It'll get tossed -- there are no conditions attached to freedom of speech.
Oh, wait. Corporations have no right of free spech so you can suck it and be regulated, New York Times, or Ford website, or web site that criticizes Congress.
Hint: This post is social commentary. Feel your ears burning? That's freedom of speech working as intended.
Microsoft doesn't lead -- they play "follow the leader".
Hence Microsoft Office 2010, which did away with the clean menus and replaced it with Open Office's gigantic fuckin' icon bar.
You may like it. I don't. I had no choice at work. Thanks, Microsoft! OOOooooh, lookee! Someone else who's cuttin' into our business does it this other way, CLONECLONECLONECLONECLONE!
These things should not be patentable per se (which isn't to say that particularly clever implementations couldn't be patented):
1. Doing something on a wireless, portable, or handheld computer that is already done on a desktop (and not covered by a patent there.)
Joins my old favorite:
2. Anything that exists in the real world, a simulation is not per se patentable. Again, unless the real world thing is patented, and subject to the "clever implementation" issue.
As opposed to low housimg loans or student loans in the US, both of which prompted by government, both of which causing price increases in the double digits for a decade.
At least their interference isn't due to slobbering pandering
They can do every efficiency we can, and they still have more peasants waiting for jobs than our entire population.
And I'll go out on aa limb and guess you are one of these do-away-with-patent people. So so much for any remaining hope for the US.
And should some US person invent something major and make a massively profitable thing made here, you will just demand they have their taxes raised to "pay their fair share".
The US is over. The center of empire has shifted again, to the wild area on its outskirts, while the old core of empire has decided to lord over itself right down into irrelevancy, instead of doing what made it great in the first place, which was keep the trade routes open thile the even older empire, Europe, turned to lording over itself instead of keeping *its* trade routes open.
There's more to keeping trade routes open than just infrastructure, end you are clueless if you think a bridge helps when the government assigns highway robbers to collect 40% of everything passing through. You don't care and are oblivious to the concept of freedom.
Ward Cunningham is, of course, the Amalgam universe father of Richibeave Cunningham, a young ginger who gets into trouble dippint the girls' pigtails into ink wells, and who hangs out with his ne'er-do-well friend Wallonzie.
> Pharmaceuticals would still be in clinical trials
Thank you. It's bad enough already their patents have started ticking.
It's nice to view this from a quick software perspective without recalling the hard work and expense that goes into many physical patents, and not just drugs and medical devices.
"Ooh, it took me 3 days to develop this unique program. (pushes a button) There! I just manufactured 100 million of them!"
It takes a year to fire up a production line, and that's at a good pace.
First of all, we've known cheap calories were the problem for at least 20 years. For most of the world, and most of human history, one of the most vital statistics economists measure is calories-per-person. When you graph things like that against, say, economic freedom, there's a clear, strong relationship.
So one would expect our society to have the most calories per person.
However...we are also very sedentary, which we weren't in the past. So one could also argue we just don't move enough, which is to say, we don't move much at all.
3000 calories a day makes you weigh 270 pounds. In the past, you were a wirey 170. So "cheap calories" isn't the whole story, not by a long shot.
A few years ago, Detroit had the Superbowl, and miraculously they found the money to completely repave the highway between the airport and downtown, including building a fancy new pretty bridge over Telegraph road.
I'm counting the days until it's pretty blue paint starts rusting through.
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Is there a "last access" timestamp field for the files, and is it updated when reading via copying?
I realize there are industrial copiers that don't do that, but a simple copy through the normal OS might do this.
> Yes, kids, you used to have to walk across the room...
No, you didn't. You took a cushion off the sofa and laid on the floor next to the TV all night.
> The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives...
I need to maximize areal densities on my hard disk drives because I've maximized areolar densities on my hard disk drives.
It'll get tossed -- there are no conditions attached to freedom of speech.
Oh, wait. Corporations have no right of free spech so you can suck it and be regulated, New York Times, or Ford website, or web site that criticizes Congress.
Hint: This post is social commentary. Feel your ears burning? That's freedom of speech working as intended.
Intercontinental company I used to work for, once or twice a year they'd send an intern over the Atlantic in the SST with a case of tapes.
When it just positively had to be there asap...
Microsoft doesn't lead -- they play "follow the leader".
Hence Microsoft Office 2010, which did away with the clean menus and replaced it with Open Office's gigantic fuckin' icon bar.
You may like it. I don't. I had no choice at work. Thanks, Microsoft! OOOooooh, lookee! Someone else who's cuttin' into our business does it this other way, CLONECLONECLONECLONECLONE!
