There's no particular reason to compare the amount paid via sales tax to a person's income; compare it to the amount he consumes. It's not regressive. It's perfectly flat.
Of course there is a reason, and it is that a person with a lot of income spends a lower percentage of that income on consumption.
Actually this is the result of Rupert Murdoch (an Australian) owning a lot of media world-wide. He puts the same sort of mindless drivel out everywhere he operates.
The key point that you have to remember about America is that there is a far greater range from high to low than in other nations. We have great leaders like Kennedy and Roosevelt punctuated by boobs like GWB. We have put men on the moon but cannot record votes accurately. The top 10% of US high school students outperform the top 10% from any other nation, yet our average is below almost any developed country.
Well, when I was actively patenting things I used keep such a notebook. But my understanding is that it is not the actual notebook that is important, but rather the existence of corroborating evidence outside the inventor's own testimony. The notebook is simply a means of establishing this evidence as a routine process that companies frequently inflict on their technical people.
So if Trend has evidence prior to the filing, such as a lawyer's record of starting the application process it should not be hard to establish an earlier priority date.
How much earlier - that may turn out to be pretty important in this case.
I don't think that it is necessary to prove usage. However the filing date is not the same thing as the priority date. The filing date is a 'default' value for the priority date; if the inventor kept a good notebook on when his idea occurred it may well be possible to establish a priority date early enough to eliminate this prior art candidate.
How about Silicon Valley? That would be cool. Let's see... higher taxes than Massachusetts, check. Higher real estate prices, check. MUCH worse traffic, check.
I really hate non-compete agreements. In an at-will employment state they are indefensible, and Massachusetts would do well to make them unenforceable.
BUT I think that conclusions of this article are very far fetched. With the exclusion of Silicon Valley, Metro Boston is the #1 startup hotbed in the United States. It is one of the best places to create a startup, with immense intellectual capital available from the biggest concentration of 4 year universities in the world. And the geography of the startup area covers 4 states, not just Massachusetts - NH, CT and RI as well.
The article gave no numbers, and no comparisons of the laws of the various states in the region and their effects. Where are the facts, Jack? The article is just speculation without substance to back it up.
How often are you making this backup? Once, I think, at least if you are writing DVDs. An 11 hour difference vs. the convenience of having the files in a random access format that can be read on any computer that you own vs. a specialized linear access device from which you have to transfer the files before thay can be played.
I think it is hard to say that the tapes are more convenient.
If there are competitive services that provide the same service levels any reasonable person would conclude that there is no monopoly regardless if they are T1 technology based or not.
Most machines already have an optical drive installed. Not so with a SCSI interface.
As far as ntbackup, you have got to be kidding. That writes a proprietary file format that has already been superseded by something else in Vista. No way would you be able to read tapes created by that in 20 years.
Read your contract - the ISP may say unlimited; but the DON'T guarantee a bandwidth. All unlimited means is that they don't cut you off or charge you more if you exceed a certain data volume.
Let's get real here. If an ISP was really selling you a guaranteed dedicated bandwidth you would be paying a much higher price than you do now. Why do you think T1 is hundreds of dollars per month at 1.5 Mb/s? Because of the service guarantee, that is why.
Packet switching works economically because it is shared bandwidth relying on a statistical distribution of traffic on the network. During peak loads traffic will be slower than at off peak times unless the network is extremely over-provisioned.
There is another technology out there that gives a guaranteed bandwidth for every customer - which is rapidly being displaced because of its inefficiency - it is called circuit switched, and it is what the phone companies use to carry analog voice. Every call gets it's own dedicated bandwidth. All I can say is that you would not want an internet based on this network model. It is slow, inefficient and inflexible.
Now ISPs have a problem with users that run applications that present a high constant load because they don't fit the statistical model. High volume P2P is the primary offender right now. If people are using these sorts of applications when the network is heavily loaded it seems to me quite reasonable that traffic based on interactive applications (VOIP, video, HTTP) should receive priority. ANY good computing system should favor interactive applications over non-interactive applications. It is a basic system design principle.
Sorry to inform you, but to do this you need to monitor.
