Hops were in use outside of Europe and slowly made there way there. The use of hops was opposed by the church who held a sort of monopoly on gruit, the traditional flavoring. Brewers began smuggling hops to get around church restrictions.
Hops is a preservative, which allowed the making of lower alcohol content brews. High alcohol being the only way at the time for beer to last.
I imagine it may vary from place to place but where I was it seemed the local area was lagging behind where I grew up in cultural (entertainment, art, music) and consumer goods (things readily availabe back home were hard to find/not carried yet by area (non-chain)retailers), not impossible to live with but it was a real culture-shock when i got back to the old neighborhood.
Nothing against small-towners in general (having been one), many are nice, some not so much, but the larger population in a more urban environment lends itself to greater variety. And I hate being 3-5 years behind the times by being in a small town, this I know from first hand experience. Being 1-2 years behind in a small city is annoying enough. The internet can only compensate for that so much.
It's even more trivial to decide to pay 1/2 of what they're paying now to a call center farmed out to India.
Pay me now or pay me later, those language and skill roadblocks will cost the customer more in the long run. I've repeatedly ran into people who have spent HOURS (being billed) on the phone to Todd (????) in India over something I can assess and walk them thru in a few minutes.
Sure, that means their customers will be forced to talk to people with only a basic grasp of English, and an even poorer grasp of the topic they're supposed to discuss than the customer they're talking to, but - they're cheap.
You get what you pay for, why do you think service contracts exist?
I think moving to rural areas to compete on price is an excellent idea. Yes, I'm sure the jackass who switches jobs every 1-2 years doesn't like that it'd "show" he took a "pay cut" for his last job on his shiny over-polished resume, but those of us who like finding employers we genuinely enjoy working for while doing projects we genuinely enjoy working on - we'll move to rural america in a heartbeat.
Perhaps, but only if (1)the job is there, and (2) the quality of life you're looking for is there too. This is sometimes hard enough to find in sub/urban America, let alone a small town.
Let's think about this - you've got reasonable housing prices, reasonable pay for the work you're doing, you live in towns full of genuinely nice people (once you hang around long enough to break down the "you're an outsider" mentality), that are chock full of farmgirls who are used to clever pickup lines that amount to Billy Joe Bob bopping them on the head every time he wants some.
My brother is in "rural" PA, but close enough to a city that its tolerable (about an hour), and the reasonable prices are vanishing for homes. McManshions are popping up and costs are rising as developers see an influx of new workers who want to settle there. The outsider mentality doesn't bother me, that's neighborhood to nieghborhood around here, but the social/political/religious overhead might be more than I can stomach. And do you really want to have to be dealing with Billy Joe Bob's every day?
My customers do not care that that a home is going to cost 300k here soon. They do not care that gas is almost $3 a gallon. They do not want to pay twice what they are paying now for technical support.
Then screw them. This is the crux of the issue. No one wants to pay. Well tough. Your custoomers didn't care about the 300k house and the $3 a gallon gas so forgive me if I could give a rat's ass about them having to pay for what people are worth. If they think it should be so bloody cheap then it should be trivial for them to learn to do it themselves, right?
In a "first to file" country, the question of who invented the product is simple--whoever files the application first is the inventor. Therefore, Inventor B obtains the Patent and Inventor A is SOL.
So the work done by Inventor A would be by definition prior art, so how is prior art unchanged if Inventor B is granted a patent merely by filing first?
In a "first to invent" country, circumstances are different. The patent office will tell Inventor A that Inventor B invented it first because he filed the application first. But if Inventor A can prove that he actually invented it first, Inventor A gets the patent, not Inventor B.
Prior art, in effect, as things are (theoreticaly) currently.
These two terms have absolutely nothing to do with prior art. If inventor Z invented the same device on December 1, 2004, but chose not to file a patent application, he can still show that neither Inventor A nor Inventor B deserve the patent because Inventor Z is the actual inventor of the product.
Sounds like they have everything to do with prior art, one of them negates it. In the "first to file" scenario you pose, Inventor B _STILL_ holds the patent simply by being first to file, despite prior art by both Inventor A, and now, Inventor Z.
Worse, I'm not sure about PA but many places you lose your right to vote with a felony conviction. nice to lose a right before you ever get it in the first place.
In case you haven't noticed, CD's have actually risen in price despite the fact that they are cheaper to produce now then ten year ago and the industry was convicted of illegal price-fixing. Screw the music industry and their corporate payola pushing shills.
