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...never be able to hide in a role now. You'll always be Kristen Stewart or Bella. Are you concerned this will stunt your acting career or negatively affect it? That's another thing I cannot control. I know for a fact there are so many people who are really diehard fans of the book who will always see me as Bella. Not even Kristen Stewart. So I even appreciate the people who can look past that. You know? I do the work for the experience. As long as I'm able to do that, I'm really lucky...
...majority opinion issued in October 2008, the judges wrote that in addition to being something novel and nonobvious, such a patent should be something that "is tied to a particular machine or apparatus" or "transforms a particular article into a different state or thing." This has since been known as the "machine-or-transformation test" and has sent shockwaves through the information-technology industry. (See the Tech Buyer's Guide...
There is now a school of thought that making it harder to get a patent is a good thing, though there is hardly any agreement on how to go about limiting patents. Doing so by introducing a new classification, the machines-or-transformations test, is a bad thing, says John F. Duffy, a professor at the George Washington Law School and co-author of a brief on behalf of several technology companies. (See the best social-networking applications...
...perhaps the best thing about the Fed’s new mandate is that it increases choice for consumers, not to mention ensuring that customers will actually want the supposed “services” they will receive from their card companies. A better understanding of the nuances and implications of each respective card policy will create a more financially-literate pool of customers much more aware of the decisions they make and the impact of those decisions. In that sense, while the Fed has at once protected customers nationwide from continued abuse, it has also done much...
...positive [thing] that we have to take away from the game is that we won pretty handily even though we didn’t play our best,” Matera added. “But we just need to be consistent no matter who we play...