..it's not like MP3's from allofmp3s.com have any DRM at all. So you woun't have any problems with an iPod. In fact, there are several good programs for Linux, that communicates with the iPod, so you woun't even have to buy a PowerBook unless you really need or want to.
No, I don't think you are taking the technical capabilities of this technology too far. (Peter F. Hammilton describes some of the posibilities in "A Second Chance at Eden" and "The Nights Dawn".. Science Fiction, some of which include warfare, playback of recorded feelings, emotion, sight, control and interfacing with computers) But that's just the point, this technology belongs in a Science Fiction novel and not in a patent application (unless the applicant can show a working prototype or as a minimum start funding a team of researchers so they can develop a product). There are teams trying to develop systems to insert sensory input in the brain and they are getting results. Now, Sony has a patent on the idea, when those teams are ready with something that can be made into a product. Talk about a free lunch.
The other part of the technology are the moral and ethnical implications; do we need it and will it be used wisely.
I would say "no" it would probably not be used wisely in some cases.. (the reason for me mentioning Pr0n and other 'stupid' things)
Another poster noted, that an Adblock to combat the false signals you mention, would probably need to a part of the system too..
It will become so ridiculous that a modern King James I will step in eventually and make a clean sweep where copyrights will strictly be limited to -say- 20 or 25 years without any possibility to extend.
There is no modern King James I (Ruler, lawmaker, Judge in one) but maybe a large percentage of the population simly ignoring the copyright law will make the system crash? I am sure this will happen in our lifetime.
If you have a time machine, you have all the time in the world. There is no hurry to patent it before somebody you want to sue, invents it. Actually, in that case, you just jump back in time and steal their flux capasitor, easy. I've done it for years!
I like how the humanitarian possibilities of this technology come second to the entertainment aspects. Actually, the priorities will probably be: warfare (induce nasty smell/taste and great pain in your enemies) prOn (second hand fake orgasms.. well, it will sell) prOn (.. a lot) videogames ("I love the smell of Napalm in the morning") prOn (for blind people) humanitarian possibilities
Can I patent "teleportation" right now? At the Physics Department of Aarhus University in Denmark, they are actually researching the posibility of teleportation..
Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.
China is becomming more and more interesting.. and we are buying more and more goods from them (loads of things are designed in "the West" and produced in China) and they are Communist but that doesn't mean that everybody is equal, far from it ("some are more equal than others" in the Animal Farm sense of Communism). They have a huge "worker class" who have no rights. If they have no rights so no rights are abused.. simple.... and still most of the electronic stuff we buy is produced in China, so we have already accepted their point of view, haven't we?
Remind me never to play poker with a known Terrorist.. The plane became the bomb when it crashed into the building, before that, "the bomb" was a major bluff!
some times, two and two makes five, some times it makes three or even four. If Bigbrother says so... but that's political not scientifical or religious..
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..it's not like MP3's from allofmp3s.com have any DRM at all. So you woun't have any problems with an iPod. In fact, there are several good programs for Linux, that communicates with the iPod, so you woun't even have to buy a PowerBook unless you really need or want to.
from this page we know that, a MacMini "It Just Works", too.. (second headline from the top)
I don't want to wait one and a half year for Longhorn, I think I'll just get the thing that works, now..
..now if you could access a file with two different programs at the same time, THAT would be inovative .. wait, *nix has had that since 1969 as well ..
they look like dikes, so what do I care? :-)
Your are right. Though your use of the word inovate is a bit strange.
like disney that our buying off our congressmen to do what they want with patent laws
you mean copyright law, right? Disney make stuff that can be copyrighted. IBM makes stuff that can be patented.
This will seriously hamper inovation
.. inovation is just using old things in a new way, why should that be patentable?
As long as it doesn't hamper invention
..or an American asking the police in Spain to read him the Miranda rights.. "you have the right to remain silent, anything you say etc."
I agree totally. Though I would say: I have no intention of buying anything from any online music store unless it's a CD.
In a hundred years, historians will have very little to work with, because people are sitting on Copyrighted material, like it's gold.
How copyright could be killing culture
No, I don't think you are taking the technical capabilities of this technology too far. (Peter F. Hammilton describes some of the posibilities in "A Second Chance at Eden" and "The Nights Dawn" .. Science Fiction, some of which include warfare, playback of recorded feelings, emotion, sight, control and interfacing with computers) But that's just the point, this technology belongs in a Science Fiction novel and not in a patent application (unless the applicant can show a working prototype or as a minimum start funding a team of researchers so they can develop a product). There are teams trying to develop systems to insert sensory input in the brain and they are getting results. Now, Sony has a patent on the idea, when those teams are ready with something that can be made into a product. Talk about a free lunch.
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The other part of the technology are the moral and ethnical implications; do we need it and will it be used wisely.
I would say "no" it would probably not be used wisely in some cases.. (the reason for me mentioning Pr0n and other 'stupid' things)
Another poster noted, that an Adblock to combat the false signals you mention, would probably need to a part of the system too
It will become so ridiculous that a modern King James I will step in eventually and make a clean sweep where copyrights will strictly be limited to -say- 20 or 25 years without any possibility to extend.
There is no modern King James I (Ruler, lawmaker, Judge in one) but maybe a large percentage of the population simly ignoring the copyright law will make the system crash? I am sure this will happen in our lifetime.
If you have a time machine, you have all the time in the world. There is no hurry to patent it before somebody you want to sue, invents it. Actually, in that case, you just jump back in time and steal their flux capasitor, easy. I've done it for years!
I like how the humanitarian possibilities of this technology come second to the entertainment aspects. .. well, it will sell)
Actually, the priorities will probably be:
warfare (induce nasty smell/taste and great pain in your enemies)
prOn (second hand fake orgasms
prOn (.. a lot)
videogames ("I love the smell of Napalm in the morning")
prOn (for blind people)
humanitarian possibilities
didn't he, at least, have a working "prototype" (with a multiple-overlapping-documents-on-the-screen system) at the time?
It's already there: Rez for PS2 + trance vibrator sold in Japan. .. well, it's a Sony..
Can I patent "teleportation" right now? ..
At the Physics Department of Aarhus University in Denmark, they are actually researching the posibility of teleportation
They still ask those questions (in Europe at least). Would anyone dare to say "actually, my mum packed my bag"?
Some are even smaller!!
:-)
Luxemburg, Monaco, (the Vatican), Denmark
I see a blooming motel business here!
According to this article
.. simple. ... and still most of the electronic stuff we buy is produced in China, so we have already accepted their point of view, haven't we?
Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture.
China is becomming more and more interesting.. and we are buying more and more goods from them (loads of things are designed in "the West" and produced in China) and they are Communist but that doesn't mean that everybody is equal, far from it ("some are more equal than others" in the Animal Farm sense of Communism). They have a huge "worker class" who have no rights. If they have no rights so no rights are abused
At least Cuba has something to offer - cheap vacations and cigars.
The best cigars! And Rum, ah yes. Cubanian Rum, matching cigar, beautiful women.. can a vacation spot be any better?
Remind me never to play poker with a known Terrorist.. The plane became the bomb when it crashed into the building, before that, "the bomb" was a major bluff!
America: And if you don't bring your passport we won't let you back.
well, it's real easy:
Canada: you don't have a passport, you can't get into our country.
that's how it is in most countries; if you can't prove who you are, you can't get in. "I am a Citizen" so what? Everybody is a Citizen somewhere.
you will be, if you forget your passport when leaving the country ;-)
some times, two and two makes five, some times it makes three or even four. If Bigbrother says so. .. but that's political not scientifical or religious..