There isnt a week where I dont come upon a story like this and laugh out loud. Its a shame too as Win 8 has nice features.
It was just Metro and now the lack of media player outside ultimate, no gui with aero in desktop mode, and now this?! What the hell are they going to fuck uo next?
There are work arounds like win7start and the intel compilers and eclipse (sucks to use phenom), but buying a machine with win 7 instead is a lot less hassle.
XP was bashed here on slashdot for years and then came Vista. Now these same users who bashed it think XP is the next coming of christ and perfection at its core and refuse to leave the 11 year old platform. Now we are being transformed into cutting enthusiasts to luddites we cant stand. Amazing what a bad OS can do.
I never would have have quit Linux due to its tavlet UI in March 2011 if I knew what was in store for Win 8.
I would happen to agree with you besides the fact many just upgraded from Windows 2000 just a few years ago all with their shiny new IE 6 browsers. Since they just upgraded they do not feel the need to upgrade again from XP circa 2010.
Ok cutting edge IE 7 is getting popular now and its all soooo secure. Sigh
The finance industry is always the most behind as new operating systems do not drive the share price higher nor help them bet agaisnt currenices and 401ks.
I had no idea there was an enterprise version. I know there was a paid version for smaller offices.
I happen to agree with you and people are more concerned with keeping their jobs by picking a name everyone knows thatn risking it for a better solution etc.
Symantic endpoint is very decent compared to its past versions. The newest Norton according to reviews is as lite as Commodo, Avast, and MSE, and its virus detection rate is one of the best! I was shocked, but I do not feel comfortable using it yet.
MSE has gone downhill and I read many using Symantic were able to find the infections. Symantic endpoint is really Norton with a different lablel and I am glad they re-engineered.
One of the most frustrating things about corporate America today is they are penny wise and dollar dumb! Having computers that are offline 4 hours a day with +1000 employees cost $40,000 an hour of lost productivity! Add this up for several years of their outdated crappy XP and Endpoint software and they skipped over that dollar to jump on the nickel of savings.
If they were not so dirt cheap and upgraded to iwndows 7, modern Endpoint/Comoddo Enterprise, and IE 9, with icore 3's to replace their aging Pentium 4s they could be a lot more productive. Computers from the 2002-2006 typically took 10 minutes to be usable because of IE 6 add-ons for proxy, security, keystrock monitoring, and slow 20 gig hard drives, is madening. If anything it is a downgrade to the 1996 - 2001 systems with NT 4/Win 98 as they performed better.
Using hardware proxies and filtering can alieve this load as well.
Software has improved and even IE 9 is snappy. These idiots need to upgrade and get with the times. If you were the CEO of FedEX would you use delivery vans that broke every week?
As someone who has divorced a spouse over these 2 things I have to say it is a serious problem and it is not male related. It was harmful to herself and to our marriage and her kids.
Something is not considered a disorder until it majorily impacts their life in a negative way. We are all sad and hurt at times in life. Someone whose life is a mess because of it and is long term is now officially depressed as an example.
When I tried to play world of warcraft with her (I had a real life)the first thing I noticed is that many of the players were 22, 28, 30, and even 45 living at home with their parents. When they get money they would not invest it in a new suit for a job interview. They would be a wall mount plasma for their wow habbits until their elderly parents threatened to kick their ass to the curb if they did not unplug the ethernet and go get a fucking job!
This was not all of them but a sizable chunk. I have seen divorces of other players, people fired from work because they come in with very few hours of sleep. An my ex used it to escape her hectic financial and work stress. I made her not stay up late raiding so she could catch employers quicker etc.
Masturbation and sex is common in my situation, because she spent more time with her new male friends on wow than me and therefore, was more attracted to them while she blamed me for her life sucking. So out she went.
Millions play and it is easier to attack the messenger because it is anti male biased but I am telling you it is not. I have a friend who is a woman who plays to escape as well and I told her that her life is going to suck more unless she stops playing. We do not talk as much as a result:-)
Most ED problems are related to blood circulation and high blood pressure. I do not have full ED yet but I am out of breath often with my heart pounding and it is related.
