The box had a warning label, but not the product, and unlike drain cleaner the product does not stay in the box, it's designed to be stuck to things.
Furthermore the product looks like a cake decoration, a candy. In addition they then enhanced the buckyball line by introducing a range of candy colours, (oranges, pink, red, blue) from memory, the orange looked particularly delicious. The drugs industry goes to some effort to try to differentiate their pills from candy, buckyball were going in the opposite direction, it was asking for trouble.
Also having watched adults play with buckyballs, they often try and make an earring, so I can imagine the following ,
kid A places a ball either side of their ear "look lets scare mom that I got a peircing"
kid B goes one better and places one either side of their tongue"
I might add I bought some chinese knockoff buckyballs, not a warning label in sight and not buckyballs fault, but a concern for the commission.
Given this I understand why they product was banned, they were potentially dangerous, but in a subtle way that a reasonable person would not have suspected (unlike lawndarts), and a warning on the packaging would not be sufficient in many cases.
However that said going after the company CEO for the price of the recal, that seems unprecedented and draconian, surely the point of a limited liability company is to do just that, limit the liability, if this sets a precedent forget bucky balls but go after CEO's of BP, Philip Morris, James Hardie, that will be fun and games, and see the politicians running to protect their revenue.
Creating a tool here (www.amberscope.com) that can help with finding prior art, it's free, and in some cases can work very well.
(Simply put, enter the patent number you have been threatened with, and any arrows pointing to it are prior are, the thicker the arrow, the more similar the two patents, the larger the dot, the more important the prior art patent.)
Surprisingly yes I checked spam:-). To their credit Ouya have responded to my support ticket, although they cannot tell me if a console has been dispatched, they did provide a non working tracking number, with the caveat that IF the console has been dispatches there is a fair chance it will arrive before the number works.
Have to say Raspberry Pi did a much slicker of communication and getting hardware into fresh sticky hands.
No, this is someone sore that their experience directly contradicts Ouya's public statements.
To be told I have recieved an email from their system, when this is not the case, is a failure of Ouya's order tracking, not their delivery partner. It indicate either Ouya do not know the status of their customers orders, or they are simply trying to spin this. Neither is a good look, I was curious to see if it was common or a one off.
I am a kickstarter backer, last I heard was "thank you for the money, here is a receipt number", I received no other communication let alone the infamous tracking number.
My experience directly contradicts Operations Chief Ken Stephens public statement that "All of these units HAVE left Hong Kong, and you have received your tracking email." I suspect I am not the only one.
Average Temp = -1.3 Celsius (29.6 Fahrenheit)
Highest = 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit)
For those who believe the freezing and boiling points of water also make good reference points.
I have been have witnessed a positive reaction to Kudo, not only for my own 8 year old, but also at his school (where I gave the lunchtime computer club some games tutorials after the Raspberry Pi baffled them), the programming is visual, and more importantly delivers fun, rewarding visual results instantly, all in 3D which the kids can relate too. Within a few hours they were programming the AI for soccer teams and pitting them against each other in a tournament.
I write this on a linux box, but credit where credits due MS did a good job with making Kudo assessable and rewarding.
Fun to meet and loves curry, wine and whisky, what's not to like? My heart goes out to his family.
I have religiously each book of his books as they were published, been a tradition for twenty years now, I can't say any other author has consistently astounded me as he has. Some of his more recent has been great as well. (I recommend The Algebraist & Surface Detail).
Thank you Iain.
Just bought and watched it on the strength of this post, glad I did, the film is its well done, haunting, and memorable. There are a lot worse ways to spend $3.
http://www.amberscope.com/?kcJTj5uA finds 26 potential prior art patents, I have marked up 7 candidates worth further investigation. Now to read them all...
Interestingly Apple itself has an earlier patent (2004) " Gestures for touch sensitive input devices" that was not listed as prior art to the 'pinch to zoom' patent. Could they use this as a fall back?
Also found a Nokia one, "Apparatus, Methods and computer program products providing finger-based and hand-based gesture commands for portable electronic device" in 2006
Spent a little time today digging around and found two prior art patents, which make things a little more fun:
Nokia "Apparatus, Methods and computer program products providing finger-based and hand-based gesture commands for portable electronic device" in 2006
and interesting Apple again in 2004 (granted 2006), " Gestures for touch sensitive input devices" but this patent is not listed as prior art to the granted Apple "pinch to zoom" patent
given the historically low approval ratings of the two major Australian political leaders, and the disappearance of the greens, depending on who his running mates are he could get some traction in these disenchanted times.
Yahoo7 which traditionally has a conservative leaning editorial policy and readership ran a poll today "Support a WikiLeaks party?", surprisingly 54% (3447) have said yes. I think his appeal is broader that you might think, not because people support Assange, but because they HATE the other two choices.
