Their IP protection in the patent apparently applies only to industrial and commercial applications. While I'm not generally a fan of TFAs groklaw is actually worth reading. Try it.
Perhaps some would prefer to continue receiving Nigerian scam spam if they could only stop receiving spam about "r0 |_e > Replicas" and "\/|4gr4 meds".
Oh, and US stock tips; here in the US too many of our friends and relatives are the ones clicking on these spam messages, and like the SCO case, this one was started by someone doing business in the US, not Nigeria.
I don't however mean to marginalize the obvious corruption that this case is in danger of and that contributes to the facility of the Nigerian scams. Just remember that those scams are taking advantage of the willingness of citizens of *other* countries being willing to attempt to profit from said corruption.
I'm not sure quoting it would make it more obvious than reading it, although it would've been more informative for others. I'd read it but missed the obvious.
It's got a wiki page as well. It's listed as only 15% more Massive than Jupiter.
"Hot Jupiters (also called roasters, epistellar jovians, pegasids or pegasean planets) are a class of extrasolar planets whose mass is close to or exceeds that of Jupiter"
I figured Hot Jubiter implied "hotter than" but I guess that's not the case.
The best defense is a good offense. Must be why they tried to sue Creative for using their mp3 player interface 3 years before they invented the iPod. Oh wait, no. They were counter sued for millions of dollars.
They also sued over the trash bin, Windows start menu and I believe the taskbar. They go crazy over lawsuits but I guess they aren't any worse with patents than most other companies. But they use their patents at least as much as most companies.
Copyright law doesn't give him absolute mastery over his image, it controls copies of images he owns. It does not control copies used in a parody as long as the parody meets certain legal requirements. People keep posting on this issue without understanding fair use. I understand it's complicated, but do you really think celebrity names and likenesses can't be used in parodies or satires? Did GWBush give his permission to whitehouse.org? How can that site still be up? They "stole" images directly from the whitehouse.gov webpage!
Sorry for the sarcasm, I apparently need it to communicate.
No most widescreens are not 16:10 that is very rare. The black bars have to be encoded as there are next to zero 2.35 displays (I think Runco has a projector that is).
Go into your setup on your DVD and say that you have a 4:3 TV and watch the picture squish when you watch an anamorphic movie. That is the DVD player drawing black bars to fill the left over top and bottom of the screen. Movies have been made in 1.33:1, 1.66:1, 1.78:1, 2:1, 2.35:1 and probably others but there are only 2 shapes for TV (in the US at least). if you have a picture wider than that you have to crop it or add black bars.
I feel your pain, but more often than not those movies were 2.35:1 (analog was 4:3 or 1.33:1, HDTV is 16:9 or 1.78:1). 16:9 is a pretty reasonable compromise. Look at it this way; TV shows were 33% wider than their height while movies were and are up to 135% wider than their height (going back to the 70's I believe). HDTV at 16:9 is 78% wider and that seems a fair deal.
Finally, some justice in this world! I have been figuratively
watching the world fall apart these days. With all the pointless lawsuits, government wiretapping, etc., I had just about lost hope in the legal system. But finally, some justice! How much should they sue for? I think we give them what they gave us: $1,000,000 per person affected by the RIAA, and an additional $9,250 for each law they broke in the process. The RIAA are getting pwned!:) There, fixed it for you.
I think you mean digital television without HDTV. Improved reception; 3 years ago I found a $200 discontinued open box satellite receiver for my dad and hooked it up composite to his 19" TV. He has never paid for TV in his life but loves his DirecTV box and aerial antenna in his attic. No HDTV there.
I have a 50" LCD RPTV in my living room and 37" flat panel in my bedroom but do not pay for (or have) Cable or Satellite. I found little use for HDTV without DTV +antenna, maybe to get widescreen for DVD's?
Monopolies, BY DEFINITION, are not a thing that exist in people's minds. They are by definition quantifiable. Your post is ridiculous, whether or not people think MS still has a monopoly on browsers or OS's. If you'd argued that they don't have those monopolies you might not have actually sounded more foolish though.
Nice strawman, but the argument has already been made and you can't reformulate it with propaganda. MS would love to also have search locked down but how many Operating Systems or Internet Browsers does google's search page ACTUALLY replace? You're an ass.
In the future global warming will have more direct causes. If we were to add significantly to our energy use with clean and renewable sources from outside our planet, we would heat the earth above its natural state.
This is not an argument against using fusion from helium from the moon, just saying they'll be something to worry about in the distant future as well...
Access to the source of the code running on your own PC is an excellent thing. It lets you modify it, confirm that it does only what it claims to do, find and fix bugs, and so on.
Access to the source of the code running on a machine that you have no control over is useless. You cannot confirm that it is the source of the running code. You cannot confirm that there are no hardware issues - intentional or otherwise - that are affecting the correct operation of the code.
