I've always seen it this way. If there's a source code leak, have ways in place that pin it down to one person then sue their asses off and there's your money for damages. Otherwise, with the latest anti-decompiling methods, I doubt someone is getting your actual code manually. So that leaves the fact that if someone can look at your program running and figure out the code behind a certain function then write it themselves, it was too simple to be patented. If they can't figure it out, it's darn good valuable IP and then they can't use it because they don't have the code or an idea how to write it. It solves itself.
No, I'm mostly looking at a sampling of over 75,000 laptops on a 3rd party extended warranty company's annual report. Dell is the 2nd most likely to fail and has the worst customer service rating. That's a high enough sampling to be accurate.
"If each of those companies had three or four engineers dedicating a few hours every day to picking off their competitors’ applications, the number of granted patents to those companies would grind to a halt."
There is absolutely zero correlation between those two items. Invalidating a bunch later doesn't reduce the amount they file in the first place. If anything, they'd file more or re-file more specific versions.
My friend's dog is always getting yelled at over voice chat because instead of going to bed at a normal time, she hops off the bed and watches him play Neverwinter. He plays on his TV with a controller and headset so the dog knows that he's playing with the controller. So she always licks it and bites at it because she wants to play too. One time he got up for a second and his character basically had a seisure that involved running around and falling off a cliff in game and it turns out she was messing with the buttons with her tongue. So she's not very good at Neverwinter but at least she tries to imitate him.
Really? You learned a lot from a teacher with a bad attitude who grades unfairly, doesn't properly prepare, gets behind on the schedule, assigns busy work instead of educational materials, shows up late to class, and grades things late?
I built all of ours at my company. So far 150 computers, 1 part failure over 5 years. That's ANY part; LED, button, PSU, fan, etc. And in response to your future post, I do about 10 in 1 day.
Anyone wanting to buy Dell should have to set up and use one of their awful products for 1 day and then call tech support once. There would be zero buyers. Seriously, buying Dell is like buying a car just based on the company's marketing and image without actually looking under the hood to find out it's a complete piece of crap (in other words a Saturn or Kia). Except Dell is more like a Yugo on craigslist with a flashy paint job and astroturfed reviews. They're 2nd to last in laptop quality, dead last in support quality, and no business with an IT purchaser who has any kind of clue even considers them as a vendor anymore.
So if you're reading this and thinking "hey, I buy from Dell all the time!" first of all, look at your hardware failure numbers. Secondly, fire yourself. Third, note that last time a business I was contracted to work at for a computer replacement project ordered 120 Dell laptops ($800 models btw), 20 were RMAed right out of the box with hardware defects. I guarantee that cost Dell more than it would have to simply build them all with good parts in the first place.
Well, people stupid enough to believe and follow that false idea without properly researching it are automatically removing their kids from the gene pool in some cases. Tada, survival of the people not stupid enough to fall for that bullshit. I believe that's a direct Darwin quote.
How has nobody mentioned this yet? Kids will show up for school if the stupid teachers unions wouldn't throw a giant fit every time a school tries to fire a teacher that every student hates because they're a complete asshole. Schools shouldn't even have good and bad teachers. Bad teachers should just be fired. I love how my high school had a "principal reviews the teachers in-class" semi-annually policy. Talk about a stupid waste of time. They know the principal is sitting there watching so they act different and the principal is only looking for teaching quality, not their personality. If they want a real opinion of teachers, ask the students and then fire accordingly.
I didn't bother to buy any multivitamins when I moved out of my parents to my apartment. Then about a month later, after a somewhat healthy but not heavily varied or vitamin rich diet, I started to feel just generally awful. I was tired, couldn't concentrated, and was always hungry. I automatically thought of my diet so I got some multivitamins (generic centrum). I took one and the next day I felt absolutely amazingly flawless. Here's the problem. It took my body over a month to feel ill effects from stopping taking multivitamins. Enter, elephant theory.
There are some elephants in Africa that make a once a year trip to a salt cave and eat like 40 pounds of salt. Then they're good all year. Some monkeys do a similar thing where once every couple weeks they eat some disgusting plant to get a particular nutrient. So nowhere in nature would a human get a mix of like 100 vitamins and nutrients every single day at that high of a concentration. So honestly, I would strongly recommend that people take a daily multivitamin once a week. That's A LOT more realistic to nature and it's probably all you need.
“I have been examining the video over and over again,” he says, ”and there were a number of things about it that were really quite tantalizing for a very long time pitch-drop observer like myself.”
That's just asking for people to tear him a new ass online, lol.
