Work is in the pipeline for a board which can house all your computer's necessary components, including a multiple core CPU that can handle graphics AND processing all-in-one! It will be the mother of all boards.
There was a reason a republic was chosen and not a democracy. Greece tried pure democratic stuff. Mob rule didn't work well.
Are you sure about that? Ancient Greece was a very enlightened and (for a while) powerful country that produced many great philosophers, inventers, teachers, etc.
Well, except the issues on which any self-respecting neocon would diggedly stick to, like being pro-death (penalty), anti-choice (abortion), etc.
TBH, I don't mind the idea too much of either Obama or Hillary getting in; they seem to have some degree of intelligence and/or common sense. What scares me is the idea of one of the Republicans getting in (particularly McCain). They're all crusty old dinosaurs that should've given up politics years ago and made way for new blood, but continue to sit there getting fat off donations and spouting out the backwards bullshit. McCain getting in is a very scary proposition. He'll barely be better than Bush.
From reading the summary, what the judge seems to have said is that maybe it is possible to be inventive purely in software, and that we should treat such claims on a case-by-case basis. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I agree that most software patents granted in the US are not good. But I don't agree that a software patent by definition is bad. That would be a pretty much indefensible and, if I can turn your accusation against you, an inflexible position.
I have to say I disagree with you. I think that it IS possible to be 'inventive purely in software', but because of the nature of software, it SHOULDN'T be patentable. There's a big difference between software and a device, or even a book. One piece of software builds on ideas of other pieces of software; it borrows very heavily from other components, and 'stands on the shoulders of giants' in order to provide its advanced functionality (take a look at what % of the GUI the programmer of a modern Visual Studio Windows app actually programmed).
I don't think this position is indefensible in the slighest, and I invite you to try and knock it down.
this is not as ironic or impossible as it sounds at first sight, Sachs is not a dreamer, what he wants to achieve is not suppressing all of poverty, but to suppress life threatening poverty.
Isn't that the worst of all worlds? We aggrevate the overpopulation problem, but many of those living shill have shitty lives.
Wow, that's generous. That leaves him, like, $10 to be getting on with, right? I must say if I were in that situation, I really don't think I could stretch to sparing that $40 billion.
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the fact that it would make it harder for the ad industry to hunt you down which is always appreciated,
That's an idiotic opinion. If you find a way to block ads, then it doesn't matter either way; if not, at least personalized ads will be personalized. Your fear of them 'tracking you down' is irrational, as if you think they're kidnappers or something.
Ehhhh, we got all the info we need to know on Slashdot. It's today. Microsoft OOXML is bad, someone said it was, and it was someone new (or at least they said something slightly differently)... now let's all have a flamefest on that summary alone.
I hate it when people go off topic. I was playing Team Fortress the other day, and people just kept using the voice chat to talk about this stupid 14 year old's dinner that night. I was all, "What the hell?" But that's okay, because then my wife got home and we started watching DS9.
I think you should know that she'd been watching TNG with me previously.
Will these terrible names, which apparently attempt to draw an analogy between a computer-related misdemeanor and some agricultural pastime, never end? I'm just waiting for some guy from F-Secure to call porn 'phucking'.
I find it amazing how, even in Canada where there are governmental agencies apparently unafraid to speak against the money interests, that this might still get passed there.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy doesn't work." --Kent Brockman
If I could get by with a smaller car I would. But I tried it and it didn't work. I drove a 2 seater that I loved before I got the truck. Sometimes, you really do need the larger vehicle.
I'm curious. What for? And is it stuff you could, if you're honest, change your lifestyle a bit to avoid? Shooting and lugging grizzly bears home?
As has been said elsewhere here, 9/11 wasn't a passenger hjjacking -- and yet, as a result, you've taken crazy measure to stop passengers from hijacking.
9/11 _was_ a passenger hijacking. What do you think it was?
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I tried that but it *still* crashed when I tried to run it. Meh. Is that the skillz?
Graphic cards have long since been really fast for 99.9999% of cases.
I think they're releasing a new Elder Scrolls soon.
Work is in the pipeline for a board which can house all your computer's necessary components, including a multiple core CPU that can handle graphics AND processing all-in-one! It will be the mother of all boards.
There was a reason a republic was chosen and not a democracy. Greece tried pure democratic stuff. Mob rule didn't work well.
