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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 05:56 AM EDT |
They sure got away too easily with this one. Wonder how much lobbying was
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 08:01 AM EDT |
Good! This was not just a momentary error, but went on for a long time. I had to
purchase two laptops almost 18 months apart, and both defaulted to IE. The
second one was very difficult to deal with, as it forced the Bing toolbar to be
installed, as I grumbled about previously. I think that companies who behave
like this, repetitively, should face the maximum penalty that can be imposed
under EU law, 10% of worldwide annual turnover. The money could usefully be used
to assist somewhere like Greece or Portugal to gettheir economies sorted out. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Apple too? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 05:42 PM EDT
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 12:36 PM EDT |
BlueStacks and AMD Bring 500,000 Android Apps to Windows
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"The two companies have teamed up to bring 500,000 mobile
Android apps to Windows PCs through the AMD AppZone Player starting Thursday.
The software is powered by BlueStacks, a company that makes it possible to
download and run Android apps on PCs and Macs.
The partnership between
BlueStacks and AMD, which has invested in the software company, focuses on
optimizing Android apps for AMD-powered Windows devices. While Intel-powered PCs
can access Android apps through BlueStacks’ original Windows software, the
AppZone Player is optimized for AMD’s GPU and APU
technology."
While touted as beneficial for Microsoft I cannot
yet judge the effect for Linux and free software.
Is it really only
knee-jerk bad?
The one thing I think of is that Android is nothing but
a layer above an(y) OS.
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IMANAL
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Authored by: Charles888 on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
I keep trying to convince myself that the USPTO may have some
positive role to serve. Maybe? Maybe?
Then, they keep granting stupid patents like these. Sane
people have to question whether they serve ANY constructive
role. Where they intended to be such a big rubber stamp for
any stupid idea somebody attempts to patent? What purpose to
promoting innovation do they serve when they keep granting
monopolies on such a broad ideas? It is lunacy![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 02:37 PM EDT |
Is this really new? I thought it was always work for hire contracts that gave
studios the rights. Or is this suggesting that even the contracts don't cover
this? If this is true, animation and voice synthesis will look more and more
attractive to studios, specially the big ones, if every actor start making a
fuss about copyright licensing. I suppose in this particular case the contracts
may not have been proper...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 06:14 PM EDT |
Pestilence is a word that comes to mind to describe the evil
that is
spreading across the globe. Now we have Korean companies
suing in a Korean
court over Korean patents for a component that
has become desirable in
appliances made worldwide by many others.
Newspick WSJ
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