Unless you know for a fact that you are infringing one or more patents just go ahead and put your product on the market. If someone thinks you are infringing and are worth bothering with they will contact you. There are no criminal penalties or statutory damages for patent infringement.
...note that this a is a design patent . It is more like a trademark than a utility patent and covers only the "non-functional" elements of the design.
> Well given the article says that they hope to achieve 10W...
Go back and read the article again. The author has munged two completely unrelated subjects together. The 10W figure has to do with a project to develop steerable arrays of solid-state lasers on integrated circuits. The airborn battle laser is a big chemical laser.
There is already one remote-controlled telescope in Antarctica. No need for permanent staff. Astronomy has not been done by looking through eyepieces for quite a while.
> What about class warfare? Is it ok by you if I use free software to fight the > evil of global capitalism?
Of course. What he really wants is a political correctness clause. After all, what if someone were to use Free Software to design a coal-fired power plant? Develop a strain of genetically-engineered wheat? Design an SUV? Manage a bank? Run a "right-wing" political campaign?
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What is the reason for the tiny rear wheel?
> Is it too late to explain to people why $99+$60/month is not better than
> $600+$20/month?"
For some it may be. Why do you think you know what is best for everyone?
> How about using a sphere magnet?
Explain how to create one.
> Actually it would, if they exist.
Elucidate.
> is it possible to create pepetium mobiles now?
No. The existence of magnetic monopoles does not imply perpetual motion.
> this is some sort of stupidity here
It certainly is. The physicists are not the ones exhibiting it, though.
> No Seven Eleven. No Mickey D's.
Now those are two real pluses for the location.
Unless you know for a fact that you are infringing one or more patents just go ahead and put your product on the market. If someone thinks you are infringing and are worth bothering with they will contact you. There are no criminal penalties or statutory damages for patent infringement.
> Given Google's patent It would be illegal to make a page like AltaVista's
> right now.
Not true. Read up on design patents some more.
Please read up on design patents . They protect only the decorative, non-functional elements of a design.
...note that this a is a design patent . It is more like a trademark than a utility patent and covers only the "non-functional" elements of the design.
> Well given the article says that they hope to achieve 10W...
Go back and read the article again. The author has munged two completely unrelated subjects together. The 10W figure has to do with a project to develop steerable arrays of solid-state lasers on integrated circuits. The airborn battle laser is a big chemical laser.
By another definition the Internet is a network of networks.
> Yes but would any of this matter to anyone but military strategists if the
> "web" wasn't released into the public domain by CERN in 1993?
Yes. Google "Gopher" (and other candidates).
> IF I wanted to listen to music on my phone, which I do not, because I'm not
> an antisocial fuckwit who wants to be deaf by the time he's 30...
But think how rich you'll be with your share of the proceeds of the class-action lawsuit against the phone vendors for deafening you!
> It can only see half the sky due to being very close to the South Pole.
For deep sky work that doesn't matter. The universe is the same in every direction when you look out far enough.
> Granted not a lot of astronomical phenomena happen on such short timescales...
The advantage of 24-7 observing time is the ability to do long period integration.
> Yea it is bit crazy for HR...
There is already one remote-controlled telescope in Antarctica. No need for permanent staff. Astronomy has not been done by looking through eyepieces for quite a while.
> The moon gets as much sunlight over it's entire surface.
Not at the poles. In fact there is at least one crater near the South pole that is in permanent shadow.
This is entirely different. The particles come out of the filter at different places rather than at different times.
How do you measure the rate technological progress?
DoD is already in the process of transitioning to IPv6.
Whereas you always buy from the highest bidder, right?
> ...mature-themed comics and movies.
For certain values of "mature".
> What about class warfare? Is it ok by you if I use free software to fight the
> evil of global capitalism?
Of course. What he really wants is a political correctness clause. After all, what if someone were to use Free Software to design a coal-fired power plant? Develop a strain of genetically-engineered wheat? Design an SUV? Manage a bank? Run a "right-wing" political campaign?