"Just think what would have happened if Cave-man had tried to patent fire, or stone axes, or taming wolves to help with hunting....."
The Corporania of great tribe from neighboring region will take over the patent and claim it. We could be looking at Fire(R), Stone Axes(R), Taming Wolves(C) of Corporania(TM) etc... etc, you get the idea.
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"Your romantic notion of singular minds being the genesis of great ideas may do for anecdotes, and (dare I say) "Wikipedia", but bears no relation to the reality of modern innovation... The "telephone" is the best example of this." Romantic, huh? http://www.italianhistorical.org/MeucciStory.htm
Telling the truth as history reveals ugly head in such case as Antonio Meucci vs. Alexander G. Bell who practically had beaten down on a poor immegrant with only fault of lacking charm and charisma and ability to speak English is your definition of "Romantic Notion," I urge you to quite while you are ahead. In 1854, Meucci demonstrated the necessity of telecommuncation to hear his paralyzed wife in the bedroom while he was working in his study. Alexander G. Bell, respectfully, did contribute a great deal in telecommunication industry, but who are we romanticizing who here? The history shows, A.G. Bell did do harm to Meucci whom at least should be awarded and credited for his previous patents for allowing Bell to even think of concept of "RINGING" by means of short-cuircuit and not "SHOUT REALLY LOUD." And I'm not even going to mention Bell's perverted ideas toward deaf, regardless of his time.
"Society is not wrong for rewarding those that develop ideas to fruition over abortive attempts. The idea for wireless e-mail is not a fairy creature born from a single head, and should not be mused upon as such."
Not wrong? Therefore the society which encourages co-operative development and innovation without reinventing wheels in parallel over capital gain and market share, is??? The idea for wireless email messaging system is not new or fairy creature born from single head, but surely you can at least admit that it's RIGHT thing to do to acknowledge someone's work which was awarded a patent for before anyone else. Where is your sense of honor and integrity? A just for fellow men? Do injustice harm you less when prevailed without scars?
Your points are valid, but flawed. Not by idealogy, but by practice. Perhaps it's our inherently habitual flaw to not rid of wrong practice in favor of one's idealogy. "Break the law if you can get away with or shall I dare entertain you with an idea of hiring lobbyist." But without further embarrassing myself with my naive, idiotic and "romantic" notion, let me leave you with a quote from a famous guy who got shot off by some pissed off man with a gun after the US civil war. (how is that for a romantic notion)
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question it's methods or throw light upon it's crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
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"...in theory the two countries' patents kind of knock each other out, right?" No. Simple as that.:) If you have rules under your household, and I am permitted to go into your home, isn't it logical to think that I should follow your rules and not my own habit of things in my own home?
"I had more than a couple of friends who had done the nascent version of it before 1991: hooking modems up to a couple of computers that monitored servers and paged them text msgs when things happened. So RIM (and NTP) centralized the modem part?" No. Also simple as that since your friends didn't patent that idea nor put out detail publication as proof of work. Can you return an item without any proof of purchase to a store?
"Whom did Motorola work with with its RIM-like boxes in the late 90's, SkyTel? How come NTP isn't going after SkyTel as well?" Yes, and No. SkyTel (according to my brief research) used its own proprietary patented paging network with Motorola devices. Different patent, Different Story.
"Isn't the judge sort of presuming that RIM's founder was looking through USPTO's listings, found NTP's patents, and decided to implement them?" No. Judges aren't to "presume" anything. That would be prejudice. However court can find evidence of "who put his/her hand in the cookie jar first" by patent and implementation. If I put my name on "first come, first serve" reservation in an exclusive restaurant days in advance, and later found out that someone else is enjoying the spoils at my expense (a reserved table), I could just walk away or ask that person to share the table with me, and in return, a contribution toward the tip. To the host/hostess (or judge), the damage is already done, however both party (you and the other person sitting on the table big enough for both) can work out a reasonable deal to accommodate the needs. But the guy on table (RIM) says, "I'll just pretend you don't exist, and hope you'll just go away."
Do you; 1) walk away and hope that one day, you'll be lucky enough and get another table at the restaurant? 2) ask host/hostess to ask the guy at the table to share again with proof of reservation? 3) if #2 fails, complain to the owner of the restaurant so that you are accommodated and get the message across to that rude person on that table?
