OK ite been a while since I was in bio so somebody help out here. I'm gonna claim the combinations of the four basic types of proteins. So how does it go TD, TA, TG, DA, DG, AG should cover them all (even the impossible ones). Now they are infringing on my patent.
silly question but if I reproduce (as frightening as that is) would I violate their patent? -cpd
actually, 'thousands of hours' would seem to indicate a multiple of a thousand greater than one. 1,600 doesn't qualify. see that one there? Actually it is a multiple of thousands. 1.6 to be exact. And last I checked 1.6 is greater than one. Besides the point is that even two thousand hours is not that much in buisiness sense.
Oh and 13 people would be a lot at my funeral. -cpd
A thousand hours really isn't that much if you do some math. Say ten programmers workings a month. This gives you about 1,600 hours. Techincally that's "thousands of hours". Yes it sounds bogus, and I don't think it nessecarily took that long. Although testing, documenting you did the testing, get it all signed off, developing requirements, etc is much much easier with a ten person company opposed to a 50+ person company. -cpd
Actually for those of us who live there you missed a rather blatant one. Or at least it was when I grew up there... .TaxAchusetts And yes although I love the state and grew up there I still think this is really dumb. -cpd
You have a point but.... I don't watch the pay per view channels. They should tax people who watch those. Ya know I don't watch channels XYZ which my cable company decided was 'basic' they should tax people who watch those. I also don't use caller id, let's tax that too. Oh and caller id blocker too. Why should I pay for upgrades phone/cable comapnies are doing to those other systems? But I do. Because it generally increases the value to me even if I never use it I still have the ability to. -cpd
Two little things though. 1. Patents cost money. Typically at least a couple hundred just to file. To have it issued is more than that. Of course if you were just making it public then the issue fee wouldn't matter. 2. Although you may think it'll get things changed it would probably only get the cost raised. -cpd
Funny how IBM gets out of solid stores and goes to online only. Meanwhile Gateway (was it last year?) which was an internet (or phone) only store goes to having their own stores. The article said that IBM thought they had problems differentiating their product from the rest of the market and I can understand why. Mainly I think the three largest problems they had were 1)no good marketing, 2)badly trained sales people, 3)bad image. 1) Bad marketing - Common buy a cow you want a cow. And our boxes are waterproof! Only offering proof by contradiction here. 2) Sales people - they were selling the machines at Radio Hut. My god the few sales people I talked to there had such a hard time telling Apples from PCs. It was kinda frightening. The last sales person finally got rid of me by saying he liked the speakers and turning them up really loud. 3) Image - IBM still looked like a big business company. Not something for homw users. I mean Gateway saws that cows will be there to help me if I call;). -cpd
I tend to doubt there will ever be a real open source (or possibly even closed source) Ecommerce solution. There will be parts of the solution but to a large degree much of the code would have to be written customized. Really no two businesses will be using the same practice. So one companies order confirmation number will not be generated the same as another companies. No two companies will probably want to display their products the same way. I do think there will be parts that are reusable, but not the entire solution. And businesses will be unwilling to change their practices to meet something unless there's a company to help them customize. Don't get me wrong I think it'd be a great business and could benefit from open source, but this is one of those areas that is better left in house in a corp because it will have to interact so much. The basic compnents are already there too. I mean there are open source web servers, databases, and even page editors (like vi and emacs;). Most of the rest needs to be speciallized for each company. Well more acurately each company will want it specialized. Just my opnion. -cpd
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That's sick man. No no I mean really sick. The ArachnaCat? I thought the spideys in Doom II were bad that things gonna give me nightmares. and the testimonials? My cat needed help balancing. You gave him extra legs now he's great. I'm gonna go twitch in the corner muttering things about bionic cats taking over the world. -cpd
now now. Its nice to see all these readers of UserFriendly passing off stuff as there own. www.userfriendly.org has a link of the day. Today's was the search about Satan, Gates, etc. Now if someone else can explain where they saw it before then I'll start being impressed.... -cpd
I have some problems with this and it all depends on your definition of certain things. Really when does art become porn. There is little doubt that some things are definately one or the other, but the middle ground is the problem area. I mean the Adam touching God picture shows Adam negid. Is that illegal? What about the Venus birth (her negid coming out of clam shell)? Ok not many people are gonna buy that those are porn, but what about more modern art. Just look at the stuff with the museum in Broklyn and the problems they're having right now. And I'm only presenting the artwork problem with a rating system. What about medical sites? Try learning about breast cancer without encountering words that are normally filtered. Try learning sex ed without getting filtered. I just fail to see where this rating system will actually work and succeed at what its trying to do without causing a lot of problems. -cpd
