from the court decision:A word on process: The Court, deeply concerned by the rash of file-sharing lawsuits, the
imbalance of resources between the parties, and the upheaval of norms of behavior brought on
by the internet,...
I for one have been waiting for Chrome extensions. I think Firefox does a good job managing them. It's always good to know how to disable/uninstall. I don't find Firefox to be bloated. You want bloat? Check out my WoW addon directory!
Half of the things they allow as patents are in my opinion common sense applications of technology that should not be limited in it's usage. A patent for updating customers via email notification that DVD order status has changed? Brings to mind Microsoft's patent on displaying images based on file creation date or some other such 'duh' idea. The fact that companies can get these patents just seems utterly ridiculous. Wasn't Amazon at one time in a patent dispute over their 'one click buying' which essentially meant storing your shopping cart and account info via a cookie and giving you a button to click to process an order. The kind of things that if you sat a web developer fresh out of dropping out of college down they would slap together as a solution. And now these obvious things are off limits to people without a patent? I thought obvious technology was not supposed to be patentable? It seems that when talking about IT type patents they use this idea of an average man to determine if it is 'obvious' technology. And when you take an average of people inside and outside the IT business you end up with someone that doesn't even know what a cookie is.
Am I the only one that thinks it has gotten beyond ridiculous?
If someone says, "I'm gonna bust a cap in the president's head", they could be referring to destroy some sort of hat or other head covering. The computer will back me up on this.
Ronald Breaker, professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale, stated that this would be equivalent to protein scientists finding a whole new class of enzymes.
Well, at least they've nailed their analogies! Now I can finally relate to their situation.
I'd agree with you about the amount and detail of data out there right now. I'm not sure who's going to be archiving this stuff so that there is a danger of storing 100 terrabytes of 'what i am eating right now' blogs. However, the two examples you mentioned I think should be preserved as monuments to failitude of society. After all, you know that old saying about repeating history. My boss didn't read about world war 2 and now, every other week we have a Jewish Holocaust at work.
In the United States, Founding Fathers like James Madison defined republic in terms of representative democracy as opposed to only having direct democracy[6], and this usage is still employed by many viewing themselves as "republicans".
Guess what, mr. winner dude, there's an expansion coming! Bwahahahahah, you haven't won. The only way to win is for your bank account to be empty and Blizzard to be high diving into a pile of gold coins!!!
I liked it. Seems you can easily see where this is going without watching all of it. But having been familiar with the super bowl shuffle the chicago bears did back in the day probably helped.
Given how much research has been done showing the remarkable way brain damaged patients have had their brains automatically "rewire" themselves around injured components, just how much is expected to be learned from structure?
One day I came to work, and my boss was breathless (I wished physically, not just literally), he couldn't figure out why all these boxes were all running at 100% CPU.
Physically is literally.:P Did you at least run it at nice 19?
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I hate when acrobats attack. They're so freaking limber!
from the court decision: A word on process: The Court, deeply concerned by the rash of file-sharing lawsuits, the imbalance of resources between the parties, and the upheaval of norms of behavior brought on by the internet,...
They're talking about fetish porn, aren't they?
Dude, they have been shopped
I was just scanning the auction house, jeeze!
I for one have been waiting for Chrome extensions. I think Firefox does a good job managing them. It's always good to know how to disable/uninstall. I don't find Firefox to be bloated. You want bloat? Check out my WoW addon directory!
Half of the things they allow as patents are in my opinion common sense applications of technology that should not be limited in it's usage. A patent for updating customers via email notification that DVD order status has changed? Brings to mind Microsoft's patent on displaying images based on file creation date or some other such 'duh' idea. The fact that companies can get these patents just seems utterly ridiculous. Wasn't Amazon at one time in a patent dispute over their 'one click buying' which essentially meant storing your shopping cart and account info via a cookie and giving you a button to click to process an order. The kind of things that if you sat a web developer fresh out of dropping out of college down they would slap together as a solution. And now these obvious things are off limits to people without a patent? I thought obvious technology was not supposed to be patentable? It seems that when talking about IT type patents they use this idea of an average man to determine if it is 'obvious' technology. And when you take an average of people inside and outside the IT business you end up with someone that doesn't even know what a cookie is.
Am I the only one that thinks it has gotten beyond ridiculous?
If someone says, "I'm gonna bust a cap in the president's head", they could be referring to destroy some sort of hat or other head covering. The computer will back me up on this.
...about biometric data is when people convince themselves that they now have a tamper proof system.
They are going to end up with bacon that doesn't die! And that would be a sin against humanity!
Jarjar. Meesa wanna reada book!
Ronald Breaker, professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale, stated that this would be equivalent to protein scientists finding a whole new class of enzymes. Well, at least they've nailed their analogies! Now I can finally relate to their situation.
What is this "FM" people are talking about?
These guys will put fleshlight out of business!!
Wait, I thought they were white.
j/k
I'd agree with you about the amount and detail of data out there right now. I'm not sure who's going to be archiving this stuff so that there is a danger of storing 100 terrabytes of 'what i am eating right now' blogs. However, the two examples you mentioned I think should be preserved as monuments to failitude of society. After all, you know that old saying about repeating history. My boss didn't read about world war 2 and now, every other week we have a Jewish Holocaust at work.
But then who polices the police bits?
Here's a start for you
From Wikipedia...
In the United States, Founding Fathers like James Madison defined republic in terms of representative democracy as opposed to only having direct democracy[6], and this usage is still employed by many viewing themselves as "republicans".
Try looking up republic some time and read the FULL definition. Also, try to lose that attitude, it's very pissy.
So the telcos are like, "Felten who? Yeah, we'll get right on that"
What's up with the picture in the article? Orcs are not equal!
Guess what, mr. winner dude, there's an expansion coming! Bwahahahahah, you haven't won. The only way to win is for your bank account to be empty and Blizzard to be high diving into a pile of gold coins!!!
Besides, he's probably a bot
I liked it. Seems you can easily see where this is going without watching all of it. But having been familiar with the super bowl shuffle the chicago bears did back in the day probably helped.
Given how much research has been done showing the remarkable way brain damaged patients have had their brains automatically "rewire" themselves around injured components, just how much is expected to be learned from structure?
One day I came to work, and my boss was breathless (I wished physically, not just literally), he couldn't figure out why all these boxes were all running at 100% CPU.
Physically is literally. :P
Did you at least run it at nice 19?
Do you want the numbers with or without pron?