With patents on software abolished. there is still protection for software developers. It's called copyright. Patents were only ever intended to cover PHYSICAL developments, not written works. A better situation is where code can be reused so long as you credit the original source. The current system of patents prevents anyone from further developing software beyond the original patent holder's capabilities, effectively stifling innovation.
Innovation comes in small steps, building on the work of others. It's how science has worked since the beginning. Patents on intellectual (imaginary?) property forces innovation to either stop dead or to operate in quantum leaps. The latter happens very rarely, while incremental innovation can be continuous.
Software patents don't protect livelihoods, they strangle them in favour of large patent trolls.
"Past" indiscretions? With the quality of their code I can't imagine a Zynga programmer being able to get a job teaching BASIC to grade school kids and their QA people must have access to THE best hallucinogenics money can buy if they think that trash is production grade software. I wouldn't hire an ex-Zynga employee to scrub toilets let alone touch a computer!
The correct suffix for a measurement in micrograms is the Greek letter Mu (like a u)g. ie g.
mcg is just... pathetic and a sad indictment on anyone who uses it.
Trying to remove child and violent porn is a good thing, but this filter will give the government unchallenged power to control what Australians read and hear online. It will allow them to silence critics and squash any kind of dissension and debate. Once in place ANY party, whoever is in power, will be able to control far too much information. If it goes ahead there is no IF it will be abused, only a matter of WHEN.
Hasn't OpenOffice.org been using exactly this system now for YEARS??? Just how many million pieces of prior art does it take to make the granting of these mindless patents obviously corrupt?
Really??
I've had the particular misfortune to work with a number of Indian engineers, electrical, mechanical and civil, and almost without exception the only "skill" they had was that of sucking up to their bosses. Not one of them had a single clue when it came to real world problem solving and only two were capable of realising how useless their education had been. The rest, after decades in the work force in some cases, were utterly incapable of seeing anything but the gold edged certificate they had been awarded from their university and refused to acknowledge that ANYONE could have a valid thought but themselves, while consistently producing the most ridiculous ideas (often a first year apprentice could see it would never work) and outright dishonest reports for their directors.
Don't mistake the word "hacker" for what the ill-informed media use it to mean.
It is the popular media that have given the term a negative meaning, and then only in recent years. It WAS a positive term, and STILL IS to those who know what it really means.
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With patents on software abolished. there is still protection for software developers. It's called copyright. Patents were only ever intended to cover PHYSICAL developments, not written works. A better situation is where code can be reused so long as you credit the original source. The current system of patents prevents anyone from further developing software beyond the original patent holder's capabilities, effectively stifling innovation. Innovation comes in small steps, building on the work of others. It's how science has worked since the beginning. Patents on intellectual (imaginary?) property forces innovation to either stop dead or to operate in quantum leaps. The latter happens very rarely, while incremental innovation can be continuous. Software patents don't protect livelihoods, they strangle them in favour of large patent trolls.
"Past" indiscretions? With the quality of their code I can't imagine a Zynga programmer being able to get a job teaching BASIC to grade school kids and their QA people must have access to THE best hallucinogenics money can buy if they think that trash is production grade software. I wouldn't hire an ex-Zynga employee to scrub toilets let alone touch a computer!
The correct suffix for a measurement in micrograms is the Greek letter Mu (like a u)g. ie g. mcg is just ... pathetic and a sad indictment on anyone who uses it.
is no longer valid. The story isn't there.
Much like regular Volvo drivers, it was oblivious to everything around it.
Trying to remove child and violent porn is a good thing, but this filter will give the government unchallenged power to control what Australians read and hear online. It will allow them to silence critics and squash any kind of dissension and debate. Once in place ANY party, whoever is in power, will be able to control far too much information. If it goes ahead there is no IF it will be abused, only a matter of WHEN.
Which planet did it eat? Planet Kenny? The bastard!
I can't think of a better advertisement FOR Linux that that!
That's Australia, numbnut, not Austria.
the left hand side of the road is the CORRECT side here in Australia. The police escorted him off the main body of the road, not down the wrong side.
Hasn't OpenOffice.org been using exactly this system now for YEARS??? Just how many million pieces of prior art does it take to make the granting of these mindless patents obviously corrupt?
Innovation Cooling already make a thermal compound product based on diamond dust.
Really?? I've had the particular misfortune to work with a number of Indian engineers, electrical, mechanical and civil, and almost without exception the only "skill" they had was that of sucking up to their bosses. Not one of them had a single clue when it came to real world problem solving and only two were capable of realising how useless their education had been. The rest, after decades in the work force in some cases, were utterly incapable of seeing anything but the gold edged certificate they had been awarded from their university and refused to acknowledge that ANYONE could have a valid thought but themselves, while consistently producing the most ridiculous ideas (often a first year apprentice could see it would never work) and outright dishonest reports for their directors.
You made me snort out loud! Seriously though, they did check that this isn't going to degrade the moon's orbit and drop it to Earth in 20 years?
... oh yeah. Anybody remember Logan's Run?
Don't mistake the word "hacker" for what the ill-informed media use it to mean. It is the popular media that have given the term a negative meaning, and then only in recent years. It WAS a positive term, and STILL IS to those who know what it really means.