Quoting: MisterPaytwick

The ruling even notes that references to it were found by a patent examiner by doing a "brief" search on it.

In french, "What the fuck: It was right in front of us, what are we doing?".

Not even surprised, sadly. Just them being assholes.

When you file a patent, you can submit an 'information disclosure statement'. Here is a brief description of what an IDS is. [External Link]

You disclose the prior art that you know of. When the USPTO examines the patent, the patent examiner will search for prior art that might prevent the patent from being allowed. The vast majority of time, the examiner will provide previous US patents or US patent applications as prior art refernces. The examiner is supposed to check the IDS to see if it is relevant prior art.

If the examiner does find prior art references, they give reasons why the application has been rejected, and the attorney can argue or amend the claims so that the patent application does not infringe on the prior art provided by the examiner.

If the patent is allowed, the prior art references in the IDS can be published on the patent (which is shown in this case). The presumption is that the published prior art references do not infringe the patent because the examiner would have checked them.

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Quoting: morphlesI'm team thumb trackball, and unlikely to ever switch to anything :) No need to move hand is super good, also now with mx ergo even hand positions is similar to vertical mouse. And I have no problems with precision, play PoE or WarFork with it without issues. Thumb ball ftw!

Yeah, I use a trackball too. We bought one for our family computer in the early days, and I've stuck with it ever since.

I use the Elecom thumb trackball [External Link].

I have no issues with gaming on a trackball. It's nice to be able to lean back and rest the mouse on my thigh while gaming.

I'm not amazing or anything, but it holds up just fine with aiming for online FPS games.

I'm left-handed, but I use a right-handed trackball. Honestly, using my left hand with the mouse would feel weird to me.

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The lack of a numberpad isn't a dealbreaker. But I really can't stand not having the standard layout for the Home/End/Delete/PgUp/PgDn keys.

It's the same reason I can't stand using laptop keyboards. The only laptops that I've seen that has a keyboard layout I like is the HP Omen series.

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With the update to DXVK, with Proton 6.3-1, Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is finally playable. Mega Man 8 in the collection has a video cutscene that shows the test pattern, but doesn't break the game. 7, 9 and 10 seem to work fine.

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Looks like with the latest version of Mesa, the visual artifact issues with ambient occlusion enabled has been fixed.

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Quoting: PJthe previous version worked without a hitch on my end. But I'm happy to see this new one - gives me another excuse to hop in and spend some more time with "Hollow Knight". This game is among the best platformers I've played and the style is simply amazing.

I thought so too.

But there was one error that I didn't notice until I saw it mentioned elsewhere. There were some textures that didn't show in the Linux version. One example was the banker's building that would show up as all black. It was just that with the atmosphere of the game, the all black textures didn't look totally out of place.

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I picked up Blasphemous [External Link]

At $11.59 (CAD), it's the lowest price Steam has had it. And I think Steam is the only platform with the native Linux version.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Liam DaweEA just announced they're putting FIFA on Stadia in March. Interesting timing...

Yeah... But... Where is NHL21?! :cry::grin:

I used to play the NHL games. But buying them every year I started to realize how repetitive they got. I think the last one I have is NHL 2002. I haven't paid much attention to them in years. Last I heard the PC versions of the game didn't get the attention that the console versions got and were missing features. Is that still the case? Or do they even release the PC version anymore?

In fact, the last PC version is 2009. It's not even in 1080p. :grin:

I usually spend my time actually playing hockey. But since there is no beer league hockey going on with the pandemic measures, I might have picked up the latest version of the EA game.

Steam has Bush League Hockey [External Link], which seems like it's trying to look like the SNES era version of the EA games. But the reviews are mixed.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Liam DaweEA just announced they're putting FIFA on Stadia in March. Interesting timing...

Yeah... But... Where is NHL21?! :cry::grin:

I used to play the NHL games. But buying them every year I started to realize how repetitive they got. I think the last one I have is NHL 2002. I haven't paid much attention to them in years. Last I heard the PC versions of the game didn't get the attention that the console versions got and were missing features. Is that still the case? Or do they even release the PC version anymore?

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As I mentioned in the bug report, I tested the mesa branch that has a potential fix and it resolves the ambient occlusion flickering.

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