Safe from kids? Why wouldn't you want your kids to see things that are perfectly normal for human beings? You want your kids to be ignorant? Ignorance is a main cause of teen pregnancies, did you know that?
If you give them an 'expiry date' then they can't be used for future incidents. Couple that with geographical lock and it should be fairly safe.
If the missile is programmed like "only works for that particular location", why not use it on that location right away? That way, you're sure the rebels won't use the missile in a way you don't approve. And it saves the rebels the trouble of learning how to fire the missile.
It depends on where you are. In the Netherlands, social norms do not prevent people from giving negative feedback. But most men are still overconfident.
You don't read comic books to a 3yr old, you read books to them. Books appropriate for their age, or for slightly older ages. I did that to my kids, a lot, and now the oldest is getting his PdD in Astrophysics.
If you apply for a patent for something that already has a "secret" patent pending, your patent should not be simply rejected, either they both ought to be (as the solution must be at least somewhat obvious as multiple people came to it), or you should get a stub patent that protects you from having to license the "original" patent that you never had the opportunity to see.
They can't give you a stub patent, because then you know that someone else applied before you, and the original application is not secret any more. In order for the first application to be secret, all following applications should be treated as if they're new. Also, if the original application gets rejected after two years, your application may still be accepted. If you're tenth in line, will they make you wait 20 years? Or will they do the work on all ten applications, knowing that only one will be granted? And what do they tell you, after they kept you waiting - and paying - for two years, like "sorry, we knew that someone else was first, but we kept you waiting anyway"?
The patent office just wants to make more money. Currently, I don't apply for a patent if I can see that someone else has applied recently. When they keep the applications secret, dozens of people will apply for patents that in the end, are replaced by the one who was first. It's kind of a rip off.
We should abandon the idea of patents altoghether.
There's a rule that the more developed a country is, the less religious people in that country are. The only exception to that rule is the US. This bill just tries to make that right: make the US a less developed country by teaching its kids nonsense. Same as Muhammad did 1400 years ago: he ended Arab astronomy and math excellence by introducing a religion. Nothing new here.
While Google provided tons of resources to Android developer, and Apple doing more or less the same for their developers, RIM kept the good stuff for themselves, and developers had to struggle to build Blackberry apps. You go go Google IO in 2010, you pay $300 and get two free devices. You go to a Blackberry conference in the same year at the same location, you pay $2000 and you get no device. So why am I not surprised that there's so few apps for blackberry, and RIM is struggling?
This shows how ridiculous it is to allow companies to file patents on simple things and keep them for 20 years. A patent should protect an inventor from copycats, and it shouldn't do more than just that. In this case, making the hardware took a few months, making money before the competition did took one or two years, so the patent shouldn't have been valid for more than, say, two years. We need a serious reform of patent law, worldwide.
I planned to go to Google I/O. When they announced the date, they also announced that they would make sure that only developers would get tickets. I went in 2009 and 2010, but I didn't go in 2011 (despite being offered a pre-sales ticket) because I expected the ratio of developers to nitwits to further drop. When it became clear that this year, it would be "first come, first server", I decided not to try. As always, when there's a new conference, it's very interesting the first time, and the second time, but after that, the original people don't show up any more. That was true for Doors of Perception in the early nineties, that's true for a lot of conferences, that's true for Google I/O. We'll have to wait for another interesting initiative to attend one or two times.
I recommend to remove the airbag and stick to 10 and 2. 8 and 4 definitely doesn't give you the same control in case the car suddenly starts to skid or you hit a pothole.
I sincerly hope that if there are aliens out there, we'll never find them, or rather, they never find us. As life on Earth is 3 billion years old, and the aliens can't be less developed than we are, give or take a few centuries, or they wouldn't transmit signals we can detect, there's a 99.9% chance that they are more developed than we are. Not by a decade, but probably by a few million years. A few million years ago, the most intelligent life on earth was as smart as cows. So, if aliens find us, they won't consider us equals, they will see us as live stock or zoo animals, or worse, as food. So for heavens sake, don't let them find us. There should be a global ban on sending out signals that aliens can detect, and there should be prison time for people who try to contact alien life forms.
"Decency" is a subjective thing. What's not decent in the US, may be perfectly decent, or even boring, in most EU countries. What's not decent in the US, like showing a nipple, is prime time TV in the Netherlands. I want my kids to have a free mind and a fair amount of knowledge about sex, so they don't get a girl pregnant and they don't catch diseases. Puritanism causes teen pregnancies, so let's not introduce this bs into the class room. It's bad enough as it is.
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Safe from kids? Why wouldn't you want your kids to see things that are perfectly normal for human beings? You want your kids to be ignorant? Ignorance is a main cause of teen pregnancies, did you know that?
If you give them an 'expiry date' then they can't be used for future incidents. Couple that with geographical lock and it should be fairly safe.
