Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases including everything from autos to health care:
91% of New Homes 66% PCs 92% Vacations 80% Healthcare 65% New Cars 89% Bank Accounts 93% Food 93 % OTC PharmaceuticalsAmerican women spend about $5 trillion annually Over half the U.S. GDP
Apparently this is part of the reason why you don't see 70s/80's action programming now, and why outside of sports, most broadcast network programming is female oriented. It probably accounts for why more men are spending their time playing games than watching TV as the broadcast networks have little scripted programming to offer. The female oriented purchasing premise however seems outdated since fewer people are getting married, and that more and more households are single parent households. This leaves a fairly large body of men who are shopping on their own independent of women. Syfy would seem to be a place to show plenty of ads for games, action/comic book movies, DVD box sets, cars etc, yet the ads shown don't always seem to match that demographic.
You never heard of the phrase "Cheese eating surrender monkeys" from the Simpsons in the mid 90's? The way the French are portrayed in US media, asides from their women, are typically not very positive. One could look at older US media to see so, in which Frenchmen are portrayed in the same manner in which Americans appear to be portrayed abroad.
Anyways, a good american history class should cover where the ideas enshrined in the US constitution, Declaration of independence etc should come from. When I was in high school, they predominantly emphasised John Locke's influence though he is certainly not the only one.
Most of the average US citizens interactions with their government are fairly poor. Their representatives ignore their requests. The motor vehicle department has poor customer service and poor record keeping skills. Our roads are underfunded and poorly maintained. They hear about fraud waste and corruption in local, state and federal agencies. Outside of firemen, most American citizens do not seem to have great expereinces at all with our services recieved.
Our government has a poor track record, so why would they expect medical care provided by the government to be any different?
On the otherhand, the Federal TSP program has a great rate of return and lower costs than most big name investment firms, yet people who want the Federal government to get involved in health care won't use the same logic for the government getting involved in alternatives to our social spending on the elderly.
My father: Family lost their farms, not a ton of opportunity (oh what that land in Napa valley would be worth.....). Joined the Air Force, wound up at West Point. After going back into the Air Force he worked for a major insurance company and retired as an executive. Invested his entire life and has a couple million to his name.
My maternal Grandfather Grew up near the coal mines, worked in coal and steel. Was able to get into college and went on to med school. Retired as a columbia medical school professor, head of a department at a famous teaching hospital and invested well with a couple million.
Both started in the lower class and by late life certainly were upper middle to upper class.
I've said this before and I will say it again, I never understand why the taxman won't step in and fix this. Seems like the feds should be able to take in a considerable amount of money.
While one must admit that SG1 did have quite a bit of the A-Team feel about it, I am unsure why SGU coopted the Stargate Name. audience expectations might have been a bit better without the history attached to Stargate fans.
I'm not sure why so many people think watching "whiney" adults who are acting like teenagers is adult content. I guess its more adult than wish fufillment fantasy, but not that much. The show might have had a better chance if they dumped the first 6-7 episodes and moved those events forward to give the show purpose.
I remember when scifi first came on, they started out with a block of morning scifi cartoons: Robotech, Bionic Six etc. They then would show for the next 8 hours different classic scifi programs (6 million dollar man, buck rogers, quantum leap etc). Weekends were simliar with Cnet news, some comics oriented programming (The anti-gravity room?) then old movies followed by maybe a scifi original movie.
I can understand the need to bring in more viewers, or perhaps different viewers, but you should know what demographic is watching the scifi channel. You should be advertising video games, scifi movies, dvd sets etc, whatever products would appeal to those who like scifi. In fact syfy should be able to charge a premium for targeted advertising, instead of going for lowest common demominator advertising.
Japan also did not have the level of poverty that China does.
China won't be going away, if anything changes they will have to start to focus on satisfying domestic markets. Heck thats the reason western companies want to get into the Chinese market and not just take advantage of chinese labour.
