Is there any kind of appeal process that can be used to challenge stupid patents like these? Preferably one that puts a #000000 mark on the record of the examiner that approved it?
My old ID also stopped getting mod points (and this one has never had them). Around the time I stopped leaving/. for more than an hour at a time. Which, according to the FAQs, makes one unlikely to get mod points. They don't want to hand out mod points to people that signed up once and never came back, and they don't want to give them to people that are on constantly (such people are a drain on resources and may possibly have a higher likelihood of being trolls.).
Assuming that Spanish speakers would naturally see the word "nova" as equivalent to the phrase "no va" and think "Hey, this car doesn't go!" is akin to assuming that English speakers woud spurn a dinette set sold under the name Notable because nobody wants a dinette set that doesn't include a table.
A start-up can make a killing by not having commercial competition.
One thing I am concerned about is that Linux is a moving target. Will an app developed today work on a distro 10 years from now, without having to rewrite it to match the modern libraries? (Wouldn't that lead to linux dll's?) Something like Gentoo's ability to have multiple versions of the same package would be useful...
If you can't get Red Hat or Novell to do it for you, you can hire someone yourself. Try doing that with Windows.
integration
Good thing we have open standards we like to follow!
training,
If they aren't fiddling with it already, you might want to improve your hiring process.
Re:OP is a condescending asshole, and it shows...
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except Ubuntu and the like have better picture managers by default
For all it's faults, I like Windows Explorer better than Nautilus.
Wait... you mean F-Spot et al, don't you?
Well then I am forced to agree with you. F-Spot uninstalls much more cleanly than Photoshop Elements/Kodak EasyShare/etc.
And the exploiters go where the biggest market is.
And on web servers, that is open source. What cracker wouldn't want to kill Google, Yahoo or Wikipedia for a day?
And note the 9 most reliable hosting services of January '09.
Behe's thesis in Darwin's Black Box was that systems which would fall apart if one component were removed could not have been produced by evolutionary processes.
More accurately, he claims that IC systems derived from evolutionary process is statistically unlikely. And while that simulation can make an IC system, it has a few biases.
The most successful algorithm doesn't seem to die.
A high-scoring algorithm continues to contribute to the gene pool until more effective algorithms displace it. Humans, in contrast, can only contribute for three generations (or four, in the case of virile males.), assuming 1 generation is 20 years. Other animals have a higher generations-to-lifespan ratio, but it isn't infinite.
The generations don't age
Similar to the issue about not dieing, humans and animals get old. They slow down. They don't heal as fast as they once did. They acquire life-long injuries and afflictions (polio, damaged limbs...). In this simulation, there is no such thing as a virile young adult with a hereditary predisposition towards sterility in middle age (or an accident arising from being an idiot), which would limit them to a single reproductive generation.
Replication/Reproduction cycle facilitated by system and was not produced in an evolutionary manner. Without the Java app to interpret, those codes would be meaningless; and the Java app was not a product of darwinian evolution. Biological evolution is similarly implausible. DNA goes through a fantastically complex process to duplicate a thread, and that process had to be in place alongside a DNA strand that could code a duplicate DNA interpreter as well as duplicate itself. Writing quines is complicated enough. But a quine that is self-compiling and self-executing? Generated at random in a system that is passively hostile? Please.
"a theory must provide a way to be falsified, and evolution does not".
Technically, evolution does provide a way to be falsified.
Any biological systems that can be shown to have not been formed in a series of minor tweaking is not likely to have been formed by evolution. The book Darwin's Black Box is and interesting read.
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Is there any kind of appeal process that can be used to challenge stupid patents like these? Preferably one that puts a #000000 mark on the record of the examiner that approved it?
IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor
Reading that title, I got a mental image of body armor sensing incoming bullets and dodging them by jumping off of the wearer.
Actually, this makes me want to go any buy one expressly for the purpose of jailbreaking it.
And nothing of value was gained.
