They are in such disbelief that they got reelected despite all signs that they were cheating, lying and self-serving thiefs that they think now they don't need any justification. They can do as they please so long as it makes military or oil hungry jacks richer.
Anyways not that it matters but they do not need excuses anymore. That war on terror jocker card can be used anytime they please! Thankfully we have conditionned crowds to eat it up.
understand what patents originally were meant for. They were meant as :
1) a way for an individual or company to have time to benefit from the *investment* they put in inventing something
2) limiting this time frame so that innovation could still take place in society.
Today's patents server 2) 99% of the time as most patents are ridiculous and stiffle innovation.
Now take the recipe for a sandwhich, you take two pieces of bread, some spread and a piece of meat and you have yourself a sandwhich. Did it take millions to invent? It certainly didn't. Is it worth a lot to society? It certainly is. Now compare to one-click shopping patents. Did it cost a lot to invent? It certainly didn't. Is it worth a lot to society? No, it stops people from using it.
It used to be that anyone going against MS didn't stand a chance but nowadays everyone is going after what MS has so MS has too many fronts to protect. Gates is just Napoleon or Hitler, one day everyone and everything goes against them and their plans fail, they cave in and suddenly the world is a better place!
about some guy who saved up 20 years of electricity bill and made a solar panel/wind turbine system for his home. He estimated that within 20 years he would have paid for his system but recently it has been announced that our electricity bill would go up a few percentage points again so he's actually going to be saving money! And he hasn't taken into account that electricity might go up again in the next 20 years!
however do keep in mind that some hardware is built around the idea that it will work between a maxium and minium temperature. At lower temperatures electrical wires have less resistance and it could do some damage (theoretically of course) to some electronic components.
I'd say try it. It's an old machine anyways but try to check first if there isn't some temperature that it could reach that could be too low.
My advice is not that of a professional. Maybe some electronic engineer or electrician could give you better advice.
more hardware information. For example tell me what my video card can reach in frames per second for a said resolution. Yes I know there are too many combinations to know all video cards but I'd like to have an idea.
and this week end I decided to play World of Warcraft so I poked an older hard drive in and installed Windows XP on that drive. The installation was taking forever to happen and I was wondering why! It turns out that my machine was infected even before my first boot. It was infected while the machine was installing!!
On first boot my computer was extremely slow and I had IE popups all over the place for gay porn and viagra.
Ok sure it wasn't the smartest thing to forget that this MAC address was in DMZ but damn!!! Shouldn't Windows be more secure by default?
So I decided to get myself a mac but still ask everyone to please sign the petition to get world of warcraft on linux. I'm not sure it will do much but at least it will show that there is a desire there. Not everyone can afford a Mac and some people don't want Windows on their machine for what are now obvious reasons to me anyways.
for those of you who didn't catch that (I'm atheist teaching believers the word, isn't that funny) his business card would be really funny because of this passage:
"Ye can not serve God and Mammon." --Matt. vi.24
Mammon is believed to be either a pagan God of riches or mean "untold riches". You can learn more on "mammon" on wikipedia.
I forked out 59$CAD to for the game. Right now I am using some old but legal version of Windows to play the game while waiting for my Powerbook order to come through. I would much prefer run this on my powerful desktop running Ubuntu than on a less powerful and more expensive Mac but it has left me with no choice.
PS: Windows sucks too much for me to stay on it for anything other than games.
chicken and egg(nogg) problem. Perhaps the people happy with Ogg Vorbis support have an Ogg Vorbis portable player and aren't using an Ipod. I'm just saying. I have neither.
did you try Ubuntu? It is my first time with a Debian based system and I have to say I am impressed. The one CD install and recent packages is absolutly awesome! Do you know how it compares to Debian?
I'm not saying that organisms can detect by themselves just that they may have a trait which hinders them more if they don't make the cut.
I'm in the process of reading the extended phenotype (a follow up to the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins). It makes sense that we develop such a thing if you look at genes rather than organisms as the elements which are affected by natural selection. Organisms are the vehicule for reproduction of these genes. A meta ecosystem of sorts.
