Software isn't maths, software is a machine! Saying software is maths is saying that everything that exists is in some form applied maths, which is true, but utterly unhelpful.
this isn't how the system is designed or intended, this is how the system has been perverted.
making money off products you do not have any involvement in via patent extortion is a sign of a broken system and this is already reaching antitrust investigations.
Well I agree that the system is broken in various ways, but the point of the patent system is to make money off things that you aren't involved in. To allow & encourage people to publish their inventions in return for a cut whenever someone uses that invention. It is supposed to encourage invention, by allowing a monopoly to the first person to do something. They are not supposed to have to make a working product, just to publish their idea so that someone else might.
Now whether that's a good idea anymore is another discussion, but what you describe is what patents are designed to do.
You said, "The Queen's speech will have been written for her by Parliament, so in instances like this, her opinions are not really her own."
Notice that you are suggesting that dishonesty is acceptable.
Are you deliberately being stupid? It's a constitutional convention, that the head of state states what parliament intends to do. It's historic, and nobody (except you) believes that she actually came up with the policies.
I lived in the U.K. for 5 months with an English woman. We were interviewing each other for marriage. It was my impression that allowing constant dishonesty helped English women manipulate English men. If the English culture is arranged such that the Queen can lie and be accepted, other women can lie and their lies will be accepted.
*Ohh*... I see. You're judging 30 million women and a culture based on your one experience. Good job!
This is an often-heard trivialisation of the problem. Amazon currently provide *no* customer service, and you still shop there... Customer service with real people who know about their products costs money, and couple that Amazon don't provide this with their reduced costs advantage of taxation, economies-of-scale, lack of shop rent, and local retailers really don't stand a chance.
Physical retailers might not be doing the best job that they can, but saying that it's entirely their fault and completely within their control to fix is ludicrous.
They did it that way because their corporate is in the USA and they, unlike Google and many others, pay their US taxes. Their app store, etc is all hosted in the USA, and whenever an app is sold, they have to pay US tax on it, not UK or France, or Germany.
The standard way for multinationals to do business in foreign countries is to set up a subsidiary in that country. Operating like this means *everyone in their store* has to operate under US tax.
About 6 months ago at a reasonably major London Android convention which B&N heavily sponsored, they had a workshop on why their app store was better for your app (more women, higher average price paid). They then ruined their argument by taking us through the registration process which required a US tax number before it would let you publish anything. At that point the room guffawed and a few people (including me) walked out to go see something more interesting and less insulting.
Hint: if you're trying to woo developers to your niche product, don't require them to have to register on another country's tax system.
Ah, now I *know* you're talking out of your arse. Your impressions of what teachers do is like a child's understanding of the job.
Teachers are doing a performance all day long. Those performances need preparing, for each and every class. The resultant work of the class needs marking (times 30 pupils). These things don't just happen magically, it's a fairly work-intensive profession.
(Teachers also often seem to have a god-complex and a need to be appreciated by the whole world. I don't get appreciated by the world, I have to find my own satisfaction in my job. But that's another issue)
But they should have better computer skills then the students they teach. The point of a teacher is to teach and when the students can out pace them in an area it means they can't.
If you remember what it was to be a child at all you'll remember that children have *lots* of time to get good at this sort of thing. A child who's into computers can spend much more time learning the ins and outs than a teacher who has a job and home life, etc. You can't expect a teacher to always know more than *every* child they teach.
I like it. We're currently in the middle of a resurgence of PC gaming as a result of Steam distribution and the homogenisation (therefore dissatisfaction) of console titles. Mobile gaming is on the up too, again due to easier distribution. Anything that will push people back to these open platforms makes gaming stronger.
It might be a "640k is enough for anyone" comment, but I wonder if we've turned a corner in hardware performance. Consoles used to have a big advantage over PCs in performance-per-dollar, but are we actually craving more power anymore? If there is no desire for the New Shiny, what say we all use the PC that we all currently own?
Personally I'd buy a huge yacht (inc. surface to air missiles) and sail around the world with a harem of supermodel concubines. For the rest of my natural life...
Ah, the John McAfee package. Seems to be popular with the techie crowd. We're also having a special this week on the Kim Dotcom plan, if you're interested?
