The protagonist got funding by claiming the Soviets were going to paint a Hammer & Sickle on the moon. He also got funding from the "Moca-Cola" corporation by claiming that rival company "6+" was going to paint a 6+ logo on the moon.
My wife died of ALS, and while we weren't bankrupted (thank heavens), the stress on both of us was hell.
She had a DNR, and a no-vent order written in advance. When she was admitted for pneumonia, she was lucky that her doctor understood that it was essentially over, and ordered a morphine drip.
She was essentially out of it, and confirming the DNR/no-vent was the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. I still haven't completely forgiven myself.
Very well, since you're going to be so damned obtuse....
Myhrvold and IV are patent trolls, insisting that they be paid for every "innovation" that they come up with.
Unless Myhrvold came up with EVERY SINGLE technique and recipe in that book, he's using something someone else invented. Thus the OP's comment that he hopes that the inventors of the techniques are compensated. And again, obviously YOU care, or you wouldn't be continuing this thread.
If you care as little as you claim to, why don't you just ignore this whole thread? Because, as you say, "who cares?" if you don't care?
Unfortunately Dice.com owns Slashdot now, and they don't give a shit about integrity.
(It's amazing, isn't it? I post a negative comment about Dice/Slashdot and I have to wait 5 minutes between posts to post it instead of the usual 2, or occasional 1).
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It's from Heinlein's The Man Who Sold the Moon.
The protagonist got funding by claiming the Soviets were going to paint a Hammer & Sickle on the moon. He also got funding from the "Moca-Cola" corporation by claiming that rival company "6+" was going to paint a 6+ logo on the moon.
It's *IN* Sinus Iridum. Sinus Iridum is the "Bay of Rainbows".
So you plan on supporting a company that deliberately put malware onto shiny disks with music on them?
After the rootkit fiasco, Sony will NEVER get another dollar of mine.
Or, for Mageia:
Damn it, you beat me to it!!!
Except, of course in Apple v. Samsung, where they explicitly ignored Judge Koh's instructions.
My wife died of ALS, and while we weren't bankrupted (thank heavens), the stress on both of us was hell.
She had a DNR, and a no-vent order written in advance. When she was admitted for pneumonia, she was lucky that her doctor understood that it was essentially over, and ordered a morphine drip.
She was essentially out of it, and confirming the DNR/no-vent was the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. I still haven't completely forgiven myself.
Dude, I can understand not RTFA. But it's there in TFS. They'll have microcells on the plane.
Of course, the question is, CDMA or GSM?
And I don't want the guy next to me shouting into his phone for the next 5 hours.
They did the last part themselves, anyways.
CBM means "Covered Business Method (patent)"
Ah yes... Chicago. Where being dead is no impediment to voting.
My mom is from Chicago, and several years back, I got her a t-shirt to wear when she votes: "I'm From Chicago... TWO BALLOTS PLEASE!!!"
Very well, since you're going to be so damned obtuse....
Myhrvold and IV are patent trolls, insisting that they be paid for every "innovation" that they come up with.
Unless Myhrvold came up with EVERY SINGLE technique and recipe in that book, he's using something someone else invented. Thus the OP's comment that he hopes that the inventors of the techniques are compensated. And again, obviously YOU care, or you wouldn't be continuing this thread.
If you care as little as you claim to, why don't you just ignore this whole thread? Because, as you say, "who cares?" if you don't care?
Oh, and apparently, YOU care, or you wouldn't have replied to this thread TWICE.
And some people don't get jokes, apparently.
I guess I'll have to petition W3C to officially put the HUMOR and SARCASM tags into the HTML5 spec.
Unfortunately Dice.com owns Slashdot now, and they don't give a shit about integrity.
(It's amazing, isn't it? I post a negative comment about Dice/Slashdot and I have to wait 5 minutes between posts to post it instead of the usual 2, or occasional 1).
Whoosh.
Myrvhold and "Intellectual Ventures" are some of the biggest patent trolls on the planet. Hence the joke.
I hope the pilot wasn't injured!!!!!!
And then... the dreaded Zamboni Apocalypse....
Well played. Well played indeed.
They'll paint it plaid.
n/t
Microsoft ME? "Microsoft Microsoft Edition"?
Yes, I know ME stands for "Millenium Edition". Humor me.
Yeah, I understand that Hurd is going to be big and professional, unlike Linux.
When I admined a small LAN, I loved Micropolis drives.
Later on, I worked with a bunch of ex-Micropolis people. Good folks, all. Too bad the company went under.
But he's apparently gone rogue... I hear he performs a lot of Illegal Operations.