Many people should notice one prevalent such pattern of organisation is the swirl/vortex pattern. from sink drains to storms to galaxies its hard to miss.
OK so lets say you are right about Cat3 Vs Cat1 storms. Did the Cat3 storms of the past cause so much flooding? Have any of them been as massive as Sandy? Have any been followed up by another big storm in just a few days?
Really, who is correct here in this great global warming debate? NASA,NOAA,ESA or Exxon? Does increased Co2 trap heat like the scientific community claims or are all these scientists just lumbering idiots? What happens when you take 2 plastic water bottles and add some Co2 to one of them and just simply cap the other one and set them out in the sun. Is the Co2 doped bottle warmer? Does it trap more heat?
What would be the motivation of the majority of scientists worldwide to perpetrate such a gaint fraud? To hold back capitalsim? Do scientist hait Capitalism"
The purpose of patents is to ensure that people can spend a lot of money on research, with some kind of general guarantee that it can pay off for them.
actually? thats not correct. According to the US constitution "
The Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" In exchage for publishing the details of your invention. The promotion of the progress of science and useful arts relies on you publishing the details of your invention. When you do this the government secures that exclusive right to that invention for a limited time. The purpose of patents therefor is not to guarantee profits for research but to encourage inventors to publish the details of that invention so as to promote the progress of science and useful art.
When there is only one explaination is possible it has to be true.
Yeah. Like when Obama knows his fiscal policies will harm the nation because he is a very smart man. He also admitted knowing that raising taxes will not increase gov't revenue. He also knows that reducing gov't spending is the only permanent fix for the debt. He knows you cannot spend your way out of a debt problem. Study after study confirms these things. He knows that. He is extremely intelligent. But he does these things anyway.
The only single explanation is, he hates America and wants to see it fail. It is consistent with his "anti-colonial" brand of leftism. Obama is anything but incompetent. He is not a dummy. Not at all. We have people in the highest offices that want to see us fail. We're boned.
Funny thing is the rich are the ones who can afford to move someplace else. It is the poorest people who will be the most stuck here while our little nation collapses.
Cue all the idiots with their "yeah but republicans do bad stuff too, so there!" Pull your head out of your ass and realize finally that the two-party deal is there to make you cheerlead like you're at a pep rally and pretend "your team" can do no wrong because that means you don't call things what they are. Fucking sheeple. Fucking tool. This isn't a left vs. right deal. It isn't a black vs. white deal. They present it that way because you morons believe every word of it. It's a self-destruction vs. prosperity deal.
I think Obama seems to use his brain rather than subscribing blindly to some ideology such as "Cut taxes always increase revenue" People pushing that ideology cannot point to any evidence of cutting taxes increasing gov't revenue and the only evidence I can point to is of the contrary. When Bush cut taxes across the board govt revenue tanked, deficit skyrocketed from a surplus to 1.4 trillion when he left office. And even with the massive economy crash Its now down to around 1.2 trillion. The people pushing this ideology use the analogy of a personal budget however even then their argument doesn't make much sense to me. For me if I don't make enough to pay my bills then I find a way not just to reduce my spending but to increase my incoming revenue. All this hoopla about going from the current rate 35% to Clinton era rates 39% for millionares being the end of America as we know it just does not seem to compute. It just seems like you would want to balance what you do. Cut back on spending and increase incoming revenue. With just about every non-partisan economist and even some partisan ones on Fox saying that you really need a balanced approach rather than an ideological approach when it comes to this and all the recent evidence I just don't understand why Obama would listen to what you and other ideologs have to say on the matter.
While I agree that a significant portion of the voters are sheeple and tools. Using such talking points as "anti-colonial", "Black liberation Theology" and ranting on about William Ares, Saul Alinsky and the other Gingrich/Hannity manufactured controversies does not demonstrate that you are not in the same bubble with them. When I see librerals ranting and raging about George Bush and the World Trade Center or conservatives ranting about Obama being supposedly "anti-colonial" and other rubbish I get a feeling of mental liberation. That feeling is hard to explain but its like "Im so glad I can still use my critical thinking skills"
INAS and haven't RTFA yet but it would seem to me that this shouldn't be a shock to anyone. This may be a simplistic way of looking at it but I give it a shot.
