we're half-way there; 5253341 covers requesting asynchronously compressed files from a remote server. virtually any web server serving compressed files/images is liable
"it didn't mean that people couldn't imagine them as lego blocks built out of (then) current devices loosely coupled together."
that's not enough. an examiner can make an obviousness rejection only if he can show there was a MOTIVATION to put these pieces together in the way that's claimed.
"Also, they are going to have to prove that the other phones in production are using THEIR patented technology, not just copying the effects OF the technology"
are you familiar with the doctrine of equivalents?
Is this really news? The ex-parte re-exam with the prior art uncovered by the New Zealand man invalidated all claims except those that mentioned a shopping cart; this was reported weeks ago. Back then, the PTO said that were Amazon to amend the rejected claims to include a shopping-cart limitation, which was not found in the newly uncovered prior art, those claims would probably be admissible.
The "news" appears to be that Amazon did what the PTO suggested it to do...
can we go easy on the 84 melodrama. sometimes the police brings some benefit for us all (I know, *gasp*) and not every new tool that it's handed is a stepping stone to a dystopia.
a direct result of poverty-line wages in the retail biz. OTOH CostCo pays an averageof $17/h and has the lowest employee theft and turnover rates in the industry (big surprise).
Once I tried installing Corel Linux (remember that abomination?) Wiped out my MBR and/home partition and almost fried my monitor with messed up refresh rates.
oh man you're from concordia too!! yeah the two streets beside the Hall Building are full of copy shops, 15-20$ for most books. Without em I would've paid 400$ this semester. everybody does it.
I've got Karma 15 and I don't care how low it drops, this has gotta be said.
Kofi that Oreo negro who's painted all white on the inside needs to be castrated so that we won't have more of that disgusting breed of folks, certainly not a Peace Prize.
If the UN were a notch more of a pathetic waste of public money than they already are, they'd have invented a medal for it by now.
The UN is good at ALLOWING genocides under its nose, not PREVENTING ones. Don't believe me? Sounds like a flamebait to ya? Ask anyone from Rwanda, from goddamn Srebrenica, yeah they'll tell you exactly on what hundreds of millions of US money go for, big salaries for clueless paper tigers who get to crap on New York parking tickets 'cause they got dipl. immunity.
The UN can suck my left nut and ask for the other one, but me I don't need this shit. And I don't need some Scandinavian tree-huggers giving Peace Prizes to Kofis and Arafats.
Hell, what I need is some Canadian beer and an end to this hypocrisy.
Now it's time for moderators to do what they're good at.
I haven't been to one of the 'cube clubs' but I've had my cube (import) for over a month now, and I can assure everyone that it is a great (little) system. The visuals in all three of the japanese launch games (Luigi's Mansion, Waverace - bluestorm and Super Monkey Ball) are fantastic, Luigi's and Waverace are particularily impressive. From a hardware standpoint I'm pretty impressed, Nintendo, ATI and IBM have done a great job designing this system, the footprint is small, the graphics look sharp, from what I hear it is a dream to write for and the controllers are out of this world.
As far as the funfactor of the Games:
Luigi's:
Great fun, great visuals but kinda short, I beat it (without knowing any japanese) in a bit over 7 hours.
Waverace:
Really intense. Spectacular graphics, awesome wave physics and good difficulty. Split screened with friends on a bigscreen is really wild.
Monkey Ball:
This game alone justifies the purchase of the system. I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a game (on a console) with friends as I have with this one. The premise is wierd, (you manuver a monkey trapped inside a plastic ball through courses) but insanely addicive. Buy the system and buy this game;)
Woohoo! IAAAA (I Am An Amateur Astronomer). =) Anyway, I have two main things to say. The first is a rant about the media blowing things out of proportion, and the second is some tips on how to look for a meteor shower.
I hope it is really great this year, but please nobody assume that it's going to happen just because it's in a newspaper or on the news. Astronomy's one of those cost-benefit things where 99 out of 100 times there's a warning and you get up at 3 in the morning and nothing happens. The other time you see something and it's either average, or spectacular and a life-long memory. In 1966, everyone assumed that the Leonids had died, because they hadn't shown up at all in the 30's. A relatively small number of people went out at the time that they were predicted, and they saw a really awesome display.
