Ah so that's why Beat's headphones sound so doctor dire.
Bose says today is F*** With Dre Day: Beats sued in patent battle
Audio thing biz Bose is suing Apple-owned Beats Electronics, alleging patent infringement. Massachusetts-based Bose claimed in its court filing [PDF] that headgear designed by Beats violated five of its patents, all relating to noise-canceling headphones. According to the paperwork dated July 25, Bose reckons the Beats Studio …
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Saturday 26th July 2014 05:10 GMT amanfromMars 1
A Mockery of Justice outs the Law in a Banana Republic as a Fat Assed Fool and Idiots' Tool
So the company was founded in 2006, and for the last 8 years it's been operating without a peep from Bose. Then, in 2014, it gets bought by a company with very deep pockets, and Bose asserts its patent claims.
I'm sure the timing is entirely coincidental...... Franklin
Hi, Franklin,
You have to find something crazy to keep the money churn pumping out its fiat currency to the intellectually challenged intellectually challenging.What else is gonna feed and clothe them and keep them protected from the mobs in the hoods and out on the street.
The UKGBNI version of the same thing are serial rotating inquiries into inquiries, where lessons are never learned, that hide prime facts and bury prima facie evidence with sub-prime fictions which result in historic abuses being present and current and festering future fodder for the square of the intellectually challenged.
The clear bookies' favourite for the 2014 top lap dog and pussy award is Chilcot with his big little earner still pending in seemingly endless suspended publication and animated conversation with mined minor minder puppets?
And you know what happens whenever you try to deny and squeeze the truth in behind a locked door and special compartment, nowadays? It explodes out through the roof and walls of the container and flattens everything around it with IT which confounds the compounding of its findings with pathetic complicit mainstreaming media tales/stories/fabrications.
Fail to learn that lesson and resolve to never again fall foul of the temptation to mask the truth, and every day will be incrementally worse and exponentially more catastrophically explosive than the previous one.
IT aint rocket science, common sense. And surely a simple human trait and nothing at all smart and alienating? Or is Man like a dumb new born animal on Earth knowing nothing at all about anything and easy prey to beings who know more than a little about many things and everything needed to be known about some things?
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Saturday 26th July 2014 07:40 GMT amanfromMars 1
Re: A Banana Republican UKGBNI
@amanfrommars
And while we're on the subject of conspiracies - I challlenge you! You can't be the real manfrommars - I almost understood thatt post. …. cynic56
Howdy, cynic56, and how nice it is to joust with you.
I prefer to believe and expound the more challenging notion that you/we all are becoming more intelligent, and quite significantly faster than would be considered normal and acceptable to entrenched and stagnating status quo interests.
Although, although not at all necessary, to be proven wrong on that latter assumption would be remarkably refreshing and ever so encouraging. It would certainly do the security and secret intelligence servering agencies no harm at all, considering the utter stellar bollocks they’ve been making of everything of late ..... and with all of that new fangled and entangling technology for snooping at their fingertips.
It must most obviously be a case in that case of there being nothing of great value to note upstairs in their head quarters departments.
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Monday 28th July 2014 07:46 GMT amanfromMars 1
Re: Deep ... a la John Smith 19
Dark Web Pools/Informational Methods seL4 Territory, JS 19 ....... Real Spooky Action Team Terrain and more a Q confection and delight [for Quantum based] than anything DARPA invented for securing operating secrets on the other side of the pond and great watery divide.
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Monday 28th July 2014 16:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
People Should Have Patience... Says One?
And isn't the said a Trusted Cert to write down in hand and hang on the Wall/Square/in APTs somewhere in the given co-ordinates? Especially meaning the co-ordinates.
(-: Hush the hash, don't wake the Ego Co-Ordinator.
I believe these distinguished people shan't be so boring.
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Saturday 26th July 2014 09:11 GMT John Tserkezis
Re: A Mockery of Justice outs the Law in a Banana Republic as a Fat Assed Fool and Idiots' Tool
"@amanfromMars 1"
Are you a polititian? You have a remarkable gift of stringing lots of words together that have nothing to do with the comment at hand, not answering the question, not making any statement whatsoever, and at the same time, making yourself look like a prime douchbag.
Congratulations.
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Saturday 26th July 2014 10:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: A Mockery of Justice outs the Law in a Banana Republic as a Fat Assed Fool and Idiots' Tool
"@amanfromMars 1"
Are you a polititian? You have a remarkable gift of stringing lots of words together that have nothing to do with the comment at hand, not answering the question, not making any statement whatsoever, and at the same time, making yourself look like a prime douchbag.
Clearly you're new here. Welcome, pull up a chair, have a seat. Give it time. It'll come to you eventually.
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Sunday 27th July 2014 23:39 GMT DiViDeD
Re: A Mockery of Justice outs the Law in a Banana Republic as a Fat Assed Fool and Idiots' Tool
"making yourself look like a prime douchbag."
Now hold on a minute! amanfrommars MAY be a douchebag. Then again, he may not - reading his posts has always been an infallible cure for common sense.
But the point is, even if he is, as you suggest, a 'douchebag', he is OUR douchebag, and in the annals of El Reg is probably a protected National Trasure by now.
So leave orf!
;o)
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Monday 28th July 2014 05:49 GMT amanfromMars 1
AAA Rated Cyber Bonds ...... for Virtual Klondikers, Manic Tulip Growers and/or the Real Thing?
