Because no one would ever naturally conceive of taking an ASCII smiley face which is generally to give intend to text, and turn it into a graphical smiley face to give intent to text.
C'mon folks, smilies are a great example of obviousness via eventuality. Due to the limited ascii character set, people were naturally bound to use characters to indicate intent in short form, sooner or later. And once that was done, the next step to making them graphical once displays and bandwidth made it worthwhile, was also obvious.
Emoticons, used pretty much anywhere, shouldn't be patentable. The inherent concept of using Emoticons within interfaces is part of the original concept regardless. Placing them within a dropdown list for emails/whatever should not be patentable. The whole thing is absurd.
I interviewed Peter Molyneux at E3 in '97, just as Dungeon Keeper was about to be released. He indicated at the time that Powermonger was his favourite project and the game he would most love to "do over".
It's easily one of my favourites of all time and the best selection for a remake. The downsides of the original were all technical limitations, especially the limited resolution for the viewing area.
I hope Mozilla/Firefox can maintain security without adopting a restricted "protected" sandbox mode ala IE 7 on Vista. I use a simple HTML homepage stored locally on my PC and Vista's method decides to segregate it from other browser windows, making it near useless in its basic purpose. It seems like a lazy way out on the issue at the expense of convenience for the user.
Keep Firefox its own entity, don't copy this "feature" designed to bludgeon-patch IE's giant flaws.
You just illustrated everything that is wrong with the videogame press today. You explained how co-dependant your work is on the producers of what you review/report/examine, then you push an edorsement of trust on a man who is clearly spinning for the sake of his shareholders. Then on top of which, you emphasize that somehow that dependency is the actual proof of merit to an unbelievable claim.
I'm not saying that videogame journalists have to be 100% critics, but far too often they appear to be in the same bed as the industry they report upon. Actually, thinking about it, they simply ARE in the same bed, which is why nobody takes your type of credentials seriously anymore. That's not intended as an insult, it's just the sad truth.
I did meet and interviewed Ralph Baer at the first ('99) Classic Gaming Expo. He was very well spoken and had a clairty of mind that I wish I had. He also seemed incredibly honest and humble about his achievements, which is more than I can say for some others I have met from the dawn of this industry.
I'm certain that if he'd seen Spacewar he would have said so, rather than ever wait to be asked.
They ask for 2 year old images to be removed because they're paranoid about a terrorist attack, but meanwhile they advertise their own security and tell the world that their access points can be seen clearly from the ground or any aircraft.
I don't know if there is any precedence for this, but I think it's a safe assumption that numbers, no matter who coined the phrase/word, should be public domain.
If Google is a play on a 'common' word (Googol), then it's a valid trademark and the challenging lawsuit should be debunked.
Legally, shouldn't that hold up? Given that general assumptions by the majority of the population and with no precedence, I can't see why it wouldn't.
Mind you, it might be different for different countries. I'm Canadian and Bayer managed to keep its Aspirin trademark here while it lost it to general usage in the U.S..
WTF does website popularity have to do with the choice of webserver by whomever is running the site?
Sounds to me like Port80 Software wants to confuse apples and oranges in order to find a convenient way to lie with numbers.
I can understand disagreeing with domain parking skewing the numbers, but what NetCraft does is show the choices of the (call them educated or knowledgable.. or not) professionals.
The average netizen doesn't give a hoot over what software drives a site, they're more interested in the content.
While people go nuts over MAME, I'll stick with my Joust cocktail in my living room. I plan to be playing it decades from now and as long as I can replace the ROMs when they die, I can't see why I wouldn't be. Same goes for my Gyruss, Super Sprint, etc.
This has already been discussed to death but I'll put my $0.02 in.
Schwartz is an ass, who also happens to be a good tech. writer. Personally I think the folks at Intel should have de-listed him from their list of contractors on the first incident and notified his employers at O'Reilly, who also should have terminated any contracts due to breach of trust.
Indeed, that's the situation: breach of trust and breach of security. Perhaps theft in the case of password files, but not to the degree of felony charges. Does stealing a key or card-key usually result in anything more than petty thief charges unless further thefts occur??
Any reprimands/punishments should not have gone further than his employement.
Yep, Britney Spears, et al are still riding on their relatively new-found fame and fortune, considering themselves lucky and haven't had their accountants tell them exactly how much more money has gone to the label.
Artists who have been around the block a few times have had more opportunity to get screwed repeatedly by the RIAA.
The RIAA (and recording labels in general) have been living on the same scheme since the 40's: Keep the artists working for new contracts, constantly touring and promoting themselves while the labels cash in on the recordings. That doesn't work so well if the artist is allowed to collect the full amount of royalties that they really deserve on past recordings.
Either you're on acid or you have a severe problem with depth perception. The Casio E-200 is a moderate sized handheld while the FIC Aquapad is a web-tablet.
