I hope we soon can wire our homes with superconducting (or other high efficiency) wiring and other exremely low-loss transducers, so we can generate power at home and use it for max efficiency. AC/DC conversion and transmission over any distance starts cutting the whole efficiency down to unusable sizes pretty quick. Since home generation is generally low power, but can be steady (even while the home is vacant or people are sleeping), maximum efficiency transmission is an excellent place to improve overall productivity. Perhaps even enough to get over the threshold, turning the distributed power grid into more of a backup than a primary source.
Eventually we'll get high-efficiency wide-area interconnects, but in the meantime, the home is a place which can start the conversion with much lower investment and cooperation from power corporations mainly in the pocket of centralized power generating industries.
Did you make sure your home wiring is all through conduits that can be upgraded easily?
I defy you to find anywhere near the amount of current or recent (say, since Republicans took over Congress in 1994, over a decade ago) corruption by Democratic Party conspiracies as is completely evident in those Republicans.
Hell, I defy you to find a comparable amount of Democratic corruption in the Democratic Congresses from 1980-1994 as in Republicans from 1994-2007. Even though I'm not as interested in a history lesson as I am in identifying the problem facing us.
Give it a shot. Let's see which Party offers sustainable corruption, however awful, and which offers corruption that is actually destroying the country. Did someone say "Gonzales, Libby, Cheney"? Or was that just the voice of Nixon from beyond the grave?
A clear display of prior art, even for unimaginative patent examiners.
My point is that patenting a process like this by its inputs and outputs, not the specific mechanism that processes it, is entirely too vague. It's like patenting the gene itself, or otherwise gaining a monopoly on its any expression, not on a novel mechanism for expressing it. Because every human with that gene is executing that process, as we have been. That's a discovery, not an invention. Discoveries are to be published after peer review without further restriction, protecting only the content of the report, but not from fair use by other researchers in reproducing and improving on the experiments.
That point is at the heart of all biotech, and really the entire broken patent system that doesn't require working models to constrain patent applications to the specific novel device, rather than some virtual abstraction of the value of the device.
So a single current corrupt Democrat, actually from several years ago, who hasn't been shown to be part of any conspiracy with any other Democrats, is how this Republican getting caught in a Republican conspiracy along with the endless ranks of other current Republican conspiracies shows "Democrats are just as bad"?
I know Republicans (and the independents who love them) skipped math class to score coke, but you do know that 0.1 < 1 + 5 + 2 + 1, right? Just because there are two sides to the comparison doesn't make them equal.
US patents apply only to infringement (including marketing the product) in the US. There are international patents, as well as programmes for "harmonizing" foreign patents, and some foreign jurisdictions merely use the US registry for exclusions in their own jurisdiction.
But so far no one from space has sued in a US court. But we haven't heard from Johnny Cochran in a while, maybe he's beamed up, to raise his prices and profile.
Actually, Townshend's concept for Lifehouse was for Townshend to serve as the live interface for people's vital stats (and live state in the audience/band) to the synth and the rest of the instruments (including the audience and the band). No one could understand what he was talking about in 1970. He should have said "hippie magic" and just done it.
How does a (yet another) Republican getting caught show "both sides" are corrupt? Unless of course you're a Republican, in which case everything bad about Republicans is true of everyone, and nothing good is true of anyone else.
This is the kind of invention that would be worth protecting if it protected only the specific device the inventors produced to do it.
But as it happens, the patent as granted would protect them from competing with me, and anyone else whose DNA codes their bodies functionality to play a musical instrument with melody and harmony.
It's a joke, it ruins "science and the useful arts" in the name of "promoting" it, and it ruins the actual narrower right of authors/inventors to be protected for a reasonably limited time from competition stealing their investment just in time to compete with them.
But no one is talking about replacing it with something Constitutional. That would be a great invention, based on the original prior art, that should be as widely copied as possible.
Why should we spend time both commuting to work, and exercising at the gym?
They should outfit the vehicles with exercise bikes with dynamos. Pay people to pedal everyone to work, instead of the pedalers paying for the ride. Watch the energy costs go down, and watch the obesity problems go down, too. Then watch more people bike to work on a freerunning bicycle, except in bad weather.
Then make people pay penalties for being over the average weight, and the entire system finds its optimum lean efficiency.
So I can config the MacBook Pro trackpad to detect 2 fingers on the trackpad while clicking the only trackpad button, and map that to a right-click? Does that work under OSX, Ubuntu, or both?
Do you get any performance degrade, especially video, from running Ubuntu under Parallels?