If the universe is expanding it would seem that the ratio of globular clusters and the like where many stars are born to the amount of space from expansion would somewhat dilute the gravity needed to fuel star formation. So as the universe expands the effect on gravity on objects decreases and there for star formation grinds to a halt. Then again... I may be way off course here so off to RTFA..
Man!... You are showing your ignorance. The patent is not on what something does. example. multitouch. The patent is on the method that is used to implement multitouch. You cannot patent multitouch. Apple did not invent multitouch. You can only patent your method that is why apple lost their most significant case in the EU. The methods to achive pinch to zoom is different on the platforms. This is really not rocket sciene.
erm.. GNU is NOT Linux. GNU is GNU. GNU refers to itself as the GNU operating system. Linux is a kernel. In the sense of calling an OS with a Linux kernel Linux then GNU/Linux is as much Linux as Android/Linux or Linux+X11+TWM/FVWM or Linux+busybox so if you develop a completely new userland and put it on the Linux kernel then guess what? its as much Linux as any other userland + Linux. In that sense. Factually however Linux is just a kernel.
Really, troll, who cares? Apple is rapidly gaining a shit reputation in the tech world and this will spread to the broader markeplace in time. Just like what happened to Microsoft. Apple has publicly vowed to use the courts to destroy competition and ruin open source in the marketplace with dubious,obvious software-patents that should have never been filed and should have never been granted. This will come back and bite them in the ass eventually. Samsung has already vacated their touchscreen contract with Apple, and Sharp(Apple's new LCD partner) has just claimed that they don't know if they will remain in existence next year, leaving LG to pick up the slack. LG does not have the capacity nor the quality of Samsung screens. Apple may well have to spend some of their "thermonuclear war" money and get into the screen manufacturing business or come to market with substandard screens. Their antics in court (telling a judge to set a price for FRAND patents below $1 or they will not repect the price the judge sets, and, disrespecting a UK court order. among other arrogant behaviour) showcases their arrogance to the world. Already I meet people who are not technically inclined and they would not purchase Apple products because they have "heard" that Apple is a litigious company and sues their competitors for a rectange with rounded corners. I never though regular Joes would know about these things but the truth is going mainstream now so give it time. The market will eventually come around.
Politicians are generally Ignorant of the inner workings of giant multinationals. Politicians rely on "inudstry Experts" for advice. These "Industry Experts" must have experience in the relevant industry. Michael R Taylor is the head of the FDA I believe. He was also supposedly a former Monsanto executive. Given these facts I would assume that Mr Taylor would not want to see the company he had ties to losing their shirt in this deal and may be pushing for this case to go away. While the good news is that this Supreme Court has not be friendly to patents on natural processes, The bad news? Both Justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan had ties to Monsanto in the litigation business. Whether they sued farmers for patented seed while working as litigators for Monsanto is beyond me. Maybe someone on/. can dig up some history on the work CT and EK did for Monsanto.
With 2 former Monsanto litigators(Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan) currently on the supreme court we already know the outcome of this case. Kagan has shown a tendency to recuse herself from cases she see may deem some confict but I'm not counting on this one. I would love to eat crow on this one but Monsanto has their tentacles deep in washington. I blame the ignorance of politicians. They nominate these judges to the supreme court and in other positions of power (Michael Taylor) FDA and numerous others with ties to Monsanto in Federal and State Government. The revolving door is strong with this one.
of software-patent abuse in the IT world with a goal of driving Linux, Android, and FOSS out of the marketplace. They are driving up the cost of writing software. Who would have thought 20 years ago that in the future when you write software that gains any traction in the marketplace (especially system software and operating system related) you would need an army of laywers because Microsoft and Apple will find a way to take ownership of your code though the use of software-patents. All your code are belong to us.
may possibly be the approach many of these very smart researchers use. Perhaps the focus should be on developing some kind of artifical nevous system with the abitlity to learn on its own rather than trying to program for the dynamics of real world interaction. Perhaps the folks over at Boston Dynamics may be on to something? Not sure what its learning/memory capabilites are but it sure seems to behave like it has some kind of nervous system.
