I think you are mistaken. The people riding public transportation do it because they have to. No one wants to ride into the city for an hour, just to get a connecting transfer out of the city to their job... then turn around and do it after work is done. A car may be more efficient AND convenient, but the folks riding public trans can't afford one, let alone the gas money to use it.
The Neo Geo ( Neo Jio?) is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.
Apparently you are only looking at the price these are valued at, not what people actually pay for them. Baseball cards and comic books are a great example of something worth something only on paper. Your price guide may list your item X at $300, but there is some asshole, or 10, willing to sell it for $2.
What truly makes me sad was not his inability to figure that electronics + microwave = bad, but thinking that a microwave DRIES water. Honestly, we are looking at an IQ ~85.
What about the apostrophe? I never use it in casual online conversation because I have yet to come across a case where the sentence made sense with both cases with/without it.
Many is going to mean "a whole bunch of". It is subjective, however, common use means "a significant amount". Contrasting that with "more than 50%" leads to no little comparative value whatsoever. The issue is that it is an obvious sensationalism.
If the idea is brilliant, isn't obvious, and everybody wants one forever and ever, sure. I see the problem with patents ultimately is to keep things/ideas from being used by others. I tried my best to illustrate that in my proposition, the target of getting a patent would be making this thing available. Meh, that was my 20 minutes of toilet time pondering.
Well, with the first, what I see happening inventors will be "employed" by MegaCorp, because no small Joe wants to try and out-commercialize MegaCorp. The big ones get bigger, at a rate even faster than they do without current protections.
The second assumes that people are less than assholes when it comes to money. That will never be the case.
I actually put a little more thought into it. Something I think everyone can get behind. Lets have what we call a pre-patent. Before getting a patent, you get the pre-patent, which gives your widget current-style patent protection... for 6 months. During this 6 months, you can go around, try to license your widget design to whoever, or try and bring the product to market on their own. After those 6 months, if there is a working product being produced and consumed, you get a real patent, that lasts as long as you are producing the product, or you have licensees producing a product. As soon as their is no more production, the patent becomes public domain.
Pre-patents would be easier to invalidate as well, since they aren't fully granted patents yet. It could make it much easier to deal with
I wouldn't mind dropping patents completely. However, there is a problem that I think needs addressed before anyone takes the idea seriously. Say, I'm a poor man, living on ramen noodles and tap water, and no hope in sight. I invent widget X, which is really useful and would, in a flourishing scenario, make me rich. But if there are no protections, there is nothing keeping MegaCorp Y from just looking at my widget X, and mass producing a version that sells for cheaper than I can even buy my widget parts for. Obviously, mankind still benefits from my idea, but I won't. This isn't a problem, per se, because perhaps we need to get out of the mentality that we will get paid for adding to everyones good, but that totally kills any ambition to ever even try to market my product.
Democracy works on a small scale. Not the massive scale like the United States. At the most basic level, there are too many tiers of hierarchy, brutally killing efficiency more with every tier.
I'm looking at the box here, and it says right here under "Minimum System Requirements", "Windows XP/Vista/7 (latest service packs) with DX 9.0c" or "Mac OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.x or newer". I don't see it claiming to support linux at all. Why would you buy something for an OS different than yours and demand that it work? Should I be pissed off I can't play this on my BeOS machine?
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No on felt the need to mention what the "laser power system" is, but what I gather it's just concentrating the power into a beam
That, sir, is what a laser is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser
I doubt the applications are about powering a motor so much as moving data with less need for error correction
War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Homosexuality
Why are we screwing with 1024-bit keys? Why aren't we using keys that are 1048576-bits?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry that you know that
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(no closing paren, didn't read)
Build the tunnel from thick rubber.... treat it like a tire
I don't see a reason these tubes can't shift. If the car is magnetically leveled to the middle of the tunnel, it can take a lot of wiggle room
I think you are mistaken. The people riding public transportation do it because they have to. No one wants to ride into the city for an hour, just to get a connecting transfer out of the city to their job... then turn around and do it after work is done. A car may be more efficient AND convenient, but the folks riding public trans can't afford one, let alone the gas money to use it.
Ever since Age of Empires and the Warcraft series popularized RTSes
I'm positive you mean Dune and Command & Conquer
In a typical house with kids, going without Spongebob may be your death knell
At the time it lpoked better than any arcade game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_(system)
The Neo Geo ( Neo Jio?) is a cartridge-based arcade system board and home video game console released on January 31, 1990 by Japanese game company SNK.
Apparently you are only looking at the price these are valued at, not what people actually pay for them. Baseball cards and comic books are a great example of something worth something only on paper. Your price guide may list your item X at $300, but there is some asshole, or 10, willing to sell it for $2.
What truly makes me sad was not his inability to figure that electronics + microwave = bad, but thinking that a microwave DRIES water. Honestly, we are looking at an IQ ~85.
What about the apostrophe? I never use it in casual online conversation because I have yet to come across a case where the sentence made sense with both cases with/without it.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2965175&cid=40587827
Same statement, made later, modded +5 at the moment. All in the presentation I suppose
Many is going to mean "a whole bunch of". It is subjective, however, common use means "a significant amount". Contrasting that with "more than 50%" leads to no little comparative value whatsoever. The issue is that it is an obvious sensationalism.
While many requests are backed by court orders, most are not.
Many: Adjective: A large number of
I think your perspective is skewed
If the idea is brilliant, isn't obvious, and everybody wants one forever and ever, sure. I see the problem with patents ultimately is to keep things/ideas from being used by others. I tried my best to illustrate that in my proposition, the target of getting a patent would be making this thing available. Meh, that was my 20 minutes of toilet time pondering.
LANsurveyor express. It works with Visio 2007
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Well, with the first, what I see happening inventors will be "employed" by MegaCorp, because no small Joe wants to try and out-commercialize MegaCorp. The big ones get bigger, at a rate even faster than they do without current protections.
The second assumes that people are less than assholes when it comes to money. That will never be the case.
I actually put a little more thought into it. Something I think everyone can get behind. Lets have what we call a pre-patent. Before getting a patent, you get the pre-patent, which gives your widget current-style patent protection... for 6 months. During this 6 months, you can go around, try to license your widget design to whoever, or try and bring the product to market on their own. After those 6 months, if there is a working product being produced and consumed, you get a real patent, that lasts as long as you are producing the product, or you have licensees producing a product. As soon as their is no more production, the patent becomes public domain.
Pre-patents would be easier to invalidate as well, since they aren't fully granted patents yet. It could make it much easier to deal with
I wouldn't mind dropping patents completely. However, there is a problem that I think needs addressed before anyone takes the idea seriously. Say, I'm a poor man, living on ramen noodles and tap water, and no hope in sight. I invent widget X, which is really useful and would, in a flourishing scenario, make me rich. But if there are no protections, there is nothing keeping MegaCorp Y from just looking at my widget X, and mass producing a version that sells for cheaper than I can even buy my widget parts for. Obviously, mankind still benefits from my idea, but I won't. This isn't a problem, per se, because perhaps we need to get out of the mentality that we will get paid for adding to everyones good, but that totally kills any ambition to ever even try to market my product.
Democracy works on a small scale. Not the massive scale like the United States. At the most basic level, there are too many tiers of hierarchy, brutally killing efficiency more with every tier.
I'm looking at the box here, and it says right here under "Minimum System Requirements", "Windows XP/Vista/7 (latest service packs) with DX 9.0c" or "Mac OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.x or newer". I don't see it claiming to support linux at all. Why would you buy something for an OS different than yours and demand that it work? Should I be pissed off I can't play this on my BeOS machine?