Re: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread David Connors
On 20 May 2010 15:49, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed that Patent law is not ideal. But I would expect it's not so trivial to replace or remove, and you don't hear about the good things, so your feelings towards it are almost certainly biased. I think there is an argument that

Re: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread silky
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 20 May 2010 15:49, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed that Patent law is not ideal. But I would expect it's not so trivial to replace or remove, and you don't hear about the good things, so your feelings

Re: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread silky
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:08 PM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 20 May 2010 15:49, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed that Patent law is not ideal. But I would expect it's not so trivial to replace

RE: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread Tiang Cheng
Have you patented this comparison technique? :P From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Harris Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2010 1:22 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: How To do something every so often Hi Everyone, I think that this shows that we all

RE: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread Tiang Cheng
People really need to understand that patent lawsuits are almost *never* about what you think they are. You should not expect that Microsoft, or SalesForce, care about stopping your ability, or any individuals ability, to do their work. It is strictly an asset for the purposes of negotiation with

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread Les Hughes
silky wrote: I still think Bill's answer was superior, as it also accounts for multiple threads/etc (although, not required in this case). Second to that would be a (if blah rah; print thing; blah = 0) ...as your tests indicated. You are crazy. Reality can seem that way to some.

Re: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread silky
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2010 16:08, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: I've never been to court for a patent infringement, but I'd imagine the *process* of showing and proving prior art is non-trivially expensive. Not if you

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread Stephen Price
In summary; if (silky.IsRight DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday) { var Bill = 1 / 0; } else { programmersWithTooMuchTime++; ozDotNetList++; GregHarrisExceptionalTestMethod(); } I'm sure this could be refactored into the number 42. Also probably needs to be in some kind of

RE: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread Tiang Cheng
Thursdays. The new Fridays. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2010 2:57 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: How To do something every so often In summary; if (silky.IsRight DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek !=

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread silky
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: In summary; if (silky.IsRight DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday) { You have a strange naming-convention for constants :P    var Bill = 1 / 0; } else {  programmersWithTooMuchTime++;  ozDotNetList++;  

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread mike smith
On 20 May 2010 15:54, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: But would one of them be easier to implement with the .Net 4.0 parallel extensions? I see what's happened here. I've somehow subscribed to the ironic humour

Re: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread silky
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2010 16:30, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2010 16:08, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: I've never been to court for a patent infringement, but I'd imagine the *process* of showing

This can't be right ...

2010-05-20 Thread Grant Maw
Stumbled on this today whilst looking for something else : http://www.tfsnow.com/ Looks like a Readify site. Now take a look at the tesimonials. Surely not.

RE: This can't be right ...

2010-05-20 Thread Ian Thomas
Very strange! The URLs match my worst spam (excluding ausDotNet of course). Have you done a whois lookup? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Thursday, 20

Re: This can't be right ...

2010-05-20 Thread silky
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: Stumbled on this today whilst looking for something else : http://www.tfsnow.com/ Looks like a Readify site. Now take a look at the tesimonials. Surely not. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tfsnow.com I suspect it

Re: RE: This can't be right ...

2010-05-20 Thread David Connors
This is why you never let a domain drop. Hats off to the Russians for doing such a good job on the SEO. -- David Connors Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse the brevity. On 20/05/2010 5:37 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:

RE: software patents...it's a sad life. :(

2010-05-20 Thread Ian Thomas
Earlier this year I stumbled on the peer-to-patent project www.peertopatent.org http://www.peertopatent.org/ (via some news item, I think). I'd forgotten about it until this thread, but a search reveals that the idea has been around for a few years. It's an interesting concept, supposedly to

RE: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread Greg Keogh
You are crazy. Please stop feeding the tactless socially retarded troll. Greg