Pinch to zoom is clearly obvious
spring-back animation is clearly obvious
rendering text before background images is clearly obvious
swipe to unlock is clearly obvious
stacking pictures in software like you would stack them on a table is clearly obvious
I could go on and on and on. The difference here is Google didn't declare "thermonuclear war" on anyone, nor is Google running a patent extortion scheme using obvious software patents.
A computer program product
- stored on a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium
- and comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a computer system to:
These "instructions" that are executed...where are they? I don't see any source code in the patent filing or claims. And that is the problem with these software patents. If you file a software patent then disclose the source code as part of the patent that way people skilled in the art can actually implement your invention.
I also do not see any source code or "instructions" for the "heuristics" in any of Apple's "on a mobile phone" software patents either.
Yeah you omitted one important point. It was Apple that decided launch to "thermonuclear war" on Android and started suing world+dog over trivial software-patents. No one would be suing Apple had they not started this "thermonuclear war" against Android. But don't let facts get in the way there...carry on.
I too have recently started to advise against purchasing Apple products since their litigious behaviour and will continue to do so until they end this anti-competitive behaviour in the marketplace. I simply explain that Apple is Anti-Free market and anti-consumer-choice, Purchasing Apple IOS products is like purchasing a 5 bedroom house with only access to 3 rooms. The bulder of course has access to all 5 rooms. They get it then.
to screw their customers. When you hear this current crop of Republicans mention freedom you can be assured that its freedom for giant corporations. Your freedom to use the network as you see fit after you have paid the bill.
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Many people should notice one prevalent such pattern of organisation is the swirl/vortex pattern. from sink drains to storms to galaxies its hard to miss.
OK so lets say you are right about Cat3 Vs Cat1 storms. Did the Cat3 storms of the past cause so much flooding? Have any of them been as massive as Sandy? Have any been followed up by another big storm in just a few days?
Really, who is correct here in this great global warming debate? NASA,NOAA,ESA or Exxon? Does increased Co2 trap heat like the scientific community claims or are all these scientists just lumbering idiots? What happens when you take 2 plastic water bottles and add some Co2 to one of them and just simply cap the other one and set them out in the sun. Is the Co2 doped bottle warmer? Does it trap more heat?
What would be the motivation of the majority of scientists worldwide to perpetrate such a gaint fraud? To hold back capitalsim? Do scientist hait Capitalism"
The purpose of patents is to ensure that people can spend a lot of money on research, with some kind of general guarantee that it can pay off for them.
actually? thats not correct. According to the US constitution " The Congress shall have power...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" In exchage for publishing the details of your invention. The promotion of the progress of science and useful arts relies on you publishing the details of your invention. When you do this the government secures that exclusive right to that invention for a limited time. The purpose of patents therefor is not to guarantee profits for research but to encourage inventors to publish the details of that invention so as to promote the progress of science and useful art.
"To Help My Corporate Buddies."
When there is only one explaination is possible it has to be true.
Yeah. Like when Obama knows his fiscal policies will harm the nation because he is a very smart man. He also admitted knowing that raising taxes will not increase gov't revenue. He also knows that reducing gov't spending is the only permanent fix for the debt. He knows you cannot spend your way out of a debt problem. Study after study confirms these things. He knows that. He is extremely intelligent. But he does these things anyway. The only single explanation is, he hates America and wants to see it fail. It is consistent with his "anti-colonial" brand of leftism. Obama is anything but incompetent. He is not a dummy. Not at all. We have people in the highest offices that want to see us fail. We're boned. Funny thing is the rich are the ones who can afford to move someplace else. It is the poorest people who will be the most stuck here while our little nation collapses. Cue all the idiots with their "yeah but republicans do bad stuff too, so there!" Pull your head out of your ass and realize finally that the two-party deal is there to make you cheerlead like you're at a pep rally and pretend "your team" can do no wrong because that means you don't call things what they are. Fucking sheeple. Fucking tool. This isn't a left vs. right deal. It isn't a black vs. white deal. They present it that way because you morons believe every word of it. It's a self-destruction vs. prosperity deal.
