Yah right, all they need to do is say that it will get them more money to either A) expand broadband or B) create more jobs, and you can bet that it will be accepted.
FPS games on a console are a big bag of fail IMO. Only people who defend them in my experience are ones who haven't spent years using the superior mouse/keyboard combination.
And there are a lot of people who don't want to spend that long to be decent. Yes, if you have used keyboard/mice for FPS games for a long time you will be good at them, for everyone else a controller is pretty good. Controllers are designed for gaming, most keyboards/mice aren't so unless you want to spend a week or so not enjoying the game because you are getting used to awkward, non intuitive controls if you haven't been playing for years with similar control schemes. Plus often times the controls that work great for some mice (such as having the scroll button to zoom in) is terrible on some other mice (such as on mine where the scroll button sticks out a lot).
And also, console games are much, much, cheaper in the long run if you don't have a lot of money to spend on an expensive gaming PC.
Worse still is that it's already been announced what the first paid DLC will be for Beatles Rock Band. Game isn't even OUT yet and they've already basically said "You're getting an incomplete game and will have to pay again."
I can understand DLC on games like that though, because they are like "level" packs ones that might have not been finished in time for the game, had tricky licensing to work out, or would have exceed the capacity of the disk.
But what really annoys me are the DLC to make games easier and then making the game so frustrating that you want to use the DLC to get past a point to make the game actually -fun- again, there are a few RPGs that seem to do this.
There are a few reasons why I am a console gamer (and actually was playing TF2 on the 360 the other day). For one, its cheaper, I tend to either buy used or really cheap computer hardware because I'm a student and paying more than $500 on a computer is a major purchase. I can buy a 360 for $200 and have a guaranteed life (so long as the thing doesn't red ring....) of 2-3 more years left. However, even a state of the art machine today will require expensive upgrades to keep it playing and I doubt I can get a good gaming rig for $350, the price of a 360, a HDD and a few accessories. Myself, I much prefer using a controller even for FPS games simply because I'm more used to it and its in general consistent, that is most games are easy to figure out even with no prior training, PC games seem to have unique control schemes that don't end up working as well and aren't as consistent. Also, each game is going to have the same experience no matter when you buy your console without turning down effects, etc.
In general, console gaming is cheaper, the games are in general cheaper due to the availability of older games, and you can have better local multiplayer without everyone lugging around their gaming rig.
There are a few differences. For one the entire point of a government in the first place is to keep order. In a lot of situations, having a military (or for some smaller countries a national police force) is essential for keeping order. Healthcare is no prerequisite in government and doesn't help keep order. There are a lot of people (including me) who would be willing to downsize -all- parts of government including the military, however the military isn't in my daily life. However the military has one key role, to keep the government in check similar in spirit to the second amendment. If the government becomes so corrupt, the military could stage a forceful removal of power from the government, and its pretty easy to get into the military.
But the military also has lots of national and international regulation, even though we might have the best military in the world, we could be destroyed if Europe banded together against us, or if Asia did, heck, back in the glory days of the Soviet Union they could destroy us (and did in a few proxy wars). The military can't go around firing nukes left and right because of regulations.
Military is well-controlled and essential. Healthcare is not essential, lacks a viable plan, requires either sky-high taxes or a climbing birthrate to work, and most plans kill competition leading to a bad government monopoly.
This is a good idea. Even though I haven't read any field manuals I have read numerous instruction booklets, documentation and books about programs and often times what the official documentation says and what you need to do are totally different. Many times even though the "official" way to do something is doable, it might be awkward or slow, and you can do an "unofficial" way and save time and get 95% or more of the same results. I expect that army field manuals are no different.
Because one byproduct of the taxpayer money was presumably used to allow for taxpayer input on the business methods used by the companies (which, honestly should have happened ages ago when they took startup taxpayer money for broadband, but that is beside the point).
I think you might want the high contrast inverse theme on GNOME. Not sure if the colors are right (not being color-blind myself) but it has good contrast.
What's wrong with the postal service? They're in a sort-term downturn of a long-term declining industry, but they seem to be making cutbacks to cope.
