As long as we all agree that Captain Picard used Emacs while he spread all measures of awesome throughout the galaxy. That is in stark contrast to Kirk, who used Vi to compose love notes to alien whores in his quest to spread space AIDS to as many planets as he possibly could before being canceled.
Apparently, you fail at reading comprehension. I did get the compiler to work. I got a bunch of other crippled stuff to work too. I just got fed up after spending all that time to make Ubuntu usable only to have flash bork firefox completely. I had enough at that point. After all the lavish praise that has been piled on this distro, I expected more. I got less.
I did google my way through getting countless things that were crippled to work properly. But the point and click install of Flash completely fucking over Firefox was the straw that broke the camel's back. I verily realized that Ubuntu was linux for idiots and didn't really mind (at first) having to jump through all the hoops to make it useful to me. However, once my browser was broken all the shit I had to go through rushed back at me and I wondered what the fuck I was doing with such a chicken shit distro.
I have been using linux for 10 years and as a primary desktop for 8. I was deja newsing answers to my linux problems before Google even existed. I jumped through more hoops than I can count.
So, you won't get to play WOW on the company's dime. You won't get to do your laundry on the company's. You won't get to walk your dog on the company's dime. You won't get to babysit your rugrats on the company's dime.
Joe Consumer actually doesn't really give a shit one way or the other.
This is what your run-of-the-mill Slashbot fails to grasp. Most people just don't care. And any attempt at educating family and friends (or the masses) goes in one ear and out the other.
Imagine some jerkwad walked into a 7-11, got a Slurpee, tried to walk out without paying for it, then shot the clerk when the clerk confronted him. Then imagine the Slashdot article saying "this guy could get the death penalty just for stealing a Slurpee."
That's an extreme example, but it gets my message across.
That's not an extreme example. That's every other write-up on Slashdot.
You are right, I have never written a claim. However they land on my desk for review. Usually I spend about 10 minutes going over the application and basically note items that stretch the truth. When they get rejected, I point those items out. I could give two shits about patents, but I am not going to blab on and on to the hand that feeds me about some some half wit notion that IP is bad. Because it isn't. And when you type your fucked up response about how IP should be free, please note that with every keystroke you are using patented technology invented by someone who is way smarter than you are. Why should I give a fuck if the inventor on my BIOS gets 3 cents royalty for every board sold?
I guess my point was that if you refer to common things (to those skilled in the trade) in your claims, you are going to get hit with prior art because the reviewer latches on to those things not understanding what they are. If in your claim you write "for example, pancreatic cancer", they tend to think that is to the focus of the claim when it isn't. The prior art is going to be the thousands of published articles that just happen to mention both those terms.
Either way, you can take decades old technology and discover novel, patentable ways to use it. My example was contrived, sure.
I'll give you an example. If you claim you have discovered a novel way to screen for a cancer, say pancreatic cancer, in a tissue sample using some lab technique, say PCR, the patent clerk is going to hand you back the first published article that mentions pancreatic cancer and PCR, even when the paper is discussing something like a pathway involved pancreatic cancer and PCR is mentioned in the materials and methods section.
I have had patents rejected in very similar circumstances.
Please do download our code (and email us at security@slashcode.com if you find any bugs)
Nah. I've submitted bugs to slashcode at sourceforge in the past. Actual bugs. They are always closed with snarky remarks about how it's not a bug. You should add a status "Will Not Fix" or "Cannot Fix". At least admit where your site is broken and maybe give a little explanation as to why.
The most obvious of these is how nested mode is horribly broken in stories with a lot of comments or a comment that receives a large number of replies such that it is beyond the comments per page threshold. If you try to go to the next page, you get the same page of comments. Same with the next page and the next. A side effect is that many comments are completely lost in this mode. This has been a bug for many years.
That's fine. And if the phone is free (without a lengthy service contract), then cool. But ads are not forced upon you with your $5 DVD player. It is cheap because the technology is less expensive these days not because it is being subsidized. Though, you could argue that sweatshops are a type of subsidy.
Either way, I can guarantee you that you will never walk into a cell phone store and receive any type of discount due to Google's magnanimity.
My question is: how do you fight counterfeiters with plastic money? Seems like it would be relatively easy to fake, compared to metal or newer paper currencies?
Just wait. In a few months, there will be an article about how there are RFIDs in each QUID and the Slashbots will go apeshit.
Still not a reason to fine an individual 220000$. If ignoring a settlement and demanding a fair trial is a reason to up your punishment then the fascists have won.
When you did the crime and you face either a few thousand dollar out of court settlement or the possibility of a 3.6 million dollar (24 times $150K) judgment against you, you are an idiot for not settling. If you killed someone and were offered a day in jail if you pleaded guilty, or the possibility of life if you went to trial, what would you pick?
This woman is likely screwed for life for this so I'd say the comparison of the choice is apt.
And a civil trial, where civilians decided guilt and punishment, is not fascism.
Also, the trial was fair. She did it. It is blatantly obvious. She was an idiot because she was guilty and went to trial anyway. What the hell was she thinking?
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No Wizardry? What a gyp.
More companies should do this. Hell, banks should do this to their customers.
Netcraft confirmed their obsoletism years ago.
As long as we all agree that Captain Picard used Emacs while he spread all measures of awesome throughout the galaxy. That is in stark contrast to Kirk, who used Vi to compose love notes to alien whores in his quest to spread space AIDS to as many planets as he possibly could before being canceled.
