I'm going to get modded down for this, but so what;
Basically yes, large companies will crush small companies with new ideas with whatever means they can. Either interupting the supply chain or by interferring with their customer base. The idea being to demolish the capital behind the company, reduce its value, and then buy up the remains when it's done. Particularly, if its a competitor which introduces competitive pricing which will drive down the companies margins.
This sort of behaviour is precisely what the patent system is meant to stop; if what the small company is doing is innovative it give them a gov't monopoly for upto 20 years to get big enough to stop the big company from crushing it.
But big companies have convinced the world that patents are evil; and thus their effectiveness are being destroyed through FUD. So now what you have (or are going to have) is large companies which can move unabated by gov't to exploit and destroy smaller companies if it suits their margins.
Could you please add some kind of content to auto-kill any character that compares LOTRO to WoW? I'm so tired of reading those debates; and filtering hasn't worked, they move from OOC to Advice to Regional. I'm left moving onto the combat channel to just listen to the orcses trying to hurts us.
RTFA The article claims that Intel is selling these products at below the cost to manufacture/market them for the express purpose of driving OLPC out of business who manufacture the laptops for no profit. The idea being that OLPC cannot compete with Intel as Intel is a large international corporate that can sustain losses for several years, whereas OLPC is a small non-profit organization that might be able to sustain losses for a couple of years, but then will be insolvent. At which point Intel becomes the sole supplier, drives up the price and the good that is being done stops.
If Intel was really interested in "helping", they would have worked with OLPC to provide Intel product instead of AMD product in the laptops.
Essentially the problem is that Intel is treating OLPC like an equal; which they aren't. It's the equivalent of an NBA superstar picking up a game at a grade school; sure he's dunking it everytime and he can't be stopped, but he's adversary is 3 feet tall and six year old.
If this story is true, and gets legs it will be a public relations nightmare for Intel. If it isn't true, or half-true, or doesn't get legs then there is no harm.
I suspect Intel wanted to be designed in at this point; and P. Negropointe told them to get lost given they didn't support him when he got started. So they are going to now destroy him in retaliation. It sounds petty, but my experience with these folks is that's how they think.
The more and more I read about how they push people around, the more and more I think I should join up with the winning team. These guys seem to be acquiring the kind of power the Catholic church had before the Reformation.
The only thing stopping me is I always thought L. Ron Hubbard was a terrible writer, and I can't imagine having to read all that crap as part of my 'religion'.
He said the exact opposite about two months ago, saying the movie would be not be a bloodbath, but would be dark. He said he knew some fans wouldn't like it, but tough. I wish I still had the link....
I for one, won't be seeing it in the theatre, he's already fooled me twice.
Actually, then can, apparently all you need is $50,000.00 and you can get multimillion dollar gov't contracts. But, I imagine getting a bill passed costs about $500,000.00. Maybe they just haven't been bribing the right people?
She'd never do it, but Cate Blanchette (SP?), she's incredibly beautiful, and has the acting ability to appear intimidating.
I think its the lips, I just can't buy Jennifer Garner as Electra because of those giant lips, (that and the horrible acting) and everyone else I've seen named here has the same affliction.
If I type my password into a txt file surrounded by a bunch of gibberish, i.e.
diowengiw03821-13kd98password8990830209keivli
Would key-logging software be able to find my password if I cut and paste the relevant data into the appropriate field when I want to enter the password?
Basically, where does the key-logging software sniff the bits? Is it off the bus from the keyboard to the processor, or does it sniff it off the processor?
This is an interesting idea; for a business model.
Hypothesis, lets say a cancer patient on average dies after 5 years of treatment using chemo, etc., on the other hand lets say an HIV patient on average dies after 20 years of treatment. If one can "cure" the other by infecting them with a disease that extends the expected life by 15 years, there is value for the patient. They get an extra 15 years of life, but during this entire time they have to take drugs to treat the "cure". Thus the pharmaceutical companies get an extra 15 years of treating a patient. Is this the intention with this kind of research?
First of all, I don't know how my post is considered flamebait, but whatever. Moderators censor thoughts they don't agree with, fine.
If you buy most of the music you use, thats Ok, I agree that making a digital copy of music you have purchased should be considered 'fair-use'. Your illegal tracks I question, however, my point is basically that charging a levy on a device that can be used legally, in order to pay the Recording Industry an sum of money so they won't sue the people stealing from them is simply stupid.
