The first problem is that you can file with a later date. The cost then is on Google that must invalidate the patent. This is risky because it first involves showing that Google's product actually *is* covered by the patent and then that it *was* covered by the patent at the time of the fiiling.
The second problem is that you can file a generic patent and "refine" it later, after Google releases a product that you want to target. This is effectively moving the official filing date way in the past, even if the patent is actually reverse engineered from a real product. Google still has to fight the patent in court to make it invalid and additionally they have to show that the patent did not cover their application *before* they released the product or that it was too broad and would not be granted before the final refinements.
Fixing this hole alone would be a giant leap forward in the patent business.
I agree. Furthermore is it really illegal if the developer and copyright holder himself creates the malware version and puts it on the market for free? Can it even be called pirated?
If radioactive contaminant can get on a ship to China (btw the plant and the port are on the other side of Japan wrt china) no place in Japan is safe from it which probably means the end of the country altogether. Japanese and foreign authorities agree that radiation did not reach other cities in Japan. It may be false, of course, but it looks probable.
And if you think that helping with the tsunami means they will not do something relatively innocuous like creating a PR stunt to smear Japan (remember: no lives are put in danger with this news) your understanding of international politics is poor at best.
One generation and one big political change. Nationalistic pride and/or xenophoby only needs a little effort to keep alive. If there are political reasons to keep hating Japan, then hate will continue as long as it will be useful. Happened and happens everywhere. In Italy it is the Muslim and Roms for example.
Given the long standing animosity between the Japanese and the Chinese, and the Chinese Gov't's total control of information, now much of this is true and how much is PR to smear Japan?
It does not look even remotely true. The ship where they found "radiation" arrived in china on 22nd of March, which does not look enough for the contaminants to reach the ship. Moreover the stopped passengers are Japanese, and China has already an experience of stopping Japanese men for bogus reasons (some of them were taken as "spies" for retaliation in the Fisherman incident a few months ago).
I second that sentiment. I would also include in that civil rights and worker protections.
Jobs and revenues are shifting towards the develping world because of lower wages. Now if this happens because the workers have less needs and/or life is cheaper, this means that the market is working towards leveling those conditions worldwide. But if this is because there is no civil rights/worker protections in other countries this should not be tolerated because it can only lead to losing the same rights and protections in the "developed countries" in order to reestablish competitiveness.
Moreover, in "developed countries" why should we protect our citizens only? If we think it is a basic human right to work no more than 10 hour a day (or any other arbitrary value) then we should not accept goods made violating this right anywhere in the world. One way or the other.
Finally keep in mind this would not increase the prices because they are already fixed based on what you can pay, not on how much it costs to produce something, which is proven by the fact that prices do not decrease when jobs are outsourced.
Yes, this is Apple's version. However it still remains to be explained why they went to market first instead of exposing Nokia immediately. That is if their story is true.
Fischer had disgusting ideals, but it could be said that he was not treated fairly. Having to live on the run because of a chess game looks a little extreme. So if one says that the US were too harsh with Fischer it does not mean that he shares the same world views and is not necessarily a white supremacist etc...
You are quite behind with your understanding of how the computer plays chess. The fundamental piece of code that makes a chess engine is a function for evaluating the "goodness" of a position. Given that, they analyze only the most promising moves exactly like a human would do. This was already the basic function of Deep Thought (predecessor of Deep Blue). Game databases are used to train computers, not as playing data. And computers use time limits in official matches, of course. (Databases are used for openings and endgames, just like 13-yo human players have them rote-learned)
What bias? There is news about apple but we should be talking about everyone else? So we should be talking about Apple every time another company does something bad? I suggest that for every news we look at the companies involved in said news. It just looks more logical to me...
sure, don't ever try to get a smooth curve in a UI and you are fine. Also: don't touch anti aliasing and for the love of god never try to mix colors: you may need fourier transforms! Don't ever work with sensor input audio or video or radio or accelerometers. Don't try to implement physics system for a game or industry application. Obviously floats are designed that way because it's fun, not because they approximate real numbers!
just rename CS as "computer shit" instead than "science". Then you will be excused from understanding what you are doing with the shiny box near your monitor.
