"If patent litigation caused by the U.S. patent system stifled innovation, U.S. software companies would not be the most successful in the world."
"If patent litigation caused by the U.S. patent system stifled innovation, U.S. software companies would not be the most successful in the world, in the field of patent litigation."
I believe that a lawsuit against Hollywood and the US government is hopeless. They both own too many judges. However, I hope that some investigation into the matter would bring more light on the US government's and Hollywood's roles in the matter. This whole thing looks like Hollywood just convinced the US government to destroy the Dubious Dotcom, by using whatever Dubious Means possible. It's like Hollywood ordered a drone strike in New Zealand, and the US military leadership had no say in the matter.
Some Hollywood and government folks are a wee bit too cozy together, for my comfort.
Through a rather complicated, cockamamie, convoluted and complex state of the Ireland Royal Family's financial affairs, we need more income to be taxed at low rates, which will enable us and our dear friends to save money. The potato blight was unseasonably harsh this year at the Family Estate in Killnascully, so we would like you, dear friend, to participate in our financial shenanigans, by registering your income through our Jacksie's Bar, which will somehow magically bless all our riches, during this time of famine."
How many of us can commute by bicycle without making the place smell like a a Turkish flophouse?
You call it "Turkish flophouse" . . . I call it, "home" . . .
I do a train and Brompton http://www.brompton.co.uk/ combo to work, and have no sweat problems. Ten minutes train, twenty minutes bike, each way. I am physically fit and ride at a relaxed speed, so I never break out in a sweat. Hmmm . . . maybe I am physically fit, because I ride a bike. No, that can't be, people are fat because of large drink sizes, chemicals in soda cans, toys in Happy Meals, and other things beyond their control.
Pedalling is a great means of transport for filthy hippies. Literally.
So what is the transport for a nation of Honey Boo Boo families . . . ?
Actually, you've stated the problem with bicycling as a means of transportation in the US right there. It's psychological. Bikes are for little kids and exotic sport freaks. When you are old enough to drive, you should be driving a car, or there is something wrong with you. Also, cars are wealth to be flaunted to impress others. No one is very impressed by a bicycle, no matter what the cost.
So until the attitude about bikes in the US changes, no spiffy technology is going to get folks on bikes.
Park it in the backyard, or in the front yard, if you want to annoy the neighbors. Ride out the calamity in there. If civilization is still around, you will survive when you crawl out. If not, you probably won't want to bother to stay around much longer anyway. As the summary suggests, you might just as well plan to build a new house. Or, how about moving to somewhere with a safer climate to begin with . . . ?
Well, when Apple was sinking, they brought back Steve Jobs, the original founder, as CEO again. So . . . has anyone seen Bill Gates lately . . . ? Is he tanned, rested and bucking for another championship fight . . . ?
When ever a keyboard article come along you get a bunch of old farts pining away about their venerable old Model M keyboards.
Laptop keyboards today remind me of the old IBM 029 Card Punch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch#IBM_029_Card_Punch . That keyboard had a very short action that just didn't feel right to me. Although, I have been able to adapt to laptop keyboards. My ThinkPad W520 is ok.
Now get off my lawn!
You young pre-punch-card-kids and your lawns . . .
Well, most of the folks in Congress are lawyers, by trade, who turned to politics. So I don't think that they have any incentive to limit the lucrative patent lawsuit market.
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a Fisker in a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest Fisker in all of England."
The money isn't being burned. It's landing in lawyers' pockets and is a quite lucrative enterprise for them. As long as this remains so, the lawsuits will continue. If some kind of patent reform would stop the lawyers' profits, the lawsuits would go away.
But how to reform patent law, and still preserve rights of legitimate patent holders . . . we'll I'm stumped on that.
Yeah, I know some bad programmers like that. They are always happy and positive . . . but never think about error cases . . . so they never code for them. After all, the world is a bright and happy place, isn't it? Why would a user hit the delete key, when the program asked him to press 'y' or 'n' ?
They are also the folks who say that they "tested" their program, when they really mean it ran once, in a simple scenario.
So that's grand that some folks can be happy while surfing their gamma waves. Some other folks can worry and deal with the problems of the real world.
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If I blew a billion dollars I'd get fired.
Is that you, Steve Ballmer . . . ?
servers you right, sucker!
severs you right, sucker!
Fix that there for y'all.
. . . and decide that humanity was not evolving, but devolving.
"If patent litigation caused by the U.S. patent system stifled innovation, U.S. software companies would not be the most successful in the world."
"If patent litigation caused by the U.S. patent system stifled innovation, U.S. software companies would not be the most successful in the world, in the field of patent litigation."
Sounds right, to me.
No, thanks . . . I'll just wait and watch for the presentation about it to come out . . .
Why
$$$$$ Profit!
. . . and now they will be augmented with the noise of iPhone fart apps?
An iPhone on a motorcycle . . . this could be the new Suicide Shift on Harleys!
"Vote early . . . vote often!"
