"Excluded License" means any license requiring, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of the software subject to the license, that the software or other software combined and/or distributed with it be (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (ii) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) redistributable at no charge.
How is any commercial license not covered (under subclause ii)?
Also you seem to have an intimate knowledge of what is and is not a good use for primate semen, would you care to share [...] how you became so familiar with the proper usage of monkey ejaculate?
He probably lives in a state where bestiality is legal.
The efficiency metrics that the PTO uses to evaluate Examiners boils down to 1) how many applications they process (regardless of whether they are allowed or rejected) and 2) what percentage of their allowances and/or rejections are mistakes, with a "mistake" being either improperly rejecting or improperly allowing a patent.
I don't work for the patent office, so I would like some clarifications.
1) As I recall, there are procedures to amend a rejected application or to appeal a rejection. If those procedures are routinely exercised and the submissions are not considered new applications, then the total processing time of an approved patent will be significantly shorter than that of a rejected one. This gives a strong incentive to grant a patent over rejecting it.
2) When does a patent application get reviewed for being improperly rejected or improperly allowed? If an improper rejection review can triggered by a submitter''s complaint but an improper allowance only comes to light after competitors sue over the patent, it gives another strong incentive to grant a patent over rejecting it.
In short, your assertion that "the PTO decided that the proper metric for measuring the efficiency of appraisers was to look at how many patents they *grant*" is total bullshit.
I prefer to treat it as "not bullshit" until you address my points above.
Prove it. Calculate how many people it will take for Sony to be adversely affected by a boycott. Enough to notice and take action.
Then tell me what it would take to make all those people to care enough to go through with it. Remember to take into account that most people either don't understand the issues or don't give a damn about them.
Actually, the latest nightlies have a statusbar-esque thing in the bottom left when you hover links or load a page, now. It's a bit like how Chrome does it.
I currently count 14 add-ons that put their status indicators on the statusbar of my FF 3.6. Would they be able to do it with that "statusbar-esque thing"? Will the "statusbar-esque thing" stay on the bottom, clearly visible, like every other application's statusbar?
Because Obama is not the dictator of the United States but must faithfully execute the laws passed by the Congress when they are within the power of Congress to regulate. As it happens, Congress has the explicit power to determine what happens to captures during a time of war. So blaming Obama here is somewhat ridiculous as he is simply not in an office charged with
I assume that Obama, who used to teach constitutional for 12 years as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, was well aware of that fact when he made his promise to close Gitmo down. That said, I am not an American so I didn't follow this very closely and may have missed some pertinent details. Please refresh my memory, did he promise to "petition the Congress and abide by their decision" or did he promise actual results?
The way I see it, promising something that you know is not within your power to do is intentional deception, also known as fraud.
I've known enough people personally who actually *step up and try to make things better* - and fail to make everything better - to know that it's damned hard to change everything. If you really think that it's possible to promise massive political change and then actually make every promise come true (and anyone who doesn't is a devious snake), you're a deluded fool.
No, he isn't. A person who makes sweeping promises without first making damn sure that they will be able to keep them are either grossly incompetent or had no intention of keeping their promises (a.k.a "devious snakes").
The best that anyone can do, even at the level of POTUS, is to nudge things one way or the other and hope that some of it takes.
Then that is the best that they should promise, period.
Consider: You have a discount code for something. Let's say that you cannot use it yourself (maybe you already used a different one) so you are willing to give it away. There are several people who want it. I promise you that if you give it to me, I will get you a date with the hottie next door and will even provide you with flowers. You do that, but when you demand I fulfill my obligation I come up with excuses (it turned out she detests code geeks). Then, when you complain, I tell you that if you expected me to make all my promises come true then you are a deluded fool. I will then pick up a couple of dandelions from a neighbouring lawn and present them to you as proof that I at least kept the part about the flowers.
If you think you can do better, then by all means step up and give it a go.
And what if he can? Will you volunteer to help his election campaign (he'll need it since he will not over-promise with the intent to under-deliver). No? OK, will you at least pledge your support and vote for him? If not then you (and others like you) are the reason he doesn't "step up and give it a go".
I want to know why Obama hasn't closed the damn place yet. One of the major reasons I voted democratic in the last presidential election was to put an end to this sort of thing.
