The hardware people are reasonable, they want their stuff to be able to play everything, and record everything, and they want it to work 100% of the time.
Ahh.. so that's why they always invent their own formats for cassettes, memory sticks, interconnectors, etc... Or wait, no, I'm confused now.
If you think you have prior art that would invalidate this patent, then please, submit it.
This has nothing to do with prior art or not. I read through about 10% of this, skipping what mostly looked like fillers to make it more technical. This is seriously basic things. You know back in the 80ies when you used the 'pen' in MacPaint, and if you clicked a white square it would 'remember' that it was going to paint everything black, and if you started on a black square it would 'remember' it was going to paint every square white. That this thing goes through shows what sad state the sytem is in. This is what those points means, in practice:
detecting a mode selection event
This is when you click the first checkbox.
changing the mode of operation in dependence upon the detected mode selection event
There are two modes of operation: If the first checkbox is set, you enter the "clear" mode. If it's cleared, you enter the "set" mode.
Now you can drag the mouse, all checkboxes you hit will enter the state you chose with the first click.
I could show prior art; this is how the menus in DirWork 1.62 on my Amiga works, from 1992 (I just checked, to be sure I didn't imagine things). I have no wish to submit this, since doing that would just make people believe that "Hey, the system works! People can submit prior art if they aren't happy, so let's just keep giving out patents like santa on christmas day!". Something else has to be done.
When I write America I mean America, not some small subset of it. I can't take responsibility of whatever the grand-grand-parent meant when he wrote it.
Because DRM has nothing to do with making money on culture. They *think* it has, that's why they add it, but in practice, people who wants to copy music for free does it for free, and people who wants to pay for it, pays for it. DRM or not.
That sizeable part is more like the lunatic fringe such as and including, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. There isn't anyone seriously questioning if the US is more credible than Iran. I'm sure you can find protest groups and fringe movements in nearly every country INCLUDING the US but no one is listening to these people or taking them seriously.
I don't know, maybe I'm biased since I live in Europe, but calling whole of Europe a fringe movement doesn't sound fair to me.
There are times when I look at my 10 year old son and I am consumed with guilt at what I have brought him into.
There's no point feeling guilty about things that cannot be undone, but feel free to spread the word, to your son, and others that might think putting kids to this world is a great idea: http://www.vhemt.org/
So you mean that they will have to pay normal taxes just like their competitors? Except they can still keep prices lower because they don't need as many employees? Sounds like a fair deal to me.
Well, what I meant with this is for example if Opera would sell the browser to someone else. I would of course still be able to use the old version, unless their license prohibit me to do so (I haven't read it!), or then switch to some other browser.
Like uTorrent, a previously great torrent client for Windows. People occasionally whined that the source was closed. Eventually uTorrent was sold to the bittorrent company, and the newer versions started to send mysterious packets back to them...
As I said. For now, I have no reason not to trust Opera, so I use it.
Because I have no clue what Opera does under the hood. At the moment, I'm quite sure it's not doing anything 'bad', because I trust the opera guys. This might change any moment, since the door is closed, so to say. You have to put the trust in the hands of the developers. That's why I'd prefer to use free software.
I don't mind the memory. I have plenty of gigs even in my laptop. What I mind is the general slowness that I experience with Firefox, and that makes me use Opera on my laptop even though I would feel better using an open source browser.
Yes. Let me quote Wikipedia, the always 100% correct and unbiased online encyclopedia:
A government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.
One could argue that someone with a nucular device is a body that is in power to enforce rules and laws within any group of people sufficiently close. This is what the government is, and has always been. Difference is that now we often chose the guy with the nuke, or at least are lead to believe to have a choice...:)
Of course if it HAD been a real bomb, and the Police wouldn't have been so extreme, and something happened, then you would be the first to attack the Police.
No, you see, you would have been, and you cleary show it with this post. Us weirdo-people here usually try to apply some logic before letting our knee-jerk kick reason in the balls. Logic and reasoning clearly leads us to the insight that there's nothing we can do to protect someone from blowing up a bomb in a crowd, unless we make it mandatory to walk around naked without carrying luggage, and x-rayed before getting closer than a certain distance from anybody else.
The only thing you can do to prevent suicide bombings is to create a society where most people don't feel so desperate as to blow themselves up would be the best thing to do.
Treating people like they treated this girl doesn't help.
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Ahh.. so that's why they always invent their own formats for cassettes, memory sticks, interconnectors, etc... Or wait, no, I'm confused now.
