That would be considered a design patent, so it really doesn't count for much.
HAHAHA I have a design patent, and you're right. Avoid the scammers, like American Inventors Corp (now out of business). Hey! And thanks for encouraging me look them up; apparently many of their employees served jail time, so my expensive ridiculous patent now has schadenfreude built into it:
$2.28 million. “A top executive of a former Westfield company which preyed on amateur inventors was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday, and ordered to pay up to $2.28 million to aid the company's victims. John L. Samson, 62, of Hatfield, vice president of the former American Inventors Corp., was sentenced in U.S. District by Judge Michael A. Ponsor. Samson pleaded guilty last year to counts of mail fraud, money laundering and filing a false tax return, and is one of more than two dozen American Inventors employees to plead guilty to crimes.” (“Executive sentenced in inventor scam,” Union-News, Springfield, MA, April 2, 2002)
Translation: I couldn't convince anyone that my proposal was better but I refuse to acknowledge the possibility it was not, in fact better. Instead, I'm going to blame others for not understanding the brilliance of my suggestion.
Sure, there's an aspect of that, but I agree with GP that often the human method of "compromise" creates horrendous code.
As to what I would do with a CD once I rip it... rip it again, should my online backup of my music hard drive fail when my music hard drive invariably does. My once-ripped CD will still be in perfect condition.
WTF. Why are you not keeping a backup of your files? I have all my music on both my media player and a separate backup hard drive. Would you really prefer to rip everything again rather than spend $100 or whatever on another hard drive for backups? You don't seem to value your time very highly.. it took me months to re-rip my CD collection when I decided that 128kbps wasn't good enough anymore. I re-ripped at 192kbps, and decided that if I wanted any more quality I'd just torrent FLACs.
Superstition is not part of human nature; curiosity is.
Superstition is the vacuum left over when you give up, or lack the means to continue the pursuit of knowledge.
I think you just argued yourself into agreeing with the parent: giving up is part of human nature, as is having goals that exceed our resources.
We're all rep robots. That's an interesting thought experiment; consider that you're the only real human interacting with Slashdot (or the world, for that matter).
There have been zero deaths in the U.S. associated with commercial nuclear power generation.
This is actually somewhat surprising to read. When I worked in the industry, I heard about an accident at a different plant, where the generator stopped turning for some reason and all the energy had to go somewhere; the turbine flew into pieces and scattered itself over a wide area, a piece of it landed on an employee's car in the lot and destroyed it. No deaths (or injuries, IIRC) from that incident, but I figured incidents like that are "common enough" that it would have killed at least one person.
Rather than making people understand that if they impregnate a bunch of women due to casual sex the village is going to starve, you convince them that God doesn't want them to do so.
Interesting! Sounds a lot like daylight savings time: instead of convincing the schools to change their hours (and the jobs to accommodate), they instead start messing with a constant (time). Similarly, if they had chosen to educate people perhaps we wouldn't be in the Middle East Wars right now.
The other aspect to the biological basis: a male makes a mistake (i.e., gets her pregnant), no big deal, move on. A female makes a mistake, it is a big deal, she's got a burden for the next 18 years. (Sure, DNA testing makes the man more culpable these days, but the above is how it is for all non-human species, well, apart from the specific duration.)
Believe me, if we could shut it off, or take a pill to let us have no strings attached sex like guys, the world would be a far sluttier place. I'm totally serious about this... don't laugh.
You're right, of course; you're wired to "protect the infant" (the circle over the plus), while we're wired to "make lots of infants" and "seek the outside/unknown" (the circle with the arrow, pointing outwards).
The other part to my response is a cautionary tale: lack of symmetry is generally a disease predictor. One of my eyes doesn't work right, from birth. It was a developmental disorder, not genetic or "dis-ease" (apart from my lack of ease at depth perception). However: lack of symmetry is also something that both sexes select against when choosing a mate. Sure, I've been married, and have dated enough for this lifetime, but I know that I will always have an uphill battle to fight, even after corrective surgery (especially now a decade later when it's starting to turn back, because my brain really wants it there because it does have some peripheral vision, and my brain wants to put what little vision it has towards the front, since I'm from a predator species).
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That would be considered a design patent, so it really doesn't count for much.
HAHAHA I have a design patent, and you're right. Avoid the scammers, like American Inventors Corp (now out of business). Hey! And thanks for encouraging me look them up; apparently many of their employees served jail time, so my expensive ridiculous patent now has schadenfreude built into it:
$2.28 million. “A top executive of a former Westfield company which preyed on amateur inventors was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday, and ordered to pay up to $2.28 million to aid the company's victims. John L. Samson, 62, of Hatfield, vice president of the former American Inventors Corp., was sentenced in U.S. District by Judge Michael A. Ponsor. Samson pleaded guilty last year to counts of mail fraud, money laundering and filing a false tax return, and is one of more than two dozen American Inventors employees to plead guilty to crimes.” (“Executive sentenced in inventor scam,” Union-News, Springfield, MA, April 2, 2002)
Translation: I couldn't convince anyone that my proposal was better but I refuse to acknowledge the possibility it was not, in fact better. Instead, I'm going to blame others for not understanding the brilliance of my suggestion.
