What??? I am from South Carolina! I made a pun about opossums. What does what I said have anything to do with your response. Christ, people are stupid! I was not bashing the US, but I think it would be pretty deserved when I make a one line joke about small rodents not needing high speed internet and half the fucking country starts jumping down my throat, calling me a fascist, and quoting George fucking Washington! I get that the pun went over your head, but is calling someone an opossum really that big of an insult?!?! I thought the left was supposed to be sensitive, but apparently the tea baggers are as well.
This is not something you "do" or "decide" if you are the groom. The bride is going to do what the bride is going to do. The trick is to find a sane one. Not all women are irresponsible. Also, you can still have a really nice wedding for a reasonable amount. We spent ~5k. We also only invited close friends and family. By not inviting the people we don't like anyway, we had just as nice of a wedding as any of the 50k weddings I have been to.
Just got married last weekend. Kept things simple with close to zero stress. Saved 20 grand and everyone's sanity. Wife was easy going and chill about everything. Pro tip: if your bride-to-be is freaking the fuck out about flowers, food, or chairs, then she is a psychopath. Do not marry a psychopath! This should go without saying, but somehow it is become the norm. Marry a woman, not a spoiled child.
They must really be failing in style then. They might be using other's IP and acting like an overgrown patent troll, but that does not mean it is not working. They are one of the most successful companies in history, have cult-like brand loyalty, and a nearly pristine reputation in the consumer (as in, not you person who cares one modicum about IP patent law) market.
(yes Apple is failing - it wouldn't be suing like it is if it wasn't)
Whether on top or bottom, crushing your competition using any means possible is nearly universal.
I think that people could reasonably argue that copyright should be sufficient for you though. Nobody should be able to copy your code, but reverse engineering an algorithm just does not seem like cheating to me. Either way, the courts have no reliable way of determining whether or not algorithms are novel and even less to determine whether or not they are trivial. The patent system seems to have been built for very specific types of engineering. Software engineering just is not like mechanical or chemical (which is precisely why many people get pissed when you call it "engineering" at all [those people can STFU already IMHO]). Things are fluid and like language, there are no hard and fast rules. You should not be able to patent an algorithm for the same reason Stephanie Meyers cannot patent lame vampire stories; it's just too hard to determine if someone is really infringing without going all the way down to copyright. Does Stephanie Meyers lose some business to people who came out with there own vamp romance novels about characters named Fella and Fedward? Idk maybe, but that is the collateral damage of a sane IP system.
It would be pretty surprising if they did follow it at all, much in the same way that you probably do not follow the regulations placed on CPAs or LASIK surgery (both of which could have a very real impact, whether on your bank account or your mothafrackin eyeball!).
I can attest to that. Put the gas pedal all the way down to the floor on my f150 and you should hit 60mph in idk... 15 minutes. Keep it there for another 15 and you might get up to 75.
IME, that is close to the average age of a vampire, along with a the few outlyers of baby vamps and "I met that Jesus guy and he was an asshole" vamps.
Yep, people who say they would get too bored need to cool it on the Teen Mom watching. I can really understand why you would want to go to oblivion when you spend half your time watching the Bachelor and half your time waiting in line for new iPads.
Yeah, this is totally false. I am 23, with younger siblings ranging down to high school. No iPads among the 4 of us, while each of us have at least one laptop. I am the only techie of the bunch. I have one or two friends with an iPad, typically as a secondary "I had some money to throw away and though it would look cool on my coffee table" type device. Everyone else has a laptop because getting basic work done is easier on a PC. You really think your College math software is going to run on a tablet? Hell no, it won't even run on a mac and it barely runs on Windows, so you better be running Win7 or else. Ultrabooks could be taking over for a lot of users, but tablets are not going to take over the basic computing market anytime soon.
Agree. Teaching Intelligent Design in science class is so liberal. We totally need to go back to good ole american conservative creationism in the class room.
Yeah, totally switch to their benevolent competitor. M$ will treat you right. Face it, Sony is basically the only M$ alternative in the gaming space (Xbox or PC, either way you are using M$). I happen to not really be a hater of M$ or Sony, so do what you want, but you really can't criticize gamers for using Sony when the alternative is at least as bad, if not worse.
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Our only problem is that we have way too many lazy, unmotivated people who just want stuff given to them.
People who want no capital gains tax? Ziiinnng!
Productivity is amazingly high in the US. Facts or GTFO.
What??? I am from South Carolina! I made a pun about opossums. What does what I said have anything to do with your response. Christ, people are stupid! I was not bashing the US, but I think it would be pretty deserved when I make a one line joke about small rodents not needing high speed internet and half the fucking country starts jumping down my throat, calling me a fascist, and quoting George fucking Washington! I get that the pun went over your head, but is calling someone an opossum really that big of an insult?!?! I thought the left was supposed to be sensitive, but apparently the tea baggers are as well.
