I don't know about Japan, but in Europe it's common for leased cars to be a job perk. So the company may use the cars that they are already paying for (leasing only, no battery replacement problem) to save money when these employees are in the office.
I want to see you run that experiment, because I'm wondering if the connector will melt before the battery explodes, or if you're just going to current-limit harmlessly.
They just need to use the Renault clone of the Nissan. You get the same battery but the car owner leases it from Renault, so they are the ones stuck with the cost extra failing batteries (and will certainly not pass it down to customers, right...).
True, but there's a certain logic in having the same people being gung-ho against pumping out more dead dinosaurs, but supporting hurting the landscape for projects which, when finished, contribute to significantly reducing our pollution.
There are tradeoffs and arguments about numbers, but the two though processes are not incompatible.
Nah, they won't really go bankrupt, they'll just use all their servers to mine bitcoins, once they hear that Gartner or IDC expects bitcoin to be at $11.7k in three years.
Can I get a thirty-year exemption on side-effects of killing birds with my windshield?
I don't often go over the 100+ mph that the tip of windmills can attain, but I still find that some birds do deserve it when natural selection happens to them. Like my car, a windmill isn't exactly quiet nor hard to spot.
Maybe it's because fracking is accused of polluting rivers and water tables, leaking gas, damaging pristine areas, damaging country roads, using massive amounts of water, (encouraging consumption) and triggering earthquakes... Windmills are accused of being ugly (not by me), being noisy, not always turning, and killings birds
Is that how the math works? If my 2T drive is 80% full (I'd have a smaller one otherwise), that leaves 400G. Does the wear levelling know to move some of the "static" 80% into these 400G when I approach 1000 writes, giving me a new 999 writes into a fresh 400G, or is my drive just going to croak after 400Gx1000 writes, while 80% of it is only written once?
No guessing which would be the right thing to do, I'd like some who knows for sure, to tell me how smart the write levelling really is about moving never-changing data around.
Mentionning the war to a German these days just gets you a major eye roll. They'll keep talking to you (especially if they have something to sell), but you'll be classified under the "dumb guy who can't understand it was three generations ago" category. The Berlin wall came down a generation ago.
Maybe the US and UK have to grow up about being the winners of that WW2 thing.
Sure, provide me with a few billions and I will the job. Worried about being scammed? I WILL guarantee no 9.0 Earthquakes along that fault for the next 100 years.
I am so confident of my product that I will even throw in the 100_years/8.5 warranty if you buy now with your credit card!
> progress in the field went a lot slower than it had to
Had to? By which benchmark of the necessity of progress? Were the companies not making profits and the engineers starving on the street? Were the customers dying as code lay unwritten by people busy reinventing the wheel? Let's have Lawyers guide us to this perfect world of companies who happily share, pay royalties, and progress will skyrocket! No-one will ever abuse the system to stall competitors or discourage new entrants. Because anecdotal opinion written 20 years ago about behavior in the market 20 years earlier is relevant to today's situation.
> with plenty of reproduced effort
Which often leads to someone just doing it better than someone else. If everyone settles for "I have to use his solution, because designing mine won't save me from paying under his patent, costing us more", then the inefficiencies of the patent holder's method are not addressed.
> a case to be made that (non-obvious) software patents can be helpful.
I agree as long as innovation, not just implementation speed, is demonstrated.
Your cluelessness about the electronics industry is not data either. Competitors using similar processes and components (physical or virtual) to provide similar products to their customers is how most of it works. Kinda natural when the user wants familiar interfaces, standards-based specs, and as little lock-in as possible.
it also explains all these news items about engineers just jumping around between companies, especially in Silicon Valley. Do you believe that they unlearn everything as soon as they walk into their new office? They just try to market $new_thing before their old company markets $other_new_thing, and my point is that there usually is no "invention" involved, only incremental progress as allowed by $new_chip. In my data-free opinion (which was my point if you recall), that shouldn't be patentable.
The only difference I can see is the buoy stage. Launch, move away, then get the drone airborne. This way the sub isn't threatened as soon as the drone gets spotted.