Funny a week ago(ish) there was an article about databases and freedom. Most people's sentiment was that you have the right to republish info in the public domain. Now people are of the opposite thinking. Seems people are happy that the newspapers no longer can republish what is in effect public domain stuff. This (by my understanding) means that I can't put forth a compilation of the NYT articles without permission (ok but it was probably illegal before this). Now I have to ask the NYT and the article writter. Seems like this is a reduction in the publishing rights of some people. This actually seems to _favor_ IP rights something this crowd is usually strongly opposed to. Just find the change in opinion surprising. -cpd
Cool I always like seeing nifty things to do with haptic schtuff. I do hope you meant that this was the first RT forcefeedback device used in nano stuff. Cuz there are other hapic devices out there. I hope they can use some of the other ones in place of the Phantom too. Its good and all but it gets kinda sloppy with its response. The magnetic ones have much better response times. -cpd
Key phrase there was certain databases. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people here would be up in arms if all databases were open. What you say? No they wouldn't? Think about all the db's out there that have info on you. Credit card companies? You want everyone to have access to all your credit card numbers? What about doctor's databases? Hey no need for a piss test at an employeer he can just look it up cuz the db is open. Yes I agree that certain db's need to be open. But only certain ones. And the problem is any law created will have a loop hole in it. Copyrights are bad cuz they could be applied to any db (if they could be applied to a db). Completely free is bad for reasons above. I don't know where the appropriate middle ground lies, but there must be one. -cpd
I thought if something was copyrighted then any copying of it was an infringement on the copyright. I.e. the copyrighted book they were talking about. Someone put it on disk. Most books I've seen say something like "No part of this book my be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission" (whoops guess I just violated that:). So how could the court rule in favor of the disk publisher? Really though if you don't want info to be redistributed then you better state that clearly. The realtors complaining that someone can take the info they posted in their window and put it on the web, well of course they can. You put it in the public view. Your competitors could walk up and write them down too. Typically if something is viewable by the public and not marked with a "redistribution is illegal" statement then its fair game I think. -cpd
Not sure its entirely dead. Went to use the ATM/MAC/MoneyMachine/whatever ya call it, here at work yesterday. Sitting on the screen is ??? What is that? Wait that's OS2. The MAC is running OS2! And the machine is 6mos old. A First Union machine. So a big bank is still rolling ATMs with OS2 as its OS. So I don't think you should ring that death bell quite yet. -cpd
This was the first thing I thought of. I mean these people just patented what the Nazis did 60yrs ago. That means there's prior art so this thing can get shotdown. Furthermore anybody who tries to make money off of this is gonna be in one heck of a PR battle. You mention the fact that this is how the Nazis treated the Jews and there isn't a sane person who will want this done to themselves or anyone they know. I really can't believe someone had the balls to do this. All sorts of legal groups will be looking for their blood should it be marketed. -cpd
So does this mean there will not be any changes to Slashdot for a while? It tend to be that when there is a change its put forth as an improvement. This could be seen as a "promotion of the company". And that AFAIK is against the quiet period rules. I just wonder if it means that Rob will have to be extremely careful in his wording about changes. I.e. "I implemented the new moderation system today. Things are different. I am not allowed to say wether they are better or worse on the advice of my lawyers and due to the possibility of future litigation....." Yeesh that could get ugly. -cpd
I know the feeling. Mommy what's a binary tree? The scary thing is its been so long since I've used anything like sorting, searching, that now I have to look at a book to refresh the memory. Or much more fun - figure it out without the book. Then check that I'm right. I find it really disappointing that as a programmer I'm rarely asked to do anything interestingly worthwhile. Most of the time its just silly stuff. "uhhh report this data out in this format" -cpd
Scratch, scratch. Yeah I do remember this happening. M$ Spokesperson - Lightning and hail cause the server to loose power. Yeah that's our story and we're sticking by it.
Ok not quite the same thing, but still...
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Or Grendel from Beowulf. I'm sure there are others too. I don't find it to be that much of a new and unprecedented. I think its actually happened quite a bit. -cpd
As for testing - well we've run tests. There were problems. Some big (as in nothing worked), some small (as in well that's bad but we can live with it if need be). We fixed them. We tested. ... Current point - we've tested and things seem good now.
#include This is in no way shape or form a legally binding statement that should be taken to hold any water whatsover for predicting my companies future.
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OK ite been a while since I was in bio so somebody help out here. I'm gonna claim the combinations of the four basic types of proteins. So how does it go TD, TA, TG, DA, DG, AG should cover them all (even the impossible ones). Now they are infringing on my patent.
silly question but if I reproduce (as frightening as that is) would I violate their patent?
