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scoth

Pondering Software Patents

Jun 10, 2005 04:12

After reading an article about patent reform, I'm in a tizzy. At first, I was happy to see that maybe the archaic patent system will be reformed. A system that is supposed to encourage technical innovation, but winds up mostly protecting multinational corporations. But then I wonder, why do people apply patents to software ( Read more... )

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kittygomeowr June 10 2005, 11:27:57 UTC

they should make recipes for food that are automatically cooked too.
*nods wisely*
thanks for the insight!
*plugs it into her story concept for book 3 ^_^*
woohoo!

scoth June 12 2005, 22:20:01 UTC

Mmm... a cooking computer. Insert ingredients from store, press button and wrrrr, tink, tink, tink, zooop, fsssh, bing! That's making me hungry.

kittygomeowr June 12 2005, 22:23:04 UTC

yes... me too

templeemc June 10 2005, 19:24:37 UTC

I agree with you completely.

BTW, I've got some Mac issues and I was wondering if you could give me some advice...?

scoth June 12 2005, 22:32:39 UTC

I don't consider myself a Mac guru, but who knows, I might know an answer to your problem and if not, I know about http://www.google.com/mac. What's your Mac issue?

templeemc June 15 2005, 07:51:55 UTC

Oh I just need to remove two OSes I currently have on the computer (it was setup with OSX and OS9 running in the background so that I could run software on it that had different requirements) and put Panther in their place, but since I'm as FAR from a guru you can get I'm not exactly sure where to start.

scoth June 15 2005, 17:49:36 UTC

First make backups! If you have a second system with room, I would reccomend making a complete backup (if it's another OSX system or a Linux system, I can give you the commands you'll need). If not, just save your important files to CD or something.

When you boot from the Panther CD, on one of the first screens, there's an installer menu in the upper left corner from which you can select the Disk Utility. From that you will be able to erase and repartition your drive into a single large partition.

Here's a link I found discussing this very same issue.

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arsonnick June 10 2005, 21:33:00 UTC

Ludicrosity is...and I quote:

"Prentious ludicrosity? Okay...first off I looked up 'ludicrosity' and it is a word, but it's kind of a stupid word, don't you think?"
--Rebecca Gilman, Boy Get's Girl

scoth June 12 2005, 22:34:46 UTC

Thanks. Hopefully they will come up with a sane solution in the software patent debate in the EU. Only a few countries seem to have clue so far, but sanity could still win there.