If New Line can make a movie called "Diablo" without Blizzard's consent, can Blizzard come out with a game called "Nightmare On Elm Street" without New Line's consent?
The Windowmaker clock shows 4:07 whereas the Mac clock shows 6:01
If the windowmaker clock client was running on a machine in a different timezone or a nearby machine which for some reason was set to a different timezone or was otherwise wrong, it would account for the 2 hour difference and the 6 minute difference is easily accountable for by not all clocks being in sync.
i used a nice html editor for windows called HotDog Express(http://hotdog.com)
I don't think hotdog.com was ever used by the HotDog html editor. HotDog was made by Sausage Software who seem to be moving away from making web creation tools, but still have a website for HotDog.
the girl performed her barbie test on all of 15 adults
From the article: "She asked 15 adults which Barbie they preferred. Then she switched dresses and asked 15 other adults the same question." That's 30 adults, not 15.
the methodology involved was first developed at amazon, so they may have some claim to it.
Being first hardly gives you a claim to a patent, you also need the patent to be non-obvious, a test which one-click fails. When humans colonize other planets, there will be a first person to build a hotel on another planet, although this person is the first to do it, this does not qualify the person for a patent because they are doing something obvious, the only reason nobody did it before them is because it was not until recently that technology allowed them to do so. It is the same with the one-click patent, the technology of cookies was new, and Amazon happened to be first to use them to make one-click shopping, but this doesn't mean it wasn't an obvious idea -- that Amazon immediately thought of using cookies to enable one-click shopping indicates that it was an obvious application of the new technology. Had it taken years for someone to use cookies for one-click shopping I would say that it was an innovative use, but that it was thought of immediately implies it wasn't (not that every use of a new technology is obvious, but if you hear of a new technology, the first uses that pop into your head are likely to occur to other people as well).
The size of bread slices varies widely from region to region, this prevents multinational corporations from referring to their products as the size of a piece of sliced bread. Although ANSI created a sliced bread standard in 1986 and updated their standard in 1992 to account for the coarseness of pumpernickel, this is an American standard which prevents any companies wishing to sell their product outside of the United States from using it and unfortunately the ISO has been dragging their heels on forming a sliced bread standard, so until the day when we get the ISO sliced bread standard you can expect many more credit card sized comparisons.
People thanking god for allowing them to do their jobs is just plain unusual. If you were at McDonalds, and the person working the french fry machine got down on his knees and thanked god for allowing him to make the latest batch of fries, you'd probably think that a little peculiar. It's just as peculiar for a football player to do the same, not to mention the implied notion that god doesn't want the other team to win.
One ironic part of the internet is that every user thinks that they should have ultimite protection of free speech... these same activists want to ban a form of speech that they happen to not like - spam
Spam is not a form of speech, it's a method of speech. Free speech means that you can say whatever you want, not that you can say it however you want.
Probably not. A lot of people acknowledge that Amazon was the first to implement one click shopping, but that doesn't mean it isn't an obvious idea. Some day when man colonizes Mars, people will set up shops on Mars, and there will be a shop which becomes the first to sell peanut butter. Although this shop was the first to sell peanut butter on Mars, this should not be patentable because it is obvious, it's only that it was not feasable until recent technology. The same holds true of the Amazon one click patent, it was not until cookies came around that they could implement it, but that does not mean it was non obvious, it doesn't even mean other people didn't think of before time they did, it just means they were the first to finish it. It's not the possibility of prior art which makes the One click patent a bad one, it's the obviousness of it.
If a court rules that Alan Emtage was the first to develop the methods described in CMGI's patents and CMGI's patents are canceled (or whatever the legal term for canceling a patent is), can Alan Emtage then get patents on the same methods and sue CMGI?
If that's true, why do people have medical insurance? Why do I hear stories about people who are going to die because their insurance won't cover organ transplants if they can just go into a hostpital and say "I need an organ transplant and I'm not paying for it."
I think even the most strident freemarket supporter would say that to withhold medical care is wrong.
