Only thing is, the creators wouldn't be able to make any money from it. However, it would probably be possible to construct a peer to peer MMO without requiring a huge investment, or a particularly fully featured initial release. What it would need though, is a good initial design so that it can be extended and improved to handle better processors and improvements to the physics simulation.
Well, if you're going for accuracy, what I really meant was that if you accept a caution, you are considered to have admitted guilt as far as the law is concerned. This is a fact that is often not adequately explained by the police, and the threat of drawn out criminal proceedings often makes people accept a caution even though they are innocent.
It is a bunch of tubes. At least metaphorically speaking. There's a limit to how much data you can send down based on the thicknnss and pressure of a tube (i.e. the bandwidth of the slowest connection). If a "tube" is disconnected then data gets lost, unless access to that is blocked, in which case the data will find a different path, but the overall throughput will fall.
Electronics always cost more in the UK though. I don't think you can get anything for less than that over here, apart from some ultra-budget machines such as the basic Eee.
I'm not quite sure I understand the situation. Why were you being so cooperative? Sounds like they screwed up and cost you money as a result. Send them a cheque for the correct amount (minus any deductions for bank charges) and a letter explaining the charges.
and I'd be very surprised if Monster has a patent on that.
This is about design patents rather than a utility patents. It's probably more comparable to a trademark than a utility patent. An example of a design patent would be the Coca cola bottle.
Yes, but Gizmondo has a rubbish comments system, Reddit is all about xkcd and how people are being mean to Barrack Obama (at the moment. A few months ago it was Ron Paul), and Digg is full of Digg users.
They're just going to harass someone else now. They don't really care that much. The basic business plan here is "threaten to sue", "threaten some more", "If target refuses to settle then give up, else settle". They know full well that some people are going to call their bluff. He just happened to do it in a very long winded, wordy way that has saved them a lot of time and effort.
The Eee PC is not really being sold as a desktop replacement but more as a portable supplemental computer, and CE already has a GUI that works with smaller screens. So what does XP do that CE doesn't, thta's needed here?
Okay I don't know everything. However, why do we want another document format? Surely it would make more sense to incorporate the OOXML INK components to ODF. It's XML. Adding extra features is easy. Changing existing features is not easy.
So, what personal attacks are there? Can someone point to an example? Certainly, many think that the ISO is broken, Microsoft is corrupt, and suspect that there was some serious fraud happening at some level but none of these are personal attacks. They're legitimate complaints about major organisations. So who is this person being attacked?
They don't care about the format. OOXML may be 6000 pages long but ODF is 860, and nobody is going to read that either. The bureaucrat will just choose the a package that says it's ISO compliant. And actually - they should. The ISO is meant to save organisations from costly requirements analysis and provide them with a ready made and tested solution.
Although if they go for OOXML, they will both comply with ISO standards, and violate them at the same time.
And what about a white person with South African and American parents, who has spent half their life in each country?:)
I really don't know why "black" seems to have become mildly offensive. If people objected by being classified according to visually prominent racial characteristics, I'd understand it but the "African American" categorisation does exactly the same.
You realise that this was a specific application of gravity in a non obvious way, for a specific purpose, as opposed to a patent of gravity. There is a difference.
I don't think it's particularly obvious how you could use gravity of a body a quarter of a million miles away to get to a geostationary position.
You can easily make a box that streams videos for a retail price of $200. Probably even high definition. Blockbuster could no doubt tie it to a service, and take a hit on it to promote their service. Offer a subscription service that allows a selection of videos with popular movies at a premium and they can cover their capital costs in a few months.
Also, will they just say "it's not us, it's the record companies, we just represent them..." crap?
I don't think it makes a difference. The actual lawsuits have been filed under the name of the record companies (This particular one was Arista vs. John Does, I think). As such, any counter suit can be filed against the record company.
Network neutrality would be a sledgehammer for this nut. There's plenty of competition in the UK internet marketplace and generally fairly short tie-in periods. The BBC can safely ignore any demands since they don't rely on iPlayer to make money. If the ISP blocks iPlayer then the BBC suffers no loss, and the ISP loses customers.
If iPlayer becomes a must-have internet service then ISPs will eventually end up raising prices (or go bust). But really this will probably self-correct. Bandwidth prices will continue to fall. Home internet pricing will stop falling for a while as prices correct themselves to deal with the higher bandwidth requirements of a typical user.
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Only thing is, the creators wouldn't be able to make any money from it. However, it would probably be possible to construct a peer to peer MMO without requiring a huge investment, or a particularly fully featured initial release. What it would need though, is a good initial design so that it can be extended and improved to handle better processors and improvements to the physics simulation.
Well, if you're going for accuracy, what I really meant was that if you accept a caution, you are considered to have admitted guilt as far as the law is concerned. This is a fact that is often not adequately explained by the police, and the threat of drawn out criminal proceedings often makes people accept a caution even though they are innocent.
