A bunch of mad people's paid-off stooges grant this stuff. Just as you indicated the prior art methods, it is unbelievable that the USPTO is THIS damned "overwhelmed". There should be a moratorium on all new tech patents issuance having applications dating back to, oh, say 2004, and a (public) review of all tech patents involved in anti-competitive activities dating from 1992 forward.
How can these "people" in that company suing Twitter even DARE bring themselves forward to sue. It is incredibly easy for database tools such as Lotus Approach, Borland/Corel/et al Paradox, ms' access, the various CRM tools build in LAMP/AMP, and more, and much of it is just plain common sense-enabled after a couple of hours of wrangling out a basic set of parameters.
-- User goes to browser/input device
-- user enters some tidbit of info
-- designated input triggers response to an action list (isn't this starting to sound like JIT product manufacturing/tracking, say, Expandable?)
-- action triggers reports to cognizant persons in the various departments, the vendors/suppliers/contract manufacturers outside the company, AP/AR handle the cost accounting/other accounting/inventory matters....
Expandable is from AT LEAST 1999, and we used it when i was a 400-person company from 1997-1999 and it got replaced by Oracle stuff. PeopleSoft ALONE had a massive set of tools for doing such things. We even used Vantive, which got knocked off from our company when that fiber optic company and their ORCA/Oracle slayers came in and ruthlessly waged battle internally in OUR CONFERENCE ROOMS to purge things like Expandable, Vantive, and other internally-built databases.
Techwhatever from Texas will probably be found to be a patent troll because other business model attempts aren't so rosy these days.
And a slew of others are starts if not replacements, depending on what any given person is after. If someone can top Rosegarden, Lilypond and LMMS, or combine the best of all these and some others, you'll probably see/hear Apple whip out the patent/copyright infringement... But, i DO have to say, Garageband is FANTASTIC. I watched a demon in the Apple Store, and it's hard (it appears) to beat GarageBand (for now?).
heheheh, when i first read, "Major New Function Discovered for...." I laughed, and had to tell myself, SPLEEN, SPLEEN, not what else i was thinking, since that other tiny matter i thought of has only one apparent useful purpose... (Or, maybe, Mr. Threat, you know of other, undisclosed/"disclothesed" uses?)
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I want to mod funny... But, i want to respond, too.
It's really nice to be able to show off the KDE (compiz/KDE/Mandriva/et al) desktop rotting the cubes and polygon desktops around, in ONLY 256 MB of SHARED VIDEO RAM,not the umpteen.75 GB or 2GB vista demanded before even turning on Aero. It's a nice, good feeling to have people looking over my shoulder or asking about that desktop, and being able to say, "No, this is not Vista. It's KDE, in Linux. And, this has been possible about or more than a year prior to Vista's release, and i had some of these features working on a 128 MB graphics card from CompUSA, and even wowed the Comcast guy who was restoring my service back in late 2006..."
Makes people wonder who the hell decided vista needed all that graphics power to do what Linux (and Mac) have been on lesser resources. Conjures up thoughts of collusion/screwing the consumer --- depending on one's perspective, that is...
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"Activities can now be tied to virtual desktops, allowing users to have different widgets on each of their desktops."
THIS is what i've been waiting for. I don't know why it was not there to begin with. Glad it's here. I wonder if it'll break my Mandriva One-modified KDE4.x, however. It would be nice to get back the ability to change the backgrounds on the login widget as well as the background when the desktop is locked. Mandriva seems to cripple that feature for the non-paid installs, and none of my sleuthing has let me to how to undo that cripple. It was one reason i paid $50 contribution to PCLOS 2007/8.
Law Enforcement: enforcement Paramedics: help treat in advance of another heart attack Drug Dealers: Find new users
It'll be interesting to see if the police bust you for drugs, then, when you croak behind the wheel, they re-run the test and find you've just had a heart attack.
But, seriously, what anti-tampering safeguards are in place? You could be framed just as easily with technology as without. So, can one demand to be RETESTED at a neutral hospital that is equipped? Can you demand upon arrest that you be taken to one without the hospital's advanced notice (assuming that if framed, the hospital won't have a mole who facilitates illegitimate busts)?
