These video card naming schemes are just a confusing mess of numbers now. Are the 6000 series better than the 5000 series, or are they parallel series for different market segments?
Stating "the present Office practice is to insist that each claim must be the object of a sentence starting with "I (or we) claim," "The invention claimed is" (or the equivalent)"
Claims don't necessarily start off as a mind-numbingly long description. A long and mind-numbing description usually are very very narrow and not as valuable as a simpler claim, which is usually much broader. What happens is that the Examiner will cite prior art against the Applicant and the Applicant will narrow and add more and more details into the claim to overcome the prior art that is cited against him. Remember, this thing was literally in prosecution for 6 years (its priority date is 1999, but it was filed as a continuation in 2004), so the Examiner had 6 years to cite art at the Applicant until the Applicant narrowed it enough to be granted. At that point, of course, the claim ballooned to the hard to parse language there.
That'd be the "Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art" standard for obviousness. Of course, that standard is applied to a POSITA at the time of invention (i.e. 1999) rather than a POSITA today.
You post on slashdot and you pay attention to the news. I seriously doubt you fit into the category of "average customer".
I believe you'd find that the "average customer" doesn't share the "hate" that you suddenly gained, but are rather quite apathetic about the whole thing so long as they can get a cheap Playstation 3.
So many people, especially the slashdot crowd, are cheering on Anonymous and other parties who are DDOSing parties involved in the whole Wikileaks thing as some sort of testament to free speech. But this isn't free speech anymore, it's just mob justice and there's no due process in mob justice.
If GTA: SA is based on his life, then he must be the most dangerous man alive. Not only must he have committed thousands of murders, assault and batteries, vehicular homicide, and grand larceny, he must also have infiltrated Area 51 and stole military aircraft and vehicles. The man must be a greater threat than Al Qaeda and American Idol put together.
I know that media companies require the bundling of channels by cable companies. My question is why I can't simply choose to buy a bundle (for example, the NBC bundle you listed) instead of being forced to buy the 700 other channels the cable company offers. Those 700 other channels aren't required to be bundled with the NBC bundle.
Actually, states can't create their own communications commissions and still be operating within the Constitution. As Kenji said, this is clearly an interstate commerce issue, which is a power that was explicitly given by the Constitution to Congress, not the states. In any case, do you think it is conducive to commerce at all to have to contend with 50 separate communications commissions all having conflicting regulations about how interstate communications can be undertaken?
It's funny how cable companies all want us to pay as we go for internet access, yet still insist on pushing bundlings of hundreds of TV channels on us if we want to use cable TV.
Every keyboard I've ever used (well, every standalone keyboard) has the spaced gap between the 'a' and CapsLock key. The only keyboards that doesn't have the spaced gap that I've ever used are laptop keyboards, but they are generally bad for more than just that reason.
I think the only people who still use all these keys are people who like overly complex video games that uses every single key on your keyboard, plus all the buttons on your mouse, plus some sort of neural interface to get working.
The Caps Lock key is an arcane relic of the ancient IBM keyboards and for most users, it's completely unnecessary. It screws up passwords, for one, and it is in a position that is way too easy to hit accidentally. Besides, there's been a movement to ditch it for ages now, and thus far nobody's complained. Did nobody notice that the OLPC computer also ditched the CapsLock? Besides, anyone who still wants to use all caps still has the shift button.
See, that's exactly what I mean. The smartphone games and the dedicated console games serve different markets. Smartphone games are much more casual than MGS, Or Little Big Planet, or Gran Turismo. Since I only have the iPhone, I'll just mention a few games that I know:
1) Angry Birds - a really addictive little physics game where you launch birds out of a slingshot at structures to destroy green pigs. I've sank quite a few hours into this game.
2) Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor - a really interesting game that uses the touch screen to allow you to play a Spider within a deserted mansion.
3) Labyrinth - a game that lets you control a ball through mazes with the accelerometer - can't do that on a PSP.
There are loads more, many of which I haven't tried. I just don't think the two markets are comparable enough to say that dedicated handheld consoles are superior.
Actually, phone games are getting pretty good nowadays, and some of them are pretty darn innovative when it comes to gameplay. Sure, they tend to be a lot more casual than the dedicated handheld consoles, but I think that's a bit of the appeal - to be able to pick up a game on a lunchbreak, play for 20 minutes and then text or browse the web or whatever.
I think this is a great idea. If your personal phone and work phones are kept separate and only one can be used at a time, you wouldn't be tethered to work 24 hours a day anymore. You can actually have an excuse to respond to emails the next day instead of at 4 AM.
Autodidact or not, some of us have better things to spend 4 hours digging through a book merely to figure out the point someone alludes to obliquely in a Slashdot post. For the time I waste, I could be learning something far more interesting to me.
Can you provide a pin citation to the part of the book that supports this proposition? I really don't feel like digging through an entire book to figure out what you mentioned vaguely. Right now, it sounds more like you're trying to use your post as advertising for the book than to provide useful information.
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I understand that, but that isn't what I meant. I was wondering why they couldn't make a naming scheme that makes sense.
These video card naming schemes are just a confusing mess of numbers now. Are the 6000 series better than the 5000 series, or are they parallel series for different market segments?
That's how patent claims are supposed to be - in the form of a sentence.
