It also ignores one of the fundamental aspects of patents - that is a patent holder of licensee DOESN'T necessarily have the right to practice his invention because it may merely be an improvement on another invention which is patented by another party.
Definition: A patent is a contract between the inventor and the government in which the government grants the patent owner the right to prevent others from practicing his invention in exchange for a full and public disclosure of the best way to practice the invention.
The entire premise of this proposal is a howler to anyone with any knowledge of patents because the basis for it is a complete misunderstanding of what a patent is.
This year I was in the market for a performance sedan, and eventually ruled out all of the German makes - Audi, BMW and Mercedes because of their less than stellar service record.
Eventually I ended up with an Acura. Perhaps not the conformist choice in this segment, but far less likely to have service issues.
I'd suggest you read the decision. There were comments by some of the judges objecting to the narrowness of the decision. I think if it were cell phone tracking there is a decent chance they would have found that unacceptable too.
I have been wearing one of these for about 7 years now.
The solar power feature is brilliant. It charges a supercapacitor and holds enough energy keep time several months without exposure to sunlight. It goes into an energy saving mode if kept in the dark.
Super accurate too. Never have to adjust the time.
"The theorem assumes an idealization of any real-world situation, as it only applies to signals that are sampled for infinite time; any time-limited x(t) cannot be perfectly bandlimited. Perfect reconstruction is mathematically possible for the idealized model but only an approximation for real-world signals and sampling techniques, albeit in practice often a very good one.
The theorem also leads to a formula for reconstruction of the original signal. The constructive proof of the theorem leads to an understanding of the aliasing that can occur when a sampling system does not satisfy the conditions of the theorem."
One of the things that I find most puzzling about this sudden alarm over hydraulic fracturing is that this is not exactly a new technology. It's been used to enhance oil production for over 100 years, and natural gas production for 50 years.
Surely if all these doomsday scenarios had any basis reality we would have seen their occurrence by now.
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Compositions of many of the fluids are freely available because of complaints about the issue.
Bullshit. The Oil and Gas companies divulge this information when they apply for permits to do the work. It's generally available in the permit applications.
Here is a link to the original paper by Dr. Peter Craven where he mathematically proves that an apodizing filter can make audible improvements in sound reproduction.
Unfortunately it's behind a paywall. but take my word for it's a pretty impressive piece of work.
Most people, whose sensibilities are not trained to the point where they are discriminating enough won't likely notice the difference. However the fact of the matter is the differences are measurable, the principle is based on sound math, and the results are in the perceptible audio spectrum.
Peter Craven made several important contributions to digital recording. He and Michael Gerzon did a lot to push forward the early development of surround sound technology, and made other significant contributions to the process of digital recording. In particular their work on dithering has had a big impact in improving the quality of CD recordings.
The German economy is not growing as fast as the US economy, and while it has slightly lower unemployment, it's rate of unemployment has been increasing.
That's rather ignorant. The US economy, while not robust by historical standards is pretty much the only big one not in recession at this point. Look at the world currency markets. The USD has been gaining on most everything.
And as far as the first car goes, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769.
The REAL invention that made cars attractive was efficient production of gasoline, and that was due to an American, William Meriam Burton who invented thermal cracking.
> Publishers and other IP holders would flee the US in droves.
You missed the key element... publishers and other IP holders would no longer produce content for the US market because the opportunity to make money would be drastically reduced. So the capital would be invested in making content for other markets.
I have a fair idea what would happen with respect to patents.
1. Corporate research would be crushed. There would be no financial reason to develop a new product in many fields because the average time to commercialize a new invention is 5-7 years in US industry.
2. Commercially funded medical R&D would be DONE because the regulatory lead time is more than 5 years.
3. Nobody would patent anything. The fundamental contract behind patenting is the exchange of disclosure of a new invention for a limited term monopoly. With a term of 5 years there is no practical incentive to reveal your invention. Instead it will be kept secret as long as possible.
4. Consumers would be deluged with all sorts of contractual requirements when purchasing technology. You think software licensing is bad? Be prepared for a license on EVERYTHING you purchase. Even a loaf of bread.