These things should not be patentable per se (which isn't to say that particularly clever implementations couldn't be patented):
1. Doing something on a wireless, portable, or handheld computer that is already done on a desktop (and not covered by a patent there.)
Joins my old favorite:
2. Anything that exists in the real world, a simulation is not per se patentable. Again, unless the real world thing is patented, and subject to the "clever implementation" issue.
> University of Pennsylvania computer science professor Matt Blaze...
"Awww, come on, ma! Couldn't you have named me 'Max Blaze'? Then I could have been a secret agent. Now I have to be a university professor >:-( "
I was sympathetic until I got to the Rhode Island loan guarantee.
Which reminds me -- for a proper response I need a popcorn icon. Get with the modern, Slashdot!
As opposed to low housimg loans or student loans in the US, both of which prompted by government, both of which causing price increases in the double digits for a decade.
At least their interference isn't due to slobbering pandering
They can do every efficiency we can, and they still have more peasants waiting for jobs than our entire population.
And I'll go out on aa limb and guess you are one of these do-away-with-patent people. So so much for any remaining hope for the US.
And should some US person invent something major and make a massively profitable thing made here, you will just demand they have their taxes raised to "pay their fair share".
The US is over. The center of empire has shifted again, to the wild area on its outskirts, while the old core of empire has decided to lord over itself right down into irrelevancy, instead of doing what made it great in the first place, which was keep the trade routes open thile the even older empire, Europe, turned to lording over itself instead of keeping *its* trade routes open.
There's more to keeping trade routes open than just infrastructure, end you are clueless if you think a bridge helps when the government assigns highway robbers to collect 40% of everything passing through. You don't care and are oblivious to the concept of freedom.
Control all kinds of war robots from one single, easy-to-use terminal?
What could possibly go wrong!
Google+ is, wait, wut? My phone just changed Google Market to Google Play so, ...
Wait, wut?
Hey! He's got some serious leftist disasterbation going on. Don't crush his groove! >:-(
> attack on ISP Virgin Media
Nerds with a chip on their shoulder and any phrase with "virgin" in it -- this never ends well.
There have to be islands that never touch each other unless you cheat by going to the main page and hitting "random page".
How would you get, for example, from "World of Warcraft" to "Lose one's virginity"?
Ward Cunningham is, of course, the Amalgam universe father of Richibeave Cunningham, a young ginger who gets into trouble dippint the girls' pigtails into ink wells, and who hangs out with his ne'er-do-well friend Wallonzie.
> Pharmaceuticals would still be in clinical trials
Thank you. It's bad enough already their patents have started ticking.
It's nice to view this from a quick software perspective without recalling the hard work and expense that goes into many physical patents, and not just drugs and medical devices.
"Ooh, it took me 3 days to develop this unique program. (pushes a button) There! I just manufactured 100 million of them!"
It takes a year to fire up a production line, and that's at a good pace.
Why in god's name is NVIDIA working to eviscerate their market?
A few dozen clusters of high-power processors is far less profitable than 100,000,000 almost-as-powerful game cards.
Where do they think the money to develop future 3D card advancements will come from once home computers turn into dumb video terminals?
> Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Function After Breakthrough Nerve Rewiring Procedure
And, yes, "that" was the first thing he did.
That's good chin-rubbing reasoning. Should it rule the day, though?
How many people would die because drugs and procedures got onto the market too fast?
Compare that to how many die because good drugs get delayed by a year or two or five or ten.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the FDA-saves-lives bandwagon. They could turn out to be one of the biggest mass-murders, net, in all history.
First of all, we've known cheap calories were the problem for at least 20 years. For most of the world, and most of human history, one of the most vital statistics economists measure is calories-per-person. When you graph things like that against, say, economic freedom, there's a clear, strong relationship.
So one would expect our society to have the most calories per person.
However...we are also very sedentary, which we weren't in the past. So one could also argue we just don't move enough, which is to say, we don't move much at all.
3000 calories a day makes you weigh 270 pounds. In the past, you were a wirey 170. So "cheap calories" isn't the whole story, not by a long shot.
This reminds me of the "calorie restriction" guy, who found out rats live 50% longer if they are fed less food then they actually need.
So...they lived 3 years instead of 2.
So...would a human gain 35 years...or 2?
Same thing here.
Gotta love politicians and show events.
A few years ago, Detroit had the Superbowl, and miraculously they found the money to completely repave the highway between the airport and downtown, including building a fancy new pretty bridge over Telegraph road.
I'm counting the days until it's pretty blue paint starts rusting through.
Well, with flux capacitors, the flux compressor could possibly make it up into the nuke EMP range.