Of course the patent office is swamped, and it shows no signs of letting up, either. (see also this month's Wired)
Technology can be applied, in the form of a prior artdatabase, forum, etc. But it won't be very effective unless you put the prior art burden on the applicants:
[the applicant must] supply to the office all the prior art of which they're aware, and that is publicly available, and that could be considered obvious or already in the public domain
With a forum and a public access db, garage-inventors, small biz, and other "little guys" will be able to do the prior art searches, without the corporate obfuscation lockout that has kept them in control (while feeding hordes of lawyers with some of the fat)
For years I had a Quadra 700, which I did tons of graphic design work on. People would ask how fast it was, and were amazed when I told them 25mHz. It was completely stable, and you could work ahead of the processor, as in punch in several keystrokes (Cut, New, Enter, Paste, F11) and it would do all of them, something Windoze won't do. (Does GIMP do this, anyone?)
Granted, it sucked at web browsing, but it produced many beautiful images for years.
Its death came (at 21,000 hours total runtime) because a mouse (the furry, wall-chewing kind) moved into the case, leaving droppings on the motherboard. I've since moved on to multitasking systems with more than one mouse button, but I wish I would have had the foresight to duct tape shut the PCI slot that was open.
: We here in Cali caliente have to pay taxes : federales, state income taxes, and a wonderful : 8.25% sales tax in some areas (at least 7.25% : all over the state). Anyone got it worse than us
Louisiana, specifically the New Orleans area. The state's sales tax is a moderate 4%, but Orleans Parish tacks on an extra 5.5%. Neighboring Jefferson Parish adds somewhere in the area of 5% also. The justification for this is 1) ensures a dime on top of every dollar spent by tourists added to the tax base. 2) The homestead exemption, which makes property tax nothing for dwellings valued at under $75,000, which also has loopholes in it to exempt many large buildings. But you still have to pay property tax on your vehicles (!), running or not.
I also worked at the Colorado Renaissance Festival in Larkspur, which is a little village of about 500 people, and its own 4% tax rate on top of the state 4%.
North Carolina seems to want to set the Precedent That Doesn't Work. One day they'll close the loophole that out-of-state mail order business don't charge sales tax in your state have enjoyed for years.
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I know I'm killing my karma...but I admit I have the same keyboard from my IIx. About the size of a flat panel monitor, keys respond to the proper pressure, inane amounts of coffee and MtDew spilled inside. I _will_ buy an ADB adapter when I upgrade to a USB-only box (or laptop)
As for chords, I've hacked Photoshop away with ResEdit to the point that I type with the control key down (CTRL-CN(enter)V+LZZZZ)...but now they're scripting in PS so it's not as much fun, I just hit the Print Screen key.
So publicity was generated, and quickly. Have to check on this in a week, and 3 weeks. Most of these hoaxes depend on wishful thinking. Remember the Marilyn Manson rumors a few years ago, where he was gonna blow his head off at one of his Florida concerts? Deep down, who paid attention to it? Everybody who heard about it, not just people like me who fantasize about such occurences. Even his fans wanted to see it, wanted to "be there when it happened". So it happens with the military takeover in Times Square.
If it's covert military, why are they worried about the NYPD? Personally, the video didn't spook me in the least. Too many Mardi Gras I guess. Or it's harder to get paranoid these days with so many zombies out there having taken it up as a hobby recently.
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Technology can be applied, in the form of a prior artdatabase, forum, etc. But it won't be very effective unless you put the prior art burden on the applicants:
[the applicant must] supply to the office all the prior art of which they're aware, and that is publicly available, and that could be considered obvious or already in the public domain
With a forum and a public access db, garage-inventors, small biz, and other "little guys" will be able to do the prior art searches, without the corporate obfuscation lockout that has kept them in control (while feeding hordes of lawyers with some of the fat)
For years I had a Quadra 700, which I did tons of graphic design work on. People would ask how fast it was, and were amazed when I told them 25mHz. It was completely stable, and you could work ahead of the processor, as in punch in several keystrokes (Cut, New, Enter, Paste, F11) and it would do all of them, something Windoze won't do. (Does GIMP do this, anyone?)
Granted, it sucked at web browsing, but it produced many beautiful images for years.
Its death came (at 21,000 hours total runtime) because a mouse (the furry, wall-chewing kind) moved into the case, leaving droppings on the motherboard. I've since moved on to multitasking systems with more than one mouse button, but I wish I would have had the foresight to duct tape shut the PCI slot that was open.
: We here in Cali caliente have to pay taxes
: federales, state income taxes, and a wonderful
: 8.25% sales tax in some areas (at least 7.25%
: all over the state). Anyone got it worse than us
Louisiana, specifically the New Orleans area. The state's sales tax is a moderate 4%, but Orleans Parish tacks on an extra 5.5%. Neighboring Jefferson Parish adds somewhere in the area of 5% also. The justification for this is 1) ensures a dime on top of every dollar spent by tourists added to the tax base. 2) The homestead exemption, which makes property tax nothing for dwellings valued at under $75,000, which also has loopholes in it to exempt many large buildings. But you still have to pay property tax on your vehicles (!), running or not.
I also worked at the Colorado Renaissance Festival in Larkspur, which is a little village of about 500 people, and its own 4% tax rate on top of the state 4%.
North Carolina seems to want to set the Precedent That Doesn't Work. One day they'll close the loophole that out-of-state mail order business don't charge sales tax in your state have enjoyed for years.
I know I'm killing my karma...but I admit I have the same keyboard from my IIx. About the size of a flat panel monitor, keys respond to the proper pressure, inane amounts of coffee and MtDew spilled inside. I _will_ buy an ADB adapter when I upgrade to a USB-only box (or laptop)
As for chords, I've hacked Photoshop away with ResEdit to the point that I type with the control key down (CTRL-CN(enter)V+LZZZZ)...but now they're scripting in PS so it's not as much fun, I just hit the Print Screen key.
Well, hell, the site's back up, and it's only 1:54 CST...with 5000 hits (3500 for the ISP's press release, 4300 for the movie page).
So publicity was generated, and quickly. Have to check on this in a week, and 3 weeks. Most of these hoaxes depend on wishful thinking. Remember the Marilyn Manson rumors a few years ago, where he was gonna blow his head off at one of his Florida concerts? Deep down, who paid attention to it? Everybody who heard about it, not just people like me who fantasize about such occurences. Even his fans wanted to see it, wanted to "be there when it happened". So it happens with the military takeover in Times Square.
If it's covert military, why are they worried about the NYPD? Personally, the video didn't spook me in the least. Too many Mardi Gras I guess. Or it's harder to get paranoid these days with so many zombies out there having taken it up as a hobby recently.