That's an interesting definition of "entirely". I would say "partially" is a better word.
You're correct. In fact, it's only a few steps removed from playing a Casio keyboard with the arpeggiator turned on and randomly pressing the white keys.
I've used Amper Music and it's an interesting platform. Algorithmic and generative music certainly is interesting, but like this song, it's kind of dull.
A more interesting application is having an AI produce a musical score which is then performed by human musicians. Gottfried Koenig does something like this in a more traditional Western Classical tradition rather than pop music. I prefer the live interaction of man and machine to the "throw a bunch of standard chord progressions into some software".
If you don't like patents, that's fine, but that has nothing to do with this guy.
It has everything to do with "this guy". The head of the USPTO isn't there to represent patent-holders, he's there to represent the People. I'm surprised that you don't understand this. The idea that "this guy" is going to usher in some age of "patent reform" that will in any way help consumers is laughable.
and thus understands all the considerations at play from the various stakeholders
I love this construction. "He's great for running the Patent Office because he's understands the considerations of all the stakeholders."
But that's only if you consider "all of the various stakeholders" to include only huge corporate interests. What you fail to understand is that the greatest "stakeholder" in the patent wars is actually the consumer. First, because the goddamn consumer is footing the bill for the whole fucking thing. Every single penny going to the pockets of these huge corporations and their legal representation comes from the pocket of a consumer. EVERY. SINGLE. PENNY. And ultimately, the entire point of the USPTO is not to "protect stakeholders' interests" but to encourage innovation. We've got these corporations twisting the patent system until it screams. Putting all their US-granted patents into an offshore shell company and then paying "license fees" to those shell companies so they don't have to pay taxes on them. Then, they abuse the length of patents to jack up prices the way that greasy Martin Shkreli did before he got convicted of other crimes.
So that's why I object to a representative of Big IP becoming the head of the USPTO. Because there is absolutely nothing in the man's background to indicate he gives one swinging fuck about what's best for the consumer, or what's best for innovation, or what's best for society. All he knows is what's best for his corporate interests.
Clearly, some sources are particularly bad, and filtering out that noise is a laudable effort, but without a quality source of news to replace it, I fear that the void will just be filled by more noise.
Ah, and this is the big lie: "There are no trustworthy sources of news." This is a fabrication of the right-wing since Nixon. If you can just convince enough people that there are no facts, there is no truth, and that they should just believe what makes them feel good, you can get them to do just about anything. Convince enough people that scientists are doing fake science and journalists are doing fake news and educators are just brainwashing kids, then you've got them to the point where their only choice left is to "Listen and Believe" whatever their great leader tells them. This is how the Right has gotten Christian Conservatives to reject the teachings of the Bible in order to promote Trumpism.
There are very trustworthy news sources. None of them have existed without a single fault, but dismissing them as "fake news" is promoting the Big Lie.
Like the famous asshole in the room, if you believe that all the news is fake, then you just might be the fake. (I don't mean you, dgatwood, I'm using "you" generally).
So, what you're saying is that this guy, this parasite, that Trump appointed has been making a nice living by playing both sides of the patent dysfunction.
Perfect. He's like a doctor who works for the tobacco industry. He's a goddamn shyster, the worst possible type of person to run the USPTO. People like Andrei Iancu are why our patent system is so messed up.
This guy defended companies against patent trolls. But it appears you don't need factual info to form your opinion.
Here, let me help you.
This is from the article:
His most notable work in the tech sector is likely his representation of TiVo Corp. in its long-running patent battles with companies like EchoStar, Motorola, Microsoft, Verizon, and Cisco. TiVo ultimately succeeded in compelling those defendants to pay up for its pioneering DVR patents, and payments to TiVo ultimately totaled more than $1.6 billion, according to Iancu's biography page. Iancu also had a hand in Immersion Corp.'s $82 million jury verdict against Sony Computer Entertainment, in which a jury found that Immersion's patent claims on tactile feedback technology were valid and infringed.
Does that sound like someone who is "defending against patent trolls to you? He got a $62 million award against Sony claiming that Immersiion had the rights to "tactile feedback technology". This guy is an ambulance chaser. He's a successful ambulance chaser, I will grant you, but he's swamp scum sucking off the work of productive people.
Who else but a patent troll would you think Trump would appoint to run the USPTO?
