There was a case in Royal Oak MI where a 16 year old with severe heart damage was treated with stem cells from his bone marrow. This was almost 2 years ago and seems to have been a complete success, but you never read about it. It saved the kid from needing a heart transplant.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/06/tech/m ai n542962.shtml
Ever look into getting a patent? I called an IP lawer once a couple of years ago, he quoted me $10k if everything goes well. Maybe that was atypical but I bet it isn't, and I think thats almost all lawyer fees for researching prior art. The patent fee itself is probably a very small fraction of what you pay to get a patent.
Let's pretend this patent goes through; could RealSoftware Inc. sue the patent office for failing in it's duty? I mean, there has to be some liability here. If Microsoft can start patenting any crazy thing with their immense resources, and then everyone else has to scramble to get these patents knocked down, something has really gone wrong. Raise the patent fees so the USPO can really examine these patents. Make them liable for costs when a patent gets stricken for being obvious.
This would be a great place to see them settle for an "undisclosed sum" (like a dollar), on condition that neither party discuss the matter further. Everyone wins; Apple doesn't publicly "back down", and the guy gets his life back.
Or they could grind his bones to make their bread, whatever. I don't know him.
Actually I was thinking, if someone claims ownership of MAME (the trademark) he could sue them for unfair competition, or something. I'm guessing that as a community effort it would not be easy to "sue MAME" as things stand. By making someone claim ownership he could be trying to locate a responsible party, who he would then sic his lawyers on.
I was thinking this over at lunch; what if this guy knows he won't get the MAME trademark? To stop him from getting it, won't someone have to stand up and say "You can't trademark this, because it's mine"? And at that point, does he have someone to sue for the MAME cabinets he's competing against?
In other words: If he gets the trademark, he wins; if someone stands up to stop him, he wins.
I have a business problem. People are selling pirated ROMS for less then I can sell them legally. My problems would go away if I took legal control of your logo and trademark. Can't you see this is a good thing, for me?
What about the company who buys the "rights to all of Unix" at the SCO bankruptcy sale? Not getting this decided now is a bad thing. We need a slew of judgements about what the old SCO did with the copyrights and if the SCO lawsuit has any merit.
Letting them go bankrupt without the trial concluding allows any other company to buy their assets and start the FUD train rolling from square one.
If revenues are falling because cars are getting more efficient, why not encourage the trend by raising the per-gallon tax? That would increase the pressure on anyone driving a hummer and make better fuel efficiency revenue-nuetral. Make it automatic, by changing it to a total dollar amount and having it calculated yearly based on the prior years gas sales.
I think you misunderstood my point. I think squeezing people out of windows will put more attention on all the alternatives, especially the free ones. I mentioned apple to point out that a user friendly *nix can be done.
If microsoft creates a vaccum for free operating systems, linux can move to fill that vacuum. The pain of using microsoft for free has to get above the pain of using linux for this to happen. the equation has two parts: free (stolen) windows can get more difficult to use, and linux can get easier.
It's true they aren't customers. I'm curious though how this will fly with the unwashed masses. It's an open secret that people upgrade home computers with shared copies of windows and office. these are people who balk at spending $200 on hardware, I'm not sure they're going to run out and buy windows if they can't get it for free.
So what do they do? Run the OS that came on their dell for a few years longer maybe. maybe you'll see some more linux uptake at the fringes. Apple showed us you can have a unix kernel with a user friendly front end. maybe now microsoft will push all the cheap bastards of the world into taking a hard look at where their money is going. I'm not sure this squeeze is in microsoft's strategic interest, time will tell.
Make a stink with the company that referred you to the outsource company. Don't assume malice on the part of the vendor, keep working with them politely and insistantly. Try to get a full source release from them if nothing else.
Bottom line is you screwed up by paying them before they were finished. Never pay any contractor off until you are sure the goods have been delivered, you have no better leverage than an unpaid bill. Might have been an expensive lesson learned.
This should be obvious on its face. The point of region codes is to prevent the market from working as intended, goods can't flow from low margin regions into high margin regions. The region codes create an artificial barrier to trade, artificial scarcity creates higher margins.
Canon printers like the ix50 series don't have the print head on the cartridge so the carts are WAY cheaper. I've run it quite a bit and I'm very happy with the quality. You can find carts for less than $2 each (try eforcity.com). For the price of buying new ink for my old HP I picked up a new canon and a BAG of printer carts.
I don't think they violate the copyright by deleting the emails, but I do think they could be compelled to release the material to the estate without the clause in their TOS.
I think the father needs to get an injunction (I don't know if he has) to prevent deletion, otherwise I would expect Yahoo to burn everything within 30 days.
It is a copyright issue, or could be, EXCEPT the yahoo TOS states that you terminate your copyright to the emails on your death. OTHERWISE the estate would retain ownership of the emails and could rightly demand them (all this from reading the fine article)
Every time they pat themselves on the back for the rovers lasting so long I cringe. It feels like "Your car was warrentied for 36k miles and you're at 80k... High Five!"
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There was a case in Royal Oak MI where a 16 year old with severe heart damage was treated with stem cells from his bone marrow. This was almost 2 years ago and seems to have been a complete success, but you never read about it. It saved the kid from needing a heart transplant.
m ai n542962.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/06/tech/
or google for royal oak heart stem cell
Ever look into getting a patent? I called an IP lawer once a couple of years ago, he quoted me $10k if everything goes well. Maybe that was atypical but I bet it isn't, and I think thats almost all lawyer fees for researching prior art. The patent fee itself is probably a very small fraction of what you pay to get a patent.
