I think in school I heard about Kodak using the life of a patent to protect their instant camera revolution/monopoly. I think where I heard this story from, the patent lifetime is 7 years. What Kodak would do is almost 7 years after a patent was awarded, they make a notable improvement on the process or materials or something and repatent it. Repackage it and make it unavailable for backwards compatability and reap the money. Wait 7 years and do it again and again. Everyone knew how Kodak was creating the instant pictures but no one but Kodak could do anything about it.
I'm not certain about the validity of the story or if you could repatent it using new technology.
If someone can provide insight about this story, please do so. I'd like to get my story straight.
I'm using Red Hat 6.2 as my router/gateway for internet sharing, what of it? You want to start something, cause I'll throw down if you want! Just kidding, I just use what works and I'm familiar with Red Hat than anything else.
I wonder what the people that bought the BBA off eBay for $130 and thought they got a deal. The open their web browser, tune it to slashdot.org and read this. I think resounding explicatives would be heard two towns over.
I didn't see any one post this over the threshold of 1, I figure it'd be +5:Informative.
They can make diamonds, they have been for a while, but the problem is that the pressure and time needed goes up exponentially (or some similar trend) based on how big the diamond is to be. I saw a show on the History Channel last week about precious materials (gold, money, diamonds, etc...) They showed this huge press and the put a little carbon thing in this cube inside the press. The clamped it down, turned on the electricity and waited for it to work.
The made diamonds smaller than the ones on CNN (the TV station) though.
As a side note, they also had this laser that could write words, company logo's, anything into diamonds. They say companies use that option if they want to keep things secret.
I fully agree with you. I'm a firm believer that if you have the same game on the PS2 platform and DC, if the code is the same, a regular game player couldn't tell the difference. I define a regular player as someone not involved in development.
When I have the time, I'm going to play around more with my Dreamcast. I still have my broadband adapter that I bought the first day.
There still is no better fighting game than Soul Calibur for the DC. Even the DC version looks and plays better than the arcade.
It's a shame that it wasn't pushed more, perhaps Sega should release the specs so more rapid development could take place.
What the hell does communism have to do with patrotism. One is about one kind of government, the other is about having pride and ambition. I also don't have a "system", it's more of a belief. You sound like another drone that spouts out anti-government rhetoric, get off the soap crate and give someone else with more enlightened opionions their time, they deserve it more than you.
Listen, jerk. We "merikkans" didn't do anything, whoever named American liked that name. There's nothing wrong with patriotism at all, it's called pride of your homeland. I couldn't imagine being born from a country that shuns patriotism or pride.
A small pitiful group of dateless wonders huddle together in the corner of an urban meeting place. When someone wanders over, noticing that their geekness compliments their own, they say "you guys from Slashdot?" A few of them nod and this person sits down and joins the group, all in silence. Someone people ask trite questions like "So, when did you use Slashdot last?" and other gems like "So, what do you think about that Commander Taco guy?" A few hours later, one by one people realize meeting other losers is a major mistake and start to leave, making pitiful excuses on their way out.
This meeting is a big mistake, but I guess when you take pride in first posts and trolling, meeting other cultural weenies is all you have.
I'll just stick to the college parties, meeting real outgoing people that enjoy The Real World. Slashdot needs to be reminded it can't be a centerpiece of computing news and discussion because it is so one-sided. Any encouragement to make Slashdot a house-hold name will be a Bad Thing.
Oh, we're going to start and separate out what is a driving assistance feature, and active and passive safety features? The bottom line is, if someone drifts in and out of lanes in any car, they shouldn't be driving. At least Volvo has the common sense to let them know if they are.
You're last statement is just completely stupid, it shows you know absolutely nothing about the automotive industry.
So, in conclusion, you are a moron and have poorly formed ideas and thoughts. Just shut your mouth and go away. I guess you did open your mouth and prove it.
Ah, spoken like a true idiot. They aren't supposed to replace or supplement driver ability. They are called safety features, not driving assistance features.
I also take personal offense at the statement "Volvos are for the weak". I don't know if you mean this specific car or Volvo's in general, but it's not your place to call them weak or bad drivers.
