all we need is for the Supreme Court to take up any one of the zillion patent suits and declare,
"Software, business methods, and computer algorithms are not patentable."
Patent laws date back hundreds of years and do not say whether software is patentable or not. It was the interpretation of one judge in the 1980's who said "Yes software is patentable" to open the floodgates and lead us to where we are now. Which the SCOTUS can easily reverse.
Microsoft doesn't like price wars. I suspect Gates and Ballmer feel it's beneath them. Plus they're used to decades of charging monopoly prices on Windows and Office.
I walked into a Microsoft Store the other day and looked around. Everything there was priced the same or higher than at Fry's or Target.... even though the place was mostly empty and it seemed like they badly need more traffic in the store.
Yaeger was the first to do it deliberately, measurably, in level flight,
Actually X-1 was designed to break the sound barrier while going up. The designers knew from previous attempts by others that as you get very close to Mach 1, the elevator stops working. All the previous attempts were done while in a dive, and they all lost the use of their elevators, and they all died as their planes disintegrated because they couldn't pull out.
Bell's solution was that they would attempt Mach 1 while going UP, not diving. This would ensure that even if they lost the elevator, since the plane is pointed upward, it would lose speed eventually and enable the pilot to regain control. To this end they made the X-1 small and light, while giving it big powerful rocket engines. (rocket engines > jet engines)
I thought the big secret of going supersonic learned during the X-1 program (thanks to Jack Ridley's improvisation) was having a flying tail.
F-86 didn't get a flying tail until the E model. Welch was supposed to have broken the sound barrier in a steep dive with hinged elevators? Wouldn't the elevator lose all effectiveness due to the shockwaves slamming against the elevator hinge? Which, since he was in a steep dive, meant he couldn't pull out and thus crash into the ground or the plane disintegrating from exceeding VNE?
well then what do you recommend today for someone looking for an easy-to-use, well-supported and active distro that will do a good job of detecting your hardware and not force you to hunt down or write your own device drivers?
Remember 10-15 years ago when the AMD chips beat the Intel chips, and forced Intel out of their complacency? With AMD gone where is Intel's motivation to keep the desktop going? Not to mention the graphics part.
You don't have to go back that far. In 2005 I bought an Athlon and it outperformed comparable Pentium 4 Hyperthreading chips. At that time Intel kept upping the clock speed but there was no corresponding increase in performance. My Athlon which was 2.2 ghz (i think) outperformed Pentium 4 HT 3.0 ghz.
It wasn't until Intel came out with the Core2Duo that they began to push AMD aside.
I'm sure a lot of self-help books emphasize the same points, but demonstrating them with anecdotes from history with famous historical figures makes it much more entertaining and memorable.
Some of which are:
- Winners think like winners. Columbus was a commoner and didn't have a drop of nobility in his blood. But he thoroughly convinced himself that he was powerful, influential, a winner. Everybody assumed he was a nobleman because he acted like one. His poise and self-confidence won him an audience with the Queen and eventually his voyage.
- Be bold. Timidity is for losers. Do, or do not. But if you decide to do, then do it boldly. Applies to everything from historic battles to asking your boss for a raise.
- Pay no heed to belittlers, and act as though your enemies' criticisms are beneath you. By not engaging with your detractors tit-for-tat and by dismissing them as if they are of little consequence, you make yourself seem more powerful in the eyes of the public. This might not work when arguing on the internet, but it does in real life.
he wasn't excluded from the debate for refusing corporate donations. He was excluded because he didn't have enough donation period. Which he could've easily remedied by taking personal donations from family, friends and other individual donors. And honestly, 50k is peanuts. If you don't have 50k in donations while running for US congress in this day and age, you are not a serious candidate.
well Mr. KKK, let's try this from a different angle. Jews are also a blight and net drain on society according to your doctrine, yes? How do you account for the large number of Jews winning Nobel prizes?
Remember Creative, the maker of Soundblaster cards? They were also one of the first makers of MP3 players. ("Less space than an Nomad, lame")
[in 2001] Creative applied for a broad software patent for a "portable music playback device" that bore minor similarities to the iPod, an Apple product that had gone on sale the same year. Once the patent was granted to Creative, it became a license to sue.
When Apple came out with its own MP3 player called the iPod, Creative sued... because it infringed on Creative's patent for a "portable device that plays MP3 files". Apple settled three months later for $100 million.
Afterwards, Steve jobs vowed never to get caught with his pants down again. When developing the new iPhone, he declared "we're going to patent it all". Basically, Creative took Apple to school on patents, and Apple learned real fast.
You either go the socialism route and the gov't mandates a reasonable service for a reasonable price, for example 20mbps/2mbps unlimited internet for $49 a month... the public wins.
OR you go full capitalism and deregulate *everything* while protecting against monopoly/cartels (such as the Verizon/AT&T duopoly) with Sherman Antitrust-esque laws. Result: the public wins even more.
Right now in the US we have the worst of both worlds, with a gov't protected cartel without the gov't mandated price controls. Crony capitalism at its best.
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pssst... i can show you how you can get Flash for free. But don't tell anyone, it'll be our little secret.
[close-up shot of Steve Jobs lounging in a high-tech office, Apple logo]
SJ: "Oppan Foxconn Style!"
[camera zooms out, background is actually a Foxconn assembly line]
14-year-old female worker: "Ooh, sexy lady"
i forgot to add,
and everything out of a Republican's mouth boils down to "fuck you, I got mine... and btw give me yours too"
and everything out of a Democrat's mouth boils down to "fuck you, give me yours"
all we need is for the Supreme Court to take up any one of the zillion patent suits and declare,
"Software, business methods, and computer algorithms are not patentable."
