When Daguerre attempted to patent Photography in 1839 the French government immediately saw that the invention was too important and refused the patent and released the invention into the public domain within the week. It also compensated him through a pension for life.
A method where inventions that are so important such as a drug that could prevent a pandemic could be released immediately while compensating the company or researcher involved with the invention may be an alternative to corporate greed.
Somehow the inventor or in this case the Corporation should be compensated for the "invention" of the drug, but should not be allowed to hide behind the greed thereby assured through the use of licencing the patent. Taiwan should produce it, and offer to pay Roche what it considers an adequate compensation. If Roche does not like it, then perhaps the patent system is not where they need to publish data, and if they were to sue Taiwan for any other compensation, Taiwanese courts I am sure would throw out the case.
The theory that real life somehow infringes upon the virtual world may be the probelm.
If the person had not sold virtual items for "real" cash but had rather sold the items within the game for virtual cash, the issue would not be one that would need to be discussed, but rather one for virtual police to handle and if the crime was egregious enough could have been handled with a virtual guillotine.
This may be a real hanful for the "real" police when the crime was committed within a different "world" where are the lines of demarcation and should the "real" police actually interfere?
20 plus years ago my Apple 2 C computer actually had a button right there on the front where you could swich between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards. You could also buy key caps with both letters on them. I had mine permanently on Dvorak, and just wrote in the qwerty keys mainly for moving the cursor and such--- sometimes programs depended too much on the ijkm keys and then there was the keys which were in different spots. I was able to go past 70wpm in about 2 weeks of using it.
I worked at Apple for over 4 years, and finally it was leave or get fired. --I had 14 managers in the time I was there. I was hired as a tech, and left becaquse I couldn't SELL enough.
In Austin at least most of the management seems to have come from Dell retreads.
As for Apple tech support, I would NEVER pay for it because its worse than useless. I really think that its just overpriced babysitting. and the Genius thing is correct, as soon as the stores started opening up all the SMART tech support people immediately moved into the stores leaving the call centers stuck with the 90 day wonders and hacks. I was in high end desktop support, and left when I saw the writing on the wall and I started getting windows I-Pod calls. I pointed out to my supervisor that I knew nothing about windows, but was rebuffed and told just to work on selling.
The quality of Apple tech support has really bottomed out since they quit giving a damn about it and the good people that they had and started treating them as expendable and immediately replaceable.
Since you are a Republican I cannot understand why you would not pay the $120. After all, you are supporting your republican fat cat bretheren. I would think that you wou;ld be HAPPY to pay the $120.
http://home.owt.net/
ZERO SECURITY
Their internal e-mail is wide open, there are internal selections for various other things also. One I found interesting was where I could get a password for a logon sent to an email adress if it was forgotten. So using one of their employees e-mails you may want to request that your password be sent to you a couple (hundred thousand) times.
that ought to interest them---spam sent from their own server to themselves.
And I am still using Word 5. since the drivel they wanted you to pay for after it sucked so bad that they had to include a 5 option in later versions so it would still work like 5
I use IE 5.1 on Mac......Of course all my machines run OS9.1.
I am a strict adherent to the idea of chronological compatibility. I have 4 machines that run scanners and printers that cost many times what the computers cost. I purchased everything at the same time and have done one minor OS upgrade from 8.6 to 9.1. Since 1998 I have had no major problems and keep the machines runing nearly constantly. I have never had a virus, nor any type of problem from the internet on the machine that is connected to the internet.
I regularly find the problems of others humorous, as I see anyone who has problems with their computers to be of the same ilk that would lick a welding tip to see if it was working. Most of the people who are commenting here seem to beg these issues on themselves by constantly changing and "tweaking" things. perhaps some of them someday will learn the joys of leaving well enough alone.
Book 5 is implied to be done --may be waiting on reissue of first 4 since they are now out of print. He also says that since the mss for 5 was cut that he is now well into book 6.
The length of time between books is just an author thing and not really anything else. David Gerrold has been promising book 5 in the war against the chtorr series for over 10 years, the first 4 being 83-85-89-93. While David Weber is cranking out an Honor Harrington book every year.
Perhaps what is needed more than another author and a series are about 10 new sci-fi authors with new ideas.
I too come from a small country, Austin, Texas. We are a spot of deep blue lost in a sea of red. We had our congressman taken away by the republicans. We are having our rights as thinking, intelligent, free people taken away.
Until such time as Free thinking individuals in the United States are willing to stand up to the bible beating, neanderthal like, backwards thinking, far right, southern baptist mullahs, they will be trampled down, rights will be destroyed, books will be burned and pi will be set at 3 because that's the godly way and it must be enforced.
Until we are forced to learn as slaves of the machismo, fear mongering, two faced Liars of the Republican party, that power DOES grow from the barrel of a gun, then we will continue to be trampled by their jack booted thugism.
