Those situations arise because the public safety departments remember that they are public servants, and the quality of life departments think they are government servants.
That's confusing basically your saying if a munie has a network, that they can't regulate it in the manner that is typical if they don't such as a municipality has a broad-band network, they must not have an exclusivity clause barring competeing providers; but if the Munie doesn't provide broadband an exclusivity clause is industry standard.
I'm one of those real liberals that they are now calling a paleo-con's I'm telling you that Your basic premise is wrong; the government is not sovereign, the people are sovereign in the United States, the government hasn't been sovereign since we told King George to eat shit and bark at the moon. If your a politician you had better remember that your a public servant, my servant and if you don't, my new hobby will be making your life as miserable as possible until your no longer my servant.
I just don't understand why it costs the city so much more to bid out a roll-out from subcontractors than it does for Comcast to bid out to the same contractors: well the answer is it doesn't. Should it cost more for network management and maintence; again I don't see where it would make a difference. The only place where a big company might have a real advantage is leasing the raw bandwidth for the internet connection and peering agrements, yet my county is able to provide fiber to it's offices and connect them to the internet cheeper than Comcast can.
Actually it's not my idea at all, a sci-fi book named Ring World discribed it. It started out as habitable modules, about 1 Km in radius that were spun for artificial gravity and orbiting the sun. Eventually the modules evolved into a complete ring with electrical currents in the hull and a magnetic field that caused the solar wind to become locomotive. It's an elegant solution to the problem of interstellar travel because the time/distances involved make any trip one-way. Right now if we actually traveled to another star system we would have to assume to find raw resources at the destination; if the system was inhabited we would either take what we needed or perish.
While leave the solar system at all, just make a large ring orbiting the sun, give it a spin and let the magnetic fields turn the solar wind into thrust and take the whole shebang with us? We'd only need to go far enough to stay inside the galactic plane; and everybody thought those lovely iron-nickel asteroids were just junk!
So are you saying that I should pepper my resume with buzzwords about stuff I don't know about in a white font on a white background like a search engine spammer so HR's hookey software will pull up my resume?
I've done that at work, one of the machines had WordPerfect and it simply became impossible to print from for reasons I never could figure out; OO converted the forms to PDF and became the defacto word processor in the office.
It's irresponsible because the very people most hooked on MS Office are the very people who can't get their heads around a concept like edit-compile-test, and those people can't understand that while a.doc document maybe completely serviceable for generation, it can and often does contain hidden information that may not be appropriate for the recipient to have, we've seen many articles containing horror stories about inappropriate information being leaked in Word documents. Converting a Word document to PDF gives you an air-gap sanitizing the document.
I know people are stupid, you don't measure passenger safety by considering the physical condition of the vehicle after an accident, you measure it by the physical condition of the passengers. Ever see what happens when a 70 ton M1 tank throws track and hit a 2 foot thick oak tree at 45 MPH; tank gets scratched paint and the occupants get severely injured.
I think the Idea is that the Think is a Smart car that's networked so when the grid is hammered, the electric utility can buy back electricity from the car. I'd assume that the car owner could configure it so the car's computer would know how much capacity it could sell back, and the computer would negotiate the sale without the users intervention, might even be situations where the car owner could turn a profit.
Well actually they are more common than you'd expect, I was reading in Popular Mechanics that people are going to Lowes and Home Depot and buying Li-ion batteries for rechargable tools in $5-10K batches to convert their Hybrids to plugins now. Ok I know your thinking these people are whacko fringe cases and your right, but eventually the fringes become mainstream.
I wouldn't even try, I'd leave off one wheel and make a motorcycle; a tricycle with an enclosed passenger compartment would be quite serviceable even in winter.
Almost, first GMC is a company in the GM family that only builds trucks, where Chevorlet is a company that builds both cars and trucks, Pontiac and Buick don't build trucks, except for minivans which may be trucks technically. Chevy makes their own engines for their cars and trucks and GMC buys engines from chevy. Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac make their own engines but in the past have bought engines from chevy which resulted in law suits; in Flint there is an assembly plant off I496 labeled BOC where Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillacs are assembled. Automatic Transmission are made by Hydromatic and are common with slight modifications. GM had a lot of common designed parts such as a unibody. There is no sense in making parts different just to be different
From what I'm seeing the Japanese sport sedans are very popular with the kids, who like to mod them with some rather expensive after-markets parts. A lot of kids are buying these cars with regard to the availability of the after market parts. Making the software and hardware buses compatible, makes it easier for the after-market to supply the parts that the street-rodders want, which in turn makes the base vehicle easier to sell.
Persian was pretty much among the top dogs in her prime, I seem to remember that the Pharaohs, would go off and pick a fight with the Persians to establish their military creditability.
