I don’t know how it is in the US, but in Germany, if you don’t actually use a patent, then after a specific time, your patent automatically becomes void. This is to stop people who aren’t serious about doing something with it. Because then, the original point of the patent goes away.
It’s called “natural selection”. It’s a good thing. It gives the more intelligent an advantage that they deserve, while making it harder for the not so wise to live. If we’d remove it, we’d only allow more idiots to live. And you know where that would lead to. To the exact same thing that it lead, that you now don’t even have to get up all day long, or face any challenge at all in your padded XXXXXXL suit, and demand that lifestyle as a “right”, while being able to watch the stupid shit that runs on TV, without making any single thought for yourself.
If any, if we want us to advance, we should make it harder. Ok, that sounds like a misunderstanding hazard. Let me rephrase it: There is a mechanism in life, where the amount of motivation is based on how close the abilities and the difficulty of the challenges are. If they match up nearly perfect, you get a genius. (Ok, it’s one factor. The main factor.) And more motivation leads to more challenges which leads to more learning. Now you can fall off that fine line on both sides. On the “too hard” side, you get frustrated. And on the “too easy” side, you get bored. (This is a the basic mechanism used to make any game fun.) But this is not just one global value. But one for every aspect of your life. So you can obviously have a too hard life in some aspects, and a too easy one in others.
E.g. in a slum in some poor African country’s main capital, it will be frustratingly hard, and that slows down advancement. But in our “western” world, most of our life is so easy, that we are bored all the time. Which, by the laws of efficiency, means that we can scale down our abilities, and go backwards, until it becomes hard enough to be motivating again. But since we constantly make our lives easier, we counteract the natural force of advancement, and just bop a bit up and down around that sweet spot.
And this is what I meant up there with “harder”.
It would make more sense, to make our life more efficient, instead of just easier. Because we should get better and better, at keeping the difficulty of our challenges closer and closer to the sweet spot of perfect motivation.:)
Unfortunately, the satellite data of Marble is way too low-res. It shows my whole city as only four pixels.:/ (Oder maps are partially better though. But only some of them.)
I didn’t know Photoshop was actually literally shipped! Also why would you do all that work and take all that risk on the high seas, when you can simply download it from a file-sharing network?
Oh, you meant holdup murder child rape mass destruction terror copying?;)
[Since the trollerators usually don’t care to read the whole comment before making false assumptions, I will point out, that I use Linux as my main system, love it, but as an expert on the area of UI design, am competent to state the facts how they are. If you don’t like it, don’t kill the messenger.]
Just wait. In 5-10 years, KDE and Gnome might create their own clone of it as a frontend for your package manager. It will look very similar, and act very similar too. Down to every little extremely annoying feature. The only difference will be, that the Gnome version will offer only the 3 functions that the developers think the user should use, and the KDE version will beat even MS in annoyance.
That was exactly what happened to the file manager with KDE4. Before, Konquerer was pretty OK. It had some annoyances, but all in all it was usable. But now there is the abomination called “Dolphin”. Which chose to imitate every single thing that annoyed you in any version of the Windows Explorer, from Windows 95 until now. Examples: By default, it’s a hover/single-click interface. Which makes it extremely fiddly. By default it has no directory tree, but expects you to use it in the same horribly stupid way that you had only windows of icons in Windows 95. Of course it did not forget to make the icons gigantic, with the text centered below them. No, not on the desktop. In the file manager! Every usability expert will tell you that that is the worst possible choice in terms of readability / eye flow. I could go on, and on, and no. It’s completely and utterly mental. In fact, I should finally make that video about it. ^^
I’m sorry? The Java version was the first one developed. The C# version came later. I know because I remember installing it back then when there only was a Java version.
My company has no business with my private phone, instant messenger, e-mail, etc. Just like my home, the job is taboo. A boss calling me at home, if it’s not a big time emergency, will get him in trouble with me.
If they want me to have a business mobile phone number, they provide a separate business phone. Pe-fucking-riod!
The faster the energy is released into the blood stream, the more of it is simply too much for the cells to use in those minutes, before it has to be quickly removed from the blood or it will destroy the vessels. So it gets moved into the fat.
And HFCS is the king of speed, when it comes to this. So the rest is completely and utterly obvious.
And on top of that, to do all this, the process needs B-vitamins. Which is included with wholemeal. Which until the 20th century was the prime source of those vitamins for humans. But it’s not included in those pure-sugar products. So the process depletes your body’s reserves. Unfortunately, that’s also needed for your brain to think! So essentially it also makes you stupid as fuck to eat such pure carbohydrates. And you wondered where all those fat idiots came from...;))
Done. Take a normal virus, remove its dna, replace it with your replacing fragment, and inject it into the body. I’m simplyfiying things here, but that’s it. I’ve read about some team doing it, about 5 years ago.