I believe that a lawsuit against Hollywood and the US government is hopeless. They both own too many judges. However, I hope that some investigation into the matter would bring more light on the US government's and Hollywood's roles in the matter. This whole thing looks like Hollywood just convinced the US government to destroy the Dubious Dotcom, by using whatever Dubious Means possible. It's like Hollywood ordered a drone strike in New Zealand, and the US military leadership had no say in the matter.
Some Hollywood and government folks are a wee bit too cozy together, for my comfort.
Through a rather complicated, cockamamie, convoluted and complex state of the Ireland Royal Family's financial affairs, we need more income to be taxed at low rates, which will enable us and our dear friends to save money. The potato blight was unseasonably harsh this year at the Family Estate in Killnascully, so we would like you, dear friend, to participate in our financial shenanigans, by registering your income through our Jacksie's Bar, which will somehow magically bless all our riches, during this time of famine."
How many of us can commute by bicycle without making the place smell like a a Turkish flophouse?
You call it "Turkish flophouse" . . . I call it, "home" . . .
I do a train and Brompton http://www.brompton.co.uk/ combo to work, and have no sweat problems. Ten minutes train, twenty minutes bike, each way. I am physically fit and ride at a relaxed speed, so I never break out in a sweat. Hmmm . . . maybe I am physically fit, because I ride a bike. No, that can't be, people are fat because of large drink sizes, chemicals in soda cans, toys in Happy Meals, and other things beyond their control.
Pedalling is a great means of transport for filthy hippies. Literally.
So what is the transport for a nation of Honey Boo Boo families . . . ?
Actually, you've stated the problem with bicycling as a means of transportation in the US right there. It's psychological. Bikes are for little kids and exotic sport freaks. When you are old enough to drive, you should be driving a car, or there is something wrong with you. Also, cars are wealth to be flaunted to impress others. No one is very impressed by a bicycle, no matter what the cost.
So until the attitude about bikes in the US changes, no spiffy technology is going to get folks on bikes.
The real joke would be if he got a job at another Verizon store, in another state.
After all, he's got experience working in a Verizon store on his resume now, right . . . ?
Park it in the backyard, or in the front yard, if you want to annoy the neighbors. Ride out the calamity in there. If civilization is still around, you will survive when you crawl out. If not, you probably won't want to bother to stay around much longer anyway. As the summary suggests, you might just as well plan to build a new house. Or, how about moving to somewhere with a safer climate to begin with . . . ?
Oh, and make sure your tank has Reactive Armor.
Well, given that folks are already drawing firearms in gas lines, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57544187/new-yorker-sean-bailey-accused-of-pulling-gun-in-gas-line/ , part of the plan had better be to contract Mad Max to bring in a tanker of precious juice past The Humungous, Wez, and their pals.
"Do what Apple does."
Well, when Apple was sinking, they brought back Steve Jobs, the original founder, as CEO again. So . . . has anyone seen Bill Gates lately . . . ? Is he tanned, rested and bucking for another championship fight . . . ?
Try birdshot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdshot#Birdshot or ratshot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratshot . I can't imagine that German soldiers were packing it, though.
Maybe the Germans had an 88 Flak Pigeon Version . . . ?
When ever a keyboard article come along you get a bunch of old farts pining away about their venerable old Model M keyboards.
Laptop keyboards today remind me of the old IBM 029 Card Punch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch#IBM_029_Card_Punch . That keyboard had a very short action that just didn't feel right to me. Although, I have been able to adapt to laptop keyboards. My ThinkPad W520 is ok.
Now get off my lawn!
You young pre-punch-card-kids and your lawns . . .
I still have fond memories of this here gadget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
It made a hell of a racket, but the keyboard had this light, crisp touch . . .
And hell, it gave you a hard copy history of what you had done, and paper tape, on the side. Good for making confetti for High School Pep Rallies.
Well, most of the folks in Congress are lawyers, by trade, who turned to politics. So I don't think that they have any incentive to limit the lucrative patent lawsuit market.
. . . as soon as we find oxygen . . .
My first instinct would be that he and his partner behind my back were attempting to mug me, and I'd probably act accordingly.
The best way to pick a pocket of someone or otherwise rob them is to distract them first.
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a Fisker in a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest Fisker in all of England."
The money isn't being burned. It's landing in lawyers' pockets and is a quite lucrative enterprise for them. As long as this remains so, the lawsuits will continue. If some kind of patent reform would stop the lawyers' profits, the lawsuits would go away.
But how to reform patent law, and still preserve rights of legitimate patent holders . . . we'll I'm stumped on that.
Yeah, I know some bad programmers like that. They are always happy and positive . . . but never think about error cases . . . so they never code for them. After all, the world is a bright and happy place, isn't it? Why would a user hit the delete key, when the program asked him to press 'y' or 'n' ?
They are also the folks who say that they "tested" their program, when they really mean it ran once, in a simple scenario.
So that's grand that some folks can be happy while surfing their gamma waves. Some other folks can worry and deal with the problems of the real world.
As opposed to, what, partially hacked?
Well, yes, it's partial differential equations and quantum mechanics . . .
Isn't that like being almost pregnant?
It's just like Schrödingers cat was pregnant and not prenant at the same time.
In Abstract Hilbert Space.