Yes, please. Get her out of here.

As a Minnesotan, I'm actually starting to wish I had voted for this guy. He's really starting to impress me.

My panda just put down the Prozac, sighed, and smiled at me. Thank you!

I would *love* to join Fitocracy. If only they would let me.

Naw... I do believe I beat him. =p

Soooo... Bitcoins?

They're called Pedal Pubs in the US.

I agree. I, for example, play WoW. It doesn't run my life, and I have many other interests and endeavors outside of it that I would *much* rather partake in. Yet any time someone hears that in passing, the conversation abruptly ends, and the "oh, you're one of *them*... ew" attitude comes out.

Ah-ha... but they do sell the adapter for VGA! Now we're talkin'...

Looks like it comes with RCA or Composite inputs.

With respect, I don't think you fully understand what needs to happen to be on-par with a datacenter.

When you put a server in a datacenter, one of the expectations is that it's kept cool. Most datacenters are kept much cooler than most people would consider comfortable. If you're just letting the heat radiate upwards into the building (or out an exhaust vent, for that matter), you're not actively cooling the server,…

Yes, but server usage tends to stay relatively constant (I would imagine) year round, whereas heat usage does not. It's either going to barely help in winter, or produce more than you need in summer.

Sounds like a great idea... until summer hits.

I can see why this would work, but it's also much easier for everyone in Starbucks to know exactly who has that ghastly ringtone. =p

I also hate the fact that people are taking the "general ideas should not be patentable!" argument and mutating that into "software should not be patentable!"

I thought I made it pretty clear that the process for doing something (the utility) should be patentable... not the thing that needs doing. You can't copyright a way of doing something. You need a patent for that.

What you are describing is an idea. Software typically provides a utility: an implementation of an idea to produce a desired result... just like a physical device.

Part of the point of a patent is to be able to license it to others. If someone can't physically implement it themselves, but licenses the ability to do so to others, they would lose their patent under your definition, and would thereby lose the ability to license it to others.

Uh, Fred? Music is protected by copyrights. Different language for protection of different categories of things.