"Go to a university or place where the younger crowd hangs. Take a look around. Open your eyes. Then come back and tell me what you see *on average*, not under some one-off Linux nerd's desk."
Exactly, I went to a hipster cafe and I saw ZERO desktops being carried around. Oh, wait...
"Shouldn't below-cost Chinese imported solar panels (etc) be an environmentalist's dream? More solar power for less money means more conventional power you can replace for less money."
Do you think Chinese solar panels are produced in an environmentally friendly manner?
However, as I'm growing a team of developers now, I've noticed that most of the young ones have a very poor sense of usability.
Really? Based on the history of software design, it seems the older developers are the worst when it comes to usability. For most of the 80's and 90's software tended to be extremely poorly designed from a UI standpoint.
When it comes to unreasonable delay in bringing suit, yes, laches might kick in. The fact that they didn't sue other parties as far as I know (and I am not a patent lawyer and have never worked in that field at all) wouldn't really matter. An affirmative defense like laches is unique to a specific party; Apple can only really argue Samsung unduly delayed bringing suit against THEM, not against unrelated third parties also infringing. From a practical standpoint, Apple would likely have no idea who's infringing or who's not. A supposedly infringing party might have made a licensing deal with Samsung, the details and existence of which are none of Apple's business.
There are drive-through lawyers who will dominate ivy league ones in court. The top trial lawyers in the country tend to come from a wide variety of schools.
Law schools actually follow a more free market philosophy than medical and dental schools. The AMA and ADA respectively keep a tight leash on those schools respectively in order to artificially create a shortage and keep their practitioners' salaries up.
Law schools manage to keep enrollment high by just straight out lying about job prospects.
Yep, if I were sued I'd probably raise enough procedural headaches to make sure my eventual settlement was a wash for them or net loss. But I would settle in the end. I mean, I'm a lawyer and it still wouldn't be worth my time to learn convoluted patent litigation.
Archaic rules that don't really have much effect on actual practice. If there are federal judges who don't have law degrees I've never heard of them, and many states require judges to be members of the bar before they are appointed or run for election.
"sketchy evidence, confused testimony, and irrelevant but nice-sounding rhetoric."
Funny, when it comes to matter outside their specialty, engineers seem to be unusually vulnerable to those things. Ever wonder why an unusual number of engineers are creationists, or AGW deniers, or terrorists?
Worse than blocking out sunlight is the fact that blooms lead to less oxygen as phytoplankton dies and is decomposed by bacteria, removing oxygen from the water column. There are a lot of anoxic coastal waters specifically because we've been dumping too much nitrogen into the ocean, we definitely don't need any more.
"In the past I have had problems getting copies of others' work, due to lack of copyright notices on their thesis or dissertation."
Uhhh...huh? Theses are academic sources. The university library where the thesis was finished will have a copy. Lack of copyright notice does not mean you can't use the work as long as you don't simply reproduce it and sell it. I really don't understand what is being asked here.
Seriously, imagine if HP took *every* possible open source option in building a PC, and opened as much of the system as possible to allow crowd sourcing of solutions to the problems that always pop up in systems!
Then another PC manufacturer would wait until it's perfected and just take the whole thing and sell it for less because they didn't spend all that money on R&D.
There will be different rules for different states; generally, no, a minor can't agree to a contract, though there are exceptions for necessities. If the minor intentionally misleads the other party by concealing their age they might be liable for the contract as well. So a minor could disclaim contractual obligations, though they're not allowed to keep the software/goods/whatever when they disclaim the contract (though interesting bit of law is that if the item has been destroyed they can just return the destroyed item). The other poster's idea about using his two-year old wouldn't work though, for obvious reasons.
If I stand on the other side of the border of a country which I never actually have gone into and shoot at people in the other country, should I be subject to the other country's jursidiction?
The most surprising aspect of the Knox trial was not that the Italian justice system is so screwed up; I think most people aware of it knew that. It's that so many Europeans cheered against Knox, presumably because she committed the unspeakable crime of being American. The English, particularly, seemed incredibly anti-Knox, which is doubly sad considering that most of American constitutional protections arose out of English jurisprudence.
"So, thanks a lot America, your government has been nothing but trouble lately."
Whew, we almost had a situation where a European had to take responsibility for their own government's actions, but fortunately you ably deflected that.
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I've read Slashdot since year one. It has always, always been like this.
"Go to a university or place where the younger crowd hangs. Take a look around. Open your eyes. Then come back and tell me what you see *on average*, not under some one-off Linux nerd's desk."
Exactly, I went to a hipster cafe and I saw ZERO desktops being carried around. Oh, wait...
You made a factual assertion. I showed it was wrong. Your response makes no sense.