Nobody seems to be able to decide what the heck glass is. You've got the controversial cathedral glass thickness reports. Then you've got the slightly more easily provable fact that it shatters. The consensus seems to be that it's not completely solid and from there, people can argue all they want. But since the tar was inside glass and we have to assume the glass morphed, their measurement isn't completely accurate. So...time to start the experiment over again, lol
But that's not the only reason. The luminosity in the room changed slightly and the material is black. That means it changed temperature slightly, which over 69 years could cause significant viscosity measurement inaccuracies. Plus, the room probably wasn't even properly climate controlled anyway.
So let's start it over and do it right this time! Forget landing on Mars, we need to know the viscosity of tar, damn it!
Well if they're turning a valet parking invitation into a free inspection, there's also nothing stopping you from putting these 100dB contact-break alarms on basically everything including the trunk, glove compartment, etc. Let's see how mister TSA wanna-be likes his job when he gets 100 decibels in his face any time he touches anything but the steering wheel.
I live in an apartment and it has one of those pathetically insecure chicken wire cages upstairs for additional storage. A $1 wire clipper and you can steal everyone's stuff so I put 4 of those contact break alarms under a cardboard box containing my stuff. Then I drew an arrow and "do not move or touch - pressure-sensitive alarm will sound" and that's the last thing anyone will steal. It'd work just as well for car searches except put the alarm on the inside so instead of a deterrent, it's a punishment of sorts.
Let's make one consistent interface for all devices, yay!
Great idea! But does it have to not suck though?
Hell no!
Okay...let's give that a go. ...6 million surface tablets later
Well, I hope he enjoys lots more downtime now that everything is in the cloud except 0% chance of him fixing it himself. And just wait for that extended downtime when the cloud host goes out of business without warning.
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Wow, any faster and the whole state might light on fire.
Making it a government-controlled utility would give them a darn good excuse to spy and filter even more.
I've always seen it this way. If there's a source code leak, have ways in place that pin it down to one person then sue their asses off and there's your money for damages. Otherwise, with the latest anti-decompiling methods, I doubt someone is getting your actual code manually. So that leaves the fact that if someone can look at your program running and figure out the code behind a certain function then write it themselves, it was too simple to be patented. If they can't figure it out, it's darn good valuable IP and then they can't use it because they don't have the code or an idea how to write it. It solves itself.
After Sharnado I don't think the Sci Fi needs any ideas like Mud Volcano for their next movie. Hopefully none of them read Slashdot.
No, I'm mostly looking at a sampling of over 75,000 laptops on a 3rd party extended warranty company's annual report. Dell is the 2nd most likely to fail and has the worst customer service rating. That's a high enough sampling to be accurate.
Wow, that's just in time to still get crushed on price and service level by Fortinet.
"If each of those companies had three or four engineers dedicating a few hours every day to picking off their competitors’ applications, the number of granted patents to those companies would grind to a halt."
There is absolutely zero correlation between those two items. Invalidating a bunch later doesn't reduce the amount they file in the first place. If anything, they'd file more or re-file more specific versions.
My friend's dog is always getting yelled at over voice chat because instead of going to bed at a normal time, she hops off the bed and watches him play Neverwinter. He plays on his TV with a controller and headset so the dog knows that he's playing with the controller. So she always licks it and bites at it because she wants to play too. One time he got up for a second and his character basically had a seisure that involved running around and falling off a cliff in game and it turns out she was messing with the buttons with her tongue. So she's not very good at Neverwinter but at least she tries to imitate him.
Really? You learned a lot from a teacher with a bad attitude who grades unfairly, doesn't properly prepare, gets behind on the schedule, assigns busy work instead of educational materials, shows up late to class, and grades things late?
HP servers are good too. That doesn't mean their laptops and desktops are any good.
I built all of ours at my company. So far 150 computers, 1 part failure over 5 years. That's ANY part; LED, button, PSU, fan, etc. And in response to your future post, I do about 10 in 1 day.
Samsung or LG made that screen. Oh wait, it's Dell so probably AU Optronics. Either way, they don't make screens.
The NSA Now Spies on 25% of North American Internet Traffic
Lol, jk, it's more.
Anyone wanting to buy Dell should have to set up and use one of their awful products for 1 day and then call tech support once. There would be zero buyers. Seriously, buying Dell is like buying a car just based on the company's marketing and image without actually looking under the hood to find out it's a complete piece of crap (in other words a Saturn or Kia). Except Dell is more like a Yugo on craigslist with a flashy paint job and astroturfed reviews. They're 2nd to last in laptop quality, dead last in support quality, and no business with an IT purchaser who has any kind of clue even considers them as a vendor anymore.
