After all, railroads have a history of treating all their employees fairly and equitably, and of taking great care to ensure that their health concerns are addressed quickly.
Yeah, and if you believe that, there's probably a monkey flying out of your butt right now.
Part of the problem is that the US Patent Office has been lax in granting patents, said Mitchell Kapor, a founder of Lotus Development and a prominent backer of the Mozilla browser. "There have been tens of thousands of bad software patents issued which never would have been issued if the Patent Office had actually been following its own rules," he said.
The patent laws make some degree of sense. The patent office does not. The stuff they let through is totally unbelievable.
You can either wait to be hit with an infringement case (not a lot of fun) or you can submit a reexamination request to the PTO.
The worse thing you can do is to read the patents of your competition. Once you do that, you had better react quickly. Willful infringement in the US gets you treble damages.
You betcha.
Just find yourself a small tech company in it's own little niche run by engineers/programmers.
As long as you don't mind creating and maintaining systems and code that revolve around the particular vertical niche.
You'll find that your work is more appreciated and more important to the bottom line, you'll work harder than you have anywhere else, and you'll get opportunities to perform in roles other than just coder (like tech support, sales engineering, on site customer visits,...).
I've got 2 kids in college now. One was salutatorian of his high school class. He started using my computers when he was 2. I've always had more than 3 computers in the house, and they each had their own early on. Both of my boys earned good grades throughout school. They understood our priorities because my wife and I were very clear about them.
The problem isn't too many computers, it's parents who don't understand, control or care about what their kids are doing on the computer. A computer isn't a substitute for helping your kids with their homework. (Just like TV isn't a substitute for parental supervision)
You have to control their IM time, their game time and their general "screwing around on the computer" time. If learning, homework and grades aren't a priority with the parent, how can they be a priority with the children?
And I'm not talking about parental fascism either. Things need to be balanced and prioritized. And you can't make your kids do anything - you have to get them to understand what's in their best interests. (Although I've found that fear, guilt and outright manipulation are tools that no parent should be without!)
Geez, I'm so sick of people pointing a finger at technology as being a bad thing or a good thing. Technology, for the most part, is amoral. It's up to the people who use it to either do something good or bad with it.
[Okay, flame off]
I guess I'm turning into a cranky old man;-).
(And, crap, they both read slashdot so I'll probably get a ton of flak from them!)
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were writing philosophy while yours were swinging from trees ...
After all, railroads have a history of treating all their employees fairly and equitably, and of taking great care to ensure that their health concerns are addressed quickly.
Yeah, and if you believe that, there's probably a monkey flying out of your butt right now.
I wonder how many posts we'll have about the non-content of this article...
Part of the problem is that the US Patent Office has been lax in granting patents, said Mitchell Kapor, a founder of Lotus Development and a prominent backer of the Mozilla browser. "There have been tens of thousands of bad software patents issued which never would have been issued if the Patent Office had actually been following its own rules," he said.
...
The patent laws make some degree of sense. The patent office does not. The stuff they let through is totally unbelievable.
You can either wait to be hit with an infringement case (not a lot of fun) or you can submit a reexamination request to the PTO.
The worse thing you can do is to read the patents of your competition. Once you do that, you had better react quickly. Willful infringement in the US gets you treble damages.
What a wonderful world we live in
You betcha. ...).
Just find yourself a small tech company in it's own little niche run by engineers/programmers.
As long as you don't mind creating and maintaining systems and code that revolve around the particular vertical niche.
You'll find that your work is more appreciated and more important to the bottom line, you'll work harder than you have anywhere else, and you'll get opportunities to perform in roles other than just coder (like tech support, sales engineering, on site customer visits,
The problem isn't too many computers, it's parents who don't understand, control or care about what their kids are doing on the computer. A computer isn't a substitute for helping your kids with their homework. (Just like TV isn't a substitute for parental supervision)
You have to control their IM time, their game time and their general "screwing around on the computer" time. If learning, homework and grades aren't a priority with the parent, how can they be a priority with the children?
And I'm not talking about parental fascism either. Things need to be balanced and prioritized. And you can't make your kids do anything - you have to get them to understand what's in their best interests. (Although I've found that fear, guilt and outright manipulation are tools that no parent should be without!)
Geez, I'm so sick of people pointing a finger at technology as being a bad thing or a good thing. Technology, for the most part, is amoral. It's up to the people who use it to either do something good or bad with it. [Okay, flame off]
I guess I'm turning into a cranky old man ;-).
(And, crap, they both read slashdot so I'll probably get a ton of flak from them!)