It it was an accident, why would he have died alone on a mountain? Why wouldn't his friend who accidently shot him have helped him down the mountain? The story said he was shot in the shoulder and took some time to die.
Why do you claim it was an accident? What are you trying to hide? Where were you on Thursday January 12, 5000 B.C.?
Well if they were stringing wires acrosss tundra that might be an issue, but the tree-line is way the hell up there, and about 98% of the country lives below the tree-line. Just so you know we aren't covered in snow all year long, in fact a lot of the major cities usually have a climate more akin to New York than Yellowknife.
The U.S. Patent office also allows challenges to validity without going to court. It's called a "patent office re-examination", and can be brought by any party once the patent has been granted if they have documented proof of prior art previous to the priority date of the granted patent.
The reason a patent's validity is often challenged in the U.S. courtroom is because a patent office re-examination frowns somewhat upon expert testimony, whereas expert testimony is given the same weight as other forms of prior art in a court case.
The judge doesn't have to have any technical expertise in this particular case, as most of the case has revolved around the legal interpretation of the patent language. Essentially, during Rambus initial filings, off of it's abandonded April 18, 1990 application it described the bus structure as being "a multiline bus" see US5319755 . Since most of its subsequent filings, all of the ones in this case, are based off that application as continuations or continuations-in-part. They are legally obliged to only expand on the existing ideas disclosed in the original application.
So even tho' the subsequent applications use only the term "bus", that term must be interpretted to mean "multiline bus", which is technology clearly not used in SDRAM or DDR, as there are clearly distinct lines for address, data and command signals. Any, IANAL, but I have been following this case closely.
The moderation system allows me to ignore people that I might not agree with (read at 2), or to try to read every opinion posted (read at 1). This system is only censorship if there is no choice for me to read at the lower level, I quite often don't agree with moderation, hence I read at -1, but the bottom line is it is my choice just as it is in life.
If I'm watching T.V. and something comes on that I don't want to watch, I change the channel. It's a simply as that. This moderation system isn't anything new, it's a simple evolution from traditional media forms. Freedom of speech doesn't mean I have to listen to you, it just means you get to say whatever you want.
Have you been documenting your work as you proceed, with dates?
Get a lawyer to read over your IP agreement and see what he says about its validity and if it is valid, then I would simply quit, move to another job , and continue in your work, publish it in the public domain just as you had planned and if they come after you get yourself the same lawyer.
This will prove several things in the eyes of the court:
A) Due dilligence, you found a legal opinion as to whether something was valid, and even if it isn't, you sought a professional opinion which is often enough.
B) The dated documents prove that you had conceived of the items in your own time. And if it doesn't you can file a suit against them asking them to pay you for the time in which you conceived of the idea,
18 months = 540 days so
16 hrs * 540 days = 8640 hrs * (I'm guessing 40$) = $ 345600. They wanna claim the ideas are theirs than they should pay for them.
Not kidnapping, no, do you think this is some Third World dictatorship? But if knowledge like this is placed into the public domain we are basically giving away the fruits of our labors, and this is in no way consistent with the sensible capitalist policies that has seen our nation outstrip the rest of the world in every way that counts.
Except keeping your power on, or maybe electing a leader.
In a few years global warming will have wiped out all ice on the planet, if we send someone to Pluto now we might have ice just as the rest of ours melts!!
When it comes to console gaming, the thing that matters most is games, both quality and quantity. If all the Inderma has is Quake III, then this thing isn't going to sell at all maybe the hardware isn't vaporware, but this statement:
Gildred has been very coy about naming specific titles that are in development for the Indrema system, however, he does acknowledge that "content drives the platform." Gildred states that, "We are positioning ourselves as the platform for the hottest titles." He added that for launch the company is targeting 30 games that would be a mix of existing tiles ported to the system as well as original games. But with no specific game announcements scheduled until early spring 2001, Indrema watchers will just have to take his word for it.
seems to indicate to me that the titles are vaporware.
Besides the obvious answer that its cheaper to descend it then to push it off into space... why can't it be released into space?
Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I was four when the soviet satellite came down in northern Canada, and I remember it being a really big deal, whether that was justified or not I don't know. But ultimately, when disposing of stuff in space the utmost care should be taken. What exactly would Russia do if this thing happens to land on some poor guys fishing boat? I far as I can figure sending it into space makes more sense then descending it.
In the end wouldn't that be the safest disposal method? Am I missing something? Is there a better reason why they can't push it off into space?
If you were working for a company and happened to come up with some idea unrelated to a project, you still have to present the idea to your company before you can take the idea as your own property.
If you take the idea to your employer (in this case your university), and they refuse to patent it, then get that refusal in writing and then GPL it, or patent it yourself or whatever.
Either that, or hide the idea until you quit, and then GPL it. But IANAL.
Because if so, then there are some questions as to why they are searching for prior art.
Once an inventor has recieved a patent, he/she might ask the patent office for a "reexamination" of his/her invention once he/she realizes that there might be some prior art existing to invalidate his/her invention.
