... you can really patent something that basically reads, "Using a feature to help in set classification"?
About ready to say scrap the entire patent system - at least when it comes to software. It's not like it protects the actual inventors any more at all.
... stealing from IBM, stealing from Amazon, stealing from Google, stealing from Yahoo, stealing from Microsoft, stealing from... well, pretty much everybody.
I'm guessing I'm a few years older than you, because the thought that's been occurring to me lately is that our nation does pretty much every single thing that was used as an argument as to why the Soviet Union was evil:
- Political and economic based prison systems. - Torture. - Wars of aggression. - Spying on our own people. - Freedoms stripped away unless you were already in an established position of power. - Propaganda media. - Secrets, secrets, secrets. - Censorship. - Not taking care of the needs of the people while an elite class skims everything worth skimming. - Diminishing rights over time.
[ ] Microsoft products are far less secure than Apple. Because everyone knows that Safari is completely safe always on Apple machines, and only fails on Windows.
[ ] Apple products are far less secure than Microsoft. Because obviously the hole in Microsoft security here is introduced through an Apple product, and really doesn't occur otherwise.
[ ] If people were just running Linux, they wouldn't be having these problems.
[ ] This is gonna be good. Ima gettin' my popcorn now!
It's kind of funny, though, how so many directors think that they can tell a story better than the author who wrote the original. Especially when the reason the story was chosen to be made into a movie was that it had stood the test of time, and was so well loved by so many.
I'm not talking about condensing portions, or omitting scenes for time. I'm talking about major plot deviations that seem to serve no purpose at all. For example, having the Elves show up en masse at Helms Deep. No reason for the change, it didn't make any point that would have been made with otherwise omitted scenes, and was simply distracting from the movies.
1. No free lunch. You can't separate "wasted" energy from "efficient" energy. And you can't get something from nothing.
2. You'd need the hardware for that. I'd be happy if we were allowed unlimited pass phrases, instead of the eight characters (with numbers and symbols to make it strong(?)).
3. Lie detectors++, maybe. But am afraid of the serious misuse potential, especially since I would guess that there will be a certain element of error still. Can see lots of "terrorists" (ahem) getting put away if that went mainstream...
4. Already happening, if not already done deal. Electronics are cheaper than food.
5. Need a better ad block, which might well take the form of random noise generator. Which, IMO, would really be to the determent of the net. Signal to noise ratio is already pretty bad...
Washington State is also teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Schools, infrastructure - it's all getting cuts. Including benefits, which means that the cheaper insurance is going to steer folks towards the cheaper drugs.
Additionally, there's Tim Eyman throwing one wrench after another into the budget process - trying to apply misguided bandaids to the state's problems when the core problem is the fact that we're pouring our nation's treasure out on to the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the states are feeling the draw.
There's a not a lot of choice here. If it were Republicans in power, folks on the right would be beating the drum of fiscal responsibility.
A boy finds out that he is actually a Martian, and that there are many Martians living amongst the humans on Earth (which they call Puggles). He also discovers that his parents were killed by an evil Martian King who wants to rule all the Martians, but whose ship crashed into an asteroid years ago during a failed attach on the protagonist's birth cache ship.
The protagonist is taken to a special school in Area 51, where he falls in love with a Venutian girl. However, this relationship is made extremely complex, as she can't be in direct sunlight (the cloud cover on Venus prevents this). Also, in her true form, she is a horrible parasitic being who sparkles and glitters.
Furthermore, the protagonist discovers that the one thing he has from his dead parents is a dvd containing the Bing search engine code. Strange reptilian monsters, referred to as Mozillas, are after him, trying to reclaim what is theirs.
Eventually, things reach a climax, when, with winter coming, and his instructors with arrows through their knees due to a series of freak accidents, our hero steals an rocket ship and flies to Mars. Despite an attempt by his iHal to throw him out of an airlock, he eventually reaches Mars, where he is able to climb Mt. Olympus and destroy the One Bing, thus saving the solar system.
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Freelance authors need freelance editors, methinks.
However, 26 lends is WAY below the lifespan of a well cared for, hardbound book.
... is now GoFsckYourselfDaddy
... you can really patent something that basically reads, "Using a feature to help in set classification"?
About ready to say scrap the entire patent system - at least when it comes to software. It's not like it protects the actual inventors any more at all.
I'm guessing I'm a few years older than you, because the thought that's been occurring to me lately is that our nation does pretty much every single thing that was used as an argument as to why the Soviet Union was evil:
- Political and economic based prison systems.
- Torture.
- Wars of aggression.
- Spying on our own people.
- Freedoms stripped away unless you were already in an established position of power.
- Propaganda media.
- Secrets, secrets, secrets.
