If you're so concerned about making a profit from your idea and you don't want others profiting from it, keep it a trade secret.
Then responsibilty for protecting your profitable ideas remains solely with you rather than with government enforcement, you need never reveal your idea to anyone, ever, and so everybody wins, right?
This is exactly what I said would happen when I wrote to the Unicode Consortium asking them not to adopt emoji into the standard. Their response was that rendering differences in alphabetic/ideographic symbols with well-defined *objective* meanings never posed such a problem, so rendering differences for entirely *subjective* symbols wouldn't, either./facepalm
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I reached a point in my life 2 or 3 years ago where I no longer felt a need to tell people what an interesting person I am, or how interesting my life is. I don't need FB (etc.) to validate myself, nor do I feel any desire for the whole world to know that I'm currently in $country having $food for $meal. Thus I quit posting and effectively abandoned the account.
I recall the first time I visited an Australian grocery store. This was in a small town in NSW. I was shocked--you could *smell* the fresh vegetables as soon as you walked in the door. The whole place smelled almost like a garden. When you went near the meat department, you could *smell* the fresh meat. And the food was... beautiful. *Everything* looked and smelled like, I dunno... Heaven, maybe.
I walked around in stunned, wide-eyed, slack-jawed silence for a while. Finally, I turned to my Australian companion and said, "Wow, I didn't know a town this size would have a... um... boutique grocery. I'm impressed." She just laughed and said, "'Boutique?' Nup, it's a bog-standard chain grocery. Pretty much the same as any Wooley's shop Australia-wide, at least in all the places I've lived. Can you see now why I complained about all the grocery shops in the States while we were there?" Me: "You mean... this is *typical* here?" She: "Yup. Very."
I still remember that moment. It was like a light turned on in my brain.
American grocery stores SUCK. Even the boutique-y ones.
"The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Potassium and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin B6.
The bad: A large portion of the calories in this food come from sugars."
Also note the sugar in bananas is not quite the same thing as the white stuff people put in their coffee or sprinkle on their breakfast cereal.
Skype lets me make free or nearly free audio and video calls to my relatives, who are scattered across 3 continents (and none of them the same as the one I live in).
I'm quite satisfied with version 4.3, and I'm actually glad they've not updated it.
People are clamouring for an update from Microsoft should be careful about what they wish for.
So now standardized spelling and grammar are just optional conventions? They make it a hell of a lot easier to read and understand text. If you care so little about what you are writing that you don't want to take a few extra seconds to make it readable, then I don't care to spend the time reading your worthless drivel. In that case, you're the type A asshole for expecting people to parse your trash.
Absolutely. Why should I have to translate when we're allegedly speaking the same language?
So you complain about articles relating to Microsoft by being the very first poster to talk about Microsoft in the discussion of an article that has nothing to do with them and doesn't even mention them.
Not getting drawn into your horseshit, AlexAndy. I'm not even going to follow that link, because it's guaranteed you're trying to use it to come perform some combination of omission, exaggeration, mischaracterisation, misrepresentation, and/or plain old lying.
Just like you've been doing for the last 15 years.
If you don't like Windows, then fucking install a different OS. Jesus christ, you twats act like it's the end of the world, and there's no possible alternative you can use.
I don't, and I did, over a decade ago. That doesn't mean I've gone blind to what happens in the Windows world. I don't use a Mac, either, but that doesn't mean I don't read any news regarding Apple.
So far, all your comments can be summed up as, "Anybody who complains should fuck off because he doesn't love Microsoft unconditionally." Not much of an argument, if you ask me.
Microsoft doesn't need to pay anyone. The numbers speak for themselves. The customers made their choice. Nobody boycotted Microsoft's product over the Windows 10 upgrade. You nerds have been defeated. Move your lardy ass to your little corner and rock yourself back and forth crying over the injustices of the world while the rest of us carry on with our lives.
Not much of a choice if the upgrade is performed automatically or if the user is misled.
1, 2, 3: I own and operate my work computer. I'm surely not the only one.
4: Hoggoth said nothing about not liking Windows. Hoggoth said he didn't want to be upgraded to Windows 10 from a previous version of Windows against his wishes. Again, not the same thing.
5: That may well be, but that issue is completely orthogonal to this discussion.
6: Again, completely orthogonal to the current discussion. Neither Hoggoth nor anyone else I'm aware of has claimed that they were forced by Microsoft to install Windows 10 over a completely different operating system such as Linux or Mac OS X.
Why you are so anxious to defend Microsoft's upgrade trickery while vilifying users is anybody's guess. But I can make a couple of good ones.
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Look, Ma--I can link to Bing, too!
http://www.bing.com/search?q=A...
Whooooooosh...
Humour motherfucker do you speak it!?!?
If you're so concerned about making a profit from your idea and you don't want others profiting from it, keep it a trade secret.
Then responsibilty for protecting your profitable ideas remains solely with you rather than with government enforcement, you need never reveal your idea to anyone, ever, and so everybody wins, right?
This is exactly what I said would happen when I wrote to the Unicode Consortium asking them not to adopt emoji into the standard. Their response was that rendering differences in alphabetic/ideographic symbols with well-defined *objective* meanings never posed such a problem, so rendering differences for entirely *subjective* symbols wouldn't, either. /facepalm
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I reached a point in my life 2 or 3 years ago where I no longer felt a need to tell people what an interesting person I am, or how interesting my life is. I don't need FB (etc.) to validate myself, nor do I feel any desire for the whole world to know that I'm currently in $country having $food for $meal. Thus I quit posting and effectively abandoned the account.
