Nope. Prior art has to be in the public domain. That's it. If I publish (over the internet will do, providing it can be shown that there was a real opportunity for people ro see it) something and the next day someone tries to patent the same idea, my prior art will invalidate that patent.
I can even publish by stapling my idea to a tree in Washington DC, providing I can prove it was there before the application date. Telling one of my mates whilst in the middle of the Atlantic in a small yacht where neither of us has no way to tell anyone else would not constitute public knowledge and wouldn't be prior art as the public in general had no access to the knowledge.
I could time a lecture at a comference to finish just 10 seconds before you file your patent and that chould be seen as prior art as I was telling those members of the public who would need to know..... Except we have a resolution of one day so in a case like this the information would be a little too late but with new online filing systems (as used at the EPO) this could change soon.
There are delays built in to the system whereby the searching of a patent application is delayed a few months so that all prior art publications can be collected together but anything published before the fioling date is valid prior art.
If he's posting here he probably doesn't have a girlfriend;)
And if he does she's probably either a nerd too or immune to his nerdy behaviour and quirks (e.g. my wife who just goes "ugh, reading your nerd-rews again") and walks off to watch a TV soap (usually Eastenders, why is that ALWAYS on?).
Yeah, having had a look, the ultralight one they are talking about cannot be bought (the pixel X thing) and the links are to small helicopters you can buy.
Which aren't under 100 grams etc etc.
So the blurb should read "here is a very light helicopter you can't buy and here are some that are a bit heavier but which are for sale";)
the Application IN IT'S PRESENT FORM should be rejected - but this always happens, during the granting process, the application will be rewritten to be different over the prior art. Tha applicant will always ask for more than they have inventied, just incase they get an examiner who is half-asleep.......
This is the fun bit where examiners get to fight with lawyers over what is and isn't new;)
Obviously a bad examiner will let something through that's not correct whereas a good one will only allow patentable matter through.
It's actually a little more complex than that even, but remember that what you are reading is the application, not the granted patent which *should* have different claims, assuming there is prior art;)
It costs menothing to RECEIVE an SMS when I am roaming in other countries......
It then costs me less that a voice call to SMS back.
Not only that, what if the person you want to contact is on the phone, in a meeting, asleep, etc? Text messages are like small emails in that respect. I often email people short one liner emails when I am at work or at home, SMS gives me the same functionality wherver I am. Yes I can email from my phone but it's more expensive and unnecessary.
But CDMA is a waste of fucking money in that region because ALL their neighbours use GSM. Eventually the GSM people (i.e. Vodaphone et al.) will move in and people will change to GSM anyway just so they can use their phones when away from their own country. Even in the States you can use a GSM phone. Whilst CDMA is a better, newer technology than GSM it's losing out to GSM in the world, and GSM has an upgrade path to next genereation stuff.
So fine, install a hugely expensive CDMA network. The GSM people will move in anyway, people will buy GSM phones and your precious US network will go bust. That's the price for FORCING a choice on someone.
If they want a GSM network, build them a GSM network. They will still have to pay for it, you will still get your blood^h^h^h^h^hoil money and Bush will still get re-elected.
Occasionally shuts down when shoving the remote-control into the jack. I have to smoothly press it it.
I had that problem so I mentioned it to Apple and I have just received a new remote in the post...... Very good service there. Assuming your iPod is still in warranty, give 'em a call.
There's stuff about the remote problems in Apple's forums. It seems the newer remotes have been changed slightly to solve the problems you are having......
That's just a subset of the hurling things through a window - much better to wrap the letter around a block of ice (it melts you see, causing confusion and merriment) or a frozen lasagne (or dish of your choice) which becomes unfrozen (unless you throw it into a freezer, which would be odd) and thus causes the required hilarity.
Throwing a thawed, frozen lasagne is plain silly and should be avoided. In part because it's quite hard to tie a letter to a soggy lsasgne. Maybe if it's al dente you might get away with it...
