So its ok that Apple close everything down and make it so that you have to have a signed app (drm) to run anything on their phone, but not ok that flash is a closed format?
First off, a digital signature isn't DRM, get a clue.
Second, yes it is acceptable for Apple and not Adobe. People like the iPhone, no one likes Flash, though a few people do like a few very specific Flash based things. Take video off the web and the only place you'll see flash used is in places where you clearly don't want to use it. Scammers (which facebook qualifies as) and annoying ads.
You can get by with doing things people don't like if you do enough things they do like. Apple is good at walking that line.
Right... because there is a reason for 64 bit flash to exist... nope there isn't. There really is no need at all for 64 bit flash, except maybe IE which isn't capable of crossing the 64/32 bit boundry for plugins.
I was there when they started running ambulances down the interestates with lights/sirens on to find and ticket people who didn't pull over.
Cars today actually have less horsepower. Traction really hasn't changed on any sort of high speed road, its far better on poorly made roads as the components react better, but on an Interstate theres not really much of a difference.
What you see happening has nothing to do with the govenor and everything to do with having a state thats 95% retirees that are completely unaware of their surroundings and don't pull over. They infact generally think its a good idea to sit right next to the car beside them as a reference point.
What doesn't help is the half mile of bumper to bumper cars going 70 mph behind them.
Back the fuck off, you'd be amazed at what happens if you just drop back a few car lengths from the cars in front of you. When you're packed in like tuna in a can you can't do anything to go around, back up. Wait for them to shift around a little... they will. Find an opening and open it. If you want to be nice, get infront of one of the assholes and slow down to push them back and make room for others, but thats a good way to get yourself in an accident.
You know what parents do to solve this problem? TEACH THEIR KIDS NOT TO PLAY IN THE FUCKING ROAD.
Please though, continue to play around in the street like an idiot, one less of you in the gene pool is a great idea in my opinion.
I know why you have accidents, apparently you don't.
First off: Don't play in the street dip shit. Pay attention when you cross the road, its not really hard. Teach your kids to be aware of the world around them and they'll live a lot longer than trying to change the world to suit them.
Second off: Don't like the traffic on the street? Why do you have a house with children on a dangerous street? You know what our ancient ancestories did when they lived in a dangerous area? THEY MOVED. Thats how you get out of dangerous situations, you leave them. You are aware that you live in a dangerous location, yet you stay, and expect that the world will change to fit what you want... whats worse is its not even a new situation for you, you've obviously been there for a while.
For now, I'll enjoy the sound of engine breaking as the big trucks (the ones that want to run through the stretch at 55 mph!) slow down each time they see the kids in the driveway or the yard.
And exactly what are you going to enjoy when you hear the sound of a big truck trying to slow down but not doing so before it turns your children into a red spot on the road?
You sir and an idiot and need to be removed from the gene pool. I feel sorry for your children, they got short changed.
You should know then... that college professors are rather disconnected from reality. You should also know (as someone who was there) that students don't have any experience and tend to ignore massive amounts of the picture.
Sadly what then happens is a professor glances over a paper written by one of his/her students and publishes it under their own name, yet neither party involved is actually in any way qualified to do the study.
For every useful study that comes out of a university, there are 100 retarded and flat out wrong that come out.
You NEVER put any faith in some random study done at a educational facility. You don't change the way you run your company because of something the guy you just hired who has no experience says... why the hell do people think students are authoritative source of valid and accurate info?
You know what happens with those signs? I do. Took our neighborhood several months to get the city to remove the one from in front of my house and prevent them from putting it up somewhere else so the kids in my neighborhood didn't get killed.
What happens is this:
Safe drivers are already safe and the sign is retarded and nothing more than a pointless blinking visual distraction.
Unsafe drivers see the sign as a challenge and speed up so they can see how fast they can drive by the sign, meanwhile ignoring the children playing in the neighborhood so they can watch the sign to see their speed blink.
The theoretical psychology behind these systems maybe interesting, however theory isn't reality and these signs are most definitely far more dangerous than not having them as anyone who's actually been around them is aware.
In Portugal I saw a cute system - if you pass a sensor driving faster than the speed limit, then a traffic signal 200yards/metres down the road turns red for 10 seconds, making you (and again anyone behind you) stop.
