Suggestion: Increase the application fee and make it non-refundable. Any changes to the application after lodging incurs another application fee. No other fees payable when the application is approved.
That way the patent office is incentivised to reject patents because accepting them means more work but no extra money.
You're obviously not a developer. I work with 20+ windows most of the time - and my dual monitors help A LOT but lately I've been seriously considering 2 more.
Right now I have
- 4 Visual Studio windows - Couple of remote desktop windows - Email - Notepad or two - SourceSafe - SQL Server Enterprise Manager - 3 SQL Server Query Analyser - Windows Explorer - 2 IEs - FireFox - Slashdot
There's just too many problems with fuel cell vehicles (e.g. high production costs and where the hell will we get the hydrogen from)
I prefer the RUF dual mode transport system. I hope it goes somewhere:
http://www.ruf.dk/
100% correct. All fossil fuels are just solar energy collected over thousands of years. Pretty soon fossil fuels will not be able to meet our energy needs anymore. In north america oil peaked in the 70s and gas will peak pretty soon. Worldwide oil will peak within our lifetimes - pessimists say before 2010.
Hydrogen is not an energy source. To get H2 to run these lovely new vehicles we STILL need to work out where the energy is coming from.
Our options are:
- Fossil fuels: currently the cheapest, but will not last much longer - Solar: Nice and clean, but to replace fossil fuels we'll need to cover a large percentage of the earth with solar panels. Not likely. - Other renewables (hydro, wind, etc.): also cannot make a significant dent in our energy needs - Nuclear: The only viable option at the moment. We'll still need to build many thousands of nuclear plants though, and nuclear fuel is also in limited supply.
The only possible light at the end of the tunnel is fusion, although it's at least 50 years away and nobody knows for sure if it will even work.
But 200GB? That's ONE drive. ONE. What the fuck is the problem here? Just back up everything to an external drive and move it off-site.
LaCie makes 1.6TB external drives. They're not even expensive.
Google should do this with their rumored payment service - setup a free auction service, charge a minimal fee for the payment service, and make money from ads (which is their core business anyway)
Very true. Limit hold-em is very mechanical. Human players can play on-line limit very quickly as it's mostly a game of pure mathematics. It's rare to get a situation that requires more than a few seconds of consideration. Also your choices are limited - you can bet/raise, check/call, or fold. That's it. You can beat most beginners by just playing a tight game and never bluffing.
With no-limit you not only have to bet, you have to decide how much to bet. You also have a MUCH harder time calling a bet, because you may be forced to push in all your chips on the next card. With no-limit you can make much stronger moves to force your opponent our of a hand. If I have a top pair and you have a 20% chance to make a straight, I'll make it very expensive for you to stay in the hand. With limit you can easily call one bet and see another card.
The article does not say if this is a limit or a no-limit tournament, but my guess would be limit. There's not a lot of no-limit bots out there.
Well sure, but sites that are likely targets of DDOS attacks tends to be larger, more commercial sites. Microsoft.com or Yahoo.com or Ebay or whoever CAN disallow Tor traffic (using blacklists) without really inconveniencing a significant portion of their users. And that's fine for me - why would I want to hide the fact that I'm downloading patches from MS?
However if I'm looking at sites that may flag my IP with the CIA or FBI or whoever, it's likely that those sites will be fairly low on the list of likely DDOS targets. So it's not really and issue for me. Maybe others out there has different ideas of how they would like to use an anonymous browser, but I'm happy with what it is.
In short: Meh.
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Suggestion: Increase the application fee and make it non-refundable. Any changes to the application after lodging incurs another application fee. No other fees payable when the application is approved. That way the patent office is incentivised to reject patents because accepting them means more work but no extra money.
Participant #8 (Steven Pinker) wrote a great book on the current state of the 'nature vs nurture' question - it's called 'The Blank Slate'
1. Apple Outside
For a second there I thought Linus had a baby but then I realised that would imply he had sex at some point in the past.
Will it still offer those delightful in-your-face ads that we love so much in the old Yahoo?
Won't work - I would need to Google their phone number.
