No other country in the world recognizes crap software patents other than the U.S. Any other politicos in other countries trying to push junk software patent laws through are being lobbied heavily by patent shills from companies like MS, Apple, IBM, et al. Many software developers in the U.S. and elsewhere also recognize the ridiculous nature of patent laws. The only thing software patents do is keep big companies and patent trolls in business. They discourage innovation and prevent small companies from starting up. Copyright law more than adequately protects software systems. And the portion talking about CPUs etc. more than shows this to be a junk patent application. Since you are among the very very few that seem to think software patents are good, I am assuming you work for either a big company or a patent troll. Using the word shill isn't bad if it's true. Now maybe it isn't true, but my personal experience makes me believe that it is true... whether you are actively paid to support a shite concept (software patents) or not.
Sure... show me a concrete implementation then, instead of some vaguely worded shite. For example:
[0032]Queue monitoring module 401 detects the user entering and leaving the waiting queue, as well as application-specific parameters such as the user identification, time of entry, and date of entry. Reward computation module 402 receives inputs from the queue monitoring module 401 to calculate/update the session award, and communication module 403 announces the award to the user, perhaps keeping the user updated periodically as the waiting session continues. There also may be an interface with a database 404 to maintain user account information, including cumulative awards/credits.
For Christ's sake, this can be done any number of ways as a concrete implementation.... but if this gets a patent, then the idea of doing this (because this is all this is, an idea) gets patented, and no-one can make any alternate implementations.
And what about this crap
[0034]The CPUs 511 are interconnected via a system bus 512 to a random access memory (RAM) 514, read-only memory (ROM) 516, input/output (I/O) adapter 518 (for connecting peripheral devices such as disk units 521 and tape drives 540 to the bus 512), user interface adapter 522 (for connecting a keyboard 524, mouse 526, speaker 528, microphone 532, and/or other user interface device to the bus 512), a communication adapter 534 for connecting an information handling system to a data processing network, the Internet, an Intranet, a personal area network (PAN), etc., and a display adapter 536 for connecting the bus 512 to a display device 538 and/or printer 539 (e.g., a digital printer or the like).
This can be any sort of a computer. This means no-one can have an alternate implementation with a computer if they get the patent. Bottom line Shill, tell me where the concrete implementation is. This is a collection of ideas and business methods being patented, not an implementation. Go back to your patent lawyer shill hole.
You don't need to read the article, just this in the summary:
Method and Structure for Automated Crediting to Customers for Waiting
It's still ridiculous to even apply for this. It is blatantly obvious since all it is doing is automating something that already exists in a non-novel way. Way to troll for stupid patents dude.
In Canada they will probably server a couple years in prison if that, be forced to eat a Big Mac, and then set free. The judges and the justice system in Canada suck big time.
1) Go to prison for some short time. 2)Then dived 45 million dollars Canadian (now worth more than the US green back... but what isn't these days) by 16. 3) Profit
This time we can fill in the blank(s).
Who has the copyright to the work on Knol?
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So for original work, who would have the copyright for Knol? What would stop Google from taking the work and start charging access fees etc. I'm not saying they would, but it would be good to understand what kind of licence(s) would exist on the material, and who maintains the copyright on work.
Patents are supposed to be for things that are innovative and not obvious. It is not really a big stretch between having your browser display a 404 error and having it also go somewhere else. I'm thinking the reason no one did this previously is because of the ruckus raised when the top level domain gatekeepers like Verisign started selling redirects when you mistyped a domain name. Amazon's idea really is just a minor twist this theme if you ask me. And even if you didn't ask me.
