From what I was reading, it was the badly stressed [i]managers[/i] who were sending email to their employees at all hours of day.
[i]"The idea is to keep employees from feeling chained to their smartphones, and to send a message to bosses that it’s not reasonable to expect employees to be reachable at night, according to the Allgemeine Zeitung."[/i]
So, yeah, what you said, but the point was to stop badly stressed people from effecting others with their bad management.
(I do that to Darryl all the time. One pleasant topic, 137 out of 142 comments were between me and him. But I'm not asking you to convince him, I'm asking you to refute him, just once, in one post)
So you can google something embarrassing about him? So you can send him threatening messages? So that you can accuse him of something patently false on 4chan and get them to pizza him to death?
"Considering that part of the patent bargain is that the patentee must disclose the invention to the world, it doesn't make a lot of sense to complain that patents are about keeping things secret and not sharing."
Well, from we've seen, a company only decides to patent if they cannot already keep their invention secret.
If the intricacies of their invention are so nuanced, or so novel that they don't believe anyone could reverse-engineer it, they simply don't apply for a patent.
If they think someone could reverse-engineer it, then they do get a patent; and then regardless of whether you know how to build the device or not after reading the patent, it doesn't matter because they can sue you out of existence.
What happens is that we get patents for things we already know how to build, or once seeing the device, can figure out how to build it very easily, and no patents that actually disclose things.
Which is why my open-source software has options to save in 17 different standard formats, and 17 versions of said formats that accomplish exactly the same thing, but are 'patent-free' and incompatible with the normal proprietary software.
For one of the versions, the difference between the patented & patent-free format is literally only motorola coding & big-endian. (Motorola coding, if you're not familiar, is the ordering of a 4-bit group of bits like 4812, as opposed to big endian, 8421, or little endian, 1248, and is similar to PDP-endian. I'm not really sure of the term's history/etymology)
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[i]"The idea is to keep employees from feeling chained to their smartphones, and to send a message to bosses that it’s not reasonable to expect employees to be reachable at night, according to the Allgemeine Zeitung."[/i]
So, yeah, what you said, but the point was to stop badly stressed people from effecting others with their bad management.
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Oh, sorry, I hadn't realized you were trolling.
That's a good one, you got me, implying that darryl has any facts or rational statements. :)
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(I do that to Darryl all the time. One pleasant topic, 137 out of 142 comments were between me and him. But I'm not asking you to convince him, I'm asking you to refute him, just once, in one post)
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"Scrap it, Louie! He logged in to facebook at the starbucks across the street! WE HAVE HIS IP ADDRESS!!"
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IP addresses identify you more accurately than DNA evidence!
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So you can google something embarrassing about him? So you can send him threatening messages? So that you can accuse him of something patently false on 4chan and get them to pizza him to death?
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According to a very quick google search. Whoever submitted it probably got it from somewhere
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The Great Depression called. It laughed at you.
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Well, from we've seen, a company only decides to patent if they cannot already keep their invention secret.
If the intricacies of their invention are so nuanced, or so novel that they don't believe anyone could reverse-engineer it, they simply don't apply for a patent.
If they think someone could reverse-engineer it, then they do get a patent; and then regardless of whether you know how to build the device or not after reading the patent, it doesn't matter because they can sue you out of existence.
What happens is that we get patents for things we already know how to build, or once seeing the device, can figure out how to build it very easily, and no patents that actually disclose things.
Which is why my open-source software has options to save in 17 different standard formats, and 17 versions of said formats that accomplish exactly the same thing, but are 'patent-free' and incompatible with the normal proprietary software.
For one of the versions, the difference between the patented & patent-free format is literally only motorola coding & big-endian. (Motorola coding, if you're not familiar, is the ordering of a 4-bit group of bits like 4812, as opposed to big endian, 8421, or little endian, 1248, and is similar to PDP-endian. I'm not really sure of the term's history/etymology)
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The other, funnier Tim is Dark Helmet. (Sorry, CLT)
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When I say I hate copyright, that's what I mean, since there are parts of copyright I don't mind.
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We know he hates copyright. We've seen him post that he does not approve of piracy.
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Would you like to form your own argument for the immorality of it? There are certainly logical/cogent arguments to be made.
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