I didn't read the article, so I comment only on the comment:
VHS quality in 200kbs seems inferior to me to VHS quality in 150kbs, that we have with MPEG1.
Additionnaly, using MPEG1 on VideoCD permits to see films without computer on quite any DVD player.
Yeah, that's the theory.
But it's obvious that computers can be used for almost anything, and , according to Sun, for at least ten years, the network is the computer(hope I don't infrige on a trademark, there;).
So how can your description of an ideal situation explains the innumerable patents we observe, and that consist of:
1 adding with a computer to something already known.
2 replacing with a computer with with computers communicating one with another?
Sorry I'm not natively english speaker, and I realise the intended irony in my original comment was to light to be noticed.
but wait till a french judge rules that yahoo.fr, the franch subsidiary, is responsible of the "wrong doings" (according to french law) of yahoo.com, and impose penalties.
is the only one to accept patents after there is public communication.
In all other system I know of, once there is no longere secret, there is no longer patentability.
On a side note, monopolies are legel, abused monopolies are not. Patents grant legal monopolies, abuse of patent should be prosecutable (think of Brazil against pharmaceutical laboratories, selling remedies 10 times their costs. If it's not an abuse of monopoly, what is?).
you look for the pdas and the phones documentations, then you buy the right combination.
I enjoyed some time Revo + S25 (siemens).
The S25 is one of the 4 model specially validated to work with the revo (with a motorola and 2 nokia).
Perhaps it's too much an european solution for you, but it had good Outlook sync for the Revo, and IR sync of phone number with phone.
Now, I broke the screen of the revo, reverted to palm, and want to change my phone (the battery begin to be old, and the phone stay on only 3 days;).
Further more, I don't know if choosinbg some psion pda is a good bet on the future.
It depends of your usage, and of your previsible usage, but I consider a phone is kept max 2 years, and a pda max 3 years. So, choose today some PDA you want to still have when you change phone, and then, choose a compatible phone.
I see a problem with their scheme. For their SuperHyperExtraPrecise balance to be calibrated, it has to measure a mass of 1 kilogram.
The only one I know of is in Paris, France. All others are copies. Good quality copies, but approximative copies, nevertheless, and for the level of precision they want to define, it matters.
So, either they want to define the aek (american e-kilogram), or the move their construction to Paris. (I don't think THE ONE kilogram is going to fly to the US).
- By the way, here [nist.gov] is a photo of the artifact.
Which one. is this THE kilogram, stored in Pavillon de Breteuil, in Paris, France (you know, some contry across the atlantic), or one for the internationnal, that is a copy, or a copy of a copy or a...
-It's been kept under specified conditions since 1889.
Don't know how to read ?
In reality, it's been kept under conditions specified in 1889. If it is to be useful, it must quit the vaccum from time to time in order to make copies.
Technical department conversation :
- How can we test our new news system.
- I don't know, we could simulate traffic.
- PHB don't like simulations, we must find somethiong else.
- Ye but... I know! Let's get slashdotted.
- Good idea. We just have to critic them and...
I don't remember all the details, cause I try to follow both american and european legislations on the subject.
I remember reading of restriction to copy restriction for ISP for technical reasons.
As you Provide a Service on Internet, I think you should be entitled to an ISP status, as long as the you don't cache any more after the disparition of the technical reason (the slashdotting).
Of course IANAL
I cannot agree. As a small software company owner and consultant, without the EuroLinux petition, I would have never heard about the consultation (which obviously didn't made it to mainstream media). Big lobbying corporations with lots of IP lawyer, on the other end, where more aware of the subject. The fact that most anti patent points of view came from EuroLinux is simply the sign that the consultation was not intented to be a democratic consultation of European individuals by a transparent transnationnal autority, but just an administrative tentative to validate an already made decision.
if, for some reason, the alimentation of the palm is defective, and sent to the serial port, perhaps it could damage some cheap serial port controller.
Is burning a chip on the motherboard damaging the motherboard?
excuse me, I'm not native english speaker, but... it seems to me that knowing how something behave has not the same meaning than knowing how it works, the latter implying, for me, a notion of why it behave this way. Correct me if I'm wrong. For myself, I surely understand how those forces behave, but not why. (and I don't accept explanations such as: cause the equations tell us it must behave this way.
Slashdot Mirror
I prefer Geant's to Abilene's map:
* png instead of gif
* more readable and coherent color coding
I didn't read the article, so I comment only on the comment:
VHS quality in 200kbs seems inferior to me to VHS quality in 150kbs, that we have with MPEG1.
Additionnaly, using MPEG1 on VideoCD permits to see films without computer on quite any DVD player.
Yeah, that's the theory.
But it's obvious that computers can be used for almost anything, and , according to Sun, for at least ten years, the network is the computer(hope I don't infrige on a trademark, there;).