Personally I would just walk away, because it's just a meal and there is always other restaurant and other tables waiting for me, more deserving of my business. However life doesn't await for you to sit on at other table as easily as a restaurant. Mr. Campana didn't just sit on his patents. He lost his business to bigger company like SkyTel in a bidding with AT&T. Started up numerous attempt to make his invention accessable to the public since 1970's. Call it, ill fate or unlucky steak, but NTP isn't just patent troll as you may think. Mr. Campana was in business of wireless paging 2-way comm since '70s with his ESA/Telefind and filing patents for his work (including child tracking system). In 1984, Mr. Lazaridis wins 6G contract with GM to build wireless terminal update system and later creates DigiSync (barcode reader) for film industry and way later when tided relations with Rogers Cantel from Mobitex (offshoot from Ericsson), he finally in 1996/1998 rolled out first 2-way pager using Mobitex(CA) and Bell South(US) network, using similar technology as Mr. Capmana had patented.
Only Mr. Campana's fault here is that in US, he was that "little guy" with no real prospect, while Mr. Lazaridis lucked out with Mr. Balsillie (MBA, business strategist) and Mr. Cantel and his backing in Canada and later Bell South in US.
During the course of history, what if Mr. Campana stroke gold with AT&T's contract? Would have AT&T's wireless 2-way real-time paging system been successful as RIM? or if at all? How would they have played out? Or would Mr. Campana compete with Mr. Lazaridis? As some may say companie
I do agree with your post and wish I didn't post at all so that I may have mod'd yours as insightful. However I must disagree with your comment as shown below;
"You should live in a 1400 sq ft apartment that makes efficient use of land and resources like all the other Right Thinking Americans."
It's not only wrong, but 1,400 sq ft of space is too much for a person. (j/k) The right thinking Americans aren't for eminent domain... AT ALL. Perhaps you are quick to judge yourself to think that every or general right thinking Americans are socialistic nationalist. Last time I checked, Eminent Domain is in the realm of Left Thinking (all for one, one for all) Communistic Americans.
"He was not the greatest businessman in the world," Mr. Campana Sr. concedes. "Even when his business was going broke his employees never missed a day's pay. He went home without paying himself."
All died with tregic end, without entitlement or recognition or compensation for their life's work while they were alive, only to be stolen and profited by thieves and corrupt hands of greed.
This may sound naive and to some "slashdotters," idiotic, but I value true human story in history more so than the profit margin or success of marketing and public opinion. The truth is, Mr. Stout and Campana are robbed from their rightful entitlement as Mr. Stout successfully demonstrated his idea through practical usage and only to be failed as business venture later on. This does not mean that Mr. Lazaridis didn't have any valuable input for this technology. However as patent is to protect the legitimacy of an idea, our legal system should validate that entitlement, not manipulate and craft to falsify the technical validity of original idea of the inventor.
I don't personally care for how many lines of code are there, regardless if it's 16 million lines or 16 billion lines to make BlackBerry work flawlessly. This patent isn't about who has how many lines of code or how much work has been put in or how much money it made or how important it is on fight against "terrorist." It's about the innovative idea and technology.
Other point is that often people are too quick to judge that patent itself is wrong, however without patent, non-profit driven, non-corporate endorced, average inventors and innovators of technology become faceless, only to be digged up later to be found in history book as many Open Source developers and programmers may face later.
Or are we all that naive that one day, giant corporations and investers will dig up the holder of the original idea their proprietary software/technology benefited from in oder to share the profit and entitlement? Will FOSS and GPL ever have enough backbone or teeth to enforce its ideal and fight legal battles against billion dollar corporations'?
What if Farnsworth became billionaire with his invention, what change could we have seen in today's TV broadcasting? What if Armstrong could have made his FM radio available to millions, what different sound could we hear over the radio today? What if Meucci and not Bell profitted from telephone, what could have happen for today's telecommuncation industry? What if Boole's idea was taken seriously and valued as later Claude Elwood Shannon, nearly 70 years later, found it to be, what could we have accomplished in today's computing industry? What if Rudolf Diesel was alive and prospected as Ford, could we have seen cars running on vegetable oil mor
Perhaps it's how our Earth may look like in distant future. It would be interesting if any sign of existance of life once existed (if it ever existed) can be detected from this planet.
For public jackassers, I hope only that they are forced to sit in small, poorly ventilated rooms filled with jackass of a type they find unbearable for hours on end, every single day of their lives, until they die or quit being jackass in public (/. included ).