Apparently, you fail at reading comprehension. I did get the compiler to work. I got a bunch of other crippled stuff to work too. I just got fed up after spending all that time to make Ubuntu usable only to have flash bork firefox completely. I had enough at that point. After all the lavish praise that has been piled on this distro, I expected more. I got less.
I did google my way through getting countless things that were crippled to work properly. But the point and click install of Flash completely fucking over Firefox was the straw that broke the camel's back. I verily realized that Ubuntu was linux for idiots and didn't really mind (at first) having to jump through all the hoops to make it useful to me. However, once my browser was broken all the shit I had to go through rushed back at me and I wondered what the fuck I was doing with such a chicken shit distro.
I have been using linux for 10 years and as a primary desktop for 8. I was deja newsing answers to my linux problems before Google even existed. I jumped through more hoops than I can count.
It will be the year of IPv6, the Semantic Web, Perl 6 and rocket cars. It will also be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
Queue the "Loose Change" music while you read that.
I've been smoking cloned dope for years.
I have 63000 emails in my gmail spam box. It is my understanding that these are only kept for 1 month, so that is one month of spam.
I foward several email accounts (some of which I have had for more than 15 years) to one gmail.
So, you won't get to play WOW on the company's dime. You won't get to do your laundry on the company's. You won't get to walk your dog on the company's dime. You won't get to babysit your rugrats on the company's dime.
Don't like it? Get another job.
Paper? More like bits and bytes these days.
On a lighter note, do you think they can turn lead into gold?
Lead can be turned into gold. It's just prohibitively expensive.
Fixing a bad cap is worth a merit badge on your nerd uniform.
Joe Consumer actually doesn't really give a shit one way or the other.
This is what your run-of-the-mill Slashbot fails to grasp. Most people just don't care. And any attempt at educating family and friends (or the masses) goes in one ear and out the other.
Imagine some jerkwad walked into a 7-11, got a Slurpee, tried to walk out without paying for it, then shot the clerk when the clerk confronted him. Then imagine the Slashdot article saying "this guy could get the death penalty just for stealing a Slurpee."
That's an extreme example, but it gets my message across.
That's not an extreme example. That's every other write-up on Slashdot.
You are right, I have never written a claim. However they land on my desk for review. Usually I spend about 10 minutes going over the application and basically note items that stretch the truth. When they get rejected, I point those items out. I could give two shits about patents, but I am not going to blab on and on to the hand that feeds me about some some half wit notion that IP is bad. Because it isn't. And when you type your fucked up response about how IP should be free, please note that with every keystroke you are using patented technology invented by someone who is way smarter than you are. Why should I give a fuck if the inventor on my BIOS gets 3 cents royalty for every board sold?
I guess my point was that if you refer to common things (to those skilled in the trade) in your claims, you are going to get hit with prior art because the reviewer latches on to those things not understanding what they are. If in your claim you write "for example, pancreatic cancer", they tend to think that is to the focus of the claim when it isn't. The prior art is going to be the thousands of published articles that just happen to mention both those terms.
Either way, you can take decades old technology and discover novel, patentable ways to use it. My example was contrived, sure.
I'll give you an example. If you claim you have discovered a novel way to screen for a cancer, say pancreatic cancer, in a tissue sample using some lab technique, say PCR, the patent clerk is going to hand you back the first published article that mentions pancreatic cancer and PCR, even when the paper is discussing something like a pathway involved pancreatic cancer and PCR is mentioned in the materials and methods section.
I have had patents rejected in very similar circumstances.
Please do download our code (and email us at security@slashcode.com if you find any bugs)
Nah. I've submitted bugs to slashcode at sourceforge in the past. Actual bugs. They are always closed with snarky remarks about how it's not a bug. You should add a status "Will Not Fix" or "Cannot Fix". At least admit where your site is broken and maybe give a little explanation as to why.
The most obvious of these is how nested mode is horribly broken in stories with a lot of comments or a comment that receives a large number of replies such that it is beyond the comments per page threshold. If you try to go to the next page, you get the same page of comments. Same with the next page and the next. A side effect is that many comments are completely lost in this mode. This has been a bug for many years.
Did they really need to spread that out over two pages? There's only one god damned sentence on the second page.
That's fine. And if the phone is free (without a lengthy service contract), then cool. But ads are not forced upon you with your $5 DVD player. It is cheap because the technology is less expensive these days not because it is being subsidized. Though, you could argue that sweatshops are a type of subsidy.
Either way, I can guarantee you that you will never walk into a cell phone store and receive any type of discount due to Google's magnanimity.
Because I'm sure the manufacturers will pass the savings on directly to you and me.
My question is: how do you fight counterfeiters with plastic money? Seems like it would be relatively easy to fake, compared to metal or newer paper currencies?
Just wait. In a few months, there will be an article about how there are RFIDs in each QUID and the Slashbots will go apeshit.
Still not a reason to fine an individual 220000$. If ignoring a settlement and demanding a fair trial is a reason to up your punishment then the fascists have won.
When you did the crime and you face either a few thousand dollar out of court settlement or the possibility of a 3.6 million dollar (24 times $150K) judgment against you, you are an idiot for not settling. If you killed someone and were offered a day in jail if you pleaded guilty, or the possibility of life if you went to trial, what would you pick?
This woman is likely screwed for life for this so I'd say the comparison of the choice is apt.
And a civil trial, where civilians decided guilt and punishment, is not fascism.
Also, the trial was fair. She did it. It is blatantly obvious. She was an idiot because she was guilty and went to trial anyway. What the hell was she thinking?