Absolutely fucking retarded. Creating congestion never raises safety levels. Ever. What happens is people just go faster to run the light or run it anyway. You may think its cute, sounds pretty fucking dangerous to me. Its always a good idea to make speeders suddenly stop unexpectedly and have to hit the brakes hard... especially with other people speeding behind them... brilliant idea... really... who comes up with this stuff? How many accidents suddenly start happening right around that red light? Hmm? There are less speeding accidents, and twice as many accidents involving the red light being ran or people getting rear ended at it.
I love how someone invents a theory sitting behind a desk somewhere and without actually looking at what happens in the real world, they ignore all the other contributions to the equation and lose sight of reality resulting in a more dangerous situation that you started with.
You want safer driving? Require drivers have more of a clue. Don't let any random moron drive (Here in America if you can breath you can drive, and there are exceptions for non-breathers) and you won't have as many issues. Punish those who drive unsafe stiffer, take away their drivers license. Its not a right, its a privilege.
What you don't do is introduce more distractions and changes to throw unexpected things at the driver. They do this in video games to raise the difficultly level... perhaps these scientists and others who think this is a good idea should play a few video games and get a clue.
Now before someone starts ranting about how they pay tax on gas and thus roads should only be for cars, the gax tax does not come anywhere close to funding roads in the US -- a large portion of the money needed to maintain and build roadways comes from property taxes and the general fund.
Heres a novel idea, spend the extra 0.0001% to put a sidewalk in right next to the automobile road for these people. Hell put one for bikes and another one for pedestrians if your concerned about safety, the cost of laying a sidewalk or two is nothing compared to the cost of laying a good road surface.
I don't mind providing road surfaces for other types of traffic, but that doesn't mean I'm delusional and think that having pedestrians and cyclists on the main driving surface is in any way safer than not having them there.
You've realized MS is just like every other company on the planet.
Congratulations, you've discovered something everyone knew about before MS was even founded.
I'm really not sure why you seem to think this is unique to MS? Read Google News for a few days you'll quickly realize its how the world works. Let me go ahead and political it up some more by pointing out a great example elsewhere: The health care bill. Now I don't care if your for it or against it as it stands, I'm not trying to debate the bill. Just point out that there is one group you never saw bitching about any plan. That would be the insurance companies. What you will find if you do some digging is plenty of congress critters who were enjoying themselves along side... insurance company (wait for it... heres the kicker... ) lobbiests.
Thats right, they have a name for people who do what you're talking about. Its that common. Its called lobbying.
So good for you, 10-20 more years, you might be qualified to vote. Probably not.
.NET had nothing to do with moving everything to the MS cloud. They hadn't even dreamt up Azure yet, I don't think anyone had even considered the cloud computing retardedness going on now. It was purely the marketing term for the public to know it as. It was riding the height of the.COM boom. But good for you for pretending to know what you're talking about.
Which is why it was called.net in the first place, and why it compiles to byte-code instead of machine code, even though it only is ever run on one architecture and one operating system
... does that even make sense in your head? They made it portable... so they could run it on... one architecture type? No, the reason its compiled to byte code has very little to do with the processor architecture and a whole hell of a lot to do with having a dynamic runtime. Kind of like... well pretty much all other dynamic runtimes in existence. The architecture independance is a nice and intentional side effect. It means that they can make it a lot easier to run it on multiple OSes on multiple processor architectures. You do realize that MS has implementations of.NET for at least 4 different processor types? x86, ARM, PPC, and MIPS. They currently have public implementations for 2 major OS classes, Windows as you know it and WinCE/Mobile/Phone/Dash. Which while they share a similar API, they are most certainly not the same OS. It also runs on OS X, though I'm not aware of when it will become publicly available. Certainly will be when the next Office for Mac is released, and portions of it have been available with Moonlight since at least July of last year.
(yeah, Mono, but that wasn't in Microsoft's plans)
Actually... yea, it was. You do realize that the CLR and C# are open standards right? You realize that MS released an open source reference implementation almost 10 years ago now... right? I literally ran.NET code on my FreeBSD machine before a Windows machine. I presume you think they did all of that and figured that no one every would possibly consider making their own implementation?
On the other hand, Microsoft HAS gotten more involved in politics, and that may be what you are observing. They've gotten involved more and more ever since the anti-trust case. I read an article a decade ago discussing how Microsoft realized that to stay out of problems with the government, it helps to 'donate'.
