Most interesting is that all of the claims incorporate directly or by reference this limitation: "and wherein the visual content comprises a plurality of mini-images in the form of a conveyor belt slide show."
They never actually define the term "conveyor belt slide show", leaving it up to interpretation by a person having ordinary skill in the art. My guess is that this would normally be interpreted to mean a script or plugin object that has a row of images with arrows on each end, where it scrolls the images back or forth when you click on the arrows (or something like that).
It's almost certain that this limitation was left as a separate dependent claim when the patent was first filed, and the examiner found prior art anticipating everything else, so the claim was incorporated into each independent claim to make them acceptable.
Google Images, for example, doesn't use this setup, so they're scot-free, at least for their Images stuff. Might be a different case for Google Video.
Yes, patents, copyrights, and trademarks have a place in modern society. No, they're nowhere near equivalent to physical property, simply because they are intangible things that can be duplicated easily, even just by looking at them and committing them to memory.
To fix the injustices surrounding patents and copyrights, there are a couple of partial solutions: One, decrease the terms of patents (by a bit) and copyrights (by a whole bunch). And/or two, make them nontransferable, even as a matter of creation as a work-for-hire (which doesn't preclude individuals or groups of people licensing their works-for-hire to their employers).
I think he meant that the value ("7:53PM EST") given as a reference to the Earth time is precisely (that is, with an implied, practical amount of measurement inaccuracy, but a small and acceptable one even by the scientific standards) Specifically, one hour.
Except that they probably don't know it blocks radio waves Build it to look like a giant tin-foil hat. Everyone knows that tin-foil hats stop radio waves.
Actually, it's rather appropriate that you mention nuclear plants, because the big benefit of nuclear plants is essentially same benefit of not trying to decompose our plastic landfill waste (specifically, that the waste is easy to contain compared to carbon dioxide emissions).
Thanks for posting this. Those commercials really annoy me, in part because that punk driving the car has a face you'd love to beat with a baseball bat, and in part because Experian acknowledges that their entire operation is a scam (they've already settled with the FTC once already) but they're still at it.
Reusing the key would require that the previous owner relinquish the key from their account. It's apparent that the previous user, um, neglected to do that before he sold you his copy of WoW on eBay.
On a side note, I have this bridge I'd like to sell on the cheap. Interested?
Black & White almost had scientific merit for its AI system, but from a gameplay perspective, it was laden with problems. Two stood out the most. One, the campaign became boring and extremely repetitive, involving casting the same spells dozens or hundreds of times to meet the scenario objectives, all without the help of your creature. And two, the method of training your creature was an extremely non-intuitive "reward/punish your pet before it acts, rather than after" that was woefully lacking in feedback for the player.
Sites like that drove me to write a plugin that would parse SWF files for any internal strings and then present them in a context menu when you click on the space that would normally be occupied by the Flash widget. If any of the strings happen to be a URL, I can select the option from the context menu to navigate there.
Of course, they've released three more versions of Flash since then, so my plugin rarely picks up text anymore. I guess in the interim, I decided that such sites were rarely worth navigating in the first place, so I didn't bother updating my plugin.:(
I'm really glad they mentioned Flash. It's become a horrible malware vector, which is largely Adobe's fault. But worse yet is how some web designers use Flash.
Flash is too often used for creating website navigation widgets, or worse yet, for encapsulating entire websites. And even worse than that are the horribly annoying Flash version-checker scripts, which demand that you will install or upgrade Flash before viewing this site, because "I spent fifteen minutes on those fancy Flash-based site nav buttons, and you damn well better look at them" even though virtually all of the site's actual content is in plain HTML.
What's more, I don't need or want a Flash widget to view a series of JPEGs. Just show me the damn images - I'm perfectly capable of clicking by myself to move on to the next one, thanks.
If it's better for the consumer, then given enough time, the consumer will, on his or her own, adopt an independently-developed method of implementing the technology. An ISP only interested in better network performance would encourage its customers to adopt such technology without the need to develop its own "brand".
The only reason for an ISP to sponsor their own implementation is to gain control over it, most likely so they can either charge extra for it or so they can provide preferential placement of content in exchange for a fee from content providers.
peer-to-peer file-sharing techniques that are "friendly" to Internet service providers. "Friendly" meaning, of course, that the customer pays the ISP extra for it.
Well, they suggest that the rogue root DNS was serving the same results as the legit one, but given that the Renesys guys only did a "very cursory examination of the results", and given that many malvertisement operators take pains to target their malware campaigns to certain geographical regions and to keep their ads hidden from the people who can ultimately block them, it's quite possible that the rogue DNS was only giving bad results for certain targeted domains (or perhaps was only giving bad results to certain IP ranges).
A sideways baseball cap says to the world: "I will never be anyone's boss!" A backwards baseball cap adds: "Me too!...except for that idiot wearing his cap sideways!" Posts like that are the reason why moderation should go to 11.
The first version will let you create your own avatar with no extra fees. Later versions will require you to purchase equipment for your character directly from a "shop" run by the GW servers. Can't I just use a paperboard cutout of my character instead?
