Reader Comments (rss)

(Flattened / Threaded)

1.  

   and?

   

   gates, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 8:00pm

   
   

   patents are products like everything else...

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

2.  

   Grrr

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 8:26pm

   
   

   It pisses me off when people make headlines like that. The headline implies that only Microsoft can deliver pizzas now and then the actual text says something completely different that has less than 1% chance of actually affecting me.
   
   Please try integrity instead of sensationalism.

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

3.  

   PizzaCono Advert

   

   TechNoFear (profile), Dec 7th, 2005 @ 8:46pm

   
   

   LOL!
   Read the ad for 'PizzaCono' (pizza in a cone you can eat with one hand...")
   
   I think the people who named this should have checked what 'cono' means in Spanish...
   
   http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=co%F1o
   
   Think about it.....

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

4.  

   Re: PizzaCono Advert

   

   cono_luver, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 9:33pm

   
   

   lol, thats is great, i like the comments about the cono on UD. They are great!!!

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

5.  

   Re: Grrr

   

   Brian Woods, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 9:45pm

   
   

   Dude, they are doing this to piss off Google and other search engines that actually WORK! This will effect you in more ways than you realize.
   
   First it’s pizza, then its phone service, then it’s bloody DMV records.
   
   It's not "sensationalism", its "desensitization".
   

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

6.  

   Re: Grrr

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 9:47pm

   
   

   Someone has a sense of humor... even if it is mocking "The System"... and yes, it is.

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

7.  

   Again...

   

   Microsoft Hater, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 10:04pm

   
   

   It's all part of Bill Gates' elaborate scheme to slowly take over the world. Microsoft already runs on like 95% of the worlds computers, what more can they possible want?!?!

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

8.  

   Man....

   

   Starvingsmith, Dec 7th, 2005 @ 10:09pm

   
   

   what a bunch of jerks. Google needs to let them and AOL have each other.

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

9.  

   Re: Grrr

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 8th, 2005 @ 12:19am

   
   

   Yeah, I like to get the whole story by just scanning the headlines instead of actually reading the articles. How dare they!

   [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

10.  

    No Subject Given

    

    Anonymous Coward, Dec 8th, 2005 @ 6:07am

    
    

    I read the patent and aside from all the legalese garb, I am still at a loss. What did they invent? Nothing, to me it simply sounds like they are just adding information to a database to include regional businesses. Of course their logic is flawed, because their resoning assumes that all busineses would want to be listed on the net. I am sure that some of the mobile plumbers could care less about this. We all know that word of mouth sells better than anything else.

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

11.  

    Re: No Subject Given

    

    Spunky, Dec 8th, 2005 @ 6:23am

    
    

    Does it? I thought mass produced, heavily advertised crap sold best.
    
    Guess I was mistaken...

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

12.  

    Sun was doing this in Mt. View 20 years ago

    

    pizza squirrel, Dec 9th, 2005 @ 3:45pm

    
    

    The local food outlets had order systems, and modems printing out orders at least in 1985 or so, and there was a demo system that would find a pizza joint based on various things, by doing a spiral search till it hit a match in the enclosed area nearly that long.
    
    Obvious and done, so why not patent it. that seems to be what the USPTO does these days. Useless till someone with real power gets hit by one of these silly patents and stops this somehow.

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

13.  

    I guess I am in for a fight Or I made a lot of $$$

    

    Adam Reiser, Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:42pm

    
    

    we have been providing pizza zip code search online since Oct 12 1999 See web archive below http://web.archive.org/web/19991012185003/http://pizza.net/ Does anybody know a good patent attorney ?

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

14.  

    a patent on pizza yellow pages search for pizza re

    

    Adam Reiser, Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:46pm

    
    

    We have been providing online pizza searchs since October 1999
    
    See web archive
    http://web.archive.org/web/19991012185003/http://pizza.net/
    
    I guess we either are out of business or made a lot of money today ?????

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

15.  

    Sun was doing this in Mt. View 20 years ago

    

    Adam Reiser, Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:56pm

    
    

    
    we have been providing pizza searchs since oct 1999

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

16.  

    Re: PizzaCono Advert

    

    Adam Reiser, Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:57pm

    
    

    can you guys spread the word
    
    we have been doing this since oct 1999

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

17.  

    Re: Grrr

    

    Adam Reiser, Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:59pm

    
    

    I guess us doing this online since oct 1999 does not matter at all.
    
    Please Visit
    Web Archive below
    
    http://web.archive.org/web/19991012185003/http://pizza.net/

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

18.  

    wtf

    

    Nathan, Nov 5th, 2006 @ 4:36pm

    
    

    I was hoping for a windows live delivery or something.

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

19.  

    Re: Re: Grrr

    

    John, Sep 6th, 2008 @ 1:07pm

    
    

    It'll help you in a good way. Infrastructure like this is why there are cool things like search based pizza delivery. Google, MS, Yahoo, and the like can justify spending hundreds and thousands in salaries and infrastructure because they can get a patent.
    
    It seems you want a world where nobody can patent processes. Fine, but your world does not have services either (I think you'll find what you are looking for northeast of Portland). For the rest of us, this stuff does not code itself up for free (Linux and Firefox have a quiver of patents as well).

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

20.  

    Re: Again...

    

    John Lewin, Sep 6th, 2008 @ 1:14pm

    
    

    Gates has stepped down from his role as chairman. I believe its Balmer you are hoping to chastise?
    
    Also, 'a computer on every desktop' was, in fact, the goal of microsoft in the 90's. Their current goal is, taking some liberties with language, to make operating systems and software invisible so you can focus on what you are doing (for example, posting comments on the internet.) So what they want is for you to get access to services without ever dealing with any of the stuff in the middle. Eg: if you want a pizza, you get a pizza.
    
    This is also precisely what Google wants, FYI. Hope that helps.

    [ reply to this | link to this | view in thread ]

Add Your Comment