Again, contridicting yourself in a single sentence. I guess you think 'donating' isn't being involved in politics? Well either way, nothing is new, they've been the same for over 20 years, you just never noticed. For reference though when you're going to say 'they've changed recently' don't follow it up with an example from 'a decade' ago of them doing the exact same thing.
I think you should read your posts before you post if you actually care. For reference: I don't.
You need to lookup the definition of Monopoly. Stop using words you don't actually know the meaning of. MS was never at any point a monopoly at anything other than selling its own products.
Abusive, certainly. Monopoly, never.
This isn't about Open Standards. The OSS world and slashdot in particular don't know the meaning of the word. In this context Open Standard pretty much translates to Our Standard. If it doesn't fit your perfect little world you throw it out as open or standard, while completely ignoring established/defacto standards because its suits you.
Make a better package that customers want.
You can't give it away. Its that bad that even being free, no one fucking wants it. TAKE THE HINT.
You're trying too hard. We all know what vibrators are. Every video game controller on the market now has rumble errr... vibrating eccentric mass motors... kind of redundant there aren't you?
Or as one of the creators put it, 'every time Bruce Willis gets shot, you feel it.
Welcome to 20 years ago guys. Again, video game controllers already have rumble support, and there have been other devices like this before everyone jumped on the 'haptic' bandwagon recently.
What happens is that about 15 minutes in you forget all about the annoying little vibrators and take the retarded 40 pound vest off so you can stop sweating and being tickled.
Stop trying so hard and copying what you saw in a movie. Focus on figuring out what people actually want, you'll actually stay in business that way.
Interestingly enough, its funny how the general (and incorrect imo) trend now days is 'positive feedback' for teaching animals, children or whatever... why is it we continually struggle to find new ways to inflect negative feedback on ourself?
Perhaps someone should put the two groups together and they can form one single unified clue.
Check your funding a little closer. Most of that money comes from grants by drug companies that gets donated to the government to be disseminated to research projects.
Don't get me wrong, we're (public) losing in the deal but its actually not nearly as bad as you think. They occasionally buy us dinner and bring lube with them.
Wow, I can not believe you actually made those statements on slashdot. I mean I do it, but I like to watch the angsty little slashdotter heads explode after pointing their own self loathing out to them.
You do know common sense and practicality are completely lost on anyone here, right? This place is filled with a bunch of highschool and college kids who still haven't figured out that the utopian world their professors told them was out there is a fictional universe that only exists in the minds of professors and inside school buildings. You can't go off and use common sense here, whats wrong with you man?
Actually, doing it first does give you the right to patent it. Thats kind how patents work.
I realize you're talking about what you 'think' it should be, but you are a minority. The law and the general population disagree with your statements apparently.
You also misunderstand one of the points of patents which is to grant certain benefits to someone who makes their invention available for others too look at and extend.
You say the guy that did it first doesn't get anything special.
You live in a fantasy universe. The world is filled full of natural examples of how being first gives you a solid distinct advantage. If you'd like to take away the organized methods we use now and fall back to more traditional methods such as fighting to the death then I'm all for it. However I'm guessing that you don't finish first, hence your wanting the guy who does to not have an advantage... Fortunately, those of us who do work harder and finish first will continue to be the ones who make the rules.
Sorry you're lazy or incapable, you can whine moan and complain, but you'll still finish second and have to deal with someone else having the advantage. Change the 'law' make it something different, you'll still be second.
So I'm guessing you're blaming things like Androids shitty interface on the fact that someone like Apple holds patents on the things that make a phone UI not suck ass? You think that they just got lucky in their work in a few years compared to the 20 years or so head start the other major players had on them?
No. They didn't get lucky. They busted their ass, threw the right researchers at it and came up with a winner. Now you just want anyone else to be able to do it because they would have figured it out anyway? No, they wouldn't have. They weren't putting any effort into making cellphones not suck ass before hand.
The iPod and iPhone are clear examples of someone putting more effort into making a product better than the competition and deserving not to just have everyone else copycat it tomorrow.
Sorry you're a loser, but you'll stay one until you realize that the winners aren't sitting around talking about how everything should be fair, they are out there winning, thats not going to change.
You can say 'there is no infringement' but you don't decide that, the law/a judge does. Period. Any other notion is simply utterly disconnected from reality.
I realize that slashdot has just learned about them in the past 10 years or so but let me enlighten you about a little fact that everyone down here on Earth who has ever been involved with patents already knows....
