"So now it's a win-win situation - I as the inventor get rewarded, and the general public gets the benefits of my invention."
I'm not terribly familiar with all this, but how about the case where a company buys the rights to your patent for the sole purpose of profit? Sure it's legal and acceptable use of the patent system. But is it fair or right? I don't know, I see your point, but I also despise the side effects such as this one. I forget the company's name in this story but their only interest in the patent is as a means of income. That provides no benefit to the general public, only to the company's shareholders etc..
Ban the use of cellphones, PDAs, iPods and anything else while driving. When driving you should be driving. Anyone caught using devices like this during an accident investigation should be severely fined.
This would be somewhat interesting if Second Life was actually decent. I played for ten minutes and was shocked to find a stuttering, laggy, visually stunted piece of junk. Ok so I'm being overly critical, but after all the hype....?
That's all well and good, but how does that help them release products that don't, to put it bluntly, suck? IE is insecure, Windows is bloated, steeped in legacy support and a user interface nightmare, Outlook is insecure, Office is bloated, WMP is bloated and ugly and on and on.
Right, I'm sure the detontation of a nuclear device brings clothes and food to the door of those in need. And I'm sure it gives the average citizen a warm fuzzy feeling. Yes, I have no job but we have nuclear capabilities!
"Enhanced performance" yet "programs don't open any faster"? That doesn't sound like enhanced performance to me! I thought increased performance was one of the big things being touted for 2.14?
How will this affect the climate, assuming it does become an ocean? I know humans probably won't exist by then.
Spoken like a true, like, 15 year old
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"you're going to need to use like three - five of these. Each of them captures a certain area, but none are the One Ring or anything."
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Will the company who installed the device take liability when they prevent the car from starting in an emergency and someone loses their life or is severely injured? I doubt it.
I prefer to curl up on the sofa in winter with the weekend newspaper and a cup of tea. I hate reading articles on my PC. But my local newspaper is fairly poor (IMO) so I find myself buying a copy less and less as time goes by. They recently moved their TV guide from saturday to sunday, which meant I had a choice to make. So I stopped buying the sunday paper, as 90% of its content was just a waste of time and held no interest for me.
Newspapers are becoming irrelevant but I think personally, that can change by improving quality. I don't care about the Style section or the home decorating section. I enjoy local and international news, business, technology, arts & entertainment and the car section. But overall the quality will keep me coming back. Though it's odd to think that I'm happy paying CAN$45 a month for internet access but I won't pay a buck every sunday to buy the paper. Ah well!
Comics are like blogs - anyone can now create them thanks to the web, but most are crap. I follow links to comics sometimes and read them wondering how people find them entertaining. They usually involve poor artwork, poor writing, zero humour, humour for twelve year olds, or a combination of all of these.
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I'll post the obvious - 10 years for copyright infringement, and much less for murder in the US? Pffft!
"So now it's a win-win situation - I as the inventor get rewarded, and the general public gets the benefits of my invention."
I'm not terribly familiar with all this, but how about the case where a company buys the rights to your patent for the sole purpose of profit? Sure it's legal and acceptable use of the patent system. But is it fair or right? I don't know, I see your point, but I also despise the side effects such as this one. I forget the company's name in this story but their only interest in the patent is as a means of income. That provides no benefit to the general public, only to the company's shareholders etc..
Ban the use of cellphones, PDAs, iPods and anything else while driving. When driving you should be driving. Anyone caught using devices like this during an accident investigation should be severely fined.
Ban the use of conversation! Oh wait...
This would be somewhat interesting if Second Life was actually decent. I played for ten minutes and was shocked to find a stuttering, laggy, visually stunted piece of junk. Ok so I'm being overly critical, but after all the hype....?
That's all well and good, but how does that help them release products that don't, to put it bluntly, suck? IE is insecure, Windows is bloated, steeped in legacy support and a user interface nightmare, Outlook is insecure, Office is bloated, WMP is bloated and ugly and on and on.
That can't be right - my wife already opened her new coffee maker on her birthday!
"'brought happiness to its people.'"
Right, I'm sure the detontation of a nuclear device brings clothes and food to the door of those in need. And I'm sure it gives the average citizen a warm fuzzy feeling. Yes, I have no job but we have nuclear capabilities!
I hate bullshit like this....
Since when did Slashdot become a technical discussion forum, in lieu of Arstechnica's forums??
It's not the best in the world but I still enjoy tinkering with http://wsframework.sf.net./ The theme is BAD but I'm working on it!
Like they promised us an OSX killer?
I don't know, PHP may have its faults, but I enjoy working with it:
http://wsframework.sf.net/
I personally find that mockery helps....
Bought!
"Enhanced performance" yet "programs don't open any faster"? That doesn't sound like enhanced performance to me! I thought increased performance was one of the big things being touted for 2.14?
Ooh I'd love an IT job in Australia, preferably Perth. Any takers!?
KDE may have funky apps, but it's f*****g ugly. So shoot me.
How will this affect the climate, assuming it does become an ocean? I know humans probably won't exist by then.
"you're going to need to use like three - five of these. Each of them captures a certain area, but none are the One Ring or anything."
Will the company who installed the device take liability when they prevent the car from starting in an emergency and someone loses their life or is severely injured? I doubt it.
I prefer to curl up on the sofa in winter with the weekend newspaper and a cup of tea. I hate reading articles on my PC. But my local newspaper is fairly poor (IMO) so I find myself buying a copy less and less as time goes by. They recently moved their TV guide from saturday to sunday, which meant I had a choice to make. So I stopped buying the sunday paper, as 90% of its content was just a waste of time and held no interest for me.
Newspapers are becoming irrelevant but I think personally, that can change by improving quality. I don't care about the Style section or the home decorating section. I enjoy local and international news, business, technology, arts & entertainment and the car section. But overall the quality will keep me coming back. Though it's odd to think that I'm happy paying CAN$45 a month for internet access but I won't pay a buck every sunday to buy the paper. Ah well!
It's a Linux worm? Riiiiiiight.... I wonder who originally raised this with McAfee.
When will Camaeleon be folded in and available as LiveCD? I'd be interested in trying it.
For the sake of the people who NEED to register, please do NOT Slashdot their site!!!
This is just the basic OS, right? You don't get access to their repository, what is it, click n run?
Comics are like blogs - anyone can now create them thanks to the web, but most are crap. I follow links to comics sometimes and read them wondering how people find them entertaining. They usually involve poor artwork, poor writing, zero humour, humour for twelve year olds, or a combination of all of these.