Ah... anyhow, there's probably a reason that these people are extremely rich and you're not. Luck is obviously a factor, but it takes a certain kind of drive to keep playing the game well after you need to.
Indeed. Still, a shame. Reminds me of George Best:
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
Weirdly though, doesn't this support his point? ie if you want to speculate then Bitcoin is great, (and maybe he is speculating with it and maybe his article is a big bluff), but something that is good for speculating is not a good currency.
So if there was a conspiracy, that would just back up his point.
According to the article you cite: They need a fair and regular trial. They can be held. They can be tortured. They can be executed. They just need a fair and regular trial. What that means is never defined.
*Which they are not getting*
Face it, there are no established laws or norms for these situations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war Even an 'unlawful combatant' must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial"
I normally don't respond to AC posts, but I have to ask. How is pulling off the road, into a gas station, or onto a median more dangerous than fiddling with buttons on a phone/GPS/whatever application you are playing with while barreling down the highway at 50 MPH?
I imagine what he is talking about is when there is nowhere to pull off, when you basically have to park. Any city would have this problem, you would become a non-moving object in a moving stream of traffic, not fully on the road but not out of the way either, with traffic trying to get around you, probably having to pull halfway across another lane to do so.
You know damn well that the most common use of GPS is to set it to your destination and then not touch it, just follow it. If your argument is it's dangerous to fiddle with it while moving then the same could be said of reading a map.
I pull off to the side of the road, and use my street atlas and figure how to get anywhere. Why is this the case? Simple, I don't want to be distracted from driving.
And while you're not quite sure where you are, and looking around at street signs rather than at the road or the people crossing it, do you still think you're so undistracted? A GPS is a far less distracting way of navigating than trying to keep up with a piece of paper, especially in complex street layouts (ever driven in London?). The mental effort required to follow a 3D positionally updating map is much lower than remembering what you saw on the map 5 minutes ago when you last checked it.
Jelly Bean was released in November, making it 4 months old, 5 months by the time the SIV is generally available. Jelly Bean will be obsoleted by Key Lime Pie at Google's I/O developer conference in May so you get a whole month to enjoy being on the current version of Android, that might be some kind of record. After which you get to wait another 4-5 months for Samsung to get the OS up and approved by US carriers.
What a ridiculous definition. It comes with 4.2, which is the current version, so not in any way old. When KLP is released, *then* you can start the clock saying it's got an 'old' version.
As I've said before...when a country tries to extort money from a company that company should threaten to cease operations within that country so call their bluff...if they are not bluffing then the company just ceases to operate.
So national elected governments should cow to profit driven corporations. Fucking brilliant plan.
I don't see why there should be a compromise. Games publishers have relentlessly taken and taken and taken from us. Every time they come up with a new idea, we suffer. Fuck compromise.
With all the virtual server farms you can hire now there is no excuse for a poor service at launch. They want a big bang launch with lots of hype and sales? Then fucking build the backend to deal with it. Don't want to build the backend? Then stop putting artificial single points of failure in your code.
Linux desktop is dead I repeat. LINUX DESKTOP IS DEAD.
After 20 fucking years. First time in my life, I did not try to replace my failed desktop. Just looking around to find way to install a linux distro to my new deadly cheap chinese knock off tablet.
Attach a keyboard and mouse.
Volia.
So what you're saying is you installed a full Linux distro - ie a desktop distribution - on a tablet. And you're saying it's dead? Riiiight...
One could argue that since Microsoft Windows is now on the slide, and WebKit based browsers are now the market leader, that the anti-monopoly action against Microsoft is no longer necessary. However that is for a court to decide. Not for Microsoft to simply disregard their obligation.
*Plus*, just because a remedy is no longer necessary does not mean it shouldn't still happen. That's the nature of punishments.
"Oh, Mr Murderer, you're not currently killing anyone? Well then be on your way, you little scamp!"
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Software isn't maths, software is a machine! Saying software is maths is saying that everything that exists is in some form applied maths, which is true, but utterly unhelpful.
this isn't how the system is designed or intended, this is how the system has been perverted.
making money off products you do not have any involvement in via patent extortion is a sign of a broken system and this is already reaching antitrust investigations.
