Most night driving is between sunset and midnight though. For the morning hours, this isn't going to help, but cars do still have headlights so we're no worse off than before.
This is just discussions. There are a lot of stages to go through until filming actually starts. You need funding, a distributor, and lots of other things need to be right, and can be pulled away at any time.
The problem is, if I can get my avatar into a position where he's catapulted across the plane, that's a lot more satisfying than actually winning the game.
Well, a few comments up, was the point "I have no problem getting Windows 8.1 (or whatever the current version is) when I replace the computer, but there's nothing wrong with the machine right now.".
This is about software not wearing out. If the hardware breaks then buy a new PC with new software. Until that happens, the software will continue to do the same job it did when it was installed, as well as when it was installed. After that happens, you're maintaining hardware, which is indeed a waste of time.
He's right. "Similar" is not prior art - at least not the sort that will invalidate the patent.
What the prior art needs to be is an implementation of the claim that is considered to be violated. Specifically, it needs to use a touch sensitive display, a continuously moving unlock image, and for this to unlock a device.
So a mouse based implemntation may not be prior art. Neither might a toggle version with the same gesture). Or perhaps they will. Depends on what the court thinks is obvious.
Looks to me like it has a perfectly flat back and is clearly thicker than an iPad. Certainly if you saw the two side by side youy'd be able to identify which one was the iPad even without logos.
I presume censorship means direct government censorship at the connection, rather than punishment after the fact (For example in the UK, not all ISPs are filtered, even by cleanfeed; in much of Europe promoting fascism is illegal but not blocked). Surveillance - while I would not be surprised if all countries were spying on the traffic - has only been proven to a reasonable standard in a few countries. I think they're using information from Reporters Without Borders.
If this were true, operators would have already stopped roaming charges because it's probably moderately expensive to track, bill, and maintain the infrastructure/software for it.
The only way they could find out if this was true would be by taking the risk. Why would they do that if they are profitable? Executives in big companies are quite risk averse.
Of course this will cost them money, don't be silly. They'll have to make it up somewhere else.
It may well do so. My suggestion was speculation. But how will they make it up elsewhere? Their prices are presumably set at the rate where profit-per-customer x number of customers is optimised. If they could make more money by increasing prices they'd increase prices.
I may be wrong, but don't BT Wholesale just sell the chunk of connection between the home and the exchange? It would be difficult for BT to interfere with data rates on a per packet basis here. So there is actually competition even amongst the DSL providers,
While I largely agree, Google maps and translate can be pretty useful. And to a lesser degree, posting photos on social networks is nice, if not all that important.
Which suggests things are the wrong way round:) Unless the wholesaler charges extra to the end company (e.g. Netflix) - and I don't think it's set up so that they can - competition in Europe should for the most part prevent this sort of problem. In the US there is no competition to speak of, nor is there any apparent plan to create any. That's where net neutrality is actually needed.
Limit? What is this? My monthly cost is zero, and I get charged for phone calls. Where do you live where you're limited to how many calls you can make?
Well, in Britain I had the choice of BT, Virgin, TalkTalk, Sky, Plusnet, Tesco, Clara.net and a whole load of others. So I don;t think any of them are local monopolies.
Option D: Mobile operators don't make significant losses because roaming charges are a pretty small chunk of their income, and it's offset by increased usage by travellers.
Net Netrality is less of a problem in Europe. Our ISPs aren't nearly as monopolised as they seem to be in the US. To be honest, I'm not even sure that this is automatically a goood thing. I don't mind my Netflix getting a extra bandwidth, as long as this is bandwidth in addition to what everyone already gets. The problem is establishing whether the high payers are getting extra or everyone else is gettign a reuced service. There's no actually a difference; it just depends what you consider the baseline to be.
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Thisis The Netherlands... I don't think they have rock faces. Or hills. Or topology generally.
Most night driving is between sunset and midnight though. For the morning hours, this isn't going to help, but cars do still have headlights so we're no worse off than before.
This is just discussions. There are a lot of stages to go through until filming actually starts. You need funding, a distributor, and lots of other things need to be right, and can be pulled away at any time.
