(sigh...) Once again, class...
"Prior Art" is for Patents. There is no such thing as "prior art" for trademarks or copyright.
Any work is copyrighted at the time of creation.
Trademarks must be applied for. Multiple products, companies, etc... can have the same trademarked named---as long as they don't compete in the same market space. For instance, if I started making beige-box computers and called them "Apple Computers" I'd be talking to some lawyers from Cupertino pretty quickly. If I made ball point pens and called them "Apple Pens", those same lawyers might try to coerce me to change the name, but there is no legal reason I would have to.
I don't think a database and a browser are all that similar, personally. I don't think the FirebirdSQL team has much of an argument. That is, assuming they've bothered to trademark their name.
This is not an insightful post. It gets said, one way or another, every time a Wine or WineX story gets submitted.
Sit on the sidelines and wait for the day that all game developers go "Oh, gee, we're not coding our games to work in a niche market. A niche market that seems to have certain elements that believe purchasing software is bad. Let's get right on that problem!".
You're going to be sitting on that sideline for a long long time...
You are mistaken. The desktop on all current versions of Windows still uses the GDI. Longhorn is when the fully DirectX desktop is to be implemented.
Of course, it still holds true that "DirectX Enabled" != "3D accelerated". DirectX does hardware accelerated 2D work as well.
Sure, you can take publicly available data, stuff it in a database, and then claim copyright on your collection of that data. Lexis-Nexis does it with case law. Roxio does it with the CDDB data, and there are myriad other examples.
It's right up there with the fact that you can't copyright the look of a font, but you can copyright your mathematical description (e.g. the vectors) that make up your version of that font.
It's also akin to not being able to copyright most classical music (Beethoven, Mozart, et. al.) but you can claim copyright on a performance of it.
And proprietary file formats have exactly *what* to do with licensing agreements?
You're point is a valid one, but it shouldn't rate a +4 in a thread about licensing.
"The review is actually pretty bland, skimming the surface to linger on some of Eugenia's pet peeves."
You could change that to, "OSNews is actually pretty bland, skimming the surface to linger on some of Eugenia's pet peeves." and it would still be a 100% valid statement.
I think This guys idea is the best way to get us to a hydrogen based system. It would also have the benefit of putting some excitement back into the Indianapolis 500.
Comparing the size of the Elite 2 (1 floppy) and the size of Freelancer (3 CDs) and coming to the conclusion that the size increase is due entirely to code-bloat is ridiculous.
It's the graphics. Players want super realism at high resolutions with tons of voice work, character animation, lip syncing, special effects, etc... now. I'm sure that if you did a size breakdown of Freelancer you'd see that the majority of the space it is taking up on the HD is devoted to graphics and sound assets.
Yes yes, the "please do it because *I* don't have anything to hide" argument.
What if the information about you is wrong? What if, due to a case of stolen identity, you end up with a CAPPS II record that labels you as a terrorist for the rest of your life?
Sticking your head in the sand because you don't think this system will affect you is such an apathetic attitude.
Go read...no, go STUDY the 4th Amendment. There's a reason it exists.
2.5GHz now is interesting. 2.5GHz in 12-18 months if/when Apple gets them into actual production hardware will not be that interesting. By that time we'll probably see >= 4GHz Intel and AMD chips.
Apple needs 2.5GHz machines *now*.
Verbs are protected, huh?
I Windowed to work in my car today. Then I Windowed up the stairs Windowed the door, and Windowed down at my desk.
Tomorrow I will Windows a bagel for breakfast, Windows a call to my brother, and Windows the web for a while, more than likely ending up at Slashdot.
Microsoft was pushing Visual Source Safe as part of their internet dev studio package back in the mid-late '90s. It was positioned specifically for versioning web site assets.
NXN's Alienbrain package has been considered the premiere package for versioning digital assets for game development for at least as long.
There are digital versioning packages for video production and prepress/publication production that date back to at least the early '90s.
There's nothing specific about Interwoven's claim of first to do web assets that can't be disproved by prior art. That is, of course, if any potential litigation defendents want to (or can) properly defend themselves.
Yeah, great, except that I can't use MaxScript in Photoshop. Likewise, I can't use Photoshop's scripting language in 3ds max. Maya's MEL only works there , too.
