Most places would hire someone with 5 years XP over some college kid with 1 year.
Most places should do that, but in reality most will divide the pile of resume's into degreed and non-degreed piles, and look at the non-degreed pile only if the degreed pile has nobody with anything resembling the skill-set in it.
Another job. One that doesn't involve pretending it matters if you're there in an hour or a day, because you just have to beat that other droid to the sale.
1. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...] 2. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...] 3. An automated method[...] 4. An automated method[...] 5. A computer program[...] 6. A computer program[...] 7. The invention of claims 1 or 2[...] 8. The invention of claim 2[...] 9. The invention of claim 4[...] 10. The invention of claim 6[...] 11. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...] 12. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...] 13. An automated method[...] 14. An automated method[...] 15. A computer program[...] 16. A computer program[...] 17. A pen based computer[...] 18. A pen based computer[...]
All specify "an apparatus" or "a process". There isn't one "an alphabet" in the lot, though the recognizabilty of the alphabet may be a critical component in one of the claims.
Also, there's no way for anyone to enforce a patent on the way you write with your own hands. Only if you've designed a system to recognize what you're writing in particular by requiring it to be in that design of alphabet.
Willing participants in a travel system that could just drive if they weren't so full of themselves that they thought they had to be somewhere in 90 minutes instead of 10 hours.
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Implosion.
You should be paying mine, too, then.
You can pay that for a Prius, too. And save 60% on gassing it up. And stop making the rest of us pay to scrape your creosote off the wilderness.
Most places would hire someone with 5 years XP over some college kid with 1 year.
Most places should do that, but in reality most will divide the pile of resume's into degreed and non-degreed piles, and look at the non-degreed pile only if the degreed pile has nobody with anything resembling the skill-set in it.
Skipping the degree to get a McDonald's job is not the same as skipping the degree to get a job as a welder.
Slashdot. Providing camouflaged DDoS attacks for over a decade.
Your car takes 2.5 times as much gasoline as a Prius, and has a comparable MSRP. How is that cheap?
Another job. One that doesn't involve pretending it matters if you're there in an hour or a day, because you just have to beat that other droid to the sale.
I drive a Mustang
See above re "full of themselves".
I just threw up a little in my series of tubes.
You are hearing-impaired.
yes, if it's full of beagles.
our jobs are such that we visit our clients across the country
That's that sense of self-importance thing, again. Grinding yourself in the gears of the machine for a few more shekels is a psychological issue.
You can.
I'll be busy hitting on the Duchess.
I drive a Prius. 9 hours @ 75 mph = 675 miles @ 42 mpg = 16 gallons of gas @ $4/gal = $64.
Unless you're hitching a ride with a crop-duster and paying in home-grown sinsemilla, you're not getting there on a plane for $64.
If you drive a Hummer, see above about self-importance. Ibid re "wasting half a day of vacation."
They didn't patent an alphabet, they patented the systems that recognize the alphabet:
http://www.patents.com/us-6493464.html
What is claimed is:
1. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...]
2. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...]
3. An automated method[...]
4. An automated method[...]
5. A computer program[...]
6. A computer program[...]
7. The invention of claims 1 or 2[...]
8. The invention of claim 2[...]
9. The invention of claim 4[...]
10. The invention of claim 6[...]
11. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...]
12. An electronic handwriting recognition system[...]
13. An automated method[...]
14. An automated method[...]
15. A computer program[...]
16. A computer program[...]
17. A pen based computer[...]
18. A pen based computer[...]
All specify "an apparatus" or "a process". There isn't one "an alphabet" in the lot, though the recognizabilty of the alphabet may be a critical component in one of the claims.
Also, there's no way for anyone to enforce a patent on the way you write with your own hands. Only if you've designed a system to recognize what you're writing in particular by requiring it to be in that design of alphabet.
They should start calling these pricks "annoyancizers."
Back in the poster-boy-for-dianabol days.
They already do that.
I'm pretty sure the sniffer on this thing can detect the decay products of steroids.
Willing participants in a travel system that could just drive if they weren't so full of themselves that they thought they had to be somewhere in 90 minutes instead of 10 hours.
concur
DOTT was great.
So was Sam'n'Max Hit the Road.
Both had plenty of humor and decent puzzles.
There's also no Nobel Prize for cooking.
And why should there be?
ou're subject to 40,000+ pages of Federal, state, and local laws. You may absolutely rest assured that you have broken more than one of them today
It's blinding illogic like that that results in actual police states.
"serious news post"?
is this /. or nytimes.com?