There is a girl with blue hair and big blue eyes wearing a "sailor suit" school uniform with a short skirt that is painted on the side of launch vehicle!
It's too bad that we have so many old farts that are making decisions about things that they aren't capable of understanding. The good judges should be consulting with the right experts so they can get good advice on how things that are beyond them work... but the egos are so large what is the chance this happening more than just a small part of the time?
Of course it's a number pulled out of my backside... but my comment is based on my belief that every corporation out there that ever made a dollar off of the current broken patent system would go after any effort to fix it. That's a huge number of corporations (many of which have very deep pockets) in all areas of our economy that would work against it. Also included many corps that are in the health care market itself. I think they would all get together gang up on that legislation like a pack of wild wolves... and I think that would be a much bigger fight.
While we're on a reform kick in this country maybe we could undertake patent reform.
Think of all the corporate money that is being thrown at killing healthcare reform in all it's different guises...
and then multiply it by 200.
That, my friend, is the reason it isn't happening. Find ways to reduce the corporate influence and money in these fights first and then there is a chance.
"associating a piece of data with multiple categories"?
Are you kidding me?! So when I create a database table that allows me associate a record with multiple categories I'm infringing on this patent? Surely this isn't the whole story... could someone smarter than me fill me in please?
I am going to go patent taking a wiz in the morning. Apparently prior art doesn't mean anything.
The current state of consumer ignorance about technology allows this type of corporate abuse. At least part of the solution is education. Tough because you have a populace that for the most part doesn't care until they get burnt with a DRM restriction.
The second part of the double whammy though is government and big media in bed with the corporate approved POV on this.
Still... someday the DRM crap will be pushed so far as to cause a critical mass and there will suddenly be "outraged" people on CNN talking about it... but we're going to be deep in the crap pile by then.
Yeah.. I just read that. "Frequency" and "Amplitude" are two of my favorite PS2 games of all time and I still pulling for them to make a third in the series (though it's obviously not going to happen). The music licenses weren't were probably the best they could get at the time but saying that they still got same great names like Garbage and David Bowie to participate. Plus I don't think that the gameplay is as obscure as they make out in the article.
When a Sci-Fi corridor is mentioned I instantly think of old series Dr. Who. They were all flimsy and cheap, but they were interesting to look at and it always seemed like half the story involved the Doctor and/or an assistant running through them.
Okay.. I know that the premise of this joke is totally wrpng and UK scientists were computing pioneers, but it reminds me my favorite joke my father ever told me:
Q: Why didn't the British never make a computer? A: They couldn't figure out a way to make it leak oil.
(I think the joke is incorrect... probably on both counts).
I am not sure we can only blame AT&T on this one. I think the U.S. in general is going to be in for a general bandwidth shortage fairly soon. There is so much of the rural U.S. that doesn't even have high-speed Internet available yet. If we bring those people online that in itself will destroy our capacity. It's really sad the lack of work that has gone into our digital networks in the U.S., especially when compared to what has happened in Asia.
But you're just picking out a part of his legacy here.
If you want to make a statement like in the grandparent comment, maybe it should be something like "don't throw away the contribution of gays because it might be their contribution that helps win your war." This is something out last presidential administration and the branches of military could learn from.
But then they sell to various overseas markets (TV and theatrical), to airlines who don't care what they are showing, to online markets, etc etc etc. Even sucky movies make their money back most of the time.
I kind of agree with this to a great extent... but I find myself believing that he should get a knighthood. Not because of his treatment but because the guy earned it and saved a lot of lives with his code breaking work.
You also have to realize there is a fairly sizable percentage of our population who don't know even the basics about science history or history itself. Look at the Jaywalking segments on Jay Leno (a biased sample of course) and poll the people around you. There are plenty of people who don't know what major historical figures like Eisenhower, Truman, the Roosevelts, or even Lincoln really did. I bet not one person that I work with has even heard of Alan Turing or the ENIGMA machine.
The web might be becoming "video heavy" now, but being able to create video isn't such a specialized skill anymore like it was when television was introduced and video creation needed a score of trained engineers and huge equipment to make it work technically. (Didn't writing go through a similar stage as well?) As equipment and needed know decreases video becomes an experience where normal people become producers and not just passive spectators.
Creating video could become a lot like writing is in schools sometimes and be a way for the creator to learn. The output could be crap with no audience at all outside of a grader, but the person creating the work actually learned something by doing it and furthered his or her knowledge and education.
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If they are criminals. Remember in the U.S. that is determined by a court of law, not bozos like us reading summaries of news reports.
You need a killer ap in order to start getting the sale of these up to the level of a breakthrough computer product.
I say that killer ap will probably have something to do with sensory suits and porn.
firing squad. Then charge their families for the bullets used. It's what THEY would do if they had the chance.
