Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical steps a software author can do here?
Hire a GOOD lawyer and do it QUICK. It may already too late because in the US you have one year to file a patent after you offer it commercially. After that one year their is statutory bar to ever getting a patent on the invention.
You may already be too late in which case there is nothing that can be done.
It's a design patent you twits. It doesn't cover anything but the appearance of the home page. It doesn't imply any coverage of an idea of a "simple home page" or anything else like that.
Seriously Slashdot editors should be required to take a few lessons on the various types of patents, basic copyright law and trademark law. The amount of misinformation on these topics here is frightening.
If you bought a DSL 6000 line that actually guaranteed that service level it would cost you several times more than what you are paying now. The fact is that the internet gets much of economic power because of statistical use of the bandwidth. If everyone actually insisted on guaranteed service levels we would be back in the era of the switched circuit networks of the 1950's.
60 down and 1 up is a joke. There is no way that you are going to be able to effective use much more than 10 mbps down with only 1 mbps up.
And since when did net neutrality have anything to do with traffic shaping? Net neutrality is when all destinations are treated equally, not all protocols.
If you are on a net that has both tcp and udp traffic (the entire internet) you are already making protocol choices.
The Big Dig numbers you quote are rather distorted by inflation and included interest costs. Stripping out these factors the original cost estimate works out to 6bil and the final cost is 14.8bill.
The 787 overruns PRIOR to this wrinkle problem are 11bil.
It's a little more than just outsourcing - Boeing had cut their internal engineering resources to the point where they didn't have the capacity to do all of design work in house. Since you don't just go out and hire a few thousand airframe structural engineers the only option left was to outsource - and now it turns out the partners they had vastly overstated their capabilities. After all, any engineer is the same as any other, right?
My brother is an engineer at Boeing... he claims that this is the most screwed up engineering project in terms of cost in human history. I think he has a point.
I guess you Euros aren't as well informed as you think; your definition is quite archaic, and perhaps appropriate if you were living in the 17th century.
But you are not, and this is the 21st century,
From Brittanica:
Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives elected by its populace. The term was originally applied to a form of government in which the leader is periodically appointed under a constitution; it was contrasted with governments in which leadership is hereditary. A republic may also be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics.
The Columbia Encyclopedia:
republic [Lat. res publica,=public affair], today understood to be a sovereign state ruled by representatives of a widely inclusive electorate. The term republic formerly denoted a form of government that was both free from hereditary or monarchical rule and had popular control of the state and a conception of public welfare. It is in this sense that we speak of the ancient Roman republic. Today, in addition to the above characteristics, a republic is a state in which all segments of society are enfranchised and in which the state's power is constitutionally limited. Traditionally a republic is distinguished from a true democracy in that the republic operates through a representative assembly chosen by the citizenry, while in a democracy the populace participates directly in governmental affairs. In actual practice, however, most modern representative governments are closer to a republic than a democracy. The United States is an example of a federal republic, in which the powers of the central government are limited and the component parts of the nation, the states, exercise some measure of home rule. France is an example of a centralized republic, in which the component parts have more limited powers. The USSR, though in theory a grouping of federated republics and autonomous regions, was in fact a centralized republic until its breakup in 1991.
So before you spout off about ignorant America you should first be aware of your own limitations.
Yes, and according to the same article the National Corrections Commission on Health Care (an AMA organization) also removed the health care accreditation of these prisons. That sounds a bit more serious.
In addition it wasn't quite clear what forms of salt were banned, but it is important to note that salt can be very important if you are doing manual labor in warm climates, such as found in Arizona.
. The guy was barely technical enough to operate a power stapler. He would be no more likely to be able to administer a mail server than he would be of inventing a trans-light starship.
It also has me thinking about a boss I had who went nuts when he found out I could read his email. He wanted his own email server (and like who is going admin it?).
In any case I have to wonder about the future of this startup is the people involved are so inexperienced.
It's very unlikely your TV would produce an audible improvement with those HD lossless audio streams anyway. You need a fairly high end sound system to tell the difference between the full lossless codec sound quality and the downmixed version that would be sent out the bluray player S/PDIF connection.
