Theres a little choclate store in my area (http://www.boehmscandies.com) and they import a lot of choclate and make their own and I've gotta say that imported chocolate really is good especially compared to the convenience station alternatives and the like. (the chocolate they make in house is pretty damned good too) Ironically I had some today!
So if a small company or individual (such as myself) were to patent an idea yet the idea was something I needed big money backing to implement then why would any company invest in my idea when they could implement it themselves in 1 year and not have to pay royalty etc to anyone.
Just a little info for you. Patents last 20 years, and you have to pay a fee every one of them. Not only do you have to pay a fee but the fee grows.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WAY PATENTS CURRENTLY WORK!!! The problem is that companies can hoard thousands of patents and then use them to shoot down competition. If you want my humble opinion a patent should not be usable on a smaller entity then you. For instance I could sue verizon for infringing on my patent, and so could the small business I own. Verizon however could not sue me or that small business. Either that or simply put a cap on the number of patents $entity_x can own and then make patents void if they are not enforced. (no more mutually assured destruction because it would force those companies to use them or lose them)
Because apple/google(or $random_company) have never been guilty of copying something other companies are doing.
Shouldnt that be the secondary focus of EVERY company? What is the competition doing and how can we do it better?
Phantom menace: 133 minutes Attack of the clones: 142 minutes Revenge of the sith: 140 minutes A new hope: 121 minutes Empire strikes back: 124 minutes Return of the Jedi: 134 minutes For a total of 794 minutes.
Fellowship of the ring: 178 minutes Two towers: 179 minutes Return of the king: 201 minutes For a total of 558 minutes
You don't have to force an entire story into 120 minutes. What would happen if they did that with the lord of the rings series? Star Wars? (I've watched them both at seperate times back to back, infact I prefer it that way, but im usually the exception and not the rule)
I'll be the first to donate my account to be +5 troll.
3 people mod me troll
2 mod me funny
2 mod me insightful
2 mod me interesting
2 mod me informative
for +5 with a troll rating no?
Liberal means bigger government, more taxes and plenty of corruption.
Conservative means bigger government, more debt and plenty of corruption.
There really is little difference between the two. The sides have become so polar that theyve met eachother through some distortion in the space time continuum. Both sides fail at accomplishing tasks miserably. Both sides care more about politics (and their own checkbooks)than the good of the nation.
If you really want to get into it though (past the/cough politics)the only real difference is when it comes to social issues. For instance conservatives generally want to ban gay marriage put a stop to abortions and generally control peoples lives. Liberals want to make smoking illegal, ban guns and plenty of other things to generally control peoples lives. I guess theyre not that different on the social issues either... Education hasn't proven to be an issue with either party so I guess were out of luck there. AFAIK the only real difference between the two in america is conservatives call themselves republicans and liberals call themselves democrats. The terms have been murdered completly, so in america, at least, just call people by what they are, republibiggergovernmentocrats (and not try to put an ideology to any politican because more money for themselves and getting re-elected are the only real ones)[/facetious][/troll][/uninformed citizen][/incredibly fallacious]
That very benefit to us is the reason it will never be legalized. It is my belief that money is the sole reason it will never get legalized. Consider 3 giant money-makers that come from drugs being illegal.
*The money that is made from the artificially inflated price of illegal goods.
*The money made from the artificially inflated number of prisoners due to drug related offenses***
*The money that is made from the drug/crime fighting industry.
It may walk on your personal rights, the personal rights of a class of people, or the rights of a nation... But how do you fight something so profitable when money IS power.
***Did you know prison's can compete with small companies for business?
With the aviation industry the way it is are planes like this even necessary? Wouldn't speed be the most important factor when designing airplanes?
What percent of the time could plane companies actually fill an entire plane this big?
Wouldn't the fact that its a bigger plane mean that there are more things that can go wrong with it?
What kinda damage would this make if you crash it into a building?
It seems to me that building planes like this would be like buying new hardware to make your applications run better when it's the code that needs optimization. The only place I see in the market for big planes is the moving of highly profitable, degradeable goods. But I'm no part of the industry so I'm just talking out of my ass.
