I'm glad because hopefully is this kind of trials that will make people realize how stupid software patents are.
This isn't about stupid software patents (see below). It's about suing the wrong person just because you want somebody in the district where you want your suit heard.
As for people understanding now the problems here with software patents, most people wouldn't know what a linked-list is if it bit them in the butt and picked their pocket. This adds nothing to their understanding of the issue.
As for this patent itself, sounds like:
10 TRAVERSE TO NEXT NODE
20 IF EXPIRED THEN REMOVE NODE
30 IF NOT LAST NODE THEN GOTO 10
40 END
I doubt that it was explained to the Patent Office in such simple terms, but even if it was I doubt that they actually understood it.
the reason why the Eastern District of Texas has been so friendly to patent trolls is because an unusual number of federal judges in that district are unusually biased in favor of plaintiffs in patent disputes.
It's not the judges that decide so many of these cases in the Plaintiff's favor, but the East Texas juries that do so. Why? Nobody has really said yet, but I'd be testing the drinking water there for a start.
They should have just moved all the existing pages to Wikileaks during the downtime. A legal discussion that Apple was using legal threats to suppress ought to have qualified.
I won't be settling for anything but a SSD. The benefits are just to great to ignore.
As long as they don't wear out in months, instead of years. I'm still leery of just how quickly you can start killing one of these when it's hosting the swap file. And I have yet to hear data on just how many R/W cycles 34nm cells are good for yet.
They may ask the public, but are they actually going to listen to them? Governments have a long history of trying to pacify the unruly mob when government actions are so outrageous as to stir them up, but pacify more often than not appears to mean giving the appearance of caring -- and then going ahead and doing exactly what they intended to do in the first place. That's not even throwing them a bone.
And it works time-after-time because of the short attention span public who keeps reelecting them!
I don't know what the final orbit will be but what I find eerie about lunar orbits is that you should be able to insert something into orbit that is only say 10 miles above the highest peaks, possibly even less, and that would be amazing to watch fly over if one was in the position to be there.
This sounds like an attempted crime. How can you conspire to break the DMCA if you don't actually succeed. That's like planning a bank robbery that never happens. Is this for real?
Google has created an entirely new piece of virtual real estate in terms on on-line ads, and now Rosetta Stone (how can they even own that term?) claims that they own land on it. I think RS is full of crap and if they wanted to use the term there then they should have bought it. I hope that the courts slap them down HARD.
I could have been happy using WordPerfect 5.1 for the rest of my life
I will second that. Especially because Reveal Codes was so much faster for fixing formatting problems than Word to this day. There are times in Word some piece of formatting garbage gets so stuck in place that I have to delete entire paragraphs and repast the text as Paste Special Unformatted Text.
1: It takes away valuable vertical screen real estate and cannot be repositioned to less valuable side areas.
2: It changes based on what it's Application Telepathy thinks you are doing.
3: You are not even offered the option of backwards compatibility to the old, customizable, fixed menuing system -- Microsoft dictates that they know what's best for you!
Can forced Dvorak keyboards with no QWERTY option be far behind?
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Yes the End justifies the Means -- because the means becomes part of the end.
If you must destroy your world to save it then you have a saved, destroyed, world.
Scratch that. I much more prefer the traditional Mexican that you find in California and Arizona to that TexMex mashup.
Maybe we should let Texas secede from the Union just to lose East Texas courts.
This isn't about stupid software patents (see below). It's about suing the wrong person just because you want somebody in the district where you want your suit heard.
As for people understanding now the problems here with software patents, most people wouldn't know what a linked-list is if it bit them in the butt and picked their pocket. This adds nothing to their understanding of the issue.
As for this patent itself, sounds like:
10 TRAVERSE TO NEXT NODE
20 IF EXPIRED THEN REMOVE NODE
30 IF NOT LAST NODE THEN GOTO 10
40 END
I doubt that it was explained to the Patent Office in such simple terms, but even if it was I doubt that they actually understood it.
If it did then the RIAA would long since be out of the lawsuit business -- and probably bankrupt from the sanctions imposed on them.
It's not the judges that decide so many of these cases in the Plaintiff's favor, but the East Texas juries that do so. Why? Nobody has really said yet, but I'd be testing the drinking water there for a start.
It may be "unprofessional", but kudos to him for saying what everyone else involved in this is thinking and wishing they could say as well.
How about going to their office en masse and burning it down?
They should have just moved all the existing pages to Wikileaks during the downtime. A legal discussion that Apple was using legal threats to suppress ought to have qualified.
Would you run DeFrag on an SSD like you do on an HD? After all, sequential reads are still sequential reads.
As long as they don't wear out in months, instead of years. I'm still leery of just how quickly you can start killing one of these when it's hosting the swap file. And I have yet to hear data on just how many R/W cycles 34nm cells are good for yet.
Having gotten 2 out of 3, does Intel make a trifecta here, or is there some lurking downside (e.g. limited write cycles etc.)?
Now maybe you can cut a couple people lose to write a decent User's Manual for the darn thing -- oh yes, and finish commenting the code.
This requires picking of villains in a way not to alienate half your audience.
They may ask the public, but are they actually going to listen to them? Governments have a long history of trying to pacify the unruly mob when government actions are so outrageous as to stir them up, but pacify more often than not appears to mean giving the appearance of caring -- and then going ahead and doing exactly what they intended to do in the first place. That's not even throwing them a bone.
And it works time-after-time because of the short attention span public who keeps reelecting them!
So how does the F-35 stack up against the performance of the F-22 and other likely advisories?
I don't know what the final orbit will be but what I find eerie about lunar orbits is that you should be able to insert something into orbit that is only say 10 miles above the highest peaks, possibly even less, and that would be amazing to watch fly over if one was in the position to be there.
This is a really stupid purchase in the first place. Just how hard will it be to set-up The Pirate Bay II in competition?
This sounds like an attempted crime. How can you conspire to break the DMCA if you don't actually succeed. That's like planning a bank robbery that never happens. Is this for real?
Sounds like the kind of error you could make in C#.
Google has created an entirely new piece of virtual real estate in terms on on-line ads, and now Rosetta Stone (how can they even own that term?) claims that they own land on it. I think RS is full of crap and if they wanted to use the term there then they should have bought it. I hope that the courts slap them down HARD.
I actually used that password 13 years ago, although not recently.
I will second that. Especially because Reveal Codes was so much faster for fixing formatting problems than Word to this day. There are times in Word some piece of formatting garbage gets so stuck in place that I have to delete entire paragraphs and repast the text as Paste Special Unformatted Text.
Just which 3rd party app are you referring to, and what in particular makes it crappy to you?
1: It takes away valuable vertical screen real estate and cannot be repositioned to less valuable side areas.
2: It changes based on what it's Application Telepathy thinks you are doing.
3: You are not even offered the option of backwards compatibility to the old, customizable, fixed menuing system -- Microsoft dictates that they know what's best for you!
Can forced Dvorak keyboards with no QWERTY option be far behind?
First Question: Does it run on XP?
Would be the first time that MS has tried to force an OS upgrade.