The difference is that if you surfed the website of the patent office, made a retrieval request, they would have your IP address and could prove you looked at the documents.
Saying that IBM has over 100,000 covering all fields of Computer Science would amount to the same thing. By that statement you could make the assumption that that there would be at least one patent you have infringed.
Is that even remotely healthy? After my grandfather passed away earlier this year he weighed in at 102 pounds at his nursing home. He hadn't walked or moved in over 5 years. He looked absolutely sickly as it was. I can't imagine if he was 6'2" and active.
One of the basic ways of determining whether you are healthy or not, is to calculate your Body Mass Index. This is a calculation based on your height and weight.
Plugging his statistics into the formula (height = 6' 2", weight = 18.6), his Body-Mass-Index is 18.6, which is in the normal range (leaning towards underweight).
What about a Gigapixel image of the entire celestial sphere around the Earth? That would be really cool to pan around the entire sky and zoom in as far as possible.
The quickest way I know to get those professional looking anti-aliased images using a cheap icon editor is to design the icon at 512x512 and then scale the image down to 64x64.
That's right. What the movie doesn't make clear is that it was sped up by a factor of 10,000, because solar panels that size result in only a trivial amount of thrust.
No, the TIE fighters had a large bank of 48 car batteries which were kept topped up by the solar cells. Each TIE fighter had to charged up from the mains at least once every 48 hours, otherwise the battery would run flat, and you'd be stuck in space. In that case, the only way to start the engines was to plug an R2D2 unit into the cigarette lighter socket.
The best example I can think of, is the inability for CD-writers to make UDF/DirectCD formats readable in IS-9660 format unless the user has administrator permissions. I prefer the security of users not having admin permissions all the time, but the hassle of having to switch users or logging out and back in again, has led to many users demanding admin permissions as default.
Well, you can - but our government also has a system in place to effectively bypass this "obstruction" whenever they find it too inconvenient... eminent domain.
It's known as "a ransom strip". Especially when it's the local government which owns the land... This happened in Scotland. The council sold off some land to developers, but kept the end of the road under ownership. Private house owners want to sell a field to developers and planning permission for a new subdivision was granted, so long as the plans incorporated the road as the exclusive access route.
The result: 9 square meres of tarmac = 1 million pounds.
When you patent an idea, you are not doing the same thing as planting a flag in the ground and building a house for yourself.
Actually, if you are cunning, you can buy the right plot of cheap land at the right location and effectively block access to other areas of land that are highly desirable. Examples include the farmer that owns the rights to an access road leading to fields owned by property developers.
Patents work in the same way; choice the right area of technology, and you can block development of other much larger areas of technology. While there may be other alternative paths, they may be much more expensive to be profitable.
...left a brand new 80GB hard drive on the roof nd drove off. It bounced a couple of times and got driven over. His mistake was to attempt to send it back for a warranty refund:)...
You'll only get a refund if you wipe the tread marks off first.
Back in the days when there wasn't any video recorders, TiVO, home PC's or even console systems, the only form of home made video entertainment for our family and our friends was the home projector. During a party, the lights would be dimmed and everyone's favourite photographs were converted into slides and displayed. Anything and everything, from hiking trips across the mountains, sunsets, trips to national parks, the nightlife of the metro, would be displayed as a 10 foot high image on the nearest white wall. Panoramic views across valleys were my favourite, as you could walk right up to the wall and see the smallest detail - smoke rising up from the chimney of a cottage, miles away.
It would be fun to do that with digital photographs or movies.
It would be easier to build domes over each city. But it would be even easier to build cities underground. But you would need to have really pissed someone really big to justify that investment.
Oddly enough, the closest example to this concept would be Montreal, which has many of its office blocks and shopping malls connected by an underground transportation system.
In the early days of the IBM PC clone market, there were over 20 word processor vendors. To help consumers pick a choice, the computer magazines at the time (Personal Computer World) would display check box charts displaying all the features that each word processor had (or did not have). This constant pressure led to many of the companies to merge in order to combine features. Eventually, the word processor market was reduced to a handful of companies. Microsoft did their usual thing of constantly adding new features at a rate that no-one else could compete against.