Is the gibberish url the always the same?
Or sufficiently screwed up definitions of "equal".
Wouldn't a perfectly smooth road be frictionless? Tires only work because they grip on irregularities on the road's surface.
My old ID also stopped getting mod points (and this one has never had them). Around the time I stopped leaving /. for more than an hour at a time. Which, according to the FAQs, makes one unlikely to get mod points. They don't want to hand out mod points to people that signed up once and never came back, and they don't want to give them to people that are on constantly (such people are a drain on resources and may possibly have a higher likelihood of being trolls.).
What were you expecting? 32 bit?
There is a reason they only dispense 3 mod points at a time.
Assuming that Spanish speakers would naturally see the word "nova" as equivalent to the phrase "no va" and think "Hey, this car doesn't go!" is akin to assuming that English speakers woud spurn a dinette set sold under the name Notable because nobody wants a dinette set that doesn't include a table.
A start-up can make a killing by not having commercial competition.
One thing I am concerned about is that Linux is a moving target. Will an app developed today work on a distro 10 years from now, without having to rewrite it to match the modern libraries? (Wouldn't that lead to linux dll's?) Something like Gentoo's ability to have multiple versions of the same package would be useful...
Taobao.com lose about $50M per year, but it now got 90% market share and 800M users.
Great logic you have there.
Support, maintenance
Fewer techs needed = lower salary costs
customization
If you can't get Red Hat or Novell to do it for you, you can hire someone yourself. Try doing that with Windows.
integration
Good thing we have open standards we like to follow!
training,
If they aren't fiddling with it already, you might want to improve your hiring process.
except Ubuntu and the like have better picture managers by default
For all it's faults, I like Windows Explorer better than Nautilus.
Wait... you mean F-Spot et al, don't you?
Well then I am forced to agree with you. F-Spot uninstalls much more cleanly than Photoshop Elements/Kodak EasyShare/etc.
I prefer 1337
And the exploiters go where the biggest market is.
And on web servers, that is open source. What cracker wouldn't want to kill Google, Yahoo or Wikipedia for a day?
And note the 9 most reliable hosting services of January '09.
That proves nothing until everyone else has switched. And even then, the AntiVirii will move. They will just be even more usesless than before.
November?
Behe's thesis in Darwin's Black Box was that systems which would fall apart if one component were removed could not have been produced by evolutionary processes.
More accurately, he claims that IC systems derived from evolutionary process is statistically unlikely. And while that simulation can make an IC system, it has a few biases.
A high-scoring algorithm continues to contribute to the gene pool until more effective algorithms displace it. Humans, in contrast, can only contribute for three generations (or four, in the case of virile males.), assuming 1 generation is 20 years. Other animals have a higher generations-to-lifespan ratio, but it isn't infinite.
Similar to the issue about not dieing, humans and animals get old. They slow down. They don't heal as fast as they once did. They acquire life-long injuries and afflictions (polio, damaged limbs...). In this simulation, there is no such thing as a virile young adult with a hereditary predisposition towards sterility in middle age (or an accident arising from being an idiot), which would limit them to a single reproductive generation.
Without the Java app to interpret, those codes would be meaningless; and the Java app was not a product of darwinian evolution. Biological evolution is similarly implausible. DNA goes through a fantastically complex process to duplicate a thread, and that process had to be in place alongside a DNA strand that could code a duplicate DNA interpreter as well as duplicate itself. Writing quines is complicated enough. But a quine that is self-compiling and self-executing? Generated at random in a system that is passively hostile? Please.
"a theory must provide a way to be falsified, and evolution does not".
Technically, evolution does provide a way to be falsified.
Any biological systems that can be shown to have not been formed in a series of minor tweaking is not likely to have been formed by evolution. The book Darwin's Black Box is and interesting read.
Buy a pony.
Use the Internet for the last time.
Die.
You wouldn't happen to be able to find it again, would you?