Now what?
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Read the last paragraph of the article, it is pretty telling. Airbus expects the majority of the orders for the A380 to go to Pacific rim carriers. The same carriers that use 747s for all flights all day long now. In that market it is well suited. (hundreds of people flying 8-12 hours on average, most all flights direct). For trans-Atlantic flights it is overkill.
A (non Concorde) flight from NY to Heathrow takes just about as long as a flight from NY to LA. The only really long flight out of the US is LA to Hawaii, but there's not enough demand on that route to make replacing 747s with A380s feasible.
There's also the problem of airport infrastructure. an 80m wide double decker airplane will have a very hard time fitting into any gate spot in an airport anywhere in the world, currently. The only exception I can think of is Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport. It is so new that they might have engineered it with larger gate spots to accomodate future aircraft. Airport infrastructre is actually a pretty large design factor in new airframe development. Airbus is pushing the envelope with something as big as the A380. Airbus even offers documentation on airport planning for A380 accomodation.
Part of airport planning is passenger flow. That's a big issue with the A380. How do you get 555 people off of an airplane quickly? The standard one or two Jetway gate isn't going to work. If I remember correctly, the A380 has fourteen extis, eight on the main deck (four per side) and six on the upper deck (three per side). The rear most doors are father back along the aircraft than any current jetway system can reach. To really use an A380, airlines are going to have to pay to get their airport concourses upgraded. Not something they will do lightly. Not something I expect to see them do in the US.
The infrastructure changes are what is giving most carriers cold feet with regards to the A380. It'll be very hard to run numbers that show upgrading to the A380 will be cost effective in a reasonable time-line, imho. Pacific rim carriers have the best chances of making it work. Now the question is whether or not they're interested.
And you, as a registered Slashdot reader, automatically exclude yourself from the mass market.
mIRC isn't hard to understand if you are technically inclined. If your web presence equates to clicking on the Outlook Express icon, clicking on the IE icon, and/or clicking on the AIM (or MSN Messenger) icon then mIRC is about as easy to understand as a doctoral thesis on quantum mechanics.
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(sigh...) Once again, class... "Prior Art" is for Patents. There is no such thing as "prior art" for trademarks or copyright. Any work is copyrighted at the time of creation. Trademarks must be applied for. Multiple products, companies, etc... can have the same trademarked named---as long as they don't compete in the same market space. For instance, if I started making beige-box computers and called them "Apple Computers" I'd be talking to some lawyers from Cupertino pretty quickly. If I made ball point pens and called them "Apple Pens", those same lawyers might try to coerce me to change the name, but there is no legal reason I would have to. I don't think a database and a browser are all that similar, personally. I don't think the FirebirdSQL team has much of an argument. That is, assuming they've bothered to trademark their name.
This is not an insightful post. It gets said, one way or another, every time a Wine or WineX story gets submitted. Sit on the sidelines and wait for the day that all game developers go "Oh, gee, we're not coding our games to work in a niche market. A niche market that seems to have certain elements that believe purchasing software is bad. Let's get right on that problem!". You're going to be sitting on that sideline for a long long time...
You are mistaken. The desktop on all current versions of Windows still uses the GDI. Longhorn is when the fully DirectX desktop is to be implemented. Of course, it still holds true that "DirectX Enabled" != "3D accelerated". DirectX does hardware accelerated 2D work as well.
There is an "Instant Messaging Planet" web page. Now I'm off to search for that elusive technology reporting website, "POTS Handset World"!
The time to market for new wireless technology is connected to your personal networking topology exactly how?
Sure, you can take publicly available data, stuff it in a database, and then claim copyright on your collection of that data. Lexis-Nexis does it with case law. Roxio does it with the CDDB data, and there are myriad other examples. It's right up there with the fact that you can't copyright the look of a font, but you can copyright your mathematical description (e.g. the vectors) that make up your version of that font. It's also akin to not being able to copyright most classical music (Beethoven, Mozart, et. al.) but you can claim copyright on a performance of it.
And proprietary file formats have exactly *what* to do with licensing agreements? You're point is a valid one, but it shouldn't rate a +4 in a thread about licensing.
We were going to call it "Pee-mail", though...