There has never been an administration this corrupt, this "pay-to-play", this openly and wantonly willing to break ethics laws. I'm not even sure there's anyone in second place. I mean, all the way down to over-charging the Secret Service for golf cart rentals when they take the frequent trips to Trump properties to make sure no one disturbs the royal golf games.
He does once you make regional manager. Currently, I'm a assistant vice president for all left-wing trolls, counter-protesters and transgender activists West of the Mississippi, so I was able to get moving expenses. Plus, when I get to California, I'm given a medical marijuana card immediately and am eligible for free gender-reassignment surgery for my dog.
I wouldn't have thought being a paid Democrat shill paid enough to afford the ridiculous taxes imposed on Californians
It actually pays very well, but it's a strict meritocracy. My evaluations are based on the number of Slashdot Anonymous Cowards I can make jump up and down and piss themselves in fury. And let me tell you, business is a-boomin'.
That's simply not true. It hit Rockport, Corpus and Matagorda as a Cat 4 last night at about 10pm. It wasn't downgraded to Cat 3 until this morning. It is expected to go down to Cat 1 status later today. Winds are still over 90mph down here.
You are clearly an informed, thoughtful and lucid person. I regularly find I enjoy your posts.
And you are an excellent judge of Slashdot comments.
If you are aware that multiple rallies are held on a growing coterie of campuses -- as per what you wrote, it would be valuable to share that information.
Berkeley, Princeton, University of Virginia, University of Alabama all come to mind. I could look up more if you'd like.
You certainly didn't mean mean College Republicans
I certainly did not. Richard Spencer was at all of the rallies I mentioned above and he is not a "College Republican". In fact, if you take a look at the list of speakers at these nazi rallies, you will see that none of them are "College Republicans". They are your garden variety homegrown nazi terrorists. Richard Spencer, Chris Cantwell (now in jail), Johnny Monoxide, Jason Kessler, et al are not fucking College Republicans .
So yeah, the alt-right, white supremacists, nazis or whatever you care to call them, most certainly do hold rallies on college campuses.
Elaine Duke is the confirmed undersecretary, not a "placeholder".
I don't know if you've ever worked in a place that had an "acting" director or manager, but if you did, you'd know that means "placeholder". Elaine Duke is a placeholder.
And what kind of a name is "Duke", anyway? Is she related to the famous Trump supporter and head of the KKK David Duke by any chance?
In a few days, we're moving to the Central Coast of California. Texas is a shithole (especially Houston, but the whole state is garbage). The people are great, but the actual state is as ugly as it gets and the climate is a steaming turd I can't get out of here fast enough. We're gonna be living near the ocean and I'm going to learn to surf and be insulated in the People's Republic of California, about as far away from Washington DC and Donald Trump as one can get in the lower 48. There's wine in wine country and vegetables in the valley and I'm hoping my new home state goes ahead and secedes from the rest of you jackoffs.
It's well worth the additional living expense to be somewhere beautiful, where the climate is actually fit for humans and there are no Hurricane Harveys (It was fucked up here last night).
So help me understand how I come over to your side
I don't want you on my side. You don't even know how to use paragraph breaks. You've been posting on 4chan so long, it's seriously degraded your ability to write cogent English.
Can you explain however how you believe that right nationalists appear on college campuses?
Charlottesville was like two weeks ago, when Nazis and KKK marched on the University of Virginia campus. You may have seen it on the news or seen pictures on the Daily Stormer. It as kind of a big deal. They killed someone.
A category 4 hurricane just hit the Texas coast and our President still hasn't appointed anyone to head the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, or any of the agencies that deal with hurricanes.
Today, as he flew off on a golfing trip to Camp David, he was asked if he had a message for the people of Texas. His reply was, "Good luck".
Antifa has battered people for many months now and the police have been told to stand down on numerous occasions and even funneled people into their hands.
Suck it up, snowflake. If you want to claim victim status, get in line behind the guy with the tiny violin.
The only way to get them to actually go away is to ignore them completely.
I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but that's not how we got rid of the original Nazis. The Jews ignored them until they were being sent to concentration camps. Europe ignored them until they had taken Poland, France, et al. England ignored them until bombs started falling. The US ignored them until they couldn't any more.
the Right is _much_ better at violence than the Left.
Then why don't the White Supremacists hold their rallies on the West Side of Chicago?
