"North Korea is what an officially atheistic state always looks like."
had to throw that bit in, didn't you?
i agreed with you up to that point, now i'm afraid i might have to discard your whole post for fear of Godly Salmonella contamination from that last sentence.
you fail to realise the profound effect this will have on the big patent "reform" lobby.
this can only make things better, if the companies that have been clusterfucking innovation finally realise that they're not able to innovate because of all these damn patents.
we already do... it's hypocrisy that we don't already export to India. they're more concerned with powering their populace than with their tiny nuke arsenal.
no, that only applies to Magnox in the UK and RBMK (the handy reactors at Pripyat) in Russia.
all the rest of them are not weaponizable in the least, unless run grossly out-of-spec, and stopped and refuelled every 3 weeks (the downtime for refuelling is significantly longer than 3 weeks).
except when someone develops a safer, cleaner method of boiling water that burns through most of the "pollution" (actually viable fuel) created by the last 3 generations of the technology.
just because it's not the best now, doesn't mean it can't (in fact SHOULD) be made better, if only we were allowed to learn from past mistakes, rather than running those mistakes well beyond their designed lifetimes.
fucking with our shit is any owner's right. even if it breaks in the process.
i would only make exceptions for things that involve hazardous materials, but still, warnings should be sufficient (ie "OPENING THIS WILL KILL YOU AND HALF YOUR STREET")
truth be told, a lot of the profit is invested where the car was made - people need to be paid, machines need to be maintained/replaced.
it's not as good as made and owned, but really, what's the difference between a rich person in Japan and a rich person in the USA? the bulk of the good comes from local manufacture. you can see this from the proliferation of USA companies that manufacture overseas - how much are they contributing to life in the USA?
if you need raw speed for something other than games, it might be more economical to use EC-2 or some similar cloud service. otherwise your workplace most likely provides you with an adequate machine.
if you're a gamer, you could conceivably turn details down to maintain speed (the simplified view might actually make n00bs easier to pwn).
if you just browse, your netbook will give you years of use and can be repaired if need be.
phones are replaced far too often - even the oldest phones can make phone calls if they still work. the other features can be covered by your netbook (possibly tethered to your phone...).
all my home needs are covered by my shitty old netbook (overtaken by moore's law, well and truly) and my little media player box thing.
all my speed needs are covered by the various high spec machines at work.
when i get freelancing happening, i'll be looking at new hardware, but it's likely to last a while provided TV doesn't go up beyond HDTV and REDcode's current spec (which it shouldn't do for a while).
to extract enough energy, the cyclist would be super buff, and thus roid crazy. i don't want even crazier cyclists on the road.
a simpler solution would be to require anybody who uses public roads to have a limited license (limited in the sense that it covers tested knowledge of road rules but not operation of a motor vehicle).
you're thinking of trademarks, btw. i'm not even sure how a design patent in the sense it's being used counts as anything other than patenting an idea.
hopefully the court will throw this shit out the window (or rather, the wall portal, as window, windows, and glass-covered wall openings are all designs that are patented in silicon valley).
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talk about useful idiots... livestock could be eating that straw you're making little men out of.
"North Korea is what an officially atheistic state always looks like."
had to throw that bit in, didn't you?
i agreed with you up to that point, now i'm afraid i might have to discard your whole post for fear of Godly Salmonella contamination from that last sentence.
sorta like the perfect free market.
"forced upon them by way of force."
yes, we all fear the tactics of the dreaded Redundancy Minister For Redundancy
you fail to realise the profound effect this will have on the big patent "reform" lobby.
this can only make things better, if the companies that have been clusterfucking innovation finally realise that they're not able to innovate because of all these damn patents.
let sqrt(x) = x/2
oh wait, i think you got something wrong there.
that's an arse-backward definition of "simulation" that you have.
it needs to be able to make meaningful predictions as well.
for example, a VFX explosion in a space-opera versus a simulation of a nuke explosion on a supercomputer at Los Alamos
android is the OS, you twat. there's plenty of different phones that run android, usually in different flavours.
you can also download the source and roll your own. run it on an old iPhone if you're feeling clever.