In fact it can be argued that the downmixed streams are indistinguishable to the humar ear from the lossless codecs. The bitrates are high enough to expect that there really should be little or no audible difference.
What I am suggesting is not picking a set of good TV's and then choosing the one that has the best internet features. I'm suggesting completely ignoring the internet features and picking based on just display, power consumption, and HDMI connections. By this time next year internet options will be very different while the desirability of the other features will be unchanged.
Why is this position open? If the person who had the position previously left, why? Has anybody in this position been promoted in the past year or two? How many people in this position have left in the past year or two?
The technology in this area is changing very quickly, anything you get this week will be superseded quickly. Pick a TV based on the picture quality, power consumption and number of HDMI connections.
If by music industry you mean anything that is distributed in the form of iTunes or mp3's with a useful half life of a month or so, I'm all for its demise and good riddance.
The vast majority of that sort of stuff is dung. If we are talking about taxing cigarettes and sugary carbonated soda and fast food, no reason to not extend that to this sort of "music" as well.
Once this sort of stuff is gone maybe people will get a chance to listen to real music, in person or played back on high-fidelity equipment.
Why do you assume humans will be able to adapt? According to one theory (backed by genetic diversity measurements) one of the previous ice ages reduced the human race down to as little as 1000 breeding couples.
Yes there is not a 1:1 correspondence between the code and the actual manufacturer.
BUT for people who follow the industry the codes can still be used to identify the real manufacturer, and in many cases can be used to identify people who are forging manufacturer IDs. Lots of people like to put TY02 on discs that never saw any part of Japan.
And in any case they are FAR more meaningful than the label on the box.
Make sure the Verbatim DL's you are getting are made in Singapore not India. There is (or was last time I had the misfortune of getting some Made In India) a HUGE difference in quality.
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This year's IgNobel Prize in Biology that is.
Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical steps a software author can do here?
Hire a GOOD lawyer and do it QUICK. It may already too late because in the US you have one year to file a patent after you offer it commercially. After that one year their is statutory bar to ever getting a patent on the invention.
You may already be too late in which case there is nothing that can be done.
It's a design patent you twits. It doesn't cover anything but the appearance of the home page. It doesn't imply any coverage of an idea of a "simple home page" or anything else like that.
Seriously Slashdot editors should be required to take a few lessons on the various types of patents, basic copyright law and trademark law. The amount of misinformation on these topics here is frightening.
Real time keyloggers can breach even this level of security.
If you bought a DSL 6000 line that actually guaranteed that service level it would cost you several times more than what you are paying now. The fact is that the internet gets much of economic power because of statistical use of the bandwidth. If everyone actually insisted on guaranteed service levels we would be back in the era of the switched circuit networks of the 1950's.
60 down and 1 up is a joke. There is no way that you are going to be able to effective use much more than 10 mbps down with only 1 mbps up.
And since when did net neutrality have anything to do with traffic shaping? Net neutrality is when all destinations are treated equally, not all protocols.
If you are on a net that has both tcp and udp traffic (the entire internet) you are already making protocol choices.
The Big Dig numbers you quote are rather distorted by inflation and included interest costs. Stripping out these factors the original cost estimate works out to 6bil and the final cost is 14.8bill.
The 787 overruns PRIOR to this wrinkle problem are 11bil.
It's a little more than just outsourcing - Boeing had cut their internal engineering resources to the point where they didn't have the capacity to do all of design work in house. Since you don't just go out and hire a few thousand airframe structural engineers the only option left was to outsource - and now it turns out the partners they had vastly overstated their capabilities. After all, any engineer is the same as any other, right?
My brother is an engineer at Boeing... he claims that this is the most screwed up engineering project in terms of cost in human history. I think he has a point.
Unfortunately some people have died under suspicious circumstances in Sheriff Joe's jail cells.
I guess you Euros aren't as well informed as you think; your definition is quite archaic, and perhaps appropriate if you were living in the 17th century.
But you are not, and this is the 21st century,
From Brittanica:
Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives elected by its populace. The term was originally applied to a form of government in which the leader is periodically appointed under a constitution; it was contrasted with governments in which leadership is hereditary. A republic may also be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics.
