Roughly, patents are supposed to protect the inventors. They spent time 'inventing', they need paying for that time.
I think the problem is that companies can now have patents...how come? a company is dumb, it can't think for itself. Patents should only be given to the inventor(s), and should stay with them.
People will argue that the company paid the employee though, true, but there are already laws and ways for the company to protect this investment (copyright, contracts etc), they do not need to be the patent holder.
Patents are suffering from the same affliction almost all laws do, they are always amended or added to, never re done from scratch to properly cope with the changing requirements. OT but a good example of this is: we already have (in the UK) dangerous driving laws, why do we need a specific crime of speeding?
My first thought was that as soon as an event happens that is recordable as a stat then it is in the public domain.
Further reading and I found this from the US governments page (http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wccc) "Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work." A stat is just not something that is 'created' by one person, or even a group, it is an historical definition/account of something.
What these company's could copyright is the database used to store them, and the websites used to display them...but not the actual statistical information.
"(*) Important to note that Google just indexes what's there, rather than it being an information supplier." But isn't google prooving that an index is 'information' and more than that its often more important than the information it indexes?:)
The article has a badly made point...excel has no relation to spreadsheet or numeracy as far as I can tell!
But its not the desktop apps that are the problem (they have icons and are nicely categorized (something Windows would do well to copy)) its the command line apps.
Not only are their names often confusing or far too short, their operation is inconsistant...-h/h --h/? I mean come on, surely it can't be that hard to pick one and stick with it?
This a bigger problem than it would be in windows because as soon you scratch the surface of linux you NEED to use the bizarre command line apps.
I notice this every time I use linux, I can work my way though the muddle, but I hate to think what a new user would think if when comparing it to Windows.
I'm sorry but any keyboard that doesn't have easy to use number keys is going to fail. I doubt that there are many business documents without numbers in them, so who the hell is this aimed at?
Simple, Sony has it...and Sony made a lot more PS2 sales because of it. Cynics would say that is actually the only reason for its success, given that technically its a POS compared to the other 2.
I think the biggest difference and imho let down is the fact that they now have you fighting multiple waves of enemy's rather than a massive buttload.
In the first two there were times when you thought how the f*ck could I ever kill this lot? hell they even gave you a power up to increase the already rediculous amount of ammo you could carry.
In 2 you just get multiple waves, ok some bits are challenging, but only once. Instead of other games where you get a few smart enemies, it throughs lots of pretty dumb ones. Which doesn't work in the same way as the staggering amount the first two threw at you.
As for humour, some of its very bad, most of its very childish...take it or leave it.
Engine doesn't seem as impressive either as the first one either, which had massive enviroments.
Here in the UK the operators (carriers) are probably the best place to buy ringtones from (if you really do want to pay that much for something that useless). Probably due to the actions of our regulator OFCOM, or it could be that they actually want to keep their customers happy...nah!
The third party ones are a real pain, to the public and the operators that have to a) fend of all the public complaints, b) keep their systems working with the third partys dodgy/busted software.
anybody with mapped drives will be able to tell you that it can't even find a free drive letter to give to your usb key, instead it uses one that is already in use.
also only some device's are true plug'n'play, most are plug, fail 'no driver', hunt and download and install driver, then play. What's the point in checking windows update when MS don't add any devices to it?
They do have their enterprise search boxes too, but agreed you would think they would want to start finding more revenue streams.
However their view might be that if they are the best at generating money from ad's, then that business is enough to support all these 'free' projects.
You also have to remember that these 'free' project's may not generate revenue, but they do generate brand recognition and good PR, which in some circles is worth a hell of a lot more.
I'd also add to the don't like list (might be a uk only thing:
CRAP, utter CRAP quality, grain, lines and splotches all over the picture, yes they are small and yes you ignore most of them once the film gets going.
We currently get a trailer trying to say that buying illegal dvd's will have tinny sound, and faded picture...well so the film we're just about to watch!
