You obviously did not bother trying to determine what the patent was for. It is not the buttons, but the way you navigate through the successive screens.
Isn't 'navigating through successive screens' as ubiquitous as 'pressing play?'
I just spent 45 minutes trying to figure out all the different things Norton AV put on my computer, then disabling them, and later uninstalling the thing altogether, why would I want to go through all that hassle again with my online banking?
If noone is enforcing these domain registration rules, then apparently you are allowed to put in anything you like. I guess that will be changing soon.
Also, why does everyone need to know that information? Is there a privacy concern here?
"It applies to the way music tracks are organised and navigated on a player through a hierarchy using three or more successive screens."
So if Creative wins this suit, should you also be sued for using the buttons on/off, play, pause, stop, rewind and fast-forward? Or should you have to rename them iniate/power down, engage, hesitate, halt, go-back and go-forth?
Luke: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be. You will be.
Just because statistically you will not have your ID used after being stolen, it is still a terrible feeling - as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
http://www.mac-sucks.com/ I don't know about any of the truth to the claims on this site, but it is still entertaining reading.
Their disclaimer:
Apple uses Mac OS X Server mainly on their primary website because anything else would look bad for business.
On their local sites they seem to prefer Solaris and Windows 2000 (china ran it until a month ago)
because of their superior stability compared to OS X.
I would say that some people just never liked 'Lisa' due to the bad memories it invoked from bad relationships with women of that same name. That's why Macintosh was a much better choice. Nobody ever was dumped by an apple.
Points I came away with:
-Apple is no longer what they were when they started out, and now their proprietary software sucks, the 3rd party Apple MAC software is great, and the Apple Macintosh software is great
-Proprietary software traps you
-Open source is good for companies that would like it, but Apple software is still better
-DRM is a necessary evil in the digital downloading world, since people share files and hurt the artists
-CDs and Itunes should be cheaper, artists should be able to set their own price
-Software is huge, complex, over-hyped and under-supported and it is only going to get worse
-Colleges should train people to design software with a humanist point of view
After reading this article, you could argue that the computer industry is quite depressing if you start to think about all the different things he has mentioned. If you want to build a better computer/OS/hardware/software, you should not put large corporations in charge of development, leave it up to those with a more humanist point of view. The only problem is, if by humanist you are saying it is for the greater good or some moral good, it is inherently against the profit model and the actions of greedy corporations who are always trying to increase profits or meet projected profit expectations and deadlines.
The Open Source community is the closest thing you can get to a 'humanist' point of view while computing. Since the profit motivation is taken out of the equation, everyone can benefit.
When you purchase a PC, you should have the option of installing freeware that might help you in the incessant barrage of spam, viruses, spyware, adware, bots and phishing emails. It might also help to have a short tutorial on how your PC becomes infected/compromised/used to propogate malicious code. Maybe then Windows would be a better and safer O/S?
How about creating a registry for all the politician's lies and stupid ideas that are told on a daily basis? Wait, that would never work either, it would be impossible to keep track of them all.
'How to Conduct Keyword Research' http://www.seomoz.org/articles/bg3.php
"1. Brainstorming - Thinking of what your customers/potential visitors would be likely to type in to search engines in an attempt to find the information/services your site offers (including alternate spellings, wordings, synonyms, etc). "
Hmm...thinking of something that people would mistype in a search engine...
got it - bobos ttis bresats!
"Some registrars talk of adding a "significant" add-on fee for DNSsec "expert services", while others talk of making domain registration a case of picking from two services -- a domain name and a "secure domain name", the latter costing more."
So you have domain, secure domain, and when that gets compromised, you will then have super secure domains, ultra secure domains, and supermax domains?
From the BBC article, it is about 5344 pounds ($9300 US) annual salary for a software engineer in India. Take that money and you can hire about 182,000 workers in India or give every person in the country $1.50 (or a little less than a pound for 1,080,264,388 people.) Otherwise if you hire 3,000 new workers and pay them that avg. $9300 annual salary, you will still have $1.67 billion left over to invest elsewhere.
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You obviously did not bother trying to determine what the patent was for. It is not the buttons, but the way you navigate through the successive screens.
Isn't 'navigating through successive screens' as ubiquitous as 'pressing play?'
actually amcdiarmid beat me to the pun a few minutes earlier, hats off to him...I wonder if he is related to the Emperor (Ian McDiarmid?)
I thought the inside of a hard drive was a vacuum.. am I wrong?
Only if it is by a brand that really sucks.
...IN REAL TIME!
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Microsoft will be suing for patent infringement for putting windows on hard drives.
Just for fun, a hard drive undone: http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_imag
"Going to the rsstroom will never be boring again!"
I don't know about you, but I listen to poodcasts when I am in the lavatory.
Now I can find the quickest way from Bald Peak to Beaverton, then into Rocky Butte.
Dude....you just said....