But making a canister float and release remotely the drone isn't much compared to the normal launches.
I said: "natural result of the engineering process under the current environment" A lot of companies design the exact same features using the exact same components (hardware or software)
You're not "inventing" anything when you're the first one to assemble stuff if other companies are independently right behind (as requested by their customers, and pushed by their suppliers). Per the patent office, you did something non-trivial and therefore deserve a patent. So you can charge them for "using your invention". It's not a question of effort/money saved, it about the actual need to discriminate "invention" vs "complex implementation".
"invention" should be rewarded, not "I did something first". That's why my tax dollars are supposed to pay for expert patent reviewers, not rubber-stampers.
My question is "how much of that stuff is actually necessary and worth draining the battery for?"
I know about AC in Texas or heaters in International Falls. Even if that's half the year, what about cutting off the waste the rest of the year? After the first month, you know exactly how long it takes to charge and how low batteries are after 51 miles. And if you don't yet, how often does it matter, when you're away from the car?
Bad example. They all got what they wanted through longer effort. Under software patents, the first would get there a hair before the others, and somehow believe that the others owe it money because he got there first. It works when your trireme gets to a new land first, because there only one land. But if the others were going to get there and didn't copy you, then there is no reason to claim that they should owe you money for doing something first.
There should be a test, not for obviousness, but for "natural result of the engineering process under the current environment".
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Curry is an odd name for a woman, but let me reassure you that's it's normal for her daughter to hate her.
Especially if mom followed family tradition and named her Noodle.
Is there a feminine voice counting down the seconds to meltdown, yet?
Can't be fixed until 00:00:01
I don't know about Japan, but in Europe it's common for leased cars to be a job perk.
So the company may use the cars that they are already paying for (leasing only, no battery replacement problem) to save money when these employees are in the office.
I want to see you run that experiment, because I'm wondering if the connector will melt before the battery explodes, or if you're just going to current-limit harmlessly.
They just need to use the Renault clone of the Nissan. You get the same battery but the car owner leases it from Renault, so they are the ones stuck with the cost extra failing batteries (and will certainly not pass it down to customers, right...).
True, but there's a certain logic in having the same people being gung-ho against pumping out more dead dinosaurs, but supporting hurting the landscape for projects which, when finished, contribute to significantly reducing our pollution.
There are tradeoffs and arguments about numbers, but the two though processes are not incompatible.
Nah, they won't really go bankrupt, they'll just use all their servers to mine bitcoins, once they hear that Gartner or IDC expects bitcoin to be at $11.7k in three years.
Can I get a thirty-year exemption on side-effects of killing birds with my windshield?
I don't often go over the 100+ mph that the tip of windmills can attain, but I still find that some birds do deserve it when natural selection happens to them. Like my car, a windmill isn't exactly quiet nor hard to spot.
Maybe it's because fracking is accused of polluting rivers and water tables, leaking gas, damaging pristine areas, damaging country roads, using massive amounts of water, (encouraging consumption) and triggering earthquakes...
Windmills are accused of being ugly (not by me), being noisy, not always turning, and killings birds
Are these really equivalent?
Escrow? I'm sure AIG will charge me a tiny premium for the insurance, given how unlikely the event is ... once I do the job of course!
Why did you buy anything bigger than 640k?
Is that how the math works?
If my 2T drive is 80% full (I'd have a smaller one otherwise), that leaves 400G. Does the wear levelling know to move some of the "static" 80% into these 400G when I approach 1000 writes, giving me a new 999 writes into a fresh 400G, or is my drive just going to croak after 400Gx1000 writes, while 80% of it is only written once?
No guessing which would be the right thing to do, I'd like some who knows for sure, to tell me how smart the write levelling really is about moving never-changing data around.
Mentionning the war to a German these days just gets you a major eye roll. They'll keep talking to you (especially if they have something to sell), but you'll be classified under the "dumb guy who can't understand it was three generations ago" category.
The Berlin wall came down a generation ago.
Maybe the US and UK have to grow up about being the winners of that WW2 thing.
