That was called a "submarine patent" and they fixed that a while back. This is probably aimed at killing the practice you just mentioned, which was what trolls turned to after that.
I thought a "submarine patent" was when someone got a patent on an idea approved and then sat on the patent and didn't do anything. They would wait for someone else to come up with a product idea that infringed upon the patent and rather then notify them of the infringement when they were still in the planning stage for the product and could (possibly) make changes in the design to prevent the infringement, deliberately let them make production contracts, invest in building a bunch of widgets and marketing, doing all the actual work involved in bringing an idea from a drafting board to a successful product. Then allowing them to be sold for years. Finally, the patent troll sues them for infringement and takes all the profits they made with much less effort. It was called a submarine patent because it was always there -- you just didn't learn of its existence until it was too late.
China already has a "People's OS" based on Linux. I bet there's already a "People's Browser" packaged with it. The government could just mandate all Chinese e-commerce sites only support the special backdoored Chinese encryption standard, and block or DNS reroute the international sites to the Chinese copycat sites.
The Chinese e-commerce revolution will become a walled-garden party for the Party.
Samsung can give an in-house team preferential pricing, but that doesn't help them if they've already contracted most of their production yield to someone else.
Johnny and Mark gets into a fight after school. 2010 - Police called, arrests Johnny and Marko. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Mark started it. Both children go to anger management programs for 3 months. School board hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programs
I wonder if a flywheel storage on the generator might be applicable for this. Wind up the speed during the day, feed off the energy stored as inertia for hours afterward.
This is a pretty good graph on where we're heading, the CD is dying and digital is taking over. The iTunes Store is looking to be the Wal-Mart of digital downloads and the big 5 the manufacturers being squeezed to the lowest possible margins. That's not a future they saw coming and are trying desperately to back out of.
Might want to look at this before you use that chart as a reference again.
I think it might have something to do with the fact that some of us prefer to have money left over to buy other toys.
But the experience counts for something, too. I owned a factory refurbished Sansa Clip I got for $20. It's 1 GB of storage is enough for me for the most part and I liked that it had a screen and got good battery life. But it was a pain to deal with as far as transferring files because I had to use Windows Media Player. I already had my entire music collection up and running in iTunes and WMP didn't recognize things like compilation albums correctly. I also had all my purchased CDs ripped to AAC, which the Clip couldn't play. So I ended up buying a used iPod Nano for $90. It really came down to the extra work I had to go through to use it than the AAC file support, I could have reripped my CD's after all.
The $50 Nokia S40 feature phone may be able to play mp3 files, but are you going to have to work with a specialized Nokia file transfer app, or navagate your collection in a tiny awkward interface on your phone screen verses flipping through with Coverflow? This is exactly why Apple is leading in the digital audio player market.
You had to pay an upgrade fee, yes, but every track sold NOW has no DRM. And there are plenty of tools which will remove that legacy DRM for you on your old files, if you so desire.
Which is good because upgrading wasn't such a cut and dried affair. The track generally had to be from the same album as the original, and must be a track you paid for, and the collection of music on iTunes isn't static. I have an entire "sampler" album I got on iTunes free of charge and was never able to upgrade it to iTunes+, I imagine because it was a sampler album. I also have a couple tracks from an artist who I guess had a change of licensing deals with their record label or iTunes. I have the track in DRMed iTunes, and the artist is still on iTunes, but the song is no longer available on iTunes because that specific album by the artist is no longer on the iTunes store. I also have tracks I got from iTunes and had to rebuy at full price because an iTunes+ version of the album did not appear even though the track was available from another album by the artist that was available on iTunes -- the upgrade did not recognize it as the same song. It also did not apply to audiobooks or other non-music audio files.
So even though I upgraded my purchased tracks to iTunes+ and even rebought some tracks at full price, I still have about 20 tracks of old DRM iTunes files.
I think this has less to do with crappy commenting systems and more to do with websites simply not caring enough. They don't want to pay someone to keep things in line (and on larger sites like news organizations moderating really would be a full time job). Plus they don't want to "alienate readers". If you've ever worked a phone support line for the public you realize something: people like to use you for a verbal punching bag. They take out their frustration with their lives on you because you can't hang up on them and keep your job generally. All those reps' upper bosses care about is that the person keeps paying for whatever product or service they're buying and since they aren't personally the ones getting the asshole treatment they don't care what it's like. It's the same way with online forums. As long as they have that "all comments are solely owned by the poster" clause on site they have no issue with letting people flame or use hate speech, as long as it doesn't cost them money and those commenters keep bringing in those pageviews. The online drama even helps feed the site traffic much like celebrity fluff scandal pieces drive viewers to news programs without having to pay for expensive time-consuming journalism.
