talk is not relevant, neither is any messenging client that shows the text as it is being typed. the patent discusses an indicator to show activity, but not showing the actual text. if no other MESSAGING client does this then their patent is valid as there wouldn't be prior art. you've got the remember, the exact wording and context of a patent is incredibly important (not to mention strategically important!).
also - the indicator in something like quake 3, which was also mentioned in a post, is not relevant either as quake 3 is not a messaging client, but rather a game.
essentially this patent is very clever because i think the "person is typing" is a great feature as it allows the recipient to see that they aren't just sitting around waiting for nothing and it is favourable for the sender of the message as they can correct things without the recipient seeing their mistakes. so this patent is essentially preventing all of the other messaging clients from providing an indicator as such. of course the other guys could show the text as it was typed - but this is not as useful and would not violate the patent.
with the amount of articles about the evolution (not Ximian!) of linux on the desktop and all of the linux zealots/advocates on/. - i find it very interesting that fewer people have recommended linux for this, preferring apple.
i read two things into this: 1) linux on the desktop is just not ready for the masses. 2) open source advocates (/. geeks, whatever the general collective is) are siding with apple - simply because its not microsoft. i suppose an argument for apple is that it is essentially pretty unix (with freebsd underneath). and the anti-microsoft argument, well, need i go on about it. what concerns me most about this is why are we so happy with what apple have done? i'm not totally aware of the licensing differences between bsd and linux - but i ask the question "where is aqua's source code". and by this question i infer - have apple screwed us over by leveraging a great os with a licence that suits them because they don't have to publish their source?
and... if i've made a mistake and the aqua source code is actually available - as far as i'm aware OSX only runs on apple hardware. how less evil is that than microsoft running on any x86 archichture, or sun's closed solaris architecture?
i have to agree with you whole-heartedly! i've always been a dell fan and have had both latitudes and inspirons. when i moved company i was given this ugly black thing (ThinkPad T21) with no touchpad and a stupid red nipple and i sulked for about a month. until i realised... this is by far the best laptop i have ever worked with. i'm on my second now (upgraded for RAM limitations on the old T21s) and have never had a single fault with any of the hardware. unlike my mate who's Inspiron's hard disk makes funny clicking noises every now and then and occasionally he has to push down on the casing to stop the LCD from doing this weird flicking stuff.
the only thing i would ever consider other than the thinkpad is a PowerBook - and thats purely because that thing is so beautiful I would have sex with it if it had a pair of tits!;)
its far better than the situation my 21 year old sister is - she can't use computers because she's never been taught and never shown an interest at home to learn anything about them.
nobody ever proposed scrapping traditional schooling - kids will still be taught the theory of math(s), English, science etc... just the medium through which it is taught has changed - which your second statement regarding solution/tools pretty much backs up...
now wouldn't that be a good MS killer uber merger?
- sun for their server kit
- novell for their networking
- apple for desktops
- os would be jointly developed using the fantastic ximian guys, the OSX team and the JAVA boys.
sure, i can see the humour - but this is possibly the saddest article i have ever read, and the saddest invention ever.
firstly, i've NEVER grokked this whole lazy-e-boy-that-vibrates-and-has-a-frige-and-beer- holders. ok maybe i do grok it, but come on - get a little bit of style over there in the US please! secondly, is our culture so utterly mindless that we have resorted to inventions such as this??
i can see how they can get indexes of what is being shared by who, but how (do you think) they are able to monitor the queries. i was thinking one of two:
a) sniffing traffic b) they have deals with kazaa (etc) master servers and get their logs
i bought this ipod thing a few weeks ago and i had no idea that i would be wearing the apple logo on my lapel (on the clip section of the beautiful silver remote). how dare they let me walk around advertising their brand.
oh wait, i can cover it up with a little white paint...may as well sue them anyway.
