5+ years after Bill Gates has his epiphany to turn the fate of Microsoft to the Internet, has the company done any more than figure out how to police their licenses, and now to deliver ads to an out-of-date, client based application?
Google may have its detractors, but at least they are out there pitching. Microsoft is still learning to spell inovation, er...inovotion, oh rats!... innovation.
The reviewer fails to mention that this entire book is a send-up - it's fiction - What this guy "knows" is like Stephen Colbert from the Daily Show -
This is a physical manifestation of an observation Mark Twain is reputed to have made: "Our biggest problem is not what we don't know; it's what we know, that ain't so."
Ridiculous! If ever there was anything that mandated nationalizing Microsoft and turning it into a regulated public utility, this is it - the straw on the camel's back! They seem incapable of doing anything that doesn't leave large holes that expose the security of every consumer to some dire threat! Every "improvement" is just another prelude to disaster. If this is the result of their focus on "security" - what do we have to look forward to is somebody comes in hung-over one day, and gets careless? Enough already!
Problem is - the examiners no longer even appear to make an effort to look like they're doing their job. Prior art? Does that involve, uh, reading? Sorry - we're too backed up for that."
Challenging inappropriate patents has been left to the community - competitors, associations, etc. - and the costs - in time as well as $$ - can be incredibly high. Over 10 years ago, Compton's was actually granted a patent for what was essentially "multimedia presented on a CDROM." The outcry was so loud, and the flood of testimony to prior art on every one of some 30 claims was so extensive, that the patent was reversed in less than a year. But it still cost $100's of thousands, cumulatively, to get the reversal done.
Maybe your idea just doesn't go far enough - maybe the fines should be so large that filing for a patent becomes a "bet the company" proposition? So you'd better be sure...
Naive and/or ignoarnat as I may be - Why do we still tolerate "booting" as a necessary part of the process? Aren't there enough solid state options available that the OS could reside in a separate (from the hard drive) space, always running, always available? So you might still have to re-start after modifications to the OS - like security updates? - but otherwise, why do we still have this in our lives?
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5+ years after Bill Gates has his epiphany to turn the fate of Microsoft to the Internet, has the company done any more than figure out how to police their licenses, and now to deliver ads to an out-of-date, client based application?
...inovotion, oh rats! ... innovation.
Google may have its detractors, but at least they are out there pitching. Microsoft is still learning to spell inovation, er
The reviewer fails to mention that this entire book is a send-up - it's fiction - What this guy "knows" is like Stephen Colbert from the Daily Show - This is a physical manifestation of an observation Mark Twain is reputed to have made: "Our biggest problem is not what we don't know; it's what we know, that ain't so."
Ridiculous! If ever there was anything that mandated nationalizing Microsoft and turning it into a regulated public utility, this is it - the straw on the camel's back! They seem incapable of doing anything that doesn't leave large holes that expose the security of every consumer to some dire threat! Every "improvement" is just another prelude to disaster. If this is the result of their focus on "security" - what do we have to look forward to is somebody comes in hung-over one day, and gets careless? Enough already!
Extending "Organizing and displaying photographs based on time" next week we could have:
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Organizing and displaying photographs based on location
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Organizing and displaying photographs based on colors
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Organizing and displaying photographs based on shoe size
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Organizing and displaying photographs based on legal staff
The possibilities of this new technology appear to be endlessProblem is - the examiners no longer even appear to make an effort to look like they're doing their job. Prior art? Does that involve, uh, reading? Sorry - we're too backed up for that."
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Challenging inappropriate patents has been left to the community - competitors, associations, etc. - and the costs - in time as well as $$ - can be incredibly high. Over 10 years ago, Compton's was actually granted a patent for what was essentially "multimedia presented on a CDROM." The outcry was so loud, and the flood of testimony to prior art on every one of some 30 claims was so extensive, that the patent was reversed in less than a year. But it still cost $100's of thousands, cumulatively, to get the reversal done.
Maybe your idea just doesn't go far enough - maybe the fines should be so large that filing for a patent becomes a "bet the company" proposition? So you'd better be sure
Naive and/or ignoarnat as I may be - Why do we still tolerate "booting" as a necessary part of the process? Aren't there enough solid state options available that the OS could reside in a separate (from the hard drive) space, always running, always available? So you might still have to re-start after modifications to the OS - like security updates? - but otherwise, why do we still have this in our lives?