I live in a state similar to the previous poster. Why should I have to pay "court fees" when I don't contest the ticket? If I chose to simply pay it and move on with life there are no court costs and therefore no justification for "court fees".
I can right click and see the list of corrections, the problem is I can't use them (note: I italicized "use" there since you can't tell). The misspelled word in the reply editor is not replaced with the correct word I choose from the menu now.
"Wireless assistant" tray programs don't have Pro versions.
The only thing they do that the XP icons doesn't is change to reflect the signal strength you're getting (at least in XP, having not use Vista or Win7 maybe they've beefed up the notification icon since then).
There's really no reason wireless device and PC makers even need to have "assistant" type programs written for their hardware to start with. They only need a driver itself, as Windows since XP has had it's own configuration utility with a system tray icon telling you when you're connected or not.
OT: PS to Slashdot coders: I'd really like to be able to use Firefox's spellchecker in here again. It highlights misspelled words but I can't correct them with it ever since you forced this dumb new layout on us. Same with italic tags not working anymore. Have you ever heard the phrase "if it aint broken don't fix it"?
Here's a better question: why not put it up for the whole wide world? Let's say you're the 1 in 1,000,000 that winds up on a billboard in Hungary. Who cares? If anything it's kind of cool.
Because people have developed this idea they should be compensated every time their existence is beneficial to someone else. This behavior was learned from companies who nickel and dime consumers for everything.
So for a company to be sued for using a personal photo without permission is karma the way I see it.
Actually, there's no longer a page per Pokemon and that's precisely part of what's wrong with it. A lot of stuff got trimmed by people under the weird delusion that it somehow will get Wikipedia to be a "Real Encyclopedia". But it will never be one due to the way it's made. And in doing so they removed a lot of valuable stuff that wasn't present in any paper encyclopedia, which was precisely what made it so awesome to me.
Exactly. So what if there was an entire article per Pokemon? Wikipedia is a website and hosting hard drive space is cheap for text and screen-rez pics. This isn't like a paper encyclopedia where space has to be budgeted out per topic because of a limited printing cost allowed. Making Wikipedia bigger doesn't make it more cumbersome to use, unlike a paper encyclopedia. Searching will still yield your result just as easily, and there was no "serious article" that is being left out or stubbed because we added info on every episode of Seinfeld.
Making Wikipedia more complete in topics will only increase usage and therefore increase people knowledgeable on a topic seeing the articles and correcting mistakes, rather than spreading them to a bunch of separate wikis other places. Groupsourcing knowledge was the entire point of Wikipedia, right?
Main guy isn't an ex-vampire, he is the living food dispenser for a depressed loli vampire. And most of the girls he meets aren't supernatural, they're possessed.
You do an even worse job describing the show. He WAS an ex-vampire, and he only used the loli-vampire as a way to strengthen himself physically in a single story arc of the show, other than that she's just a side-character whose history is left as more a mystery to the viewer. The girls aren't possessed in the classic sense except for Hanekawa and possibly Hitagi. Hachikuji isn't even human to start with. It's more like they're being harassed by spirits.
Really this show has more in common with Mushishi than Twilight.
I think it's safe to say that majority of websites one visits are those of their home country due to language support, business serving area (for ecommerce sites), and locality for sites dealing with things in one's own hometown. So to Americans, this feature will be welcome as the FTC regulation will apply to the majority of the websites they visit.
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Did he not just just say that was per hour?
That doesn't apply to governments, especially ours. The National Debt is the U.S. spending more than they can afford for decades now.
Neither party can be held as the scapegoat for a problem that has been running so long, only the system itself can be responsible.
That was called a "submarine patent" and they fixed that a while back. This is probably aimed at killing the practice you just mentioned, which was what trolls turned to after that.
