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by cube13 14y ago
Or to make sure that they don't get sued for violating them. Which, presumably, was the reason that they attempted to get them invalidated in the first place.
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by cube13 14y ago
High prices didn't stop the first wave of computer innovation. The Apple ][ cost $1200 at release. In 1977.
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by cube13 14y ago
My reality: Quora links are 100% useless to click. I don't have an account there. I never intend to have an account there, because the only thing I've used it for is to get answers(or more context) to the occasional bizarre coding issue I'
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by cube13 14y ago
Aside from the(admittedly very close) similarities between the Zerg and Tyranids, there's not that much that Blizzard copied from GW's IP. However, it's telling that GW's notoriously trigger happy lawyers have left Blizzard alone, so it's p
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by cube13 14y ago
It's not the gameplay mechanics that raise a flag for me. It's the art. Compare the screenshots of the various units to this: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ultramarine_terminat...
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by cube13 14y ago
>That's an awfully liberal use of "bad faith". There wasn't any "negotiation" yet at all, it's just a meeting. Meetings go off-agenda all the time. >Why should we care? I still don't see any ethics issues here at all. Hard negotiati
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by cube13 14y ago
The problem is that it's a bad faith negotiation. Dalton was under the impression that he was going to be making a pitch for some higher level support from FB for his product. That does not automatically translate to wanting Facebook to hi
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by cube13 14y ago
> We very recently moved in the US from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system. In the former, if you can provide evidence of the genesis of the invention before the filing of the opponent's patent, then that may invalidate their p
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by cube13 14y ago
I think the standard IPO buying strategy for a large institution like UBS is to make many large buy requests to make absolutely sure that all the brokers that want stock get it, then cancel when enough orders are fulfilled. Since interest w
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by cube13 14y ago
I was talking purely on the hardware, as I'm not familiar with the phone enough to comment on the software. But from that perspective, you definitely are right, a lot of "modern" OS features in for the default iOS and Android shells are in
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by cube13 14y ago
The Motorola A1000 didn't really follow the same conventions as the iPhone. For one, it used a stylus, and had 6 face buttons. The iPhone has one face button. Most Android devices initially had buttons for call-related functionality, thou
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by cube13 14y ago
>If Zuck took Facebook public 5 years ago, they would have gotten much less money, and they would have been distracted by investors calling for them to focus on building out that business model rather than attracting users - and Zuck ma
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by cube13 14y ago
But in the second case, what's the difference between that and email? If you have the infrastructure to handle a setup like that, you should already have an internal email server. EDIT: After your edit, I think I've found where the disconne
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by cube13 14y ago
It's actually the only Street Fighter move I can remember off the top of my head. :)
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by cube13 14y ago
I don't get what an "open" twitter system will have over the current one. Unless I'm missing something, this is just RSS feeds.
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by cube13 14y ago
I've tried it. It doesn't work well. It's easier to play those games with controllers. The problem with those two games is that you're supposed to be pressing only one or two directional buttons at any given time in both of those games. D
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by cube13 14y ago
>So why do you think they need to revolutionise the controller? The original XBox had a mild stab at something new but they quickly reverted to a design much more similar to the Playstation Dual Shock. There weren't really that many cha
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by cube13 14y ago
The real reason? Twitter doesn't want Facebook to have direct access to their social networking lists.
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by cube13 14y ago
World of Warcraft is a bad example of this. The client you have downloaded is always patched to the latest version, even if you haven't bought the expansions. Each expansion unlocks content. So once you buy The Burning Crusade, you get ac
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by cube13 14y ago
>There are many alternative ways a global network could and would have developed without US government initiation. But it's also possible that the US government stimulus made it happen sooner and more centralized to the US (some of Fido
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by cube13 14y ago
It's probably that way because Apple is buying so much stuff from Samsung that losing the contract would be a major hit on their bottom line. So Samsung can't really afford to lose Apple's business. Apple, on the other hand, does have the
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by cube13 14y ago
All that it established, if you read between the lines, is that there is a clear market for hair products for women with curly hair, and that the companies that produce those products are looking at targeting those women to sell those produ
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by cube13 14y ago
>Samsung now claims they want an astonishing percentage of Apple's revenue from phones for these patent rights that courts have found they'd already exhausted, even though Apple sells versions of the devices w/o 3G radios, indicating th
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by cube13 14y ago
The only patents that currently valid are ones filed after 1995(prior to June 1995, the standard patent term is 17 years after the first filing date). All of the patents from the 80's are now public domain.
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by cube13 14y ago
>Unfortunately, the judge agreed with Apple on that item. Everybody thinks that Nokia won their lawsuit since the judge awarded them a huge amount of damages. In my opinion, the whole industry lost. Cross-licenses were the standard way
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by cube13 14y ago
That's pretty much the point of design patents. They're there to make sure that purely ornamental design decisions(for example, the metal bezel on the outside of the iPad) cannot be copied by a competitor to confuse potential customers.
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by cube13 14y ago
Re: Distribution: There was a satirical post to lwn.net about a month ago that asked whether or not the US Navy would need to pack a CD into missiles that contained GPL software so that the target of the missile would get a copy of the sour
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by cube13 14y ago
>It seems there's only 2 ways to go when hosting an event -- open the floodgates or actively manage the attendee list. Because of space constraints, we had to go with the latter. I don't think that roguecoder is saying that this was the
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by cube13 14y ago
It also gets the developers thinking more about how customers will be using new features, rather than just making it work. That's a very good thing.
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by cube13 14y ago
Is exclusivity required only for independent developers, or does that also apply to non-MS published titles?

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