Certainly is giving some lawyers verrrry interesting dreams - now matter how badly this rolls for the family and perception of them fighting over ownership of the legacy, the lawyers will still collect their due.
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the contents of their IP portfolio. Where they can use their last name to profit from my legacy.
Tell me about the dream!
As is the case with increasing frequency, one is left to wonder about the implications intellectual property claims have for free speech when they can be applied to so public a figure as Dr. King."
Never mind it was a public performance, with the most memorable part of the speech being ad-libbed by Dr. King.
I'm certain Michael Jackson's surviving relatives could teach them some real lessons about infighting and degrading the overall value of the property with unseemly squabbles.
I was back at University when it was said the price of the MB went up because a fire somewhere in California. Will a fire in Korea have the same effect? I am not into hw as much as then, obviously, but nowadays I doubt it will be so.
This fire was in China, not Korea, but it burned as hot and brightly as any fire - which will probably be seized upon for marketing purposes -
New Hynix Fire DDR3 RAM It will make your system Blaze!
Anybody who bought memory in 1994/1995 knows about this kind of thing.
I remember spending $600+ dollars to get 16MB of RAM back in the day, and that was considered a good price back then.
Of course, cynically I believe companies will latch onto anything which allows them to claim increased scarcity and jack up prices.
And that there is a spot market for DRAM tells me that, once again, speculative investors are fucking it up for everybody -- kinda like oil, where the price goes up because people believe that other people believe the price will go up, and not for any actual market factors.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I remember spending $400 on 4K of static ram, 2102 1024x1. Kids these days are spoiled.
and after we bought the RAM we worked 27 hours a day at the mill to pay for it, ate broken glass for breakfast and lived in a hole in the middle of the lane, but it was a good life...
Why are there so few alternatives? Because egroups and onelist merged and yahoo bought them
And Google bought up Deja News and made a complete mess of that.
Reading the Yahoo official resonse...
We deeply value how much you, our users, care about Yahoo! Groups... we launched our first update to the Groups experience in several years and while these changes are an important step to building a more modern Groups experience, we recognise that this is a considerable change.
We are listening to all of the community feedback and we are actively measuring user feedback so we can continuously make improvements.
I can only surmise they are arrogantly looking down their nose and their user community and scoffing "Stupid cretins, we are gods, do not anger us with your squealing like pigs.
It is this sort of thing that drives customers and related business away. Perhaps the better line of attack is to deluge advertisers... or buy some premium tweets.;-)
The platform sucked ever since they bolted their in-house crap onto the acquired (far superior for its time) eGroups system.
I got tired of having ads shoved in my face all the time. Still hate that my ATT.net email has to go through a bevy of ads for me to read it. A mail client on your computer becomes a must. Currently using The Bat, which I'm rather fond of.
Back when Google acquired Deja News I had a terrible premonition about how it would all turn out. It languished for a while, with trolls and spammers flooding groups through Google accounts and then Google finally started working on making the interface horrible.
I had some really neat newsreaders on my Sun Linux box, where were awesome for surfing news and posting, back when you needed a verified account to post. Now Google Groups is nearly abandoned, because Google opened Pandora's box upon it. A real loss there.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison understood this, taking out patents in the US and Europe on work pioneered by others. He right bastard, but for over 100 years we still can't seem to get the patent system to work for the People, only for the weasels who steal others ideas and then arm themselves with lawyers
no kidding my current HTC Rezound has the ability to put apps on the lock screen to view without unlocking the phone. Otherwise unlock for full access.
Prior Art indeed.
Maybe they could patent a phone which would let you have access to things if you bribed it
I live a poor, miserable existence, but once the NSA found out I had a mobile phone, it's been living like George, Prince of Cambridge
So how would New Zealand's anti-software patent handle this - Is this an ordinary sort of process simply moved to software or is it revolutionary technology, worthy of a patent (I know what it smells like, but to me it's about as revolutionary as the guard shouting "AUS PASSE!" in the old Castle Wolfenstein, where some guards don't care (or can be bribed.))
