a space race.
Sure, the Chinese have space ambitions, but they suffer from the same economic and technological hurdles... they want to put a man on the moon to stir national pride. Why the hell would they want to spend billions in Star Wars when they already have numerical superiority? In a conventional ground war, hi-tech technology is not decided advantage.
I like your McCarthyism though - keeps Boeing going.
Buddy is really happy about XP's PNP automatically detecting and installing drivers... as if it is some major innovation.
Well, let's see, ADB, SCSI, FireWire... for the most part even ancient Macs you could plug in devices and they just worked.
And don't forget seamless networking. In the 80s over LocalTalk/AppleTalk, we were plugging in computers, printers, and such and they just worked. And we were playing network games too... I fondly remember playing SpacewardHo with 6 buddies in my backyard.
As a 20yr industry grumpy who is more up on current technology that most compsci graduates, I can definitely say it depends on individual merrit. I've been the "high priced consultant" on several projects that were low-balled and handed to bright kids out of school, ripping out "cool ideas" that just didn't work because they didn't have the experience to know better. At school, you don't get to work on multi-discipline, multi-person projects of any real scale. Greens tend to re-write everything themselves, have odd biases (like everythings gotta be open source, or this or that brand, or gotta be written from scratch.)
So I agree. Its a balance - but the green need to be willing to learn as much as the grey need to listen to new ideas.
Maybe you missed it... they had no intention of delivering with our stuff. While they were negotiating to see the jewels, they were working on their own.
What recourse does a $5M company have against a $5B one in the legal/marketting fud department? Time/money are precious resources for smaller companies that can't actually afford to play the same nasty game. We lost revenue as a direct result of this. The Sherman Anti-trust act supposedly prevents "conspiracy in restraint of interstate and foreign trade." This supposedly is beyond simple tarrifs and includes fair play. But I'm not a lawyer... I can't cite precidence.
I don't think Kaplan's complaints are without merrit... because it happened to us.
I worked at a company making "digital delivery" ware - stuff that allowed try-before-buy and key-based product unlocking from CD.
Microsoft approached us with interest in the product. However, we could never get them to sign an agreement where they would commit to deploying the technology. They wanted absolutely every detailed spec including code for evaluation, without committing... it suffices to say after a few months with no agreement, we told them we would not release the jewels without an agreement where a product resulted.
Within two weeks, Microsoft announced their own vapour competetive technology. Its FUD department was publishing slander against our product (their security experts saying DES was better than FEAL, lol). Microsoft was lobbying NTT against us as well as some of our clients. Some new clients bailed because they said "We'll wait for that microsoft solution."
Does this sound like fair trade practice?
I guess you don't remember the company propaganda of the day. "One company does it all." It was not uncommon then for Microsoft to slander other companies, or re-invented their "partners" technologies subverting licensing agreements. The pen based microsoft stuff took a long while to come out, and the argument is that unfair practices were used before this. The argument then is that Go didn't have the opportunity to mature into a "good" technology.
Remember stacker, dr-dos, and microsoft's printing division... all good examples of microsoft naughtiness.
yes and no - tfa says that it doesn't apply because of continued illegal activity on behalf of microsoft
its a valid claim too - for example - statute for contracts only gives you a few years - but if you don't become aware of a breach until after - the date at which you become aware is interpretted as the date the statute starts
least thats my interpretation given what my lawyer told me
tfa says that buddy acquired the company and rights back from lucent - he bought it back
You're correct of course. But there is more emphasis on fines a source of revenue for the department.
u dget/operating/07_police.pdf
http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/finance/2005b
46m of revenue, 200m, that means fines account for 1/4 of their expendature... its the ONLY thing they have control over - and there has been a trend increase over the last 5 years when actually crime statistics have decreased
anyhow this is off topic
Your uncle was totally correct. The police exist to keep the law abiding citizens in line, because when They figure out that something is actually messed up, They are the threat that needs to be controlled.
In our city, of the 2 top revenue generating civic agencies, were...
1) the police department
2) the transit system
Why does it seem I was the only one to think that it was really wrong for these "public services" to turn a profit?
A group of persons engaged in trying to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of a specific cause.
In the Great Republic, government is driven by the lobby. It is a mistake to believe that elected officials implement the will of the public. Most affect comes from the lobby groups.
Those persons elected get wined, dined, and otherwise gladhanded to by the lobbyists and in turn "lend an ear" and possibly promote their position.
So why is this news? The NRA, Tobacco companies, farmers/producers of xyz, oil companies, ad nauseum have been pressing issues since inception of the Great Republic. Why should Microsoft's lobby be considered any different from any other?
