Google already does this... if you search for a product the first results you get are "Ads related to {Your Search Terms}" There are usually two or three online retailers followed by local retailers and google map showing those local retailers. Scroll past that and you get the actual search results and text ads on the right of each result page. Yahoo and Bing try to do the same thing {bing doesn't show a map} and duckduckgo has it's ads in a different color and they say "Sponsored Link" next to them. {I don't actually use yahoo, bing, or duckduckgo but had to look and see how they were laid out} Not sure how any other search engines are laid out but figure those are the four I hear the most about. I figure for public relations and to keep traffic the top search engines will do this anyway.
I have had plenty of what I thought were great ideas usually relating to applying a new advance in a different way. I have never pursued any of them, lack of time, resources, money, but someone else put all of them on the market shortly after I had the idea. It's not that they are reading my mind it's that they were great ideas that were obvious enough for it to be a race to production for multiple companies. As for software I have had those ideas as well researched them and most of the time found small companies trying to take off with the idea or open source projects implementing the idea already. I imagine that most of us have done this at some point, but these are the ideas getting patents.
Applying the non-obvious requirement would cut out a lot of the patent trolling.
I was going to say that they should study the walls in some of the apartments I lived in when I was younger, they appeared to amplify sounds passing through them.
chemical vapor deposition is already a commonly used production technique... not so sure you would be able to get consistency out of a crab shell. TFA was short on facts and data so I can't really make a conclusion, but yeah wanting press is a no brainer...
Cell phone battery electrodes retain about 80% of their capacity after 500 cycles
and since my battery only requires charging every other day sometimes three days depending on how much I'm using that it is almost 3 years. I have usually dropped my phone a few hundred times by then and am already looking at a new one.
Silicon sounds like it might be promising if in an actual battery is consistent with the 95% capacity after 200 cycles then the life span may not be shorter.
- Demand that sysadmins be on call at all times. As in 24x7x365. Sysadmins are expected to be ready to deal with a perceived emergency at 2 AM on Christmas morning. - Demand that sysadmins work in the wee hours with no extra compensation, including time off during the day afterwords.
I've had to deal with both of those but you forgot not getting credit for all that work some project manager swoops in and takes team credit when you are the guy running on 3 hours sleep a day to get it done.
I worked at a place were the site director had maintenance let him into the MDF. I kept saying I'm on the highway and will be there in less than five minutes so don't mess with anything but he went in and power cycled the mux instead of the ATM.
This article is spot on I think I've complained about at each of these at least a dozen times some of them thousands of time. I have no idea how to stop those behavior in my users especially point 1. You bypass the helpdesk system and 2 You're vague. I just complained to my boss about 5. You make urgent, last minute requests.
The only thing the article accomplishes is a rant.
My current vehicle doesn't get that kind of gas mileage but I don't pay that much on two cars either{Not Hybrid or Truck/SUV} Now if it falls on a month when I have to change tires on the car then yes but that is not that often 50k miles, I only drive my car 10-12k miles a year {about 30 miles a day}. As for insurance I already know that being my age with a good driving record and multiple plans through the same company for decades I get discounts that nobody just starting out does.
I would consider $200 closer to what I might pay {gas, insurance, regular maintenance on two cars that are paid off} and $600 closer to what you might pay if you had one lease or a loan on a small to mid-sized car not a truck or SUV.
The current electric car may not meet everyones needs however I wake up around 6:30AM would consider 60 miles a lot of driving compared to my normal day {30 miles max} and have usually parked the car at home by 7:00PM for the evening. I have a two car family, my wife doesn't drive more than 60 miles a day in her car either. I could easily switch both of us over to electric and just rent a car when we go on that mythical vacation once every decade.
I would have no problem with a 10-12 hour charge time. I have been looking to get an electric car for me but she doesn't want one for her because of range.
Shortly after they had new security cameras professionally installed at work, I called the site director over and had him watch the dvr screen. I told him to watch me walk out of the building and back in... I walked out of the building normally and off camera then walked back in at angles I knew the cameras where missing when I got back to the office he says "I thought you were pulling a prank and just went to lunch cause I didn't see you coming back".
He ended up calling them back to fix it. I think the building was more secure when they had a security guard.
It wouldn't help you track the brigand to tag them with just DNA, you would have to pick them up for something else or have enough evidence for probable cause before you could even swab them or their belongings. I am however sure a police dog could be trained to track a some kind of oil based scent that would be really hard to remove like a skunk scent. Then everything in of your store/warehouse/factory/home would be tagged with it as well so I don't think that would work either.