I pointed out a fact... that the system is commercial not military and then made, what I thought was, a little joke. Hence the ";)"
*shrug*
Whenever I DO write some attempted flamebait it gets modded as funny:( My funny stuff get's modded as insightful and my insightful stuff gets modded as space cowboy......!:) Ah well.
D GPS works, as described, by comparing it's known location with that received from the satellites and transmits - in real time - the correction factor, so the correction factor varies with the changing position give by GPS. It requires the DGPS station to be fairly close to the handset as it needs to be using the same satellites - and therefore to be receiving the same information. So non-systematic errors are equally well fixed, in fact the error is non-systematic, it's simply a less accurate measure of the time given by the atomic clock on each satellite (less decimal places) which leads to a larger "cocked hat" for the handset to be located inside (cocker hat from the old days of triangulation where you drew lines for the bearings of three places and assumed you were inside the small triangle where they intercepted.
Something I still practice when out sailing (or mountaineering etc) just in case my GPS packs up;)
Farscape is a little like babylon 5 was, you need to watch a few shows in the correct order - preferably from the begining to get a handle on what's going on. ie they have a strong, cohesive storyline. This is unlike most of the shows you mentioned (and the Star Trek stuff, Stargate SG1 etc) which are almost always self-contained stories in each episode so you can watch them whenever you have a free moment without having had to see teh previous ones.
I find the Farscape, B5 etc approach to be much more fulfilling
Could be an interesting way of doing things however I can't see it really working as shows need a guaranteed, regular income stream.
I would personally love Farscape to be continued, especially having seen the cliff-hanger of a final episode last Monday on BBC 2..........
I wonder if you could do things like give people who donate over $xxx amount a walk-on part or something? Guided tours of the sets (yeah I know they need to be rebuilt)? Signed anythings. I guess you could try a fund raising event like the US PBS shows do - or the lartge charity fundraisers we have in the UK. Would work if we found some big starts who would support the thing for free......
Too true. We were doing this with home made dishes in the mid eighties as a school project.
We used to get data from the NOAA and Russian (erm Comet? can't remember) satellites. The NOAA ones were good for temperature and things but the Russian ones gave excellent cloud pictures. They also had a much more obvious clock with a real tick-tock to it where as the NOAA ones just went tick tick tick:)
We had a 1.5m dish made from chickenwire and an LMB made from a coffee jar, all connected to an HF receiver and a BBC microcomputer. As a kid it was quite spooky almost to listen for the clock pulses as the satellites came over the horizon - and then to watch the pictures build up line by line on the screen.
No no no no no........ Your TV can monitor the data from the fridge and other kitchen appliances and co-ordinate the cooking/preparation of your food with ad-breaks so all you have to do is walk there and get things.
Furthermore, teh bath will know when to empty so you don't miss your favourite programmes, the computer will know to stop downloading pr0n when the SO opens the door (the web enabled doormat senses their weight...). The car warms up the engine as the diswasher senses you putting the empty coffee cup in it in the morning.
I'm actually quite scared all of a sudden. I think I might pull the switch.
Aaargh, the switch has just told the front door to refuse entry to my house, my car won't start and the toaster has said it refuses to toast crumpets anymore...........
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Nope. Prior art has to be in the public domain. That's it. If I publish (over the internet will do, providing it can be shown that there was a real opportunity for people ro see it) something and the next day someone tries to patent the same idea, my prior art will invalidate that patent.
I can even publish by stapling my idea to a tree in Washington DC, providing I can prove it was there before the application date. Telling one of my mates whilst in the middle of the Atlantic in a small yacht where neither of us has no way to tell anyone else would not constitute public knowledge and wouldn't be prior art as the public in general had no access to the knowledge.
I could time a lecture at a comference to finish just 10 seconds before you file your patent and that chould be seen as prior art as I was telling those members of the public who would need to know..... Except we have a resolution of one day so in a case like this the information would be a little too late but with new online filing systems (as used at the EPO) this could change soon.
