Comment Fine ... (Score 4, Informative) 243
I would like everything to be on the fast lane all the time... just like you promised when I paid you far too much for my connection
I would like everything to be on the fast lane all the time... just like you promised when I paid you far too much for my connection
A system where Inventors get paid for other people developing their ideas, or people they sold the idea to get paid for other developing the idea is broken
If the Patent system encouraged people to innovate *and* develop their ideas then it would work, but the current system does not
The same Power Users are the ones that complain every time Office is upgraded because it broke their carefully made system of spreadsheets/documents etc
They are using Office to it's limits already and any change will annoy them at minimum, they are almost certainly using office as a substitute for a custom built package and do not represent the vast majority of users
LibreOffice is no substitute for these people because a) it is not MSOffice (they use all the features and rely on the quirks) and b) they use Office beyond it's real purpose and so any substitute will not do
These are the same kind of people who cannot use any substitutions for any package (even earlier versions of the same package) it is nothing to do with the inherent usefulness to the majority of the alternative packages
An industry without copyright, and where nothing has been patented for years woudl be without innovation and would not make much money
Except the fashion industry has no copyright, nothing novel enough to patent has been seen for years, yet they do nothing but innovate, and seem to making large profits
Exactly, this was a test to see if investigating the drive was worth pursuing at all, and if the the inventor was right about how it worked
The outcome seems to be that as far as they can tell something is going on that might be interesting (but probably will not..)
If the drive is not exploiting some flaw in current theories, then it will turn out to be just a massively inefficient conventional drive, but if not it will be revolutionary
...and the users using AdBlock will see what exactly
...multiple international companies... Like Nokia, Skype, Visio
It's not that they don't spy on them (USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) it's that they have agreed not to spy directly on them, just to spy on their links to other countries and terrorism
So they will not spy on you if :
you live in one of these countries,
and you have no links to any of the other countries
and you have no links to terrorism
and you have no links to anyone who has any links to terrorism
and you have no links to anyone who has any links to any one with links to terrorism
and you have no links to anyone who has any links to any one with links to any one with links to terrorism.....
The USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all members of ECHELON and so already share mutual intercepted data, i.e. the NSA does not need to spy on these
Keep your lawn so it slows runoff and prevents flash flooding, but accept that it will look like natural grass and not astroturf
The restaurant does have a drive-thru, they charge you to use it, charge you for the food, charge you to park, and report you to the police if you drive away eating
The 3DS is outselling both of these
Smartphones out sell all of these and make more money and sell more games
The console market is now for gamers only, the Wii was the last console bought by non-gamer
A Tesla S is not a normal family car, it costs the about the same a Porsche 911, so it firmly in the luxury/sports car bracket, so expensive options are normal, and every car as a custom build is not unexpected, rolling changes are not that unusual (outside the USA)
You mean like the Euro
and the real problem is not the currency but the technology, I can pay with Dollars or Euros in a street market in Africa, but not with a device they don't have a reader for
They provide a single service, an internet connection, continually reclassifying this depending on if it is Copper, Cable, Broadband, DSL, Fios
They are already a common carrier, they just don't want the service they provide to be classified as this as it would introduce the possibility of competition into the market
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