The reason you don't see it as being a different invention deals with what the legal requirements are for a different invention. The examiners are somewhat constrained in showing why a skilled artisan would choose six vanes instead of 4 if your invention claims using 6 and the prior art uses 4. Arguably almost any aspect could be "design choice" but examiners have a hard time in properly applying the case law for design choice and the BPAI in holding up their decision.
Are the choices made in part due to a weighting factor based on ticket price? I assume you don't have a pluarilty of viewers who paid you money and you took that into consideration when making each "choice" in the movie?
pay is pretty good, you start 60-75k (if you are fresh out of school or have 1-2 years engineering experience) and make 100k+ in 3-4 years before overtime and bonus. They are planning on hiring 2,000 people over the next two years and have quadrupled in size in the past 6. For a while they were giving 10k PER YEAR for 4 years hiring bonuses.
The only applications which will skip forwards are accellerated cases and continuations/divisonals. There has been a big push within the office to have each examiner work on their OLDEST cases to reduce pendency figures, in fact examiner's ratings depend on it.
All depends on where you live. In the DC area you have 5/10 richest counties in the nation. For example my county has 2.7 million people with an average income of 107k.
As a result, housing, food etc are all priced higher than most other places. Plus the taxman considers you to be "wealthy" so just because you have a higher cost of living, salary's are raised accordingly, and you have to pay higher taxes too.
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You were thinking of Space Above and Beyond which ran on fox for one season before being canceled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_above_and_beyond
I would agree, yet the marketing mantra seems to be that women make the majority of purchasing decisions in households.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf20050214_9413_db_082.htm
and from elsewhere:
Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases including everything from autos to health care:
91% of New Homes
66% PCs
92% Vacations
80% Healthcare
65% New Cars
89% Bank Accounts
93% Food
93 % OTC PharmaceuticalsAmerican women spend about $5 trillion annually
Over half the U.S. GDP
Apparently this is part of the reason why you don't see 70s/80's action programming now, and why outside of sports, most broadcast network programming is female oriented. It probably accounts for why more men are spending their time playing games than watching TV as the broadcast networks have little scripted programming to offer. The female oriented purchasing premise however seems outdated since fewer people are getting married, and that more and more households are single parent households. This leaves a fairly large body of men who are shopping on their own independent of women. Syfy would seem to be a place to show plenty of ads for games, action/comic book movies, DVD box sets, cars etc, yet the ads shown don't always seem to match that demographic.
This doesn't inherently mean more innovation, but the number of patent filings is up over the past 15 years or so.
You never heard of the phrase "Cheese eating surrender monkeys" from the Simpsons in the mid 90's? The way the French are portrayed in US media, asides from their women, are typically not very positive. One could look at older US media to see so, in which Frenchmen are portrayed in the same manner in which Americans appear to be portrayed abroad.
Anyways, a good american history class should cover where the ideas enshrined in the US constitution, Declaration of independence etc should come from. When I was in high school, they predominantly emphasised John Locke's influence though he is certainly not the only one.
Most of the average US citizens interactions with their government are fairly poor. Their representatives ignore their requests. The motor vehicle department has poor customer service and poor record keeping skills. Our roads are underfunded and poorly maintained. They hear about fraud waste and corruption in local, state and federal agencies. Outside of firemen, most American citizens do not seem to have great expereinces at all with our services recieved.
Our government has a poor track record, so why would they expect medical care provided by the government to be any different?
On the otherhand, the Federal TSP program has a great rate of return and lower costs than most big name investment firms, yet people who want the Federal government to get involved in health care won't use the same logic for the government getting involved in alternatives to our social spending on the elderly.
My father:
Family lost their farms, not a ton of opportunity (oh what that land in Napa valley would be worth.....). Joined the Air Force, wound up at West Point. After going back into the Air Force he worked for a major insurance company and retired as an executive. Invested his entire life and has a couple million to his name.