Lastly, and most importantly, this is a safety concept car. Mental midgets like yourself fail to realize how few concept cars really go into production. Some of them do, like the Viper, the PT Cruiser and the new Thunderbird. The main purpose concept cars are created is to show what a manufacturer can come up with, what features are possible and what designs they are considering. If a design gets bad reviews, back to the drawing board, if they are good, it goes ahead and makes it's way towards production.
Volvo isn't going to make a model car named the Safety, they are going to take some features that people like about the SCC and incorporate them into pre-existing cars.
Remember: It's better to be thought of a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.
I can't find any links to the research, but perhaps someone more "in the know" can provide this information
You're thinking of Circadian (zur-cay-dee-ahn) Rhythms. They are used to predict the different patterns your bodies systems go through. For instance, all things being equal, a male is I think 40% more likely to have a heart attack when waking up than at any other time during the day. This fact is because when you wake up, you're body speeds back up from slowing down when you sleep. This sudden increase in bloodflow has been shown to cause heart attacks.
This is just one element of the Circadian Rhythms, go a google search for 'circadian' and read about it.
You know, I wouldn't tell a lot of people about a liberal arts degree. That's not something you should be proud about, I wouldn't. (If you are wondering, I am getting my second degree in engineering.)
Who cares? No, that's not supposed to be funny, The Who was a stupid band popular a long time ago, no one cares, get over it! This isn't important, he wasn't important. You better be prepared for July 4th, both for the festivities and any disasters.
You sound like the poster-child of a Trekkie. Some overweight 30 year old in a Star Trek uniform 3 sizes too small for you. (See the Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons as reference.) Remember, every time a 30 year old virgin buys a novelty Star Trek stun gun, Baby Jesus Cries.
If you don't believe me, read this: I have high hopes this pattern will not disappoint me on this Tenth movie.
This is true, but you're talking about improving technology which is different.
I'm talking about the same competing technology. If Ogg Vorbis can demonstrate that computer users need a feature that DivX/mp3 cannot provide, then they'll switch. But the bulk computer users only use stereo, rendering multi-channel sound just about dead in the water.
The only way Ogg/Vorbis can not die out is to show the public that they have something significant that DivX/mp3 does not.
Apparently the Ogg/Vorbis people didn't listen in their economics class, specifically the part about competition. At least the poster didn't, saying that Ogg/Vorbis video+audio codecs are going to take over the earth. The problem is that to make it in any business, you gotta be the first out of the gate. The DivX codec itself was out before Ogg/Vorbis was even an idea. It could be said Ogg/Vorbis is superior to DivX and possibly an mp3 codec, I personally have not thoroughly inspected the two, so for the sake of argument, I'll say this creation is superior. People can say all they want about how much better Ogg/Vorbis is, but that's not going to want anyone to encode movies to that codec and erase the DivX version, and not encode using DivX anymore.
To the point, DivX got there first, sorry Ogg/Vorbis, you're too late. Find something else to do. Yeah, it sucks, but them's the breaks, kid.
I'm the guy that wrote that article and is going there now. I'll start my junior year this fall and hopefully will be riding it some. I'm over across Hampton this semester so it'll be more sensible and it'll just drop me off by Kaufmann. Hello Computer Engineering!
My sister bought a game a while ago when Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22 was in it's hayday. You had to make sure everything you could load into extended memory to free up as much conventional memory as possible. Well, the game my sister got was Sam 'n Max, about a crime-solving team. Anyway, the protection scheme was the same as above, but instead of words, it had pictures. Like it had the Sam and Max dressed up in a different outfit on every page. Then when you started the program, they asked you what Sam and Max looks like on page X. If you answered right, you got to play.
Little do you know that all the guys they pick are nerds just like yourself. The expose and humiliate them beyond belief. You won't be the same guy because you'll make yourself out to be a social outcast.
Oh, that's never happened to me, just what I heard.
I submitted this story the evening the story was on pilotonline.com to slashdot, and I go to ODU (for where the monorail is being constructed at) and I don't get credit, you stupid fucks.
Slashdot Mirror
... is the *BSD Is Dying troll post? I haven't read it in an entire 48 hour period.
