The wheel was invented several times, but the first few inventors didn't have practical implementations in mind. So it took many patent expiration generations for it to find common use.
Actually, the wheel was invented right away, but the Original Makers kept getting their copyright on it renewed, and it wasn't till 3500BC that it finally made it to public domain.
He did not steal the files! He is not an american citizen! And when he did obtain the files, he was not on American soil! And he is not bound by any law prohibiting the distribution of these files, and certainly not under any NDA. So the question is what kind of justice mokery they came up with ?
Ask the MegaUpload people how not being american worked for them.
... that one day congress/senate will come to their senses and invalidate all software patents, so I can laugh at the money these companies spend on each other over threats of court.
In other words, the only winners here are the lawyers, which makes the current laws scum laws.
Laws written by ex-lawyers that really only benefit lawyers. That is what is really going on.
The problem is the smartphone. What you have is a little computer, holding lots of your data, that has wifi, 3G, 4G, LTE, LSD, and of course, 2G. It's a walking smorgasbord of personal data about you.
And what do you do with it? You download app after app, to make it so you can do stuff easier, while letting these "apps" have access to your data. Your personal data. Sure, the corporations, who makes their money off your personal data, are going to say they aren't "reading" your text messages, your email, or any other data they can get access to on your smartphone?
Are you people stupid or just blind?
I got rid of my smartphone. got me a cheap cellphone to do what a cellphone is best for. making phone calls on the go.
Truth is, smartphone is for dumb people. think on that.
... For example, Disney was able to build DisneyWorld in Orlando by securing the land rights quietly otherwise if people knew a major corporation was buying the land, they would have raised their prices.
You sure it wasn't that if people knew Disney want to make a theme park in their town, they might oppose it?
I've been a herion addict and was on methadone and the Buprenorphine trials we had here for a bit. I was an herion addict for about 10 years, let it control my life, homeless and all that crap. Got on methadone on and off for some years, did the Bupernorphine trials, got back on methadone again.
Even though I wanted to quit using dope, i would always end up back because want wasn't enough. While I was on methadone last, I got to talk to a shrink, and after a bit, found out I was dyslexic and ADHD and other fun stuff that I should of found out before my mid 30's. It was getting help for my ADHD and dyslexia that made it so I was finally able to say Fuck you to herion, and even methadone. I volunteerly lowed my dose till it was down to nothing, and stopped going to the stupid ass methadone clinic. By that time, I hated it and the people that went there and mostly the policies they have there.
Making it so people can't feel the high of doing Herion is going to make them do other drugs so they can feel something. Plane and simple. I knew a girl who'd OD because she had one of those thingies they put in your stomache so you can't get high. She kept trying and you want to know whats up with her now? She talks to herself. Mentally, she's gone. Kept trying to get high. She didn't die from it, but she's no longer the person she was.
You want to get herion addicts to stop? You need to find the reason why they are a heroin addict and fix those. Me? I was confused, I didn't understand people and people didn't seem to understand me. Stress and frustration were my enemies, and they didn't matter if I was high. Unfortunetly, being a herion addict means you don't get high as much as you get well.
Anyways, I think this is the wrong approach big time. But it doesn't surprise me, people don't understand addiction, and that is why a lot of people get addicted to stuff.
Let's make all of congress, the senate, and of course, the President and cronies, have to go thru a TSA scanner and pat down every time they want to enter the senate, or the white house, or congress. Let's do this for a month, then lets have a revote on this stuff.
My guess is we'd get rid of all the scanners and pat downs.
After all, the people who make the laws are the one rarely affected by the laws they are making, unless it's something to benefit them.
If moto owns the patent they can charge whatever they like for it (so long as they charge everyone the same). They don't have to justify the price to anyone.
You're not aware of what the 'R' in FRAND stands for?
MS currently licence 2,300 patents relating to H.264 for 2 cents per unit. Google/Motorola want $22.50 for the remaining 50 patents it holds, per unit
Microsoft have entered cross licence deals for non FRAND patents with Android manufacturers.
