I implemented this system in it's entirety with another engineer back about 6 years ago. Complete with the license server and the multiple parameters of the license. Is there a way to protest this being patented? It's still in daily use for my wife's company. They even get updates based on whether they have paid the license fee for the month.
It's a matter of priorities as well. I may well be able to afford the $400 for the item in question. But having to spend it is another thing entirely. Your budget may vary my overly well compensated friend.
Always the Idiots that don't want one and probably could afford one anyway always get these things. It seems it never goes to the guy who wants one and doesn't have the scratch to afford one. Hmmmmph
Apple also has a whole global services operation, are you daft or being stupid on purpose. What exactly are the multiple markets of which you speak? Which ones does Apple not have a finger in. They are indeed weaker in the enterprise market but that's not significant. They both have fingers in the video entertainment market the only difference between them is that Apple has iTunes which is not a significant source of revenue. They both have or are currently producing a phone and a PDA, iPod like devices, and computers. Apple has the AppleTV, Dell had a TV division (since dropped as not profitable) they both sell monitors with their branding and other people's printers. Dell also sells supplies for everything so does Apple. Dell no longer maintains their kiosks in the Malls but they did have a retail operation for a while. They are both in every market in the world for computers. The difference is that Apple makes high margins and delivers great customer service. There is no other difference other than mere scale but that scale doesn't translate to bottom line profits. Apple has higher profits on the same things that Dell sells. Dell has great customer loyalty so does Apple. Dell has more offerings that make smaller margins. No other difference that I can find.
See my reply above. But the company as a whole is the only comparison you can make. If any division goes under the whole company either folds with it or gets knocked back to the small company stage. And no there is no fundamental difference between two computer manufacturers who also have a few other gadgets to sell as well.
whoosh!
I said they were struggling to stay alive. Not that they didn't have fingers in lots of business sectors. Apple has diversified the company so that computer revenue is not the solo pony in the stable and does quite fine in the bits of enterprise they have. But Apple has scads of cash and no debt to speak of Dell can't even say they have few debts. And have just returned to profitability after many quarters of huge losses. If Michael Dell hadn't come back to Dell there would only be HP, Toshiba and Sony in the premium PC market.
The PCs are leftovers from the days when I was mistakenly under the impression that I had to have a PC to get anything done. I haven't turned on my PC for several weeks now and I only did last time because my tax program files were there. The rest of the PCs belong to my Wife who has to use one for work and my son who keeps buying the latest whiz bang gaming stuff. But he keeps borrowing my Mac to play some of the newer games that came out on both platforms simultaneously because my Apple even though it is at least a year older than his PC is faster.
As has been pointed out (over and over), Mac pricing is quite competitive when you compare (ahem) apples to apples. This is only somewhat true, since you have huge swaths of product that isn't available from Apple.
Ok what part of "apples to apples." did you fail to comprehend? It is completely true, as he did not include anything that Apple did not make!
And last I heard Dell was struggling to stay alive and Apple was growing. So if you sell discount PC hardware you have to struggle and cut costs everywhere you can even on components just to stay in business. But on the other hand if you have consistent quality, good customer service and keep your prices high enough to support the service costs you make a ton of money? Looks to me like the business model of PC makers could use a boot to the head.
performers switch to using a pc with ubuntu for all their work
Yeah good luck with that, I haven't yet found the right combo of components that I can use with Ubuntu to do sound at all. Most of the built in sound cards don't work without hunting down arcane driver patches and then I had to degrade a kernel to get that to work. I tried a few USB sound systems but the drivers were worse and didn't take advantage of all the cool stuff that they offered. So after a bunch of crap I went back to the Mac. Like most Mac owners I have a PC as well, I haven't turned it on in a few weeks but it sits there taking up room in my office. Never had a Mac die on me I just got rid of (in the last 2 years) about 13 of them dating all the way back to the original Mac+ they all still worked perfectly. I tried to get Ubuntu to boot on my PPC G4. Got up to something I couldn't read on the screen and blew up refused to load. Have to look for another distro that might work. I don't think it like my AGP graphics card.
