You will be able to install a third party theora codec for ie. You will presumably be able to get a firefox plugin for h.264. Chrome supports both. Opera users can install a different browser.
Yes, you will get a Tesla Roadster for that sort of money, But you will only be able to get it to the end of the driveway before the battery runs flat. It will cost about whatever the difference is between a Tesla Roadster and a normal car of that class to replace the dead batteries.
In Bilski, they have a mathematical formula for calulating the price of weather futures and a set of rules to decide when to buy or sell them in response to client trades.
They are not obvious, but the first bit is math, and the second bit is business method, and neither of those are patentable.
If you give those details to any averagely competant computer programmer and ask them to write a computer program that does this, they could do it pretty easily.
You can't patent math. You can patent a process or a machine even if it involves the use of math.
An iPhone app that takes the arguments of a mathematical formula and spits out the result might be a "machine", but it is also "obvious" to semi competant student after their second programming lesson.
Bilski is a computerised business method / mathematical algorithm patent. Invalidating that is a step in the right direction, but I don't think it will help HTC.
Apple have already overtaken Microsoft in market capitalisation. Apple are worth $250bn where as Microsoft are worth $220bn. Both rounded to the nearest $10bn because the figure on Yahoo finance changes every second.
They are losing market share and are failing in the emerging areas of the tech sector such as mobile devices and internet services. It is like the manufacturers of valve radios saying everything is fine because they are making money and sales are increasing while transistor radios are taking over the show.
Yes it is certainly pretty reliable now, but the experience of 10-15 years ago shows that Microsoft's strategy of convenience first, reliability later was right from a money making point of view.
Yes, google would remove all links to foxnews. Rupert Murdoch would then file a counter-notice to have them put back, and sue you for perjury, libel etc.
Or maybe not. He seems to want Google to remove all links to his news sites, but refuses to understand that robots.txt is the way to do it.
Google's response is usually to put a notice on the search results page saying that some results have been removed due to a DMCA take down notice, and to link to a copy of the complaint letter containing details of the links that have been taken down.
Then, when Googlebot does its next sweep, the links may or may not come back based on its normal criteria.
These aren't youtube links. They are mostly rapidshare and similar links. Youtube has an agreement with the **AAs to share advertising revenue, so the stuff on there is mostly legal.
The phone bill for my Windows Mobile shows the same thing. It adds up all my data usage for the day, and shows it on the bill at midnight. Activesync operates on my phone between 8am and 11:59pm, so it might be in some way related to that, or maybe it is just the way Telefonica does it.
So if you publish a libelous statement about a Greek person in a Greek newspaper which sells 40 copies in London, you can sue at the High Court in London rather than in Athens where it sold lots of copies.
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On Windows XP it works in Firefox, IE and Safari and Chrome, but not Opera.
On SuSE, it works in Firefox but not Konqueror.
You will be able to install a third party theora codec for ie. You will presumably be able to get a firefox plugin for h.264. Chrome supports both. Opera users can install a different browser.
That's fine, provided you can still install software obtained from elsewhere - if it is like the Click & Run warehouse in Linspire.
Yes, you will get a Tesla Roadster for that sort of money, But you will only be able to get it to the end of the driveway before the battery runs flat. It will cost about whatever the difference is between a Tesla Roadster and a normal car of that class to replace the dead batteries.
In Bilski, they have a mathematical formula for calulating the price of weather futures and a set of rules to decide when to buy or sell them in response to client trades.
They are not obvious, but the first bit is math, and the second bit is business method, and neither of those are patentable.
If you give those details to any averagely competant computer programmer and ask them to write a computer program that does this, they could do it pretty easily.
You can't patent math. You can patent a process or a machine even if it involves the use of math.
An iPhone app that takes the arguments of a mathematical formula and spits out the result might be a "machine", but it is also "obvious" to semi competant student after their second programming lesson.
Bilski is a computerised business method / mathematical algorithm patent. Invalidating that is a step in the right direction, but I don't think it will help HTC.
It started off life as a microkernel, though it is arguably now more monolithic than linux.
He owns about 13% - 14% of the company.
Find a good small mobile devices startup to take over and build up to be the market leader. Similarly with internet services to take on Google.
Apple have already overtaken Microsoft in market capitalisation. Apple are worth $250bn where as Microsoft are worth $220bn. Both rounded to the nearest $10bn because the figure on Yahoo finance changes every second.
They are losing market share and are failing in the emerging areas of the tech sector such as mobile devices and internet services. It is like the manufacturers of valve radios saying everything is fine because they are making money and sales are increasing while transistor radios are taking over the show.
Especially as they generally don't even come with a floppy interface socket these days.
Yes it is certainly pretty reliable now, but the experience of 10-15 years ago shows that Microsoft's strategy of convenience first, reliability later was right from a money making point of view.
I guess there already is such a machine - called the Apple TV, and there are rumours that the next version of it might run on an ARM chip.
I think Microsoft shows that convenience is more important than reliability.
And a lot of children have Blackberries these days, so they can completely bypass the school network.
Yes, google would remove all links to foxnews. Rupert Murdoch would then file a counter-notice to have them put back, and sue you for perjury, libel etc.
Or maybe not. He seems to want Google to remove all links to his news sites, but refuses to understand that robots.txt is the way to do it.
Google's response is usually to put a notice on the search results page saying that some results have been removed due to a DMCA take down notice, and to link to a copy of the complaint letter containing details of the links that have been taken down.
Then, when Googlebot does its next sweep, the links may or may not come back based on its normal criteria.
These aren't youtube links. They are mostly rapidshare and similar links. Youtube has an agreement with the **AAs to share advertising revenue, so the stuff on there is mostly legal.
The phone bill for my Windows Mobile shows the same thing. It adds up all my data usage for the day, and shows it on the bill at midnight. Activesync operates on my phone between 8am and 11:59pm, so it might be in some way related to that, or maybe it is just the way Telefonica does it.
I don't know about your jurisdiction, but where I am, you pay sales tax on hire charges as well as purchases.
The answer apparently is that if you are using an ipad or similar, you can't print any other way.
The printer will have an email address and you print to it by sending it emails, so the ads will probably get round the firewall.
So if you publish a libelous statement about a Greek person in a Greek newspaper which sells 40 copies in London, you can sue at the High Court in London rather than in Athens where it sold lots of copies.