Unfortunately, it becomes nearly impossible to determine whether there are any spots with multiple blank spots in a row because the columns become too sloppy toward the right half.
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That's not so much a definition as it is an example of an implementation. I wouldn't really think of that as limiting the scope of the term.
Most interesting is that all of the claims incorporate directly or by reference this limitation: "and wherein the visual content comprises a plurality of mini-images in the form of a conveyor belt slide show."
They never actually define the term "conveyor belt slide show", leaving it up to interpretation by a person having ordinary skill in the art. My guess is that this would normally be interpreted to mean a script or plugin object that has a row of images with arrows on each end, where it scrolls the images back or forth when you click on the arrows (or something like that).
It's almost certain that this limitation was left as a separate dependent claim when the patent was first filed, and the examiner found prior art anticipating everything else, so the claim was incorporated into each independent claim to make them acceptable.
Google Images, for example, doesn't use this setup, so they're scot-free, at least for their Images stuff. Might be a different case for Google Video.
Yes, patents, copyrights, and trademarks have a place in modern society. No, they're nowhere near equivalent to physical property, simply because they are intangible things that can be duplicated easily, even just by looking at them and committing them to memory.
To fix the injustices surrounding patents and copyrights, there are a couple of partial solutions: One, decrease the terms of patents (by a bit) and copyrights (by a whole bunch). And/or two, make them nontransferable, even as a matter of creation as a work-for-hire (which doesn't preclude individuals or groups of people licensing their works-for-hire to their employers).
Or maybe he forgot to set his clocks forward.
Actually, it's rather appropriate that you mention nuclear plants, because the big benefit of nuclear plants is essentially same benefit of not trying to decompose our plastic landfill waste (specifically, that the waste is easy to contain compared to carbon dioxide emissions).
Fully furnished, but it's only got a half bath.
Here's a Coral Cache link, just in case. ;)
Here's a shorter and easier-to-remember link that also includes warnings about scam sites:
http://www.ftc.gov/freereports
Thanks for posting this. Those commercials really annoy me, in part because that punk driving the car has a face you'd love to beat with a baseball bat, and in part because Experian acknowledges that their entire operation is a scam (they've already settled with the FTC once already) but they're still at it.
The fact that he was also a victim of identity theft while a client of his own company is being cited as evidence that his deception was willful.
Reusing the key would require that the previous owner relinquish the key from their account. It's apparent that the previous user, um, neglected to do that before he sold you his copy of WoW on eBay.
On a side note, I have this bridge I'd like to sell on the cheap. Interested?
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Thanks, I'll be here all week.
Black & White almost had scientific merit for its AI system, but from a gameplay perspective, it was laden with problems. Two stood out the most. One, the campaign became boring and extremely repetitive, involving casting the same spells dozens or hundreds of times to meet the scenario objectives, all without the help of your creature. And two, the method of training your creature was an extremely non-intuitive "reward/punish your pet before it acts, rather than after" that was woefully lacking in feedback for the player.
It's not really "buried in the patent". It's mentioned right up front in claim 1, and the headline for this article seems oblivious to that point.
Sites like that drove me to write a plugin that would parse SWF files for any internal strings and then present them in a context menu when you click on the space that would normally be occupied by the Flash widget. If any of the strings happen to be a URL, I can select the option from the context menu to navigate there.
:(
Of course, they've released three more versions of Flash since then, so my plugin rarely picks up text anymore. I guess in the interim, I decided that such sites were rarely worth navigating in the first place, so I didn't bother updating my plugin.
I'm really glad they mentioned Flash. It's become a horrible malware vector, which is largely Adobe's fault. But worse yet is how some web designers use Flash.
Flash is too often used for creating website navigation widgets, or worse yet, for encapsulating entire websites. And even worse than that are the horribly annoying Flash version-checker scripts, which demand that you will install or upgrade Flash before viewing this site, because "I spent fifteen minutes on those fancy Flash-based site nav buttons, and you damn well better look at them" even though virtually all of the site's actual content is in plain HTML.
What's more, I don't need or want a Flash widget to view a series of JPEGs. Just show me the damn images - I'm perfectly capable of clicking by myself to move on to the next one, thanks.
If it's better for the consumer, then given enough time, the consumer will, on his or her own, adopt an independently-developed method of implementing the technology. An ISP only interested in better network performance would encourage its customers to adopt such technology without the need to develop its own "brand".
The only reason for an ISP to sponsor their own implementation is to gain control over it, most likely so they can either charge extra for it or so they can provide preferential placement of content in exchange for a fee from content providers.
Well, they suggest that the rogue root DNS was serving the same results as the legit one, but given that the Renesys guys only did a "very cursory examination of the results", and given that many malvertisement operators take pains to target their malware campaigns to certain geographical regions and to keep their ads hidden from the people who can ultimately block them, it's quite possible that the rogue DNS was only giving bad results for certain targeted domains (or perhaps was only giving bad results to certain IP ranges).
Or it could have been sheer altruism. Who knows.
A backwards baseball cap adds: "Me too!
Unfortunately, it becomes nearly impossible to determine whether there are any spots with multiple blank spots in a row because the columns become too sloppy toward the right half.