Thermal conduction is a simple product of surface area. They didn't do anything magic except increase surface area. The whole thing would be a hell of alot more efficient if the core's surface had the same matching opposing pattern so that they interfaced and no thermal crap was necessary at all. Bet they didn't think of that! They were too busy patting themselves on the back for coming up with a solution that has been around forever, only they are doing it on a smaller scale apparently. I find it odd they didn't try the same solution on the thermal plate-heatsink interface, too. The same concept should work there, too.
How can one say that you cannot regulate price but on the other hand you can make it so nobody can advertise a price we don't want you to sell at? To me it sounds like the same transgression. We should just have a compromise and say if you want to monopolize the price of your products then you lose your right to trademark the look and feel of your products along with any patent protections that product would normally enjoy.
They are running local audits on your machine without direct permission, which is a concern. They have no business, especially as a monopoly position in the software industry, to know the entire scope of the market for software. Unlike the rest of the competition, they know which markets are saturated with FREE and OPEN SOURCE software solutions, therefore they avoid unnecessary development investment of products that would obviously be money losers. Tsk, tsk. So much for free markets.
All they have to do is prove the sequence does what they say it does. RNA science is likely to prove their assertions to be all wrong in the end. And since they cannot say beyond a reasonable doubt the sequence is a cause of cancer, then the patent is useless for all intents and purposes. Patenting RNA by doctors is the real danger in the future.
In order to distribute the person with the shared folders had to have an intent to distribute otherwise no criminal law was broken. The key word is intent, because simply making them available through negligence is not unlawful yet. In a civil case negligence is no defense, but in a criminal case it makes all the difference in the world. So in your example, the violation is for a criminal act, which means the intent clause has to be satisfied. If it can be shown that a computer operator at the basic level should know and understand the shared folders concept then a civil case is more than satisfied. Unfortunately, the average user cannot be held to such a high threshold of knowledge, considering Microsoft makes the whole issue so complicated.
OS'es need to be treated differently for Copyright than other forms of software, simply because maintaining copyright on such a product is unfair to the consumer. If a company drops support for it then they should lose right of control for the future. The public was sold a secure Operating System that can never be secure. Once support is dropped then people should have the right to pursue reverse engineering of the code to support it themselves.
The Good News is we located the location of your laptop by the current IP and MAC.
The Bad News is that its currently connected on your own personal wireless router, dumbass.
We'll send the police right over to pick both of you up.
All of the content on M-TV was "pay for service" whereas YouTube is a free site paid for by online advertising revenue. I just don't see how the RIAA/MPAA will accept this. There is probably going to be some kind of snag, like they'll want users to pay $20 a month. Its always at least $20 for junk content...
I'll buy when it follows me into the shitter room Pure and simple, the e-book is not very handy. Sure its nice to be able to scroll through a book. But I hate the page concept used by e-books. I like how html scrolls seemlessly through what would be several pages of a book, yet appears as one page. They should publish chapters in this way. Hell, I could read my daily news from Slashdot in this way! Right on!! Maybe they'll create a jPod (aka the "john pod"; the bathroom material reader edition of an iPod) in the near future. Until then, no thanks!
I'm glad my state doesn't allow school administrators to over-rule the choices made by parents. If a parent doesn't want their kid suspended, and its not anything short of a felony, then the school has no business in the lives of their students. Quite frankly these do-gooder school administrators that pull these stunts are just as damaging as pedophile rapists. Instead of raping little kids, these thugs are killing the spirits of their students. That is not to mention the motivations behind these stunts, which is typically driven around knocking off certain academic threats so that their personal favourites earn the honours at graduation time. Sick people. Don't they have anything better to do, like perhaps run an academics program?
I'd be interested to hear how they get enough internet bandwidth out there to satisfy 600 nerds in the middle of the ocean. I'm also surprised to hear that 3.1 miles is enough as the U.S. enforces 230 miles of control, not 3.1 miles.
Its an undeniable fact of nature. If Congress put some research into the abolition of patents in general I bet we'd find out the implementation would sink the global economy as we know it instantly. More important factors would then govern business, the unimportant stuff like the environment, labour practices, fair wages, etc. You know, the stuff that rules the lives of the little guy.
