If you do not have the capability to bring something to market, you do not have the capability to capitalize on it. You'd need to partner up, sell it/yourself as much as you can, etc, but there really is no fundamental claim that you should be compensated if you yourself do not (including "can not") execute.
Many people who have advanced humanity through their ideas and innovations did not receive any sort of windfall funding after the fact; it's simply not to be expected as normal. We are most likely in a slow IP bubble right now, so consider that our perspectives are from inside that.
But it is still no match for my voice, and I would much rather use THE most efficient method of input. The average person can speak MUCH faster than they can type (250 - 300WPM)
Sure, now sit in front of a computer for a few hours, surfing the web (via dictating URLs), dictating emails/texts/chat/forum posts, edit some documents, or whatever. Your throat will be raw and you will feel overstimulated and irritated, while the person with a keyboard gets up after spending some relaxing downtime on his machine and is ready to go do something else.
One root cause of this is that the number of patents issued per year is used as an indicator of innovation and economic development in countries. The government desires these numbers to remain high to e-peen itself against rivals like China, and thus drives a culture of granting which leads to this problem of junk patents.
I never in my years thought I would say this but I am glad crappy Windows won in the PC war of the 80s and 90s. Who knows what would have happened if the Mac one.
And nobody seems to remember Amiga, Acorn, Atari, and other's offerings in the same time, all of which if "won" the PC war could have brought interesting innovation as well. The PC ecosystem really is the VHS out of the bunch, IMO.
Just a little nitpick: Public Domain is a naturally occurring state of intellectual property (as well as Trade Secret), not something that came into existence via government granting it.
In a Darwinian sense the only thing that matters is how many offspring you leave behind. How long you live doesn't count for jack
If you sire 3,000 offspring, but they all die or otherwise end up childless, it's the same thing in the Darwinian sense as having zero offspring.
Issues involved are raising them, training and equipping them so that they can continue on success, how you can protect them during their vulnerable times, or give them a system of security beyond their own solitary struggles. This all ties into whether or not the offspring can continue to be successful even in a survival and reproductive sense.
Regardless of the judges, it's the fault of the patent office for being way too grant-happy, and of the idiot politicians who pressure the USPTO to grant more patents because it looks good in national e-peen metrics.
Have you ever used a briefcase? Any ancient clamshell case with slide-to-unlock clips (sewing kits, tool cases, etc)? This concept is ancient.
The fact that putting it on a screen is patentable is retarded, and the fact that it was only overturned because somebody else had it on a screen before and not the obviousness of the process itself is even more retarded.
Wait, what?!? You think that illegal immigrants, who have to carefully dodge many things government-related, will pony up money to the government preventatively in order to potentially avoid incurring a bill that they'd never see anyway?
GP is also talking about running up expensive ambulance/ER services for minor things, not the catastrophic, because it's easier and of greater incentive for them to do so than seeking out the non-emergency services, even with the new ACA provisions.
This all comes down to owning your media vs not owning your media. For those who have purchased and actually own/hold their media, it's not a problem. Constantly relying on the ever-changing landscape of transient content will always be a moving target lacking support for anything slightly off the mainstream.
The worst part for me was seeing all the commercials & overlay advertising. Sure, classic films, documentaries, etc, are really interesting, but they take twice as long to watch and are constantly interrupted with all that crap.
Even ignoring content, looking at the financial incentive structure in the advertising-driven USA market, I can only conclude that the effective reason content is put on television is to get you to watch more television. That does suck.
Microsoft is very close to doing what they're poo-pooing: Releasing a me-too clone with a commodity operating system.
Sure, they would control the supply chain now, but so what? It's still playing wannabe behind Apple and Android in the tablet market at this point, and seems to be a peer to all the other manufacturers who plop Windows or Android on hardware and try to enter the market. Especially in the Android segment, companies already have full hardware & software control (like Amazon), because of the (mostly) open-source nature of Android.
So no, MS, you're not special, and you're still playing catch-up.
Will the Nexus 7 have a retina display? No, absolutely not, because there is no way they could hit the $199 price point.
At a rumored 1280x800 res at 7", that's 215dpi, which certainly sounds close enough to "retina". Sure, it's a bit lower than what's available now but really does get there. While there's varying speculation about the smaller dimension, the 1280 and 7" are pretty fixed.