The postal service never seems to get anything right, at least in my experience. In the 5 years I have lived in this house, they first wouldn't ever deliver my mail because they said it was the wrong address, then they decided to change my address, then obviously not content with that they decided to change yet one more time. Then one winter it snowed a lot and so my city decided to plow the streets and plowed a pile of snow close to (not blocking or otherwise obstructing) my mailbox, the mailman then decided to yell at me because I obviously control all the city's snowplows and deliberately plowed it close to my mailbox and how he had to drive closer then he normally has to (he didn't even have to get out of his truck!) and how it was all my fault. So I called the local post office and complained to them and then they complained back to me because the city plowed snow close to my mailbox. Then the next snowstorm came and the exact same thing happened. The post office would never call the city, so I ended up having to and explained it to them, they then didn't plow so close to the mailbox.
More to the point, I don't think my mail is any more likely to be snooped on than my phone is to being tapped or my computer monitored, and those are run by private companies.
Only because mail is much older and those who were fighting the American Revolution helped shape the laws and practices of the USPS so that wouldn't happen. However, lawmakers think that only criminals communicate using computers and phones so they can tap them without a warrant (even though judges basically hand them out like they were nothing).
As for medicare service being worse than private insurers, is it? Medicare has far lower administration and advertising costs. They're not perfect, but most of the people I know with complaints about denied coverage have been from private insurers. (Although I was never creative enough to call them "death panels," ha ha).
Well of course, because medicare basically will take -anyone- because they don't have to have a balanced budget.
In general, individuals are eligible for Medicare if:
* They are 65 years or older and U.S. citizens or have been permanent legal residents for 5 continuous years, and they or their spouse has paid Medicare taxes for at least 10 years.
or
* They are under 65, disabled, and have been receiving either Social Security benefits or the Railroad Retirement Board disability benefits for at least 24 months from date of entitlement (first disability payment).
or
* They get continuing dialysis for end stage renal disease or need a kidney transplant.
or
* They are eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance and have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
That basically means that anyone older than 65 will qualify for it, so of course people qualify and won't get rejected. The fact that they are taxpayer funded and don't have to make a balanced budget basically means they can take anyone with little to no consequences. A private insurer has much higher costs and has to have a balanced budget and make a profit. Medicare basically can spend all they want, lobby congress to increase taxes and has more money disproportionate to the service. Its a bit like taking a 15 year old kid giving him $1,000 and telling him to spend it, he will generally spend it on short-term things that benefit him (video games, food, etc) while an adult who gets a $1,000 in a bonus is more apt to spend it on things that will matter or for other people.
time for the US government to start their own broadband service.
Oh yes, because I want my internet connection tapped 24/7 and all my comments that criticize the US government to be flagged (or did you forget flag@whitehouse.gov?). And just look at the crappy service you get from other government agencies like medicare, the lackluster performance of veterans hospitals, the annoyances of the post office, the general greed of the IRS, and the pain of it all. Yah, I really want the US government to provide broadband.
Comcast/AT&T/Time Warner suck, but you can bet that the US government will suck even worse. Or are you forgetting all the times they've screwed up technology (BBS raids, DMCA, etc)
However, open source means that if enough people complain, someone is going to release a fork of it removing those "features", maintain compatibility for patches, and end up with a better product. For example, Chrome had some annoyances, for one its privacy was questionable at best and it had no adblocker, but since Chrome had an open source project (Chromium) developers were able to fork that and make SRWare Iron ( http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ) which removes these privacy issues and adds in an adblocker. Forks are a natural part of software development and occasionally are forked to prove a point to the often stubborn developers, after the fork gets popular usually the developer relents and adds in or removes the offending code and the fork ceases to exist.
Property relies on scarcity. Heck, our entire economy relies on scarcity. Ownership can only be effectively enforced when there is only one copy. For example, if I have a watch, it is going to be distinct and different in some ways than another watch, each watch is unique. On the other hand, virtual "property" lacks this quality. For example, you can define a entire virtual character in the following lines:
name: SomeName
attack: 5
defense: 3
hp: 200
level: 40
equipped: sword
Cloak
Staff
Duplicating that character is as simple as copying and pasting those lines, there is no scarcity. Any change to the "property" is simply typing in a new word or number. It is not unique and lacks scarcity and is therefore worthless.
Eh, I'm young, and didn't get broadband till about 2003 and used gmail since its inception. I did "use" Yahoo mail, but didn't really do anything on it. So yes, I really have only actually used Gmail.
An even scarier twist would be if legislation makes it -illegal- to discriminate against mail sent this way with a spam filter (probably thrown in with some form of net neutrality) making it a guaranteed delivery, illegal to block.