No, when the Right holds its rallies, they go on fucking college campuses where they're totally protected by militarized police and the worst thing they're going to face is a liberal arts major with a sign or some music major with a tuba, and they still end up sitting on the ground crying (if you need a link to a neo-Nazi sitting on the ground crying, let me know).
The reason the Right thinks it's better at violence than the Left is that it's never been put to the test. The Right likes to cosplay tough, but in the streets they're little pussies unless they find some black teenager in a parking garage and outnumber him six to one.
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You're correct. In fact, it's only a few steps removed from playing a Casio keyboard with the arpeggiator turned on and randomly pressing the white keys.
I've used Amper Music and it's an interesting platform. Algorithmic and generative music certainly is interesting, but like this song, it's kind of dull.
A more interesting application is having an AI produce a musical score which is then performed by human musicians. Gottfried Koenig does something like this in a more traditional Western Classical tradition rather than pop music. I prefer the live interaction of man and machine to the "throw a bunch of standard chord progressions into some software".
I'm willing to bet you are neither.
It has everything to do with "this guy". The head of the USPTO isn't there to represent patent-holders, he's there to represent the People. I'm surprised that you don't understand this. The idea that "this guy" is going to usher in some age of "patent reform" that will in any way help consumers is laughable.
I love this construction. "He's great for running the Patent Office because he's understands the considerations of all the stakeholders."
But that's only if you consider "all of the various stakeholders" to include only huge corporate interests. What you fail to understand is that the greatest "stakeholder" in the patent wars is actually the consumer. First, because the goddamn consumer is footing the bill for the whole fucking thing. Every single penny going to the pockets of these huge corporations and their legal representation comes from the pocket of a consumer. EVERY. SINGLE. PENNY. And ultimately, the entire point of the USPTO is not to "protect stakeholders' interests" but to encourage innovation. We've got these corporations twisting the patent system until it screams. Putting all their US-granted patents into an offshore shell company and then paying "license fees" to those shell companies so they don't have to pay taxes on them. Then, they abuse the length of patents to jack up prices the way that greasy Martin Shkreli did before he got convicted of other crimes.
So that's why I object to a representative of Big IP becoming the head of the USPTO. Because there is absolutely nothing in the man's background to indicate he gives one swinging fuck about what's best for the consumer, or what's best for innovation, or what's best for society. All he knows is what's best for his corporate interests.
Ah, and this is the big lie: "There are no trustworthy sources of news." This is a fabrication of the right-wing since Nixon. If you can just convince enough people that there are no facts, there is no truth, and that they should just believe what makes them feel good, you can get them to do just about anything. Convince enough people that scientists are doing fake science and journalists are doing fake news and educators are just brainwashing kids, then you've got them to the point where their only choice left is to "Listen and Believe" whatever their great leader tells them. This is how the Right has gotten Christian Conservatives to reject the teachings of the Bible in order to promote Trumpism.
There are very trustworthy news sources. None of them have existed without a single fault, but dismissing them as "fake news" is promoting the Big Lie.
Like the famous asshole in the room, if you believe that all the news is fake, then you just might be the fake. (I don't mean you, dgatwood, I'm using "you" generally).
That line works better if the person using doesn't actually have swastikas and "88" tattooed on his body..
So, what you're saying is that this guy, this parasite, that Trump appointed has been making a nice living by playing both sides of the patent dysfunction.
Perfect. He's like a doctor who works for the tobacco industry. He's a goddamn shyster, the worst possible type of person to run the USPTO. People like Andrei Iancu are why our patent system is so messed up.
Here, let me help you.
This is from the article:
Does that sound like someone who is "defending against patent trolls to you? He got a $62 million award against Sony claiming that Immersiion had the rights to "tactile feedback technology". This guy is an ambulance chaser. He's a successful ambulance chaser, I will grant you, but he's swamp scum sucking off the work of productive people.
Who else but a patent troll would you think Trump would appoint to run the USPTO?
There has never been an administration this corrupt, this "pay-to-play", this openly and wantonly willing to break ethics laws. I'm not even sure there's anyone in second place. I mean, all the way down to over-charging the Secret Service for golf cart rentals when they take the frequent trips to Trump properties to make sure no one disturbs the royal golf games.
