I agree - if we must have software patents, they should only be granted when pseudo code or real code is supplied with the patent. Anything with less than a few hundred lines of code (excluding comments) gets instantly discarded as obvious.
And then when the pseudo and/or real code gets supplied, the patent should be summarily rejected and referred to the copyright office for registration where its protection should lie.
New abstractions of file are needed, which reflect what users seek to do with their digital data, and which allow engineers to solve the networking, storage and data management problems that ensue when files move from the PC on to the networked world of today, and provide us with another trivial little idea that we can claim as our imaginary property, patent, lock down, control, and squeeze licensing fees out of in anything that implements what we are going to try to spew out.
The Animaniacs clip with Constantinople and Particle Man always get take down notices when posted on Youtube. I can't find them. It really is a loss to entertainment's posterity - what with all these protection of creations. Let the stuff ride, if not for free, then charge us something reasonable!
It is interesting, there may be a whole new generation that listens to TMBG and not even realize it. I instantly recognized the sound of the Johns in Coraline (Other Father Song), and they do the intro for Malcolm in the Middle and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
And so you don't have to try to hunt them down yet again the next time these vanish from the Web, I highly recommend installing Unplug, so you can download video files from YouTube and other sites and save them locally to play back in the media player of your choosing.
The mystery girl who sings Marvin I Love You The girl who did the Oh-a-oh bit in Video Killed the Radio Star The voice of CORA from Battlestar Galactica: The Long Patrol
I forgot about the polar angle. And since the northern and southern hemispheres have their winters at opposite times of the year, then we should be covered for even more time.
I have a friend who can work out the details, but I don't know when she will be available. Last I heard she was stuck at the mall. There's a big power outage going on there today, and she is stranded on the escalator.
Because you shouldn't be pushing an agenda when you name your software.
OpenOffice wasn't too bad because Open is such an overloaded and diluted word that no one cares about it.
Free has negative connotations of "crap"
Libre has negative connotations of "those people are probably a bunch of zealots like RMS".
As much as it pains me and makes me ill to even think about suggesting this, how about Your Office? I would personally hate the name, but looking at it in a practical and "marketing" sense, it follows along with the "My" trend in naming things to make the users believe that it is all about them.
One of these days someone from WBC is going to picket the wrong funeral and some grieving father or mother is going to end up killing some of these idiots. It's just a matter of time.
It is only a matter of time before the 21 gun salute misses.
Sounds like the Phelpses will be spending eternity roasting over an open hellfire.
This is why they better hope that the cosmic horror they worship is a total myth. Otherwise, they are in for a truly horrific awakening when their time comes instead of the more reasonable and more likely "fate" of nonexistence.
Finally the RIAA can charge for every repeat of that song that's stuck in your head.
Damn. I would be soooooo screwed if that happened. Ever since I recently discovered Hungry Like the Wolf (yes, I know I am about 3 decades too late on this one, but even though the 80s were my prime years, this one somehow managed to escape my notice back then), the song has been playing in my brain several times a day for a couple hours straight.
I would owe the RIAA a gajillion dollars or so, give or take a few.
If I go watch a movie in the theater, then replay it to my friends later from my mind.. Would that be an illegal bootleg?
It would only be a bootleg if the transmission came from your leg instead of your head, and only if you are wearing boots...and then only if the boots are stolen.
This sounds like a bad idea to me as far as fighting wars go.
War is supposed to be up close, personal, and horrific. Letting machines handle the dirty work removes a large amount of the deterrance that should be inherent in pursuing a war. Knowing the horrors of war should be a big motivator in seeking alternatives to war.
What's next? Just have computers simulate attacks, calculate damage and casualties, and then those on the casualty list report to a termination center?
It's ridiculous like that in many parts of the world. In the US, it's legal to back up your media, however you're not allowed to break the DRM in order to do it. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how one can back up something that they're not allowed to make spare copies of.
That is an easy one to answer.
What you do is to simply ignore such a fucked up retarded law and make your backup anyway. As long as you aren't then handing out copies of the product, or at least not doing so in a way that attracts any attention, who is really going to give a rat's ass?
If they are going to crack down on Atari 2600 emulators, I wonder if it would be okay to produce a Coleco Gemini emulator instead? Not likely anyone would try to enforce that trademark if there is anyone who could enforce it in the first place.
*The Irony scale can be defined as starting at 0 with Alanis Morissette's song "Isn't it Ironic" and ending at 10 with Alanis Morissette's song "Isn't it Ironic"
To quote Buck Murdock (Airplane II), "Irony can be very ironic."
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I agree - if we must have software patents, they should only be granted when pseudo code or real code is supplied with the patent. Anything with less than a few hundred lines of code (excluding comments) gets instantly discarded as obvious.
And then when the pseudo and/or real code gets supplied, the patent should be summarily rejected and referred to the copyright office for registration where its protection should lie.
New abstractions of file are needed, which reflect what users seek to do with their digital data, and which allow engineers to solve the networking, storage and data management problems that ensue when files move from the PC on to the networked world of today, and provide us with another trivial little idea that we can claim as our imaginary property, patent, lock down, control, and squeeze licensing fees out of in anything that implements what we are going to try to spew out.
The Animaniacs clip with Constantinople and Particle Man always get take down notices when posted on Youtube. I can't find them. It really is a loss to entertainment's posterity - what with all these protection of creations. Let the stuff ride, if not for free, then charge us something reasonable!