-cpd
actually, 'thousands of hours' would seem to indicate a multiple of a thousand greater than one. 1,600 doesn't qualify. see that one there?
Actually it is a multiple of thousands. 1.6 to be exact. And last I checked 1.6 is greater than one. Besides the point is that even two thousand hours is not that much in buisiness sense.
Oh and 13 people would be a lot at my funeral.
-cpd
A thousand hours really isn't that much if you do some math. Say ten programmers workings a month. This gives you about 1,600 hours. Techincally that's "thousands of hours". Yes it sounds bogus, and I don't think it nessecarily took that long. Although testing, documenting you did the testing, get it all signed off, developing requirements, etc is much much easier with a ten person company opposed to a 50+ person company.
-cpd
Actually for those of us who live there you missed a rather blatant one. Or at least it was when I grew up there...
.TaxAchusetts
And yes although I love the state and grew up there I still think this is really dumb.
-cpd
Walk with your shoulders slouched forward.
Be wishy washy in your speach.
Giggle nervously.
Oh wait that's how VCs should attract geeks! Never mind.
-cpd
You have a point but....
I don't watch the pay per view channels. They should tax people who watch those. Ya know I don't watch channels XYZ which my cable company decided was 'basic' they should tax people who watch those. I also don't use caller id, let's tax that too. Oh and caller id blocker too.
Why should I pay for upgrades phone/cable comapnies are doing to those other systems? But I do. Because it generally increases the value to me even if I never use it I still have the ability to.
-cpd
Two little things though.
1. Patents cost money. Typically at least a couple hundred just to file. To have it issued is more than that. Of course if you were just making it public then the issue fee wouldn't matter.
2. Although you may think it'll get things changed it would probably only get the cost raised.
-cpd
Funny how IBM gets out of solid stores and goes to online only. Meanwhile Gateway (was it last year?) which was an internet (or phone) only store goes to having their own stores. ;).
The article said that IBM thought they had problems differentiating their product from the rest of the market and I can understand why. Mainly I think the three largest problems they had were 1)no good marketing, 2)badly trained sales people, 3)bad image.
1) Bad marketing - Common buy a cow you want a cow. And our boxes are waterproof! Only offering proof by contradiction here.
2) Sales people - they were selling the machines at Radio Hut. My god the few sales people I talked to there had such a hard time telling Apples from PCs. It was kinda frightening. The last sales person finally got rid of me by saying he liked the speakers and turning them up really loud.
3) Image - IBM still looked like a big business company. Not something for homw users. I mean Gateway saws that cows will be there to help me if I call
-cpd
I tend to doubt there will ever be a real open source (or possibly even closed source) Ecommerce solution. There will be parts of the solution but to a large degree much of the code would have to be written customized. Really no two businesses will be using the same practice. So one companies order confirmation number will not be generated the same as another companies. No two companies will probably want to display their products the same way. I do think there will be parts that are reusable, but not the entire solution. And businesses will be unwilling to change their practices to meet something unless there's a company to help them customize. ;). Most of the rest needs to be speciallized for each company. Well more acurately each company will want it specialized.
Don't get me wrong I think it'd be a great business and could benefit from open source, but this is one of those areas that is better left in house in a corp because it will have to interact so much.
The basic compnents are already there too. I mean there are open source web servers, databases, and even page editors (like vi and emacs
Just my opnion.
-cpd
That's sick man. No no I mean really sick.
The ArachnaCat? I thought the spideys in Doom II were bad that things gonna give me nightmares.
and the testimonials? My cat needed help balancing. You gave him extra legs now he's great.
I'm gonna go twitch in the corner muttering things about bionic cats taking over the world.
-cpd
*bow* I am impressed.
Thanks. I didn't know it had appeared before then. You definately have better memory than I.
-cpd
now now. Its nice to see all these readers of UserFriendly passing off stuff as there own. www.userfriendly.org has a link of the day. Today's was the search about Satan, Gates, etc. Now if someone else can explain where they saw it before then I'll start being impressed....
-cpd
I have some problems with this and it all depends on your definition of certain things. Really when does art become porn. There is little doubt that some things are definately one or the other, but the middle ground is the problem area. I mean the Adam touching God picture shows Adam negid. Is that illegal? What about the Venus birth (her negid coming out of clam shell)? Ok not many people are gonna buy that those are porn, but what about more modern art. Just look at the stuff with the museum in Broklyn and the problems they're having right now.
And I'm only presenting the artwork problem with a rating system. What about medical sites? Try learning about breast cancer without encountering words that are normally filtered. Try learning sex ed without getting filtered.
