Indeed, once I've seen an ad for a phone service here in Germany where you got payed for receiving phone calls. Well, maybe I should have gotten one, and then made sure that the number gets on the list of every phone spammer...:-)
Patents address this issue - the basic deal is that the government gives you a limited term monopoly on your invention IF you fully disclose what the invention is and how it should be used.
But that means patents should only be issued on things which
* you'd likely manage to keep secret for at least the period of the patent protection
* would be unlikely to be rediscovered during that time
(BTW, where are the bullets of the unordered list? I've now manually added stars, but that shouldn't be needed with the ul tag)
Well, in that case, the right solution would be to give the universities better protection against tort lawsuits. Or even better, just fix the justice system.
True, we lose the free market competition of having pharmaceutical companies competing with each other to find the next drug (although university scientists do indeed compete with each other, too).
Indeed, scientists' competition is more aligned with the right goals here: While companies compete for the most profit, scientists compete for the best reputation. Actually the drugs which give you the most reputation are generally those which cure the most important illnesses, independent of how much the people suffering from them will be able to pay for it.
More accurately, the code that is included within the resulting object code is glibc, which is covered by the LGPL, not the GPL. No part of gcc proper goes into the resulting binary.
While glibc indeed gets linked in, too, gcc itself contains some support code which also gets linked into the executable. That code is not part of the compiler proper, but part of the gcc distribution (unlike glibc, which is a separate project).
Another example is the Emacs/XEmacs split. This is especially interesting because it proves that there's not necessarily a single product from the same base line which dominates. Instead there's a healthy competition between Emacs and XEmacs.
The word "really" doesn't give a degree, but an assertion of truth. As in "this isn't just claimed to be unique, but it is unique."
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Well, it would have the advantage that you could say things like "you are absolutely dumb" and afterwards claim it wasn't actually directed at the person you said it to, but using a generic "you", meaning "people are absolutely dumb".:-)
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You must be new here. (Hey, that's ontopic on this thread!)
Since when do unborns get coffins? Has there ever been actual use of SVG with scripting as Flash alternative (as opposed to use of SVG as what it is, Scalable Vector Graphics)?
You've already signed the paper, so the sale is legal and final, I suspect.
No, the sale is of course not legal. Of course it will be harder to proof for the victim; OTOH an examination of the paper will probably add some credibility to his (true) version, because why on earth would you print the contract on this special paper, instead of using just normal paper (which probably is cheaper)?
BTW, usually both parties get a copy of the contract, and how would you print the new text on the other copy (which you don't have)?
Wonder if you can recover sensitive data much like you can with over written hard disk sectors... The same lab came up with a secure deletion device. It's called a match. A regular expression match, or just a plain old exact match?:-)
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Indeed, once I've seen an ad for a phone service here in Germany where you got payed for receiving phone calls. Well, maybe I should have gotten one, and then made sure that the number gets on the list of every phone spammer ... :-)
Ok: Ad diem gloriosum duodecimus Martii, anno domini duo mille et octem
(I hope my latin isn't too wrong
I guess most jokes still work if you just replace "lawyer" with "RIAA lawyer"
But that means patents should only be issued on things which
- * you'd likely manage to keep secret for at least the period of the patent protection
- * would be unlikely to be rediscovered during that time
(BTW, where are the bullets of the unordered list? I've now manually added stars, but that shouldn't be needed with the ul tag)Well, in that case, the right solution would be to give the universities better protection against tort lawsuits. Or even better, just fix the justice system.
Indeed, scientists' competition is more aligned with the right goals here: While companies compete for the most profit, scientists compete for the best reputation. Actually the drugs which give you the most reputation are generally those which cure the most important illnesses, independent of how much the people suffering from them will be able to pay for it.
While glibc indeed gets linked in, too, gcc itself contains some support code which also gets linked into the executable. That code is not part of the compiler proper, but part of the gcc distribution (unlike glibc, which is a separate project).
Another example is the Emacs/XEmacs split. This is especially interesting because it proves that there's not necessarily a single product from the same base line which dominates. Instead there's a healthy competition between Emacs and XEmacs.
So if we find the controlling IP, we have found an internet connection to afterlife!
The word "really" doesn't give a degree, but an assertion of truth. As in "this isn't just claimed to be unique, but it is unique."
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Well, it would have the advantage that you could say things like "you are absolutely dumb" and afterwards claim it wasn't actually directed at the person you said it to, but using a generic "you", meaning "people are absolutely dumb". :-)
You must be new here. (Hey, that's ontopic on this thread!)
Well, if Sun holds the copyright in question, it might be very material to the case
I don't think they care much about the Emacs newsreader.
Since when do unborns get coffins?
Has there ever been actual use of SVG with scripting as Flash alternative (as opposed to use of SVG as what it is, Scalable Vector Graphics)?
If the browser understands it, it should also be able to extract the URL. Actually, even today there are browser extensions which do that.
The CPU microcode?
Sending smells you've created yourself? :-)
Well, I can imagine many people will decidedly not buy a refill after having "enjoyed" too many smelly messages.
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However "this message smells fishy" will get a whole new meaning
No, the sale is of course not legal. Of course it will be harder to proof for the victim; OTOH an examination of the paper will probably add some credibility to his (true) version, because why on earth would you print the contract on this special paper, instead of using just normal paper (which probably is cheaper)?
BTW, usually both parties get a copy of the contract, and how would you print the new text on the other copy (which you don't have)?
And as a side effect the pen will disinfect the paper.
Microsoft.