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bigben1024
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I can't believe something so trivial could be patent-worthy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4198360.stm

8/31/2005 12:05:29 AM

dFshadow
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there's no other fucking easier way to organize music. of course they're all going to do it similarly. what the fuck kind of incompetent fucks are in our patent office and the judicial system?

8/31/2005 1:55:26 AM

goalielax
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I still have my 1GB Nomad Jukebox. It was the one noted in the article as the first released. It was great for my 6 month deployment, and I'm too much of a packrat to get rid of it. Cost 600 firggin bucks back then.

8/31/2005 2:29:02 AM

skokiaan
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they certainly pushed the boundaries of our technology by figuring out you should categorize music by artist, album, then song.

8/31/2005 2:45:26 AM

goalielax
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Right, so you go and write the code for a UI. Don't be a smartass. That's why some things are ideas, and others are patents.

[Edited on August 31, 2005 at 3:52 PM. Reason : .]

8/31/2005 3:47:16 PM

Wraith
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wtf, Nintendo could just go and get a patent on the D-Pad.

8/31/2005 4:41:19 PM

GraniteBalls
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Quote :
""We consider it a dead certainty that Creative will go after Apple for royalties or some other type of compensation for what Creative will assert is infringement of its patents, currently and in the past," analyst Phil Leigh of Inside Digital told the Reuters news agency. "




There's the money.




I knew there's be a lawsuit in here somewhere.

8/31/2005 6:27:18 PM

Stein
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"wtf, Nintendo could just go and get a patent on the D-Pad."


Uh... unless I'm horribly mistaken, they actually have one on the D-Pad.

This is why Sony's is split and the X-Box is that whole big rolling type thing.

8/31/2005 6:32:18 PM

GraniteBalls
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I think they have the patent for rumble controllers too.





I know someone's got that shit.

8/31/2005 6:34:52 PM

Charybdisjim
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they have a patent on a particular kind of rumble controller I think, but there's alot of different ways of doing it, so it's not as big of a deal.

8/31/2005 6:37:59 PM

Wraith
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Well they could have done the analog stick too then I guess.

8/31/2005 6:47:49 PM

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