If you duct-tape a fork to a knife handle you could probably get a patent for it the US. Yup you could, assuming it's not obvious now. The system looks for novelness not usefulness which is how it should.
Because most of their claims are about using a touch screen which not many computing devices have yet. If this gets through though you can bet your farm it'll hury anybody else who tries to make a touch screen anything.
Well except any more text messages get sent over the data channels anyway. You just can charge more for 160 bytes if they "text messages" than you can for the 160 B of data...
Looking at the first bunch of claims and knowing a little bit about patents, one would hope to God that it would get thrown out on obviousness. Everything I saw described using IM only appending "with a touchscreen" to everything. Which would be ovbious if you were using a touch screen for imput. The thing that they maybe should get, but is still kinda obvious, is basically scrolling by making a scrolling gesture vs a scroll bar. All in all a pretty obvious patent, but due to the problems with the system will probably get allowed...
Travelling faster than the speed of light is pretty much the same thing as time travel. If you could travel faster than the speed of light, then you could time travel. I beg to differ! I am unable to travel FTL but am perfectly capable time travel...but only forward at 1x...
can you imagine all the particle accelerators built suddenly merged into one? Can you imagine how compromised into uselessness the one would be?
that and the money wont go to some rich prick who will spend it on cars he never drives I would rather some rich prick get to not drive 10 farraris, so I can have the opportunity to drive a BMW instead of a yugo or whatever the "people's car" would be.
so yeah, go back to Soviet Russia where capitalism complains about you.
Probably a good bet. What I found most interesting though was that it specifically said it included all the updates that people may have "missed" by deselecting them in windows update. I don't know about you but when I "miss" a windows update I damn well mean to. I'm looking at you WGA Tool. I suspect may have to pass on this one, or maybe Ubuntu 8.04 won't be as bad as last time...
Then after you lvl to "Badged" you get to grind towards govie retirement (assuming you get to play as a govie not as a contractor) by reading slashdot all day...
Most murderers don't commit their crimes with a police officer in their presence either. That doesn't stop the police from arresting them. Sure, it's a much more serious offence, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be charged for smaller offenses just because the police didn't actually see you. Sure there might be a small number of situations where somebody reports a traffic offence against someone, just because they don't like them, but I think that you could resolve that in court, if you could prove that you weren't in the area, or that the guy had some kind of personal vendetta against you. I dunno about you, but I would prefer not to treat traffic offenses the same as criminal offenses. At least until they become criminal like vehicular manslaughter or assult or whatever.
Not to mention that using IE is a choice that can be easily corrected... Only if you browse at home on your personal computer. If you spend your time on locked down corporate boxen, not so much.
This is a good example of the difference between Criminal law and Civil law. In criminal law it's acceptable let a few guilty go to prevent convicting an innocent. Civil law seems more like "F*** it, as long as the lawyers get paid".
Honestly though, I suspect that the ban is due to a Prof complaining because he was having a dialog with the students and got called on something bogus because someone checked his facts online.
Quite frankly, I don't want to use the same operating system as someone who refuses to edit any configuration file.
Marketing Linux to the average desktop is a bad idea. Leave Linux to the power users and the server market. Hi. Welcome to open source/linux. Over here you will find Easy To Use (TM) distros such as Ubuntu and Mandrivia now coming with no config file editing. Now over here you will find Hardcore things such as Slax, Gentoo, and nightly kernel builds. I hope you can find everything you need.
I don't think porn editors have to worry about the others in their office seeing porn on their monitor. It's not so much when they get caught looking at porn, but when they get caught with their pants around their ankles and the only thing on the screen is/. is when things start getting awkward.
...Psychology is not science. All they know is how to torture dogs and give people bad drugs for years. Not to single you out at all as this whole discussion seems to miss this distiction, but Psychology, which what this is about based on TFS, is whine alot and talk about feelings. Psychiatry is about science and the meds. The fromer is PhD stuff while the latter is MD stuff.
