Posts by paulc 770 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007
I cannot see how on Earth MPEG LA can even begin to think about creating a patent pool on something that doesn't belong to it...
Quite simple Google, just do it and push everybody over to using HTML5 + WebM if they want to continue viewing videos on Youtube and any page that embeds them... make it the defacto standard...
Microsoft will quite happily lose this case as it will strengthen their patent FUD... If they do go into bat to defend themselves here, it will be on the grounds that the patent itself is invalid for some reason, They will never go in to have software patents per se invalidated as non-patentable subjects as that would immediately render their own FUDchest of patents useless
remember, Microsoft are making all sorts of bluster about Chinese piracy, but they would far rather the Chinese pirate Windows & Office, than have them switch to Linux and/or OpenOffice...
Expect them to get the Chinese to enact a law stating that computers can only be sold with an operating system pre-installed and that in order to claim tax rebate on it for depreciation, it must be commercial software... they won't do it themselves, but will get their goons, the BSA, to do it for them while hiding behind the BSA front... They're currently trying this scam in the Czech Republic:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-05-26-014-35-NW-BZ-LL
just wipe Android and replace with a decent pad optimised Linux...
I've been looking for a decently priced replacement for my palm organiser... this looks like it will fit the bill nicely... even better if the display back-light can be switched off and it still be readable in sunlight...
sadly, it'll probably be at least next year when we see it over here in Blighty and it'll be £250 as well...
bring on the patent armaggedon... IBM & Google, you're both big enough to take on these tosspots... just pull the trigger... stop pansying around with cross-licensing, sue the pants off anyone who tries to sue an open source developer/customer who uses your technology.
In the meantime, still waiting for re. Bilski to bring about the death of software and business method patents...
I just love the tortuous dancing Microsoft does when they are defending themselves against a software patent... fighting like mad to get a patent overthrown, but dancing all round the fact that software shouldn't be patentable in the first place as it would render their own patent warchest useless...
all done really to keep moonlight behind in the implementation stakes... meanwhile, Microsoft will claim Silverlight to be cross-platform because there's moonlight on Linux, but moonlight will always be one step behind and websites using Silverlight will not render correctly on moonlight if at all...
"Sustrans national cycle network is one example,"
it's a total joke... you only have to see the meandering route that Route 41 takes through Gloucestershire to realise that the cyclist is being paid lip service to... the official route has you weaving around all over the place crossing and recrossing major junctions with absolutely no consideration given to safety or reduction of Journey time... I'm convinced it was made as long and tortuous as possible in order to maximise the length of cycle lane used for it... no attempt was made to actually segregate the cyclists, just random patches of red lanes and dual purpose cycle lanes on the footpaths... all done to claim a subsidy from the EU no doubt
no one actually uses it because 1) very few know it exists and 2) those few who do know of it know it's completely unfit for purpose...
"Since it *never* got to production and *all* prototypes were destroyed (not even 1 remains in a museum) that statement is meaningless."
BZZZTTT!!! wrong... there's 1 at Cosford...
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/collections/aircraft/british-aircraft-corporation-tsr-2.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BAC_TSR2_Cosford-01.jpg
I personally know cos I got trapped in the cockpit when the broom handle holding the hood open slipped... that canopy is seriously heavy...
used to help out back in late seventies when I was stationed at Cosford on my fitter's course.
Just re-invent the Leander class... and please don't make them Jack of all trades... have anti-sub version (3 helicopters), anti-air version (plenty of long range anti-air missiles) and anti-surface version (more anti-surface missiles)... but make sure all of them have 1 helicopter minimum...
people need to realise that Microsoft kept Apple alive purely so they can point to Apple and say, "Look, there's Apple, we're not a monopoly"...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec97/apple_8-6.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/5161/microsoftapple_deal_may_be_mostly_a_political_move.html
kindly explain just why the Vulcan had terrain following radar as standard then? the Blue Steel missiles were not intended to be dropped from high altitude... the Vulcan just popped up to a slightly higher altitude to launch then after confirming that the missile (s) were on their way, dropped back down to the altitude they'd flown in at... just above treetops... the final Blue Steels in service could be launched from as low as 1000 ft...
most probably find the item used for the water test on the fuel was a counterfeit...
