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Comment Re:But Apple does not sue over that stuff (Score 0, Flamebait) 307

So when you go out and build a better mousetrap, patent it so you can get a reasonable return for your vast amounts of research, design, & engineering on the mousetrap, it's okay for Samsung to rush a competing product to the market that rips off all the work you put into designing a better product, cut into your sales, and financially threaten your ability to produce future improvements?

We, as in human beings, can only create better products by being able to profit off the product of our labor. If you allow competitors to wander in after-the-fact and release a design for less (which they can do because their investment was less, copying a design costs less than creating something new), there's no incentive to design a better product, and the end result is stagnation.

Comment Re:I say potato and you say.. (Score 2) 558

You aren't just allowed to use information that was provided during trial, legal terms can be thrown around in court yet never get explained to the jury. The juror should have asked the judge for clarification about the topic, at which point the judge would have provided background material that was legally sound or at least neutral. Any reference material that wasn't cleared by the judge would have been equally bad, it's not just Wikipedia being singled out.

In theory this is the kind of thing (ignorance of key parts of the trial) that jury selection is supposed to cover, but these days they waste time trying to gerrymander a win based on statistics and don't actually bother to ask jurors useful questions - like whether they know what sexual assault when the individual has been charged with sexual assault.

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Unreal Tournament 3 For Linux Is Officially Dead 190

ndogg writes "There is no longer any uncertainty surrounding the release of Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux. It's official: the port is now dead. No reasons were given, but no one should be waiting for it anymore, if anyone still was."

Comment Re:Idle computer resources (Score 1) 295

Not to detract from your comment (or how wrong the comment you responded to was), but if every watt used came out as heat, then the computer would not function. In other words if all the electricity going into the CPU was being converted to heat, then nothing would be left over for the CPU to process data.

The heat being released by the CPU is a byproduct of certain inefficiencies in silicon chip design, which can be reduced by some technologies but can't be eliminated. In fact the heat being released by other system components are caused by inefficiencies in their designs - nothing is 100% efficient, and this inefficiency is released as heat.

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