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When I first heard about establishment of this court I thought it sounded like a good idea because in theory it was going to put an end to crap like venue shopping for patent appeals.
When you establish a single court for an issue, they roam further than when you have a whole system of courts on it. Individual opinions become greatly magnified in there effect, as you essentially give up peer review.
ISTM that 'agile' is just a hop and a skip away from 'fragile'.
I suspect it works best for a small highly motivated group of developers, e.g. a startup or some hobbyists making a game.
Agile can be as foolish a project management method as any other but it seems to have a religious component to it.
Like everything else about software development, from methodology to choice of language to how you name variables and format code.
I find it hard to imagine that people in other fields are as opinionated as we are, with so little evidence to back up their opinions.
(But they're people too, so they probably are.)
The subject says it all... smartass reply to the wrong post.
Now I'm afraid to take that new intelligence test.
Any survivors/Next of Kin should sue the commercial labs which are claiming patents.
It's what you do to dogpooh on your porch.
I thought patents did not prevent research that uses the patented material.
At any rate, allowing patents on discoveries (vs. inventions) is just stupid.
Jon Stewart had a comment along these lines back when the police raided someone's residence over the loose iPhone prototype (or whatever it was):
"What happened? Bill Gates is curing AIDS in Africa, and Steve Jobs is kicking down people's doors in Palo Alto!"
It used to be so simple to keep track of who was the good guys and who was the bad guys...
What the market will bear.
(IOW, how willing people are to be screwed.)
This is today's dumbass Slashdot summary of the day.
It's early yet.
Yay, it's an IQ thread.
Cue bragging about IQ followed by arguments about whether IQ measures intelligence.
Did you expect Slashdotters to brag about penis size and whether it indicates their worth as a person?
I am a member of a high IQ "society" that discrimatinates [sic] against the lowest 99.9% of the general population. Yet, I would do very poorly on this test as my visual processing is poor. I excel in abstract reasoning but do poorly in other areas.
What is intelligence? What is IQ? What is it good for? All good questions.
Those are indeed good questions. Since you're saying you don't have a good answer for them, I'm curious about what you believed the benefit of a high-IQ society was when you decided to join one.
Their recruiters tell everyone that nerds always get the hot chicks.
Is it International Naked Supermodel Day again?
And here I am with nothing to wear for the occasion.
If you're a supermodel, you don't need anything to wear for the occasion.
At work, I had to explain that mutations happen all the time for human. For them, if a mutation happens, it must mean that there will be a third arm or something like that to happen. And these are people who did scientific studies.
Someone up-thread mentioned X-men. I suspect that most people think evolution works that way.
Why are we even talking about ID and creationism in this discussion? How has spirituality got dragged into this scientific topic?
What? Don't you know ID hasn't got anything to do with religion?
Why do big businesses lose their ethics? Does MBA stand for "Must Be an A**hole"?
"Money Beats Anything". Why have ethics when you can have money?
Money is the root of all evil. They're trying to make the world a better place by limiting its distribution.
My pants just went to high school in the Carlsbad Caverns!!!