I've tried Quack before. I forget who told me about it, but we used it from a mobile phone to get movie times without leaving the mall. It's a pretty good service for that kind of general-purpose kind of information.
But, I'm kind of at a loss as to what the application to Palms are. Clearly, you shouldn't need this service, because any loyal Palm user would have the device on him at all times -- that's the point, isn't it?
I suppose it would be neat to gain access to your calendar over the telephone, but you wouldn't necessarily be talking to your Palm, would you? You'd be talking to the server that had your calendar information, which would either be your PC or a web-based sync server.
I figured that it would only be a matter of time before someone really figures out the system and how to get the deepest discounts on everything, all the time.
Of course, that would be reverse-engineering their algorithm, which will probably be illegal soon.
I believe, in the US, you have some amount of time (I want to say a year) from the time of the first public disclosure to the time you file.
Of course, it doesn't make this patent any less goofy.
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There used to be a mitigating factor for the free flow of information, at least in the News Media... that of "Journalistic Integrity".
Sounds like more of the "back in the good ol' days we had VALUES" talk.
Yeah, that was a little over the top. My point wasn't supposed to be that Journalists have no integrity, where they had some Back In The Day. (although that is what I wrote. I will now write I will learn to use Preview! 100 times as punishment.)
Rather, I think that things are moving so fast nowadays that sorting out the reliable news from the unreliable rumors and scuttlebutt is much more difficult than it was back then, and journalists need to do a little extra to verify their sources.
In fact, as information in general gets more decentralized, (and we can examine the actual sources of information, and don't have to wait for the Film at 11), we all need to know where our information is coming from, or all information is useless. That is what can mitigate the exponential growth
of information.
There used to be a mitigating factor for the free flow of information, at least in the News Media... that of "Journalistic Integrity".
It was the radical concept that just because you got a new, earth-shattering lead on a story, you shouldn't necssarily use it, at least until you verified the source.
It seems now that the media races to be first to report a story, even if they're wrong. The recent state-calling debacle in the U.S. Election is one example. The Emulex hoax where a fake Press Release was sent out and news organizations ran with it without confirming the contents with the company was another. (Just seeing the "Press Release" was proof enough for them, I suppose.)
Decentralized information (in general, not just in the News Media) is only worth something if you know a little about the source (and thus, render it somewhat less than truly decentralized). Anybody who has downloaded badly-ripped MP3's from Napster knows that lesson...
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This isn't the first time we've paid for buggy beta software. But all those other times, the software was called "Version 1.0"!
I've tried Quack before. I forget who told me about it, but we used it from a mobile phone to get movie times without leaving the mall. It's a pretty good service for that kind of general-purpose kind of information.
But, I'm kind of at a loss as to what the application to Palms are. Clearly, you shouldn't need this service, because any loyal Palm user would have the device on him at all times -- that's the point, isn't it?
I suppose it would be neat to gain access to your calendar over the telephone, but you wouldn't necessarily be talking to your Palm, would you? You'd be talking to the server that had your calendar information, which would either be your PC or a web-based sync server.
Help, I'm confused!!!
I figured that it would only be a matter of time before someone really figures out the system and how to get the deepest discounts on everything, all the time.
Of course, that would be reverse-engineering their algorithm, which will probably be illegal soon.
I believe, in the US, you have some amount of time (I want to say a year) from the time of the first public disclosure to the time you file.
Of course, it doesn't make this patent any less goofy.
There used to be a mitigating factor for the free flow of information, at least in the News Media... that of "Journalistic Integrity".
Sounds like more of the "back in the good ol' days we had VALUES" talk.
Yeah, that was a little over the top. My point wasn't supposed to be that Journalists have no integrity, where they had some Back In The Day.
(although that is what I wrote. I will now write I will learn to use Preview! 100 times as punishment.)
Rather, I think that things are moving so fast nowadays that sorting out the reliable news from the unreliable rumors and scuttlebutt is much more difficult than it was back then, and journalists need to do a little extra to verify their sources.
In fact, as information in general gets more decentralized, (and we can examine the actual sources of information, and don't have to wait for the Film at 11), we all need to know where our information is coming from, or all information is useless. That is what can mitigate the exponential growth of information.
There used to be a mitigating factor for the free flow of information, at least in the News Media... that of "Journalistic Integrity".
It was the radical concept that just because you got a new, earth-shattering lead on a story, you shouldn't necssarily use it, at least until you verified the source.
It seems now that the media races to be first to report a story, even if they're wrong. The recent state-calling debacle in the U.S. Election is one example. The Emulex hoax where a fake Press Release was sent out and news organizations ran with it without confirming the contents with the company was another. (Just seeing the "Press Release" was proof enough for them, I suppose.)
Decentralized information (in general, not just in the News Media) is only worth something if you know a little about the source (and thus, render it somewhat less than truly decentralized). Anybody who has downloaded badly-ripped MP3's from Napster knows that lesson...