So why can't this just be overturned instantly with this proof of prior art? The problem with overturning even obvious patents is that it is so GD expensive in terms of money and time that very bad patents are allowed to remain standing until some idiot tries to enforce them.
This is a bit OT, but is about how copyright lawyers take stuff away from creative use.
Those Hitler YouTube parodies that were taken down by DMCA idiots. Why hasn't a group of performers with a video camera remade that scene under CopyLeft and posted it for everyone to reuse to the limit of their own creativity? This is how to respond to those morons who want to lock up the content.
If enough free culture is created, people eventually realize that they have enough good free stuff to never need to go back to overpriced, over-restricted material sold by over-priveleged monopolies ever again. That's their fear -- people who create and share their creations simply for the love of it. We can't have that! It's un-American! (Forgets how the US Constitution explicitly repudiated the eternal copyrights of Europe.)
There are already more free books and story sites on the web than any person could read in a lifetime. It used to be that the only way you could read out-of-copyright works was if someone reprinted it and sold it at a low enough price to not be undercut. Now you just download it and nobody profits from that download -- which is just WRONG to some people. And while you're reading your classic liteature, you're not paying for and consuming other overpriced content.
Are we better off for this? I would think so because we are a richer culture overall! How long, for example, before a radio station starts only playing out-of-copyright performances that you can play in your bar or restaurant without paying ASCAP, BMI, and all the rest of those money grubbers a single red cent? Would be great, provided that they can't kill it in the cradle. Let that happen and soon there may be music everywhere!
Here I thought that Spain was going broke only moments after Greece, and now I find out that insted they have innovated with entirely new forms of income.
Remember that Theremin was an effective, and unsuspected, German spy prior to WWII. Does this hack include spying on your country as one of its play modes?
Those of us old British farts who remember the BBC Micro will be celebrating. Who would have thought that, nearly thirty years on, its descendants would at last become a threat to (at least the low end of) the Intel/Microsoft domination of personal computing?
That could be because x86 stinks, x86 has always stunk, and even Intel doesn't execute it as x86 any longer, but instead translates it to its own RISC-like micro ops.
Your new HD mobile device will still be limited to WXGA 1280x800....So much for an HD iPad competitor.
Funny, I don't recall the iPad having a 1920x1080 screen. You only have to compete with what the iPad is at the moment since Apple is slow to change their own standards. Just look at how long the iPhone has been stuck at the same screen resolution -- until tomorrow.
Give me a phone where I can run an x86 operating system and x86 software.
That would be a very bad move since any x86 OS is both bloated, and not suited for a touch screen only interface. They all want keyboard/mouse inputs. Even Apple realized that OS/X was not the thing to run on a smartphone, while HP has dropped Windows 7 for their Slate, Google offers Android, not Chrome, for phones, and Microsoft Win 7 Mobile is really looking iffy to appear at all.
This is also why Microsoft Office and Open Office aren't available on the Android phone yet. They are not suited for this type of hardware, memory limitations, screen limitation, and lack of keyboard/mouse.
And most SSD drives these days are just about the size of your entire phone. Try to realize why a smartphone is a different paradigm altogether.
Great timing to reveal this just ahead of Steve Jobs iPhone 4/HD A4-processor equipped phone. I almost feel badly for Mr. Jobs getting beaten up like this. Even Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) is getting an HTC Incredible.
Just another good case of why standards should never include patented technology unless the patent(s) are signed over to royalty-free public use. I'll settle for cheap and good enough, rather than better, but patented.
Yeah, let's fight idiocy with murder. Hope/. hands your IP out to them so they can have you arrested for menacing and terroristic threats. Violence won't solve this problem.
And your realistic suggestion on how to stop this is...?
And, btw, it's these lawyers who are the real terrorists here at the moment.
Our I.T. administrators at SDSU were soon calling the one demonstration terminal we had for a few weeks the PLAY-DOH system. Who could ever forget playing Moonwar on it. Great fun for its time.
Okay, Google. I want to see a running Win3.0 logo on your home page by Sunday. If you can do that great Pacman/Ms. Pacman, I know I can see File Manager running there next.
Easy solution: buy Android. And you don't need AT&T either this way. In the end Apple shot themselves in the foot by locking out all of the other carriers for too long.
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Posting real names would have ended all honest GLBT discussions in an instant. That's immediately a great reason not to post them.
NetApp must die. And they can be buried in the same grave with NTP.
It's France, so what did you expect?
The answer is painfully obvious -- some idiot keeps granting then.
