Well, I would argue that it either already is patented or it's too late to patent. I have a Panasonic shaver that uses inductive charging. There's no receptacle on my shaver it just sits in a device and charges without wires. This mat is only an expansion of this concept.
This is not true. I noticed on your geeky art site that you use Fuji Velvia. It's a great film, but part of what makes its prints so beautiful is in the non-linear way in which it reproduces colours.
I don't live in that area, but in the past I've determined that one of the charities I donated to sold my name to other charities. That ended my donations to them. If I were in the area I'd make sure that no further nickels or dimes would be forthcoming from me.
Calvin and Hobbes is already online, it's free, but you're restricted in how far back from "today's" comic you can see. You can become a subscriber and get full access though for 10 bucks per year. This doesn't cover only Calvin and Hobbes, it covers around 1000 other comic strips.
I still like having a piece of physical media that I can point at and store away. I have purchased online downloads before, a few small games and PowerDVD XP. In the case of PowerDVD I ended up buying it twice because I had lost my original download and serial number as well as the software itself in a nasty hard drive crash. I talked with the PowerDVD folks and they kept asking me to fax them a copy of my CD no matter how many times I protested that I had purchased a downloadable copy.
This could have been prevented if I had burned the download and installation information to CD but I honestly never thought of it. I backed up lots of other things but not that silly little application.
That's not true. The heat in an incadescent light bulb is a sign of it's inefficiency. You want energy emitted in the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, not the infrared.
It never was a black hat tool, it was written by Dan Farmer as a tool. His intentions were to use it to secure the hatches on your own systems but it was equally possible to use it to detect exploitable weaknesses in other peoples systems.
I've always hated naming programs, and I've really hated the habit that people have where I work of trying to shoehorn an acronym into some silly name. So I just name them whatever happens to be on my mind at the time. I have a perl script that takes a circuit's netlist and generates a directed acyclic graph called encephalitis. I have another that pulls a waveform out of an analog circuit simulation called clusterfuck.
The only place I really spend time thinking about names is when I'm creating an API that other people need to use as opposed to a script that people use whole. Then I try to make the function name describe what the function does and if there's and if there are similar functions which use different argument types the argument as well.
What's the longevity of a CD-R, especially the really cheap ones? What's the longevity of a DVD-R, especially the cheap ones? A tape is more of an archival medium while CD-R and the like are more of a medium term storage format. I have data from my thesis stored from about 10 years ago and have recently (last week as it turns out) extracted data from it. I've had CD-R's that have failed after only a couple of years.
Dvorak and others like him such as Hiawatha Bray make their money by getting people to read their columns. So every time there's a huge contraversy about something which has emanated from one of their orifices they look good. It doesn't matter whether there are people refuting what they say because in order to refute them they must have read the article. This means that they've seen the ads or bought the magazine, and from the editors point of view that's all that matters at the end of the day.
As I said in another thread I'd love to. Just give me the ability to enter notes with the document and preserve them. The PHP documentation is actually a reasonable example of what I'm after. A lot of times the notes I've appended to the documentation are worth more than the documentation itself.
They're sort of specialized receiver, they use an oscillator to to generate a high frequency signal which is used in demodulating the radar's signal. It's this oscillator that they detect I think.
I really would. I subscribe to 12 IEEE Journals, purchase at least 10 textbooks per year, Scientific American and National Geographic. For at least some of the IEEE journals I have the option for electronic only subscriptions but I've only ever used it as an additional feature, not the main mode of delivery. Why? Well, with a physical subscription I have permanent access (barring fire, floods, loss or theft I guess) to the volumes. I may cancel a subscription to a periodical because I permanently or temporarily lose interest in it, but I can still go back and look at issues that I received during my subscription period.
