The patent system, for as much as it gets bad press, offers the little guy (independent inventor) a chance to get ahead.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you are killing me man ahahahah. Little guys have clauses that transfer all the copyrights/patents/newborns to their employers.
With no patents, anyone with money can make a clone of an existing product and do whatever they want with it, including selling their clone as the original item. Such a patent-less system undoubtedly favors the wealthy who have access to the means to do such things.
You mean like in China? Clearly those multi billion dollar 10 man companies making $150 10' Android tablets are a perfect example of what you are confabulating.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are obviously not in the medical business.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity.
Dont forget aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, health! Would never happen without patents.
Oh, did I mention Shakespeare would not write anything without Strong Copyrights?
While its quite nice to have a quake III bench, and be on a mobile platform that in fact means some great fun could be had amongst friends, its an old bench, and an old game.
and yet it is the best looking usable game on tablets/phones right now:)
As soon as SSDs reach even double the cost of hard drives, their performance alone will make them a much more attractive alternative, especially as their reliability increases.
Except their reliability decreases sharply with every new generation.
Considering they have to work with Riva TNT2 "performance" they look ok'ish. Think year 1999 Unreal Tournament in 800x600. Ok for a quick break on a train, useless as an entertainment system in the house.
I don't like this measure (it's what my provider does to me), but it works.
I have a limited amount of data each month to use at my full connection's bandwidth. When I overflow it, my bandwidth is throttled down.
This consumption can be monitored using my cable modem's MAC (or my phone's imei) , and the values are settled by contract.
Speaking frankly, It's a shit. Now and then I must restrain myself from downloading (now) that HD movie. But, hell, this works as a measure to prevent this situation.
No. This works as a measure to milk the fuck out of your wallet. It is almost unheard of in Europe. We get unmetered cheap internet without scams like caps or throttling. I am paying $12 for 30/3 Mbits, I could jump to 120/12 for $60. This is on private networks build by private ISPs. Australia builds national Fiber and then forces caps on users. True LOLland.
If we don't bail them out and depositors suddenly have lost their checking/savings accounts, then we will be back to bank runs at a moment's notice, mattresses stuffed with money, and panics.
Except all the bailouts were directed at UNSECURED HI RISK investments, not at saving accounts (those were insured).
but why should any buyer not have the COMPLETE price list for the item he's gonna buy? S
camera A: price 200â. Price of all spare parts combined:600â. Price for workmanship of repair of all parts: 500â. Availability of spare parts: 5yrs. Nearest repair point: 500km. ONLY IN-HOUSE REPAIR
camera B: price 250â Price of all spare parts combined: 400â... availability of spare parts: 15yrs. Neares repair point: 29km. Third parties allowed to repair.
Now, pick.
It doesnt work like that. Its more of a phone x price $600. camera module $10, lcd $12, case $12. Motherboards you fix manually replacing individual parts (exotic ones you salvage).
If the OP truly believes that this is a patent troll attacking them, the best thing may be to just ignore them. It's like spam: They are seeing who bites, and then they can reel you in for a settlement. If they send a couple of letters and don't get any response (especially from a small company that may have gone out of business without notifying anyone), they'll just move on to their next possible target.
This, or hire a hitman to kill their Lawyer, and couple of lawyers that will be replacing the first one. Eventually they will stop replacing them. This will still be cheaper than litigation.
Getting paid while sitting on her ass not working and She still complains? Wow. I want to get paid 0.42 cents every time someone sends an email through one of the servers/routers/cables I installed. And my children, and their grand children, They should also be paid for that!
since the exact mechanism of addiction will be discovered down to the last neuron, corporations can then exploit that information to guarantee addiction to whatever digital product they manufacture. id imagine it will be some kind of cross between the following
Last I checked, the president's armed guards (or Rosie O'Donnell's, or anyone else for that matter) aren't carrying military style assault rifles or hand guns with extended clips. If you haven't read the articles that he's proposing, stop spouting off about things you don't know enough about.
the fuck is a "military style assault rifles"? Are you one of those retards afraid of the SHAPE of the gun instead of the person wielding it?
Okay, in this day in age of scalability and Cloud Services, why the hell can't they host this in an EC2 Availability Zone on Amazon?
Because that's a completely asinine idea, not even warranting a technical response?
I'd urge random smarmy Slashdotters to dig through the EVE dev blog and get a glimpse of the boundaries they've been pushing. Their infrastructure team knows their fucking business.
Boundaries of stupidity. They are using Stackless Python (NO multicore support) on the server.
>'We move other solar systems on the node away from the fight
No they dont, They disconnected people left and right, basically kicked them out of that node and made them reconnect. Its been what, 7 years? and they still didnt figure out how to do live migration.
>Once server load reaches a certain point, the game automatically slows down time by certain increments to deal with the strain. Time was running at 10% speed
He failed to mention your FPS counter also goes to 10%:) It takes HOURS to kill one ship in that SHIT hack of a lag fix mode.