Well I agree that the system is broken in various ways, but the point of the patent system is to make money off things that you aren't involved in. To allow & encourage people to publish their inventions in return for a cut whenever someone uses that invention. It is supposed to encourage invention, by allowing a monopoly to the first person to do something. They are not supposed to have to make a working product, just to publish their idea so that someone else might.
Now whether that's a good idea anymore is another discussion, but what you describe is what patents are designed to do.
You said, "The Queen's speech will have been written for her by Parliament, so in instances like this, her opinions are not really her own."
Notice that you are suggesting that dishonesty is acceptable.
Are you deliberately being stupid? It's a constitutional convention, that the head of state states what parliament intends to do. It's historic, and nobody (except you) believes that she actually came up with the policies.
I lived in the U.K. for 5 months with an English woman. We were interviewing each other for marriage. It was my impression that allowing constant dishonesty helped English women manipulate English men. If the English culture is arranged such that the Queen can lie and be accepted, other women can lie and their lies will be accepted.
*Ohh*... I see. You're judging 30 million women and a culture based on your one experience. Good job!
This is an often-heard trivialisation of the problem. Amazon currently provide *no* customer service, and you still shop there... Customer service with real people who know about their products costs money, and couple that Amazon don't provide this with their reduced costs advantage of taxation, economies-of-scale, lack of shop rent, and local retailers really don't stand a chance.
Physical retailers might not be doing the best job that they can, but saying that it's entirely their fault and completely within their control to fix is ludicrous.
They did it that way because their corporate is in the USA and they, unlike Google and many others, pay their US taxes. Their app store, etc is all hosted in the USA, and whenever an app is sold, they have to pay US tax on it, not UK or France, or Germany.
The standard way for multinationals to do business in foreign countries is to set up a subsidiary in that country. Operating like this means *everyone in their store* has to operate under US tax.
About 6 months ago at a reasonably major London Android convention which B&N heavily sponsored, they had a workshop on why their app store was better for your app (more women, higher average price paid). They then ruined their argument by taking us through the registration process which required a US tax number before it would let you publish anything. At that point the room guffawed and a few people (including me) walked out to go see something more interesting and less insulting.
Hint: if you're trying to woo developers to your niche product, don't require them to have to register on another country's tax system.
Ah, now I *know* you're talking out of your arse. Your impressions of what teachers do is like a child's understanding of the job.
Teachers are doing a performance all day long. Those performances need preparing, for each and every class. The resultant work of the class needs marking (times 30 pupils). These things don't just happen magically, it's a fairly work-intensive profession.
(Teachers also often seem to have a god-complex and a need to be appreciated by the whole world. I don't get appreciated by the world, I have to find my own satisfaction in my job. But that's another issue)
But they should have better computer skills then the students they teach. The point of a teacher is to teach and when the students can out pace them in an area it means they can't.
If you remember what it was to be a child at all you'll remember that children have *lots* of time to get good at this sort of thing. A child who's into computers can spend much more time learning the ins and outs than a teacher who has a job and home life, etc. You can't expect a teacher to always know more than *every* child they teach.
don't post shit you want kept to yourself online
Also, don't be a photographer or a musician or filmmaker and put any of this on the internet.
The only winning move is not to play.
I like it. We're currently in the middle of a resurgence of PC gaming as a result of Steam distribution and the homogenisation (therefore dissatisfaction) of console titles. Mobile gaming is on the up too, again due to easier distribution. Anything that will push people back to these open platforms makes gaming stronger.
It might be a "640k is enough for anyone" comment, but I wonder if we've turned a corner in hardware performance. Consoles used to have a big advantage over PCs in performance-per-dollar, but are we actually craving more power anymore? If there is no desire for the New Shiny, what say we all use the PC that we all currently own?
Of course, because of the typical behavior of Slashdot mods, I expect to be modded down for pointing this out.
Hah! I see your strategy!
Ah, the John McAfee package. Seems to be popular with the techie crowd. We're also having a special this week on the Kim Dotcom plan, if you're interested?
Ah... anyhow, there's probably a reason that these people are extremely rich and you're not. Luck is obviously a factor, but it takes a certain kind of drive to keep playing the game well after you need to.