A good diet and excersize can cure that and protect your other more important organ. Your heart!
Women can be tollerant with men with aspergers and understand we are not the best with social skills. What they look for is respect and an interest in the male to spend time with them and desire and love them.
My exwife loved I had aspergers because I was not all macho and ignorant and had to work to connect with her. It was more authentic.
Her teaching jobs became unstable and I couldn't find work after 2009 in the financial crises when I graduated college. Money and her spending 12 hours a day in Wow is why we got divorced.
And her using the men for masturbation was the final straw. Its not male specific at all when your life sucks.
However, I still talk to her kids and she no longer plays wow and is spending more time on her career and spending less money and being responsible. She is in a new healthy relationship after going cold turkey. So good for her! I am irritated as I wanted her to do that with me, but oh well time to move on I guess.
That is what the article is about. Taking responsibility is very hard when you are depressed and not used to a routine of waking up early and working super hard every day. I am unemployed right now and I fell a little bit too today and overslept. I guess its one form of escapism over the other but I do not play video games. I played SWTOR a little bit, but I would be a hypocrit dumping my exwife who I still cared for if I did the very things that destroyed her. The internet makes anyone tempted to slack off a very easy target.
Or you might be able to look at your husband/bf if he is that material and say FUCK that.
Many women today are single and have kids. More than any time in history. Why? Maybe the economy is so bad they look at men and say, hmm can't keep a job for more than 1 year, what only $30,000 a year?? Who is this guy?
True millions who could be working in better times and making twice as much as if they were born 20 years earlier, but it does make them look like losers.
Either way I am for having higher standards in the opposite sex. Wacking off for guys or a toy if you are a chick might be hell of alot better than to be married to deadbeat and stuck with little space of your own.
My exwife played World of Warcraft 12 hours a day. Her teaching jobs became only temporary and she would stay up until 2am and sleep until noon and let the kids fend for themselves for breakfast, and only apply for jobs when I put pressure on her and mention no one has ever gotten hired staying up til 2am and sleeping until 11.
She found work again but kept playing over and then wouldn't let me play with her because I did not have enough gear score. Sorry, but working and going to school affords me less time to do raiding. Worse, these men she would play with flirted with her and she spent more time with them than me.
I finally dumped her when she was sending erotic messages and masturbating to these guys. After the disrespect for me not making enough money, I at least made an attempt to improve myself. So I moved out and sent her the papers.
This is a role reversal here. But I understand where these women are coming from. I maybe a man but I have my standards and do not appreciate somene critizing me for spending time on slashdot while she is on Wow. In hindsight she did apologize and say it was used as escapism. But I gave her the option to quit so she wouldn't have to keep escaping.
Same reason employers love IE. Its corporate, well supported, easily managed, expensive support contracts, and have enterprise AD integration with mass management.
Cios seem to care to use what everyone else is using
The reference is in the story that a patent troll sued Wild Tangent claiming they had the right to display an ad on a computer screen and needed to pay up.
Putting an ad on a screen is an abstract process already done in television so why is it magically different if its on a computer?
So I can patent something on a device I have no rights too? The patent law and constitutional clause states for the inventor.
I can't patent an abstract idea because it is in a car that I performed respiration, or it was a LCD laptop screen that displayed the Ad and not a TV. Yet the patent trolls are saying just this.
Useful Arts have to do with the manufacture process. Not an abstract idea just on another device made from natural laws not invented by applicant. Otherwise I could patent every idea known to man such as typing on a keyboard with a machine with more than 4 gigs of ram. Then patent again with a machine with more than 8 gigs of ram etc.
Its not a real invention anymore since it's an abstract idea that has nothing to do with the useful art of manufacturing or a real product.
That is the point. I can't patent respiration as an example because it is a nature and not man-made. Can I then patent respiration while typing on a laptop computer. The patent trolls say yes!
I say BS. It is still nature and is abstract and not applicable if you did not invent the computer. Its just another way to patent something when used X. Displaying an AD is abstract and not a process of manufacturing and has been done before. Just not on a computer screen.
