"I went to a launch party and everybody was walking around naked. It was great!" - "What? Where there any women?" - "How should I know? I told you nobody was wearing clothes!"
Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me. But imagine something like the following picture but with a foreground full of smoke, laser beams, and a drunk crowd on the brink of passing out.
http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/nin-bsod.jpg
I don't feel like making IBM look good since they are supporting Bilski at the moment, but that's what Robert Sutor from IBM basically said at OpenExpo as well: Soon it will be standard that any company claiming to endorse Open Source will have to make a legal commitment to not enforce software patents against free software!
Maybe you should give Kubuntu a try? I run a dual-boot with Vista and Kubuntu. I use Vista to test the cross-platform support of the software which I develop and I use Kubuntu for everything else.
There would be no reason for pharmaceutical firms to continue to pump a billion dollars into any drug if it's never going to see its return on investment, so innovation would end. The search for a cure for cancer, or of the many chronic conditions such as lupus, muscular dystrophy, etc., would end because there's no profit to be made even if they succeed.
I think that's the core of the issue. Creating software or writing articles neither requires extensive clinical testing nor expensive equipment (these days). However regarding pharmaceuticals you need to keep in mind that the principle of excluding everyone who can't pay for medicaments means killing people. Furthermore pharma like any other business will not stop at recovering their costs. They will go all the way and they will patent trivial changes to their pharmaceuticals to extend their monopoly (see Pfizer's Lipitor).
You may think that a statutory health insurance would solve this problem. But for example in Germany doctors have a limited budget for pharmaceuticals depending on the number of patients. So even in a country with statutory health insurance many people suffer or die even though there is a cure!!!
What about just using Tiny Menu? I can really recommend it if you have a laptop screen with a height of 800 pixel. I've removed the "Navigation Bar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" as well.
I have seen the video Grundeinkommen (German) and I was very intrigued by the idea. But after (admittedly lengthy) consideration I start having doubts. I'm not so concerned about people not working at all. It's rather about cooperation, i.e. everybody will only do the fun part of his/her work. Why would you continue to align your interest with what society requires while everybody else is pursuing their own interest?
Well, the GPLv3 takes care about both scenarios as far as possible given the current legal settings. Why would you as an individual software developer who does not own any software patents choose the Ms-PL if it only protects your patents but not your contributed code?
Eric Raymond has an interesting article (2006) where he argues that big changes on the software market can only occur when there is an industry-wide switch in the hardware. According to Eric Raymond the window of opportunity created by the transition to 64bit platforms closes (has closed) in 2008. However I still see Windows Vista PCs on sale with 3GByte of memory because 64bit Windows lacks driver support and 32bit Windows can only address 4GByte of memory (minus 1GByte to address the graphics card AFAIK).
Microsoft could just argue that according to the Bilski ruling a process which is not tied to any particular apparatus is not patentable. But obviously they have their own stakes in software patents. I wonder how many more i4is (eye for an eye?) the economy can take.
This reminds me of Slashdot discussions on how to filter SPAM mail. The problem is that every mechanism can be turned against you. Otherwise collecting data to isolate infected computers would solve the problem.
The camera does alignment and bracketing of an exposure series on-site. That would be really neat and much cheaper than current HDR sensors. At the moment I need to do this offline using Hugin and QtPfsGui.
This software is not providing additional functionality. Its development consumes lots of developer's time which rather should be spend on meaningful/productive work. The only real growth happens in the law firms.
I summarised the invention for anyone who doesn't want to read TFP. <html> <body> <center> <h4>Google</h4> <p><input size="55"/></p> </center> </body> </html>
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"I went to a launch party and everybody was walking around naked. It was great!" - "What? Where there any women?" - "How should I know? I told you nobody was wearing clothes!"
Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me. But imagine something like the following picture but with a foreground full of smoke, laser beams, and a drunk crowd on the brink of passing out. http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/nin-bsod.jpg
I don't feel like making IBM look good since they are supporting Bilski at the moment, but that's what Robert Sutor from IBM basically said at OpenExpo as well: Soon it will be standard that any company claiming to endorse Open Source will have to make a legal commitment to not enforce software patents against free software!
