It would be difficult to charge for IM. It is essentially fast email. And one could write a program in a matter of a couple hours that would basically provide the same functionality (limited to chatting obviously).
The problem with Webbased email is if you are working offline, or on a slow connection. I would rather start a send-receive and go to dinner, come back and have all the information available. Also, there are security considerations, do you want your SMIME key stored on some server? In addition, I like having applications on my PC, I don't really like the idea of all my apps on the web.
Where I work I have largely been left to my own devices. I am assigned a task and bothered again until I ask for more work. I thought this would be the ideal work environment, however, I find that I miss having attention paid to me. I want my boss to stop by and ask how it is going and give me input to the project I am working on.
I don't feel that I am an insecure person, but I still need that. I work for a large company, I feel that I am be better suited in a smaller company. But times are tight...
I would say that any evidence offered by the volunteer would have to be verifiable.
Also, it would be to advantageous to have competitors reviewing a patent application as they would have a motive for finding prior art (so they could use it).
I guess the way I am looking at it is to reduce the number of patents that are granted. So that the ones that are granted are valid.
The idea is to reduce the workload of the patent invesitgtor.
Wouldn't it be grand if when a patent was applied for it was sent out to a number of people who had signed up to review patents of a certain type. These people would provide feedback to the patent auditor and there would then be the possibility of a quick rejection.
Otherwise the auditor would have to do the same leg work as before, but this should reduce the amount of time a paid employee would have to review a patent, and allow more time for them to evaulate the "tricky" ones.
it is pretty ironic that they would give all this grief to Linux users then market the product that has been built by same people that are trying to get under there thumb.
one has to wonder if this was one of those money making ideas by a new hire, like removing one pickle from the jar...
If they are striping the electrons off the glucose molecules then would we be left with a bunch of oxidants floating around in our blood stream? From what I know that is not a good thing, cell damage...
I just heard/read somthing (probably here...) concerning radio waves and property. That the courts can't privatize radio waves (ie disallowing people unscrambling broadcast signals) or all the broadcasters could be arrested for trespassing. This is sort of an inverse relationship, but proofs can be made that way...
I don't think the idea is to re-program the fpga's more then once per application. There ide, viva, is in fact really neat. It is a schematic editor where you connect various componects, that are then implemented on the fpga, and these bits can then interact with a program. It was explained that one would identify slow bits of code using a profiler then implement these on the fpga, to speed up execution. These fpga's, don't do things iteravly, but in parallel; and very fast. You put somthing in at one end and the result comes out with a delay involving only the delay between gates.
The complexity of the circuits you can design is limited only by the CLB(configurable logic block) count which is increasing (I think it was quoted during the presention to be) like 10x every 2 or 3 year. In any case greater then the rate of incease on transitor count.
I attended the press briefing. First I would like to note that the presentor was a very likable guy who was open to questions and very knowledgeable. He had an example with the HAL computer calculating the Julian set vs. a PIII 850. The difference was amazing. You could zip around the set on the HAL, where the PIII kinda skipped around about 1/3 fps. Finally the price that was quoted 1 millllion dolllars!!! Worth it?? Time will tell.
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Wouldn't the clone Shakies Pizza (SouthPark) be the first made entirely from Stem Cells?
It would be difficult to charge for IM. It is essentially fast email. And one could write a program in a matter of a couple hours that would basically provide the same functionality (limited to chatting obviously).
The problem with Webbased email is if you are working offline, or on a slow connection. I would rather start a send-receive and go to dinner, come back and have all the information available. Also, there are security considerations, do you want your SMIME key stored on some server? In addition, I like having applications on my PC, I don't really like the idea of all my apps on the web.
Where I work I have largely been left to my own devices. I am assigned a task and bothered again until I ask for more work. I thought this would be the ideal work environment, however, I find that I miss having attention paid to me. I want my boss to stop by and ask how it is going and give me input to the project I am working on.
I don't feel that I am an insecure person, but I still need that. I work for a large company, I feel that I am be better suited in a smaller company. But times are tight...
I would say that any evidence offered by the volunteer would have to be verifiable.
Also, it would be to advantageous to have competitors reviewing a patent application as they would have a motive for finding prior art (so they could use it).
I guess the way I am looking at it is to reduce the number of patents that are granted. So that the ones that are granted are valid.
The idea is to reduce the workload of the patent invesitgtor.
Wouldn't it be grand if when a patent was applied for it was sent out to a number of people who had signed up to review patents of a certain type. These people would provide feedback to the patent auditor and there would then be the possibility of a quick rejection.
Otherwise the auditor would have to do the same leg work as before, but this should reduce the amount of time a paid employee would have to review a patent, and allow more time for them to evaulate the "tricky" ones.
Nice slashdot effect on their stock price too. Just wish I had seen this yesterday...
Yeah a layer of lead in a vehicle that is supposed to fly...
And how about holes in boats.
it is pretty ironic that they would give all this grief to Linux users then market the product that has been built by same people that are trying to get under there thumb. one has to wonder if this was one of those money making ideas by a new hire, like removing one pickle from the jar...
If they are striping the electrons off the glucose molecules then would we be left with a bunch of oxidants floating around in our blood stream? From what I know that is not a good thing, cell damage...
I just heard/read somthing (probably here...) concerning radio waves and property. That the courts can't privatize radio waves (ie disallowing people unscrambling broadcast signals) or all the broadcasters could be arrested for trespassing. This is sort of an inverse relationship, but proofs can be made that way...
In a related story the US desides to block all porn sites during working hours.
I don't think the idea is to re-program the fpga's more then once per application. There ide, viva, is in fact really neat. It is a schematic editor where you connect various componects, that are then implemented on the fpga, and these bits can then interact with a program. It was explained that one would identify slow bits of code using a profiler then implement these on the fpga, to speed up execution. These fpga's, don't do things iteravly, but in parallel; and very fast. You put somthing in at one end and the result comes out with a delay involving only the delay between gates.
The complexity of the circuits you can design is limited only by the CLB(configurable logic block) count which is increasing (I think it was quoted during the presention to be) like 10x every 2 or 3 year. In any case greater then the rate of incease on transitor count.
I attended the press briefing. First I would like to note that the presentor was a very likable guy who was open to questions and very knowledgeable. He had an example with the HAL computer calculating the Julian set vs. a PIII 850. The difference was amazing. You could zip around the set on the HAL, where the PIII kinda skipped around about 1/3 fps. Finally the price that was quoted 1 millllion dolllars!!! Worth it?? Time will tell.