Philips? Siemens? Oh, they don't count because they have fabs all over the world? Quick reality check: so does Intel, AMD and IBM.
To stop your rants, counting inventions by country is such a bad statistic. People all over the world have been experimenting with flying machines and some got further than others, but it was only a matter of time before others would have gotten it.
Marconi invented the telephone first, or was it Bell, or was it some guy in Italy? They all had the same idea of converting voice into electrical signals which can be transported over copper. But than, it's nothing more than an improvement over the morse code.
TCP/IP was there say 30-40 years after the first electronical computer, and was build on top of the knowledge and experience of all the earlier protocols. Did that mean that the Internet was invented when TCP/IP was invented? No, it was just a next step.
Was ethernet a new invention? No, it's just mapping of the Aloha protocol on a wire. Was ethernet the only network layer? Think tokenring, think fibre, think point-to-point connections.
Was the data CD a new invention? No, it's just tweaking the audio CD for data. Was DVD a new invention? No, it's just the data CD with a higher capacity.
Was the periodic table of elements an invention by Mendeleev or by Meyer? Two different countries. Or was it extended work of Döbereiner? Or was it just because the world was ready for it?
A lot of "inventions" these days are nothing more than adding 2 and 2 and getting 4, which works because the technology is there waiting for somebody to glue it together.
Teere were lots of university and research computer networks in Europe and all over the world before it all came standarized into a single protocol (Janet, Cyclades, EARN)
computers
Every technical company and university around the world has had its share of home made computers (before and after the invention of the transistor). Just because the name IBM keeps popping up everywhere, doesn't mean that they're the only one.
long-distance air travel
Long distance air travel was there long before WW2, when Europeans tried to get a shorter and faster route to their colonies in Asia and Africa.
nuclear power
Madam Curie.
produce inventions of consequence
It's round, has a silver layer, fits seventy minutes of audio and the hole in the center is just as big as a dutch 10 cents coin.
Please keep in mind that a lot of scientific research done these days is done in a global fashion: Philips Research has labs all over the world and collaborates with companies all over the world. Universities work together with their counterparts on the other side of the globe. CERN wouldn't be there if there wasn't such a thing as collaboration.
But if it ever happens, all life on Earth would likely be destroyed.
In the past 30 odd years that I'm running around on this globe, this planet has been threatened so often with destruction that I'm not remotely worried about it anymore. On the scale of the universe we're nothing, both in size and in age.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to keep the planet in the best possible shape of course!
Some taxi-driver found it, discovered that it had very sensitive information about some current open cases on it, and a lot of personal stuff that could make the prosecutor vulnerable for blackmail etc. when in the wrong hands.
Slashdot Mirror
Wish the australian government would do the same, so that don't have to wake up stupidly early to make conference calls to the US East coast.
Say goodbye to broken windows from baseballs,
And say hello to the fire from which you can't escape from because the "glass" is unbreakable.
Every advantage has its disadvantage!
could see the magazine shelves in newsagents come alive with moving images vying for the customers' attention as they move along the aisle.
:-)
Reminds me of the Harry Potter movie with the "Criminal Escaped" poster
Do the Google IM servers already know how to talk to other Jabber servers or is it still an open protocol in a closed environment?
and e-mail pictures
When will people understand that SMTP isn't a file transport medium?
I see lots of film flops coming our way in the next seven years.
It's all caused by piracy! Piracy I tell you!
Captain America, The Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi.
All actions heroes, no deep story. Boring.
I would prefer virus protection over anti-virus protection...
Are you, or have you ever been, a suicide-bomber?
Is that the same list as at
h tml
http://corporate.britannica.com/press/inventions.
which has Viagra, toilet tissue and the electric guitar on it?
Impressive list with regarding to quantity, too bad about the quality.
What's the largest chip manufacterer in Europe?
Philips? Siemens? Oh, they don't count because they have fabs all over the world? Quick reality check: so does Intel, AMD and IBM.
To stop your rants, counting inventions by country is such a bad statistic. People all over the world have been experimenting with flying machines and some got further than others, but it was only a matter of time before others would have gotten it.