See http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/0600_608_01_m.htm
Stating "the present Office practice is to insist that each claim must be the object of a sentence starting with "I (or we) claim," "The invention claimed is" (or the equivalent)"
Claims don't necessarily start off as a mind-numbingly long description. A long and mind-numbing description usually are very very narrow and not as valuable as a simpler claim, which is usually much broader. What happens is that the Examiner will cite prior art against the Applicant and the Applicant will narrow and add more and more details into the claim to overcome the prior art that is cited against him. Remember, this thing was literally in prosecution for 6 years (its priority date is 1999, but it was filed as a continuation in 2004), so the Examiner had 6 years to cite art at the Applicant until the Applicant narrowed it enough to be granted. At that point, of course, the claim ballooned to the hard to parse language there.
That'd be the "Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art" standard for obviousness. Of course, that standard is applied to a POSITA at the time of invention (i.e. 1999) rather than a POSITA today.
You post on slashdot and you pay attention to the news. I seriously doubt you fit into the category of "average customer".
I believe you'd find that the "average customer" doesn't share the "hate" that you suddenly gained, but are rather quite apathetic about the whole thing so long as they can get a cheap Playstation 3.
So many people, especially the slashdot crowd, are cheering on Anonymous and other parties who are DDOSing parties involved in the whole Wikileaks thing as some sort of testament to free speech. But this isn't free speech anymore, it's just mob justice and there's no due process in mob justice.
Hopefully, that cheat code wasn't roofies.
If GTA: SA is based on his life, then he must be the most dangerous man alive. Not only must he have committed thousands of murders, assault and batteries, vehicular homicide, and grand larceny, he must also have infiltrated Area 51 and stole military aircraft and vehicles. The man must be a greater threat than Al Qaeda and American Idol put together.
I agree with your general sentiment, but you aren't getting a legit download. You're getting a legit stream.
I know that media companies require the bundling of channels by cable companies. My question is why I can't simply choose to buy a bundle (for example, the NBC bundle you listed) instead of being forced to buy the 700 other channels the cable company offers. Those 700 other channels aren't required to be bundled with the NBC bundle.
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Actually, states can't create their own communications commissions and still be operating within the Constitution. As Kenji said, this is clearly an interstate commerce issue, which is a power that was explicitly given by the Constitution to Congress, not the states. In any case, do you think it is conducive to commerce at all to have to contend with 50 separate communications commissions all having conflicting regulations about how interstate communications can be undertaken?
It's funny how cable companies all want us to pay as we go for internet access, yet still insist on pushing bundlings of hundreds of TV channels on us if we want to use cable TV.
Holding down shift doesn't turn on Sticky Keys. Pressing it 5 times in quick succession does.
Every keyboard I've ever used (well, every standalone keyboard) has the spaced gap between the 'a' and CapsLock key. The only keyboards that doesn't have the spaced gap that I've ever used are laptop keyboards, but they are generally bad for more than just that reason.
I think the only people who still use all these keys are people who like overly complex video games that uses every single key on your keyboard, plus all the buttons on your mouse, plus some sort of neural interface to get working.
The Caps Lock key is an arcane relic of the ancient IBM keyboards and for most users, it's completely unnecessary. It screws up passwords, for one, and it is in a position that is way too easy to hit accidentally. Besides, there's been a movement to ditch it for ages now, and thus far nobody's complained. Did nobody notice that the OLPC computer also ditched the CapsLock? Besides, anyone who still wants to use all caps still has the shift button.
I thought we're talking about portable handheld consoles, unless that's a Wii in your pocket...
See, that's exactly what I mean. The smartphone games and the dedicated console games serve different markets. Smartphone games are much more casual than MGS, Or Little Big Planet, or Gran Turismo. Since I only have the iPhone, I'll just mention a few games that I know:
1) Angry Birds - a really addictive little physics game where you launch birds out of a slingshot at structures to destroy green pigs. I've sank quite a few hours into this game.
2) Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor - a really interesting game that uses the touch screen to allow you to play a Spider within a deserted mansion.
3) Labyrinth - a game that lets you control a ball through mazes with the accelerometer - can't do that on a PSP.
There are loads more, many of which I haven't tried. I just don't think the two markets are comparable enough to say that dedicated handheld consoles are superior.
Actually, phone games are getting pretty good nowadays, and some of them are pretty darn innovative when it comes to gameplay. Sure, they tend to be a lot more casual than the dedicated handheld consoles, but I think that's a bit of the appeal - to be able to pick up a game on a lunchbreak, play for 20 minutes and then text or browse the web or whatever.
I look forward to the Playstation Phone, however it should be noted that Sony Ericsson has a long history with mediocre mobile phones.
Until smartphones and tablets displace the PC in being the platform where most of the work is done, I don't consider the PC Era to be over.
Well, if one of your phone OSes is for business, I'd assume that the business will pay for at least that data and phone plan.
I think this is a great idea. If your personal phone and work phones are kept separate and only one can be used at a time, you wouldn't be tethered to work 24 hours a day anymore. You can actually have an excuse to respond to emails the next day instead of at 4 AM.
Autodidact or not, some of us have better things to spend 4 hours digging through a book merely to figure out the point someone alludes to obliquely in a Slashdot post. For the time I waste, I could be learning something far more interesting to me.
Can you provide a pin citation to the part of the book that supports this proposition? I really don't feel like digging through an entire book to figure out what you mentioned vaguely. Right now, it sounds more like you're trying to use your post as advertising for the book than to provide useful information.