I've yet to see a subscription service for electronic anything, other than audible.com, that addresses this. There needs to be mechanisms for realizing that you've invested capital over time and so you should be entitled to some level of access. For Safari it's a little different because the nominal rate per book is quite low, but still, over years it will add up. If I were a subscriber I'd like some sort of benefit for being a long term subscriber who has quit, such as maybe for every full year I can add one of the titles to my permanent shelf (maybe locked to a particular revision, so if for instance a new camel comes out I only have access to the version when I opted out)
One other reason I have a problem with ebooks is the lack of a gloss, I can't easily add my own notes to books unless I print them out and archive them. Oddly enough, the PHP documentation is close to what I want, people can leave notes on each page. I just want a personalized version of it.
Once I'm done with them they will look relatively unused, other than a couple of post-its I've added either with my personal notes or as book marks to interesting concepts. I just won't need much of the book as a daily or even occasional reference. I'm reading the books from cover to cover and doing most of the problems, sort of like doing a course without a professer haranguing me to do stuff. This is the way it is with most of my texts, I read them, I learn what's in them and then they sit on my shelves for occasional reference.
I'm actually starting the process of looking for a new job (I still have one, I just think it's time to move on) and I was thinking of the one-click patent last night. This led me to think about questions I can ask that can help screen out companies I don't want to work for. Hence my decision to add the following question into my usual pool of questions to upper management: What do you think of the Amazon.com one-click patent and why?
I actually have several patents, but they're in very specific areas (not software patents either, they're actually for electronic circuits) and none of them by themselves can stop a company from progressing in a certain direction, they aren't so broad that they stop progress but they might force a competitor to have to think a little bit harder to avoid it.
Is it prediction or pattern matching? The brain is a powerful organ designed to impose a bit of order on chaos. Fitting archaic and stilted language onto past events is easy. The true test of predictions would be to determine it beforehand. Make your predictions, seal them away and check on them after they have expired. If the bible contains prophecies, and the bible is literally the uncorrupt word of God then they should all come true.
Those narrow-minded souls who still believe that devout religious faith is incompatible with fervent scientific inquiry are probably unaware that Newton 'was a theologian who wrote well over a million words on Biblical subjects,' and who devoted 'something like 55 to 60 years' studying the Book of Revelation."
Well, nose-thumbing on the submitters part aside, what does this prove? Isaac Newton was Christian? OK, but this isn't news. Way back in grade school and high school science classes we learned about this. We also learned that the Vatican wasn't entirely impressed with Newton's investigations which doesn't really mean much either. Newton was a believer in the bible, apparently a very devout one who believed that the bible was true and correct. The areas of his investigations didn't reveal anything that contradicted the bible, at least in his opinion. If in 2060 passes by uneventfully (or even eventfully but still passes by) will that mean that the bible has been disproven? No. It won't be proven either.
The problem that most people have with the combination of religion and science is that religion often tries to impose what appears in the bible over what we have learned through experience and conjecture. Science as it is supposed to be practiced is a constantly self-correcting body of knowledge. This body of knowledge is used to produce a working model of the universe. In Newton's time the force = mass / acceleration was accurate enough to describe most things that they investigated. Time passed and there were problems with this. To a first approximation in most peoples lives this is still accurate, but if you're a cosmologist you'll want a more accurate model which includes Einstein's theories as an example. If you're looking at very small things rather than very large you'll be interested in quantum theory and so on.
Science evolves (a word that puts a furrow in the brow of some religious people) based on a refinement of information and the advancement of knowledge. If based on your religious conviction you insist that the speed of light in a vacuum isn't 3*10^8 m/s or that things do in fact go faster than it or that the sun is the center of the universe then science has a problem with that. It's easily reconcilable if you can find actual evidence to support your theory, scripture doesn't count.
I'd much prefer a native port of their FPGA development tools. They list compatibility with Redhat 7.2 but if you read the fine print that means that you use WINE to run them. Better yet, release specifications on programming your CLBs and routing. You would then see some real innovation in tools come out. FPGA's should be the electronics hobbiests component of choice much like PROMs and 7400 series TTL logic was a couple of decades ago. Instead you're forced into using their tools, which the last time I used (admittedly ~7 years ago) were about as much fun as extracting your molars with a spoon.