I recall the first time I visited an Australian grocery store. This was in a small town in NSW. I was shocked--you could *smell* the fresh vegetables as soon as you walked in the door. The whole place smelled almost like a garden. When you went near the meat department, you could *smell* the fresh meat. And the food was... beautiful. *Everything* looked and smelled like, I dunno... Heaven, maybe.
I walked around in stunned, wide-eyed, slack-jawed silence for a while. Finally, I turned to my Australian companion and said, "Wow, I didn't know a town this size would have a... um... boutique grocery. I'm impressed." She just laughed and said, "'Boutique?' Nup, it's a bog-standard chain grocery. Pretty much the same as any Wooley's shop Australia-wide, at least in all the places I've lived. Can you see now why I complained about all the grocery shops in the States while we were there?" Me: "You mean... this is *typical* here?" She: "Yup. Very."
I still remember that moment. It was like a light turned on in my brain.
American grocery stores SUCK. Even the boutique-y ones.
Bananas are just sugar.
Please don't spout half-truths.
"The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Potassium and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin B6.
The bad: A large portion of the calories in this food come from sugars."
Also note the sugar in bananas is not quite the same thing as the white stuff people put in their coffee or sprinkle on their breakfast cereal.
They charge to call regular phones, and they're perfectly happy to take money from you for this regardless of platform.
Skype is also supported on Macs.
And it's not a universal phone system because you can't make emergency (police, fire, etc.) calls with it. Check their TOS.
You must be great fun at parties.
Skype lets me make free or nearly free audio and video calls to my relatives, who are scattered across 3 continents (and none of them the same as the one I live in).
I'm quite satisfied with version 4.3, and I'm actually glad they've not updated it.
People are clamouring for an update from Microsoft should be careful about what they wish for.
... pretty much CC tips + a little to make it look ok. Plenty of unreported cash.
That hasn't been the case since the Reagan Administration.
It's amazing how many people posting opinions about restaurants in this thread have very obviously never worked in one.
... not beholden to the "people" and whose mandates must be measured in decades, not years. Like in Europe.
So you're a monarchist?
So now standardized spelling and grammar are just optional conventions? They make it a hell of a lot easier to read and understand text. If you care so little about what you are writing that you don't want to take a few extra seconds to make it readable, then I don't care to spend the time reading your worthless drivel. In that case, you're the type A asshole for expecting people to parse your trash.
Absolutely. Why should I have to translate when we're allegedly speaking the same language?
So you complain about articles relating to Microsoft by being the very first poster to talk about Microsoft in the discussion of an article that has nothing to do with them and doesn't even mention them.
You should really lay off the bath salts, friend.
Mod parent up!
Why would anyone want to do that? He starts off with a completely meaningless assertion.
Nice to know that Darl still reads Slashdot.
I think the OP intended it to be taken as something along the lines of, "Bribery? This is nothing new... [classic example]".
No. See above.
Feel free to keep this thread alive all by your lonesome, but I won't be reading any further AC responses in it.
Not getting drawn into your horseshit, AlexAndy. I'm not even going to follow that link, because it's guaranteed you're trying to use it to come perform some combination of omission, exaggeration, mischaracterisation, misrepresentation, and/or plain old lying.
Just like you've been doing for the last 15 years.
What a waste.
Oooh, let me be the first to respond to that with a resounding "LOLWUT??"
If you don't like Windows, then fucking install a different OS. Jesus christ, you twats act like it's the end of the world, and there's no possible alternative you can use.
I don't, and I did, over a decade ago. That doesn't mean I've gone blind to what happens in the Windows world. I don't use a Mac, either, but that doesn't mean I don't read any news regarding Apple.
So far, all your comments can be summed up as, "Anybody who complains should fuck off because he doesn't love Microsoft unconditionally." Not much of an argument, if you ask me.
Microsoft doesn't need to pay anyone. The numbers speak for themselves. The customers made their choice. Nobody boycotted Microsoft's product over the Windows 10 upgrade. You nerds have been defeated. Move your lardy ass to your little corner and rock yourself back and forth crying over the injustices of the world while the rest of us carry on with our lives.
Not much of a choice if the upgrade is performed automatically or if the user is misled.
A few thoughts of my own:
1, 2, 3: I own and operate my work computer. I'm surely not the only one.
4: Hoggoth said nothing about not liking Windows. Hoggoth said he didn't want to be upgraded to Windows 10 from a previous version of Windows against his wishes. Again, not the same thing.
5: That may well be, but that issue is completely orthogonal to this discussion.
6: Again, completely orthogonal to the current discussion. Neither Hoggoth nor anyone else I'm aware of has claimed that they were forced by Microsoft to install Windows 10 over a completely different operating system such as Linux or Mac OS X.
Why you are so anxious to defend Microsoft's upgrade trickery while vilifying users is anybody's guess. But I can make a couple of good ones.
A hundred years ago, the notion of orbiting a satellite was "unreality".
Think about that the next time you pull out your mobile phone to check Google Maps.