Whether proprietary or opensource, having the wrong software intentionally installed is its own separate problem. And it's proprietary software that is far more likely to accidentally allow changes to the code n a machine. Which are you implying, that I should assume the voting machine companies will defraud the US or that vulnerabilities in the code will be exploited?
Your swipe at MS, while predictable, is entirely irrelevant to this discussion...
It's not like I said I never run Windows. WGA has certainly confirmed the legality of my copy of XP on occasions, but it is a fact that MS lied about the data that is collected. And that sort of practice is certainly inappropriate for voting machine software....To continue your analogy, you want the source to the code running on your XBox or Playstation because you don't trust it. You don't trust the company providing the code, but they also provide the hardware and yet you do trust that?
I don't trust my ps2 to what? vote for me? --no. entertain me? --yes. Not all of us think all proprietary code is evil. (One day I would like to install linux on my ps2, though. But not for moral reasons.)
You don't trust the system. You need to be able to verify the correct operation of the system. Access to the source to one part of that system does not give you anything but a false sense of security.
I would correct that by saying that "Access to the source to one part of the system does not give you everything and may give you a false sense of security." To go overboard I guess we could have read access from a bootable disk and verify PGP signatures and sha-sums, but I'm not that distrustful. I'd be satisfied if it was checked at the beginning of the day by a poll worker.
excellent post, it reminds me of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. they kept trying to get him to make jokes about politics -- or he'd say something serious and they'd try to laugh it off as just a comedian's antics. Who's funny now Tucker? Seriously, he took just the approach you endorse. They wrote him off and everyone was excited to hear a COMEDIAN spell out their disappointment and frustration with political discourse in the US
1. Astroturf does not feel like real grass. Hell, it doesn't look like real grass. Don't Astroturf. Astroturfingrefers to marketing tactics and PR campaigns. I see no reason to believe that this post was from a rival gaming company, especially due to the likelihood that the GP believes this would discourage all use of in-game ads. However I share your skepticism of its potential efficacy.
To date none of the major labels apparently see that they sabotaged DVDAudio and SACD by disabling the hires digital output.
Game companies are probably no more intelligent and are no more likely to correctly interpret the results of their actions.
There are actually only 26^4 ways to create four letter acronyms, and some (like ANAL or FUCK) ain't really useful. At least to most businesses. Yeah, well I'm starting a business called "Am Not A Lawyer" and I need anal.com. Can I sue?
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Their IP protection in the patent apparently applies only to industrial and commercial applications. While I'm not generally a fan of TFAs groklaw is actually worth reading. Try it.
Perhaps some would prefer to continue receiving Nigerian scam spam if they could only stop receiving spam about "r0 |_e > Replicas" and "\/|4gr4 meds".
Oh, and US stock tips; here in the US too many of our friends and relatives are the ones clicking on these spam messages, and like the SCO case, this one was started by someone doing business in the US, not Nigeria.
I don't however mean to marginalize the obvious corruption that this case is in danger of and that contributes to the facility of the Nigerian scams. Just remember that those scams are taking advantage of the willingness of citizens of *other* countries being willing to attempt to profit from said corruption.
I'm not sure quoting it would make it more obvious than reading it, although it would've been more informative for others. I'd read it but missed the obvious.
It's got a wiki page as well. It's listed as only 15% more Massive than Jupiter.
"Hot Jupiters (also called roasters, epistellar jovians, pegasids or pegasean planets) are a class of extrasolar planets whose mass is close to or exceeds that of Jupiter"
I figured Hot Jubiter implied "hotter than" but I guess that's not the case.
I can already order pizza over the internet. Apple makes a big deal of providing iphone users "all" of the internet.
"Mod patent redundant"
The best defense is a good offense. Must be why they tried to sue Creative for using their mp3 player interface 3 years before they invented the iPod. Oh wait, no. They were counter sued for millions of dollars.
They also sued over the trash bin, Windows start menu and I believe the taskbar. They go crazy over lawsuits but I guess they aren't any worse with patents than most other companies. But they use their patents at least as much as most companies.
Copyright law doesn't give him absolute mastery over his image, it controls copies of images he owns. It does not control copies used in a parody as long as the parody meets certain legal requirements. People keep posting on this issue without understanding fair use. I understand it's complicated, but do you really think celebrity names and likenesses can't be used in parodies or satires? Did GWBush give his permission to whitehouse.org? How can that site still be up? They "stole" images directly from the whitehouse.gov webpage!
Sorry for the sarcasm, I apparently need it to communicate.
Oh, and I almost forgot--IANAL
No most widescreens are not 16:10 that is very rare. The black bars have to be encoded as there are next to zero 2.35 displays (I think Runco has a projector that is).