Canada has actually been good in these regards. When the immigration troglodytes started screening on not only present citizenship but country of origin Canada redesigned the passports to avoid it.
Passing around notes disrupts the people who do want to learn or at least are willing to learn. If you don't want to learn then take yourself out of the school system and go get a job at Arby's. If you want to learn but not in the manner that a school provides then take yourself out and learn in whatever manner is suitable for you. I could not care less if a person who is being disruptive is stressed or not.
I'm about as liberal as they come, but when people tell me they have to be allowed to disrupt, or speak in ebonics or allowed to use instant-messaging short hand in class I get queasy.
Other people have mentioned that police radar isn't in military bands. There are laws against polluting the spectrum, so legally nobody should be building transmitters that emulate military radar. Since these are military frequencies there are most likely additional laws prohibiting it.
Somebody will argue that this still opens the door to purposely jamming signals, which is true, but if you're willing to break the law there are already a lot of ways to do it.
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Well, I would argue that it either already is patented or it's too late to patent. I have a Panasonic shaver that uses inductive charging. There's no receptacle on my shaver it just sits in a device and charges without wires. This mat is only an expansion of this concept.
This is not true. I noticed on your geeky art site that you use Fuji Velvia. It's a great film, but part of what makes its prints so beautiful is in the non-linear way in which it reproduces colours.
I don't live in that area, but in the past I've determined that one of the charities I donated to sold my name to other charities. That ended my donations to them. If I were in the area I'd make sure that no further nickels or dimes would be forthcoming from me.
Calvin and Hobbes is already online, it's free, but you're restricted in how far back from "today's" comic you can see. You can become a subscriber and get full access though for 10 bucks per year. This doesn't cover only Calvin and Hobbes, it covers around 1000 other comic strips.
This could have been prevented if I had burned the download and installation information to CD but I honestly never thought of it. I backed up lots of other things but not that silly little application.
That's not true. The heat in an incadescent light bulb is a sign of it's inefficiency. You want energy emitted in the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, not the infrared.
If slashdot rips out non-english text wouldn't that rip out about 75% of any post CmdrTaco makes?
It never was a black hat tool, it was written by Dan Farmer as a tool. His intentions were to use it to secure the hatches on your own systems but it was equally possible to use it to detect exploitable weaknesses in other peoples systems.
The only place I really spend time thinking about names is when I'm creating an API that other people need to use as opposed to a script that people use whole. Then I try to make the function name describe what the function does and if there's and if there are similar functions which use different argument types the argument as well.
What's the longevity of a CD-R, especially the really cheap ones? What's the longevity of a DVD-R, especially the cheap ones? A tape is more of an archival medium while CD-R and the like are more of a medium term storage format. I have data from my thesis stored from about 10 years ago and have recently (last week as it turns out) extracted data from it. I've had CD-R's that have failed after only a couple of years.
Sorry, I did not mean to post anonymously. I got overenthusiastic disabling my karma bonus.
Dvorak and others like him such as Hiawatha Bray make their money by getting people to read their columns. So every time there's a huge contraversy about something which has emanated from one of their orifices they look good. It doesn't matter whether there are people refuting what they say because in order to refute them they must have read the article. This means that they've seen the ads or bought the magazine, and from the editors point of view that's all that matters at the end of the day.
As I said in another thread I'd love to. Just give me the ability to enter notes with the document and preserve them. The PHP documentation is actually a reasonable example of what I'm after. A lot of times the notes I've appended to the documentation are worth more than the documentation itself.
They're sort of specialized receiver, they use an oscillator to to generate a high frequency signal which is used in demodulating the radar's signal. It's this oscillator that they detect I think.