The Leonids were again predicted to be really big in 1999, to the point where CNN was showing Japanese people in downtown Tokyo setting up deck chairs on the roof of office blocks. The whole thing fizzled, and immediately afterwards lots of the editorial media started complaining that nothing had happened. The same thing was predicted again for last year, and nothing really happened on the spectacular scale of what was expected.
This year, someone else has predicted that it'll happen by using a slightly different system. Like I said I hope it's right. I'll definitely be up in the morning watching with friends from my local club, and if nothing happens we'll drag out the telescopes nad look at other stuff in the sky.
We never bother bringing the media in on possibly "big" events anymore, though, because they just blow the entire general public's expectations out of proportion and then blame astronomers for being wrong when it doesn't come off. If something happens then we all get to see it and tell the media after it's happened - if we're lucky, someone got a good photograph.
I really admire RMS, but I have to say, he does go off the deep end to the point that he may be doing more to HURT the FSF than help it.
I understand that free software is as much a political movement as it is an idea for better software. However, RMS seems to be HOSTILE to those who don't make the same choices he does. Freedom to me, means, that, freedom. It's about having the freedom to make good or bad choices.
The KDE controversy, the takeover attempt on GLIBC etc, makes him look more like a raving lunatic, and by extension, makes ALL of us who support the principle of the GPL and open source look the same. Why? Because Stallman proclaims himself the leader of the whole movement whenever asked, or not asked.
While I have tremendous respect for the man, and his philospohy, his despotic style runs contrary to the whole anarchistic nature of free software. RMS needs to realize that not EVERYTHING needs to be called "GNU/"
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weird; "purely philosophical" pursuits don't count as infringement. If there was a commercial aspect to Grody's work then it's a different matter.
the priority date is either 2000 or 1997 depending on which one of the parent applications the claims continue from.
"Trying to patent stuff that has been out on the market for years"
keep in mind the 1997 priority date. very few multi-function phones existed back then
we're half-way there; 5253341 covers requesting asynchronously compressed files from a remote server. virtually any web server serving compressed files/images is liable
you're close; the smallest fish is picked first to see which judge gets assigned to the case; if they like him then the real shakedown begins
"it didn't mean that people couldn't imagine them as lego blocks built out of (then) current devices loosely coupled together."
that's not enough. an examiner can make an obviousness rejection only if he can show there was a MOTIVATION to put these pieces together in the way that's claimed.
"Also, they are going to have to prove that the other phones in production are using THEIR patented technology, not just copying the effects OF the technology"
are you familiar with the doctrine of equivalents?
Is this really news? The ex-parte re-exam with the prior art uncovered by the New Zealand man invalidated all claims except those that mentioned a shopping cart; this was reported weeks ago.
Back then, the PTO said that were Amazon to amend the rejected claims to include a shopping-cart limitation, which was not found in the newly uncovered prior art, those claims would probably be admissible.
The "news" appears to be that Amazon did what the PTO suggested it to do...
can we go easy on the 84 melodrama. sometimes the police brings some benefit for us all (I know, *gasp*) and not every new tool that it's handed is a stepping stone to a dystopia.
someone saw the daily show
a direct result of poverty-line wages in the retail biz. OTOH CostCo pays an averageof $17/h and has the lowest employee theft and turnover rates in the industry (big surprise).
Once I tried installing Corel Linux (remember that abomination?) Wiped out my MBR and /home partition and almost fried my monitor with messed up refresh rates.
your friend's story is a perfect argument for gun control.
no Zaurus is complete without Zaurus Freeciv on it!
the point is that he's last person anyone would be sucking up to
Well, you can tell that the author is not sucking up to AOL's ex-CEO.
you mean, the CEO that in 1998 gave 8$ million to a christian school where they "cure" homosexuals?
If you're gonna check out Knoppix then have a look at KnoppiXMAME too.
why learn how to live without a feature you take for granted? heck we can "learn" to live without electricity too, but that don't mean I wanna.
This is great news but when is UNDO gonna be implemented, if ever? This is a major feature for a software like that to be missing.
oh man you're from concordia too!! yeah the two streets beside the Hall Building are full of copy shops, 15-20$ for most books. Without em I would've paid 400$ this semester. everybody does it.
I will now forever be remembered as a robot. thanks a bunch!
I've got Karma 15 and I don't care how low it drops, this has gotta be said.