Sure, provide me with a few billions and I will the job.
Worried about being scammed? I WILL guarantee no 9.0 Earthquakes along that fault for the next 100 years.
I am so confident of my product that I will even throw in the 100_years/8.5 warranty if you buy now with your credit card!
> progress in the field went a lot slower than it had to
Had to? By which benchmark of the necessity of progress? Were the companies not making profits and the engineers starving on the street? Were the customers dying as code lay unwritten by people busy reinventing the wheel?
Let's have Lawyers guide us to this perfect world of companies who happily share, pay royalties, and progress will skyrocket! No-one will ever abuse the system to stall competitors or discourage new entrants.
Because anecdotal opinion written 20 years ago about behavior in the market 20 years earlier is relevant to today's situation.
> with plenty of reproduced effort
Which often leads to someone just doing it better than someone else.
If everyone settles for "I have to use his solution, because designing mine won't save me from paying under his patent, costing us more", then the inefficiencies of the patent holder's method are not addressed.
> a case to be made that (non-obvious) software patents can be helpful.
I agree as long as innovation, not just implementation speed, is demonstrated.
I'm repeating myself. Over and out.
Your cluelessness about the electronics industry is not data either.
Competitors using similar processes and components (physical or virtual) to provide similar products to their customers is how most of it works. Kinda natural when the user wants familiar interfaces, standards-based specs, and as little lock-in as possible.
it also explains all these news items about engineers just jumping around between companies, especially in Silicon Valley. Do you believe that they unlearn everything as soon as they walk into their new office? They just try to market $new_thing before their old company markets $other_new_thing, and my point is that there usually is no "invention" involved, only incremental progress as allowed by $new_chip. In my data-free opinion (which was my point if you recall), that shouldn't be patentable.
I'll leave the water open and let it flow straight into the drain 24/7 even when I don't need it.
Why bother to turn it off? I can afford it.
The only difference I can see is the buoy stage.
Launch, move away, then get the drone airborne. This way the sub isn't threatened as soon as the drone gets spotted.
But making a canister float and release remotely the drone isn't much compared to the normal launches.
I apologize for only having experience.
Let me hire a graduate student to write it down so that it becomes "data".
I said: "natural result of the engineering process under the current environment"
A lot of companies design the exact same features using the exact same components (hardware or software)
You're not "inventing" anything when you're the first one to assemble stuff if other companies are independently right behind (as requested by their customers, and pushed by their suppliers). Per the patent office, you did something non-trivial and therefore deserve a patent. So you can charge them for "using your invention".
It's not a question of effort/money saved, it about the actual need to discriminate "invention" vs "complex implementation".
"invention" should be rewarded, not "I did something first". That's why my tax dollars are supposed to pay for expert patent reviewers, not rubber-stampers.
My question is "how much of that stuff is actually necessary and worth draining the battery for?"
I know about AC in Texas or heaters in International Falls. Even if that's half the year, what about cutting off the waste the rest of the year?
After the first month, you know exactly how long it takes to charge and how low batteries are after 51 miles. And if you don't yet, how often does it matter, when you're away from the car?
What you call decay is what I call "raw battery leakage". You're more correct.
Unless you're afraid your car will be stolen, there is no reason for anything to be powered when you're not using or charging it.
Throw in three more cells if that's what it takes to power the door locks, and let me physically unplug everything else.
Yes. Your app-enabled, GPS-equipped, 17-inch-touchscreen-dashboard car needs you to know what time it is, dear troll.
> I don't have high hopes were going to see an entire class of 'property' invalidated...
Have my virtual mod points, for you understand our supreme court's fundamentals well.
Bad example.
They all got what they wanted through longer effort.
Under software patents, the first would get there a hair before the others, and somehow believe that the others owe it money because he got there first. It works when your trireme gets to a new land first, because there only one land. But if the others were going to get there and didn't copy you, then there is no reason to claim that they should owe you money for doing something first.
There should be a test, not for obviousness, but for "natural result of the engineering process under the current environment".