Furthermore, Scientologists are against Psychiartry anyways kinda like how Hitler was against the Jews
Control your own biochemistry all you want, but don't claim that you should get a research grant instead of me or my friend Dave who don't take drugs. Why the Hell not?! If he gets more/better results/conclusion/advances than you and Straightedge Dave, why shouldn't he get the grants? Science is about results and knowledge. Should they give grants to dumb scientists because they aren't as gifted as smart scientists? Sports the issues with performance enhancers is reasonable because the value of sports is in the performance not the result.
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Which of course means that the patent will get allowd in about 3 more years once there is a big touchscreen device market ...Profit!
Because most of their claims are about using a touch screen which not many computing devices have yet. If this gets through though you can bet your farm it'll hury anybody else who tries to make a touch screen anything.
Well except any more text messages get sent over the data channels anyway. You just can charge more for 160 bytes if they "text messages" than you can for the 160 B of data...
Looking at the first bunch of claims and knowing a little bit about patents, one would hope to God that it would get thrown out on obviousness. Everything I saw described using IM only appending "with a touchscreen" to everything. Which would be ovbious if you were using a touch screen for imput. The thing that they maybe should get, but is still kinda obvious, is basically scrolling by making a scrolling gesture vs a scroll bar. All in all a pretty obvious patent, but due to the problems with the system will probably get allowed...
would you please convert that to Libraries of Congress? Thanks.
None of us is as smart as all of us... And nothing is dumber than a crowd or more dangerous than a mob! Yay for platitudes!
that and the money wont go to some rich prick who will spend it on cars he never drives I would rather some rich prick get to not drive 10 farraris, so I can have the opportunity to drive a BMW instead of a yugo or whatever the "people's car" would be.
so yeah, go back to Soviet Russia where capitalism complains about you.
Probably a good bet. What I found most interesting though was that it specifically said it included all the updates that people may have "missed" by deselecting them in windows update. I don't know about you but when I "miss" a windows update I damn well mean to. I'm looking at you WGA Tool. I suspect may have to pass on this one, or maybe Ubuntu 8.04 won't be as bad as last time...
Then after you lvl to "Badged" you get to grind towards govie retirement (assuming you get to play as a govie not as a contractor) by reading slashdot all day...
This is a good example of the difference between Criminal law and Civil law. In criminal law it's acceptable let a few guilty go to prevent convicting an innocent. Civil law seems more like "F*** it, as long as the lawyers get paid".
Honestly though, I suspect that the ban is due to a Prof complaining because he was having a dialog with the students and got called on something bogus because someone checked his facts online.
Marketing Linux to the average desktop is a bad idea. Leave Linux to the power users and the server market. Hi. Welcome to open source/linux. Over here you will find Easy To Use (TM) distros such as Ubuntu and Mandrivia now coming with no config file editing. Now over here you will find Hardcore things such as Slax, Gentoo, and nightly kernel builds. I hope you can find everything you need.
No they're the ones you call when you want to make it look like a suicide
Eek, a penis. Eek, Eek.
...Psychology is not science. All they know is how to torture dogs and give people bad drugs for years. Not to single you out at all as this whole discussion seems to miss this distiction, but Psychology, which what this is about based on TFS, is whine alot and talk about feelings. Psychiatry is about science and the meds. The fromer is PhD stuff while the latter is MD stuff.Furthermore, Scientologists are against Psychiartry anyways kinda like how Hitler was against the Jews
No they're not silly. Scientists are nerds! I think for once the children are safe.
Why the Hell not?! If he gets more/better results/conclusion/advances than you and Straightedge Dave, why shouldn't he get the grants? Science is about results and knowledge. Should they give grants to dumb scientists because they aren't as gifted as smart scientists? Sports the issues with performance enhancers is reasonable because the value of sports is in the performance not the result.
On roads where "slow traffic keep right" is relevent (highways/high speed motorways), bicycles should be in any lane.
But they I'd need a system to help my avoid Sweaty, Smelly James