OK, the job title he had was "Health and Safety manager." for the General Service division. 24" is a lot of realestate even for his job. Either he sucked some good dick to rationalize 24" monitor to his supervisor or 17" CRT/LCD monitor costing tax payer fraction of that 24" monitor probably wasn't "good enough" to monitor the Health and Safety of General Service division, so he rigged it along with other jobs he's been rigging.
The point is, it doesn't matter how "cheap" he got the 24" monitor. The question is why and justifiable reasoning behind authorizing "Health and Safety manager" the 24" monitor. I would care less if he got it for 300 bucks (What a Deal!). His job isn't to stare at monitor all day like developers, operation or system control unit managers and engineers.
No, Really. C'mon! Are they running a State or Corporate Executives' Club for good old boys?
West Virginia - Charleston Gazette - Published on: 12/12/2005
Issued: December 16, 2005
Employees at the West Virginia Division of General Services might have rigged bids to benefit two asbestos-removal companies, including one owned by former Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Roger Pritt, according to a legislative audit. General Services personnel split large jobs into several small contracts, apparently to evade competitive-bidding procedures, said auditors. This year, 27 of 32 asbestos-removal contracts went to Pritt's company, Astar Abatement.
West Virginia Secretary of Administration Robert Ferguson said he discovered the questionable contracts earlier this year and asked the legislative auditor's office to investigate. Ferguson said he discovered other problems, such as rampant abuse of overtime. One state employee received up to 10 hours of overtime a day to oversee asbestos work, said Ferguson. "... I don't think it's humanly possible to work 18 hours a day for years at a time," said Ferguson. He said he could not be sure the asbestos actually was removed, as promised.
Pritt is the brother of Charlotte Pritt, a former state senator who defeated Gov. Joe Manchin in the 1996 Democratic gubernatorial primary and then lost the general election to former Gov. Cecil Underwood. Between 2001 and 2003, Roger Pritt served as commissioner of motor vehicles under Gov. Bob Wise. He quit to mount an unsuccessful campaign to become secretary of state. Since 1995, Astar Abatement has received more than $1.5 million from different state agencies, colleges, and universities. More than $1.3 million was paid after Wise took office in 2001, according to the state auditor's Web site.
Roger Pritt's Division of Motor Vehicles had its headquarters in Building 3, which the audit focused on as an example of the alleged waste and bid rigging. In Building 3, what should have been one asbestos-removal project was split into nine separate contracts, the audit says, one for each heating and air-conditioning unit in the basement. The units were only a few feet from one another. Each contract was worth slightly less than $10,000, the limit that would have triggered statewide competitive bidding. Instead, the agency's health and safety manager, Gary Bryant, asked for bids from three companies, as is allowed for smaller contracts. Astar Abatement won all nine of the Building 3 contracts, worth more than $79,000.
In the past two years, Astar Abatement received 30 of 55 asbestos contracts from General Services. Master Mechanical Insulation received all but two of the rest of the contracts. According to the audit, General Services personnel split large contracts into smaller ones to avoid purchasing rules on several occasions, not just in the Building 3 contract. Bryant's supervisor, Acting General Services Director Jim Burgess, told auditors he questioned the Building 3 contracts, but deferred to Bryant. Burgess approved at least one contract where Astar was not the lowest bidder, according to the audit.
General Services staff members granted numerous "supplemental contracts" to companies, adding extra cost onto their work after the bid was awarded. For example, Astar Abatement received about $8,000 in supplemental contracts for its work in Building 3. In addition, the audit suggests some bids might have been rigged. Nineteen of the asbestos contracts were awarded for slightly less than $10,000. In 10 of those cases, one company bid just under $10,000, while the other two bid between $2,000 and $6,500 more. Neither the auditors nor Ferguson would say why General Serv
I'm more worry about US Gov't pumping 70+ billion into God knows where the fuck they are spending on. Fire those bastards who keep delaying body armor for our troops in Iraq and trailers for huriane Katrina victims.
Oh yeah, I'm glad the asshole in W.V. staff with 24" flat screen is fired. That's totally absurd spending when we all know, no Gov't employee need 24" screen to work in a fucking terminal all day.
