A lot of smart developers work on the Linux kernel. I'm sure they can find ways to accomplish tasks without infringing on patents. Maybe it will require a bit more work.
As long as the input, manipulation, or output phase differs from the patented process, the patent shouldn't apply. Of course other variables come into play too.
Quite often one word in a patent can make a huge difference to what it covers and how it applies. Look at the recent BT case -- the court's decision is very insightful.
Forge on ahead with some ingenuity to produce other technologies and ways of doing things in the Linux kernel. Then nobody in the future can claim patents on it because it is prior art.
Those gloves need a spell checker.
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Do those gloves come with a built-in spell checker?
Maybe for words like:
transelate... audble speach... mannor, etc.
Hay, I'm fare gaame when I mayke spelin erors two.;)
Does MySQL work well for your particular database applicaton? -- If so then use it.
The more robust and comparable that MySQL becomes to commercial database programs, the more MySQL will be used instead.
It looks like this is what's happening right now.
For the people who HAVE to leave their cell phones on, they also HAVE the responsibility to use their brains a little bit more than the average non-cell-phone user.
If [vibrate mode] doesn't work very well [if] "you're female and the phone is in your purse" (as mentioned in a previous post), then what about:
Put the phone on vibrate mode and *take it out of your purse* and put it in your lap or wherever vibration can be felt.
For the courtesy of others, if you expect to take a call, then sit near the isle close to the exit where you can immediately leave if your phone vibrates.
If your phone only has ring mode and you can't turn it off then don't go to the theatre -- rent a movie instead.
Or Ask your employer to replace your crappy phone with a vibrating model, or if you love theatre enough then shell out your own cash to buy the non-annoying phone. It can't be more expensive than a couple of theatre tickets.
So some guy gets a P4 and notices his Excel sheets are running a bit slower than on his P3 -- ya, right.
And then many other people suddenly pop up who experienced the same thing, but were just too afraid to mention it until now. Ya, right.
And of course Intel Corp. conspired to create a worse processor than the last, and decided to market it for a laugh -- because that's what professional companies do, right?
If these customers are suddenly unhappy, then they should upgrade their computers (not just processor), or try AMD, or something else.
Good luck to the users trying to push one set of benchmarks over another.
So then admittedly I too was duped by the so-called "megahertz myth". So then I'm an idiot -- I shoulda' done my homework first.
What's the point of the lawsuit unless they want money?
The outcome should be interesting, but I expect it is already too predictable.
The Princeton links states: " to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice."
Why does the study assume that "sensitive" physical devices are easier to affect by thought than larger devices? The more sensitive the device, the more chance other external factors (even small unmeasureable ones -- unrelated to the mind) can easily affect the device -- thus giving the illusion that maybe the mind did it because we don't know what really affected it.
Yes, obviously a lot of research has gone into it. But what about the results. Do researchers keep statistics about the times they DON'T find what they're lookin for? The 13-year-old project still sounds very ethereal. (Maybe the different machine/people effects produced by different people are due to bad breath rather than the mind -- ask them to move further away from the sensitive machines).
I just sat down and used the Atmosphere Player for a while.
It seems to add no functionality to the classic text-based chat room model because there is no cohesion between the GUI and the text-based chat box.
For example, you can see everybody wandering around, but can't tell who is who. Unless somebody explicitly does the moon walk and says "Look, I'm the guy in the T-shirt doing the moon walk", then you can't relate the text-based user names to the GUI. But then there are probably 2 other guys in T-shirts doing the moonwalk at the same time.
The most exciting point the Adobe help files state is: "Users that are exploring the same world can see representations of each other called avatars, and converse with one another by typing messages in a chat window."
Get it?... "typing messages in a chat window" -- which can be done without the GUI.
The fun GUI stuff to do (even though it doesn't relate to chatting is): learn to jump, jump off the edge of the map, learn to do the moonwalk, tell other people how to jump and do the moonwalk. And of course the non-fun stuff also doesn't relate to the chat.