I occasionally have someone ask me why their internet is so slow when there router says up to 300mbps or a gigabit all I can do is reply "yes but the internet is coming through your dsl modem at a much lower 6mbps".
I live in a small Kansas town under 30k population so they tend to be more responsive. I have lived in larger places were if your not bleeding in a life threatening manner, good luck getting any help beyond a report that no one will ever read.
If they make phone calls or texts before the service is disconnected the records are for your phone you can give the relevant numbers to the police so they can track down the jerk.
I had a phone that I forgot in the car and it was stolen by the time I got it disconnected they had already made a lot of calls. They caught them.
Kansas would be a great place for wind farms. I have found that I can't open the umbrella on my lawn furniture for fear it may blow away. Unfortunately the city ordinance will not allow me to have a wind turbine. I think they are afraid I'll not have to pay an electric bill.
I agree I just don't see this as a workable idea for every road. I surely wouldn't want to pay for the upgrade. There was an article not to long ago on slashdot about promising battery research I wish I could find it. It appeared to be a more achievable.
I imagine he is thinking there are already to many low quality patents in existence. Stricter eligibility would not take care of those you would need both stricter eligibility and re-examination. Since the article is behind a paywall I can't say if this is the case.
If you are texting at a stop light or stop sign here and a cop sees it they will ticket you $60 fine for texting while driving you have to park and turn your car off first. I don't have a problem with that because I have had more than my fair share of texting drivers hit my cars. Talking on your cell phone hands free no fine so if I'm driving and you text me it get's ignored or I just hit callback {most of the time I just ignore it}.
Is this really even a problem... I mean are companies thinking about trying to retaliate against intrusions or malware or what ever? I've not seen it. Don't they usually just locked down there security?
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Google already does this... if you search for a product the first results you get are "Ads related to {Your Search Terms}" There are usually two or three online retailers followed by local retailers and google map showing those local retailers. Scroll past that and you get the actual search results and text ads on the right of each result page. Yahoo and Bing try to do the same thing {bing doesn't show a map} and duckduckgo has it's ads in a different color and they say "Sponsored Link" next to them.
{I don't actually use yahoo, bing, or duckduckgo but had to look and see how they were laid out}
Not sure how any other search engines are laid out but figure those are the four I hear the most about. I figure for public relations and to keep traffic the top search engines will do this anyway.
I have had plenty of what I thought were great ideas usually relating to applying a new advance in a different way. I have never pursued any of them, lack of time, resources, money, but someone else put all of them on the market shortly after I had the idea. It's not that they are reading my mind it's that they were great ideas that were obvious enough for it to be a race to production for multiple companies. As for software I have had those ideas as well researched them and most of the time found small companies trying to take off with the idea or open source projects implementing the idea already. I imagine that most of us have done this at some point, but these are the ideas getting patents.
Applying the non-obvious requirement would cut out a lot of the patent trolling.
I have seen I70 in Kansas City hit 5mph in 65mph zone frequently enough that I avoid rush hours when I drive through Kansas City.
It would be like scaring a bull to get it out of a china shop. They may run but I doubt that you could consider that a win.
I was going to say that they should study the walls in some of the apartments I lived in when I was younger, they appeared to amplify sounds passing through them.
chemical vapor deposition is already a commonly used production technique... not so sure you would be able to get consistency out of a crab shell. TFA was short on facts and data so I can't really make a conclusion, but yeah wanting press is a no brainer...
According to the article
Cell phone battery electrodes retain about 80% of their capacity after 500 cycles
and since my battery only requires charging every other day sometimes three days depending on how much I'm using that it is almost 3 years. I have usually dropped my phone a few hundred times by then and am already looking at a new one.
Silicon sounds like it might be promising if in an actual battery is consistent with the 95% capacity after 200 cycles then the life span may not be shorter.
- Demand that sysadmins be on call at all times. As in 24x7x365. Sysadmins are expected to be ready to deal with a perceived emergency at 2 AM on Christmas morning.
- Demand that sysadmins work in the wee hours with no extra compensation, including time off during the day afterwords.
I've had to deal with both of those but you forgot not getting credit for all that work some project manager swoops in and takes team credit when you are the guy running on 3 hours sleep a day to get it done.