I also agree with you on the privacy issue you bring up with ISPs, big companies shouldn't be allowed to randomly gather client data from ISPs and, as far as I understand they can't in Canada, what you are rebutting on my side is unclear. If someone has commited an illegal act, and that ISP has the client data, why shouldn't they hand it over. If the person was trading in child-porn, don't you think they should co-operate?
Canada is not as litigious as the United States, but don't kid yourself, we have our share of legal battles. The court system is there for a reason, it is to settle injustice in society that can not be settled by other means. The gay-rights debate in Canada is being forced upon Parliament by the Supreme court. Do you think politicians would have just happened upon the subject by accident eventually?
Finally, the hospital comment. Perhaps your uncle received better treatment then the members of my family who have had to receive treatment lately. But I have had two cousins go through cancer treatment in the past year, and I can't say that I was impressed with the treatment they received. One was forced to leave her bed early, due to the overcrowding, and slipped into a coma for a week upon returning home. The health system, in my opinion is funded in the wrong manner, the government is unable to prioritize spending properly and put the money in the wrong places. Their only solution seems to be to ask for more money. They put caps on doctors salaries, so the most talented go to the U.S., and we are stuck with the mediocre, and people that really like the cold.:)
My opinion is different from yours, however it is not uninformed.
Why? When the RIAC(dunno if that's what it's called or not just guessing) wants to start suing their customers, we point to the levy and kindly ask them to stuff it.
So, basically because you want to steal music I should pay the Recording Industry extra? This is moronic, selfish and childish.
Sure people like to argue about how well the system works, but last time I checked people don't go backrupt when they get sick here. No, they just die waiting for treatment. Been to a hospital lately?
Mod comment on slashdot story: "At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site..."
Did you perhaps think that at the time I posted the original message, that the mod comment had not been added, and that title, may perhaps have been changed to reflect the mod comment?
Is if it makes more money than the Star Wars movie released around the same time.. funny because of the title, and well, because the new movies suck and I hope someone gets punished for the sucking.
The USPTO actually makes money by charging a substantial fee for every interface with it, and strictly monitoring the time spent on each task. I'm told that a USPTO examiner only has time to look at a patent for 8 hours during its entire examination, including prior art searches and the response to the patentee
The funds raised by the USPTO are used for things that have nothing to do with the USPTO, thus the poor results. This makes most of the IP community fairly angry, as pseudo-companies are getting patents on ridiculous things, which then waste real-companys' time fighting ridiculous lawsuits from "trolls".
I am used to the general uninformed ranting that goes on Slashdot regarding the patent system. i.e. "IM GOING TO PATENT TEH NUMBER "0"!!!! I OWNZZ J00 F007!!!!". But I'm surprised that this statement got onto the front page.
Don't get me wrong there are a lot of problems with the USPTO, but most could be solved by a simply allowing the USPTO to use the money it makes to do its job, rather then allowing congress to put that money into its coffers. If you are going to bitch, at least make it informed, or else you run the risk of misleading your audience and don't actually solve the problem.
The original quote: "It takes a lot to raise a laugh at an IT press gig, but this news tickled the spot for the journalists at today's press conference in London."
Let's "carefully read" the quote as you so eloquently suggest:
It takes a lot to raise a laugh an an IT press gig, but this news tickled the spot for the journalists at today's press conference in London.
Perhaps you have difficulty grasping basic English, but when someone mentions laughing in this context in the first part of the sentence, and then proceed to say that "the spot was tickled". This implies that the laughing did in fact occur.
And although you are not exaclty a newsource, you can undermine your own credibility in general with moronic posts like this.
it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or procedures described. Rather, the specific features and procedures are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention
This dribble, or something like it, is pretty much on any patent worth its salt. It doesn't really mean anything, it is simply there so that when a judge goes through the claims and interprets their meaning he can be allowed to give it some breadth of substitution. In reality, the power of this statement has been nerfed almost entirely, but lawyers and patent agents like to continue to include in case it does have some power again one day. My point is this is not a Microsoft (TM) Evil, it is a General Patent (TM) Evil. Which in reality is a Lawyer (TM) brand, which is a subsiduary of Satan (TM).
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I'm going to get modded down for this, but so what;
Basically yes, large companies will crush small companies with new ideas with whatever means they can. Either interupting the supply chain or by interferring with their customer base. The idea being to demolish the capital behind the company, reduce its value, and then buy up the remains when it's done. Particularly, if its a competitor which introduces competitive pricing which will drive down the companies margins.