However there are -tons- of legitimate reasons to have more than one e-mail account. For example, a business might want to have one for each employee, so there is one, another would be a personal e-mail, and another one would be an "internet" e-mail for occasions where you might not want to reveal your real name (forum registration, etc). Plus there are many occasions where you forget either a username or password and when you try to register for a new account it helpfully tells you there is already an account for the e-mail address yet won't send you the username. Another reason is for convenience, I used Yahoo mail for a while but then I realized that I might as well get a Gmail account because I searched Google, had Google as my homepage and never used Yahoo except to check mail.
And also this will create problems with students/poor people who while they can afford the "stamps" might not have a credit card to buy them. And finally, this is unethical because the cost of a single message is -far- less than one cent, similar to how US carriers charge 10 cents or more per text message when it costs them nothing to send.
Honestly, this is one of the stupidest things I have heard of. For one, if this is adopted it will lead to discrimination of services (as in, you are using Gmail and not our ISP's pay-mail, so your message automatically gets flagged). For another, I've found that Gmail and other webmail services are pretty good of not giving false positives, in the few years I've been using Gmail, I've gotten 3 spam messages total, none of which was a false positive and no spam e-mails in my inbox. But honestly, this is simply charging for what should be a free service to help solve a problem that doesn't exist if you use Gmail (can't say for any other mail provider because Gmail has been so good I really haven't used any other mail provider).
So? Usually getting published in an academic journal I'm not going to do during my free time, I had better get paid, use it to gain name recognition or use it for a class in order for me to even bother. No one cares if you have 20,000 edits accepted in Wikipedia other than you. I'm not going to use my free time attempting to make Wikipedia better if my edits are going to be rejected without much cause.
Honestly, I'd like Wikipedia to have even more articles, the notability guidelines are honestly quite pointless and lead to many -great- articles being deleted. It doesn't benefit the community if you delete them, sure, Wikipedia might not be the place but this isn't a paper encyclopedia, space is for all practical purposes infinite for text.
No, it won't. The one thing about technology is it starts expensive, gets cheaper and cheaper then a new breakthrough comes in and makes things more expensive and the cycle starts again. Just look at hard drives, they started incredibly expensive for a small amount of storage, then they started getting higher capacity and cheaper and cheaper, then the cycle is starting again with SSDs where just a few years ago even 32 GB was -very- expensive.
Except for the fact that guns are designed to shoot things. Honestly, I believe that disallowing non-violent felons from the right to bear arms or any other constitutional right is wrong, but social networks are simply talking, and honestly, you can't be molested online, despite what some people might think.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
If it can be proven (and I'm sure it can) that software patents do not promote the progress of science and arts, then this line allows them to basically re-work patent law. Business method patents, software patents and other non-tangible or non-applied patents really haven't done a single thing to promote the progress of science and useful arts. So with that one line, they can perhaps argue that it goes against the constitution to implement patent/copyright law that goes against that. However, its effect might be limited by the annoying "necessary and proper" clause.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Can someone please tell me how software patents are promoting the progress of science/useful arts? There are -many- countries who don't have software patents yet software still comes out of those countries.
There is not a positive thing that has come out of software patents. The quality of software hasn't improved, patent trolls are numerous, oh and because of software patents there are many incompatibilities in software that lead to many, many problems.
No, no it shouldn't. http://www.donothijackme.com/ does not show up with anything, it opens up a error message reading "Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.donothijackme.com.
* Check the address for typing errors such as
ww.example.com instead of
www.example.com
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Minefield is permitted to access the Web."
Example.com on the other hand -is- a valid site and will return "You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net", or "example.org" into your web browser.
These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3." if the point is searching for an invalid site to test for this, why the heck would you use a valid site which wouldn't return the error message?
But it becomes a bad thing when you do it for non-existent domains. When you type something without the domain name, its assumed you are searching for something, when you enter a non-existent domain, its sorta like dialing a wrong number. I'd rather the phone system tell me I have a wrong number rather than trying to get me where it thinks I want to go. If I call 555-555-5555 chances are I want 555-555-5555, it should not assume that I want 555-555-XXXX. When I want to go to something.com,.net,.org, or another domain, I want it it to show me the domain, if there is no domain, tell me there is no domain.
Severely ticking off the maker of certain components? Think of what Palm and Apple are doing, however, Palm and Apple really don't have to communicate much, Palm does their thing and Apple does their thing, on the other hand, many motherboard makers have some components provided by third party manufacturers or licensed to them.
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Yah right, all they need to do is say that it will get them more money to either A) expand broadband or B) create more jobs, and you can bet that it will be accepted.
