If he has no cash to build a prototype, how is he going to pay for a patent portfolio?
In the UK, it costs £200 to have a patent processed by the Patent Office, but there is an additional (approx) £3000 to have your patent drafted/checked by an agent against existing patents and translated into legalese. This £3000 is for each country that you want to apply for a patent. 20 countries, approx £60,000. Minimum. If you don't apply worldwide, the big guy, will simply take your patent and build and sell your product in the rest of the world.
Then, once you have your patent. The big guy sets his reverse engineering team on it, they find a slightly different way of doing the same job, and all your patents are useless. Go ahead, just try and sue that multi billion dollar organisation, see what happens to your house, job and family.
If you're a brilliant inventor with no money, you're pretty much fucked unless you can license your technology to a someone with deep pockets and who are reasonably honourable. Patents protect large organisations who can afford to roll them out worldwide... And patent lawyer's jobs.
The future will likely bring a protocol designed around this paradigm. Y'know, it's computing over a network, we could call it Network Computing. Or maybe Virtual Network Computing.
Semi-seriously. I'm not sure the services-dominant model is sustainable. It's not. It's a temporary solution until the dollar devalues to a reasonable level. Then it'll be reasonable to hire Americans again.
A better one would be "Bush was suckered by Al-Quaeda into attacking Iraq rather than them". It can be used by both sides in the debate. One to prove Bush is dumb, the other to make it look like it was accidental rather than deliberate geopolitics.
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This could be biological as well. Some people simply have a rather shaky hold on reality, their perceptions may well seem religious to them.
While I'm willing to grant the status of "religionist" to the membership of the Church of Scientology, the organization itself is a money-making scam So... How rich do you think the Catholic Church is?
Homeless - sans house Household - with house household 1. A domestic unit consisting of the members of a family who live together along with nonrelatives such as servants.
A household is basically a family unit.
And homeless are people without a place of permanent residence.
Methinks you (and those who mod you up) need to improve your language skills.
Really? There's officially 163,000 homeless households in the UK and this research like virtually all research in the UK is government funded.
Of course, that's nothing compared to the 6 billion pounds we've just spent upgrading our Channel Tunnel rail system so that wealthy commuters between London and Paris can shave 20 minutes off their journey.
The initial investment doesn't have to be insignificant for it to be economical. The issue is the *ratio* of utility to cost. And... The cost? The expected lifespan? Go on then, some semi credible numbers please.
Unlike the ISS, the Space elevator actually does provides a service with a financial return. Do you really understand the idea? It's irrelevant to my point. Which was that the costs will be so large that it will never be economically viable. Without astronomical subsidies from the taxpaying public. i.e. Corporate welfare and pork.
As a disgruntled Microsoft customer, I'd like to ask "WTF?!"
Seriously, I don't believe the devs working within the company are bad, but you guys need to stage an uprising or something. YOU are the customer! You are paying Microsoft to continue with their existing tactics. YOU are the cause!
FFS! Take some responsibility for your actions people.
Microsoft will continue to go the way they want to go and the 90% of the Office customer base will follow them, just as will the pre-install bundled customers Governments in particular and large multinationals will not ignore the standard. They're looking for something which will still be readable in 10,20,50+ years. With organisations like these demanding ODF, it's entirely possible that the DOC network effect will be broken. We will once again have a flourishing office tool market.
Last I heard it was an extremely economical approach. Only for those who believe the initial capital, maintenance and debt servicing costs are insignificant. The last estimates I saw suggested the capital investment required would be a mere $40 billion dollars. Which is laughable considering the ISS is going to cost $130 billion by 2010.
If we were just much nicer to each other. Awwww, diddums.
The thing you've forgotten... No, scratch that, you're clearly about 12 years old... The thing you've never learned. Every human being on the planet is in direct competition with every other for status, resources and power.
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It doesn't matter whether it's a battery, a fuel cell or whatever, you'll have a shit load of energy in a small volume.
Ideas are cheap. Patents are not.
If he has no cash to build a prototype, how is he going to pay for a patent portfolio?
In the UK, it costs £200 to have a patent processed by the Patent Office, but there is an additional (approx) £3000 to have your patent drafted/checked by an agent against existing patents and translated into legalese. This £3000 is for each country that you want to apply for a patent. 20 countries, approx £60,000. Minimum. If you don't apply worldwide, the big guy, will simply take your patent and build and sell your product in the rest of the world.
Then, once you have your patent. The big guy sets his reverse engineering team on it, they find a slightly different way of doing the same job, and all your patents are useless. Go ahead, just try and sue that multi billion dollar organisation, see what happens to your house, job and family.
If you're a brilliant inventor with no money, you're pretty much fucked unless you can license your technology to a someone with deep pockets and who are reasonably honourable. Patents protect large organisations who can afford to roll them out worldwide... And patent lawyer's jobs.
They are not there for the small fry.
Microsoft even tried to buy the ISO and OOXML was so bad that they still didn't ratify it.
He published several papers and articles on the use of propaganda.
It might leave a bad taste in your mouth, but you have to know your enemy.
A better one would be "Bush was suckered by Al-Quaeda into attacking Iraq rather than them". It can be used by both sides in the debate. One to prove Bush is dumb, the other to make it look like it was accidental rather than deliberate geopolitics.
This could be biological as well. Some people simply have a rather shaky hold on reality, their perceptions may well seem religious to them.
The best way I've seen it done is with a big screen, it looks like the two rooms are joined in the middle when it's running.
Doesn't sound any more bizarre than Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
So... Seems to me like they have some catching up to do. Most other religions have a big long list of depraved acts to their names.
Household - with house household
1. A domestic unit consisting of the members of a family who live together along with nonrelatives such as servants.
A household is basically a family unit.
And homeless are people without a place of permanent residence.
Methinks you (and those who mod you up) need to improve your language skills.
Really? There's officially 163,000 homeless households in the UK and this research like virtually all research in the UK is government funded.
Of course, that's nothing compared to the 6 billion pounds we've just spent upgrading our Channel Tunnel rail system so that wealthy commuters between London and Paris can shave 20 minutes off their journey.
Because everyone here drives on the left there must be a genetic predisposition.
Why not? Your average "citizen" is perfectly happy to abdicate all their other responsibilities, and therefore freedoms.
Really? You don't like comedy then?
Seriously, I don't believe the devs working within the company are bad, but you guys need to stage an uprising or something. YOU are the customer! You are paying Microsoft to continue with their existing tactics. YOU are the cause!
FFS! Take some responsibility for your actions people.
Be careful what you name your children.
Though in this case it's the family name.
If we were just much nicer to each other. Awwww, diddums.
The thing you've forgotten... No, scratch that, you're clearly about 12 years old... The thing you've never learned. Every human being on the planet is in direct competition with every other for status, resources and power.