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  1. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/754/754407p1.html

    The Big Three Sued Over Port Patent

    MS, Nintendo and Sony named in latest controller lawsuit.

    by Hilary Goldstein

    January 10, 2007 - Not a week seems to go by without a lawsuit. This week's legal woes come to Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony courtesy of a suit filed by Texas-based Fenner Investments. The suit claims all three infringed on the company's 1998 patent for a "low-voltage port interface" according to Gamasutra.

    While the famed Immersion lawsuit focused on force-feedback technology, this most recent suit is concerned with joystick ports. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the big three.

    The merit behind the suit is unclear as of the filing. The patent summary reads: "The joystick port interface according the present invention is a low power port which interfaces a typical 5 Volt joystick peripheral device with a lower power computer port. The low-voltage joystick port interface includes a bidirectional buffer circuit and a pulse generator which, together, generate a digital pulse signal, representing a joystick coordinate position, based on an input analog measurement signal."

    It remains to be seen what the next patent lawsuit might be, but we're certain another will come within the next month.

    This is such a joke. They need to hammer this stupid little companies for everything their worth and put it out of business.. obviously all they want is money. I highly doubt there is any merit to any of their lawsuits.


  2. The Ocean is trying to compensate for all the fresh water that is being dumped into the Atlantic from Greenland. Sooner or later the everything is going to get f*cked up and there will be no more warm weather.

    I've had maybe 1 or 2 days in the 50's this year, It was 80 degrees on Christmas day. There wasn't even winter last year. Just 7 years ago it use to get in the 30-40ss and stay that way until march. If It keeps up and I live to be 60, im sure I be saying I remember when it use to get in the 90's in the Summer now it doesn't get much higher than 40.


  3. well DX is jsut say from some people's POV's...i owned a gateway at one point for almost...7 years...never once had a problem with it...never one crash and never even reformatted it...and all teh parts were original cept for extra ram and an additional HD...the only reason it can be called crap is cause morons that dont knwo how to use a computer owns them :-p

    I dunno, what did you use it for? All three of these people are engineers or programmers and used their laptop pretty heavily. I guess its just one of those things, like when people say a game console's live is only about 3-5 years before it breaks, yet I have owned all of mine for far longer than that and they still work perfectly.

    Godgrave: Yeah i know... you can get carried away with added all the cool stuff you really dont need. X'D Their PCs are more price friendly than their laptops, but I just thought I would suggest it.


  4. do NOT get a gateway... trust me. They are complete crap. There customer service is so good because their stuff continually breaks. I've known 3 different people that had gateway laptops and they all were just a real POS.

    Stick with Dell or customize your own at ibuypower.com and that way it wont come loaded with all the BS shareware and other promotional crap. I bought my PC from there and its the best one I've ever owned. I also have a Dell laptop that has lived its life (its about 5 years old), and its still going strong.


  5. Bleh. Everyone says linksys is the best, I have my reservations about that. I use one, and any change you make in the factory settings seems to screw everything up. I tried to do a couple things to optimize the connections to other computers and the damn thing would keep dropping the connection to other computers until i changed it back.


  6. I'm not sure about compact fluorescent, but i know standard fluorescent light is very bad for your eyes. I can attest to that seeing as i spend 30-35 hours a week exposed to them. My eye sight gets worse every year, and It never got that bad until I started working.

    There isn't anything wrong with a standard lightbulb if they used more expensive material.. sadly they dont so you can buy more bulbs. Funny how your car's tail lights will work for 3-5 years but the bulbs you stick in your ceiling fan wont last for more than 8-9 months if that.


  7. Nope. Any 14 year old can go into EB and buy GTA. I'm pretty sure the rated R movie is at the theater's digression. I don't know if that is a real law or not for sure, But I remember plenty of high school teenies buying tickets to Saw III with no parents. I bought plenty of rated R movies when I was 16.

    Edit: I think porno is the only exception, and NC-17 movies. where there is a law.. which I have never seen in a theater. I think those type dont make it down here in the bible belt of the country lol.

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