Maybe you should give Kubuntu a try? I run a dual-boot with Vista and Kubuntu. I use Vista to test the cross-platform support of the software which I develop and I use Kubuntu for everything else.
There would be no reason for pharmaceutical firms to continue to pump a billion dollars into any drug if it's never going to see its return on investment, so innovation would end. The search for a cure for cancer, or of the many chronic conditions such as lupus, muscular dystrophy, etc., would end because there's no profit to be made even if they succeed.
I think that's the core of the issue. Creating software or writing articles neither requires extensive clinical testing nor expensive equipment (these days). However regarding pharmaceuticals you need to keep in mind that the principle of excluding everyone who can't pay for medicaments means killing people. Furthermore pharma like any other business will not stop at recovering their costs. They will go all the way and they will patent trivial changes to their pharmaceuticals to extend their monopoly (see Pfizer's Lipitor). You may think that a statutory health insurance would solve this problem. But for example in Germany doctors have a limited budget for pharmaceuticals depending on the number of patients. So even in a country with statutory health insurance many people suffer or die even though there is a cure!!!
First: Computer Science is not about computers. Second: Computer Science is not a science.
I think the patent office should use Amazon's Ebook-DRM so that they can withdraw the patent when they find prior art later on.
What about just using Tiny Menu? I can really recommend it if you have a laptop screen with a height of 800 pixel. I've removed the "Navigation Bar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" as well.
Yes, that's a good point. Well, I would be happy if society would get to that point. I guess there is only one way to find out whether it works ;)
I have seen the video Grundeinkommen (German) and I was very intrigued by the idea. But after (admittedly lengthy) consideration I start having doubts. I'm not so concerned about people not working at all. It's rather about cooperation, i.e. everybody will only do the fun part of his/her work. Why would you continue to align your interest with what society requires while everybody else is pursuing their own interest?
Well, I forgot to add the irony tags.
Well, the GPLv3 takes care about both scenarios as far as possible given the current legal settings. Why would you as an individual software developer who does not own any software patents choose the Ms-PL if it only protects your patents but not your contributed code?
So if the big company sues me, I use the nuke clause by just withdrawing my patents in return?
A pity that GPLv3 isn't allowed, but maybe they'll add it if asked.
Yes. Their board is probably just not aware of the new version of the GPL and nobody told them.
I would like to get a cortex with build-in syntax highlighting. More colour channels would also help of course.
But you have to wonder why there are x86_64 laptops on sale with 32bit Windows software on it. There is no other explanation for it.
That may be true for Windows. But Linux users run GNU Emacs and then nothing is farther away than three key-combinations.
Eric Raymond has an interesting article (2006) where he argues that big changes on the software market can only occur when there is an industry-wide switch in the hardware. According to Eric Raymond the window of opportunity created by the transition to 64bit platforms closes (has closed) in 2008. However I still see Windows Vista PCs on sale with 3GByte of memory because 64bit Windows lacks driver support and 32bit Windows can only address 4GByte of memory (minus 1GByte to address the graphics card AFAIK).
Microsoft could just argue that according to the Bilski ruling a process which is not tied to any particular apparatus is not patentable. But obviously they have their own stakes in software patents. I wonder how many more i4is (eye for an eye?) the economy can take.
This reminds me of Slashdot discussions on how to filter SPAM mail. The problem is that every mechanism can be turned against you. Otherwise collecting data to isolate infected computers would solve the problem.
Imagine the criticism if you'd have said "relax, I'm a homeless person myself" ;)
The camera does alignment and bracketing of an exposure series on-site. That would be really neat and much cheaper than current HDR sensors. At the moment I need to do this offline using Hugin and QtPfsGui.
This software is not providing additional functionality. Its development consumes lots of developer's time which rather should be spend on meaningful/productive work. The only real growth happens in the law firms.
the market for corner reflectors seems to continue its steady growth through the third quarter of 2009.
I summarised the invention for anyone who doesn't want to read TFP.
<html>
<body>
<center>
<h4>Google</h4>
<p><input size="55"/></p>
</center>
</body>
</html>