You aren't going to carry the Aquapad around in your pocket, you probably won't even put it in your breifcase. Might as well say that your desktop already blows it away.
No CEO, severe layoffs and a limited kernel license adds up to a pretty big "if" on Palm making a comeback. It's a shame, but let's have a reality check here, PalmOS isn't going much farther.
Here's the thing though, Casio has a reputation for putting together good quality handhelds. Sharp does not.
My Sharp Mobilon Pro was sent back to the shop three times due to battery usage problems. They can't even seem to manage holding a backup battery without bleed-draining it. The entire Mobilon line was problematic.
Needless to say my Mobilon collects dust and it won't be anytime soon that I'll be purchasing another handheld from Sharp.
Seeing a new handheld from Casio on the other hand intrigues me, because I still use my E-100 daily after two years without any problems.
Please remember that the Google archive adopted from Dejanews is not 100% complete.
The archive was assembled in 1995 and for years previous to that it is very incomplete indeed. You can see many disjointed threads and quotes of posts where the original post is nowhere to be found.
It's a good tool and certainly entertaining, but I find it a bit disturbing historical wise for people to be declaring "first post of..." as if it were a hard historical fact. It's not.
Because they can. When everyone says that videophones have already flopped they're assuming the concept just doesn't work or isn't as cool as well all thought it would be.
What you're missing is that once something becomes cheap and convenient, it doesn't need to be supercool. This sounds like one more step towards mass-market feasibility.
I always thought of the Aibos as cute, but this new model looks downright ugly to me. All of the lights/buttons/gear/whatever on the head looks a lot like someone smiling with great big metal braces on their teeth.
I'm still waiting for the perfect version of the Settlers, because it's such a promising line of games.
The first had a great emphasis on supply lines and distribution, but was severly limited for combat. Settlers II, III, & IV all seem to try to improve combat, but they've simplified the distribution management to please the spoon-fed RTS crowd. It just gets more and more like the Blizzard products. =(
Geez, hasn't Stars Supernova been 'due out soon' for about 5 years now? At this point the original Stars is annoyingly difficult to purchase in North America.
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Because no one would ever naturally conceive of taking an ASCII smiley face which is generally to give intend to text, and turn it into a graphical smiley face to give intent to text.
Nooooo, that's not even remotely similar. =P
Try back in the days of early graphical BBSes.
C'mon folks, smilies are a great example of obviousness via eventuality. Due to the limited ascii character set, people were naturally bound to use characters to indicate intent in short form, sooner or later. And once that was done, the next step to making them graphical once displays and bandwidth made it worthwhile, was also obvious.
Emoticons, used pretty much anywhere, shouldn't be patentable. The inherent concept of using Emoticons within interfaces is part of the original concept regardless. Placing them within a dropdown list for emails/whatever should not be patentable. The whole thing is absurd.
All just a matter of taste, but you go right ahead and insult people for using the setup that works for them.
RDX = latest fad, limited release (pay? lol) and doesn't work with group buttons, etc. etc. Meh.
I interviewed Peter Molyneux at E3 in '97, just as Dungeon Keeper was about to be released. He indicated at the time that Powermonger was his favourite project and the game he would most love to "do over".
It's easily one of my favourites of all time and the best selection for a remake. The downsides of the original were all technical limitations, especially the limited resolution for the viewing area.
I hope Mozilla/Firefox can maintain security without adopting a restricted "protected" sandbox mode ala IE 7 on Vista. I use a simple HTML homepage stored locally on my PC and Vista's method decides to segregate it from other browser windows, making it near useless in its basic purpose. It seems like a lazy way out on the issue at the expense of convenience for the user.
Keep Firefox its own entity, don't copy this "feature" designed to bludgeon-patch IE's giant flaws.
You just illustrated everything that is wrong with the videogame press today. You explained how co-dependant your work is on the producers of what you review/report/examine, then you push an edorsement of trust on a man who is clearly spinning for the sake of his shareholders. Then on top of which, you emphasize that somehow that dependency is the actual proof of merit to an unbelievable claim.
I'm not saying that videogame journalists have to be 100% critics, but far too often they appear to be in the same bed as the industry they report upon. Actually, thinking about it, they simply ARE in the same bed, which is why nobody takes your type of credentials seriously anymore. That's not intended as an insult, it's just the sad truth.
I did meet and interviewed Ralph Baer at the first ('99) Classic Gaming Expo. He was very well spoken and had a clairty of mind that I wish I had. He also seemed incredibly honest and humble about his achievements, which is more than I can say for some others I have met from the dawn of this industry.
I'm certain that if he'd seen Spacewar he would have said so, rather than ever wait to be asked.
Huge amount of respect for the man.
They ask for 2 year old images to be removed because they're paranoid about a terrorist attack, but meanwhile they advertise their own security and tell the world that their access points can be seen clearly from the ground or any aircraft.
These people are morons.
Here's a situation where everyone who gets screwed out of their domain should sue (ICANN plus whomever else).
