No kidding. I'm going where many, including Picard, have gone before. It would seem that if they can regenerate tissue, hair follicles should be easy. Apparently there was a patent on the process issued to the Rogaine people.
Thoughts are always patented. No one patents material property EVER!
In that case, you should be in debtors prison, not having an original thought of your own. Things are patented, not thoughts, otherwise your parents would rightfully have been prevented from imposing you upon the rest of the world. Heaven help us all, the wannabe thought police are already loose and astroturfing on Slashdot. Somebody call Uma Thurman.
I just want to write software without having to worry about using the morse code button for user input because some corporation wants to price my product out of the market by owning the API call to take keyboard input.
Okay. If you want to lead the fight, I'm behind you (old and slow, but I can still camp and snipe.:)
I think this sends a clear signal that the community is aggressively looking for this type of thing.
With the USPTO issuing software patents for every trivial and obvious thing ever coded, if OSS is searching out this kind of thing, the movement will soon grind to a halt. As others have said, it's probably better not to go looking for it and let the fight come to us. Once enough companies/governments are dependent on OSS, serious threats from patent holders might get TPTB to take a new, hard look at software patents in general (well, a guy can hope).
No, the war was won when the VHS format was introduced. Sony didn't give up until after the ELP formats came out, true, but they were fighting a losing battle the whole way.
That's an opinion. Video rental/sales stores carried far more Beta selections for quite a while after VHS was introduced. My opinion is that VHS won mostly because people perceived bigger as being better. The video quality of VHS certainly wasn't as good. Agreed, there were licensing issues involved as well.
I was there too. My first VCR cost over CDN $1500, but it including audio dubbing -- a feature I used maybe twice.
Ha. I got a cheap one. Only $800 for a Zenith (rebranded Sony).
Back in the early 90's I first saw 17" LCD monitors and drooled, yet that same drool dried up in a puff of vapor when I saw the $2000+ price tags. Now you can get a fairly basic one for ~$200. This is what I'm waiting for to happen to HD / Flatpanel TV monitors.
Yup. All good things come to those who wait, but some of us are getting short on wait time. I can't believe I paid $100 for a 64MB pen drive back when, but it has surely been useful in the meantime.
Not that old canard again. The consumer did select the best technical solution (VHS) because at the time, technically Betamax couldn't store a 2-hour movie on a single cassette.
Talk about old canards. I was there when VHS won the war, and at that time the tape capacity was about 6 hours for VHS vs 5 hours for Beta (at the lowest quality mode for each). The Beta tape cartridge was a good deal smaller, and the replayed picture was far better.
Since I'm no audiophile, I could be wrong on this, but I believe the information from a CD is less than that available from a cassette tape (albeit one is digital and the other analog). Consumers only pick the "best" format if you consider making tradeoffs between price, performance, and convenience to be equal to the "best technical solution".
No, but the phone company also isn't releasing one particular phone number and address at a time in which an enraged minority element may do them physical harm.
Response 1: Thulium doesn't migrate quickly across telephone connections.
Response 2: Who are you calling a "minority element," you *&!!$%! astroturfer, and what makes you think I'm enraged?
Response 3: Yo' Mater!
Lighten up. You have a point, but public figures give up some rights to privacy, and O'Garra certainly wants to be public. She'd probably enjoy talking dirty, er, I mean communicating with a bunch of heated young males. And unless she's got a server, that's the most harm she'll get from Slashbots.
Why does slashdot see fit to report minute incremental engineering progress, or lack thereof, in deploying a science instrument on a mission of average interest?
Umm, because it's of average interest, and half of all Slashdot readers are approximately average and therefore interested? Okay, the statisticians in the crowd can now flay me.
New Terran overlords? You never heard of Captain John Carter? You don't think we're up against our own covert forces here? What kind of conspiracy theorist are you anyway?!
The plastic it's made from is too thin; it feels like a fragile toy.
Feels solid to me, and I've bounced a few of 'em off the floor as hard as I can often enough over the years to know they're solid.
I have big hands, and this causes major cramps.
This seems to be your only real complaint. Get hands designed to work with popular controllers, like the rest of us.:)
The thumbsticks don't give enough feedback, and you can push them too far without them actually doing anything.
Nonsense. The biggest problem with the dualshock is that when you've worn it out or bounced it off the floor once too often, one stick or the other will stop just shy of going completely back to center. And then your character walks off a cliff while you're not paying attention. If anything, they react to too little movement.
Microsoft make very atractive looking mice (which makes me wonder why they didn't get the people behind those desings to work on the xbox s60, if they did then im at a loss).
Breeding mice is a lot easier than breeding gaming consoles.
I hate you jackasses, I bet you were the same people that complained about the original xbox controller. That thing was the most comfertable controller
What, the controller police came and took yours away because people complained about it? The last I heard, they were still making both styles, but I don't really follow Xbox news that closely, since I use the better console.