I thought a "submarine patent" was when someone got a patent on an idea approved and then sat on the patent and didn't do anything. They would wait for someone else to come up with a product idea that infringed upon the patent and rather then notify them of the infringement when they were still in the planning stage for the product and could (possibly) make changes in the design to prevent the infringement, deliberately let them make production contracts, invest in building a bunch of widgets and marketing, doing all the actual work involved in bringing an idea from a drafting board to a successful product. Then allowing them to be sold for years. Finally, the patent troll sues them for infringement and takes all the profits they made with much less effort. It was called a submarine patent because it was always there -- you just didn't learn of its existence until it was too late.
I was going to say that the "small group of angry geeks" on Microsoft's back weren't Linux users, but HDDVD fanatics. :-P
China already has a "People's OS" based on Linux. I bet there's already a "People's Browser" packaged with it. The government could just mandate all Chinese e-commerce sites only support the special backdoored Chinese encryption standard, and block or DNS reroute the international sites to the Chinese copycat sites.
The Chinese e-commerce revolution will become a walled-garden party for the Party.
Part of the problem here is Apple has already bought the parts before they were even made. To the point that second-tier manufacturers are having trouble finding components to even be competitors to start with.
Samsung can give an in-house team preferential pricing, but that doesn't help them if they've already contracted most of their production yield to someone else.
Johnny and Mark gets into a fight after school.
2010 - Police called, arrests Johnny and Marko. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Mark started it. Both children go to anger management programs for 3 months. School board hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programs
You forgot the lawsuits.
I wonder if a flywheel storage on the generator might be applicable for this. Wind up the speed during the day, feed off the energy stored as inertia for hours afterward.
This is a pretty good graph on where we're heading, the CD is dying and digital is taking over. The iTunes Store is looking to be the Wal-Mart of digital downloads and the big 5 the manufacturers being squeezed to the lowest possible margins. That's not a future they saw coming and are trying desperately to back out of.
Might want to look at this before you use that chart as a reference again.
I think it might have something to do with the fact that some of us prefer to have money left over to buy other toys.
But the experience counts for something, too. I owned a factory refurbished Sansa Clip I got for $20. It's 1 GB of storage is enough for me for the most part and I liked that it had a screen and got good battery life. But it was a pain to deal with as far as transferring files because I had to use Windows Media Player. I already had my entire music collection up and running in iTunes and WMP didn't recognize things like compilation albums correctly. I also had all my purchased CDs ripped to AAC, which the Clip couldn't play. So I ended up buying a used iPod Nano for $90. It really came down to the extra work I had to go through to use it than the AAC file support, I could have reripped my CD's after all.
The $50 Nokia S40 feature phone may be able to play mp3 files, but are you going to have to work with a specialized Nokia file transfer app, or navagate your collection in a tiny awkward interface on your phone screen verses flipping through with Coverflow? This is exactly why Apple is leading in the digital audio player market.
No, it was 128. I still have 20 DRMed iTMS tracks and the music files are 128 kbps. Audiobook files were 32.
You had to pay an upgrade fee, yes, but every track sold NOW has no DRM. And there are plenty of tools which will remove that legacy DRM for you on your old files, if you so desire.
Which is good because upgrading wasn't such a cut and dried affair. The track generally had to be from the same album as the original, and must be a track you paid for, and the collection of music on iTunes isn't static. I have an entire "sampler" album I got on iTunes free of charge and was never able to upgrade it to iTunes+, I imagine because it was a sampler album. I also have a couple tracks from an artist who I guess had a change of licensing deals with their record label or iTunes. I have the track in DRMed iTunes, and the artist is still on iTunes, but the song is no longer available on iTunes because that specific album by the artist is no longer on the iTunes store. I also have tracks I got from iTunes and had to rebuy at full price because an iTunes+ version of the album did not appear even though the track was available from another album by the artist that was available on iTunes -- the upgrade did not recognize it as the same song. It also did not apply to audiobooks or other non-music audio files.
So even though I upgraded my purchased tracks to iTunes+ and even rebought some tracks at full price, I still have about 20 tracks of old DRM iTunes files.
or have no concept of moderation
I think this has less to do with crappy commenting systems and more to do with websites simply not caring enough. They don't want to pay someone to keep things in line (and on larger sites like news organizations moderating really would be a full time job). Plus they don't want to "alienate readers". If you've ever worked a phone support line for the public you realize something: people like to use you for a verbal punching bag. They take out their frustration with their lives on you because you can't hang up on them and keep your job generally. All those reps' upper bosses care about is that the person keeps paying for whatever product or service they're buying and since they aren't personally the ones getting the asshole treatment they don't care what it's like. It's the same way with online forums. As long as they have that "all comments are solely owned by the poster" clause on site they have no issue with letting people flame or use hate speech, as long as it doesn't cost them money and those commenters keep bringing in those pageviews. The online drama even helps feed the site traffic much like celebrity fluff scandal pieces drive viewers to news programs without having to pay for expensive time-consuming journalism.
