"If, at any time, the employer wishes to usurp the inventions of the employee, and wishes to exploit the revenues secured by said invention of said employee, then the employee is entitled to three (3) swings at the CEO with a Louisville Slugger or a Rawlings Pro-Core. No aluminum bats shall be used in the swinging process."
Sure, COPS may be "real-life", but did you ever stop to think about what the camera is doing to the police officers? Anyone who has seen "The Chase" will know.
"One subject not raised at all in the program was the more than 800 pounds of lunar rocks that astronauts brought back to Earth. Geologists worldwide have been examining these samples for 30 years, and the conclusion is inescapable. The rocks, clearly formed in the absence of oxygen and water, could not have been collected or manufactured on Earth."
Ah, yet another partially falsified program by Fox that tries to extend the conspiracy theory set by the X-Files. In a way, this show is attempting to increase the ratings of the X-Files (ever since Duchovny left I think it lost popularity; I wouldn't know firsthand, I don't watch it anymore!).
This one will just fall into the same sleazy category as Beyond Belief, Alien Autopsy, and COPS.
I saw that mask with the metal bars covering the mouth on Hannibal's head, and I thought, "Why not permanently strap one of those on Mike Tyson's head?"
I scored a 1260 on my SATs, however I didn't do so good in my turd of a high school (I blame lack of funding and the dimwits in the administration for my hell in high school).
However, that's over with; I'm in college, and I'm majoring in Computer Engineering; a field that is almost immune to the FC syndrome.
(Notice I said almost; there's the engineering folly of the CueCat; even without its moronic policies and software, the first revision of the CueCat itself was a technological disgrace.)
And it all crashes down, (the FTC and PTO, not to mention JEDEC, are going to grill Rambus for this.)
And you break your crown, (the Rambus speed crown was broken by DDR SDRAM)
And you point your finger but there's no one around!
Just want one thing, just to play the king, (the king of RAM designers, that is)
But your castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name (Rambus is a cool name, if only it wasn't so tarnished by this)
Where's your crown, King Nothing? (After all of this, they'll have their assets kicked to Neptune)
Email from Richard Crisp, then a senior executive at Rambus, dated Wednesday, May 24, 1995. (Crisp describes some of the technology presented by the SyncLink consortium at a JEDEC meeting):
"...As far as intellectual property issues go here are a few ideas: 1) DRAM on a packet oriented bus 2) DRAM with low swing signaling 3) DRAM with a two wire initialization system 4) DRAM with programmable access latency 5) DRAM with on-chip address space decoding..."
So the Rambus RIMMs were only a red herring to deceive the FTC and the PTO into believing that Rambus was actually making a new technology. It didn't even have to work well; it just had to function. And Intel fell for it.
After this one, Intel will probably announce their DDR chipset very soon! Who wouldn't, after finding out that the Rambus RIMMs were all part of one huge orchestrated lie?
From a Rambus business plan dated June 12, 1992: "Finally, we believe that Sync DRAMs infringe on some claims in our filed patents; and that there are additional claims we can file for our patents that cover features of Sync DRAMs. Then we will be in a position to request patent licensing (fees and royalties) from any manufacturer of Sync DRAMs. Our action plan is to determine the exact claims and file the additional claims by the end of Q3/92. Then to advise Sync DRAM manufacturers in Q4/92."
This was all part of their plan! They applied for patents on RAM technology, and when they were approved, they lied in wait like a tiger ready to ambush its prey. And then, they saw their chance in 1992. To prevent suspicion of foul play, they waited 8 years to sue the RAM makers. And when they did, they claimed that they had patents established well in advance.
IMHO, this was the perfect patent scam. They remained aloof while SDRAM proliferated in the consumer market, and then when computers all over the world were infringing on "their patents", they struck.
I hope they all fry in a vat of their own excrement (or they can just have numerous stories on FC). Such a despicable death is only fitting for this company of weasels.
Hell yes! It's legal for use. The big problem with it is the fact that it's being used to compress movies into files small enough to fit on one CD-R. DivX is just like mp3; it's just a compression format. The content and its copyright status determines the legality of the file, not the format.
Okay, neither can be viewed reliably in Linux, so every Linux user is either going to miss out, or they'll have to hack their system just to digest more pro-Linux FUD.