The problem is, if I can get my avatar into a position where he's catapulted across the plane, that's a lot more satisfying than actually winning the game.
Then the earlier argument made by the AC doesn't apply. How much XP software came on floppy disk?
Well, I gather a good chunk of it was written by Microsoft.
If not, why did you bring Microsoft into a discussion about it?
Used MS-DOS 6.22 for several years without having to reinstall.
Well, a few comments up, was the point "I have no problem getting Windows 8.1 (or whatever the current version is) when I replace the computer, but there's nothing wrong with the machine right now.".
This is about software not wearing out. If the hardware breaks then buy a new PC with new software. Until that happens, the software will continue to do the same job it did when it was installed, as well as when it was installed. After that happens, you're maintaining hardware, which is indeed a waste of time.
But that's a hardware problem. Upgrading the OS still isn't going to solve the problem.
Why do I need to find new software for DOS 6? The software that is installed on the machine still does the job it did when it was first installed.
I'm confused. The claims are "1. The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described."
No mention of rounded corners. This is the patent I'm looking at is this not the right one? Certainly looks noticably different from the TC1100.
He's right. "Similar" is not prior art - at least not the sort that will invalidate the patent.
What the prior art needs to be is an implementation of the claim that is considered to be violated. Specifically, it needs to use a touch sensitive display, a continuously moving unlock image, and for this to unlock a device.
So a mouse based implemntation may not be prior art. Neither might a toggle version with the same gesture). Or perhaps they will. Depends on what the court thinks is obvious.
Looks to me like it has a perfectly flat back and is clearly thicker than an iPad. Certainly if you saw the two side by side youy'd be able to identify which one was the iPad even without logos.
A design patent and a utility patent are very differnt things.
Technically, yes you're right. They did patent this. But they're not claiming any technical innovation here. Just exclusivity on a unique design.
I was tempted to put a disclaimer to pretty much this effect, but felt that I wasn't really saying anythng about the analogy.
I do agree with you. Networking people use a lot of plumbing related metaphors.
I presume censorship means direct government censorship at the connection, rather than punishment after the fact (For example in the UK, not all ISPs are filtered, even by cleanfeed; in much of Europe promoting fascism is illegal but not blocked). Surveillance - while I would not be surprised if all countries were spying on the traffic - has only been proven to a reasonable standard in a few countries. I think they're using information from Reporters Without Borders.
It's a series of tubes!
The only way they could find out if this was true would be by taking the risk. Why would they do that if they are profitable? Executives in big companies are quite risk averse.
It may well do so. My suggestion was speculation. But how will they make it up elsewhere? Their prices are presumably set at the rate where profit-per-customer x number of customers is optimised. If they could make more money by increasing prices they'd increase prices.
I may be wrong, but don't BT Wholesale just sell the chunk of connection between the home and the exchange? It would be difficult for BT to interfere with data rates on a per packet basis here. So there is actually competition even amongst the DSL providers,
While I largely agree, Google maps and translate can be pretty useful. And to a lesser degree, posting photos on social networks is nice, if not all that important.
Which suggests things are the wrong way round :) Unless the wholesaler charges extra to the end company (e.g. Netflix) - and I don't think it's set up so that they can - competition in Europe should for the most part prevent this sort of problem. In the US there is no competition to speak of, nor is there any apparent plan to create any. That's where net neutrality is actually needed.
Limit? What is this? My monthly cost is zero, and I get charged for phone calls. Where do you live where you're limited to how many calls you can make?
Well, in Britain I had the choice of BT, Virgin, TalkTalk, Sky, Plusnet, Tesco, Clara.net and a whole load of others. So I don;t think any of them are local monopolies.
Option D: Mobile operators don't make significant losses because roaming charges are a pretty small chunk of their income, and it's offset by increased usage by travellers.
Net Netrality is less of a problem in Europe. Our ISPs aren't nearly as monopolised as they seem to be in the US. To be honest, I'm not even sure that this is automatically a goood thing. I don't mind my Netflix getting a extra bandwidth, as long as this is bandwidth in addition to what everyone already gets. The problem is establishing whether the high payers are getting extra or everyone else is gettign a reuced service. There's no actually a difference; it just depends what you consider the baseline to be.