I really enjoy statistics that are made to be big deals. Who says ____% over 2 years? Why not just up 150% over one? That's like saying in the past 23 1/3 years there have been 20 million people that died. Loses relevance. Blather. Blah.
That is what they do at my company, at least for those with secret clearances. Once you give your notice, you are put on leave and basically have a 2 week vacation.
I'd have to pose it back to you. Why not six days? Why not what appears to be a Big Bang taking six days?
Sure god could have taken millions of years, I just don't think it happened that way, and luckily that only matters to me, everyone else is free to think what they want.
For not agreeing that some of evolution is random chance, it sure does sound like you start your comment off that way.
Right, I have no problem acknowledging that what you say could happen over the macro-timespan that you indicate (millions of years), but it's my belief that it merely didn't take place over that long a period of time. I acknowledge that carbon dating is taken as truth by a lot of people, but I have not been convinced of it being infallible.
I'm a pro-Creationist Christian, and I had wanted to see this movie, because I do feel like there is a lot of undue criticism from the scientific community against the thought of Creation, but I have had serious doubts after reading articles in Popular Science and other magazines. I may still go to see it to verify if anything he attempts to show is not based on propaganda, but with movie making you never know.
Personally I believe in evolution on a micro-scale, like adapting to the environment, however I do not believe the diversity in species we have today could have come about by random chance and changes in the world over billions of years.
While I don't think that this type of post should be on slashdot, I'll respond anwyways:
It doesn't matter what school you go to, given that you are willing to make up the loss in name recognition with hard-work. I went to a small private Christian university (Olivet Nazarene University), with a CS department of 40 students. I still found the coursework interesting, and since it was a liberal arts school, I had a well-rounded experience.
However, it was pretty hard at career fairs trying to sell myself against those that went to bigger schools in the midwest. So do as well as you can at school (try to get close to a 4 point), get a job, do your work, use your network to your advantage, and contribute back.
This is pretty upsetting, especially when considering that I've worked for a military contractor for the past 5 years and I've had to do security audits from the government each year. Do they audit their own people?
OMG I am so sorry, I thought that the post was formatted as I typed, but I guess not, probably what the freakin preview button is for, let me repost here:
I'll answer what I think I can:).
I am not sure on the percentage of applications granted, but if you take into account that the applications are in the 10M range and that patent grants are in the 7M, I guess that would be your answer. However, I don't think this is necessarily true (that 70% of applications are accepted). Definitely not in their original form, variances of claims may eventually make this percentage true (just to have something patented, a 100 claim application might be dropped to one that no one will further argue). My guess is that a renumbering occured somewhere, and that's why it appears 70% make it.
Being that I'm 4 years out, some of the processes elude me, but I believe it if you are a junior examiner, your approval and a senior examiner's approval are all that is needed to grant. I do think that they go through a couple of audit boards, and perhaps randomly get chosen for a re-examination, but beyond that I don't think a lot happens once it leaves the junior/senior examiners.
If the examiner is still available, anything having to do with the case is still owned by him. Rejection, modification, resubmission, all are handled by the same examiner, because it would be a 'waste' of other peoples time to have to read the case, search prior art, etc.
Submitters are aware of who is examining their patents.
I approved no patents. It is actually "surprisingly" made difficult to approve a patent. It is more worth your time to just reject everything. Everytime a case like this is shown in the media I am surprised that it makes it out, because as a junior examiner your work is very scrutinized. It more likely was a senior examiner who had to make his quota, left this case up in his rafters for too long, gave it a really crappy prior art search and said it was patentable.
I rejected things like the 3D web-browser, multiple store-front GUIs, some educational GUI's, and a bunch of other stuff. Nothing amazing. I did like doing searches on weird patent apps though.
There is a database containing ALL patent applications (however I think only back to a certain app #, before that the database did not exist). You can have flags just like other popular searches on whether an app was accepted, rejected, etc.
The database is combined with Japan's and Europe's, but those are hard to match up due to language differences.
I don't believe they are publicly searchable. I know the USPTO maintains a website of accepted patents, perhaps they do of applications, I haven't bothered to look.
With that searchable database, you could look up the prior history of cases, but you're supposed to give each one the same fair shake. When you are given your docket of applications for the time period you're working, they try to give you all cases that are related, or you are encouraged to go find related applications to do at the same time, so that you don't waste your/another examiner's time.
I'll answer what I think I can:).
I am not sure on the percentage of applications granted, but if you take into account that the applications are in the 10M range and that patent grants are in the 7M, I guess that would be your answer. However, I don't think this is necessarily true (that 70% of applications are accepted). Definitely not in their original form, variances of claims may eventually make this percentage true (just to have something patented, a 100 claim application might be dropped to one that no one will further argue). My guess is that a renumbering occured somewhere, and that's why it appears 70% make it.
Being that I'm 4 years out, some of the processes elude me, but I believe it if you are a junior examiner, your approval and a senior examiner's approval are all that is needed to grant. I do think that they go through a couple of audit boards, and perhaps randomly get chosen for a re-examination, but beyond that I don't think a lot happens once it leaves the junior/senior examiners.
