I CAN look at the status bar... but that's inefficient. Looking all around my screen to find relevant information is disruptive, far easier to have "(pdf)" after a URL. And how badly does that really litter your screen?
If the reinstalling tech notices anything out of the ordinary, a ticket goes in, and it gets brought up in weekly progress meetings.
Not a tech company -- the PHBs are paranoid about 'hackers' because of an intern who left all sorts of malicious code in the system last year. He was using the office manager's account, which has root access... another problem. But since the office manager (the guy who orders the pencils) also supervises the IT team... well, it is what it is. And the default access for the office manager is root access...
In the US, buses, trucks, and cars have an advantage because of the billions of dollars spent by the government on infrastructure each year.
Imagine if every road had to pay for itself via tolls -- pretty soon, trains would look pretty efficient.
Or, imagine if the government spent as much on mass transit infrastructure as they did on roadways. The aut industry is heavily subsidized by government through roadbuilding and road maintenance.
I think this last one is the one that should have been linked to the summary.
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I'm going to give my 3 reasons to disagree:
"7. IMDb has given nothing back to the community; rather it takes from the community (the poor) and gives to a large e-tailer (the rich).
They provide a service that is used by the community (the poor). Is it not possible to give to the poor and also give to the rich? A win-win situation, which is commercialism at its finest?
Well, one reason, I guess, but that shows my l334 counting skilz as well as the 15 (7) reasons in the OP.
"No such thing as wasting one's time here. It's all about wasting other people's time."
Depends. For indivuals, sure, they are hiring a patent lawyer, although much of the time it's a flat fee for the application, so it becomes a lawyer-time issue.
For corporations, a lot of the patent law is handled in-house, or under retainer, so again, lawyer-time becomes important.
Does the patented process fall under "Science" or does it fall under "Useful Arts"?
The court in question declined to create a standard for "Useful Arts" because that is not their responsibility -- the Congress should define Useful Arts, and the Courts could then apply that definition.
One of the dissenting judges specifically asked for this.
The three consenting judges did not, but typically when the court declines to establish some standard, they are implying that someone else has that responsibility.
So all the people who are against "Activist Judges" should be happy.
"But that won't be the end of it: microphones in the toilet will be listening to make sure it doesn't sound like the tune to some Britney Spears song, while cameras examine the shape of the turds to see if they resemble a corporate logo. I can't wait to see which company owns the rights to each particular method for wiping your ass."
No, no, no... FTA:
"[the patented process must] 'produce a useful, concrete, tangible result' without being a 'law of nature, physical phenomenon or abstract idea.'"
My craps are rarely like concrete, and are often regarded by my wife to be physical phenomena. So not patentable on two accounts.
It's not considered by the court to be abstract because it results in a concrete, tangible result -- the transfer of money to the manager.
Of course, I happen to believe that the transfer of compensation (especially if it's a bank transfer, not a cash transfer) is neither concrete nor tangible, but there are some accepted meanings of those words that could be stretched to fit the situation... which apparently this court has.
The reason that the technological art standard does not come up much as a reason for rejection is that, generally, people whose invention didn't meet that standard wouldn't even bother filing a patent. Patent lawyers wouldn't waste their time.
Now that this particular court has ruled differently, expect a rash of filings that would previously have been rejected under this clause.
A third reason that some flus are deadlier than others is immune system preparedness.
The immune system identifies and knocks off infecting agents (like viruses, etc) by markers called antigens on their surface. All flus are deadly, but usually the immune system can recognize the antigens of the virus, identify it as an intruder, and eliminate it through immune system response. This is the rationale behind the yearly flu vaccines -- the vaccine makers predict what the antigens will be on next year's big flu viruses, and create a vaccine specific to those antigens.
Occasionally, a 'new' flu will evolve, that doesn't have antigens that people's immune systems have seen before. The immune response will be inadequate, and the virus will replicate unchecked, until it is too late. When the immune system finally identifies the virus as a pathogen, and acts to wipe it out, the response can cause sytem shock or other nasties.