A lot of people whine that this breaks the idea of network neutrality. I disagree; network neutrality must not allow one type of communications stream or application to seriously degrade the performance or usability of all of the other applications. If that occurs you do not have a neutral network. You have a network that is dedicated to that one application. That is NOT what I as an end user want.
The problem with this theory is that the existence of copyright law does not preclude the creation of free media. The author can choose either method. It is up to the consumer to decide whether or not to consume the copyright restricted media or not.
Removal of copyright law would eliminate certain types of works - does anyone think that the Lord of the Rings movies could have been created without copyrights?
Let's face it - copyrighted works are often the result of a considerable investment by their creators, and many could not have been done without the existence of copyright law to protect that investment. And nobody is forcing people to be consumers of these works; people are perfectly free to restrict themselves to use of non-copyrighted works.
The problem is that some people want to have their cake and eat it too.
Not viable for terabytes of data???? A terabyte would be about $400 worth of DVDs. What do you have that would be less expensive and a chance of lasting 20 years?
I understand the sentiment. However the installer has gotten a complete overhaul. It is fast. Seriously fast. I have been running since Alpha and am still seriously impressed with the speed they have created. It was one of the focus points and I think they have succeeded.
Install speed is only one part of package management. In fact I think it was the only part of SuSE package management that I didn't have trouble with in the past.
SuSE lost my trust after it left a laptop of mine inoperable, so I switched to another distro.
The way things are now, Ubuntu will have to screw up for me to look for an alternative. It's the 'don't fix it if it isn't broken' principle.
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There's no particular reason to compare the amount paid via sales tax to a person's income; compare it to the amount he consumes. It's not regressive. It's perfectly flat.
Of course there is a reason, and it is that a person with a lot of income spends a lower percentage of that income on consumption.
The result: a sales tax is regressive.
Actually this is the result of Rupert Murdoch (an Australian) owning a lot of media world-wide. He puts the same sort of mindless drivel out everywhere he operates.
The key point that you have to remember about America is that there is a far greater range from high to low than in other nations. We have great leaders like Kennedy and Roosevelt punctuated by boobs like GWB. We have put men on the moon but cannot record votes accurately. The top 10% of US high school students outperform the top 10% from any other nation, yet our average is below almost any developed country.
This is a FOX news analyst. What do you expect?
Gravity, George Gamow
Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory, George Gamow
Birth of a New Physics, I Bernard Cohen
The nice thing about these is that they don't pander or sensationalize the way much of what passes for current science writing does.
As far as more recent work goes, I found "Subtle is the Lord", an Einstein biography by Abraham Pais to be quite good.
The concept of the broken window fallacy works if there aren't any external diseconomies in play. I'd contest that in this case.
Well, when I was actively patenting things I used keep such a notebook. But my understanding is that it is not the actual notebook that is important, but rather the existence of corroborating evidence outside the inventor's own testimony. The notebook is simply a means of establishing this evidence as a routine process that companies frequently inflict on their technical people.
So if Trend has evidence prior to the filing, such as a lawyer's record of starting the application process it should not be hard to establish an earlier priority date.
How much earlier - that may turn out to be pretty important in this case.
There are a variety of patent fraud statutes already.
I don't think that it is necessary to prove usage. However the filing date is not the same thing as the priority date. The filing date is a 'default' value for the priority date; if the inventor kept a good notebook on when his idea occurred it may well be possible to establish a priority date early enough to eliminate this prior art candidate.
Then don't live there.
How about Silicon Valley? That would be cool. Let's see... higher taxes than Massachusetts, check. Higher real estate prices, check. MUCH worse traffic, check.
I really hate non-compete agreements. In an at-will employment state they are indefensible, and Massachusetts would do well to make them unenforceable.
BUT I think that conclusions of this article are very far fetched. With the exclusion of Silicon Valley, Metro Boston is the #1 startup hotbed in the United States. It is one of the best places to create a startup, with immense intellectual capital available from the biggest concentration of 4 year universities in the world. And the geography of the startup area covers 4 states, not just Massachusetts - NH, CT and RI as well.
The article gave no numbers, and no comparisons of the laws of the various states in the region and their effects. Where are the facts, Jack? The article is just speculation without substance to back it up.
I call Bullshit.