This sort of behaviour is precisely what the patent system is meant to stop; if what the small company is doing is innovative it give them a gov't monopoly for upto 20 years to get big enough to stop the big company from crushing it.
But big companies have convinced the world that patents are evil; and thus their effectiveness are being destroyed through FUD. So now what you have (or are going to have) is large companies which can move unabated by gov't to exploit and destroy smaller companies if it suits their margins.
Could you please add some kind of content to auto-kill any character that compares LOTRO to WoW? I'm so tired of reading those debates; and filtering hasn't worked, they move from OOC to Advice to Regional. I'm left moving onto the combat channel to just listen to the orcses trying to hurts us.
RTFA The article claims that Intel is selling these products at below the cost to manufacture/market them for the express purpose of driving OLPC out of business who manufacture the laptops for no profit. The idea being that OLPC cannot compete with Intel as Intel is a large international corporate that can sustain losses for several years, whereas OLPC is a small non-profit organization that might be able to sustain losses for a couple of years, but then will be insolvent. At which point Intel becomes the sole supplier, drives up the price and the good that is being done stops.
If Intel was really interested in "helping", they would have worked with OLPC to provide Intel product instead of AMD product in the laptops.
Essentially the problem is that Intel is treating OLPC like an equal; which they aren't. It's the equivalent of an NBA superstar picking up a game at a grade school; sure he's dunking it everytime and he can't be stopped, but he's adversary is 3 feet tall and six year old.
If this story is true, and gets legs it will be a public relations nightmare for Intel. If it isn't true, or half-true, or doesn't get legs then there is no harm.
I suspect Intel wanted to be designed in at this point; and P. Negropointe told them to get lost given they didn't support him when he got started. So they are going to now destroy him in retaliation. It sounds petty, but my experience with these folks is that's how they think.
The more and more I read about how they push people around, the more and more I think I should join up with the winning team. These guys seem to be acquiring the kind of power the Catholic church had before the Reformation.
The only thing stopping me is I always thought L. Ron Hubbard was a terrible writer, and I can't imagine having to read all that crap as part of my 'religion'.
and I'm not going to take it ANYMORE!
He said the exact opposite about two months ago, saying the movie would be not be a bloodbath, but would be dark. He said he knew some fans wouldn't like it, but tough. I wish I still had the link....
I for one, won't be seeing it in the theatre, he's already fooled me twice.
Actually, then can, apparently all you need is $50,000.00 and you can get multimillion dollar gov't contracts. But, I imagine getting a bill passed costs about $500,000.00. Maybe they just haven't been bribing the right people?
She'd never do it, but Cate Blanchette (SP?), she's incredibly beautiful, and has the acting ability to appear intimidating.
I think its the lips, I just can't buy Jennifer Garner as Electra because of those giant lips, (that and the horrible acting) and everyone else I've seen named here has the same affliction.
If I type my password into a txt file surrounded by a bunch of gibberish, i.e.
diowengiw03821-13kd98password8990830209keivli
Would key-logging software be able to find my password if I cut and paste the relevant data into the appropriate field when I want to enter the password?
Basically, where does the key-logging software sniff the bits? Is it off the bus from the keyboard to the processor, or does it sniff it off the processor?
Just curious
I'll bite, where in the book does it say what colour Ford Prefect is?
.. tax on all usage of toilet paper over two squares per week.
This is an interesting idea; for a business model.
Hypothesis, lets say a cancer patient on average dies after 5 years of treatment using chemo, etc., on the other hand lets say an HIV patient on average dies after 20 years of treatment. If one can "cure" the other by infecting them with a disease that extends the expected life by 15 years, there is value for the patient. They get an extra 15 years of life, but during this entire time they have to take drugs to treat the "cure". Thus the pharmaceutical companies get an extra 15 years of treating a patient. Is this the intention with this kind of research?
I'm sure the Dutch would suddenly develop a space program. Unless Austin Powers movies are not based in fact.....
-1 lack of sense of humour
Gammaworld is a role-playing game with mutants, he was making a joke.
First of all, I don't know how my post is considered flamebait, but whatever. Moderators censor thoughts they don't agree with, fine.
:)
If you buy most of the music you use, thats Ok, I agree that making a digital copy of music you have purchased should be considered 'fair-use'. Your illegal tracks I question, however, my point is basically that charging a levy on a device that can be used legally, in order to pay the Recording Industry an sum of money so they won't sue the people stealing from them is simply stupid.
