Elon Musk is unwittingly and unintentionally behind the rise (pun) of flying cars.
Elon is partly and significantly behind the rise of electric cars.
Electric cars threaten the manhood of the fossil fuel industry.
Fossil fuel executives wonder how to save their beloved industry and provide a superior smog choking experience to everyone.
DING! DING! DING! DING!
I know! I know! Says one executive. Flying cars! They will use even more fuel. Provide more pollution. And they won't be powered by electric any time soon.
> The Japanese had been putting magnetic connectors on Rice Cookers, Toasters,
> and Irons for a few years, then Apple patented the idea of putting using it on a laptop.
So basically, Apple patented "doing it on a computer".
Samsung will be hot this year. Absolutely on fire. Either they will fix their exploding phones, or the marketing department can repackage them and market them as incendiary bombs. Either way you can expect smoking hot results in Q1.
Q. Why do we have such a crappy patent system?
A. In order to keep new, smaller, innovative companies from entering the marketplace.
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It may cost at least $10 K to file each patent, but the USPTO must cover the costs of its patent application processing.
Psssssssst. Here's a secret: Patent applications are processed by throwing them into a room full of kittens that have rubber "PATENT APPROVED" stamps affixed to their feet.
How about segment registers. This single abomination hamstrung software for nearly two decades. All sorts of stupid limitations in languages and compilers. Short jumps vs. long jumps. Arrays that cannot exceed 64K. Etc.
Why not just have made it have a 20 bit address space in the instruction set, or even better 24 bit address space, even if there were only enough external address pins on the early chip models to support, say 640 K, which ought to be enough for some people.
There was plenty wrong with both the 8088 and 8086. Which is no doubt why IBM selected it for their PC.
It's about more than just that. It's also about having everything you've ever seen recorded so you can re-see it again any time you want to. This results in unexpected consequences.
It doesn't end. Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream user interface and the real world user interface?
What if in the dream OS everything you did was phoned home to the mother ship?
What if every time you had acclimated to the most recent user interface, a new user interface was inflicted upon you?
A user interface not based on three plus decades of human interface research, but based on the whims of some hipster design wanker whose only skill is photoshop. What if the only purpose of this new UI was a lame attempt to get you to like the vendor's failed phone products?
While I'm no fan of the R's, not even a little bit, it's not just the R's that are the problem. The D's also want to keep the poor people in their place. Why do you think the D's candidate didn't win? If you think either party is going to help you, then you already have the strong delusion.
What do you mean the future looked bright? And then go on to point out how it failed spectacularly.
The future was HYPED. But it was not bright. It only seemed that way because of the hype.
Nobody wanted it then. Nobody wants it now.
If you make a big budget popular movie in 3D then the 3D will ride the coattails of the movie's success.
3D doesn't contribute enough improvement to the story telling experience to be worth the trouble of the glasses. I would dare say for most movies 3D contributes exactly NOTHING to the story experience.
Maybe a better business model for theatres: try making 3D movies cheaper so that people have to pay a premium to avoid 3D. Let's see how that works out for you.:-)
I wish a few years ago that Microsoft had gone through with blowing its wad (about 41 billiion) on Yahoo. It would have de-fanged Microsoft quite a bit. Been one more glorious achievement of Ballmer. Also both the technical clash and culture clash between the two would have provided years of entertaining watching.
The CFAA can be used to threaten someone with 35 years for violating a TOS in a way that is not actually a crime under any other law. But it isn't good enough to cover Ransomeware?
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Elon Musk is unwittingly and unintentionally behind the rise (pun) of flying cars.
Elon is partly and significantly behind the rise of electric cars.
Electric cars threaten the manhood of the fossil fuel industry.
Fossil fuel executives wonder how to save their beloved industry and provide a superior smog choking experience to everyone.
DING! DING! DING! DING!
I know! I know! Says one executive. Flying cars! They will use even more fuel. Provide more pollution. And they won't be powered by electric any time soon.
The post is quite real. The Arizona law is also quite real. Using Google you can find many more sources than the three citations I provided.
Will the Theranos suit divert resources that are used to enforce important public safety laws, such as:
In Arizona it is illegal to have more than 2 dildos in a house.
8 Photos That Prove Some Laws Should Have Never Been Written
Big Government. Small Brains. Dumb Laws.