When I checked a couple of months ago, the Mac was about $1-200 less than the identically spec'd HP, except the Mac has a one-button mouse. The new MacBook Pro might have come in more expensive than that old HP, or even a better HP with the same specs as the new MacBook Pro. But the old MacBook Pro I was looking at is therefore probably even cheaper now. And, unless the day I checked was some kind of fluke, overall the new MacBook Pro should therefore be a little cheaper than its HP version, once the initial demand has played out after a couple-few months.
I thought about getting the 17" MacBook Pro to dualboot MacOSX and Linux, and eventually go the way this story's poster is going. But I'm worried that Linux (Ubuntu) doesn't have all the drivers for every bit of the MacBook's HW.
And, possibly most important, what about that one-button mouse? What do you press to get right-click menus and features? How do you do left+right clicking? Is this even a tiny pain in the ass (or wrist)? What else is subtly, but importantly, different between that MacBook Pro, and, say, the similiarly priced HP 17" notebooks, other than running MacOSX SW?
You evidently don't believe it, but spending money only inside a tiny recirculating clique doesn't generate nearly as much economic growth as spending it in the general economy.
Actually, they're a Slashstalker. I notice that after I've burned some fool with a properly crafted flame, especially a thorough fisking, they just disappear from the thread, then suddenly a lot of my other, unrelated posts get TrollModded for a few days. Especially "Overrated" mods, but the other downmods are typical, too.
These people are pathetic. They can't argue, they can't think in the first place, and they're such a sore loser. All usually anonymous. Worthless punks.
The current network is neutral. Telcos/cablecos want to change that for "preferential" service (which means reduced service for parties they don't prefer).
"Ask a Ninja" about "Network Neutrality" and learn about Robin Williams and hotdog on a stick girl, too. The video is fun, and educational, and brought to you by your friendly neighborhood, endangered, Neutral Network.
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Excruciatingly bad Mars movie: Mission to Mars (2000). Anyone who was inspired by that dreck should be deported, not granted a patent.
I hope we soon can wire our homes with superconducting (or other high efficiency) wiring and other exremely low-loss transducers, so we can generate power at home and use it for max efficiency. AC/DC conversion and transmission over any distance starts cutting the whole efficiency down to unusable sizes pretty quick. Since home generation is generally low power, but can be steady (even while the home is vacant or people are sleeping), maximum efficiency transmission is an excellent place to improve overall productivity. Perhaps even enough to get over the threshold, turning the distributed power grid into more of a backup than a primary source.
Eventually we'll get high-efficiency wide-area interconnects, but in the meantime, the home is a place which can start the conversion with much lower investment and cooperation from power corporations mainly in the pocket of centralized power generating industries.
Did you make sure your home wiring is all through conduits that can be upgraded easily?
I defy you to find anywhere near the amount of current or recent (say, since Republicans took over Congress in 1994, over a decade ago) corruption by Democratic Party conspiracies as is completely evident in those Republicans.
Hell, I defy you to find a comparable amount of Democratic corruption in the Democratic Congresses from 1980-1994 as in Republicans from 1994-2007. Even though I'm not as interested in a history lesson as I am in identifying the problem facing us.
Give it a shot. Let's see which Party offers sustainable corruption, however awful, and which offers corruption that is actually destroying the country. Did someone say "Gonzales, Libby, Cheney"? Or was that just the voice of Nixon from beyond the grave?
A clear display of prior art, even for unimaginative patent examiners.
My point is that patenting a process like this by its inputs and outputs, not the specific mechanism that processes it, is entirely too vague. It's like patenting the gene itself, or otherwise gaining a monopoly on its any expression, not on a novel mechanism for expressing it. Because every human with that gene is executing that process, as we have been. That's a discovery, not an invention. Discoveries are to be published after peer review without further restriction, protecting only the content of the report, but not from fair use by other researchers in reproducing and improving on the experiments.
That point is at the heart of all biotech, and really the entire broken patent system that doesn't require working models to constrain patent applications to the specific novel device, rather than some virtual abstraction of the value of the device.
So a single current corrupt Democrat, actually from several years ago, who hasn't been shown to be part of any conspiracy with any other Democrats, is how this Republican getting caught in a Republican conspiracy along with the endless ranks of other current Republican conspiracies shows "Democrats are just as bad"?
I know Republicans (and the independents who love them) skipped math class to score coke, but you do know that 0.1 < 1 + 5 + 2 + 1, right? Just because there are two sides to the comparison doesn't make them equal.