When all the IP v4 addresses are gone they can raise the price to several hundred dollars per address. Not too bad on a $5 investment and I bet will save the company and boast the share price as a result.
IBM has MANY IP addresses too. However, they bought them in the 1990s when they were much much bigger than today and had a half million employees.
That ISPs are buying all of them so they can monopolize the market. The small guys who little funds didn't do the several hundred milion dollar buying binges. Now if you want 4g for your next phone purchase it must be AT&T!
I could see companies like Cisco buying all of them too so they can force you to upgrade to newer routers with IPv6 support etc.
Laws of nature are math. Plain and simple and should not be patentable PERIOD. Infact a process is math where you do this, then, do that. It doesn't matter where its performed. Just because a computer does it doesn't make it patentable and no longer laws of nature or math. If laws of nature are ruled unpatentable then most of these patents need to be thrown out! A process can not be patentable therefore they need to be thrown out as well.
The arts are refering to blue prints for industrial designs. Not expressions as is the common definition of arts today. I can make a patent for anything and just say "Used in a tablet/computer.." otherwise and get away with patenting math or any other law of nature. That is sneaky and I should not be able to get a patent on anything that would be impossible if it were not at work or in a computer then its patentable.
I doubt a process is considered an arts in design at all. You can't own something that is not real or already exists. A blueprint on the otherhand is a design to an invention in contrast and yes that is man made and real.
Expressions and laws of nature/math, or anything else like a series of steps are not real and therefore not patentable.
America Invents changed the patent law to include abstract ideas and not just physical inventions. They can copyright them too and that will make your idea last 170 years which Disney needed to protect Mickey Mouse.
Or just outsource to India where you do not have this problem. The engineers in the States can flip burgers and serve coffee instead.
You can't import a gig of photos from an SD card for the school Yearbook club on a Pi running VNC to a server. It would choke and the gimp would kill the graphics hardware on the server if it had to support 300 users running it.
Schools still use Macs because they are cheaper to support and have a lower TCO than PC headaches for many schools. Anchorage is one school district that is still Mac based and for this reason support costs are lowered. The secretaries at the schools use Parrels for their Windows 2003 server software for school attendance from their iMacs running terminal server. Its always having problems during exam time as so many teachers log into the same servers to upgrade grades that it crashes as single point of failure.
These things are as useful as Lego Mindstorms used by some highschool courses but that is about it. I just do not want to see them replace macs and pcs because of some idiot cost accountant looking to get his bonus.
The original constitution states "physical inventions".
If it subverts the original meaning that is grounds for the supreme court to throw it out. The second issue is math should not be patentable because they are laws of nature and not manmade. Computer algorithms are just this and a process is simply math. Laws of nature have been ruled not to be patentable as well in the past and I think your text from the America Invents act are clearly unconstitutional but I am no lawyer.
What I want to know is if laws of nature as unpatentable are a European idea or American or both? The grandparent is correct in that original patents were for physical inventions with a prototype already functional only. Not for an idea. Otherwise everyone would be quite wealthy or broke as nothing could be made without infringing on everyone else.
There are probably more secretary jobs than engineering jobs. Besides engineers use Excel as much as other software as Office is universal across most Office jobs. But these can be great if they are just used for CS.
I can see administrators looking to pinch pennies promote these as a replacements. I hope your right. CS work is the only good thing with these as they are limited hardware wise and of course its price.
If the PIE had a 2nd processor and 1 gig of ram these could be awesome systems but would probably cost closer to $99 or $129. Andriod could then run on them as well as Gnu/Linux. Just my wishlist though.
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There isnt a week where I dont come upon a story like this and laugh out loud. Its a shame too as Win 8 has nice features.
It was just Metro and now the lack of media player outside ultimate, no gui with aero in desktop mode, and now this?! What the hell are they going to fuck uo next?
There are work arounds like win7start and the intel compilers and eclipse (sucks to use phenom), but buying a machine with win 7 instead is a lot less hassle.
