#298801 - 29/05/2007 23:52
Microsoft gets into the game
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Hmm, I wonder if this will turn into anything? MS files for patent
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#298802 - 30/05/2007 07:30
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
[Re: petteri]
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Registered: 11/01/2002
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Loc: Reading, UK
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A lawsuit?
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#298803 - 04/06/2007 11:45
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
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Registered: 18/06/2001
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This patent however details a "car stereo including a docking station into which an off-the-shelf handheld computer can be docked," and additionally, it hints towards support for a multitude of devices.
This feature alone makes it extremely interesting to me. And, I have not heard of anything like that so far, but I may simply be not too well informed.
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#298804 - 06/06/2007 21:26
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
[Re: Taym]
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Not sure how they can be awarded this - there was prior art.
But then, there's no-one around to sue any more...
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#298805 - 07/06/2007 12:00
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
[Re: schofiel]
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I think the innovation is the ability to dock a "handheld computer" into it.
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#298807 - 07/06/2007 14:34
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Oh, cool. Yours was the fountain featured heavily in the last few episodes of Heroes -- the orange helix-y staircase one. Somewhat on topic, though. If you installed one or advertised one or something, you should contest his patent based on evidence of prior art.
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#298808 - 07/06/2007 15:03
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Quote: I designed the first "dry deck" fountain (the kind kids play in) over 20 years ago. I found out recently that one of my competitors patented it two years later... it never occured to me to patent it...
Not knowing what a "dry deck" fountain was, I typed it into Google, and the first link says "This dry-deck fountain dates back to the early 1600s"...
Don't suppose you did the one in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester? That's a really nice fountain.
Peter
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#298809 - 11/06/2007 19:32
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
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Registered: 25/06/1999
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So an empeg isn't hand held?
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#298810 - 11/06/2007 20:09
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
[Re: schofiel]
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Registered: 10/06/1999
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Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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It is, but the car battery you would need to carry around with you to use it wouldn't really be
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#298811 - 12/06/2007 02:46
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
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Registered: 01/10/2002
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Loc: Fullerton, Calif.
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Quote: Not knowing what a "dry deck" fountain was, I typed it into Google, and the first link says "This dry-deck fountain dates back to the early 1600s"...
Don't suppose you did the one in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester? That's a really nice fountain.
No, I didn't do that one.
I love the internet. 20 years ago I was certain that it was the first, now it seems I was 300 years too late....
That drydeck is at : http://www.hellbrunn.at/hellbrunn/english/trickfountains/mechanical_theatre.asp
Well worth a look around that site. They also have a musical, animated fountain from the same period. Both still work.
The musical fountain was patented by the same dude...
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#298813 - 18/08/2007 03:18
Re: Microsoft gets into the game
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Registered: 19/05/1999
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Loc: Palo Alto, CA
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ISTR One of the ex-Rio germany guys, Martin Moerz, made an Xscale-powered linux running, DMX lighting system a few years after the Rio Central (he does freelance design for people). I remember thinking it looked pretty cool - think it had two Xscales actually, one to do the hard real-time stuff.
If you're interested pm me and I'll send you his email addr.... he could point you at who sold it in the end I'm sure.
Hugo
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