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  1. Re:Oh geee... on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 1

    Which is also generally obfuscated to hell, from the ones I have read. If normal patents include a drawing, software ones should include some source.

  2. Re:Not shocking. on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am throwing money at the screen, why is it not working?

    Someone make these games, I will buy them, so will many others.

  3. Re:Sad day on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That sad day came a long time ago.

    LucasArts has not done anything that great in a long time. I guess at least we can hope TellTale can get most of the franchises.

  4. Re:Oh geee... on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 1

    I thought that was their point I am sorry if I was mistaken.

    Where is the information? Without it simply conveying information it seems to miss the whole point.

  5. Re:That is quite some deflection on display on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 2

    That only makes it even sadder that he choses to use those things in this way.

  6. Re:Oh geee... on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 1

    If the claims are incomprehensible they fail to make the trade of sharing knowledge in exchange for a limited time monopoly. How is that legal?

  7. Re:Oh geee... on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 1

    Now I am more confused. If my method and your method are different, why would your patent cover mine?

    I patent the method of finding even or odd by X%2 and you patent the method of doing the same by X/2 and having X be an int.

    I thought the whole idea of patents includes the ability to solve the same problem in a different way. You can't pantent all hammers, just the one you designed. So I can avoid your claims and make my own hammer.

  8. Re:Oh geee... on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 2

    Maybe you know, if a normal pantent has a drawing of an apparatus and shows how it functions, which is the trade patents make a time limited monopoly for sharing information why don't software patents ever seem to include code?

    Would that not be the proper way of things?
    Here is the code I used to do this thing, I get to use it for 20 years. If you find another way to do the same thing why should my method have any hold over yours?

    I can invent a screwdriver and you can invent another neither prevents the other from existing.

  9. Ever notice how none of them answer? on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It seems like most of these folks never answer the question asked, instead they talk around the subject at hand.

    Slashdot editors, next time call them on it. Let's see some actual answers or just don't publish it. You not here to be a PR firm for these folks are you?

  10. That is quite some deflection on display on Nathan Myhrvold Answers Your Questions, Live Q&A Today At 12 P.M. Pacific · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That guy sure loves to deflect.

    I guess it helps him sleep at night.

  11. Re:larger sits? on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    English is not my first language either.
    Deal with it.

  12. Re:Fairplay on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 2

    Why would the airline care if you are healthy or not?

    They don't care about "weight" they care about normal weight.

  13. Re:Fuel costs money on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    It's not discriminatory. You use more resources you pay for them. A kg of fat takes as much fuel to transport as a kg of bone or a kg of cloth.

    In the USA you absolutely could. You might have to show your work, but you could easily do a fuel surcharge based on mass of passenger and luggage.

  14. Re:Fairplay on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    Why is that her fault?

    Pants at big and tall stores cost more too. You cost more to move than her, so you pay more.

  15. Re:larger sits? on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: -1, Troll

    SEAT the word you wanted was SEAT!

    Sit is something you do in a seat. If this is some sort of non-american english, than deal with my correction as slashdot is an American site.

  16. Re:And people with CS degrees can be just as cluel on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    I did, preview is nearly pointless anyway. You can just reread it in the edit window. What we need is the ability to edit for X amount of minutes.

  17. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    I was mostly using that to suggest boarding school for habitual trouble makers. Getting them out of the classroom has almost as much value as trying to educate them.

  18. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want education to be taken seriously we have to change our whole culture.

    Basketball players make more money than people who cure cancer, kids know this. People who make sex tapes get on TV, people who educate are mocked on TV.

    Expecting any different outcome is foolish when our culture flatly does not value education and will not pay for it.

  19. Re:And people with CS degrees can be just as cluel on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    My first name is not Nate. It starts with an S and is probably the most common english name to start with that character for a male.

  20. Re:Rootless? on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 2

    Non-native?
    Rdesktop is a native linux app I use for when I have to deal with windows servers. The other way around I don't see why someone running wayland could not use X over SSH like the rest of us.

    I cut my teeth on Solaris and my caplock key position proves it.

  21. Re:X11 RDP on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is very common.

    I have KVM installed on a server, I use virt-manager to play with it. I forward X over SSH to run virt-manager and have it display on my local machine. The server has no graphical output. You can feel free to substitute any program with a graphical output you like for virt-manager in my example.

  22. Re:Rootless? on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 1

    Really?
    Because I use X forwarding all the damn time. Mind you only on the LAN.

    Newer VNC is not too bad either, but the normal ones suck. Have you tried TigerVNC?

  23. Re:X11 RDP on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 1

    RDP is truly impressive, but not everyone wants to have a desktop on their server.

    Is it capable of letting me launch graphical applications from an OS without a local graphical display? I ask because my understanding is windows 2008 has added that as an option.

  24. Re:Rootless? on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 1

    Not if you wanted to forward the display of a single application. Your use case is not everyones use case.

    I understand it now does that too, which is great.

  25. Re:Rootless? on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, windows finally has a proper shell and program forwarding.

    Any word on when it will be able to delete files that are open?

    One of these days that OS really will catch up to the 80s.