"The manufacturers aren't going to spend time and money to make their products until it either makes business sense (Cisco, Microsoft) or they are forced to (TV stations that are having to support HDTV)."
Technology and economics are intertwined. Sure, the tech is available -- but if it is not cost-effective, then it won't be utilized. So, is the problem then technological (the tech is expensive) or is it economic (there's not enough of a profit incentive to change over)? Probably both.
In both your situations, the answer is economic. "Making business sense" = profitable (Cisco, MS). "Being forced to" = unprofitable not to (TV stations). But better tech could mean that the tech is less expensive to implement, thereby changing the point at which changeover becomes profitable.
It's possible to create new species through selective breeding. I suspect that you are correct, and that this cherry sage varietal can be interbred with the original cherry sage, but speciation is possible to force. Also, if the offspring are sterile, then speciation has occurred. This is why we consider the horse and donkey to be different species -- the mule is sterile.
Just wanted to point out that the link to Newisys is just a blurb stating that AMD is releasing the Horus chip, and doesn't really have anything to do with Newisys, other than the fact that a couple of the people behind the AMD Horus release used to work there.
Oh, and the Horus link is a PDF whitepaper... please warn when a link points to a PDF.
"But last night, I found myself curled up with comfy blankets, half a bottle of rum, a DVD, and this beautiful brilliant, and generally amazing girl"
Ahh, good to see you have your priorities in order. Warmth, intoxication, entertainment, then sex.;)
Judging by my past experiences, she probably wasn't as beautiful, brilliant, or amazing before you drank the first half of the bottle of rum as she was when it was half empty...
Just jealous, pardon the Monday morning bitterness.
Unions arose historically when there was an oversupply of labor, similar to what we're seeing today. But unionization today, for this industry, just doesn't make sense.
Why were unions so effective? Because they had their employers by the short hairs. Industries dependent on local labor forces had to give in to the unions, or they'd have no labor at all... and be forced out of business.
Instant communications has rendered this labor model (for the tech industries, anyway) obsolete. Can't get cheap labor because of a local union? Go elsewhere. The cost of moving production is so cheap that it makes sense to do so, rather than pay higher wages. There will always be someone who needs to put food on their table who will take a low-paying job with miserable working conditions.
Plus, who is going to keep workers from 'crossing the picket line'? Do you think that a tech union will have the clout, and the strongarm ability, to get all the ducks in line? I doubt it.
Unions serve their purpose, and I believe were absolutely necessary to bring up the standard of living in the 19th and 20th centuries in the US. But unfortunately, the union model doesn't work for industries that are not geographically limited... so we'll have to figure out a different way force employers to redistribute their profits.
Is it just me, or does everyone else also realize we're still capable of launching new satellites into orbit?
Is there a concern about current GPS-enabled devices reading signals from new satellites?
I'd be shocked if there is not money available in the Pentagon Budget, or elswhere, for replacement of needed satellites. Then again, cutting funding of absolutely necessary programs is a great way to dodge real budget cuts... since there will need to be a "special appropriation" to cover the shortfall.
I guess I just have philosophical differences with a few people.
"I am sorry you do not know that. Maybe you should avoid discussing the subject until you DO know something.;)"
Sure, you put the smiley in... but I do know something. What I am saying is that we don't know anywhere close to everything... or anywhere close to enough to make educated decisions about what tack to take.
Nice inference, there. You're onto something, definitely. The question, I think, is cost of porting those games -- there might be a ton of work involved -- and distributing them (since they are not downloadable due to size).
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I CAN look at the status bar... but that's inefficient. Looking all around my screen to find relevant information is disruptive, far easier to have "(pdf)" after a URL. And how badly does that really litter your screen?
Our browsers are reinstalled weekly (!).
If the reinstalling tech notices anything out of the ordinary, a ticket goes in, and it gets brought up in weekly progress meetings.
Not a tech company -- the PHBs are paranoid about 'hackers' because of an intern who left all sorts of malicious code in the system last year. He was using the office manager's account, which has root access... another problem. But since the office manager (the guy who orders the pencils) also supervises the IT team... well, it is what it is. And the default access for the office manager is root access...
