"Obvious to one skilled in the art of reverse engineering" means obvious to someone who has seen the invention, taken it apart, figured out how it works, etc. And duh, once you've studied something in intimate detail, of course it's going to be obvious. That's irrelevant though - the question for patents is whether the invention was obvious at the time of invention, before anyone got to see what the inventor did.

Good point - that's why we don't have any Android devices on the market.

/posted from my Android tablet

Kickstarter is not a patronage system. If it was, then we'd have Neal Stephenson locked in a dungeon.

Yes, and because they hold copyright in that work, they can charge for copies and prevent others from re-publishing it without paying royalties. If there was no copyright, they'd take that year, self-produce and self-publish, and the next day, everyone would have a copy for free, and they'd have no income from that year of work.
Or, conversely, as I said, they would have only published that work for their patron, who paid them in advance to create it, under a contract where they couldn't publish it anywhere else. Artists gotta eat, man.

Your second sentence is correct, but your first is not. Without patents, the information wouldn't be lost, it would be tied up as trade secrets, forcing every competitor to reinvent the proverbial wheel, rather than simply paying a small royalty to the first inventor and going on to invent the next improvement. Without copyright, art would only be created under patronage systems where the wealthy commission works that they want (since no one would pay artists royalties) with exclusive contracts between the patron and artist preventing the artist from ever making a copy. In addition to restricting the number of works, this would also restrict the number of viewpoints, as only those wealthy patrons' desired works would be created.

Here is the movie on Google Play, and here it is on Amazon streaming. By "not showing this movie anywhere", maybe you meant "not showing this movie anywhere for free"?

I actually found something that looks exactly like what I want: the Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 5. Unfortunately it's $200.

If anyone else thought "hey that makes sense", at least this is one option. I don't want two separate devices, and would rather get something like the Evoluent with the keypad on the left if that's what it takes.

No it is not socialist. People want something and someone is willing to create it. Simple.

Lack of funding should be phrased as buying. If people aren't then employer cuts jobs to match demand

Big problem is not nationalization, but a lack of infrastructure. No electricity, roads, internet, strong police presence, and educated workforce are problems. China as communist as it once was put in electricity, roads, educated workforce, police and strong government, etc.

It is more than just cheap labor folks

Wrong. Jobs are created by demand. Not the other way around. Look at thr great depression as proof? With no demand due to lack of funding led to no jobs which led back to a lack of demand in a 15 year loop.

This is why web standards exist. Write to them and not to -webkit specific css sheets and you won't have that problem. Only way for a MS browser to implement is drop the legacy garbage without upsetting corporations with their ancient intranet apps.

If you hate IE you should welcome this change.

FYI IE has not had hacks since last decade??

No I am not a fan of IE nor do I think it is great. It is now well ok or meh. It works with standard code the way other browsers work.

Problem is for MS to redo their code requires breaking bugs for IE 7 and 8 in which the corporations will cry and whine. Also we can't have browser releases coming after 5 to 10 years if we expect HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1 to take root.

Well, bully for you. Science can't disprove the existence of Odin, Ra, Mithras, Zeus, Raven, the Spirit of Radio, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc...

But God isn't an idea. Only the most pathetic apologist says He is.

Boo hoo. Did the bad man sip his latte at you?

Just love the argument from incredulity. "It's more amazing than my puny brain can handle, therefor God!"

No, stupid. Try proving the claims that your religion makes are true. Prove miracles. Prove life after death. Prove Jesus rose from the grave. Hell, Prove Jesus ever actually existed. Prove that humanity came from a single breeding pair. Find the genetic bottleneck in our genes from when the world was reduced to Noah and his family.

I think we're going to see a lot of disruption in enterprise software. A lot of companies are currently resting on past success, counting on the fact that it's really hard for companies to completely replace critical business software.

At the same time, innovations in development frameworks, team management, and a better understanding of UX are allowing upstarts to create better enterprise applications.

I'm guessing Salesforce might not be around 10 years from now.

Then I would think that veto power would be extended to all the creditors. If it is, maybe that little tidbit was omitted because it would remove some of the zing from the article.