My company is working on something akin to this, but more focused on extracting a digest of significant ideas/terms from the content of text, Word, PDF, HTML, etc. from your local disk or from the Internet. So it's not quite a pure "search" tool; more of a "research" tool.
If you're interested, and have Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can check out a tech preview of theConcept.
There is no right in the copyright law to make backup copies of motion pictures
Mr. Attaway, if you don't want consumers to exercise their fair use rights to backup "motion pictures" then simply stop selling "motion pictures" to consumers.
OK, they are looking at the anchor text. Then what? As long as HTML is the language, I'm afraid there aren't that many more things they can do.
You're right that the source (HTML) may be limited in its context, so one thing Google can do is look at their user base's interaction with a given query.
For example, if "theory of relativity" has been searched a million times, that is one million samples of PageRank filtered by human (user) intelligence: what sites did users visit most often from the search results? How much time between click throughs to other results? ( i.e. a rough indication of how much time was spent on a particular result -- up to the penultimate result). What related queries followed the first (e.g. "time dilation")?
But perhaps more importantly, Google has a mindboggling large cached snapshot of the web. IMHO, that is where their future lies: billions and billions of words just waiting for sophisticated context analysis. My company's interests lie exactly in that arena.
My bet is that Google (and others) have a long, long way to go yet. But the real question is: can they make money doing it?
This is a common misconception. The tracks are only free to those who are regular buyers of Pepsi in single (not six packs nor other bundles) 20 oz or 1-liter bottles (not 2-liters, cans or other sizes). If you don't regularly buy this exact product, then you have to make the choice to buy it for the chance of getting a free iTunes track.
I would've liked the chance to win some tunes, but I buy Diet Pepsi in 12 packs.
1) Typical cost is $350 from the USPTO if you apply for it yourself (it's really not that hard: copyright and trademark protection is straightforward, unlike the patent process), and extra if you go through an attorney. Note: you need to use the trademark to protect it (i.e. you can just apply for a trademark to "hold on to it"). In most cases that's a given, since you're applying for the trademark to protect a good or service you're selling.
2) Trademarks in the US protect your rights in the US only. There is no "do it all in one place" route either. IANAL, but my wife is. Some of her clients apply for trademark protection in every country they do business in (60+ registrations). If you're interested in international protection, then you basically have to use a lawyer.
but it seems that old analog tech from the '70 is more reliable than digital
It only "seems" that way because you happened to find some well-preserved (and likely good quality) tapes. Even TDK carefully suggests that cassette tapes "can last for more than 30 years" if the following conditions are met:
Temperature: 15 to 25 degree centigrade Humidity: 20 to 40%RH Cleanliness of atmosphere: dust levels should be low No strong magnetic fields near the cassette No acidic atmosphere No direct sunlight
And this lifespan also assumes no mechanical problems with the tape itself.
Do yourself a favor and archive those tapes on something (anything).
In order to "read" the photon, you will need to measure the polarization of that photon. But, due to quantum mechanics, as soon as you measure the polarization (for example, with a filter), you will in effect have changed its polarization, and thus its original, actual polarization will be unknown to you. And that's the trick. In essence, the message is "read once." Even if you happen to use the exact same filter as the sender, and read the original photon (and message) for yourself, you can not retransmit the photon with its original, actual polarization -- and thus your "clean one" will arrive at the destination as garbage (thus notifying the receiver that the message has been compromised).
It was only resolved in reference to Apple v. Microsoft (and even there, Apple didn't lose on the merits of protecting look and feel, but on the wording in the licensing agreement it had with MS).
If you can argue that your product has a distinctive look and feel, then you can register for trade dress protection.
Also: you can apply for a patent for an interface (which someone else pointed out Apple has done for iPhoto).
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at 4000 dpi, the film grains will be dozens of pixels in diameter
Doubtful, given that a standard 35mm print is only 24 mm tall (barely an inch).
In other words, Apple's iPod/iTunes success has created a Quicktime distribution juggernaut.
And that is exactly what Apple meant way back when about a Trojan Horse. Not only is QuickTime installed, but QuickTime contains the entire QuickTime Media Layer (QTML), basically a subset of the original Mac Toolbox APIs. I've ported a number of native Mac apps to Windows with minimal changes by riding on QTML's coattails. This is definitely a major win for Apple. They don't need Real by a long shot.
If the "inventor" didn't have the balls to put his/her money where their mouth is
Do you know how much it costs to succesffuly apply (meaning retaining a lawyer throughout the process) for a utility patent? Don't you conisder the thousands of dollars "putting money where your mouth is?"
