Up until a week ago I lived in Concord, NH, which has a going-out-of-business Borders in it at this very moment. I visited it every month or two but rarely bought anything, because their prices were too high. Everything I wanted was cheaper or available in better formats on Amazon.
My Windows 7 work machine was crashing (full blue-screen at least 5 times a day) regularly for a few weeks due to bad network drivers. It took Intel way too long to come out with a fix.
"No, what they were not happy with was the fact that many of these unlicensed pharmacies were claiming to sell brand-name drugs but in fact were selling counterfeits. Which is *gasp* fraud and is illegal."
By "counterfeits" do you mean "generics" or truly not the advertised chemical compound? I would not consider counterfeit and generic interchangeable, and one situation is far more concerning than the other.
That would work for a first offense if DWI truly represented drunk driving. However, the threshold has been lowered to the point that most people can get a DWI without being "drunk".
I disagree. I think things that should be patentable are not obvious, even in hindsight. Pick your favorite patent that's "obvious in hindsight" that you think should be patentable, so people can try to falsify your viewpoint. Talking in abstractions as you are makes it impossible to argue against you directly, which means both sides just talk past each other.
A free license to use the trademarked name would 100% deal with the duty-to-enforce part of trademark law. There's no requirement to stop others using your name, as long as you license it.
The only problem with raising taxes on the rich is that they can dodge them. We the non-rich don't have such creative accountants and (legal, of course) tricks at our disposal, because the amount we would spend on those resources to avoid taxes would be higher than the taxes we pay.
Illustration: There are 100 stocks. 1 goes way way up, like 100x. 99 go very slightly down. A random subset of 10 stocks does not have a 50% chance of beating the average, since there is not a 50% chance it will include the 1 that went up. (Yes, I know I'm agreeing with you.)
How is pass-by-pointer cleaner than pass-by reference? References eliminate the need to worry about supplied return pointers being null. Or do you think all functions should only have a single result? And templates get a whole lot cleaner if you're willing to typedef them. STL makes the language far more usable.
We obviously won't be able to stop this melting by just reducing emissions. It will be really interesting to see what happens with shipping lanes and military strategy if we can go right over the pole (with boats, instead of just with missiles).
"no way to opt out"? It's easy to change your DNS servers. How do you expect to "opt out" of their DNS besides changing the setting yourself? It's not like there's a default DNS server that's not at your ISP that they started overriding.
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Come on people, where are his replies and +5 mod? This is obviously the key story here.
Up until a week ago I lived in Concord, NH, which has a going-out-of-business Borders in it at this very moment. I visited it every month or two but rarely bought anything, because their prices were too high. Everything I wanted was cheaper or available in better formats on Amazon.
I live in a state with no sales tax, and I still buy from Amazon. Explain me away, please.
Of course it's a joke. If there's no CO2 in the atmosphere it means none of us are breathing the air anymore.
My Windows 7 work machine was crashing (full blue-screen at least 5 times a day) regularly for a few weeks due to bad network drivers. It took Intel way too long to come out with a fix.
Their names aren't Latin, so it all depends how you turn the sounds into our characters. It's like Hanukkah / Chanukah.
celsius is based on the freezing and boiling points of water (as if that's not ideosyncratic)..
Not only that, it's based on the freezing and boiling points of water at some particular altitude under "standard" atmospheric conditions.
I share an Internet connection with several other people; should we all be arrested if the IP address happened to be an endpoint of illegal data?
Don't be silly, only the men would be arrested.
"No, what they were not happy with was the fact that many of these unlicensed pharmacies were claiming to sell brand-name drugs but in fact were selling counterfeits. Which is *gasp* fraud and is illegal."
By "counterfeits" do you mean "generics" or truly not the advertised chemical compound? I would not consider counterfeit and generic interchangeable, and one situation is far more concerning than the other.
That would work for a first offense if DWI truly represented drunk driving. However, the threshold has been lowered to the point that most people can get a DWI without being "drunk".
Well I can certainly see why they would settle, then. If you agree with the government to vet advertisers, you'd better do what you promise.
It's unfortunate that you didn't include that information in the summary.
I disagree. I think things that should be patentable are not obvious, even in hindsight. Pick your favorite patent that's "obvious in hindsight" that you think should be patentable, so people can try to falsify your viewpoint. Talking in abstractions as you are makes it impossible to argue against you directly, which means both sides just talk past each other.
IBM. http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/1534223
A free license to use the trademarked name would 100% deal with the duty-to-enforce part of trademark law. There's no requirement to stop others using your name, as long as you license it.
I think it's unlikely that suing is the intended use of those patents, but intent isn't really the point. We'll all learn the result in time.
The only problem with raising taxes on the rich is that they can dodge them. We the non-rich don't have such creative accountants and (legal, of course) tricks at our disposal, because the amount we would spend on those resources to avoid taxes would be higher than the taxes we pay.
Illustration: There are 100 stocks. 1 goes way way up, like 100x. 99 go very slightly down. A random subset of 10 stocks does not have a 50% chance of beating the average, since there is not a 50% chance it will include the 1 that went up. (Yes, I know I'm agreeing with you.)
How is pass-by-pointer cleaner than pass-by reference? References eliminate the need to worry about supplied return pointers being null. Or do you think all functions should only have a single result? And templates get a whole lot cleaner if you're willing to typedef them. STL makes the language far more usable.
We obviously won't be able to stop this melting by just reducing emissions. It will be really interesting to see what happens with shipping lanes and military strategy if we can go right over the pole (with boats, instead of just with missiles).
"no way to opt out"? It's easy to change your DNS servers. How do you expect to "opt out" of their DNS besides changing the setting yourself? It's not like there's a default DNS server that's not at your ISP that they started overriding.
If you only noticed "irregardless", you missed half.
Iceland seems to be a good choice.
The UK already did that, if anyone needs an object lesson.
PC gaming was, and still is, more popular than living room console gaming. The only way it's not is if you ignore casual games.
Try harder. I have no external bias toward Google, although I do use some of their stuff. I'm anti-patent, not pro-Google.