It takes an entire European Continent, a cluster of countries and multibillion dollar monopoly corporations to compete with one single company? It just goes to show you how powerful US and Google is.
on March, CN will change their line up again. Most likely they will run reruns of what they have been running on saturday night and mix it with new episodes throughout the year to split the rest of the episode (til episode 51) for Fullmetal Alchemist. Same thing probably will happen to GITS:SAC(2nd GIG), showing episodes from Saturday night lineup and mix it with new episodes on Saturday/Friday.
Obviously if you have TiVo, this sounds very trivial and doesn't really matter to you. But rest of poor suckers without PVRs just have to stick to the schedule.
"Exactly why does America still boycot cuba?" IMHO, Cuba now is a strategic enemy of state. Cuba is no more threat to US than Canada is to US, but the idea that Cuba one time in history pointed nuclear warhead toward US still can be viewed as recent history.
"So your suggestion of anything happening is absurd. if anything considerings china push of red flag linux this could be seen by the insane as a move by taiwan to please China." First, I merely suggested that it would be an interesting outcome. Even you suggested that China has split personality, so it would be "plausable" to play with an idea that perhaps China's influence may play a role. Second, I never suggest China will push for Red Flag linux, however China may favor Microsoft and perhaps that's where it may turn out with interesting result.
But over all, I do agree. China most likely will not touch this issue and more than fair to say that China will leave Taiwan alone... but that won't be interesting at all, now would it?:)
For everyday average Joe, the brand name will make no difference, IMHO. But for those sales people, there's going to be a major change. After all, they now have to rewrite their entire sales pitch and print them out and stick it over the old one. Imagine the Chaos!
For those who are a bit more aware of where the name "Pent-ium" came from, I'm just relieved that Intel 80586 origin is FINALLY faded to rest in peace for new line of Intel products to pave the wave.
However lets just hope, future Intel product will create another "distruptive technology" rather than just "distruptive branding."
22,894,384 (2005) in population, 13+ million people are online. Making legislative body to make policy against a major player in computing industry (Microsoft in this case), may create one of the most damaging ripple for Microsoft.
Although that 13.8 million internet users won't turn off their Windows machines over night, but it's plausable to tinker with the idea that Taiwanese government may legislate a similar policy to goverment contractors and corporations dealing business with Taiwanese government to enforce private sectors to depend less on Microsoft product. And knowning China and her relationship with Microsoft, this may be interesting to see how Chinese government will react to this plausable senario.
CartoonNetwork's last year's somewhat weeknight lineup showing of GITS:SAC(2nd GIG) and FullMetal Alchemist got pushed back to Saturday only this year, and I'm not sure which genius made that idiotic schedule.
AdultSwim is pushing Perfect Hair Forever and Lupin the 3rd??? Inuyasha and s-Cry-ed reruns??? Even worst, those schedules are not even consistant, but random and chaotic at best. Only lineup worth watching would be Family Guy and Futurama. According to CN, AdultSwim lineup and schedule will change in March (2nd season), but that will only create even worst followup of storyline and it's just insane to view the episodes like from Fullmetal Alchemist's and GITS:SAC(2nd GIG) in order as it's intended.
If anyone who is fan of GITS:SAC(2nd GIG) and FullMetal Alchemist finds CN's new moronic lineup of AdultSwim fraustrating and out of touch with mainstream anime audience, I highly recommend buying the DVD sets or P2P download.
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed....
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium , provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program....
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The question is, did you read the GPL? What Red Flag is doing is very clear. Bend the rule as much as you can get away with it.
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Doesn't sound like "just" pots and pans to me. Sounds more like Entire Oven Appliance and Cookware unless that RFID pots and pans come with machanical robtic arm with RFID reciever to turn my gas stove knob to turn down the heat.
Besides that, how many times do we ever "cook" lunch?
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"Just think what would have happened if Cave-man had tried to patent fire, or stone axes, or taming wolves to help with hunting ....."
The Corporania of great tribe from neighboring region will take over the patent and claim it. We could be looking at Fire(R), Stone Axes(R), Taming Wolves(C) of Corporania(TM) etc... etc, you get the idea.
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Hey! Check out above post! That was the theme of my post~ I patented it first, you infringer!
Yar!
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CEO smackdown - mention of Steve Jobs ... Of Course!
... Of Course!
... Huh?
Search market - mention of Google
NYT Article - Ability to Read without Bugmenot
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"Don't let the fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
Only if I can sucker Microsoft to buy the Brooklyn Bridge...
