How are they not stifled now? They cannot afford the R&D or the lawyers to get and keep a patent themselves. All a company has to do is threaten to sue an individual into the ground unless he takes this generous offer.
Does it really matter if they have a case or not? Would you risk everything on the gamble that the system might work this time?
Unless you live in a state with a lot of electoral votes (a "battelground" state like FL), your vote is as good as thrown away anyway.
Take 2000, even if every person in my state got up and voted for Gore or Mickey Mouse or whoever, it would have made zero difference because we don't have enough electoral votes to swing even a close election.
The thing that comes to my mind is a memory of watching a talk show long ago where representatives of both parties were present. They actually said something to the effect of "I hope you'll vote for us, but if you don't please vote for them!". Both sides agreed that nobody should vote independent.
If that's not reason enough to vote third party, I don't know what is.
Why should we operate in a global economy? It only serves to provide us cheap crap (you get what you pay for) in exchange for our economy. Sounds like a lousy deal for us. We are seeing a net loss of US wealth into the global economy.
Where are these service jobs that are supposed to make up for the loss of existing jobs? Nowhere, that's where.
The thing that isn't being said is that this supposed "service economy" depends on a populace with plenty of disposable income and the confidence to spend it. Replacing decent paying jobs with low paying or no jobs doesn't lead to such a situation.
About the only people attempting real journalism these days are small time "bloggers" and the like.
Look at any news channel or paper and it's 80% commentary/entertainment with some news bites thrown in.
People get all bent out of shape about this bias or that bias (just listen to some of the comments about fox, angry much? Same could be said for all the bitching about "liberal bias".). Of course it's biased, it's almost all opinion pieces vagely disguised as news.
You can sit in front of a 24/7 news channel for hours and get about the same amount of information that you get from the OTA networks news hour.
Maybe it was a voluntary deal. But I can't see how it was a reasonable claim in the first place.
Apple Music as a brand is/was only relevant in relation to the (post-?)Beatles catalog. So then they clain to own the word Apple. Like the IIgs was in any way a threat to thier selling Beatles music.
Then again, I don't know why Jobs & co. decided to go the music route anyway. They seem to be moving away from a computer company to being a "lifestyle" company. But then again, I'm not a founder of several successful companies.
Unless I'm way off base, the purpose was to encourage the creation of new works and inventions by giving the creators/inventors a temporary monopoly on thier inventions.
The system as it exists now only encourages the acquistion of IP rights in order to stop creation or invention by competitors. Its has become another market to game. And more to the point, it has created a system whereby the only way to break into a market is to sign your rights away to a conglomerate and hope you don't get screwed too hard.
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Yeah sometimes that happens. And sometimes the creator gets hit with a C&D because some lawyers bought out some company that patented something almost vaguely similar. And all you can do is pound sand, because you can't afford the lawyers they can.
It won't fix everything, but it will help the imbalance caused by the belief in IP as property.
Since IP, both copyright and patent, are really temporary monoplies and not pieces of property, they should be non-transferrable. They should belong to whoever or whatever (individual or company) created them, and not be able to be sold or traded.
The "owners" can still license their creation in any way they want, but they can't sell it like a car or land. Also the claim to the IP dies with them.
That seems to me to be the most equitable way of giving what is due to creators while stopping the IP land grab mentality in use today.
Since it is a legal privledge given by government, not a tabgeable object or title to such; why should it be able to be bought or sold? That goes against the original purposes of patent and copyright.
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This has nothing to do with the rights of the creator. In this day creators rarely are the ones who hold the IP rights.
You're an idiot. It doesn't matter. The whole point was supposed to be portability, yet you still have to rewrite for every platform. Does it matter whose fault that is? No.
Yeah they never have enough money. That's why they have to fire some teachers in order to get thier new satellite TV system.
That's why they have to cram students together to afford a new stadium.
That's not even mentioning what goes into the scholld board members pockets. Maybe if the money actually got to teachers there would be enough to go around.
It might. Since some features won't be enabled on that card, there should be less work for the card to do.
Less eye candy, but probably still good enough.
(all that was rampant conjecture, take with a grain of salt)
I guess you could do all that with bluetooth but I can't imagine going to the expense and irritation of a wireless keyboard and mouse just for the sake of looks.
"Cue all the comments about 5200 geforce not being enough -- it's not meant for that..."... "It is for offices and for homes"
??? Does not compute. If it's specifily for homes, which it is, then gaming is in at least the top 3 uses for it. Who do you think buys all those games, corporate users?
5200 is oddly low end for a system that can't have it's video upgraded. 5700s are already low end, they barely play D3 (if you overclock it) and likely won't play HL2 in a playable state at all.
