Oh btw, I would puke everytime I read the malayalam translation of "Retry, Cancel, Abort":)
As far as I remember, I worked on the Pango module for malayalam. I admit that I was young, foolish and caffiene enhanced sleep deprived when I wrote that , can someone throw that away and rewrite it properly ?.
>Secondly, China and India have a long standing and storied history of ignoring patents all together.
They don't ignore patents, they just run their countries on their own laws (perfectly normal soverign country behaviour..). I have been reading up on India's patent policy recently and it looks very nicely written. Read an extract from chapter 2.
1.3.8 Computer Programs 1. Computer program is not patentable invention as computer program is a set of instructions for controlling a sequence of operations of a dataprocessing system. It closely resembles a mathematical method.It may be expressed in various forms eg. A series of verbal statements, a flow chart, an algorithm, or other coded form and may be presented in a format suitable for direct entry into a particular computer, or may require transcription into a different format (or computer “language”). It may merely be written on paper or recorded on some machine- readable medium such as magnetic tape or disc or optically scanned record, or it may be permanently recorded in a control store forming part of a computer. Thus it is evident that a program may be presented in terms of either software or firmware.
2. Since the claims may be couched in terms which tend to obscure the fact that the invention relates to a computer program, it is always essential to analyse them, in the light of what is described and of the prior art, in order to identify the contribution to the art and hence determine whether this advance resides in, or necessarily includes, technological features, or is solely intellectual in its content. For example, if the new feature comprises a set of instructions (program), which may be formulated and presented in any one of a variety of ways, designed to control a known computer to cause it to perform desired operations, the computer being suitable for the purpose without special adoption or modification of its hardware or organization then, no matter whether claimed as “a computer arranged to operate etc” or as “a method of operating a computer etc”.Such a subject matter is not Patentable and hence excluded from patentability . The invention here relates solely to the novel program. The claim might eg stipulate that the instructions were encoded in a particular way on a particular known medium but this would not affect the issue. If however the format of the program, or the nature of the record medium (tape, disc etc.) necessitated some non-standard adaptation to the computer itself (this factor being integral to the invention and not an arbitrary unrelated addition) then the exclusion would not apply. Likewise an invention which related to a particular manner of organizing the overall operation of the Central Processing Unit and the peripheral units, regardless of whether the invention were implemented by means of a program or special hardware facilities, would not be excluded.
3. If the implementation of a new program requires internal modification to a computer of such a nature that it may reasonably be regarded as a new computer then clearly a claim to this computer is not excluded, even though at first sight the invention may seem to relate merely to a program and the purpose of modifying the computer is subsidiary to this. The modification must however be inventive itself; if a computer is modified in a manner which is the obvious way of implementing the program, then the inventive contribution will still reside solely in the program itself.
4. As a general rule a novel solution to a problem relating to the internal operations of a computer, although it may comprise a program or subroutine, will also necessarily involve technological features of the computer hardware or the manner in whi
Once the hydrogen is released the liquid instead contains Sodium Borate, and can be reprocessed to a Sodium Borohydrate solution. Hydrogen is stored in this liquid in densities ranging from 4%-7% (by weight) depending on the formulation.
This makes for reusable fuel.
From the Millenium cell. Now *THIS* sounds interesting. The one thing I need to check is how fast it can be recharged (etc..) and how good is the energy releasing capacity.
We might have stations which accept a Used bottle and return a charged one for a fee. Kinda like getting a charged battery from a station every 50-60 miles:)
Hydrogen from Sodium Borohydrate.... Patents ?.
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Fuel Cell Powered Scooter
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Would this be affected by the patent on catalysed reaction to produce hydrogen (using a sodium borohydrate solution ?).
The fuel source itself is not very newsworthy. It was around in early 2000 as well (named the Millenium Cell. Of course, it does not explode unlike the CNG powered ones. Recently (1-2 month) back we had a blaze up near our office when a Truck rear-ended a gas powered car (it's very common these days) and the gas tank ruptured, exploded and threw the car's rear door about 3 feet into truck's engine (breaking through 1/2 inch metal sheet). Thankfully only the driver was in the car and he was saved by the rear seat from the explosion.
