Am I the only one missing the point here, or is nearly everyone else?
I read this as a condemnation of our patent system, not an essay on some excellent new patents. There seems to be some serious problems with the patent system, not the least of which is the patent office's inability to find a sufficient number of qualified patent examiners to hire. The backlog of patent applications must be horrendous. If you were running the patent office, and it was your job that was on the line, how would you tackle the problem? Something simple like rejecting rediculous applications out of hand? or what?
Yes, both. Text-only is practically useless. Same could be said for graphics-only. Personally, I don't want to give up either. The original browser was designed so both could be used for demonstration and learning. Text-only science books? I don't think so.
True, but what's important is the useful information content. Some things are next to impossible to describe verbally, no matter how many words one uses, hence the web was designed to utilize graphics.
Not a very thoughtful statement.
Anyone who's worked in producing music knows that's it's impossible to do at a live performance what you can do in a recording studio.
JM3CW.
It's nice to see there are so many experts putting there two cents' worth in here for us all to enjoy and ponder on. I particularly appreciate it when the writer provides links to supporting or opposing arguments (which, as we all know, there are many). As examples, since there seems to be such wide agreement here as to the validity of the "Big Bang" Theory, check out what Astronomer Thomas VanFlandern has to say about it
http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/cosmology.as p
and as for the constancy of the speed of light, check out Barry Setterfield's work:
http://www.setterfield.org/scipubl.html
and as for...
oh, never mind. Sorry to have disturbed your sleep.
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It's really quite simple. It's not really the conversation that's upsetting people so much as the annoyance of the ringer going off. I've seen it time and time again where nobody is complaining while several cell phone conversations are going on in a restaurant, but as soon as a ringer goes off you see a number of people get visibly aggitated.
"DRM prevents all of this"?
Once you've burned them to CDs, how does DRM have anything more to say about it? At that point you rip the CDs to any format you wish, and no DRM.
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Am I the only one missing the point here, or is nearly everyone else?
I read this as a condemnation of our patent system, not an essay on some excellent new patents.
There seems to be some serious problems with the patent system, not the least of which is the patent office's inability to find a sufficient number of qualified patent examiners to hire. The backlog of patent applications must be horrendous. If you were running the patent office, and it was your job that was on the line, how would you tackle the problem? Something simple like rejecting rediculous applications out of hand? or what?
Yes, both. Text-only is practically useless. Same could be said for graphics-only. Personally, I don't want to give up either. The original browser was designed so both could be used for demonstration and learning. Text-only science books? I don't think so.
True, but what's important is the useful information content. Some things are next to impossible to describe verbally, no matter how many words one uses, hence the web was designed to utilize graphics.
Could hypertext without graphics be useful for anything? A picture is worth a thousand words.
Not a very thoughtful statement. Anyone who's worked in producing music knows that's it's impossible to do at a live performance what you can do in a recording studio. JM3CW.
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Just one more thing ...
in todays news:
afterglow left by the big bang reveal that the universe is at least 78bn light years across.
It's nice to see there are so many experts putting there two cents' worth in here for us all to enjoy and ponder on. I particularly appreciate it when the writer provides links to supporting or opposing arguments (which, as we all know, there are many). As examples, since there seems to be such wide agreement here as to the validity of the "Big Bang" Theory, check out what Astronomer Thomas VanFlandern has to say about it http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/cosmology.as p
and as for the constancy of the speed of light, check out Barry Setterfield's work:
http://www.setterfield.org/scipubl.html
and as for ...
oh, never mind. Sorry to have disturbed your sleep.
It's really quite simple. It's not really the conversation that's upsetting people so much as the annoyance of the ringer going off. I've seen it time and time again where nobody is complaining while several cell phone conversations are going on in a restaurant, but as soon as a ringer goes off you see a number of people get visibly aggitated.
"DRM prevents all of this"? Once you've burned them to CDs, how does DRM have anything more to say about it? At that point you rip the CDs to any format you wish, and no DRM.