I swear this is a true story. Many years ago when I was young and cruel, a coworker was describing making her babies formula with distilled water. Which you are not supposed to do because it lacks necessary electrolytes, manly sodium, calcium and magnesium. Well another coworker and I went into a false panic mode, describing what all can happen such as blood cells exploding because the salt ratio in the blood plasma gets out of wack. Her being postpartum hormonal didn't realize we (while describing an actual condition) were being sarcastic. She immediately sat on the floor and started crying saying the police were going to arrest her for trying to kill her baby. She got a lesson in biochemistry, I got a lesson in life.
That's why athletes use Gatorade or some other electrolytic drink. Years ago many long distance runners were especially prone to serious illness or death because they drank water to rehydrate.
I agree. If she knew ahead of time the content of the material, and had an active roll in it being posted, then I don't know how she can be excluded from the lawsuit. Otherwise, anyone could post anything, using an anonymous writer as the source.
There is no such thing as "... I'd basically have total control over the projects on which I work." Not even close. You may have control on "How" you complete the projects, but not on "Which" projects. Not every company can be a Google.
Beyond that there are two types of employees. Those that live to work and those that work to live. You can not decide which you are, your too close to the subject. So ask family and friends. People that live to work need a higher degree of job satisfaction to be happy. On the other side, I have known people all my life (half a century) that hate their jobs, but the job has regular hours and pays well, and the jobs only purpose is to fund their weekends and vacations.
In any case, it really doesn't matter, your young!
To be honest, it's [screen blocker] kind of a nice thing when you're sitting in one of those long drawn-out meetings," he said. "You can do what you need to do and no one will notice."
Except maybe all the key tapping and mouse clicking.
How could the USPO have given a patent for a "Mailing and response envelope"? By any other name isn't that called a return envelope? Companies have been using that for many years. The only difference is this patent explicitly mentions DVDs (claims 7 & 14). Is that really enough of a difference to prior art to be granted a patent?
Considering Microsoft supports the patent community review project. I wonder if Microsoft will allow this patent to be reviewed. However, most Slashdot users don't like the community review system . I would think they (USPTO) would get a flood of prior art examples.
It has all the right words but only time will tell. With companies such as Microsoft getting involved, how can the process be trusted? When was the last time Microsoft, HP, or Red Hat for that matter put the public's interest ahead of profits?
Is this a situation were large corporations AND the little guy win? I don't think so!
James T. Kirk: Damn it Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. [to Sybok] I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!
I am on an anti-depressant (fairly low dose) and most likely will be for the rest of my life. And there are a few (very few) pains I wouldn't mind loosing. However; I couldn't agree more with Captain Kirk. I am who I am because of both my pain and my happiness. As a human, one of our main goals in life is "The Pursuit Of Happiness". Well, if we peak and stay there, through no effort of our own (through drugs or DNA alteration) there would be no sense of accomplishment. Is happiness and a sense of success the same thing? Because we need both.
Besides, happiness in mice is mostly objective, where as, happiness in humans is very subjective. I swear I know people that are happiest when they have something to be depressed about! It seems as though what they want is strong emotion and if they can't get it on the happy side, they will take it on the depressing side. I don't think that can be determined in mice.
I have read many articles on the analysis of the released AOL data. Some of the articles start off something like this:
"I think the release of this data is a breach of privacy and should never have been made public. But..."
Then they present their analysis. My question is if you are going to preach on the evils of releasing the data then do you have the moral right to analyze it? I think not.
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You are right, I did my own search after I posted. But at the time, almost 30 years ago, that is what we believed (right or wrong).
I swear this is a true story. Many years ago when I was young and cruel, a coworker was describing making her babies formula with distilled water. Which you are not supposed to do because it lacks necessary electrolytes, manly sodium, calcium and magnesium. Well another coworker and I went into a false panic mode, describing what all can happen such as blood cells exploding because the salt ratio in the blood plasma gets out of wack. Her being postpartum hormonal didn't realize we (while describing an actual condition) were being sarcastic. She immediately sat on the floor and started crying saying the police were going to arrest her for trying to kill her baby. She got a lesson in biochemistry, I got a lesson in life.
That's why athletes use Gatorade or some other electrolytic drink. Years ago many long distance runners were especially prone to serious illness or death because they drank water to rehydrate.
I agree. If she knew ahead of time the content of the material, and had an active roll in it being posted, then I don't know how she can be excluded from the lawsuit. Otherwise, anyone could post anything, using an anonymous writer as the source.
There is no such thing as "... I'd basically have total control over the projects on which I work." Not even close. You may have control on "How" you complete the projects, but not on "Which" projects. Not every company can be a Google. Beyond that there are two types of employees. Those that live to work and those that work to live. You can not decide which you are, your too close to the subject. So ask family and friends. People that live to work need a higher degree of job satisfaction to be happy. On the other side, I have known people all my life (half a century) that hate their jobs, but the job has regular hours and pays well, and the jobs only purpose is to fund their weekends and vacations. In any case, it really doesn't matter, your young!
I remember Red Buttons. A very funny man.
Send a space shuttle full of this. That should take care of it.
Its not the volts that kill you its the amps!
Has the fact that as the icecover over land dissapears there will be less weight and cause the landmass to rise?
You are showing your age. Heathkits rule!
How could the USPO have given a patent for a "Mailing and response envelope"? By any other name isn't that called a return envelope? Companies have been using that for many years. The only difference is this patent explicitly mentions DVDs (claims 7 & 14). Is that really enough of a difference to prior art to be granted a patent?
Considering Microsoft supports the patent community review project. I wonder if Microsoft will allow this patent to be reviewed. However, most Slashdot users don't like the community review system . I would think they (USPTO) would get a flood of prior art examples.
It has all the right words but only time will tell. With companies such as Microsoft getting involved, how can the process be trusted? When was the last time Microsoft, HP, or Red Hat for that matter put the public's interest ahead of profits?
Is this a situation were large corporations AND the little guy win? I don't think so!
What about the people that the software makers could sue for using illegal copies of the programs. Where is their restitution?
Speaking Of Trek - How about this quote.
From Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
I am on an anti-depressant (fairly low dose) and most likely will be for the rest of my life. And there are a few (very few) pains I wouldn't mind loosing. However; I couldn't agree more with Captain Kirk. I am who I am because of both my pain and my happiness. As a human, one of our main goals in life is "The Pursuit Of Happiness". Well, if we peak and stay there, through no effort of our own (through drugs or DNA alteration) there would be no sense of accomplishment. Is happiness and a sense of success the same thing? Because we need both.
Besides, happiness in mice is mostly objective, where as, happiness in humans is very subjective. I swear I know people that are happiest when they have something to be depressed about! It seems as though what they want is strong emotion and if they can't get it on the happy side, they will take it on the depressing side. I don't think that can be determined in mice.
I have read many articles on the analysis of the released AOL data. Some of the articles start off something like this:
..."
"I think the release of this data is a breach of privacy and should never have been made public. But
Then they present their analysis. My question is if you are going to preach on the evils of releasing the data then do you have the moral right to analyze it? I think not.
Is there a search engine that searches known legitimate sites only?
Went to the link site and it is down do to high traffic. Slashdot does it again