US patents apply only to infringement (including marketing the product) in the US. There are international patents, as well as programmes for "harmonizing" foreign patents, and some foreign jurisdictions merely use the US registry for exclusions in their own jurisdiction.
But so far no one from space has sued in a US court. But we haven't heard from Johnny Cochran in a while, maybe he's beamed up, to raise his prices and profile.
Actually, Townshend's concept for Lifehouse was for Townshend to serve as the live interface for people's vital stats (and live state in the audience/band) to the synth and the rest of the instruments (including the audience and the band). No one could understand what he was talking about in 1970. He should have said "hippie magic" and just done it.
How does a (yet another) Republican getting caught show "both sides" are corrupt? Unless of course you're a Republican, in which case everything bad about Republicans is true of everyone, and nothing good is true of anyone else.
This is the kind of invention that would be worth protecting if it protected only the specific device the inventors produced to do it.
But as it happens, the patent as granted would protect them from competing with me, and anyone else whose DNA codes their bodies functionality to play a musical instrument with melody and harmony.
It's a joke, it ruins "science and the useful arts" in the name of "promoting" it, and it ruins the actual narrower right of authors/inventors to be protected for a reasonably limited time from competition stealing their investment just in time to compete with them.
But no one is talking about replacing it with something Constitutional. That would be a great invention, based on the original prior art, that should be as widely copied as possible.
Thanks for the Republican attempt at humor. That's perceptive of me, too, right?
Republican. From Ohio, maybe the most corrupt den of Republicans exposed in the past few years.
Republican. From a state with a primarily oil economy.
People will pay rather than starve. This is where economics is revealed to be merely a description of actual transactions. Otherwise, I'm with it.
Why should we spend time both commuting to work, and exercising at the gym?
They should outfit the vehicles with exercise bikes with dynamos. Pay people to pedal everyone to work, instead of the pedalers paying for the ride. Watch the energy costs go down, and watch the obesity problems go down, too. Then watch more people bike to work on a freerunning bicycle, except in bad weather.
Then make people pay penalties for being over the average weight, and the entire system finds its optimum lean efficiency.
If you meant "reading that site about how Kip Hawley is an idiot", then yes, I do feel better informed after reading that.
So I can config the MacBook Pro trackpad to detect 2 fingers on the trackpad while clicking the only trackpad button, and map that to a right-click? Does that work under OSX, Ubuntu, or both?
Do you get any performance degrade, especially video, from running Ubuntu under Parallels?
When I checked a couple of months ago, the Mac was about $1-200 less than the identically spec'd HP, except the Mac has a one-button mouse. The new MacBook Pro might have come in more expensive than that old HP, or even a better HP with the same specs as the new MacBook Pro. But the old MacBook Pro I was looking at is therefore probably even cheaper now. And, unless the day I checked was some kind of fluke, overall the new MacBook Pro should therefore be a little cheaper than its HP version, once the initial demand has played out after a couple-few months.
I thought about getting the 17" MacBook Pro to dualboot MacOSX and Linux, and eventually go the way this story's poster is going. But I'm worried that Linux (Ubuntu) doesn't have all the drivers for every bit of the MacBook's HW.
And, possibly most important, what about that one-button mouse? What do you press to get right-click menus and features? How do you do left+right clicking? Is this even a tiny pain in the ass (or wrist)? What else is subtly, but importantly, different between that MacBook Pro, and, say, the similiarly priced HP 17" notebooks, other than running MacOSX SW?
Thanks for tuning in. I find that adding something to the discussion makes me think, even if it's just a rant.
You evidently don't believe it, but spending money only inside a tiny recirculating clique doesn't generate nearly as much economic growth as spending it in the general economy.
Actually, they're a Slashstalker. I notice that after I've burned some fool with a properly crafted flame, especially a thorough fisking, they just disappear from the thread, then suddenly a lot of my other, unrelated posts get TrollModded for a few days. Especially "Overrated" mods, but the other downmods are typical, too.
These people are pathetic. They can't argue, they can't think in the first place, and they're such a sore loser. All usually anonymous. Worthless punks.
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Faithy TrollMods feel compelled to downmod when they've got no argument. Nothing can cure them.
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A detailed logical answer is a "Troll"? TrollMods roll the dice with reason in every anonymous mod.
What's that supposed to mean?
The current network is neutral. Telcos/cablecos want to change that for "preferential" service (which means reduced service for parties they don't prefer).
"Ask a Ninja" about "Network Neutrality" and learn about Robin Williams
and hotdog on a stick girl, too. The video is fun, and educational, and brought to you by your friendly neighborhood, endangered, Neutral Network.