It should never have been added to the os. It should be removed from the OS just like any other exploit.
It does nothing that can't be done in other ways, and it is an inherent securiy risk. If they would just kill activeX, they would solve a metric crapton of problems in one shot.
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Does it really matter if they have a case or not? Would you risk everything on the gamble that the system might work this time?
Really?? Yipe, that's not supposed to happen. Who's the manufacturer of these cards?
It's not like anyone would give them a real email or phone, right?
Looks like they're taking customer service lessons from SOE.
Take 2000, even if every person in my state got up and voted for Gore or Mickey Mouse or whoever, it would have made zero difference because we don't have enough electoral votes to swing even a close election.
The thing that comes to my mind is a memory of watching a talk show long ago where representatives of both parties were present. They actually said something to the effect of "I hope you'll vote for us, but if you don't please vote for them!". Both sides agreed that nobody should vote independent.If that's not reason enough to vote third party, I don't know what is.
Also consumer (and voter) tastes are going to be different in NYC than most of the country, simply because the environment is so different.
Where are these service jobs that are supposed to make up for the loss of existing jobs? Nowhere, that's where.
The thing that isn't being said is that this supposed "service economy" depends on a populace with plenty of disposable income and the confidence to spend it. Replacing decent paying jobs with low paying or no jobs doesn't lead to such a situation.Look at any news channel or paper and it's 80% commentary/entertainment with some news bites thrown in.
People get all bent out of shape about this bias or that bias (just listen to some of the comments about fox, angry much? Same could be said for all the bitching about "liberal bias".). Of course it's biased, it's almost all opinion pieces vagely disguised as news.You can sit in front of a 24/7 news channel for hours and get about the same amount of information that you get from the OTA networks news hour.
It's like they aren't even trying.Apple Music as a brand is/was only relevant in relation to the (post-?)Beatles catalog. So then they clain to own the word Apple. Like the IIgs was in any way a threat to thier selling Beatles music.
Then again, I don't know why Jobs & co. decided to go the music route anyway. They seem to be moving away from a computer company to being a "lifestyle" company. But then again, I'm not a founder of several successful companies.Good luck to 'em anyways.
Plenty of people strike "deals" at the point of a legal gun.
The system as it exists now only encourages the acquistion of IP rights in order to stop creation or invention by competitors. Its has become another market to game. And more to the point, it has created a system whereby the only way to break into a market is to sign your rights away to a conglomerate and hope you don't get screwed too hard.
Yeah sometimes that happens. And sometimes the creator gets hit with a C&D because some lawyers bought out some company that patented something almost vaguely similar. And all you can do is pound sand, because you can't afford the lawyers they can.
Because the little guy does not have the resources to make the laws work for him. Strong laws work in favor of those who can afford a team of lawyers.
Since IP, both copyright and patent, are really temporary monoplies and not pieces of property, they should be non-transferrable. They should belong to whoever or whatever (individual or company) created them, and not be able to be sold or traded.
The "owners" can still license their creation in any way they want, but they can't sell it like a car or land. Also the claim to the IP dies with them.That seems to me to be the most equitable way of giving what is due to creators while stopping the IP land grab mentality in use today.
Since it is a legal privledge given by government, not a tabgeable object or title to such; why should it be able to be bought or sold? That goes against the original purposes of patent and copyright.This has nothing to do with the rights of the creator. In this day creators rarely are the ones who hold the IP rights.
Overrated...
You're an idiot. It doesn't matter. The whole point was supposed to be portability, yet you still have to rewrite for every platform. Does it matter whose fault that is? No.
A gameboy is a small price to pay for, well .....
I don't know of a town or city where such things are not standard procedure.
That's why they have to cram students together to afford a new stadium.
That's not even mentioning what goes into the scholld board members pockets. Maybe if the money actually got to teachers there would be enough to go around.It might. Since some features won't be enabled on that card, there should be less work for the card to do. Less eye candy, but probably still good enough. (all that was rampant conjecture, take with a grain of salt)
In a software project, yes. None of those things were software projects.
I guess you could do all that with bluetooth but I can't imagine going to the expense and irritation of a wireless keyboard and mouse just for the sake of looks.
??? Does not compute. If it's specifily for homes, which it is, then gaming is in at least the top 3 uses for it. Who do you think buys all those games, corporate users?
5200 is oddly low end for a system that can't have it's video upgraded. 5700s are already low end, they barely play D3 (if you overclock it) and likely won't play HL2 in a playable state at all.It should never have been added to the os. It should be removed from the OS just like any other exploit.
It does nothing that can't be done in other ways, and it is an inherent securiy risk. If they would just kill activeX, they would solve a metric crapton of problems in one shot.