I'm surprised that someone didn't have the brain and the free time to write this out in an HTML transcript. Is it that hard to watch the video clip on a Windows machine while typing away at vim?
Well, then let's consider this a last resort maneuver, just in case SSH gets a legal team like Digital:Convergence, Apple, Microsoft, or Sun Microsystems.
Have I covered all the corporate legal system abusers? Hardly.
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Ugh, we seem to be having the same problem with Richard Stallman.
"If, at any time, the employer wishes to usurp the inventions of the employee, and wishes to exploit the revenues secured by said invention of said employee, then the employee is entitled to three (3) swings at the CEO with a Louisville Slugger or a Rawlings Pro-Core. No aluminum bats shall be used in the swinging process."
Sure, COPS may be "real-life", but did you ever stop to think about what the camera is doing to the police officers? Anyone who has seen "The Chase" will know.
This one will just fall into the same sleazy category as Beyond Belief, Alien Autopsy, and COPS.
I saw that mask with the metal bars covering the mouth on Hannibal's head, and I thought, "Why not permanently strap one of those on Mike Tyson's head?"
I'll shut the fuck up when they fix it. I can promise you that.
Hell, after this fiasco, it might be bumped up to July or August! Then, the P4 might become a viable choice.
I believe that this change would more accurately reflect the true nature of Rambus: "The tech-lawsuit specialists. We never stop litigating."
That is the question...
It's time to hold the ISPs accountable!
However, that's over with; I'm in college, and I'm majoring in Computer Engineering; a field that is almost immune to the FC syndrome.
(Notice I said almost; there's the engineering folly of the CueCat; even without its moronic policies and software, the first revision of the CueCat itself was a technological disgrace.)
Hey, maybe the RIAA could use CDDB to do that!
Oh, wait a minute, they refuse to use anything associated with mp3. Too bad, they'll have to toil for years then.
Trent ditched TVT. The last official NIN album to bear the TVT logo was Further Down the Spiral. Now, his official publisher is Nothing/Interscope.
And it all crashes down, (the FTC and PTO, not to mention JEDEC, are going to grill Rambus for this.)
And you break your crown, (the Rambus speed crown was broken by DDR SDRAM)
And you point your finger but there's no one around!
Just want one thing, just to play the king, (the king of RAM designers, that is)
But your castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name (Rambus is a cool name, if only it wasn't so tarnished by this)
Where's your crown, King Nothing? (After all of this, they'll have their assets kicked to Neptune)
So the Rambus RIMMs were only a red herring to deceive the FTC and the PTO into believing that Rambus was actually making a new technology. It didn't even have to work well; it just had to function. And Intel fell for it.
After this one, Intel will probably announce their DDR chipset very soon! Who wouldn't, after finding out that the Rambus RIMMs were all part of one huge orchestrated lie?
Pud's gonna love this one!
This was all part of their plan! They applied for patents on RAM technology, and when they were approved, they lied in wait like a tiger ready to ambush its prey. And then, they saw their chance in 1992. To prevent suspicion of foul play, they waited 8 years to sue the RAM makers. And when they did, they claimed that they had patents established well in advance.
IMHO, this was the perfect patent scam. They remained aloof while SDRAM proliferated in the consumer market, and then when computers all over the world were infringing on "their patents", they struck.
I hope they all fry in a vat of their own excrement (or they can just have numerous stories on FC). Such a despicable death is only fitting for this company of weasels.
Hell yes! It's legal for use. The big problem with it is the fact that it's being used to compress movies into files small enough to fit on one CD-R. DivX is just like mp3; it's just a compression format. The content and its copyright status determines the legality of the file, not the format.
...Nine Inch Nails - Big Man with a Gun.mp3
(The very fact that there's a Windows Media version IS hypocritical; why not do it in DivX?)
Okay, neither can be viewed reliably in Linux, so every Linux user is either going to miss out, or they'll have to hack their system just to digest more pro-Linux FUD.
I'm surprised that someone didn't have the brain and the free time to write this out in an HTML transcript. Is it that hard to watch the video clip on a Windows machine while typing away at vim?
This is a message to all companies: "Live and let open source live."
Have I covered all the corporate legal system abusers? Hardly.
Hah! And I thought he was tighter than a submarine airlock! How wrong I was!