[citation needed]
sheep eat the grass so close to the ground that it doesn't grow back. this means the soil eventually becomes loose and blows away. hence, desert.
we should just farm kangaroos out there. they taste better and are much better adapted.
wtf? someone get Watson to mine your post for meaning. i'm having a lot of trouble, and my brain is about to segfau
wasn't criticism. was a statement that lots of CO2 comes from China, and reducing that is a good thing.
reducing it anywhere is a good thing. it's not a race or culture statement, just a numbers game.
we already do... it's hypocrisy that we don't already export to India. they're more concerned with powering their populace than with their tiny nuke arsenal.
no, that only applies to Magnox in the UK and RBMK (the handy reactors at Pripyat) in Russia.
all the rest of them are not weaponizable in the least, unless run grossly out-of-spec, and stopped and refuelled every 3 weeks (the downtime for refuelling is significantly longer than 3 weeks).
except when someone develops a safer, cleaner method of boiling water that burns through most of the "pollution" (actually viable fuel) created by the last 3 generations of the technology.
just because it's not the best now, doesn't mean it can't (in fact SHOULD) be made better, if only we were allowed to learn from past mistakes, rather than running those mistakes well beyond their designed lifetimes.
this is getting ludicrus
it's what plants crave.
you seem to have forgotten what "ownership" is.
fucking with our shit is any owner's right. even if it breaks in the process.
i would only make exceptions for things that involve hazardous materials, but still, warnings should be sufficient (ie "OPENING THIS WILL KILL YOU AND HALF YOUR STREET")
truth be told, a lot of the profit is invested where the car was made - people need to be paid, machines need to be maintained/replaced.
it's not as good as made and owned, but really, what's the difference between a rich person in Japan and a rich person in the USA? the bulk of the good comes from local manufacture. you can see this from the proliferation of USA companies that manufacture overseas - how much are they contributing to life in the USA?
that's amazingly cheap! my estimate was an order of magnitude higher.
sort of, but old stuff still has a lot of use.
if you need raw speed for something other than games, it might be more economical to use EC-2 or some similar cloud service. otherwise your workplace most likely provides you with an adequate machine.
if you're a gamer, you could conceivably turn details down to maintain speed (the simplified view might actually make n00bs easier to pwn).
if you just browse, your netbook will give you years of use and can be repaired if need be.
phones are replaced far too often - even the oldest phones can make phone calls if they still work. the other features can be covered by your netbook (possibly tethered to your phone...).
all my home needs are covered by my shitty old netbook (overtaken by moore's law, well and truly) and my little media player box thing.
all my speed needs are covered by the various high spec machines at work.
when i get freelancing happening, i'll be looking at new hardware, but it's likely to last a while provided TV doesn't go up beyond HDTV and REDcode's current spec (which it shouldn't do for a while).
anything that can make use of the high energy density of hydrocarbons without actually emitting CO2 would be good.
something ~2x as efficient as current engines is also a good thing.
something that can double the life of oil/coal/gas reserves will be a good thing.
stuff like this might just buy us enough time to figure out just where we're going to get our energy from when the free stuff runs out.
to extract enough energy, the cyclist would be super buff, and thus roid crazy. i don't want even crazier cyclists on the road.
a simpler solution would be to require anybody who uses public roads to have a limited license (limited in the sense that it covers tested knowledge of road rules but not operation of a motor vehicle).
at least fit that shit to the song. i was singing along then fell on my face because you got no rhythm. ...or is that part of the troll?
THAT's how samsung can get out of this - by having no case.
we can carry around a screen, battery and circuit boards connected by wires!
you're thinking of trademarks, btw. i'm not even sure how a design patent in the sense it's being used counts as anything other than patenting an idea.
hopefully the court will throw this shit out the window (or rather, the wall portal, as window, windows, and glass-covered wall openings are all designs that are patented in silicon valley).