This could become standard fair for (South) Koreans returning home. There, they are (or are subjected to being) tested upon return from overseas. As Koreans, then can be tested (some if not many are), and if found to have use even marijuana, they are subject to arrest, prosecution, sentencing, and even lose their jobs. For job applicants, they, too, are subject to drug screening, even for what westerners might feel are innocuous/low-risk-of-public-harm jobs.
Hell, this device --if abused in the US -- could tear the country apart. After all, between hunting, guns possession laws/rights, and uneven regulation and enforcement towards gaming, poaching, and drugs abuse and so on, stepping up enforcement might do more harm than good. Even selective enforcement will be plagued by legal cases of profiling, discrimination, and so forth. It might be interesting if the device is used for purposes of assigning per-person drug consumption limits. No outright bans on consumption -- just consumption management.
Six: And JUST-LIKE-THAT (snaps fingers), Dr. Gaius Baltar invents the world's FIRST AMAZING Cylon Detector. Better not tell her (Sharon) she's a Cylon; she might BREAK your NECK...
"iPhone is configured to work only with the wireless services provided by AT&T."
According to the article summary:
"Should the bill pass, Internet service providers will not be able to 'block, interfere with, discriminate against, impair, or degrade' access to any lawful content from any lawful application or device. "
If i understand correctly, the iPhone has a SIM card, and this means that any carrier willing or able to support and sell the iPhone should be able to. The exclusivity deal with AT&T is NOT neutral, since in overseas markets Apple is (isn't it?) forced to not have exclusive carrier deals. If Asian and European carriers using different variations of current generations of cell technology can support the iPhone, then so should US carriers be able to. So, to read "iPhone is configured to work only with the wireless services provided by AT&T." does not -- to me -- let AT&T off the hook. Somewhere in tiny minds of lawyers, bean counters and tech shapers, there had to be some serious hashing and gnashing back and forth over how to avoid anti-trust/conspiracy/collusion issues.
From what i know first hand, there are people who so badly want the iPhone but despise or otherwise don't want AT&T that they buy the iPhone, early term but only after the trial period, then keep the phone, having paid early termination, which still ends up being less than buying the phone without a contract.
Why do people have to go this route, a bunch of rigmarole bullshit extra work? I think it's because apple so jealously guards its image that it doesn't want EVERYbody to have an iPhone. Or, their calculus (mix machine/profit-margin-cache calculator) says, "mehhh, 170 MILLION is good, we don't need an extra 100M.", But, even IF apple could care less about there being 250M iPhone users, having ONE SOLE CARRIER would be a serious impediment.
So, in my serious, tin-foil-hat mindset, i'd dare say AT&T definitely had a hand in sweetening the pot for Apple to not go multi-carrier in the US. I'd say the phone's pricing was set to please Apple, please AT&T's board, and then prevent others domestic from carrying the phone. It's stupid, and it's mean. If Apple would love to have 20% of an additional 100 million iPhones and AT&T hasn't got the bandwidth, tough. Let other carriers prove they will or they have upgraded switching gear to route or manage the packets (content and quality) the iPhone sends/expects.
I ride BART almost every day (every day for work, and 1-2 times on the weekends) and on any given average commute (not even talking packed cars, but all seats full, with some standing riders), i can see 5-10 iPods or iPhones, and often 4-5 are in random clusters of unrelated riders. Can Motorola, Samsung, Hitachi, Panasonic, even HTC or Sony/Sony-Ericsson claim that? I serously doubt it.
I really hope the FCC ends this exclusivity deal and forces net neutrality down the throats of carriers and phone desingers. Design the database to CRM-like handle USER-MANAGED profiles, and knock of the delayed-billing/overbill game. Let users set up a basic profile to hard-stop calls or data streams if the handset is roaming rapidly as if stolen or passed around or cloned. Let the user have real-time syncing to the billing system to eliminate confusion, and to let the user have peace of mind.
(Had to re-write this tome because Opera 10Beta crashed on me when I used a rapid Ctrl+A keystroke (with the cursor outside the comment box). On this computer, it's repeatable. No, unlike Firefox, my beautifully-scripted masterpiece was NOT returned to the screen for me to hit "submit"....)