It is interesting, there may be a whole new generation that listens to TMBG and not even realize it. I instantly recognized the sound of the Johns in Coraline (Other Father Song), and they do the intro for Malcolm in the Middle and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Well, here's Istanbul (not Constantinople).
For Particle Man, just remember, there are other video sites that are not YouTube.
Voila!
And so you don't have to try to hunt them down yet again the next time these vanish from the Web, I highly recommend installing Unplug, so you can download video files from YouTube and other sites and save them locally to play back in the media player of your choosing.
...I would've asked them, "Why is triangle man such a dick?"
And I would have asked, "Why did Constantinople get the works?"
Hi! I'm the Versatile Administrator of Giant Interconnected Network Architectures, nice to meet you.
A pleasure to meet you.
In my organization, I am the Grand Organizer Administrator and Tester of Software Endeavours.
All I ask is that you ignore that gaping hole in my employment history.
...and Mac OS 8 was "Copeland". In other words, no, not really.
Did that come before or after Butthead Astronomer?
Voices I would prefer...
The mystery girl who sings Marvin I Love You
The girl who did the Oh-a-oh bit in Video Killed the Radio Star
The voice of CORA from Battlestar Galactica: The Long Patrol
All citizens for whom today is Last Day, please report to Carousel.
Otherwise, they don't meet KPI and teams lose their bonuses.
It's boni.
BZZT! I'm sorry. That answer is incorrect.
The GP had it right, and X gets the square.
I forgot about the polar angle. And since the northern and southern hemispheres have their winters at opposite times of the year, then we should be covered for even more time.
I have a friend who can work out the details, but I don't know when she will be available. Last I heard she was stuck at the mall. There's a big power outage going on there today, and she is stranded on the escalator.
But since it is a lot hotter in that direction, all those missions to the sun would have to be done at night.
I knew it... she is hot!!!
ORLY?
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Yup.
Her face is pretty, but her body is way too scrawny to do that outfit justice. From the neck down, she looks like a teenage drag queen.
So this DiCaprio person actually passed the Turing Screen Test then, eh?
And I have been informed that 20 freshman co-ed interns were spanked because of this gagworthy suggestion.
Because you shouldn't be pushing an agenda when you name your software.
OpenOffice wasn't too bad because Open is such an overloaded and diluted word that no one cares about it.
Free has negative connotations of "crap"
Libre has negative connotations of "those people are probably a bunch of zealots like RMS".
As much as it pains me and makes me ill to even think about suggesting this, how about Your Office? I would personally hate the name, but looking at it in a practical and "marketing" sense, it follows along with the "My" trend in naming things to make the users believe that it is all about them.
We at Verisign apologize for the silly proposal we had proposed. Those twits responsible have been sacked.
One of these days someone from WBC is going to picket the wrong funeral and some grieving father or mother is going to end up killing some of these idiots. It's just a matter of time.
It is only a matter of time before the 21 gun salute misses.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Sounds like the Phelpses will be spending eternity roasting over an open hellfire.
This is why they better hope that the cosmic horror they worship is a total myth. Otherwise, they are in for a truly horrific awakening when their time comes instead of the more reasonable and more likely "fate" of nonexistence.
I've had enough of good people dying young of cancer.
This times 45, since my second oldest sister fell to a rare bone cancer at the end of May this year, about a week and a half shy of her 45th birthday.
Finally the RIAA can charge for every repeat of that song that's stuck in your head.
Damn. I would be soooooo screwed if that happened. Ever since I recently discovered Hungry Like the Wolf (yes, I know I am about 3 decades too late on this one, but even though the 80s were my prime years, this one somehow managed to escape my notice back then), the song has been playing in my brain several times a day for a couple hours straight.
I would owe the RIAA a gajillion dollars or so, give or take a few.
If I go watch a movie in the theater, then replay it to my friends later from my mind.. Would that be an illegal bootleg?
It would only be a bootleg if the transmission came from your leg instead of your head, and only if you are wearing boots...and then only if the boots are stolen.
This sounds like a bad idea to me as far as fighting wars go.
War is supposed to be up close, personal, and horrific. Letting machines handle the dirty work removes a large amount of the deterrance that should be inherent in pursuing a war. Knowing the horrors of war should be a big motivator in seeking alternatives to war.
What's next? Just have computers simulate attacks, calculate damage and casualties, and then those on the casualty list report to a termination center?
It's ridiculous like that in many parts of the world. In the US, it's legal to back up your media, however you're not allowed to break the DRM in order to do it. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how one can back up something that they're not allowed to make spare copies of.
That is an easy one to answer.
What you do is to simply ignore such a fucked up retarded law and make your backup anyway. As long as you aren't then handing out copies of the product, or at least not doing so in a way that attracts any attention, who is really going to give a rat's ass?
If they are going to crack down on Atari 2600 emulators, I wonder if it would be okay to produce a Coleco Gemini emulator instead? Not likely anyone would try to enforce that trademark if there is anyone who could enforce it in the first place.
I'd say it's about a 6 on the irony scale*.
*The Irony scale can be defined as starting at 0 with Alanis Morissette's song "Isn't it Ironic" and ending at 10 with Alanis Morissette's song "Isn't it Ironic"
To quote Buck Murdock (Airplane II), "Irony can be very ironic."