In the end scientific advancement belongs to society, not an individual or a company. Just because you do a lot of the work it does not mean you truly own the idea. The idea would not be possible if it wasn't for countless other advancements. As such, returning the idea to the public domain is your repayment for all the training and countless other ideals you would not have even considered if it wasn't for society in the first place.
Mod you up!!! Very well put, your whole post actually. I would only add patents should be valid for a finite time like 5 max 8 years. Mod you up.
Nokia, meanwhile, sued Apple last fall, charging that the iPhone infringes on Nokia patents covering wireless data, speed encoding, security, and encryption. Apple followed by countersuing Nokia, accusing Nokia of infringing 12 Apple patents. Not to be outdone, Nokia just this month fired back with another complaint, charging Apple with infringement of patents for speech and data transmission, use of positioning data, and antenna configuration. Nokia is including the new Apple iPad as a device supposedly violating Nokia's intellectual property.
This just boggles my mind and leaves me speechless at the shambles this area is in. I don't understand how we can ever progress and I can hardly fathom how far back we're being hindered because of patents - not just on software - but drugs, hardware etc. C'mon people ideas aren't new. Imagine if mathematicians and scientist sued each other for patent infringsment??! Can you imagine if Leibnitz and Newton sued each other.
I for one think we should do away with patents - across the board. If I implement idea A and you want to use it and not implement it yourself you can liscence it from me, however if you implement it yourself then so be it you don't owe me any royalties. As a business this should drive us to competition and better products and returns for our clients and society - but it doesn't because of the purely capitalistic mentality of this nation and today's world, period. I wonder if the pirate party has a platform on patents? I'm so utterly disgusted with this it's not funny. I hope people start seeing apple for what they truly are now: just another money hungry bitch company.
I wasn't really sure and still not sure if you were joking with this. cause that's literally what FF does, I'll scroll down a bit and then it just starts doing it on its own till it gets to the bottom of the page and then freezes and greys out...annoying.
I'm not gonna try any beta versions as yet but we'll see what happnes when lucid is stable.
Who cares about default search engines. What they need to do is figure out how to get firefox scrolling to work properly instead of it freezing up my computer every two seconds. It blows chunks right now on Karmic with FF3.
I think the parent had a good point. I live in Montreal and I check several job sites daily, over here its PHP all day everyday. Check San Francisco and around the bay area and it seems different as well.
Although it may not be an indication of how popular the language is, it is an indication of what businesses are using now.
God help us all.
The only reason this "worked" is because the college interns were afraid for their positions and wanted to make a good impression. Like Monica Lewinsky They sucked di**k to keep their positions. I'm not trying to troll, just saying that use those same college interns after being on the job for a couple months/years and your productivity dives. seriously folks let's be real.
I was about to comment on this. didn't/. have a story about this a while back, and one of the aplications was about dentistry among other things? anyone have a link to that original article?
Morel also reveals that 'It's the kind of movie that has the scope to be 3D.'
christ here we go. New 'inovative', 'hot' motion picture technology comes out and now every body in the industry wants to use it. Anyone remember when almost every commercial and show just had to have a 'bullet time' scene? C'mon hollywood 3D ain't that great, its not for every scene and for god's sake do something about those glasses!
I have to second this. I absolutley abhor the IDE's on Linux. They are either way to feature rich (read bloated) like Eclipse, too annoying to configure, like Anjuta. The only decent one is Geany....minimally. I'd love to see a decent IDE like DevC++ on linux. I like the CLI as much as the next one, but when i'm coding a major project its hard enough doing that, i don't have time to be worrying about make, running gdb again etc... i just want it to work. I was actually thinking of even a little plugin to gedit that calls GCC and GDB on the back end. Again, i have to stress DevC++ was amazing. too bad its not on nix nor is it being maintained.
I don't know...."Variety is like a high school newspaper that pays their writers 25 grand a year just to write stories about the popular kids!" I think i gonna wait till i get this from the L.A. times or something;)
seriously people this isn't that "paradoxical". Chem 101. As (arsenic) is also deadly but its also an essential biological trace element. Its about moderation.
Sometimes i can't believe i still surf this place.
if any one knows i really would like to be enlightened so... there are open source software that can't go to some countries because it would be considered amunitions. I don't understand why the u.s. government doesn't consider google earth to be that as well. its almost like giving an enemey country access to your spy satellites...almost. but close enough. anyone have any ideas?
I'm with bell canada in QC. its possible it could just be the business connection i have though. i pay about $45/month for it. i haven't been wired in a while since i set up the router a while back i just roam all over. I've also never checked the upload bandwidth either. although i did test my speed yesterday on http://www.speedtest.net/.