There is a girl with blue hair and big blue eyes wearing a "sailor suit" school uniform with a short skirt that is painted on the side of launch vehicle!
It's too bad that we have so many old farts that are making decisions about things that they aren't capable of understanding. The good judges should be consulting with the right experts so they can get good advice on how things that are beyond them work... but the egos are so large what is the chance this happening more than just a small part of the time?
Of course it's a number pulled out of my backside... but my comment is based on my belief that every corporation out there that ever made a dollar off of the current broken patent system would go after any effort to fix it. That's a huge number of corporations (many of which have very deep pockets) in all areas of our economy that would work against it. Also included many corps that are in the health care market itself. I think they would all get together gang up on that legislation like a pack of wild wolves... and I think that would be a much bigger fight.
While we're on a reform kick in this country maybe we could undertake patent reform.
Think of all the corporate money that is being thrown at killing healthcare reform in all it's different guises...
and then multiply it by 200.
That, my friend, is the reason it isn't happening. Find ways to reduce the corporate influence and money in these fights first and then there is a chance.
"associating a piece of data with multiple categories"?
Are you kidding me?! So when I create a database table that allows me associate a record with multiple categories I'm infringing on this patent? Surely this isn't the whole story... could someone smarter than me fill me in please?
I am going to go patent taking a wiz in the morning. Apparently prior art doesn't mean anything.
I love computers, but I love books. This makes me sad.
The current state of consumer ignorance about technology allows this type of corporate abuse. At least part of the solution is education. Tough because you have a populace that for the most part doesn't care until they get burnt with a DRM restriction.
The second part of the double whammy though is government and big media in bed with the corporate approved POV on this.
Still... someday the DRM crap will be pushed so far as to cause a critical mass and there will suddenly be "outraged" people on CNN talking about it... but we're going to be deep in the crap pile by then.
Just to add to your point, FYI, according the MPAA you haven't bought anything.
Next they will try to figure out a system where you pay more if more than one person is in the room viewing the disk.
Yeah.. I just read that. "Frequency" and "Amplitude" are two of my favorite PS2 games of all time and I still pulling for them to make a third in the series (though it's obviously not going to happen). The music licenses weren't were probably the best they could get at the time but saying that they still got same great names like Garbage and David Bowie to participate. Plus I don't think that the gameplay is as obscure as they make out in the article.
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When a Sci-Fi corridor is mentioned I instantly think of old series Dr. Who. They were all flimsy and cheap, but they were interesting to look at and it always seemed like half the story involved the Doctor and/or an assistant running through them.
Okay.. I know that the premise of this joke is totally wrpng and UK scientists were computing pioneers, but it reminds me my favorite joke my father ever told me:
Q: Why didn't the British never make a computer?
A: They couldn't figure out a way to make it leak oil.
(I think the joke is incorrect... probably on both counts).
I am not sure we can only blame AT&T on this one. I think the U.S. in general is going to be in for a general bandwidth shortage fairly soon. There is so much of the rural U.S. that doesn't even have high-speed Internet available yet. If we bring those people online that in itself will destroy our capacity. It's really sad the lack of work that has gone into our digital networks in the U.S., especially when compared to what has happened in Asia.
Stop playing it emacs...
Madness? This is SLASHDOT.
Spider-man, Hulk, and Iron Man appearing on cruise ships is just as likely.
But you're just picking out a part of his legacy here.
If you want to make a statement like in the grandparent comment, maybe it should be something like "don't throw away the contribution of gays because it might be their contribution that helps win your war." This is something out last presidential administration and the branches of military could learn from.
But then they sell to various overseas markets (TV and theatrical), to airlines who don't care what they are showing, to online markets, etc etc etc. Even sucky movies make their money back most of the time.
I kind of agree with this to a great extent... but I find myself believing that he should get a knighthood. Not because of his treatment but because the guy earned it and saved a lot of lives with his code breaking work.
You also have to realize there is a fairly sizable percentage of our population who don't know even the basics about science history or history itself. Look at the Jaywalking segments on Jay Leno (a biased sample of course) and poll the people around you. There are plenty of people who don't know what major historical figures like Eisenhower, Truman, the Roosevelts, or even Lincoln really did. I bet not one person that I work with has even heard of Alan Turing or the ENIGMA machine.
we already have that.
Think of all the spam we get that goes to something like ht[]tp://bankofamerica.abcd3242.com
The web might be becoming "video heavy" now, but being able to create video isn't such a specialized skill anymore like it was when television was introduced and video creation needed a score of trained engineers and huge equipment to make it work technically. (Didn't writing go through a similar stage as well?) As equipment and needed know decreases video becomes an experience where normal people become producers and not just passive spectators.
Creating video could become a lot like writing is in schools sometimes and be a way for the creator to learn. The output could be crap with no audience at all outside of a grader, but the person creating the work actually learned something by doing it and furthered his or her knowledge and education.