I think in school I heard about Kodak using the life of a patent to protect their instant camera revolution/monopoly. I think where I heard this story from, the patent lifetime is 7 years. What Kodak would do is almost 7 years after a patent was awarded, they make a notable improvement on the process or materials or something and repatent it. Repackage it and make it unavailable for backwards compatability and reap the money. Wait 7 years and do it again and again. Everyone knew how Kodak was creating the instant pictures but no one but Kodak could do anything about it.
I'm not certain about the validity of the story or if you could repatent it using new technology.
If someone can provide insight about this story, please do so. I'd like to get my story straight.
I'm using Red Hat 6.2 as my router/gateway for internet sharing, what of it? You want to start something, cause I'll throw down if you want! Just kidding, I just use what works and I'm familiar with Red Hat than anything else.
"The good thing about standards is that there are so many of them." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I wonder what the people that bought the BBA off eBay for $130 and thought they got a deal. The open their web browser, tune it to slashdot.org and read this. I think resounding explicatives would be heard two towns over.
I didn't see any one post this over the threshold of 1, I figure it'd be +5:Informative.
They can make diamonds, they have been for a while, but the problem is that the pressure and time needed goes up exponentially (or some similar trend) based on how big the diamond is to be. I saw a show on the History Channel last week about precious materials (gold, money, diamonds, etc...) They showed this huge press and the put a little carbon thing in this cube inside the press. The clamped it down, turned on the electricity and waited for it to work.
The made diamonds smaller than the ones on CNN (the TV station) though.
As a side note, they also had this laser that could write words, company logo's, anything into diamonds. They say companies use that option if they want to keep things secret.
I fully agree with you. I'm a firm believer that if you have the same game on the PS2 platform and DC, if the code is the same, a regular game player couldn't tell the difference. I define a regular player as someone not involved in development.
When I have the time, I'm going to play around more with my Dreamcast. I still have my broadband adapter that I bought the first day.
There still is no better fighting game than Soul Calibur for the DC. Even the DC version looks and plays better than the arcade.
It's a shame that it wasn't pushed more, perhaps Sega should release the specs so more rapid development could take place.
Around the day the PS3 is released, are we going to see a Slashdot article about the al Qaeda stockpiling PS3's to serve some absurd need?
If you don't know what I mean, read this.
What the hell does communism have to do with patrotism. One is about one kind of government, the other is about having pride and ambition. I also don't have a "system", it's more of a belief. You sound like another drone that spouts out anti-government rhetoric, get off the soap crate and give someone else with more enlightened opionions their time, they deserve it more than you.
Listen, jerk. We "merikkans" didn't do anything, whoever named American liked that name. There's nothing wrong with patriotism at all, it's called pride of your homeland. I couldn't imagine being born from a country that shuns patriotism or pride.
A small pitiful group of dateless wonders huddle together in the corner of an urban meeting place. When someone wanders over, noticing that their geekness compliments their own, they say "you guys from Slashdot?" A few of them nod and this person sits down and joins the group, all in silence. Someone people ask trite questions like "So, when did you use Slashdot last?" and other gems like "So, what do you think about that Commander Taco guy?" A few hours later, one by one people realize meeting other losers is a major mistake and start to leave, making pitiful excuses on their way out.
This meeting is a big mistake, but I guess when you take pride in first posts and trolling, meeting other cultural weenies is all you have.
I'll just stick to the college parties, meeting real outgoing people that enjoy The Real World. Slashdot needs to be reminded it can't be a centerpiece of computing news and discussion because it is so one-sided. Any encouragement to make Slashdot a house-hold name will be a Bad Thing.
Oh, we're going to start and separate out what is a driving assistance feature, and active and passive safety features? The bottom line is, if someone drifts in and out of lanes in any car, they shouldn't be driving. At least Volvo has the common sense to let them know if they are.
You're last statement is just completely stupid, it shows you know absolutely nothing about the automotive industry.
So, in conclusion, you are a moron and have poorly formed ideas and thoughts. Just shut your mouth and go away. I guess you did open your mouth and prove it.
Ah, spoken like a true idiot. They aren't supposed to replace or supplement driver ability. They are called safety features, not driving assistance features.
I also take personal offense at the statement "Volvos are for the weak". I don't know if you mean this specific car or Volvo's in general, but it's not your place to call them weak or bad drivers.
