Well, mine does a pretty good job of tracking velocity and position changes as long as it's touching my mouse pad. You know, sorta like this printer would need to.
OK, I've got a gap of 6" between my monitors, and it's not horrifically annoying.
It's a problem that can be engineered around, I think. Me, I'd arrange the folds so they run horizontally (IE between lines of text), but I'm sure there are other orientations that might work.
Of course, when it's done by WalMart, it's not just competition, it's product dumping. WalMart is, in many markets, an aggressive monopoly and should be prosecuted as such. Unfortunately, that will never happen.
However, that does not justify NetFlix patenting an idea. Patents are for mechanisms. Devices. Machines that do stuff.
Patents are not for ideas, mathematical formulas, or lines of computer code.
Unfortunately, the corporations are not the good students of history you are.
If you can read about Monsanto's legal practices against farmers, and think that they're NOT interested in controlling the food supply, well, you're entitled to your opinion.
Why do you suppose that the US Gov't is tying food aid to needy countries to acceptance of GM foods? Do a little bit of research on Nestle's baby formula "giveaway" during the late 60's and early 70's, and then tell me that the corps interests are aligned with our own.
I'm certainly not suggesting that the potato famine was the result of corporate action, but I certainly am saying that corporate action could lead to such a problem.
When the band spends the money, where do you think they spend it? They don't exactly get to go to the Album Store and make their music.
They get their advance, and give it back to the record company to pay the inflated production costs.
If the band were actually a free agent, where they got a loan from a record company who thought they had promise, and then they got to go make the music, it might be a lot more equitable. That way, the bands could work hard on their music and record it in a low-cost (but high quality!) studio, instead of paying absurd rents at the shiny record company booths.
Or, if they think it's going to make a better product, they rent from the studio. If we're going to pretend the advance is a loan, then the band should be able to spend it the way they want to.
Bring it, biatch. You got the sack to put a name on your threats?
I am really amused by the confluence of accusations of sinful pride in the same sentence with death threats.
If I insulted you, you probably deserved it. Need a hug? Ask your momma. I'm not better than you because I know more than you do. I'm better than you because you're a coward.
How about you quit your bitching and do a better job?
Really steams me when somebody looks at a project some clever soul has obviously done on a lark, and says "Well, that's hardly good enough for MY purposes."
I know that everybody at Bioware cries themselves to sleep every single night because you can't do what you want with THEIR PROGRAM. I can hear the sniffling from here.
Quit your whining. Don't like the game? Don't play it.
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Yeah, and if he wasn't a pedantic git, he'd have included a link to refute the claim.
Just saying "Nuh uh!" is not a useful function for an editor.
Why let prior art stop you? Doesn't seem to bother any of the technology patent obstructionists, and your idea is much cooler than most of theirs.
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Well, mine does a pretty good job of tracking velocity and position changes as long as it's touching my mouse pad. You know, sorta like this printer would need to.
But, hey, maybe yours works differently.
Uhh, both of those people are trying to sell watches. Therefore, their opinions are as irrelevant as the MS drone's.
Missed the Critical Thinking seminar in kindergarten, did you?
Yeah, stupid people talking...in public. It's like they have a right to, like, talk or something. Bastards.
Uh, so I can get Sprint PCS Vision for my Treo 300 PCS phone, just so long as I don't use it as a smart phone?
That is about the most baffling exception I've ever seen. "you can use this service, but not on the device we sold you, or with any other device."
Uhhh...OK. Color me confused.
OK, the rest of us free people will make sure to pay attention to your Bubble O' Silence and shut the hell up anytime we're near you.
Would you please let me know everywhere you're going to be this week, so I know not to make noise there?
You are an exceptionally rude human being if you expect everyone around you to conform to your idea of a peaceful lunch.
OK, I've got a gap of 6" between my monitors, and it's not horrifically annoying.
It's a problem that can be engineered around, I think. Me, I'd arrange the folds so they run horizontally (IE between lines of text), but I'm sure there are other orientations that might work.
Uh, it's called "competition".
Of course, when it's done by WalMart, it's not just competition, it's product dumping. WalMart is, in many markets, an aggressive monopoly and should be prosecuted as such. Unfortunately, that will never happen.
However, that does not justify NetFlix patenting an idea. Patents are for mechanisms. Devices. Machines that do stuff.
Patents are not for ideas, mathematical formulas, or lines of computer code.
Hollywood Video, and my erstwhile favourite local chain The Movie Trading Company, are both owned by Blockbuster.
I sure wish I could rent movies from somebody who wasn't out to shaft me.
Unfortunately, the corporations are not the good students of history you are.
If you can read about Monsanto's legal practices against farmers, and think that they're NOT interested in controlling the food supply, well, you're entitled to your opinion.
Why do you suppose that the US Gov't is tying food aid to needy countries to acceptance of GM foods? Do a little bit of research on Nestle's baby formula "giveaway" during the late 60's and early 70's, and then tell me that the corps interests are aligned with our own.
I'm certainly not suggesting that the potato famine was the result of corporate action, but I certainly am saying that corporate action could lead to such a problem.
It would be interesting to see if the record company would sign a band that had independent financing.
I bet you a quarter they wouldn't.
When the band spends the money, where do you think they spend it? They don't exactly get to go to the Album Store and make their music.
They get their advance, and give it back to the record company to pay the inflated production costs.
If the band were actually a free agent, where they got a loan from a record company who thought they had promise, and then they got to go make the music, it might be a lot more equitable. That way, the bands could work hard on their music and record it in a low-cost (but high quality!) studio, instead of paying absurd rents at the shiny record company booths.
Or, if they think it's going to make a better product, they rent from the studio. If we're going to pretend the advance is a loan, then the band should be able to spend it the way they want to.
Bring it, biatch. You got the sack to put a name on your threats?
I am really amused by the confluence of accusations of sinful pride in the same sentence with death threats.
If I insulted you, you probably deserved it. Need a hug? Ask your momma. I'm not better than you because I know more than you do. I'm better than you because you're a coward.
Have a nice day.
You bought a game, that you can't play, because you didn't read the bottom of the box.
Wow. If I could find you, I'd like to shake the hand of the stupidest person I've met this week.
Do you wear a sign?
You are a fucking moron.
Sorry, that's all I have to say on the subject.
Yeah, by the results on /. so far, if I were an HL2 developer, I'd tell the Linux zealots to piss off.
"Wah wah! You promised this a year ago, and you're only giving it to me now! Wah wah! I want the toolset too! Wah wah! Gimme the source code!"
Funk dat noise.
She's terrifying.
Violently ugly.
Yeah, because most of the links to .jpg's on hotmovies2000.com are perfectly work safe.
Caveat clicker, you wanker.
How about you quit your bitching and do a better job?
Really steams me when somebody looks at a project some clever soul has obviously done on a lark, and says "Well, that's hardly good enough for MY purposes."
Loser.
*BLLLLAAARRRGH!*
OK, for the record, a BIG FUCKING VEIN sticking OUT OF YOUR TIT is NOT ATTRACTIVE.
Yuck!!!!!
Uh, you probably should have done what you should do with every single software release date since the beginning of time, and TREAT IT AS A TOTAL LIE.
You must be new to this computer thing.
Play the game, or don't. Nobody but you cares which you pick.
I know that everybody at Bioware cries themselves to sleep every single night because you can't do what you want with THEIR PROGRAM. I can hear the sniffling from here.
Quit your whining. Don't like the game? Don't play it.
It's also capitalized, you pedant.
LEGO.
Yeah, why don't you get on it. Let's see your results.