i'm not sure about the whole problem with their DNS server that we reported - but it basically sounds to be that this guy was ignorant. ignorance of a law is no grounds for defence - surely it should be that way from a defencive perspective as well. ignorance of not knowing that a coming soon page was up and not knowing how to change a DNS record should not be grounds to win a case.
there is obviously the flip-side to this in that has any single rogue (whatever, etc...) employee at SCO ever "stolen" code from an open source project?
i mean code is code. lets take all these DHTML libraries you can download on the net. i've seen bloody functions to change an image onmouseover with copyright notices saying that if you use this code blah blah blah. i mean - a mouseover routine is a mouseover routine is a mouseover routine. maybe there are three different ways to do it - but all with the same effect.
surely the only way that SCO can really prove anything is if they owned patents on the methodology for, by example, memory allocation then maybe they would have a case; although the flip-side to this is the anti patenting software movement going on at the moment...
there are sort of similar tilings, predominantly in europe, although i believe the guy (invader) who is responsible for them is currently in NY... although these aren't "profound" statements, they are really well done mosaic tiles of little space invaders!
you can check it out here. for fellow londoners who are interested...i, personally, have seen two in london. one on brick lane outside vibe bar and one in the notting hill area on some bridge that the carnival goes over - dunno which one, i live in the seeouthhhhh.
what, you mean this is not cool? don't forget, we are only 3 and a bit years into the 21st century and already we have private astronauts (ok, for a few mill - but its a start!)
1. it implements copyright rules! i'm quite sure sony wouldn't put this feature in if the law didn't exist. so we can't neccessarily blame manufacturers... 2. jeepers creepers 2 - no, really, thanks for the spoiler...and don't say thats predictable - because normally its the hot chick that gets it first!!!!
Among other things, he points out in the interview that some of the code in question has been removed from the 2.6 kernel ['because developers complained about how "ugly" it was'] before SCO even started complaining."
regardless that the code was "ugly" or that it has been removed - the fact is that the code DID GET INTO THE KERNEL. w
If there was a mechanism to subscribe to music for a flat monthly rate, how do you think this would work along the lines of:
1) Who would you subscribe to? Would you have to subscribe to EMI/BMG/Sony one-by-one, or would there be a number (or one?) blanket subscription for varying genres or labels? 2) How would money be disitributed? By the number of times tracks have been listened to/downloaded?
The RIAA continue to claim that file sharing is impacting CD sales. They do this by showing the decline of CD sales in recent years. I found some interesting quotes from an article recently:
According to the RIAA, CD sales dropped by 10% in 2001 and a further 6.8% last year, largely because of file sharing.
The IFPI's Commercial Music Piracy 2003 report, produced in early July, reveals pirate CD sales rose 14% in 2002 and exceeded one billion units for the first time.
My maths therefore concludes that if you deducted the 14% piracy, then CD sales have actually RISEN by around 7% over the last year! Do the RIAA actually know why their figures are falling (pirate cds/crap music...) - or do they choose to blame it all on peer to peer networks?
if the company was liquidated, all of the assets of the company become property of the liquidators. generally you will find that liquidators know nothing about source code and will generally flog it off pretty cheap.
if the company was not properly closed and everyone just stopped working, then ownership of the code would be up to the courts to decide. so if you picked up the code and released it as open source or something, you could find one of the ex-directors or somebody sueing you.
there is also the escrow angle - which i believe makes the code freely available to existing (at the time) clients. what the ramifications of this for further development it, i cannot tell you. maybe google around for definintions of escrow and see what you make of it.