laws are created by elected officials who have to answer to the people. the can be held responsible for their actions and ultimately are representing the people. the judges represent no one, answer to no one other than 'law societies' and are not able to be held accountable for their actions. they are not a part of the checks and balances of government in canada, nor is that the role they are supposed to have. the senate and the queen are the checks and balances. you may scoff, but royal assent is not just a rubber stamping. if something is onerus enough, like say parliment proclaiming the primeminister president for life, the governor general can refuse to sign the bill, and it dies. judges in canada spend too much time interpreting/re-writing laws. That is not up to them. they should just make sure the cases are presented within what the laws say they should, and let juries decide. People who don't have to answer to anyone should NEVER be allowed to influence everyone. If they changed the laws so that the people of canada could remove judges from the bench, even supreme court justices, during elections as a referendum ballot, then I would say let them carry on as is. but people who are out of touch with most of society (judges and lawyers only hang around people with shit loads of money, not the average working person... they are out of touch in their ivory towers) shouldn't be just given carte blanche with no recourse to being fired if they screw up. and law societies should not be the ones to determine if they screw up... secret/closed societies should never be allowed to influence the whole country like they do now. anyone who has anything to do with the laws governing a country should be open, and open to being fired if they screw up. and in a democratic country, the people, not the closed law societies run by members with enough money to get law degrees and connections to get into the inner circle of the law societies, the people should have the final say. open law written by the people and for the people. and don't try the crap that anyone can be a lawyer if they want, life doesn't work that way, and some people can't. and society can't have all lawyers anyway, who would pave the roads etc. but the lawyers should not have a monopoly on justice like they do now. and there should be no activist judges who can't be fired.
this is moderately funny. it is also insightful. people are forgetting that you don't have to have a computer any more to use skype. what about those who purchase skype enabled phones that connect to your home router? or skype wifi phones? those phones do come with some sort of OS installed and skype software. who is to say that the makers of the phones won't eventually modify the phones they sell to add the 'features' that the police or government want them to have when distributing to say, Germany... and soon after America (if it isn't already here as might seem likely)?
I'll take someone with no formal CS training yet is able to think abstractly over employees like him anyday
Sadly it is the brain dead of the HR departments and headhunters who do the hiring/selecting... usually. To them, what is on paper trumps experience. Seems that ever more often these wastes of brain pans either submit for interviews or will outright hire a newly graduated Masters student (based entirely on their piece of paper) with fuck all experience and make them managers or 'senior' developers, or architects, etc. And people who you would like to hire will have their resumes dumped in the waste bin because they don't have the requisite piece of paper that the dumb fuck HR person thinks makes you useful. So you know who is going to be your new boss. Must stop now before meltdown. Yes, some bitterness. Life.:)
This is where I got my information (check the fact box on the right). You haven't done anything to counter the impression that you are ignorant of world geography. In the original post I replied to, the size of Europe was compared to Texas, specifically stating that Europe was the size of Texas. Of course it is not. Next you try to bolster your point by comparing the size of the U.S. to three other countries and a continent, which is specious. The size of three other countries and one continent are irrelevant and does not change the fact that the post I replied was completing wrong and showed complete ignorance of world geography. The fact that students in the United States are not expected to learn world geography is bad enough, avoiding the admission that you do not know world geography is worse. Why does this subject matter? Maybe if the person you elected president knew more about the world outside the U.S. you wouldn't have so much trouble internationally right now. This is something that can be corrected by making sure students learn to look outside their own front door, like the rest of the world. Try leading them by example.
Areas in square miles according to Wikipedia: Europe: 3,930,000 sq mi United States: 3,794,066 sq mi Texas: 261,797 sq mi
America is a big country. Europe as a whole is bigger. The only reason CDMA is more reliable where you are is that more cell towers running the CDMA protocol are built in the United States, not because it is better than GSM. In Europe and elsewhere GSM is more reliable in the same circumstance since there are no CDMA towers at all.
didn't they say they would use CO as the precursor to a fuel? CO will burn sure but it takes at least 5% CO:Air mixture to burn. That's 50,000 ppm. While 4,000 ppm will knock you out on the spot and kill you in a minute or 5 (no more). It is too dangerous/poisonous to use as a fuel on its own. If there is a leak of >50,000 ppm (>5%) in the atmosphere and likely a lot higher around the storage tanks, people are in grave danger not only from explosions from just breathing the atmosphere without air tanks on.