FPS games on a console are a big bag of fail IMO. Only people who defend them in my experience are ones who haven't spent years using the superior mouse/keyboard combination.
And there are a lot of people who don't want to spend that long to be decent. Yes, if you have used keyboard/mice for FPS games for a long time you will be good at them, for everyone else a controller is pretty good. Controllers are designed for gaming, most keyboards/mice aren't so unless you want to spend a week or so not enjoying the game because you are getting used to awkward, non intuitive controls if you haven't been playing for years with similar control schemes. Plus often times the controls that work great for some mice (such as having the scroll button to zoom in) is terrible on some other mice (such as on mine where the scroll button sticks out a lot).
And also, console games are much, much, cheaper in the long run if you don't have a lot of money to spend on an expensive gaming PC.
Worse still is that it's already been announced what the first paid DLC will be for Beatles Rock Band. Game isn't even OUT yet and they've already basically said "You're getting an incomplete game and will have to pay again."
I can understand DLC on games like that though, because they are like "level" packs ones that might have not been finished in time for the game, had tricky licensing to work out, or would have exceed the capacity of the disk.
But what really annoys me are the DLC to make games easier and then making the game so frustrating that you want to use the DLC to get past a point to make the game actually -fun- again, there are a few RPGs that seem to do this.
There are a few reasons why I am a console gamer (and actually was playing TF2 on the 360 the other day). For one, its cheaper, I tend to either buy used or really cheap computer hardware because I'm a student and paying more than $500 on a computer is a major purchase. I can buy a 360 for $200 and have a guaranteed life (so long as the thing doesn't red ring....) of 2-3 more years left. However, even a state of the art machine today will require expensive upgrades to keep it playing and I doubt I can get a good gaming rig for $350, the price of a 360, a HDD and a few accessories. Myself, I much prefer using a controller even for FPS games simply because I'm more used to it and its in general consistent, that is most games are easy to figure out even with no prior training, PC games seem to have unique control schemes that don't end up working as well and aren't as consistent. Also, each game is going to have the same experience no matter when you buy your console without turning down effects, etc.
In general, console gaming is cheaper, the games are in general cheaper due to the availability of older games, and you can have better local multiplayer without everyone lugging around their gaming rig.
So in other words adware, toolbars and spyware should be perfectly allowed because a third party program can remove them?
Really if MS decided to lobby against patent trolls they could have saved themselves the trouble in the first place.
There are a few differences. For one the entire point of a government in the first place is to keep order. In a lot of situations, having a military (or for some smaller countries a national police force) is essential for keeping order. Healthcare is no prerequisite in government and doesn't help keep order. There are a lot of people (including me) who would be willing to downsize -all- parts of government including the military, however the military isn't in my daily life. However the military has one key role, to keep the government in check similar in spirit to the second amendment. If the government becomes so corrupt, the military could stage a forceful removal of power from the government, and its pretty easy to get into the military.
But the military also has lots of national and international regulation, even though we might have the best military in the world, we could be destroyed if Europe banded together against us, or if Asia did, heck, back in the glory days of the Soviet Union they could destroy us (and did in a few proxy wars). The military can't go around firing nukes left and right because of regulations.
Military is well-controlled and essential. Healthcare is not essential, lacks a viable plan, requires either sky-high taxes or a climbing birthrate to work, and most plans kill competition leading to a bad government monopoly.
This is a good idea. Even though I haven't read any field manuals I have read numerous instruction booklets, documentation and books about programs and often times what the official documentation says and what you need to do are totally different. Many times even though the "official" way to do something is doable, it might be awkward or slow, and you can do an "unofficial" way and save time and get 95% or more of the same results. I expect that army field manuals are no different.
Because one byproduct of the taxpayer money was presumably used to allow for taxpayer input on the business methods used by the companies (which, honestly should have happened ages ago when they took startup taxpayer money for broadband, but that is beside the point).
I think you might want the high contrast inverse theme on GNOME. Not sure if the colors are right (not being color-blind myself) but it has good contrast.
What's wrong with the postal service? They're in a sort-term downturn of a long-term declining industry, but they seem to be making cutbacks to cope.
