Comment Integrating your personal music into the game? (Score 4, Insightful) 245
Sounds like something the 360 does right now.
Maybe the patent covers a system whereby you're forced to pay the console maker for the music you want to integrate.
Sounds like something the 360 does right now.
Maybe the patent covers a system whereby you're forced to pay the console maker for the music you want to integrate.
Requiring scripts is fine. Having a government database of them is not.
I'd much rather a few thousand addicts had an easier time getting their next fix than have my personal details on the open market. (I live in VA and have filled prescriptions at pharmacies here, so I can only assume my personal data is part of this breach.)
This incident (well, the threat of it) is pretty much the textbook argument against government databases. Too bad no one will pay attention when it actually happens.
The patent troll example was to illustrate the example between idea, (and in some cases, patent) and actual invention.
I didn't say our fair poster was a patent troll, merely that he hadn't invented the device in question yet.
Having an idea for something is not the same as inventing it.
What, exactly, is your definition of "invent"?
Part of an invention is the process by which it operates and is constructed.
Patenting an "invention" that you have no ability to actually produce is no different than these companies who patented things like "an internet-connected gaming system with wireless controllers" but never built one, because they didn't know how, yet now feel sony, nintendo, MS et al owe them billions of dollars.
no, it's more like how 'audio' blank CDs have special pixie dust in the jewel case that makes them more 'audio-y' than regular blank CDs
Even better, how about we stop encouraging/helping wild-eyed "entrepreneurs" who have these great ideas that are "probably patentable" but who are wholly incapable of actually inventing said devices.
Hell, I have an idea for a 400mpg car for the automotive market. It's probably patentable so I can't give details. I can handle the in-car dvd and entertainment system but have no automotive engineering or manufacturing experience. Does anyone have any recommendations for a company to handle the drivetrain design and manufacture? Instead of starting from scratch I've also considered approaching one of the companies (mostly in Michigan) that make similar vehicles and asking them to modify their hardware for my requirements, and to provide their in-car dvd and entertainment system source for me to modify. Has anyone taken this route before? How did it work for you?"
At least they didn't name the department Procurement and Importunation.
the troll has a point. Apple is the king of installing background crap on your computer. (well, they are if you use their software on windows, at least)
Even if you kill apple software updater, no matter how many times I click "no" and "don't ask me again" iTunes still pops up a (@*&(#*&$@(* do you want to update box whenever I start it.
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