Sure, there's an aspect of that, but I agree with GP that often the human method of "compromise" creates horrendous code.
This is why I keep coming back.
As to what I would do with a CD once I rip it... rip it again, should my online backup of my music hard drive fail when my music hard drive invariably does. My once-ripped CD will still be in perfect condition.
WTF. Why are you not keeping a backup of your files? I have all my music on both my media player and a separate backup hard drive. Would you really prefer to rip everything again rather than spend $100 or whatever on another hard drive for backups? You don't seem to value your time very highly.. it took me months to re-rip my CD collection when I decided that 128kbps wasn't good enough anymore. I re-ripped at 192kbps, and decided that if I wanted any more quality I'd just torrent FLACs.
Reading comprehension much?
+1, Reference :)
China could go into biofuel-from-algae and probably will if big oil loses much power.
They could likely go Soylent Oil, if they gave up the one-child-per-family law. (I am being modest.)
The processor family is called Loongson and not "LongSoon" as summary says. But the typo is funny in its own way.
Yeah, your new CPU is just a spider bite away...
Superstition is not part of human nature; curiosity is. Superstition is the vacuum left over when you give up, or lack the means to continue the pursuit of knowledge.
I think you just argued yourself into agreeing with the parent: giving up is part of human nature, as is having goals that exceed our resources.
We're all rep robots. That's an interesting thought experiment; consider that you're the only real human interacting with Slashdot (or the world, for that matter).
I'm getting wood just thinking about a spider biting me.
So is that the placebo effect at work?
Yeah just don't listen to Bokonon, then you'll end up destroying the world. (Well, your world.)
There have been zero deaths in the U.S. associated with commercial nuclear power generation.
This is actually somewhat surprising to read. When I worked in the industry, I heard about an accident at a different plant, where the generator stopped turning for some reason and all the energy had to go somewhere; the turbine flew into pieces and scattered itself over a wide area, a piece of it landed on an employee's car in the lot and destroyed it. No deaths (or injuries, IIRC) from that incident, but I figured incidents like that are "common enough" that it would have killed at least one person.
So he wears his hairdo around his neck? (New meaning for "neck beard?")
I'm patenting skin lampshades.
I'm pretty sure doctors need to be licensed in order to legally practice medicine.
I find it rather sad and amusing that our bodies do not need to be licensed in order to heal themselves.
Sometimes I want to kick my computer in the nuts too.
Two 'perfect' systems would trade increasingly rare attempts to score, as they realise that the best reliable result they can hope for is a draw.
Reminds me of WOPR re: thermonuclear war: "the only winning move is not to play."
LOL indoor clothes line, with no fan.
Rather than making people understand that if they impregnate a bunch of women due to casual sex the village is going to starve, you convince them that God doesn't want them to do so.
Interesting! Sounds a lot like daylight savings time: instead of convincing the schools to change their hours (and the jobs to accommodate), they instead start messing with a constant (time). Similarly, if they had chosen to educate people perhaps we wouldn't be in the Middle East Wars right now.
We both wear the pants.
Yes, and our break-up was mutual.
God intended marriage to emulate the relationship between Jesus Christ and the church.
What, that one member would crucify another? (On second thought...)
Sex is marriage. Remember Mary the prostitute? Jesus said 'You have many husbands'.
His actual words were "The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband." (John 4:18 NIV)
His actual words were, "Look at my noodly appendages dangling all over your face and clitoris!" But the translators, as often, bungled it.
Jason's response nailed it, as the reason you didn't list: she could just be spreading AIDS.
There's a biological basis.
The other aspect to the biological basis: a male makes a mistake (i.e., gets her pregnant), no big deal, move on. A female makes a mistake, it is a big deal, she's got a burden for the next 18 years. (Sure, DNA testing makes the man more culpable these days, but the above is how it is for all non-human species, well, apart from the specific duration.)
Believe me, if we could shut it off, or take a pill to let us have no strings attached sex like guys, the world would be a far sluttier place. I'm totally serious about this... don't laugh.
You're right, of course; you're wired to "protect the infant" (the circle over the plus), while we're wired to "make lots of infants" and "seek the outside/unknown" (the circle with the arrow, pointing outwards).
The other part to my response is a cautionary tale: lack of symmetry is generally a disease predictor. One of my eyes doesn't work right, from birth. It was a developmental disorder, not genetic or "dis-ease" (apart from my lack of ease at depth perception). However: lack of symmetry is also something that both sexes select against when choosing a mate. Sure, I've been married, and have dated enough for this lifetime, but I know that I will always have an uphill battle to fight, even after corrective surgery (especially now a decade later when it's starting to turn back, because my brain really wants it there because it does have some peripheral vision, and my brain wants to put what little vision it has towards the front, since I'm from a predator species).
Anyway, nice shoes. :)