If the examiner is still available, anything having to do with the case is still owned by him. Rejection, modification, resubmission, all are handled by the same examiner, because it would be a 'waste' of other peoples time to have to read the case, search prior art, etc.
Submitters are aware of who is examining their patents.
I approved no patents. It is actually "surprisingly" made difficult to approve a patent. It is more worth your time to just reject everything. Everytime a case like this is shown in the media I am surprised that it makes it out, because as a junior examiner your work is very scrutinized. It more likely was a senior examiner who had to make his quota, left this case up in his rafters for too long, gave it a really crappy prior art search and said it was patentable.
I rejected things like the 3D web-browser, multiple store-front GUIs, some educational GUI's, and a bunch of other stuff. Nothing amazing. I did like doing searches on weird patent apps though.
There is a database containing ALL patent applications (however I think only back to a certain app #, before that the database did not exist). You can have flags just like other popular searches on whether an app was accepted, rejected, etc. The database is combined with Japan's and Europe's, but those are hard to match up due to language differences.
I don't believe they are publicly searchable. I know the USPTO maintains a website of accepted patents, perhaps they do of applications, I haven't bothered to look.
With that searchable database, you could look up the prior history of cases, but you're supposed to give each one the same fair shake. When you are given your docket of applications for the time period you're working, they try to give you all cases that are related, or you are encouraged to go find related applications to do at the same time, so that you don't waste your/another examiner's time.
I was an examiner for awhile. Got out after 9 months because I saw the path. A lot of $, but a lot of OCD people, and stress due to quotas.
I had a B.S. in C.S. and I was simply working on GUI patent apps. They wouldn't hire someone with a degree in an outside area (like Business or something) to do C.S. work, although there were a lot of EE's doing C.S. work (although I see that in the commercial realm a lot too, not always to great success, but sometimes).
Wouldn't recommend it for anyone other than an anti-social who wants to make bank and doesn't mind a boring, high-stress job.
I own a 360 because I like the capabilities, and I'm a n00b to posting on slashdot, but I think you guys are doing exactly what M$ wants in talking up this capability of 'hacking' the drive to work on XP. This is all about winning the format war anyways, they could give a damn about someone beating their chest for making it more universally accepted.
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This seems like a really lame post.
I really enjoy statistics that are made to be big deals. Who says ____% over 2 years? Why not just up 150% over one? That's like saying in the past 23 1/3 years there have been 20 million people that died. Loses relevance. Blather. Blah.
Well, it's sometimes hard to tell if it's due to items of a proprietary nature or the clearance that causes a swift exit :).
That is what they do at my company, at least for those with secret clearances. Once you give your notice, you are put on leave and basically have a 2 week vacation.
I flipped a coin a half million times and every time it came up heads.
Jeez man I was just trying to tell you what I believe, not what I think you should believe.
In the end it won't matter what either of us believes, it will just be what it is. It's not like when we die we get to laugh or anything.
I'd have to pose it back to you. Why not six days? Why not what appears to be a Big Bang taking six days?
Sure god could have taken millions of years, I just don't think it happened that way, and luckily that only matters to me, everyone else is free to think what they want.
For not agreeing that some of evolution is random chance, it sure does sound like you start your comment off that way.
Right, I have no problem acknowledging that what you say could happen over the macro-timespan that you indicate (millions of years), but it's my belief that it merely didn't take place over that long a period of time. I acknowledge that carbon dating is taken as truth by a lot of people, but I have not been convinced of it being infallible.
I also do not think of human beings as animals.
I'm a pro-Creationist Christian, and I had wanted to see this movie, because I do feel like there is a lot of undue criticism from the scientific community against the thought of Creation, but I have had serious doubts after reading articles in Popular Science and other magazines. I may still go to see it to verify if anything he attempts to show is not based on propaganda, but with movie making you never know.
Personally I believe in evolution on a micro-scale, like adapting to the environment, however I do not believe the diversity in species we have today could have come about by random chance and changes in the world over billions of years.
While I don't think that this type of post should be on slashdot, I'll respond anwyways:
It doesn't matter what school you go to, given that you are willing to make up the loss in name recognition with hard-work. I went to a small private Christian university (Olivet Nazarene University), with a CS department of 40 students. I still found the coursework interesting, and since it was a liberal arts school, I had a well-rounded experience.
However, it was pretty hard at career fairs trying to sell myself against those that went to bigger schools in the midwest. So do as well as you can at school (try to get close to a 4 point), get a job, do your work, use your network to your advantage, and contribute back.
This is pretty upsetting, especially when considering that I've worked for a military contractor for the past 5 years and I've had to do security audits from the government each year. Do they audit their own people?
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OMG I am so sorry, I thought that the post was formatted as I typed, but I guess not, probably what the freakin preview button is for, let me repost here: I'll answer what I think I can :).