No Democratic representative will ever "put an end to this sort of thing" because "this sort of thing" is just too damn convenient. Of course, no Republican will either, for the same reason.
Everybody who understands this knows what really needs to be done, yet nobody does it for fear of "throwing their vote away".
Just went to Amazon, typed in my passwords using all caps, and sure enough it logged me right in. I "changed" my password to the same thing it already was, and now the issue is fixed.
While trying to do the same, I noticed that amazon.ca did not have this problem.
A while ago I had a case before the trial judge here. Knowing his personality, and age, it amuses me to no end to imagine the efforts the prisoners must have gone through to explain to him what Dungeons and Dragons is.
You are reading a story to your grandchildren. They like it so much that they suggest playing it out. Samantha wants to be the princess while Jimmy wants to be dragon-fighting knight. You, obviously, get to be the dragon. Since your joints are not what they used to be, you suggest that instead of going outside and letting Jimmy whack you over the head with a broomstick (sorry, a magical sword), you all sit around the table and say aloud what each of you does. At first that goes well until Jimmy says that he is "dragon proof" and kills dragons just by looking at them, while Samantha, feeling that this is just silly, declares she found a magic wand inside the dragon cave which turned Jimmy into a frog. You decide that to inject some common sense into the game, somebody needs to be an arbiter of what is plausible (within the game) and what is not. That brings the game on track again until Samantha complains that one of your decision was arbitrary. To avoid such accusations in the future, you write down the most important rules and assumptions that everyone can agree on. You also assign rough probability numbers for actions and events and use random dice to determine outcomes. After some additional refinements, you find out that somebody already did all this work for you and published it in a book, so you buy the book, let the kids read it, then grab a bunch of dice and let them again pretend to be knights and princesses but in a more structured setting.
People who keep voting for the "lesser of the two evils" are exactly why we keep ending up with politicians who are only slightly better than their competition, but still tremendously corrupt.
Just wanted to chime in by reminding you that voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.
False dichotomy. You can also work within the system to any number of varying degrees, which involves being willing to compromise.
1) You cannot work within the system as the system is designed to exclude you. 2) You can compromise as much as you want but the other side will not.
I actually think your post is indicative of a huge problem in American politics today. More and more people are advocating a rejection of democracy when they don't get their way.
Read his post again. His not advocating the rejecting democracy, only the current democratic process (emphasis mine).
If you manage to give 3rd parties 10% of the vote (even if translates to 0 seats) and the difference between the votes for R and D is 5%, both parties will start doing their damnest to lure those "rogue" voters.
People didn't dislike the sequels because of the metaphysics and fantasy elements, but because it was an incoherent mess that took random elements of various religions and mythologies, threw them all into a blender and turned them into an undigestable pinkish-grey loaf of eschatological babble.
1) If I missed several days of/. browsing (due to a vacation, etc.) I could always navigate to the pages displaying submissions for the days I missed. Can't do that now. It's the "many more" button now, that I have to click who knows how many times, and if I actually click on an article, I have to repeat the process when I navigate back.
2) The floating bar breaks the page up/down functionality by making sure that the content scrolls more than the visible window.
3) The left sidebar takes up valuable screen real estate, especially on a 4:3 screen (I have 2 4:3 monitors at work) and I don't know how to remove it.
4) My score adjustments are gone. I often browse at +3 applying a -2 modifier to "Funny" and a +1 modifier to ACs. Now my preferences are not taken into account.
5) The settings are cryptic. The "help" is an insult.
6) The "Slashdotter" add-on "reply to this text" functionality no longer works.
There are probably more surprises that I'll run into. All in all, the user experience is noticeably worse than the "classic" UI I used to use. I understand that for some people it is an improvement but taking away the other option is like FireFox removing the status bar or Google Maps removing the option to name locations.
Of course nothing will be done about it since nobody at Geeknet gives a flying fuck about what I feel, as I am not paying their salaries.
Well, advertising, when done properly, oils the wheels of economy. It helps bringing customers and product/service providers together.
Well, advertising, when done as it is done nowadays, is borderline fraud. It helps cheat the customers by manipulating them into paying more for an inferior product (Monster cables anyone? Bose speakers?) or purchasing a product they do not need (seen any TV ads lately?)