If the missile is programmed like "only works for that particular location", why not use it on that location right away? That way, you're sure the rebels won't use the missile in a way you don't approve. And it saves the rebels the trouble of learning how to fire the missile.
I'd mod you up if you had said Russia, seeing as we now pay them ~63 million per astronaut we send.
With this new budget cuts, that would be only 6.3 cents.
Does it have sirens?
It's not called "expansion rate". It's called "the Hubble constant".
Slackware, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu.
Gnubuntu.
It depends on where you are. In the Netherlands, social norms do not prevent people from giving negative feedback. But most men are still overconfident.
There's a very simple gender test. It takes about 9 months.
But will the armor look sexy on me?
One of the troll's aim is for others to repeat "mcpc"
It's not a troll. It's a joke.
You don't read comic books to a 3yr old, you read books to them. Books appropriate for their age, or for slightly older ages. I did that to my kids, a lot, and now the oldest is getting his PdD in Astrophysics.
If you apply for a patent for something that already has a "secret" patent pending, your patent should not be simply rejected, either they both ought to be (as the solution must be at least somewhat obvious as multiple people came to it), or you should get a stub patent that protects you from having to license the "original" patent that you never had the opportunity to see.
They can't give you a stub patent, because then you know that someone else applied before you, and the original application is not secret any more. In order for the first application to be secret, all following applications should be treated as if they're new. Also, if the original application gets rejected after two years, your application may still be accepted. If you're tenth in line, will they make you wait 20 years? Or will they do the work on all ten applications, knowing that only one will be granted? And what do they tell you, after they kept you waiting - and paying - for two years, like "sorry, we knew that someone else was first, but we kept you waiting anyway"?
The whole thing is just stupid.
The patent office just wants to make more money. Currently, I don't apply for a patent if I can see that someone else has applied recently. When they keep the applications secret, dozens of people will apply for patents that in the end, are replaced by the one who was first. It's kind of a rip off.
We should abandon the idea of patents altoghether.
sounds like Dr House was there.
There's a rule that the more developed a country is, the less religious people in that country are. The only exception to that rule is the US. This bill just tries to make that right: make the US a less developed country by teaching its kids nonsense. Same as Muhammad did 1400 years ago: he ended Arab astronomy and math excellence by introducing a religion. Nothing new here.
I call it Arab autumn.
Or any tablet with a decent onscreen keyboard. Provided you can touch type fast enough.
While Google provided tons of resources to Android developer, and Apple doing more or less the same for their developers, RIM kept the good stuff for themselves, and developers had to struggle to build Blackberry apps. You go go Google IO in 2010, you pay $300 and get two free devices. You go to a Blackberry conference in the same year at the same location, you pay $2000 and you get no device. So why am I not surprised that there's so few apps for blackberry, and RIM is struggling?
This shows how ridiculous it is to allow companies to file patents on simple things and keep them for 20 years. A patent should protect an inventor from copycats, and it shouldn't do more than just that. In this case, making the hardware took a few months, making money before the competition did took one or two years, so the patent shouldn't have been valid for more than, say, two years.
We need a serious reform of patent law, worldwide.
I planned to go to Google I/O. When they announced the date, they also announced that they would make sure that only developers would get tickets. I went in 2009 and 2010, but I didn't go in 2011 (despite being offered a pre-sales ticket) because I expected the ratio of developers to nitwits to further drop. When it became clear that this year, it would be "first come, first server", I decided not to try. As always, when there's a new conference, it's very interesting the first time, and the second time, but after that, the original people don't show up any more. That was true for Doors of Perception in the early nineties, that's true for a lot of conferences, that's true for Google I/O. We'll have to wait for another interesting initiative to attend one or two times.
I recommend to remove the airbag and stick to 10 and 2. 8 and 4 definitely doesn't give you the same control in case the car suddenly starts to skid or you hit a pothole.
The answer is so obvious to get your own laptop that I can't believe this even made it on the boards. Slow nerd day?
Must be a troll that got bored too much.
I sincerly hope that if there are aliens out there, we'll never find them, or rather, they never find us. As life on Earth is 3 billion years old, and the aliens can't be less developed than we are, give or take a few centuries, or they wouldn't transmit signals we can detect, there's a 99.9% chance that they are more developed than we are. Not by a decade, but probably by a few million years. A few million years ago, the most intelligent life on earth was as smart as cows. So, if aliens find us, they won't consider us equals, they will see us as live stock or zoo animals, or worse, as food. So for heavens sake, don't let them find us. There should be a global ban on sending out signals that aliens can detect, and there should be prison time for people who try to contact alien life forms.
"Decency" is a subjective thing. What's not decent in the US, may be perfectly decent, or even boring, in most EU countries. What's not decent in the US, like showing a nipple, is prime time TV in the Netherlands. I want my kids to have a free mind and a fair amount of knowledge about sex, so they don't get a girl pregnant and they don't catch diseases. Puritanism causes teen pregnancies, so let's not introduce this bs into the class room. It's bad enough as it is.