I didn't know that, but I'm happy that they too must have realised how outragous this patent is. If they're no longer sueing over it, why have it?
"Amazon has got a number of other menacing patents since then, but has not as yet used them for aggression"
This statement means that they are still obtaining patents, but not showing aggression towards any infringers of the patent? If I am correct in assuming so, then it is useless to them, and goes straight back to our argument of getting rid of these kinds of patents. Maybe there are extremily innovative things that require patents (though I'm not convinced), but things like this, certainly do not fit into that catagory.
Personally I think they should all together be abolished, but this is a good start - people are finally realising how stupid some of them are. Amazon.com has the "1-click buy" patent... now every other company must sell things in a two-click buy or greater. This is an example of an obvious patent, which should be abolished (amazon also holds a couple more like this).
I've always thought competition is good, and it is... but in this case, I'd rather just have one standard we could all stick to. While these two formats (Blu-Ray & HD-DVD) tear each other apart, i'll stick to torrent (for high-def) and standard DVDs, thanks - until a standard is reached, atleast.
Cell Phones can easily work on planes (though it's not allowed). Despite the fact the plane is 30,000 feet in the air, radiowaves can travel extremily long distances if nothing is in the way. Infact, sometimes cell phones work too well (capture too many cellphone towers all at once). Wireless Internet, therefore, can easily be achieved. But Wifi acess points will take another few years before they start to appear all over the world. I think it may take them time to figure any remaining problems out - such as lack of wifi access points, but many passangers would be more than willing to pay when it is availible - Already a significant amount use theirs laptops during flight.
I buy a lot of concert tickets off ticketmaster, recently spending upwards of $200 on three. Many purchased tickets (to almost all popular bands) will have prices taht skyrocket on ebay (I could sell one of the tickets I payed $40 for [angels and airwaves, may 24th] for almost $200). This means ticketmaster will be making all that extra money, on top of their $8.75 convience charge (per ticket) and outrages shipping charges on tickets.
If there was anything else I could use which garenteed me the ability to get tickets to almost any concert in best sections right when the tickets become availible, I would use it, but I don't see any alternatives.
Yeah sure, It is on the economists website: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =E1_VVSTVQQ - you need a subscription to view the article, but you can get a day pass by watching an advertisment on their homepage [http://www.economist.com/%5D. The article is titled "Not just a flash in the pan" - it appeared in their technology quarterly a couple of weeks ago. Good read with many pictures and graphs to illistrate the trends.
"And as the price per gigabyte of both technologies falls, the fight shifts to ever higher capacities"
I read an article in The Economist about Flash Drives vs. Hard Drives. The rate of expansion of them isn't closing much, if at all (meaning everytime Flash gets bigger, so does the HD), so it is hard to see it ever dominating. Although there are many other more current technologys (very much like how NAND is superior to NOR flash memory) which can hold much more information, which will likely become more mainstream in the near future.
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I didn't know that, but I'm happy that they too must have realised how outragous this patent is. If they're no longer sueing over it, why have it? "Amazon has got a number of other menacing patents since then, but has not as yet used them for aggression" This statement means that they are still obtaining patents, but not showing aggression towards any infringers of the patent? If I am correct in assuming so, then it is useless to them, and goes straight back to our argument of getting rid of these kinds of patents. Maybe there are extremily innovative things that require patents (though I'm not convinced), but things like this, certainly do not fit into that catagory.
Personally I think they should all together be abolished, but this is a good start - people are finally realising how stupid some of them are. Amazon.com has the "1-click buy" patent... now every other company must sell things in a two-click buy or greater. This is an example of an obvious patent, which should be abolished (amazon also holds a couple more like this).
I've always thought competition is good, and it is... but in this case, I'd rather just have one standard we could all stick to. While these two formats (Blu-Ray & HD-DVD) tear each other apart, i'll stick to torrent (for high-def) and standard DVDs, thanks - until a standard is reached, atleast.
Cell Phones can easily work on planes (though it's not allowed). Despite the fact the plane is 30,000 feet in the air, radiowaves can travel extremily long distances if nothing is in the way. Infact, sometimes cell phones work too well (capture too many cellphone towers all at once). Wireless Internet, therefore, can easily be achieved. But Wifi acess points will take another few years before they start to appear all over the world. I think it may take them time to figure any remaining problems out - such as lack of wifi access points, but many passangers would be more than willing to pay when it is availible - Already a significant amount use theirs laptops during flight.
I buy a lot of concert tickets off ticketmaster, recently spending upwards of $200 on three. Many purchased tickets (to almost all popular bands) will have prices taht skyrocket on ebay (I could sell one of the tickets I payed $40 for [angels and airwaves, may 24th] for almost $200). This means ticketmaster will be making all that extra money, on top of their $8.75 convience charge (per ticket) and outrages shipping charges on tickets. If there was anything else I could use which garenteed me the ability to get tickets to almost any concert in best sections right when the tickets become availible, I would use it, but I don't see any alternatives.
Sorry, But not installing anything.
Lets hope Dr.Martin Fleischmann doesn't embaress himself again. I very much doubt this too be true, but fusion in a year would be great!
Yeah sure, It is on the economists website: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id =E1_VVSTVQQ - you need a subscription to view the article, but you can get a day pass by watching an advertisment on their homepage [http://www.economist.com/%5D. The article is titled "Not just a flash in the pan" - it appeared in their technology quarterly a couple of weeks ago. Good read with many pictures and graphs to illistrate the trends.
"And as the price per gigabyte of both technologies falls, the fight shifts to ever higher capacities"
I read an article in The Economist about Flash Drives vs. Hard Drives. The rate of expansion of them isn't closing much, if at all (meaning everytime Flash gets bigger, so does the HD), so it is hard to see it ever dominating. Although there are many other more current technologys (very much like how NAND is superior to NOR flash memory) which can hold much more information, which will likely become more mainstream in the near future.