XP was bashed here on slashdot for years and then came Vista. Now these same users who bashed it think XP is the next coming of christ and perfection at its core and refuse to leave the 11 year old platform. Now we are being transformed into cutting enthusiasts to luddites we cant stand. Amazing what a bad OS can do.
I never would have have quit Linux due to its tavlet UI in March 2011 if I knew what was in store for Win 8.
I would happen to agree with you besides the fact many just upgraded from Windows 2000 just a few years ago all with their shiny new IE 6 browsers. Since they just upgraded they do not feel the need to upgrade again from XP circa 2010.
Ok cutting edge IE 7 is getting popular now and its all soooo secure. Sigh
The finance industry is always the most behind as new operating systems do not drive the share price higher nor help them bet agaisnt currenices and 401ks.
I had no idea there was an enterprise version. I know there was a paid version for smaller offices.
I happen to agree with you and people are more concerned with keeping their jobs by picking a name everyone knows thatn risking it for a better solution etc.
Symantic endpoint is very decent compared to its past versions. The newest Norton according to reviews is as lite as Commodo, Avast, and MSE, and its virus detection rate is one of the best! I was shocked, but I do not feel comfortable using it yet.
MSE has gone downhill and I read many using Symantic were able to find the infections. Symantic endpoint is really Norton with a different lablel and I am glad they re-engineered.
One of the most frustrating things about corporate America today is they are penny wise and dollar dumb! Having computers that are offline 4 hours a day with +1000 employees cost $40,000 an hour of lost productivity! Add this up for several years of their outdated crappy XP and Endpoint software and they skipped over that dollar to jump on the nickel of savings.
If they were not so dirt cheap and upgraded to iwndows 7, modern Endpoint/Comoddo Enterprise, and IE 9, with icore 3's to replace their aging Pentium 4s they could be a lot more productive. Computers from the 2002-2006 typically took 10 minutes to be usable because of IE 6 add-ons for proxy, security, keystrock monitoring, and slow 20 gig hard drives, is madening. If anything it is a downgrade to the 1996 - 2001 systems with NT 4/Win 98 as they performed better.
Using hardware proxies and filtering can alieve this load as well.
Software has improved and even IE 9 is snappy. These idiots need to upgrade and get with the times. If you were the CEO of FedEX would you use delivery vans that broke every week?
As someone who has divorced a spouse over these 2 things I have to say it is a serious problem and it is not male related. It was harmful to herself and to our marriage and her kids.
Something is not considered a disorder until it majorily impacts their life in a negative way. We are all sad and hurt at times in life. Someone whose life is a mess because of it and is long term is now officially depressed as an example.
When I tried to play world of warcraft with her (I had a real life)the first thing I noticed is that many of the players were 22, 28, 30, and even 45 living at home with their parents. When they get money they would not invest it in a new suit for a job interview. They would be a wall mount plasma for their wow habbits until their elderly parents threatened to kick their ass to the curb if they did not unplug the ethernet and go get a fucking job!
This was not all of them but a sizable chunk. I have seen divorces of other players, people fired from work because they come in with very few hours of sleep. An my ex used it to escape her hectic financial and work stress. I made her not stay up late raiding so she could catch employers quicker etc.
Masturbation and sex is common in my situation, because she spent more time with her new male friends on wow than me and therefore, was more attracted to them while she blamed me for her life sucking. So out she went.
Millions play and it is easier to attack the messenger because it is anti male biased but I am telling you it is not. I have a friend who is a woman who plays to escape as well and I told her that her life is going to suck more unless she stops playing. We do not talk as much as a result :-)
I can't tell if you are serious or a troll?
Most ED problems are related to blood circulation and high blood pressure. I do not have full ED yet but I am out of breath often with my heart pounding and it is related.
A good diet and excersize can cure that and protect your other more important organ. Your heart!
Women can be tollerant with men with aspergers and understand we are not the best with social skills. What they look for is respect and an interest in the male to spend time with them and desire and love them.
My exwife loved I had aspergers because I was not all macho and ignorant and had to work to connect with her. It was more authentic.
My exwife was a Wow addict.