Musicians should perform, play shows, screw the bit about selling records they make nothing off it anyway.
How has YOUR LIFE been effected by the Patriot Act?? I don't want to hear your wild insane "Bush can knock down my door without a warrant" theories, I want to know how YOU have been negatively effected by the patriot act.
*Opens bag of TrollChow(TM)*
Well for starters it is now possible for my own government to hold me indefinately with no explaination, trail, access to legal recourse, etc.
Oh yeah, IT HASN'T. Unless your name is Habib and you wear a turbin to work then nobody gives a fvck what you do. I also know that if 9/11 occurred during the presidency of a Democrat you'd be STFUing right about now, you wouldn't even see 100000 crap articles like this on slashdot.
Racist much? Go home redneck.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP, HOW HAS THE PATRIOT ACT EFFECTED YOU????
I now have a 100% legitamate reason to fear my government, who appears more willing to cave in to the terror mentality that "the enemy" is pushing, rather than DO THEIR F-ING JOBS and resolve the situation.
Things might have changed since I left 2 years back, but when it started (maybe 6 year ago) it was initially just the upgrade version, then the following year it changed to the full versions of the software, for use on anything. Very nice deal it was actually, one thing I give MS props for, especially since it took away so much hassle of license tracking and fear of audits.
No our license explicitly stated that we could load the software on ANY machine, whitebox or not. And furthermore the agreement made purchasing either an OS or Office package from the campus bookstore trivial price-wise, like $25 or so I think, if you were student, faculty or staff.
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How is that relevant to anything?
Waah! Parenting is hard. Boo hoo. Many who don't have children CHOOSE to not have them, and many who do should never have been allowed to be parents.
Yet somehow, those people's inability to realize they shouldn't be parents is screwing with the rights of the rest of us.
"one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter,"
Read a book, start with the American revolution.
By destroying the entire city the small group of evil men may or may not be in? What a winning strategy.
Gah! Seems the older I get the worse my memory.
Hops were in use outside of Europe and slowly made there way there. The use of hops was opposed by the church who held a sort of monopoly on gruit, the traditional flavoring. Brewers began smuggling hops to get around church restrictions.
Hops is a preservative, which allowed the making of lower alcohol content brews. High alcohol being the only way at the time for beer to last.
Not to poke fun, but it would make sense from a country founded by convicts shipped around the world?
Real old beer never had hops either, they were added by decree of the church, to limit the randiness of drunks, which lead to "brewer's dropsy"
Maybe they can build them a city around the Segway?
I imagine it may vary from place to place but where I was it seemed the local area was lagging behind where I grew up in cultural (entertainment, art, music) and consumer goods (things readily availabe back home were hard to find/not carried yet by area (non-chain)retailers), not impossible to live with but it was a real culture-shock when i got back to the old neighborhood.
Nothing against small-towners in general (having been one), many are nice, some not so much, but the larger population in a more urban environment lends itself to greater variety. And I hate being 3-5 years behind the times by being in a small town, this I know from first hand experience. Being 1-2 years behind in a small city is annoying enough. The internet can only compensate for that so much.
It's even more trivial to decide to pay 1/2 of what they're paying now to a call center farmed out to India.
Pay me now or pay me later, those language and skill roadblocks will cost the customer more in the long run. I've repeatedly ran into people who have spent HOURS (being billed) on the phone to Todd (????) in India over something I can assess and walk them thru in a few minutes.
Sure, that means their customers will be forced to talk to people with only a basic grasp of English, and an even poorer grasp of the topic they're supposed to discuss than the customer they're talking to, but - they're cheap.
You get what you pay for, why do you think service contracts exist?
I think moving to rural areas to compete on price is an excellent idea. Yes, I'm sure the jackass who switches jobs every 1-2 years doesn't like that it'd "show" he took a "pay cut" for his last job on his shiny over-polished resume, but those of us who like finding employers we genuinely enjoy working for while doing projects we genuinely enjoy working on - we'll move to rural america in a heartbeat.
Perhaps, but only if (1)the job is there, and (2) the quality of life you're looking for is there too. This is sometimes hard enough to find in sub/urban America, let alone a small town.
