I hate that distinction. Its retarded. Every other word uses the apostrophe for possessive. I guess that's just the English way, but would it kill us to throw out the old "rules" and get some sort of standardization? Its so hard to remember, but oh well, maybe it'll stick in my mind now. I just wish people would get the more obvious stuff right.
Boy this sure sounds interesting. But am I the only one who needs an english translation? I read it all, but I still don't see how you would go about selling a piece of art to everyone at once. That part went way over my head.
Yes it was sarcasm. If you follow the link, it doesn't point to Microsoft's smart tag page, or something similarly appropriate, but to an anti-smart tag page with a giant image at the top proclaiming "Smart Tags are Stupid".
I'm going to go and patent cold fusion, room temperature superconductors, faster-than-light travel, and anything else I can think up while on my way to the patent office.
They probably did, but you said it, a small company can't fight back, so they just pay the royalties. Large companies would fight back, and you really don't have much of a chance against a large company, especially when your patent is bogus to begin with.
"I recently switched from IBMs to Maxtor (making sure I wasn't buying Quantum's old stock) and have already had one of their 80Gb drives fail. For the record they are not as responsive as IBM in the RMA department."
That's because IBM's getting good at it! Practice makes perfect after all.
I'm with you there buddy... I just can't figure it. And you know what? That doesn't just go for hard drives either. Have you seen all those people complain about heat problems with their latest and greatest Athlons? I mean look at what we've got now, gigantic fans, water cooling systems, peltiers. My P-100 runs just fine with a heatsink and a small fan. I bet it would even run without the fan. For some reason though, people seem to be set on these hot processors.
Heck, just the other day my neighbour was complaining about the fuel mileage in his Corvette. I told him all about how far I can get on a tank with my Geo, but he just would not listen.
People are stupid my friend, that's just all there is to it.
You want evidence? Check out the Canadian Private Copying Collective's FAQ.
The CPCC is responsible for collecting (and I assume distributing) the levy.
I also wrote an article about the whole debacle awhile ago. Its a little out of date now, but you can read it here.
Americans say "Eh" too though! I see it on TV all the time, thought they don't use it as much as us. Its certainly hard for us to catch too, because it doesn't sound out of place, but its there. You just gotta pay attention for it.
When did they do this? I've lived in Winnipeg my whole life and have never heard of this. Every year there's talk about the fogging and larvicide efforts though. Also, there's no mention of it on the city's insect info site Bugline.
I think if this had been successful to any noticable degree, we'd still be doing it.
"and while it's silent, we work on improving our site's image (notice i'm not linking to it... this isn't because i'm trying to be noble and not shamelessly plug my company, i am, but i'm embarrassed by the current homepage). "
Oh please, we all know its because you don't want it/.ed
If Segways do change everyday life as we know it, as the inventor predicts, then $100,000 will be worth it to have the first ones. Imagine what they would be worth in 20 years as collectors items. Of course, this once again relies on the stupidity of rich people. I don't see how novelty can be worth that much.
I'd like to patent arithmetic. That way if anyone wants to do math, they owe me money. How much money? Well, they'll have to calculate, which is going to cost them. How much will it cost them? Well they'll have to calculate that too, which means more bucks in my pocket.
This is a very good idea, but I think I may have found a problem with it: The SMTP server. You'd need to find an open relay, would you not? Since you never know what kind of connection the thief might use, you don't know what mail servers they'll have access to.
If you have a dial-up account, and they use it, then you'll be ok because you know the SMTP server for your ISP, but if they don't, then you're screwed unless you can find an open relay and give that to StealthMail to use.
At least, this is my theory. I'm not 100% sure of myself here, so someone please correct or confirm this.
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I hate that distinction. Its retarded. Every other word uses the apostrophe for possessive. I guess that's just the English way, but would it kill us to throw out the old "rules" and get some sort of standardization? Its so hard to remember, but oh well, maybe it'll stick in my mind now. I just wish people would get the more obvious stuff right.
