In 1987, the patent office announced it would draw the line at humans, but it offered no legal rationale or statutory backing.
Perhaps the criteria for novelty and non-obviousness (which are honoured more in the breach anyway) have just been replaced with "isn't yucky and makes me feel wierd when I think about it" or, given the current political climate, "does not meddle in God's domian".
Are proper punctuation and spelling novel and non-obvious? Clearly to you they are. Your conception was, on balance, a waste of a good period. Hey, do the decent thing and take one for the gene pool, cretin.
Does COPS go out live? No, so your point is pretty stupid. I mean, you do know what editing is, don't you? I mean the proper sort, not like michael & timothy do here.
Shouldn't the headline read "Computer learns to play A game", rather than making it sound like this computer is capable of learning the rules of multiple games?
Stop michael Now? He didn't even post this story, it was Timothy.
28g of prevention is better than 0.454 Kg of cure: launch a pre-emptive strike, stop michael before he does the next one! Timothy is an illiterate oaf but I think he means well.
To get back on the subject, the pictures aren't half as gay as I expected, but they do all tend to look like 1970s album covers.
companies are attempting to influence a group of people whom the technical community look up to. If free samples are to be given, then it's natural to pick an 'elite' to give them to.
I bet the slashdot editors never have to buy anything, then, Especially michael.
Go for 20 accepted submissions and sit back and watch the cash come in by the truckloads...
Except that the submissions won't get published, because they aren't from RP. I've had a few stories rejected only to see, several days later, the same story - almost word for word - from him.
Huh? I doubt you're strong enough to even lift an antelope, let alone lob one in someone's general direction. Or do you think all words ending in "s" are plural? If so you can kiss my as. Or indeed both of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I got an idea: tell us where you fucking live, imbecile.
[1] In the slashdot, not the correct English sense.
Amen.
P.S. Netcraft confirms: Timothy is the new Michael.
Another one: "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr
And slashdot hasn't?
Are proper punctuation and spelling novel and non-obvious? Clearly to you they are. Your conception was, on balance, a waste of a good period. Hey, do the decent thing and take one for the gene pool, cretin.
Was there any announcement about why he went? Did he jump or was he pushed? Anyway, good riddance to bad rubbish.
Does COPS go out live? No, so your point is pretty stupid. I mean, you do know what editing is, don't you? I mean the proper sort, not like michael & timothy do here.
The stuff left over when you burn sobot.
To get back on the subject, the pictures aren't half as gay as I expected, but they do all tend to look like 1970s album covers.
michael's stories are the 2nd most educational thing on the net after Roland's blog; they both certainly make me want to read a book.
Apple users pay their rent by drinking coffee. Michael Sims pays his rent by chewing pillows.
says Rick White, CEO of Realm Systems.
Bullshit! say I, followed by "Remember the censorware project! and don't forget the other thing - you know - Davy Crocket, Santa Anna wotsitsname - that Texas thingy".
the quality of michael's articles is not diminished ... they've always been total and utter cowing bastard shite.