Posts by Evil Auditor 2624 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2009
Mine was the stay in a suite of a luxury hotel*. There were no other rooms available, honestly.
Lester, you surely need a new printer for your office and as far as I know, and surely you can confirm, this is the only printer available around the Iberian country side. And now that we all know how well El Reg is doing business, treasurer Caroline can hardly be against. The auditors however... ;)
*Expenses were not that much less than Lester's 3D printer.
In a pedestrian environment my ability to maintain a straight path is usually hampered by other pedestrians. In other words, maintaining a straight path can and does lead to collisions - not even the look straight ahead and over their heads approach works anymore. Or did I miss something in the article?
Finally, there's a real business case for 3D printing!
Some are printing food, others printing babies. Merge. Print edible babies, body parts, whatever... overindulge in your passion and no one needs to wonder again why your neighbours keep disappearing.
Thumb up icon's kind of suitable, innit?
Cause-effect? You or your son clearly lack a scientific approach to claim cause-effect. It could just as well be rotavirus at random work. Once he is better again, you should feed him another 20 from the same box. If nothing happens, it wasn't the gummy bears. If he gets the same symptoms again, you wait until he's fine again and then feed him another 20 from a new package since the opened ones could be contaminated with something else. If he develops no symptoms, it's probably not the gummy bears. If he's sick again, wait until he's fine and repeat. A few times. Just to be sure. For the sake of science.
I don't like this haribo stuff and couldn't give a shit (no pun intended). But what the feck is a coffee straw? Seriously, are there bucktards around drinking coffee through a straw? That's just as stupid as drinking coffee or anything for that matter through a tiny hole in a plastic lid.
I agree with all what you said. I have a question though. What would be better than a patent system?
The current patent systems are not perfect. Sometimes they fail (trivial patents, high litigation costs, etc.) and the system could likely be improved.
I believe, however, that in general society does benefit from granting (temporary!) exclusivity to the patent holder. Without this exclusivity the inventor would probably be better off keeping his invention secret thus preventing others from using this idea for further innovation.
ratfox,
I once had a wonderful idea. And while researching I miserably found out that at that very same moment a start-up company started to market a product based on "my" idea. Bummer.
Part of "inventing"* something is doing research of what's already around. If it's already around, it's not an invention. And no, you shouldn't be allowed to use (i.e. to market) it. I do, however, have sympathy for your feeling but the problem with that is that you would be messing around with legal certainty.
The value of a patent is what the market is willing to pay for - not more, not less (with the limitations/failures well described in the article).
*It actually is research and part of research can be an invention.
i.e. resist change, piss of your customers, complain, piss off your boss, be proud of being French. Oh, I forgot one of the most important ones: work for the government or don't work at all.
Let the down votes begin! However bad they will be, it won't be nearly as bad as the French protectionist economy. But first, let me give some examples. Going on strike against about everything, e.g. raising retirement age of train drivers, which was 50 because of all the carbon dust. Or Bossnapping, a national sport and generally not prosecuted. Or asking Germany to damage its own economy to make up for the French's competitive failure.
Stereotyping, of course. Exaggerating, too. That's part of the fun.
What is your problem, infidel? Surely, those nebulas et al were created +/- 6000 years ago just like fossils and all was: to appear very old! Thereby proving that earth and things like that were created by a very, very intelligent creator.
Yeah, mine's the one with "Stupidity for Dummies" in its pocket.
I remember when once in a post grad lecture the nice lady next to me borrowed my HP-48. At first, she was puzzled for a few seconds - I can only guess: "where the heck is equal?". Then she pressed some keys, waited another few seconds, pressed some more keys and silently passed it back to me. It had some weird numbers on the display :-)
Am I the only one who giggles when believers depict a newborn surviving a snowy night in an uninsulated, unheated barn
jake, you're definitely not the only one. Although, had it been this year, the newborn would freeze its bum off in an uninsulated barn. Then again, they (at least in rural Turkey) used to build their living space on top of the cowbarn because the cattle dispensed quite some heat.
Psyx,
Obviously, I have to explain more since my former comment was a bit on the short side. Neither did I write nor mean that the US military didn't evolve from the cold war days. Indeed they are on the technological forefront, probably more than ever before. This is part of the problem why the US military is not winning - their last success was operation Desert Storm. And even that was a hollow victory.
They, and I explicitly include their government, rely too much on technology to fight a war. They follow the arms race and believe with just enough high-tech weaponry they can win against any enemy. The hollow victory of Desert Storm I mentioned because since then they believe in "blitzkrieg" - a tactic that obviously didn't work ever after.
Sudan and Libya were quick (and troops didn't touch ground), already forgotten but hardly a success story when you pay attention what's going on now. And their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan was and is a disaster. Eight years in Iraq, do you consider it victory? Twelve years in Afghanistan, do you consider that a victory? (Spare me the propaganda of successful withdrawal from Iraq - the war goes on, it's just more privatised.)
Psyx, partly I do have to agree with you: it's not only the tactics that is the problem. It's the lack of strategy in Washington that is the real problem. What do they want to achieve in the Near/Middle East? Peace obviously doesn't appear on their menu. It's more like if I come to your place, have a crap, and then I claim your house is mine.
A word regarding the military capability to fight WW3. The US is currently involved in two middle-sized long-term conflicts and already at its limits of personnel resources. WW3? My arse.
I fully agree that people and organisations can do things in more than one way - problem is, the only way the USA sees in the mentioned conflict zones is the way of war. That's not a solution. Never was, never will be.
Eventually the military want to use the system to shoot down incoming cruise missiles, rockets and artillery shells...
I can see the point of fighting mortars or even enemy drones. But in the hopeless and futile wars in which the USA currently and in the future engages, incoming cruise missiles etc are rather unlikely to happen. Are they still trying to fight guerrilla with cold war big army tacticts?
I happily admit, I didn't come across one of those before. So please forgive me for thinking instantly Handspring? That looks like a fugly piece of Apple shit! Yes, yes, matter of taste and things like that... but this whole iMac design was one of the worst things to face the face of earth since the birth of Gordon Brown.
Alistair, thank you for this start to the weekend!
The same happened to me, except for the being spotted crawling pants down part. I simply finished my business in the dark and used to light of the mobile to locate the paper and navigate out of the bog cubicle after getting fully dressed.
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