It is a bunch of tubes. At least metaphorically speaking. There's a limit to how much data you can send down based on the thicknnss and pressure of a tube (i.e. the bandwidth of the slowest connection). If a "tube" is disconnected then data gets lost, unless access to that is blocked, in which case the data will find a different path, but the overall throughput will fall.
If you accept a caution, you are actually admitting guilt.
George III never had his head chopped off! He was the one that chatted to trees.
Electronics always cost more in the UK though. I don't think you can get anything for less than that over here, apart from some ultra-budget machines such as the basic Eee.
"Assuming you have a spare copy"
And assuming you have a spare USB CD-ROM drive. Or does XP come on an SD-card?
I'm not quite sure I understand the situation. Why were you being so cooperative? Sounds like they screwed up and cost you money as a result. Send them a cheque for the correct amount (minus any deductions for bank charges) and a letter explaining the charges.
I think Slashdot has just grown up a bit. A lot of the posts that are modded as Funny would have resulted in a flame war a few years back.
and I'd be very surprised if Monster has a patent on that.
This is about design patents rather than a utility patents. It's probably more comparable to a trademark than a utility patent. An example of a design patent would be the Coca cola bottle.
Yes, but Gizmondo has a rubbish comments system, Reddit is all about xkcd and how people are being mean to Barrack Obama (at the moment. A few months ago it was Ron Paul), and Digg is full of Digg users.
Were Monster cable "owned"?
They're just going to harass someone else now. They don't really care that much. The basic business plan here is "threaten to sue", "threaten some more", "If target refuses to settle then give up, else settle". They know full well that some people are going to call their bluff. He just happened to do it in a very long winded, wordy way that has saved them a lot of time and effort.
I can't help wondering, since you had to ask this apparently, whether you have ever used a Windows CE-based device?
No. So thanks for the warning:)
The Eee PC is not really being sold as a desktop replacement but more as a portable supplemental computer, and CE already has a GUI that works with smaller screens. So what does XP do that CE doesn't, thta's needed here?
Okay I don't know everything. However, why do we want another document format? Surely it would make more sense to incorporate the OOXML INK components to ODF. It's XML. Adding extra features is easy. Changing existing features is not easy.
So, what personal attacks are there? Can someone point to an example? Certainly, many think that the ISO is broken, Microsoft is corrupt, and suspect that there was some serious fraud happening at some level but none of these are personal attacks. They're legitimate complaints about major organisations. So who is this person being attacked?
They don't care about the format. OOXML may be 6000 pages long but ODF is 860, and nobody is going to read that either. The bureaucrat will just choose the a package that says it's ISO compliant. And actually - they should. The ISO is meant to save organisations from costly requirements analysis and provide them with a ready made and tested solution.
Although if they go for OOXML, they will both comply with ISO standards, and violate them at the same time.
And what about a white person with South African and American parents, who has spent half their life in each country? :)
I really don't know why "black" seems to have become mildly offensive. If people objected by being classified according to visually prominent racial characteristics, I'd understand it but the "African American" categorisation does exactly the same.
Very little. Ultimately I guess it comes down to quantity. There are at least some practical limitations on junk mail (paper and postage costs money).
If I had my way, junk mail would be opt-in only as well.
You realise that this was a specific application of gravity in a non obvious way, for a specific purpose, as opposed to a patent of gravity. There is a difference.
I don't think it's particularly obvious how you could use gravity of a body a quarter of a million miles away to get to a geostationary position.
You can easily make a box that streams videos for a retail price of $200. Probably even high definition. Blockbuster could no doubt tie it to a service, and take a hit on it to promote their service. Offer a subscription service that allows a selection of videos with popular movies at a premium and they can cover their capital costs in a few months.
Also, will they just say "it's not us, it's the record companies, we just represent them..." crap?
I don't think it makes a difference. The actual lawsuits have been filed under the name of the record companies (This particular one was Arista vs. John Does, I think). As such, any counter suit can be filed against the record company.
Network neutrality would be a sledgehammer for this nut. There's plenty of competition in the UK internet marketplace and generally fairly short tie-in periods. The BBC can safely ignore any demands since they don't rely on iPlayer to make money. If the ISP blocks iPlayer then the BBC suffers no loss, and the ISP loses customers.
If iPlayer becomes a must-have internet service then ISPs will eventually end up raising prices (or go bust). But really this will probably self-correct. Bandwidth prices will continue to fall. Home internet pricing will stop falling for a while as prices correct themselves to deal with the higher bandwidth requirements of a typical user.
especially when you are talking about older movies that sure as heck were not recorded in HD.
They were recorded on 35mm or 70mm film. The grain size is finer than a High definition CCD's pixel.
Free speech.