We know adoption is low. So low in fact that I bet many are like me, and don't have a clue what it is. Even though I surf the web, telecommute every day, I avoid MS technology when I can as I don't like the 'lock in' they try to force. The technology I work with daily is usually Java based running on Unix servers. So, now I am at a loss as to what this whole Silverlight thing is. A nice quick phrase saying what it is might have been nice. Like '...Silverlight (MS's new thing to do something marvellous) is being ignored blah blah blah...' Or a none MS link to explain what it is so I don't have to deal with their marketing hyperbole. MS doesn't excite me enough to go looking for it.
I only mention this because I see this often on Slashdot. People assuming that something that might be truly interesting to most here, is always know about by most here.:)
Lawsuits. 60 minutes went after the tobacco industry a few years ago and CBS was threatened by a huge lawsuit. We haven't seen any decent investigative journalism in America since then. None of the U.S. broadcasters wants to spend the money it takes to do a good job at broadcasting news, never mind investigative journalism anymore. And on top of that, they are now fearful of the potential for lawsuits in litigation happy America. And unfortunately this terrible attitude in news management is spreading. Journalism in Canada which was generally very good and less prone to ratings battles with the entertainment shows, or afraid to show news segments because of moral majority objections (if a witness said 'fuck' during a news story interview, that is what comes on during the news... as a small example), has been slipping. I'd say it is still above the current general U.S. news coverage but it is being dragged down as network execs try to turn it into "infotainment" there as well. I'm not sure how U.K. news is these days, but my understanding is that they used to have a great investigative journalism tradition... I'd like to hear how it is now-a-days. Anyway, I am really pining for another Edward R. Murrow to come along. But I fear that if he did, the network execs would turn him away as not exciting enough, or too much of a danger in attracting lawsuits. And my bet is the latter... after all the confrontations of investigative journalism can be very exciting. But that is because you know the news people are putting it on the line. Except now, the network won't back them up any more.
What bothers me is the way everyone here takes the article so literally and so narrowly. They use a remote as an example, but it doesn't just apply to user interfaces. For example code re-use which is generally a good thing, as far a productivity goes, but is actually a double edged sword.
Frameworks a good example of what I mean. While a framework helps us to get things done, most will no longer think of their own solution to the problem, relying on someone else's solution. This mean a new novel solution to the same problem (that may be useful in other ways) is never found because we all use the same solution. In business, using a framework is often imperative since time is money (and it uses the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' principle). However, we need to remember sometimes about the trade off. Not writing new code for a similar problem means that there is absolutely no chance of discovering something new.
Now... think about where this applies in other situations... including outside of programming.:)
there is only one comment that can be made to this:
fuck*right*off
Return money plus expences. If the scam were deliberate, punish the perpetrators in criminal court. And stuff the litigious bullshit up your arse. Distress... get him a security blanket if he's that freakin' strung out by this. Or maybe he should pour a hot coffee on his nuts and sue McDonalds too. JH Christ, sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue argh!
Doubtful, as an AC mentioned (in a much cruder way), Trolltech is not supporting QT3 any more... or at least not much longer since they are now at QT4. KDE3.x QT3 and KDE4 is programmed using QT4. At least that is how I understood things to be.
Bottom line is that KDE3.x likely is not really going to be supportable till 2011. But who knows? That is a long way away.
take the idea of buying your movie tickets at a kiosk in the movie theatre. or buying them online before you leave your home. pretty obvious extension to buying something using a wifi device. if it is not obvious to you, it is because you don't want it to be obvious, or you wear a hockey helmet in daily life.
When you see B.S. like this (adding decimal places to stupid statistics), it is a signal to ignore it.
What kills me is that it totally reminds me of project management bozos who track project progress to the decimal place. I can understand tracking it in 10% increments, but I realistically can only maybe tell people I am 20, 40, 60... percent complete. Sometimes on 25, 50, etc.