Lastly, and most importantly, this is a safety concept car. Mental midgets like yourself fail to realize how few concept cars really go into production. Some of them do, like the Viper, the PT Cruiser and the new Thunderbird. The main purpose concept cars are created is to show what a manufacturer can come up with, what features are possible and what designs they are considering. If a design gets bad reviews, back to the drawing board, if they are good, it goes ahead and makes it's way towards production.
Volvo isn't going to make a model car named the Safety, they are going to take some features that people like about the SCC and incorporate them into pre-existing cars.
Remember: It's better to be thought of a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.
haha, CKY video with that computer voice.
I can't find any links to the research, but perhaps someone more "in the know" can provide this information
You're thinking of Circadian (zur-cay-dee-ahn) Rhythms. They are used to predict the different patterns your bodies systems go through. For instance, all things being equal, a male is I think 40% more likely to have a heart attack when waking up than at any other time during the day. This fact is because when you wake up, you're body speeds back up from slowing down when you sleep. This sudden increase in bloodflow has been shown to cause heart attacks.
This is just one element of the Circadian Rhythms, go a google search for 'circadian' and read about it.
You know, I wouldn't tell a lot of people about a liberal arts degree. That's not something you should be proud about, I wouldn't. (If you are wondering, I am getting my second degree in engineering.)
Who cares? No, that's not supposed to be funny, The Who was a stupid band popular a long time ago, no one cares, get over it! This isn't important, he wasn't important. You better be prepared for July 4th, both for the festivities and any disasters.
You sound like the poster-child of a Trekkie. Some overweight 30 year old in a Star Trek uniform 3 sizes too small for you. (See the Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons as reference.) Remember, every time a 30 year old virgin buys a novelty Star Trek stun gun, Baby Jesus Cries.
If you don't believe me, read this: I have high hopes this pattern will not disappoint me on this Tenth movie.
This is true, but you're talking about improving technology which is different.
I'm talking about the same competing technology. If Ogg Vorbis can demonstrate that computer users need a feature that DivX/mp3 cannot provide, then they'll switch. But the bulk computer users only use stereo, rendering multi-channel sound just about dead in the water.
The only way Ogg/Vorbis can not die out is to show the public that they have something significant that DivX/mp3 does not.
Apparently the Ogg/Vorbis people didn't listen in their economics class, specifically the part about competition. At least the poster didn't, saying that Ogg/Vorbis video+audio codecs are going to take over the earth. The problem is that to make it in any business, you gotta be the first out of the gate. The DivX codec itself was out before Ogg/Vorbis was even an idea. It could be said Ogg/Vorbis is superior to DivX and possibly an mp3 codec, I personally have not thoroughly inspected the two, so for the sake of argument, I'll say this creation is superior. People can say all they want about how much better Ogg/Vorbis is, but that's not going to want anyone to encode movies to that codec and erase the DivX version, and not encode using DivX anymore.
To the point, DivX got there first, sorry Ogg/Vorbis, you're too late. Find something else to do. Yeah, it sucks, but them's the breaks, kid.
I'm the guy that wrote that article and is going there now. I'll start my junior year this fall and hopefully will be riding it some. I'm over across Hampton this semester so it'll be more sensible and it'll just drop me off by Kaufmann. Hello Computer Engineering!
My sister bought a game a while ago when Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22 was in it's hayday. You had to make sure everything you could load into extended memory to free up as much conventional memory as possible. Well, the game my sister got was Sam 'n Max, about a crime-solving team. Anyway, the protection scheme was the same as above, but instead of words, it had pictures. Like it had the Sam and Max dressed up in a different outfit on every page. Then when you started the program, they asked you what Sam and Max looks like on page X. If you answered right, you got to play.
the girl at Sheetz that is nuts about me.
It takes all kinds I guess. Just being at Sheetz depresses me.
Little do you know that all the guys they pick are nerds just like yourself. The expose and humiliate them beyond belief. You won't be the same guy because you'll make yourself out to be a social outcast.
Oh, that's never happened to me, just what I heard.
I submitted this story the evening the story was on pilotonline.com to slashdot, and I go to ODU (for where the monorail is being constructed at) and I don't get credit, you stupid fucks.