if I go out to work each day and work my ass off to make movies, and you go work as a plumber, and then I see you watch the movies I work at for free, yet expect me to pay you if you do some plumbing, then that isn't sharing, its called 'freeloading' or 'leeching'. If I work one day as a cop for you and you pay me 100$ and then you work the same day singing a song and ask for 1,000,000$ rest assured I'll try to find a way of not paying you what you don't deserve.
And when I find that way, when you start whining that your predecessors were able to take much more money from mine than you do from me, I won't care.
Shouldn't it be the 200% error? The number they gave was 300% of the new one, but they were wrong by 200% in the same way that 110 is 110% of 100 but only 10% wrong. So he committed a 50% error then?
Don't be so harsh, after all he also was 50% right.
If you did that, nobody would want to work for the patent office. That only means it's underpaid.
Lot's of people work in positions that would instantly fire them at the first mistake, and with much subtler mistakes than those we are arguing about*. They still like those jobs because, as long as they can keep them, they pay well.
*: I do believe that in patent granting there must be really convoluted and complex cases that involve very uses of previous knowledge in subtle ways. However I don't believe those cases conform the majority.
Just saying "take A and B and do them together!" does not a patent make. Still, that a process can be described as "the simultaneous use of A and B" doesn't mean it isn't patentable. Thus, my response to the thread starter.
Why not say that this behavior is the inadvertent result of placing 2 products, an SMTP gateway, and an antivirus client, side by side on the same server? A lot of processes can be simplified in such way and still are original. A decision has to be made even if a process seems obvious after being "discovered".
The people who grant patents should be liable to be fired for gross incompetence?
If I file a patent for the process of giving names to children so they can be distinguished and it's granted, is there someone responsible for that? When a judge overturns the patent, the granter should suffer the consequences somehow.
"You rolled out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end. And that's the truth Max, that they never end. That keyboard is infinite... and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench... That is God's piano." La Leggenda del Pianista sull'Oceano
Destroying evidence is willingly trying to make the justice system not to work properly for your personal advantage.
If you think you're in the right, you should try to change law. If you think the law is correct but is being wrongly applied to your case, you try to change the legal canvas around the case. Destroying evidence is directly admitting guilt, complete consciousness of that fact and simple refusal to face the consequences.
Even if you manage to be cleared of charges, you leave the environment just as it was before, so others that did what you did will pay the price you didn't.
Isn't energy source the bottle neck? Why don't they advertising mainly the power consumption?
Anyway, the data by the time we can have a powerful computer hidden inside a jacket, the data will be stored at home and accessed through wireless communications, so the only really useful advance in memory is power consumption.
With about 0.35g, they may just send a Mars Rover with a mechanical arm and also send pieces to build a catapult. In six months or so, the rover builds the catapult and uses it to throw a piece of ground back.
The only problem could be the rover exceeding his expected lifetime thirteen times and burying us in Mars pieces.
shoot first, ask questions later, huh? such as: how baseless a smear should i attempt? You travelled 13,000 years to the past, shot a bison with Kirk's rudimentary cannon and then sent it 22,000 more years to the past to disprove carbon dating and push your creationist science agenda!
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And when I find that way, when you start whining that your predecessors were able to take much more money from mine than you do from me, I won't care.
- Space age (1957-1971) ...)
- Information age (1971-tpb victory)
- Free data flow age. (tpb victory -
You can't patent an obvious idea. Period.
"patent an obvious idea" =/= "patent the use of A and B together".
If you want to say that "the use of A and B together" is always an obvious idea, don't imply it; just say it, so we can argue about that.
Don't be so harsh, after all he also was 50% right.
Lot's of people work in positions that would instantly fire them at the first mistake, and with much subtler mistakes than those we are arguing about*. They still like those jobs because, as long as they can keep them, they pay well.
*: I do believe that in patent granting there must be really convoluted and complex cases that involve very uses of previous knowledge in subtle ways. However I don't believe those cases conform the majority.
The people who grant patents should be liable to be fired for gross incompetence?
If I file a patent for the process of giving names to children so they can be distinguished and it's granted, is there someone responsible for that? When a judge overturns the patent, the granter should suffer the consequences somehow.
Are the any two points in the robot plane that contain a single unique straight line, robotic too?
Well, we had to choose between that and hitting the same subscriber 10 million times. The former was chosen by coin toss.
You can't put out wildfires by spitting on them.
... can we get a screenshot?Why of course we you can. Close your eyes and count to ten.
Microsoft actually answered in time and slashdot reported the news ten years late.
Fans will be replaced by water heaters and geeks will have to shower at least four times a day to keep the computer cool.
"You rolled out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end. And that's the truth Max, that they never end. That keyboard is infinite... and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench... That is God's piano." La Leggenda del Pianista sull'Oceano
Destroying evidence is willingly trying to make the justice system not to work properly for your personal advantage.
If you think you're in the right, you should try to change law. If you think the law is correct but is being wrongly applied to your case, you try to change the legal canvas around the case. Destroying evidence is directly admitting guilt, complete consciousness of that fact and simple refusal to face the consequences.
Even if you manage to be cleared of charges, you leave the environment just as it was before, so others that did what you did will pay the price you didn't.
Isn't energy source the bottle neck? Why don't they advertising mainly the power consumption?
Anyway, the data by the time we can have a powerful computer hidden inside a jacket, the data will be stored at home and accessed through wireless communications, so the only really useful advance in memory is power consumption.
But they might be better at catching fishes.
With about 0.35g, they may just send a Mars Rover with a mechanical arm and also send pieces to build a catapult. In six months or so, the rover builds the catapult and uses it to throw a piece of ground back.
The only problem could be the rover exceeding his expected lifetime thirteen times and burying us in Mars pieces.
- Laser to fry targets
- Non-lethal version
- Less than lethal version given to cops.
- "Don't fry me bro!" song, world mega-hit.
- Cops get white plastic armors to reflect criminal's lasers.
- Stormtroopers raid the rebel ship...
"Very Good - Looks fine at arm's length, but looking closer reveals soft corners and other imperfections."
There goes our hopes for a near mint Solar System.
Someday we'll finally end destroying the Earth and start with the rest. This gives us a head start.
If they live we'll also have Lamarckism in action.