Marconi invented the telephone first, or was it Bell, or was it some guy in Italy? They all had the same idea of converting voice into electrical signals which can be transported over copper. But than, it's nothing more than an improvement over the morse code.
TCP/IP was there say 30-40 years after the first electronical computer, and was build on top of the knowledge and experience of all the earlier protocols. Did that mean that the Internet was invented when TCP/IP was invented? No, it was just a next step.
Was ethernet a new invention? No, it's just mapping of the Aloha protocol on a wire. Was ethernet the only network layer? Think tokenring, think fibre, think point-to-point connections.
Was the data CD a new invention? No, it's just tweaking the audio CD for data. Was DVD a new invention? No, it's just the data CD with a higher capacity.
Was the periodic table of elements an invention by Mendeleev or by Meyer? Two different countries. Or was it extended work of Döbereiner? Or was it just because the world was ready for it?
A lot of "inventions" these days are nothing more than adding 2 and 2 and getting 4, which works because the technology is there waiting for somebody to glue it together.
Enough of this rant, happy navel staring!
the internet
Teere were lots of university and research computer networks in Europe and all over the world before it all came standarized into a single protocol (Janet, Cyclades, EARN)
computers
Every technical company and university around the world has had its share of home made computers (before and after the invention of the transistor). Just because the name IBM keeps popping up everywhere, doesn't mean that they're the only one.
long-distance air travel
Long distance air travel was there long before WW2, when Europeans tried to get a shorter and faster route to their colonies in Asia and Africa.
nuclear power
Madam Curie.
produce inventions of consequence
It's round, has a silver layer, fits seventy minutes of audio and the hole in the center is just as big as a dutch 10 cents coin.
Please keep in mind that a lot of scientific research done these days is done in a global fashion: Philips Research has labs all over the world and collaborates with companies all over the world. Universities work together with their counterparts on the other side of the globe. CERN wouldn't be there if there wasn't such a thing as collaboration.
Don't you love if when they use figures without giving the units?
The paper predicted that at temperatures near absolute zero - around 460 degrees below zero -
So absolute zero is 460 degrees below zero, but I have been tought that it was 273 degrees below zero.
So if Toby Sterling is reading: The absolute zero is:
- zero Kelvin
- minus 273.15 degrees Celcius
- minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit
Feel free to properly describe it next time!
The dailytimes article didn't mention that it was found in a private archive instead of the universities main archive.
Not only them, also the dutch NOS and the Australian ABC had suspended their news-stations feeds on the internet.
My chalk board would be like this:
"This pub does not show the London 2012 Olympic Summer Games on TV."
They patented a "portable, pocked-sized multimedia asset player"...
Oh boy will they feel stupid when I patent an "portable, pocked-sized multimedia asset player via a computer network"!
But if it ever happens, all life on Earth would likely be destroyed.
In the past 30 odd years that I'm running around on this globe, this planet has been threatened so often with destruction that I'm not remotely worried about it anymore. On the scale of the universe we're nothing, both in size and in age.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to keep the planet in the best possible shape of course!
Bad naming... "I've googled for it but nothing came up" vs "I've started on it but nothing came up".
Some taxi-driver found it, discovered that it had very sensitive information about some current open cases on it, and a lot of personal stuff that could make the prosecutor vulnerable for blackmail etc. when in the wrong hands.
To which he immediately brought it...
(Yes I'm not a fan of PRdV)
Have you tried Asterisk (www.asterisk.org)?
The codec might be, but the call handling protocol isn't. And that's what's used to setup a phone call.
Disadvantages
Please add:
- non-distributed servers
- non-open protocol
so does this mean I can try to patent currency and/or currency equivalents as payments for goods and/or services
No. Only if you add "with a computer" or "via a network" to it. Otherwise it would be previous art.
Morse code can be transmitted even in high-noise situations.
:-)
Clicks, beeps, bloops, etc -- easy to hear over static.
So can low-speed data-streams. It's all a matter of clocking. And it's easier to automate
Now let's bloat this low-speed data-stream with an XML envelope and you can transfer *anything* over it! (j/k)