Obama ran on the platform that something needed to be done about the millions of people that had no healthcare. I guess the only surprising thing is that only a million people tried to sign up. With all of the grass-roots programs encouraging people to sign up, with all of the hype, they should have been expecting traffic of DDOS proportions.
iPads are not designed for the Enterprise, let alone for the classroom... Teachers don't need more gadgets getting in the way of teaching... What were they thinking? Teachers need to teach, not be the first-line of the Help Desk.
It's only a mystery to those who assumed it should be there. After all, we all know life started on mars, hitched a ride on an asteroid, only to land on earth.
Upon the death of the patent holders, the IP will still be transferred to either personal estates or will be retained by their companies. Mafia-style hits will not gain the IP in this way.
Another paradigm in the string theory paradigm (that cannot predict anything) is not going to earn anyone a trip to certain part of Scandinavia until it is proven.
Restricting the sale of patents to PEs reduces the value of the intellectual property. Besides, in my example, most banks would be an NPE.
The problem is not that "granting patents to all comers is like selling arms to all sides in a civil war". Who is to decide who the PEs are? Who has the right to restrict how these are traded?
Rather, the real problem is that the patent system is broken---issuing patents for inventions that, as a whole, lack inventive steps or are very obvious to those PEs at the time patents are issued.
What if a bank, B, loans money to a startup, S, that is a small company where inventors have a few of their own patents, P. As part of the collateral for the loan, S assigns rights to B for the patents until the loan is repaid. Startup S goes belly-up. The inventors blow through the cash and have nothing but the patents assigned to B. B places S into receivership and sells rights to P.
By your definition of "patent troll", B and anyone buying rights to P are "patent trolls", but I don't' see it that way. If you wanted to remove all patent trolls, you will also make it almost impossible for a start-up company that only has intellectual property to get start-up capital.
Of course "the government force you to lie and state that you haven't been contacted when you actually have". They have done far worse. Of course, they can lie about doing it, too.
Yes, it is the 21st century, and the NSA has access to everyone's electronic files. So, I guess Yahoo's lawyers are off-the-grid (so to speak) to maintain privacy?
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If comments are bad for science, why shouldn't they be bad for everyone else?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/10/02/2059238/do-comments-on-web-pages-ruin-science
Obama ran on the platform that something needed to be done about the millions of people that had no healthcare.
I guess the only surprising thing is that only a million people tried to sign up. With all of the grass-roots programs encouraging people to sign up, with all of the hype, they should have been expecting traffic of DDOS proportions.
I guess this was voted down because EVERYONE knows that the US Government has NO vendor management.
Don't forget that Pelosi can make Obama jump and ask "how high".
iPads are not designed for the Enterprise, let alone for the classroom...
Teachers don't need more gadgets getting in the way of teaching...
What were they thinking?
Teachers need to teach, not be the first-line of the Help Desk.
Well, let us know when this happens.
It's only a mystery to those who assumed it should be there. After all, we all know life started on mars, hitched a ride on an asteroid, only to land on earth.
So much for Occam's razor.
Okay...that cannot predict anything TESTABLE.
Upon the death of the patent holders, the IP will still be transferred to either personal estates or will be retained by their companies. Mafia-style hits will not gain the IP in this way.
Another paradigm in the string theory paradigm (that cannot predict anything) is not going to earn anyone a trip to certain part of Scandinavia until it is proven.
Won't any direct observation we make as 3D critters point to a 3D universe? Isn't that sort of inherent to us being only able to perceive 3D?
Nope. Actually there is evidence that the early universe had only one dimension and that the other two have only come into existence as the universe cooled.
http://phys.org/news/2011-04-primordial-weirdness-early-universe-dimension.html
Restricting the sale of patents to PEs reduces the value of the intellectual property. Besides, in my example, most banks would be an NPE.
The problem is not that "granting patents to all comers is like selling arms to all sides in a civil war". Who is to decide who the PEs are? Who has the right to restrict how these are traded?
Rather, the real problem is that the patent system is broken---issuing patents for inventions that, as a whole, lack inventive steps or are very obvious to those PEs at the time patents are issued.
Yes, most of his patents were put in his name, but that's not why he was evil.
What if a bank, B, loans money to a startup, S, that is a small company where inventors have a few of their own patents, P. As part of the collateral for the loan, S assigns rights to B for the patents until the loan is repaid.
Startup S goes belly-up. The inventors blow through the cash and have nothing but the patents assigned to B.
B places S into receivership and sells rights to P.
By your definition of "patent troll", B and anyone buying rights to P are "patent trolls", but I don't' see it that way. If you wanted to remove all patent trolls, you will also make it almost impossible for a start-up company that only has intellectual property to get start-up capital.
Nyet. Your freedoms have been suspended...including thought.
Show me your papers and your phone.
NSA="No Strings Attached"
I wouldn't be surprised if this is exactly how they get around needing a warrant to peruse the data.
I thought the prizes were goldy or bronzy---not irony.
Actually, had our ancestors been driving all of those SUVs, the mammoths might still be with us---assuming they aren't too tasty.
I wonder if they have tried "Chia Pets"?
Of course "the government force you to lie and state that you haven't been contacted when you actually have". They have done far worse. Of course, they can lie about doing it, too.
Yes, it is the 21st century, and the NSA has access to everyone's electronic files.
So, I guess Yahoo's lawyers are off-the-grid (so to speak) to maintain privacy?
I hope they get sued as well. It's just false advertising.
Yes.
WWJD: What would Jobs do?
How about:
What would be the best OS for Media?
It's very short, and it's a complete sentence.
How hard was that?
If you pay $22.99 for X and you are delivered 0.5X you are being ripped-off. This is not the same as paying $22.55 for Y and Y sucks.