PATENT TROLLS AREN'T NEW.
They haven't actually been a real issue ever. Just because you've noticed through a news aggregator ran buy a bunch of people who think 'information WANTS to be free' and shows every 'patent troll' on the planet doesn't mean its really that big of a problem.
They have to 'reveal how it works' or more importantly, they have to describe what they want patented, if you don't describe it in the patent it isn't patented. So... for all practical purposes the important part of the discover will be in the patent as the inventors want it protected. You can argue semantics, but that just makes you a tool and your point irrelevant since... down here on Earth... how it actually works and practicality are the law, not whatever theory some professor told you in class last week.
Before you start telling us how it is on Earth, you might actually want to come visit first. Its a real shame you can't be rational.
Patents actually make the research a little easier, part of it has to be published. No one is going to sue anyone for doing pure research.
Patents take away the financial incentive for someone else to expand on it. No one does research on the patented object because theres no return on the investment in resources other than pure intellectualism.
Contrary to what you might think the entire world does not live on random 'feel good' vibes from committing patches to GPL software and during research just to share with everyone else.
If you think patents prevent research you don't have a very good connection to reality. Greed and motivation control what gets researched.
The argument that patents prevent research is just as valid as the argument that patents promote research.
Right, because there aren't hundreds of thousands of other Sergey and Larry boys running around the world.
Stop being so angsty, its not you, its not your kids, its not your city, its not your name.
You've got your panties in a bunch over something that will never effect you and will likely never even be known by the two potential children inless it comes up in a funny conversation 30 years from now.
In short, it doesnt fucking matter if he names his kids after Google founders, their going to get names based on some random thing, why not something productive for him.
There are far bigger issues in the world, and in Raleigh for that matter than what some guy names his kids.
I really fail to see why it even matters to you. It won't effect anyone but maybe the lucky people who get fiber.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... especially when the only change the 'few' are going to notice his how long it takes them to sign a check.
Too bad they have a data center a few hundred miles away. Raleigh and Google have a rather good relationship, Raleigh has given Google massive tax breaks to get them to move into Lenor. Being that those tax breaks come out of my wallet, the least they can do is put some fiber in my neighborhood for me.
Sadly, I live in Cary, which is one of raleighs outlaying cities... we probably won't get hooked up and will get left being raped by Time Warner when they raise the price to compensate.
As a resident of Raleigh, I'm all for it. No one gets the name they 'want' you just get some name. How names are picked is arbitrary, the kids could get something retarded anyway, or its actually even entirely possible the guy already decided on these names anyway and this is just a nice publicity stunt.
Either way, if you think the names are going to define the kids destiny you are seriously disconnected from any sort of reality I'm involved in. Its simply not really that big of a deal and no one will know they were named to get some fiber in the ground.
More importantly, the guy himself got shafted when it comes to naming, his kids will be in good company for the 'bad names' as you call them.
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First off, a digital signature isn't DRM, get a clue.
Second, yes it is acceptable for Apple and not Adobe. People like the iPhone, no one likes Flash, though a few people do like a few very specific Flash based things. Take video off the web and the only place you'll see flash used is in places where you clearly don't want to use it. Scammers (which facebook qualifies as) and annoying ads.
You can get by with doing things people don't like if you do enough things they do like. Apple is good at walking that line.
Right ... because there is a reason for 64 bit flash to exist ... nope there isn't. There really is no need at all for 64 bit flash, except maybe IE which isn't capable of crossing the 64/32 bit boundry for plugins.
I think you need to check your reality again.
I was there when they started running ambulances down the interestates with lights/sirens on to find and ticket people who didn't pull over.
Cars today actually have less horsepower. Traction really hasn't changed on any sort of high speed road, its far better on poorly made roads as the components react better, but on an Interstate theres not really much of a difference.
What you see happening has nothing to do with the govenor and everything to do with having a state thats 95% retirees that are completely unaware of their surroundings and don't pull over. They infact generally think its a good idea to sit right next to the car beside them as a reference point.
What doesn't help is the half mile of bumper to bumper cars going 70 mph behind them.
Back the fuck off, you'd be amazed at what happens if you just drop back a few car lengths from the cars in front of you. When you're packed in like tuna in a can you can't do anything to go around, back up. Wait for them to shift around a little ... they will. Find an opening and open it. If you want to be nice, get infront of one of the assholes and slow down to push them back and make room for others, but thats a good way to get yourself in an accident.
