The problem is dumb patents that do not advance the state of the art and provide no solution to anything. Most software patents are only problem statements and provide no solution to the problem at all, so they are totally worthless except to harass other people who actually invested the time and energy to solve the problem.
If a patent describes something useful in a way that furthers the art, then no-one will have an issue with it.
Every patent application should be accompanied by a working machine. Whether it costs 10 pence, 10 dollars, or 10 billion dollars to make that working machine - that will prove the value of the patent.
A cow fence could be a good idea, but it is easily defeated by anyone slightly more intelligent than a cow. A green laser dazzler and a sound bomb might be better. Anyhow, a combination of a cow fence, dazzler, sound bomb, smoke and bear spray, may be a useful deterrent...
Would anyone think of repairing a car tyre by cutting the rubber apart to weld a broken steel belt and then put the rubber back together again? No, you chuck the tyre away and buy a new one. It is about the same cost, so why would anyone want to repair a small electronic device?
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Since the Canadian and US Dollars are almost the same, the diff was what 10 pence?
Woo, shovel manure with a fork...
Why would you replace the TV? Be glad that it was stolen.
Take control of a friends game... sounds like Windows and IE6 to me.
Who on earth uses Tiff anymore? Tiff was the most convoluted mess ever and should be executed by firing squad.
I have told all family and friends that I don't do Windows. I have given up trying to single handedly save the whole bloody computer world.
So I take it that Youtube will be cut off then?
Oh my goodness, you also started with Caldera. I salute you my dear sir...
Goddammit, and I thought edlin was bad.
man://whatever
That works in Dolphin too.
The problem is dumb patents that do not advance the state of the art and provide no solution to anything. Most software patents are only problem statements and provide no solution to the problem at all, so they are totally worthless except to harass other people who actually invested the time and energy to solve the problem. If a patent describes something useful in a way that furthers the art, then no-one will have an issue with it. Every patent application should be accompanied by a working machine. Whether it costs 10 pence, 10 dollars, or 10 billion dollars to make that working machine - that will prove the value of the patent.
Well, duh, all programs expand until they can send and receive email.
A cow fence could be a good idea, but it is easily defeated by anyone slightly more intelligent than a cow. A green laser dazzler and a sound bomb might be better. Anyhow, a combination of a cow fence, dazzler, sound bomb, smoke and bear spray, may be a useful deterrent...
Not exactly cheap, but one step up from the fake laser light show devices. http://www.freaklasers.com/laser-dazzlers-300mw-600mw.html
A simple sign with "Nevermind the dog, beware of the rattle snakes" should do it.
Wire the burglar alarm to the fire alarm - the fire crews respond much faster than the cops...
Replace your rodent with a trackball. Much less hand stress with that.
You just made be snort my coffee, but I doubt many others got the joke.
Exactly. If he wants to be a programmer, then he should just learn to type with three fingers, like everybody else.
Nitrogen. That is just air really. Strangely, Nitrogen is cheaper than dried air. Got to be dry else you get condensation on the inside of the glass.
Would anyone think of repairing a car tyre by cutting the rubber apart to weld a broken steel belt and then put the rubber back together again? No, you chuck the tyre away and buy a new one. It is about the same cost, so why would anyone want to repair a small electronic device?
It is free and it works better than Matlab.
And there is nothing preventing anyone from declaring a few macros and writing a few functions to make things better.
Let's use Arabic and call it Al Ukraine.
It is quite trival actually.
This one is always perfectly accurate:
zenity --progress --text="Testing..." --title="Test" --auto-close --pulsate &
PID=$!
Do whatever...
kill $PID