Pain is actually a good thing. It's a system which gives us some feedback on the exterior world and the state of our organism. If it can have an effect on our intelligence directly the feedback might go so far as give more chances to the most fit. It's not Lamarckism. Lamarckism says that offsprings have the acquired traits of their parents which is a fallacy. I'm just saying that evolution can work with this process and is completely compatible with what we currently know about evolutionary biology.
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Anyways not that it matters but they do not need excuses anymore. That war on terror jocker card can be used anytime they please! Thankfully we have conditionned crowds to eat it up.
1) a way for an individual or company to have time to benefit from the *investment* they put in inventing something
2) limiting this time frame so that innovation could still take place in society.
Today's patents server 2) 99% of the time as most patents are ridiculous and stiffle innovation.
Now take the recipe for a sandwhich, you take two pieces of bread, some spread and a piece of meat and you have yourself a sandwhich. Did it take millions to invent? It certainly didn't. Is it worth a lot to society? It certainly is. Now compare to one-click shopping patents. Did it cost a lot to invent? It certainly didn't. Is it worth a lot to society? No, it stops people from using it.
Patents are bad for society.
It used to be that anyone going against MS didn't stand a chance but nowadays everyone is going after what MS has so MS has too many fronts to protect. Gates is just Napoleon or Hitler, one day everyone and everything goes against them and their plans fail, they cave in and suddenly the world is a better place!
that there were no announcement for a new powerbook.
Patenting software is like patenting recipes! I say if patents pass we should patent recipes as well!
Starting a sentence with a but is so much better I presume?
won't make you gain credibility.
quote me! :)
World of Warcraft on Linux
If I had the money I would do it too!
that IBM named their portable computers "Notebooks" and others soon followed suit.
The streak appears when the post blows up. Did anyone notice that post blow up or am I the only one to have look at more than just the streak?
I'd say try it. It's an old machine anyways but try to check first if there isn't some temperature that it could reach that could be too low.
My advice is not that of a professional. Maybe some electronic engineer or electrician could give you better advice.
more hardware information. For example tell me what my video card can reach in frames per second for a said resolution. Yes I know there are too many combinations to know all video cards but I'd like to have an idea.
BTW totally right about the two things.
http://www.blizzpub.net/petition/
ok I know that Americans doesn't include Canadians. However Canada *is* part of North America.
On first boot my computer was extremely slow and I had IE popups all over the place for gay porn and viagra.
Ok sure it wasn't the smartest thing to forget that this MAC address was in DMZ but damn!!! Shouldn't Windows be more secure by default?
So I decided to get myself a mac but still ask everyone to please sign the petition to get world of warcraft on linux. I'm not sure it will do much but at least it will show that there is a desire there. Not everyone can afford a Mac and some people don't want Windows on their machine for what are now obvious reasons to me anyways.
"Ye can not serve God and Mammon." --Matt. vi.24
Mammon is believed to be either a pagan God of riches or mean "untold riches". You can learn more on "mammon" on wikipedia.
I love the business card idea! It's hilarious.
PS: Windows sucks too much for me to stay on it for anything other than games.
There is one petition asking for World of Warcraft to work under Linux. Sign it and pass it on.
Please sign the petition to get World of Warcraft ported to Linux.
chicken and egg(nogg) problem. Perhaps the people happy with Ogg Vorbis support have an Ogg Vorbis portable player and aren't using an Ipod. I'm just saying. I have neither.
did you try Ubuntu? It is my first time with a Debian based system and I have to say I am impressed. The one CD install and recent packages is absolutly awesome! Do you know how it compares to Debian?
I'm in the process of reading the extended phenotype (a follow up to the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins). It makes sense that we develop such a thing if you look at genes rather than organisms as the elements which are affected by natural selection. Organisms are the vehicule for reproduction of these genes. A meta ecosystem of sorts.
Pain is actually a good thing. It's a system which gives us some feedback on the exterior world and the state of our organism. If it can have an effect on our intelligence directly the feedback might go so far as give more chances to the most fit. It's not Lamarckism. Lamarckism says that offsprings have the acquired traits of their parents which is a fallacy. I'm just saying that evolution can work with this process and is completely compatible with what we currently know about evolutionary biology.