And better aimed adertising, which offers more relevant results for an individual, is a good thing. What do you prefer, to be flooded by trash advertising that your mind needs to sift through and filter, or much less of it, and more relevant to you?
It is much easier to ignore lies on generic subjects you have no particular interest in than to ignore lies specifically tailored to influence you.
Your snarky post might actually count if a status bar WAS an actual, vital part of a web browser.
The point is that a status-bar is the UI standard of several GUIs (I'm on Windows so that's my reference point, but there are others). Most, if not all, applications use a status-bar on the bottom to display various indicators and other status-related data. The editors that I use, the IDE, the office suite, the graphical apps, the remote terminal apps, the email app (also by Mozilla, BTW)... Hell, almost every application that I use has a status bar. It's a bloody standard way of displaying (you guessed it) status!
And yes, most apps allow you to hide the status bar if you don't want (or need) it.
Except one application whose developers decided to be different for the sake of being different.
Remember the outcry when Microsoft replaced toolbars and menus with the ribbon?
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How is any commercial license not covered (under subclause ii)?
Where's this "Quote Parent" button? Can't see it :(
He probably lives in a state where bestiality is legal.
I gather that you have no problem sitting in the back of the bus, right?
I don't work for the patent office, so I would like some clarifications.
1) As I recall, there are procedures to amend a rejected application or to appeal a rejection. If those procedures are routinely exercised and the submissions are not considered new applications, then the total processing time of an approved patent will be significantly shorter than that of a rejected one. This gives a strong incentive to grant a patent over rejecting it.
2) When does a patent application get reviewed for being improperly rejected or improperly allowed? If an improper rejection review can triggered by a submitter''s complaint but an improper allowance only comes to light after competitors sue over the patent, it gives another strong incentive to grant a patent over rejecting it.
I prefer to treat it as "not bullshit" until you address my points above.
Prove it.
Calculate how many people it will take for Sony to be adversely affected by a boycott. Enough to notice and take action.
Then tell me what it would take to make all those people to care enough to go through with it. Remember to take into account that most people either don't understand the issues or don't give a damn about them.
Exactly what percentage of Sony's revenue do your purchases represent?
Welcome to the world of multinational corporations.
What makes you think that your advertisement efforts will prove more effective than Sony's?
Once again, welcome to the world of multinational corporations.
Last time I looked at Tomato it:
(b) did not support 802.11n, and
(a) did not support IPv6 either.
I currently count 14 add-ons that put their status indicators on the statusbar of my FF 3.6. Would they be able to do it with that "statusbar-esque thing"? Will the "statusbar-esque thing" stay on the bottom, clearly visible, like every other application's statusbar?
I assume that Obama, who used to teach constitutional for 12 years as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, was well aware of that fact when he made his promise to close Gitmo down. That said, I am not an American so I didn't follow this very closely and may have missed some pertinent details. Please refresh my memory, did he promise to "petition the Congress and abide by their decision" or did he promise actual results?
The way I see it, promising something that you know is not within your power to do is intentional deception, also known as fraud.
No, he isn't. A person who makes sweeping promises without first making damn sure that they will be able to keep them are either grossly incompetent or had no intention of keeping their promises (a.k.a "devious snakes").
Then that is the best that they should promise, period.
Consider: You have a discount code for something. Let's say that you cannot use it yourself (maybe you already used a different one) so you are willing to give it away. There are several people who want it. I promise you that if you give it to me, I will get you a date with the hottie next door and will even provide you with flowers. You do that, but when you demand I fulfill my obligation I come up with excuses (it turned out she detests code geeks). Then, when you complain, I tell you that if you expected me to make all my promises come true then you are a deluded fool. I will then pick up a couple of dandelions from a neighbouring lawn and present them to you as proof that I at least kept the part about the flowers.
And what if he can? Will you volunteer to help his election campaign (he'll need it since he will not over-promise with the intent to under-deliver). No? OK, will you at least pledge your support and vote for him? If not then you (and others like you) are the reason he doesn't "step up and give it a go".
No Democratic representative will ever "put an end to this sort of thing" because "this sort of thing" is just too damn convenient. Of course, no Republican will either, for the same reason.
