That is the point of patents, they get a monopoly for inventing something novel and investing in it. In a few years their patent will expire and microsoft, logitech, imation, etc can build the kinesis style keyboard and sell them for only $100.
As far as I'm concerned whoever invented this keyboard deserves to profit from it to enrich themselves or just feed their family, they invented something truly novel (I am a kinesis user, although my company paid for the keyboard, which is cheap compared to my medical insurance.)
Maybe for a company that doesn't have a market cap of more than $30 billion. But once you become such a behemoth flaws like this should not be appearing in a widespread public beta.
Not only that, I believe you can make the source available on any media you wish. In other words you can print it or better yet you can have it carved into stone tablets, and charge whatever the going rate for stone tablets.
I am a fan of IP as well. that last line of your post I take issue with. Every day patents expire, even software patents, however, here in the US copyrights have not expired in years, and it is quite likely no copyrights ever will.
Now you know why people want software patents, so giants like google do not profit from their ideas (pagerank was protected by a patent, and I assume that Amazon/A9 has a patent pending on this one)
9553 unique pages. The front page they got less often, but they were still getting articles on all these site all along.
CNN 2001/WORLD articles from 9/03/2001 I guess they forgot some, you can pick any date and get articles. They are there and were picked up. What more do you want?
Brewster (the big cheese archiver) generally plays it safe, removing content that has been shown to be questionable. While the archive has people like Larry Lesig on their side, they do have a finite amount of resources.
Believe what you will (although I know for a fact you are wrong). If you look at a random sample of sites, classifying those that are news as news, and those that are not news as not news you will find the same distribution across them for july, august and the first week of september. BTW that is how research is done, you look at data, and come up with theories, not create a theory and come up with the anecdotes to support it later. Also if your "theory" was based on fact then no news sites will have data in august....
yet sfgate.com (a newspaper site) has 4000 pages crawled http://web.archive.org/web/20010801-20010 910*/http://sfgate.com/* cnn.com has loads of pages there as well from that time period http://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000- 20010910 235959*sr_211nr_30/http://cnn.com/*
there are plenty of others, but you have your idea and irrefutable evidence will unlikely change your mind.(nor probably would Brewster)
No it's not, NEWS happened on 9/11, the archive responded by collecting more data than they had been. If you look at the general internet wide traffic for these sites, you would see a huge jump on the same day. August was an anomoly for that year, but but they DID NOT delete anything. (I know people quite well wh did the crawl for the archive). If you look at 2000 they generally only hit a site once a month, 2001 they ramped it up, but people complained, after 9/11 the Library of Congress got involved so the complaints were ignored.
They didn't delete anything before 9-11, they just weren't crawling news sites all that much (at most once a month), then when 9-11 happened news sites became a much bigger deal so they bumped up to crawl them (a select group) hourly
Not only is it adware, but it is Spyware, as if you mistype an URL it defaults to sending your mistyped url to google (which you need to use the unituitive about:config to remove). Also I have yet to figure out a way to remove google from the list of searches. Hell google is hardcoded in the configs. All lame.
You should have had the homepage and top/default search gone to something like dmoz.org, or better yet about:blank.
All of this, even the fact that google doesn't pay very high salaries, is pretty common knowledge in the bay area internet companies, you can't sneeze in a restaurant without hitting a table google employees.
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They were $8.00 each.
iTunes sells less songs in a year than get traded in a week via free p2p.
That is the point of patents, they get a monopoly for inventing something novel and investing in it. In a few years their patent will expire and microsoft, logitech, imation, etc can build the kinesis style keyboard and sell them for only $100.
As far as I'm concerned whoever invented this keyboard deserves to profit from it to enrich themselves or just feed their family, they invented something truly novel (I am a kinesis user, although my company paid for the keyboard, which is cheap compared to my medical insurance.)
They Acquired Deja on Feb 21 2001 so that means we are now in the 5th year.
