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Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office
theodp writes "On Tuesday, Amazon was awarded a patent for Search Query Autocompletion. From the Summary of the Invention--'For example, if Pokemon toys are currently the best selling or most-frequently-searched-for items within the database, the term POKEMON may be suggested whenever a user enters the letters "PO," even though many hundreds of other items in the database may start with "PO.'" See, Amazon practices the mantra "Gotta catch 'em all" with patents.
It's true. Sure, Pikachu holds Psyduck down on the cartoon (They barely even let him out of his ball!), but given the chance, he kicks ass every time. His psychic abilities are awesome and blow Pikachu's lightning attacks away.
Huh, well, I'm going to patent sitting masturbating in my Mom's basement installing Linux then!
As much as I hate Mandrake, I might want to go with that.
Any suggestions for a no-hastle distro?
(And fuck anyone who thinks I should use Gentoo or some bullshit like that. I thought Linux would be ready for the desktop)
Information wants to be free
screw amazon
Dude! Check out Mandrake's latest distro! It's a piece of cake to install, everything is included (drivers and shit), and all the needed drivers are auto installing. My only complaint is that if you want software that isn't included in the ISO, or an updated version, you either have to send money to Mandrake and become a member of their "club" or just find the software on the net somewhere and install it yourself (which isn't all that bad, just a pain with rpm's missing dependencies)
It's the "Who do we like this week?" game-
MS - Still bad
IBM - Good, this week, check back next week
Linus - Good this week, insofar as I know
Oracle - ??? (profit or no profit)
Apple - Bad this week
Disney - Still bad
Amazon - Today they are bad, tomorrow..???
Okay, I'm done..who else has changed sides?
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
MY house has no basement. Take that, cynical /. reader!
Besides, I assume you are joking, as you spelled it Lunix.
I understand what they are doing, and it's killing me. Stop this stinking ride, I want to get off. 1. Technicolor Yawn 2. Singing Lunch 3. Yelling Europe at the Toilet and the list goes on... THIS HAS TO STOP SOMEWHERE
That's GNU/Masturbating.
"Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article"
Well if it wasn't for prior art, they'd probably have "Fucking people up the ass" patented.
Can all fish swim?
fredrik? is that you?
really makes me want to go out and patent some nifty software idea just to see if it would go through
hooray! it's a sex wiki