I completely agree. President bush for example is quite the thinker. And if you have been lucky to hear his speaches -- well they are nothing but irrefutable logic.
And you are right that conservatives use more logical arguments. To prove this I will sum up every single argument conservatives have used in the past four years:
"how dare you question the president, you must hate America"
You see there is nothing emotional about this. It is all pure logic.
"IMHO, patents should be for very specific inventions, and processes, which you have invented, and can accurately demonstrate at the time of patent request, and which of course didn't exist in it's current form prior to your invention "
That is pretty much how patent law is supposed to work. People are not required to demonstarte their inventions work, but the enablement requirement states that the patent specirfication must enable a reasonable person in the art to practice the invention at the date of filing.
So essentially you have to disclose the "blue prints" of the invention so when a skilled person reads your application they can build it themselves.
Unfortunately, the patent office rarely checks for enablement in software and computer patents. But that does not mean that one cannot challenge enablement in the courts.
they did not invent it; it was published one year before the filing
Guess what, open source code counts as a publication. So as long as every-one keeps track of the dates of their patch submissions, i doubt there will be any big problems with patenting open source.
It may be, but it is often the incredibly safe societies, that are the most panicked about crime.
Take gated communities, for example -- one of the biggest selling points of gated comunities is safety. However, the people that move into gated communities move there from some of the safest neighborhoods of the US.
The Lada was made in Russia. It was based on a Fiat model, and was one of the better cars the socialists mass produced. Probably the best designed socialist made cars were the Skodas, made in Checkoslovakia.
The most well known east german car was the Trabant, which had a body made out of plastic, and a tiny two stroke engine, which was nevertheless produced incredibly high ammounts of noise and smoke. You were supposed to mix the oil with the gasoline to lubricate the engine, so the oil would subsequently burn together with the gasoline to produce a terrible smell and a lot of smoke. These were pretty bad cars even for eastern european standards.
As far as cartoons go, I don't agree entirely. There were actually some pretty interesting cartoons made in eastern europe, mostly because the artists were not overly concerned whether their cartoons would be popular. However, for that same reason, the cartoons were rarely suitable for children. They were usually very imaginitive, done in different original styles, often bizzare, and prone to going off into abstractions. They were rarely very suitable for children but as works of art many of them were really interesting.
The simpsons episode you mention did a pretty good job of showing the bizarre styles and abstract nature of many eastern block cartoons.
"What is the average time to get a patent approved,"
It mostly depends on the field of art. Because there has been a huge boom in computer patents, there is a backlog in that department... they often take 2 years to examine your invention on the merits.
Once the patent is examined on the merits, the examiner often makes rejections, to which the applicant answers with arguments/ammendments, and that may repreat several times, until the examiner agrees on a version of the application that is patentable. That part may take several years as well.
Three years is not really a long time to get a patent. I have seen some patents that have been languishing for 5 years. And sometimes the delay is not due to the PTO, rather it is the applicant's fault.
I agree with the mayor on this
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After all is said and done all you have there is a vodka advertisement in a place where did not use to be a vodka advertisement. And that is just more mind pollution.
It is just another thing that catches your attention, forces you to read it, etc, etc. That is why billboards, for example are considered pollution no matter how clean they are. Its not pollution in the strctest meaning of the word, but it does make the landscape look cheaper and dirtier.
People say "it would just be dirty nevertheless". Well it sucks the city has not cleaned this stuff up, but even if the wall was covered with dirt, it will not be so bad, because it would be unform dirt, that just fades into the background, does not call attention to itself, and thus does not bother people.
And also when you clean some letters into a wall, you are not really doing any cleaning. When someone cleans "wash me" into a dirty car, is the car any cleaner? Not really.
Believe it or not I became interested in computing from that TV show and that same orac computer.
No, I am not British. I am actually from one of the soviet block countries and believe it or not our national TV bought and broadcast that show. I can see now why they prefer it to Star Trek. I don't remember the storylines exactly, but Blake's 7 had a revolutionary overall story line -- it was a bit like Star Wars with a small revolutionary group fighting an evil empire. Also I am willing to bet Blake's was much much cheaper than startrek.
Well I was a little kid and I asked my parents what a computer was... and luck would have it they were both computer engineers. So they told me a all about how a computer is an intelligent machine, and from then on i decided that i would create computers like ORAC and was pretty much obssessed with them. Shortly thereafter i got my parents to buy my a BASIC book and was deeply mired in goto statements.
Anyways, thank you Blake's 7!!! You made me a nerd!
P.S. Am I glad my country did not buy Startrek instead! I would be a startrek nerd on top everything else!
the woman of the plaque does not have genitals !!!
