Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Well, then don't. I consider the wording, no matter what it says, to 
>> be little more than slight of hand. 
> 
> Welcome to the legal system!
> 
>> This differs how from say, computing the area of a circle, using the 
>> "data" out of the prior step, in which you determined the circumference? 
> 
> That's a mathematical formula. Applying that formula in order to 
> calculate how far to turn the wheel as you go around a corner in order 
> to reduce the wear on tire treads of your car? That's patentable. See 
> the difference?
> 
Yeah, you are doing *more* calculations. Its still, "Take data, feed it 
into formulas, get a correct result.", and you are still just taking 
data from X, feeding it into Y, then into Z, to get the end result. You 
want to built a machine to do that, find. You build an algorithm to do 
that, its not part of the machine, nor is the machine... Oh, hell. 
Forget it...

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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