How often are you making this backup? Once, I think, at least if you are writing DVDs. An 11 hour difference vs. the convenience of having the files in a random access format that can be read on any computer that you own vs. a specialized linear access device from which you have to transfer the files before thay can be played.
I think it is hard to say that the tapes are more convenient.
If there are competitive services that provide the same service levels any reasonable person would conclude that there is no monopoly regardless if they are T1 technology based or not.
Bandwidth is clearly a fungible commodity.
Not sure about the ease of handling tape vs. DVD. I have a DVD carousel with a capacity of 400 DVD's... pick the disk you want and press play.
There are a lot of people who have been buying up dark fibre and reselling it. And the cable TV guys also own physical plant.
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If this guy would run I'd be out on the streets supporting him.
What monopoly? T1 service is available from many carriers in most locations.
Most machines already have an optical drive installed. Not so with a SCSI interface.
As far as ntbackup, you have got to be kidding. That writes a proprietary file format that has already been superseded by something else in Vista. No way would you be able to read tapes created by that in 20 years.
Read your contract - the ISP may say unlimited; but the DON'T guarantee a bandwidth. All unlimited means is that they don't cut you off or charge you more if you exceed a certain data volume.
Let's get real here. If an ISP was really selling you a guaranteed dedicated bandwidth you would be paying a much higher price than you do now. Why do you think T1 is hundreds of dollars per month at 1.5 Mb/s? Because of the service guarantee, that is why.
Packet switching works economically because it is shared bandwidth relying on a statistical distribution of traffic on the network. During peak loads traffic will be slower than at off peak times unless the network is extremely over-provisioned.
There is another technology out there that gives a guaranteed bandwidth for every customer - which is rapidly being displaced because of its inefficiency - it is called circuit switched, and it is what the phone companies use to carry analog voice. Every call gets it's own dedicated bandwidth. All I can say is that you would not want an internet based on this network model. It is slow, inefficient and inflexible.
Now ISPs have a problem with users that run applications that present a high constant load because they don't fit the statistical model. High volume P2P is the primary offender right now. If people are using these sorts of applications when the network is heavily loaded it seems to me quite reasonable that traffic based on interactive applications (VOIP, video, HTTP) should receive priority. ANY good computing system should favor interactive applications over non-interactive applications. It is a basic system design principle.
Sorry to inform you, but to do this you need to monitor.
A lot of people whine that this breaks the idea of network neutrality. I disagree; network neutrality must not allow one type of communications stream or application to seriously degrade the performance or usability of all of the other applications. If that occurs you do not have a neutral network. You have a network that is dedicated to that one application. That is NOT what I as an end user want.
The problem with this theory is that the existence of copyright law does not preclude the creation of free media. The author can choose either method. It is up to the consumer to decide whether or not to consume the copyright restricted media or not.
Removal of copyright law would eliminate certain types of works - does anyone think that the Lord of the Rings movies could have been created without copyrights?
Let's face it - copyrighted works are often the result of a considerable investment by their creators, and many could not have been done without the existence of copyright law to protect that investment. And nobody is forcing people to be consumers of these works; people are perfectly free to restrict themselves to use of non-copyrighted works.
The problem is that some people want to have their cake and eat it too.
You forgot the price of the SCSI controller and tape backup software.
Not viable for terabytes of data???? A terabyte would be about $400 worth of DVDs. What do you have that would be less expensive and a chance of lasting 20 years?
I understand the sentiment. However the installer has gotten a complete overhaul. It is fast. Seriously fast. I have been running since Alpha and am still seriously impressed with the speed they have created. It was one of the focus points and I think they have succeeded.
Install speed is only one part of package management. In fact I think it was the only part of SuSE package management that I didn't have trouble with in the past.
SuSE lost my trust after it left a laptop of mine inoperable, so I switched to another distro.
The way things are now, Ubuntu will have to screw up for me to look for an alternative. It's the 'don't fix it if it isn't broken' principle.
Gold disks aren't $20 a pop any more. MAM-A Gold CDRs are a buck and MAM-A Gold DVDs are about $2.
I'd make a couple of copies onto gold media and store them in a cool dark place. May check them every few years.