From TFA In short, the impact of the "VCast Music Dirty Little Secret" may or may not imapct Verizon legally, however, it will cause consumer confusion, and Microsoft and Verizon's primary answer is to purchase a Windows Media Player 10 PC and "migrate" to it so your phone will work with your music.
Microsoft needs to force its media player upon Verizon customers because they would not select it if they had a choice.
It seems that any "valuable database" would be sufficiently backed up in non-attackable media. So while it probably could create a lot of hassle,
Oracle databases can get rather large, and are used in real-time transactional environments. Do you have an idea how long it would take to restore, say, 900GB of data from backups, and how much money would be lost while the Oracle database would not be able to process transactions for the company?
If you normally watch 5 or 6 shows with any regularity, over a full 22 episode season, that comes out to 264 bucks a year. How much are you paying for cable yearly?
$600 per year for cable. However I watch a lot more than just 5 or 6 shows. The cost per show has to drop significantly before this would be attractive for me, especially considering the poor video quality compared to my TV.
The suit follows a breakdown in protracted negotiations for issuance of a license of Burst's patents to cover Apple's iPod and iTunes products. Burst anticipates responding to the complaint and filing a counterclaim for patent infringement shortly. Burst remains committed to the enforcement of its intellectual property and looks forward to successfully resolving this litigation through a license covering Apple's Quicktime, iPod and iTunes products, including Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Notice how the first sentence talks of a breakdown in discussions for Apple's iPod and iTunes products. And the last sentence mentions that Burst was looking for licenses for Apple's Quicktime, iPod and iTunes products, including Apple's iTunes Music Store.
That implies that Apple agreed that QuickTime was infringing, and that the disagreement is over iPod, iTunes and the music store. I've seen reports that Apple is balking at a per-unit license fee for "each song/video/movie that Apple streams."
Sending video at a faster rate than is necessary for real-time streaming, and buffering it on the receiving end, is "obvious to one skilled in the art".
But was it obvious a decade ago when Burst developed this technology? Remember a decade ago, 19.2kbps was a fast access connection.
Burst was so far ahead of the technology of the time that the patent award was definitely earned.
I'm so tired of hearing about all these companies whose sole purpose is to hang onto patents and so-called intellectual property.
Burst is not one of those companies that collects patents for the purpose of suing alleged infringers.
Burst themselves had the foresight to develop their technology a number of years ago and patent their ideas. Check out their website and you will see that the "faster than realtime" technology that Burst developed is the only patents that they own.
Good to hear that Microsoft is at least trying to catch up with OS-X in the audio processing area. Of course, we won't know how good it is until Vista is released. The pre-release hype for Windows releases is always far more impressive than what Microsft actually manages to deliver.
You have done things like change Opera's cookie settings for a specific site before, right?
Oh yeah. The big thing is that some settings apply to all sites (like "delete new cookies on exit"), and you cannot get those things to apply or not apply on a site by site basis. Opera has it half-way correct, a simple but inadequate approach. In other areas, Opera's standards are higher, cookie handling should be just as capable as those other areas.
It is about Dell's need to diversify away from the PC business, therefore Microsoft no longer has the iron clasp on Dell's family jewels. Dell's PC business grew by only 10% in recent quarters, that's not enough to sustain the current stock price.
So as Dell looks towards new markets to conquer with their low-cost business model, and involvement in those markets has less of a dependence upon Microsoft, Dell can be less concerned about keeping Microsoft happy.
What good is more bandwidth if that extra bandwidth is not available consistently? What good is a bandwidth provider who only promises "up to" 20mbps?
I want a provider to give me a consistent and reliable allotment of bandwidth, with no marketing-speak weasel words that allow them to deliver half of what is promised in the advertisements.
I am less concerned about raw download speed than I am about consistency and reliability. My Comcast cable modem broadband link is less than what I would call consistent and reliable, much less.
I'd also like to have someone with a brain on the other side of the support conversation when there is a problem with the connection.
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Microsoft needs to force its media player upon Verizon customers because they would not select it if they had a choice.
Oracle databases can get rather large, and are used in real-time transactional environments. Do you have an idea how long it would take to restore, say, 900GB of data from backups, and how much money would be lost while the Oracle database would not be able to process transactions for the company?
their, not there. I do know grammar, it is just that sometimes it takes too long to get to my typing fingers. :)
I use my cable provider's (Comcast) analog feeds because there digital feeds are of poorer quality.
But your point is taken.
$600 per year for cable. However I watch a lot more than just 5 or 6 shows. The cost per show has to drop significantly before this would be attractive for me, especially considering the poor video quality compared to my TV.
Perhaps they are already in discussions with google?
Notice how the first sentence talks of a breakdown in discussions for Apple's iPod and iTunes products. And the last sentence mentions that Burst was looking for licenses for Apple's Quicktime, iPod and iTunes products, including Apple's iTunes Music Store.
That implies that Apple agreed that QuickTime was infringing, and that the disagreement is over iPod, iTunes and the music store. I've seen reports that Apple is balking at a per-unit license fee for "each song/video/movie that Apple streams."
Burst has patents going back to 1990.
There is more to it than just buffering, as Microsoft's lawyers found out. :)
But was it obvious a decade ago when Burst developed this technology? Remember a decade ago, 19.2kbps was a fast access connection.
Burst was so far ahead of the technology of the time that the patent award was definitely earned.
Burst is not one of those companies that collects patents for the purpose of suing alleged infringers.
Burst themselves had the foresight to develop their technology a number of years ago and patent their ideas. Check out their website and you will see that the "faster than realtime" technology that Burst developed is the only patents that they own.
Um, OK.
It's somewhat different, not vastly.
That's no better than what occurs with Windows XP or Windows 2000.
The answer to one question will determine whther Vista is really an improvement in security for Windows.
Is the current test version of Vista susceptible to the .wmf exploit that is currently making the rounds on the internet?
Good to hear that Microsoft is at least trying to catch up with OS-X in the audio processing area. Of course, we won't know how good it is until Vista is released. The pre-release hype for Windows releases is always far more impressive than what Microsft actually manages to deliver.
Oh yeah. The big thing is that some settings apply to all sites (like "delete new cookies on exit"), and you cannot get those things to apply or not apply on a site by site basis. Opera has it half-way correct, a simple but inadequate approach. In other areas, Opera's standards are higher, cookie handling should be just as capable as those other areas.
Does Opera have any plans to improve the cookie managing ability of its browser?
So as Dell looks towards new markets to conquer with their low-cost business model, and involvement in those markets has less of a dependence upon Microsoft, Dell can be less concerned about keeping Microsoft happy.
When has either of those mattered to Microsoft?
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Yes it was, with a better explanation than the one I had posted.
Check out websvn for another method to RSS a Subversion repository.
Oh joy, another 'sploit vector into Windows.
I want a provider to give me a consistent and reliable allotment of bandwidth, with no marketing-speak weasel words that allow them to deliver half of what is promised in the advertisements.
I'd also like to have someone with a brain on the other side of the support conversation when there is a problem with the connection.