No. You, at your death, have the right to give it to someone else. You own it until you give it away, even after you're dead. Nobody else owns it until you give it to them. It's possible for things to remain in your estate and owned by you for decades until the legal issues are wrung out in probate court.
You can buy "bits from the ether" that act exactly the same as a physical medium, in terms of ownership rights. It's just that nobody will let you, yet, and they have zero incentive to do so.
And they could, at any time, decide to change the rules for the disks you get shipped from J. Random & Sons. Make them licensed, not pwned. They were #fail in their old post-hoc EULA attempt at it, but if they make you physically sign a contract before you can take delivery, you may no longer be able to say you own it just because you bought it. This is in fact how most high-zoot business-grade software works.
Meanwhile, Netflix doesn't have the same deal you have when you buy a disc. They have to pay more for theirs because they're going to rent them out. So do Blockbuster et al. You, meanwhile, don't have the right to rent yours out. Lend it or sell it, yes. Rent it or charge admission to watch it in your home or show it in your business for free, no.
If you legally collect the rent on something, you own it. That's pretty much what own means. You have the right to chase other people away from your property, and to give it, sell it, lend it, or lease it to someone else. A patent is temporary ownership of a technology.
Solar efficiency is measured as usable power output vs. total incident power across the full incident spectrum.
This thing's efficiency is measured as usable power output vs. power across the very small bandwidth it detects. Which is to say, its solar efficiency is probably in the micro-percents.
500 J from a laser with picosecond pulses is a lot of juice. It's like turning that umbering, tumbling, energy-dispersing clod of bullet into a thin, light, fast-moving knife. Ooh! like the sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, if it was 40 meters long and all the mass was in a few inches of blade at the far end.
Until Netflix changes its model to a low monthly fee for ad-supported content and PPV for ad-free content. That will also probably be the point that they suddenly have the catalogs of all the Majors available in 1080p and 7.1.
I could never get the business model right to figure out how to legally stream movies without the movie makers going,"You can't stream out copies of our work at all."
That's the easiest part. You cut them in. Of course, that leaves you with shekels and them with ingots, but they're the ones who made the stuff the people want. The people are just tolerating the need to buy your stuff so they can get the studios' stuff.
You don't know what's between your local box and their server box. I would bet that somewhere along the way at least part of the network is doing some sort of multiplexing among multiple pipes.
I think they should make it less susceptible to electrical interference and cut the programs into rolls of paper that can be replayed on a device that has some means of reading the holes and making the data come out of a replica of an analogue system for manual real-time input. This has the added benefit of using technology that we already understand well.
And the bartenders should wear frilly garters on their arms, to be ironic.
Bullets transfer energy in a very turbulent manner.
Lasers do it in a very precise manner.
The same energy from a laser and a bullet will do very different things. A bullet will hit the surface and by the time the energy has reached the part that you want divided in two the effect is much lower. The energy has spread througout the tissue and dissipated, causing pointless bruising in most of it. Many bullets don't reach the other side or break bone along the way. A laser will complete the job by focussing on a very narrow piece of the target, and will go through every time, if properly pulsed. Much less energy from a laser will do things a bullet could never do.
(Assume 9-mm bullet with a typical powder load, ~500 J energy. Say it stops within 100 ms. That's 5000 W. What do you think a 5-kW pulsed laser can do in that same 100 ms? I say there's at least one arm heading for the floor.)
To a bullet flesh and bone make an impervious material. To a laser at the right frequency flesh is butter.
Of course, a laser can be foiled by, well, foil, so there's still value in bullets.
I think LED light bulbs should come with pronged connectors so you can use them with simple extension cords. No sense keeping the pointlessly fiddly screw-base.
Phaser != Laser. Also != Light Saber. Also doesn't really fit into the "Pew! Pew! Pew!" class of weapons. Photon torpedoes, on the other hand, are the king of "Pew! Pew! Pew!"
Erm, but you can set a phaser to a wide dispersion and stun everyone on a city block. Or you can set it to vaporize your opponent with a single hit. And it's the size of a garage-door opener (I was going to say Pager, but we're far enough into the future that there are people who have no idea what that is reading these fori).
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What was the third word in my post, and why do you think I took the trouble to include it there?
No. You, at your death, have the right to give it to someone else. You own it until you give it away, even after you're dead. Nobody else owns it until you give it to them. It's possible for things to remain in your estate and owned by you for decades until the legal issues are wrung out in probate court.
You can buy "bits from the ether" that act exactly the same as a physical medium, in terms of ownership rights. It's just that nobody will let you, yet, and they have zero incentive to do so.
And they could, at any time, decide to change the rules for the disks you get shipped from J. Random & Sons. Make them licensed, not pwned. They were #fail in their old post-hoc EULA attempt at it, but if they make you physically sign a contract before you can take delivery, you may no longer be able to say you own it just because you bought it. This is in fact how most high-zoot business-grade software works.