"Ironically, the users who may be most affected by the return of two-tier pricing are those who use Macs, but want to run Windows in a virtual machine. While PC owners typically upgrade from an older OS to a new -- and so can get by with the cheaper upgrades -- users who run Windows in a virtual environment often create the faux "machines" from scratch, and so require a full-package version."
And, for a brief instant, i was thinking that an ISO file might be handy to run the OS in...
Very Much... I prefer to stick with Lotus WordPro. It has a friendlier GUI, has non-modal dialog boxes, is WYSIWYG even in print preview. It STILL has a better sections/divisions multi-document container/tab metaphor interface than most versions of word (maybe even compared to the latest one), even compared to OpenOffice.org.
As long as IBM lets Lotus breathe, and as long as Lotus develops maintenance fixes for SmartSuite, i'll keep using SmartSuite (Approach, WordPro, Lotus 1-2-3) for all my database, word processing, and spreadsheet needs that don't need direct pdf output.
It was a matter of IMMINENT (and EMINENT) domain.... Otherwise they'd be abandoning claim over a landmark case... Besides domain thieves, it has to worry about domain/cyber squatters complicating the land rush...
to grab-bagging assholes like these appear to be making of themselves, DO what the "commies" did: line them up against a brick wall, reincarnate them, and bill their heirs/survivors for the bullet. The, to extend THAT, bill them for the labor costs, too.
How dare these assholes set up and dare to drag the rest of us over some precipice designed to give them money and control. We hobbyists can reasonably efficiently use all sorts of tools to create database and other interfaces. Then, these fwads would dare to copyright our interface AND data. SCREW THAT and SCREW THEM! Send that wolf howling back into it's hole with a failed patent writ on its ass.
I thought this system was for iPhone-owning sex offenders to report in. I only thought that because, other than blocking it in foil (which might make it overheat), or shutting down the phone or jamming all phones are pretty much traceable 24/7 except in geographic areas that are poor reception. It might be a cheaper way to find out where ex-convicts/ex-offenders-accused to passively report in.
Then the entire cell network, via a phone, "tethered" (literally, as in a modem and an anklet or bracelet), could probably save states much money, and make the systems accessible to ALL states and the federal government if there is not already some reciprocal data exchange.
"Duplication of Functionality" my ASS. This is anti-competitive. It's just a pre-rigged way to discriminate against or deny access to vendors they don't want onboard, even if they comply with every last Apple bullet. I am sure this won't fly in the EU...
So, my comment stripped of profanity gets modded flamebait by some dipshit asshole ms-fanboy/fangirl/fanthing, yet my comment filled with expletives (and marked insightful on the first go) is left to stand UNMOLESTED.
(More proof that slash's moderation system should skew/curve mod things so that last asshole in line doesn't override/overshadow a general consensus. Just because two ppl mod something doesn't mean the last derogatory/downgrading mod should win, slash. If it's two, grade it a draw; if more, show the weights. Clamp down on assholes who have too much plastic in their rears or not enough of a real life under their belts.)
ALL OVER, or it has myopic/corrupted/ignorant/insensitive STUPID verizon marketing, legal, and ms/verizon/stupid-lazy-programmers/marketing-kickback dollars ALL OVER IT.
Why can't these geniouses operate within normal, existing, working, trusted, proven, os-agnostic protocols. These kinds of people deserve to be keelhauled, razor-wire-whipped, then possibly drawn and quartered. I wonder how many Apple and Linux customers of verizon would be compelled to buy a PC. This damned shit sounds like a trial balloon to lube and lure people into buying into windoze 7.
Let's all barrage the various congress/senate/state public utilities authorities, even if we are not verizon customers. THIS MEGALOMANIA/MYOPIA/VENDOR-FAVORING SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.
(Looking for a new gasket since the current one just blew...)
[[[ Is that a little better NAIOOWWWW??? CAN YOU HEAR ME NAOOOWWW??? ]]]
I like watching imports, mainly tragic Korean, Japanese, or Chinese films. I'm sick to death of namby-pamby-assed hero-wins/bad-guy-dies/gets caught tripe coming out of mainstream hollywood. Yeh, we can find major studios backing the occasional hero/innocent-loses//bad-guy-walks/finds redemption films, but i think or feel many are the occasional "loss risk" the big studios put money into to be "cosmo" or "hip" or "sensitive". Watch enough Korean films (never mind occasional plot holes, just step into the shoes of each character), you just might turn your back on hollywood, too.