Rumor has it that the screen resolution will be 1280x800. That's pretty decent for that screen size, and should allow real application content on the screen.
The "problem" with DNS is the artificial global scarcity of human-desirable strings, the inevitable IP claims on strings used within DNS names, and national jurisdiction and revocation of those names from use under stupid legislation. None of those are technical issues, they're all social & political.
My posting doesn't appear on the default view, probably because I posted too late. I also didn't notice the other replies to that pro-Fitts posting, due to the same reason.
From Intel: Work done per watt From ARM: System power draw small enough for handheld & long battery life
A year or two ago, I read a study that the most ops/watt were still done by high-end Intel processors sucking tons of power each. They did so much work so fast that the per-watt work done was still beyond the tiny-power-sipping ARMs that were relatively slow but still quite capable. Has this changed in the last generation or two of CPUs?
I hate the perpetuation of this nonsensical garbage regarding the top menu. It exists as nothing but fanboy spew at this point, even if a few points were true with small, single-monitor systems of the past.
1) It does not take into account the large distances possible on today's monitors 2) It takes the visual focus away from the items being dealt with 3) Menu selections are still horizontally narrow; if you fling towards the "infinite height" effect to easily reach that area, the horizontal motion is as imprecise, requiring similar amounts of fine repositioning to find the target menu item 4) On handheld systems, the menu is just as small as other widgets; you don't get the "infinite height" effect anyway 5) The menu is less-often used than clicking other on-screen widgets, marginalizing any perceived benefit. Moving from widget to top-menu to widget is far more expensive than widget to widget, or widget to local/context menu to widget 6) Multi-monitor systems do not have a single "top of screen". Having an app on 1 screen and its menu on the other is a situation that often (and legitimately) prompts the emergence of torches and pitchforks.
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You believe patents should be able to last indefinitely? I don't think that's something "everyone can get behind".
If you do not have the capability to bring something to market, you do not have the capability to capitalize on it. You'd need to partner up, sell it/yourself as much as you can, etc, but there really is no fundamental claim that you should be compensated if you yourself do not (including "can not") execute.
Many people who have advanced humanity through their ideas and innovations did not receive any sort of windfall funding after the fact; it's simply not to be expected as normal. We are most likely in a slow IP bubble right now, so consider that our perspectives are from inside that.
But it is still no match for my voice, and I would much rather use THE most efficient method of input. The average person can speak MUCH faster than they can type (250 - 300WPM)
Sure, now sit in front of a computer for a few hours, surfing the web (via dictating URLs), dictating emails/texts/chat/forum posts, edit some documents, or whatever. Your throat will be raw and you will feel overstimulated and irritated, while the person with a keyboard gets up after spending some relaxing downtime on his machine and is ready to go do something else.
One root cause of this is that the number of patents issued per year is used as an indicator of innovation and economic development in countries. The government desires these numbers to remain high to e-peen itself against rivals like China, and thus drives a culture of granting which leads to this problem of junk patents.
I never in my years thought I would say this but I am glad crappy Windows won in the PC war of the 80s and 90s. Who knows what would have happened if the Mac one.
And nobody seems to remember Amiga, Acorn, Atari, and other's offerings in the same time, all of which if "won" the PC war could have brought interesting innovation as well. The PC ecosystem really is the VHS out of the bunch, IMO.
Just a little nitpick: Public Domain is a naturally occurring state of intellectual property (as well as Trade Secret), not something that came into existence via government granting it.
It's called a desktop monitor. :-P
In a Darwinian sense the only thing that matters is how many offspring you leave behind. How long you live doesn't count for jack
If you sire 3,000 offspring, but they all die or otherwise end up childless, it's the same thing in the Darwinian sense as having zero offspring.
Issues involved are raising them, training and equipping them so that they can continue on success, how you can protect them during their vulnerable times, or give them a system of security beyond their own solitary struggles. This all ties into whether or not the offspring can continue to be successful even in a survival and reproductive sense.
Regardless of the judges, it's the fault of the patent office for being way too grant-happy, and of the idiot politicians who pressure the USPTO to grant more patents because it looks good in national e-peen metrics.
