You say: " Who needs the stock exchange. Any street market where haggling is involved is covered by this patent."
The headline says: "An effective electronic exchange system..."
What kind of markets do you go to? Are the robots hard-asses over the price or will they eventually give you a better price?
Um, let's see. The stock exchange is a place to match buyers with sellers. People selling for less will get matched with the buyers who want it for less. NASDAQ is a completly computerized stock exchange, and all the others offer computerized exchanges.
An important feature is the VB scripting in Excel, at least for me, and being able to issue commands to other applications from within these scripts. This may very well be ignorance on my part - but is there anything else that would allow to do this as easily?
WordPerfect has had vb scripting for years, like Win3.1/DOS years. It still has scripting.
But if they were going to change their names to the new "old car" motif, why oh why a Firebird and a Thunderbird? If they called one of them Stingray, I wouldn't be bitching. Not that a 'vette was a great car, but because the name is so much cooler. I know Stingray is probably taken, but so is Firebird, so:P thbbbt.
Even then, why name them after middle of the hill production cars. If the apps are supposed to be bitchen, use the names of bitchen super/muscle cars. The obvious: Superbird, Cobra, F1 (as in McLaren). Or, the not so obvious: Pantera, Barchetta, and Silver Shadow. Or you could even mix the two and go with the likes of Tuscan, Cerbera, or Tamora.
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You say: " Who needs the stock exchange. Any street market where haggling is involved is covered by this patent."
The headline says: "An effective electronic exchange system..."
What kind of markets do you go to? Are the robots hard-asses over the price or will they eventually give you a better price?
Um, let's see. The stock exchange is a place to match buyers with sellers. People selling for less will get matched with the buyers who want it for less.
NASDAQ is a completly computerized stock exchange, and all the others offer computerized exchanges.
So... Expedia patented what now?
I think they should make a legal.slashdot.org, just like apple.slashdot.org and games and so on.
That way, if I'm into lawsuits and I like SCO's style, I can go there.
If Congress adopts the FCC's recommendations, it will loosen the stranglehold that companies like ClearChannel have on the airwaves.
ClearChannel has a stranglehold? If you live in the US is there a single, non public channel that isn't controlled by ClearChannel?
A list of ClearChannel stations.
Stranglehold? Nah!
It still has scripting.
See parent post for trout slapping.
Frankly I liked Phoenix and Minotaur much better.
:P thbbbt.
But if they were going to change their names to the new "old car" motif, why oh why a Firebird and a Thunderbird? If they called one of them Stingray, I wouldn't be bitching. Not that a 'vette was a great car, but because the name is so much cooler. I know Stingray is probably taken, but so is Firebird, so
Even then, why name them after middle of the hill production cars. If the apps are supposed to be bitchen, use the names of bitchen super/muscle cars. The obvious: Superbird, Cobra, F1 (as in McLaren). Or, the not so obvious: Pantera, Barchetta, and Silver Shadow. Or you could even mix the two and go with the likes of Tuscan, Cerbera, or Tamora.