He/she can submit an application for "reexamination" to the patent office along with the prior art, and the inventor's argument as to why it is not prior art and the patent office can then decide whether or not the patent is still valid. This is a cheap way of strengthening a patent as when a patent has proceeded through a "reexamination" it is often considered to have more validity by courts.
Although most slashdotters won't agree with me on this point, I'd be totally happy if I found out one of my competitors was stealing my design. Because I have a butt-load of patents protecting it, and if my competitor wants to sell his product in any major market, I'm going to sue his ass into the ground.
As for adding protection against reverse-engineering it simply commits too much cash to the design to make it worth-while. Preventing someone from stealing your designs, is like any other type of theft, no matter what you do, a determined thief will still be able to steal it.
Besides his prevention method only discusses a black box type look at things. What if its a professional reverse engineering company like Semiconductor Insights decides to reverse engineer it. They are going to take the chip, de-cap it, and reverse engineer the circuitry right off the silicon. What exactly can you do to stop that?
Anyway, basically this guy is selling a new lock, and what what you should be doing is buying theft insurance (i.e. patents).
The whole reason the Batman franchise started to fall apart was because they tried to make it campy like the t.v. series. Batman is a dark and gothic character and for it to be done well it has to be told like that. I especially like the "Year one" series as it portrays batman as a little bit of a lunatic.. it kinda goes into how crazy a guy has to be to put on a bat costume and go and fight crime. Although it's going to screw up their cat-woman character.. since in year one she's a professional dom.
If I'm paying for a cable connection and all the frickin' movie channels and a descrambler box. I should damn well be allowed to tape the movies/shows I want to see that I payed for when I want to see them.
I should be allowed to place them into a format that makes them accessible to me for my own personal use.
This whole idea seems pretty simple to me, I really don't understand how one can even consider the MPAA's arguments.
Well with this we are one step closer to all having George Jetson jobs, you know sit on your ass and push one button over and over again while the computer does all the work..
None, Rambus doesn't make anything therefore cannot violate any patents the suit is about antitrust laws and also asserts invalidity, non-infringement, and non-enforceability of Rambus patents pursuant to a number of different bases.
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It it was an accident, why would he have died alone on a mountain?
Why wouldn't his friend who accidently shot him have helped him down the mountain?
The story said he was shot in the shoulder and took some time to die.
Why do you claim it was an accident? What are you trying to hide? Where were you on Thursday January 12, 5000 B.C.?
Well if they were stringing wires acrosss tundra that might be an issue, but the tree-line is way the hell up there, and about 98% of the country lives below the tree-line. Just so you know we aren't covered in snow all year long, in fact a lot of the major cities usually have a climate more akin to New York than Yellowknife.
The U.S. Patent office also allows challenges to validity without going to court. It's called a "patent office re-examination", and can be brought by any party once the patent has been granted if they have documented proof of prior art previous to the priority date of the granted patent.
The reason a patent's validity is often challenged in the U.S. courtroom is because a patent office re-examination frowns somewhat upon expert testimony, whereas expert testimony is given the same weight as other forms of prior art in a court case.
The judge doesn't have to have any technical expertise in this particular case, as most of the case has revolved around the legal interpretation of the patent language. Essentially, during Rambus initial filings, off of it's abandonded April 18, 1990 application it described the bus structure as being "a multiline bus" see US5319755 . Since most of its subsequent filings, all of the ones in this case, are based off that application as continuations or continuations-in-part. They are legally obliged to only expand on the existing ideas disclosed in the original application.
So even tho' the subsequent applications use only the term "bus", that term must be interpretted to mean "multiline bus", which is technology clearly not used in SDRAM or DDR, as there are clearly distinct lines for address, data and command signals. Any, IANAL, but I have been following this case closely.
It was a hash pipe.
The moderation system allows me to ignore people that I might not agree with (read at 2), or to try to read every opinion posted (read at 1). This system is only censorship if there is no choice for me to read at the lower level, I quite often don't agree with moderation, hence I read at -1, but the bottom line is it is my choice just as it is in life.
If I'm watching T.V. and something comes on that I don't want to watch, I change the channel. It's a simply as that. This moderation system isn't anything new, it's a simple evolution from traditional media forms. Freedom of speech doesn't mean I have to listen to you, it just means you get to say whatever you want.
Last of a series.. ah what sweet words.
IANAL, but ...
Have you been documenting your work as you proceed, with dates?
Get a lawyer to read over your IP agreement and see what he says about its validity and if it is valid, then I would simply quit, move to another job , and continue in your work, publish it in the public domain just as you had planned and if they come after you get yourself the same lawyer.
This will prove several things in the eyes of the court:
A) Due dilligence, you found a legal opinion as to whether something was valid, and even if it isn't, you sought a professional opinion which is often enough.
B) The dated documents prove that you had conceived of the items in your own time. And if it doesn't you can file a suit against them asking them to pay you for the time in which you conceived of the idea, 18 months = 540 days so 16 hrs * 540 days = 8640 hrs * (I'm guessing 40$) = $ 345600. They wanna claim the ideas are theirs than they should pay for them.
Anyway, just my $0.02.
