If they start data-mining Ubuntu computers for profit or something just as devious - THAT's a problem. Well, Ubuntu does do this (to perform usability/popularity testing), but it asks nicely and is not the default option.
This eetimes editorial is humorous on a couple of accounts. First, the my patent is being rejected but of course it's not my fault act is cute, but I thought I stopped playing that routine when I got to grade school. Second, it is impossible to take someone's word on something like this when you are boiling down subject matter to legal terms in the claims of an application. You can have the most ground-breaking invention, but if your claims are so broad that you would be infringing on a toaster a good examiner isn't going to have it.
Well, it would be that easy if it were not for the USPTO's role in the system. They are meant to act as simply the hand of enforcement, not the source of significant change in US code or its interpretation. That is the job of Congress and the court system. You can see this in the recent attempt to limit the claim structure and continued examination process that was shot down by the courts. That was peanuts compared to a radical change in the statutory bar for patents.
What are your opinions are the SAC movie, Solid State Society? In my opinion, the official movies served a different purpose than the SAC dogma (it also follows a different timeline, if I remember correctly). I thought they did a pretty solid job of telling as interesting a story as the SAC series did by cutting a lot of the backstory and surrounding cultural impact, which admittedly did add a lot to the series.
It's interesting you mentioned that Adderall helps you avoid the stumbleupon button, because I've had a growing concentration problem ever since I enrolled in college that is now seriously affecting my job performance (due largely to seriously powerful urges to constantly switch activities).
How did you approach your physician about this to get the drug prescribed? Did you just explain your problem and express interest in a medical solution? I had always thought doctors would be reluctant to try a pharmaceutic approach with an adult and have been hesitant to ask.
This is the best answer so far in regards to the actual question. If you want your idea to be used as a defensive measure against future patents, you want it to get the most coverage by the examiners who will be searching. Previously published patents and patent applications are, with few exceptions, the primary source and the major focus in the course of the search of an examiner.
You may think publishing it somewhere on the internet will be good enough until you realize it's not feasible to search every whackjob blog out there for claim language that you probably haven't reproduced. Also, archive.org doesn't actually archive a lot of these small, personal websites so it would be very difficult to reliably date the material.
He's not saying it will never be possible. What that quote was referring to is that it shouldn't be the primary focus of the coming generations of graphics processing. With real limits to computing power you have to choose where to spend the resources. He wants them spent in near-infinite geometric and texture detail, not near-infinite light tracing. That's my take on his answer given limited development and zero graphics experience.
Of course he does, otherwise he probably wouldn't be investing his time into the concept. This is news specifically because he holds so much weight in his field.
Read Patently Academic if you want an in depth look at the training academy process. The blog goes into pretty extreme detail, at least for the initial couple months, about the standard academy progression. The pace of the training has changed somewhat since it's initial inception in early 2006, but the experiences of this fellow who started middle 2007 should be pretty standard these days.
I'm in that boat. Quit for 3 months and came back for 2.3 to level a new toon on a new server with a group of friends. It took me 1/3 of the time to level this guy than my last alt since the leveling changes were made.
I think Epic is going about this the right way. You see, they're waiting for everyone to stop making video games so that they can take the very best the art has to offer and put it all into DNF. It will be both endearing as the pinnacle of interactive entertainment as well as the epitome of the content development model. I can't wait for Beowulf Forever.
While there are valid concerns with bugs in Vista, as your anecdote illustrates, I find it amazing how people magically forget the troubles there are with every other OS in this regard. I've yet to use Vista, and I find XP, OSX and Ubuntu all incredibly stable operating systems, but I'd be remiss to point out the times I've had all three crash or exhibit unwelcome behavior.
That said, I'm refraining from installing my MSDN licensed Vista Business because of horror stories from users with Nforce 4-based motherboards.
As noted above, no ad-whoring hardware news site owns the internet. I happened to hear of this on Engadget. Considering the site you linked just posted the story this morning, I doubt the submitter actually saw it there first.