Instead of implementing proper multicore support, or even dividing load among many racks they run everything in ONE python thread....
This is something I would expect from X-Files episode. Wonder who was important and dangerous enough that they brought military to assassinate him in the middle of a city downtown.
Seriously? A patch to block root users from running kernel images? This is like how it works in Windows: applications not running as root aren't allowed to unsigned kernel code. What's the point of making root not root?
Is he going to disable the 50 other ways in which root programs could take over the kernel, too?
This is the precise point of TPM - it takes away control over the computer from user/admin. "Your" computer is not yours anymore.
2) Send your kid to work at a supplier to Apple...which does not work because policies like this make most suppliers check for age before hiring anyone.
These same rules apply to labor, and likewise, decreasing the supply of labor doesn't (typically) result in higher wages when it comes to luxury goods, rather it most often results in lower supply, therefore higher prices, and therefore less demand (remember, people who already didn't want to pay the cheaper price still wouldn't have bought it anyways, and now even fewer people will buy it.)
This is not how luxury market works. Also affluent market != luxury market. Iphone is NOT a luxury, 7 year old electronics of a feature phone wrapped in diamonds and marketed by Vertu is luxury.
The unconscious part that makes the decision before you're aware of it is you. And why does it need to be coerced into doing things with such sophisticated constructs as pleasure and pain?
It might be me, but its hardly free will if it makes decision for me and my conscious self just plays along pretending it came up with it.
(3) Universe is deterministic, every choice you make creates parallel realities where every possible choice is played out.
Why would you need other universes if the one you got is deterministic?
Btw I read about studies that can predict human decision before said human makes one consciously = no free will (Incompatibilism). We are just meatbags with sophisticated wet computers.
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Anonymous Coward wrote:
Make patents non-transferable
Which would just turn assignment by the inventors into a sublicensable exclusive license by the inventors. What practical effect would that have?
Forbid exclusive sublicensing? Make author of a patent its sole owner, he can license his patent to anyone whenever he wants to.
The patent system, for as much as it gets bad press, offers the little guy (independent inventor) a chance to get ahead.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you are killing me man ahahahah. Little guys have clauses that transfer all the copyrights/patents/newborns to their employers.
With no patents, anyone with money can make a clone of an existing product and do whatever they want with it, including selling their clone as the original item. Such a patent-less system undoubtedly favors the wealthy who have access to the means to do such things.
You mean like in China? Clearly those multi billion dollar 10 man companies making $150 10' Android tablets are a perfect example of what you are confabulating.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are obviously not in the medical business.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity.
Dont forget aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, health! Would never happen without patents.
Oh, did I mention Shakespeare would not write anything without Strong Copyrights?
While its quite nice to have a quake III bench, and be on a mobile platform that in fact means some great fun could be had amongst friends, its an old bench, and an old game.
and yet it is the best looking usable game on tablets/phones right now :)
As soon as SSDs reach even double the cost of hard drives, their performance alone will make them a much more attractive alternative, especially as their reliability increases.
Except their reliability decreases sharply with every new generation.
Does this video necessarily look like 1999 UT/Q3A?
Im sorry, but you linked to a commercial. Wake me up when you have a gameplay footage from tegra running at >800x600
Considering they have to work with Riva TNT2 "performance" they look ok'ish. Think year 1999 Unreal Tournament in 800x600.
Ok for a quick break on a train, useless as an entertainment system in the house.
Grandparents who are watching 3-minute YouTube videos of their grandkids will pay less
AHAHAHAHAHahaha, when was the last time you actually paid LESS for something (something not made in China)?
I don't like this measure (it's what my provider does to me), but it works.
I have a limited amount of data each month to use at my full connection's bandwidth. When I overflow it, my bandwidth is throttled down.
This consumption can be monitored using my cable modem's MAC (or my phone's imei) , and the values are settled by contract.
Speaking frankly, It's a shit. Now and then I must restrain myself from downloading (now) that HD movie. But, hell, this works as a measure to prevent this situation.
No. This works as a measure to milk the fuck out of your wallet.
It is almost unheard of in Europe. We get unmetered cheap internet without scams like caps or throttling. I am paying $12 for 30/3 Mbits, I could jump to 120/12 for $60.
This is on private networks build by private ISPs. Australia builds national Fiber and then forces caps on users. True LOLland.
We are living in an Information Age. Do you honestly expect all of the Clouds to store Petabytes of data on SSD drives?
If we don't bail them out and depositors suddenly have lost their checking/savings accounts, then we will be back to bank runs at a moment's notice, mattresses stuffed with money, and panics.