Considering that it takes more than 5 years for a pharmaceutical to get through the regulatory process this would pretty much be the end of privately funded pharmaceutical R&D.
Even if a solution were to be found to this problem, the short patent term would pretty much eliminate private funding for R&D for any drug that didn't have a huge market because the payback time would have to be so short.
This is why I don't pay attention to ANY popularized publication of scientific results.
BPA - causes all sort of problems.
Eating GMO corn - rat livers have problems
Vaccine - causes autism
Yadda yadda, every day in the news. Then you dig into the toxicological assessments of the collected studies and you find - BPA, not one of the studies was reproducable. GMO corn study had bogus statistics used to manipulate results. The vaccine study was out and out fraud.
The answer lies in reading the toxicology journals where the assessments of the body of the studies are done. And of course this is exactly what the popular press doesn't report because these assessments generally come to the conclusion there isn't real evidence for a problem. If there isn't anything alarming or sensational it doesn't get into the news.
Here's a Clue: the technology you live with and take for granted every day was invented by old people who are smarter than you will ever even dream of being.
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It also ignores one of the fundamental aspects of patents - that is a patent holder of licensee DOESN'T necessarily have the right to practice his invention because it may merely be an improvement on another invention which is patented by another party.
Definition: A patent is a contract between the inventor and the government in which the government grants the patent owner the right to prevent others from practicing his invention in exchange for a full and public disclosure of the best way to practice the invention.
The entire premise of this proposal is a howler to anyone with any knowledge of patents because the basis for it is a complete misunderstanding of what a patent is.
Why does increasing the number of patents make it exponentially harder to avoid infringement?
It's think it was linear at worst, and perhaps sublinear as because the more you work to avoid patents, the more efficient at it you would become.
Nonsense. The last CR listed the top nine most reliable brands as Japanese.
It isn't close.
This year I was in the market for a performance sedan, and eventually ruled out all of the German makes - Audi, BMW and Mercedes because of their less than stellar service record.
Eventually I ended up with an Acura. Perhaps not the conformist choice in this segment, but far less likely to have service issues.
I'd suggest you read the decision. There were comments by some of the judges objecting to the narrowness of the decision. I think if it were cell phone tracking there is a decent chance they would have found that unacceptable too.
The Ninth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Privacy was recognized as a right some time ago. It isn't just the 4th amendment that is under attack here.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html
Sticking the phone in an RF shielded bag will also work, however it might be a little harder on battery life.
The problem with these solutions is they defeat the purpose of carrying a phone.
Omega Speedmaster Professional.
http://www.omegawatches.com/fileadmin/templates/images/img_product_presentation/gents_apollo15/03_rover.jpg
Look closely at the left arm. Now that's product placement.
Purely mechanical manual wind.
Lovell used his to time the Apollo 13 burns when command module was powered down.
I have been wearing one of these for about 7 years now.
The solar power feature is brilliant. It charges a supercapacitor and holds enough energy keep time several months without exposure to sunlight. It goes into an energy saving mode if kept in the dark.
Super accurate too. Never have to adjust the time.
The Nyquist Shannon theorem makes some assumptions that are not necessarily valid for digital recording of music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem
"The theorem assumes an idealization of any real-world situation, as it only applies to signals that are sampled for infinite time; any time-limited x(t) cannot be perfectly bandlimited. Perfect reconstruction is mathematically possible for the idealized model but only an approximation for real-world signals and sampling techniques, albeit in practice often a very good one.
The theorem also leads to a formula for reconstruction of the original signal. The constructive proof of the theorem leads to an understanding of the aliasing that can occur when a sampling system does not satisfy the conditions of the theorem."
One of the things that I find most puzzling about this sudden alarm over hydraulic fracturing is that this is not exactly a new technology. It's been used to enhance oil production for over 100 years, and natural gas production for 50 years.
Surely if all these doomsday scenarios had any basis reality we would have seen their occurrence by now.
Compositions of many of the fluids are freely available because of complaints about the issue.