Go to www.lasfs.org and look for the Young Adult Science Fiction reading list. There is also a children's reading list that may be helpful. I'd be a bit concerned that you don't want books that raise questions that you don't want to have to answer and that their parents don't want you to answer.
Yes saw that the leaching goes on. Another showing that the engineering at Palm are so bankrupt that instead of actually licensing the code to do what they want they are willing to steal IP and hack their way into iTunes. No need for FUD Palm are spreading enough themselves with this kind of crap.
Everybody in the world with a smart phone has licensed the code from Apple to allow syncing with iTunes or they wrote their own sync tool, Palm just hacks their way into someone else property. Palm should actually compete instead of whining about Apple cutting them out of a tool for which Apple paid all the engineering costs.
It is simply the requirement that you defend your trademark. it's a cost of doing business. It is not needed that you win them all merely trying is enough to prove that you are defending your trademark. Like when Coke sues over everything in the world (well the south anyway) being called a coke. If a restaurant gives you a Pepsi when you asked for a Coke they can be sued. Xerox has that problem these days as well. It's a trademark thing and really has nothing to do with anything other than our twisted legal system.
Relax people and enjoy the blinking lights.
But the act of incorporating means to give a body to. The controller of the body must then be placed in jail. Like say the Entire Board and the Operating Officers. First jail them then sort out the real criminal culpability later. They will most certainly turn on each other to get out of dock!
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I already implemented this for my wife's company, almost exactly as the patent describes.
None of those licenses are even close to what they are patenting. Read the freaking article or the patent or at least the full description.
I implemented this system in it's entirety with another engineer back about 6 years ago. Complete with the license server and the multiple parameters of the license. Is there a way to protest this being patented? It's still in daily use for my wife's company. They even get updates based on whether they have paid the license fee for the month.
It's a matter of priorities as well. I may well be able to afford the $400 for the item in question. But having to spend it is another thing entirely. Your budget may vary my overly well compensated friend.
Always the Idiots that don't want one and probably could afford one anyway always get these things. It seems it never goes to the guy who wants one and doesn't have the scratch to afford one. Hmmmmph
You do know the difference between earnings and profits right!
Apple also has a whole global services operation, are you daft or being stupid on purpose. What exactly are the multiple markets of which you speak? Which ones does Apple not have a finger in. They are indeed weaker in the enterprise market but that's not significant. They both have fingers in the video entertainment market the only difference between them is that Apple has iTunes which is not a significant source of revenue. They both have or are currently producing a phone and a PDA, iPod like devices, and computers. Apple has the AppleTV, Dell had a TV division (since dropped as not profitable) they both sell monitors with their branding and other people's printers. Dell also sells supplies for everything so does Apple. Dell no longer maintains their kiosks in the Malls but they did have a retail operation for a while. They are both in every market in the world for computers. The difference is that Apple makes high margins and delivers great customer service. There is no other difference other than mere scale but that scale doesn't translate to bottom line profits. Apple has higher profits on the same things that Dell sells. Dell has great customer loyalty so does Apple. Dell has more offerings that make smaller margins. No other difference that I can find.
See my reply above. But the company as a whole is the only comparison you can make. If any division goes under the whole company either folds with it or gets knocked back to the small company stage. And no there is no fundamental difference between two computer manufacturers who also have a few other gadgets to sell as well.
whoosh!
I said they were struggling to stay alive. Not that they didn't have fingers in lots of business sectors. Apple has diversified the company so that computer revenue is not the solo pony in the stable and does quite fine in the bits of enterprise they have. But Apple has scads of cash and no debt to speak of Dell can't even say they have few debts. And have just returned to profitability after many quarters of huge losses. If Michael Dell hadn't come back to Dell there would only be HP, Toshiba and Sony in the premium PC market.
