Game Emulators for OS X
Related link: http://www.bannister.org/software/emu.htm
Clearly there is a strong market need for emulators : )
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Related link: http://www.bannister.org/software/emu.htm
Clearly there is a strong market need for emulators : )
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Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any more absurd, there seems to be a new trend of “social method patents”. Can ‘innovative, non-obvious’ social instruments and constructs really be given intellectual property protection?
Many seemingly obvious activities and methods have been able to be patented when they are linked with PC hardware or a “computing apparatus”, such as this leadership effectiveness measurement patent. However, if you’ve kept up with the swing patent (not a joke) then you are already aware that simple techniques can be linked with a physical apparatus of some kind and be patented.
An example of a social method patent is the “method for single threaded conversations in a group”. Anyone who has heard “let’s go around the circle and introduce ourselves” has experienced this phenomenon. Well, apparently, to the ‘inventors’ of this Social Method Patent, merely attaching this system to physical hardware will give them the construct they need to seek intellectual property protection for their approach,
How these new licenses are going to be enforced is unknown. For instance, if your support group “accidentally” infringes on such a patent, how would they know? Are they immune if they are a non-profit?
In light of these new approaches, I’m sorry to announce that I will soon be announcing fees for the licensing my “method of social communication through online journal entries”. I figure, instead of charging the software developers (only a few), it’s more effective to charge the weblogger’s directly… kind of like they’re trying to do with MPEG-4 .
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Related link: http://www.hybit.com/jriskin/osx_tips/
Nice article on how to speed up OS X, and add some favorite GUI features as well.
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