Well I understand their concern, if you can built a Saturn V that's powerful enough to get to the moon then terrorists or hostile gov's could drop just about anything just about anywhere, yet the logical side of me says that anyone capable of building a Saturn V covertly probably doesn't need one anyways. The other thing that occurred to me is that for the money you'd need to build a Saturn V, you should be able to get an Energina from the Russians, all set up locked and loaded and waiting for payload on the pad at the cosmodrome.
the USPTO only considers it "prior art" if it has been previously patented I'm not a patent attorney, but I don't think that's quite right, the way I understood it is the USPTO doesn't search for prior art outside of it's database of patents, but can recognize prior art it's made aware of. The USPTO depends on the patent applicant to search for prior art which leads to obvious problems with due diligence.
the small R&D houses that are selling licenses or even all rights would be in fact engaged in a goodwill effort to bring to market as well as the defensive portfolios. There is no sense to have a defensive portfolio and paying the maintenance fees if you don't have a product to defend.
There are lots of patents on the books that have fallen out of effect for non-payment of the maintenance fees, which means the methods are public domain now
Chemical analysis doesn't always work and when it fails it's frequently in food and perfume analysis. I understand that Cool-Whip is impossible to duplicate without the secret.
I think what the court is trying to say is that because patents are intended to Promote useful arts and sciences, that a company without useful products to promote shouldn't be afforded a full monopoly on their patented methods. Obviously MercExchange seems to be a black case a patent holder without a product or intention of having one just trolling the system and there are many white cases where companies hold a patent produce a product and even license to competitors. The gray cases are going to be the tough ones, the small guy struggling to bring a product to market and eventually gives up and makes money through licensing alone.
A while back our County contracted for computer literacy testing for merit pay purposes for the office workers. The contractor asked which word processor the workers used and was told Microsoft Word, Well the contractors showed up and administered the test using pagemaker! The people who passed with reasonable scores knew word processors, the people who didn't just memorized click streams. If you can't jump back and forth between similar programs your just sorry and your job will probably be sent to a third world country.
No basically I'm saying lead by example; further more I'm saying those idiots that think they can reduce global warming by changing website colors, could reduce CO2 emissions even more by not breathing!
Not anymore hipocritical than than the enviromentalist's darling Al Gore living in a house that sucks enough energy and Water in a day to run a African Village for a year! Here's a news flash for all of those eco-nazi's, recycle that energy-pig CRT and get a green LCD monitor!
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Those situations arise because the public safety departments remember that they are public servants, and the quality of life departments think they are government servants.
That's confusing basically your saying if a munie has a network, that they can't regulate it in the manner that is typical if they don't such as
a municipality has a broad-band network, they must not have an exclusivity clause barring competeing providers; but if the Munie doesn't provide broadband an exclusivity clause is industry standard.
I'm one of those real liberals that they are now calling a paleo-con's I'm telling you that Your basic premise is wrong; the government is not sovereign, the people are sovereign in the United States, the government hasn't been sovereign since we told King George to eat shit and bark at the moon. If your a politician you had better remember that your a public servant, my servant and if you don't, my new hobby will be making your life as miserable as possible until your no longer my servant.
I just don't understand why it costs the city so much more to bid out a roll-out from subcontractors than it does for Comcast to bid out to the same contractors: well the answer is it doesn't. Should it cost more for network management and maintence; again I don't see where it would make a difference. The only place where a big company might have a real advantage is leasing the raw bandwidth for the internet connection and peering agrements, yet my county is able to provide fiber to it's offices and connect them to the internet cheeper than Comcast can.
Actually it's not my idea at all, a sci-fi book named Ring World discribed it. It started out as habitable modules, about 1 Km in radius that were spun for artificial gravity and orbiting the sun. Eventually the modules evolved into a complete ring with electrical currents in the hull and a magnetic field that caused the solar wind to become locomotive. It's an elegant solution to the problem of interstellar travel because the time/distances involved make any trip one-way. Right now if we actually traveled to another star system we would have to assume to find raw resources at the destination; if the system was inhabited we would either take what we needed or perish.
While leave the solar system at all, just make a large ring orbiting the sun, give it a spin and let the magnetic fields turn the solar wind into thrust and take the whole shebang with us? We'd only need to go far enough to stay inside the galactic plane; and everybody thought those lovely iron-nickel asteroids were just junk!
Well since the muons will penetrate 2.5 kilometers of water, I don't think being an otter will help.
So are you saying that I should pepper my resume with buzzwords about stuff I don't know about in a white font on a white background like a search engine spammer so HR's hookey software will pull up my resume?
I've done that at work, one of the machines had WordPerfect and it simply became impossible to print from for reasons I never could figure out; OO converted the forms to PDF and became the defacto word processor in the office.