But then there are others who can track the details so well. "Sir, we have millions of lines of code, a few hundred programmers, testers, analysts, and we are 42.48403% complete to date." Right.:D
yeah.... probably huge sponsorship from Ford Motor Company. my own observation: I fucking HATE the grill on the new 'KITT'. Is is way ugly. Wrecks the whole look of the car.
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No other country in the world recognizes crap software patents other than the U.S. Any other politicos in other countries trying to push junk software patent laws through are being lobbied heavily by patent shills from companies like MS, Apple, IBM, et al. Many software developers in the U.S. and elsewhere also recognize the ridiculous nature of patent laws. The only thing software patents do is keep big companies and patent trolls in business. They discourage innovation and prevent small companies from starting up. Copyright law more than adequately protects software systems. And the portion talking about CPUs etc. more than shows this to be a junk patent application. Since you are among the very very few that seem to think software patents are good, I am assuming you work for either a big company or a patent troll. Using the word shill isn't bad if it's true. Now maybe it isn't true, but my personal experience makes me believe that it is true... whether you are actively paid to support a shite concept (software patents) or not.
For Christ's sake, this can be done any number of ways as a concrete implementation.... but if this gets a patent, then the idea of doing this (because this is all this is, an idea) gets patented, and no-one can make any alternate implementations.
And what about this crap
This can be any sort of a computer. This means no-one can have an alternate implementation with a computer if they get the patent. Bottom line Shill, tell me where the concrete implementation is. This is a collection of ideas and business methods being patented, not an implementation. Go back to your patent lawyer shill hole.It's still ridiculous to even apply for this. It is blatantly obvious since all it is doing is automating something that already exists in a non-novel way. Way to troll for stupid patents dude.
Trying to become the new Microsoft by patenting its way to obnoxiousness.
In Canada they will probably server a couple years in prison if that, be forced to eat a Big Mac, and then set free. The judges and the justice system in Canada suck big time.
1) Go to prison for some short time.
2)Then dived 45 million dollars Canadian (now worth more than the US green back... but what isn't these days) by 16.
3) Profit
This time we can fill in the blank(s).
So for original work, who would have the copyright for Knol? What would stop Google from taking the work and start charging access fees etc. I'm not saying they would, but it would be good to understand what kind of licence(s) would exist on the material, and who maintains the copyright on work.
I think they're smelling the microscopic remains of old satellites and other space junk that are getting stuck to the suits as they orbit. :D
In ebonics that would be axplode.
Patents are supposed to be for things that are innovative and not obvious. It is not really a big stretch between having your browser display a 404 error and having it also go somewhere else. I'm thinking the reason no one did this previously is because of the ruckus raised when the top level domain gatekeepers like Verisign started selling redirects when you mistyped a domain name. Amazon's idea really is just a minor twist this theme if you ask me. And even if you didn't ask me.
laws are created by elected officials who have to answer to the people. the can be held responsible for their actions and ultimately are representing the people. the judges represent no one, answer to no one other than 'law societies' and are not able to be held accountable for their actions. they are not a part of the checks and balances of government in canada, nor is that the role they are supposed to have. the senate and the queen are the checks and balances. you may scoff, but royal assent is not just a rubber stamping. if something is onerus enough, like say parliment proclaiming the primeminister president for life, the governor general can refuse to sign the bill, and it dies. judges in canada spend too much time interpreting/re-writing laws. That is not up to them. they should just make sure the cases are presented within what the laws say they should, and let juries decide. People who don't have to answer to anyone should NEVER be allowed to influence everyone. If they changed the laws so that the people of canada could remove judges from the bench, even supreme court justices, during elections as a referendum ballot, then I would say let them carry on as is. but people who are out of touch with most of society (judges and lawyers only hang around people with shit loads of money, not the average working person... they are out of touch in their ivory towers) shouldn't be just given carte blanche with no recourse to being fired if they screw up. and law societies should not be the ones to determine if they screw up... secret/closed societies should never be allowed to influence the whole country like they do now. anyone who has anything to do with the laws governing a country should be open, and open to being fired if they screw up. and in a democratic country, the people, not the closed law societies run by members with enough money to get law degrees and connections to get into the inner circle of the law societies, the people should have the final say. open law written by the people and for the people. and don't try the crap that anyone can be a lawyer if they want, life doesn't work that way, and some people can't. and society can't have all lawyers anyway, who would pave the roads etc. but the lawyers should not have a monopoly on justice like they do now. and there should be no activist judges who can't be fired.