That’s right. Just 2 cents for use of more than 2,300 patents. (Windows qualifies for a volume discount, but no one has to pay more than 20 cents per unit.) Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay more than 1,000 times that for use of just 50 patents. And that is for a $1,000 laptop. For a $2,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding double the royalty - $45. Windows is the same on both laptops, and so is the video support in Windows.
This is unjustifiable on Motorolas part
Does Motorola own the patents they are selling licenses to? And they want to charge whatever they want? I thought that was the capitalist crap that America is so great for? Do we have laws saying that you can't charge what you want?
... fuck off? What are we going to do? Go to war? Make an embargo against Canada?
Of course, Canada can be playing the "sure, we'll sort of go along with you" card, while waiting for us to continue fucking up, so it can swoop down and take what it wants.
But me? If i was Canada, i'd say, Fuck You USA. What are you going to do about it?
We can bully on 3rd World Countries, We can bully Middle East Countries. Shit, we got Australia as our testing ground. But if countries like England, or Canada stood up and said, You crazy USA and fuck you, we'll do what we want. And if you don't like it, we'll just sell our energy and natural resources else where.
But Canada is too polite and has no balls, so that will never happen. Really sucks also, because Canada could start changing everything for the better.
Face it. The USA is a bully and we need someone to stand up to us and put is in our place.
As a parent of two small children, I've been forced to do "segmented sleep" for extended periods (our babies were not good eaters so we had to wake them up in the middle of the night for a feeding). It sucks, and I'm positive that I'm not the only parent to have experienced this.
Just going to sleep in the evening and waking up in the morning feels a lot better and more natural to me.
-- 77IM
You wake your kids up to feed them? Seriously? Whatever ever happened to feeding the kid when it wakes up hungry and demands it? I'm no expert, but waking the kid up to feed it sounds like a bad pattern to get into for the kid.
Do you only feed your kid once a day or something? I just can't imagine why you'd feed your kid at a certain time, instead of when it's hungry. Of course, i'm talking about kids that can't get up and feed themselves, like 4ish and under.
To be fair, all of your setup issues are documented in the quick setup guide. It tells you to put the SIM in before you start the console the first time, and to use the temporary account for firmware updates. But that doesn't excuse Sony from making things so weird in the first place.
Read the quick setup guide? Seriously? That's like asking someone to read the article.
The only reason I have one is because I won it from TacoBell. I can't even use some of the features because I don't have a PS3. None of my old PSP games will work on it (even the downloadable ones). None of my friends with a PS3 are interested in buying it from me at half MSRP...:(
It's been a month now and literally every upload site has either closed down or shut down their affiliate programs that offered money for uploaders. Those who uploaded pirated material to gain money are devastated on forums and cannot find any good upload site anymore. This was highly successful bust against piracy, and rightly so.
I don't know about that. the amount of stuff released on sites i've been to hasn't slowed down. While a few of the sites have changed that stuff is uploaded to, there hasn't been that much change.
I don't know about if the uploaders are getting money or not, because I don't care. The movie and music industry built their empire on milking their talent for as much as they can, while giving them back very little. But even if the uploaders are NOT getting money for their uploads, they are still uploading it.
One might suggest it's the people who wouldn't pay for Whitney Houston's music until after she died who were doing something "in bad taste". So much for supporting artists while they're sitll alive.
Buying her music when she was alive was supporting her crack addiction.
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The wheel was invented several times, but the first few inventors didn't have practical implementations in mind. So it took many patent expiration generations for it to find common use.
Actually, the wheel was invented right away, but the Original Makers kept getting their copyright on it renewed, and it wasn't till 3500BC that it finally made it to public domain.
I dedicate this bowl of weed to the great designs you drew and kept me entertained for so many years!
Here's to you!
... it's about the children, it's never about the children.
Is it because their sounds are copyrighted?
No one wanted cloud storage, but some businesses.
The only thing worse then saying something bad happened and all our data is gone, is saying, the cloud disappeared and all our data is gone.
