the benefit is that it creates an incentive to invent or code something that does a better job than the current patent. if someone patents an algorithm then it creates an incentive for someone else to code a better one.
unless of course you work for an asian company that does nothing but sell cheap commodity products with other's IP
i never figured out who buys all this stuff from think tanks and other organizations. is it all for academic purposes? i've never seen normal people reading this type of non-fiction on the train home
it was a 4 day weekend for a lot of people since they took friday off and probably went somewhere far away from work. can't fix an app if all the developers are gone
not like there aren't any other news apps in the app store. just ask for a refund from the NY Times for not getting access to a paid service, not a big tragedy
there is a lot of expensive software that requires a specific web browser version. Cognos springs to mind. if you have a later browser it may not work and you have to buy a later version of the software which is very expensive. and companies use a lot of this type of software. cognos, web logic and lots of others.
to operate in the hot environment you always have to consume water or die. if you are hot and sweating then you lose water. you can live without AC for a little, but you can't live without water. and bringing potable water to the outposts is just as challenging
you wouldn't believe how many times i have heard this when i was in the army. unlike civilian life where everything has a return on investment and everyone is trying justify projects because they save money overall, it's not done in the military. ask for more money and complain if you don't get it
the whole point is to route calls to the right CSR's. not have a direct line to your new best friend who really can't stand you calling because you're always trying to get a deal. same like those annoying people who always call the help desk or IT wanting crap without a trouble ticket
well that's a big improvement over a lot of LCD TV's today. the 40" panasonnic i bought last year doesn't have an on switch, need a remote. same with the 47" LG LED TV some family bought as well
i remember life before my blackberry when only PHB had it. go out for the whole saturday and check email at night and there are 5 emails from PHB with 4 of the being why someone didn't respond. sorry, don't have a blackberry like you do so no email on the road.
now with AT&T and VZW both going to tiered data expect the peons to stop putting work email acccounts on their iphones unless the company picks up part of the tab
HP was a partner since the mid 1990's when development started and i bet there was a contract for a minimum life since HP also invested a lot of money. back then it was very different where HP and Intel made low end products and were salivating at the thought of selling a competitor to SPARC and similar products with their insane margins
i remember the old days when AT&T was a real monopoly and you could only get a home telephone from an AT&T store. back in the 80's it was $80 for a cheapo rotary dial phone.
back in those days the smartest people worked for the government or a contractor and new tech first showed up in huge government projects and then decades later filtered to us civilians. this started to change in the late 1990's with the internet and now with mobile phones and other devices. now everyone gets new tech first and the government/military is behind
at this point it's not even worth mining for it. i looked at the exchange rates to real money and by the time you invest in a dual GPU system and pay the electric bills you don't make any profit
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i mean it could have been anyone else in the city?
where do you buy them? home depot and costco sell them so cheap that it's cheaper than the old bulbs
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the benefit is that it creates an incentive to invent or code something that does a better job than the current patent. if someone patents an algorithm then it creates an incentive for someone else to code a better one.
unless of course you work for an asian company that does nothing but sell cheap commodity products with other's IP
i never figured out who buys all this stuff from think tanks and other organizations. is it all for academic purposes? i've never seen normal people reading this type of non-fiction on the train home
pay google for API access
the same geniuses who mortgaged out that cool skyscraper in NYC a few blocks from where i work, that's who
it was a 4 day weekend for a lot of people since they took friday off and probably went somewhere far away from work. can't fix an app if all the developers are gone
not like there aren't any other news apps in the app store. just ask for a refund from the NY Times for not getting access to a paid service, not a big tragedy
it's not like facebook is holding a master copy of my data and not like there are any competitors to facebook right now
Buzz? - no one uses it
Picasa? - i have the master copies of all my photos
like all warlords, alexander used a lot of troops from conquered states. it's not like the same group of greeks marched through asia
there is a lot of expensive software that requires a specific web browser version. Cognos springs to mind. if you have a later browser it may not work and you have to buy a later version of the software which is very expensive. and companies use a lot of this type of software. cognos, web logic and lots of others.
you are wrong
to operate in the hot environment you always have to consume water or die. if you are hot and sweating then you lose water. you can live without AC for a little, but you can't live without water. and bringing potable water to the outposts is just as challenging
"if it aint broke don't fix it"
you wouldn't believe how many times i have heard this when i was in the army. unlike civilian life where everything has a return on investment and everyone is trying justify projects because they save money overall, it's not done in the military. ask for more money and complain if you don't get it
and what kind of iphone do you have? is it jailbroken without the latest baseband?
AT&T is always updating the firmware on their towers and apple is sending out new basebands.
dell sells the exact same monitor as the apple cinema display. i think it's a rebranded LG. dell also charges $900 or so.
the whole point is to route calls to the right CSR's. not have a direct line to your new best friend who really can't stand you calling because you're always trying to get a deal. same like those annoying people who always call the help desk or IT wanting crap without a trouble ticket
well that's a big improvement over a lot of LCD TV's today. the 40" panasonnic i bought last year doesn't have an on switch, need a remote. same with the 47" LG LED TV some family bought as well
and go to sprint with their spotty coverage?
i remember life before my blackberry when only PHB had it. go out for the whole saturday and check email at night and there are 5 emails from PHB with 4 of the being why someone didn't respond. sorry, don't have a blackberry like you do so no email on the road.
now with AT&T and VZW both going to tiered data expect the peons to stop putting work email acccounts on their iphones unless the company picks up part of the tab
HP was a partner since the mid 1990's when development started and i bet there was a contract for a minimum life since HP also invested a lot of money. back then it was very different where HP and Intel made low end products and were salivating at the thought of selling a competitor to SPARC and similar products with their insane margins
you're on drugs
i remember the old days when AT&T was a real monopoly and you could only get a home telephone from an AT&T store. back in the 80's it was $80 for a cheapo rotary dial phone.
back in those days the smartest people worked for the government or a contractor and new tech first showed up in huge government projects and then decades later filtered to us civilians. this started to change in the late 1990's with the internet and now with mobile phones and other devices. now everyone gets new tech first and the government/military is behind
i don't know how much of the cut the RIAA companies are getting but in this case it's more than $0
and don't forget that to "mine" this currency you have to spend real money on a computer and the resources to keep it powered on and working 24x7
if my computer crashes and i lose my kids photos it doesn't mean i suddenly lose all my life savings
at this point it's not even worth mining for it. i looked at the exchange rates to real money and by the time you invest in a dual GPU system and pay the electric bills you don't make any profit