No revelation that there is parity between "independant growers/farmers" in the US and the open source/free software communities. Both end up getting crushed by the well funded corporate entities... What is the different between giving away IE/Messenger/Player and keeping commodity prices artificially low? Not much IMHO. Mindshare and financial musle is what its about...
Its all propaganda. Google stock explodes and they are doing really cool things with really smart people. So much so, there is even attrition in the M$ camp...
The corporate culture is SO beaten into most M$ employees that seeing people wearing iPods and hearing of Google defections is totally abhorrent.
What do you do when you are not the biggest kid on the block? You make the loudest noise.
Its off topic bro...
...
Choose your favorite fan fiction:
- War of the Worlds
- Mars Attacks
- Contact
- Red Planet
By the by, the Seti project has discovered not one but a handful of interesting candidate signals. The results of this, and reobservation of one of the most interesting signals, was for the Seti group to totally downplay the news. As such, not many people know about it.
I suspect the same thing for any find - a brief news bite that is downplayed by the experts and ordinary people focus on what they can relate to right-in-front-of-their-noses.
That may be true, but you could say at one point they also had 70%+ of the DTP and Educational markets.
From what I know, the "corporate culture" is still very much alive.
Time will tell?
From TFA, there are two big ways to beat Apple
1) "Outcool the Competition" means bring innovative technology to the table. A recent trip to Japan for a friend brought me in touch with a Whole Bunch of technology toys - all that were also MP3 players - that I would rather have than an iPod. The coolest was a digital camera, but others included cell phone, watch, and a pair of funky sun-glasses with LEDs that flashed to your toons.
2) Apple is Apple's worst enemy. Exploit Apple's failures in that they build a clique of zealots that promote isolation and self-reinforcing evangelism. "Fit in and stand out" was an old Apple mantra that Apple continually ignored - so make damn sure to embrace various formats and convenient ways bridge technology. I would buy an integrate car MP3/portable MP3 technology in a heart beat, yet I have not seen one.
But the newspaper doesn't have a monkey dancing around I get to swat with a club! Just moments ago I got one of those Spank the Monkey flash ads to win a new iPod. After it loaded, the page content didn't come up. The result? After clicking stop, refresh, and getting a different flash add that seemed to stop everything, I gave up. I'll never visit the site again. And its not their fault per se... its DoubleClick... but they use DoubleClick therefore are guilty by association. There was no branding. No information. Just dancing monkies and end-user frustration. Is it really cost effective to piss off your potential clients?
From TFA
"In an offline world, what would happen in that case is that the 25c newspaper would cost $5," he said.
Apples and Oranges bud. In a paper, the ad doesn't redirect you to a [potentially rogue] site. How many users get linked to a Flash or JavaScript heavy ad with pop-ups? These ads are the bane of users everywhere, in particular those with slow connections.
I absolutely HATE a js or flash ad that I can't get rid of, that prevents me from seeing page content, or slows/hangs my machine.
Besides, click-through ads do NOT work as a form of advertising. 90% of internet users do not click through intentionally. Read: dot-crash, not a revenue model.
Given the opportunity to NOT download that 500k jpg... I'd take the opportunity.
Here is why... How can something that a lot of email servers (including sendmail) do already be a bad thing? First, you can turn on ident support or host name resolution on a bunch of servers to make the reception restrictive. This is a good thing. I saw this in sendmail 15 years ago.
The scary thing, is that Microsoft has patented Sender ID. That's right! Toodle on down to the Microsoft link and look for the royalty free license. Something that a lot of people have done for a long time - is now patented by Microsoft. How did that happen?
Don't forget Microsoft bought FoxBase and killed MacOS support to kill databases on MacOS.
And Microsoft bought OneTree and promptly killed commercial quality version control for MacOS (they dead-ended the format and only with much begging allowed others {MW} to make clients.)
However, Bungie sold themselves because they didn't have deep pockets, were starving, and the gaming industry drove them that way. Microsoft needed that flagship killer app. They didn't just wax the MacOS release, they delayed the Windows release to make it non-relevant.
Unfortunately this case would not make it to court outside of the US because all the UI does is list things by category with a field for cover art and throw on a few buttons... I have a Hypercard stack circa 1988 that does almost exactly the same thing for sampled sounds! The BS here is that both patent and TM in the US discounts prior use, so guys like this can appear...
As a side point, I worked with Tim Wasko on the Vendor System (used by TypeOnCall, SoftwareDispatch...) before 1995 and a LOT of the UIs for unlocking the software dumped information this way for software packages. There are so few ways to display tabular data with images... I'm surprised he got a patent because anyone doing UIs for 2-tiers does this!