Fuel in bowsers and storage tanks has to be regularly tested for water contamination and this requires a small sample being drawn off and pulled through a test capsule. If there is more than the permitted amount of water in the fuel, the capsule will change colour.
for Microsoft, the definition is capable of running on the current product and the previous product. That is it...
and as for Microsoft dropping development on a Linux based product in order to increase innovation... hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Microsoft are completely incapable of innovating anything except inventive new FUD...
why the goalies start dancing about a lot just before the kicker starts his run...
then again, it would help if our teams weren't even involved in penalty shoot-outs in the first place... concentration on the basics like passing without being intercepted and actually going to get it back when you've sploobed it away with that completely pointless pass for the sake of passing pass...
our players have no pride, are overpaid and lack any true commitment.
applied at birth with RFID chips as well?
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
checksum being 666?
"By Matt 21
I think he's misunderstood how government should work. Consumers, or voters as I call them, have an opinion, then it's up to the government to follow that opinion as they are supposed to be our representatives. They are not supposed to tell us what to think.
The tail does not wag the dog (or perhaps that should be "the flees do not tell the dog what to do")."
me thinks they see us as the fleas and themselves as the dog...
"Maggie decommissioned the HMS Endurance to save money, and we ended up with the Falklands War as a result. What unintended consequence are we going to get this time out of Cameron trying to save on spend?"
crap... HMS Endurance saw action during the Falklands conflict...
"On 19 March 1982 while the ship was at Stanley, South Georgia was occupied by Argentinian civilians. The Endurance, commanded by Captain Nick Barker, was sent to order the Argentinians off the island. Endurance had a small Royal Marines detachment and took further Marines from NP (Naval Party) 8901, and sailed on 21 March for South Georgia. Arriving on 25 March, she encountered the Argentinian transport Bahia Buen Suceso, which had landed 100 troops, and Endurance landed her marines before returning to the Falklands on 30 March. She joined up with the British task force in April and landed SBS soldiers at Hound Bay on South Georgia on 22 April. With the threat of a submarine presence, other vessels moved into deeper waters but Endurance moved into sea ice near the shore. On 25 April two Wasp ASW helicopters flying from Endurance assisted in attacks on the submarine Santa Fe, which was later abandoned by her crew. When the Argentinian forces surrendered on the 26th the Endurance remained in the vicinity of the island as a guard."
If she had been decommissioned as you claim, then she wouldn't have been there...
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By BOBSta Posted Thursday 13th August 2009 11:02 GMT
Perhaps if Dell where to start "Recommending Ubuntu" on it's PCs instead of Windows Vista, people would buy more of them? It's very difficult (IMO) to find any reference to Linux or Ubuntu on the Dell website..."
Microsoft pay Dell to recommend Vista... they don't get the OEM Vista price reduced, but they get market development funds which is Microsoft's way of getting round the fact that they have to make Vista OEM available to all OEMs at the same price... the more points you "score" by doing things Microsoft wants like hiding your Linux versions so you can't find them via the main website, the more money you get... If your volume is small, you get less funds... so the big boys effectively get a better "discount" on the deal because they get more market development funds because of their sheer volume.
http://news.cnet.com/Gateway-exec-Microsoft-too-powerful/2100-1016_3-868413.html
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Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a financial loser for computer makers.
"In other words, Gateway must comply with this provision in order to receive any market development funds," Fama said. The discount is substantial: $10 per copy of Windows.
"Since that $10 discount would apply to each copy of Windows XP that Gateway distributes during 2003, it would not be commercially practical to consider compliance...as optional," Fama testified.
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to put it plainly... sucked...
Computers in 2004 were too slow to run it well and they designed the machine down to the minimum and as a result the java desktop became a major bottleneck...
the primary reason you don't see many Linux boxes in the shops is because the vast majority of magazines have adverts which are part paid for by Microsoft with what are called "market development funds"... which have the primary intent of subsidizing those box makers who toe the Microsoft line... the more points they score, the more funds they get... and selling Linux boxes reduces the score...
the camera windows and the ranging window should be on the opposite face to the display so the operator can easily view the display while pointing it at the victim... the current mockup requires the operator to be looking down into the display while trying to aim it at the victim...
ordinary internal combustion engined cars are pretty quiet as well these days, but any move to delay electric cars by a few years keeps the oil business in control a few years longer.
What's the bets they'll want electric cars to go peep. peep, peep like electric forklifts have to do when in motion
anyway, I thought this was the 21st centurey? why haven't the blind been fitted up with 3D sonar headsets yet so they can tell what's close and also let the headset do the detection of things close by giveaway noises like tyres on asphalt...
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