I just fail to see where this rating system will actually work and succeed at what its trying to do without causing a lot of problems.
-cpd
Funny a week ago(ish) there was an article about databases and freedom. Most people's sentiment was that you have the right to republish info in the public domain. Now people are of the opposite thinking. Seems people are happy that the newspapers no longer can republish what is in effect public domain stuff.
This (by my understanding) means that I can't put forth a compilation of the NYT articles without permission (ok but it was probably illegal before this). Now I have to ask the NYT and the article writter. Seems like this is a reduction in the publishing rights of some people. This actually seems to _favor_ IP rights something this crowd is usually strongly opposed to.
Just find the change in opinion surprising.
-cpd
Cool I always like seeing nifty things to do with haptic schtuff. I do hope you meant that this was the first RT forcefeedback device used in nano stuff. Cuz there are other hapic devices out there. I hope they can use some of the other ones in place of the Phantom too. Its good and all but it gets kinda sloppy with its response. The magnetic ones have much better response times.
-cpd
Key phrase there was certain databases.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people here would be up in arms if all databases were open. What you say? No they wouldn't? Think about all the db's out there that have info on you. Credit card companies? You want everyone to have access to all your credit card numbers? What about doctor's databases? Hey no need for a piss test at an employeer he can just look it up cuz the db is open.
Yes I agree that certain db's need to be open. But only certain ones. And the problem is any law created will have a loop hole in it. Copyrights are bad cuz they could be applied to any db (if they could be applied to a db). Completely free is bad for reasons above. I don't know where the appropriate middle ground lies, but there must be one.
-cpd
I thought if something was copyrighted then any copying of it was an infringement on the copyright. I.e. the copyrighted book they were talking about. Someone put it on disk. Most books I've seen say something like "No part of this book my be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission" (whoops guess I just violated that:). So how could the court rule in favor of the disk publisher?
Really though if you don't want info to be redistributed then you better state that clearly. The realtors complaining that someone can take the info they posted in their window and put it on the web, well of course they can. You put it in the public view. Your competitors could walk up and write them down too. Typically if something is viewable by the public and not marked with a "redistribution is illegal" statement then its fair game I think.
-cpd
Think of the great uses:
Mommy can I have one for XMass.
-cpd
Not sure its entirely dead. Went to use the ATM/MAC/MoneyMachine/whatever ya call it, here at work yesterday. Sitting on the screen is ??? What is that? Wait that's OS2. The MAC is running OS2! And the machine is 6mos old. A First Union machine. So a big bank is still rolling ATMs with OS2 as its OS. So I don't think you should ring that death bell quite yet.
-cpd
This was the first thing I thought of. I mean these people just patented what the Nazis did 60yrs ago. That means there's prior art so this thing can get shotdown. Furthermore anybody who tries to make money off of this is gonna be in one heck of a PR battle. You mention the fact that this is how the Nazis treated the Jews and there isn't a sane person who will want this done to themselves or anyone they know. I really can't believe someone had the balls to do this. All sorts of legal groups will be looking for their blood should it be marketed.
-cpd
So does this mean there will not be any changes to Slashdot for a while? It tend to be that when there is a change its put forth as an improvement. This could be seen as a "promotion of the company". And that AFAIK is against the quiet period rules. I just wonder if it means that Rob will have to be extremely careful in his wording about changes. I.e. "I implemented the new moderation system today. Things are different. I am not allowed to say wether they are better or worse on the advice of my lawyers and due to the possibility of future litigation....." Yeesh that could get ugly.
-cpd
I know the feeling.
Mommy what's a binary tree?
The scary thing is its been so long since I've used anything like sorting, searching, that now I have to look at a book to refresh the memory. Or much more fun - figure it out without the book. Then check that I'm right. I find it really disappointing that as a programmer I'm rarely asked to do anything interestingly worthwhile. Most of the time its just silly stuff. "uhhh report this data out in this format"
-cpd
Scratch, scratch. Yeah I do remember this happening.
M$ Spokesperson -
Lightning and hail cause the server to loose power. Yeah that's our story and we're sticking by it.
Ok not quite the same thing, but still...
Or Grendel from Beowulf. I'm sure there are others too. I don't find it to be that much of a new and unprecedented. I think its actually happened quite a bit.
-cpd
OK I missed this one.
Why is April 9 important?
As for testing - well we've run tests.
There were problems. Some big (as in nothing worked), some small (as in well that's bad but we can live with it if need be).
We fixed them.
We tested.
...
Current point - we've tested and things seem good now.
#include
This is in no way shape or form a legally binding statement that should be taken to hold any water whatsover for predicting my companies future.