That's what people do here; whine. I've found that lots and lots of valium makes me not care as much anymore. My Kharma went from negative (or bad or something) to positive in just a couple of weeks.
Right off the top of my head have a few wav files like:
'type in the second letter of the word blind' 'now type in the third letter of the word 'January'
What's so friggin hard about that? And no spammer's gonna have the technology to bust that for a few years.
BTW, I haven't tested it yet, but I bet I could write some pattern recognition code that would crack 90% of those anti-spam bitmaps. Do you think spammers would pay me for that?
Don't fuck around. Need a hole? Use a sledgehammer. Fast, makes a nice, neat hole that's big enough for about 115 Cat5 cables. None of this sissy shit like wireless and threading little bitty cables through little bitty holes and fastening the ends on only AFTER threading the cables.
Worried about the landlord? Screw that! If you can afford more than one computer then you can afford to lose the security deposit.
Oh... and then do what I did. Move to New Zealand. Mwahhahahahaha
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If I had more than a few minutes or really cared I'd pick the article apart point by point, but the main point is that the Harry Potter series was no doubt very popular in book-only form, but would NEVER have sold $100M worth of books in a weekend without the HP movies and the media hype.
Normally I'd agree in the conservative estimate of 2 readers per book, but I think that a large portion of sales are driven by a 'me too' mentality. I'd put readership at more like.5 readers per copy. Really.
Would anyone care to bet against me that sales of Tolkien's LOTR and The Hobbit books skyrocketed because of the movies and not just because everyone suddenly, simultaneously and miraculously figured out that they're just really good books (which they are)?
Face it. These people (a lot of them) buying the new HP book are buying it because everyone says they have to and to get a preview of the next movie.
The Hulk just happens to have had fewer big-budget movie prequels than HP (not counting the low-budget Bill Bixby junk) and LOTS less media hype. The Hulk CG also sucks from what I've seen in the trailers. Hopefully I'll change my mind when I watch the DVD in 6 months.
Gawd I hate faulty (I think the word is 'specious') reasoning almost as much as I hate the knuckleheads who believe the faulty reasoning simply because it was written in the NY Times. Probably mostly the same knuckleheads who stood in line to but the latest HP book so that it could sit on the coffee table to show everyone how smart their knucklehead kids are because they can read.
This sounds too much like urban legend. How about the name of the artist so that we can:
1. Check the CD out in the store to see if you're full of crap.
2. Back you (and thousand others) up with an email to his fan club (and hopefully to him) when we find out that you're not full of crap. I'd do it even if it was Fred Durst.
Telling your story without a name is pretty pointless now isn't it?
Lessee...one guy called me a 'wanker', that started convincing me, another was a 'Research Associate'. With a title like that he must be right. I think that's what I was called when I worked on the ALVIN Group at WHOI many years ago. Now that title was a joke.
The funniest part is that nobody here knows who I am and never will. I don't particularly care.
Sorry...I don't see where the 'interesting' mods come from unless maybe the poster has 5 aliases.
Last I heard it cost $20k a pop to get a patent through. That's not counting the $3000 some companies like HP pay the inventor for filing (or at least they used to).
I don't know much about the EFF financial situation, but I seriously doubt that they're going to come up with that kind of money. And the funny part is that they don't have to. If they publish the idea it becomes prior art and no one else can get an enforceable patent on the idea anyways.
So maybe what you meant to say was that the EFF should start publishing this stuff?
Some of us, particularly those of us smart enough and opportunistic enough to actually get software patent applications submitted, believe in them (well...most of them anyways).
I and many others busted our asses thinking of ideas and developing them and I think it's a bunch of crap that you boneheads on Slashdot think that's a bad thing. You think it's fucking easy to think of something for the first time, prove that it works, do the prior art and existing patent searches and then write up the application?
It's a lot easier to moan about the evils of software patents than to actually *earn* one. I don't work on carburetors or maybe I'd patent some new nozzle or something. I choose to invent software things which are every bit as real to me as a more efficient carburetor is to a hardware guy. It's an invention and to my little programming mind it's a real thing.
I've said it here before and I'll say it again. In twenty years I'll have patents on the wall with my name on them and be damn proud of them. You can print out your little anti-software patent diatribes on Slashdot and hang those up and maybe your grandkids will be as impressed with those as mine will be with my patents, but I fucking doubt it.
What't the email address again? I want to tell them how great I think software patents are, especially since I have 11 pending in the US, UK, Espana and Japan. Hate to see them thrown out because some people are bitter because they can't get any.
Don't know much about the Intellivision HW because I went and bought a TI which HAD a keyboard, but, yes, MOBS are the same thing.
First time I remember hearing the term 'sprites' was with my TI-99/4A, but the concept's the same. Moveable Object Blocks in case no one else has de-acronymed this yet. I would suspect 'sprites would have been the term used on the Vic-20 which had come out sometime around then or slightly earlier.
