Why are we doomed? A device would have to infringe on all of those, not any of them to be injuctified.
There are 23 claims in patent 6,370,566. Only 4 of those have been infringed by Motorola, and their device has been injunctified. So no, a device does not have to infringe on all the claims, legally only one is sufficient
I'm not familiar enough with the early generations of Palm's devices to say whether they had a network calendaring app pre-'98.
The patent is not limited to networked calendaring. The state of the art in 1998 when the patent application was submitted was a non-networked mobile device that synced via a USB or serial cable to a PC. The independent claims in this patent are claims 1, 9 and 17. Other claims are just a refinement of those claims. All three of these claims mention a synchronizing component and sending the meeting request via an email generated either on the mobile device itself, or on the remote device to which it is synchronizing. A completely web based calendar would not be covered by this patent, nor would an online-only calendar app with no synchronization component.
Maybe they are planning to show a graph of Oracle profits since its existance vs lines of code that Oracle owns. Then claim that by extrapolating that graph, 9 lines of code is worth a hundred billion dollars, "but ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are being nice by only claiming 6.1 billion".
It is not just the supply chain. It's the ability to tell 5000 workers that they are now on 18 hour days on a corporate whim. It's the ability to pay those same people generally a dollar a day, then take most of that back in housing and food fees because you force them to live at the factory.
Foxconn workers are on about $5 per day. While that may not seem like a lot to someone living in the West, it compares favourably with the $1 per day they might make in their hometowns, even after taking out the fees for boarding in company accommodation, which is usually cheaper, cleaner and better maintained than what they might get from private landlords in the area. Yes the working hours are terrible, leaving the employees exhausted and with no time for any life outside work, but many, if not most, of them see that as a positive - they'd rather work their asses off and have more money to send to families back home than pissing it away in a bar or shopping for crap they don't need on their time off.
The idea is that browser vendors use these prefixes for experimental implementations that are not yet part of the CSS standard. I think the main problem is not the prefixes themselves - which prevent a property being defined which eventually ends up being incompatible with the standard when it is approved, and also let developers know that the property may be subject to change in future. The main problem is that each vendor has to have their own unique prefix. If a standard prefix like "proposed-" could be used instead, it would make life easier for those web developers who want to live on the bleeding edge, and also avoid the situation where browser vendors are tempted to support other vendors' prefixes due to web developers' prioritizing support for particular browsers and ignoring others.
It's about startups being able to engage with the tech centre of the world without arbitrary red tape blocking them from doing it on the US mainland.
What arbitrary red tape? There isn't going to be a US Embassy on this ship to issue visas, so it will only make sense for entrepreneurs who qualify for a WB visa waiver anyway.
A loanshark smashes up the shop of your local grocer because he was late on his payments. The customers are inconvenienced. Do you blame the loanshark?
Sometimes the enforcer of the rules is at fault, if the rules are unfair and the punishment too harsh.
They may only be able to carry the germ without symptoms, but that still sounds like an infection to me.
Is a file sitting in the browser cache really an infection? Plenty of malware will download to any browser, but if the vulnerabilities are not in the browser/JVM/Flash/PDF reader or whatever is being exploited to make the malware run, then it isn't really infecting the machine (though anti-virus software will still detect it and treat it as an infection).
What the article did not state was how long it would take for these forces to cease forward momentum -- or if that is an issue.
I'm more worried about how long it will take before it plunges back to Earth. But on a more serious note, I think the energy source that is causing the heat will run out before either of those events happen, and if not, hopefully Earth will be in a different place in its orbit than it was when Pioneer was launched when it flies past on its way back.
Don't get me wrong--the whole "Class Action Lawsuit" thing is pure BS. And I believe Apple has made changes to solve this "problem." I believe Apple may have reimbursed him for his charges. So why bother with the lawsuit other than to get money?
The class action is for parents who suffered losses before Apple made the changes. But as a parent, I would argue that Apple has not sufficiently solved the problem. In-app purchases do not belong in games targeted at young children. These apps should not be allowed on the App Store. Perhaps he is going forward with the lawsuit despite being reimbursed personally because Apple are still allowing young children to be targetted in this way, and the default setup of an iDevice still allows unlimited purchases to be made for 15 minutes after a parent enters their iTunes password without warning them of this.
Imagine the dilemma - committing perjury or admitting that the case you've brought has no merit. No wonder he opted for "How would I know what goes on in my company, I'm just the CEO".
Is Japan a tropical country? I thought it was too far north to need widespread aircon.
Outside the tropics, they have these things called seasons. Summer in Tokyo, like many other places outside the tropics (New York for example) can be hotter and more humid than anywhere tropical.
from top level power chips that undergoes die-level visual inspection to the crap that is spewing out of Asian countries.
Personally knowing several people working in Asia for both Osram and Philips on LED manufacturing, I can assure you that the "crap" spewing out of those factories is undergoing the same die-level visual inspection it gets in their other factories in Europe and US.
Depends on how the term is used - in legal terms, a "narcotic" describes any prohibited / illegal drug.
The DEA does not use this definition, and nor does legislation. The majority of narcotics are not even prohibited or illegal, they are controlled medicines.
The US legal definition of "narcotics" incorrectly includes cocaine and other coca leaf derivatives (and US courts have acknowledged that, and ruled that it is OK for the legal definition of a word to be scientifically incorrect), but it is not extended to LSD or ecstasy. There is another international convention on drug control that stretches the definition further than US law to include cannabis, but the only context which goes further than that is lazy sensationalist journalism.
What's more, they shut down a purported narcotics store for selling substances which are not narcotics (neither according to the medical meaning, nor the more encompassing Yellow List which stretches the legal definition of narcotic to encompass other natural analgesics such as coca and cannabis derived substances).
