Slashdot already had a discussion about a different type of batteries people are successfully researching on.
Motorola claimed it would be 3-5 years away from producing Methanol based fuel cells with at least twice the energy density from todays batteries. These batteries should also be safe from most of the problems associated with current technology (memory effect, fuel exchange instead of timely recharge...)
The register reports that Transmeta has now 0.15 micron Crusoe CPUs. This leads to even lower power consumption than anticipated. Maybe with this they will be able to keep up with the new ARMs powerwise and the mobile Athlon performancewise.
They definetly were inspired by the movie the wrong way. Maybe they walked out before its ending, inspired to use these techniques and to persue their aim to eradicate all smut and bring discipline and unity to all the kids, who are anyway week, dirty, lazy etc...
However I think that even seeing the ending wouldnt have changed their minds, because thats what they think of people who dont exactly fit their imagination. And they dont see that even starting such a thing violates human rights (which also apply to children, although the US hadnt signed the international treaty for this yet)and that such a thing is uncontrollable, and is due to take off in directions hopefully even unwanted to them.
In order to be patentable, an invention must pass four tests:
1. The invention must fall into one of the five "statutory classes" of things that are patentable: [snip] 2. The invention must be "useful". One aspect of the "utility" test is that the invention cannot be a mere theoretical phenomenon. 3. The invention must be "novel", that is, it must be something that no one did before. 4. The invention must be "unobvious" to "a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains".
This requirement is the one on which many patentability disputes hinge. This is the question to discuss
ESTs (expressed sequence tags) are short _parts_ of a gene. They are harvested in an almost industrial like manner. The EST itself gives no clue about the function of the gene it is derived from and no practical purpose can be seen. Because of _this_ the patentability of these ESTs is questioned as the article points out.
If they get patented, then an wide exemption for scientific use will be granted. (This is just an explanation of the article)
Of course they dont own any part of you. A patent gives the holder over a limited period of time a monopoly to exploit commercial applications deriving from his invention. If the invention is a gene, which is present in every cell of your body a patent could cover the following: a) a test to see if the gene is ok. (no mutations e.g. the breast cancer gene brca1) b) the use of this sequence to screen for drugs against a disease etc. In no way anybody could come and cut off your leg because the sequence is present there
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Do they think of implementing better search abilites? Regex would be too much for the moment, but simple boolean would be fine to start with.
Motorola claimed it would be 3-5 years away from producing Methanol based fuel cells with at least twice the energy density from todays batteries. These batteries should also be safe from most of the problems associated with current technology (memory effect, fuel exchange instead of timely recharge...)
The register reports that Transmeta has now 0.15 micron Crusoe CPUs. This leads to even lower power consumption than anticipated. Maybe with this they will be able to keep up with the new ARMs powerwise and the mobile Athlon performancewise.
However I think that even seeing the ending wouldnt have changed their minds, because thats what they think of people who dont exactly fit their imagination. And they dont see that even starting such a thing violates human rights (which also apply to children, although the US hadnt signed the international treaty for this yet)and that such a thing is uncontrollable, and is due to take off in directions hopefully even unwanted to them.
Heres the movie
1. The invention must fall into one of the five "statutory classes" of things that are patentable: [snip] 2. The invention must be "useful". One aspect of the "utility" test is that the invention cannot be a mere theoretical phenomenon. 3. The invention must be "novel", that is, it must be something that no one did before. 4. The invention must be "unobvious" to "a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains".
This requirement is the one on which many patentability disputes hinge. This is the question to discuss
This is a quote from a patent FAQ
Yes the Athlon supports multiprocessor configs and AMD is working on a chipset, which will be out at the end of the year.
ESTs (expressed sequence tags) are short _parts_ of a gene. They are harvested in an almost industrial like manner. The EST itself gives no clue about the function of the gene it is derived from and no practical purpose can be seen. Because of _this_ the patentability of these ESTs is questioned as the article points out.
If they get patented, then an wide exemption for scientific use will be granted.
(This is just an explanation of the article)
Of course they dont own any part of you. A patent gives the holder over a limited period of time a monopoly to exploit commercial applications deriving from his invention. If the invention is a gene, which is present in every cell of your body a patent could cover the following: a) a test to see if the gene is ok. (no mutations e.g. the breast cancer gene brca1) b) the use of this sequence to screen for drugs against a disease etc. In no way anybody could come and cut off your leg because the sequence is present there