Not necessarily. We get errors in DNA transcription, breaks in DNA, badly transcribed DNA, genes that go crazy and replicate until the host dies, viruses that attack at the genetic level, and a whole host of other cellular and genetic faults.
It's just we have got better at patching these holes, and detecting bugs before they cause major harm... And the massive redundancy at the DNA level helps too...
We're more like a failover cluster than a single machine...
I'm pretty sure that every contract of employment I've had says that by doing anything to bring the company into disripute, I will have committed a serious breach, and can be fired without notice.
Maybe I just sign anything that's put infront of me though... But I thought that was a pretty standard clause...
so that a data-processing program is patentable, it is not enough that it is new, it is necessary still that it allows a technical innovation independently of its own execution.
So, if I write a dataprocessing program that can be used by another piece of software to do something new....then I can patent it...or the other bit of software...or neither...
The text of origin was considered to be "fuzzy" and "ambiguous"
Looks like they did a good job clearing it up...;)
"...a data-processing program is patentable, it is not enough that it is new, it is necessary still that it allows a technical innovation independently of its own execution." and;
"...invention implemented by computer (a software) is not regarded as contributing a technical share only because it implies the use of a computer"
So what did they go for? A vague wishy-washy patenting system? I wish the fish was better;)
I have had experience with both Oracle and Postgres, and I would never go back to Oracle...
Maybe I was not using all of it's "Enterprise features", but I find Postgres to be fast, and reliable... Plus I am not constantly bombarded with Oracle spam, like I was when I registered for an oracle devnet account...
I agree that publicity is about all they can hope for... If this hits the non-geek media (BBC, etc) by this afternoon, millions of people across europe will read about it on the 3 hour pre-weekend slacking;-)
Slashdot Mirror
It's a perfectly cropulent word ;-)
Mmmmm.... Blunt force trauma...
Not necessarily. We get errors in DNA transcription, breaks in DNA, badly transcribed DNA, genes that go crazy and replicate until the host dies, viruses that attack at the genetic level, and a whole host of other cellular and genetic faults.
It's just we have got better at patching these holes, and detecting bugs before they cause major harm... And the massive redundancy at the DNA level helps too...
We're more like a failover cluster than a single machine...
No, but if it brings the company into disripute by me taking photos of it, then that's a different matter...
I'm pretty sure that every contract of employment I've had says that by doing anything to bring the company into disripute, I will have committed a serious breach, and can be fired without notice.
Maybe I just sign anything that's put infront of me though... But I thought that was a pretty standard clause...
And at least a hundred years of smelling of wee, and queuing for your pension at the post office...
And I think it will be more like;
guy in london waves to you
you lift arm
screen in London switches to Rome
screen in Paris switches to adverts
you wave to no-one :-(
I hope not, but that's how I imagine it
here: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_830469.html?m enu=news.technology
It looks pretty cool, and pretty useless at the same time...
-- they should be using a challenge response system where the key or usable hash isn't sent over the wire
;-)
And you should be using the preview button
With the graphics and levels you drew and made?
"Arrrgh...the big red and green blob monster has me trapped in the corner of this boxy, textureless room!"
The only Russian music group I can think of is "TaTu", so I'd guess the answer is no... ;)
Wireless link cable?
hee hee
Thanks :-)
;)
Now I just need to load a Word document in Linux, and learn French
Hee hee j/k
The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
-- Albert Einstein
so that a data-processing program is patentable, it is not enough that it is new, it is necessary still that it allows a technical innovation independently of its own execution.
;)
So, if I write a dataprocessing program that can be used by another piece of software to do something new....then I can patent it...or the other bit of software...or neither...
The text of origin was considered to be "fuzzy" and "ambiguous"
Looks like they did a good job clearing it up...
The fish tells me that;
- "...a data-processing program is patentable, it is not enough that it is new, it is necessary still that it allows a technical innovation independently of its own execution." and
;
- "...invention implemented by computer (a software) is not regarded as contributing a technical share only because it implies the use of a computer"
So what did they go for? A vague wishy-washy patenting system? I wish the fish was betterSurely you could move the clustering/failover to your application layer?
Cool :-) And does it now have row based locking? (I need that for my EJB stuff)...
... but I have to admit that was ages ago... :-(
I don't think it used to
Maybe it's time I started looking at mySql more closely
I heard that mySql starts having issues when you reach large sized tables... (10M rows+)
Not sure if that's true or not...just what I heard...
You would still have to pay boatloads for support...even with postgres... Open Source does not mean 24/7 Support calls...
You can keep your spam blocklist running now ;)
Very true...
I have had experience with both Oracle and Postgres, and I would never go back to Oracle...
Maybe I was not using all of it's "Enterprise features", but I find Postgres to be fast, and reliable... Plus I am not constantly bombarded with Oracle spam, like I was when I registered for an oracle devnet account...
I agree that publicity is about all they can hope for... If this hits the non-geek media (BBC, etc) by this afternoon, millions of people across europe will read about it on the 3 hour pre-weekend slacking ;-)
Do you remember this?
It's slightly more recent...
There was a proper protest too on the 27th (Wed)...
> What message is this supposed to send?
That we don't want software patents...
Something has to be done... Sitting whining about other people protesting (in whatever form they choose) isn't going to help anything...