A friend's child who was diagnosed with autism was excluded from school at 5 years of age because the teachers couldn't cope with him. His parents had to fight very hard to get him back in with the support that he was supposed to have. So the idea that people are trying to get their kids diagnosed in order to get more attention is rather an offensive one for those having to deal with the lack of support every day.
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The end customer always pays in the end.
There are 23 claims in patent 6,370,566. Only 4 of those have been infringed by Motorola, and their device has been injunctified. So no, a device does not have to infringe on all the claims, legally only one is sufficient
The patent is not limited to networked calendaring. The state of the art in 1998 when the patent application was submitted was a non-networked mobile device that synced via a USB or serial cable to a PC. The independent claims in this patent are claims 1, 9 and 17. Other claims are just a refinement of those claims. All three of these claims mention a synchronizing component and sending the meeting request via an email generated either on the mobile device itself, or on the remote device to which it is synchronizing. A completely web based calendar would not be covered by this patent, nor would an online-only calendar app with no synchronization component.
Which is no diffferent to the unlabelled Sea of Japan.
Maybe they are planning to show a graph of Oracle profits since its existance vs lines of code that Oracle owns. Then claim that by extrapolating that graph, 9 lines of code is worth a hundred billion dollars, "but ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are being nice by only claiming 6.1 billion".
Foxconn workers are on about $5 per day. While that may not seem like a lot to someone living in the West, it compares favourably with the $1 per day they might make in their hometowns, even after taking out the fees for boarding in company accommodation, which is usually cheaper, cleaner and better maintained than what they might get from private landlords in the area. Yes the working hours are terrible, leaving the employees exhausted and with no time for any life outside work, but many, if not most, of them see that as a positive - they'd rather work their asses off and have more money to send to families back home than pissing it away in a bar or shopping for crap they don't need on their time off.
Not exactly correct. A lot of pirated DVDs already come with unskippable "educational" content about why Gold discs are better than Blue ones etc.
The idea is that browser vendors use these prefixes for experimental implementations that are not yet part of the CSS standard. I think the main problem is not the prefixes themselves - which prevent a property being defined which eventually ends up being incompatible with the standard when it is approved, and also let developers know that the property may be subject to change in future. The main problem is that each vendor has to have their own unique prefix. If a standard prefix like "proposed-" could be used instead, it would make life easier for those web developers who want to live on the bleeding edge, and also avoid the situation where browser vendors are tempted to support other vendors' prefixes due to web developers' prioritizing support for particular browsers and ignoring others.
What arbitrary red tape? There isn't going to be a US Embassy on this ship to issue visas, so it will only make sense for entrepreneurs who qualify for a WB visa waiver anyway.
From what embassy? If they get enough notice of the meeting, I guess they can send an application by snail mail, but it doesn't sound practical to me.
A loanshark smashes up the shop of your local grocer because he was late on his payments. The customers are inconvenienced. Do you blame the loanshark?
Sometimes the enforcer of the rules is at fault, if the rules are unfair and the punishment too harsh.
Remember this thought when the loanshark is kneecapping you.
Is a file sitting in the browser cache really an infection? Plenty of malware will download to any browser, but if the vulnerabilities are not in the browser/JVM/Flash/PDF reader or whatever is being exploited to make the malware run, then it isn't really infecting the machine (though anti-virus software will still detect it and treat it as an infection).
Even better. The radio dish provides shade from the sun's rays for the cooling surface behind.
I'm more worried about how long it will take before it plunges back to Earth. But on a more serious note, I think the energy source that is causing the heat will run out before either of those events happen, and if not, hopefully Earth will be in a different place in its orbit than it was when Pioneer was launched when it flies past on its way back.
If it keeps it up, eventually it will be going fast in the other direction.
The class action is for parents who suffered losses before Apple made the changes. But as a parent, I would argue that Apple has not sufficiently solved the problem. In-app purchases do not belong in games targeted at young children. These apps should not be allowed on the App Store. Perhaps he is going forward with the lawsuit despite being reimbursed personally because Apple are still allowing young children to be targetted in this way, and the default setup of an iDevice still allows unlimited purchases to be made for 15 minutes after a parent enters their iTunes password without warning them of this.
Imagine the dilemma - committing perjury or admitting that the case you've brought has no merit. No wonder he opted for "How would I know what goes on in my company, I'm just the CEO".
Outside the tropics, they have these things called seasons. Summer in Tokyo, like many other places outside the tropics (New York for example) can be hotter and more humid than anywhere tropical.
Personally knowing several people working in Asia for both Osram and Philips on LED manufacturing, I can assure you that the "crap" spewing out of those factories is undergoing the same die-level visual inspection it gets in their other factories in Europe and US.
Yeah, what sort of software developer would ever need to look up documentation or consult an email while they were coding?
The DEA does not use this definition, and nor does legislation. The majority of narcotics are not even prohibited or illegal, they are controlled medicines.
The US legal definition of "narcotics" incorrectly includes cocaine and other coca leaf derivatives (and US courts have acknowledged that, and ruled that it is OK for the legal definition of a word to be scientifically incorrect), but it is not extended to LSD or ecstasy. There is another international convention on drug control that stretches the definition further than US law to include cannabis, but the only context which goes further than that is lazy sensationalist journalism.
What's more, they shut down a purported narcotics store for selling substances which are not narcotics (neither according to the medical meaning, nor the more encompassing Yellow List which stretches the legal definition of narcotic to encompass other natural analgesics such as coca and cannabis derived substances).
A friend's child who was diagnosed with autism was excluded from school at 5 years of age because the teachers couldn't cope with him. His parents had to fight very hard to get him back in with the support that he was supposed to have. So the idea that people are trying to get their kids diagnosed in order to get more attention is rather an offensive one for those having to deal with the lack of support every day.