I always seem to get back the standard form letter describing their opinion on the situation even though I asked for elaboration on a particular point or provided historical evidence to the contrary.
I find it more sad that people think crime will be solved by removing the tools of that crime. After guns are removed and people start using knives they will be the first people to limit the size of knives people can buy. After that?
Crimes of passion may be prevented by minor gun control... but I'd venture to say that the recent publicized acts were all premeditated and legality of purchase would have had little (if no) affect on the outcome. This wasn't some guy that decided one morning to go out and "get him a human head."
How is high speed rail going to help commuters? By the time the train got up the 200+ MPH it's supposed to go you'd have passed by the station it was supposed to stop at.
High speed rail is for vast distance city to city traffic. It's not going to reduce local commutes and it might only help those people who have over an hour commute. Even then you'll probably spend more time getting to the station, waiting for the train, and getting a taxi from the station to your work. You may actually be spending more time trying to get to work.
My only question is... why can't the States involved fund this? What benefit do the people in Kansas get from this high speed rail? Why are they paying for part of it?
Heck, "Consolitis" has an effect on LCD Displays. Anything over 1080 horizontal lines is getting harder to find every day. I feel like things are going backwards for PC displays.
From what I understand... if you ship your software and someone patents part of it... all you have to do is state your claim and it could cancel said patent:
301. Citation of prior art and written statements (a) IN GENERAL — Any person at any time may cite to the Office in writing (1) prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which that person believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of a particular patent; or (2) statements of the patent owner filed in a proceeding before a Federal court or the Office in which the patent owner took a position on the scope of any claim of a particular patent. (b) OFFICIAL FILE — If the person citing prior art or written statements pursuant to subsection (a) explains in writing the pertinence and manner of applying the prior art or written statements to at least 1 claim of the patent, the citation of the prior art or written statements and the explanation thereof shall become a part of the official file of the patent.
311. Inter partes review (a) IN GENERAL — Subject to the provisions of this chapter, a person who is not the patent owner may file with the Office a petition to institute an inter partes review for a patent. The Director shall establish, by regulation, fees to be paid by the person requesting the review, in such amounts as the Director determines to be reasonable, considering the aggregate costs of the review. (b) SCOPE — A petitioner in an inter partes review may request to cancel as unpatentable 1 or more claims of a patent only on a ground that could be raised under section 102 (Novelty/Prior Art) or 103 (Obvious) and only on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications.
Also, WTH can't I use <i> for italic? ( I wanted to point out that the 102/103 parenthesis were my additions. )
They don't even need that. All they have to do is scan the card on those bar code scanners and it will tell you which ones are winners. I haven't seen them in a while (probably because someone figured it out...)
Amusingly, the upgrade race is stalling (IMHO...) The games coming out are not really tapping into the performance of hardware today. I recently (August) upgraded my Core2Duo with 4GB and nVidia 6800GT that I bought in March 2005, but it still did everything I asked of it. Even though it was 5 years old, I gave it to a friend who still uses it. I expect my new machine (Corei7, 6GB, ATI5870) to last longer than that one did.
Granted, it's not the "10 year" plan of the PS2, but it's not like I have to upgrade video cards every year (ugh, so much money wasted in those days) to play the latest games with respectable performance.
But it's most likely one reason. I can't count the number of times I had my Mom tell me she couldn't open some video and it turned out to be a codec issue. Otherwise, she liked the system I setup for her to try. In the end it boiled down to: "I couldn't open everything so-and-so sent me" so I had to set her up with a VM for XP.
Especially since this plugin will likely be going out in Windows Updates so that the stranglehold of Internet video can remain in the hands of H.264 while those that choose non-Windows machines cannot view those videos without special provisions.
The problem with this approach is that Microsoft pushes the plugin they wrote out to all those chrome users on Windows.
Will they push my ActiveX plugin to allow alternative formats in IE to all their users as well?
There's a definite imbalance of power there. One one side, the users are going to get it (usually in some obscure patch message: "Improve Internet Explorer experience.") and the other; the user has to go out and manually obtain the plugin.
That's really what's it's about (IMHO) Microsoft would rather keep you using pay/patent protected codecs because they can slip them in on a bulk license while keeping other alternative OSes (mainly Linux) from having that support (for legality/monetary reasons.)
If an open codec were popular, anyone could use it and people may not miss Windows support for 'X' codec that isn't available elsewhere.
Technically it's just Steamworks (not sure about voice chat) from what I understand of it...
I'd be flat lined if Steam brought their store to the PS3 along with cross game/platform voice and they let me use the apps in my PC library that have PS3 equivalents, but for the update coming it's just enough Steam (cloud, updates and multiplayer) to support Portal 2 from my understanding.
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I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not...
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/02/12/police-arrest-stabbing-suspect-in-subway-tunnel/
I always seem to get back the standard form letter describing their opinion on the situation even though I asked for elaboration on a particular point or provided historical evidence to the contrary.
I find it more sad that people think crime will be solved by removing the tools of that crime. After guns are removed and people start using knives they will be the first people to limit the size of knives people can buy. After that?
Crimes of passion may be prevented by minor gun control... but I'd venture to say that the recent publicized acts were all premeditated and legality of purchase would have had little (if no) affect on the outcome. This wasn't some guy that decided one morning to go out and "get him a human head."