You're an idiot.
You know what parents do to solve this problem? TEACH THEIR KIDS NOT TO PLAY IN THE FUCKING ROAD.
Please though, continue to play around in the street like an idiot, one less of you in the gene pool is a great idea in my opinion.
I know why you have accidents, apparently you don't.
First off: Don't play in the street dip shit. Pay attention when you cross the road, its not really hard. Teach your kids to be aware of the world around them and they'll live a lot longer than trying to change the world to suit them.
Second off: Don't like the traffic on the street? Why do you have a house with children on a dangerous street? You know what our ancient ancestories did when they lived in a dangerous area? THEY MOVED. Thats how you get out of dangerous situations, you leave them. You are aware that you live in a dangerous location, yet you stay, and expect that the world will change to fit what you want ... whats worse is its not even a new situation for you, you've obviously been there for a while.
And exactly what are you going to enjoy when you hear the sound of a big truck trying to slow down but not doing so before it turns your children into a red spot on the road?
You sir and an idiot and need to be removed from the gene pool. I feel sorry for your children, they got short changed.
You should know then ... that college professors are rather disconnected from reality. You should also know (as someone who was there) that students don't have any experience and tend to ignore massive amounts of the picture.
Sadly what then happens is a professor glances over a paper written by one of his/her students and publishes it under their own name, yet neither party involved is actually in any way qualified to do the study.
For every useful study that comes out of a university, there are 100 retarded and flat out wrong that come out.
You NEVER put any faith in some random study done at a educational facility. You don't change the way you run your company because of something the guy you just hired who has no experience says ... why the hell do people think students are authoritative source of valid and accurate info?
You know what happens with those signs? I do. Took our neighborhood several months to get the city to remove the one from in front of my house and prevent them from putting it up somewhere else so the kids in my neighborhood didn't get killed.
What happens is this:
Safe drivers are already safe and the sign is retarded and nothing more than a pointless blinking visual distraction.
Unsafe drivers see the sign as a challenge and speed up so they can see how fast they can drive by the sign, meanwhile ignoring the children playing in the neighborhood so they can watch the sign to see their speed blink.
The theoretical psychology behind these systems maybe interesting, however theory isn't reality and these signs are most definitely far more dangerous than not having them as anyone who's actually been around them is aware.
Absolutely fucking retarded. Creating congestion never raises safety levels. Ever. What happens is people just go faster to run the light or run it anyway. You may think its cute, sounds pretty fucking dangerous to me. Its always a good idea to make speeders suddenly stop unexpectedly and have to hit the brakes hard ... especially with other people speeding behind them ... brilliant idea ... really ... who comes up with this stuff? How many accidents suddenly start happening right around that red light? Hmm? There are less speeding accidents, and twice as many accidents involving the red light being ran or people getting rear ended at it.
I love how someone invents a theory sitting behind a desk somewhere and without actually looking at what happens in the real world, they ignore all the other contributions to the equation and lose sight of reality resulting in a more dangerous situation that you started with.
You want safer driving? Require drivers have more of a clue. Don't let any random moron drive (Here in America if you can breath you can drive, and there are exceptions for non-breathers) and you won't have as many issues. Punish those who drive unsafe stiffer, take away their drivers license. Its not a right, its a privilege.
What you don't do is introduce more distractions and changes to throw unexpected things at the driver. They do this in video games to raise the difficultly level ... perhaps these scientists and others who think this is a good idea should play a few video games and get a clue.
Yes, making driving less safe is a great way to increase safety ...
It doesn't matter how you do it, by intentionally reducing safety you are REDUCING SAFETY.
Heres a novel idea, spend the extra 0.0001% to put a sidewalk in right next to the automobile road for these people. Hell put one for bikes and another one for pedestrians if your concerned about safety, the cost of laying a sidewalk or two is nothing compared to the cost of laying a good road surface.
I don't mind providing road surfaces for other types of traffic, but that doesn't mean I'm delusional and think that having pedestrians and cyclists on the main driving surface is in any way safer than not having them there.
They also piss people off and result in drivers that go real fast between them.
You're so witty and insightful.
You've realized MS is just like every other company on the planet.
Congratulations, you've discovered something everyone knew about before MS was even founded.