Go into your setup on your DVD and say that you have a 4:3 TV and watch the picture squish when you watch an anamorphic movie. That is the DVD player drawing black bars to fill the left over top and bottom of the screen. Movies have been made in 1.33:1, 1.66:1, 1.78:1, 2:1, 2.35:1 and probably others but there are only 2 shapes for TV (in the US at least). if you have a picture wider than that you have to crop it or add black bars.
BTW, 720/358=less than 2.35 so it could be worse.
I feel your pain, but more often than not those movies were 2.35:1 (analog was 4:3 or 1.33:1, HDTV is 16:9 or 1.78:1). 16:9 is a pretty reasonable compromise.
Look at it this way; TV shows were 33% wider than their height while movies were and are up to 135% wider than their height (going back to the 70's I believe). HDTV at 16:9 is 78% wider and that seems a fair deal.
I *upgraded* my first PC's HDD to 3.2 GB! It replaced a 340 MB HDD.
I think you mean digital television without HDTV. Improved reception; 3 years ago I found a $200 discontinued open box satellite receiver for my dad and hooked it up composite to his 19" TV. He has never paid for TV in his life but loves his DirecTV box and aerial antenna in his attic. No HDTV there.
I have a 50" LCD RPTV in my living room and 37" flat panel in my bedroom but do not pay for (or have) Cable or Satellite. I found little use for HDTV without DTV +antenna, maybe to get widescreen for DVD's?
Monopolies, BY DEFINITION, are not a thing that exist in people's minds. They are by definition quantifiable. Your post is ridiculous, whether or not people think MS still has a monopoly on browsers or OS's. If you'd argued that they don't have those monopolies you might not have actually sounded more foolish though.
Nice strawman, but the argument has already been made and you can't reformulate it with propaganda. MS would love to also have search locked down but how many Operating Systems or Internet Browsers does google's search page ACTUALLY replace? You're an ass.
In the future global warming will have more direct causes. If we were to add significantly to our energy use with clean and renewable sources from outside our planet, we would heat the earth above its natural state.
This is not an argument against using fusion from helium from the moon, just saying they'll be something to worry about in the distant future as well...
How would they do that?
Access to the source of the code running on your own PC is an excellent thing. It lets you modify it, confirm that it does only what it claims to do, find and fix bugs, and so on.
Access to the source of the code running on a machine that you have no control over is useless. You cannot confirm that it is the source of the running code. You cannot confirm that there are no hardware issues - intentional or otherwise - that are affecting the correct operation of the code.
Whether proprietary or opensource, having the wrong software intentionally installed is its own separate problem. And it's proprietary software that is far more likely to accidentally allow changes to the code n a machine. Which are you implying, that I should assume the voting machine companies will defraud the US or that vulnerabilities in the code will be exploited?
Your swipe at MS, while predictable, is entirely irrelevant to this discussion...
It's not like I said I never run Windows. WGA has certainly confirmed the legality of my copy of XP on occasions, but it is a fact that MS lied about the data that is collected. And that sort of practice is certainly inappropriate for voting machine software.
I don't trust my ps2 to what? vote for me? --no. entertain me? --yes. Not all of us think all proprietary code is evil. (One day I would like to install linux on my ps2, though. But not for moral reasons.)
You don't trust the system. You need to be able to verify the correct operation of the system. Access to the source to one part of that system does not give you anything but a false sense of security.
I would correct that by saying that "Access to the source to one part of the system does not give you everything and may give you a false sense of security." To go overboard I guess we could have read access from a bootable disk and verify PGP signatures and sha-sums, but I'm not that distrustful. I'd be satisfied if it was checked at the beginning of the day by a poll worker.
excellent post, it reminds me of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. they kept trying to get him to make jokes about politics -- or he'd say something serious and they'd try to laugh it off as just a comedian's antics. Who's funny now Tucker?
Seriously, he took just the approach you endorse. They wrote him off and everyone was excited to hear a COMEDIAN spell out their disappointment and frustration with political discourse in the US
The ridiculous mistakes they keep having merely counting votes could be fixed, or at least people could verify the integrity of the systems.
For example; I'm a lot more worried about MS apps phoning home than linux ones. The real world proves me write with numerous examples available.
To date none of the major labels apparently see that they sabotaged DVDAudio and SACD by disabling the hires digital output.
Game companies are probably no more intelligent and are no more likely to correctly interpret the results of their actions.
You mean it's the first step toward a telescreen
How is this 4 Insightful?
agree or disagree with criticism directed toward Democrats in congress, this is obviously a troll post
I've been happily not paying for software or support for years. I guess that does affect the price of software. I love hippies.
Fair enough, but I do have .exe files on my linux. But I'd be pretty pissed if an updater opened up in wine.