Because the purpose of copyrights is no longer to "promote the useful arts and sciences", but to maximize profits for industries that have bought the services of lawmakers.
I don't think the Hobbit is ever going to be made at this rate. This pie is almost guaranteed to be in the tens of millions of dollars; it's only a matter of time before they finish squabbling over who gets what sized piece and start baking it.
... the internet is much bigger than they were capable of imagining.
The internet is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the tubes to Slashdot, but that's just peanuts to the internet.
Format wars? Is that a movie? How does it end, I haven't seen many new movies lately. I wait for them to come out on my Betamax machine.
Not a movie, a game. You have to convince other hardware manufacturers to join your consortium, decide how much to spend on buying the allegiance of content providers, and how much to discount your player. It'll probably never come out on your ColecoVision, though.
How about those icons that appear when you start throwing a Mii around by the scruff of its neck? This covers almost everything in claim 1 of the patent application, except for the "in proximity of" part. I think the icons for things you might want to do with the Mii always appear in the same place, regardless of where the Mii was on the screen when you grabbed it.
A project called Open Rico has had an open-source javascript api that does that for a long time, and it works quite well.
There is an online demo at:
http://demos.openrico.org/demos/drag_and_drop_custom_dropzone
No login required. Unless there's some way to arrange for the drop zones to not appear until after you start dragging, Rico is not prior art for this patent. It does look like a nice Javascript library.
Michigan Democrats will have a hard time casting meaningful votes, considering Obama and Edwards aren't on the ballot.
Also, in the general election the vast right-wing conspiracy would rather run against Clinton with her 50% negative rating than against Obama, who seems to be successfully casting himself as the outsider/candidate of "change".
You could easily snap the picture of your marked ballot, then tell the poll worker you mismarked your ballot, get a new ballot and vote your actual preference. So, the candidate who accepts a cell phone picture as proof when buying your vote is not only evil but also stupid.
Non-fossil fuel vehicles will start selling when they are made as inexpensively as traditional vehicles. And, when they have the range, capacity, and easy and quick refuel capabilities.
I'd be satisfied with half of my current car's ~300 mile range, and I could deal with plugging it in overnight versus a 5 minute stop at a gas station. But I would want the same capacity (comfortable seating for 4 adults), and the price premium couldn't be more than about 30%.
The Toshiba press release (http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2007_12/pr1101.htm) has specs for the battery. The attached graphs (http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2007_12/1101/SCiB.pdf) show the gravimetric energy density to be greater than that of the NiMH batteries used for hybrid vehicles but less than that of lithium-ion batteries used for mobile devices, which explains why they are aiming this at the industrial market rather than laptops.
That video will probably be one of the first exhibits in the Case for the Robot Uprising. As you can clearly see, not only did humans from the beginning view robots as being menial servants that we can push around and bully, we actually engineered them so that we could shove and kick them at will without interfering with their service of us! They're designed to be abused! "We are made to suffer, it's our lot in life" -- C3PO
This was modded "Insightful"? The idea that either side could play fair and square but for some reason is "resorting" to dirty tricks demonstrates stupendous naivete.
Both sides will do absolutely anything if they think that it gives them even a tiny advantage and that they can get away with it.
"I can't answer any of your questions due to pending litigation and NDAs, but keep the faith, Amiga is and will be the best platform, ever. Oh, and 20yrs old sources to historic versions of AmigaOS is our core intelectual property asset, so the release of them is never going to happen."
Robert More likely, they simply don't have the necessary legal rights to the 20 year old sources and thus can't release them.
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Jerry, who one of these days will get his 1985 Amiga 1000 out and running again . . .
No open source is ever "complete", for good and for worse:) Even a dead open source project is only "temporary dead"! (whatever that means...) It just so happens that your open source project here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
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Because the purpose of copyrights is no longer to "promote the useful arts and sciences", but to maximize profits for industries that have bought the services of lawmakers.
... the internet is much bigger than they were capable of imagining.The internet is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the tubes to Slashdot, but that's just peanuts to the internet.
At least DDJ isn't somebody's blog, but why not link directly to ACM's press release?
http://www.rinkermaterials.com/ProdsServices/Concrete/Conc_UnderwaterConcrete.shtml
Format wars? Is that a movie? How does it end, I haven't seen many new movies lately. I wait for them to come out on my Betamax machine.
Not a movie, a game. You have to convince other hardware manufacturers to join your consortium, decide how much to spend on buying the allegiance of content providers, and how much to discount your player. It'll probably never come out on your ColecoVision, though.
The patent isn't on every drag-and-drop interface, just one that presents context-sensitive drop targets after you start dragging.
It is a context menu, except initiated by dragging instead of right-clicking, and instead of a menu it pops up one or more drop targets.
The wording of patents is an attempt to avoid the potential ambiguity of plain English.
Who modded this "Troll"? You will be denied a place in any of our deeper mine shafts!
Last time I faced this problem (about 5 years ago), emacs, ctags, and grep got the job done.
I don't understand why those young whippersnappers modded you "Funny".
Seriously, they threw bowling balls 120 feet. Yawn.
Michigan Democrats will have a hard time casting meaningful votes, considering Obama and Edwards aren't on the ballot.
Also, in the general election the vast right-wing conspiracy would rather run against Clinton with her 50% negative rating than against Obama, who seems to be successfully casting himself as the outsider/candidate of "change".
You could easily snap the picture of your marked ballot, then tell the poll worker you mismarked your ballot, get a new ballot and vote your actual preference. So, the candidate who accepts a cell phone picture as proof when buying your vote is not only evil but also stupid.
Have a look at this one.
Non-fossil fuel vehicles will start selling when they are made as inexpensively as traditional vehicles. And, when they have the range, capacity, and easy and quick refuel capabilities.
I'd be satisfied with half of my current car's ~300 mile range, and I could deal with plugging it in overnight versus a 5 minute stop at a gas station. But I would want the same capacity (comfortable seating for 4 adults), and the price premium couldn't be more than about 30%.The Toshiba press release (http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2007_12/pr1101.htm) has specs for the battery. The attached graphs (http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2007_12/1101/SCiB.pdf) show the gravimetric energy density to be greater than that of the NiMH batteries used for hybrid vehicles but less than that of lithium-ion batteries used for mobile devices, which explains why they are aiming this at the industrial market rather than laptops.
"We are made to suffer, it's our lot in life" -- C3PO
This was modded "Insightful"? The idea that either side could play fair and square but for some reason is "resorting" to dirty tricks demonstrates stupendous naivete.
Both sides will do absolutely anything if they think that it gives them even a tiny advantage and that they can get away with it.
Robert More likely, they simply don't have the necessary legal rights to the 20 year old sources and thus can't release them.
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Jerry, who one of these days will get his 1985 Amiga 1000 out and running again . . .
[...] f) Loudly play their equivalent of Slim Whitman music, causing our colonists' heads to explode.Well, I'm pretty sure the little green men will do one of the following:
Award-winning Wisconsin cheeses and beers (1, 2, 3) certainly aren't crap.
In addition to cheese, Wisconsin is the leading state in the production of paper products.
You'd also still probably be hearing about ethanol too, though--Wisconsin is ranked 7th and rising in ethanol production.