The Columbia Encyclopedia:
republic [Lat. res publica,=public affair], today understood to be a sovereign state ruled by representatives of a widely inclusive electorate. The term republic formerly denoted a form of government that was both free from hereditary or monarchical rule and had popular control of the state and a conception of public welfare. It is in this sense that we speak of the ancient Roman republic. Today, in addition to the above characteristics, a republic is a state in which all segments of society are enfranchised and in which the state's power is constitutionally limited. Traditionally a republic is distinguished from a true democracy in that the republic operates through a representative assembly chosen by the citizenry, while in a democracy the populace participates directly in governmental affairs. In actual practice, however, most modern representative governments are closer to a republic than a democracy. The United States is an example of a federal republic, in which the powers of the central government are limited and the component parts of the nation, the states, exercise some measure of home rule. France is an example of a centralized republic, in which the component parts have more limited powers. The USSR, though in theory a grouping of federated republics and autonomous regions, was in fact a centralized republic until its breakup in 1991.
So before you spout off about ignorant America you should first be aware of your own limitations.
Yes, and according to the same article the National Corrections Commission on Health Care (an AMA organization) also removed the health care accreditation of these prisons. That sounds a bit more serious.
In addition it wasn't quite clear what forms of salt were banned, but it is important to note that salt can be very important if you are doing manual labor in warm climates, such as found in Arizona.
I you don't mind going to jail for destroying evidence or interfering with an investigation yes that would work.
. The guy was barely technical enough to operate a power stapler. He would be no more likely to be able to administer a mail server than he would be of inventing a trans-light starship.
It is a pretty lame question.
It also has me thinking about a boss I had who went nuts when he found out I could read his email. He wanted his own email server (and like who is going admin it?).
In any case I have to wonder about the future of this startup is the people involved are so inexperienced.
It's very unlikely your TV would produce an audible improvement with those HD lossless audio streams anyway. You need a fairly high end sound system to tell the difference between the full lossless codec sound quality and the downmixed version that would be sent out the bluray player S/PDIF connection.
In fact it can be argued that the downmixed streams are indistinguishable to the humar ear from the lossless codecs. The bitrates are high enough to expect that there really should be little or no audible difference.
What I am suggesting is not picking a set of good TV's and then choosing the one that has the best internet features. I'm suggesting completely ignoring the internet features and picking based on just display, power consumption, and HDMI connections. By this time next year internet options will be very different while the desirability of the other features will be unchanged.
Why is this position open?
If the person who had the position previously left, why?
Has anybody in this position been promoted in the past year or two?
How many people in this position have left in the past year or two?
The technology in this area is changing very quickly, anything you get this week will be superseded quickly. Pick a TV based on the picture quality, power consumption and number of HDMI connections.
There is plenty of related stuff out on the internet that gives credibility to this.
And this sort of malarkey is why I'm not buying one of these any time soon.
That would certainly be disturbing because I just had a nice man install just such a head unit in my car.
If by music industry you mean anything that is distributed in the form of iTunes or mp3's with a useful half life of a month or so, I'm all for its demise and good riddance.
The vast majority of that sort of stuff is dung. If we are talking about taxing cigarettes and sugary carbonated soda and fast food, no reason to not extend that to this sort of "music" as well.
Once this sort of stuff is gone maybe people will get a chance to listen to real music, in person or played back on high-fidelity equipment.
It might be an epiphany.
Why do you assume humans will be able to adapt? According to one theory (backed by genetic diversity measurements) one of the previous ice ages reduced the human race down to as little as 1000 breeding couples.
Mercurial would be better for this because both students would have their own repository and no central server would be required.
Yes there is not a 1:1 correspondence between the code and the actual manufacturer.
BUT for people who follow the industry the codes can still be used to identify the real manufacturer, and in many cases can be used to identify people who are forging manufacturer IDs. Lots of people like to put TY02 on discs that never saw any part of Japan.
And in any case they are FAR more meaningful than the label on the box.
Make sure the Verbatim DL's you are getting are made in Singapore not India. There is (or was last time I had the misfortune of getting some Made In India) a HUGE difference in quality.