You seem confused. Patents can be used one of two ways. 1) They can be used as revenue, via licensing. 2) They can be used to prevent competition. These are not mutually-exclusive (witness 3rd-party iPod/iPhone dock accessories), but either alone is a valid and intended use of patents.
And if you were indeed referring to Apple, you are confused on another point. If Motorola or Samsung want to make dock accessories for Apple devices, Apple would be happy to let them. What Apple doesn't want is for Motorola and Samsung phones to work with existing dock accessories.
That's silly. You should have explained to them that you don't need to belong to a social network to understand the concepts. And if they can't understand that, you should grab the nearest large object and bash their head in until they do. And then tell them they are too stupid to work for and spit on them as you leave.
Seriously, though. Any HR person who can't understand that using and understanding are different things will just cause you endless trouble if you were to be an employee. It's best to turn those jobs down.
It could also be that Linux on the desktop is pure, unadulterated crap. To this day, there is no way to reliably cut/copy&paste between apps, and there are no universal shortcut keys honored by all apps.
"For this reason"? Really? I would have thought that it was because it was written hundreds of years prior to the first Christian, by a king who followed a different religion.
The entire "OT", as the thieves of the TaNaCH call it, is filled with non-Christian ideas.
Have you ever tried to get a signal on your cell phone on the approach to the runway? It doesn't work. Cell phone towers aren't looking up, because most of their users aren't more than a dozen feet off the ground.
You are fairly stupid. Continuing Education for doctors (which is in place anyway) won't help them understand the trade-offs of different designer drugs. You may think the Reps are full of it and are lying through their teeth, but it remains a fact that there's no other place to get detailed information on new drugs. Until doctors know of it, no one is using it outside of trials. Trials which are run by the drug company.
Unfortunately, they are just copying Apple. Again. Launchpad on OS X Lion is ridiculous and stupid. Apple seems to have fallen for their own hype regarding iOS, viewing it as the best thing since, well, anything. All the new gestures are nice, but they are slowly turning OS X into iOS for the desktop. It's really scary and disturbing. They made such a big deal with the original iPhone release about designing apps for a handheld, and now they are taking those same apps and moving them to the desktop. So, not only is MS copying Apple again, but they are copying the bad ideas too!
Why is it any easier to remember that a coworker starts his day at 16:00 than it is his day being offset from mine some number of hours?
And we don't have to get used to a universal time zone to deal with space habitats. In any given timezone, there are up to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people. The idea that other geographic locations have the same time as you is already understood by every single person on the planet who understands the concept of a clock.
How would shortening the work day or week help with unemployment?
If you, personally, don't need the salary that your current hours provides, go ahead and find a new job with fewer hours.
The problem for the rest of us is that we know that if our hours go down, so does our pay (and benefits). If it were forced on us, we'd just have to find better jobs, or take on additional jobs. Either way, the demand for jobs goes up, but the supply doesn't, or not as significantly. Thus, unemployment is likely to rise, not go down.
School administrators aren't parents (of the kids in question), and they aren't cops. Let them report it to the appropriate parties and leave it at that. Why the fuck do they have to do anything?
The problem is that you don't understand the US patent system. It's perfectly valid to patent the same idea, as long as it's a new implementation. That you have a physical sliding lock on your door is completely irrelevant to the ability to patent a software version. Once you accept the idea of software patents, it's trivial to see that slide-to-unlock on the iphone can not possibly have the same implementation as the lock on your door.
Considering that Apple would have to make it worse than an iPad 1 to get closer to the Playbook, I think they are more than justified in continuing their current direction.
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You seem confused. Patents can be used one of two ways. 1) They can be used as revenue, via licensing. 2) They can be used to prevent competition. These are not mutually-exclusive (witness 3rd-party iPod/iPhone dock accessories), but either alone is a valid and intended use of patents.
And if you were indeed referring to Apple, you are confused on another point. If Motorola or Samsung want to make dock accessories for Apple devices, Apple would be happy to let them. What Apple doesn't want is for Motorola and Samsung phones to work with existing dock accessories.
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Thank you. Now I have two reasons never to touch Python.
