Maybe we're really odd, but my wife and I watch the same shows over and over many times. Our favorite shows are all ripped from DVD and stored on a server which we access through XBMC. It's very common for us to just hit random and see what comes up.
Ideally GUIs and CLIs would offer the exact same functionality just with different user interfaces. It's just as easy to design an unintuitive CLI interface by leaving out functionality as it is a terrible GUI interface by hiding functionality. The difference as I see it is simply that of re-usability. If you need to perform a function once or twice a year, there's no reason to use the CLI and have to remember an arcane notation set to achieve your goal. If it's a daily function or needs to be scripted, then CLI is perfect.
Actually, the doors are completely silent but because the ADA is still in place 300 years from now due to political stagnation, the specs required a separate sound system to be installed with each door notifying blind crewmembers (pre-Geordi-banana-clip) that the door had opened.
Yes, I suppose I am. Other than posting what the rules are supposed to be, can you seriously say with a straight face that with tens of thousands of software patents being granted per year, that all of them pass all of the tests? I don't buy it.
Can I then patent the act of screwing the coated lightbulb into a socket? I mean sure, people screwed old style uncoated lightbulbs into a socket, but they've never screwed in this new kind. It's a totally different invention.
How is GE avoiding taxes? If congress wanted GE to pay taxes, they shouldn't have carefully and specifically crafted a law stating that they don't have to pay taxes, donchathink?
Total health care expenditures in the US are somewhat related to death. We spend a massive amount of money on end-of-life care. How much could we save if Americans decided that death was OK, not a scary thing, but a natural part of life and did it with dignity rather than being lying in a bed alone for a year hooked to dozens of machines with zero quality of life? We spend hundreds of billions per year keeping people barely alive. Could that money be put to better use treating people who actually have life left in them?
Silly children and their fantasies. Many libertarians believe that corporations shouldn't exist at all. But if it helps you get through your sad little life pretending that everybody who thinks differently than you is wrong and evil, go right ahead. George Bush needs friends too. "You're either with us or against us." Amirite?
And those who were heaping scorn on Bush are awfully quiet right now. There are a few Democrats criticizing Obama, but compared to the constant "BUSH = HITLER" we saw for eight years, the Obama detractors are for all intents and purposes silent.
In other words, politics as usual. FWIW, I wrote in Ron Paul. Couldn't stomach either of those corporate shills that R and D parties were trying to saddle us with.
You can't remove energy from a system without affecting it. Whether it's a significant change or not is only speculation based on models at this point.
I've had exactly the same thought. Maybe I'm just an overly simplistic layman, but it seems that materials generating their own heat would be a perpetual motion machine's dream.
And as soon as someone who earns $250K/yr stops working, they stop getting paid and quickly become poor. Rich is when your money does all your work while you're on the golf course. A lot of politicians, D and R alike, are in that class.
He's such a successful CEO in fact, that you can't even get the name of his company right. Sounds like he's doing a fantastic job of representing Expensify.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a law that says they cannot charge additional fees for just such a thing. The whole point of modern law and business is to obfuscate everything, so that nobody really knows what's legal and what they're paying for.
So what you're saying is that if my wife is watching a show on the TV while I watch a show on the iPad, that there are no shows left for my neighbor to watch?
You've really bought into this whole information scarcity thing, huh?
You need to know the person's name to look them up presumably? How do you remember their name a week after you get home from a tiring conference? Write it down perhaps? What if they could give you a pre-printed card with the name already on it...
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Maybe we're really odd, but my wife and I watch the same shows over and over many times. Our favorite shows are all ripped from DVD and stored on a server which we access through XBMC. It's very common for us to just hit random and see what comes up.
Think of the blind photographers!
Ideally GUIs and CLIs would offer the exact same functionality just with different user interfaces. It's just as easy to design an unintuitive CLI interface by leaving out functionality as it is a terrible GUI interface by hiding functionality. The difference as I see it is simply that of re-usability. If you need to perform a function once or twice a year, there's no reason to use the CLI and have to remember an arcane notation set to achieve your goal. If it's a daily function or needs to be scripted, then CLI is perfect.
Actually, the doors are completely silent but because the ADA is still in place 300 years from now due to political stagnation, the specs required a separate sound system to be installed with each door notifying blind crewmembers (pre-Geordi-banana-clip) that the door had opened.
Yes, I suppose I am. Other than posting what the rules are supposed to be, can you seriously say with a straight face that with tens of thousands of software patents being granted per year, that all of them pass all of the tests? I don't buy it.
Yes, but my instructions for screwing in the lightbulb will be on the internet.
Can I then patent the act of screwing the coated lightbulb into a socket? I mean sure, people screwed old style uncoated lightbulbs into a socket, but they've never screwed in this new kind. It's a totally different invention.
How is GE avoiding taxes? If congress wanted GE to pay taxes, they shouldn't have carefully and specifically crafted a law stating that they don't have to pay taxes, donchathink?
I agree completely. The whole thing is dirty.
I say we nuke DC from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Total health care expenditures in the US are somewhat related to death. We spend a massive amount of money on end-of-life care. How much could we save if Americans decided that death was OK, not a scary thing, but a natural part of life and did it with dignity rather than being lying in a bed alone for a year hooked to dozens of machines with zero quality of life? We spend hundreds of billions per year keeping people barely alive. Could that money be put to better use treating people who actually have life left in them?
I see quite a few unions at the top of this list. Service employees, teachers, carpenters, electricians.
http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topcontribs.php
If you think your team is more honest than the other team, it's time for you to check your facts.
Silly children and their fantasies. Many libertarians believe that corporations shouldn't exist at all. But if it helps you get through your sad little life pretending that everybody who thinks differently than you is wrong and evil, go right ahead. George Bush needs friends too. "You're either with us or against us." Amirite?
And those who were heaping scorn on Bush are awfully quiet right now. There are a few Democrats criticizing Obama, but compared to the constant "BUSH = HITLER" we saw for eight years, the Obama detractors are for all intents and purposes silent.
In other words, politics as usual. FWIW, I wrote in Ron Paul. Couldn't stomach either of those corporate shills that R and D parties were trying to saddle us with.
You can't remove energy from a system without affecting it. Whether it's a significant change or not is only speculation based on models at this point.
Which part of Europe is the love from? The German part which is frightened of nuclear power or the French part which loves it?
I blame the school system for that deficiency. And look how much money gets pumped into that. :P
Wish I had mod points, green energy fanatics never seem to look at real world numbers and just assume everything will work.
I've had exactly the same thought. Maybe I'm just an overly simplistic layman, but it seems that materials generating their own heat would be a perpetual motion machine's dream.
And as soon as someone who earns $250K/yr stops working, they stop getting paid and quickly become poor. Rich is when your money does all your work while you're on the golf course. A lot of politicians, D and R alike, are in that class.
He's such a successful CEO in fact, that you can't even get the name of his company right. Sounds like he's doing a fantastic job of representing Expensify.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a law that says they cannot charge additional fees for just such a thing. The whole point of modern law and business is to obfuscate everything, so that nobody really knows what's legal and what they're paying for.
Time Warner Cable has a problem with wireless scarcity? Do you even understand what is being discussed here?
So what you're saying is that if my wife is watching a show on the TV while I watch a show on the iPad, that there are no shows left for my neighbor to watch?
You've really bought into this whole information scarcity thing, huh?
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1996282.shtml?cat=565
You need to know the person's name to look them up presumably? How do you remember their name a week after you get home from a tiring conference? Write it down perhaps? What if they could give you a pre-printed card with the name already on it...
It's so crazy, it just might work.