"Not really. Obama is shutting down oil extraction out of the gulf and is complicating extraction throughout the country."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904491704576571052525514860.html
If you're willing to fabricate this fact, why should we believe anything you say here?
"Shouldn't below-cost Chinese imported solar panels (etc) be an environmentalist's dream? More solar power for less money means more conventional power you can replace for less money."
Do you think Chinese solar panels are produced in an environmentally friendly manner?
Yes, a public defender who wants to put someone behind bars is definitely insidious... I'm assuming you mean prosecutor.
However, as I'm growing a team of developers now, I've noticed that most of the young ones have a very poor sense of usability.
Really? Based on the history of software design, it seems the older developers are the worst when it comes to usability. For most of the 80's and 90's software tended to be extremely poorly designed from a UI standpoint.
When it comes to unreasonable delay in bringing suit, yes, laches might kick in. The fact that they didn't sue other parties as far as I know (and I am not a patent lawyer and have never worked in that field at all) wouldn't really matter. An affirmative defense like laches is unique to a specific party; Apple can only really argue Samsung unduly delayed bringing suit against THEM, not against unrelated third parties also infringing. From a practical standpoint, Apple would likely have no idea who's infringing or who's not. A supposedly infringing party might have made a licensing deal with Samsung, the details and existence of which are none of Apple's business.
There are drive-through lawyers who will dominate ivy league ones in court. The top trial lawyers in the country tend to come from a wide variety of schools.
Law schools actually follow a more free market philosophy than medical and dental schools. The AMA and ADA respectively keep a tight leash on those schools respectively in order to artificially create a shortage and keep their practitioners' salaries up. Law schools manage to keep enrollment high by just straight out lying about job prospects.
Yep, if I were sued I'd probably raise enough procedural headaches to make sure my eventual settlement was a wash for them or net loss. But I would settle in the end. I mean, I'm a lawyer and it still wouldn't be worth my time to learn convoluted patent litigation.
Archaic rules that don't really have much effect on actual practice. If there are federal judges who don't have law degrees I've never heard of them, and many states require judges to be members of the bar before they are appointed or run for election.
Someone just started freshman latin class...
"sketchy evidence, confused testimony, and irrelevant but nice-sounding rhetoric."
Funny, when it comes to matter outside their specialty, engineers seem to be unusually vulnerable to those things. Ever wonder why an unusual number of engineers are creationists, or AGW deniers, or terrorists?
There are a lot of things in politics, public policy, governing, etc. that is not conducive to "science based reasoning."
Worse than blocking out sunlight is the fact that blooms lead to less oxygen as phytoplankton dies and is decomposed by bacteria, removing oxygen from the water column. There are a lot of anoxic coastal waters specifically because we've been dumping too much nitrogen into the ocean, we definitely don't need any more.
"Open source is not public domain. Fail Troll"
So tell me, what aspect of freely distributable prevents the situation I just described from happening?
"In the past I have had problems getting copies of others' work, due to lack of copyright notices on their thesis or dissertation."
Uhhh...huh? Theses are academic sources. The university library where the thesis was finished will have a copy. Lack of copyright notice does not mean you can't use the work as long as you don't simply reproduce it and sell it. I really don't understand what is being asked here.
Seriously, imagine if HP took *every* possible open source option in building a PC, and opened as much of the system as possible to allow crowd sourcing of solutions to the problems that always pop up in systems!
Then another PC manufacturer would wait until it's perfected and just take the whole thing and sell it for less because they didn't spend all that money on R&D.
Then there's a new board, and the CEO who caused the problem is still there. How can you change course of the company without replacing the CEO?
"Titanic going down, replace the captain? That's how a committee / board thinks."
What's the alternative?
There will be different rules for different states; generally, no, a minor can't agree to a contract, though there are exceptions for necessities. If the minor intentionally misleads the other party by concealing their age they might be liable for the contract as well. So a minor could disclaim contractual obligations, though they're not allowed to keep the software/goods/whatever when they disclaim the contract (though interesting bit of law is that if the item has been destroyed they can just return the destroyed item). The other poster's idea about using his two-year old wouldn't work though, for obvious reasons.
If I stand on the other side of the border of a country which I never actually have gone into and shoot at people in the other country, should I be subject to the other country's jursidiction?
The most surprising aspect of the Knox trial was not that the Italian justice system is so screwed up; I think most people aware of it knew that. It's that so many Europeans cheered against Knox, presumably because she committed the unspeakable crime of being American. The English, particularly, seemed incredibly anti-Knox, which is doubly sad considering that most of American constitutional protections arose out of English jurisprudence.
"So, thanks a lot America, your government has been nothing but trouble lately."
Whew, we almost had a situation where a European had to take responsibility for their own government's actions, but fortunately you ably deflected that.