This commercial is a MUCH better response to Apple's ads. It's professional and doesn't leave you sitting there thinking "what the FUCK is going on here?"
Oh right because Microsoft is one of those companies that very few people outside of tech circles know about. They're really making progress, aren't they! Reaching out to new markets!
This is not a troll. Please realize that as you are reading my post.
It is clear the system is broken, but of all the comments I've ever read on slashdot (as infrequently as that may be) what is the solution? I mean you can't just throw out the thing all together. Having no patenting system would make the whole market far too volatile. If you could start over and rebuild the whole thing, what would you do?
My first thoughts where along the lines of something like:
Company 1 comes up with idea and puts a "patent hold" on it. No one else can find out about it.
Company 2 comes up with the same / similar idea and puts its own "patent hold" on it. Again, no one finds out.
Company 1 finishes its product and takes it to market. Company 2 is informed.
Companies 1 and 2 are given patents on the idea. No more companies may put a "hold" on the patent.
Company 1 and 2 battle it out, creating competition, but with some market stability.
This way, no one company can sit on it. If they want to do something about what they've come up with, they can't just sit on it. They actually have to act on it, and to minimize their competition, they need to develop it as quickly as possible, effectively incentivising progress.
You know, I get the feeling that she probably isn't the best person to be promoting Obama.
"He (McCain) has never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002."
- Hillary Clinton; taken from CBS
I'm sure you've heard of Pidgin before, but I thought I might recommend it again. The first time I used it, (it was still Gaim at the time) I hated it. I was using an old version of the AIM client and didn't want to have anything to do with messaging on Linux.
However, things have really changed drastically, and I couldn't be happier with my Pidgin installation on both my Linux and Windows installs. Pidgin supports a whole slew of protocols, including MSN. It's the only real alternative for users running anything before Windows XP, too, as they won't let you install messenger on older versions of Windows. (At least, the last time I tried to, I couldn't) If it's been a while since you tried it, give it a shot. You might be surprised.
If you're using KDE, there's something out there, I can't find it at the moment, to make Pidgin look a lot better than it does right after a default install. I think it's on Kde-look.org somewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Tell that to the Web 2.0 hipsters ...
I sorely hope that this was modded "Informative" as a sick, sick joke.
This commercial is a MUCH better response to Apple's ads. It's professional and doesn't leave you sitting there thinking "what the FUCK is going on here?"
I believe it's "mis-used apostrophe's"
Yes and no.
So far this is the only comment that asks the first question that popped into my head. That heat does have to go somewhere.
Oh right because Microsoft is one of those companies that very few people outside of tech circles know about. They're really making progress, aren't they! Reaching out to new markets!
Apparently, the other 22% don't know percentages very well ...
My favorite incarnation of that joke has the mathematician saying "THERE IS A SOLUTION!"
:)
It's amazing to me that it's possible to know that there is a solution, but not know what it is. Kudos, math people
Spam :)
There isn't a good way for them to coordinate as their beloved 4chan is currently down. Never gonna run around and hurt you.
Well we did have Sen. Ted Stevens. He was the one guy in the whole place who wa-- ok well he at least pretended to be computer literate.
I have a bad feeling that all of this is going to bring us to a conversation that involves the phrase "pound-me-in-the-ass prison"
Your face. It's priceless.
My still-working Original Xbox would respectfully disagree with you :)
See how stating anecdotal facts doesn't actually mean anything?
Hans? Is that you?
Well, considering the fact that www.mozilla.com and www.getfirefox.com are completely inaccessable ATM, I would say "plenty of smoke."
Uh oh.
If you think THAT'S bad, make sure never to submit said article either.
AHHHRG, ETERNAL SUFFERING. PLEASE! HAVE MERCY DARK LORD!
LOL what's a demographic?
Sent from my iPhone
It is clear the system is broken, but of all the comments I've ever read on slashdot (as infrequently as that may be) what is the solution? I mean you can't just throw out the thing all together. Having no patenting system would make the whole market far too volatile. If you could start over and rebuild the whole thing, what would you do?
My first thoughts where along the lines of something like:
- Company 1 comes up with idea and puts a "patent hold" on it. No one else can find out about it.
- Company 2 comes up with the same / similar idea and puts its own "patent hold" on it. Again, no one finds out.
- Company 1 finishes its product and takes it to market. Company 2 is informed.
- Companies 1 and 2 are given patents on the idea. No more companies may put a "hold" on the patent.
- Company 1 and 2 battle it out, creating competition, but with some market stability.
This way, no one company can sit on it. If they want to do something about what they've come up with, they can't just sit on it. They actually have to act on it, and to minimize their competition, they need to develop it as quickly as possible, effectively incentivising progress.You know, I get the feeling that she probably isn't the best person to be promoting Obama.
...
"He (McCain) has never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002."
- Hillary Clinton; taken from CBS
Talk about giving ammunition to the other side
Is a vacuum something? If you take a box and pump out all of the air, you have created a vacuum. Did you just create something from nothing?
I'll admit, I didn't RTFA, but my understanding was that they're banning PDAs and Smartphones, not every cell phone.
I'm sure you've heard of Pidgin before, but I thought I might recommend it again. The first time I used it, (it was still Gaim at the time) I hated it. I was using an old version of the AIM client and didn't want to have anything to do with messaging on Linux.
However, things have really changed drastically, and I couldn't be happier with my Pidgin installation on both my Linux and Windows installs. Pidgin supports a whole slew of protocols, including MSN. It's the only real alternative for users running anything before Windows XP, too, as they won't let you install messenger on older versions of Windows. (At least, the last time I tried to, I couldn't) If it's been a while since you tried it, give it a shot. You might be surprised.
If you're using KDE, there's something out there, I can't find it at the moment, to make Pidgin look a lot better than it does right after a default install. I think it's on Kde-look.org somewhere.