Actually, with the average pay for first year associates at DC law firms at over 100K, the pay for patent examiners doesn't seem so hot. IMHO, the government should increase the pay to intice good lawyers to work for the government instead.
(now, compared to other government jobs, yes, you're right; it's a high salary)
You're thinking of ProjectX, which was renamed HotSauce. If I remember correctly, it was a "fly through" of spheres in fake 2D, each sphere representing a site (and surrounded by smaller spheres representing linked sites). As you approached a satellite sphere, you would begin to see its links come into view....and so on, ad infinitum.
Here's one link I found in Google "apple hotsauce browser."
"lately" you've probably watched a DVD using a laser thanks to Bell Labs. "lately" you've used the Internet running many servers with UNIX thanks to Bell Labs. "lately" you've probably used some software written in C thanks for Bell Labs. "lately" I suppose you've done a lot of things thanks to Bell Labs.
And for all those reasons, it is indeed sad that the remnants of Bell Labs are slowing eroding away.
The right to use copyrighted music synchronized with video (e.g. a film, television show or commercial) is called a reproduction right and it's covered by a "Synchronization License". BMI has a good write-up here.
But isn't the compulsory license ( 8 cents ) for selling audio recordings?
What were talking about here an advertisement. This is completely different. Apple is required to get a specific license (from Eminem's publisher) to use this composition in an advertisement.
Absolutely. I only pointed out the compulsory as Apple's possible (and weak) defense.
(hence my title: Law likely on Eminem's side).
This is an issue of endorsement, and the lack of a license. Apple will probably settle and then charge/sue TBWA Chiat Day.
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My company is working on something akin to this, but more focused on extracting a digest of significant ideas/terms from the content of text, Word, PDF, HTML, etc. from your local disk or from the Internet. So it's not quite a pure "search" tool; more of a "research" tool.
If you're interested, and have Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can check out a tech preview of theConcept.
my grandchidren will be rich
Not a chance. Future corporations will just make sure they hire excellent jipnarks to name their future products.
to the "shit's going to hit the fan"...
First "global warming and now "global dimming."
We're getting cozy, dimming the lights...all we need is "global barry white" and -- BAM -- human population explosion at your service.
There is no right in the copyright law to make backup copies of motion pictures
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Mr. Attaway, if you don't want consumers to exercise their fair use rights to backup "motion pictures" then simply stop selling "motion pictures" to consumers
As others have pointed out, Google is NOT adding image ads to their website, but rather to third-party sites using their AdSense services.
In short: the reason you moved to Google is still valid.
their first line at hitting the iPod
According to the Washington Post, Sony's "first line" better be cleaning up the mess of software they call Sony Connect.
OK, they are looking at the anchor text. Then what? As long as HTML is the language, I'm afraid there aren't that many more things they can do.
You're right that the source (HTML) may be limited in its context, so one thing Google can do is look at their user base's interaction with a given query.
For example, if "theory of relativity" has been searched a million times, that is one million samples of PageRank filtered by human (user) intelligence: what sites did users visit most often from the search results? How much time between click throughs to other results? ( i.e. a rough indication of how much time was spent on a particular result -- up to the penultimate result). What related queries followed the first (e.g. "time dilation")?
But perhaps more importantly, Google has a mindboggling large cached snapshot of the web. IMHO, that is where their future lies: billions and billions of words just waiting for sophisticated context analysis. My company's interests lie exactly in that arena.
My bet is that Google (and others) have a long, long way to go yet. But the real question is: can they make money doing it?
Especially since the tracks are free.
This is a common misconception. The tracks are only free to those who are regular buyers of Pepsi in single (not six packs nor other bundles) 20 oz or 1-liter bottles (not 2-liters, cans or other sizes). If you don't regularly buy this exact product, then you have to make the choice to buy it for the chance of getting a free iTunes track.
I would've liked the chance to win some tunes, but I buy Diet Pepsi in 12 packs.
I want to know how exactly you simulate a right-click on a Mac when the system has no concept of a right-click.
Trolling, right? Right-click application support for contextual menus has been around since Mac OS 9.
Or by "system" do you mean the last time you used a Mac?
1) Typical cost is $350 from the USPTO if you apply for it yourself (it's really not that hard: copyright and trademark protection is straightforward, unlike the patent process), and extra if you go through an attorney. Note: you need to use the trademark to protect it (i.e. you can just apply for a trademark to "hold on to it"). In most cases that's a given, since you're applying for the trademark to protect a good or service you're selling.
