What about all those folks sending in fake documents to Verizon to collect personal details for the purpose identity theft? This judgement ruins their business model. They have children too!
Since the information about people sharing files was illegaly obtained, does that mean the people who have paid a settlement or are in the process of dealing with the RIAA can tell them to go F themselves?
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Why build solar panels when we can just take energy from 3rd world countries? What about all the defense contractor/oil jobs that could be lost due the peaceful aquisition of solor enery? Even people who make bombs have families to feed!!!
Yes, it does seem unreasonable. The 'policy' at the PTO is, and I quote 'we let the courts sort it out'. As someone mentioned, there is no outside prior art checking. The funny thing is you can usually find about 10 valid prior art examples for most software patents using Google.
There is a business idea for google though. Priorart.google.com. The premier prior art serch engine.
Applying a well known technique to a new media is not a patentable idea. Please.
Apparently it is. There is something like 250,000 patents that are being questioned by the FTC now because they are all having to do with common things....'on the Internet'. Hopefully they are all made invalid but it proves that the PTO believes that applying old tequniques to new mediums are in fact inventions.
Someone not to long ago posted a story with a link to a patent that was granted for playing with a cat with a laser pointer. Some fool at the PTO thought that was a worthy invention.
Someone should patent erasing a CDROM with a toater over.
Actually, I live in the DC area I know someone who works at the patent office and what you describe is actually pretty close to how it happens. Although, they do actually have people help them understand the processes described, they do no research on prior art what so ever. Apparrently there is not time. The validity of a patent is for the courts and ultimately the tax payers to figure out.
The reason they don't want to disclose the code to the community is because they know that the community will be able to shoot it down in about two seconds.
Unlimited is basically 'Unmetered'. At the time it started being used, most people were paying by the minute or hour for Internet access. (Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL). Unlimited just means you are not paying a metered rate, doesn't mean you get 'Dedicated' access.
Pretty much all ISPs have a user agreement that defines what they mean by Unlimited. This usually says that you won't be charged by how much you use but if you turn your PC into a 24/7 downloading machine they will cut you off.
50 to 60FPS is fine for most gamers, as long as it doesn't actually dip below 30. If you were to sustain 60fps, hardcore or not, the game would be totally playable and enjoyable.
What I want to know is how all these people apparently know that God doesn't want stem cell research. Last I heard, God wasn't making direct contact with us after that Episode I debacle.
It'd be nice if we could get everyone to focus all their energy on making...insert software name/type here.
This is how open source happens my friend. In a way, they are ALL working on the same thing. Since this is open source, the code, the ideas, the research, the development can all be shared between them meanwhile the competitiveness keeps them going.
Its much better than say, having a bunch of people who don't like each other work on the same thing or having talented developers not work at all.
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DeltaChrome. Sounds like a cheap mod you can buy for your Civic. I wish S3 would die and Diamond would come back.
Probably because at this point in time, most people using Linux as a desktop are using it because of CHOICE
What about all those folks sending in fake documents to Verizon to collect personal details for the purpose identity theft? This judgement ruins their business model. They have children too!
Since the information about people sharing files was illegaly obtained, does that mean the people who have paid a settlement or are in the process of dealing with the RIAA can tell them to go F themselves?
Geeks buy books and learn more things and get a different job. Faux geeks file for unemployment.
Yes, thats when his name will change from Darl, to Darling!
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Why build solar panels when we can just take energy from 3rd world countries? What about all the defense contractor/oil jobs that could be lost due the peaceful aquisition of solor enery? Even people who make bombs have families to feed!!!
Uploading? What is that? I thought we 'download' files to someone elses computer?! Thats what they taught me on MSNBC!!
What, like code? How could we, its closed source?
Yes, it does seem unreasonable. The 'policy' at the PTO is, and I quote 'we let the courts sort it out'. As someone mentioned, there is no outside prior art checking. The funny thing is you can usually find about 10 valid prior art examples for most software patents using Google.
There is a business idea for google though. Priorart.google.com. The premier prior art serch engine.
yeah we can, make software and business method patents illegal like they should be. There goes most of the load on the patent office.
Apparently it is. There is something like 250,000 patents that are being questioned by the FTC now because they are all having to do with common things....'on the Internet'. Hopefully they are all made invalid but it proves that the PTO believes that applying old tequniques to new mediums are in fact inventions.
Someone not to long ago posted a story with a link to a patent that was granted for playing with a cat with a laser pointer. Some fool at the PTO thought that was a worthy invention.
Someone should patent erasing a CDROM with a toater over.
The US Gov makes a lot of money from patents.
Something like 49% of all litigated patents are deemed invalid by the courts.
Actually, I live in the DC area I know someone who works at the patent office and what you describe is actually pretty close to how it happens. Although, they do actually have people help them understand the processes described, they do no research on prior art what so ever. Apparrently there is not time. The validity of a patent is for the courts and ultimately the tax payers to figure out.
The reason they don't want to disclose the code to the community is because they know that the community will be able to shoot it down in about two seconds.
Unlimited is basically 'Unmetered'. At the time it started being used, most people were paying by the minute or hour for Internet access. (Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL). Unlimited just means you are not paying a metered rate, doesn't mean you get 'Dedicated' access.
Pretty much all ISPs have a user agreement that defines what they mean by Unlimited. This usually says that you won't be charged by how much you use but if you turn your PC into a 24/7 downloading machine they will cut you off.
50 to 60FPS is fine for most gamers, as long as it doesn't actually dip below 30. If you were to sustain 60fps, hardcore or not, the game would be totally playable and enjoyable.
Isn't a T3 bi-directional 45mbps yielding an aggregate of 90mbps?
What I want to know is how all these people apparently know that God doesn't want stem cell research. Last I heard, God wasn't making direct contact with us after that Episode I debacle.
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Using Counter-Strike cheats you downloded is considered 'hacking'.
I always see people post stuff like..
It'd be nice if we could get everyone to focus all their energy on making...insert software name/type here.
This is how open source happens my friend. In a way, they are ALL working on the same thing. Since this is open source, the code, the ideas, the research, the development can all be shared between them meanwhile the competitiveness keeps them going.
Its much better than say, having a bunch of people who don't like each other work on the same thing or having talented developers not work at all.
Also, its not a window manager.