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The woman of the Pioneer 10 plaque (check the Wikipedia link) has no genitals.
Alien biologists will have a hard time figuring out how human reproduction works.
Then when the aliens eventually realize that the genitals were omited for the woman (but not for the man) alien sociogists and psychologists will have even harder time explaining why we did this.
There is nothing in this story that requires mentioning an iPod. And frankly all the plugs on slashdot are getting a bit tiring.
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Frankly I dont feel the same way. Okay they are not hurting anyone but if we as a society have reached the point of admiring people for merely not hurting anyone we are in trouble.
There is a lot of pain and suffering in this world, and there a lot of things people can do to help their fellow humans. Of course I am not saying that everyone is obligated to help others, if one wants to go into pointless stunts, it is their choice.
But they will not get my admiration. I save that for worthy causes, not merely difficult ones.
You found a good place to complain. Slashdot runs Microsoft adds about how "mainframe Linux" is so much more expensive than Windows. The adds even site a study that was thouroughly discredited in slashdot news stories.
I asked Eben Moglen the same question one time (he is the chief counsel for the EFF). And he says that actually there are ways of knowing, and he was confident he was doing a good job of keeping OSS out of non OSS products.
I have been a bit slow on developments in consumer computers (having not purchased a new computer in about 6 years). Anyway, can one buy an OS-less PC nowadays? Of course i am looking for one whose price reflects the fact that you are not paying for windows. Or is it possible to buy a pc with linux preinstalled, that would be even better!
Since i no longer have time for games i see no reason in dual booting.
So if I can buy a OS-free pc or a linux PC, could you guys recomend a good reliable place to get it from?
And please do not say "build one yourself". I am not a college kid anymore (unfortunately) and dont have the time/patience to build my own pc.
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It means that the CD is mastered. Apparently the master CD is all shiny and yellow, so that's why they call it "going gold".
I completely agree. President bush for example is quite the thinker. And if you have been lucky to hear his speaches -- well they are nothing but irrefutable logic.
And you are right that conservatives use more logical arguments. To prove this I will sum up every single argument conservatives have used in the past four years:
"how dare you question the president, you must hate America"
You see there is nothing emotional about this. It is all pure logic.
"What is the process to go about for getting this patent revoked?"
It's called inter partes reexamination.
"IMHO, patents should be for very specific inventions, and processes, which you have invented, and can accurately demonstrate at the time of patent request, and which of course didn't exist in it's current form prior to your invention "
That is pretty much how patent law is supposed to work. People are not required to demonstarte their inventions work, but the enablement requirement states that the patent specirfication must enable a reasonable person in the art to practice the invention at the date of filing.
So essentially you have to disclose the "blue prints" of the invention so when a skilled person reads your application they can build it themselves.
Unfortunately, the patent office rarely checks for enablement in software and computer patents. But that does not mean that one cannot challenge enablement in the courts.
microsoft cannot patent something if:
they did not invent it;
it was published one year before the filing
Guess what, open source code counts as a publication. So as long as every-one keeps track of the dates of their patch submissions, i doubt there will be any big problems with patenting open source.
"Photons have mass. "
They don't. They do have momentum though.
Which circle do Cilicon Valley venture capitalists go to?
High speed does not necessaraly mean high acceleration. They may decide to slowly accelerate up to speed.
"I thought Japan was an incredibly safe country."
It may be, but it is often the incredibly safe societies, that are the most panicked about crime.
Take gated communities, for example -- one of the biggest selling points of gated comunities is safety. However, the people that move into gated communities move there from some of the safest neighborhoods of the US.
The Lada was made in Russia. It was based on a Fiat model, and was one of the better cars the socialists mass produced. Probably the best designed socialist made cars were the Skodas, made in Checkoslovakia.
The most well known east german car was the Trabant, which had a body made out of plastic, and a tiny two stroke engine, which was nevertheless produced incredibly high ammounts of noise and smoke. You were supposed to mix the oil with the gasoline to lubricate the engine, so the oil would subsequently burn together with the gasoline to produce a terrible smell and a lot of smoke. These were pretty bad cars even for eastern european standards.
As far as cartoons go, I don't agree entirely. There were actually some pretty interesting cartoons made in eastern europe, mostly because the artists were not overly concerned whether their cartoons would be popular. However, for that same reason, the cartoons were rarely suitable for children. They were usually very imaginitive, done in different original styles, often bizzare, and prone to going off into abstractions. They were rarely very suitable for children but as works of art many of them were really interesting.