I worked at a place were the site director had maintenance let him into the MDF. I kept saying I'm on the highway and will be there in less than five minutes so don't mess with anything but he went in and power cycled the mux instead of the ATM.
This article is spot on I think I've complained about at each of these at least a dozen times some of them thousands of time. I have no idea how to stop those behavior in my users especially point 1. You bypass the helpdesk system and 2 You're vague. I just complained to my boss about 5. You make urgent, last minute requests.
The only thing the article accomplishes is a rant.
My current vehicle doesn't get that kind of gas mileage but I don't pay that much on two cars either{Not Hybrid or Truck/SUV} Now if it falls on a month when I have to change tires on the car then yes but that is not that often 50k miles, I only drive my car 10-12k miles a year {about 30 miles a day}. As for insurance I already know that being my age with a good driving record and multiple plans through the same company for decades I get discounts that nobody just starting out does.
I would consider $200 closer to what I might pay {gas, insurance, regular maintenance on two cars that are paid off} and $600 closer to what you might pay if you had one lease or a loan on a small to mid-sized car not a truck or SUV.
I was actually thinking that with her hair color/style and uniform that Anne McClain had a vague resemblance to Amanda Tapping's character from SG1...
The current electric car may not meet everyones needs however I wake up around 6:30AM would consider 60 miles a lot of driving compared to my normal day {30 miles max} and have usually parked the car at home by 7:00PM for the evening. I have a two car family, my wife doesn't drive more than 60 miles a day in her car either. I could easily switch both of us over to electric and just rent a car when we go on that mythical vacation once every decade.
I would have no problem with a 10-12 hour charge time. I have been looking to get an electric car for me but she doesn't want one for her because of range.
Shortly after they had new security cameras professionally installed at work, I called the site director over and had him watch the dvr screen. I told him to watch me walk out of the building and back in... I walked out of the building normally and off camera then walked back in at angles I knew the cameras where missing when I got back to the office he says "I thought you were pulling a prank and just went to lunch cause I didn't see you coming back".
He ended up calling them back to fix it. I think the building was more secure when they had a security guard.
It wouldn't help you track the brigand to tag them with just DNA, you would have to pick them up for something else or have enough evidence for probable cause before you could even swab them or their belongings. I am however sure a police dog could be trained to track a some kind of oil based scent that would be really hard to remove like a skunk scent. Then everything in of your store/warehouse/factory/home would be tagged with it as well so I don't think that would work either.
Yes but the cost would mean that these would most likely become toll roads, I'm not sure I would be happy about that either.
I occasionally have someone ask me why their internet is so slow when there router says up to 300mbps or a gigabit all I can do is reply "yes but the internet is coming through your dsl modem at a much lower 6mbps".
I live in a small Kansas town under 30k population so they tend to be more responsive. I have lived in larger places were if your not bleeding in a life threatening manner, good luck getting any help beyond a report that no one will ever read.
If they make phone calls or texts before the service is disconnected the records are for your phone you can give the relevant numbers to the police so they can track down the jerk.
I had a phone that I forgot in the car and it was stolen by the time I got it disconnected they had already made a lot of calls. They caught them.
Yes that was one of them. Thanks.
Kansas would be a great place for wind farms. I have found that I can't open the umbrella on my lawn furniture for fear it may blow away. Unfortunately the city ordinance will not allow me to have a wind turbine. I think they are afraid I'll not have to pay an electric bill.
I agree I just don't see this as a workable idea for every road. I surely wouldn't want to pay for the upgrade. There was an article not to long ago on slashdot about promising battery research I wish I could find it. It appeared to be a more achievable.
I imagine he is thinking there are already to many low quality patents in existence. Stricter eligibility would not take care of those you would need both stricter eligibility and re-examination. Since the article is behind a paywall I can't say if this is the case.
Wasn't there a story about that earlier? It looked like a small victory.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/13/1550225/supreme-court-no-patents-for-natural-dna-sequences
If you are texting at a stop light or stop sign here and a cop sees it they will ticket you $60 fine for texting while driving you have to park and turn your car off first. I don't have a problem with that because I have had more than my fair share of texting drivers hit my cars. Talking on your cell phone hands free no fine so if I'm driving and you text me it get's ignored or I just hit callback {most of the time I just ignore it}.
Is this really even a problem... I mean are companies thinking about trying to retaliate against intrusions or malware or what ever? I've not seen it. Don't they usually just locked down there security?