I look forward to watching "D-9", finding "Moon", and maybe even revisiting "Alien Nation" and "V"....
Imagine the mischief in libraries. Carefully transplanted, books could even MORE confusingly be "redistributed" around libraries. Embedding a transceiver in the book would probably help combat this, but then it would be expensive to have new books fitted with them at the plant (a new sales strategy?) and older books may not be worth the retrofit/implantation.
But, imagine if restaurants or theatres or auto shops or places with lots of things that move and need to be tracked started using this. Tagging moviegoers won't go over very well. Tracking participants in indoor games or sports activities might automated camera coverage. Enough of these on sports wear would ensure optimal tracking.
Hell, we can put them on dogs, cats, dishes, toilet paper, glassware... Even the PHB and bean counters could now enjoy tracking pens to reduce their movements, except when being used for writing things not input into computers. Stamp em on employees heads or slap em on their backs as they enter the security check.
They might become fashionable as TOOTH BLING. Imagine all those poor ghettos-assed gold tooth shops attaching them designer-style. Even legit orthodontists might make money on them.
ALL OVER, or it has dumb-ass STUPID verizon marketing, legal, and ms/verizon/stupid-lazy-programmers/marketing-kickback dollars ALL OVER IT.
Why can't these fuckwads operate within normal, existing, working, trusted, proven, os-agnostic protocols. These kinds of people deserve to be keelhauled, razor-wire-whipped, then possibly drawn and quartered. I wonder how many Apple and Linux customers of verizon would be compelled to buy a PC. This damned shit sounds like a trial balloon to lube and lure people into buying into windoze 7.
Let's all barrage the various congress/senate/state public utilities authorities, even if we are not verizon customers. THIS SHIT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.
(Looking for a new gasket since the current one just blew...)
Well, for the time being and the foreseeable/coming future, i'm HAPPY to be covered by our massive JUPITER than massive URANUS.... From a software/hardware perspective, Jupiter is a better, smoother sheathe, but URANUS is ringed, chunky and reflective (if not coarse) for our (viewing) pleasure....
Ozzie is NOT untouchable. Surely, before mshaft hired him or even before they offered him the job they must have vetted him and others. They HAD to have run a background check on him. He HAD to have filled out an inventions/copyright declaration form. SURELY mshaft has more than 20 or 30 people who used to belong to or did work with Lotus Development Corporation before or after LDC moved from Castro Street in Mountain View, CA around the mid 1990s. We're talking about the RUTHLESS, CONNIVING msoft here. They don't destroy opponents they don't know anything about. They surely thoroughly know EVERY public and numerous private things about the companies they admire, fear or loathe.
No, Ozzie is NOT off the hook. He pretty much never can be. Look at his position of importance in the company. Even if anyone asked, "Hey, Oz, can you recall things you with Notes had but didn't, so we can add those unfulfilled but possibly relevant features to our some of our products?" He might respond with waffling and hawing, but once he knows there is a potential for his company to infringe, he should exercise due diligence in setting up or ordering or influencing the setting up of an "electric fence" to keep the herd from straying into bad legal areas.
I don't think he'll be saved from reproach. The USPTO examiner in this matter should be seriously reprimanded. Any FOOL using Google knows that using to vague or too specific/precise but combined terms can skew a search. Any devious person trying to f*ck with the system can craft a few wily searches for the sake of going through the motions to on paper feign doing due diligence. Probably (i bet) someone in msoft PROVIDED him with that skewing search string just to drastically reduce the number of finds so he could cite those that conveniently dodge the issue of infringement.
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A bunch of mad people's paid-off stooges grant this stuff. Just as you indicated the prior art methods, it is unbelievable that the USPTO is THIS damned "overwhelmed". There should be a moratorium on all new tech patents issuance having applications dating back to, oh, say 2004, and a (public) review of all tech patents involved in anti-competitive activities dating from 1992 forward.
