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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146145] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 04:00   |
Weirdo
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Lol, I wanted to search on google for more news about this item. The first ten links were all difrrent lawsuits agains sony for infringement for patent infringement. Man those guys are more in court than at work.
Size doesn't matter.
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146146] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 04:10 |
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This is odd. I didn't think that companies as big as sony would take the risk. Why bother? The last thing any one wants is to be sued for stealing other peoples stuff.
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146170] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 08:21 |
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The dual shock controller uses two of those half circle spinners. One large one and one small. <--- vary intensity.
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146174] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 08:30 |
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Lol, this is rediculous. I thought the basic/common concepts/etc. couldn't be patented, just the specific design? They're not using their design or anything, they just simply have a vibration function in their controllers. That's like IBM suing AMD simply because they make processors, even though they're not the same designs.
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If you've ever seen the transparent Xbox controller you'll see that there's actually a little half-circle thing inside that spins around to make it vibrate. The PS controllers look too small for something like that to fit inside, as do the GC controllers.
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That's exactly what the PS2's controllers use. I've opened up one that stopped working a week ago, and now have a transparent blue one, they use a large half circle chunk of metal that spins around a shaft on a motor in one of the grips, and another small one in the other grip.
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146198] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 10:58 |
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But software patents are a different case. Basically everything can be patented.
The concept of opening a menu via right mouse button, double clicks...etc
There is a big clash going over in Europe about software patents. The supporters have even tried brute force to get the patent directive through. If it accepted as it is now, it would basically mean death to small software companies and open source projects. The only ones who would survive it are big patent holders with loads of money.
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146217] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 12:36 |
Jzinsky
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The off centre weight is also used to make mobile phones vibrate, so why aren't Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and Siemens being sued too?
No flashy signature..
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146282] |
Mon, 28 March 2005 18:46 |
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You should look at the things Microsoft tries to patent. Like the things CommandoSR mentioned...
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146367] |
Tue, 29 March 2005 08:24 |
Jzinsky
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This is total bullshit. Those money grubbing bastards at Immersion should rot in hell.
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Isn't that the point of a company? To be a money grabbing bastard that is, not to rot in hell..
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146374] |
Tue, 29 March 2005 09:00 |
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You should look at the things Microsoft tries to patent. Like the things CommandoSR mentioned...
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If Microsoft wasn't doing it, someone else would.
No patent=getting sued by the patent owner
BigEvilPatentHolder Inc., the inventor of "double click", sues Microsoft for allowing users to perform double clicks to run programs, without paying a $2000000 patent license fee to BigEvilPatentHolder Inc.
If you had enough evidence that you invented oxygen, you could patent it and demand royalties from anyone who used it.
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| Sony got owned. Playstation sales halted. [message #146470] |
Tue, 29 March 2005 16:16 |
Chronojam
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Somebody get a circuit diagram and information about the control feedback system. Let's see if it's really closer than some people think. Including the "there's a bigger one on this side and a smaller here." Does anybody know if the circuit design, or any of the chips, are replicas of somebody else's work, or are you all just assuming things without any further information at all?
PS: Try googling for the words SCO and lawsuit
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