IANAL either, but don't people patent mechanisms, not concepts? (at least with physical inventions, software and intangibles not necessarily included) If everything shown in movies was considered an invention then it seems to me that the sci-fi genre would negate any patents that could be introduced for the next century.
Patent agent: "Well, Mr. Smith, this perpetual motion machine you've created is quite an achievment, but I'm afraid Lisa Simpson beat you to it - prior art and all- better luck next time."
That's all about public appearance. In the case of politicians and other public figures that crusade against those things it's a power play to certain small but influential groups.
There is only a small group of people that are actually horribly offended by such content, but there is a pervasive set of morals among all of us that supports the repressed view as the "ideal view" - so even the middle of the road people just duck and don't put up any resistance, because they don't want to look like "perverts" or "barbarians" in the eyes of their nieghbors - so the moralist crusaders are just left to frolick and cut the Janet Jackson's and Private Ryan's to pieces every now and again whenever they get really riled up.
Porn, on the other hand, is all behind closed doors - if people can't see you, then any type of debauchery is okay by us, but the second that anyone catches you doing something naughty they then feel obligated to decry your sinfullness to the rest of the community so they themselves do not appear complicit.
But it doesn't have to make you want KFC over some other food - If you want a pizza, you'll still go to (insert pizzeria here), but if you suddenly get a craving for chicken and biscuits, then KFC is slightly more likely to jump to the front of your mind; when you just as easily could have gone to Popeye's, or some local chicken place.
For instance I just did a google local search to find chicken restaurants in my area - there were quite a few that are probably pretty good that I've never heard of. The advertisers must be doing their job because all I could think of was KFC and Popeye's.
One also has to payattention to the part of the quote... "not one that can easily be dismissed outright"
I read that as him acknowledging the inevitable cries that will come from the peanut gallery while still holding to the position that this was a worthwhile research effort.
Hear hear ! Power and reception are the only things I care to upgrade in my current phone, same for my other gadgets.
Sadly, the way things are only what is "good enough" is encouraged in place of what is "best". The power issue is real, but not enough to raise an outcry from the average user, so the companies dollars are better spent attracting money from the luxury crowd, it's a surer bet.
Or one could just buy a cheaper phone with only the desired doo-dads and save both money and headache?
I have a phone which makes calls, texts, and has three simple games on it. It came almost free with my plan and it doesn't suck up extra juice. I got this at my local ATT store (now Cingulair) in LA. Okay it has a color screen, but that didn't affect my battery life too drastically.
Have such phones simply vanished from every other place on earth? If not, why complain about extra features? I just want basic things, but if someone else wants more let them have it.
Well, for the moment it would seem that someone else must have agreed with both your arguments, as I see the Nanjing link on the rape page, and with a text search cannot find the words "fisher" or "price" anywhere in the Win XP article.
The safes security is dependent on the conents if the thieves in question knows the safes content. Then the crown jewels become much less safe than the euros, because which is the obvious choice to break into?
Anyone who would fake a government ID knows the value of the alias, being whatever they plan to do with it
They are not being used as teachers in all places, but some schools ARE using the idea. I'm a year and a half into college now, but when I left my high school they were doing trial runs of computer teaching, mainly in economics and history. The level of econ I was taking, for instance, had three types of classes
*A traditionally taught class only using computers as word processes and research tools.
*A class that was mostly classroom teaching, with one weekly lesson from a computer program
*A class mostly taught on computer, with a teacher reviewing and answering questions
I (thankfully) was in the class using the computers only once a week. To me, a person actually interested in economics and history, the software was very patronizing, using "amusing" animations and games, and was very confining - it was like an entire course designed for a scantron test...which I guess is all the people at the top have to worry about. It taught you how to memorize lists, dates, and terms that's for sure; but I'll be damned if it actually helped me understand anything, or if those same terms stuck in my head after test day.
But I still think about things I learned from some of my high school classes with good teachers that are useful even through college, and I think I could have memorized all those lists and terms with a textbook, notes, and paper flashcards just as well.
There are indeed many legitimate educational uses for computers, but the "edutainment" and "computer-as-teacher" models are out there as well, and from where I stood they didn't look too pretty.
Technology is fine, but when it comes to the simple interface between teacher and student, I don't think there has been a whole lot invented to date that really revolutionalizes anything. My school district had millions to buy brand new computers (and toss two older generations of computers, many still useful, into the dumpster) but we didn't have enough classrooms to put our kids in, and with the california budget cuts we are still having trouble finding enough teachers to teach them...but last year we still got brand new computers, and threw more old ones away...something is just messed up with those priorities.
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IANAL either, but don't people patent mechanisms, not concepts? (at least with physical inventions, software and intangibles not necessarily included) If everything shown in movies was considered an invention then it seems to me that the sci-fi genre would negate any patents that could be introduced for the next century.