Boy this sure sounds interesting. But am I the only one who needs an english translation? I read it all, but I still don't see how you would go about selling a piece of art to everyone at once. That part went way over my head.
That's not the lawyer he's referring to.
Yes it was sarcasm. If you follow the link, it doesn't point to Microsoft's smart tag page, or something similarly appropriate, but to an anti-smart tag page with a giant image at the top proclaiming "Smart Tags are Stupid".
I'm going to go and patent cold fusion, room temperature superconductors, faster-than-light travel, and anything else I can think up while on my way to the patent office.
They probably did, but you said it, a small company can't fight back, so they just pay the royalties. Large companies would fight back, and you really don't have much of a chance against a large company, especially when your patent is bogus to begin with.
Better yet, how about with letters cut out of magazines and glued onto the paper? That might have even more of an effect.
That's because IBM's getting good at it! Practice makes perfect after all.
I'm with you there buddy... I just can't figure it. And you know what? That doesn't just go for hard drives either. Have you seen all those people complain about heat problems with their latest and greatest Athlons? I mean look at what we've got now, gigantic fans, water cooling systems, peltiers. My P-100 runs just fine with a heatsink and a small fan. I bet it would even run without the fan. For some reason though, people seem to be set on these hot processors.
Heck, just the other day my neighbour was complaining about the fuel mileage in his Corvette. I told him all about how far I can get on a tank with my Geo, but he just would not listen.
People are stupid my friend, that's just all there is to it.
Yes you pay for CD-Rs as well as CD-R Audio. I wrote an article about it awhile ago. Its a little out of date now, but can be read here.
You want evidence? Check out the Canadian Private Copying Collective's FAQ. The CPCC is responsible for collecting (and I assume distributing) the levy. I also wrote an article about the whole debacle awhile ago. Its a little out of date now, but you can read it here.
And watch as all Slashdotters start spamming each other with advertisements for Windows XP.
"I've even pondered sending it all to every congressman and every senator, but that's a bit costly!"
Email, man! :)
But the centre of the country doesn't count? Nor the centre of the prairies?
I'm surprised, considering this took place in Quebec, that the article made no mention of his much more heinous crime of posting a sign in English.
Americans say "Eh" too though! I see it on TV all the time, thought they don't use it as much as us. Its certainly hard for us to catch too, because it doesn't sound out of place, but its there. You just gotta pay attention for it.
I guess those of us in Winnipeg don't count. I can't figure why Halifax was included though.
When did they do this? I've lived in Winnipeg my whole life and have never heard of this. Every year there's talk about the fogging and larvicide efforts though. Also, there's no mention of it on the city's insect info site Bugline. I think if this had been successful to any noticable degree, we'd still be doing it.
Oh please, we all know its because you don't want it /.ed
If Segways do change everyday life as we know it, as the inventor predicts, then $100,000 will be worth it to have the first ones. Imagine what they would be worth in 20 years as collectors items. Of course, this once again relies on the stupidity of rich people. I don't see how novelty can be worth that much.
Sweet! Now if we don't like something about Slashdot, we just have to convince Kathleen instead of bitching at stubborn old Taco!
Now, about moderation...
Obviously you've never worked for the government.
I've seen that too. What's your bug # for it?
I'd like to patent arithmetic. That way if anyone wants to do math, they owe me money. How much money? Well, they'll have to calculate, which is going to cost them. How much will it cost them? Well they'll have to calculate that too, which means more bucks in my pocket.
I think I'm going to be rich very soon.
Hahahah ha ha hahahhha...ahh...
I'll go away now.
This is a very good idea, but I think I may have found a problem with it: The SMTP server. You'd need to find an open relay, would you not? Since you never know what kind of connection the thief might use, you don't know what mail servers they'll have access to.
If you have a dial-up account, and they use it, then you'll be ok because you know the SMTP server for your ISP, but if they don't, then you're screwed unless you can find an open relay and give that to StealthMail to use.
At least, this is my theory. I'm not 100% sure of myself here, so someone please correct or confirm this.