I think Obama seems to use his brain rather than subscribing blindly to some ideology such as "Cut taxes always increase revenue" People pushing that ideology cannot point to any evidence of cutting taxes increasing gov't revenue and the only evidence I can point to is of the contrary. When Bush cut taxes across the board govt revenue tanked, deficit skyrocketed from a surplus to 1.4 trillion when he left office. And even with the massive economy crash Its now down to around 1.2 trillion. The people pushing this ideology use the analogy of a personal budget however even then their argument doesn't make much sense to me. For me if I don't make enough to pay my bills then I find a way not just to reduce my spending but to increase my incoming revenue. All this hoopla about going from the current rate 35% to Clinton era rates 39% for millionares being the end of America as we know it just does not seem to compute. It just seems like you would want to balance what you do. Cut back on spending and increase incoming revenue. With just about every non-partisan economist and even some partisan ones on Fox saying that you really need a balanced approach rather than an ideological approach when it comes to this and all the recent evidence I just don't understand why Obama would listen to what you and other ideologs have to say on the matter.
While I agree that a significant portion of the voters are sheeple and tools. Using such talking points as "anti-colonial", "Black liberation Theology" and ranting on about William Ares, Saul Alinsky and the other Gingrich/Hannity manufactured controversies does not demonstrate that you are not in the same bubble with them. When I see librerals ranting and raging about George Bush and the World Trade Center or conservatives ranting about Obama being supposedly "anti-colonial" and other rubbish I get a feeling of mental liberation. That feeling is hard to explain but its like "Im so glad I can still use my critical thinking skills"
INAS and haven't RTFA yet but it would seem to me that this shouldn't be a shock to anyone. This may be a simplistic way of looking at it but I give it a shot.
If the universe is expanding it would seem that the ratio of globular clusters and the like where many stars are born to the amount of space from expansion would somewhat dilute the gravity needed to fuel star formation. So as the universe expands the effect on gravity on objects decreases and there for star formation grinds to a halt. Then again... I may be way off course here so off to RTFA..
Man!... You are showing your ignorance. The patent is not on what something does. example. multitouch. The patent is on the method that is used to implement multitouch. You cannot patent multitouch. Apple did not invent multitouch. You can only patent your method that is why apple lost their most significant case in the EU. The methods to achive pinch to zoom is different on the platforms. This is really not rocket sciene.
are you stupid? The multitouch used by android is not the same method used by Apple. When you patent something you are patenting the method
Soooo... I see you've never used foursquare on your IOS devices.. /facepalm
erm.. GNU is NOT Linux. GNU is GNU. GNU refers to itself as the GNU operating system. Linux is a kernel. In the sense of calling an OS with a Linux kernel Linux then GNU/Linux is as much Linux as Android/Linux or Linux+X11+TWM/FVWM or Linux+busybox so if you develop a completely new userland and put it on the Linux kernel then guess what? its as much Linux as any other userland + Linux. In that sense. Factually however Linux is just a kernel.
Really, troll, who cares? Apple is rapidly gaining a shit reputation in the tech world and this will spread to the broader markeplace in time. Just like what happened to Microsoft. Apple has publicly vowed to use the courts to destroy competition and ruin open source in the marketplace with dubious,obvious software-patents that should have never been filed and should have never been granted. This will come back and bite them in the ass eventually. Samsung has already vacated their touchscreen contract with Apple, and Sharp(Apple's new LCD partner) has just claimed that they don't know if they will remain in existence next year, leaving LG to pick up the slack. LG does not have the capacity nor the quality of Samsung screens. Apple may well have to spend some of their "thermonuclear war" money and get into the screen manufacturing business or come to market with substandard screens. Their antics in court (telling a judge to set a price for FRAND patents below $1 or they will not repect the price the judge sets, and, disrespecting a UK court order. among other arrogant behaviour) showcases their arrogance to the world. Already I meet people who are not technically inclined and they would not purchase Apple products because they have "heard" that Apple is a litigious company and sues their competitors for a rectange with rounded corners. I never though regular Joes would know about these things but the truth is going mainstream now so give it time. The market will eventually come around.
