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I don't think we have to with the new CBA rules.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 20, 2011 -> 09:57 PM) And honestly, part of the problem is that these people come to the patent office when these technologies are far off into the future and they seem more novel than they do to us now. Perhaps there could be a requirement for a working prototype or something? I know Apple patented the iPad in 2004 or something and it showed a drawing of a guy holding a rectangle table device. Well what the hell does that tell us? Nothing. Fine. How about this. you get a software patent for 9 months. If after 9 months you have not began seriously moving forward your idea into production you lose that patent.

I think you are the only person to think that mizzou finally beating the teams they should beat in Nov-Dec (unlike under anderson and quinn) is a bad thing instead of just enjoying it.

Someone sued twitter because they had a patent for "electronic messaging between celebrities and fans".

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 20, 2011 -> 07:27 PM) So what reward did he get for that innovation? What is the incentive for people to create things like that if everyone is just going to steal it from you anyways? Ultimately, the world has changed, the market for goods has changed, technology has changed, etc. People who have the skills and the imaginations to create good products are usually rewarded in the job market or in the goods market in an immediate fashion that was not reality back when much of patent law was drafted and the case law was developed. I get that. The laws and protections need to be changed or updated. However, I still feel there needs to be some protection. There will always be some small innovators that maybe design one or two great things, whether they be large or small, that are so simple or such an improvement that everyone in that industry will utilize them. Those innovators need to be protected, otherwise their numbers will dwindle, along with their imaginations. Go ask an engineer. 1) They like building things. 2) They'll get hired as an engineer at a big firm. or 3) make a name for themselves among investors and start their own startup.

Here's a good example, the pull down refresh. That is a very intuitive move that has been copied all over. It started out in one of twitter's third party apps. IT's been adopted pretty much universally. It's been good for everyone, and that person could have patented something like "scroll refresh" that was very vague, and sued everyone in existence. He has nothing beside a defunct app, but he could get money from every company. Is that good for anyone? Was he going to make a whole business on this? It's just silly to give patents for so long in a market like this, and for things that are so vague.

Yes, apple is incentivised to do that. However, that incentive adversely affects the consumer and business. Apple, google, etc would probably take the trade off of loss of their patents in exchange for no more petty lawsuits of patent infringement by some guy that said he invented the text chat bubble in 1994. edit: no slide to lock should not be. When you have a touch screen phone, there are only so many things you could sensibly do to unlock.

Jabari Brown is going to transfer to Mizzou from Oregon. Also word that Mizzou tops the list for Pitt's Birch to transfer.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 20, 2011 -> 03:54 PM) How badly are the Illini gonna get destroyed in the Braggin' Rights game on Thursday? It could be a bloodbath. You never know, you guys definitely have a strength where mizzou does not: we are undersized. That said Ricardo Ratliffe is playing great D this year and not missing a shot.

They should pick up this new QB bmags added to the free agent list yesterday. 99 Speed, 99 THA 99 THP. He's a bit raw but i think he'd be a good fit.

They got chauncey for a very, very small amt.

Ahh, that makes sense.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 20, 2011 -> 04:02 PM) Was it a matter of outbidding someone else? Or a waiver order? I thought the Bulls really had no chance because the Clips were way in front of them in the waiver order And im pretty sure Rip cleared waivers, so there was no bid, he just signed a FA contract No if the bulls bid more money they could have had him.

This is important: http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/...277130529-1.jpg

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 19, 2011 -> 10:44 PM) They did a great job keeping none of the player-specific commentary from talking about the previous year's team. Thank God. If I have to hear about Kevin Durant's mentor one more time....ughghghgh

I can't wait. Thanks for the comments.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 19, 2011 -> 07:35 PM) I don't think it's Martz' fault that Hanie can't make a simple check-down read. But I do blame him (and Lovie and Angelo) for not having this team prepared post-Cutler. You can give them a couple of games to figure things out, but that was week 4 with absolutely no improvement. Heck, I'd argue Haine has regressed. And this same s*** would have happened with or without Forte. Fact is the combo of Barber/Bell are performing about as good as Forte would have under the same circumstances, minus Barber losing the Broncos game on a bonehead play. And Martz apparently never really liked Hanie.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 19, 2011 -> 06:04 PM) The popular guess is that the son does some sabre-rattling to show he is in command, sink a SK ship or something to try and show he da man and deserves respect! Yeah, I have many friends in SK at the moment and I'm worried about what might happen. For all the jokes and stuff, his death is pretty much as scary as his life. They are essentially a feudal system with a near perfect totalitarian-ruled country. That legacy aspect may cause some deeply non-sensical, and terrible, things to happen to retain that power.

It's pretty terrible by all accounts, unfortunately. They are so backwards, and so poor, and so far behind their neighbors, that the surrounding states can't really afford to take in huge swathes of their people. Geopolitically it's just an awful situation. They are a rogue state just getting by on a black market economy.

NOT SAM HURD!

With the schedule we had coming up I thought 3-3 was very possible. It was. I had no idea how bad Hanie would be. He's so bad that he loses games for us, he's not unable, he's very stupid AND unable. But even with that, we very much could have beaten the chiefs and broncos and we didn't.

If anyone noticed.

I just bought NBA 2k12, i'll let you all know soon how it goes.

Hegone33 with another brilliant analysis. No, nobody in the nfl could ever beat the packers this year. They don't let down.

I wanted THIS