Kofi that Oreo negro who's painted all white on the inside needs to be castrated so that we won't have more of that disgusting breed of folks, certainly not a Peace Prize.
If the UN were a notch more of a pathetic waste of public money than they already are, they'd have invented a medal for it by now.
The UN is good at ALLOWING genocides under its nose, not PREVENTING ones. Don't believe me? Sounds like a flamebait to ya? Ask anyone from Rwanda, from goddamn Srebrenica, yeah they'll tell you exactly on what hundreds of millions of US money go for, big salaries for clueless paper tigers who get to crap on New York parking tickets 'cause they got dipl. immunity.
The UN can suck my left nut and ask for the other one, but me I don't need this shit. And I don't need some Scandinavian tree-huggers giving Peace Prizes to Kofis and Arafats.
Hell, what I need is some Canadian beer and an end to this hypocrisy.
Now it's time for moderators to do what they're good at.
I haven't been to one of the 'cube clubs' but I've had my cube (import) for over a month now, and I can assure everyone that it is a great (little) system. The visuals in all three of the japanese launch games (Luigi's Mansion, Waverace - bluestorm and Super Monkey Ball) are fantastic, Luigi's and Waverace are particularily impressive. From a hardware standpoint I'm pretty impressed, Nintendo, ATI and IBM have done a great job designing this system, the footprint is small, the graphics look sharp, from what I hear it is a dream to write for and the controllers are out of this world.
;)
As far as the funfactor of the Games:
Luigi's:
Great fun, great visuals but kinda short, I beat it (without knowing any japanese) in a bit over 7 hours.
Waverace:
Really intense. Spectacular graphics, awesome wave physics and good difficulty. Split screened with friends on a bigscreen is really wild.
Monkey Ball:
This game alone justifies the purchase of the system. I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a game (on a console) with friends as I have with this one. The premise is wierd, (you manuver a monkey trapped inside a plastic ball through courses) but insanely addicive. Buy the system and buy this game
Woohoo! IAAAA (I Am An Amateur Astronomer). =) Anyway, I have two main things to say. The first is a rant about the media blowing things out of proportion, and the second is some tips on how to look for a meteor shower.
I hope it is really great this year, but please nobody assume that it's going to happen just because it's in a newspaper or on the news. Astronomy's one of those cost-benefit things where 99 out of 100 times there's a warning and you get up at 3 in the morning and nothing happens. The other time you see something and it's either average, or spectacular and a life-long memory. In 1966, everyone assumed that the Leonids had died, because they hadn't shown up at all in the 30's. A relatively small number of people went out at the time that they were predicted, and they saw a really awesome display.
The Leonids were again predicted to be really big in 1999, to the point where CNN was showing Japanese people in downtown Tokyo setting up deck chairs on the roof of office blocks. The whole thing fizzled, and immediately afterwards lots of the editorial media started complaining that nothing had happened. The same thing was predicted again for last year, and nothing really happened on the spectacular scale of what was expected.
This year, someone else has predicted that it'll happen by using a slightly different system. Like I said I hope it's right. I'll definitely be up in the morning watching with friends from my local club, and if nothing happens we'll drag out the telescopes nad look at other stuff in the sky.
We never bother bringing the media in on possibly "big" events anymore, though, because they just blow the entire general public's expectations out of proportion and then blame astronomers for being wrong when it doesn't come off. If something happens then we all get to see it and tell the media after it's happened - if we're lucky, someone got a good photograph.
So don't get your hopes up.
I really admire RMS, but I have to say, he does go off the deep end to the point that he may be doing more to HURT the FSF than help it.
I understand that free software is as much a political movement as it is an idea for better software. However, RMS seems to be HOSTILE to those who don't make the same choices he does. Freedom to me, means, that, freedom. It's about having the freedom to make good or bad choices.
The KDE controversy, the takeover attempt on GLIBC etc, makes him look more like a raving lunatic, and by extension, makes ALL of us who support the principle of the GPL and open source look the same. Why? Because Stallman proclaims himself the leader of the whole movement whenever asked, or not asked.
While I have tremendous respect for the man, and his philospohy, his despotic style runs contrary to the whole anarchistic nature of free software. RMS needs to realize that not EVERYTHING needs to be called "GNU/"
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(The price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
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