2) Trademarks in the US protect your rights in the US only. There is no "do it all in one place" route either. IANAL, but my wife is. Some of her clients apply for trademark protection in every country they do business in (60+ registrations). If you're interested in international protection, then you basically have to use a lawyer.
but it seems that old analog tech from the '70 is more reliable than digital
It only "seems" that way because you happened to find some well-preserved (and likely good quality) tapes. Even TDK carefully suggests that cassette tapes "can last for more than 30 years" if the following conditions are met:
Temperature: 15 to 25 degree centigrade
Humidity: 20 to 40%RH
Cleanliness of atmosphere: dust levels should be low
No strong magnetic fields near the cassette
No acidic atmosphere
No direct sunlight
And this lifespan also assumes no mechanical problems with the tape itself.
Do yourself a favor and archive those tapes on something (anything).
In order to "read" the photon, you will need to measure the polarization of that photon. But, due to quantum mechanics, as soon as you measure the polarization (for example, with a filter), you will in effect have changed its polarization, and thus its original, actual polarization will be unknown to you. And that's the trick. In essence, the message is "read once." Even if you happen to use the exact same filter as the sender, and read the original photon (and message) for yourself, you can not retransmit the photon with its original, actual polarization -- and thus your "clean one" will arrive at the destination as garbage (thus notifying the receiver that the message has been compromised).
For more info read this primer.
It was only resolved in reference to Apple v. Microsoft (and even there, Apple didn't lose on the merits of protecting look and feel, but on the wording in the licensing agreement it had with MS).
If you can argue that your product has a distinctive look and feel, then you can register for trade dress protection.
Also: you can apply for a patent for an interface (which someone else pointed out Apple has done for iPhoto).
at 4000 dpi, the film grains will be dozens of pixels in diameter
Doubtful, given that a standard 35mm print is only 24 mm tall (barely an inch).
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In other words, Apple's iPod/iTunes success has created a Quicktime distribution juggernaut.
And that is exactly what Apple meant way back when about a Trojan Horse. Not only is QuickTime installed, but QuickTime contains the entire QuickTime Media Layer (QTML), basically a subset of the original Mac Toolbox APIs. I've ported a number of native Mac apps to Windows with minimal changes by riding on QTML's coattails. This is definitely a major win for Apple. They don't need Real by a long shot.
If the "inventor" didn't have the balls to put his/her money where their mouth is
Do you know how much it costs to succesffuly apply (meaning retaining a lawyer throughout the process) for a utility patent? Don't you conisder the thousands of dollars "putting money where your mouth is?"
Actually, with the average pay for first year associates at DC law firms at over 100K, the pay for patent examiners doesn't seem so hot. IMHO, the government should increase the pay to intice good lawyers to work for the government instead.
(now, compared to other government jobs, yes, you're right; it's a high salary)
You're thinking of ProjectX, which was renamed HotSauce. If I remember correctly, it was a "fly through" of spheres in fake 2D, each sphere representing a site (and surrounded by smaller spheres representing linked sites). As you approached a satellite sphere, you would begin to see its links come into view....and so on, ad infinitum.
Here's one link I found in Google "apple hotsauce browser."
"lately" you've probably watched a DVD using a laser thanks to Bell Labs. "lately" you've used the Internet running many servers with UNIX thanks to Bell Labs. "lately" you've probably used some software written in C thanks for Bell Labs. "lately" I suppose you've done a lot of things thanks to Bell Labs.
And for all those reasons, it is indeed sad that the remnants of Bell Labs are slowing eroding away.
it surely hasn't given a great deal to me
Yeah, the invention of the transistor, the laser, UNIX and C hasn't helped me a whit either.
99% of the "deep web" probably looks like this. Indexable? Sure. Necessary? No.
The right to use copyrighted music synchronized with video (e.g. a film, television show or commercial) is called a reproduction right and it's covered by a "Synchronization License". BMI has a good write-up here.
But isn't the compulsory license ( 8 cents ) for selling audio recordings?
What were talking about here an advertisement. This is completely different. Apple is required to get a specific license (from Eminem's publisher) to use this composition in an advertisement.
Absolutely. I only pointed out the compulsory as Apple's possible (and weak) defense.
(hence my title: Law likely on Eminem's side).
This is an issue of endorsement, and the lack of a license. Apple will probably settle and then charge/sue TBWA Chiat Day.