He does once you make regional manager. Currently, I'm a assistant vice president for all left-wing trolls, counter-protesters and transgender activists West of the Mississippi, so I was able to get moving expenses. Plus, when I get to California, I'm given a medical marijuana card immediately and am eligible for free gender-reassignment surgery for my dog.
It actually pays very well, but it's a strict meritocracy. My evaluations are based on the number of Slashdot Anonymous Cowards I can make jump up and down and piss themselves in fury. And let me tell you, business is a-boomin'.
That's simply not true. It hit Rockport, Corpus and Matagorda as a Cat 4 last night at about 10pm. It wasn't downgraded to Cat 3 until this morning. It is expected to go down to Cat 1 status later today. Winds are still over 90mph down here.
And you are an excellent judge of Slashdot comments.
Berkeley, Princeton, University of Virginia, University of Alabama all come to mind. I could look up more if you'd like.
I certainly did not. Richard Spencer was at all of the rallies I mentioned above and he is not a "College Republican". In fact, if you take a look at the list of speakers at these nazi rallies, you will see that none of them are "College Republicans". They are your garden variety homegrown nazi terrorists. Richard Spencer, Chris Cantwell (now in jail), Johnny Monoxide, Jason Kessler, et al are not fucking College Republicans .
So yeah, the alt-right, white supremacists, nazis or whatever you care to call them, most certainly do hold rallies on college campuses.
That's exactly what someone from 4chan/pol/ would say.
Anyway, welcome to Slashdot. But remember, I'll be keeping an eye on you.
I don't know if you've ever worked in a place that had an "acting" director or manager, but if you did, you'd know that means "placeholder". Elaine Duke is a placeholder.
And what kind of a name is "Duke", anyway? Is she related to the famous Trump supporter and head of the KKK David Duke by any chance?
In a few days, we're moving to the Central Coast of California. Texas is a shithole (especially Houston, but the whole state is garbage). The people are great, but the actual state is as ugly as it gets and the climate is a steaming turd I can't get out of here fast enough. We're gonna be living near the ocean and I'm going to learn to surf and be insulated in the People's Republic of California, about as far away from Washington DC and Donald Trump as one can get in the lower 48. There's wine in wine country and vegetables in the valley and I'm hoping my new home state goes ahead and secedes from the rest of you jackoffs.
It's well worth the additional living expense to be somewhere beautiful, where the climate is actually fit for humans and there are no Hurricane Harveys (It was fucked up here last night).
Elaine Duke is only the acting head of DHS. They are awaiting Trump to nominate someone.
I don't want you on my side. You don't even know how to use paragraph breaks. You've been posting on 4chan so long, it's seriously degraded your ability to write cogent English.
Charlottesville was like two weeks ago, when Nazis and KKK marched on the University of Virginia campus. You may have seen it on the news or seen pictures on the Daily Stormer. It as kind of a big deal. They killed someone.
Elaine Duke is a placeholder. Who has Donald Trump nominated to be the head of DHS? Oh, that's rignt...nobody.
I happen to be in Texas, and the people down here can't even help themselves to a decent education.
Good try, but Trump hasn't even nominated anyone for the posts I listed.
A category 4 hurricane just hit the Texas coast and our President still hasn't appointed anyone to head the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, or any of the agencies that deal with hurricanes.
Today, as he flew off on a golfing trip to Camp David, he was asked if he had a message for the people of Texas. His reply was, "Good luck".
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Suck it up, snowflake. If you want to claim victim status, get in line behind the guy with the tiny violin.
I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but that's not how we got rid of the original Nazis. The Jews ignored them until they were being sent to concentration camps. Europe ignored them until they had taken Poland, France, et al. England ignored them until bombs started falling. The US ignored them until they couldn't any more.
Ignoring nazis does not make them go away.
Then why don't the White Supremacists hold their rallies on the West Side of Chicago?
No, when the Right holds its rallies, they go on fucking college campuses where they're totally protected by militarized police and the worst thing they're going to face is a liberal arts major with a sign or some music major with a tuba, and they still end up sitting on the ground crying (if you need a link to a neo-Nazi sitting on the ground crying, let me know).
The reason the Right thinks it's better at violence than the Left is that it's never been put to the test. The Right likes to cosplay tough, but in the streets they're little pussies unless they find some black teenager in a parking garage and outnumber him six to one.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...