So how can your description of an ideal situation explains the innumerable patents we observe, and that consist of:
1 adding with a computer to something already known.
2 replacing with a computer with with computers communicating one with another?
Sorry I'm not natively english speaker, and I realise the intended irony in my original comment was to light to be noticed.
there is no Nobel for mathematics, and I don't think you can decrypt with medicine or litterature;)
who judge obviousness?
the patent examiner?
the judge?
an experimented professionnal of the field? how is he compensated for his analysis?
Where did the money go?
in marketing...
OK. so now, we only need to develop a competing GPL port of DirectX.
Easy.
Who begin?
EH, It's Linux 7.3.
I suppose all 2.4.15 bugs have been ironed out.
but wait till a french judge rules that yahoo.fr, the franch subsidiary, is responsible of the "wrong doings" (according to french law) of yahoo.com, and impose penalties.
This fee will reflect the value of the document to the United States
At present time, I'm not sure the fee will be very high...
depending of the definition, tomcat can be viewed as an application server. It clearly is not just a web page server.
is the only one to accept patents after there is public communication.
In all other system I know of, once there is no longere secret, there is no longer patentability.
On a side note, monopolies are legel, abused monopolies are not. Patents grant legal monopolies, abuse of patent should be prosecutable (think of Brazil against pharmaceutical laboratories, selling remedies 10 times their costs. If it's not an abuse of monopoly, what is?).
not often enough
you look for the pdas and the phones documentations, then you buy the right combination.
I enjoyed some time Revo + S25 (siemens).
The S25 is one of the 4 model specially validated to work with the revo (with a motorola and 2 nokia).
Perhaps it's too much an european solution for you, but it had good Outlook sync for the Revo, and IR sync of phone number with phone.
Now, I broke the screen of the revo, reverted to palm, and want to change my phone (the battery begin to be old, and the phone stay on only 3 days;).
Further more, I don't know if choosinbg some psion pda is a good bet on the future.
It depends of your usage, and of your previsible usage, but I consider a phone is kept max 2 years, and a pda max 3 years. So, choose today some PDA you want to still have when you change phone, and then, choose a compatible phone.
I see a problem with their scheme. For their SuperHyperExtraPrecise balance to be calibrated, it has to measure a mass of 1 kilogram.
The only one I know of is in Paris, France. All others are copies. Good quality copies, but approximative copies, nevertheless, and for the level of precision they want to define, it matters.
So, either they want to define the aek (american e-kilogram), or the move their construction to Paris. (I don't think THE ONE kilogram is going to fly to the US).
I don't remember exactly, but wasn't the mole defined as the number of atoms in 12 grams of C12?
So you still define the mass in function of a mass.
ehhhh
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- By the way, here [nist.gov] is a photo of the artifact.
Which one. is this THE kilogram, stored in Pavillon de Breteuil, in Paris, France (you know, some contry across the atlantic), or one for the internationnal, that is a copy, or a copy of a copy or a...
-It's been kept under specified conditions since 1889.
Don't know how to read ?
In reality, it's been kept under conditions specified in 1889. If it is to be useful, it must quit the vaccum from time to time in order to make copies.
it will be more correct to say that, as far as we know today, gravity has everything to do with mass.
Technical department conversation : ...
- How can we test our new news system.
- I don't know, we could simulate traffic.
- PHB don't like simulations, we must find somethiong else.
- Ye but... I know! Let's get slashdotted.
- Good idea. We just have to critic them and
I don't remember all the details, cause I try to follow both american and european legislations on the subject.
I remember reading of restriction to copy restriction for ISP for technical reasons.
As you Provide a Service on Internet, I think you should be entitled to an ISP status, as long as the you don't cache any more after the disparition of the technical reason (the slashdotting).
Of course IANAL
scuse, I meant power suply (alimentation electrique in french)
I cannot agree.
As a small software company owner and consultant, without the EuroLinux petition, I would have never heard about the consultation (which obviously didn't made it to mainstream media).
Big lobbying corporations with lots of IP lawyer, on the other end, where more aware of the subject.
The fact that most anti patent points of view came from EuroLinux is simply the sign that the consultation was not intented to be a democratic consultation of European individuals by a transparent transnationnal autority, but just an administrative tentative to validate an already made decision.
if, for some reason, the alimentation of the palm is defective, and sent to the serial port, perhaps it could damage some cheap serial port controller.
Is burning a chip on the motherboard damaging the motherboard?
excuse me, I'm not native english speaker, but ...
it seems to me that knowing how something behave has not the same meaning than knowing how it works, the latter implying, for me, a notion of why it behave this way.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
For myself, I surely understand how those forces behave, but not why.
(and I don't accept explanations such as: cause the equations tell us it must behave this way.
Is it a violation of DMCA, or a copyrightable derived work?