Wait, I'll patent that.
So why can't this just be overturned instantly with this proof of prior art? The problem with overturning even obvious patents is that it is so GD expensive in terms of money and time that very bad patents are allowed to remain standing until some idiot tries to enforce them.
This is a bit OT, but is about how copyright lawyers take stuff away from creative use.
Those Hitler YouTube parodies that were taken down by DMCA idiots. Why hasn't a group of performers with a video camera remade that scene under CopyLeft and posted it for everyone to reuse to the limit of their own creativity? This is how to respond to those morons who want to lock up the content.
If enough free culture is created, people eventually realize that they have enough good free stuff to never need to go back to overpriced, over-restricted material sold by over-priveleged monopolies ever again. That's their fear -- people who create and share their creations simply for the love of it. We can't have that! It's un-American! (Forgets how the US Constitution explicitly repudiated the eternal copyrights of Europe.)
There are already more free books and story sites on the web than any person could read in a lifetime. It used to be that the only way you could read out-of-copyright works was if someone reprinted it and sold it at a low enough price to not be undercut. Now you just download it and nobody profits from that download -- which is just WRONG to some people. And while you're reading your classic liteature, you're not paying for and consuming other overpriced content.
Are we better off for this? I would think so because we are a richer culture overall! How long, for example, before a radio station starts only playing out-of-copyright performances that you can play in your bar or restaurant without paying ASCAP, BMI, and all the rest of those money grubbers a single red cent? Would be great, provided that they can't kill it in the cradle. Let that happen and soon there may be music everywhere!
Yeah, this makes perfect sense. Let's commit massive voting fraud to nominate a candidate who has no chance of winning anyway.
Then what? Claim that the Republican win in November is just another instance of the voting machines getting it wrong?
Here I thought that Spain was going broke only moments after Greece, and now I find out that insted they have innovated with entirely new forms of income.
Remember that Theremin was an effective, and unsuspected, German spy prior to WWII. Does this hack include spying on your country as one of its play modes?
But does it release painkillers when your PETN underware bomb misfires?
Good thing I don't have mod points today. I wouldn't know whether to mod you funny, insightful, or troll.
That could be because x86 stinks, x86 has always stunk, and even Intel doesn't execute it as x86 any longer, but instead translates it to its own RISC-like micro ops.
Funny, I don't recall the iPad having a 1920x1080 screen. You only have to compete with what the iPad is at the moment since Apple is slow to change their own standards. Just look at how long the iPhone has been stuck at the same screen resolution -- until tomorrow.
That would be a very bad move since any x86 OS is both bloated, and not suited for a touch screen only interface. They all want keyboard/mouse inputs. Even Apple realized that OS/X was not the thing to run on a smartphone, while HP has dropped Windows 7 for their Slate, Google offers Android, not Chrome, for phones, and Microsoft Win 7 Mobile is really looking iffy to appear at all.
This is also why Microsoft Office and Open Office aren't available on the Android phone yet. They are not suited for this type of hardware, memory limitations, screen limitation, and lack of keyboard/mouse.
And most SSD drives these days are just about the size of your entire phone. Try to realize why a smartphone is a different paradigm altogether.
Great timing to reveal this just ahead of Steve Jobs iPhone 4/HD A4-processor equipped phone. I almost feel badly for Mr. Jobs getting beaten up like this. Even Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) is getting an HTC Incredible.
I said almost.
We don't need no stinking satellites. We make this climate stuff up now as we go along.
Just another good case of why standards should never include patented technology unless the patent(s) are signed over to royalty-free public use. I'll settle for cheap and good enough, rather than better, but patented.
And your realistic suggestion on how to stop this is...?
And, btw, it's these lawyers who are the real terrorists here at the moment.
It's time to start shooting these extortionist lawyers. I just don't see any other way to stop their abuse of the legal system.
Our I.T. administrators at SDSU were soon calling the one demonstration terminal we had for a few weeks the PLAY-DOH system. Who could ever forget playing Moonwar on it. Great fun for its time.
Okay, Google. I want to see a running Win3.0 logo on your home page by Sunday. If you can do that great Pacman/Ms. Pacman, I know I can see File Manager running there next.
Easy solution: buy Android. And you don't need AT&T either this way. In the end Apple shot themselves in the foot by locking out all of the other carriers for too long.
OO won't run on my M-Droid. Vim might. Especially since all I need is Notepad functionality (e.g. text entry and find ability ).
How do I get vim onto my Motorola Droid?