You're obviously not a developer. I work with 20+ windows most of the time - and my dual monitors help A LOT but lately I've been seriously considering 2 more.
Right now I have
- 4 Visual Studio windows
- Couple of remote desktop windows
- Email
- Notepad or two
- SourceSafe
- SQL Server Enterprise Manager
- 3 SQL Server Query Analyser
- Windows Explorer
- 2 IEs
- FireFox
- Slashdot
This
Unless your wife pays the bills, she should shut her fat cunt mouth
... around your penis.
- More proof that Slashdot is circling the bowl
- Mac hippy uses his hands and builds a shelf
Movie at 11
I think he means 'By American standards'
There's just too many problems with fuel cell vehicles (e.g. high production costs and where the hell will we get the hydrogen from) I prefer the RUF dual mode transport system. I hope it goes somewhere: http://www.ruf.dk/
There's always an OR - in this case "OR" low cost.
100% correct. All fossil fuels are just solar energy collected over thousands of years. Pretty soon fossil fuels will not be able to meet our energy needs anymore. In north america oil peaked in the 70s and gas will peak pretty soon. Worldwide oil will peak within our lifetimes - pessimists say before 2010.
Hydrogen is not an energy source. To get H2 to run these lovely new vehicles we STILL need to work out where the energy is coming from.
Our options are:
- Fossil fuels: currently the cheapest, but will not last much longer
- Solar: Nice and clean, but to replace fossil fuels we'll need to cover a large percentage of the earth with solar panels. Not likely.
- Other renewables (hydro, wind, etc.): also cannot make a significant dent in our energy needs
- Nuclear: The only viable option at the moment. We'll still need to build many thousands of nuclear plants though, and nuclear fuel is also in limited supply.
The only possible light at the end of the tunnel is fusion, although it's at least 50 years away and nobody knows for sure if it will even work.
Dear sir. May I be the first to say: LOL! I wish you a good weekend.
But 200GB? That's ONE drive. ONE. What the fuck is the problem here? Just back up everything to an external drive and move it off-site. LaCie makes 1.6TB external drives. They're not even expensive.
Google should do this with their rumored payment service - setup a free auction service, charge a minimal fee for the payment service, and make money from ads (which is their core business anyway)
You forgot
- Bringing Linux to the desktop for normal users
That's actually funny. If it wasn't posted AC it would probably have gotten a 'funny' mod. Or is it just me?
Very true. Limit hold-em is very mechanical. Human players can play on-line limit very quickly as it's mostly a game of pure mathematics. It's rare to get a situation that requires more than a few seconds of consideration. Also your choices are limited - you can bet/raise, check/call, or fold. That's it. You can beat most beginners by just playing a tight game and never bluffing. With no-limit you not only have to bet, you have to decide how much to bet. You also have a MUCH harder time calling a bet, because you may be forced to push in all your chips on the next card. With no-limit you can make much stronger moves to force your opponent our of a hand. If I have a top pair and you have a 20% chance to make a straight, I'll make it very expensive for you to stay in the hand. With limit you can easily call one bet and see another card. The article does not say if this is a limit or a no-limit tournament, but my guess would be limit. There's not a lot of no-limit bots out there.
This guy would disagree: http://www.purepwnage.com/
Well sure, but sites that are likely targets of DDOS attacks tends to be larger, more commercial sites. Microsoft.com or Yahoo.com or Ebay or whoever CAN disallow Tor traffic (using blacklists) without really inconveniencing a significant portion of their users. And that's fine for me - why would I want to hide the fact that I'm downloading patches from MS? However if I'm looking at sites that may flag my IP with the CIA or FBI or whoever, it's likely that those sites will be fairly low on the list of likely DDOS targets. So it's not really and issue for me. Maybe others out there has different ideas of how they would like to use an anonymous browser, but I'm happy with what it is. In short: Meh.
I don't think you can get a patent on something you can't actually do yourself.
Hmmm... Note to self: Hire more cute sales staff.
From TFA:
"In 2002, a federal appeals court ruled that Web sites may reproduce and post "thumbnail" or down-sized versions of copyrighted photographs. "
I don't think AFP has a case here.
I like the shortened version: Punix