Every put a CD-ROM in a Windows XP system. The first thing that happens is that Microsoft's automatic image catalog spider starts to try crawling all over the CD-ROM. I would be very grateful if anyone could tell me how to disable it entirely (ie. that little rectangular toolbox icon that has a non-standard menu format).
Incidentally, I used to run 'netstat' whenever I rebooted my PC. One time I was surprised to see the drivers of my video card going over to the manufacturers website in Korea. I don't know if they were downloading updated drivers, uploading performance statistics or application logs, but after I complained, it stopped.
I remember being involved in a accident involving farm machinery - I stepped on a Matchbox tractor, and the bolt for attaching the trailer went right into my big toe - I had a 5mm deep punture in my big toe ow! ow! ow!
really good food, lunch time barbecues, lunch time head shavings, etc.
The food part sounds good, but I'd prefer to work for a company that gave me at least 30 minutes of spare time every three months to get a decent haircut. Or do they take missing deadlines really seriously?
Here's an article indicating that Microsoft is developing a gamma laser for data storage.
Unfortunately, thee authors fail to mention that several manufacturers have already reduced the amount of shielding for their laptop systems and are instead advising users to minimize their contact with the system to not more than 0.1 Roentgens in any 24 hour period (The actual energy strength of the beam can be found beside the gamma laser lens. However, such an event should not occur unless large numbers of discs are being burnt. Alternatively, the wearing of a lead apron while using the laptop is recommended.
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The difference is that if you surfed the website of the patent office, made a retrieval request, they would have your IP address and could prove you looked at the documents.
Saying that IBM has over 100,000 covering all fields of Computer Science would amount to the same thing. By that statement you could make the assumption that that there would be at least one patent you have infringed.
Is that even remotely healthy? After my grandfather passed away earlier this year he weighed in at 102 pounds at his nursing home. He hadn't walked or moved in over 5 years. He looked absolutely sickly as it was. I can't imagine if he was 6'2" and active.
One of the basic ways of determining whether you are healthy or not, is to calculate your Body Mass Index. This is a calculation based on your height and weight.
Plugging his statistics into the formula (height = 6' 2", weight = 18.6), his Body-Mass-Index is 18.6, which is in the normal range (leaning towards underweight).
What about a Gigapixel image of the entire celestial sphere around the Earth? That would be really cool to pan around the entire sky and zoom in as far as possible.
.NET smartcard - your passport to the universe
The quickest way I know to get those professional looking anti-aliased images using a cheap icon editor is to design the icon at 512x512 and then scale the image down to 64x64.
That's right. What the movie doesn't make clear is that it was sped up by a factor of 10,000, because solar panels that size result in only a trivial amount of thrust.
No, the TIE fighters had a large bank of 48 car batteries which were kept topped up by the solar cells. Each TIE fighter had to charged up from the mains at least once every 48 hours, otherwise the battery would run flat, and you'd be stuck in space. In that case, the only way to start the engines was to plug an R2D2 unit into the cigarette lighter socket.
The best example I can think of, is the inability for CD-writers to make UDF/DirectCD formats readable in IS-9660 format unless the user has administrator permissions. I prefer the security of users not having admin permissions all the time, but the hassle of having to switch users or logging out and back in again, has led to many users demanding admin permissions as default.
Well, you can - but our government also has a system in place to effectively bypass this "obstruction" whenever they find it too inconvenient... eminent domain.
It's known as "a ransom strip". Especially when it's the local government which owns the land... This happened in Scotland. The council sold off some land to developers, but kept the end of the road under ownership. Private house owners want to sell a field to developers and planning permission for a new subdivision was granted, so long as the plans incorporated the road as the exclusive access route.
The result: 9 square meres of tarmac = 1 million pounds.
When you patent an idea, you are not doing the same thing
as planting a flag in the ground and building a house for yourself.
Actually, if you are cunning, you can buy the right plot of cheap land at the right location and effectively block access to other areas of land that are highly desirable. Examples include the farmer that owns the rights to an access road leading to fields owned by property developers.
