Again, it's all about reporting back on the user's experience and perception - nothing to do with upgrade. In this light, I find it extremely odd that they would even attempt to file suit for violation of this patent.
Windows error reporting, anyone. Of course everything like this is obvious to someone trained in the art, unless you are a bunch of East Texas hicks on a jury.
Free games is uploading free 1's and 0's to your hard drive for Sony: no cost. Free 'credit protection? The only companies that are offering it are run by incompetentscam artists.
The compensation should be a complete refund for the original purchase price of the PS3 system and all games possessed, for anyone who owns a PS3, no receipt, no questions asked. And a notarized letter that every bit of identifying information about you has been wiped from Sony's servers and backups.
No, you just need an app to run on your pictures before you upload them that resizes them down to nearly unusable, and puts an obnoxious watermark with a copyright notice and contact information for viewers to purchase rights. Twitpic then has an irrevocable license to sell your advertising material.
The Internet community reclaiming the Internet from domain squatters and registrars that scarf up expired domain names that should go back into the wild, just so they can show backpack girl and keyword spam, and extort money from potential domain name users.
Every big player should launch their service right now. It's way harder for the music industry to fight back then.
I'm a small player in this new game and will join the effort! Everyone upload your music to my computer, and I'll let you download it whenever you want. What could possibly go wrong?
Google has actually been storing my audio files in their digital locker since 2004. All I have to do to upload an audio file is email it to my gmail address. They have a handy web interface to sort my audio files by folder and star rating, and I then play them on any device that I can check email on. Why should Google need to license a prettier interface to what they've already been doing?
Pac-man for the Atari 2600? That nomination is unbelievable, it was a bastardized unfun version of the arcade with awful gameplay and sound.
For the 2600, a game like Warlords reigns for playability, it is still a fun game for four people you can take out at a party. As far as 'art' for a 2600, they should at least be games that are original to the 2600 - Demon Attack pulls off some cool raster color effects and fast gameplay without hugh blocky pixels, about the limit of what the 2600 can do with 4k RAM. Even Pitfall with it's blocky graphics got a nod in last season's Robot Chicken.
This is precisely the reason that anarchic groups like Anon are very good at tearing things down, but very bad at building things up where you need to work together and follow a single voice or a common plan.
I disagree. Anonymous has certainly demonstrated their willingness and ability to use their coordinated numbers for both good and evil
There is another option for the rich - the $6000 43" ultra-widescreen curved monitor with a 2880x900 resolution. Go really crazy and get three of those for slightly less than the cost of a real rally car..
In shooters, you don't look with your head, you look with your mouse. Since the side monitors are just adding the peripheral vision surrounded feeling, they could be run at a lower resolution and you shouldn't loose much of the experience. 1920x1200 for your main monitor and 960x600 on the side monitors means that the two extra monitors only adds 50% more pixels and shouldn't bog your video system. Alternately, this means you could use a lower-powered dual-output video card for the side monitors.
Better prediction: DirecTV provides internet-connected wifi set-top boxes that get your DirecTV subscription over the internet, not over an expensive network of geostationary satellites that require a line-of-site dish on the roof and cabling. See: Sirius Satellite Radio, where the "satellite" in the name is becoming less relevant. They can then add unlimited on-demand movies as a service, instead of just a few PPV channels where you have to wait for the time the movie starts.
The network was almost certainly shut down the moment someone suspected something was amiss.
Are you sure about this? How long between the Sony network operations discovering they were compromised to some executive with authority actually deciding the situation was dire enough to lose face and actually shut down the service for every PS3 user worldwide? Remember this is honor=deny Japan.
If you remember the early Sony disclosure (i.e. lies, now removed from the Sony blog): While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we're able to get the service completely back up and running. "Network outage", when they knew they had been rooted so bad they had to pull the plug??
This is precisely why I don't give most companies this information -- because I don't trust them with it. Not to keep it safe, not to use it as they say, and not to provide it to someone else.
We are Internet. We know who youare. Resistance is futile.
Consider huge chicken rendering plants (the kind that make chicken nuggets etc), the kind that can load up a truck with green nasty chicken grease. As a purified lipid, it should have as much energy as vegetable oils. I would guess the grease would need to be cracked to be something other than a bunker oil equivalent, since fat is solid at room temperature.
Interesting the value that we humans put on animal lives: Miles per chicken.