I don't know if there is any precedence for this, but I think it's a safe assumption that numbers, no matter who coined the phrase/word, should be public domain.
If Google is a play on a 'common' word (Googol), then it's a valid trademark and the challenging lawsuit should be debunked.
Legally, shouldn't that hold up? Given that general assumptions by the majority of the population and with no precedence, I can't see why it wouldn't.
Mind you, it might be different for different countries. I'm Canadian and Bayer managed to keep its Aspirin trademark here while it lost it to general usage in the U.S..
The largest bank in Canada, I had no idea they'd invested in SCO.
Time to move my bank account to Bank of Montreal I suppose. =(
WTF does website popularity have to do with the choice of webserver by whomever is running the site?
Sounds to me like Port80 Software wants to confuse apples and oranges in order to find a convenient way to lie with numbers.
I can understand disagreeing with domain parking skewing the numbers, but what NetCraft does is show the choices of the (call them educated or knowledgable.. or not) professionals.
The average netizen doesn't give a hoot over what software drives a site, they're more interested in the content.
I actually called Verisign's head office about an hour ago and told them that I plan on making that very suggestion to my local phone company.
While people go nuts over MAME, I'll stick with my Joust cocktail in my living room. I plan to be playing it decades from now and as long as I can replace the ROMs when they die, I can't see why I wouldn't be. Same goes for my Gyruss, Super Sprint, etc.
Nothing beats the real thing.
This has already been discussed to death but I'll put my $0.02 in.
Schwartz is an ass, who also happens to be a good tech. writer. Personally I think the folks at Intel should have de-listed him from their list of contractors on the first incident and notified his employers at O'Reilly, who also should have terminated any contracts due to breach of trust.
Indeed, that's the situation: breach of trust and breach of security. Perhaps theft in the case of password files, but not to the degree of felony charges. Does stealing a key or card-key usually result in anything more than petty thief charges unless further thefts occur??
Any reprimands/punishments should not have gone further than his employement.
Yep, Britney Spears, et al are still riding on their relatively new-found fame and fortune, considering themselves lucky and haven't had their accountants tell them exactly how much more money has gone to the label.
Artists who have been around the block a few times have had more opportunity to get screwed repeatedly by the RIAA.
The RIAA (and recording labels in general) have been living on the same scheme since the 40's: Keep the artists working for new contracts, constantly touring and promoting themselves while the labels cash in on the recordings. That doesn't work so well if the artist is allowed to collect the full amount of royalties that they really deserve on past recordings.
Look Communications has been providing line-of-sight dish-based wireless Internet service in eastern Canada for over two years now.
This is nothing new.
Either you're on acid or you have a severe problem with depth perception. The Casio E-200 is a moderate sized handheld while the FIC Aquapad is a web-tablet.
You aren't going to carry the Aquapad around in your pocket, you probably won't even put it in your breifcase. Might as well say that your desktop already blows it away.
No CEO, severe layoffs and a limited kernel license adds up to a pretty big "if" on Palm making a comeback. It's a shame, but let's have a reality check here, PalmOS isn't going much farther.
Here's the thing though, Casio has a reputation for putting together good quality handhelds. Sharp does not.
My Sharp Mobilon Pro was sent back to the shop three times due to battery usage problems. They can't even seem to manage holding a backup battery without bleed-draining it. The entire Mobilon line was problematic.
Needless to say my Mobilon collects dust and it won't be anytime soon that I'll be purchasing another handheld from Sharp.
Seeing a new handheld from Casio on the other hand intrigues me, because I still use my E-100 daily after two years without any problems.
Please remember that the Google archive adopted from Dejanews is not 100% complete.
The archive was assembled in 1995 and for years previous to that it is very incomplete indeed. You can see many disjointed threads and quotes of posts where the original post is nowhere to be found.
It's a good tool and certainly entertaining, but I find it a bit disturbing historical wise for people to be declaring "first post of..." as if it were a hard historical fact. It's not.
Because they can. When everyone says that videophones have already flopped they're assuming the concept just doesn't work or isn't as cool as well all thought it would be.
What you're missing is that once something becomes cheap and convenient, it doesn't need to be supercool. This sounds like one more step towards mass-market feasibility.
I always thought of the Aibos as cute, but this new model looks downright ugly to me. All of the lights/buttons/gear/whatever on the head looks a lot like someone smiling with great big metal braces on their teeth.
I'm still waiting for the perfect version of the Settlers, because it's such a promising line of games.
The first had a great emphasis on supply lines and distribution, but was severly limited for combat. Settlers II, III, & IV all seem to try to improve combat, but they've simplified the distribution management to please the spoon-fed RTS crowd. It just gets more and more like the Blizzard products. =(
Geez, hasn't Stars Supernova been 'due out soon' for about 5 years now? At this point the original Stars is annoyingly difficult to purchase in North America.