Open Source cannot force you to keep the affiliate code in the source (that is a string in the source that tells Amazon who referred the customer to them, so that it gets the 10% share). And it can be argued that the referral is from Ubuntu to Amazon instead of Banshee to Amazon. Who knows how many of those customers chose Ubuntu because of Banshee instead of the other way?
Slashdot does not ban as far as I know. If they ever did you would be a much better candidate, since you look much more qualified to post on Youtube than/. The story cited appeared here and is relevant to tell the stance of Microsoft regarding open source. I cannot really understand the reasons for the Troll mod on the GP. Surely a link wouldn't have hurt, but was it difficult to just search?
There is only one reason for which WP7 can gain money to Nokia, that is if they can axe the symbian and meego division and reduce costs (which in the execs twisted perception usually equates to gaining money). I don't care what fancy words they put on this: Qt will be canceled, Symbian and MeeGo will die. And they will have to do it quickly if they don't want their stocks down another 20%.
I hope so. But who is to say there will not be "incentives" to encode in this new format e.g. the coming olympic games? Microsoft already pulled that one with silverlight. MPEG-LA may try too.
Should I brace for another exciting period where a truckload of different codecs will be necessary for watching a video on internet, no one with an native Linux installer and no support whatsoever? Amazing! I cannot wait.
I think they can convince easily that the stock price would not be down 15% without this announcement. And yes, most open source supporters on slashdot will be bitter at this, Symbian was the only open OS for mobile phones before MeeGo would launch. And the only one that would not force you to switch between incompatible environments for desktop and cell phones.
Nokia also sells smartphones, but unlocked, so that no NA carrier pushes them to customers. In the rest of the world they were leaders in smartphones too. A smartphone is not made by the operating system, so putting Android or WP7 or Symbian is not about smartphones vs dumbphones: the hardware will be the same. It is about having control of your software platform or not.
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The first problem is that you can file with a later date. The cost then is on Google that must invalidate the patent. This is risky because it first involves showing that Google's product actually *is* covered by the patent and then that it *was* covered by the patent at the time of the fiiling.
The second problem is that you can file a generic patent and "refine" it later, after Google releases a product that you want to target. This is effectively moving the official filing date way in the past, even if the patent is actually reverse engineered from a real product. Google still has to fight the patent in court to make it invalid and additionally they have to show that the patent did not cover their application *before* they released the product or that it was too broad and would not be granted before the final refinements.
Fixing this hole alone would be a giant leap forward in the patent business.
I agree. Furthermore is it really illegal if the developer and copyright holder himself creates the malware version and puts it on the market for free? Can it even be called pirated?
If radioactive contaminant can get on a ship to China (btw the plant and the port are on the other side of Japan wrt china) no place in Japan is safe from it which probably means the end of the country altogether. Japanese and foreign authorities agree that radiation did not reach other cities in Japan. It may be false, of course, but it looks probable.
And if you think that helping with the tsunami means they will not do something relatively innocuous like creating a PR stunt to smear Japan (remember: no lives are put in danger with this news) your understanding of international politics is poor at best.
One generation and one big political change. Nationalistic pride and/or xenophoby only needs a little effort to keep alive. If there are political reasons to keep hating Japan, then hate will continue as long as it will be useful. Happened and happens everywhere. In Italy it is the Muslim and Roms for example.
Given the long standing animosity between the Japanese and the Chinese, and the Chinese Gov't's total control of information, now much of this is true and how much is PR to smear Japan?
It does not look even remotely true. The ship where they found "radiation" arrived in china on 22nd of March, which does not look enough for the contaminants to reach the ship. Moreover the stopped passengers are Japanese, and China has already an experience of stopping Japanese men for bogus reasons (some of them were taken as "spies" for retaliation in the Fisherman incident a few months ago).
I second that sentiment. I would also include in that civil rights and worker protections.
Jobs and revenues are shifting towards the develping world because of lower wages. Now if this happens because the workers have less needs and/or life is cheaper, this means that the market is working towards leveling those conditions worldwide. But if this is because there is no civil rights/worker protections in other countries this should not be tolerated because it can only lead to losing the same rights and protections in the "developed countries" in order to reestablish competitiveness.