Maybe for a company that doesn't have a market cap of more than $30 billion. But once you become such a behemoth flaws like this should not be appearing in a widespread public beta.
A) one against bn.com 5 years ago.
Patents are defensive as well as offensive, also amazon has it's own notation prior ar
I guess stone tablets are out, however 5 1/4" floppys or those bigger ones would probably pass muster.
Not only that, I believe you can make the source available on any media you wish. In other words you can print it or better yet you can have it carved into stone tablets, and charge whatever the going rate for stone tablets.
Another "irony" is that e-groups started under a desk in Presidio Building 116, and now it only exists as e-groups from Presidio Building 116
I am a fan of IP as well. that last line of your post I take issue with. Every day patents expire, even software patents, however, here in the US copyrights have not expired in years, and it is quite likely no copyrights ever will.
Now you know why people want software patents, so giants like google do not profit from their ideas (pagerank was protected by a patent, and I assume that Amazon/A9 has a patent pending on this one)
Once again they copy someone elses feature
the CNN world link is (I formatted it in a way slashdot ate) http://web.archive.org/web/20010903*/http://cnn.co m/2001/WORLD*
August 2001 sfgate.comc om/*
http://web.archive.org/web/200108*/http://sfgate.
9553 unique pages. The front page they got less often, but they were still getting articles on all these site all along.
CNN 2001/WORLD articles from 9/03/2001 I guess they forgot some, you can pick any date and get articles. They are there and were picked up. What more do you want?
Brewster (the big cheese archiver) generally plays it safe, removing content that has been shown to be questionable. While the archive has people like Larry Lesig on their side, they do have a finite amount of resources.
Believe what you will (although I know for a fact you are wrong). If you look at a random sample of sites, classifying those that are news as news, and those that are not news as not news you will find the same distribution across them for july, august and the first week of september. BTW that is how research is done, you look at data, and come up with theories, not create a theory and come up with the anecdotes to support it later. Also if your "theory" was based on fact then no news sites will have data in august....
0 910*/http ://sfgate.com/*- 20010910 235959*sr_211nr_30/http://cnn.com/*
yet sfgate.com (a newspaper site) has 4000 pages crawled
http://web.archive.org/web/20010801-2001
cnn.com has loads of pages there as well from that time period
http://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000
there are plenty of others, but you have your idea and irrefutable evidence will unlikely change your mind.(nor probably would Brewster)
If google did the same thing people here would be calling for page and brinn to be canonized (not the way flanders was on the simpsons though)
looks like microsoft had the same tail off in july
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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://microsoft.c
look at 2000. they ramped up in 2001, but sites weren't all that happy about it. After 9/11 it didn't matter.
Dude, I'm sorry this is just a rumor without any truth behind it.
No it's not, NEWS happened on 9/11, the archive responded by collecting more data than they had been. If you look at the general internet wide traffic for these sites, you would see a huge jump on the same day. August was an anomoly for that year, but but they DID NOT delete anything. (I know people quite well wh did the crawl for the archive). If you look at 2000 they generally only hit a site once a month, 2001 they ramped it up, but people complained, after 9/11 the Library of Congress got involved so the complaints were ignored.
They didn't delete anything before 9-11, they just weren't crawling news sites all that much (at most once a month), then when 9-11 happened news sites became a much bigger deal so they bumped up to crawl them (a select group) hourly
The Internet Archive is a 503b Non-Profit, I don't think they can be sold.
Not only is it adware, but it is Spyware, as if you mistype an URL it defaults to sending your mistyped url to google (which you need to use the unituitive about:config to remove). Also I have yet to figure out a way to remove google from the list of searches. Hell google is hardcoded in the configs. All lame.
You should have had the homepage and top/default search gone to something like dmoz.org, or better yet about:blank.
Yet somehow the french are smart enough to know that Milla Jovavich is slavic, not french.
All of this, even the fact that google doesn't pay very high salaries, is pretty common knowledge in the bay area internet companies, you can't sneeze in a restaurant without hitting a table google employees.