I would be contradicting myself if there weren't the Live Arcade.
If you don't care about high-def movies, then take solace in that the PS3 can store something like twice what the 360 in it's games due to the extra space in blu ray disks. That means that the if all you use the PS3 for is playing games, the graphical potential is higher, as well as the sort of Mass Effect epic storyline potential (think of what that game might have been if instead of 7 gigs of available content (dual layer dvd) it had 25 gigs of available content (blu ray)). Show me a game where this potential meets with reality and I'll agree.
Browsing the web might not be great for slashdot, but if you do enjoy modding games, it gives you a medium to do so, and thus brings it more to feature parity with PC gaming. Which is why I'll stick with my PC for this. I'm not saying there is no merit to the PS3. What I am saying is that for me it brings nothing new or interesting to the table in terms of gaming, which is all I'm interested in when speaking of game consoles. I expect a lot of people feel similarly.
I'd say considering the 360 has been out for twice as long as the Wii, Nintendo looks to be doing pretty well. Software sales will always lag behind hardware.
The problem is it adds no value to what I really would want it for: playing games. Personally, I couldn't give a damn about high-def movies, or browsing the web or playing games over the internet. There aren't any PS3's left with full back-compatability and of the games exclusive to the console, nothing even remotely interests me.
I'd buy a 360 for their exclusives if it just came with a damn integrated wifi adapter. The 360 starts to look pretty weak when you take $350 and throw in another $100. IMO, that's s HUGE thing both the Wii and PS3 have over it when comparing costs. I don't know how Microsoft deems it sane to charge 25-40% the cost of a competing console for a key feature their competitors throw in every piece of hardware they sell.
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I think the game is a bit too large for WiiWare. The download was well over 100MB, if I recall correctly.
...to all athletes that have to drag their lower legs at each step, and not having the benefit of springlike limbs. What, you don't have an ankle?This eetimes editorial is humorous on a couple of accounts. First, the my patent is being rejected but of course it's not my fault act is cute, but I thought I stopped playing that routine when I got to grade school. Second, it is impossible to take someone's word on something like this when you are boiling down subject matter to legal terms in the claims of an application. You can have the most ground-breaking invention, but if your claims are so broad that you would be infringing on a toaster a good examiner isn't going to have it.
Ugh... new comment system decided to change what I was replying to when I clicked "Use old form". Meant to reply to this comment.
Well, it would be that easy if it were not for the USPTO's role in the system. They are meant to act as simply the hand of enforcement, not the source of significant change in US code or its interpretation. That is the job of Congress and the court system. You can see this in the recent attempt to limit the claim structure and continued examination process that was shot down by the courts. That was peanuts compared to a radical change in the statutory bar for patents.
What are your opinions are the SAC movie, Solid State Society? In my opinion, the official movies served a different purpose than the SAC dogma (it also follows a different timeline, if I remember correctly). I thought they did a pretty solid job of telling as interesting a story as the SAC series did by cutting a lot of the backstory and surrounding cultural impact, which admittedly did add a lot to the series.
It's interesting you mentioned that Adderall helps you avoid the stumbleupon button, because I've had a growing concentration problem ever since I enrolled in college that is now seriously affecting my job performance (due largely to seriously powerful urges to constantly switch activities).
How did you approach your physician about this to get the drug prescribed? Did you just explain your problem and express interest in a medical solution? I had always thought doctors would be reluctant to try a pharmaceutic approach with an adult and have been hesitant to ask.
This is the best answer so far in regards to the actual question. If you want your idea to be used as a defensive measure against future patents, you want it to get the most coverage by the examiners who will be searching. Previously published patents and patent applications are, with few exceptions, the primary source and the major focus in the course of the search of an examiner.