However, the question is what if a vulnerability is made public on a day the admins have off?
If it was critical, some or all of our admins, being the professionals they are, would come in (or do the work from home) and take time off another day.
Also, many managers don't like giving admins time off during business days in case business is disrupted.
It sounds like you work for a pretty short-sighted company. They won't get the best results that way. It makes me happier about the place I work at. I hope you find a better employer someday.
It's a big cone shaped hat you have to put on before you sit in the corner.
Okay, can we get the PC police over here? That is no longer allowed because it might damage the self-esteem of people who have no reason to have any. Take the poster away, and book him.
If coming in on a weekend isn't asking too much, where do you draw the line?
Major releases of business-related (not e-business) software are usually done on weekends, and (in my experience) the coders as well as the admins are there to iron out the kinks. It makes for a solid rollout. It's part of being an IT professional, and I've been there a number of times. Would you like some cheese to go with your whine about missing the Saturday morning cartoons?
Waiting until Monday ensures that IT guys get a rest too.
Our sysadmins usually schedule upgrades, patches, etc., for the weekends so as not to disrupt normal business. Then, they get to take a day off during the week. What's wrong with your company?
Don't know where to start parsing that completely inconsistent statement.
There were two complete sentences, unlike yours. They're not difficult to parse if you understand English.
So corporations are intended to have rights of individuals, it's legal, not a fiction
No, they weren't. Go study some history. The corporation-with-individual-rights is very recent as law goes and is unique to the US as far as I can tell. If you can show that's untrue, then please do so. I'm always willing to be enlightened, unlike some astroturfing trolls who complain about a true statement being moderated up. I say what I think - the karma comes and it goes (and it surely goes every time I bash Microsoft) - it seems only you care what others think about what I say. Get a life.
Well, that's a pessimistic way to put it, but the whole point of corporations going back to their invention in the renaissance was to allow individual profit while shielding the individuals from the risk associated with that profit.
But corporations were not intended to have the rights of individuals. That legal fiction in the US is a perversion.
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No kidding. I'm going where many, including Picard, have gone before. It would seem that if they can regenerate tissue, hair follicles should be easy. Apparently there was a patent on the process issued to the Rogaine people.
Thoughts are always patented. No one patents material property EVER!
In that case, you should be in debtors prison, not having an original thought of your own. Things are patented, not thoughts, otherwise your parents would rightfully have been prevented from imposing you upon the rest of the world. Heaven help us all, the wannabe thought police are already loose and astroturfing on Slashdot. Somebody call Uma Thurman.
That's all well and good, but what about the rabbit?
What does the scripture say about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch working on Were-Rabbits? Then thou must count to three . . .
I just want to write software without having to worry about using the morse code button for user input because some corporation wants to price my product out of the market by owning the API call to take keyboard input.
Okay. If you want to lead the fight, I'm behind you (old and slow, but I can still camp and snipe. :)
I haven't heard ANY evidence that Borland intends to enter into the "litigation market." Let's not let SCO make us all cynical.
Sorry, too late. I was cynical even before Rambus.
I think this sends a clear signal that the community is aggressively looking for this type of thing.
With the USPTO issuing software patents for every trivial and obvious thing ever coded, if OSS is searching out this kind of thing, the movement will soon grind to a halt. As others have said, it's probably better not to go looking for it and let the fight come to us. Once enough companies/governments are dependent on OSS, serious threats from patent holders might get TPTB to take a new, hard look at software patents in general (well, a guy can hope).
No, the war was won when the VHS format was introduced. Sony didn't give up until after the ELP formats came out, true, but they were fighting a losing battle the whole way.
That's an opinion. Video rental/sales stores carried far more Beta selections for quite a while after VHS was introduced. My opinion is that VHS won mostly because people perceived bigger as being better. The video quality of VHS certainly wasn't as good. Agreed, there were licensing issues involved as well.
I was there too. My first VCR cost over CDN $1500, but it including audio dubbing -- a feature I used maybe twice.
Ha. I got a cheap one. Only $800 for a Zenith (rebranded Sony).
Back in the early 90's I first saw 17" LCD monitors and drooled, yet that same drool dried up in a puff of vapor when I saw the $2000+ price tags. Now you can get a fairly basic one for ~$200. This is what I'm waiting for to happen to HD / Flatpanel TV monitors.
Yup. All good things come to those who wait, but some of us are getting short on wait time. I can't believe I paid $100 for a 64MB pen drive back when, but it has surely been useful in the meantime.
Not that old canard again. The consumer did select the best technical solution (VHS) because at the time, technically Betamax couldn't store a 2-hour movie on a single cassette.
Talk about old canards. I was there when VHS won the war, and at that time the tape capacity was about 6 hours for VHS vs 5 hours for Beta (at the lowest quality mode for each). The Beta tape cartridge was a good deal smaller, and the replayed picture was far better.