It's not stretching a point to say that CP/M is the godfather of DOS -- the family of operating systems that ran generations of PCs. In fact, it may be understating the case to call it the godfather: MS-DOS could have been CP/M's twin. It used the same APIs and shared many of the same commands. Only one significant command was different: To copy files, DOS used the COPY command and CP/M used an old DEC minicomputer program name, PIP.
I thought m$$ bought CP/M and just basically rebranded it DOS. whats the writer making it sound like they were related. they weren't twins. they were the same thing!
actually i live in canada and i have a 100Mbps connection. its funny i never realized how some parts of the states are seriously lacking in bandwidth from there providers. I'm with bell.
I don't see any problem with individuals searching for answers for possible ailments and illnesses, as long as they employ critical thinking and don't jump to conclusions without facts. I often use the web to find info about what could be wrong with me and then on seeing a doctor usually surprise him/her with the little knowledge that i gained by individual research. Obviously the buck still stops at the doctors but informing myself helps me to make a better decision and not just swallow what the doctor says, because contrary to popular belief just cause they memorized a bunch of stuff doesn't make them intelligent.
I've had two episodes now where it helped to be informed before going to the doctors. the most recent: for severeal weeks i was house bound and just all around freaking out because i was getting this tightness in my chest, and it was hard to breath at times. It litterally felt like i was having a heart attack but the symptoms were sporadic. Eventually it got to the point where i was awake one night and felt like i was about to die. couldn't breathe, a vice grip around my chest etc. so my girl called the ambulance. went to the hospital, stayed there for 5 hours, they ran tests on tests, couldn't figure it out. gave me a clean bill of health and sent me home. Unfourtantely for me there is always something on the other side of the equation, so i researched online and turns out i had tietze syndrome ask me if i didn't email this to the doctor who took care of me? ask me if she wasn't grateful and probably red faced. the former yes, the latter i don't know.
the point is: the internet is a tool and can be useful if used wisely. if you just believe everything you read on it and don't question you're just about as dumb as excepting what political figures say without critical thinking. Which of course is the problem.
But more exotic uses might see nanotube sheets stitched into clothing to create "singing and speaking jackets", Fan's team thinks.
only in china would this seem more exotic, like i don't already have enough noise pollution in the city and dumbass individuals on their cellphones yapping away. Now i need to have dumbass num 2 booming the latest britney pop crap from his jacket.
Once again another misleading title on/. I'm actually developing some software which i will be releasing to the open source community. I honestly feel i owe it to them, because FOSS has given me a lot. However i still am earnestly searching for a solution whereby i can make money from it. Right now its looking something like a business model similar to Sun's JAVA or alternatively something like MySql. We'll see maybe I'll get some helpful hints off/. *shrugs*
The laws of Thermodynamics state that we can't really achieve absolute zero As far as the far reaches of space goes they may be referring to the boomerang nebula which is the coldest place we know of so far - outside of the laboratory. I wish the article had been more specific and quantitative. FYI a really good program to watch if you get a chance is Absolute Zero
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Mod you up!!! Very well put, your whole post actually. I would only add patents should be valid for a finite time like 5 max 8 years. Mod you up.
This just boggles my mind and leaves me speechless at the shambles this area is in. I don't understand how we can ever progress and I can hardly fathom how far back we're being hindered because of patents - not just on software - but drugs, hardware etc. C'mon people ideas aren't new. Imagine if mathematicians and scientist sued each other for patent infringsment??! Can you imagine if Leibnitz and Newton sued each other. I for one think we should do away with patents - across the board. If I implement idea A and you want to use it and not implement it yourself you can liscence it from me, however if you implement it yourself then so be it you don't owe me any royalties. As a business this should drive us to competition and better products and returns for our clients and society - but it doesn't because of the purely capitalistic mentality of this nation and today's world, period. I wonder if the pirate party has a platform on patents? I'm so utterly disgusted with this it's not funny. I hope people start seeing apple for what they truly are now: just another money hungry bitch company.
Actually I don't think Python has protected and private for its class. Its a free for all.
Thanks, I'll check out the ppa build I guess. much appreciated.
I wasn't really sure and still not sure if you were joking with this. cause that's literally what FF does, I'll scroll down a bit and then it just starts doing it on its own till it gets to the bottom of the page and then freezes and greys out...annoying. I'm not gonna try any beta versions as yet but we'll see what happnes when lucid is stable.
Who cares about default search engines. What they need to do is figure out how to get firefox scrolling to work properly instead of it freezing up my computer every two seconds. It blows chunks right now on Karmic with FF3.
I think the parent had a good point. I live in Montreal and I check several job sites daily, over here its PHP all day everyday. Check San Francisco and around the bay area and it seems different as well.
Although it may not be an indication of how popular the language is, it is an indication of what businesses are using now. God help us all.
I'm sorry I wasted my mode points dude. +1 insightful for you.