And I call it an idea. Something that irrevocably has a human originator/inventor. But that can not be owned by anyone, because that is not fitting physics, but rather like asking what came before time.
wherein the [thing] moves in a manner akin to Lovecraftian abominations, defying our understanding of the laws of physics and driving people irrevocably mad from the revelations
Don’t worry. The patent lawyers will already do that. On second thought: DO worry! Do worry very much!
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Well, you are loud, but typically for loud people, not very well informed and ignorant of that fact.
Yes, they did. but you omitted that the current situation is, that the EU rejects ACTA as a whole. There even was an article here on Slashdot about it.
Man, you think like an engineer. Seemingly unable to think outside the box. As if the incredibly crappy and bad interface of windows, buttons and dialogs were the pinnacle of all UI development forever until the end of all time. ^^ I’m not talking about colorful clickable cuteness. I’m talking about efficiency.
Migration compatibility is a really stupid goal. Because it by definition never allows you to become BETTER than what people are migration from. So people will never have a reason to change. KDE and Gnome suffer extremely from this imitation rage. But do you know what was the first time I heard female friends say “I want that too!” related to Linux? When I showed them Compiz!!
And yes, I know this, because I actually design better interfaces. Interfaces that allow the ease of use of Notepad AND the power of VI, without ANY compromises. Period. And I threw buttons bars, windows, menus, modal dialogs, monolithic apps, task bars, (desk|app|*)lets, and anything mouse-only over board.
Free market system is democratic in a sense that everybody can vote with their dollars between products, but individual companies are not democratic.
Are you kidding? The so-called “free” market is defined as having no rules/regulations whatsoever. Which is the definition of the law of the jungle. Which is the exact opposite of democracy. (Yeah, right wing nutters: Choose one! >:-D)
Reality does not adhere to your silly little oversimplified model. With you free-market-ers it’s like with the treehuggers: A happy happy dream land, that unfortunately is not reality.
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I don’t know how it is in the US, but in Germany, if you don’t actually use a patent, then after a specific time, your patent automatically becomes void.
This is to stop people who aren’t serious about doing something with it. Because then, the original point of the patent goes away.
Sensationalist bullshit sells papers.
So you mean we could also track the readers of those papers with that method?
I’m left-handed, you insensitive clod!! (really!)
It’s called “natural selection”. It’s a good thing. It gives the more intelligent an advantage that they deserve, while making it harder for the not so wise to live.
If we’d remove it, we’d only allow more idiots to live. And you know where that would lead to.
To the exact same thing that it lead, that you now don’t even have to get up all day long, or face any challenge at all in your padded XXXXXXL suit, and demand that lifestyle as a “right”, while being able to watch the stupid shit that runs on TV, without making any single thought for yourself.
If any, if we want us to advance, we should make it harder.
Ok, that sounds like a misunderstanding hazard. Let me rephrase it:
There is a mechanism in life, where the amount of motivation is based on how close the abilities and the difficulty of the challenges are. If they match up nearly perfect, you get a genius. (Ok, it’s one factor. The main factor.)
And more motivation leads to more challenges which leads to more learning.
Now you can fall off that fine line on both sides. On the “too hard” side, you get frustrated. And on the “too easy” side, you get bored. (This is a the basic mechanism used to make any game fun.)
But this is not just one global value. But one for every aspect of your life.
So you can obviously have a too hard life in some aspects, and a too easy one in others.
E.g. in a slum in some poor African country’s main capital, it will be frustratingly hard, and that slows down advancement.
But in our “western” world, most of our life is so easy, that we are bored all the time. Which, by the laws of efficiency, means that we can scale down our abilities, and go backwards, until it becomes hard enough to be motivating again. But since we constantly make our lives easier, we counteract the natural force of advancement, and just bop a bit up and down around that sweet spot.
And this is what I meant up there with “harder”.
It would make more sense, to make our life more efficient, instead of just easier. :)
Because we should get better and better, at keeping the difficulty of our challenges closer and closer to the sweet spot of perfect motivation.
That would be this one:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2919900856_b2a2843b80.jpg
Which is also the exact reason you’re doing it!
Not impossible if you can do matte painting. I’ve seen Dusso do it by hand, with a basic brush, in Photoshop. (Watched his tutorials.)
Unfortunately, the satellite data of Marble is way too low-res. It shows my whole city as only four pixels. :/
(Oder maps are partially better though. But only some of them.)
I didn’t know Photoshop was actually literally shipped! Also why would you do all that work and take all that risk on the high seas, when you can simply download it from a file-sharing network?
Oh, you meant holdup murder child rape mass destruction terror copying? ;)
I AM a single-celled organism, you insensitive clod!
And: I’m also your single-celled overlord! So bow to me!
No! Not to wipe me away with your... sponge...! Please no! Aaaaahhhh!
*wipe*
[Since the trollerators usually don’t care to read the whole comment before making false assumptions, I will point out, that I use Linux as my main system, love it, but as an expert on the area of UI design, am competent to state the facts how they are. If you don’t like it, don’t kill the messenger.]