It depends. If someone is going to die unless they get a bandaid, then a hospital should bite the bullet and give them a free bandaid. If someone needs more expensive treatment, a hostpital isn't obligated, nor should it be, to pay to save someone's life. Many people get medical treatment that they can't afford because they either have medical insurance, or their government provides a similar service. If the third world governments are unwilling to pay for the medical procedures of their citizens, why is it up to a first world corporation to do so? We don't blame restaurants for not giving free food to the starving masses, why do you blame drug companies for not giving free medicine to the diseased masses?
Could you tell me what I'll need to do to keep them from indexing my site?
The AltaVista spider identifies itself as Scooter, so HTTP_USER_AGENT will contain Scooter. If you're using Apache with mod_rewrite, something like the following should work:
True, Google can't read minds, but if you type "Can Google read minds?" and click the I'm feeling lucky button you'll find out about a nifty feature that's almost as good as being able to read your mind.
The other day an ISP released bad DNS tables whch sent yahoo.com and microsoft.com to themself, I think the OP thought that's what this story was about.
Sorry, this is a bad analogy. It is not illegal to have a picture of an actual murder. It IS illegal to have a sexually suggestive or explicit image of a child!
You're right, a better analogy would be whether it should be illegal for an actor to pretend to kill someone rather than whether it should be illegal to own a videotape of someone pretending to kill someone. But the point is the same: it's silly to make it illegal to fake something that is against the law.
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If New Line can make a movie called "Diablo" without Blizzard's consent, can Blizzard come out with a game called "Nightmare On Elm Street" without New Line's consent?
I really wish Jobs and co. had a dose of sanity to go with the LSD-augmented genius.
Steve Jobs is on crack not LSD.
People pressing puns perilously presume people like them.
Popycock, persons pressing puns painstakingly pose prose pandering pacifism.
The Windowmaker clock shows 4:07 whereas the Mac clock shows 6:01
If the windowmaker clock client was running on a machine in a different timezone or a nearby machine which for some reason was set to a different timezone or was otherwise wrong, it would account for the 2 hour difference and the 6 minute difference is easily accountable for by not all clocks being in sync.
Stop using them, now!
ITYM SUTN!
i used a nice html editor for windows called HotDog Express(http://hotdog.com)
I don't think hotdog.com was ever used by the HotDog html editor. HotDog was made by Sausage Software who seem to be moving away from making web creation tools, but still have a website for HotDog.
the girl performed her barbie test on all of 15 adults
From the article: "She asked 15 adults which Barbie they preferred. Then she switched dresses and asked 15 other adults the same question." That's 30 adults, not 15.
And if the NT kernel fails, I'm sure gnome and KDE are up to the task
I'm pretty sure that neither gnome nor kde are up to the task of replacing the kernel of any operating system.
Didn't they fake the manned Mars landing a few years back?
Yes, they actually landed on Jupiter... shhhhhh, the public must never know.
the methodology involved was first developed at amazon, so they may have some claim to it.
Being first hardly gives you a claim to a patent, you also need the patent to be non-obvious, a test which one-click fails. When humans colonize other planets, there will be a first person to build a hotel on another planet, although this person is the first to do it, this does not qualify the person for a patent because they are doing something obvious, the only reason nobody did it before them is because it was not until recently that technology allowed them to do so. It is the same with the one-click patent, the technology of cookies was new, and Amazon happened to be first to use them to make one-click shopping, but this doesn't mean it wasn't an obvious idea -- that Amazon immediately thought of using cookies to enable one-click shopping indicates that it was an obvious application of the new technology. Had it taken years for someone to use cookies for one-click shopping I would say that it was an innovative use, but that it was thought of immediately implies it wasn't (not that every use of a new technology is obvious, but if you hear of a new technology, the first uses that pop into your head are likely to occur to other people as well).
what about a piece of sliced bread
The size of bread slices varies widely from region to region, this prevents multinational corporations from referring to their products as the size of a piece of sliced bread. Although ANSI created a sliced bread standard in 1986 and updated their standard in 1992 to account for the coarseness of pumpernickel, this is an American standard which prevents any companies wishing to sell their product outside of the United States from using it and unfortunately the ISO has been dragging their heels on forming a sliced bread standard, so until the day when we get the ISO sliced bread standard you can expect many more credit card sized comparisons.
