I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists.
Your world frightens and confuses me! When I order an espresso at StarBucks, I think that the foam on top is the saliva of a rabid mammoth! Sometimes when I drive my Ferrari at the racetrack on weekends, I wonder, "Are there little men inside running really, really, fast?"
My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know -- the 2.4 kernel still does not support my Zip Drive or USB joystick. This is really annoying to me, a primitive caveman, because I it makes it difficult to work on my flight-control systems source code from work under a familiar UNIX-style environment. Instead, I have to copy the code from my Windows machine with a working Zip drive, copy over the gigabit ethernet in my primitive, caveman home, and then copy the compiled executables back in order to test the tolerances. Even my feeble, confused mind can recognize that USB support in the 2.4 kernel is a necessity!
I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists.
Your world frightens and confuses me! When I watch the anchorman on CNBC describe how my IBM stock has just risen 3 points, I wonder to myself, "Is he trapped in my television? How does he eat? There's nothing to hunt in there!" Sometimes when I look out the window from my first class seat on a flight from corporate HQ in Seattle to the research center in San Francisco and see all the little people down there, I wonder, "How did they get so small? Have the gods gone mad?!"
My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know -- software and business method patents are inherently wrong. In the fast paced technological world of today, to allow one corporate entity to control a simple concept like the ability to make a purchase through a "single action" for 20 years is absolutely ridiculous. It is patently absurd to forbid patents on algorithms because of legal precedent but then allow them to filed as a process for changing bits in memory.
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Your world frightens and confuses me! When I order an espresso at StarBucks, I think that the foam on top is the saliva of a rabid mammoth! Sometimes when I drive my Ferrari at the racetrack on weekends, I wonder, "Are there little men inside running really, really, fast?"
My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know -- the 2.4 kernel still does not support my Zip Drive or USB joystick. This is really annoying to me, a primitive caveman, because I it makes it difficult to work on my flight-control systems source code from work under a familiar UNIX-style environment. Instead, I have to copy the code from my Windows machine with a working Zip drive, copy over the gigabit ethernet in my primitive, caveman home, and then copy the compiled executables back in order to test the tolerances. Even my feeble, confused mind can recognize that USB support in the 2.4 kernel is a necessity!
Thank you.
Your world frightens and confuses me! When I watch the anchorman on CNBC describe how my IBM stock has just risen 3 points, I wonder to myself, "Is he trapped in my television? How does he eat? There's nothing to hunt in there!" Sometimes when I look out the window from my first class seat on a flight from corporate HQ in Seattle to the research center in San Francisco and see all the little people down there, I wonder, "How did they get so small? Have the gods gone mad?!"
My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know -- software and business method patents are inherently wrong. In the fast paced technological world of today, to allow one corporate entity to control a simple concept like the ability to make a purchase through a "single action" for 20 years is absolutely ridiculous. It is patently absurd to forbid patents on algorithms because of legal precedent but then allow them to filed as a process for changing bits in memory.
Thank you.