You may think publishing it somewhere on the internet will be good enough until you realize it's not feasible to search every whackjob blog out there for claim language that you probably haven't reproduced. Also, archive.org doesn't actually archive a lot of these small, personal websites so it would be very difficult to reliably date the material.
He's not saying it will never be possible. What that quote was referring to is that it shouldn't be the primary focus of the coming generations of graphics processing. With real limits to computing power you have to choose where to spend the resources. He wants them spent in near-infinite geometric and texture detail, not near-infinite light tracing. That's my take on his answer given limited development and zero graphics experience.
Of course he does, otherwise he probably wouldn't be investing his time into the concept. This is news specifically because he holds so much weight in his field.
Read Patently Academic if you want an in depth look at the training academy process. The blog goes into pretty extreme detail, at least for the initial couple months, about the standard academy progression. The pace of the training has changed somewhat since it's initial inception in early 2006, but the experiences of this fellow who started middle 2007 should be pretty standard these days.
Wouldn't a workaround to this be not updating Itunes? I never update and am using the same version that was released when I bought my ipod (7.3.2.6).
I'm in that boat. Quit for 3 months and came back for 2.3 to level a new toon on a new server with a group of friends. It took me 1/3 of the time to level this guy than my last alt since the leveling changes were made.
Maybe, but it will buy just as many Nintendo DS games as last year.
Whoa there, what's the rush?
I think Epic is going about this the right way. You see, they're waiting for everyone to stop making video games so that they can take the very best the art has to offer and put it all into DNF. It will be both endearing as the pinnacle of interactive entertainment as well as the epitome of the content development model. I can't wait for Beowulf Forever.
While there are valid concerns with bugs in Vista, as your anecdote illustrates, I find it amazing how people magically forget the troubles there are with every other OS in this regard. I've yet to use Vista, and I find XP, OSX and Ubuntu all incredibly stable operating systems, but I'd be remiss to point out the times I've had all three crash or exhibit unwelcome behavior.
That said, I'm refraining from installing my MSDN licensed Vista Business because of horror stories from users with Nforce 4-based motherboards.
As noted above, no ad-whoring hardware news site owns the internet. I happened to hear of this on Engadget. Considering the site you linked just posted the story this morning, I doubt the submitter actually saw it there first.
If you don't care about high-def movies, then take solace in that the PS3 can store something like twice what the 360 in it's games due to the extra space in blu ray disks. That means that the if all you use the PS3 for is playing games, the graphical potential is higher, as well as the sort of Mass Effect epic storyline potential (think of what that game might have been if instead of 7 gigs of available content (dual layer dvd) it had 25 gigs of available content (blu ray)). Show me a game where this potential meets with reality and I'll agree.
Browsing the web might not be great for slashdot, but if you do enjoy modding games, it gives you a medium to do so, and thus brings it more to feature parity with PC gaming. Which is why I'll stick with my PC for this. I'm not saying there is no merit to the PS3. What I am saying is that for me it brings nothing new or interesting to the table in terms of gaming, which is all I'm interested in when speaking of game consoles. I expect a lot of people feel similarly.
I rent and have no access to my modem and router. It's physically impossible for me to run a cable.
That returned some results that have nothing to do with cars. Although the men did look pretty smug.
I'd say considering the 360 has been out for twice as long as the Wii, Nintendo looks to be doing pretty well. Software sales will always lag behind hardware.
The problem is it adds no value to what I really would want it for: playing games. Personally, I couldn't give a damn about high-def movies, or browsing the web or playing games over the internet. There aren't any PS3's left with full back-compatability and of the games exclusive to the console, nothing even remotely interests me.
I'd buy a 360 for their exclusives if it just came with a damn integrated wifi adapter. The 360 starts to look pretty weak when you take $350 and throw in another $100. IMO, that's s HUGE thing both the Wii and PS3 have over it when comparing costs. I don't know how Microsoft deems it sane to charge 25-40% the cost of a competing console for a key feature their competitors throw in every piece of hardware they sell.