Too bad the record industry spoiled it with lousy packaging. Flimsy plastic jewel boxes covered with shrink wrap and security tape that is really a pain (occasionally, literally) to remove.
You weren't around to remember how CDs were originally packaged? The jewel case was put in a 12" long cardboard box up until 1993, quite wasteful since you would immediately throw out that big box. It was probably designed so that record shops could use their old record bins for holding the box (and to visually justify the 50% more expensive product that cost less to produce.)
What is unfortunate is that is that for an equal amount of plastic as the jewel box, the design could have included putting the disc into a caddy, floppy disk style; the end product could have had real art printed right on it, and would have been less susceptible to scratches and dust.
I remember not being able to figure out how to get my first cd out of the jewel box.
You also must realize that it's not Apple that is collecting the information....
You must realize it is Apple tracking your every move. We would expect that the mobile provider can record the cel phone towers you are using for billing/roaming purposes, but we would not expect that the manufacturer of your mobile phone is getting a daily update of all your movements provided by the satellite-based GPS in the device. That is in fact what is happening. Read the excerpt from the Apple privacy policy (reads like a waiver of all privacy):
We also collect non-personal information data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location, and the time zone where an Apple product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.
They are pumping tons of air through the facility. Lowering o2 levels with a nitrogen or a halon system would be pretty ineffective. A chemical bottle extinguisher is pictured in one photo - manually extinguishing local fires (like if an AC panel goes boom) would probably be expected. The sprinkler system is probably code mandated to keep the whole facility from going up in flames in a disaster.
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Wow, you can add 2 and 3 like that? Patent Approved!
- USPTO worker #217
2+3 = 5 through binary coding and bit addition? Novel and unobvious!
- Marshall Texas jury members
Again, it's all about reporting back on the user's experience and perception - nothing to do with upgrade. In this light, I find it extremely odd that they would even attempt to file suit for violation of this patent.
Windows error reporting, anyone. Of course everything like this is obvious to someone trained in the art, unless you are a bunch of East Texas hicks on a jury.
With a whore, you're guaranteed to get laid for your money. No car analogy needed.
The compensation should be a complete refund for the original purchase price of the PS3 system and all games possessed, for anyone who owns a PS3, no receipt, no questions asked. And a notarized letter that every bit of identifying information about you has been wiped from Sony's servers and backups.
No, you just need an app to run on your pictures before you upload them that resizes them down to nearly unusable, and puts an obnoxious watermark with a copyright notice and contact information for viewers to purchase rights. Twitpic then has an irrevocable license to sell your advertising material.
The Internet community reclaiming the Internet from domain squatters and registrars that scarf up expired domain names that should go back into the wild, just so they can show backpack girl and keyword spam, and extort money from potential domain name users.
Every big player should launch their service right now. It's way harder for the music industry to fight back then.
I'm a small player in this new game and will join the effort! Everyone upload your music to my computer, and I'll let you download it whenever you want. What could possibly go wrong?
Google has actually been storing my audio files in their digital locker since 2004. All I have to do to upload an audio file is email it to my gmail address. They have a handy web interface to sort my audio files by folder and star rating, and I then play them on any device that I can check email on. Why should Google need to license a prettier interface to what they've already been doing?
You mean like if Microsoft decided they had trademarked the entire TLD?
Pac-man for the Atari 2600? That nomination is unbelievable, it was a bastardized unfun version of the arcade with awful gameplay and sound.
For the 2600, a game like Warlords reigns for playability, it is still a fun game for four people you can take out at a party. As far as 'art' for a 2600, they should at least be games that are original to the 2600 - Demon Attack pulls off some cool raster color effects and fast gameplay without hugh blocky pixels, about the limit of what the 2600 can do with 4k RAM. Even Pitfall with it's blocky graphics got a nod in last season's Robot Chicken.
This is precisely the reason that anarchic groups like Anon are very good at tearing things down, but very bad at building things up where you need to work together and follow a single voice or a common plan.
I disagree. Anonymous has certainly demonstrated their willingness and ability to use their coordinated numbers for both good and evil
There is another option for the rich - the $6000 43" ultra-widescreen curved monitor with a 2880x900 resolution. Go really crazy and get three of those for slightly less than the cost of a real rally car..