How can these "people" in that company suing Twitter even DARE bring themselves forward to sue. It is incredibly easy for database tools such as Lotus Approach, Borland/Corel/et al Paradox, ms' access, the various CRM tools build in LAMP/AMP, and more, and much of it is just plain common sense-enabled after a couple of hours of wrangling out a basic set of parameters.
-- User goes to browser/input device
-- user enters some tidbit of info
-- designated input triggers response to an action list (isn't this starting to sound like JIT product manufacturing/tracking, say, Expandable?)
-- action triggers reports to cognizant persons in the various departments, the vendors/suppliers/contract manufacturers outside the company, AP/AR handle the cost accounting/other accounting/inventory matters....
Expandable is from AT LEAST 1999, and we used it when i was a 400-person company from 1997-1999 and it got replaced by Oracle stuff. PeopleSoft ALONE had a massive set of tools for doing such things. We even used Vantive, which got knocked off from our company when that fiber optic company and their ORCA/Oracle slayers came in and ruthlessly waged battle internally in OUR CONFERENCE ROOMS to purge things like Expandable, Vantive, and other internally-built databases.
Techwhatever from Texas will probably be found to be a patent troll because other business model attempts aren't so rosy these days.
For the new/seeking, see these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=opera&rls=en&q=lmms&sourceid=opera&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=FL14SrTCLYW0sgPfqe3xBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4#
http://keepthemfree.net/application/lmms-044
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
http://linux-sound.org/notation.html
And a slew of others are starts if not replacements, depending on what any given person is after. If someone can top Rosegarden, Lilypond and LMMS, or combine the best of all these and some others, you'll probably see/hear Apple whip out the patent/copyright infringement... But, i DO have to say, Garageband is FANTASTIC. I watched a demon in the Apple Store, and it's hard (it appears) to beat GarageBand (for now?).
heheheh, when i first read, "Major New Function Discovered for ...." I laughed, and had to tell myself, SPLEEN, SPLEEN, not what else i was thinking, since that other tiny matter i thought of has only one apparent useful purpose... (Or, maybe, Mr. Threat, you know of other, undisclosed/"disclothesed" uses?)
I want to mod funny... But, i want to respond, too.
It's really nice to be able to show off the KDE (compiz/KDE/Mandriva/et al) desktop rotting the cubes and polygon desktops around, in ONLY 256 MB of SHARED VIDEO RAM,not the umpteen .75 GB or 2GB vista demanded before even turning on Aero. It's a nice, good feeling to have people looking over my shoulder or asking about that desktop, and being able to say, "No, this is not Vista. It's KDE, in Linux. And, this has been possible about or more than a year prior to Vista's release, and i had some of these features working on a 128 MB graphics card from CompUSA, and even wowed the Comcast guy who was restoring my service back in late 2006..."
Makes people wonder who the hell decided vista needed all that graphics power to do what Linux (and Mac) have been on lesser resources. Conjures up thoughts of collusion/screwing the consumer --- depending on one's perspective, that is...
"Activities can now be tied to virtual desktops, allowing users to have different widgets on each of their desktops."
THIS is what i've been waiting for. I don't know why it was not there to begin with. Glad it's here. I wonder if it'll break my Mandriva One-modified KDE4.x, however. It would be nice to get back the ability to change the backgrounds on the login widget as well as the background when the desktop is locked. Mandriva seems to cripple that feature for the non-paid installs, and none of my sleuthing has let me to how to undo that cripple. It was one reason i paid $50 contribution to PCLOS 2007/8.
Law Enforcement: enforcement
Paramedics: help treat in advance of another heart attack
Drug Dealers: Find new users
It'll be interesting to see if the police bust you for drugs, then, when you croak behind the wheel, they re-run the test and find you've just had a heart attack.
But, seriously, what anti-tampering safeguards are in place? You could be framed just as easily with technology as without. So, can one demand to be RETESTED at a neutral hospital that is equipped? Can you demand upon arrest that you be taken to one without the hospital's advanced notice (assuming that if framed, the hospital won't have a mole who facilitates illegitimate busts)?