Microsoft, a half _trillion_ dollar company
As of this moment, Microsoft is worth $309 billion, that is much closer to a quarter of a trillion dollars than half of a trillion dollars.
I bet your favorite search engine knows.
People thanking god for allowing them to do their jobs is just plain unusual. If you were at McDonalds, and the person working the french fry machine got down on his knees and thanked god for allowing him to make the latest batch of fries, you'd probably think that a little peculiar. It's just as peculiar for a football player to do the same, not to mention the implied notion that god doesn't want the other team to win.
One ironic part of the internet is that every user thinks that they should have ultimite protection of free speech... these same activists want to ban a form of speech that they happen to not like - spam
Spam is not a form of speech, it's a method of speech. Free speech means that you can say whatever you want, not that you can say it however you want.
When did they change their name?
There was an article on January 10 about the name change.
Doesn't the first key investor have a problem with putting a bounty on this kind of thing?
Probably not. A lot of people acknowledge that Amazon was the first to implement one click shopping, but that doesn't mean it isn't an obvious idea. Some day when man colonizes Mars, people will set up shops on Mars, and there will be a shop which becomes the first to sell peanut butter. Although this shop was the first to sell peanut butter on Mars, this should not be patentable because it is obvious, it's only that it was not feasable until recent technology. The same holds true of the Amazon one click patent, it was not until cookies came around that they could implement it, but that does not mean it was non obvious, it doesn't even mean other people didn't think of before time they did, it just means they were the first to finish it. It's not the possibility of prior art which makes the One click patent a bad one, it's the obviousness of it.
If a court rules that Alan Emtage was the first to develop the methods described in CMGI's patents and CMGI's patents are canceled (or whatever the legal term for canceling a patent is), can Alan Emtage then get patents on the same methods and sue CMGI?
If that's true, why do people have medical insurance? Why do I hear stories about people who are going to die because their insurance won't cover organ transplants if they can just go into a hostpital and say "I need an organ transplant and I'm not paying for it."
I think even the most strident freemarket supporter would say that to withhold medical care is wrong.
It depends. If someone is going to die unless they get a bandaid, then a hospital should bite the bullet and give them a free bandaid. If someone needs more expensive treatment, a hostpital isn't obligated, nor should it be, to pay to save someone's life. Many people get medical treatment that they can't afford because they either have medical insurance, or their government provides a similar service. If the third world governments are unwilling to pay for the medical procedures of their citizens, why is it up to a first world corporation to do so? We don't blame restaurants for not giving free food to the starving masses, why do you blame drug companies for not giving free medicine to the diseased masses?
Could you tell me what I'll need to do to keep them from indexing my site?
The AltaVista spider identifies itself as Scooter, so HTTP_USER_AGENT will contain Scooter. If you're using Apache with mod_rewrite, something like the following should work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Scooter
RewriteRule . / [F]
Which will return a Forbidden page for every request.
Google can't read minds yet
True, Google can't read minds, but if you type "Can Google read minds?" and click the I'm feeling lucky button you'll find out about a nifty feature that's almost as good as being able to read your mind.
The other day an ISP released bad DNS tables whch sent yahoo.com and microsoft.com to themself, I think the OP thought that's what this story was about.
Why is it that geeks feel the urge to call celebrity geeks by their first name only?
Because the geek's brain is capable of optimizing away the second part of the label when it is not necessary for proper human dereferencing.
Sorry, this is a bad analogy. It is not illegal to have a picture of an actual murder. It IS illegal to have a sexually suggestive or explicit image of a child!
You're right, a better analogy would be whether it should be illegal for an actor to pretend to kill someone rather than whether it should be illegal to own a videotape of someone pretending to kill someone. But the point is the same: it's silly to make it illegal to fake something that is against the law.