There are delays built in to the system whereby the searching of a patent application is delayed a few months so that all prior art publications can be collected together but anything published before the fioling date is valid prior art.
Troc
Except for the madonna version which would have
"Stop stealing Mass, you fucks"
written through it
Troc
Hey if we are going to be picky, it's
;)
There are data
Data is the plural form.
one datum, two data, lots of data.
Troc
that's nerd-news of course, she doesn't have a speech impediment. :)
/dev/null of I disagree.
"I wonder what this preview button does"
Hmm
Troc
PS She also uses her USB keyring much more than I use mine. But she tells me she's not a nerd and threatens to kick me to
If he's posting here he probably doesn't have a girlfriend ;)
And if he does she's probably either a nerd too or immune to his nerdy behaviour and quirks (e.g. my wife who just goes "ugh, reading your nerd-rews again") and walks off to watch a TV soap (usually Eastenders, why is that ALWAYS on?).
Hmm.
Troc
surely you mean "cheep" :)
Troc
Yeah, having had a look, the ultralight one they are talking about cannot be bought (the pixel X thing) and the links are to small helicopters you can buy.
;)
Which aren't under 100 grams etc etc.
So the blurb should read "here is a very light helicopter you can't buy and here are some that are a bit heavier but which are for sale"
Troc
It doesn't work like that either.........
;)
;)
the Application IN IT'S PRESENT FORM should be rejected - but this always happens, during the granting process, the application will be rewritten to be different over the prior art. Tha applicant will always ask for more than they have inventied, just incase they get an examiner who is half-asleep.......
This is the fun bit where examiners get to fight with lawyers over what is and isn't new
Obviously a bad examiner will let something through that's not correct whereas a good one will only allow patentable matter through.
It's actually a little more complex than that even, but remember that what you are reading is the application, not the granted patent which *should* have different claims, assuming there is prior art
Troc
He didn't actually accuse anyone of being Hitler or a Nazi though .............
Troc
It costs menothing to RECEIVE an SMS when I am roaming in other countries......
It then costs me less that a voice call to SMS back.
Not only that, what if the person you want to contact is on the phone, in a meeting, asleep, etc? Text messages are like small emails in that respect. I often email people short one liner emails when I am at work or at home, SMS gives me the same functionality wherver I am. Yes I can email from my phone but it's more expensive and unnecessary.
Troc
But CDMA is a waste of fucking money in that region because ALL their neighbours use GSM. Eventually the GSM people (i.e. Vodaphone et al.) will move in and people will change to GSM anyway just so they can use their phones when away from their own country. Even in the States you can use a GSM phone. Whilst CDMA is a better, newer technology than GSM it's losing out to GSM in the world, and GSM has an upgrade path to next genereation stuff.
So fine, install a hugely expensive CDMA network. The GSM people will move in anyway, people will buy GSM phones and your precious US network will go bust. That's the price for FORCING a choice on someone.
If they want a GSM network, build them a GSM network. They will still have to pay for it, you will still get your blood^h^h^h^h^hoil money and Bush will still get re-elected.
Troc
Aaaah Full Throttle........
When I'm on the road, I'm invincible.........
CRASH!
Well it still makes me laugh
"Naaaw ahm maaad"
Aaargh gotta play that again
Troc
Bet you typed that one handed though ;)
Troc
That just means everyone leaked their copy :)
Troc
Yep - and my Braun electric toothbrush is as well.
;)
The idea isn't inventive (so stop all the patent whinging now
Troc
I had that problem so I mentioned it to Apple and I have just received a new remote in the post...... Very good service there. Assuming your iPod is still in warranty, give 'em a call.
There's stuff about the remote problems in Apple's forums. It seems the newer remotes have been changed slightly to solve the problems you are having......
Troc
That's just a subset of the hurling things through a window - much better to wrap the letter around a block of ice (it melts you see, causing confusion and merriment) or a frozen lasagne (or dish of your choice) which becomes unfrozen (unless you throw it into a freezer, which would be odd) and thus causes the required hilarity.
