I agree that "People skills and things like charisma and the ability to work in a team" are important. However the idea that anyone that doesn't go to college is not worth hiring because they will not have had the opportunity to properly interact with other adults is ridiculous. People learn how to interact with other people since the day they are born. The act of going to college may but probably won't improve someone's people skills if they are already lacking in those.
I say don't go to college and get paid to learn on the job. It's obvious, at least with this company, you don't really need to know anything to get hired there...
I am glad to see our tax dollars at work, helping to stimulate the jet fuel industry. That industry has really been hurting lately, and now Mr. Larry Ellison wanting to give back to the community, will be able to purchase even more fuel for his late night jet plane trips!
Should GUI innovations be patentable? Hell No! At the rate the U.S. Patent Office is issuing software patents, there will be no more GUI innovations. All the methods for using a GUI interface with a mouse will already have patents issued to the large corporations in the Great Software Patent Grab of the Century. These patents of course are available to anyone. Anyone, with a large team of patent attorneys, that is. Of course these large corporations can then threaten to sue any individual that programs anything that remotely does anything resembling their innovation. That should help put an end to innovation. As innovation can only hurt those that already have the power and money. Of course, the large corporations could sue other large corporations, but usually they will be happy with an exchange of these software patent innovations.
In the case of the Adobe patent, one might think "Hey this sounds innovative, Adobe deserves a patent on this for all of their hard work. Then after 17 years anyone will be able to use this innovative concept and prosper from it. Boy I am so glad we have an organization like the U.S. Patent Office that truly rewards innovation and preserves the American Way of Life!"
But seriously, does the Adobe innovation warrant a patent? NO! This patent, like most thing in a GUI just mimics something we do in everyday life. The GUI is basically designed around the concept of the use of your desk and file cabinet to sort papers. Overlapping windows are just an extension of placing documents on your desk and sorting through them. The use of tabs is just borrowed from the tabs (index) in your file cabinet. The Adobe concept is basically the idea of taking a document visible from the index (tab) in the file cabinet and placing it on your desk (undocked). After you are finished working on the document you then re-file the document where it s still readily visible through the index (docked).
I don't believe one should be able to patent the methods of viewing, sorting and the filing of documents, just because they are done on the computer.
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I say don't go to college and get paid to learn on the job. It's obvious, at least with this company, you don't really need to know anything to get hired there...
I am glad to see our tax dollars at work, helping to stimulate the jet fuel industry. That industry has really been hurting lately, and now Mr. Larry Ellison wanting to give back to the community, will be able to purchase even more fuel for his late night jet plane trips!
In the case of the Adobe patent, one might think "Hey this sounds innovative, Adobe deserves a patent on this for all of their hard work. Then after 17 years anyone will be able to use this innovative concept and prosper from it. Boy I am so glad we have an organization like the U.S. Patent Office that truly rewards innovation and preserves the American Way of Life!"
But seriously, does the Adobe innovation warrant a patent? NO! This patent, like most thing in a GUI just mimics something we do in everyday life. The GUI is basically designed around the concept of the use of your desk and file cabinet to sort papers. Overlapping windows are just an extension of placing documents on your desk and sorting through them. The use of tabs is just borrowed from the tabs (index) in your file cabinet. The Adobe concept is basically the idea of taking a document visible from the index (tab) in the file cabinet and placing it on your desk (undocked). After you are finished working on the document you then re-file the document where it s still readily visible through the index (docked).
I don't believe one should be able to patent the methods of viewing, sorting and the filing of documents, just because they are done on the computer.