throwawaykf03

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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
History is littered with counterexamples. If you look at people or companies that have been refered to as "ahead of their time", it is frequently in the context of why they ultimately failed. Tablet PCs are a case in point -- Micr
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Users have to opt in to sharing click events with Bing for features like suggested sites (" if they have Internet Explorer equipped with certain features"), and that's what they track. IMO, if users give permission, it'
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Right, and I guess this is the result of a push poll too: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/technology/google-accused-...
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Hmm, most results are decent for me, and though I need to reach for the Google app once in a while, I don't even keep it pinned to start anymore.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
1. According to MS, this campaign came out of a survey where something like 45+% of users didn't know Gmail scans their emails, and 80+% of those didn't approve of it (I think this is the survey http://www.scribd.com&
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Read both sides of the story rather than just Google's accusations: http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
>Do you actually belive this? I haven't seen a single Google employee (that I know of) here or on other forums who's had a nice thing to say about patents. I'm sure there are some pro-patent Google employees, they just d
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
I thought so too, and was a bit put off because it sounds like a word a teen in the 60's would use. But it could also be short for "modifications", as in "XBox mods". (Ostensibly to appeal to tinkerers?) The best pa
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> Bragging about patents doesn't exactly make me like the guy. Has he been living under a rock... No, you've been living in an echo chamber :-) Open source enthusiasts may well want to share their work for free (or statistica
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Anecdotal, but sometimes things seem so dysfunctional within MS that I can't believe they get anything done at all: I once met a professor at a conference who said his grad students were reverse-engineering some of Microsoft's dis
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Your title is different from your question. If you're concerned about direct P2P connections, last I checked, Skype still sends voice traffic directly to the peer. I had checked some months ago using a packet sniffer while talking with
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
I think he means MS does make compelling products, they just can't market them as well. As for "advanced technology", Apple is far behind Microsoft and Google these days when it comes to cutting edge stuff, but this is mostly
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
The author of that article, James Bessen has been called out on questionable methods or analysis in some of his studies. For instance, he's the guy who created the "trolls cost 29 billion" meme out of thin air, the debunking
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Having new businesses is not a net loss to society? Sure, a vast majority of them will be worthless, but without experimentation how else will valuable new markets be discovered?
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Yes, they're clearly not necessary, and you'll find many entrepreneurs right here who'll be living proof of it. But if VCs ask for them, having at least one patent does make it easier to secure financing. And there are other,
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> I'd be interested to know whether arguments used defending against prior art are legally binding afterward. For example if they said "nope, the camera looks to be 1m, not 3ft", would they be unable to consider something
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> 2. For much of this, we can thank the loosening standards imposed over the past two decades by a specialized patent appeals court that has given overblown significance to what once was a highly specialized field of tremendous importan
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
If a business is easily copyable and no-one will finance it for that reason, that business may never come to exist, which is clearly a net loss to society. Of course, this does not apply to yoga videos, but a lot of startups that venture in
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Your experience may be anecdotal, but it's also supported by data: 1. The 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1429049 ), finding that while only 25% of all software start
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
That looks pretty close (although I can't tell if the camera is at a height of 3 feet), but it was uploaded in 2011. This patent has a priority date of 27 Aug 2010, so to invalidate this patent, any videos like this from before that d
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
That is the majority opinion around here, yes, but I contend that that opinion is flawed, precisely because of cases like i4i. It is a textbook case of a big guy ripping off a small guy, and patents being the only thing that helped the smal
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Also, i4i: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I4i
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
>... the long-term damage done to the tech industry. I know everyone takes this for granted, but there is no empirical evidence Microsoft harmed the tech industry in the years leading up to the antitrust suit: "Did Microsoft Deter
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
1. Until we see what they're trying to claim, we don't know what the patent covers. At this point it seems it's just a provisional, which means they might not even have drafted the claims yet. 2. The use of Apple's exist
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
You are interpreting "monopoly" literally. In the context of antitrust law, you only need to have a big enough market share to appear on regulators' radars. The actual market share threshold varies from country to country, bu
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> That's the how, not the why. They had a choice to do it this way. I don't think it was that simple, considering that the Nortel portfolio covers a wide array of different technology areas and industries. What other feasible
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Not sure about the latter, but my impression of the Twilight series was that it's just bad writing rather than being too formulaic, like Hardy Boys or romance novels are. Now the same author may churn out book after book which seem pre
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Related to this point, India also has pretty big problems with black money and the black market. Bitcoin is not going to make it better.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
I've been thinking for many years about e-readers and the consequences of tracking user reading behaviors. One likely outcome is that it will result in a wave of "pop literature". As I understand it, pop music is already heav
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
(Nitpick, but the purpose of patents is a lot more open ended than that -- "promote progress of useful arts etc." -- suppressing competition is just one of the means to that end.) But what makes you say these patents don't co

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