America is also extremely litigious. If you don't weed out drug users and they steal from or harm someone on company time, you get boned here in the good ol' US of A.
There's very few options in a corporate or university environment who want to manage their virus scanners. Most of the "free" scanners dictate that you need to pay if you're in such an environment anyway.
It's about having a fixed price in conjunction with an auction price. You can just buy one for the fixed price or see if you can squeeze a better deal at auction. I don't know if the auction is capped at the fixed price though. I'd assume so. Combining the two is what the patent is about. From the looks of it, there's background stuff that eBay is also infringing on.
If eBay separates the auctions from fixed priced items (you can auction or sell at fixed price but not BOTH), they would no longer be infringing in all probability.
The patent seems rather focused on e-commerce and on there being both an auction (best offer) and a "direct buy" (buy it now) price. Retail outlets online or otherwise generally aren't auctioning items so their price is just that: a price. Since there's no auction price or otherwise, then this "direct buy" price wouldn't infringe. The killer for eBay is that they actually negotiated with the patent holder; therefore, they knew about it and are infringing willfully.
I would imagine the factory BIOS is probably not set to writable either through a jumper on board (or some other non-software solution) or simply being on an unwritable chip. If this isn't the case, Gigabyte is retarded since that's the only way the original BIOS would be safe.
VISA *might* number the cards differently or they might be able to find out directly (and automagically) from VISA. If VISA gives them the account and routing information for the bank, the bank will let them withdraw as much money as they want from the account as they want until you scream "fraud". The fact that a business only needs rudimentary information off a single unsigned check to drain your checking account and possibly your savings if the bank starts withdrawing from there is one of the most glaring problems with a lot of US banks.
Generally an ATM will charge people who use a card from a different bank than the owner of the ATM. This helps to recoup any losses incurred when a different bank screams "fraud" or doesn't actually repay for whatever reason. However, some ATMs are owned and operated by third parties who charge everyone regardless of card issuer. It's usually a matter of convenience since your bank might be 100 miles away from where you are and you need cash;p
The Story so far: The EU didn't think handles and pointers were adequately explained (err? this IS documentation for programmers). Microsoft left implementation details up to the implementor (well, duh) and the EU didn't like that. Microsoft went "WTF, mate?" and the EU decided they wanted more of MS's money. The End.
If you'd read the last "The EU says MS is not compliant" article, you'd know that the EU is just playing stupid, claiming the documents MS is giving out aren't good enough for THEM (non-programmers!) and trying to suck as much cash out of MS as they can.
Linus can't unilaterally change the license, but nor can it be forked with another license since the kernel is GPLv2 with no "or later" clause. Unless the entire kernel community wants to rewrite every part of the kernel that Linus has touched since its inception, Linus will get the last word on the license. The whole argument is mostly moot since they couldn't possibly get all the contributors to agree to change the license anyway.
I would imagine the Linux kernel is used on more computers (desktop + servers) than Firefox and gcc isn't actually a requirement for a lot of the cited platforms that it runs on. Saying the Linux kernel is the most popular open source program might be incorrect, but I don't think we can know for sure that any others beat it without an actual accurate survey
Discriminating against online stores to force people who want the single NOW to buy an entire album at inflated cost should be illegal. Even though most of us don't give a shit, there are people (or someone's parents) who are being victimized;p
If I ran over a roadside bomb with an armored vehicle once a week for a year, I think I might develop the opinion that Iraq is full to the brim with terrorists...
Creating tables and querying tables isn't even the majority of a database development project. Also, if you want to make full use of your db, you'll probably have non-standard stuff in your queries anyway. Ignoring those features is fine unless they happen to make things work faster or better in some way. At that point, your PHB is firing you to hire someone who "knows how to get the most our of the db".
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America is also extremely litigious. If you don't weed out drug users and they steal from or harm someone on company time, you get boned here in the good ol' US of A.
There's very few options in a corporate or university environment who want to manage their virus scanners. Most of the "free" scanners dictate that you need to pay if you're in such an environment anyway.
