Well, "Hello World" happens to be one of the very first programs ever made and has plenty of prior art.
IMHO one of the biggest problems with the patent system in regards to software and biomedical products is that those two areas of the industry are incredibly new, so many obvious/trivial advancements are patented right away. Give it some time when many of the obvious software patents and biomedical patents have entered the public domain and the system will work much better as it does for mechanical devices.
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As a mechanical engineer we had a quite a few courses related to design.
One course was dedicated solely on the design process itself in a general sense.
Another class dealt with the machine design process.
Another dealt with the design process for thermal and fluid systems.
Our final year course was a one year long design class where we were expected to iterate through our design multiple times and implement it.
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Because it's risky.
Right, because the relief well doesn't have anything to do with, you know, being a relief well.
Because the engineers are in Silicon Valley.
They charge you 50 dollars cash on the spot to hook up a modem and provision it for you. Hard stuff.
Of course, that's why they're doing it and you're paying them.
Or else you know, you'd set up your own backbone to the internet and all.
Oh, you mean they should do things for free for you? Because you're such a nice guy?
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 23, @02:44PM
Interestingly enough, it is currently #14
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X&oi=prbx_hot_trends&ct=more-results
Why not just do it over the web? Why the TV?
I get 35fps out of the cinematics you insensitive clod!
Don't worry, in 7 years we'll be playing Crysis in the google doodle.
Insert coin twice to enable multiplayer.
One player is controlled via arrow keys, the other by wasd.
Think of the Children!
The UK is pretty far from the USA.
Would it make a difference in regards to my sarcastic remark?
Exactly, when the patent process was started, all the politicians could think about were sucking on the teet of the large corporations.
Well, "Hello World" happens to be one of the very first programs ever made and has plenty of prior art.
IMHO one of the biggest problems with the patent system in regards to software and biomedical products is that those two areas of the industry are incredibly new, so many obvious/trivial advancements are patented right away. Give it some time when many of the obvious software patents and biomedical patents have entered the public domain and the system will work much better as it does for mechanical devices.
As a mechanical engineer we had a quite a few courses related to design.
One course was dedicated solely on the design process itself in a general sense.
Another class dealt with the machine design process.
Another dealt with the design process for thermal and fluid systems.
Our final year course was a one year long design class where we were expected to iterate through our design multiple times and implement it.
A laptop isn't a PC?
Yes well the Roman slogan was "panem et circenses"
The left's version is "Drill Baby Drill"...
Both sides use their own catch phrases/memes to get back at each other... It's incredibly childish.
The population are by and large, a bunch of morons.
Choose your poison carefully.
The insistence of the political mainstream to stick to slogans is so backwards... This includes both the conservatives and liberals.
The CPU which actually runs the car won't be running android... Most likely it will be some RTOS.
The LHC isn't American.
Sorry to burst your nertasy.
Yes, UtherSRG is a douche.
The guy who went about deleting the wikipedia entry initially.
Read his wiki entry, what a douche.