- Censorship.
- Not taking care of the needs of the people while an elite class skims everything worth skimming.
- Diminishing rights over time.
The list goes and on....
(check one)
[ ] Microsoft products are far less secure than Apple. Because everyone knows that Safari is completely safe always on Apple machines, and only fails on Windows.
[ ] Apple products are far less secure than Microsoft. Because obviously the hole in Microsoft security here is introduced through an Apple product, and really doesn't occur otherwise.
[ ] If people were just running Linux, they wouldn't be having these problems.
[ ] This is gonna be good. Ima gettin' my popcorn now!
Not really. What about if Sony's poor account security leads to a million customers having their debit card accounts cleaned out?
Not so trivial then.
Did you know that GameStation is an anagram for Mite go Satan?
It's kind of funny, though, how so many directors think that they can tell a story better than the author who wrote the original. Especially when the reason the story was chosen to be made into a movie was that it had stood the test of time, and was so well loved by so many.
I'm not talking about condensing portions, or omitting scenes for time. I'm talking about major plot deviations that seem to serve no purpose at all. For example, having the Elves show up en masse at Helms Deep. No reason for the change, it didn't make any point that would have been made with otherwise omitted scenes, and was simply distracting from the movies.
Unless it's a fish.
Then you gut it.
There was - but Apple sued, saying that NASA's work infringed on it's patents...
... that the image that comes to mind involves Majel and Siri and a pit filled with mud?
... will give their virtual doctors virtual experience to cure virtual diseases and preform virtual operations.
Hope no one gets a non-virtual disease or has some strange organ issue that doesn't fit the models...
.... just look up keyword "douchebag".
1. No free lunch. You can't separate "wasted" energy from "efficient" energy. And you can't get something from nothing.
2. You'd need the hardware for that. I'd be happy if we were allowed unlimited pass phrases, instead of the eight characters (with numbers and symbols to make it strong(?)).
3. Lie detectors++, maybe. But am afraid of the serious misuse potential, especially since I would guess that there will be a certain element of error still. Can see lots of "terrorists" (ahem) getting put away if that went mainstream...
4. Already happening, if not already done deal. Electronics are cheaper than food.
5. Need a better ad block, which might well take the form of random noise generator. Which, IMO, would really be to the determent of the net. Signal to noise ratio is already pretty bad...
I can just imagine someone getting watchlisted over that...
Washington State is also teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Schools, infrastructure - it's all getting cuts. Including benefits, which means that the cheaper insurance is going to steer folks towards the cheaper drugs.
Additionally, there's Tim Eyman throwing one wrench after another into the budget process - trying to apply misguided bandaids to the state's problems when the core problem is the fact that we're pouring our nation's treasure out on to the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the states are feeling the draw.
There's a not a lot of choice here. If it were Republicans in power, folks on the right would be beating the drum of fiscal responsibility.
It's machine learning.
There's a difference.
Used to at least like to think of myself as a free thinking, rebellious edgy kind of guy.
Now just part of the herd, I guess.
*sigh*
.. you might consider Northwest Harvest. Not a lot of strings attached, but good at getting food to folks who really need it.
... artists are over.
Why bother with seduction when rape is allowed?
Oh - and... because this is slashdot:
"Writing is like driving a car. Too many people doing at once leads to horrible accidents."
A boy finds out that he is actually a Martian, and that there are many Martians living amongst the humans on Earth (which they call Puggles). He also discovers that his parents were killed by an evil Martian King who wants to rule all the Martians, but whose ship crashed into an asteroid years ago during a failed attach on the protagonist's birth cache ship.
The protagonist is taken to a special school in Area 51, where he falls in love with a Venutian girl. However, this relationship is made extremely complex, as she can't be in direct sunlight (the cloud cover on Venus prevents this). Also, in her true form, she is a horrible parasitic being who sparkles and glitters.
Furthermore, the protagonist discovers that the one thing he has from his dead parents is a dvd containing the Bing search engine code. Strange reptilian monsters, referred to as Mozillas, are after him, trying to reclaim what is theirs.
Eventually, things reach a climax, when, with winter coming, and his instructors with arrows through their knees due to a series of freak accidents, our hero steals an rocket ship and flies to Mars. Despite an attempt by his iHal to throw him out of an airlock, he eventually reaches Mars, where he is able to climb Mt. Olympus and destroy the One Bing, thus saving the solar system.
The End.
Congress does this when they want time for two things to happen:
1. People to forget about it, and opposition to thus lose momentum.
2. Lobbyists to deliver more big bags of cash.
Both things are almost guaranteed to happen. This is going to pass.
Unless, people can give a rats arse for more than three months running about something, which, as desperately as I hope will happen, probably won't.