This could become standard fair for (South) Koreans returning home. There, they are (or are subjected to being) tested upon return from overseas. As Koreans, then can be tested (some if not many are), and if found to have use even marijuana, they are subject to arrest, prosecution, sentencing, and even lose their jobs. For job applicants, they, too, are subject to drug screening, even for what westerners might feel are innocuous/low-risk-of-public-harm jobs.
Hell, this device --if abused in the US -- could tear the country apart. After all, between hunting, guns possession laws/rights, and uneven regulation and enforcement towards gaming, poaching, and drugs abuse and so on, stepping up enforcement might do more harm than good. Even selective enforcement will be plagued by legal cases of profiling, discrimination, and so forth. It might be interesting if the device is used for purposes of assigning per-person drug consumption limits. No outright bans on consumption -- just consumption management.
Six: And JUST-LIKE-THAT (snaps fingers), Dr. Gaius Baltar invents the world's FIRST AMAZING Cylon Detector. Better not tell her (Sharon) she's a Cylon; she might BREAK your NECK...
Player HATER.... doh!
According to AT&T's site:
http://www.wireless.att.com/iphone/
"iPhone is configured to work only with the wireless services provided by AT&T."
According to the article summary:
"Should the bill pass, Internet service providers will not be able to 'block, interfere with, discriminate against, impair, or degrade' access to any lawful content from any lawful application or device. "
If i understand correctly, the iPhone has a SIM card, and this means that any carrier willing or able to support and sell the iPhone should be able to. The exclusivity deal with AT&T is NOT neutral, since in overseas markets Apple is (isn't it?) forced to not have exclusive carrier deals. If Asian and European carriers using different variations of current generations of cell technology can support the iPhone, then so should US carriers be able to. So, to read "iPhone is configured to work only with the wireless services provided by AT&T." does not -- to me -- let AT&T off the hook. Somewhere in tiny minds of lawyers, bean counters and tech shapers, there had to be some serious hashing and gnashing back and forth over how to avoid anti-trust/conspiracy/collusion issues.
From what i know first hand, there are people who so badly want the iPhone but despise or otherwise don't want AT&T that they buy the iPhone, early term but only after the trial period, then keep the phone, having paid early termination, which still ends up being less than buying the phone without a contract.
Why do people have to go this route, a bunch of rigmarole bullshit extra work? I think it's because apple so jealously guards its image that it doesn't want EVERYbody to have an iPhone. Or, their calculus (mix machine/profit-margin-cache calculator) says, "mehhh, 170 MILLION is good, we don't need an extra 100M.", But, even IF apple could care less about there being 250M iPhone users, having ONE SOLE CARRIER would be a serious impediment.
So, in my serious, tin-foil-hat mindset, i'd dare say AT&T definitely had a hand in sweetening the pot for Apple to not go multi-carrier in the US. I'd say the phone's pricing was set to please Apple, please AT&T's board, and then prevent others domestic from carrying the phone. It's stupid, and it's mean. If Apple would love to have 20% of an additional 100 million iPhones and AT&T hasn't got the bandwidth, tough. Let other carriers prove they will or they have upgraded switching gear to route or manage the packets (content and quality) the iPhone sends/expects.
I ride BART almost every day (every day for work, and 1-2 times on the weekends) and on any given average commute (not even talking packed cars, but all seats full, with some standing riders), i can see 5-10 iPods or iPhones, and often 4-5 are in random clusters of unrelated riders. Can Motorola, Samsung, Hitachi, Panasonic, even HTC or Sony/Sony-Ericsson claim that? I serously doubt it.
I really hope the FCC ends this exclusivity deal and forces net neutrality down the throats of carriers and phone desingers. Design the database to CRM-like handle USER-MANAGED profiles, and knock of the delayed-billing/overbill game. Let users set up a basic profile to hard-stop calls or data streams if the handset is roaming rapidly as if stolen or passed around or cloned. Let the user have real-time syncing to the billing system to eliminate confusion, and to let the user have peace of mind.
(Had to re-write this tome because Opera 10Beta crashed on me when I used a rapid Ctrl+A keystroke (with the cursor outside the comment box). On this computer, it's repeatable. No, unlike Firefox, my beautifully-scripted masterpiece was NOT returned to the screen for me to hit "submit"....)
file...