Except all the bailouts were directed at UNSECURED HI RISK investments, not at saving accounts (those were insured).
but why should any buyer not have the COMPLETE price list for the item he's gonna buy? S
camera A: price 200â. Price of all spare parts combined:600â. Price for workmanship of repair of all parts: 500â. Availability of spare parts: 5yrs. Nearest repair point: 500km. ONLY IN-HOUSE REPAIR
camera B: price 250â Price of all spare parts combined: 400â... availability of spare parts: 15yrs. Neares repair point: 29km. Third parties allowed to repair.
Now, pick.
It doesnt work like that. Its more of a
phone x price $600. camera module $10, lcd $12, case $12. Motherboards you fix manually replacing individual parts (exotic ones you salvage).
Plus, then he'd get to SIT, which is a little more conducive to surviving the 10+ hour days most of us spend staring at a little computer screen.
This is actually a minus, and a big one at that. Standing up desk is a LOT healthier.
If the OP truly believes that this is a patent troll attacking them, the best thing may be to just ignore them. It's like spam: They are seeing who bites, and then they can reel you in for a settlement. If they send a couple of letters and don't get any response (especially from a small company that may have gone out of business without notifying anyone), they'll just move on to their next possible target.
This, or hire a hitman to kill their Lawyer, and couple of lawyers that will be replacing the first one. Eventually they will stop replacing them. This will still be cheaper than litigation.
Getting paid while sitting on her ass not working and She still complains? Wow.
I want to get paid 0.42 cents every time someone sends an email through one of the servers/routers/cables I installed. And my children, and their grand children, They should also be paid for that!
since the exact mechanism of addiction will be discovered down to the last neuron, corporations can then exploit that information to guarantee addiction to whatever digital product they manufacture. id imagine it will be some kind of cross between the following
1. Home shopping network
2. Online gambling
3. MMO gaming
4. Pornography
nah, it will be Nature Fresh brand milk
Last I checked, the president's armed guards (or Rosie O'Donnell's, or anyone else for that matter) aren't carrying military style assault rifles or hand guns with extended clips. If you haven't read the articles that he's proposing, stop spouting off about things you don't know enough about.
the fuck is a "military style assault rifles"? Are you one of those retards afraid of the SHAPE of the gun instead of the person wielding it?
it sure will make it across an empty room.
Highly doubtful, unless you invent some superfast gigapixel cameras as receivers.
This thing will work up to tens of centimeters like IrDA
Okay, in this day in age of scalability and Cloud Services, why the hell can't they host this in an EC2 Availability Zone on Amazon?
Because that's a completely asinine idea, not even warranting a technical response?
I'd urge random smarmy Slashdotters to dig through the EVE dev blog and get a glimpse of the boundaries they've been pushing. Their infrastructure team knows their fucking business.
Boundaries of stupidity. They are using Stackless Python (NO multicore support) on the server.
>'We move other solar systems on the node away from the fight
No they dont, They disconnected people left and right, basically kicked them out of that node and made them reconnect. Its been what, 7 years? and they still didnt figure out how to do live migration.
>Once server load reaches a certain point, the game automatically slows down time by certain increments to deal with the strain. Time was running at 10% speed
He failed to mention your FPS counter also goes to 10% :) It takes HOURS to kill one ship in that SHIT hack of a lag fix mode.
Instead of implementing proper multicore support, or even dividing load among many racks they run everything in ONE python thread ....
This is something I would expect from X-Files episode.
Wonder who was important and dangerous enough that they brought military to assassinate him in the middle of a city downtown.
Seriously? A patch to block root users from running kernel images? This is like how it works in Windows: applications not running as root aren't allowed to unsigned kernel code. What's the point of making root not root?
Is he going to disable the 50 other ways in which root programs could take over the kernel, too?
This is the precise point of TPM - it takes away control over the computer from user/admin. "Your" computer is not yours anymore.
2) Send your kid to work at a supplier to Apple ...which does not work because policies like this make most suppliers check for age before hiring anyone.
Yes yes, just like Olympic committee
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-04-28-olympic-medal-underage-gymnast_N.htm
These same rules apply to labor, and likewise, decreasing the supply of labor doesn't (typically) result in higher wages when it comes to luxury goods, rather it most often results in lower supply, therefore higher prices, and therefore less demand (remember, people who already didn't want to pay the cheaper price still wouldn't have bought it anyways, and now even fewer people will buy it.)
This is not how luxury market works. Also affluent market != luxury market. Iphone is NOT a luxury, 7 year old electronics of a feature phone wrapped in diamonds and marketed by Vertu is luxury.
The unconscious part that makes the decision before you're aware of it is you. And why does it need to be coerced into doing things with such sophisticated constructs as pleasure and pain?
It might be me, but its hardly free will if it makes decision for me and my conscious self just plays along pretending it came up with it.
(3) Universe is deterministic, every choice you make creates parallel realities where every possible choice is played out.
Why would you need other universes if the one you got is deterministic?
Btw I read about studies that can predict human decision before said human makes one consciously = no free will (Incompatibilism). We are just meatbags with sophisticated wet computers.