This patent goes a lot futher than cookies. If one reads through the text of the claim, it becomes obvious that Microsoft has been granted a patent to a complete system of persistent, user configurable web sites. Described is the method of storage on the server, transmission, storage on the client side, and perhaps most importantly, the idea of HTML dynamically produced on the server side!!!
" . . . And that's the way the cookie crumbles . .."
And about that bottled water. It has been proven that the vast majority of bottled water being sold is no better than, and sometimes even worse than, the quality of municiple water. In other words, at least some of it was taken directly from your local water supply.
That said, not only is it cheaper to get the water out of your local fountain, but it is the same stuff.
Unfortunately, intent cannot be understood just by the actions of people in this matter. Granted many people who put files in globally accessable folders don't mean to, but there are a significant number of "non-stupid" people who do this deliberately. Also, one cannot automatically assume that just because said student wrote a file sharing or searching program that it was written with nefarious intent.
As has been stated numerous times in various places, in many cases, it is not the tool that infracts on the law, it is the use to which people put it.
If they were (extremely theoretically) able to sell all their computing power for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year their income would be:
15c * 7800 computers = $1170/hour
$28080 / day
$10249200 / year.
When they mentioned price, it was unlcear what they meant. Was that 15c per hour per machine, or 15c per hour on the entire virtual machine? Quite a different thing.
Plus . . . 15c per hour is JUST introductory.
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This patent goes a lot futher than cookies. If one reads through the text of the claim, it becomes obvious that Microsoft has been granted a patent to a complete system of persistent, user configurable web sites. Described is the method of storage on the server, transmission, storage on the client side, and perhaps most importantly, the idea of HTML dynamically produced on the server side!!!
" . . . And that's the way the cookie crumbles . .And about that bottled water. It has been proven that the vast majority of bottled water being sold is no better than, and sometimes even worse than, the quality of municiple water. In other words, at least some of it was taken directly from your local water supply.
That said, not only is it cheaper to get the water out of your local fountain, but it is the same stuff.
Unfortunately, intent cannot be understood just by the actions of people in this matter. Granted many people who put files in globally accessable folders don't mean to, but there are a significant number of "non-stupid" people who do this deliberately. Also, one cannot automatically assume that just because said student wrote a file sharing or searching program that it was written with nefarious intent.
As has been stated numerous times in various places, in many cases, it is not the tool that infracts on the law, it is the use to which people put it.
If they were (extremely theoretically) able to sell all their computing power for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year their income would be: 15c * 7800 computers = $1170/hour $28080 / day $10249200 / year.
When they mentioned price, it was unlcear what they meant. Was that 15c per hour per machine, or 15c per hour on the entire virtual machine? Quite a different thing. Plus . . . 15c per hour is JUST introductory.