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talk is not relevant, neither is any messenging client that shows the text as it is being typed. the patent discusses an indicator to show activity, but not showing the actual text. if no other MESSAGING client does this then their patent is valid as there wouldn't be prior art. you've got the remember, the exact wording and context of a patent is incredibly important (not to mention strategically important!).
also - the indicator in something like quake 3, which was also mentioned in a post, is not relevant either as quake 3 is not a messaging client, but rather a game.
essentially this patent is very clever because i think the "person is typing" is a great feature as it allows the recipient to see that they aren't just sitting around waiting for nothing and it is favourable for the sender of the message as they can correct things without the recipient seeing their mistakes. so this patent is essentially preventing all of the other messaging clients from providing an indicator as such. of course the other guys could show the text as it was typed - but this is not as useful and would not violate the patent.
with the amount of articles about the evolution (not Ximian!) of linux on the desktop and all of the linux zealots/advocates on /. - i find it very interesting that fewer people have recommended linux for this, preferring apple.
i read two things into this:
1) linux on the desktop is just not ready for the masses.
2) open source advocates (/. geeks, whatever the general collective is) are siding with apple - simply because its not microsoft. i suppose an argument for apple is that it is essentially pretty unix (with freebsd underneath). and the anti-microsoft argument, well, need i go on about it. what concerns me most about this is why are we so happy with what apple have done? i'm not totally aware of the licensing differences between bsd and linux - but i ask the question "where is aqua's source code". and by this question i infer - have apple screwed us over by leveraging a great os with a licence that suits them because they don't have to publish their source?
and... if i've made a mistake and the aqua source code is actually available - as far as i'm aware OSX only runs on apple hardware. how less evil is that than microsoft running on any x86 archichture, or sun's closed solaris architecture?
i have to agree with you whole-heartedly! i've always been a dell fan and have had both latitudes and inspirons. when i moved company i was given this ugly black thing (ThinkPad T21) with no touchpad and a stupid red nipple and i sulked for about a month. until i realised... this is by far the best laptop i have ever worked with. i'm on my second now (upgraded for RAM limitations on the old T21s) and have never had a single fault with any of the hardware. unlike my mate who's Inspiron's hard disk makes funny clicking noises every now and then and occasionally he has to push down on the casing to stop the LCD from doing this weird flicking stuff.
;)
the only thing i would ever consider other than the thinkpad is a PowerBook - and thats purely because that thing is so beautiful I would have sex with it if it had a pair of tits!
its far better than the situation my 21 year old sister is - she can't use computers because she's never been taught and never shown an interest at home to learn anything about them.
nobody ever proposed scrapping traditional schooling - kids will still be taught the theory of math(s), English, science etc... just the medium through which it is taught has changed - which your second statement regarding solution/tools pretty much backs up...
last i checked, neither really sold kit, software and network infrastructure. they both sell content.
now wouldn't that be a good MS killer uber merger?
- sun for their server kit
- novell for their networking
- apple for desktops
- os would be jointly developed using the fantastic ximian guys, the OSX team and the JAVA boys.
can you imagine...
"We didn't find: Democrat"
Perhaps you meant Republican.
what was the snippet on the RIAA sues wrong person article?
"computer neophyte (read Apple User for god's sake)".
and this guy is a... *looks at screenshot*
sure, i can see the humour - but this is possibly the saddest article i have ever read, and the saddest invention ever.
- holders. ok maybe i do grok it, but come on - get a little bit of style over there in the US please! secondly, is our culture so utterly mindless that we have resorted to inventions such as this??
firstly, i've NEVER grokked this whole lazy-e-boy-that-vibrates-and-has-a-frige-and-beer
The freedesktop.org url you have is incorrect - it is pointing to freeesktop.org!
correct: click
i can see how they can get indexes of what is being shared by who, but how (do you think) they are able to monitor the queries. i was thinking one of two:
a) sniffing traffic
b) they have deals with kazaa (etc) master servers and get their logs
any other ideas - or facts?
i bought this ipod thing a few weeks ago and i had no idea that i would be wearing the apple logo on my lapel (on the clip section of the beautiful silver remote). how dare they let me walk around advertising their brand.
oh wait, i can cover it up with a little white paint...may as well sue them anyway.