I am not sure on the percentage of applications granted, but if you take into account that the applications are in the 10M range and that patent grants are in the 7M, I guess that would be your answer. However, I don't think this is necessarily true (that 70% of applications are accepted). Definitely not in their original form, variances of claims may eventually make this percentage true (just to have something patented, a 100 claim application might be dropped to one that no one will further argue). My guess is that a renumbering occured somewhere, and that's why it appears 70% make it.
Being that I'm 4 years out, some of the processes elude me, but I believe it if you are a junior examiner, your approval and a senior examiner's approval are all that is needed to grant. I do think that they go through a couple of audit boards, and perhaps randomly get chosen for a re-examination, but beyond that I don't think a lot happens once it leaves the junior/senior examiners.
If the examiner is still available, anything having to do with the case is still owned by him. Rejection, modification, resubmission, all are handled by the same examiner, because it would be a 'waste' of other peoples time to have to read the case, search prior art, etc.
Submitters are aware of who is examining their patents.
I approved no patents. It is actually "surprisingly" made difficult to approve a patent. It is more worth your time to just reject everything. Everytime a case like this is shown in the media I am surprised that it makes it out, because as a junior examiner your work is very scrutinized. It more likely was a senior examiner who had to make his quota, left this case up in his rafters for too long, gave it a really crappy prior art search and said it was patentable.
I rejected things like the 3D web-browser, multiple store-front GUIs, some educational GUI's, and a bunch of other stuff. Nothing amazing. I did like doing searches on weird patent apps though.
There is a database containing ALL patent applications (however I think only back to a certain app #, before that the database did not exist). You can have flags just like other popular searches on whether an app was accepted, rejected, etc.
The database is combined with Japan's and Europe's, but those are hard to match up due to language differences.
I don't believe they are publicly searchable. I know the USPTO maintains a website of accepted patents, perhaps they do of applications, I haven't bothered to look.
With that searchable database, you could look up the prior history of cases, but you're supposed to give each one the same fair shake. When you are given your docket of applications for the time period you're working, they try to give you all cases that are related, or you are encouraged to go find related applications to do at the same time, so that you don't waste your/another examiner's time.
I'll answer what I think I can :).
I am not sure on the percentage of applications granted, but if you take into account that the applications are in the 10M range and that patent grants are in the 7M, I guess that would be your answer. However, I don't think this is necessarily true (that 70% of applications are accepted). Definitely not in their original form, variances of claims may eventually make this percentage true (just to have something patented, a 100 claim application might be dropped to one that no one will further argue). My guess is that a renumbering occured somewhere, and that's why it appears 70% make it.
Being that I'm 4 years out, some of the processes elude me, but I believe it if you are a junior examiner, your approval and a senior examiner's approval are all that is needed to grant. I do think that they go through a couple of audit boards, and perhaps randomly get chosen for a re-examination, but beyond that I don't think a lot happens once it leaves the junior/senior examiners.
If the examiner is still available, anything having to do with the case is still owned by him. Rejection, modification, resubmission, all are handled by the same examiner, because it would be a 'waste' of other peoples time to have to read the case, search prior art, etc.
Submitters are aware of who is examining their patents.
I approved no patents. It is actually "surprisingly" made difficult to approve a patent. It is more worth your time to just reject everything. Everytime a case like this is shown in the media I am surprised that it makes it out, because as a junior examiner your work is very scrutinized. It more likely was a senior examiner who had to make his quota, left this case up in his rafters for too long, gave it a really crappy prior art search and said it was patentable.
I rejected things like the 3D web-browser, multiple store-front GUIs, some educational GUI's, and a bunch of other stuff. Nothing amazing. I did like doing searches on weird patent apps though.
There is a database containing ALL patent applications (however I think only back to a certain app #, before that the database did not exist). You can have flags just like other popular searches on whether an app was accepted, rejected, etc. The database is combined with Japan's and Europe's, but those are hard to match up due to language differences.
I don't believe they are publicly searchable. I know the USPTO maintains a website of accepted patents, perhaps they do of applications, I haven't bothered to look.
With that searchable database, you could look up the prior history of cases, but you're supposed to give each one the same fair shake. When you are given your docket of applications for the time period you're working, they try to give you all cases that are related, or you are encouraged to go find related applications to do at the same time, so that you don't waste your/another examiner's time.
I was an examiner for awhile. Got out after 9 months because I saw the path. A lot of $, but a lot of OCD people, and stress due to quotas.
I had a B.S. in C.S. and I was simply working on GUI patent apps. They wouldn't hire someone with a degree in an outside area (like Business or something) to do C.S. work, although there were a lot of EE's doing C.S. work (although I see that in the commercial realm a lot too, not always to great success, but sometimes).
Wouldn't recommend it for anyone other than an anti-social who wants to make bank and doesn't mind a boring, high-stress job.
I own a 360 because I like the capabilities, and I'm a n00b to posting on slashdot, but I think you guys are doing exactly what M$ wants in talking up this capability of 'hacking' the drive to work on XP. This is all about winning the format war anyways, they could give a damn about someone beating their chest for making it more universally accepted.