I've yet to see a subscription service for electronic anything, other than audible.com, that addresses this. There needs to be mechanisms for realizing that you've invested capital over time and so you should be entitled to some level of access. For Safari it's a little different because the nominal rate per book is quite low, but still, over years it will add up. If I were a subscriber I'd like some sort of benefit for being a long term subscriber who has quit, such as maybe for every full year I can add one of the titles to my permanent shelf (maybe locked to a particular revision, so if for instance a new camel comes out I only have access to the version when I opted out)
One other reason I have a problem with ebooks is the lack of a gloss, I can't easily add my own notes to books unless I print them out and archive them. Oddly enough, the PHP documentation is close to what I want, people can leave notes on each page. I just want a personalized version of it.
Once I'm done with them they will look relatively unused, other than a couple of post-its I've added either with my personal notes or as book marks to interesting concepts. I just won't need much of the book as a daily or even occasional reference. I'm reading the books from cover to cover and doing most of the problems, sort of like doing a course without a professer haranguing me to do stuff. This is the way it is with most of my texts, I read them, I learn what's in them and then they sit on my shelves for occasional reference.
I actually have several patents, but they're in very specific areas (not software patents either, they're actually for electronic circuits) and none of them by themselves can stop a company from progressing in a certain direction, they aren't so broad that they stop progress but they might force a competitor to have to think a little bit harder to avoid it.
Nah, no legal action from me, I caught it just after I hit submit. I even previewed it first. *doh*
Is it prediction or pattern matching? The brain is a powerful organ designed to impose a bit of order on chaos. Fitting archaic and stilted language onto past events is easy. The true test of predictions would be to determine it beforehand. Make your predictions, seal them away and check on them after they have expired. If the bible contains prophecies, and the bible is literally the uncorrupt word of God then they should all come true.
Well, nose-thumbing on the submitters part aside, what does this prove? Isaac Newton was Christian? OK, but this isn't news. Way back in grade school and high school science classes we learned about this. We also learned that the Vatican wasn't entirely impressed with Newton's investigations which doesn't really mean much either. Newton was a believer in the bible, apparently a very devout one who believed that the bible was true and correct. The areas of his investigations didn't reveal anything that contradicted the bible, at least in his opinion. If in 2060 passes by uneventfully (or even eventfully but still passes by) will that mean that the bible has been disproven? No. It won't be proven either.
The problem that most people have with the combination of religion and science is that religion often tries to impose what appears in the bible over what we have learned through experience and conjecture. Science as it is supposed to be practiced is a constantly self-correcting body of knowledge. This body of knowledge is used to produce a working model of the universe. In Newton's time the force = mass / acceleration was accurate enough to describe most things that they investigated. Time passed and there were problems with this. To a first approximation in most peoples lives this is still accurate, but if you're a cosmologist you'll want a more accurate model which includes Einstein's theories as an example. If you're looking at very small things rather than very large you'll be interested in quantum theory and so on.
Science evolves (a word that puts a furrow in the brow of some religious people) based on a refinement of information and the advancement of knowledge. If based on your religious conviction you insist that the speed of light in a vacuum isn't 3*10^8 m/s or that things do in fact go faster than it or that the sun is the center of the universe then science has a problem with that. It's easily reconcilable if you can find actual evidence to support your theory, scripture doesn't count.
I'd much prefer a native port of their FPGA development tools. They list compatibility with Redhat 7.2 but if you read the fine print that means that you use WINE to run them. Better yet, release specifications on programming your CLBs and routing. You would then see some real innovation in tools come out. FPGA's should be the electronics hobbiests component of choice much like PROMs and 7400 series TTL logic was a couple of decades ago. Instead you're forced into using their tools, which the last time I used (admittedly ~7 years ago) were about as much fun as extracting your molars with a spoon.
Well, that or a strip club or brothel.
Canada has actually been good in these regards. When the immigration troglodytes started screening on not only present citizenship but country of origin Canada redesigned the passports to avoid it.
I'm about as liberal as they come, but when people tell me they have to be allowed to disrupt, or speak in ebonics or allowed to use instant-messaging short hand in class I get queasy.
Somebody will argue that this still opens the door to purposely jamming signals, which is true, but if you're willing to break the law there are already a lot of ways to do it.