i'm not sure about the whole problem with their DNS server that we reported - but it basically sounds to be that this guy was ignorant. ignorance of a law is no grounds for defence - surely it should be that way from a defencive perspective as well. ignorance of not knowing that a coming soon page was up and not knowing how to change a DNS record should not be grounds to win a case.
there is obviously the flip-side to this in that has any single rogue (whatever, etc...) employee at SCO ever "stolen" code from an open source project?
i mean code is code. lets take all these DHTML libraries you can download on the net. i've seen bloody functions to change an image onmouseover with copyright notices saying that if you use this code blah blah blah. i mean - a mouseover routine is a mouseover routine is a mouseover routine. maybe there are three different ways to do it - but all with the same effect.
surely the only way that SCO can really prove anything is if they owned patents on the methodology for, by example, memory allocation then maybe they would have a case; although the flip-side to this is the anti patenting software movement going on at the moment...
i've long since tried to get hold of the map of the paris invasion. i've even emailed them about it but they don't appear to have them any more.
basically i've seen a few in paris and wanted to take photos of as many of them as i can - you wouldn't happen to have one would you?
there are sort of similar tilings, predominantly in europe, although i believe the guy (invader) who is responsible for them is currently in NY... although these aren't "profound" statements, they are really well done mosaic tiles of little space invaders!
you can check it out here. for fellow londoners who are interested...i, personally, have seen two in london. one on brick lane outside vibe bar and one in the notting hill area on some bridge that the carnival goes over - dunno which one, i live in the seeouthhhhh.
what, you mean this is not cool?
don't forget, we are only 3 and a bit years into the 21st century and already we have private astronauts (ok, for a few mill - but its a start!)
they've been a content company since Sony Music started...
i just like the aesthetics of of...
i suppose i could opt for a homebrew solution using this: hush. add a capture card, XMLTv and i'm away...
oh wait, i'm a few hundred euro's short.
maybe not a full 14 days, but CCTV recorders with large capacity already exist:
JVC
lots more
couple of points:
1. it implements copyright rules! i'm quite sure sony wouldn't put this feature in if the law didn't exist. so we can't neccessarily blame manufacturers...
2. jeepers creepers 2 - no, really, thanks for the spoiler...and don't say thats predictable - because normally its the hot chick that gets it first!!!!
all we need is to be able to actually buy the damn thing outside of japan!!
regardless that the code was "ugly" or that it has been removed - the fact is that the code DID GET INTO THE KERNEL. w
If there was a mechanism to subscribe to music for a flat monthly rate, how do you think this would work along the lines of:
1) Who would you subscribe to? Would you have to subscribe to EMI/BMG/Sony one-by-one, or would there be a number (or one?) blanket subscription for varying genres or labels?
2) How would money be disitributed? By the number of times tracks have been listened to/downloaded?
The RIAA continue to claim that file sharing is impacting CD sales. They do this by showing the decline of CD sales in recent years. I found some interesting quotes from an article recently:
According to the RIAA, CD sales dropped by 10% in 2001 and a further 6.8% last year, largely because of file sharing.
The IFPI's Commercial Music Piracy 2003 report, produced in early July, reveals pirate CD sales rose 14% in 2002 and exceeded one billion units for the first time.
My maths therefore concludes that if you deducted the 14% piracy, then CD sales have actually RISEN by around 7% over the last year! Do the RIAA actually know why their figures are falling (pirate cds/crap music...) - or do they choose to blame it all on peer to peer networks?
if the company was liquidated, all of the assets of the company become property of the liquidators. generally you will find that liquidators know nothing about source code and will generally flog it off pretty cheap.
if the company was not properly closed and everyone just stopped working, then ownership of the code would be up to the courts to decide. so if you picked up the code and released it as open source or something, you could find one of the ex-directors or somebody sueing you.
there is also the escrow angle - which i believe makes the code freely available to existing (at the time) clients. what the ramifications of this for further development it, i cannot tell you. maybe google around for definintions of escrow and see what you make of it.