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Microsoft [to patent] Verb Conjugation
streepje writes "Here [to be] the latest egregious patent application. Microsoft [to be] [to apply] for a patent for [to conjugate] verbs. Future postings [to look] like this."
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Microsoft good.
Can I submit my seventh grade Spanish book as an example of prior art? It has an interface (a table in the back) that allows the user to select verbs based on tense and person.
can they do this without paying royalties to him?
Me fail English? That's unpossible.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
Grammar Nazis everywhere will rejoice at the potential this new innovation has to eliminate all kinds of error with the number, case, tense, and person of a verb. Microsoft again demonstrates to their shareholders their ability to embrace, extend, exterminate, and extort^W^W^W^W^W...innovate, while at the same time rendering useless^W^W showing an olive branch to slashdot readers who seem to have a hard time understanding Microsoft innovation(TM).
Yup, that described by your clarification has certainly never been done before .
make world, not war
At least they didn't patent the letter E.
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
Conjugate? I haven't even kissed a girl.
Will we still be allowed conjugal visits?
Cthulhu for President! Why settle for the lesser evil?
I suppose it'll make it easier to automate how Yoda talks.
I'm still waiting for them to surpass patenting "How to Tell When a Baseball Game is Exciting." or patenting their apple.
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It's going to take some work, although one never knows when opportunity will strike:
A local anchor once said, "...killed him to death..."
She left the city and returned (to a different station) and I was waiting for another one as she's also the "Health & Technology" reporter.
This time, however, it was the "alternative" anchor team (it's a mess) and the story was about acupuncture and overcoming issues in getting pregnant.
The anchor turned to her and said, "I guess it just takes a little prick, eh?". Deadpan.
If I'd have that taped, it would have been on YouTube about five minutes later, but alas...all I could do was change my boxers.
"Can we get an end to all these misleading "Microsoft patents smiley faces!" type of headlines?"
;)
You must be new around here.
Dear Microsoft,
With regard to your patent, would you like to
a) fuck off
b) go fuck yourself or
c) get fucked
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
USPTO doesn't have one! ;)
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Anyone else notice (or care) that the USPTO seems to have spelled Address as "Adress". Spelling-nazis are ten-a-penny, so you would expect the USPTO, of all organisations, to have one or two in their ranks!
Meta will eat itself
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
CLIPPY: "Hello, it looks like you are fucking up a verb conjugation again..."