Don't forget that unpatched IE systems can contribute to hacked [insert favorite os here] boxes. Compromise some PHB's machine with the admin passwords to the whole company, and I shudder to think...:-(
But patents don't protect you against competition that does what you do but improves upon it. Which effectively, seems to me, is what ended up happening.
Mmm... wing-warping. Thanks, I didn't know such efforts were ongoing...
The shuttle disintegrated because NASA management decided (and engineers failed to think outside the box) that foam strikes, while an off-nominal event, were harmless.
As anyone who's drive a car knows, you catch a pebble in the windshield, it doesn't take much for that tiny chip to turn into a giant windshield destroying spiderweb of fatal cracks.
Management killed Columbia, not technology or some misguided environmentalism.
Right, but you didn't see ANY commercial satellites until there were proven, relatively reliable launchers already available, thanks to the government subsidies given to the aerospace primes... Tourism to start, rich, affluent travellers looking for something 'separate from the ordinary', like the original flyers of yesteryear.
A large portion of which they spent suing their competitors and stifling competition and innovation. Which is why they never really commercialized on their great invention. They spent so much time trying to protect their patents that other people did better engineering and got second-mover advantage.
Which has more to do with the number of planes built, and the number of flights flown than it does with the development cost. Same argument with the shuttle really. Had they been allowed to "Do It Right", Concorde might have taken off (literally).
But the sonic booms... the world doesn't want sonic booms. So death to the Concorde.:-/
If a model was designed, and not a single one of the results led to a system which looked like Sol, then the model is wrong. Since we have one data point, we can throw out any model that doesn't produce that one data point at least once.
Which has indeed happened. Deep-sea operations have benefitted greatly from the space race, and vice versa, metallurgy, guidance control, communications, etc.:-)
Yes, sorry, bullshit was a bit harsh, for that I apologize...:-/ Oh, and I'm pro-greed, just so you know!:-)
While patents, copyrights and trademarks are all well and good, they're nothing more than government sponsored protectionism. Galileo and DaVinci didn't need patents. The Apostles didn't need copyrights...
But I'm not going to debate your argument that the USPTO needs a serious overhaul.;-)
See, that's bullshit. Greed, GREEED is what drives innovation. Either greed to have more time to spend with your children (cotton gin), or greed to put more money in your pockets (cellphone).
Patents do shit except allow limited government supported monopolies. 20 year patents are just crazy... 5 year maybe...
I'm sorry. I was speaking as a resident of Millis, which got 31" on the weekend of the 6th, and the extra 8" I got this past weekend. But yes, I'm sure it varied across the state from 16" to 40+".
Yeah, but I think capcom simply avoided having that battle because it wasn't worth fighting. Lindows however, is a valuable name, with lots of advertising dollars spent into it. So is "Windows". It's a battle worth fighting, particularly if it's likely, based on how current law is written and the majority of lawyers/judges interpret it, that the owner of Lindows will win.
Because then you capitalize on all of Microsoft's advertising, as well as your own.
Well, let me just say this... there's a reason no one has given the smack down to Israel, and why no one felt restricted in smacking down Iraq. It's called nuclear supremacy. Europe has the bomb. Lots of 'em. So does Israel. Which is why Israel isn't under the thumb of some U.N. peacekeeping force right now (and the whole Holocaust factor, and IIRC are predominantly White)...
Which is why North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Iran all want nukes. Because having nuclear weapons makes it politically and militarily dangerous for someone like the U.S. to come in and smack you around like a bully.
The U.S. would have a hell of a time trying to take Europe. The French have ballistic missiles, the british have air delivered and ballistic missiles, Russia has more missiles than you can shake a stick at, and you can bet your bottom dollar they'll launch on warning if we started bombing London and Paris...
Superpower Russia may be no longer... but I consider anyone with 6000 nuclear warheads and a big red button capable of launching them to indeed be a Super power.
Yeah, but on the flipside, it derives at least 42% of it's name from Linux. It takes quite a stretch. IIRC, in the U.S. at least, it's not enough to make trademark infringement.
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Don't forget that unpatched IE systems can contribute to hacked [insert favorite os here] boxes. Compromise some PHB's machine with the admin passwords to the whole company, and I shudder to think... :-(
But patents don't protect you against competition that does what you do but improves upon it. Which effectively, seems to me, is what ended up happening.
Mmm... wing-warping. Thanks, I didn't know such efforts were ongoing...
The shuttle disintegrated because NASA management decided (and engineers failed to think outside the box) that foam strikes, while an off-nominal event, were harmless.