Until the BLUE in America is willing to take up arms and say to the lock step march of the right that YOU have gone FAR ENOUGH and no farther we shall all be poorer.
And mark my words, there will be a second civil war in America, and perhaps sooner than might be thought. because there is no way to assimilate or live with people that refuse any intelectual debate, and choose to blame the person bringing them the bad news for it or to discredit anyone thinking differently. These people have no concept that there are Billions of people in the world that want them dead not because they are jealous as many Americans would like to believe. There are billions that want them dead because they see them as DANGEROUS. They see them as children playing with gasoline and matches.
Soon the Republicans will have their own tiny backwards nation in which they can pass all the fanatical state religion sponsored legislation they want, and we Americans can undo some of the insane mess that they have created, and get a reasonable copyright and patent law system.
That is really the issue, that the writing quality is a bit less than the manual for a piece of shareware, and continuous churning really does it no good. As for the Wikipedia moderators, who I shall refer to as Wiki-Nazis I can say nothing good.
Perhaps there should be a moderation group that can say "done" for an article then have the modification turned off. Then the only way to have the article changed would be to petition with facts to the group. I just fear the usual lurking moderators there that have much too much time on their hands and treat the whole thing as a gossipy old biddie would treat her neighbors.
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· Score: 3, Funny
If I say I licked that test, and it was the Command Line Interface Test, do I get in trouble?
The problem is really not bad customers, it's republicans.
These are the people that barge to the head of the line like they are better than others.
These are the people returning things that they damaged and lying about it
These are the people that when exit polled were nasty and told the person polling that "they didn't have to talk to them"
Republicans are in the end just NASTY people, and it's Europeans that cannot fathom the nasty, rude behavior of republicans. They have never seen the depths of lying and crookedness that republicans will seep to in an attempt to cheat the system or someone.
Good luck. it's all just going to get worse before it gets better.
Yes, I'll admit it --I am the one calling all the radio Stations requesting Shakira---ohhh she's a real latin spitfire.
I also called ABC hoping to have Shakira replace Charro on the next Love Boat Special.
When I was younger I made radio stations play Manilow's Copacabana. Thereby singlehandedly creating the Punk backlash.
I also filles my iPod with Styx, Journey, and REO Speedwagon to see if I make it implode.
Good luck changing the music industry---It all sucks, and really kind of always has sucked.
(Honestly I really do like John Denver though..)
What the stories author failed to understand is that these Pro-Ams have always been around, its just that now the author is an adult and has opportunities to join adult organizations.
Take for instance Ham radio operators, one of the more interesting things to do is joining huge worldwide networks to "pass traffic" (messages) from place to place. MARS, the Military Affiliate Radio System is Amateurs used to pass personal messages from military personnel to their families back in the US. This still is used but has really fallen by the wayside with cell phones and e-mail and the like.
Starting in the 60's Ham radio operators launched a series of satellites constructed by unpaid amateurs (www.amsat.org) AMSAT-OSCAR 7, launched in 1974 still being listed as semi-operational. These amateurs have since 1961 launched a series of 50 other satellites.
Amateurs and groups of amateurs a century ago in the 1910's fostered a world wide revolution called the aeroplane. Some of their groups like the Aviator Club in France still exist.
Voulunteer organizations run by people that I guarantee look at the organization in a professional light are nothing new. Fraternal organizations like Elks or KOC or OddFellows, or any of a thousand others (http://www.exonumia.com/art/society.htm) all have declining and aging memberships. This is not because people are not doing the same kind of joining or voulunteering, Its just that instead of putting on the goofy hat and going to the lodge on friday night, everyone is putting on the goofy hat and joing the rest of their StarCraft clan on-line on friday night.
Even the authors own point that some of these Pro-Ams are astronomers is foolish. Perhaps 99 percent of all astronomers EVER have been amateurs, and many comets have been discovered over the past 100 years by amateurs or groups of amateurs. Are these amateurs working any less professionally than somone being paid for the work?
There are millions of small groups of unpaid amateurs producing research and journals and inventions and discoveries. To think that there is anything unique or new about this is just plan wrong. The author of the article has made the fatal error that many young people make of believing that they have discovered some truism of the human condition that their and only their generation has come up with, and that anything more than 20 years old is worthless. Perhaps the author should remember how his own industry came to be and remember that no one got paid to run the Homebrew Computer Club.
Slashdot Mirror
As long as the putrid stench of AOL doesn't permiate the Googley goodness of Google then it might be a good thing.
It may allow AOL users to actually discover that there is a great deal more of the web than just AOL content.
Hi! Welcome to Wal-Mart. Do you need a basket today?
When Daguerre attempted to patent Photography in 1839 the French government immediately saw that the invention was too important and refused the patent and released the invention into the public domain within the week. It also compensated him through a pension for life.