Here's one source of information:
http://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used
Bullshit. The Oil and Gas companies divulge this information when they apply for permits to do the work. It's generally available in the permit applications.
Here is a link to the original paper by Dr. Peter Craven where he mathematically proves that an apodizing filter can make audible improvements in sound reproduction.
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=12992
Unfortunately it's behind a paywall. but take my word for it's a pretty impressive piece of work.
Most people, whose sensibilities are not trained to the point where they are discriminating enough won't likely notice the difference. However the fact of the matter is the differences are measurable, the principle is based on sound math, and the results are in the perceptible audio spectrum.
Peter Craven made several important contributions to digital recording. He and Michael Gerzon did a lot to push forward the early development of surround sound technology, and made other significant contributions to the process of digital recording. In particular their work on dithering has had a big impact in improving the quality of CD recordings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerzon
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=5872
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=6777
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=6647
I thought Cyberdyne Systems was the leader in this area.
Shukov may have been Russian but he was educated in the United States.
The German economy is not growing as fast as the US economy, and while it has slightly lower unemployment, it's rate of unemployment has been increasing.
That is not better than the current US situation.
That's rather ignorant. The US economy, while not robust by historical standards is pretty much the only big one not in recession at this point. Look at the world currency markets. The USD has been gaining on most everything.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341754/20120516/euro-zone-greek-government-austerity-forex-dollar.htm
The US stock market has been outperforming everything major this year as well.
http://www.yardeni.com/pub/PEACOCKGLSTKYTD.pdf
Oh, and FYI the Chinese stopped buying US bonds over a year ago and started reducing their holdings. Didn't have any effect.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-17/china-trims-u-s-bond-holdings-for-fifth-month-as-debt-approaches-ceiling.html
And as far as the first car goes, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769.
The REAL invention that made cars attractive was efficient production of gasoline, and that was due to an American, William Meriam Burton who invented thermal cracking.
> Publishers and other IP holders would flee the US in droves.
You missed the key element... publishers and other IP holders would no longer produce content for the US market because the opportunity to make money would be drastically reduced. So the capital would be invested in making content for other markets.
I have a fair idea what would happen with respect to patents.
1. Corporate research would be crushed. There would be no financial reason to develop a new product in many fields because the average time to commercialize a new invention is 5-7 years in US industry.
2. Commercially funded medical R&D would be DONE because the regulatory lead time is more than 5 years.
3. Nobody would patent anything. The fundamental contract behind patenting is the exchange of disclosure of a new invention for a limited term monopoly. With a term of 5 years there is no practical incentive to reveal your invention. Instead it will be kept secret as long as possible.
4. Consumers would be deluged with all sorts of contractual requirements when purchasing technology. You think software licensing is bad? Be prepared for a license on EVERYTHING you purchase. Even a loaf of bread.
Considering that it takes more than 5 years for a pharmaceutical to get through the regulatory process this would pretty much be the end of privately funded pharmaceutical R&D.
Even if a solution were to be found to this problem, the short patent term would pretty much eliminate private funding for R&D for any drug that didn't have a huge market because the payback time would have to be so short.
This is why I don't pay attention to ANY popularized publication of scientific results.
BPA - causes all sort of problems.
Eating GMO corn - rat livers have problems
Vaccine - causes autism
Yadda yadda, every day in the news. Then you dig into the toxicological assessments of the collected studies and you find - BPA, not one of the studies was reproducable. GMO corn study had bogus statistics used to manipulate results. The vaccine study was out and out fraud.
The answer lies in reading the toxicology journals where the assessments of the body of the studies are done. And of course this is exactly what the popular press doesn't report because these assessments generally come to the conclusion there isn't real evidence for a problem. If there isn't anything alarming or sensational it doesn't get into the news.
Exactly. For lots of commercial applications like advertising the photographer is definitely under pressure.
But for capturing the moments of your life it is hard to see a substitute to being there.
Not hard to avoid, even if it's a moonless night.
I'd be more worried about the duck specials at the Wegmans.
Here's a Clue: the technology you live with and take for granted every day was invented by old people who are smarter than you will ever even dream of being.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby
Now get off my lawn.