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Are we infringing on any patents yet? Don't even think of looking, and sing loudly with your fingers in your ears if anyone tries to inform you. Otherwise you

by ktizo 14y ago

Are we infringing on any patents yet? Don't even think of looking, and sing loudly with your fingers in your ears if anyone tries to inform you. Otherwise you are willfully infringing and the damages are trebled. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/gmlr10&div=11&id=&page= http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&#3...

huhtenberg 14y ago
*tripled
- ktizo 14y ago
  Same thing. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trebled http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trebled
  - huhtenberg 14y ago
    Interesting. Treble is favored in a few specific contexts (in the game of darts, for instance), but triple is generally favored everywhere else. Even in British English, where treble is most common, triple appears approximately three times for every instance of treble. In American English, treble is almost unheard of except in relation to sound and music. From here - http://grammarist.com/usage/triple-treble http://grammarist.com/usage/triple-treble
    - ktizo 14y ago
      I use both, often without noticing. I think I tend to be more likely to use treble or trebled at the end of sentence and triple or tripled in the middle of one. Note, I am not claiming this as any sort of sensible usage, am just commenting on how I tend to use the words. My pronunciation of words like grass or bath is also similarly scattered. This confuses folk when they try and work out what class background I am from, which is something of an obsession for many people here in the UK.
SchizoDuckie 14y ago
I juist found the patent that speakforyourself is infringing on: http://news.priorsmart.com/semantic-compaction-systems-v-speak-for-yourself-l5vv/#pat-5920303 http://news.priorsmart.com/semantic-compaction-systems-v-spe... Basically, anyone that creates a soundboard with tiles that you can reorganize and that play a sound is fucked. Anyone with some law experience in the house? Are we allowed to do this without being sued overseas? Should we move away from github?

by ktizo 14y ago

huhtenberg 14y ago

*tripled

ktizo 14y ago
Same thing. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trebled http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trebled
- huhtenberg 14y ago
  Interesting. Treble is favored in a few specific contexts (in the game of darts, for instance), but triple is generally favored everywhere else. Even in British English, where treble is most common, triple appears approximately three times for every instance of treble. In American English, treble is almost unheard of except in relation to sound and music. From here - http://grammarist.com/usage/triple-treble http://grammarist.com/usage/triple-treble
  - ktizo 14y ago
    I use both, often without noticing. I think I tend to be more likely to use treble or trebled at the end of sentence and triple or tripled in the middle of one. Note, I am not claiming this as any sort of sensible usage, am just commenting on how I tend to use the words. My pronunciation of words like grass or bath is also similarly scattered. This confuses folk when they try and work out what class background I am from, which is something of an obsession for many people here in the UK.

SchizoDuckie 14y ago

I juist found the patent that speakforyourself is infringing on: http://news.priorsmart.com/semantic-compaction-systems-v-speak-for-yourself-l5vv/#pat-5920303 http://news.priorsmart.com/semantic-compaction-systems-v-spe... Basically, anyone that creates a soundboard with tiles that you can reorganize and that play a sound is fucked. Anyone with some law experience in the house? Are we allowed to do this without being sued overseas? Should we move away from github?