i am not really sure if that is a political move to show the problems about software patents.
at least a few politicans here do not seem to know about it beeing that way (according to what they said)
i hope i am wrong, but i think it can be used to start a few new protests against softwarepatents in germany and now with more active politicans in them.
but since the european patent office and the german patent office both have office in munic, perhaps it is really something political.
the problem is not everyone in the patent office does understand the meaning of software patent and some of those are not even softwarepatents but patents that can also be interpreted to be used against software.(none of the later where mentioned here)
> (Been there. Had the boss royally pissed off at me when I told the customer that, no, they don't need an uber-sophisticated custom solution to solve their problem. "Are you nuts?!! Are you out of your mind?!! We're trying to take their money, not tell them that they could solve that cheaper!!"
mistake by your boss. after you tell your costumer he does not need to do this and that you say and he is happy because he just earned much money, you tell him that he DOES need to do some other thing (that is much more expensive)
> On the bright side, after that he never took me to those 6 hours meetings any more.)
> And that my friend is exactly why the US won't stay a super power for long. that mostly is a question on how you do define a superpower.
but i think, the usa will stay a superpower for a long time because of the pure size of the land.
i think that the usa will go down sooner or later (later i think) because of the political system that is far to centristic on 2 partys and the to high religious influence on politics (and mainly only christian btw)
> The US maybe be currently the strongest military power on this planet financed by a $480.000.000.000/Year military budget, at the expense of US citizens
erm i just calculated that it is a bit under 17k$/year/citizen. is that correct? it does seem too much considered, an GDP/head of 37.800$
(btw i think there is to much military everywhere anyway)
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the mayor of munic (Christian Ude) said that munic will use linux and this was just a short interruption.
-> http://www.golem.de/0408/32802.html
i am not really sure if that is a political move to show the problems about software patents.
at least a few politicans here do not seem to know about it beeing that way (according to what they said)
i hope i am wrong, but i think it can be used to start a few new protests against softwarepatents in germany and now with more active politicans in them.
but since the european patent office and the german patent office both have office in munic, perhaps it is really something political.
we do not have them.
the problem is not everyone in the patent office does understand the meaning of software patent and some of those are not even softwarepatents but patents that can also be interpreted to be used against software.(none of the later where mentioned here)
> True. Moore's chief product is not his movies, but himself.
right. like everyother poli^H^H^H^Hperson in the showbiz.
if that is a good or a bad thing is up to you.
> Why even relate this to the game?
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otherwise it would not have been posted on
> (Been there. Had the boss royally pissed off at me when I told the customer that, no, they don't need an uber-sophisticated custom solution to solve their problem. "Are you nuts?!! Are you out of your mind?!! We're trying to take their money, not tell them that they could solve that cheaper!!"
;)
mistake by your boss. after you tell your costumer he does not need to do this and that you say and he is happy because he just earned much money, you tell him that he DOES need to do some other thing (that is much more expensive)
> On the bright side, after that he never took me to those 6 hours meetings any more.)
hmmm. well done
> And that my friend is exactly why the US won't stay a super power for long.
that mostly is a question on how you do define a superpower.
but i think, the usa will stay a superpower for a long time because of the pure size of the land.
i think that the usa will go down sooner or later (later i think) because of the political system that is far to centristic on 2 partys and the to high religious influence on politics (and mainly only christian btw)
> The US maybe be currently the strongest military power on this planet financed by a $480.000.000.000/Year military budget, at the expense of US citizens
erm i just calculated that it is a bit under 17k$/year/citizen. is that correct? it does seem too much considered, an GDP/head of 37.800$
(btw i think there is to much military everywhere anyway)