Android 6 is Pepsi by then its going to be a new generation of people using it who are now kids, and everyone knows that Pepsi is the Choice of a new Generation
be sociable, drink a pepsi. be young and fair and debonair, have a pepsi. pepsi for those who think young -- such as vice president nixon and premier khrushchev
Most of those services are provided by state and county government. The federal government does not educate you for instance... Several of them (like electricity) are typically provided by private companies though there are a few large federal projects left over from earlier last century. The stuff you cited that does apply to the federal government applies to regulation. The vast overwhelming (pretty much all) majority of our taxes do not go to anything in this list.
If you aren't learning anything from the government about how the government prioritizes or carries out its duties then you are the problem. Claiming to learn anything from Faux Nooz, the political blowhards of the airwaves or your local Tea Party goobers isn't education either, though to know your enemy you should pay attention to how people continue to buy into their garbage without doing some thinking of their own.
Most of the things which the Federal Government does spend on have ensured our quality of life, directly or indirectly. Think DoD, FDA, Dept of Interior, Department of Ed, etc. It could probably do things more efficiently, but it usually has to deal with an increasingly ornery populace who do not truly understand why they are ornery.
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I don't think this was part of King's dream.
Certainly is giving some lawyers verrrry interesting dreams - now matter how badly this rolls for the family and perception of them fighting over ownership of the legacy, the lawyers will still collect their due.
It's the American dream.
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the contents of their IP portfolio. Where they can use their last name to profit from my legacy.
Tell me about the dream!
As is the case with increasing frequency, one is left to wonder about the implications intellectual property claims have for free speech when they can be applied to so public a figure as Dr. King."
Never mind it was a public performance, with the most memorable part of the speech being ad-libbed by Dr. King.
He must be doing about Warp 6 in his grave.
MLK's legacy capitalizing on MLK's legacy.
Go for it kids!
Maybe they should just sell the whole kit and caboodle to Disney and watch it really get run into the ground.
Does anyone else ever notice the color of Mickey?
I'm certain Michael Jackson's surviving relatives could teach them some real lessons about infighting and degrading the overall value of the property with unseemly squabbles.
i had a dream...
It's International Rescue's affirmative response when on call. "F.A.B, Virgil!"
Everyone knows that.
+1
Or you are Steve Ballmer and feel you need to release the stuff to make the stock maintain its present value, never mind burning some bridges.
I was back at University when it was said the price of the MB went up because a fire somewhere in California. Will a fire in Korea have the same effect? I am not into hw as much as then, obviously, but nowadays I doubt it will be so.
This fire was in China, not Korea, but it burned as hot and brightly as any fire - which will probably be seized upon for marketing purposes -
New Hynix Fire DDR3 RAM It will make your system Blaze!
oi! there's a cinder in me bit!
Anybody who bought memory in 1994/1995 knows about this kind of thing.
I remember spending $600+ dollars to get 16MB of RAM back in the day, and that was considered a good price back then.
Of course, cynically I believe companies will latch onto anything which allows them to claim increased scarcity and jack up prices.
And that there is a spot market for DRAM tells me that, once again, speculative investors are fucking it up for everybody -- kinda like oil, where the price goes up because people believe that other people believe the price will go up, and not for any actual market factors.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I remember spending $400 on 4K of static ram, 2102 1024x1. Kids these days are spoiled.
and after we bought the RAM we worked 27 hours a day at the mill to pay for it, ate broken glass for breakfast and lived in a hole in the middle of the lane, but it was a good life ...
Fabulous Arson Bunny
A rabbit started it.
Why are there so few alternatives? Because egroups and onelist merged and yahoo bought them
And Google bought up Deja News and made a complete mess of that.
Reading the Yahoo official resonse...
We deeply value how much you, our users, care about Yahoo! Groups ... we launched our first update to the Groups experience in several years and while these changes are an important step to building a more modern Groups experience, we recognise that this is a considerable change.
We are listening to all of the community feedback and we are actively measuring user feedback so we can continuously make improvements.