A method where inventions that are so important such as a drug that could prevent a pandemic could be released immediately while compensating the company or researcher involved with the invention may be an alternative to corporate greed.
Somehow the inventor or in this case the Corporation should be compensated for the "invention" of the drug, but should not be allowed to hide behind the greed thereby assured through the use of licencing the patent. Taiwan should produce it, and offer to pay Roche what it considers an adequate compensation. If Roche does not like it, then perhaps the patent system is not where they need to publish data, and if they were to sue Taiwan for any other compensation, Taiwanese courts I am sure would throw out the case.
The theory that real life somehow infringes upon the virtual world may be the probelm. If the person had not sold virtual items for "real" cash but had rather sold the items within the game for virtual cash, the issue would not be one that would need to be discussed, but rather one for virtual police to handle and if the crime was egregious enough could have been handled with a virtual guillotine. This may be a real hanful for the "real" police when the crime was committed within a different "world" where are the lines of demarcation and should the "real" police actually interfere?
20 plus years ago my Apple 2 C computer actually had a button right there on the front where you could swich between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards. You could also buy key caps with both letters on them. I had mine permanently on Dvorak, and just wrote in the qwerty keys mainly for moving the cursor and such--- sometimes programs depended too much on the ijkm keys and then there was the keys which were in different spots. I was able to go past 70wpm in about 2 weeks of using it.
so maybe B-W is dead---I think I'll do everything in sepia from now on
n-t
I worked at Apple for over 4 years, and finally it was leave or get fired. --I had 14 managers in the time I was there. I was hired as a tech, and left becaquse I couldn't SELL enough. In Austin at least most of the management seems to have come from Dell retreads. As for Apple tech support, I would NEVER pay for it because its worse than useless. I really think that its just overpriced babysitting. and the Genius thing is correct, as soon as the stores started opening up all the SMART tech support people immediately moved into the stores leaving the call centers stuck with the 90 day wonders and hacks. I was in high end desktop support, and left when I saw the writing on the wall and I started getting windows I-Pod calls. I pointed out to my supervisor that I knew nothing about windows, but was rebuffed and told just to work on selling. The quality of Apple tech support has really bottomed out since they quit giving a damn about it and the good people that they had and started treating them as expendable and immediately replaceable.
my mp3 file topped 10,000
Since you are a Republican I cannot understand why you would not pay the $120. After all, you are supporting your republican fat cat bretheren. I would think that you wou;ld be HAPPY to pay the $120.
http://home.owt.net/ ZERO SECURITY Their internal e-mail is wide open, there are internal selections for various other things also. One I found interesting was where I could get a password for a logon sent to an email adress if it was forgotten. So using one of their employees e-mails you may want to request that your password be sent to you a couple (hundred thousand) times. that ought to interest them---spam sent from their own server to themselves.
And I am still using Word 5. since the drivel they wanted you to pay for after it sucked so bad that they had to include a 5 option in later versions so it would still work like 5
I use IE 5.1 on Mac......Of course all my machines run OS9.1.
I am a strict adherent to the idea of chronological compatibility. I have 4 machines that run scanners and printers that cost many times what the computers cost. I purchased everything at the same time and have done one minor OS upgrade from 8.6 to 9.1. Since 1998 I have had no major problems and keep the machines runing nearly constantly. I have never had a virus, nor any type of problem from the internet on the machine that is connected to the internet.
I regularly find the problems of others humorous, as I see anyone who has problems with their computers to be of the same ilk that would lick a welding tip to see if it was working. Most of the people who are commenting here seem to beg these issues on themselves by constantly changing and "tweaking" things. perhaps some of them someday will learn the joys of leaving well enough alone.
http://www.gerrold.com
Book 5 is implied to be done --may be waiting on reissue of first 4 since they are now out of print. He also says that since the mss for 5 was cut that he is now well into book 6.
The length of time between books is just an author thing and not really anything else. David Gerrold has been promising book 5 in the war against the chtorr series for over 10 years, the first 4 being 83-85-89-93. While David Weber is cranking out an Honor Harrington book every year.
Perhaps what is needed more than another author and a series are about 10 new sci-fi authors with new ideas.
Please give me a way to explain what a telegram is to my 8 year old.
I still have boxes of unused punch cards from a fortran class thirty years ago that I am saving for the day that I take the second half of the class.
I agree with old people in Korea then that e-mail is quite fast enough thank you very much.
I too come from a small country, Austin, Texas. We are a spot of deep blue lost in a sea of red. We had our congressman taken away by the republicans. We are having our rights as thinking, intelligent, free people taken away.
Until such time as Free thinking individuals in the United States are willing to stand up to the bible beating, neanderthal like, backwards thinking, far right, southern baptist mullahs, they will be trampled down, rights will be destroyed, books will be burned and pi will be set at 3 because that's the godly way and it must be enforced.