Since I'm no audiophile, I could be wrong on this, but I believe the information from a CD is less than that available from a cassette tape (albeit one is digital and the other analog). Consumers only pick the "best" format if you consider making tradeoffs between price, performance, and convenience to be equal to the "best technical solution".
Personally, I hope the one with the least restrictive DRM becomes the standard.
That would be good, but the medium is just a transport vehicle. Effective DRM has to be implemented (or disabled) at the hardware end.
No, but the phone company also isn't releasing one particular phone number and address at a time in which an enraged minority element may do them physical harm.
Response 1: Thulium doesn't migrate quickly across telephone connections.
Response 2: Who are you calling a "minority element," you *&!!$%! astroturfer, and what makes you think I'm enraged?
Response 3: Yo' Mater!
Lighten up. You have a point, but public figures give up some rights to privacy, and O'Garra certainly wants to be public. She'd probably enjoy talking dirty, er, I mean communicating with a bunch of heated young males. And unless she's got a server, that's the most harm she'll get from Slashbots.
Why does slashdot see fit to report minute incremental engineering progress, or lack thereof, in deploying a science instrument on a mission of average interest?
Umm, because it's of average interest, and half of all Slashdot readers are approximately average and therefore interested? Okay, the statisticians in the crowd can now flay me.
New Terran overlords? You never heard of Captain John Carter? You don't think we're up against our own covert forces here? What kind of conspiracy theorist are you anyway?!
And do you trust Bill?
I always let Uma Thurman answer that question for me.
The plastic it's made from is too thin; it feels like a fragile toy.
Feels solid to me, and I've bounced a few of 'em off the floor as hard as I can often enough over the years to know they're solid.
I have big hands, and this causes major cramps.
This seems to be your only real complaint. Get hands designed to work with popular controllers, like the rest of us. :)
The thumbsticks don't give enough feedback, and you can push them too far without them actually doing anything.
Nonsense. The biggest problem with the dualshock is that when you've worn it out or bounced it off the floor once too often, one stick or the other will stop just shy of going completely back to center. And then your character walks off a cliff while you're not paying attention. If anything, they react to too little movement.
Microsoft make very atractive looking mice (which makes me wonder why they didn't get the people behind those desings to work on the xbox s60, if they did then im at a loss).
Breeding mice is a lot easier than breeding gaming consoles.
I hate you jackasses, I bet you were the same people that complained about the original xbox controller. That thing was the most comfertable controller
What, the controller police came and took yours away because people complained about it? The last I heard, they were still making both styles, but I don't really follow Xbox news that closely, since I use the better console.
However, the question is what if a vulnerability is made public on a day the admins have off?
If it was critical, some or all of our admins, being the professionals they are, would come in (or do the work from home) and take time off another day.
Also, many managers don't like giving admins time off during business days in case business is disrupted.
It sounds like you work for a pretty short-sighted company. They won't get the best results that way. It makes me happier about the place I work at. I hope you find a better employer someday.
Perhaps I am the only one that thinks that Microsoft is evil.
You've got to be kidding. New poll topic:
Microsoft is:
It's a big cone shaped hat you have to put on before you sit in the corner.
Okay, can we get the PC police over here? That is no longer allowed because it might damage the self-esteem of people who have no reason to have any. Take the poster away, and book him.
If coming in on a weekend isn't asking too much, where do you draw the line?
Major releases of business-related (not e-business) software are usually done on weekends, and (in my experience) the coders as well as the admins are there to iron out the kinks. It makes for a solid rollout. It's part of being an IT professional, and I've been there a number of times. Would you like some cheese to go with your whine about missing the Saturday morning cartoons?
Waiting until Monday ensures that IT guys get a rest too.
Our sysadmins usually schedule upgrades, patches, etc., for the weekends so as not to disrupt normal business. Then, they get to take a day off during the week. What's wrong with your company?
What mockery is this? Captain Carter knows full well that the probe was whacked by a banth
Don't know where to start parsing that completely inconsistent statement.
There were two complete sentences, unlike yours. They're not difficult to parse if you understand English.
So corporations are intended to have rights of individuals, it's legal, not a fiction
No, they weren't. Go study some history. The corporation-with-individual-rights is very recent as law goes and is unique to the US as far as I can tell. If you can show that's untrue, then please do so. I'm always willing to be enlightened, unlike some astroturfing trolls who complain about a true statement being moderated up. I say what I think - the karma comes and it goes (and it surely goes every time I bash Microsoft) - it seems only you care what others think about what I say. Get a life.
Well, that's a pessimistic way to put it, but the whole point of corporations going back to their invention in the renaissance was to allow individual profit while shielding the individuals from the risk associated with that profit.
But corporations were not intended to have the rights of individuals. That legal fiction in the US is a perversion.