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Don't let the fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
What about that water shortage? So the ice is melting, yet, we are going to have water shortage? Someone care to explain that phenomenon?
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Don't let the fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
"Your romantic notion of singular minds being the genesis of great ideas may do for anecdotes, and (dare I say) "Wikipedia", but bears no relation to the reality of modern innovation... The "telephone" is the best example of this."
Romantic, huh?
http://www.italianhistorical.org/MeucciStory.htm
Telling the truth as history reveals ugly head in such case as Antonio Meucci vs. Alexander G. Bell who practically had beaten down on a poor immegrant with only fault of lacking charm and charisma and ability to speak English is your definition of "Romantic Notion," I urge you to quite while you are ahead. In 1854, Meucci demonstrated the necessity of telecommuncation to hear his paralyzed wife in the bedroom while he was working in his study. Alexander G. Bell, respectfully, did contribute a great deal in telecommunication industry, but who are we romanticizing who here? The history shows, A.G. Bell did do harm to Meucci whom at least should be awarded and credited for his previous patents for allowing Bell to even think of concept of "RINGING" by means of short-cuircuit and not "SHOUT REALLY LOUD." And I'm not even going to mention Bell's perverted ideas toward deaf, regardless of his time.
"Society is not wrong for rewarding those that develop ideas to fruition over abortive attempts. The idea for wireless e-mail is not a fairy creature born from a single head, and should not be mused upon as such."
Not wrong? Therefore the society which encourages co-operative development and innovation without reinventing wheels in parallel over capital gain and market share, is??? The idea for wireless email messaging system is not new or fairy creature born from single head, but surely you can at least admit that it's RIGHT thing to do to acknowledge someone's work which was awarded a patent for before anyone else. Where is your sense of honor and integrity? A just for fellow men? Do injustice harm you less when prevailed without scars?
Your points are valid, but flawed. Not by idealogy, but by practice. Perhaps it's our inherently habitual flaw to not rid of wrong practice in favor of one's idealogy. "Break the law if you can get away with or shall I dare entertain you with an idea of hiring lobbyist." But without further embarrassing myself with my naive, idiotic and "romantic" notion, let me leave you with a quote from a famous guy who got shot off by some pissed off man with a gun after the US civil war. (how is that for a romantic notion)
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question it's methods or throw light upon it's crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
- Abraham Lincoln
"...in theory the two countries' patents kind of knock each other out, right?" :) If you have rules under your household, and I am permitted to go into your home, isn't it logical to think that I should follow your rules and not my own habit of things in my own home?
No. Simple as that.
"I had more than a couple of friends who had done the nascent version of it before 1991: hooking modems up to a couple of computers that monitored servers and paged them text msgs when things happened. So RIM (and NTP) centralized the modem part?"
No. Also simple as that since your friends didn't patent that idea nor put out detail publication as proof of work. Can you return an item without any proof of purchase to a store?
"Whom did Motorola work with with its RIM-like boxes in the late 90's, SkyTel? How come NTP isn't going after SkyTel as well?"
Yes, and No. SkyTel (according to my brief research) used its own proprietary patented paging network with Motorola devices. Different patent, Different Story.
"Isn't the judge sort of presuming that RIM's founder was looking through USPTO's listings, found NTP's patents, and decided to implement them?"
No. Judges aren't to "presume" anything. That would be prejudice. However court can find evidence of "who put his/her hand in the cookie jar first" by patent and implementation. If I put my name on "first come, first serve" reservation in an exclusive restaurant days in advance, and later found out that someone else is enjoying the spoils at my expense (a reserved table), I could just walk away or ask that person to share the table with me, and in return, a contribution toward the tip. To the host/hostess (or judge), the damage is already done, however both party (you and the other person sitting on the table big enough for both) can work out a reasonable deal to accommodate the needs. But the guy on table (RIM) says, "I'll just pretend you don't exist, and hope you'll just go away."
Do you;
1) walk away and hope that one day, you'll be lucky enough and get another table at the restaurant?
2) ask host/hostess to ask the guy at the table to share again with proof of reservation?
3) if #2 fails, complain to the owner of the restaurant so that you are accommodated and get the message across to that rude person on that table?