Patent laws date back hundreds of years and do not say whether software is patentable or not. It was the interpretation of one judge in the 1980's who said "Yes software is patentable" to open the floodgates and lead us to where we are now. Which the SCOTUS can easily reverse.
it turns any surface into a cursor control interface without needing a touchscreen... Microsoft Mouse
Microsoft doesn't like price wars. I suspect Gates and Ballmer feel it's beneath them. Plus they're used to decades of charging monopoly prices on Windows and Office.
I walked into a Microsoft Store the other day and looked around. Everything there was priced the same or higher than at Fry's or Target.... even though the place was mostly empty and it seemed like they badly need more traffic in the store.
EU won the Nobel peace prize so they can slow down your FPS game framerates
Yaeger was the first to do it deliberately, measurably, in level flight,
Actually X-1 was designed to break the sound barrier while going up. The designers knew from previous attempts by others that as you get very close to Mach 1, the elevator stops working. All the previous attempts were done while in a dive, and they all lost the use of their elevators, and they all died as their planes disintegrated because they couldn't pull out.
Bell's solution was that they would attempt Mach 1 while going UP, not diving. This would ensure that even if they lost the elevator, since the plane is pointed upward, it would lose speed eventually and enable the pilot to regain control. To this end they made the X-1 small and light, while giving it big powerful rocket engines. (rocket engines > jet engines)
I thought the big secret of going supersonic learned during the X-1 program (thanks to Jack Ridley's improvisation) was having a flying tail.
F-86 didn't get a flying tail until the E model. Welch was supposed to have broken the sound barrier in a steep dive with hinged elevators? Wouldn't the elevator lose all effectiveness due to the shockwaves slamming against the elevator hinge? Which, since he was in a steep dive, meant he couldn't pull out and thus crash into the ground or the plane disintegrating from exceeding VNE?
everyone in LA is an Asstronaut. Just watch the show TMZ.
well then what do you recommend today for someone looking for an easy-to-use, well-supported and active distro that will do a good job of detecting your hardware and not force you to hunt down or write your own device drivers?
Remember 10-15 years ago when the AMD chips beat the Intel chips, and forced Intel out of their complacency? With AMD gone where is Intel's motivation to keep the desktop going? Not to mention the graphics part.
You don't have to go back that far. In 2005 I bought an Athlon and it outperformed comparable Pentium 4 Hyperthreading chips. At that time Intel kept upping the clock speed but there was no corresponding increase in performance. My Athlon which was 2.2 ghz (i think) outperformed Pentium 4 HT 3.0 ghz.
It wasn't until Intel came out with the Core2Duo that they began to push AMD aside.
that they can get a UAV drone for free with a 3 kill streak. They probably didn't know that.
I'm sure a lot of self-help books emphasize the same points, but demonstrating them with anecdotes from history with famous historical figures makes it much more entertaining and memorable.
Some of which are:
- Winners think like winners. Columbus was a commoner and didn't have a drop of nobility in his blood. But he thoroughly convinced himself that he was powerful, influential, a winner. Everybody assumed he was a nobleman because he acted like one. His poise and self-confidence won him an audience with the Queen and eventually his voyage.
- Be bold. Timidity is for losers. Do, or do not. But if you decide to do, then do it boldly. Applies to everything from historic battles to asking your boss for a raise.
- Pay no heed to belittlers, and act as though your enemies' criticisms are beneath you. By not engaging with your detractors tit-for-tat and by dismissing them as if they are of little consequence, you make yourself seem more powerful in the eyes of the public. This might not work when arguing on the internet, but it does in real life.
he wasn't excluded from the debate for refusing corporate donations. He was excluded because he didn't have enough donation period. Which he could've easily remedied by taking personal donations from family, friends and other individual donors. And honestly, 50k is peanuts. If you don't have 50k in donations while running for US congress in this day and age, you are not a serious candidate.
Whoever wins, we lose
oh so YOU were the guy who used Megaupload for legal uses. We were wondering who that was.
The rest of us used it to download Avengers and Call of Duty: MW3.
Sealand.
well Mr. KKK, let's try this from a different angle. Jews are also a blight and net drain on society according to your doctrine, yes? How do you account for the large number of Jews winning Nobel prizes?
High Tech Computer..... really? That's so 1990. Reminds me of mom-and-pop computer stores that assembled and sold generic 386 clones back in the day.
why is it that I can't uninstall a plugin? Once installed, plugins are forever? Like diamonds?
Yes I know you can disabled it, but that's not the same thing.
if you RTFSummary, you would've learned that the same high-paid execs preferred democrat Obama over the republican McCain back in 2008.
Remember Creative, the maker of Soundblaster cards? They were also one of the first makers of MP3 players. ("Less space than an Nomad, lame")
[in 2001] Creative applied for a broad software patent for a "portable music playback device" that bore minor similarities to the iPod, an Apple product that had gone on sale the same year. Once the patent was granted to Creative, it became a license to sue.
When Apple came out with its own MP3 player called the iPod, Creative sued... because it infringed on Creative's patent for a "portable device that plays MP3 files". Apple settled three months later for $100 million.
Afterwards, Steve jobs vowed never to get caught with his pants down again. When developing the new iPhone, he declared "we're going to patent it all". Basically, Creative took Apple to school on patents, and Apple learned real fast.
exactly right.
You either go the socialism route and the gov't mandates a reasonable service for a reasonable price, for example 20mbps/2mbps unlimited internet for $49 a month... the public wins.
OR you go full capitalism and deregulate *everything* while protecting against monopoly/cartels (such as the Verizon/AT&T duopoly) with Sherman Antitrust-esque laws. Result: the public wins even more.
Right now in the US we have the worst of both worlds, with a gov't protected cartel without the gov't mandated price controls. Crony capitalism at its best.