Everybody who understands this knows what really needs to be done, yet nobody does it for fear of "throwing their vote away".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWweqP_ZWbg
What Egypt and the US don't have in common is the willingness of the Egyptians to riot over what they perceive as oppression.
Also, sentences split between the subject and the body are harder to read, harder to quote and make you look like a twit.
Whatever floats your boat, man. Personally, I prefer to get my orgasms from banging other things.
More to the point. I suspect I missed the cultural connotations needed to fully appreciate your statement.
You are reading a story to your grandchildren. They like it so much that they suggest playing it out. Samantha wants to be the princess while Jimmy wants to be dragon-fighting knight. You, obviously, get to be the dragon. Since your joints are not what they used to be, you suggest that instead of going outside and letting Jimmy whack you over the head with a broomstick (sorry, a magical sword), you all sit around the table and say aloud what each of you does. At first that goes well until Jimmy says that he is "dragon proof" and kills dragons just by looking at them, while Samantha, feeling that this is just silly, declares she found a magic wand inside the dragon cave which turned Jimmy into a frog. You decide that to inject some common sense into the game, somebody needs to be an arbiter of what is plausible (within the game) and what is not. That brings the game on track again until Samantha complains that one of your decision was arbitrary. To avoid such accusations in the future, you write down the most important rules and assumptions that everyone can agree on. You also assign rough probability numbers for actions and events and use random dice to determine outcomes. After some additional refinements, you find out that somebody already did all this work for you and published it in a book, so you buy the book, let the kids read it, then grab a bunch of dice and let them again pretend to be knights and princesses but in a more structured setting.
Not so hard, was it?
Just wanted to chime in by reminding you that voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.
1) You cannot work within the system as the system is designed to exclude you.
2) You can compromise as much as you want but the other side will not.
Read his post again. His not advocating the rejecting democracy, only the current democratic process (emphasis mine).
If you manage to give 3rd parties 10% of the vote (even if translates to 0 seats) and the difference between the votes for R and D is 5%, both parties will start doing their damnest to lure those "rogue" voters.
You misspelled "scatological".
The new interface breaks too many things.
Some examples:
1) If I missed several days of /. browsing (due to a vacation, etc.) I could always navigate to the pages displaying submissions for the days I missed.
Can't do that now. It's the "many more" button now, that I have to click who knows how many times, and if I actually click on an article, I have to repeat the process when I navigate back.
2) The floating bar breaks the page up/down functionality by making sure that the content scrolls more than the visible window.
3) The left sidebar takes up valuable screen real estate, especially on a 4:3 screen (I have 2 4:3 monitors at work) and I don't know how to remove it.
4) My score adjustments are gone. I often browse at +3 applying a -2 modifier to "Funny" and a +1 modifier to ACs. Now my preferences are not taken into account.
5) The settings are cryptic. The "help" is an insult.
6) The "Slashdotter" add-on "reply to this text" functionality no longer works.
There are probably more surprises that I'll run into. All in all, the user experience is noticeably worse than the "classic" UI I used to use. I understand that for some people it is an improvement but taking away the other option is like FireFox removing the status bar or Google Maps removing the option to name locations.
Of course nothing will be done about it since nobody at Geeknet gives a flying fuck about what I feel, as I am not paying their salaries.
Canadian much?
Great!
Now, how do I get the old 1.0 interface back?
Well, advertising, when done as it is done nowadays, is borderline fraud. It helps cheat the customers by manipulating them into paying more for an inferior product (Monster cables anyone? Bose speakers?) or purchasing a product they do not need (seen any TV ads lately?)
It is much easier to ignore lies on generic subjects you have no particular interest in than to ignore lies specifically tailored to influence you.
The point is that a status-bar is the UI standard of several GUIs (I'm on Windows so that's my reference point, but there are others). Most, if not all, applications use a status-bar on the bottom to display various indicators and other status-related data. The editors that I use, the IDE, the office suite, the graphical apps, the remote terminal apps, the email app (also by Mozilla, BTW)... Hell, almost every application that I use has a status bar. It's a bloody standard way of displaying (you guessed it) status!
And yes, most apps allow you to hide the status bar if you don't want (or need) it.
Except one application whose developers decided to be different for the sake of being different.
Remember the outcry when Microsoft replaced toolbars and menus with the ribbon?