whatever happened to only giving people what they need to get their job done?
Sound in theory, but what if your paid to be on call for 8 hours? Help desk type stuff. I'd go batshit insane if everything was locked down so hard that I couldn't relax a bit in the lulls between calls.
And don't say "work on other projects" because when you have to be able to break off your thought process at the sound of a ring, it's nigh impossible to really focus on something complex.
You start finding little things made out of spare stationary and writing materials. The dolls made out of staples. Pencils stuck in the ceiling. Contests to find out who can let the match smoke the longest before setting off the fire alarm. Jungle voodoo orgies...
Welcome to the wonderful world of mneumonics. (Ok, so I short one of the categories by 1, but see, it's not hard!)
I need to make a secure password for my computer at Company. In2masp4mc@C!
These password requirements at Company are for the birds. Tpr@CR4tb!
Watching Desperate Housewives at nine is my only sanctuary. WDH@9imos!
Can't remember your wife's birthday? W'sbday01-Mar!
It's not complex passwords aren't hard to remember, it's that you just can't come up with a good way to remember them. And with passwords like that, you *could* have them written down, and no one would notice.
Ticket stubs from all 3 Lord of the Rings movies in your cube? RotK>T2T&FotR
Red Sox fan? BOSin7in04!
No excuses anymore. Go make your mneumonic. That's your homework assignment.
4. Publicize that history shows we never embrace new media.
History also shows that the older generation never learns. Change only comes around when they die out and the rebellious young generation becomes the status quo, only to villify the next new thing.
Wonder what the video game generation will lobby against?
You better hide the rootkit better next time so even the geeks can't find it or we might have to make an effort to save face around here....Have another of those suitcases filled with hundreds handy?
Some people have said that a patent holder should have to be actively developing a patent for it to be valid. I don't think this is the case. A patent protects the idea/plan/mechanism, and patenting your product and then never building the product is fine
I disagree completely. I think you need to at least have enough research and development behind a patent to demonstrate that the idea your patenting works. At the very least, that there is supporting evidence that the concept of your patent works.
In your example, someone could patent matter / anti-matter warp propulsion and be able to sit on it, even without demonstrating any validity to the methods in the patent.
A patent should not consist of "A method that sends e-mail from a server to a wireless client" alone. There should be something, anything, beneath it that shows proof of concept.
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What do you think people did before computers, or today in places where there are no computers to play on?
Well, I wouldn't know...but I do doubt that I would have been working a help desk for computer support. heh.
whatever happened to only giving people what they need to get their job done?
Sound in theory, but what if your paid to be on call for 8 hours? Help desk type stuff. I'd go batshit insane if everything was locked down so hard that I couldn't relax a bit in the lulls between calls.
And don't say "work on other projects" because when you have to be able to break off your thought process at the sound of a ring, it's nigh impossible to really focus on something complex.
You start finding little things made out of spare stationary and writing materials. The dolls made out of staples. Pencils stuck in the ceiling. Contests to find out who can let the match smoke the longest before setting off the fire alarm. Jungle voodoo orgies...
When all I need is my sudoku fix...
"640kbps ought to be enough for anybody" --AT&T COO Randall Stephenson
Welcome to the wonderful world of mneumonics. (Ok, so I short one of the categories by 1, but see, it's not hard!)
I need to make a secure password for my computer at Company.
In2masp4mc@C!
These password requirements at Company are for the birds.
Tpr@CR4tb!
Watching Desperate Housewives at nine is my only sanctuary.
WDH@9imos!
Can't remember your wife's birthday?
W'sbday01-Mar!
It's not complex passwords aren't hard to remember, it's that you just can't come up with a good way to remember them. And with passwords like that, you *could* have them written down, and no one would notice.
Ticket stubs from all 3 Lord of the Rings movies in your cube?
RotK>T2T&FotR
Red Sox fan?
BOSin7in04!
No excuses anymore. Go make your mneumonic. That's your homework assignment.
USPTO link for 5,960,411
Then again, Buy It Now does involve more than one step...
History also shows that the older generation never learns. Change only comes around when they die out and the rebellious young generation becomes the status quo, only to villify the next new thing.
Wonder what the video game generation will lobby against?
Should've patented it. Not like you would've had to actually make it...
Shield the cockpit too well from outside radiation and the insturments won't get the data they're trying to receive either.
--Volante
SCO Millenium Edition? --Volante
You better hide the rootkit better next time so even the geeks can't find it or we might have to make an effort to save face around here. ...Have another of those suitcases filled with hundreds handy?
Some people have said that a patent holder should have to be actively developing a patent for it to be valid. I don't think this is the case. A patent protects the idea/plan/mechanism, and patenting your product and then never building the product is fine
I disagree completely. I think you need to at least have enough research and development behind a patent to demonstrate that the idea your patenting works. At the very least, that there is supporting evidence that the concept of your patent works.
In your example, someone could patent matter / anti-matter warp propulsion and be able to sit on it, even without demonstrating any validity to the methods in the patent.
A patent should not consist of "A method that sends e-mail from a server to a wireless client" alone. There should be something, anything, beneath it that shows proof of concept.