Personally I would just walk away, because it's just a meal and there is always other restaurant and other tables waiting for me, more deserving of my business. However life doesn't await for you to sit on at other table as easily as a restaurant. Mr. Campana didn't just sit on his patents. He lost his business to bigger company like SkyTel in a bidding with AT&T. Started up numerous attempt to make his invention accessable to the public since 1970's. Call it, ill fate or unlucky steak, but NTP isn't just patent troll as you may think. Mr. Campana was in business of wireless paging 2-way comm since '70s with his ESA/Telefind and filing patents for his work (including child tracking system). In 1984, Mr. Lazaridis wins 6G contract with GM to build wireless terminal update system and later creates DigiSync (barcode reader) for film industry and way later when tided relations with Rogers Cantel from Mobitex (offshoot from Ericsson), he finally in 1996/1998 rolled out first 2-way pager using Mobitex(CA) and Bell South(US) network, using similar technology as Mr. Capmana had patented.
Only Mr. Campana's fault here is that in US, he was that "little guy" with no real prospect, while Mr. Lazaridis lucked out with Mr. Balsillie (MBA, business strategist) and Mr. Cantel and his backing in Canada and later Bell South in US.
During the course of history, what if Mr. Campana stroke gold with AT&T's contract? Would have AT&T's wireless 2-way real-time paging system been successful as RIM? or if at all? How would they have played out? Or would Mr. Campana compete with Mr. Lazaridis? As some may say companie
I do agree with your post and wish I didn't post at all so that I may have mod'd yours as insightful. However I must disagree with your comment as shown below;
"You should live in a 1400 sq ft apartment that makes efficient use of land and resources like all the other Right Thinking Americans."
It's not only wrong, but 1,400 sq ft of space is too much for a person. (j/k) The right thinking Americans aren't for eminent domain... AT ALL. Perhaps you are quick to judge yourself to think that every or general right thinking Americans are socialistic nationalist. Last time I checked, Eminent Domain is in the realm of Left Thinking (all for one, one for all) Communistic Americans.
"He was not the greatest businessman in the world," Mr. Campana Sr. concedes. "Even when his business was going broke his employees never missed a day's pay. He went home without paying himself."
Mean while RIM in Nov. of 2002, to meet the finacial quota, layoffs followed;
http://news.techdirt.com/news/wireless/article/824
To be more balanced, here is the timeline on RIM vs NTP stories/posts;
http://news.techdirt.com/news/wireless/search?quer y=RIM&topic=&author=
I am not defending NTP or RIM, however this seems awfully a lot like history being repeated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth (Father of TV)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstron g (Father of FM radio)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci (Father of Telephone)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole (Father of Digital Age)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel (Father of Internal Combustion Engine)
All died with tregic end, without entitlement or recognition or compensation for their life's work while they were alive, only to be stolen and profited by thieves and corrupt hands of greed.
This may sound naive and to some "slashdotters," idiotic, but I value true human story in history more so than the profit margin or success of marketing and public opinion. The truth is, Mr. Stout and Campana are robbed from their rightful entitlement as Mr. Stout successfully demonstrated his idea through practical usage and only to be failed as business venture later on. This does not mean that Mr. Lazaridis didn't have any valuable input for this technology. However as patent is to protect the legitimacy of an idea, our legal system should validate that entitlement, not manipulate and craft to falsify the technical validity of original idea of the inventor.
I don't personally care for how many lines of code are there, regardless if it's 16 million lines or 16 billion lines to make BlackBerry work flawlessly. This patent isn't about who has how many lines of code or how much work has been put in or how much money it made or how important it is on fight against "terrorist." It's about the innovative idea and technology.
Other point is that often people are too quick to judge that patent itself is wrong, however without patent, non-profit driven, non-corporate endorced, average inventors and innovators of technology become faceless, only to be digged up later to be found in history book as many Open Source developers and programmers may face later.
Or are we all that naive that one day, giant corporations and investers will dig up the holder of the original idea their proprietary software/technology benefited from in oder to share the profit and entitlement? Will FOSS and GPL ever have enough backbone or teeth to enforce its ideal and fight legal battles against billion dollar corporations'?
What if Farnsworth became billionaire with his invention, what change could we have seen in today's TV broadcasting? What if Armstrong could have made his FM radio available to millions, what different sound could we hear over the radio today? What if Meucci and not Bell profitted from telephone, what could have happen for today's telecommuncation industry? What if Boole's idea was taken seriously and valued as later Claude Elwood Shannon, nearly 70 years later, found it to be, what could we have accomplished in today's computing industry? What if Rudolf Diesel was alive and prospected as Ford, could we have seen cars running on vegetable oil mor
Perhaps it's how our Earth may look like in distant future. It would be interesting if any sign of existance of life once existed (if it ever existed) can be detected from this planet.