"A 10px font size for the main body of text is not acceptable for something to qualify as well designed."
I don't know of any browser that doesn't let you change your default font size.
Hell, if you have a scrollwheel on your mouse, you can change font size in Firefox by holding CTRL and scrolling the wheel...
In the US, buses, trucks, and cars have an advantage because of the billions of dollars spent by the government on infrastructure each year.
Imagine if every road had to pay for itself via tolls -- pretty soon, trains would look pretty efficient.
Or, imagine if the government spent as much on mass transit infrastructure as they did on roadways. The aut industry is heavily subsidized by government through roadbuilding and road maintenance.
So, here's a review of Time including the Revolution controller in its list of 5 things that'll blow your mind: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144800
Here's a story about Peter Moore (of Microsoft) praising the Revolution: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144015&did=1
And here's a story about J Allard on the Revolution: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144413&did=1
And here's a lengthy piece on the arrival of the Revoultion: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3144666
I think this last one is the one that should have been linked to the summary.
I'm going to give my 3 reasons to disagree:
"7. IMDb has given nothing back to the community; rather it takes from the community (the poor) and gives to a large e-tailer (the rich).
They provide a service that is used by the community (the poor). Is it not possible to give to the poor and also give to the rich? A win-win situation, which is commercialism at its finest?
Well, one reason, I guess, but that shows my l334 counting skilz as well as the 15 (7) reasons in the OP.
"No such thing as wasting one's time here. It's all about wasting other people's time."
Depends. For indivuals, sure, they are hiring a patent lawyer, although much of the time it's a flat fee for the application, so it becomes a lawyer-time issue.
For corporations, a lot of the patent law is handled in-house, or under retainer, so again, lawyer-time becomes important.
"Well, mine often are like concrete and at the least are quite tangible"
Yes, but are they useful?
Does the patented process fall under "Science" or does it fall under "Useful Arts"?
The court in question declined to create a standard for "Useful Arts" because that is not their responsibility -- the Congress should define Useful Arts, and the Courts could then apply that definition.
One of the dissenting judges specifically asked for this.
The three consenting judges did not, but typically when the court declines to establish some standard, they are implying that someone else has that responsibility.
So all the people who are against "Activist Judges" should be happy.
"But that won't be the end of it: microphones in the toilet will be listening to make sure it doesn't sound like the tune to some Britney Spears song, while cameras examine the shape of the turds to see if they resemble a corporate logo. I can't wait to see which company owns the rights to each particular method for wiping your ass."
No, no, no... FTA:
"[the patented process must] 'produce a useful, concrete, tangible result' without being a 'law of nature, physical phenomenon or abstract idea.'"
My craps are rarely like concrete, and are often regarded by my wife to be physical phenomena. So not patentable on two accounts.
It's not considered by the court to be abstract because it results in a concrete, tangible result -- the transfer of money to the manager.
Of course, I happen to believe that the transfer of compensation (especially if it's a bank transfer, not a cash transfer) is neither concrete nor tangible, but there are some accepted meanings of those words that could be stretched to fit the situation... which apparently this court has.
The reason that the technological art standard does not come up much as a reason for rejection is that, generally, people whose invention didn't meet that standard wouldn't even bother filing a patent. Patent lawyers wouldn't waste their time.
Now that this particular court has ruled differently, expect a rash of filings that would previously have been rejected under this clause.
A third reason that some flus are deadlier than others is immune system preparedness.
The immune system identifies and knocks off infecting agents (like viruses, etc) by markers called antigens on their surface. All flus are deadly, but usually the immune system can recognize the antigens of the virus, identify it as an intruder, and eliminate it through immune system response. This is the rationale behind the yearly flu vaccines -- the vaccine makers predict what the antigens will be on next year's big flu viruses, and create a vaccine specific to those antigens.
Occasionally, a 'new' flu will evolve, that doesn't have antigens that people's immune systems have seen before. The immune response will be inadequate, and the virus will replicate unchecked, until it is too late. When the immune system finally identifies the virus as a pathogen, and acts to wipe it out, the response can cause sytem shock or other nasties.