Moreover, in "developed countries" why should we protect our citizens only? If we think it is a basic human right to work no more than 10 hour a day (or any other arbitrary value) then we should not accept goods made violating this right anywhere in the world. One way or the other.
Finally keep in mind this would not increase the prices because they are already fixed based on what you can pay, not on how much it costs to produce something, which is proven by the fact that prices do not decrease when jobs are outsourced.
It can work because many don't have java-script enabled so you can't even collapse the offending thread.
Now I understand! You are a Javascript astroturfer, right?
It works perfectly until one of your acquantainces search your email online and finds the wrong one. Or, god forbid, you make friends at workplace.
I realize, it is not clear. like I would do with racing i.e. I don't want to consider either one a sport.
Personally I would keep chess outside the realm of sports, like racing.
Yes, this is Apple's version. However it still remains to be explained why they went to market first instead of exposing Nokia immediately. That is if their story is true.
I like your quote :) reference?
Fischer had disgusting ideals, but it could be said that he was not treated fairly. Having to live on the run because of a chess game looks a little extreme. So if one says that the US were too harsh with Fischer it does not mean that he shares the same world views and is not necessarily a white supremacist etc...
You are quite behind with your understanding of how the computer plays chess. The fundamental piece of code that makes a chess engine is a function for evaluating the "goodness" of a position. Given that, they analyze only the most promising moves exactly like a human would do. This was already the basic function of Deep Thought (predecessor of Deep Blue). Game databases are used to train computers, not as playing data. And computers use time limits in official matches, of course. (Databases are used for openings and endgames, just like 13-yo human players have them rote-learned)
What bias? There is news about apple but we should be talking about everyone else? So we should be talking about Apple every time another company does something bad? I suggest that for every news we look at the companies involved in said news. It just looks more logical to me...
sure, don't ever try to get a smooth curve in a UI and you are fine. Also: don't touch anti aliasing and for the love of god never try to mix colors: you may need fourier transforms! Don't ever work with sensor input audio or video or radio or accelerometers. Don't try to implement physics system for a game or industry application. Obviously floats are designed that way because it's fun, not because they approximate real numbers!
just rename CS as "computer shit" instead than "science". Then you will be excused from understanding what you are doing with the shiny box near your monitor.
Open Source cannot force you to keep the affiliate code in the source (that is a string in the source that tells Amazon who referred the customer to them, so that it gets the 10% share). And it can be argued that the referral is from Ubuntu to Amazon instead of Banshee to Amazon. Who knows how many of those customers chose Ubuntu because of Banshee instead of the other way?
Accepting cookies may help. I know that some proxies used at universities some times log you out slashdot.
Slashdot does not ban as far as I know. If they ever did you would be a much better candidate, since you look much more qualified to post on Youtube than /. The story cited appeared here and is relevant to tell the stance of Microsoft regarding open source. I cannot really understand the reasons for the Troll mod on the GP. Surely a link wouldn't have hurt, but was it difficult to just search?
No one forced you to live more than 9 years... Should they pay only because you exceeded that? Please!
There is only one reason for which WP7 can gain money to Nokia, that is if they can axe the symbian and meego division and reduce costs (which in the execs twisted perception usually equates to gaining money). I don't care what fancy words they put on this: Qt will be canceled, Symbian and MeeGo will die. And they will have to do it quickly if they don't want their stocks down another 20%.
I hope so. But who is to say there will not be "incentives" to encode in this new format e.g. the coming olympic games? Microsoft already pulled that one with silverlight. MPEG-LA may try too.
Should I brace for another exciting period where a truckload of different codecs will be necessary for watching a video on internet, no one with an native Linux installer and no support whatsoever? Amazing! I cannot wait.
I think they can convince easily that the stock price would not be down 15% without this announcement. And yes, most open source supporters on slashdot will be bitter at this, Symbian was the only open OS for mobile phones before MeeGo would launch. And the only one that would not force you to switch between incompatible environments for desktop and cell phones.
Nokia also sells smartphones, but unlocked, so that no NA carrier pushes them to customers. In the rest of the world they were leaders in smartphones too. A smartphone is not made by the operating system, so putting Android or WP7 or Symbian is not about smartphones vs dumbphones: the hardware will be the same. It is about having control of your software platform or not.