Digital cinema need's to be deployed fast, and make sure all screens have proper digital sound too...oh and don't put the price's up any further either...£6 is too much considering its £8-10 for a DVD (with far better sound and picture)
yea right, untested and unproven product is more likely the real reason Apple would dismiss Cell, that if they ever even bothered to look at it in the first place.
The OP was proposing any of that, all they said was that the public don't agree with the law...so why is it law?
I think the people have a right to experience those economic consequences. You imply they will be bad, for who? for how long? do you really think the current system is the only system the public will accept?
I think that there are two issue's here, one is the simple moral argument for and against copying bits, the other is the law system, and how screwed it is right now.
Personally while they keep wrongly branding people has thieves I've got no qualms downloading whatever I feel like, and paying for what I feel like.
Just because something is currently illegal doesn't mean it should be.
That's one of the biggest problems that P2P is highlighting, governments are too slow to change out of date laws and are too easily influenced by the corps.
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I think the point is that the prostitute charges, which apparently is fair enough...however you can then kill her/him/it to get your money back. Which would be rather questionable behaviour in most societies.
So they drop more money after you've paid them than before.
Word is good at highlighting problem areas. Even if the suggestion it gives is rubbish, if you think about it you often realize it can be worded better. So Word's check is a useful guide, not a magic wand!
It's the right type of content to expect people to pay for, considering it was watchable for free at one point.
If you were buying car you would probly buy related magazines, and here in the UK that will probly cost you near enough £3...so instead you can buy a review of just the car you want.
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Well it made me look at the home page, which I've not done for urm...years, as I get the daily email.
Roughly, patents are supposed to protect the inventors. They spent time 'inventing', they need paying for that time.
I think the problem is that companies can now have patents...how come? a company is dumb, it can't think for itself. Patents should only be given to the inventor(s), and should stay with them.
People will argue that the company paid the employee though, true, but there are already laws and ways for the company to protect this investment (copyright, contracts etc), they do not need to be the patent holder.
Patents are suffering from the same affliction almost all laws do, they are always amended or added to, never re done from scratch to properly cope with the changing requirements. OT but a good example of this is: we already have (in the UK) dangerous driving laws, why do we need a specific crime of speeding?
My first thought was that as soon as an event happens that is recordable as a stat then it is in the public domain.
Further reading and I found this from the US governments page (http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wccc)
"Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work."
A stat is just not something that is 'created' by one person, or even a group, it is an historical definition/account of something.
What these company's could copyright is the database used to store them, and the websites used to display them...but not the actual statistical information.
"(*) Important to note that Google just indexes what's there, rather than it being an information supplier." :)
But isn't google prooving that an index is 'information' and more than that its often more important than the information it indexes?
well that just shows what a bunch of idiots they are.
They didn't understand the meaning of the words fruit or vegetable, and couldn't be arsed to find out.
The article has a badly made point...excel has no relation to spreadsheet or numeracy as far as I can tell!
/h --h /? I mean come on, surely it can't be that hard to pick one and stick with it?
But its not the desktop apps that are the problem (they have icons and are nicely categorized (something Windows would do well to copy)) its the command line apps.
Not only are their names often confusing or far too short, their operation is inconsistant...-h
This a bigger problem than it would be in windows because as soon you scratch the surface of linux you NEED to use the bizarre command line apps.
I notice this every time I use linux, I can work my way though the muddle, but I hate to think what a new user would think if when comparing it to Windows.
I can see why other countries have such an issue with the US and the Internet, when idiotic articles like this get written.
FCC isn't a worldwide body...so it cannot regulate a worldwide entity. It could regulate US companies that use the 'net but that's it.
I think Samsung are benefiting alot from all the horror stories around the big boys.
They make simple, mid range drives that do their job, and do it quietly as well.
I'm sorry but any keyboard that doesn't have easy to use number keys is going to fail.
I doubt that there are many business documents without numbers in them, so who the hell is this aimed at?
Simple, Sony has it...and Sony made a lot more PS2 sales because of it. Cynics would say that is actually the only reason for its success, given that technically its a POS compared to the other 2.