It's irresponsible because the very people most hooked on MS Office are the very people who can't get their heads around a concept like edit-compile-test, and those people can't understand that while a .doc document maybe completely serviceable for generation, it can and often does contain hidden information that may not be appropriate for the recipient to have, we've seen many articles containing horror stories about inappropriate information being leaked in Word documents. Converting a Word document to PDF gives you an air-gap sanitizing the document.
I know people are stupid, you don't measure passenger safety by considering the physical condition of the vehicle after an accident, you measure it by the physical condition of the passengers. Ever see what happens when a 70 ton M1 tank throws track and hit a 2 foot thick oak tree at 45 MPH; tank gets scratched paint and the occupants get severely injured.
I think the Idea is that the Think is a Smart car that's networked so when the grid is hammered, the electric utility can buy back electricity from the car. I'd assume that the car owner could configure it so the car's computer would know how much capacity it could sell back, and the computer would negotiate the sale without the users intervention, might even be situations where the car owner could turn a profit.
Well actually they are more common than you'd expect, I was reading in Popular Mechanics that people are going to Lowes and Home Depot and buying Li-ion batteries for rechargable tools in $5-10K batches to convert their Hybrids to plugins now. Ok I know your thinking these people are whacko fringe cases and your right, but eventually the fringes become mainstream.
I wouldn't even try, I'd leave off one wheel and make a motorcycle; a tricycle with an enclosed passenger compartment would be quite serviceable even in winter.
Almost, first GMC is a company in the GM family that only builds trucks, where Chevorlet is a company that builds both cars and trucks, Pontiac and Buick don't build trucks, except for minivans which may be trucks technically. Chevy makes their own engines for their cars and trucks and GMC buys engines from chevy. Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac make their own engines but in the past have bought engines from chevy which resulted in law suits; in Flint there is an assembly plant off I496 labeled BOC where Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillacs are assembled. Automatic Transmission are made by Hydromatic and are common with slight modifications.
GM had a lot of common designed parts such as a unibody. There is no sense in making parts different just to be different
From what I'm seeing the Japanese sport sedans are very popular with the kids, who like to mod them with some rather expensive after-markets parts. A lot of kids are buying these cars with regard to the availability of the after market parts. Making the software and hardware buses compatible, makes it easier for the after-market to supply the parts that the street-rodders want, which in turn makes the base vehicle easier to sell.
Persian was pretty much among the top dogs in her prime, I seem to remember that the Pharaohs, would go off and pick a fight with the Persians to establish their military creditability.
Well I understand their concern, if you can built a Saturn V that's powerful enough to get to the moon then terrorists or hostile gov's could drop just about anything just about anywhere, yet the logical side of me says that anyone capable of building a Saturn V covertly probably doesn't need one anyways. The other thing that occurred to me is that for the money you'd need to build a Saturn V, you should be able to get an Energina from the Russians, all set up locked and loaded and waiting for payload on the pad at the cosmodrome.
the USPTO only considers it "prior art" if it has been previously patented
I'm not a patent attorney, but I don't think that's quite right, the way I understood it is the USPTO doesn't search for prior art outside of it's database of patents, but can recognize prior art it's made aware of. The USPTO depends on the patent applicant to search for prior art which leads to obvious problems with due diligence.
the small R&D houses that are selling licenses or even all rights would be in fact engaged in a goodwill effort to bring to market as well as the defensive portfolios. There is no sense to have a defensive portfolio and paying the maintenance fees if you don't have a product to defend.
There are lots of patents on the books that have fallen out of effect for non-payment of the maintenance fees, which means the methods are public domain now
Chemical analysis doesn't always work and when it fails it's frequently in food and perfume analysis. I understand that Cool-Whip is impossible to duplicate without the secret.
I think what the court is trying to say is that because patents are intended to Promote useful arts and sciences, that a company without useful products to promote shouldn't be afforded a full monopoly on their patented methods. Obviously MercExchange seems to be a black case a patent holder without a product or intention of having one just trolling the system and there are many white cases where companies hold a patent produce a product and even license to competitors. The gray cases are going to be the tough ones, the small guy struggling to bring a product to market and eventually gives up and makes money through licensing alone.
A while back our County contracted for computer literacy testing for merit pay purposes for the office workers. The contractor asked which word processor the workers used and was told Microsoft Word, Well the contractors showed up and administered the test using pagemaker! The people who passed with reasonable scores knew word processors, the people who didn't just memorized click streams. If you can't jump back and forth between similar programs your just sorry and your job will probably be sent to a third world country.
No basically I'm saying lead by example; further more I'm saying those idiots that think they can reduce global warming by changing website colors, could reduce CO2 emissions even more by not breathing!
Not anymore hipocritical than than the enviromentalist's darling Al Gore living in a house that sucks enough energy and Water in a day to run a African Village for a year! Here's a news flash for all of those eco-nazi's, recycle that energy-pig CRT and get a green LCD monitor!