My maternal Grandfather
Grew up near the coal mines, worked in coal and steel. Was able to get into college and went on to med school. Retired as a columbia medical school professor, head of a department at a famous teaching hospital and invested well with a couple million.
Both started in the lower class and by late life certainly were upper middle to upper class.
I've said this before and I will say it again, I never understand why the taxman won't step in and fix this. Seems like the feds should be able to take in a considerable amount of money.
You have other options
file a statutory invention registration, looks like a patent application on PGPUB but lacks enforceability. it does however act as prior art
file an application then abandon it after publication and before a non-final rejection.
not if you went to engineering school.
While one must admit that SG1 did have quite a bit of the A-Team feel about it, I am unsure why SGU coopted the Stargate Name. audience expectations might have been a bit better without the history attached to Stargate fans.
I'm not sure why so many people think watching "whiney" adults who are acting like teenagers is adult content. I guess its more adult than wish fufillment fantasy, but not that much. The show might have had a better chance if they dumped the first 6-7 episodes and moved those events forward to give the show purpose.
thats strange it popped up a list of results for me.
either way its old news and not a full cure
They used to have state religions, even after the bill of rights were ratified!
Thats what they used to do.
I remember when scifi first came on, they started out with a block of morning scifi cartoons: Robotech, Bionic Six etc. They then would show for the next 8 hours different classic scifi programs (6 million dollar man, buck rogers, quantum leap etc). Weekends were simliar with Cnet news, some comics oriented programming (The anti-gravity room?) then old movies followed by maybe a scifi original movie.
I can understand the need to bring in more viewers, or perhaps different viewers, but you should know what demographic is watching the scifi channel. You should be advertising video games, scifi movies, dvd sets etc, whatever products would appeal to those who like scifi. In fact syfy should be able to charge a premium for targeted advertising, instead of going for lowest common demominator advertising.
Japan also did not have the level of poverty that China does.
China won't be going away, if anything changes they will have to start to focus on satisfying domestic markets. Heck thats the reason western companies want to get into the Chinese market and not just take advantage of chinese labour.
Supposedly this was the case before world war 2 as well.
The reason you don't see it as being a different invention deals with what the legal requirements are for a different invention. The examiners are somewhat constrained in showing why a skilled artisan would choose six vanes instead of 4 if your invention claims using 6 and the prior art uses 4. Arguably almost any aspect could be "design choice" but examiners have a hard time in properly applying the case law for design choice and the BPAI in holding up their decision.
the first two were so bad you obviously forgot about the third.
The costs aren't that high, I'm always curious why parties in litigation almost never file a re-exam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination
The filing fees are low and anyone can supply prior art that they feel invalidates the patent it.
The backlog for re-exams isn't that long either.
Love and sexual attraction are two different things. Otherwise loving your kids would make one a pedophile.
Are the choices made in part due to a weighting factor based on ticket price? I assume you don't have a pluarilty of viewers who paid you money and you took that into consideration when making each "choice" in the movie?
http://www.peertopatent.org/
pay is pretty good, you start 60-75k (if you are fresh out of school or have 1-2 years engineering experience) and make 100k+ in 3-4 years before overtime and bonus. They are planning on hiring 2,000 people over the next two years and have quadrupled in size in the past 6. For a while they were giving 10k PER YEAR for 4 years hiring bonuses.
The only applications which will skip forwards are accellerated cases and continuations/divisonals. There has been a big push within the office to have each examiner work on their OLDEST cases to reduce pendency figures, in fact examiner's ratings depend on it.
All depends on where you live. In the DC area you have 5/10 richest counties in the nation. For example my county has 2.7 million people with an average income of 107k.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States
As a result, housing, food etc are all priced higher than most other places. Plus the taxman considers you to be "wealthy" so just because you have a higher cost of living, salary's are raised accordingly, and you have to pay higher taxes too.
Wasn't this what MBA's were originally intended for? Training engineers to be managers?