Are you sure about that? Ancient Greece was a very enlightened and (for a while) powerful country that produced many great philosophers, inventers, teachers, etc.
Well, except the issues on which any self-respecting neocon would diggedly stick to, like being pro-death (penalty), anti-choice (abortion), etc.
TBH, I don't mind the idea too much of either Obama or Hillary getting in; they seem to have some degree of intelligence and/or common sense. What scares me is the idea of one of the Republicans getting in (particularly McCain). They're all crusty old dinosaurs that should've given up politics years ago and made way for new blood, but continue to sit there getting fat off donations and spouting out the backwards bullshit. McCain getting in is a very scary proposition. He'll barely be better than Bush.
From reading the summary, what the judge seems to have said is that maybe it is possible to be inventive purely in software, and that we should treat such claims on a case-by-case basis. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I agree that most software patents granted in the US are not good. But I don't agree that a software patent by definition is bad. That would be a pretty much indefensible and, if I can turn your accusation against you, an inflexible position.
I have to say I disagree with you. I think that it IS possible to be 'inventive purely in software', but because of the nature of software, it SHOULDN'T be patentable. There's a big difference between software and a device, or even a book. One piece of software builds on ideas of other pieces of software; it borrows very heavily from other components, and 'stands on the shoulders of giants' in order to provide its advanced functionality (take a look at what % of the GUI the programmer of a modern Visual Studio Windows app actually programmed).
I don't think this position is indefensible in the slighest, and I invite you to try and knock it down.
this is not as ironic or impossible as it sounds at first sight, Sachs is not a dreamer, what he wants to achieve is not suppressing all of poverty, but to suppress life threatening poverty.
Isn't that the worst of all worlds? We aggrevate the overpopulation problem, but many of those living shill have shitty lives.
Wow, that's generous. That leaves him, like, $10 to be getting on with, right? I must say if I were in that situation, I really don't think I could stretch to sparing that $40 billion.
otherwise Medicade
What is that, some kind of prescription cola?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
No, morality comes from Mormons.
Jack Thompson calls for a 'Less Confrontational Litigation'.
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the fact that it would make it harder for the ad industry to hunt you down which is always appreciated,
That's an idiotic opinion. If you find a way to block ads, then it doesn't matter either way; if not, at least personalized ads will be personalized. Your fear of them 'tracking you down' is irrational, as if you think they're kidnappers or something.
Ehhhh, we got all the info we need to know on Slashdot. It's today. Microsoft OOXML is bad, someone said it was, and it was someone new (or at least they said something slightly differently)... now let's all have a flamefest on that summary alone.
Sounds like the kind of place heroic Muslims go to die.
I hate it when people go off topic. I was playing Team Fortress the other day, and people just kept using the voice chat to talk about this stupid 14 year old's dinner that night. I was all, "What the hell?" But that's okay, because then my wife got home and we started watching DS9.
I think you should know that she'd been watching TNG with me previously.
I agree.
Will these terrible names, which apparently attempt to draw an analogy between a computer-related misdemeanor and some agricultural pastime, never end? I'm just waiting for some guy from F-Secure to call porn 'phucking'.
I find it amazing how, even in Canada where there are governmental agencies apparently unafraid to speak against the money interests, that this might still get passed there.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy doesn't work." --Kent Brockman
If I could get by with a smaller car I would. But I tried it and it didn't work. I drove a 2 seater that I loved before I got the truck. Sometimes, you really do need the larger vehicle.
I'm curious. What for? And is it stuff you could, if you're honest, change your lifestyle a bit to avoid? Shooting and lugging grizzly bears home?
So, to translate:
I should be able to download the large files that I like to download, but other people should have their large downloads held against them.
Yep, seems pretty fair.
There's no "Society for the Termination of All Space Travel".
You've obviously never met the Florida school board.
I *love* those little ice particles in ice cream, they give it a great texture. Game over.
As has been said elsewhere here, 9/11 wasn't a passenger hjjacking -- and yet, as a result, you've taken crazy measure to stop passengers from hijacking.
9/11 _was_ a passenger hijacking. What do you think it was?
Stop thinking like a Geek for one minute and imagine the public reaction to the loss of the White House
With or without the President inside?
Erm, we *do* have nuclear weapons.