Excuse me, I have not read anything written by ESR or Bruce Perens (I actually do not even want to read about these so called theoricians and why I should worship them).
I'd like you to tell me the reason why a company could not patent something really innovative ?
For example, let's say Xerox had patented all of their software works, wouldn't it have been legitimate ?
I may have read thousands of times that "Apple [supposedly] infringed their ``intellectual property``" (Which Acorn also did by sending experts to teh PARC before issuing RiscOS^WArthur)
So, my point is : why patent should not describe a "digital process" to handle immaterial data ?
I kinda like the way the "proble" was found : probably by harvesting the company's info database in order to track down the problem's root. I am confident that it has now become even easier to find out such failures at all and within a decent time... Of course, it'll soon be time to extend the ISO standard in order to take more things into account but I am already impressed.
Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot.'" We've looked at Aerogel before.
If the above is true, then, standing in a insulated house would ultimately heat it to 37oC which would be unbearabable as well.
You are modded +1 interesting for proposing to torture convicts ?
My father spent 5 years in a Goulag for writing poetry, he'd be sorry to know the occidental mentality is not any better than the one that he fought behind the iron curtain.
Well, once per session but considering I had 2 different soundcards performing DMA intensive sampling at once in a peripheral-full XP PC, I guess you'll consider my case too excentric to be relevant.
Well, not in Switzerland : some rich people may wear some of the 100kCHF you will see in Interlaken or Zurich, but the others will stick on relatively cheaper but good quality stuff like Ironys. Swiss people know what a good watch is, believe me.
Where I work (.CH) badgers only records enterings, never exiting of people. I guess this has to do with privacy. They want to know who may have been somewhere, not precisely who were there.
My Godness ! You've got a phone with a PLASMA screen ? Doesn'it it become to hot (the installation instructions say to put it on an heat-proof surface) ?
OK, so we can say a plasma screen weights around 1kg/inch of diagonal. So I guess this will take one mroe column of screws in the wall to support it fully. Anyway, I doubt most slashdotter could fix it alone or with their SO, this not only needs to be carried gently but also precisely.
It could be the weight: Me and my wife had some difficulties to fix our 42 inch screen to our wall : it indeed weights 45kgs. Now, I guess such a monitor would be at least 80 kgs, which'd made it require the help of a group specialists to fix it securely.
I hope the patent doesn't read "a device that display the local time in 24h39m-periodical-day-areas, otherwise this will just prevent others to use other obvious solutions (I indeed hope there won't be idiotic things such as DST on Mars colonies... where I do not plan to move, BTW).
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Excuse me, I have not read anything written by ESR or Bruce Perens (I actually do not even want to read about these so called theoricians and why I should worship them).
I'd like you to tell me the reason why a company could not patent something really innovative ?
For example, let's say Xerox had patented all of their software works, wouldn't it have been legitimate ?
I may have read thousands of times that "Apple [supposedly] infringed their ``intellectual property``" (Which Acorn also did by sending experts to teh PARC before issuing RiscOS^WArthur)
So, my point is : why patent should not describe a "digital process" to handle immaterial data ?
I kinda like the way the "proble" was found : probably by harvesting the company's info database in order to track down the problem's root.
I am confident that it has now become even easier to find out such failures at all and within a decent time...
Of course, it'll soon be time to extend the ISO standard in order to take more things into account but I am already impressed.
I guess the first applies to such a closed server (NB: it's not an offense, just some familiar word
Actually, I prefer my whisky when it's dry, it's nice to have been that far to find me some fresh and pure water but I just didn't need it. :)
Werewolf hunters care about how much silver there is. If there's not any, then they will be in trouble next time the Moon will be full.
Though it would be very expensive, you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot.'" We've looked at Aerogel before.
If the above is true, then, standing in a insulated house would ultimately heat it to 37oC which would be unbearabable as well.
Lemme get this straight :
You are modded +1 interesting for proposing to torture convicts ?
My father spent 5 years in a Goulag for writing poetry, he'd be sorry to know the occidental mentality is not any better than the one that he fought behind the iron curtain.
Even though I was not that unlucky, I agree with you on this point.
Soljenitsyne once wrote that "Civilizations are as evolved as their prisons are"
Having such prison is a symptom, laughing at this is another.
Well, once per session but considering I had 2 different soundcards performing DMA intensive sampling at once in a peripheral-full XP PC, I guess you'll consider my case too excentric to be relevant.
. Is there any real point to maglev trains anymore other than "cool its floating"?
the noise, for one.
physical wear...
want another ?
Whats wrong with Finland?
Freezing Winters.
You could also make him a nude fellow so that Ceren might actually have to imitate him in forthcoming BSD con :)
OK, jokes apart, I'd suggest removing his trident and changing his color and we'll get a nice boy.
well, 100$ would cover the price of 16 months of goatse.cx registartion (75$/year). .CX doesn't want it to be resolved again.
The problem is
This is not about dick or fart jokes, this is about censorship.
Reminds me of something...
Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable.
:
and
from the but-the-secret-porn-filter-works-great dept.
So, what do you mean ?
A little bodily activity is more useful than preventing contrefacon ?
Well, not in Switzerland : some rich people may wear some of the 100kCHF you will see in Interlaken or Zurich, but the others will stick on relatively cheaper but good quality stuff like Ironys.
Swiss people know what a good watch is, believe me.
One word : Irony
Where I work (.CH) badgers only records enterings, never exiting of people.
I guess this has to do with privacy.
They want to know who may have been somewhere, not precisely who were there.
Does it works with Knoppix distroes ? :)
If yes, I'd be glad to see how they otherwrite CDs
With a movie, the audience sees the action for themselves so narration wouldn't have to be used.
You may achieve excellent results using narration in a movie, one of my favourite situations is the one where Don Lockwood explains is idea of "Dignity".
My Godness !
You've got a phone with a PLASMA screen ?
Doesn'it it become to hot (the installation instructions say to put it on an heat-proof surface) ?
OK, so we can say a plasma screen weights around 1kg/inch of diagonal.
So I guess this will take one mroe column of screws in the wall to support it fully.
Anyway, I doubt most slashdotter could fix it alone or with their SO, this not only needs to be carried gently but also precisely.
It could be the weight :
Me and my wife had some difficulties to fix our 42 inch screen to our wall : it indeed weights 45kgs.
Now, I guess such a monitor would be at least 80 kgs, which'd made it require the help of a group specialists to fix it securely.
"Patented" ?
I hope the patent doesn't read "a device that display the local time in 24h39m-periodical-day-areas, otherwise this will just prevent others to use other obvious solutions (I indeed hope there won't be idiotic things such as DST on Mars colonies... where I do not plan to move, BTW).