The simpsons episode you mention did a pretty good job of showing the bizarre styles and abstract nature of many eastern block cartoons.
This story was filed under an incorrect heading.
"What is the average time to get a patent approved,"
... they often take 2 years to examine your invention on the merits.
It mostly depends on the field of art. Because there has been a huge boom in computer patents, there is a backlog in that department
Once the patent is examined on the merits, the examiner often makes rejections, to which the applicant answers with arguments/ammendments, and that may repreat several times, until the examiner agrees on a version of the application that is patentable. That part may take several years as well.
Three years is not really a long time to get a patent. I have seen some patents that have been languishing for 5 years. And sometimes the delay is not due to the PTO, rather it is the applicant's fault.
After all is said and done all you have there is a vodka advertisement in a place where did not use to be a vodka advertisement. And that is just more mind pollution.
It is just another thing that catches your attention, forces you to read it, etc, etc. That is why billboards, for example are considered pollution no matter how clean they are. Its not pollution in the strctest meaning of the word, but it does make the landscape look cheaper and dirtier.
People say "it would just be dirty nevertheless". Well it sucks the city has not cleaned this stuff up, but even if the wall was covered with dirt, it will not be so bad, because it would be unform dirt, that just fades into the background, does not call attention to itself, and thus does not bother people.
And also when you clean some letters into a wall, you are not really doing any cleaning. When someone cleans "wash me" into a dirty car, is the car any cleaner? Not really.
They do after all emit co2. I wonder if you can smell them?
I am pretty sure Munich is using Suse which as we all know is know part of a US company.
Believe it or not I became interested in computing from that TV show and that same orac computer.
... and luck would have it they were both computer engineers. So they told me a all about how a computer is an intelligent machine, and from then on i decided that i would create computers like ORAC and was pretty much obssessed with them. Shortly thereafter i got my parents to buy my a BASIC book and was deeply mired in goto statements.
No, I am not British. I am actually from one of the soviet block countries and believe it or not our national TV bought and broadcast that show. I can see now why they prefer it to Star Trek. I don't remember the storylines exactly, but Blake's 7 had a revolutionary overall story line -- it was a bit like Star Wars with a small revolutionary group fighting an evil empire. Also I am willing to bet Blake's was much much cheaper than startrek.
Well I was a little kid and I asked my parents what a computer was
Anyways, thank you Blake's 7!!! You made me a nerd!
P.S. Am I glad my country did not buy Startrek instead! I would be a startrek nerd on top everything else!
The woman of the Pioneer 10 plaque (check the Wikipedia link) has no genitals.
Alien biologists will have a hard time figuring out how human reproduction works.
Then when the aliens eventually realize that the genitals were omited for the woman (but not for the man) alien sociogists and psychologists will have even harder time explaining why we did this.
hmm, looks like someone could easily corner this stock. i would refrain from selling short at this point.
"listen to the universo on your computer"
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"listen to the universo on your MP3-player"
There is nothing in this story that requires mentioning an iPod. And frankly all the plugs on slashdot are getting a bit tiring.
Frankly I dont feel the same way. Okay they are not hurting anyone but if we as a society have reached the point of admiring people for merely not hurting anyone we are in trouble.
There is a lot of pain and suffering in this world, and there a lot of things people can do to help their fellow humans. Of course I am not saying that everyone is obligated to help others, if one wants to go into pointless stunts, it is their choice.
But they will not get my admiration. I save that for worthy causes, not merely difficult ones.
You found a good place to complain. Slashdot runs Microsoft adds about how "mainframe Linux" is so much more expensive than Windows. The adds even site a study that was thouroughly discredited in slashdot news stories.
I know every one said "2" but "2" is true (it is a truism). The error is in "3".
3. Given: Infinity times any positive number is infinity.
This is not true. If you multiply an infinitely small number by an infinately large number, some times you get a finite number.
I asked Eben Moglen the same question one time (he is the chief counsel for the EFF). And he says that actually there are ways of knowing, and he was confident he was doing a good job of keeping OSS out of non OSS products.
I shall have you know Microsoft is my favourite monopolist.
I have been a bit slow on developments in consumer computers (having not purchased a new computer in about 6 years). Anyway, can one buy an OS-less PC nowadays? Of course i am looking for one whose price reflects the fact that you are not paying for windows. Or is it possible to buy a pc with linux preinstalled, that would be even better!
Since i no longer have time for games i see no reason in dual booting.
So if I can buy a OS-free pc or a linux PC, could you guys recomend a good reliable place to get it from?
And please do not say "build one yourself". I am not a college kid anymore (unfortunately) and dont have the time/patience to build my own pc.