It's about having a fixed price in conjunction with an auction price. You can just buy one for the fixed price or see if you can squeeze a better deal at auction. I don't know if the auction is capped at the fixed price though. I'd assume so. Combining the two is what the patent is about. From the looks of it, there's background stuff that eBay is also infringing on.
Should court proceedings hinge on who has the biggest customer base?
If eBay separates the auctions from fixed priced items (you can auction or sell at fixed price but not BOTH), they would no longer be infringing in all probability.
The patent seems rather focused on e-commerce and on there being both an auction (best offer) and a "direct buy" (buy it now) price. Retail outlets online or otherwise generally aren't auctioning items so their price is just that: a price. Since there's no auction price or otherwise, then this "direct buy" price wouldn't infringe. The killer for eBay is that they actually negotiated with the patent holder; therefore, they knew about it and are infringing willfully.
Indeed, the only defense is an MS BIOS and Trusted Computing chips on the motherboard.
I would imagine the factory BIOS is probably not set to writable either through a jumper on board (or some other non-software solution) or simply being on an unwritable chip. If this isn't the case, Gigabyte is retarded since that's the only way the original BIOS would be safe.
VISA *might* number the cards differently or they might be able to find out directly (and automagically) from VISA. If VISA gives them the account and routing information for the bank, the bank will let them withdraw as much money as they want from the account as they want until you scream "fraud". The fact that a business only needs rudimentary information off a single unsigned check to drain your checking account and possibly your savings if the bank starts withdrawing from there is one of the most glaring problems with a lot of US banks.
Generally an ATM will charge people who use a card from a different bank than the owner of the ATM. This helps to recoup any losses incurred when a different bank screams "fraud" or doesn't actually repay for whatever reason. However, some ATMs are owned and operated by third parties who charge everyone regardless of card issuer. It's usually a matter of convenience since your bank might be 100 miles away from where you are and you need cash ;p
Bruteforce the hash in the supermarket?
The Story so far: The EU didn't think handles and pointers were adequately explained (err? this IS documentation for programmers). Microsoft left implementation details up to the implementor (well, duh) and the EU didn't like that. Microsoft went "WTF, mate?" and the EU decided they wanted more of MS's money. The End.
If you'd read the last "The EU says MS is not compliant" article, you'd know that the EU is just playing stupid, claiming the documents MS is giving out aren't good enough for THEM (non-programmers!) and trying to suck as much cash out of MS as they can.
"The EU won't let us do business in your country, sorry old chap."
Wine is not a hardware emulator, but it DOES attempt to emulate the Windows environment and API... so it's a sort of emulator.
Linus can't unilaterally change the license, but nor can it be forked with another license since the kernel is GPLv2 with no "or later" clause. Unless the entire kernel community wants to rewrite every part of the kernel that Linus has touched since its inception, Linus will get the last word on the license. The whole argument is mostly moot since they couldn't possibly get all the contributors to agree to change the license anyway.
I would imagine the Linux kernel is used on more computers (desktop + servers) than Firefox and gcc isn't actually a requirement for a lot of the cited platforms that it runs on. Saying the Linux kernel is the most popular open source program might be incorrect, but I don't think we can know for sure that any others beat it without an actual accurate survey
Why do I randomly get thrown to a crappy bloated version of Google's homepage when I type www.google.com?
Discriminating against online stores to force people who want the single NOW to buy an entire album at inflated cost should be illegal. Even though most of us don't give a shit, there are people (or someone's parents) who are being victimized ;p
If I ran over a roadside bomb with an armored vehicle once a week for a year, I think I might develop the opinion that Iraq is full to the brim with terrorists...
shhhhh, don't reawaken the postgres fanboys ;p
Creating tables and querying tables isn't even the majority of a database development project. Also, if you want to make full use of your db, you'll probably have non-standard stuff in your queries anyway. Ignoring those features is fine unless they happen to make things work faster or better in some way. At that point, your PHB is firing you to hire someone who "knows how to get the most our of the db".
Keeping the troops segregated from anyone but pro-war Republicans isn't part of the military's job. ;p
If you did this regularly before the DHS came on te scene then it wouldn't be suspicious...
Why would MS try to appease ODF loving governments with an XML format and then piss them off again by embedding binary data for everything?