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The box had a warning label, but not the product, and unlike drain cleaner the product does not stay in the box, it's designed to be stuck to things. Furthermore the product looks like a cake decoration, a candy. In addition they then enhanced the buckyball line by introducing a range of candy colours, (oranges, pink, red, blue) from memory, the orange looked particularly delicious. The drugs industry goes to some effort to try to differentiate their pills from candy, buckyball were going in the opposite direction, it was asking for trouble. Also having watched adults play with buckyballs, they often try and make an earring, so I can imagine the following , kid A places a ball either side of their ear "look lets scare mom that I got a peircing" kid B goes one better and places one either side of their tongue" I might add I bought some chinese knockoff buckyballs, not a warning label in sight and not buckyballs fault, but a concern for the commission. Given this I understand why they product was banned, they were potentially dangerous, but in a subtle way that a reasonable person would not have suspected (unlike lawndarts), and a warning on the packaging would not be sufficient in many cases. However that said going after the company CEO for the price of the recal, that seems unprecedented and draconian, surely the point of a limited liability company is to do just that, limit the liability, if this sets a precedent forget bucky balls but go after CEO's of BP, Philip Morris, James Hardie, that will be fun and games, and see the politicians running to protect their revenue.
Creating a tool here (www.amberscope.com) that can help with finding prior art, it's free, and in some cases can work very well. (Simply put, enter the patent number you have been threatened with, and any arrows pointing to it are prior are, the thicker the arrow, the more similar the two patents, the larger the dot, the more important the prior art patent.)
Err the Xbox one launch was the shitstorm, they are in damage limitation now. Don was the face of bad news, change the face along with the message.
Surprisingly yes I checked spam :-). To their credit Ouya have responded to my support ticket, although they cannot tell me if a console has been dispatched, they did provide a non working tracking number, with the caveat that IF the console has been dispatches there is a fair chance it will arrive before the number works.
Have to say Raspberry Pi did a much slicker of communication and getting hardware into fresh sticky hands.
No, this is someone sore that their experience directly contradicts Ouya's public statements. To be told I have recieved an email from their system, when this is not the case, is a failure of Ouya's order tracking, not their delivery partner. It indicate either Ouya do not know the status of their customers orders, or they are simply trying to spin this. Neither is a good look, I was curious to see if it was common or a one off.
I am a kickstarter backer, last I heard was "thank you for the money, here is a receipt number", I received no other communication let alone the infamous tracking number. My experience directly contradicts Operations Chief Ken Stephens public statement that "All of these units HAVE left Hong Kong, and you have received your tracking email." I suspect I am not the only one.
Stirling engines on the cooling?
Average Temp = -1.3 Celsius (29.6 Fahrenheit) Highest = 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) For those who believe the freezing and boiling points of water also make good reference points.
Sorry Kodo http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu
I have been have witnessed a positive reaction to Kudo, not only for my own 8 year old, but also at his school (where I gave the lunchtime computer club some games tutorials after the Raspberry Pi baffled them), the programming is visual, and more importantly delivers fun, rewarding visual results instantly, all in 3D which the kids can relate too. Within a few hours they were programming the AI for soccer teams and pitting them against each other in a tournament. I write this on a linux box, but credit where credits due MS did a good job with making Kudo assessable and rewarding.
Fun to meet and loves curry, wine and whisky, what's not to like? My heart goes out to his family. I have religiously each book of his books as they were published, been a tradition for twenty years now, I can't say any other author has consistently astounded me as he has. Some of his more recent has been great as well. (I recommend The Algebraist & Surface Detail). Thank you Iain.
Which seems like a good reason to support this kickstarter, and I have.
Just bought and watched it on the strength of this post, glad I did, the film is its well done, haunting, and memorable. There are a lot worse ways to spend $3.
http://www.amberscope.com/?kcJTj5uA finds 26 potential prior art patents, I have marked up 7 candidates worth further investigation. Now to read them all...
Interestingly Apple itself has an earlier patent (2004) " Gestures for touch sensitive input devices" that was not listed as prior art to the 'pinch to zoom' patent. Could they use this as a fall back?
Also found a Nokia one, "Apparatus, Methods and computer program products providing finger-based and hand-based gesture commands for portable electronic device" in 2006
http://www.ambercite.com/joomla/index.php/amber
Spent a little time today digging around and found two prior art patents, which make things a little more fun:
Nokia "Apparatus, Methods and computer program products providing finger-based and hand-based gesture commands for portable electronic device" in 2006
and interesting Apple again in 2004 (granted 2006), " Gestures for touch sensitive input devices" but this patent is not listed as prior art to the granted Apple "pinch to zoom" patent
http://www.ambercite.com/joomla/index.php/amber
given the historically low approval ratings of the two major Australian political leaders, and the disappearance of the greens, depending on who his running mates are he could get some traction in these disenchanted times.
Yahoo7 which traditionally has a conservative leaning editorial policy and readership ran a poll today "Support a WikiLeaks party?", surprisingly 54% (3447) have said yes. I think his appeal is broader that you might think, not because people support Assange, but because they HATE the other two choices.