I think the biggest difference and imho let down is the fact that they now have you fighting multiple waves of enemy's rather than a massive buttload.
In the first two there were times when you thought how the f*ck could I ever kill this lot? hell they even gave you a power up to increase the already rediculous amount of ammo you could carry.
In 2 you just get multiple waves, ok some bits are challenging, but only once.
Instead of other games where you get a few smart enemies, it throughs lots of pretty dumb ones. Which doesn't work in the same way as the staggering amount the first two threw at you.
As for humour, some of its very bad, most of its very childish...take it or leave it.
Engine doesn't seem as impressive either as the first one either, which had massive enviroments.
Global warming isn't a belief, its a fact. It is happening, the climate will change and with out proper preperations we are fubar.
How much of it is down to us scummy humans and not just the earths natural cycle is debateable though.
Here in the UK the operators (carriers) are probably the best place to buy ringtones from (if you really do want to pay that much for something that useless). Probably due to the actions of our regulator OFCOM, or it could be that they actually want to keep their customers happy...nah!
The third party ones are a real pain, to the public and the operators that have to a) fend of all the public complaints, b) keep their systems working with the third partys dodgy/busted software.
no it doesn't just work.
anybody with mapped drives will be able to tell you that it can't even find a free drive letter to give to your usb key, instead it uses one that is already in use.
also only some device's are true plug'n'play, most are plug, fail 'no driver', hunt and download and install driver, then play. What's the point in checking windows update when MS don't add any devices to it?
They do have their enterprise search boxes too, but agreed you would think they would want to start finding more revenue streams.
However their view might be that if they are the best at generating money from ad's, then that business is enough to support all these 'free' projects.
You also have to remember that these 'free' project's may not generate revenue, but they do generate brand recognition and good PR, which in some circles is worth a hell of a lot more.
I'd also add to the don't like list (might be a uk only thing:
CRAP, utter CRAP quality, grain, lines and splotches all over the picture, yes they are small and yes you ignore most of them once the film gets going.
We currently get a trailer trying to say that buying illegal dvd's will have tinny sound, and faded picture...well so the film we're just about to watch!
Digital cinema need's to be deployed fast, and make sure all screens have proper digital sound too...oh and don't put the price's up any further either...£6 is too much considering its £8-10 for a DVD (with far better sound and picture)
I got my PSP from videogames.ca delivered to the uk with games for less than the offical launch price.
Agreed I was lucky and didn't get stung by customs, but even if I did the console price was still cheaper.
yea right, untested and unproven product is more likely the real reason Apple would dismiss Cell, that if they ever even bothered to look at it in the first place.
Try look at the business versions...ever since pioneer started selling plasma's there has been a 'tv' version and a simple 'monitor' version.
The OP was proposing any of that, all they said was that the public don't agree with the law...so why is it law?
I think the people have a right to experience those economic consequences. You imply they will be bad, for who? for how long? do you really think the current system is the only system the public will accept?
I think that there are two issue's here, one is the simple moral argument for and against copying bits, the other is the law system, and how screwed it is right now.
Personally while they keep wrongly branding people has thieves I've got no qualms downloading whatever I feel like, and paying for what I feel like.
Just because something is currently illegal doesn't mean it should be.
That's one of the biggest problems that P2P is highlighting, governments are too slow to change out of date laws and are too easily influenced by the corps.
that's like how the browser for the xbox works.
I think the point is that the prostitute charges, which apparently is fair enough...however you can then kill her/him/it to get your money back. Which would be rather questionable behaviour in most societies.
So they drop more money after you've paid them than before.
Exactly!
Word is good at highlighting problem areas. Even if the suggestion it gives is rubbish, if you think about it you often realize it can be worded better. So Word's check is a useful guide, not a magic wand!
It's the right type of content to expect people to pay for, considering it was watchable for free at one point.
If you were buying car you would probly buy related magazines, and here in the UK that will probly cost you near enough £3...so instead you can buy a review of just the car you want.