I live in a state similar to the previous poster. Why should I have to pay "court fees" when I don't contest the ticket? If I chose to simply pay it and move on with life there are no court costs and therefore no justification for "court fees".
Isn't thinking like this exactly what got us into the environmental and energy problems we have now?
I can right click and see the list of corrections, the problem is I can't use them (note: I italicized "use" there since you can't tell). The misspelled word in the reply editor is not replaced with the correct word I choose from the menu now.
"Wireless assistant" tray programs don't have Pro versions.
The only thing they do that the XP icons doesn't is change to reflect the signal strength you're getting (at least in XP, having not use Vista or Win7 maybe they've beefed up the notification icon since then).
There's really no reason wireless device and PC makers even need to have "assistant" type programs written for their hardware to start with. They only need a driver itself, as Windows since XP has had it's own configuration utility with a system tray icon telling you when you're connected or not.
OT: PS to Slashdot coders: I'd really like to be able to use Firefox's spellchecker in here again. It highlights misspelled words but I can't correct them with it ever since you forced this dumb new layout on us. Same with italic tags not working anymore. Have you ever heard the phrase "if it aint broken don't fix it"?
And opening up the computer in the middle of a BestBuy to browse for potentially lower prices for stuff you just saw
Come now, nobody needs to actually look at websites to know they can get something they saw in Best Buy for cheaper elsewhere.
Here's a better question: why not put it up for the whole wide world? Let's say you're the 1 in 1,000,000 that winds up on a billboard in Hungary. Who cares? If anything it's kind of cool.
Because people have developed this idea they should be compensated every time their existence is beneficial to someone else. This behavior was learned from companies who nickel and dime consumers for everything.
So for a company to be sued for using a personal photo without permission is karma the way I see it.
Actually, there's no longer a page per Pokemon and that's precisely part of what's wrong with it. A lot of stuff got trimmed by people under the weird delusion that it somehow will get Wikipedia to be a "Real Encyclopedia". But it will never be one due to the way it's made. And in doing so they removed a lot of valuable stuff that wasn't present in any paper encyclopedia, which was precisely what made it so awesome to me.
Exactly. So what if there was an entire article per Pokemon? Wikipedia is a website and hosting hard drive space is cheap for text and screen-rez pics. This isn't like a paper encyclopedia where space has to be budgeted out per topic because of a limited printing cost allowed. Making Wikipedia bigger doesn't make it more cumbersome to use, unlike a paper encyclopedia. Searching will still yield your result just as easily, and there was no "serious article" that is being left out or stubbed because we added info on every episode of Seinfeld.
Making Wikipedia more complete in topics will only increase usage and therefore increase people knowledgeable on a topic seeing the articles and correcting mistakes, rather than spreading them to a bunch of separate wikis other places. Groupsourcing knowledge was the entire point of Wikipedia, right?
Main guy isn't an ex-vampire, he is the living food dispenser for a depressed loli vampire. And most of the girls he meets aren't supernatural, they're possessed.
You do an even worse job describing the show. He WAS an ex-vampire, and he only used the loli-vampire as a way to strengthen himself physically in a single story arc of the show, other than that she's just a side-character whose history is left as more a mystery to the viewer. The girls aren't possessed in the classic sense except for Hanekawa and possibly Hitagi. Hachikuji isn't even human to start with. It's more like they're being harassed by spirits.
Really this show has more in common with Mushishi than Twilight.
Just wait till they make this announcement again when the HoloDS is released.
I think it's safe to say that majority of websites one visits are those of their home country due to language support, business serving area (for ecommerce sites), and locality for sites dealing with things in one's own hometown. So to Americans, this feature will be welcome as the FTC regulation will apply to the majority of the websites they visit.
I really don't have a need or desire for a high-powered latest-generation portable console, but retro portable gaming I would pay for.
ThinkGeek has a couple of products you might be interested in.