Ron Paul is _NOT_ a republican. Republicans are about bigger government, more spending, and increased debt. This is opposed to democrats who are for bigger government, more spending, and increased taxes.
"cynics need to shut the fuck up, and grow a heart, cynicism != intelligence, as many of you think you are showcasing when you say something sarcastic. you are simply showcasing your own weak will"
Your decorative langauge and poor grammar could also be a sign of "unintelligence." But now that the ad hominem is done, intelligence has nothing to do with grammar or decorative language or vocabulary or a persons cynical nature. (or's for emphasis not for correctness)
I could further go your direction and say that anger makes you blind and reckless.
Examples
"sarcasm and cynicism are the hallmark of the weak mind, not the intelligent mind, contrary to popular belief" may be a truth that you hold to be self evident but it is not. Cynicism and intelligence are not mutually excluseive (or mutually inclusive).
If you want to prove your superiority of will and intelligence why don't you provide us with a course of action, the troops have been armed a long time ago, now we want something to do. Being that we see nothing but defeat without vision or no course of action we decide to entertain ourselves with the sarcastic humor and cynicism that it so easily breeds.
Maybe its because I'm generally good at test taking but I found the same thing. Network+ questions were either insanly hard or insanly basic and therefore easy, and there were not a lot of hard ones. (and the hard ones I had were novell/server03 based) Oh, and a lot of the easy ones were STUPID easy. Like what does ip stand for (exageration) easy, they could really do a better job of forcing some actual thought as opposed to memorized answers...
Net+ isnt so much vendor neutral as vendor "fair", and when I make that distinction I mean they asked questions about each.
I've used both. I currently use OOo because its free and i dont have a copy of office yet.
Using both there is one major issue.
Compatibility.
You simply cant save a file as.doc or open up a.doc file and expect any of the higher level functions (eg columns/tables etc etc) to look or react the same in the opposing program.
Tables are also very badly implemented but as long as you arnt going back and forth its not a big deal.
Indentations and a few other things are also somewhat annoying... Took me long enough to figure out some of words intricacies for indenting the second line without indenting the first among other things.
Theyre both fine in a homogenous environment, but in a mixed environment OOo sucks. (speaking for OOo word and OOo excel only)
Sadly it took me a few seconds to make european an adjective in my mind. In the interest of making things immediatly appearnt moves is the noun. It's too early in the morning to be reading things and making sense of them without caffine anyway.
"And they'll send you the server's public key fingerprint via postal mail so that you can verify that there's no man-in-the-middle attack."
Isn't the whole point of public/private keys so that you can send the public key to whoever you want whenever you want however you want and still have relativly unbreakable encryption?
Why wouldn't I just sell a CD that has my account info on it? After all I own the CD with my account info on it even though I don't own the account, and I would be selling a physical object. If you rip the music to your PC would it still be ok (on a legal standpoint) to sell the CD?
Anytime lawyers are involved things get stupid. I think 90% of legal problems could be solved with common sense alone. EULA's and other frivolous agreements should have the sole purpose of giving the company no liability.
I've had two blue screens since last april. The same thing caused both (faulty drivers+opening up multiple game clients+dual monitors of different resolutions I assume).
The only other time I've ever had BSOD problems (like more then 2 a year) with XP was after I purposely loaded a bunch of malware on a box.
Perhaps adware/spyware/malware could be your problem.
For the record I've Crashed SuSE (9.3) more in 2 weeks then I have crashed windows in 2 years and I have 4 boxes running xp in my house (3 of which are on 24/7). Then again I have a FreeBSD box I configured to be the gateway for my house which I set up once and have ignored for the past year or so, but a computer you don't touch isnt very likly to crash.
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Theres a little choclate store in my area (http://www.boehmscandies.com) and they import a lot of choclate and make their own and I've gotta say that imported chocolate really is good especially compared to the convenience station alternatives and the like. (the chocolate they make in house is pretty damned good too) Ironically I had some today!
For all we know GHB is the secret ingredient to axe. You've seen their commercials.