The only reason this "worked" is because the college interns were afraid for their positions and wanted to make a good impression. Like Monica Lewinsky They sucked di**k to keep their positions. I'm not trying to troll, just saying that use those same college interns after being on the job for a couple months/years and your productivity dives. seriously folks let's be real.
I was about to comment on this. didn't /. have a story about this a while back, and one of the aplications was about dentistry among other things? anyone have a link to that original article?
christ here we go. New 'inovative', 'hot' motion picture technology comes out and now every body in the industry wants to use it. Anyone remember when almost every commercial and show just had to have a 'bullet time' scene? C'mon hollywood 3D ain't that great, its not for every scene and for god's sake do something about those glasses!
ha ha, so you recommended yourself out of a job?
I have to second this. I absolutley abhor the IDE's on Linux. They are either way to feature rich (read bloated) like Eclipse, too annoying to configure, like Anjuta. The only decent one is Geany....minimally. I'd love to see a decent IDE like DevC++ on linux. I like the CLI as much as the next one, but when i'm coding a major project its hard enough doing that, i don't have time to be worrying about make, running gdb again etc... i just want it to work. I was actually thinking of even a little plugin to gedit that calls GCC and GDB on the back end. Again, i have to stress DevC++ was amazing. too bad its not on nix nor is it being maintained.
I don't know...."Variety is like a high school newspaper that pays their writers 25 grand a year just to write stories about the popular kids!" I think i gonna wait till i get this from the L.A. times or something ;)
Sometimes i can't believe i still surf this place.
if any one knows i really would like to be enlightened so... there are open source software that can't go to some countries because it would be considered amunitions. I don't understand why the u.s. government doesn't consider google earth to be that as well. its almost like giving an enemey country access to your spy satellites...almost. but close enough. anyone have any ideas?
yeah this should make it way easier for the aliens to knock out our power systems and take over the earth. *sigh*
I'm with bell canada in QC. its possible it could just be the business connection i have though. i pay about $45/month for it. i haven't been wired in a while since i set up the router a while back i just roam all over. I've also never checked the upload bandwidth either. although i did test my speed yesterday on http://www.speedtest.net/.
I thought m$$ bought CP/M and just basically rebranded it DOS. whats the writer making it sound like they were related. they weren't twins. they were the same thing!
actually i live in canada and i have a 100Mbps connection. its funny i never realized how some parts of the states are seriously lacking in bandwidth from there providers. I'm with bell.
I don't see any problem with individuals searching for answers for possible ailments and illnesses, as long as they employ critical thinking and don't jump to conclusions without facts. I often use the web to find info about what could be wrong with me and then on seeing a doctor usually surprise him/her with the little knowledge that i gained by individual research. Obviously the buck still stops at the doctors but informing myself helps me to make a better decision and not just swallow what the doctor says, because contrary to popular belief just cause they memorized a bunch of stuff doesn't make them intelligent.
I've had two episodes now where it helped to be informed before going to the doctors. the most recent: for severeal weeks i was house bound and just all around freaking out because i was getting this tightness in my chest, and it was hard to breath at times. It litterally felt like i was having a heart attack but the symptoms were sporadic. Eventually it got to the point where i was awake one night and felt like i was about to die. couldn't breathe, a vice grip around my chest etc. so my girl called the ambulance. went to the hospital, stayed there for 5 hours, they ran tests on tests, couldn't figure it out. gave me a clean bill of health and sent me home. Unfourtantely for me there is always something on the other side of the equation, so i researched online and turns out i had tietze syndrome ask me if i didn't email this to the doctor who took care of me? ask me if she wasn't grateful and probably red faced. the former yes, the latter i don't know.
the point is: the internet is a tool and can be useful if used wisely. if you just believe everything you read on it and don't question you're just about as dumb as excepting what political figures say without critical thinking. Which of course is the problem.
only in china would this seem more exotic, like i don't already have enough noise pollution in the city and dumbass individuals on their cellphones yapping away. Now i need to have dumbass num 2 booming the latest britney pop crap from his jacket.
Once again another misleading title on /. I'm actually developing some software which i will be releasing to the open source community. I honestly feel i owe it to them, because FOSS has given me a lot. However i still am earnestly searching for a solution whereby i can make money from it. Right now its looking something like a business model similar to Sun's JAVA or alternatively something like MySql. We'll see maybe I'll get some helpful hints off /. *shrugs*
The laws of Thermodynamics state that we can't really achieve absolute zero As far as the far reaches of space goes they may be referring to the boomerang nebula which is the coldest place we know of so far - outside of the laboratory. I wish the article had been more specific and quantitative. FYI a really good program to watch if you get a chance is Absolute Zero
i honestly don't know what it is about the toilet seat but I do my best problem solving there and i feel relieved after having done so.