Are you a polititian? You have a remarkable gift of stringing lots of words together that have nothing to do with the comment at hand, not answering the question, not making any statement whatsoever, and at the same time, making yourself look like a prime douchbag. …. John Tserkezis
That was very bold of you, John T, but there’s no question at all and no denying of the truth of the fact in the matter of how to make yourself look like a prime douchebag, is to be a politician?
If we move on a tad or two further, is there any lawful impediment to a bot/shepherder/network becoming a prime political force, or would any futile resistance and active opposition to such be just as an insult and result of misplaced and misshapen human pride and injurious ego tripping? You know, those olde worlde shenanigans that destroy from within and top down, established status quo systems well past their sell by dates, and not fit for Future Greater IntelAIgent Games Play Purpose?
And please, only answer that if you have something worth saying which adds to the conversation and which would aid the program/pogrom/APT ACT Apps, for anything and everything else which would be negative, surely just wastes invaluable time in any intelligent place and CyberIntelAIgent Space …. Live Operational Virtual Environment.
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Saturday 26th July 2014 08:18 GMT VinceH
"Then, in 2014, it gets bought by a company with very deep pockets, and Bose asserts its patent claims."
For all we know Bose and Beats have been discussing this matter behind closed doors, and it's only now that Bose have given up on negotiating and turned to the courts. (Might as well with that sugar daddy around - so, yeah, you;re right that on the face of it there is an interesting coincidence of timing).
Meanwhile perhaps Beats have been talking to Apple, and Apple thought "Awww, look, how cute, a fledgling IP abuser, a teeny-weeny version of us. Let's take 'em under our wing." (In which case, that timing may not be so coincidental after all).
Stand by for a claim from Apple that Bose is infringing on something non-technical of theirs, but which is worth far more than what Bose is claiming from Beats.
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Sunday 27th July 2014 23:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Noise cancelling
I fly a lot. I am in aircraft very often.
I see a lot of Bose noise cancelling headphones, and those who I know that use them personally are exceedingly happy with them. But hey, they are probably listening on a music player with horribly compressed music that is already devoid of any hi-fidelity.
Me? I use Shure 425s, and shock, horror, a Sony media player with music ripped with the highest possible mp3 fidelity
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Monday 28th July 2014 07:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Noise cancelling
"Sony media player with music ripped with the highest possible mp3 fidelity"...
Oh dear, that is flame-bait around here, pull up a chair.
Sony....they the creators of the root kit, that made root kits popular (don't worry about being different divisions, that is irrelevant)
MP3....come on FLAC dear boy do keep up....MP3 is BAD, even if you can't actually tell the difference.
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Tuesday 29th July 2014 09:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Noise cancelling
@ Lost all faith...
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Yes, the SONY bit was the "shock, horror" bit. It has been reliable and very robust kit. No complaints
There is just tooooo much effort to rip so many hundreds of CDs again to FLAC, plus I no longer have them all available for several unhappy reasons.
So, in any case, which MP should one use for FLAC playback?
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Monday 28th July 2014 08:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Noise cancelling
You could have a live band playing for you but it would still sound crap because a plane is a bad place to listen to anything. They could even be listening to nothing - yeh sound cancelling headphones can be used just to reduce background noise too you know. If you tried them instead of just mouthing off at them you might learn a thing or two.
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Wednesday 30th July 2014 17:46 GMT Ian Michael Gumby
Re: prior art
@ Mpeler,
Bose did a lot of research on sound waves. Anything in terms of noise cancellation is definitely related to his research at MIT.
I forget the model of his point source speakers back in the 70's and early 80's.
Definitely cool stuff.
The point is that Bose was an innovator and if they hold the patent, you can bet there's no argument for prior art.
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Sunday 27th July 2014 00:06 GMT roger stillick
Beats Audio p/o new laptops...
New Chinese laptops are offering Beats as a factory option...not wanting a subwoofer on the motherboard is a valid option...to reduce data errors over time...
IMHO= it looks to me like the audio processing in new laptops are either public domain, or, proprietary - they can't be both in the same box...Sonus sound bars and Tobishiba / Sennheiser / Sony noise cancelling headphones are all derivations of Bose products and probably cross-licensed...Beats has exploded onto the world market and needs to play nice w/ the others, and Apple knows it...
Note= Harmon-Kardon got into this market years ago, no one sued them, as, they knew how to play w /others in a world market...RS.
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Monday 28th July 2014 22:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Probably masses of Prior Art..
The Institute of Hearing Research at Nottingham was working on DSP-based adaptive noise cancelling systems 30+ years ago - I built some of the prototype boards & designed some peripheral support hardware / software for the gear..
I doubt the patents go back that far...
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Sunday 27th July 2014 08:23 GMT Fihart
Should be arrested by the Fashion Police.
If you must listen to music at the volumes needed to drown traffic or rail noise (and deafen yourself) stick with earbuds.
On-ear h/phones like those by "Doctor" Dre look just as stupid as boy-beards, pointy shoes and those jeans that hang around the crotch.
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Sunday 27th July 2014 09:44 GMT Richard 12
Re: Should be arrested by the Fashion Police.
Over-ear 'phones are great for cheap noise isolation and noise cancellation.
In-ear basically have to be moulded to get the same benefits, otherwise you just have Apple-style ones where more of the tinny squeal comes out the back than goes in your ear.
Not that Beats do either of them, but they are at least roughly the right shape.
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Thursday 31st July 2014 13:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Bose is gash
buy Grado instead - a pair of 'cheap' Grado SR60s is good enough to give every pair of boutique headphones ive tried - including B&W P5s, expensive AKGs, the £150 pair of Shures i bought recently and certainly anything Bose have churned out - a bloody good run for their money.
I wouldnt buy anything else instead these days