So if you're reading this and thinking "hey, I buy from Dell all the time!" first of all, look at your hardware failure numbers. Secondly, fire yourself. Third, note that last time a business I was contracted to work at for a computer replacement project ordered 120 Dell laptops ($800 models btw), 20 were RMAed right out of the box with hardware defects. I guarantee that cost Dell more than it would have to simply build them all with good parts in the first place.
Well, people stupid enough to believe and follow that false idea without properly researching it are automatically removing their kids from the gene pool in some cases. Tada, survival of the people not stupid enough to fall for that bullshit. I believe that's a direct Darwin quote.
How has nobody mentioned this yet? Kids will show up for school if the stupid teachers unions wouldn't throw a giant fit every time a school tries to fire a teacher that every student hates because they're a complete asshole. Schools shouldn't even have good and bad teachers. Bad teachers should just be fired. I love how my high school had a "principal reviews the teachers in-class" semi-annually policy. Talk about a stupid waste of time. They know the principal is sitting there watching so they act different and the principal is only looking for teaching quality, not their personality. If they want a real opinion of teachers, ask the students and then fire accordingly.
I didn't bother to buy any multivitamins when I moved out of my parents to my apartment. Then about a month later, after a somewhat healthy but not heavily varied or vitamin rich diet, I started to feel just generally awful. I was tired, couldn't concentrated, and was always hungry. I automatically thought of my diet so I got some multivitamins (generic centrum). I took one and the next day I felt absolutely amazingly flawless. Here's the problem. It took my body over a month to feel ill effects from stopping taking multivitamins. Enter, elephant theory.
There are some elephants in Africa that make a once a year trip to a salt cave and eat like 40 pounds of salt. Then they're good all year. Some monkeys do a similar thing where once every couple weeks they eat some disgusting plant to get a particular nutrient. So nowhere in nature would a human get a mix of like 100 vitamins and nutrients every single day at that high of a concentration. So honestly, I would strongly recommend that people take a daily multivitamin once a week. That's A LOT more realistic to nature and it's probably all you need.
Okay, wrong D'Ache. The real D'Ache is from either Chicago or Milwaukee, much older, and pronounces it D H.
In vaguely related new, unfortunately, the rapper D'ache (pronounced D H but not spelled as such) is still around
http://www.reverbnation.com/dache
“I have been examining the video over and over again,” he says, ”and there were a number of things about it that were really quite tantalizing for a very long time pitch-drop observer like myself.”
That's just asking for people to tear him a new ass online, lol.
Nobody seems to be able to decide what the heck glass is. You've got the controversial cathedral glass thickness reports. Then you've got the slightly more easily provable fact that it shatters. The consensus seems to be that it's not completely solid and from there, people can argue all they want. But since the tar was inside glass and we have to assume the glass morphed, their measurement isn't completely accurate. So...time to start the experiment over again, lol
But that's not the only reason. The luminosity in the room changed slightly and the material is black. That means it changed temperature slightly, which over 69 years could cause significant viscosity measurement inaccuracies. Plus, the room probably wasn't even properly climate controlled anyway.
So let's start it over and do it right this time! Forget landing on Mars, we need to know the viscosity of tar, damn it!
Well if they're turning a valet parking invitation into a free inspection, there's also nothing stopping you from putting these 100dB contact-break alarms on basically everything including the trunk, glove compartment, etc. Let's see how mister TSA wanna-be likes his job when he gets 100 decibels in his face any time he touches anything but the steering wheel.
I live in an apartment and it has one of those pathetically insecure chicken wire cages upstairs for additional storage. A $1 wire clipper and you can steal everyone's stuff so I put 4 of those contact break alarms under a cardboard box containing my stuff. Then I drew an arrow and "do not move or touch - pressure-sensitive alarm will sound" and that's the last thing anyone will steal. It'd work just as well for car searches except put the alarm on the inside so instead of a deterrent, it's a punishment of sorts.
Ooh, I know this one!
4th amendment violation via stupid loophole
Horribly unqualified sketchy staff
Let's make one consistent interface for all devices, yay!
...6 million surface tablets later
Great idea! But does it have to not suck though?
Hell no!
Okay...let's give that a go.
Well, I hope he enjoys lots more downtime now that everything is in the cloud except 0% chance of him fixing it himself. And just wait for that extended downtime when the cloud host goes out of business without warning.