How is high speed rail going to help commuters? By the time the train got up the 200+ MPH it's supposed to go you'd have passed by the station it was supposed to stop at.
High speed rail is for vast distance city to city traffic. It's not going to reduce local commutes and it might only help those people who have over an hour commute. Even then you'll probably spend more time getting to the station, waiting for the train, and getting a taxi from the station to your work. You may actually be spending more time trying to get to work.
My only question is... why can't the States involved fund this? What benefit do the people in Kansas get from this high speed rail? Why are they paying for part of it?
Somewhere in one of my moves I lost my MFM... I really liked the tones it made when it powered up and it was practically the only reason I kept it.
Just when I was wondering what I was going to do with all the stray cats in the neighborhood...
Then how does my solar powered calculator work!?
The link you speak of was "edited" to point to us.playstation.com on Jan 27 unless I'm missing something.
Heck, "Consolitis" has an effect on LCD Displays. Anything over 1080 horizontal lines is getting harder to find every day. I feel like things are going backwards for PC displays.
I'm kind of curious if this will still work. What's to stop someone from creating an Android app that uses Rhythmbox's last.fm "method"?
For italics, you have to use <em>
Is it really stealing if you put all your stuff out in the street for others to browse through?
The Department of E involves everything that begins with the letter E.
It's the new naming scheme meant to simplify government. Codename: Sesame Street.
From what I understand... if you ship your software and someone patents part of it... all you have to do is state your claim and it could cancel said patent:
301. Citation of prior art and written statements
(a) IN GENERAL — Any person at any time may cite to the Office in writing
(1) prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which that person believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of a particular patent; or
(2) statements of the patent owner filed in a proceeding before a Federal court or the Office in which the patent owner took a position on the scope of any claim of a particular patent.
(b) OFFICIAL FILE — If the person citing prior art or written statements pursuant to subsection (a) explains in writing the pertinence and manner of applying the prior art or written statements to at least 1 claim of the patent, the citation of the prior art or written statements and the explanation thereof shall become a part of the official file of the patent.
311. Inter partes review
(a) IN GENERAL — Subject to the provisions of this chapter, a person who is not the patent owner may file with the Office a petition to institute an inter partes review for a patent. The Director shall establish, by regulation, fees to be paid by the person requesting the review, in such amounts as the Director determines to be reasonable, considering the aggregate costs of the review.
(b) SCOPE — A petitioner in an inter partes review may request to cancel as unpatentable 1 or more claims of a patent only on a ground that could be raised under section 102 (Novelty/Prior Art) or 103 (Obvious) and only on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications.
Also, WTH can't I use <i> for italic? ( I wanted to point out that the 102/103 parenthesis were my additions. )
I vote for making it open knowledge (common/no patent) because if two people come up with the same solution, it must not be that unique.
They don't even need that. All they have to do is scan the card on those bar code scanners and it will tell you which ones are winners. I haven't seen them in a while (probably because someone figured it out...)
Amusingly, the upgrade race is stalling (IMHO...) The games coming out are not really tapping into the performance of hardware today. I recently (August) upgraded my Core2Duo with 4GB and nVidia 6800GT that I bought in March 2005, but it still did everything I asked of it. Even though it was 5 years old, I gave it to a friend who still uses it. I expect my new machine (Corei7, 6GB, ATI5870) to last longer than that one did.
Granted, it's not the "10 year" plan of the PS2, but it's not like I have to upgrade video cards every year (ugh, so much money wasted in those days) to play the latest games with respectable performance.
That's not the only reason... I never said that.
But it's most likely one reason. I can't count the number of times I had my Mom tell me she couldn't open some video and it turned out to be a codec issue. Otherwise, she liked the system I setup for her to try. In the end it boiled down to: "I couldn't open everything so-and-so sent me" so I had to set her up with a VM for XP.
Especially since this plugin will likely be going out in Windows Updates so that the stranglehold of Internet video can remain in the hands of H.264 while those that choose non-Windows machines cannot view those videos without special provisions.
If majority Internet video requires H.264 and Windows supports it while the alternatives cannot legally/monetarily pay to support it... who wins?
The problem with this approach is that Microsoft pushes the plugin they wrote out to all those chrome users on Windows.
Will they push my ActiveX plugin to allow alternative formats in IE to all their users as well?
There's a definite imbalance of power there. One one side, the users are going to get it (usually in some obscure patch message: "Improve Internet Explorer experience.") and the other; the user has to go out and manually obtain the plugin.
...on Windows machines.
That's really what's it's about (IMHO) Microsoft would rather keep you using pay/patent protected codecs because they can slip them in on a bulk license while keeping other alternative OSes (mainly Linux) from having that support (for legality/monetary reasons.)
If an open codec were popular, anyone could use it and people may not miss Windows support for 'X' codec that isn't available elsewhere.
Technically it's just Steamworks (not sure about voice chat) from what I understand of it...
I'd be flat lined if Steam brought their store to the PS3 along with cross game/platform voice and they let me use the apps in my PC library that have PS3 equivalents, but for the update coming it's just enough Steam (cloud, updates and multiplayer) to support Portal 2 from my understanding.
I also do the same on my PC, but I haven't seen the Dropbox app for the PS3 yet.