Think about all the code and ram and stuff taken up for the crash window messages in Winders. Each one is a separate bitmap. Just one blue screen takes up 1024x768x4 bytes and they have lots of them.
Just install one of those bad boys in your car. Not only takes out the rfid's on the way home from the store, but also most of the cars around you, traffic lights and especially the cell phones. Just make sure your car was built pre-electronics age.
Americans don't get it. Neither do 95% of Slashdotters for that matter.
I just love to come on and watch the daily whining about the continuing loss of personal liberties in America. That and the daily/. patent whining.
If you don't like it, don't cry about it here, write your congressman. Nobody but the other fools here care about your rants.
I am fortunate because I have a forum to bitch about my pet peeve which is SlashDot. That's why I post here. This is the best place to whine about/. You should be somewhere you can actually make a difference like your congressman's website or www.whitehouse.gov.
If it's patented then they have to pay licensing as required. Every other day there's another whine about patents. Am I the only one sick of hearing about it? Slashdot articles don't change anything. Get a clue guys.
The Social Security Number may as well be a tatoo on the forehead. You are now issued one at birth and it is used for everything from drivers' licenses to credit reporting and obtaining to a tax ID. It was not originally meant to be a 'Nation ID Number' used to track your every movement. That's just how you let it end up.
Here in NZ there is the IRD number which is used for tax purposes *only*. In two years here I've gotten a Mastercard, purchased two cars on credit and gotten a house mortage without *any* numbers. Just my name. And good luck for someone using my credit by stealing my SSN. Can't happen here.
Two bad Americans are so gullible on the one hand and cynical on the other. We have crap politcians here in my adopted home also, but here we use their names, not their SSN's to broadcast the fact.
When I worked at HP (R&D) we had some pretty cool stuff for doing very similar things. Most of it came from Purdue or Palo Alto and then we made it actually work. All patented as fast as we got them working and sometimes sooner. Betcha you're going to run into that in real life. Even if you think of something 'novel' the patent's probably already filed or granted for what you're wanting to do.
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That's cruel. You could have at least put in the closing brace.
That's what people do here; whine. I've found that lots and lots of valium makes me not care as much anymore. My Kharma went from negative (or bad or something) to positive in just a couple of weeks.
Right off the top of my head have a few wav files like:
'type in the second letter of the word blind'
'now type in the third letter of the word 'January'
What's so friggin hard about that? And no spammer's gonna have the technology to bust that for a few years.
BTW, I haven't tested it yet, but I bet I could write some pattern recognition code that would crack 90% of those anti-spam bitmaps. Do you think spammers would pay me for that?
Don't fuck around. Need a hole? Use a sledgehammer. Fast, makes a nice, neat hole that's big enough for about 115 Cat5 cables. None of this sissy shit like wireless and threading little bitty cables through little bitty holes and fastening the ends on only AFTER threading the cables.
Worried about the landlord? Screw that! If you can afford more than one computer then you can afford to lose the security deposit.
Oh... and then do what I did. Move to New Zealand. Mwahhahahahaha
The end.
Yeah, but I got modded a 5 for insightful and you only got modded a 1. Dig deep enough and you'll see how much that proves my point.
If I had more than a few minutes or really cared I'd pick the article apart point by point, but the main point is that the Harry Potter series was no doubt very popular in book-only form, but would NEVER have sold $100M worth of books in a weekend without the HP movies and the media hype.
.5 readers per copy. Really.
Normally I'd agree in the conservative estimate of 2 readers per book, but I think that a large portion of sales are driven by a 'me too' mentality. I'd put readership at more like
Would anyone care to bet against me that sales of Tolkien's LOTR and The Hobbit books skyrocketed because of the movies and not just because everyone suddenly, simultaneously and miraculously figured out that they're just really good books (which they are)?
Face it. These people (a lot of them) buying the new HP book are buying it because everyone says they have to and to get a preview of the next movie.
The Hulk just happens to have had fewer big-budget movie prequels than HP (not counting the low-budget Bill Bixby junk) and LOTS less media hype. The Hulk CG also sucks from what I've seen in the trailers. Hopefully I'll change my mind when I watch the DVD in 6 months.
Gawd I hate faulty (I think the word is 'specious') reasoning almost as much as I hate the knuckleheads who believe the faulty reasoning simply because it was written in the NY Times. Probably mostly the same knuckleheads who stood in line to but the latest HP book so that it could sit on the coffee table to show everyone how smart their knucklehead kids are because they can read.
This sounds too much like urban legend. How about the name of the artist so that we can: 1. Check the CD out in the store to see if you're full of crap. 2. Back you (and thousand others) up with an email to his fan club (and hopefully to him) when we find out that you're not full of crap. I'd do it even if it was Fred Durst. Telling your story without a name is pretty pointless now isn't it?
