Funny how we in the free world survives without these patents. They have no merit for the consumer, they serve only the interest of corporations who exist solely to litigate and gain their earnings from suing other companies.
Microsoft was one of the companies who pushed for the idea of software patents. They get no sympathy when patent triviality bites them in their bloated sagging asses. Their defence mechanism is the fact that they have a huge legal department that is consulted during the development stages of new ideas. I'm sure they are aware they are a target and that is considered an acceptable loss for the net gain they get out of the subjugation of competition.
They are not obliged, as you say, to patent trivial things. It is a clear business decision to take advantage of a terrible system
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear... I like a lot of Apple products... it's just a lot of people have clamped onto them as a fashion symbol and have become insufferable in the process.
They forgot Twitter. Thats annoying and totally useless. They forgot all Apple products. The products are good, it is just sad they unleashed the hidden well of irritating morons. They forgot digg.com, where all the appletinnis hang out.
Surely this fits the bill of Vexatious litigation? The fact that they have done this kind of thing over and over. Should they really not be taken down over this? Are there no US regulatory legal authorities that look out for people's interests?
Sadly that is not quite the case: It's a Supervolcano
one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
There was a BBC horizon program about this several years ago. Apparently it is hundreds of years overdue for its regular eruption. Would wipe out America apparently.
Better not happen before I find out what happens in Lost.
I'm guessing that after liquidation the brand was sold off by the creditors. So this prob has as much to do with the original c64 et al as a jelly fish and a porn star.
They are just going to be PCs with a Commodore sticker on them. I'd say trying to comptete with Alienware etc.
The only reason the RIAA keeps getting away with this shit is because nobody is willing to stand up to them.
Screw them. If they are going to do stuff like this, there is only one inevitable consequence, music piracy will go through the roof. In turn this will hurt them. It may take a few years, but i'm guessing we won't need to do anything to bring the RIAA cartel down. The market will do it for them. When they fail their mandate to protect their member's sales (Sony, Warner etc.) and instead hurt them, it will all level out.
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So what about genetically modified trees that consume superstancial amounts of CO2?
Trees that grow high into the sky. Trees that grow so big we can build cities in their overlapping branches.
Trees my friends that bear bounties fruits and sustenance for all mankind alike?
Trees so beautiful they would make a grown man weep in awe.
And these trees I sayeth, they shall become our new friend. Our new master. Our new servant.
All hail our new genetically modified tree overlords.
Pretty hard to apply american patent law to a free product manufactured in the free world though.
No it isn't. Agnosticism is a generally abused word.
Funny how we in the free world survives without these patents. They have no merit for the consumer, they serve only the interest of corporations who exist solely to litigate and gain their earnings from suing other companies.
They are not obliged, as you say, to patent trivial things. It is a clear business decision to take advantage of a terrible system
Don't they read teh internets like us too?
Or he's just created a ton of buzz and talk about his company for free.
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear... I like a lot of Apple products... it's just a lot of people have clamped onto them as a fashion symbol and have become insufferable in the process.
They forgot Twitter. Thats annoying and totally useless. They forgot all Apple products. The products are good, it is just sad they unleashed the hidden well of irritating morons. They forgot digg.com, where all the appletinnis hang out.
Out of interest what was the movie?
However, after trying it out on linux it does seem to be rendering and fetching pages a bit faster.
I would call it "The Status Bar".
We don't talk about that kind of thing around here. That's 500 million people in denial.
Surely this fits the bill of Vexatious litigation? The fact that they have done this kind of thing over and over. Should they really not be taken down over this? Are there no US regulatory legal authorities that look out for people's interests?
one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
BBC Science
Anyway, have a nice nuclear winter, eithr way.
Better not happen before I find out what happens in Lost.
Both offtopic and wrong. KDE looks good atm. I'm sure it will look better in kde 4.
They are just going to be PCs with a Commodore sticker on them. I'd say trying to comptete with Alienware etc.
I didn't care about this story till you just said that.
I thought those new Sun server boxen were supposed to be environmentally friendly?
Screw them. If they are going to do stuff like this, there is only one inevitable consequence, music piracy will go through the roof. In turn this will hurt them. It may take a few years, but i'm guessing we won't need to do anything to bring the RIAA cartel down. The market will do it for them. When they fail their mandate to protect their member's sales (Sony, Warner etc.) and instead hurt them, it will all level out.
If you have a blahblah@googlemail.com does blahblah@gmail.com not work anyway?
Yea, they pissed me off too. I've seen articles from that site on several news syndicators and each has been crappy amateur and annoying.
Indeed. Most Corporations have the legal status of something like a 'pseudo person'.
> write a JavaScript port of vi Already done: :) http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/