"Ironically, the users who may be most affected by the return of two-tier pricing are those who use Macs, but want to run Windows in a virtual machine. While PC owners typically upgrade from an older OS to a new -- and so can get by with the cheaper upgrades -- users who run Windows in a virtual environment often create the faux "machines" from scratch, and so require a full-package version."
And, for a brief instant, i was thinking that an ISO file might be handy to run the OS in...
Very Much... I prefer to stick with Lotus WordPro. It has a friendlier GUI, has non-modal dialog boxes, is WYSIWYG even in print preview. It STILL has a better sections/divisions multi-document container/tab metaphor interface than most versions of word (maybe even compared to the latest one), even compared to OpenOffice.org.
As long as IBM lets Lotus breathe, and as long as Lotus develops maintenance fixes for SmartSuite, i'll keep using SmartSuite (Approach, WordPro, Lotus 1-2-3) for all my database, word processing, and spreadsheet needs that don't need direct pdf output.
It was a matter of IMMINENT (and EMINENT) domain.... Otherwise they'd be abandoning claim over a landmark case... Besides domain thieves, it has to worry about domain/cyber squatters complicating the land rush...
to grab-bagging assholes like these appear to be making of themselves, DO what the "commies" did: line them up against a brick wall, reincarnate them, and bill their heirs/survivors for the bullet. The, to extend THAT, bill them for the labor costs, too.
How dare these assholes set up and dare to drag the rest of us over some precipice designed to give them money and control. We hobbyists can reasonably efficiently use all sorts of tools to create database and other interfaces. Then, these fwads would dare to copyright our interface AND data. SCREW THAT and SCREW THEM! Send that wolf howling back into it's hole with a failed patent writ on its ass.
I thought this system was for iPhone-owning sex offenders to report in. I only thought that because, other than blocking it in foil (which might make it overheat), or shutting down the phone or jamming all phones are pretty much traceable 24/7 except in geographic areas that are poor reception. It might be a cheaper way to find out where ex-convicts/ex-offenders-accused to passively report in.
Then the entire cell network, via a phone, "tethered" (literally, as in a modem and an anklet or bracelet), could probably save states much money, and make the systems accessible to ALL states and the federal government if there is not already some reciprocal data exchange.
"3.5" audio jack is nice to have"...
hehehe, can hook up a tuba or trombone to that... or a lottttt of physical audio patches...
"Duplication of Functionality" my ASS. This is anti-competitive. It's just a pre-rigged way to discriminate against or deny access to vendors they don't want onboard, even if they comply with every last Apple bullet. I am sure this won't fly in the EU...
ans...
Then, change the summary line "New State of FECAL Matter", after burning their asses up with that frickin' LASER....
So, my comment stripped of profanity gets modded flamebait by some dipshit asshole ms-fanboy/fangirl/fanthing, yet my comment filled with expletives (and marked insightful on the first go) is left to stand UNMOLESTED.
(More proof that slash's moderation system should skew/curve mod things so that last asshole in line doesn't override/overshadow a general consensus. Just because two ppl mod something doesn't mean the last derogatory/downgrading mod should win, slash. If it's two, grade it a draw; if more, show the weights. Clamp down on assholes who have too much plastic in their rears or not enough of a real life under their belts.)
ALL OVER, or it has myopic/corrupted/ignorant/insensitive STUPID verizon marketing, legal, and ms/verizon/stupid-lazy-programmers/marketing-kickback dollars ALL OVER IT.
Why can't these geniouses operate within normal, existing, working, trusted, proven, os-agnostic protocols. These kinds of people deserve to be keelhauled, razor-wire-whipped, then possibly drawn and quartered. I wonder how many Apple and Linux customers of verizon would be compelled to buy a PC. This damned shit sounds like a trial balloon to lube and lure people into buying into windoze 7.
Let's all barrage the various congress/senate/state public utilities authorities, even if we are not verizon customers. THIS MEGALOMANIA/MYOPIA/VENDOR-FAVORING SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.
(Looking for a new gasket since the current one just blew...)