The postal service never seems to get anything right, at least in my experience. In the 5 years I have lived in this house, they first wouldn't ever deliver my mail because they said it was the wrong address, then they decided to change my address, then obviously not content with that they decided to change yet one more time. Then one winter it snowed a lot and so my city decided to plow the streets and plowed a pile of snow close to (not blocking or otherwise obstructing) my mailbox, the mailman then decided to yell at me because I obviously control all the city's snowplows and deliberately plowed it close to my mailbox and how he had to drive closer then he normally has to (he didn't even have to get out of his truck!) and how it was all my fault. So I called the local post office and complained to them and then they complained back to me because the city plowed snow close to my mailbox. Then the next snowstorm came and the exact same thing happened. The post office would never call the city, so I ended up having to and explained it to them, they then didn't plow so close to the mailbox.
More to the point, I don't think my mail is any more likely to be snooped on than my phone is to being tapped or my computer monitored, and those are run by private companies.
Only because mail is much older and those who were fighting the American Revolution helped shape the laws and practices of the USPS so that wouldn't happen. However, lawmakers think that only criminals communicate using computers and phones so they can tap them without a warrant (even though judges basically hand them out like they were nothing).
As for medicare service being worse than private insurers, is it? Medicare has far lower administration and advertising costs. They're not perfect, but most of the people I know with complaints about denied coverage have been from private insurers. (Although I was never creative enough to call them "death panels," ha ha).
Well of course, because medicare basically will take -anyone- because they don't have to have a balanced budget.
In general, individuals are eligible for Medicare if: * They are 65 years or older and U.S. citizens or have been permanent legal residents for 5 continuous years, and they or their spouse has paid Medicare taxes for at least 10 years. or * They are under 65, disabled, and have been receiving either Social Security benefits or the Railroad Retirement Board disability benefits for at least 24 months from date of entitlement (first disability payment). or * They get continuing dialysis for end stage renal disease or need a kidney transplant. or * They are eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance and have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
That basically means that anyone older than 65 will qualify for it, so of course people qualify and won't get rejected. The fact that they are taxpayer funded and don't have to make a balanced budget basically means they can take anyone with little to no consequences. A private insurer has much higher costs and has to have a balanced budget and make a profit. Medicare basically can spend all they want, lobby congress to increase taxes and has more money disproportionate to the service. Its a bit like taking a 15 year old kid giving him $1,000 and telling him to spend it, he will generally spend it on short-term things that benefit him (video games, food, etc) while an adult who gets a $1,000 in a bonus is more apt to spend it on things that will matter or for other people.
time for the US government to start their own broadband service.
Oh yes, because I want my internet connection tapped 24/7 and all my comments that criticize the US government to be flagged (or did you forget flag@whitehouse.gov?). And just look at the crappy service you get from other government agencies like medicare, the lackluster performance of veterans hospitals, the annoyances of the post office, the general greed of the IRS, and the pain of it all. Yah, I really want the US government to provide broadband.
Comcast/AT&T/Time Warner suck, but you can bet that the US government will suck even worse. Or are you forgetting all the times they've screwed up technology (BBS raids, DMCA, etc)
However, open source means that if enough people complain, someone is going to release a fork of it removing those "features", maintain compatibility for patches, and end up with a better product. For example, Chrome had some annoyances, for one its privacy was questionable at best and it had no adblocker, but since Chrome had an open source project (Chromium) developers were able to fork that and make SRWare Iron ( http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ) which removes these privacy issues and adds in an adblocker. Forks are a natural part of software development and occasionally are forked to prove a point to the often stubborn developers, after the fork gets popular usually the developer relents and adds in or removes the offending code and the fork ceases to exist.
Property relies on scarcity. Heck, our entire economy relies on scarcity. Ownership can only be effectively enforced when there is only one copy. For example, if I have a watch, it is going to be distinct and different in some ways than another watch, each watch is unique. On the other hand, virtual "property" lacks this quality. For example, you can define a entire virtual character in the following lines:
name: SomeName
attack: 5
defense: 3
hp: 200
level: 40
equipped: sword
Cloak
Staff
Duplicating that character is as simple as copying and pasting those lines, there is no scarcity. Any change to the "property" is simply typing in a new word or number. It is not unique and lacks scarcity and is therefore worthless.
Eh, I'm young, and didn't get broadband till about 2003 and used gmail since its inception. I did "use" Yahoo mail, but didn't really do anything on it. So yes, I really have only actually used Gmail.
An even scarier twist would be if legislation makes it -illegal- to discriminate against mail sent this way with a spam filter (probably thrown in with some form of net neutrality) making it a guaranteed delivery, illegal to block.