Her teaching jobs became unstable and I couldn't find work after 2009 in the financial crises when I graduated college. Money and her spending 12 hours a day in Wow is why we got divorced.
And her using the men for masturbation was the final straw. Its not male specific at all when your life sucks.
However, I still talk to her kids and she no longer plays wow and is spending more time on her career and spending less money and being responsible. She is in a new healthy relationship after going cold turkey. So good for her! I am irritated as I wanted her to do that with me, but oh well time to move on I guess.
That is what the article is about. Taking responsibility is very hard when you are depressed and not used to a routine of waking up early and working super hard every day. I am unemployed right now and I fell a little bit too today and overslept. I guess its one form of escapism over the other but I do not play video games. I played SWTOR a little bit, but I would be a hypocrit dumping my exwife who I still cared for if I did the very things that destroyed her. The internet makes anyone tempted to slack off a very easy target.
Or you might be able to look at your husband/bf if he is that material and say FUCK that.
Many women today are single and have kids. More than any time in history. Why? Maybe the economy is so bad they look at men and say, hmm can't keep a job for more than 1 year, what only $30,000 a year?? Who is this guy?
True millions who could be working in better times and making twice as much as if they were born 20 years earlier, but it does make them look like losers.
Either way I am for having higher standards in the opposite sex. Wacking off for guys or a toy if you are a chick might be hell of alot better than to be married to deadbeat and stuck with little space of your own.
It is not a male phenomina.
My exwife played World of Warcraft 12 hours a day. Her teaching jobs became only temporary and she would stay up until 2am and sleep until noon and let the kids fend for themselves for breakfast, and only apply for jobs when I put pressure on her and mention no one has ever gotten hired staying up til 2am and sleeping until 11.
She found work again but kept playing over and then wouldn't let me play with her because I did not have enough gear score. Sorry, but working and going to school affords me less time to do raiding. Worse, these men she would play with flirted with her and she spent more time with them than me.
I finally dumped her when she was sending erotic messages and masturbating to these guys. After the disrespect for me not making enough money, I at least made an attempt to improve myself. So I moved out and sent her the papers.
This is a role reversal here. But I understand where these women are coming from. I maybe a man but I have my standards and do not appreciate somene critizing me for spending time on slashdot while she is on Wow. In hindsight she did apologize and say it was used as escapism. But I gave her the option to quit so she wouldn't have to keep escaping.
Same reason employers love IE. Its corporate, well supported, easily managed, expensive support contracts, and have enterprise AD integration with mass management.
Cios seem to care to use what everyone else is using
What other gaping holes did they leave open?
Everyone is advised to be very, very careful what links they click on from this parent post. You guys know what I'm talking about....
What like this one?
The reference is in the story that a patent troll sued Wild Tangent claiming they had the right to display an ad on a computer screen and needed to pay up.
Putting an ad on a screen is an abstract process already done in television so why is it magically different if its on a computer?
Without breaking all the ad-ons? This will hurt Chromium browsers too if Google quickly changes the keys as ad-ons will break.
Also what is the change of an ad on installing itself on a drive bye from this? Should I worry about this using Chrome?
So I can patent something on a device I have no rights too? The patent law and constitutional clause states for the inventor.
I can't patent an abstract idea because it is in a car that I performed respiration, or it was a LCD laptop screen that displayed the Ad and not a TV. Yet the patent trolls are saying just this.
Useful Arts have to do with the manufacture process. Not an abstract idea just on another device made from natural laws not invented by applicant. Otherwise I could patent every idea known to man such as typing on a keyboard with a machine with more than 4 gigs of ram. Then patent again with a machine with more than 8 gigs of ram etc.
Its not a real invention anymore since it's an abstract idea that has nothing to do with the useful art of manufacturing or a real product.
How is a patent for showing an ad on a computer screen part of an improved manufacturing process?
Weren't ads invented centuries ago? Weren't they shown on TV screens back in the 1950s?
Mod parent up!
That is the point. I can't patent respiration as an example because it is a nature and not man-made. Can I then patent respiration while typing on a laptop computer. The patent trolls say yes!