I can only surmise they are arrogantly looking down their nose and their user community and scoffing "Stupid cretins, we are gods, do not anger us with your squealing like pigs.
It is this sort of thing that drives customers and related business away. Perhaps the better line of attack is to deluge advertisers ... or buy some premium tweets. ;-)
The platform sucked ever since they bolted their in-house crap onto the acquired (far superior for its time) eGroups system.
I got tired of having ads shoved in my face all the time. Still hate that my ATT.net email has to go through a bevy of ads for me to read it. A mail client on your computer becomes a must. Currently using The Bat, which I'm rather fond of.
Back when Google acquired Deja News I had a terrible premonition about how it would all turn out. It languished for a while, with trolls and spammers flooding groups through Google accounts and then Google finally started working on making the interface horrible.
I had some really neat newsreaders on my Sun Linux box, where were awesome for surfing news and posting, back when you needed a verified account to post. Now Google Groups is nearly abandoned, because Google opened Pandora's box upon it. A real loss there.
Prior art no longer matters: FIRST TO FILE wins.
Over a century ago Thomas Edison understood this, taking out patents in the US and Europe on work pioneered by others. He right bastard, but for over 100 years we still can't seem to get the patent system to work for the People, only for the weasels who steal others ideas and then arm themselves with lawyers
Kim Dotcom reminds me of Bill the Cat >ACK<
no kidding my current HTC Rezound has the ability to put apps on the lock screen to view without unlocking the phone. Otherwise unlock for full access.
Prior Art indeed.
Maybe they could patent a phone which would let you have access to things if you bribed it
I live a poor, miserable existence, but once the NSA found out I had a mobile phone, it's been living like George, Prince of Cambridge
Yet another trivial and redundant patent...
So how would New Zealand's anti-software patent handle this - Is this an ordinary sort of process simply moved to software or is it revolutionary technology, worthy of a patent (I know what it smells like, but to me it's about as revolutionary as the guard shouting "AUS PASSE!" in the old Castle Wolfenstein, where some guards don't care (or can be bribed.))
So you don't think there is enough prior art ?
Prior art never stopped a suit being filed by a shi^H^H^Hgood lawyer.
Only the top left corner of each slashdot story is round though. Don't forget to specify that.
Whoa! You posted to a slashdot story! East Texas here I come!
I'll get a patent for posting on an Apple story.
then y'all will be screwed!
So what is the alternative?
Even Steambox has DRM.
Windows 7 and 8 basically are DRM, they even downgrade Blu-ray if you play it over a non-HDCP protected path.
Go outside and play.
That's the better alternative.
people need to learn how to pack fragile objects
no one is going to take special care for your one package and make the plane late.
I cast my guitar in carbonite whey I fly. Works great for fidgetty kids, too!
But is it libel if it's true?
Truth hasn't stopped a charging lawyer yet.
Android 6 is Pepsi
by then its going to be a new generation of people using it who are now kids, and everyone knows that Pepsi is the Choice of a new Generation
be sociable, drink a pepsi. be young and fair and debonair, have a pepsi. pepsi for those who think young -- such as vice president nixon and premier khrushchev
Not only that, but it demonstrates Google's furtherance of Whig objectives.
Most of those services are provided by state and county government. The federal government does not educate you for instance... Several of them (like electricity) are typically provided by private companies though there are a few large federal projects left over from earlier last century. The stuff you cited that does apply to the federal government applies to regulation. The vast overwhelming (pretty much all) majority of our taxes do not go to anything in this list.
If you aren't learning anything from the government about how the government prioritizes or carries out its duties then you are the problem. Claiming to learn anything from Faux Nooz, the political blowhards of the airwaves or your local Tea Party goobers isn't education either, though to know your enemy you should pay attention to how people continue to buy into their garbage without doing some thinking of their own.
Most of the things which the Federal Government does spend on have ensured our quality of life, directly or indirectly. Think DoD, FDA, Dept of Interior, Department of Ed, etc. It could probably do things more efficiently, but it usually has to deal with an increasingly ornery populace who do not truly understand why they are ornery.