Sounds to me like the big bad "communism," in that one's ideas are the property of all mankind, and wanting to profit from them has a negative connotation.
furthermore, "a reward enormously in excess of the labor measure of their services" will never be rendered. In a capitalist society, it is the responsibilit of a provider to charge what the market will bear. It is impossible for him to get "a reward enourmously in excess..." of what he is due, because nobody will pay him more than they think his product is worth. Even if they gripe and complain, but still pay him his price, they have decided that product is worth that price.
Go ahead, be a troll-mod, mod me something besides funny just because you don't like my sense of humor. My Karma is excellent, I post at 2, and I routinely get modded up. Your idiocy is powerless against me because I am actually an asset to this society. I post informed, educating, thought-provoking posts, and I supply humor now and then. You, on the other hand, are simply a worthless Trod. suck it.
I, of course, know that the patent agency today will grant anything to anyone as long as they have some abbreviation after their name and, coincidentally, I'm sure, alot of money.
But who knew they were stupid farking idiots so long ago? I always thought at *some* point in the past they had to not all be tards...
"A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'"
They even end their sentences with prepositions! Have they no couth?!?!
>That WTC site in your sig sucks. Can't you link >to an HTML equivalent? Oh no, there isn't one.
I agree. I dislike shockwave flash and the ilk, and have them disabled in my browser. But I like the design so much that I chose to 'advertise' for them.
>Bandwidth-wasting garbage. Tell them to get a >grip, if you like them so much.
Heh. How does that work? "Hi, WTC2K? I like you so much that I'm here to tell you to get a grip."
>Mod me flamebait, it had to be said.
I don't think you're being a flamebait. You have your right to your opinions.
Seriously though, many great minds found humor in things that you probably consider to be "below you." (self esteem issues?)
From stupid puns, to monty python, to womanizing and drinking beers, einstein, Richard Feynman (inventor of quantum mechanics), and others won't lose sleep over you putting them on ignore.
"Keyboards, joysticks and cell-phone touch pads have ruined kids' ability to hold a pencil properly, let alone write legibly"
This is rediculous bullshiite. That's about as valid as saying that listening to rock music diminishes one's ability to appreciate classical music.
It's not that typing hurts their writing skill. It's that they type instead of writing, therefore one gets better and the other atrophes. I can't even state in good faith in a passive context that "typing and cellphones have ruined my ability to write legibly." If I can't write legibly, it's because I don't try to.
Well, of course I believe that the superstring theory, or string theory for short, is the most promising of all theories so far, as it is a "grand unifying theory." But that would be getting off-topic, now...;)
"Would the world be better off or not if it was illegal to overpromote the functionality or features of software?"
While I don't think any sort of government punishment is called for, I think the world would be better off without product hype when the hype-ers know that it will either be not this functional, or not even have this function whatsoever.
The punishment is already there. It's when the public and investors start doubting every word a company says.
I'm so tired of the physics-illiterati mangling the fourth demension (time).
For those just tuning in, the universe is 4-dimensional. Every possible location in the universe can be described using 4 dimensions; the 3 with which you are familiar, and time. You are where you are at this particular time. Therefore, your location is 4-dimensional. Change any one of those ordinates, and it's a different place in space-time, which is how we currently understand the universe.
There are 4D rides at Universal Studios here in Florida. Yeah, right. They manipulate time, or can control your passage through it. Now this Rubik's cube takes the 4th dimension into account? How? How must time be manipulated so that it affects the outcome of the challenge? Just going forward in time as usual is not a manipulation./pet peeve
Puh-leeze... All articles are clearly marked as to their source. WWN is blatant storytelling. And your outrageous claim story is an actual report from Japan. And the news flash is just that. It was news-flashed on CNN first, in big white letters on a red background. Is that a "terrible use" by CNN as well? Anybody who's confused by Fark is not mature enough to step into the world of adults.
Slashdot Mirror
If I had some mod points, I'd mod it down : -1, Dumb Ass
Sounds to me like the big bad "communism," in that one's ideas are the property of all mankind, and wanting to profit from them has a negative connotation.
furthermore, "a reward enormously in excess of the labor measure of their services" will never be rendered. In a capitalist society, it is the responsibilit of a provider to charge what the market will bear. It is impossible for him to get "a reward enourmously in excess..." of what he is due, because nobody will pay him more than they think his product is worth. Even if they gripe and complain, but still pay him his price, they have decided that product is worth that price.
"The USPO become a US legal work creation scheme"
What does the Post office have to do with it?
See the patent PDF here.
/pant pant pant
Imagine if McDonalds had patented the "drive-thru" method of selling. THE PTO FARKING SUCKS I AM GETTING SO TIRED OF THIS CRAP
Go ahead, be a troll-mod, mod me something besides funny just because you don't like my sense of humor. My Karma is excellent, I post at 2, and I routinely get modded up. Your idiocy is powerless against me because I am actually an asset to this society. I post informed, educating, thought-provoking posts, and I supply humor now and then. You, on the other hand, are simply a worthless Trod. suck it.