10 Arizona "Dumb Laws" That Are Complete Horse S**t
Apple removed the headphone jack to prevent users from molesting the phones.
It is odd that other phone brands don't believe their users physically capable of this and thus kept the headphone jack.
Why would you want to rein in Jesus? What makes you believe it would be easy to do so?
The head of foreign corporation building diesel engines programmed to cheat emissions tests can be arrested while on vacation in the US.
If Apple builds it using parts from Samsung, then who should actually get the patent?
> The Japanese had been putting magnetic connectors on Rice Cookers, Toasters,
> and Irons for a few years, then Apple patented the idea of putting using it on a laptop.
So basically, Apple patented "doing it on a computer".
Yep. 68000 assembler was a joy compared to anything else of that era.
True. And ironic. Maybe we could just call CDA the Communications Defense Act or something like that? :-)
The answer is debatable. It depends on if you are the 1% collecting rents, or are the 99% who are paying them.
Samsung will be hot this year. Absolutely on fire. Either they will fix their exploding phones, or the marketing department can repackage them and market them as incendiary bombs. Either way you can expect smoking hot results in Q1.
Q. Why do we have such a crappy patent system?
A. In order to keep new, smaller, innovative companies from entering the marketplace.
Hope that was helpful. That concludes this tech support call. Please take the automated survey at the end of the call. Your call is important to us. Please enjoy this Justin Bieber 'music' while you wait.
It may cost at least $10 K to file each patent, but the USPTO must cover the costs of its patent application processing.
Psssssssst. Here's a secret: Patent applications are processed by throwing them into a room full of kittens that have rubber "PATENT APPROVED" stamps affixed to their feet.
How about segment registers. This single abomination hamstrung software for nearly two decades. All sorts of stupid limitations in languages and compilers. Short jumps vs. long jumps. Arrays that cannot exceed 64K. Etc.
Why not just have made it have a 20 bit address space in the instruction set, or even better 24 bit address space, even if there were only enough external address pins on the early chip models to support, say 640 K, which ought to be enough for some people.
There was plenty wrong with both the 8088 and 8086. Which is no doubt why IBM selected it for their PC.
OK. I haven't seen the most recent season.
It's about more than just that. It's also about having everything you've ever seen recorded so you can re-see it again any time you want to. This results in unexpected consequences.
It doesn't end. Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream user interface and the real world user interface?
What if in the dream OS everything you did was phoned home to the mother ship?
What if every time you had acclimated to the most recent user interface, a new user interface was inflicted upon you?
A user interface not based on three plus decades of human interface research, but based on the whims of some hipster design wanker whose only skill is photoshop. What if the only purpose of this new UI was a lame attempt to get you to like the vendor's failed phone products?
While I'm no fan of the R's, not even a little bit, it's not just the R's that are the problem. The D's also want to keep the poor people in their place. Why do you think the D's candidate didn't win? If you think either party is going to help you, then you already have the strong delusion.
What do you mean the future looked bright? And then go on to point out how it failed spectacularly.
:-)
The future was HYPED. But it was not bright. It only seemed that way because of the hype.
Nobody wanted it then. Nobody wants it now.
If you make a big budget popular movie in 3D then the 3D will ride the coattails of the movie's success.
3D doesn't contribute enough improvement to the story telling experience to be worth the trouble of the glasses. I would dare say for most movies 3D contributes exactly NOTHING to the story experience.
Maybe a better business model for theatres: try making 3D movies cheaper so that people have to pay a premium to avoid 3D. Let's see how that works out for you.
I hope they don't get rid of Edlin which is critical to our operations here.
As for Microsoft doing a really good job of supporting things for a long time, I wonder how much 16 bit code is still in Windows 10?
Ugh!!! Both spelling AND grammar.
Try "bigfully" rather than "bigly" next time.
I wish a few years ago that Microsoft had gone through with blowing its wad (about 41 billiion) on Yahoo. It would have de-fanged Microsoft quite a bit. Been one more glorious achievement of Ballmer. Also both the technical clash and culture clash between the two would have provided years of entertaining watching.
Nevermind electricity. How about common sense.
I was going to point out the same thing.
The CFAA can be used to threaten someone with 35 years for violating a TOS in a way that is not actually a crime under any other law. But it isn't good enough to cover Ransomeware?