Why didn't they just realize that the Supreme Commander of the Universe is not male and does not live on Earth?
I just spent 45 minutes trying to figure out all the different things Norton AV put on my computer, then disabling them, and later uninstalling the thing altogether, why would I want to go through all that hassle again with my online banking?
If noone is enforcing these domain registration rules, then apparently you are allowed to put in anything you like. I guess that will be changing soon.
Also, why does everyone need to know that information? Is there a privacy concern here?
In communist Russia, everything does it to you - get over it or move.
"It applies to the way music tracks are organised and navigated on a player through a hierarchy using three or more successive screens."
So if Creative wins this suit, should you also be sued for using the buttons on/off, play, pause, stop, rewind and fast-forward? Or should you have to rename them iniate/power down, engage, hesitate, halt, go-back and go-forth?
Luke: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
Yoda: You will be. You will be.
Just because statistically you will not have your ID used after being stolen, it is still a terrible feeling - as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
What are the issues I don't know about?
http://www.mac-sucks.com/ I don't know about any of the truth to the claims on this site, but it is still entertaining reading.
Their disclaimer: Apple uses Mac OS X Server mainly on their primary website because anything else would look bad for business.
On their local sites they seem to prefer Solaris and Windows 2000 (china ran it until a month ago) because of their superior stability compared to OS X.
PS I do not hate Apple
I would say that some people just never liked 'Lisa' due to the bad memories it invoked from bad relationships with women of that same name. That's why Macintosh was a much better choice. Nobody ever was dumped by an apple.
Points I came away with:
-Apple is no longer what they were when they started out, and now their proprietary software sucks, the 3rd party Apple MAC software is great, and the Apple Macintosh software is great
-Proprietary software traps you
-Open source is good for companies that would like it, but Apple software is still better
-DRM is a necessary evil in the digital downloading world, since people share files and hurt the artists
-CDs and Itunes should be cheaper, artists should be able to set their own price
-Software is huge, complex, over-hyped and under-supported and it is only going to get worse
-Colleges should train people to design software with a humanist point of view
After reading this article, you could argue that the computer industry is quite depressing if you start to think about all the different things he has mentioned. If you want to build a better computer/OS/hardware/software, you should not put large corporations in charge of development, leave it up to those with a more humanist point of view. The only problem is, if by humanist you are saying it is for the greater good or some moral good, it is inherently against the profit model and the actions of greedy corporations who are always trying to increase profits or meet projected profit expectations and deadlines.
The Open Source community is the closest thing you can get to a 'humanist' point of view while computing. Since the profit motivation is taken out of the equation, everyone can benefit.
Thanks for the advice, maybe SOMEONE will actually read these posts and do something about their security.
I have clicked on the link 5 separate times to no avail, is this some kind of conspiracy to get me to use Firefox?
When you purchase a PC, you should have the option of installing freeware that might help you in the incessant barrage of spam, viruses, spyware, adware, bots and phishing emails. It might also help to have a short tutorial on how your PC becomes infected/compromised/used to propogate malicious code. Maybe then Windows would be a better and safer O/S?
d ucts/znalm/freeDownload.jsp (Zone Alarm firewall)
a milyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displa ylang=en (MS Anti-Spyware adware/spyware detection)
For those who need some free help:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 (AVG anti virus)
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/pro
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ (Ad-Aware adware/spyware detection)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ (SpyBot S&D adware/spyware detection)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
Now noone will ever know what a rootkit is.
FYI, if you anagram Podcast, you can come up with 'Stop a CD'
How about creating a registry for all the politician's lies and stupid ideas that are told on a daily basis? Wait, that would never work either, it would be impossible to keep track of them all.
With the interception of these cancer 'envoys', we finally can 'kill the messenger' and not feel so bad about it.
'How to Conduct Keyword Research' http://www.seomoz.org/articles/bg3.php
"1. Brainstorming - Thinking of what your customers/potential visitors would be likely to type in to search engines in an attempt to find the information/services your site offers (including alternate spellings, wordings, synonyms, etc). "
Hmm...thinking of something that people would mistype in a search engine...
got it - bobos ttis bresats!
"Some registrars talk of adding a "significant" add-on fee for DNSsec "expert services", while others talk of making domain registration a case of picking from two services -- a domain name and a "secure domain name", the latter costing more."
So you have domain, secure domain, and when that gets compromised, you will then have super secure domains, ultra secure domains, and supermax domains?
...it totally blows.
If you are trusting the facts given by these sites:/ in.html
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4436692.stm
http://www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/2005/1
http://www.x-rates.com/
From the BBC article, it is about 5344 pounds ($9300 US) annual salary for a software engineer in India. Take that money and you can hire about 182,000 workers in India or give every person in the country $1.50 (or a little less than a pound for 1,080,264,388 people.) Otherwise if you hire 3,000 new workers and pay them that avg. $9300 annual salary, you will still have $1.67 billion left over to invest elsewhere.