I'd agree with you except for the complete disaster that IROC was when it was semi-big (mid-late 80s).
I think This guys idea is the best way to get us to a hydrogen based system. It would also have the benefit of putting some excitement back into the Indianapolis 500.
Comparing the size of the Elite 2 (1 floppy) and the size of Freelancer (3 CDs) and coming to the conclusion that the size increase is due entirely to code-bloat is ridiculous. It's the graphics. Players want super realism at high resolutions with tons of voice work, character animation, lip syncing, special effects, etc... now. I'm sure that if you did a size breakdown of Freelancer you'd see that the majority of the space it is taking up on the HD is devoted to graphics and sound assets.
But it kept melting at room temperture...
Yes yes, the "please do it because *I* don't have anything to hide" argument. What if the information about you is wrong? What if, due to a case of stolen identity, you end up with a CAPPS II record that labels you as a terrorist for the rest of your life? Sticking your head in the sand because you don't think this system will affect you is such an apathetic attitude. Go read...no, go STUDY the 4th Amendment. There's a reason it exists.
2.5GHz now is interesting. 2.5GHz in 12-18 months if/when Apple gets them into actual production hardware will not be that interesting. By that time we'll probably see >= 4GHz Intel and AMD chips. Apple needs 2.5GHz machines *now*.
"Buffy was... She was a fantastic celebrity..." You've a bit of a problem with that whole fantasy/reality thing, don't you?
Verbs are protected, huh? I Windowed to work in my car today. Then I Windowed up the stairs Windowed the door, and Windowed down at my desk. Tomorrow I will Windows a bagel for breakfast, Windows a call to my brother, and Windows the web for a while, more than likely ending up at Slashdot.
Microsoft was pushing Visual Source Safe as part of their internet dev studio package back in the mid-late '90s. It was positioned specifically for versioning web site assets. NXN's Alienbrain package has been considered the premiere package for versioning digital assets for game development for at least as long. There are digital versioning packages for video production and prepress/publication production that date back to at least the early '90s. There's nothing specific about Interwoven's claim of first to do web assets that can't be disproved by prior art. That is, of course, if any potential litigation defendents want to (or can) properly defend themselves.
Yeah, great, except that I can't use MaxScript in Photoshop. Likewise, I can't use Photoshop's scripting language in 3ds max. Maya's MEL only works there , too. Now what?
A (non Concorde) flight from NY to Heathrow takes just about as long as a flight from NY to LA. The only really long flight out of the US is LA to Hawaii, but there's not enough demand on that route to make replacing 747s with A380s feasible.
There's also the problem of airport infrastructure. an 80m wide double decker airplane will have a very hard time fitting into any gate spot in an airport anywhere in the world, currently. The only exception I can think of is Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport. It is so new that they might have engineered it with larger gate spots to accomodate future aircraft. Airport infrastructre is actually a pretty large design factor in new airframe development. Airbus is pushing the envelope with something as big as the A380. Airbus even offers documentation on airport planning for A380 accomodation.
Part of airport planning is passenger flow. That's a big issue with the A380. How do you get 555 people off of an airplane quickly? The standard one or two Jetway gate isn't going to work. If I remember correctly, the A380 has fourteen extis, eight on the main deck (four per side) and six on the upper deck (three per side). The rear most doors are father back along the aircraft than any current jetway system can reach. To really use an A380, airlines are going to have to pay to get their airport concourses upgraded. Not something they will do lightly. Not something I expect to see them do in the US.
The infrastructure changes are what is giving most carriers cold feet with regards to the A380. It'll be very hard to run numbers that show upgrading to the A380 will be cost effective in a reasonable time-line, imho. Pacific rim carriers have the best chances of making it work. Now the question is whether or not they're interested.
If I had mod privs in this discussion (which I don't because I made the post to which you are replying) I'd put them here. Your example is perfect.
if films != reality and tv != reality and nonFictionBooks != reality then ( Welcome to life. )
And you, as a registered Slashdot reader, automatically exclude yourself from the mass market. mIRC isn't hard to understand if you are technically inclined. If your web presence equates to clicking on the Outlook Express icon, clicking on the IE icon, and/or clicking on the AIM (or MSN Messenger) icon then mIRC is about as easy to understand as a doctoral thesis on quantum mechanics.