By the time you're finished playing with the 3D GUI you have not said anything meaningful at all... thus, anti-chatroom technology at its best. But get people into a meaningful conversation, and they will ignore the GUI altogether.
It seems to be useless technology right now -- hopefully Adobe will create some linkage between the chat and GUI. Or maybe in the same vein, they should throw together a chat box and a screen-magnifier utility. That would go over just as well in its current incarnation.
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As an avid Microsoft software user I haven't come to expect anything less.
At least they come out with patches and fixes relatively promptly and have a good software-based distribution system to get the fixes to everybody.
But it does seem they are producing fixes more often than not.
As long as the input, manipulation, or output phase differs from the patented process, the patent shouldn't apply. Of course other variables come into play too.
Quite often one word in a patent can make a huge difference to what it covers and how it applies. Look at the recent BT case -- the court's decision is very insightful.
Forge on ahead with some ingenuity to produce other technologies and ways of doing things in the Linux kernel. Then nobody in the future can claim patents on it because it is prior art.
Do those gloves come with a built-in spell checker?
Maybe for words like: transelate
Hay, I'm fare gaame when I mayke spelin erors two. ;)
Does MySQL work well for your particular database applicaton? -- If so then use it.
The more robust and comparable that MySQL becomes to commercial database programs, the more MySQL will be used instead.
It looks like this is what's happening right now.
If [vibrate mode] doesn't work very well [if] "you're female and the phone is in your purse" (as mentioned in a previous post), then what about:
Or Ask your employer to replace your crappy phone with a vibrating model, or if you love theatre enough then shell out your own cash to buy the non-annoying phone. It can't be more expensive than a couple of theatre tickets.
And then many other people suddenly pop up who experienced the same thing, but were just too afraid to mention it until now. Ya, right.
And of course Intel Corp. conspired to create a worse processor than the last, and decided to market it for a laugh -- because that's what professional companies do, right?
If these customers are suddenly unhappy, then they should upgrade their computers (not just processor), or try AMD, or something else.
Good luck to the users trying to push one set of benchmarks over another.
So then admittedly I too was duped by the so-called "megahertz myth". So then I'm an idiot -- I shoulda' done my homework first.
What's the point of the lawsuit unless they want money?
The outcome should be interesting, but I expect it is already too predictable.
The Princeton links states:
" to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice."
Why does the study assume that "sensitive" physical devices are easier to affect by thought than larger devices? The more sensitive the device, the more chance other external factors (even small unmeasureable ones -- unrelated to the mind) can easily affect the device -- thus giving the illusion that maybe the mind did it because we don't know what really affected it.
Yes, obviously a lot of research has gone into it. But what about the results. Do researchers keep statistics about the times they DON'T find what they're lookin for? The 13-year-old project still sounds very ethereal.
(Maybe the different machine/people effects produced by different people are due to bad breath rather than the mind -- ask them to move further away from the sensitive machines).
For example, you can see everybody wandering around, but can't tell who is who. Unless somebody explicitly does the moon walk and says "Look, I'm the guy in the T-shirt doing the moon walk", then you can't relate the text-based user names to the GUI. But then there are probably 2 other guys in T-shirts doing the moonwalk at the same time.
The most exciting point the Adobe help files state is: "Users that are exploring the same world can see representations of each other called avatars, and converse with one another by typing messages in a chat window."
Get it? ... "typing messages in a chat window" -- which can be done without the GUI.
The fun GUI stuff to do (even though it doesn't relate to chatting is): learn to jump, jump off the edge of the map, learn to do the moonwalk, tell other people how to jump and do the moonwalk. And of course the non-fun stuff also doesn't relate to the chat.
By the time you're finished playing with the 3D GUI you have not said anything meaningful at all ... thus, anti-chatroom technology at its best.
But get people into a meaningful conversation, and they will ignore the GUI altogether.
It seems to be useless technology right now -- hopefully Adobe will create some linkage between the chat and GUI. Or maybe in the same vein, they should throw together a chat box and a screen-magnifier utility. That would go over just as well in its current incarnation.