This has nothing to do with prior art or not. I read through about 10% of this, skipping what mostly looked like fillers to make it more technical. This is seriously basic things. You know back in the 80ies when you used the 'pen' in MacPaint, and if you clicked a white square it would 'remember' that it was going to paint everything black, and if you started on a black square it would 'remember' it was going to paint every square white. That this thing goes through shows what sad state the sytem is in. This is what those points means, in practice:
detecting a mode selection eventThis is when you click the first checkbox.
changing the mode of operation in dependence upon the detected mode selection eventThere are two modes of operation: If the first checkbox is set, you enter the "clear" mode. If it's cleared, you enter the "set" mode.
Now you can drag the mouse, all checkboxes you hit will enter the state you chose with the first click.
I could show prior art; this is how the menus in DirWork 1.62 on my Amiga works, from 1992 (I just checked, to be sure I didn't imagine things). I have no wish to submit this, since doing that would just make people believe that "Hey, the system works! People can submit prior art if they aren't happy, so let's just keep giving out patents like santa on christmas day!". Something else has to be done.
Or possibly the change has to come from within, unless you want Burma to become a state in China.
You're doing great! Just one more to make it right:
s/TFA/FA/
Look, I'm Swedish, I'm well aware of this. :P
The question was not about who "discovered" America, but when it became a smorgasbord. Something even the original poster seem to have forgotten.
You have the same idiocy in the western world. Try selling a magazine with hand drawn child pornography fantasies.
When I write America I mean America, not some small subset of it. I can't take responsibility of whatever the grand-grand-parent meant when he wrote it.
Probably around the time Christopher Colombus arrived to America.
Because DRM has nothing to do with making money on culture. They *think* it has, that's why they add it, but in practice, people who wants to copy music for free does it for free, and people who wants to pay for it, pays for it. DRM or not.
Well, the larger the gap between the rich and the poor is, the less independence.
Sources, or gtfo.
I don't know, maybe I'm biased since I live in Europe, but calling whole of Europe a fringe movement doesn't sound fair to me.
Check out this recent survey from the Financial Times
There's no point feeling guilty about things that cannot be undone, but feel free to spread the word, to your son, and others that might think putting kids to this world is a great idea: http://www.vhemt.org/
Sources?
Damn. Mod me down guys, I should have RTFA first. My post had nothing to do with the subject discussed in this article.
So you mean that they will have to pay normal taxes just like their competitors? Except they can still keep prices lower because they don't need as many employees? Sounds like a fair deal to me.
Yes.
Scary, isn't it?
Why not replace the machines from group 1 with the machines from group 2? Everyone will be happy!
Well, what I meant with this is for example if Opera would sell the browser to someone else. I would of course still be able to use the old version, unless their license prohibit me to do so (I haven't read it!), or then switch to some other browser.
Like uTorrent, a previously great torrent client for Windows. People occasionally whined that the source was closed. Eventually uTorrent was sold to the bittorrent company, and the newer versions started to send mysterious packets back to them...
As I said. For now, I have no reason not to trust Opera, so I use it.
Because I have no clue what Opera does under the hood. At the moment, I'm quite sure it's not doing anything 'bad', because I trust the opera guys. This might change any moment, since the door is closed, so to say. You have to put the trust in the hands of the developers. That's why I'd prefer to use free software.
I don't mind the memory. I have plenty of gigs even in my laptop. What I mind is the general slowness that I experience with Firefox, and that makes me use Opera on my laptop even though I would feel better using an open source browser.
wooosh
Yes. Let me quote Wikipedia, the always 100% correct and unbiased online encyclopedia:
A government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.One could argue that someone with a nucular device is a body that is in power to enforce rules and laws within any group of people sufficiently close. This is what the government is, and has always been. Difference is that now we often chose the guy with the nuke, or at least are lead to believe to have a choice... :)
Suicide is illegal in most countries, as far as I know.
No, you see, you would have been, and you cleary show it with this post. Us weirdo-people here usually try to apply some logic before letting our knee-jerk kick reason in the balls. Logic and reasoning clearly leads us to the insight that there's nothing we can do to protect someone from blowing up a bomb in a crowd, unless we make it mandatory to walk around naked without carrying luggage, and x-rayed before getting closer than a certain distance from anybody else.
The only thing you can do to prevent suicide bombings is to create a society where most people don't feel so desperate as to blow themselves up would be the best thing to do.
Treating people like they treated this girl doesn't help.