I, of course, know that the patent agency today will grant anything to anyone as long as they have some abbreviation after their name and, coincidentally, I'm sure, alot of money.
But who knew they were stupid farking idiots so long ago? I always thought at *some* point in the past they had to not all be tards...
>computing...heheh... meant to say commuting.
:P
You laugh because you accidentally said it... I laugh because I didn't even catch it
"A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a 'dentist' that I would not want to 'have another visit with'"
They even end their sentences with prepositions! Have they no couth?!?!
"I take it the name "Dmitry Skylarov" means nothing to you. Adobe had Dmitry Skylarov [...]"
It's Sklyarov. s-k-l-y, no s-k-y-l.
No biggie. Just thought I'd help...
Debating what China spends its money on, either a rocket, or its people, is entirely on-topic.
We need a word for trolling mods.
Trods.
Like why the average monthly wage in china is $2.
I can't believe these tards. They've GOT to realize that if they were capitalist, they'd own the world...
/sigh
Some day, I'll teach you how to make links...
When you're ready...
HOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!
:P
OMG I wanted to jump right through the screen and figure out all the secrets of girls!
>"Richard Feynman (inventor of quantum mechanics)"
:-P Quantum Theory.
>Looks like you've got a good sense of humor yourself!
OKAY, okay
*sigh*
Pedants.
>That WTC site in your sig sucks. Can't you link
>to an HTML equivalent? Oh no, there isn't one.
I agree. I dislike shockwave flash and the ilk, and have them disabled in my browser. But I like the design so much that I chose to 'advertise' for them.
>Bandwidth-wasting garbage. Tell them to get a
>grip, if you like them so much.
Heh. How does that work? "Hi, WTC2K? I like you so much that I'm here to tell you to get a grip."
>Mod me flamebait, it had to be said.
I don't think you're being a flamebait. You have your right to your opinions.
Seriously though, many great minds found humor in things that you probably consider to be "below you." (self esteem issues?)
From stupid puns, to monty python, to womanizing and drinking beers, einstein, Richard Feynman (inventor of quantum mechanics), and others won't lose sleep over you putting them on ignore.
Loosen up, tiger.
Am I the only one that finds that "porno music" joke so annoying lame as to cause physical pain every time I am forced to think of it?
Sounds like someone needs some sweet, sweet lovin'...
bow chicka bow bow...
"[...] even on a PC with as little as 256 Mbytes of RAM."
Somewhere in 1980, milk shoots out of Bill Gates' nose for no apparent reason.
"Keyboards, joysticks and cell-phone touch pads have ruined kids' ability to hold a pencil properly, let alone write legibly"
This is rediculous bullshiite. That's about as valid as saying that listening to rock music diminishes one's ability to appreciate classical music.
It's not that typing hurts their writing skill. It's that they type instead of writing, therefore one gets better and the other atrophes. I can't even state in good faith in a passive context that "typing and cellphones have ruined my ability to write legibly." If I can't write legibly, it's because I don't try to.
Well, of course I believe that the superstring theory, or string theory for short, is the most promising of all theories so far, as it is a "grand unifying theory." But that would be getting off-topic, now... ;)
"Would the world be better off or not if it was illegal to overpromote the functionality or features of software?"
While I don't think any sort of government punishment is called for, I think the world would be better off without product hype when the hype-ers know that it will either be not this functional, or not even have this function whatsoever.
The punishment is already there. It's when the public and investors start doubting every word a company says.
I'm so tired of the physics-illiterati mangling the fourth demension (time).
/pet peeve
For those just tuning in, the universe is 4-dimensional. Every possible location in the universe can be described using 4 dimensions; the 3 with which you are familiar, and time. You are where you are at this particular time. Therefore, your location is 4-dimensional. Change any one of those ordinates, and it's a different place in space-time, which is how we currently understand the universe.
There are 4D rides at Universal Studios here in Florida. Yeah, right. They manipulate time, or can control your passage through it. Now this Rubik's cube takes the 4th dimension into account? How? How must time be manipulated so that it affects the outcome of the challenge? Just going forward in time as usual is not a manipulation.
I wept when, inexplicably, I could no longer access esr/jargon.
/Const Woe=Me
Now, it is back; the same, yet different. And I weep again.
Such is this "life" thing.
But I must add that I agree about Migor. He will eat one's soul.
Puh-leeze... All articles are clearly marked as to their source. WWN is blatant storytelling. And your outrageous claim story is an actual report from Japan. And the news flash is just that. It was news-flashed on CNN first, in big white letters on a red background. Is that a "terrible use" by CNN as well? Anybody who's confused by Fark is not mature enough to step into the world of adults.