This is not something you "do" or "decide" if you are the groom. The bride is going to do what the bride is going to do. The trick is to find a sane one. Not all women are irresponsible. Also, you can still have a really nice wedding for a reasonable amount. We spent ~5k. We also only invited close friends and family. By not inviting the people we don't like anyway, we had just as nice of a wedding as any of the 50k weddings I have been to.
Just got married last weekend. Kept things simple with close to zero stress. Saved 20 grand and everyone's sanity. Wife was easy going and chill about everything. Pro tip: if your bride-to-be is freaking the fuck out about flowers, food, or chairs, then she is a psychopath. Do not marry a psychopath! This should go without saying, but somehow it is become the norm. Marry a woman, not a spoiled child.
Trying has nothing to do with it. This is about genes. Evolution is the mechanism here, not reason.
(yes Apple is failing - it wouldn't be suing like it is if it wasn't)
Whether on top or bottom, crushing your competition using any means possible is nearly universal.
I think that people could reasonably argue that copyright should be sufficient for you though. Nobody should be able to copy your code, but reverse engineering an algorithm just does not seem like cheating to me. Either way, the courts have no reliable way of determining whether or not algorithms are novel and even less to determine whether or not they are trivial. The patent system seems to have been built for very specific types of engineering. Software engineering just is not like mechanical or chemical (which is precisely why many people get pissed when you call it "engineering" at all [those people can STFU already IMHO]). Things are fluid and like language, there are no hard and fast rules. You should not be able to patent an algorithm for the same reason Stephanie Meyers cannot patent lame vampire stories; it's just too hard to determine if someone is really infringing without going all the way down to copyright. Does Stephanie Meyers lose some business to people who came out with there own vamp romance novels about characters named Fella and Fedward? Idk maybe, but that is the collateral damage of a sane IP system.
It would be pretty surprising if they did follow it at all, much in the same way that you probably do not follow the regulations placed on CPAs or LASIK surgery (both of which could have a very real impact, whether on your bank account or your mothafrackin eyeball!).
Most of the people in this group are well above average intelligence[...]
Let's not kid ourselves here. /. will not even let you log in if your IQ is above 65.
I can attest to that. Put the gas pedal all the way down to the floor on my f150 and you should hit 60mph in idk... 15 minutes. Keep it there for another 15 and you might get up to 75.
lol. Couldn't hit one of those Lotus Elises if I tried. Those things could drive under a truck.
Huh? Productivity is way way up from everything I have seen. Not sure what a "world" debt clock is.
Bumper cars are the only solution with the morons on most roads. I know I would feel safer. All electric to boot.
IME, that is close to the average age of a vampire, along with a the few outlyers of baby vamps and "I met that Jesus guy and he was an asshole" vamps.
Yep, people who say they would get too bored need to cool it on the Teen Mom watching. I can really understand why you would want to go to oblivion when you spend half your time watching the Bachelor and half your time waiting in line for new iPads.
I will live the longest. I plan to be strapped up like a 10,000yo piece of veal. No accidents for me.
What does a nation of opossums need broadband for anyway?
Fart app clones will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1".
FTFY
Yeah, this is totally false. I am 23, with younger siblings ranging down to high school. No iPads among the 4 of us, while each of us have at least one laptop. I am the only techie of the bunch. I have one or two friends with an iPad, typically as a secondary "I had some money to throw away and though it would look cool on my coffee table" type device. Everyone else has a laptop because getting basic work done is easier on a PC. You really think your College math software is going to run on a tablet? Hell no, it won't even run on a mac and it barely runs on Windows, so you better be running Win7 or else. Ultrabooks could be taking over for a lot of users, but tablets are not going to take over the basic computing market anytime soon.
Agree. Teaching Intelligent Design in science class is so liberal. We totally need to go back to good ole american conservative creationism in the class room.
How does this exist?!?!
...MGS4. nuff said. They can sell my data off to the highest bidder so long as I can play MGS4.
Yeah, totally switch to their benevolent competitor. M$ will treat you right. Face it, Sony is basically the only M$ alternative in the gaming space (Xbox or PC, either way you are using M$). I happen to not really be a hater of M$ or Sony, so do what you want, but you really can't criticize gamers for using Sony when the alternative is at least as bad, if not worse.
Remember to thank the robber next time he breaks in through your window for kindly showing you how you need better home security.
...but they were also disposable. Apple's patent is for a specifically non-disposable tablet. Totally shmotealy catotally different.