I wish Canada worked that way. Yeah I know... off topic, I don't care.
this is moderately funny. it is also insightful. people are forgetting that you don't have to have a computer any more to use skype. what about those who purchase skype enabled phones that connect to your home router? or skype wifi phones? those phones do come with some sort of OS installed and skype software. who is to say that the makers of the phones won't eventually modify the phones they sell to add the 'features' that the police or government want them to have when distributing to say, Germany... and soon after America (if it isn't already here as might seem likely)?
Sadly it is the brain dead of the HR departments and headhunters who do the hiring/selecting... usually. To them, what is on paper trumps experience. Seems that ever more often these wastes of brain pans either submit for interviews or will outright hire a newly graduated Masters student (based entirely on their piece of paper) with fuck all experience and make them managers or 'senior' developers, or architects, etc. And people who you would like to hire will have their resumes dumped in the waste bin because they don't have the requisite piece of paper that the dumb fuck HR person thinks makes you useful. So you know who is going to be your new boss. Must stop now before meltdown. Yes, some bitterness. Life.
This is where I got my information (check the fact box on the right). You haven't done anything to counter the impression that you are ignorant of world geography. In the original post I replied to, the size of Europe was compared to Texas, specifically stating that Europe was the size of Texas. Of course it is not. Next you try to bolster your point by comparing the size of the U.S. to three other countries and a continent, which is specious. The size of three other countries and one continent are irrelevant and does not change the fact that the post I replied was completing wrong and showed complete ignorance of world geography. The fact that students in the United States are not expected to learn world geography is bad enough, avoiding the admission that you do not know world geography is worse. Why does this subject matter? Maybe if the person you elected president knew more about the world outside the U.S. you wouldn't have so much trouble internationally right now. This is something that can be corrected by making sure students learn to look outside their own front door, like the rest of the world. Try leading them by example.
Yes, and you seem to be especially ignorant about Europe. It is generally known that people in the United States are generally less informed about foreign geography than many of their contemporaries in the world, but your statements are ridiculous.
Areas in square miles according to Wikipedia:
Europe: 3,930,000 sq mi
United States: 3,794,066 sq mi
Texas: 261,797 sq mi
America is a big country. Europe as a whole is bigger. The only reason CDMA is more reliable where you are is that more cell towers running the CDMA protocol are built in the United States, not because it is better than GSM. In Europe and elsewhere GSM is more reliable in the same circumstance since there are no CDMA towers at all.
didn't they say they would use CO as the precursor to a fuel? CO will burn sure but it takes at least 5% CO:Air mixture to burn. That's 50,000 ppm. While 4,000 ppm will knock you out on the spot and kill you in a minute or 5 (no more). It is too dangerous/poisonous to use as a fuel on its own. If there is a leak of >50,000 ppm (>5%) in the atmosphere and likely a lot higher around the storage tanks, people are in grave danger not only from explosions from just breathing the atmosphere without air tanks on.
We know adoption is low. So low in fact that I bet many are like me, and don't have a clue what it is. Even though I surf the web, telecommute every day, I avoid MS technology when I can as I don't like the 'lock in' they try to force. The technology I work with daily is usually Java based running on Unix servers. So, now I am at a loss as to what this whole Silverlight thing is. A nice quick phrase saying what it is might have been nice. Like '...Silverlight (MS's new thing to do something marvellous) is being ignored blah blah blah...' Or a none MS link to explain what it is so I don't have to deal with their marketing hyperbole. MS doesn't excite me enough to go looking for it.
