True, but the phrase "British Isles" is hardly in common use. If you say Britain or British you are referrring to the largest island or its inhabitants.
Nice try. However, I think any decent corporate lawyer would be able to get round something like that pretty easily. For example, set up a new subsidiary company that has no revenue (so falls into the 20 year category) get it to apply for the patent. It could even be some evil CDO like thing that owns itself but has given an exclusive license back to the parent company.
"This is a contribution to human knowledge and understanding of the world around us."
More like "I need to publish stuff to get promoted to get more status & money" - and yes, I have worked in academia and played that game until I thoroughly sick of it and left to found a tech company.
"Suing an extremely large company isn't usually a great investment in time or money."
Not sure about that - at least they have money and the first rule of litigation is "only sue people who actually have money".
Very sound advice. The only thing I would add is once things start getting complex make sure you have your own personal lawyer who is looking after you not the company. As a founder you tend to regard your own interests and those of the company as being identical - which they are when things are simple. However at a certain point (which may not be that clear at the time) your own interests and those of the company may diverge and at that point the company laywers may turn round and try to screw you. We had to threaten to pull an IPO at the completion meeting when the company lawyers tried to play silly buggers over not making a one line change to a document!
Unless you pay more for Sky+ and then take great delight in never watching anything "live" and fast forwarding through every single advert. The only way they could improve it would be to have a "skip adverts" button on the remote.
Can we have the equivalent legislation in the UK please - perhaps with the addition of something holding those who decide to go to war liable if it later turns out to be based on a pack of lies? (We could call it "Blair's Law").
Or, more to the point, perhaps as sovereign as the constituent parts of the UK itself. Note the recent fuss about the Scottish policy on releasing prisoners on compassionate grounds.
"standard that is meant for C.R.U.D. screens" - well there was XForms - which doesn't seem to have been very popular. Actually, if you look at the way things like SAP interact with your client applications it is similar both to ye olden mainframe terminals and the Web.
Why on earth would you have a "hefty content management system" to host a simple web form? Sounds like a wildly over-engineered solution to a simple problem by someone who didn't know how to KISS.
Well, if anyone is demonstrating a lack of understanding, I respectfully suggest it is the AC who thinks that C is *based* on, rather than incorporates some operations from, boolean logic.
While C includes some logical operators based on boolean logic most of the language has no connection whatsoever to anything that looks like formal logic.
Compare this to Prolog - which has a much closer mapping to predicate calculus or pure functional languages which have a very good mapping to lambda calculus.
We've had invasions, revolutions, civil wars, succesful wars of indepedence, regicide.... if you mean a colonial revolution then we can't really do that because their hasn't been many colonies of foreign powers in Britain for rather a long time.
Well, apart from the obvious relatively recent reversal of colonial fortunes.
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Yes, but what's its number?
And someone who played a major role in winning WW2? How is that for ungrateful!
I think you have been reading a bit too much Charlie Stross.
True, but the phrase "British Isles" is hardly in common use. If you say Britain or British you are referrring to the largest island or its inhabitants.
Nice try. However, I think any decent corporate lawyer would be able to get round something like that pretty easily. For example, set up a new subsidiary company that has no revenue (so falls into the 20 year category) get it to apply for the patent. It could even be some evil CDO like thing that owns itself but has given an exclusive license back to the parent company.
Just the Bible - which, as far as I recall, has rather a lot of war, genocide, murders, rapes etc.
Smells like socialism to me.
More like "I need to publish stuff to get promoted to get more status & money" - and yes, I have worked in academia and played that game until I thoroughly sick of it and left to found a tech company.
"Suing an extremely large company isn't usually a great investment in time or money." Not sure about that - at least they have money and the first rule of litigation is "only sue people who actually have money".
Very sound advice. The only thing I would add is once things start getting complex make sure you have your own personal lawyer who is looking after you not the company. As a founder you tend to regard your own interests and those of the company as being identical - which they are when things are simple. However at a certain point (which may not be that clear at the time) your own interests and those of the company may diverge and at that point the company laywers may turn round and try to screw you. We had to threaten to pull an IPO at the completion meeting when the company lawyers tried to play silly buggers over not making a one line change to a document!
The World Wide Web?
I agree that the quality of BBC TV seems to have gone downhill a bit but BBC Radio is still outstanding - particularly Radio 3 and Radio 4.
Unless you pay more for Sky+ and then take great delight in never watching anything "live" and fast forwarding through every single advert. The only way they could improve it would be to have a "skip adverts" button on the remote.
Can we have the equivalent legislation in the UK please - perhaps with the addition of something holding those who decide to go to war liable if it later turns out to be based on a pack of lies? (We could call it "Blair's Law").
Or, more to the point, perhaps as sovereign as the constituent parts of the UK itself. Note the recent fuss about the Scottish policy on releasing prisoners on compassionate grounds.
Stop trying to confuse us with that liberal "logic" thing.
"standard that is meant for C.R.U.D. screens" - well there was XForms - which doesn't seem to have been very popular. Actually, if you look at the way things like SAP interact with your client applications it is similar both to ye olden mainframe terminals and the Web.
Why on earth would you have a "hefty content management system" to host a simple web form? Sounds like a wildly over-engineered solution to a simple problem by someone who didn't know how to KISS.
Well, if anyone is demonstrating a lack of understanding, I respectfully suggest it is the AC who thinks that C is *based* on, rather than incorporates some operations from, boolean logic.
So what do you call a problem in a specification?
While C includes some logical operators based on boolean logic most of the language has no connection whatsoever to anything that looks like formal logic. Compare this to Prolog - which has a much closer mapping to predicate calculus or pure functional languages which have a very good mapping to lambda calculus.
Please tell me you aren't being serious.
We've had invasions, revolutions, civil wars, succesful wars of indepedence, regicide.... if you mean a colonial revolution then we can't really do that because their hasn't been many colonies of foreign powers in Britain for rather a long time. Well, apart from the obvious relatively recent reversal of colonial fortunes.
Wasn't that Enron's business model?
Don't you mean "rightsize to the economically efficent market-driven capacity?" Can I have my bonus now?