As anyone who's drive a car knows, you catch a pebble in the windshield, it doesn't take much for that tiny chip to turn into a giant windshield destroying spiderweb of fatal cracks.
Management killed Columbia, not technology or some misguided environmentalism.
No, but it's great for "get anywhere on earth in 90 minutes". That alone is reason to pursue the technology.
That and some guidance control technology. :-)
Right, but you didn't see ANY commercial satellites until there were proven, relatively reliable launchers already available, thanks to the government subsidies given to the aerospace primes... Tourism to start, rich, affluent travellers looking for something 'separate from the ordinary', like the original flyers of yesteryear.
A large portion of which they spent suing their competitors and stifling competition and innovation. Which is why they never really commercialized on their great invention. They spent so much time trying to protect their patents that other people did better engineering and got second-mover advantage.
Which has more to do with the number of planes built, and the number of flights flown than it does with the development cost. Same argument with the shuttle really. Had they been allowed to "Do It Right", Concorde might have taken off (literally).
:-/
But the sonic booms... the world doesn't want sonic booms. So death to the Concorde.
If a model was designed, and not a single one of the results led to a system which looked like Sol, then the model is wrong. Since we have one data point, we can throw out any model that doesn't produce that one data point at least once.
Which has indeed happened. Deep-sea operations have benefitted greatly from the space race, and vice versa, metallurgy, guidance control, communications, etc. :-)
Better be careful... this is one access point that can fight back...
Yes, sorry, bullshit was a bit harsh, for that I apologize... :-/ Oh, and I'm pro-greed, just so you know! :-)
;-)
While patents, copyrights and trademarks are all well and good, they're nothing more than government sponsored protectionism. Galileo and DaVinci didn't need patents. The Apostles didn't need copyrights...
But I'm not going to debate your argument that the USPTO needs a serious overhaul.
Good day!
Yggdrassil, kernel .99 somesuch... Gone, but not forgotton...
See, that's bullshit. Greed, GREEED is what drives innovation. Either greed to have more time to spend with your children (cotton gin), or greed to put more money in your pockets (cellphone).
Patents do shit except allow limited government supported monopolies. 20 year patents are just crazy... 5 year maybe...
Yup. 1994. Creative Minds imaging station.
Wasn't a packet writer though. Had to build an iso, and burn it.
I'm sorry. I was speaking as a resident of Millis, which got 31" on the weekend of the 6th, and the extra 8" I got this past weekend. But yes, I'm sure it varied across the state from 16" to 40+".
uh, why? You still got traffic problems, we got 40 inches of snow THIS WEEK ALONE, and we're all assholes.
;-)
Stay in California... you're much better off there..
No worse than a tunnel under a mile of mountain in the Swiss Alps...
Are you trying to say that 300m of rock exerts less pressure than 300m of water? I surely hope not...
Except for the G series lenses without built-in aperture rings.
Lens compatibility has gotten crazy in the Nikon world the past few years...
Actually, right now, not having a degree is a pretty sure bet that your resume will never make it past an HR-droid.
Yeah, but I think capcom simply avoided having that battle because it wasn't worth fighting. Lindows however, is a valuable name, with lots of advertising dollars spent into it. So is "Windows". It's a battle worth fighting, particularly if it's likely, based on how current law is written and the majority of lawyers/judges interpret it, that the owner of Lindows will win.
Because then you capitalize on all of Microsoft's advertising, as well as your own.
Well, let me just say this... there's a reason no one has given the smack down to Israel, and why no one felt restricted in smacking down Iraq. It's called nuclear supremacy. Europe has the bomb. Lots of 'em. So does Israel. Which is why Israel isn't under the thumb of some U.N. peacekeeping force right now (and the whole Holocaust factor, and IIRC are predominantly White)...
Which is why North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Iran all want nukes. Because having nuclear weapons makes it politically and militarily dangerous for someone like the U.S. to come in and smack you around like a bully.
The U.S. would have a hell of a time trying to take Europe. The French have ballistic missiles, the british have air delivered and ballistic missiles, Russia has more missiles than you can shake a stick at, and you can bet your bottom dollar they'll launch on warning if we started bombing London and Paris...
Superpower Russia may be no longer... but I consider anyone with 6000 nuclear warheads and a big red button capable of launching them to indeed be a Super power.
Yeah, but on the flipside, it derives at least 42% of it's name from Linux. It takes quite a stretch. IIRC, in the U.S. at least, it's not enough to make trademark infringement.
Since Linux != Linuz and Son != Sun, Linus wouldn't have a prayer.