Let's think about this - you've got reasonable housing prices, reasonable pay for the work you're doing, you live in towns full of genuinely nice people (once you hang around long enough to break down the "you're an outsider" mentality), that are chock full of farmgirls who are used to clever pickup lines that amount to Billy Joe Bob bopping them on the head every time he wants some.
My brother is in "rural" PA, but close enough to a city that its tolerable (about an hour), and the reasonable prices are vanishing for homes. McManshions are popping up and costs are rising as developers see an influx of new workers who want to settle there. The outsider mentality doesn't bother me, that's neighborhood to nieghborhood around here, but the social/political/religious overhead might be more than I can stomach. And do you really want to have to be dealing with Billy Joe Bob's every day?
My customers do not care that that a home is going to cost 300k here soon. They do not care that gas is almost $3 a gallon. They do not want to pay twice what they are paying now for technical support.
Then screw them. This is the crux of the issue. No one wants to pay. Well tough. Your custoomers didn't care about the 300k house and the $3 a gallon gas so forgive me if I could give a rat's ass about them having to pay for what people are worth. If they think it should be so bloody cheap then it should be trivial for them to learn to do it themselves, right?
No, your example states he simply failed to file, there is nothing regarding anything else, just the failure to get the paperwork done fast.
In a "first to file" country, the question of who invented the product is simple--whoever files the application first is the inventor. Therefore, Inventor B obtains the Patent and Inventor A is SOL.
So the work done by Inventor A would be by definition prior art, so how is prior art unchanged if Inventor B is granted a patent merely by filing first?
In a "first to invent" country, circumstances are different. The patent office will tell Inventor A that Inventor B invented it first because he filed the application first. But if Inventor A can prove that he actually invented it first, Inventor A gets the patent, not Inventor B.
Prior art, in effect, as things are (theoreticaly) currently.
These two terms have absolutely nothing to do with prior art. If inventor Z invented the same device on December 1, 2004, but chose not to file a patent application, he can still show that neither Inventor A nor Inventor B deserve the patent because Inventor Z is the actual inventor of the product.
Sounds like they have everything to do with prior art, one of them negates it. In the "first to file" scenario you pose, Inventor B _STILL_ holds the patent simply by being first to file, despite prior art by both Inventor A, and now, Inventor Z.
1. I neve stated I was certain about it
and
2. Cite your bloody sources
Great, rile up the prude-squad while you're at it.
No doubt after a marathon session of Pong I'd imagine...
Worse, I'm not sure about PA but many places you lose your right to vote with a felony conviction. nice to lose a right before you ever get it in the first place.
In case you haven't noticed, CD's have actually risen in price despite the fact that they are cheaper to produce now then ten year ago and the industry was convicted of illegal price-fixing. Screw the music industry and their corporate payola pushing shills.
Musicians should perform, play shows, screw the bit about selling records they make nothing off it anyway.
The lions or the vehicles?
How has YOUR LIFE been effected by the Patriot Act?? I don't want to hear your wild insane "Bush can knock down my door without a warrant" theories, I want to know how YOU have been negatively effected by the patriot act.
*Opens bag of TrollChow(TM)*
Well for starters it is now possible for my own government to hold me indefinately with no explaination, trail, access to legal recourse, etc.
Oh yeah, IT HASN'T. Unless your name is Habib and you wear a turbin to work then nobody gives a fvck what you do. I also know that if 9/11 occurred during the presidency of a Democrat you'd be STFUing right about now, you wouldn't even see 100000 crap articles like this on slashdot.
Racist much? Go home redneck.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP, HOW HAS THE PATRIOT ACT EFFECTED YOU????
I now have a 100% legitamate reason to fear my government, who appears more willing to cave in to the terror mentality that "the enemy" is pushing, rather than DO THEIR F-ING JOBS and resolve the situation.
Personally, I want Good Vs Evil and Brimstome back.
I suppose this is to be expected, periodically....
Don't forget to help your waitress back up after you tip her.
Sorry I gotta
/ob simpsons
SKINNNER!!!!
Things might have changed since I left 2 years back, but when it started (maybe 6 year ago) it was initially just the upgrade version, then the following year it changed to the full versions of the software, for use on anything. Very nice deal it was actually, one thing I give MS props for, especially since it took away so much hassle of license tracking and fear of audits.
No our license explicitly stated that we could load the software on ANY machine, whitebox or not. And furthermore the agreement made purchasing either an OS or Office package from the campus bookstore trivial price-wise, like $25 or so I think, if you were student, faculty or staff.