You are the most ignorant poster on slashdot for the week. Congratulations.
(Oh, you're also willfully so, which makes you the single most stupid poster, as well. Congratulations.)
Yes it does. I believe it's the 10th amendment.
it's self it...
Wow. Even for slashdot, that's quite some mangling!
You think complaining about some random, bad summary is going to change anything (other than your karma)? You must be new here!
That's silly. You should have explained to them that you don't need to belong to a social network to understand the concepts. And if they can't understand that, you should grab the nearest large object and bash their head in until they do. And then tell them they are too stupid to work for and spit on them as you leave.
Seriously, though. Any HR person who can't understand that using and understanding are different things will just cause you endless trouble if you were to be an employee. It's best to turn those jobs down.
It could also be that Linux on the desktop is pure, unadulterated crap. To this day, there is no way to reliably cut/copy&paste between apps, and there are no universal shortcut keys honored by all apps.
"For this reason"? Really? I would have thought that it was because it was written hundreds of years prior to the first Christian, by a king who followed a different religion.
The entire "OT", as the thieves of the TaNaCH call it, is filled with non-Christian ideas.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
The whole premise is that the guy is a "whale", aka someone with a lot of money to burn.
Word can work that way, but it's not obvious or easy (to me, anyway) so no one does it.
Have you ever tried to get a signal on your cell phone on the approach to the runway? It doesn't work. Cell phone towers aren't looking up, because most of their users aren't more than a dozen feet off the ground.
Palestine is the name of the formerly-sovereign state of Israel, given by the Romans after their conquest. So the Jews invaded their own country?
You are fairly stupid. Continuing Education for doctors (which is in place anyway) won't help them understand the trade-offs of different designer drugs. You may think the Reps are full of it and are lying through their teeth, but it remains a fact that there's no other place to get detailed information on new drugs. Until doctors know of it, no one is using it outside of trials. Trials which are run by the drug company.
Unfortunately, they are just copying Apple. Again. Launchpad on OS X Lion is ridiculous and stupid. Apple seems to have fallen for their own hype regarding iOS, viewing it as the best thing since, well, anything. All the new gestures are nice, but they are slowly turning OS X into iOS for the desktop. It's really scary and disturbing. They made such a big deal with the original iPhone release about designing apps for a handheld, and now they are taking those same apps and moving them to the desktop. So, not only is MS copying Apple again, but they are copying the bad ideas too!
What are you used to? CP/M?
Why is it any easier to remember that a coworker starts his day at 16:00 than it is his day being offset from mine some number of hours?
And we don't have to get used to a universal time zone to deal with space habitats. In any given timezone, there are up to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people. The idea that other geographic locations have the same time as you is already understood by every single person on the planet who understands the concept of a clock.
How would shortening the work day or week help with unemployment?
If you, personally, don't need the salary that your current hours provides, go ahead and find a new job with fewer hours.
The problem for the rest of us is that we know that if our hours go down, so does our pay (and benefits). If it were forced on us, we'd just have to find better jobs, or take on additional jobs. Either way, the demand for jobs goes up, but the supply doesn't, or not as significantly. Thus, unemployment is likely to rise, not go down.
School administrators aren't parents (of the kids in question), and they aren't cops. Let them report it to the appropriate parties and leave it at that. Why the fuck do they have to do anything?
The problem is that you don't understand the US patent system. It's perfectly valid to patent the same idea, as long as it's a new implementation. That you have a physical sliding lock on your door is completely irrelevant to the ability to patent a software version. Once you accept the idea of software patents, it's trivial to see that slide-to-unlock on the iphone can not possibly have the same implementation as the lock on your door.
Considering that Apple would have to make it worse than an iPad 1 to get closer to the Playbook, I think they are more than justified in continuing their current direction.
Cancer is uncontrolled replication. If the body is regularly destroying the cells, it's hardly uncontrolled, is it?
You are apparently almost completely ignorant about Christianity.
You would have wasted mod points on an AC post? And here I thought Warner Bros was the idiot of the thread...
Didn't TFA teach you anything? The US is an International Authority!