So if a small company or individual (such as myself) were to patent an idea yet the idea was something I needed big money backing to implement then why would any company invest in my idea when they could implement it themselves in 1 year and not have to pay royalty etc to anyone.
Just a little info for you. Patents last 20 years, and you have to pay a fee every one of them. Not only do you have to pay a fee but the fee grows.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WAY PATENTS CURRENTLY WORK!!!
The problem is that companies can hoard thousands of patents and then use them to shoot down competition. If you want my humble opinion a patent should not be usable on a smaller entity then you. For instance I could sue verizon for infringing on my patent, and so could the small business I own. Verizon however could not sue me or that small business. Either that or simply put a cap on the number of patents $entity_x can own and then make patents void if they are not enforced. (no more mutually assured destruction because it would force those companies to use them or lose them)
Because apple/google(or $random_company) have never been guilty of copying something other companies are doing. Shouldnt that be the secondary focus of EVERY company? What is the competition doing and how can we do it better?
Phantom menace: 133 minutes
Attack of the clones: 142 minutes
Revenge of the sith: 140 minutes
A new hope: 121 minutes
Empire strikes back: 124 minutes
Return of the Jedi: 134 minutes
For a total of 794 minutes.
Fellowship of the ring: 178 minutes
Two towers: 179 minutes
Return of the king: 201 minutes
For a total of 558 minutes
You don't have to force an entire story into 120 minutes. What would happen if they did that with the lord of the rings series? Star Wars? (I've watched them both at seperate times back to back, infact I prefer it that way, but im usually the exception and not the rule)
Backfire!
I'll be the first to donate my account to be +5 troll. 3 people mod me troll 2 mod me funny 2 mod me insightful 2 mod me interesting 2 mod me informative for +5 with a troll rating no?
Congress doesnt just eat the souls of small children and the elderly. They take money too! (which will help them with congress)
Liberal means bigger government, more taxes and plenty of corruption.
/cough politics)the only real difference is when it comes to social issues. For instance conservatives generally want to ban gay marriage put a stop to abortions and generally control peoples lives. Liberals want to make smoking illegal, ban guns and plenty of other things to generally control peoples lives. I guess theyre not that different on the social issues either... Education hasn't proven to be an issue with either party so I guess were out of luck there. AFAIK the only real difference between the two in america is conservatives call themselves republicans and liberals call themselves democrats. The terms have been murdered completly, so in america, at least, just call people by what they are, republibiggergovernmentocrats (and not try to put an ideology to any politican because more money for themselves and getting re-elected are the only real ones)[/facetious][/troll][/uninformed citizen][/incredibly fallacious]
Conservative means bigger government, more debt and plenty of corruption.
There really is little difference between the two. The sides have become so polar that theyve met eachother through some distortion in the space time continuum. Both sides fail at accomplishing tasks miserably. Both sides care more about politics (and their own checkbooks)than the good of the nation.
If you really want to get into it though (past the
That very benefit to us is the reason it will never be legalized. It is my belief that money is the sole reason it will never get legalized. Consider 3 giant money-makers that come from drugs being illegal.
*The money that is made from the artificially inflated price of illegal goods.
*The money made from the artificially inflated number of prisoners due to drug related offenses***
*The money that is made from the drug/crime fighting industry.
It may walk on your personal rights, the personal rights of a class of people, or the rights of a nation... But how do you fight something so profitable when money IS power.
***Did you know prison's can compete with small companies for business?
I can't believe I actually wrote that quesiton, but that's what I get for posting at 3am. Nice pun btw ;)
With the aviation industry the way it is are planes like this even necessary? Wouldn't speed be the most important factor when designing airplanes?
What percent of the time could plane companies actually fill an entire plane this big?
Wouldn't the fact that its a bigger plane mean that there are more things that can go wrong with it?
What kinda damage would this make if you crash it into a building?
It seems to me that building planes like this would be like buying new hardware to make your applications run better when it's the code that needs optimization. The only place I see in the market for big planes is the moving of highly profitable, degradeable goods. But I'm no part of the industry so I'm just talking out of my ass.