However there are -tons- of legitimate reasons to have more than one e-mail account. For example, a business might want to have one for each employee, so there is one, another would be a personal e-mail, and another one would be an "internet" e-mail for occasions where you might not want to reveal your real name (forum registration, etc). Plus there are many occasions where you forget either a username or password and when you try to register for a new account it helpfully tells you there is already an account for the e-mail address yet won't send you the username. Another reason is for convenience, I used Yahoo mail for a while but then I realized that I might as well get a Gmail account because I searched Google, had Google as my homepage and never used Yahoo except to check mail.
And also this will create problems with students/poor people who while they can afford the "stamps" might not have a credit card to buy them. And finally, this is unethical because the cost of a single message is -far- less than one cent, similar to how US carriers charge 10 cents or more per text message when it costs them nothing to send.
Honestly, this is one of the stupidest things I have heard of. For one, if this is adopted it will lead to discrimination of services (as in, you are using Gmail and not our ISP's pay-mail, so your message automatically gets flagged). For another, I've found that Gmail and other webmail services are pretty good of not giving false positives, in the few years I've been using Gmail, I've gotten 3 spam messages total, none of which was a false positive and no spam e-mails in my inbox. But honestly, this is simply charging for what should be a free service to help solve a problem that doesn't exist if you use Gmail (can't say for any other mail provider because Gmail has been so good I really haven't used any other mail provider).
So? Usually getting published in an academic journal I'm not going to do during my free time, I had better get paid, use it to gain name recognition or use it for a class in order for me to even bother. No one cares if you have 20,000 edits accepted in Wikipedia other than you. I'm not going to use my free time attempting to make Wikipedia better if my edits are going to be rejected without much cause.
Honestly, I'd like Wikipedia to have even more articles, the notability guidelines are honestly quite pointless and lead to many -great- articles being deleted. It doesn't benefit the community if you delete them, sure, Wikipedia might not be the place but this isn't a paper encyclopedia, space is for all practical purposes infinite for text.
No, it won't. The one thing about technology is it starts expensive, gets cheaper and cheaper then a new breakthrough comes in and makes things more expensive and the cycle starts again. Just look at hard drives, they started incredibly expensive for a small amount of storage, then they started getting higher capacity and cheaper and cheaper, then the cycle is starting again with SSDs where just a few years ago even 32 GB was -very- expensive.
Except for the fact that guns are designed to shoot things. Honestly, I believe that disallowing non-violent felons from the right to bear arms or any other constitutional right is wrong, but social networks are simply talking, and honestly, you can't be molested online, despite what some people might think.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
If it can be proven (and I'm sure it can) that software patents do not promote the progress of science and arts, then this line allows them to basically re-work patent law. Business method patents, software patents and other non-tangible or non-applied patents really haven't done a single thing to promote the progress of science and useful arts. So with that one line, they can perhaps argue that it goes against the constitution to implement patent/copyright law that goes against that. However, its effect might be limited by the annoying "necessary and proper" clause.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Can someone please tell me how software patents are promoting the progress of science/useful arts? There are -many- countries who don't have software patents yet software still comes out of those countries.
There is not a positive thing that has come out of software patents. The quality of software hasn't improved, patent trolls are numerous, oh and because of software patents there are many incompatibilities in software that lead to many, many problems.
No, no it shouldn't. http://www.donothijackme.com/ does not show up with anything, it opens up a error message reading "Server not found Firefox can't find the server at www.donothijackme.com. * Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Minefield is permitted to access the Web."
Example.com on the other hand -is- a valid site and will return "You have reached this web page by typing "example.com", "example.net", or "example.org" into your web browser. These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are not available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3." if the point is searching for an invalid site to test for this, why the heck would you use a valid site which wouldn't return the error message?
But it becomes a bad thing when you do it for non-existent domains. When you type something without the domain name, its assumed you are searching for something, when you enter a non-existent domain, its sorta like dialing a wrong number. I'd rather the phone system tell me I have a wrong number rather than trying to get me where it thinks I want to go. If I call 555-555-5555 chances are I want 555-555-5555, it should not assume that I want 555-555-XXXX. When I want to go to something .com, .net, .org, or another domain, I want it it to show me the domain, if there is no domain, tell me there is no domain.
Severely ticking off the maker of certain components? Think of what Palm and Apple are doing, however, Palm and Apple really don't have to communicate much, Palm does their thing and Apple does their thing, on the other hand, many motherboard makers have some components provided by third party manufacturers or licensed to them.