Throwing a thawed, frozen lasagne is plain silly and should be avoided. In part because it's quite hard to tie a letter to a soggy lsasgne. Maybe if it's al dente you might get away with it...
I think I am off topic, sorry
Troc
Flamebait?
... that the system is commercial not military and then made, what I thought was, a little joke. Hence the ";)"
:( My funny stuff get's modded as insightful and my insightful stuff gets modded as space cowboy......! :) Ah well.
.sig is working then :)
I pointed out a fact
*shrug*
Whenever I DO write some attempted flamebait it gets modded as funny
Bah, It's just not fair. My
Troc.
Gallileo is civilian not military - that was the point behind it, something that wasn't controlled by warmongering generals ;)
Troc
D GPS works, as described, by comparing it's known location with that received from the satellites and transmits - in real time - the correction factor, so the correction factor varies with the changing position give by GPS. It requires the DGPS station to be fairly close to the handset as it needs to be using the same satellites - and therefore to be receiving the same information. So non-systematic errors are equally well fixed, in fact the error is non-systematic, it's simply a less accurate measure of the time given by the atomic clock on each satellite (less decimal places) which leads to a larger "cocked hat" for the handset to be located inside (cocker hat from the old days of triangulation where you drew lines for the bearings of three places and assumed you were inside the small triangle where they intercepted.
;)
Something I still practice when out sailing (or mountaineering etc) just in case my GPS packs up
troc
Farscape is a little like babylon 5 was, you need to watch a few shows in the correct order - preferably from the begining to get a handle on what's going on. ie they have a strong, cohesive storyline. This is unlike most of the shows you mentioned (and the Star Trek stuff, Stargate SG1 etc) which are almost always self-contained stories in each episode so you can watch them whenever you have a free moment without having had to see teh previous ones.
I find the Farscape, B5 etc approach to be much more fulfilling
Troc
Could be an interesting way of doing things however I can't see it really working as shows need a guaranteed, regular income stream.
I would personally love Farscape to be continued, especially having seen the cliff-hanger of a final episode last Monday on BBC 2..........
I wonder if you could do things like give people who donate over $xxx amount a walk-on part or something? Guided tours of the sets (yeah I know they need to be rebuilt)? Signed anythings. I guess you could try a fund raising event like the US PBS shows do - or the lartge charity fundraisers we have in the UK. Would work if we found some big starts who would support the thing for free......
Hmm
Troc
Here in Delft in holland there are two large old churches, called the "new church" and the "old church" the new one is something like 700 years old.
:)
The old one is trying to out-do the tower of piza for leaning prowess
Most of the houses in the centre date from the 17th century and those outside are around 100 years old or so and are regarded as very modern
Troc
Too true. We were doing this with home made dishes in the mid eighties as a school project.
:)
We used to get data from the NOAA and Russian (erm Comet? can't remember) satellites. The NOAA ones were good for temperature and things but the Russian ones gave excellent cloud pictures. They also had a much more obvious clock with a real tick-tock to it where as the NOAA ones just went tick tick tick
We had a 1.5m dish made from chickenwire and an LMB made from a coffee jar, all connected to an HF receiver and a BBC microcomputer. As a kid it was quite spooky almost to listen for the clock pulses as the satellites came over the horizon - and then to watch the pictures build up line by line on the screen.
Hmm, maybe I did actually enjoy school.
Troc
No no no no no........ Your TV can monitor the data from the fridge and other kitchen appliances and co-ordinate the cooking/preparation of your food with ad-breaks so all you have to do is walk there and get things.
Furthermore, teh bath will know when to empty so you don't miss your favourite programmes, the computer will know to stop downloading pr0n when the SO opens the door (the web enabled doormat senses their weight...). The car warms up the engine as the diswasher senses you putting the empty coffee cup in it in the morning.
I'm actually quite scared all of a sudden. I think I might pull the switch.
Aaargh, the switch has just told the front door to refuse entry to my house, my car won't start and the toaster has said it refuses to toast crumpets anymore...........
Troc