I'm really not sure why you seem to think this is unique to MS? Read Google News for a few days you'll quickly realize its how the world works. Let me go ahead and political it up some more by pointing out a great example elsewhere: The health care bill. Now I don't care if your for it or against it as it stands, I'm not trying to debate the bill. Just point out that there is one group you never saw bitching about any plan. That would be the insurance companies. What you will find if you do some digging is plenty of congress critters who were enjoying themselves along side ... insurance company (wait for it ... heres the kicker ... ) lobbiests.
Thats right, they have a name for people who do what you're talking about. Its that common. Its called lobbying.
So good for you, 10-20 more years, you might be qualified to vote. Probably not.
.NET had nothing to do with moving everything to the MS cloud. They hadn't even dreamt up Azure yet, I don't think anyone had even considered the cloud computing retardedness going on now. It was purely the marketing term for the public to know it as. It was riding the height of the .COM boom. But good for you for pretending to know what you're talking about.
Actually ... yea, it was. You do realize that the CLR and C# are open standards right? You realize that MS released an open source reference implementation almost 10 years ago now ... right? I literally ran .NET code on my FreeBSD machine before a Windows machine. I presume you think they did all of that and figured that no one every would possibly consider making their own implementation?
Again, contridicting yourself in a single sentence. I guess you think 'donating' isn't being involved in politics? Well either way, nothing is new, they've been the same for over 20 years, you just never noticed. For reference though when you're going to say 'they've changed recently' don't follow it up with an example from 'a decade' ago of them doing the exact same thing.
I think you should read your posts before you post if you actually care. For reference: I don't.
You need to lookup the definition of Monopoly. Stop using words you don't actually know the meaning of. MS was never at any point a monopoly at anything other than selling its own products.
Abusive, certainly. Monopoly, never.
This isn't about Open Standards. The OSS world and slashdot in particular don't know the meaning of the word. In this context Open Standard pretty much translates to Our Standard. If it doesn't fit your perfect little world you throw it out as open or standard, while completely ignoring established/defacto standards because its suits you.
Make a better package that customers want.
You can't give it away. Its that bad that even being free, no one fucking wants it. TAKE THE HINT.
Perhaps you should change your name to 'TooSlowGuy' or 'DumbassWhoStandsUpToGetShot' or something ...
I know several soldiers that have been shot. I don't know any who talk about being shot 'several times', they certainly wouldn't be very proud of it.
I have a distinct feeling you've never been shot.
You're trying too hard. We all know what vibrators are. Every video game controller on the market now has rumble errr ... vibrating eccentric mass motors ... kind of redundant there aren't you?
Welcome to 20 years ago guys. Again, video game controllers already have rumble support, and there have been other devices like this before everyone jumped on the 'haptic' bandwagon recently.
What happens is that about 15 minutes in you forget all about the annoying little vibrators and take the retarded 40 pound vest off so you can stop sweating and being tickled.
Stop trying so hard and copying what you saw in a movie. Focus on figuring out what people actually want, you'll actually stay in business that way.
Interestingly enough, its funny how the general (and incorrect imo) trend now days is 'positive feedback' for teaching animals, children or whatever ... why is it we continually struggle to find new ways to inflect negative feedback on ourself?
Perhaps someone should put the two groups together and they can form one single unified clue.
Check your funding a little closer. Most of that money comes from grants by drug companies that gets donated to the government to be disseminated to research projects.
Don't get me wrong, we're (public) losing in the deal but its actually not nearly as bad as you think. They occasionally buy us dinner and bring lube with them.
Wow, I can not believe you actually made those statements on slashdot. I mean I do it, but I like to watch the angsty little slashdotter heads explode after pointing their own self loathing out to them.
You do know common sense and practicality are completely lost on anyone here, right? This place is filled with a bunch of highschool and college kids who still haven't figured out that the utopian world their professors told them was out there is a fictional universe that only exists in the minds of professors and inside school buildings. You can't go off and use common sense here, whats wrong with you man?
Actually, doing it first does give you the right to patent it. Thats kind how patents work.
I realize you're talking about what you 'think' it should be, but you are a minority. The law and the general population disagree with your statements apparently.
You also misunderstand one of the points of patents which is to grant certain benefits to someone who makes their invention available for others too look at and extend.
You say the guy that did it first doesn't get anything special.
You live in a fantasy universe. The world is filled full of natural examples of how being first gives you a solid distinct advantage. If you'd like to take away the organized methods we use now and fall back to more traditional methods such as fighting to the death then I'm all for it. However I'm guessing that you don't finish first, hence your wanting the guy who does to not have an advantage ... Fortunately, those of us who do work harder and finish first will continue to be the ones who make the rules.