It was announced today that EMI and Sony sued Brazil for keeping all of the hot topless babes down there and refusing to export them to LA.
Said the EMI head, 'What do Brazil's beaches have over LA beaches? Keep US bitches on US beaches where they belong'.
No word yet from the Brazilian Minister of Travel
Lessee...one guy called me a 'wanker', that started convincing me, another was a 'Research Associate'. With a title like that he must be right. I think that's what I was called when I worked on the ALVIN Group at WHOI many years ago. Now that title was a joke. The funniest part is that nobody here knows who I am and never will. I don't particularly care.
Sorry...I don't see where the 'interesting' mods come from unless maybe the poster has 5 aliases. Last I heard it cost $20k a pop to get a patent through. That's not counting the $3000 some companies like HP pay the inventor for filing (or at least they used to). I don't know much about the EFF financial situation, but I seriously doubt that they're going to come up with that kind of money. And the funny part is that they don't have to. If they publish the idea it becomes prior art and no one else can get an enforceable patent on the idea anyways. So maybe what you meant to say was that the EFF should start publishing this stuff?
Some of us, particularly those of us smart enough and opportunistic enough to actually get software patent applications submitted, believe in them (well...most of them anyways).
I and many others busted our asses thinking of ideas and developing them and I think it's a bunch of crap that you boneheads on Slashdot think that's a bad thing. You think it's fucking easy to think of something for the first time, prove that it works, do the prior art and existing patent searches and then write up the application?
It's a lot easier to moan about the evils of software patents than to actually *earn* one. I don't work on carburetors or maybe I'd patent some new nozzle or something. I choose to invent software things which are every bit as real to me as a more efficient carburetor is to a hardware guy. It's an invention and to my little programming mind it's a real thing.
I've said it here before and I'll say it again. In twenty years I'll have patents on the wall with my name on them and be damn proud of them. You can print out your little anti-software patent diatribes on Slashdot and hang those up and maybe your grandkids will be as impressed with those as mine will be with my patents, but I fucking doubt it.
What't the email address again? I want to tell them how great I think software patents are, especially since I have 11 pending in the US, UK, Espana and Japan. Hate to see them thrown out because some people are bitter because they can't get any.
Don't know much about the Intellivision HW because I went and bought a TI which HAD a keyboard, but, yes, MOBS are the same thing.
First time I remember hearing the term 'sprites' was with my TI-99/4A, but the concept's the same. Moveable Object Blocks in case no one else has de-acronymed this yet. I would suspect 'sprites would have been the term used on the Vic-20 which had come out sometime around then or slightly earlier.
It was a joke you fucking idiot.
Think about all the code and ram and stuff taken up for the crash window messages in Winders. Each one is a separate bitmap. Just one blue screen takes up 1024x768x4 bytes and they have lots of them.
My first console was the Intellivision. Bought it so that I could program it when they released the keyboard. Still waiting.
What do I know? I live in New Zealand.
Just install one of those bad boys in your car. Not only takes out the rfid's on the way home from the store, but also most of the cars around you, traffic lights and especially the cell phones. Just make sure your car was built pre-electronics age.
At least one person realizes this wasn't offtopic. That's the usual response.
Americans don't get it. Neither do 95% of Slashdotters for that matter.
/. patent whining.
/. You should be somewhere you can actually make a difference like your congressman's website or www.whitehouse.gov.
I just love to come on and watch the daily whining about the continuing loss of personal liberties in America. That and the daily
If you don't like it, don't cry about it here, write your congressman. Nobody but the other fools here care about your rants.
I am fortunate because I have a forum to bitch about my pet peeve which is SlashDot. That's why I post here. This is the best place to whine about
Prior art means prior to the application, not the granting of the patent. And anyone who modded this as 'insightful' is pretty much a bonehead also.
If it's patented then they have to pay licensing as required. Every other day there's another whine about patents. Am I the only one sick of hearing about it? Slashdot articles don't change anything. Get a clue guys.
The Social Security Number may as well be a tatoo on the forehead. You are now issued one at birth and it is used for everything from drivers' licenses to credit reporting and obtaining to a tax ID. It was not originally meant to be a 'Nation ID Number' used to track your every movement. That's just how you let it end up. Here in NZ there is the IRD number which is used for tax purposes *only*. In two years here I've gotten a Mastercard, purchased two cars on credit and gotten a house mortage without *any* numbers. Just my name. And good luck for someone using my credit by stealing my SSN. Can't happen here. Two bad Americans are so gullible on the one hand and cynical on the other. We have crap politcians here in my adopted home also, but here we use their names, not their SSN's to broadcast the fact.
When I worked at HP (R&D) we had some pretty cool stuff for doing very similar things. Most of it came from Purdue or Palo Alto and then we made it actually work. All patented as fast as we got them working and sometimes sooner. Betcha you're going to run into that in real life. Even if you think of something 'novel' the patent's probably already filed or granted for what you're wanting to do.