I say BS. It is still nature and is abstract and not applicable if you did not invent the computer. Its just another way to patent something when used X. Displaying an AD is abstract and not a process of manufacturing and has been done before. Just not on a computer screen.
When all the IP v4 addresses are gone they can raise the price to several hundred dollars per address. Not too bad on a $5 investment and I bet will save the company and boast the share price as a result.
IBM has MANY IP addresses too. However, they bought them in the 1990s when they were much much bigger than today and had a half million employees.
That ISPs are buying all of them so they can monopolize the market. The small guys who little funds didn't do the several hundred milion dollar buying binges. Now if you want 4g for your next phone purchase it must be AT&T!
I could see companies like Cisco buying all of them too so they can force you to upgrade to newer routers with IPv6 support etc.
Laws of nature are math. Plain and simple and should not be patentable PERIOD. Infact a process is math where you do this, then, do that. It doesn't matter where its performed. Just because a computer does it doesn't make it patentable and no longer laws of nature or math. If laws of nature are ruled unpatentable then most of these patents need to be thrown out! A process can not be patentable therefore they need to be thrown out as well.
The arts are refering to blue prints for industrial designs. Not expressions as is the common definition of arts today. I can make a patent for anything and just say "Used in a tablet/computer .." otherwise and get away with patenting math or any other law of nature. That is sneaky and I should not be able to get a patent on anything that would be impossible if it were not at work or in a computer then its patentable.
I doubt a process is considered an arts in design at all. You can't own something that is not real or already exists. A blueprint on the otherhand is a design to an invention in contrast and yes that is man made and real.
Expressions and laws of nature/math, or anything else like a series of steps are not real and therefore not patentable.
Thats because the grandparent makes money for having SEO and having Google show MyCleanPC top, for any of the keywords typed.
Now if it doesn't make profit. Then its ILLEGAL. But not if its used to make money
To lobby of course.
America Invents changed the patent law to include abstract ideas and not just physical inventions. They can copyright them too and that will make your idea last 170 years which Disney needed to protect Mickey Mouse.
Or just outsource to India where you do not have this problem. The engineers in the States can flip burgers and serve coffee instead.
That works for specialized tasks.
You can't import a gig of photos from an SD card for the school Yearbook club on a Pi running VNC to a server. It would choke and the gimp would kill the graphics hardware on the server if it had to support 300 users running it.
Schools still use Macs because they are cheaper to support and have a lower TCO than PC headaches for many schools. Anchorage is one school district that is still Mac based and for this reason support costs are lowered. The secretaries at the schools use Parrels for their Windows 2003 server software for school attendance from their iMacs running terminal server. Its always having problems during exam time as so many teachers log into the same servers to upgrade grades that it crashes as single point of failure.
These things are as useful as Lego Mindstorms used by some highschool courses but that is about it. I just do not want to see them replace macs and pcs because of some idiot cost accountant looking to get his bonus.
That is a new law.
The original constitution states "physical inventions".
If it subverts the original meaning that is grounds for the supreme court to throw it out. The second issue is math should not be patentable because they are laws of nature and not manmade. Computer algorithms are just this and a process is simply math. Laws of nature have been ruled not to be patentable as well in the past and I think your text from the America Invents act are clearly unconstitutional but I am no lawyer.
What I want to know is if laws of nature as unpatentable are a European idea or American or both? The grandparent is correct in that original patents were for physical inventions with a prototype already functional only. Not for an idea. Otherwise everyone would be quite wealthy or broke as nothing could be made without infringing on everyone else.
There are probably more secretary jobs than engineering jobs. Besides engineers use Excel as much as other software as Office is universal across most Office jobs. But these can be great if they are just used for CS.
I can see administrators looking to pinch pennies promote these as a replacements. I hope your right. CS work is the only good thing with these as they are limited hardware wise and of course its price.
If the PIE had a 2nd processor and 1 gig of ram these could be awesome systems but would probably cost closer to $99 or $129. Andriod could then run on them as well as Gnu/Linux. Just my wishlist though.