Judges might not need to be experts on technology - but it's worrying that someone who's making important decisions is somewhat out of touch. Wonder if he knows that women can vote yet?
Ooops. Here comes Microsoft with a program that looks, acts, and feels EXACTLY the same. Microsoft makes millions and millions. Your father makes... nothing. You get nothing. Your father hires a lawyer, spends hundreds of thousands of dollars chasing Microsoft around in court, Microsoft gets away without paying a dime. That's what life would be like without software patents.
Not really, if it's that close a ripoff wouldn't it be covered by copyright? It's really just the same as rewriting a novel and changing the hero's name from Jake Grafton to Jack Griffin and sticking a different picture on the cover.
Perhaps they're more affluent because they don't pay big bucks for a new phone every year[1] and however much a pop to add a new ringtone or transfer a file.
[1] Yeah, sure you can get one for free - it doesn't count if it's per month, right?
Software should fit business processes, not the other way around
It will if you write it yourself - probably only fi you do so. However (correct me if I'm wrong) the point in taking an off-the-shelf system is to avoid doing that.
You want prior art for 1 click? What about those old-style vending machines - you only had to press the button once to get the chocolate bar or can of soda. I say old-style because the new ones need 98 keypresses and a working knowledge of XML to get anything out of them. I guess that's progress.
In the UK, we have the right of "Fair Comment". Thus, if I say "catbutt pours hot grits down his pants" then the onus is on you to prove that you do not, in fact, pour hot grits down your pants.
If you're referring to the defence of justification in the event he sues you for defamation, you've got it 100% the wrong way round. You (the defendant) must prove the allegation to be true.
it's a pity I won't be around in 50 years to see if Scientology, like Mormonism before it, is evolving into a mainstream religion and gradually losing its bizarre baggage.
Now you've got me thinking - anyone remember the Moonies? They've been quiet recently.
I wonder how the value of the RDF is calculated on the balance sheet? Or is it one of those things, like goodwill, that you can only put a number on when there's a takeover?
His job was to bring in the most amount of money possible to his company from his customers.
For the benefit of a poor oik what clearly don't have a top-notch MBA like what you has, can you explain how driving the readership down by destroying the mag's credibility achieves that goal?
The customers are his advertisers.
The readers aren't? Even accepting your assertion, aren't advertising rates roughly proportional to the circulation/readership?
No way are you too big to fit in a normal vehicle. Are you seriously claiming that when they design an SUV they take a normal car and scale every part of it up? Those soccer mom's would sure have trouble reaching the pedals. One of my colleagues is only 3 inches shorter than you and he can fit comfortably in an Audi A3.
explain things to flaming eco-nuts
Irrelevant, since I'm not one.
Not only do I not need to justify myself to you or anyone else, but I can and will do whatever the hell I please, even if it upsets you.
I wish I was as larh^H hard as you. Do you have tattos?
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Ligitation is nothing to do with the law?
Judges might not need to be experts on technology - but it's worrying that someone who's making important decisions is somewhat out of touch. Wonder if he knows that women can vote yet?
Cool, you could make a self-assembling bacon sandwich!
Perhaps they're more affluent because they don't pay big bucks for a new phone every year[1] and however much a pop to add a new ringtone or transfer a file.
[1] Yeah, sure you can get one for free - it doesn't count if it's per month, right?
You want prior art for 1 click? What about those old-style vending machines - you only had to press the button once to get the chocolate bar or can of soda. I say old-style because the new ones need 98 keypresses and a working knowledge of XML to get anything out of them. I guess that's progress.
I predict that you'll never learn to use paragraphs.
* or whatever the politically correct term is.
I wouldn't be so sure
Just wait long enough and he'll be wrong agian.
Was he a scientologist back then? And the others like Kirstie Ally - were they recruited after or before they became famous and/or successful?
You must have seen a different one to me. When I watched it, it was about a group of pagans who needed a human sacrifice to ensure the next harvest.
Of course I new what you meant. If you can't take a bit of gentle ribbing then fuck off and get over yourself, crybaby.
I wonder how the value of the RDF is calculated on the balance sheet? Or is it one of those things, like goodwill, that you can only put a number on when there's a takeover?
Not Chinese? I suppose it'd taste nice, but after an hour you'd feel like another.