Just wait. In 5-10 years, KDE and Gnome might create their own clone of it as a frontend for your package manager. It will look very similar, and act very similar too. Down to every little extremely annoying feature. The only difference will be, that the Gnome version will offer only the 3 functions that the developers think the user should use, and the KDE version will beat even MS in annoyance.
That was exactly what happened to the file manager with KDE4. Before, Konquerer was pretty OK. It had some annoyances, but all in all it was usable. But now there is the abomination called “Dolphin”.
Which chose to imitate every single thing that annoyed you in any version of the Windows Explorer, from Windows 95 until now.
Examples: By default, it’s a hover/single-click interface. Which makes it extremely fiddly. By default it has no directory tree, but expects you to use it in the same horribly stupid way that you had only windows of icons in Windows 95. Of course it did not forget to make the icons gigantic, with the text centered below them. No, not on the desktop. In the file manager! Every usability expert will tell you that that is the worst possible choice in terms of readability / eye flow. I could go on, and on, and no. It’s completely and utterly mental.
In fact, I should finally make that video about it. ^^
I’m sorry? The Java version was the first one developed. The C# version came later.
I know because I remember installing it back then when there only was a Java version.
My company has no business with my private phone, instant messenger, e-mail, etc.
Just like my home, the job is taboo. A boss calling me at home, if it’s not a big time emergency, will get him in trouble with me.
If they want me to have a business mobile phone number, they provide a separate business phone.
Pe-fucking-riod!
The faster the energy is released into the blood stream, the more of it is simply too much for the cells to use in those minutes, before it has to be quickly removed from the blood or it will destroy the vessels. So it gets moved into the fat.
And HFCS is the king of speed, when it comes to this. So the rest is completely and utterly obvious.
And on top of that, to do all this, the process needs B-vitamins. Which is included with wholemeal. Which until the 20th century was the prime source of those vitamins for humans. But it’s not included in those pure-sugar products. So the process depletes your body’s reserves. ;))
Unfortunately, that’s also needed for your brain to think! So essentially it also makes you stupid as fuck to eat such pure carbohydrates.
And you wondered where all those fat idiots came from...
Done. Take a normal virus, remove its dna, replace it with your replacing fragment, and inject it into the body.
I’m simplyfiying things here, but that’s it.
I’ve read about some team doing it, about 5 years ago.
A wild Goatse appears. He starts with a small Dildo. It’s super-effective!
Allright. That’s one spray of pepper for you then.
(yells) Waiter! One spray of pepper for table #31602294! And make it extra long!
(Monty Python style screaming woman from the kitchen:) Incoming!
Pure Capsaicin is at 16 million Scoville.
So you might say that 1/16th of that thing is pure Capsaicin.
And I call it an idea.
Something that irrevocably has a human originator/inventor. But that can not be owned by anyone, because that is not fitting physics, but rather like asking what came before time.
wherein the [thing] moves in a manner akin to Lovecraftian abominations, defying our understanding of the laws of physics and driving people irrevocably mad from the revelations
Don’t worry. The patent lawyers will already do that.
On second thought: DO worry! Do worry very much!
the iPhone, the DROID, the Nexus One
You said popular! Try Nokia and Samsung. ^^
Well, you are loud, but typically for loud people, not very well informed and ignorant of that fact.
Yes, they did. but you omitted that the current situation is, that the EU rejects ACTA as a whole. There even was an article here on Slashdot about it.
Protip: One word: Alcohol!!
Man, you think like an engineer. Seemingly unable to think outside the box.
As if the incredibly crappy and bad interface of windows, buttons and dialogs were the pinnacle of all UI development forever until the end of all time. ^^
I’m not talking about colorful clickable cuteness. I’m talking about efficiency.
Migration compatibility is a really stupid goal. Because it by definition never allows you to become BETTER than what people are migration from. So people will never have a reason to change. KDE and Gnome suffer extremely from this imitation rage.
But do you know what was the first time I heard female friends say “I want that too!” related to Linux? When I showed them Compiz!!
And yes, I know this, because I actually design better interfaces. Interfaces that allow the ease of use of Notepad AND the power of VI, without ANY compromises. Period. And I threw buttons bars, windows, menus, modal dialogs, monolithic apps, task bars, (desk|app|*)lets, and anything mouse-only over board.
Free market system is democratic in a sense that everybody can vote with their dollars between products, but individual companies are not democratic.
Are you kidding?
The so-called “free” market is defined as having no rules/regulations whatsoever.
Which is the definition of the law of the jungle.
Which is the exact opposite of democracy. (Yeah, right wing nutters: Choose one! >:-D)
Reality does not adhere to your silly little oversimplified model.
With you free-market-ers it’s like with the treehuggers:
A happy happy dream land, that unfortunately is not reality.