For public jackassers, I hope only that they are forced to sit in small, poorly ventilated rooms filled with jackass of a type they find unbearable for hours on end, every single day of their lives, until they die or quit being jackass in public ( /. included ).
OK, the job title he had was "Health and Safety manager." for the General Service division. 24" is a lot of realestate even for his job. Either he sucked some good dick to rationalize 24" monitor to his supervisor or 17" CRT/LCD monitor costing tax payer fraction of that 24" monitor probably wasn't "good enough" to monitor the Health and Safety of General Service division, so he rigged it along with other jobs he's been rigging.
The point is, it doesn't matter how "cheap" he got the 24" monitor. The question is why and justifiable reasoning behind authorizing "Health and Safety manager" the 24" monitor. I would care less if he got it for 300 bucks (What a Deal!). His job isn't to stare at monitor all day like developers, operation or system control unit managers and engineers.
No, Really. C'mon! Are they running a State or Corporate Executives' Club for good old boys?
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"Asbestos Contracts Rigged?"
West Virginia - Charleston Gazette - Published on: 12/12/2005
Issued: December 16, 2005
Employees at the West Virginia Division of General Services might have rigged bids to benefit two asbestos-removal companies, including one owned by former Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Roger Pritt, according to a legislative audit. General Services personnel split large jobs into several small contracts, apparently to evade competitive-bidding procedures, said auditors. This year, 27 of 32 asbestos-removal contracts went to Pritt's company, Astar Abatement.
West Virginia Secretary of Administration Robert Ferguson said he discovered the questionable contracts earlier this year and asked the legislative auditor's office to investigate. Ferguson said he discovered other problems, such as rampant abuse of overtime. One state employee received up to 10 hours of overtime a day to oversee asbestos work, said Ferguson. "... I don't think it's humanly possible to work 18 hours a day for years at a time," said Ferguson. He said he could not be sure the asbestos actually was removed, as promised.
Pritt is the brother of Charlotte Pritt, a former state senator who defeated Gov. Joe Manchin in the 1996 Democratic gubernatorial primary and then lost the general election to former Gov. Cecil Underwood. Between 2001 and 2003, Roger Pritt served as commissioner of motor vehicles under Gov. Bob Wise. He quit to mount an unsuccessful campaign to become secretary of state. Since 1995, Astar Abatement has received more than $1.5 million from different state agencies, colleges, and universities. More than $1.3 million was paid after Wise took office in 2001, according to the state auditor's Web site.
Roger Pritt's Division of Motor Vehicles had its headquarters in Building 3, which the audit focused on as an example of the alleged waste and bid rigging. In Building 3, what should have been one asbestos-removal project was split into nine separate contracts, the audit says, one for each heating and air-conditioning unit in the basement. The units were only a few feet from one another. Each contract was worth slightly less than $10,000, the limit that would have triggered statewide competitive bidding. Instead, the agency's health and safety manager, Gary Bryant, asked for bids from three companies, as is allowed for smaller contracts. Astar Abatement won all nine of the Building 3 contracts, worth more than $79,000.
In the past two years, Astar Abatement received 30 of 55 asbestos contracts from General Services. Master Mechanical Insulation received all but two of the rest of the contracts. According to the audit, General Services personnel split large contracts into smaller ones to avoid purchasing rules on several occasions, not just in the Building 3 contract. Bryant's supervisor, Acting General Services Director Jim Burgess, told auditors he questioned the Building 3 contracts, but deferred to Bryant. Burgess approved at least one contract where Astar was not the lowest bidder, according to the audit.
General Services staff members granted numerous "supplemental contracts" to companies, adding extra cost onto their work after the bid was awarded. For example, Astar Abatement received about $8,000 in supplemental contracts for its work in Building 3. In addition, the audit suggests some bids might have been rigged. Nineteen of the asbestos contracts were awarded for slightly less than $10,000. In 10 of those cases, one company bid just under $10,000, while the other two bid between $2,000 and $6,500 more. Neither the auditors nor Ferguson would say why General Serv
1) Patent
2) Lawyer
3) Apple
4) Stupidity
You figure out what the 4th item is.