Patents work in the same way; choice the right area of technology, and you can block development of other much larger areas of technology. While there may be other alternative paths, they may be much more expensive to be profitable.
...left a brand new 80GB hard drive on the roof nd drove off. It bounced a couple of times and got driven over. His mistake was to attempt to send it back for a warranty refund :) ...
You'll only get a refund if you wipe the tread marks off first.
Back in the days when there wasn't any video recorders, TiVO, home PC's or even console systems, the only form of home made video entertainment for our family and our friends was the home projector. During a party, the lights would be dimmed and everyone's favourite photographs were converted into slides and displayed. Anything and everything, from hiking trips across the mountains, sunsets, trips to national parks, the nightlife of the metro, would be displayed as a 10 foot high image on the nearest white wall. Panoramic views across valleys were my favourite, as you could walk right up to the wall and see the smallest detail - smoke rising up from the chimney of a cottage, miles away.
It would be fun to do that with digital photographs or movies.
I don't find that surprising. I have just as much trouble understanding Brummies, Scousers, Geordies and Glaswegians,
That's OK - there's an online training guide to the Scottish NED (Non-Educated Delinquent), the Glasgow Survival Guide
It would be easier to build domes over each city. But it would be even easier to build cities underground. But you would need to have really pissed someone really big to justify that investment.
Oddly enough, the closest example to this concept would be Montreal, which has many of its office blocks and shopping malls connected by an underground transportation system.
In the early days of the IBM PC clone market, there were over 20 word processor vendors. To help consumers pick a choice, the computer magazines at the time (Personal Computer World) would display check box charts displaying all the features that each word processor had (or did not have). This constant pressure led to many of the companies to merge in order to combine features. Eventually, the word processor market was reduced to a handful of companies. Microsoft did their usual thing of constantly adding new features at a rate that no-one else could compete against.
The BBC TV series concept of the Heart of Gold didn't look that bad, IMHO.
Every put a CD-ROM in a Windows XP system. The first thing that happens is that Microsoft's automatic image catalog spider starts to try crawling all over the CD-ROM. I would be very grateful if anyone could tell me how to disable it entirely (ie. that little rectangular toolbox icon that has a non-standard menu format).
Incidentally, I used to run 'netstat' whenever I rebooted my PC. One time I was surprised to see the drivers of my video card going over to the manufacturers website in Korea. I don't know if they were downloading updated drivers, uploading performance statistics or application logs, but after I complained, it stopped.
In high school, the hall monitor monitors your monitor.
I remember being involved in a accident involving farm machinery - I stepped on a Matchbox tractor, and the bolt for attaching the trailer went right into my big toe - I had a 5mm deep punture in my big toe ow! ow! ow!
really good food, lunch time barbecues, lunch time head shavings, etc.
The food part sounds good, but I'd prefer to work for a company that gave me at least 30 minutes of spare time every three months to get a decent haircut. Or do they take missing deadlines really seriously?
Surely it would be possible to use a few bytes of the image to save the offset within the sound file that should be played?
PirateEye's hidden cameras scan a movie audience, eight seats at a time, looking for things resembling a camcorder lens.
I'm going to feel sorry for the first short-sighted guy with high-correction lenses who gets busted.
I guess if anyoe is going to use a camera, they'll have to make sure the lenses have anti-reflection coatings.
Probably in the same way that Daylight Savings Time gives you an extra hour of sunlight each day.
Here's an article indicating that Microsoft is developing a gamma laser for data storage.
Unfortunately, thee authors fail to mention that several manufacturers have already reduced the amount of shielding for their laptop systems and are instead advising users to minimize their contact with the system to not more than 0.1 Roentgens in any 24 hour period (The actual energy strength of the beam can be found beside the gamma laser lens. However, such an event should not occur unless large numbers of discs are being burnt. Alternatively, the wearing of a lead apron while using the laptop is recommended.
Have you looked at the page ZX81 ROM's. There's a mention of the Forth ROM by David Husband. (Google search: ZX81 "Forth Rom")
Wow! Was that the self-assembled version, or the kit version? I've seen the adverts for the ZX81