I also agree with you on the privacy issue you bring up with ISPs, big companies shouldn't be allowed to randomly gather client data from ISPs and, as far as I understand they can't in Canada, what you are rebutting on my side is unclear. If someone has commited an illegal act, and that ISP has the client data, why shouldn't they hand it over. If the person was trading in child-porn, don't you think they should co-operate?
Canada is not as litigious as the United States, but don't kid yourself, we have our share of legal battles. The court system is there for a reason, it is to settle injustice in society that can not be settled by other means. The gay-rights debate in Canada is being forced upon Parliament by the Supreme court. Do you think politicians would have just happened upon the subject by accident eventually?
Finally, the hospital comment. Perhaps your uncle received better treatment then the members of my family who have had to receive treatment lately. But I have had two cousins go through cancer treatment in the past year, and I can't say that I was impressed with the treatment they received. One was forced to leave her bed early, due to the overcrowding, and slipped into a coma for a week upon returning home. The health system, in my opinion is funded in the wrong manner, the government is unable to prioritize spending properly and put the money in the wrong places. Their only solution seems to be to ask for more money. They put caps on doctors salaries, so the most talented go to the U.S., and we are stuck with the mediocre, and people that really like the cold.
My opinion is different from yours, however it is not uninformed.
Why? When the RIAC(dunno if that's what it's called or not just guessing) wants to start suing their customers, we point to the levy and kindly ask them to stuff it.
So, basically because you want to steal music I should pay the Recording Industry extra? This is moronic, selfish and childish.
Sure people like to argue about how well the system works, but last time I checked people don't go backrupt when they get sick here.
No, they just die waiting for treatment. Been to a hospital lately?
RTFT-The original posting was made before the mod.
Mod comment on slashdot story: "At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site..."
Did you perhaps think that at the time I posted the original message, that the mod comment had not been added, and that title, may perhaps have been changed to reflect the mod comment?
Troll.
I did, and then I did again, and it still says:
"Bush website blocked outside US"
Troll.
I'm in Ottawa, ON, Canada, and I got in just fine.
Assert those patents and your turn to the darkside will be complete.
Or something like that.
Is if it makes more money than the Star Wars movie released around the same time.. funny because of the title, and well, because the new movies suck and I hope someone gets punished for the sucking.
The USPTO actually makes money by charging a substantial fee for every interface with it, and strictly monitoring the time spent on each task. I'm told that a USPTO examiner only has time to look at a patent for 8 hours during its entire examination, including prior art searches and the response to the patentee
The funds raised by the USPTO are used for things that have nothing to do with the USPTO, thus the poor results. This makes most of the IP community fairly angry, as pseudo-companies are getting patents on ridiculous things, which then waste real-companys' time fighting ridiculous lawsuits from "trolls".
I am used to the general uninformed ranting that goes on Slashdot regarding the patent system. i.e. "IM GOING TO PATENT TEH NUMBER "0"!!!! I OWNZZ J00 F007!!!!". But I'm surprised that this statement got onto the front page.
Don't get me wrong there are a lot of problems with the USPTO, but most could be solved by a simply allowing the USPTO to use the money it makes to do its job, rather then allowing congress to put that money into its coffers. If you are going to bitch, at least make it informed, or else you run the risk of misleading your audience and don't actually solve the problem.
The original quote: "It takes a lot to raise a laugh at an IT press gig, but this news tickled the spot for the journalists at today's press conference in London."
Let's "carefully read" the quote as you so eloquently suggest:
It takes a lot to raise a laugh an an IT press gig, but this news tickled the spot for the journalists at today's press conference in London.
Perhaps you have difficulty grasping basic English, but when someone mentions laughing in this context in the first part of the sentence, and then proceed to say that "the spot was tickled". This implies that the laughing did in fact occur.
And although you are not exaclty a newsource, you can undermine your own credibility in general with moronic posts like this.
it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or procedures described. Rather, the specific features and procedures are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention
This dribble, or something like it, is pretty much on any patent worth its salt. It doesn't really mean anything, it is simply there so that when a judge goes through the claims and interprets their meaning he can be allowed to give it some breadth of substitution. In reality, the power of this statement has been nerfed almost entirely, but lawyers and patent agents like to continue to include in case it does have some power again one day. My point is this is not a Microsoft (TM) Evil, it is a General Patent (TM) Evil. Which in reality is a Lawyer (TM) brand, which is a subsiduary of Satan (TM).