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Per Person in W.V. per one year in tax.
I'm more worry about US Gov't pumping 70+ billion into God knows where the fuck they are spending on. Fire those bastards who keep delaying body armor for our troops in Iraq and trailers for huriane Katrina victims.
Oh yeah, I'm glad the asshole in W.V. staff with 24" flat screen is fired. That's totally absurd spending when we all know, no Gov't employee need 24" screen to work in a fucking terminal all day.
It takes an entire European Continent, a cluster of countries and multibillion dollar monopoly corporations to compete with one single company? It just goes to show you how powerful US and Google is.
on March, CN will change their line up again. Most likely they will run reruns of what they have been running on saturday night and mix it with new episodes throughout the year to split the rest of the episode (til episode 51) for Fullmetal Alchemist. Same thing probably will happen to GITS:SAC(2nd GIG), showing episodes from Saturday night lineup and mix it with new episodes on Saturday/Friday.
Obviously if you have TiVo, this sounds very trivial and doesn't really matter to you. But rest of poor suckers without PVRs just have to stick to the schedule.
"Exactly why does America still boycot cuba?"
.. but that won't be interesting at all, now would it? :)
IMHO, Cuba now is a strategic enemy of state. Cuba is no more threat to US than Canada is to US, but the idea that Cuba one time in history pointed nuclear warhead toward US still can be viewed as recent history.
"So your suggestion of anything happening is absurd. if anything considerings china push of red flag linux this could be seen by the insane as a move by taiwan to please China."
First, I merely suggested that it would be an interesting outcome. Even you suggested that China has split personality, so it would be "plausable" to play with an idea that perhaps China's influence may play a role. Second, I never suggest China will push for Red Flag linux, however China may favor Microsoft and perhaps that's where it may turn out with interesting result.
But over all, I do agree. China most likely will not touch this issue and more than fair to say that China will leave Taiwan alone.
For everyday average Joe, the brand name will make no difference, IMHO. But for those sales people, there's going to be a major change. After all, they now have to rewrite their entire sales pitch and print them out and stick it over the old one. Imagine the Chaos!
For those who are a bit more aware of where the name "Pent-ium" came from, I'm just relieved that Intel 80586 origin is FINALLY faded to rest in peace for new line of Intel products to pave the wave.
However lets just hope, future Intel product will create another "distruptive technology" rather than just "distruptive branding."
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ tw.html
22,894,384 (2005) in population, 13+ million people are online. Making legislative body to make policy against a major player in computing industry (Microsoft in this case), may create one of the most damaging ripple for Microsoft.
Although that 13.8 million internet users won't turn off their Windows machines over night, but it's plausable to tinker with the idea that Taiwanese government may legislate a similar policy to goverment contractors and corporations dealing business with Taiwanese government to enforce private sectors to depend less on Microsoft product. And knowning China and her relationship with Microsoft, this may be interesting to see how Chinese government will react to this plausable senario.
CartoonNetwork's last year's somewhat weeknight lineup showing of GITS:SAC(2nd GIG) and FullMetal Alchemist got pushed back to Saturday only this year, and I'm not sure which genius made that idiotic schedule.
AdultSwim is pushing Perfect Hair Forever and Lupin the 3rd??? Inuyasha and s-Cry-ed reruns??? Even worst, those schedules are not even consistant, but random and chaotic at best. Only lineup worth watching would be Family Guy and Futurama. According to CN, AdultSwim lineup and schedule will change in March (2nd season), but that will only create even worst followup of storyline and it's just insane to view the episodes like from Fullmetal Alchemist's and GITS:SAC(2nd GIG) in order as it's intended.
If anyone who is fan of GITS:SAC(2nd GIG) and FullMetal Alchemist finds CN's new moronic lineup of AdultSwim fraustrating and out of touch with mainstream anime audience, I highly recommend buying the DVD sets or P2P download.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium , provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code , even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
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The question is, did you read the GPL? What Red Flag is doing is very clear. Bend the rule as much as you can get away with it.
Doesn't sound like "just" pots and pans to me. Sounds more like Entire Oven Appliance and Cookware unless that RFID pots and pans come with machanical robtic arm with RFID reciever to turn my gas stove knob to turn down the heat.
Besides that, how many times do we ever "cook" lunch?
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code , even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
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Now we are done.
Certainly it should apply to China when China is trading with US. I guess, that's the beauty of Globalization.