Indeed. Still, a shame. Reminds me of George Best:
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
Weirdly though, doesn't this support his point? ie if you want to speculate then Bitcoin is great, (and maybe he is speculating with it and maybe his article is a big bluff), but something that is good for speculating is not a good currency.
So if there was a conspiracy, that would just back up his point.
According to the article you cite: They need a fair and regular trial. They can be held. They can be tortured. They can be executed. They just need a fair and regular trial. What that means is never defined.
*Which they are not getting*
Face it, there are no established laws or norms for these situations.
Brilliant! Then anything we do is ok!
You are an idiot.
International law defines the rules in war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war
Even an 'unlawful combatant' must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial"
I stopped reading after "THIS."
It's juvenile. Please stop.
This.
I normally don't respond to AC posts, but I have to ask. How is pulling off the road, into a gas station, or onto a median more dangerous than fiddling with buttons on a phone/GPS/whatever application you are playing with while barreling down the highway at 50 MPH?
I imagine what he is talking about is when there is nowhere to pull off, when you basically have to park. Any city would have this problem, you would become a non-moving object in a moving stream of traffic, not fully on the road but not out of the way either, with traffic trying to get around you, probably having to pull halfway across another lane to do so.
You know damn well that the most common use of GPS is to set it to your destination and then not touch it, just follow it. If your argument is it's dangerous to fiddle with it while moving then the same could be said of reading a map.
I pull off to the side of the road, and use my street atlas and figure how to get anywhere. Why is this the case? Simple, I don't want to be distracted from driving.
And while you're not quite sure where you are, and looking around at street signs rather than at the road or the people crossing it, do you still think you're so undistracted? A GPS is a far less distracting way of navigating than trying to keep up with a piece of paper, especially in complex street layouts (ever driven in London?). The mental effort required to follow a 3D positionally updating map is much lower than remembering what you saw on the map 5 minutes ago when you last checked it.
You forgot to give us the link, or at least a name to search for.
*Whooosh*
Jelly Bean was released in November, making it 4 months old, 5 months by the time the SIV is generally available. Jelly Bean will be obsoleted by Key Lime Pie at Google's I/O developer conference in May so you get a whole month to enjoy being on the current version of Android, that might be some kind of record. After which you get to wait another 4-5 months for Samsung to get the OS up and approved by US carriers.
What a ridiculous definition. It comes with 4.2, which is the current version, so not in any way old. When KLP is released, *then* you can start the clock saying it's got an 'old' version.
As I've said before...when a country tries to extort money from a company that company should threaten to cease operations within that country so call their bluff...if they are not bluffing then the company just ceases to operate.
So national elected governments should cow to profit driven corporations. Fucking brilliant plan.
I don't see why there should be a compromise. Games publishers have relentlessly taken and taken and taken from us. Every time they come up with a new idea, we suffer. Fuck compromise.
With all the virtual server farms you can hire now there is no excuse for a poor service at launch. They want a big bang launch with lots of hype and sales? Then fucking build the backend to deal with it. Don't want to build the backend? Then stop putting artificial single points of failure in your code.
Linux desktop is dead I repeat. LINUX DESKTOP IS DEAD.
After 20 fucking years. First time in my life, I did not try to replace my failed desktop. Just looking around to find way to install a linux distro to my new deadly cheap chinese knock off tablet.
Attach a keyboard and mouse.
Volia.
So what you're saying is you installed a full Linux distro - ie a desktop distribution - on a tablet. And you're saying it's dead? Riiiight...
Which is the criminal case? It wasn't the USvMSFT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
For fuck's sake.
USvMSFT isn't anything to do with this, EU v MS / Apple v Samsung are the actors in the great grandparent post.
One could argue that since Microsoft Windows is now on the slide, and WebKit based browsers are now the market leader, that the anti-monopoly action against Microsoft is no longer necessary. However that is for a court to decide. Not for Microsoft to simply disregard their obligation.
*Plus*, just because a remedy is no longer necessary does not mean it shouldn't still happen. That's the nature of punishments.
"Oh, Mr Murderer, you're not currently killing anyone? Well then be on your way, you little scamp!"