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Wrote a post mocking the patents and then did some more reading. Apparently, gasp, Immersion isn't a patent troll and really did invent this stuff, even though it seems obvious to me and the patents are poorly written. Turns out other companies are licensing their stuff, including Google for Android. Immersion also won against Sony years back, all of which create a strong precedent.
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Good post.
It is also interesting that Apple under Jobs considered that Android had ripped them off for making a pocket-sized computing device and because it was controlled from a touch screen.
These companies which attempt to patent an idea are ridiculous.
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A haptic feedback system that includes a controller, a memory coupled to the controller, an actuator drive circuit coupled to the controller, and an actuator coupled to the actuator drive circuit. The memory stores at least one haptic effect that is executed by the controller in order to create a haptic effect.
Wow. Can I patent "a tension feedback system that includes an intestine, a brain coupled to the intestine, and an anus muscle coupled to the brain, and an anus coupled to the anus muscle. The brain controls the anus muscle in response to intestine tension that in turn creates a bowel movement so that the operator can pinch a loaf."
hmmm?
Marc
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As I started reading your comment I thought it would end like:
The anus opening responding the shame and the head hiding in it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Neanderthals may have died out tens of thousands of years ago, but their DNA still influences modern humans, according to a study published in Science today. Ugg
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Ook?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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That explains a lot about my ex and her family.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.1 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Thank you. I no longer have to make up excuses.
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Ugg Nog?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I knew there was a reason I can't stand .NET Visual Basic !
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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If Charles Darwin had known this.
Some parts of their DNA-heritage is very positive, so it has advantages for mankind.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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While some applications will have an easy migration path to .NET Core, especially ones based on ASP.NET MVC, others may run into problems. Not just obvious ones such as porting from WinForms or WPF to Universal Windows Applications (UWP), but subtler issues that are deep within the core of the .NET Framework. "Can't get there from here"
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Too bad for LDAP, Net.Mail ...
Wonde Tadesse
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Yep - useful stuff - can't have useful stuff being included
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I'm pretty sure there's a typo in this section:
"Serialization
Most of the sterilizers such as data contract serialization, XML serialization, JSON.NET, and protobuf-net will be supported in .NET Core. The major exception is binary serialization."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I noticed that as well. Made me stop and reread the sentence a few times to make sure.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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How many times are we going to watch this movie while tearing out our hair ?
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Many times - until systems are so secure it is impossible to write code for them
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Moving SQL Server 2005 data will be the easy part compared to the app migrations. Just port those apps to use CSV files
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Study says there are 546 encryption products that lie outside US law, maybe more Locked doors only keep out the the security agencies?
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Microsoft has signed up more than 70 smartphone manufacturers to preinstall its services onto phones, up from 20 in May last year. If you can't beat them, port your apps to their OS
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft has signed up more than 70 smartphone manufacturers to preinstall its services onto phones ..in an effort to alleviate the fact that they [Microsoft] "don't have any control over the search results in the app store[^]"...
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Another day, another sensational report from Forbes. Oh my goodness, is Windows 10 really "phoning home" thousands of times a day? Nope. In fact, anyone who has even a basic understanding of how networks work should cringe at this shoddy report. A tech reporter getting something wrong? My world is akilter
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Two-thirds of the vulnerabilities patched this week in IE11 and Edge likely exist in now-retired IE7 and IE8, definitely in semi-obsolete IE9 and IE10 If only there were other browsers people could use in safety!
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