Did you notice I started my post with the words "Lets pretend..."?
You don't have to read the articles, but at least read the post you're replying to.
Let's pretend this patent goes through; could RealSoftware Inc. sue the patent office for failing in it's duty? I mean, there has to be some liability here. If Microsoft can start patenting any crazy thing with their immense resources, and then everyone else has to scramble to get these patents knocked down, something has really gone wrong. Raise the patent fees so the USPO can really examine these patents. Make them liable for costs when a patent gets stricken for being obvious.
This would be a great place to see them settle for an "undisclosed sum" (like a dollar), on condition that neither party discuss the matter further. Everyone wins; Apple doesn't publicly "back down", and the guy gets his life back.
Or they could grind his bones to make their bread, whatever. I don't know him.
Actually I was thinking, if someone claims ownership of MAME (the trademark) he could sue them for unfair competition, or something. I'm guessing that as a community effort it would not be easy to "sue MAME" as things stand. By making someone claim ownership he could be trying to locate a responsible party, who he would then sic his lawyers on.
I was thinking this over at lunch; what if this guy knows he won't get the MAME trademark? To stop him from getting it, won't someone have to stand up and say "You can't trademark this, because it's mine"? And at that point, does he have someone to sue for the MAME cabinets he's competing against?
In other words: If he gets the trademark, he wins; if someone stands up to stop him, he wins.
I have a business problem. People are selling pirated ROMS for less then I can sell them legally. My problems would go away if I took legal control of your logo and trademark. Can't you see this is a good thing, for me?
I think it's funny that you're explaining to me that SCO are idiots. I think we both have too much free time.
So if the legal entity that brought the suit was dissolved right now, you think the judge would find for IBM rather than ending the suit?
IBM might win counterclaims, but I don't know if the origional suit would continue if SCO goes under.
What about the company who buys the "rights to all of Unix" at the SCO bankruptcy sale? Not getting this decided now is a bad thing. We need a slew of judgements about what the old SCO did with the copyrights and if the SCO lawsuit has any merit.
Letting them go bankrupt without the trial concluding allows any other company to buy their assets and start the FUD train rolling from square one.
If revenues are falling because cars are getting more efficient, why not encourage the trend by raising the per-gallon tax? That would increase the pressure on anyone driving a hummer and make better fuel efficiency revenue-nuetral. Make it automatic, by changing it to a total dollar amount and having it calculated yearly based on the prior years gas sales.
I think you misunderstood my point. I think squeezing people out of windows will put more attention on all the alternatives, especially the free ones. I mentioned apple to point out that a user friendly *nix can be done.
If microsoft creates a vaccum for free operating systems, linux can move to fill that vacuum. The pain of using microsoft for free has to get above the pain of using linux for this to happen. the equation has two parts: free (stolen) windows can get more difficult to use, and linux can get easier.
It's true they aren't customers. I'm curious though how this will fly with the unwashed masses. It's an open secret that people upgrade home computers with shared copies of windows and office. these are people who balk at spending $200 on hardware, I'm not sure they're going to run out and buy windows if they can't get it for free.
So what do they do? Run the OS that came on their dell for a few years longer maybe. maybe you'll see some more linux uptake at the fringes. Apple showed us you can have a unix kernel with a user friendly front end. maybe now microsoft will push all the cheap bastards of the world into taking a hard look at where their money is going. I'm not sure this squeeze is in microsoft's strategic interest, time will tell.
Make a stink with the company that referred you to the outsource company. Don't assume malice on the part of the vendor, keep working with them politely and insistantly. Try to get a full source release from them if nothing else.
Bottom line is you screwed up by paying them before they were finished. Never pay any contractor off until you are sure the goods have been delivered, you have no better leverage than an unpaid bill. Might have been an expensive lesson learned.
This should be obvious on its face. The point of region codes is to prevent the market from working as intended, goods can't flow from low margin regions into high margin regions. The region codes create an artificial barrier to trade, artificial scarcity creates higher margins.
Canon printers like the ix50 series don't have the print head on the cartridge so the carts are WAY cheaper. I've run it quite a bit and I'm very happy with the quality. You can find carts for less than $2 each (try eforcity.com). For the price of buying new ink for my old HP I picked up a new canon and a BAG of printer carts.
Always price the ink before you buy the printer.
How about bots that listen to the hits? Then we can all get on with our lives.
I don't think they violate the copyright by deleting the emails, but I do think they could be compelled to release the material to the estate without the clause in their TOS.
I think the father needs to get an injunction (I don't know if he has) to prevent deletion, otherwise I would expect Yahoo to burn everything within 30 days.
It is a copyright issue, or could be, EXCEPT the yahoo TOS states that you terminate your copyright to the emails on your death. OTHERWISE the estate would retain ownership of the emails and could rightly demand them (all this from reading the fine article)
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Every time they pat themselves on the back for the rovers lasting so long I cringe. It feels like "Your car was warrentied for 36k miles and you're at 80k... High Five!"
Plus, come on, did you have to mention Star Trek?
Whoops, sorry, I was wrong. I was thinking of "oceans 11".
It's Don Cheadle who does an outstanding job in "the italian job", not mos def.
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