In shooters, you don't look with your head, you look with your mouse. Since the side monitors are just adding the peripheral vision surrounded feeling, they could be run at a lower resolution and you shouldn't loose much of the experience. 1920x1200 for your main monitor and 960x600 on the side monitors means that the two extra monitors only adds 50% more pixels and shouldn't bog your video system. Alternately, this means you could use a lower-powered dual-output video card for the side monitors.
Better prediction: DirecTV provides internet-connected wifi set-top boxes that get your DirecTV subscription over the internet, not over an expensive network of geostationary satellites that require a line-of-site dish on the roof and cabling. See: Sirius Satellite Radio, where the "satellite" in the name is becoming less relevant. They can then add unlimited on-demand movies as a service, instead of just a few PPV channels where you have to wait for the time the movie starts.
Usenet:
"app store" was used a decade ago for buying pc games online
Alternately, way before Apple in 1998, Palm had apps
The network was almost certainly shut down the moment someone suspected something was amiss.
Are you sure about this? How long between the Sony network operations discovering they were compromised to some executive with authority actually deciding the situation was dire enough to lose face and actually shut down the service for every PS3 user worldwide? Remember this is honor=deny Japan.
If you remember the early Sony disclosure (i.e. lies, now removed from the Sony blog): While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we're able to get the service completely back up and running. "Network outage", when they knew they had been rooted so bad they had to pull the plug??
This is precisely why I don't give most companies this information -- because I don't trust them with it. Not to keep it safe, not to use it as they say, and not to provide it to someone else.
We are Internet. We know who you are. Resistance is futile.
Thanks to browser fingerprinting, flash cookies, ad network beacons, content beacons, and traffic bugs we put in every web page (digg, stumbleupon, facebook 'like this', twitter), you cannot escape our eye, we know every site you view. We also know your ip address and where you live.
Oh, and we already know your real favorite pet, you sure were naive back when you had that geocities account. Lying at this point is futile.
Mod: Retarded Coward. Windows 7 was basically done two years ago. You expect that Microsoft isn't always working on the next OS?
But I'm an insomniac athiest, you insensitive Kiwi clods!
Consider huge chicken rendering plants (the kind that make chicken nuggets etc), the kind that can load up a truck with green nasty chicken grease. As a purified lipid, it should have as much energy as vegetable oils. I would guess the grease would need to be cracked to be something other than a bunker oil equivalent, since fat is solid at room temperature.
Interesting the value that we humans put on animal lives: Miles per chicken.
For the same reason a plumber would support less taxes for the 1% most wealthy. Susceptibility to propaganda.
There is nothing racist about stating something like "blacks commit more crimes than X", as long as it is factually true.
Racism in action: blacks are charged and sentenced for more crimes than X.
Racism in thought: assuming this fact is because blacks commit more crimes than X
In Soviet Russia ... customers cripple Sony's hardware!
Too bad the record industry spoiled it with lousy packaging. Flimsy plastic jewel boxes covered with shrink wrap and security tape that is really a pain (occasionally, literally) to remove.
You weren't around to remember how CDs were originally packaged? The jewel case was put in a 12" long cardboard box up until 1993, quite wasteful since you would immediately throw out that big box. It was probably designed so that record shops could use their old record bins for holding the box (and to visually justify the 50% more expensive product that cost less to produce.)
What is unfortunate is that is that for an equal amount of plastic as the jewel box, the design could have included putting the disc into a caddy, floppy disk style; the end product could have had real art printed right on it, and would have been less susceptible to scratches and dust.
I remember not being able to figure out how to get my first cd out of the jewel box.
You also must realize that it's not Apple that is collecting the information....
You must realize it is Apple tracking your every move. We would expect that the mobile provider can record the cel phone towers you are using for billing/roaming purposes, but we would not expect that the manufacturer of your mobile phone is getting a daily update of all your movements provided by the satellite-based GPS in the device. That is in fact what is happening. Read the excerpt from the Apple privacy policy (reads like a waiver of all privacy):
We also collect non-personal information data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location, and the time zone where an Apple product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.
They are pumping tons of air through the facility. Lowering o2 levels with a nitrogen or a halon system would be pretty ineffective. A chemical bottle extinguisher is pictured in one photo - manually extinguishing local fires (like if an AC panel goes boom) would probably be expected. The sprinkler system is probably code mandated to keep the whole facility from going up in flames in a disaster.