[[[ Is that a little better NAIOOWWWW??? CAN YOU HEAR ME NAOOOWWW??? ]]]
I like watching imports, mainly tragic Korean, Japanese, or Chinese films. I'm sick to death of namby-pamby-assed hero-wins/bad-guy-dies/gets caught tripe coming out of mainstream hollywood. Yeh, we can find major studios backing the occasional hero/innocent-loses//bad-guy-walks/finds redemption films, but i think or feel many are the occasional "loss risk" the big studios put money into to be "cosmo" or "hip" or "sensitive". Watch enough Korean films (never mind occasional plot holes, just step into the shoes of each character), you just might turn your back on hollywood, too.
I look forward to watching "D-9", finding "Moon", and maybe even revisiting "Alien Nation" and "V"....
Imagine the mischief in libraries. Carefully transplanted, books could even MORE confusingly be "redistributed" around libraries. Embedding a transceiver in the book would probably help combat this, but then it would be expensive to have new books fitted with them at the plant (a new sales strategy?) and older books may not be worth the retrofit/implantation.
But, imagine if restaurants or theatres or auto shops or places with lots of things that move and need to be tracked started using this. Tagging moviegoers won't go over very well. Tracking participants in indoor games or sports activities might automated camera coverage. Enough of these on sports wear would ensure optimal tracking.
Hell, we can put them on dogs, cats, dishes, toilet paper, glassware... Even the PHB and bean counters could now enjoy tracking pens to reduce their movements, except when being used for writing things not input into computers. Stamp em on employees heads or slap em on their backs as they enter the security check.
They might become fashionable as TOOTH BLING. Imagine all those poor ghettos-assed gold tooth shops attaching them designer-style. Even legit orthodontists might make money on them.
ALL OVER, or it has dumb-ass STUPID verizon marketing, legal, and ms/verizon/stupid-lazy-programmers/marketing-kickback dollars ALL OVER IT.
Why can't these fuckwads operate within normal, existing, working, trusted, proven, os-agnostic protocols. These kinds of people deserve to be keelhauled, razor-wire-whipped, then possibly drawn and quartered. I wonder how many Apple and Linux customers of verizon would be compelled to buy a PC. This damned shit sounds like a trial balloon to lube and lure people into buying into windoze 7.
Let's all barrage the various congress/senate/state public utilities authorities, even if we are not verizon customers. THIS SHIT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.
(Looking for a new gasket since the current one just blew...)
Well, for the time being and the foreseeable/coming future, i'm HAPPY to be covered by our massive JUPITER than massive URANUS.... From a software/hardware perspective, Jupiter is a better, smoother sheathe, but URANUS is ringed, chunky and reflective (if not coarse) for our (viewing) pleasure....
ROTFLMAO.BYE
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Ozzie is NOT untouchable. Surely, before mshaft hired him or even before they offered him the job they must have vetted him and others. They HAD to have run a background check on him. He HAD to have filled out an inventions/copyright declaration form. SURELY mshaft has more than 20 or 30 people who used to belong to or did work with Lotus Development Corporation before or after LDC moved from Castro Street in Mountain View, CA around the mid 1990s. We're talking about the RUTHLESS, CONNIVING msoft here. They don't destroy opponents they don't know anything about. They surely thoroughly know EVERY public and numerous private things about the companies they admire, fear or loathe.
No, Ozzie is NOT off the hook. He pretty much never can be. Look at his position of importance in the company. Even if anyone asked, "Hey, Oz, can you recall things you with Notes had but didn't, so we can add those unfulfilled but possibly relevant features to our some of our products?" He might respond with waffling and hawing, but once he knows there is a potential for his company to infringe, he should exercise due diligence in setting up or ordering or influencing the setting up of an "electric fence" to keep the herd from straying into bad legal areas.
I don't think he'll be saved from reproach. The USPTO examiner in this matter should be seriously reprimanded. Any FOOL using Google knows that using to vague or too specific/precise but combined terms can skew a search. Any devious person trying to f*ck with the system can craft a few wily searches for the sake of going through the motions to on paper feign doing due diligence. Probably (i bet) someone in msoft PROVIDED him with that skewing search string just to drastically reduce the number of finds so he could cite those that conveniently dodge the issue of infringement.