For example, I have some processes that involve visual basic scripts that run on a windows virtual server and send data files to a Unix server that reformats the files using Perl, preparing them to be ingested into an Oracle database.
I guess that answers the question of how many times one can curse in one sentence.
Patents are slowing down innovation.
If Einstein hadn't had those insights, someone would have, probably within a decade of 1905.
Incorrect. According to patent-officer's logic, no person can come up with the same idea as anyone else.
If you're talking about marriage, I suppose you didn't read this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...
(And the headline is not following Betteridge's law)
After all those oil spills recently, this story hardly surprises me.
These tribes, that have never been in contact with western civilization, could be very helpful in the USPTO.
Being void of any reference to technology, we could use them to figure out whether patent applications are truly non-obvious inventions.
E.g., if a tribe member can figure out "slide-to-unlock" by himself, then we can be sure that it is obvious stuff!
Anyway, if trades are load balanced over various machines using various constraints (for instance, not just the user's ip address), those timestamps must also be distributed.
A Patent is technically REQUIRED to not be obvious to a person 'skilled in the art' when given information of the prior art.
This patent was obvious to a person skilled in the art of sliding to unlock.
So what is the big deal here?
Indeed, most of us would solve all UI problems if only we didn't have more important stuff to do.
It all depends on the size of your hands.
Given that time is infinite, every idea possible is likely to be conceived by at least two different beings at some point.
Except for the invention that annihilates the universe.
In that case a short delay added to the order should do the job just fine. No need to mess around with captchas.
Doesn't work: http://www.danielmiessler.com/...
This could be more difficult to implement, because you'd need to keep track of all the trades.
How about: incoming trades are delayed by a random amount of time (within reasonable limits).
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