Ron Paul is _NOT_ a republican. Republicans are about bigger government, more spending, and increased debt. This is opposed to democrats who are for bigger government, more spending, and increased taxes.
Not much of a choice between the two is there...
My name is Üser you insensitive clod!
"cynics need to shut the fuck up, and grow a heart, cynicism != intelligence, as many of you think you are showcasing when you say something sarcastic. you are simply showcasing your own weak will"
Your decorative langauge and poor grammar could also be a sign of "unintelligence." But now that the ad hominem is done, intelligence has nothing to do with grammar or decorative language or vocabulary or a persons cynical nature. (or's for emphasis not for correctness)
I could further go your direction and say that anger makes you blind and reckless. Examples "sarcasm and cynicism are the hallmark of the weak mind, not the intelligent mind, contrary to popular belief" may be a truth that you hold to be self evident but it is not. Cynicism and intelligence are not mutually excluseive (or mutually inclusive).
If you want to prove your superiority of will and intelligence why don't you provide us with a course of action, the troops have been armed a long time ago, now we want something to do. Being that we see nothing but defeat without vision or no course of action we decide to entertain ourselves with the sarcastic humor and cynicism that it so easily breeds.
When I moused over your link I read hitler=riaa [http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?fhfilter=riaa ]
Maybe its because I'm generally good at test taking but I found the same thing. Network+ questions were either insanly hard or insanly basic and therefore easy, and there were not a lot of hard ones. (and the hard ones I had were novell/server03 based) Oh, and a lot of the easy ones were STUPID easy. Like what does ip stand for (exageration) easy, they could really do a better job of forcing some actual thought as opposed to memorized answers...
Net+ isnt so much vendor neutral as vendor "fair", and when I make that distinction I mean they asked questions about each.
Does that sing every key you press?
I've used both. I currently use OOo because its free and i dont have a copy of office yet. Using both there is one major issue. Compatibility. You simply cant save a file as .doc or open up a .doc file and expect any of the higher level functions (eg columns/tables etc etc) to look or react the same in the opposing program.
Tables are also very badly implemented but as long as you arnt going back and forth its not a big deal.
Indentations and a few other things are also somewhat annoying... Took me long enough to figure out some of words intricacies for indenting the second line without indenting the first among other things.
Theyre both fine in a homogenous environment, but in a mixed environment OOo sucks. (speaking for OOo word and OOo excel only)
Google:Organizing all the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful(unless it could be troublesome)
Sadly it took me a few seconds to make european an adjective in my mind. In the interest of making things immediatly appearnt moves is the noun. It's too early in the morning to be reading things and making sense of them without caffine anyway.
"And they'll send you the server's public key fingerprint via postal mail so that you can verify that there's no man-in-the-middle attack."
Isn't the whole point of public/private keys so that you can send the public key to whoever you want whenever you want however you want and still have relativly unbreakable encryption?
I've gotta know how many people stretched and yawned after reading that?
But you don't own the music on your CD's.
Why wouldn't I just sell a CD that has my account info on it? After all I own the CD with my account info on it even though I don't own the account, and I would be selling a physical object. If you rip the music to your PC would it still be ok (on a legal standpoint) to sell the CD?
Anytime lawyers are involved things get stupid. I think 90% of legal problems could be solved with common sense alone. EULA's and other frivolous agreements should have the sole purpose of giving the company no liability.
I've had two blue screens since last april. The same thing caused both (faulty drivers+opening up multiple game clients+dual monitors of different resolutions I assume).
The only other time I've ever had BSOD problems (like more then 2 a year) with XP was after I purposely loaded a bunch of malware on a box.
Perhaps adware/spyware/malware could be your problem.
For the record I've Crashed SuSE (9.3) more in 2 weeks then I have crashed windows in 2 years and I have 4 boxes running xp in my house (3 of which are on 24/7). Then again I have a FreeBSD box I configured to be the gateway for my house which I set up once and have ignored for the past year or so, but a computer you don't touch isnt very likly to crash.