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by fnid2 17y ago
Sounds like innovation to join a market, rather than innovation to create a market. Why not just patent an improvement on an existing product? That's one good thing about open source software. Improvements can just be tacked on. You d
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by fnid2 17y ago
Insurance companies care for profits and customers both now, as an example, through copays for prescription drugs. Drugs that tend to ensure the health of the patient are sometimes free and sometimes $40 or more for name brand drugs that do
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by fnid2 17y ago
The solution then, it appears, would be to hold software patents to the same standard. Put the code in there. Patent the source code. Forget the legal stuff. If you use unpatented closed source patents, be clear about which product it i
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by fnid2 17y ago
Okay, I agree for sure that the system is messed up. But my real question is, "Is the solution deleting software patents?" Maybe the solution is holding software patents to the same rigors as mechanical patents. Why the distinction? Tha
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by fnid2 17y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/19/us/politics/11... This side by side comparison says, House version Premiums for older people cannot be more than double the premium for young adults. Senate version Premiums for o
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by fnid2 17y ago
Quite the contrary sir, I'm thinking 10 decades into the future, because that is probably how many I have yet to live. The older generation is thinking just a decade or two, maybe three.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I believe people should be required to pay according to their ability. Right now, a young person 20 yrs old right out of college earning 40k a year, will pay < $200 a month for insurance. Under the new health care plan with the same p
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's impossible to buy car insurance for a planned wreck as well. This is by design and exactly why this new health care bill is already a failure. People who take care of themselves and reduce their medical risk are being required to pay
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by fnid2 17y ago
The legal system, unfortunately, is where patents are disputed. If there is prior art, the patent will be thrown out.
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At this rate, there won't be any young people in America at all. They'll all go to other countries that treat all citizens equally. I know many believe elders deserve respect, but I disagree. The older generation in this country has sapped
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by fnid2 17y ago
So this adds even more to the argument that software should retain its patentability. If it's even more complex than the old stuff we thought was so complex it deserved special protection. > NO! It's hard to believe, but it is true.
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by fnid2 17y ago
This is the worst thing to hit the web since url shorteners. Just stop it. Wipe it from your mind. It's unethical. You are gathering information from your visitors that you have neither asked for, nor been given permission to retrieve. I
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by fnid2 17y ago
I don't know. I don't think it's black and white. I suppose my concern with software patents is this, why are software engineers in another category of intellectual from mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, and civil engineers? For e
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Dragonfly is decent if you need a debugger on Opera. They also just made it open source, so we'll see if that kind of a decision improves products in the market.
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by fnid2 17y ago
IIRC, they didn't build that dam, they simply built a data center near it. It was near the dalles in oregon, if that's the one you're talking about. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html I don't believe they want to
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by fnid2 17y ago
The less healthy are staying with Anthem, where their higher medical costs are driving up premiums. The new healthcare bill is great, except of course if you are young, healthy, and don't need insurance at all, in which case, your premium
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by fnid2 17y ago
I like mixergy, but the advertising is a real turn off.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Yeah, I thought it was appropriate for a print specialist. It's a blog and it's her personal space, she can use whatever font she wants and it's totally fine. I did of course get so shocked by it i had to inspect elements and thought, "She'
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by fnid2 17y ago
A lot of innovation happens in the shadows before metrics evolve that help VC's determine probability of success. It's only when the VC's can judge among a number of opportunites, that they will invest in any of them. Even with quite a nu
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by fnid2 17y ago
The createid is the unique id of the user who created the record. There is an N-N relationship between companies persisted in the RelatedCompanies table. Perhaps I should add a field to the RelatedCompanies table that is a description of t
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by fnid2 17y ago
I created an account for you. Should see the email soon.
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by fnid2 17y ago
It's going to be quite difficult. I am also concerned about the legal issues I may face. I don't doubt we'll get C&D's and other legal threats for defamation or libel. I really don't know what I'm getting myself into here, but I feel d
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by fnid2 17y ago
Awesome! I'll get the website up soon and post a link. We can modify it over the web with html/css/js/sql with the web platform I'm going to use. keep checking http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com Should be up ... hopefully soon.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I've begun a data model at yuml, you can see it here: http://yuml.me/diagram/dir:lr/class/%5BActions|id%3bShellCom...
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This weekend's project: shellcompanyfinder.com
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Interesting! I have always wondered what happened in cases like this. The godaddy checkout process is so long and tedious, by the time you actually pay, someone else could have gone through the process somewhere else. In this case, I use
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by fnid2 17y ago
Okay, I now own shellcompanyfinder.com
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I could build this in a weekend. No, really. Who is in? I'm in. Someone comes with me I'll go, but I have no interest in a lone wolf initiative. I need a designer who knows HTML/CSS and someone who can help get the word out. I'll do all
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by fnid2 17y ago
The issue with that approach is largely a performance one, judging from what I know of flightcaster. If they have to issue a search to twitter for the flight info, the user has to wait on it. If they constantly poll, then there are thousan
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by fnid2 17y ago
Are there still web designers who don't know how to code HTML and CSS? I haven't come across one in a while and would probably never hire one, so that's reason enough to learn how to code.

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