Sorry you're lazy or incapable, you can whine moan and complain, but you'll still finish second and have to deal with someone else having the advantage. Change the 'law' make it something different, you'll still be second.
So I'm guessing you're blaming things like Androids shitty interface on the fact that someone like Apple holds patents on the things that make a phone UI not suck ass? You think that they just got lucky in their work in a few years compared to the 20 years or so head start the other major players had on them?
No. They didn't get lucky. They busted their ass, threw the right researchers at it and came up with a winner. Now you just want anyone else to be able to do it because they would have figured it out anyway? No, they wouldn't have. They weren't putting any effort into making cellphones not suck ass before hand.
The iPod and iPhone are clear examples of someone putting more effort into making a product better than the competition and deserving not to just have everyone else copycat it tomorrow.
Sorry you're a loser, but you'll stay one until you realize that the winners aren't sitting around talking about how everything should be fair, they are out there winning, thats not going to change.
What you wrote was an opinion.
You can say 'there is no infringement' but you don't decide that, the law/a judge does. Period. Any other notion is simply utterly disconnected from reality.
Great, GPL has infected something else.
I realize that slashdot has just learned about them in the past 10 years or so but let me enlighten you about a little fact that everyone down here on Earth who has ever been involved with patents already knows ....
PATENT TROLLS AREN'T NEW.
They haven't actually been a real issue ever. Just because you've noticed through a news aggregator ran buy a bunch of people who think 'information WANTS to be free' and shows every 'patent troll' on the planet doesn't mean its really that big of a problem.
They have to 'reveal how it works' or more importantly, they have to describe what they want patented, if you don't describe it in the patent it isn't patented. So ... for all practical purposes the important part of the discover will be in the patent as the inventors want it protected. You can argue semantics, but that just makes you a tool and your point irrelevant since ... down here on Earth ... how it actually works and practicality are the law, not whatever theory some professor told you in class last week.
Before you start telling us how it is on Earth, you might actually want to come visit first. Its a real shame you can't be rational.
Patents actually make the research a little easier, part of it has to be published. No one is going to sue anyone for doing pure research.
Patents take away the financial incentive for someone else to expand on it. No one does research on the patented object because theres no return on the investment in resources other than pure intellectualism.
Contrary to what you might think the entire world does not live on random 'feel good' vibes from committing patches to GPL software and during research just to share with everyone else.
If you think patents prevent research you don't have a very good connection to reality. Greed and motivation control what gets researched.
The argument that patents prevent research is just as valid as the argument that patents promote research.
Right, because there aren't hundreds of thousands of other Sergey and Larry boys running around the world.
Stop being so angsty, its not you, its not your kids, its not your city, its not your name.
You've got your panties in a bunch over something that will never effect you and will likely never even be known by the two potential children inless it comes up in a funny conversation 30 years from now.
In short, it doesnt fucking matter if he names his kids after Google founders, their going to get names based on some random thing, why not something productive for him.
There are far bigger issues in the world, and in Raleigh for that matter than what some guy names his kids.
I really fail to see why it even matters to you. It won't effect anyone but maybe the lucky people who get fiber.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few ... especially when the only change the 'few' are going to notice his how long it takes them to sign a check.
Too bad they have a data center a few hundred miles away. Raleigh and Google have a rather good relationship, Raleigh has given Google massive tax breaks to get them to move into Lenor. Being that those tax breaks come out of my wallet, the least they can do is put some fiber in my neighborhood for me.
Sadly, I live in Cary, which is one of raleighs outlaying cities ... we probably won't get hooked up and will get left being raped by Time Warner when they raise the price to compensate.
No, you're just trying too hard and you aren't funny.
As a resident of Raleigh, I'm all for it. No one gets the name they 'want' you just get some name. How names are picked is arbitrary, the kids could get something retarded anyway, or its actually even entirely possible the guy already decided on these names anyway and this is just a nice publicity stunt.
Either way, if you think the names are going to define the kids destiny you are seriously disconnected from any sort of reality I'm involved in. Its simply not really that big of a deal and no one will know they were named to get some fiber in the ground.
More importantly, the guy himself got shafted when it comes to naming, his kids will be in good company for the 'bad names' as you call them.