He did not steal the files! He is not an american citizen! And when he did obtain the files, he was not on American soil! And he is not bound by any law prohibiting the distribution of these files, and certainly not under any NDA. So the question is what kind of justice mokery they came up with ?
Ask the MegaUpload people how not being american worked for them.
... that one day congress/senate will come to their senses and invalidate all software patents, so I can laugh at the money these companies spend on each other over threats of court.
In other words, the only winners here are the lawyers, which makes the current laws scum laws.
Laws written by ex-lawyers that really only benefit lawyers. That is what is really going on.
The problem is the smartphone. What you have is a little computer, holding lots of your data, that has wifi, 3G, 4G, LTE, LSD, and of course, 2G. It's a walking smorgasbord of personal data about you.
And what do you do with it? You download app after app, to make it so you can do stuff easier, while letting these "apps" have access to your data. Your personal data. Sure, the corporations, who makes their money off your personal data, are going to say they aren't "reading" your text messages, your email, or any other data they can get access to on your smartphone?
Are you people stupid or just blind?
I got rid of my smartphone. got me a cheap cellphone to do what a cellphone is best for. making phone calls on the go.
Truth is, smartphone is for dumb people. think on that.
We all knew this, our parents have been telling us this since we were kids.
... For example, Disney was able to build DisneyWorld in Orlando by securing the land rights quietly otherwise if people knew a major corporation was buying the land, they would have raised their prices.
You sure it wasn't that if people knew Disney want to make a theme park in their town, they might oppose it?
You need to hold your mac by the corners.
I've been a herion addict and was on methadone and the Buprenorphine trials we had here for a bit. I was an herion addict for about 10 years, let it control my life, homeless and all that crap. Got on methadone on and off for some years, did the Bupernorphine trials, got back on methadone again.
Even though I wanted to quit using dope, i would always end up back because want wasn't enough. While I was on methadone last, I got to talk to a shrink, and after a bit, found out I was dyslexic and ADHD and other fun stuff that I should of found out before my mid 30's. It was getting help for my ADHD and dyslexia that made it so I was finally able to say Fuck you to herion, and even methadone. I volunteerly lowed my dose till it was down to nothing, and stopped going to the stupid ass methadone clinic. By that time, I hated it and the people that went there and mostly the policies they have there.
Making it so people can't feel the high of doing Herion is going to make them do other drugs so they can feel something. Plane and simple. I knew a girl who'd OD because she had one of those thingies they put in your stomache so you can't get high. She kept trying and you want to know whats up with her now? She talks to herself. Mentally, she's gone. Kept trying to get high. She didn't die from it, but she's no longer the person she was.
You want to get herion addicts to stop? You need to find the reason why they are a heroin addict and fix those. Me? I was confused, I didn't understand people and people didn't seem to understand me. Stress and frustration were my enemies, and they didn't matter if I was high. Unfortunetly, being a herion addict means you don't get high as much as you get well.
Anyways, I think this is the wrong approach big time. But it doesn't surprise me, people don't understand addiction, and that is why a lot of people get addicted to stuff.
I saw Avatar and it's not that good of a movie. Sure, it's not bad, but movie of the year good? Oh, hell no.
It was a 3D Selling Gimmick, not a great movie.
Let's make all of congress, the senate, and of course, the President and cronies, have to go thru a TSA scanner and pat down every time they want to enter the senate, or the white house, or congress. Let's do this for a month, then lets have a revote on this stuff.
My guess is we'd get rid of all the scanners and pat downs.
After all, the people who make the laws are the one rarely affected by the laws they are making, unless it's something to benefit them.
If moto owns the patent they can charge whatever they like for it (so long as they charge everyone the same). They don't have to justify the price to anyone.
You're not aware of what the 'R' in FRAND stands for?
Well, i did a quick google and all i could find so far is FRAND means Fan & Friend and crap like best friend.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frand
and honestly, have you tried google it's meaning?
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=FRAND
I have and I still do Not know what the R stand for.
Do you? Care to share?
MS currently licence 2,300 patents relating to H.264 for 2 cents per unit. Google/Motorola want $22.50 for the remaining 50 patents it holds, per unit
Microsoft have entered cross licence deals for non FRAND patents with Android manufacturers.