Meanwhile, Netflix doesn't have the same deal you have when you buy a disc. They have to pay more for theirs because they're going to rent them out. So do Blockbuster et al. You, meanwhile, don't have the right to rent yours out. Lend it or sell it, yes. Rent it or charge admission to watch it in your home or show it in your business for free, no.
You can patent the radio.
You can patent the potentiometer.
You can patent the variable capacitor.
You can patent the variable inductor.
You can patent using the potentiometer to control the volume on the radio.
You can patent using the variable capacitor or variable inductor or both to control the tuning of the radio.
Start throwing transistors in and you can patent any number of combinations of radio, control, tuning, and amplification.
Get this concept early and you can claim all of it in one big patent.
They didn't just make up terms. They applied old concepts to new situations.
No, it just makes you the one covered in shit and pointing a finger.
If you legally collect the rent on something, you own it. That's pretty much what own means. You have the right to chase other people away from your property, and to give it, sell it, lend it, or lease it to someone else. A patent is temporary ownership of a technology.
Solar efficiency is measured as usable power output vs. total incident power across the full incident spectrum.
This thing's efficiency is measured as usable power output vs. power across the very small bandwidth it detects. Which is to say, its solar efficiency is probably in the micro-percents.
500 J from a laser with picosecond pulses is a lot of juice. It's like turning that umbering, tumbling, energy-dispersing clod of bullet into a thin, light, fast-moving knife. Ooh! like the sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, if it was 40 meters long and all the mass was in a few inches of blade at the far end.
Arms, all over the place.
Until Netflix changes its model to a low monthly fee for ad-supported content and PPV for ad-free content. That will also probably be the point that they suddenly have the catalogs of all the Majors available in 1080p and 7.1.
I could never get the business model right to figure out how to legally stream movies without the movie makers going,"You can't stream out copies of our work at all."
That's the easiest part. You cut them in. Of course, that leaves you with shekels and them with ingots, but they're the ones who made the stuff the people want. The people are just tolerating the need to buy your stuff so they can get the studios' stuff.
Also makes it easier to trace your couriers back to where they've bin laden.
You don't know what's between your local box and their server box. I would bet that somewhere along the way at least part of the network is doing some sort of multiplexing among multiple pipes.
Why not? I get my internet from my local cable TV monopolizer.
I think they should make it less susceptible to electrical interference and cut the programs into rolls of paper that can be replayed on a device that has some means of reading the holes and making the data come out of a replica of an analogue system for manual real-time input. This has the added benefit of using technology that we already understand well.
And the bartenders should wear frilly garters on their arms, to be ironic.
Bullets transfer energy in a very turbulent manner.
Lasers do it in a very precise manner.
The same energy from a laser and a bullet will do very different things. A bullet will hit the surface and by the time the energy has reached the part that you want divided in two the effect is much lower. The energy has spread througout the tissue and dissipated, causing pointless bruising in most of it. Many bullets don't reach the other side or break bone along the way. A laser will complete the job by focussing on a very narrow piece of the target, and will go through every time, if properly pulsed. Much less energy from a laser will do things a bullet could never do.
(Assume 9-mm bullet with a typical powder load, ~500 J energy. Say it stops within 100 ms. That's 5000 W. What do you think a 5-kW pulsed laser can do in that same 100 ms? I say there's at least one arm heading for the floor.)
To a bullet flesh and bone make an impervious material. To a laser at the right frequency flesh is butter.
Of course, a laser can be foiled by, well, foil, so there's still value in bullets.
You're assuming the device has zero electric storage. It has to have some storage or none of this will work once a heart starts fibrillating
I think LED light bulbs should come with pronged connectors so you can use them with simple extension cords. No sense keeping the pointlessly fiddly screw-base.
It gets worse when you consider that every LED in an LED-lit device is a "bulb".
It's not inconceivable to construct, say, a jumbotron using bulbs to which you send sequencing instructions via IPv6...
All those trillions of addresses are going to get soaked up in a hurry if this is the sort of thing people are going to do with them.
Nexus One phones on T-Mobile got the 2.3.4 update a couple of weeks ago.
Watch out for Shipping & Receiving. They throw back shit like box-sealers, and those hurt.
Phaser != Laser. Also != Light Saber. Also doesn't really fit into the "Pew! Pew! Pew!" class of weapons. Photon torpedoes, on the other hand, are the king of "Pew! Pew! Pew!"
Erm, but you can set a phaser to a wide dispersion and stun everyone on a city block. Or you can set it to vaporize your opponent with a single hit. And it's the size of a garage-door opener (I was going to say Pager, but we're far enough into the future that there are people who have no idea what that is reading these fori).
FTW.
Energy transfer efficiency?
I'm not interested in transferring energy with a laser. I'm interested in slicing an arm off.
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well, no, at that point they can stop using "data" and rely on just data.