:)
I only mention this because I see this often on Slashdot. People assuming that something that might be truly interesting to most here, is always know about by most here.
Lawsuits. 60 minutes went after the tobacco industry a few years ago and CBS was threatened by a huge lawsuit. We haven't seen any decent investigative journalism in America since then. None of the U.S. broadcasters wants to spend the money it takes to do a good job at broadcasting news, never mind investigative journalism anymore. And on top of that, they are now fearful of the potential for lawsuits in litigation happy America. And unfortunately this terrible attitude in news management is spreading. Journalism in Canada which was generally very good and less prone to ratings battles with the entertainment shows, or afraid to show news segments because of moral majority objections (if a witness said 'fuck' during a news story interview, that is what comes on during the news... as a small example), has been slipping. I'd say it is still above the current general U.S. news coverage but it is being dragged down as network execs try to turn it into "infotainment" there as well. I'm not sure how U.K. news is these days, but my understanding is that they used to have a great investigative journalism tradition... I'd like to hear how it is now-a-days. Anyway, I am really pining for another Edward R. Murrow to come along. But I fear that if he did, the network execs would turn him away as not exciting enough, or too much of a danger in attracting lawsuits. And my bet is the latter... after all the confrontations of investigative journalism can be very exciting. But that is because you know the news people are putting it on the line. Except now, the network won't back them up any more.
What bothers me is the way everyone here takes the article so literally and so narrowly. They use a remote as an example, but it doesn't just apply to user interfaces. For example code re-use which is generally a good thing, as far a productivity goes, but is actually a double edged sword.
:)
Frameworks a good example of what I mean. While a framework helps us to get things done, most will no longer think of their own solution to the problem, relying on someone else's solution. This mean a new novel solution to the same problem (that may be useful in other ways) is never found because we all use the same solution. In business, using a framework is often imperative since time is money (and it uses the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' principle). However, we need to remember sometimes about the trade off. Not writing new code for a similar problem means that there is absolutely no chance of discovering something new.
Now... think about where this applies in other situations... including outside of programming.
there is only one comment that can be made to this:
fuck*right*off
Return money plus expences. If the scam were deliberate, punish the perpetrators in criminal court. And stuff the litigious bullshit up your arse. Distress... get him a security blanket if he's that freakin' strung out by this. Or maybe he should pour a hot coffee on his nuts and sue McDonalds too. JH Christ, sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue argh!
Doubtful, as an AC mentioned (in a much cruder way), Trolltech is not supporting QT3 any more... or at least not much longer since they are now at QT4. KDE3.x QT3 and KDE4 is programmed using QT4. At least that is how I understood things to be.
Bottom line is that KDE3.x likely is not really going to be supportable till 2011. But who knows? That is a long way away.
take the idea of buying your movie tickets at a kiosk in the movie theatre. or buying them online before you leave your home. pretty obvious extension to buying something using a wifi device. if it is not obvious to you, it is because you don't want it to be obvious, or you wear a hockey helmet in daily life.
It was 36.4%. Or was that 36.43687286723%
:D
When you see B.S. like this (adding decimal places to stupid statistics), it is a signal to ignore it.
What kills me is that it totally reminds me of project management bozos who track project progress to the decimal place. I can understand tracking it in 10% increments, but I realistically can only maybe tell people I am 20, 40, 60... percent complete. Sometimes on 25, 50, etc.
But then there are others who can track the details so well. "Sir, we have millions of lines of code, a few hundred programmers, testers, analysts, and we are 42.48403% complete to date." Right.
yeah.... probably huge sponsorship from Ford Motor Company. my own observation: I fucking HATE the grill on the new 'KITT'. Is is way ugly. Wrecks the whole look of the car.
Not any more.
If the army is using it for that reason then you know the Chinese, Russians, and any other tech savvy nation will now point their hackers at Macs.