That’s right. Just 2 cents for use of more than 2,300 patents. (Windows qualifies for a volume discount, but no one has to pay more than 20 cents per unit.) Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay more than 1,000 times that for use of just 50 patents. And that is for a $1,000 laptop. For a $2,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding double the royalty - $45. Windows is the same on both laptops, and so is the video support in Windows.
This is unjustifiable on Motorolas part
Does Motorola own the patents they are selling licenses to? And they want to charge whatever they want? I thought that was the capitalist crap that America is so great for? Do we have laws saying that you can't charge what you want?
... fuck off? What are we going to do? Go to war? Make an embargo against Canada?
Of course, Canada can be playing the "sure, we'll sort of go along with you" card, while waiting for us to continue fucking up, so it can swoop down and take what it wants.
But me? If i was Canada, i'd say, Fuck You USA. What are you going to do about it?
We can bully on 3rd World Countries, We can bully Middle East Countries. Shit, we got Australia as our testing ground. But if countries like England, or Canada stood up and said, You crazy USA and fuck you, we'll do what we want. And if you don't like it, we'll just sell our energy and natural resources else where.
But Canada is too polite and has no balls, so that will never happen. Really sucks also, because Canada could start changing everything for the better.
Face it. The USA is a bully and we need someone to stand up to us and put is in our place.
As a parent of two small children, I've been forced to do "segmented sleep" for extended periods (our babies were not good eaters so we had to wake them up in the middle of the night for a feeding). It sucks, and I'm positive that I'm not the only parent to have experienced this.
Just going to sleep in the evening and waking up in the morning feels a lot better and more natural to me.
-- 77IM
You wake your kids up to feed them? Seriously? Whatever ever happened to feeding the kid when it wakes up hungry and demands it? I'm no expert, but waking the kid up to feed it sounds like a bad pattern to get into for the kid.
Do you only feed your kid once a day or something? I just can't imagine why you'd feed your kid at a certain time, instead of when it's hungry. Of course, i'm talking about kids that can't get up and feed themselves, like 4ish and under.
To be fair, all of your setup issues are documented in the quick setup guide. It tells you to put the SIM in before you start the console the first time, and to use the temporary account for firmware updates. But that doesn't excuse Sony from making things so weird in the first place.
Read the quick setup guide? Seriously? That's like asking someone to read the article.
Handheld is supposed to be done outside. Having GPS makes sense.
I thought handheld was for on the go, not necessarily outside.
While I can see some use for the GPS, i personally think it's a waste of space and cost, unless it was really cheap to add.
But i'm sure it will be cool for those 2 games that use it.
The only reason I have one is because I won it from TacoBell. I can't even use some of the features because I don't have a PS3. None of my old PSP games will work on it (even the downloadable ones). None of my friends with a PS3 are interested in buying it from me at half MSRP... :(
http://unlock.tacobell.com/?utm_campaign=PSVita2012
thought you were joking about the N-Gage there for a sec...
... only goes to show how fucked up our economy is.
It's been a month now and literally every upload site has either closed down or shut down their affiliate programs that offered money for uploaders. Those who uploaded pirated material to gain money are devastated on forums and cannot find any good upload site anymore. This was highly successful bust against piracy, and rightly so.
I don't know about that. the amount of stuff released on sites i've been to hasn't slowed down. While a few of the sites have changed that stuff is uploaded to, there hasn't been that much change.
I don't know about if the uploaders are getting money or not, because I don't care. The movie and music industry built their empire on milking their talent for as much as they can, while giving them back very little. But even if the uploaders are NOT getting money for their uploads, they are still uploading it.
Seriously, how does HP know this? Why is this news?
HP doesn't know shit, it's saying what it wants, to keep it's stocks prices from jumping.
Are we doing End of the World Predictions also?
One might suggest it's the people who wouldn't pay for Whitney Houston's music until after she died who were doing something "in bad taste". So much for supporting artists while they're sitll alive.
Buying her music when she was alive was supporting her crack addiction.