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Thermal conduction is a simple product of surface area. They didn't do anything magic except increase surface area. The whole thing would be a hell of alot more efficient if the core's surface had the same matching opposing pattern so that they interfaced and no thermal crap was necessary at all. Bet they didn't think of that! They were too busy patting themselves on the back for coming up with a solution that has been around forever, only they are doing it on a smaller scale apparently. I find it odd they didn't try the same solution on the thermal plate-heatsink interface, too. The same concept should work there, too.
How can one say that you cannot regulate price but on the other hand you can make it so nobody can advertise a price we don't want you to sell at? To me it sounds like the same transgression. We should just have a compromise and say if you want to monopolize the price of your products then you lose your right to trademark the look and feel of your products along with any patent protections that product would normally enjoy.
They are running local audits on your machine without direct permission, which is a concern. They have no business, especially as a monopoly position in the software industry, to know the entire scope of the market for software. Unlike the rest of the competition, they know which markets are saturated with FREE and OPEN SOURCE software solutions, therefore they avoid unnecessary development investment of products that would obviously be money losers. Tsk, tsk. So much for free markets.
All they have to do is prove the sequence does what they say it does. RNA science is likely to prove their assertions to be all wrong in the end. And since they cannot say beyond a reasonable doubt the sequence is a cause of cancer, then the patent is useless for all intents and purposes. Patenting RNA by doctors is the real danger in the future.
In order to distribute the person with the shared folders had to have an intent to distribute otherwise no criminal law was broken. The key word is intent, because simply making them available through negligence is not unlawful yet. In a civil case negligence is no defense, but in a criminal case it makes all the difference in the world. So in your example, the violation is for a criminal act, which means the intent clause has to be satisfied. If it can be shown that a computer operator at the basic level should know and understand the shared folders concept then a civil case is more than satisfied. Unfortunately, the average user cannot be held to such a high threshold of knowledge, considering Microsoft makes the whole issue so complicated.
OS'es need to be treated differently for Copyright than other forms of software, simply because maintaining copyright on such a product is unfair to the consumer. If a company drops support for it then they should lose right of control for the future. The public was sold a secure Operating System that can never be secure. Once support is dropped then people should have the right to pursue reverse engineering of the code to support it themselves.
The Good News is we located the location of your laptop by the current IP and MAC. The Bad News is that its currently connected on your own personal wireless router, dumbass. We'll send the police right over to pick both of you up.
All of the content on M-TV was "pay for service" whereas YouTube is a free site paid for by online advertising revenue. I just don't see how the RIAA/MPAA will accept this. There is probably going to be some kind of snag, like they'll want users to pay $20 a month. Its always at least $20 for junk content...
You know, that we walked on the moon in 1969. :)
j/k
I'll buy when it follows me into the shitter room Pure and simple, the e-book is not very handy. Sure its nice to be able to scroll through a book. But I hate the page concept used by e-books. I like how html scrolls seemlessly through what would be several pages of a book, yet appears as one page. They should publish chapters in this way. Hell, I could read my daily news from Slashdot in this way! Right on!! Maybe they'll create a jPod (aka the "john pod"; the bathroom material reader edition of an iPod) in the near future. Until then, no thanks!
Clearly they are breaking the law offering free music. *chuckles*
The temperature is going to be the same regardless if its trees absorbing the sunlight or the ground. This research is baseless.
I'm glad my state doesn't allow school administrators to over-rule the choices made by parents. If a parent doesn't want their kid suspended, and its not anything short of a felony, then the school has no business in the lives of their students. Quite frankly these do-gooder school administrators that pull these stunts are just as damaging as pedophile rapists. Instead of raping little kids, these thugs are killing the spirits of their students. That is not to mention the motivations behind these stunts, which is typically driven around knocking off certain academic threats so that their personal favourites earn the honours at graduation time. Sick people. Don't they have anything better to do, like perhaps run an academics program?
How likely is my definition of objectionable - meaning those damn previews that alot of players force you to watch - will be included in this bill?
I'd be interested to hear how they get enough internet bandwidth out there to satisfy 600 nerds in the middle of the ocean. I'm also surprised to hear that 3.1 miles is enough as the U.S. enforces 230 miles of control, not 3.1 miles.
Its an undeniable fact of nature. If Congress put some research into the abolition of patents in general I bet we'd find out the implementation would sink the global economy as we know it instantly. More important factors would then govern business, the unimportant stuff like the environment, labour practices, fair wages, etc. You know, the stuff that rules the lives of the little guy.