Patent agent: "Well, Mr. Smith, this perpetual motion machine you've created is quite an achievment, but I'm afraid Lisa Simpson beat you to it - prior art and all- better luck next time."
That's all about public appearance. In the case of politicians and other public figures that crusade against those things it's a power play to certain small but influential groups.
There is only a small group of people that are actually horribly offended by such content, but there is a pervasive set of morals among all of us that supports the repressed view as the "ideal view" - so even the middle of the road people just duck and don't put up any resistance, because they don't want to look like "perverts" or "barbarians" in the eyes of their nieghbors - so the moralist crusaders are just left to frolick and cut the Janet Jackson's and Private Ryan's to pieces every now and again whenever they get really riled up.
Porn, on the other hand, is all behind closed doors - if people can't see you, then any type of debauchery is okay by us, but the second that anyone catches you doing something naughty they then feel obligated to decry your sinfullness to the rest of the community so they themselves do not appear complicit.
But it doesn't have to make you want KFC over some other food - If you want a pizza, you'll still go to (insert pizzeria here), but if you suddenly get a craving for chicken and biscuits, then KFC is slightly more likely to jump to the front of your mind; when you just as easily could have gone to Popeye's, or some local chicken place.
For instance I just did a google local search to find chicken restaurants in my area - there were quite a few that are probably pretty good that I've never heard of. The advertisers must be doing their job because all I could think of was KFC and Popeye's.
Well if she really voted for it, then her 11 page dissent which you can find in the last half of this PDF is pretty strange.
Mars? Or Eroticon 6?
Not necessarily.
One also has to payattention to the part of the quote...
"not one that can easily be dismissed outright"
I read that as him acknowledging the inevitable cries that will come from the peanut gallery while still holding to the position that this was a worthwhile research effort.
Hear hear ! Power and reception are the only things I care to upgrade in my current phone, same for my other gadgets. Sadly, the way things are only what is "good enough" is encouraged in place of what is "best". The power issue is real, but not enough to raise an outcry from the average user, so the companies dollars are better spent attracting money from the luxury crowd, it's a surer bet.
Or one could just buy a cheaper phone with only the desired doo-dads and save both money and headache? I have a phone which makes calls, texts, and has three simple games on it. It came almost free with my plan and it doesn't suck up extra juice. I got this at my local ATT store (now Cingulair) in LA. Okay it has a color screen, but that didn't affect my battery life too drastically. Have such phones simply vanished from every other place on earth? If not, why complain about extra features? I just want basic things, but if someone else wants more let them have it.
Unless you count this guy.
Well, for the moment it would seem that someone else must have agreed with both your arguments, as I see the Nanjing link on the rape page, and with a text search cannot find the words "fisher" or "price" anywhere in the Win XP article.
The safes security is dependent on the conents if the thieves in question knows the safes content. Then the crown jewels become much less safe than the euros, because which is the obvious choice to break into?
Anyone who would fake a government ID knows the value of the alias, being whatever they plan to do with it
Damn, I forgot to make paragraphs. I gotta learn to use preview.
They are not being used as teachers in all places, but some schools ARE using the idea. I'm a year and a half into college now, but when I left my high school they were doing trial runs of computer teaching, mainly in economics and history. The level of econ I was taking, for instance, had three types of classes *A traditionally taught class only using computers as word processes and research tools. *A class that was mostly classroom teaching, with one weekly lesson from a computer program *A class mostly taught on computer, with a teacher reviewing and answering questions I (thankfully) was in the class using the computers only once a week. To me, a person actually interested in economics and history, the software was very patronizing, using "amusing" animations and games, and was very confining - it was like an entire course designed for a scantron test...which I guess is all the people at the top have to worry about. It taught you how to memorize lists, dates, and terms that's for sure; but I'll be damned if it actually helped me understand anything, or if those same terms stuck in my head after test day. But I still think about things I learned from some of my high school classes with good teachers that are useful even through college, and I think I could have memorized all those lists and terms with a textbook, notes, and paper flashcards just as well. There are indeed many legitimate educational uses for computers, but the "edutainment" and "computer-as-teacher" models are out there as well, and from where I stood they didn't look too pretty. Technology is fine, but when it comes to the simple interface between teacher and student, I don't think there has been a whole lot invented to date that really revolutionalizes anything. My school district had millions to buy brand new computers (and toss two older generations of computers, many still useful, into the dumpster) but we didn't have enough classrooms to put our kids in, and with the california budget cuts we are still having trouble finding enough teachers to teach them...but last year we still got brand new computers, and threw more old ones away...something is just messed up with those priorities.
1) What is wrong with it taking a while for the vote to be tallied? 2) What is wrong with the losing candidate questioning the vote?