"Electric cars are greatly simplified in many cases - hell most of them dont even need transmissions."
Unfortunately, most of the electric motors used in these applications are not efficient across their entire operating range. Just like an internal combustion engine, they need a transmission to take advantage of their combination torque-speed curve.
I would not like to have an electric or any vehicle with non-specialized electric motors that did not have a transmission. The highly efficient operating range would be too small.
It is not fighting. It is building good fences to maintain good neighbors.
The patent system is supposed to aid investment and foster non-centralization of ideas.
Who would put money into research in an environment in which the patented subject, once published, is not protected from use without subsidizing the original research?
Patents encourage business diversity and de-centralization. In an patent-free society the organization that would survive is the biggest one (BigCorp) because they can execute the latest ideas most cheaply, undercutting any of those snot-nose startups who dare thinks they have an original idea.
As with anything in this world, patents are a two edged sword. The imbalance in this case is the patenting process versus the legal system. It is more advantageous in a day and age of litigation to stock up with eventually baseless patents as weapons and shields in corporate warfare.
The problem is not with patents. It is with the love of money overriding good moral judgement.
It is not strictly necessary to read laser light digitally. Variations in the vinyl disk can be read in terms of continuous changes in reflectance or position of the reflected beam(s). In short, it is possible to read a laser in analog style (as far as the pickup is concerned).
Please. There are lazy people and there are industrious people. There are people who bite off more than they can chew and there are underacheivers. I personally like to start a project, do the project and finish the project. Dragging it on and on and out and out and back and forth....(well, you get the picture) just isn't my style:) Well considered deadlines (read that as deadlines agreed upon by many involved) force decisions based on current information and help to keep a handle on workflow and workload.
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I used to be able to take a felt tip pen and mark out the parts of a book to which I objected.
I used to be able to take my VHS tape and edit out the part to which I objected.
I used to be able to take my electron microscope and move bits around on my DVD.....
What? What do you mean that is against the DMCA? You mean I spent all that money on my scope and I can't use it? Oh darn.
I guess I'll just have to go to CleanBooksTM and rent the latest version of Moby Dick with the objectionable pages torn out.
...would I have to buy to prevent George from releasing the film?
The patent system is supposed to aid investment and foster non-centralization of ideas.
Who would put money into research in an environment in which the patented subject, once published, is not protected from use without subsidizing the original research?
Patents encourage business diversity and de-centralization. In an patent-free society the organization that would survive is the biggest one (BigCorp) because they can execute the latest ideas most cheaply, undercutting any of those snot-nose startups who dare thinks they have an original idea.
As with anything in this world, patents are a two edged sword. The imbalance in this case is the patenting process versus the legal system. It is more advantageous in a day and age of litigation to stock up with eventually baseless patents as weapons and shields in corporate warfare.
The problem is not with patents. It is with the love of money overriding good moral judgement.
It is not strictly necessary to read laser light digitally. Variations in the vinyl disk can be read in terms of continuous changes in reflectance or position of the reflected beam(s). In short, it is possible to read a laser in analog style (as far as the pickup is concerned).
Please. There are lazy people and there are industrious people. There are people who bite off more than they can chew and there are underacheivers. I personally like to start a project, do the project and finish the project. Dragging it on and on and out and out and back and forth....(well, you get the picture) just isn't my style :) Well considered deadlines (read that as deadlines agreed upon by many involved) force decisions based on current information and help to keep a handle on workflow and workload.