Hey me too, well my wife drives the VW but yeah!
You're on let's see it!
The PCs are leftovers from the days when I was mistakenly under the impression that I had to have a PC to get anything done. I haven't turned on my PC for several weeks now and I only did last time because my tax program files were there. The rest of the PCs belong to my Wife who has to use one for work and my son who keeps buying the latest whiz bang gaming stuff. But he keeps borrowing my Mac to play some of the newer games that came out on both platforms simultaneously because my Apple even though it is at least a year older than his PC is faster.
Yeah I use Macs because I like to, I use PCs because I have to.
As has been pointed out (over and over), Mac pricing is quite competitive when you compare (ahem) apples to apples.
This is only somewhat true, since you have huge swaths of product that isn't available from Apple.
Ok what part of "apples to apples." did you fail to comprehend? It is completely true, as he did not include anything that Apple did not make!
It just means that the 4 customers get waited on hand and foot and $1 customers get told to jump in a lake or pony up more cash.
And what store do you go to to get help with that?
And last I heard Dell was struggling to stay alive and Apple was growing. So if you sell discount PC hardware you have to struggle and cut costs everywhere you can even on components just to stay in business. But on the other hand if you have consistent quality, good customer service and keep your prices high enough to support the service costs you make a ton of money? Looks to me like the business model of PC makers could use a boot to the head.
performers switch to using a pc with ubuntu for all their work
Yeah good luck with that, I haven't yet found the right combo of components that I can use with Ubuntu to do sound at all. Most of the built in sound cards don't work without hunting down arcane driver patches and then I had to degrade a kernel to get that to work. I tried a few USB sound systems but the drivers were worse and didn't take advantage of all the cool stuff that they offered. So after a bunch of crap I went back to the Mac. Like most Mac owners I have a PC as well, I haven't turned it on in a few weeks but it sits there taking up room in my office. Never had a Mac die on me I just got rid of (in the last 2 years) about 13 of them dating all the way back to the original Mac+ they all still worked perfectly. I tried to get Ubuntu to boot on my PPC G4. Got up to something I couldn't read on the screen and blew up refused to load. Have to look for another distro that might work. I don't think it like my AGP graphics card.
Go to www.lasfs.org and look for the Young Adult Science Fiction reading list. There is also a children's reading list that may be helpful. I'd be a bit concerned that you don't want books that raise questions that you don't want to have to answer and that their parents don't want you to answer.
Yes saw that the leaching goes on. Another showing that the engineering at Palm are so bankrupt that instead of actually licensing the code to do what they want they are willing to steal IP and hack their way into iTunes. No need for FUD Palm are spreading enough themselves with this kind of crap.
Everybody in the world with a smart phone has licensed the code from Apple to allow syncing with iTunes or they wrote their own sync tool, Palm just hacks their way into someone else property. Palm should actually compete instead of whining about Apple cutting them out of a tool for which Apple paid all the engineering costs.
It is simply the requirement that you defend your trademark. it's a cost of doing business. It is not needed that you win them all merely trying is enough to prove that you are defending your trademark. Like when Coke sues over everything in the world (well the south anyway) being called a coke. If a restaurant gives you a Pepsi when you asked for a Coke they can be sued. Xerox has that problem these days as well. It's a trademark thing and really has nothing to do with anything other than our twisted legal system.
Relax people and enjoy the blinking lights.
If this research received ANY public funding we can whack that patent right into the public domain and the law suit will be quick and hard to contest.
I knew there had to be an upside to being a type 2 Diabetic, I just couldn't see it for all the drugs I have to take.
Don't know what that link was supposed to show but it didn't show anything for me. I didn't post a link because the info I heard was on the radio.
But the act of incorporating means to give a body to. The controller of the body must then be placed in jail. Like say the Entire Board and the Operating Officers. First jail them then sort out the real criminal culpability later. They will most certainly turn on each other to get out of dock!