The story says he graduated last year, he'll be pretty hard to pummel driving away in whatever one can get for $10,000.00.
Not kidnapping, no, do you think this is some Third World dictatorship? But if knowledge like this is placed into the public domain we are basically giving away the fruits of our labors, and this is in no way consistent with the sensible capitalist policies that has seen our nation outstrip the rest of the world in every way that counts.
Except keeping your power on, or maybe electing a leader.
That is the funniest thing I've read all day.
In a few years global warming will have wiped out all ice on the planet, if we send someone to Pluto now we might have ice just as the rest of ours melts!!
When it comes to console gaming, the thing that matters most is games, both quality and quantity. If all the Inderma has is Quake III, then this thing isn't going to sell at all maybe the hardware isn't vaporware, but this statement:
Gildred has been very coy about naming specific titles that are in development for the Indrema system, however, he does acknowledge that "content drives the platform." Gildred states that, "We are positioning ourselves as the platform for the hottest titles." He added that for launch the company is targeting 30 games that would be a mix of existing tiles ported to the system as well as original games. But with no specific game announcements scheduled until early spring 2001, Indrema watchers will just have to take his word for it.
seems to indicate to me that the titles are vaporware.
Besides the obvious answer that its cheaper to descend it then to push it off into space... why can't it be released into space?
Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I was four when the soviet satellite came down in northern Canada, and I remember it being a really big deal, whether that was justified or not I don't know. But ultimately, when disposing of stuff in space the utmost care should be taken. What exactly would Russia do if this thing happens to land on some poor guys fishing boat? I far as I can figure sending it into space makes more sense then descending it. In the end wouldn't that be the safest disposal method? Am I missing something? Is there a better reason why they can't push it off into space?
If you were working for a company and happened to come up with some idea unrelated to a project, you still have to present the idea to your company before you can take the idea as your own property.
If you take the idea to your employer (in this case your university), and they refuse to patent it, then get that refusal in writing and then GPL it, or patent it yourself or whatever.
Either that, or hide the idea until you quit, and then GPL it. But IANAL.
So why doesn't everyone just start registering domain names covering every other concievable disparaging phrase possible?
i.e. Guinessisshitte.com, theworstbeerintheworldisguiness.com, etc.
They'd bankrupt themselves trying to buy back every single name.
Here is another article.
Basically saying the same thing as the financial times article, but also saying that intel is moving towards DDR.
Because if so, then there are some questions as to why they are searching for prior art.
Once an inventor has recieved a patent, he/she might ask the patent office for a "reexamination" of his/her invention once he/she realizes that there might be some prior art existing to invalidate his/her invention.
He/she can submit an application for "reexamination" to the patent office along with the prior art, and the inventor's argument as to why it is not prior art and the patent office can then decide whether or not the patent is still valid. This is a cheap way of strengthening a patent as when a patent has proceeded through a "reexamination" it is often considered to have more validity by courts.
Anyway, just a thought.
Although most slashdotters won't agree with me on this point, I'd be totally happy if I found out one of my competitors was stealing my design. Because I have a butt-load of patents protecting it, and if my competitor wants to sell his product in any major market, I'm going to sue his ass into the ground.
As for adding protection against reverse-engineering it simply commits too much cash to the design to make it worth-while.
Preventing someone from stealing your designs, is like any other type of theft, no matter what you do, a determined thief will still be able to steal it.
Besides his prevention method only discusses a black box type look at things. What if its a professional reverse engineering company like Semiconductor Insights decides to reverse engineer it. They are going to take the chip, de-cap it, and reverse engineer the circuitry right off the silicon. What exactly can you do to stop that?
Anyway, basically this guy is selling a new lock, and what what you should be doing is buying theft insurance (i.e. patents).
I've bought a book reviewed here before,
specifically "Calculating God".
This book looks very interesting, I'll probably at least look for it if I don't buy it.
The whole reason the Batman franchise started to fall apart was because they tried to make it campy like the t.v. series.
Batman is a dark and gothic character and for it to be done well it has to be told like that.
I especially like the "Year one" series as it portrays batman as a little bit of a lunatic..
it kinda goes into how crazy a guy has to be to put on a bat costume and go and fight crime.
Although it's going to screw up their cat-woman character..
since in year one she's a professional dom.
If I'm paying for a cable connection and all the frickin' movie channels and a descrambler box. I should damn well be allowed to tape the movies/shows I want to see that I payed for when I want to see them.
I should be allowed to place them into a format that makes them accessible to me for my own personal use.
This whole idea seems pretty simple to me, I really don't understand how one can even consider the MPAA's arguments.
Well with this we are one step closer to all having George Jetson jobs, you know sit on your ass and push one button over and over again while the computer does all the work..
:)
now if we can just get a three day work-week.
None, Rambus doesn't make anything therefore cannot violate any patents the suit is about antitrust laws and also asserts invalidity, non-infringement, and non-enforceability of Rambus patents pursuant to a number of different bases.
There is also a story at SemiBizNews and here
Course when I submitted it this morning it was rejected within seconds. Odd thing that.