Doesn't matter. They'll just claim the innovation was the gestalt of putting it all together, not the individual parts.
Have you ever used a briefcase? Any ancient clamshell case with slide-to-unlock clips (sewing kits, tool cases, etc)? This concept is ancient.
The fact that putting it on a screen is patentable is retarded, and the fact that it was only overturned because somebody else had it on a screen before and not the obviousness of the process itself is even more retarded.
Wait, what?!? You think that illegal immigrants, who have to carefully dodge many things government-related, will pony up money to the government preventatively in order to potentially avoid incurring a bill that they'd never see anyway?
GP is also talking about running up expensive ambulance/ER services for minor things, not the catastrophic, because it's easier and of greater incentive for them to do so than seeking out the non-emergency services, even with the new ACA provisions.
But now I would like to see Romney win the presidency & appoint some limited-government constitutionists to the Court (and the lower level courts).
Ron Paul for Supreme Court Justice! :-D
I'm a codegen guy. HTML/Javascript is just another transparent code target as far as I'm concerned.
This all comes down to owning your media vs not owning your media. For those who have purchased and actually own/hold their media, it's not a problem. Constantly relying on the ever-changing landscape of transient content will always be a moving target lacking support for anything slightly off the mainstream.
The worst part for me was seeing all the commercials & overlay advertising. Sure, classic films, documentaries, etc, are really interesting, but they take twice as long to watch and are constantly interrupted with all that crap.
Even ignoring content, looking at the financial incentive structure in the advertising-driven USA market, I can only conclude that the effective reason content is put on television is to get you to watch more television. That does suck.
It's summer, it's endless summer...
It's September, it's eternal September...
Microsoft is very close to doing what they're poo-pooing: Releasing a me-too clone with a commodity operating system.
Sure, they would control the supply chain now, but so what? It's still playing wannabe behind Apple and Android in the tablet market at this point, and seems to be a peer to all the other manufacturers who plop Windows or Android on hardware and try to enter the market. Especially in the Android segment, companies already have full hardware & software control (like Amazon), because of the (mostly) open-source nature of Android.
So no, MS, you're not special, and you're still playing catch-up.
Will the Nexus 7 have a retina display? No, absolutely not, because there is no way they could hit the $199 price point.
At a rumored 1280x800 res at 7", that's 215dpi, which certainly sounds close enough to "retina". Sure, it's a bit lower than what's available now but really does get there. While there's varying speculation about the smaller dimension, the 1280 and 7" are pretty fixed.
Rumor has it that the screen resolution will be 1280x800. That's pretty decent for that screen size, and should allow real application content on the screen.
The "problem" with DNS is the artificial global scarcity of human-desirable strings, the inevitable IP claims on strings used within DNS names, and national jurisdiction and revocation of those names from use under stupid legislation. None of those are technical issues, they're all social & political.
My posting doesn't appear on the default view, probably because I posted too late. I also didn't notice the other replies to that pro-Fitts posting, due to the same reason.
From Intel: Work done per watt
From ARM: System power draw small enough for handheld & long battery life
A year or two ago, I read a study that the most ops/watt were still done by high-end Intel processors sucking tons of power each. They did so much work so fast that the per-watt work done was still beyond the tiny-power-sipping ARMs that were relatively slow but still quite capable. Has this changed in the last generation or two of CPUs?
I hate the perpetuation of this nonsensical garbage regarding the top menu. It exists as nothing but fanboy spew at this point, even if a few points were true with small, single-monitor systems of the past.
1) It does not take into account the large distances possible on today's monitors
2) It takes the visual focus away from the items being dealt with
3) Menu selections are still horizontally narrow; if you fling towards the "infinite height" effect to easily reach that area, the horizontal motion is as imprecise, requiring similar amounts of fine repositioning to find the target menu item
4) On handheld systems, the menu is just as small as other widgets; you don't get the "infinite height" effect anyway
5) The menu is less-often used than clicking other on-screen widgets, marginalizing any perceived benefit. Moving from widget to top-menu to widget is far more expensive than widget to widget, or widget to local/context menu to widget
6) Multi-monitor systems do not have a single "top of screen". Having an app on 1 screen and its menu on the other is a situation that often (and legitimately) prompts the emergence of torches and pitchforks.