Until we are forced to learn as slaves of the machismo, fear mongering, two faced Liars of the Republican party, that power DOES grow from the barrel of a gun, then we will continue to be trampled by their jack booted thugism.
Until the BLUE in America is willing to take up arms and say to the lock step march of the right that YOU have gone FAR ENOUGH and no farther we shall all be poorer.
And mark my words, there will be a second civil war in America, and perhaps sooner than might be thought. because there is no way to assimilate or live with people that refuse any intelectual debate, and choose to blame the person bringing them the bad news for it or to discredit anyone thinking differently. These people have no concept that there are Billions of people in the world that want them dead not because they are jealous as many Americans would like to believe. There are billions that want them dead because they see them as DANGEROUS. They see them as children playing with gasoline and matches.
Soon the Republicans will have their own tiny backwards nation in which they can pass all the fanatical state religion sponsored legislation they want, and we Americans can undo some of the insane mess that they have created, and get a reasonable copyright and patent law system.
They'll take my one button mouse-- when they pry it from my cold dead fingers...
That is really the issue, that the writing quality is a bit less than the manual for a piece of shareware, and continuous churning really does it no good. As for the Wikipedia moderators, who I shall refer to as Wiki-Nazis I can say nothing good.
Perhaps there should be a moderation group that can say "done" for an article then have the modification turned off. Then the only way to have the article changed would be to petition with facts to the group. I just fear the usual lurking moderators there that have much too much time on their hands and treat the whole thing as a gossipy old biddie would treat her neighbors.
If I say I licked that test, and it was the Command Line Interface Test, do I get in trouble?
Yes we should hear no complaining.
Now show your National ID papers before we are forced to take you into Homeland Security custody.
Does this belong in the YRO section?
is having fresh pr0n a right? or a priv?
The problem is really not bad customers, it's republicans.
These are the people that barge to the head of the line like they are better than others.
These are the people returning things that they damaged and lying about it
These are the people that when exit polled were nasty and told the person polling that "they didn't have to talk to them"
Republicans are in the end just NASTY people, and it's Europeans that cannot fathom the nasty, rude behavior of republicans. They have never seen the depths of lying and crookedness that republicans will seep to in an attempt to cheat the system or someone.
Good luck. it's all just going to get worse before it gets better.
Yes, I'll admit it --I am the one calling all the radio Stations requesting Shakira---ohhh she's a real latin spitfire. I also called ABC hoping to have Shakira replace Charro on the next Love Boat Special. When I was younger I made radio stations play Manilow's Copacabana. Thereby singlehandedly creating the Punk backlash. I also filles my iPod with Styx, Journey, and REO Speedwagon to see if I make it implode. Good luck changing the music industry---It all sucks, and really kind of always has sucked. (Honestly I really do like John Denver though..)
What the stories author failed to understand is that these Pro-Ams have always been around, its just that now the author is an adult and has opportunities to join adult organizations.
Take for instance Ham radio operators, one of the more interesting things to do is joining huge worldwide networks to "pass traffic" (messages) from place to place. MARS, the Military Affiliate Radio System is Amateurs used to pass personal messages from military personnel to their families back in the US. This still is used but has really fallen by the wayside with cell phones and e-mail and the like.
Starting in the 60's Ham radio operators launched a series of satellites constructed by unpaid amateurs (www.amsat.org) AMSAT-OSCAR 7, launched in 1974 still being listed as semi-operational. These amateurs have since 1961 launched a series of 50 other satellites.
Amateurs and groups of amateurs a century ago in the 1910's fostered a world wide revolution called the aeroplane. Some of their groups like the Aviator Club in France still exist.
Voulunteer organizations run by people that I guarantee look at the organization in a professional light are nothing new. Fraternal organizations like Elks or KOC or OddFellows, or any of a thousand others (http://www.exonumia.com/art/society.htm) all have declining and aging memberships. This is not because people are not doing the same kind of joining or voulunteering, Its just that instead of putting on the goofy hat and going to the lodge on friday night, everyone is putting on the goofy hat and joing the rest of their StarCraft clan on-line on friday night.
Even the authors own point that some of these Pro-Ams are astronomers is foolish. Perhaps 99 percent of all astronomers EVER have been amateurs, and many comets have been discovered over the past 100 years by amateurs or groups of amateurs. Are these amateurs working any less professionally than somone being paid for the work?
There are millions of small groups of unpaid amateurs producing research and journals and inventions and discoveries. To think that there is anything unique or new about this is just plan wrong. The author of the article has made the fatal error that many young people make of believing that they have discovered some truism of the human condition that their and only their generation has come up with, and that anything more than 20 years old is worthless. Perhaps the author should remember how his own industry came to be and remember that no one got paid to run the Homebrew Computer Club.