"The manufacturers aren't going to spend time and money to make their products until it either makes business sense (Cisco, Microsoft) or they are forced to (TV stations that are having to support HDTV)."
Technology and economics are intertwined. Sure, the tech is available -- but if it is not cost-effective, then it won't be utilized. So, is the problem then technological (the tech is expensive) or is it economic (there's not enough of a profit incentive to change over)? Probably both.
In both your situations, the answer is economic. "Making business sense" = profitable (Cisco, MS). "Being forced to" = unprofitable not to (TV stations). But better tech could mean that the tech is less expensive to implement, thereby changing the point at which changeover becomes profitable.
Unfortunately, the PHBs here at the office disagree.
It's possible to create new species through selective breeding. I suspect that you are correct, and that this cherry sage varietal can be interbred with the original cherry sage, but speciation is possible to force. Also, if the offspring are sterile, then speciation has occurred. This is why we consider the horse and donkey to be different species -- the mule is sterile.
So why does the link say that the Horus is an AMD product? Is AMD just distributing a Newisys product?
The Harvest Moon is also known as the Blood Moon and the Fruit Moon, and is the full moon closest to the equinox, which was last month's.
The full moon we are experiencing now is the Hunter's Moon.
I'm looking forward to next month's, AKA the Beaver Moon.
Just wanted to point out that the link to Newisys is just a blurb stating that AMD is releasing the Horus chip, and doesn't really have anything to do with Newisys, other than the fact that a couple of the people behind the AMD Horus release used to work there.
Oh, and the Horus link is a PDF whitepaper... please warn when a link points to a PDF.
"But last night, I found myself curled up with comfy blankets, half a bottle of rum, a DVD, and this beautiful brilliant, and generally amazing girl"
;)
Ahh, good to see you have your priorities in order.
Warmth, intoxication, entertainment, then sex.
Judging by my past experiences, she probably wasn't as beautiful, brilliant, or amazing before you drank the first half of the bottle of rum as she was when it was half empty...
Just jealous, pardon the Monday morning bitterness.
Unions arose historically when there was an oversupply of labor, similar to what we're seeing today. But unionization today, for this industry, just doesn't make sense.
Why were unions so effective? Because they had their employers by the short hairs. Industries dependent on local labor forces had to give in to the unions, or they'd have no labor at all... and be forced out of business.
Instant communications has rendered this labor model (for the tech industries, anyway) obsolete. Can't get cheap labor because of a local union? Go elsewhere. The cost of moving production is so cheap that it makes sense to do so, rather than pay higher wages. There will always be someone who needs to put food on their table who will take a low-paying job with miserable working conditions.
Plus, who is going to keep workers from 'crossing the picket line'? Do you think that a tech union will have the clout, and the strongarm ability, to get all the ducks in line? I doubt it.
Unions serve their purpose, and I believe were absolutely necessary to bring up the standard of living in the 19th and 20th centuries in the US. But unfortunately, the union model doesn't work for industries that are not geographically limited... so we'll have to figure out a different way force employers to redistribute their profits.
Is it just me, or does everyone else also realize we're still capable of launching new satellites into orbit?
Is there a concern about current GPS-enabled devices reading signals from new satellites?
I'd be shocked if there is not money available in the Pentagon Budget, or elswhere, for replacement of needed satellites. Then again, cutting funding of absolutely necessary programs is a great way to dodge real budget cuts... since there will need to be a "special appropriation" to cover the shortfall.
I guess I just have philosophical differences with a few people.
;)"
"I am sorry you do not know that. Maybe you should avoid discussing the subject until you DO know something.
Sure, you put the smiley in... but I do know something. What I am saying is that we don't know anywhere close to everything... or anywhere close to enough to make educated decisions about what tack to take.
"Girls have outnumbered guys playing games for years and it's all games like this with companies capitalizing all along."
Yes, girls outnumber guys... but guys spend more money on games. So the male market, expressed as monetary values, is larger than the female market.
Nice inference, there. You're onto something, definitely. The question, I think, is cost of porting those games -- there might be a ton of work involved -- and distributing them (since they are not downloadable due to size).