Haha you like to Florian. thats like conservatives linking to Fox News.
I prefer this. I expected something like this. 3 turbine engines. Not that ugly thing above.
Politicians are generally Ignorant of the inner workings of giant multinationals. Politicians rely on "inudstry Experts" for advice. These "Industry Experts" must have experience in the relevant industry. Michael R Taylor is the head of the FDA I believe. He was also supposedly a former Monsanto executive. Given these facts I would assume that Mr Taylor would not want to see the company he had ties to losing their shirt in this deal and may be pushing for this case to go away. While the good news is that this Supreme Court has not be friendly to patents on natural processes, The bad news? Both Justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan had ties to Monsanto in the litigation business. Whether they sued farmers for patented seed while working as litigators for Monsanto is beyond me. Maybe someone on /. can dig up some history on the work CT and EK did for Monsanto.
With 2 former Monsanto litigators(Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan) currently on the supreme court we already know the outcome of this case. Kagan has shown a tendency to recuse herself from cases she see may deem some confict but I'm not counting on this one. I would love to eat crow on this one but Monsanto has their tentacles deep in washington. I blame the ignorance of politicians. They nominate these judges to the supreme court and in other positions of power (Michael Taylor) FDA and numerous others with ties to Monsanto in Federal and State Government. The revolving door is strong with this one.
of software-patent abuse in the IT world with a goal of driving Linux, Android, and FOSS out of the marketplace. They are driving up the cost of writing software. Who would have thought 20 years ago that in the future when you write software that gains any traction in the marketplace (especially system software and operating system related) you would need an army of laywers because Microsoft and Apple will find a way to take ownership of your code though the use of software-patents. All your code are belong to us.
may possibly be the approach many of these very smart researchers use. Perhaps the focus should be on developing some kind of artifical nevous system with the abitlity to learn on its own rather than trying to program for the dynamics of real world interaction. Perhaps the folks over at Boston Dynamics may be on to something? Not sure what its learning/memory capabilites are but it sure seems to behave like it has some kind of nervous system.
Pinch to zoom is clearly obvious
spring-back animation is clearly obvious
rendering text before background images is clearly obvious
swipe to unlock is clearly obvious
stacking pictures in software like you would stack them on a table is clearly obvious
I could go on and on and on. The difference here is Google didn't declare "thermonuclear war" on anyone, nor is Google running a patent extortion scheme using obvious software patents.
Obvious troll is obvious troll.
I'm sorry to tell you this but you are either lying or ignorant to the fact that Samsung does put pressure on their suppliers to clean up their act.
Also if you care to see Samsung's statements you can see them here
THIS ^^
A computer program product - stored on a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium - and comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a computer system to:
These "instructions" that are executed...where are they? I don't see any source code in the patent filing or claims. And that is the problem with these software patents. If you file a software patent then disclose the source code as part of the patent that way people skilled in the art can actually implement your invention.
I also do not see any source code or "instructions" for the "heuristics" in any of Apple's "on a mobile phone" software patents either.
Yeah you omitted one important point. It was Apple that decided launch to "thermonuclear war" on Android and started suing world+dog over trivial software-patents. No one would be suing Apple had they not started this "thermonuclear war" against Android. But don't let facts get in the way there...carry on.
I too have recently started to advise against purchasing Apple products since their litigious behaviour and will continue to do so until they end this anti-competitive behaviour in the marketplace. I simply explain that Apple is Anti-Free market and anti-consumer-choice, Purchasing Apple IOS products is like purchasing a 5 bedroom house with only access to 3 rooms. The bulder of course has access to all 5 rooms. They get it then.
to screw their customers. When you hear this current crop of Republicans mention freedom you can be assured that its freedom for giant corporations. Your freedom to use the network as you see fit after you have paid the bill.