This is not a viable alternative. But, Hey.. it was done because some guy said "We CAN". And that's reason enough:)
When you need symlinks in the repository . When all you have for backup is a solaris machine with a tape drive , When you need a web interface to update password... It has its Niche .
That said , I just love how easily you can setup a darcs repository (just like cvs)
Computer Programs 1. Computer program is not patentable invention as computer program is a set of instructions for controlling a sequence of operations of a dataprocessing system. It closely resembles a mathematical method.It may be expressed in various forms eg. A series of verbal statements, a flow chart, an algorithm, or other coded form and may be presented in a format suitable for direct entry into a particular computer, or may require transcription into a different format (or computer “language”). It may merely be written on paper or recorded on some machine- readable medium such as magnetic tape or disc or optically scanned record, or it may be permanently recorded in a control store forming part of a computer. Thus it is evident that a program may be presented in terms of either software or firmware.
India does offer Process Patents but explicitly prevents patenting naturally occurring substances or extracts there of. However you are free to patent your form of culturing or producing an anti-biotic or vaccine. Patent infringement can be enforced in India as is with any other country in the world. Interestingly , Prior art of Foreign origin are valid in India - unlike the USPTO .
It looks as though the shopping is done from bar codes on Real-ads:)
Bar codes are kinda hard to get right on a mobile phone camera (but I think high end only).
This is the beginning of a new cross-shopping trend. Enter a shop, look for a product , enter in amazon , measure urgency vs economy , pick it up or order:)
I already saw a company in India offer an IR universal remote control for their phones (Nokia 3220 IIRC) . Was a trial version for 15 days after which it asks whether you want to buy the app. You pay for it through your mobile too and the bill comes down to you as part of your monthly phone bill.
I read my mail in mutt and I like that (*hint* , it lets me use vim to compose) , chat with xchat etc..
Mozilla Suite might have been overshadowed by it's leaner sibling:)
I thought we were going to use the moon to anchor this to , instead of the typical big bulky sattellite.
Relocating to the Moon won't help the project a bit if the raw materials (whatever) has to be brought from Earth . A mining/harvesting camp on Moon would be at least a few decades away, until then this can wait on the backburner. An orbital platform harvesting asteroids for heavy metals would rock ! (literally) . Would be nearer to earth and it would put solar sails in the domain of practical rather than as Sci Fi book fodder.
Hmm... all the differential equations in Rocket Science confuse the hell out of me . I suppose the space elevator doesn't have the rocket's exponentially growing weight problem ?. (Now I know why they say "It ain't rocket science)
I'd rather vote on the space catapult to launch rockets at Mach 3 (or higher) with something (jet aeroplanes or Maglev rails on mountains) . If the initial acceleration can be supplied by ground based non-moving power equipment, the rocket could go a looong way in reducing weight.
Sadly the word space Catapult brings into mind unnecessary images of North Elbonia and.....
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America are all involved.
I'd have thought "Nobody wants it in their backyard" would be for a Nuklear reactOr ?.
Russia does sound a nice place but everyone has shudders about another Chernobyl... China and S.Korea has political issues to think about . Right now , nobody in the WORLD will agree about a US based Nuklear reactor . Japan ?.. That whole country has bad memories associated with anything Nuklear (for the whole world too).
So what's the big deal about EU ?. (ok, if they did it "less-than-internationally" for access , technology and funding it'd be bad...). After all it's just not one country that can be taken over, too near enemies or has a bad history of using nukes (Hmmm).
remind them that they are just a bunch of tourists in comparison to the settlers who were there first.
I just wanted to emphasize the tourists part with a few Golgafrinchan comments about how us humans came to this planet... But I don't carry my HHG2G bible (in an Orange cover to boot) around.
Now since the
God is in the White House , anything that challenges Biblical Creationism might get the short stick ?. Sadly even education seems to teaching creationism rather than darwinism. I hate how these people try to explain dinosaur fossils with the great flood.
It really sucks when religion clouds Science !!.
Even the hard-core Hindutva does not enforce creationism as the entire tantric cycle is based on evolution of a single unit mind into a human yogi. Even Einstein allowed it and said "God does not play dice with the universe" . Stephen Hawking takes the high road by "God did have a choice in the initial state of the universe" (and he set rules too, so science IS GOD).
"Damn American tourists"... (repeat in whatever native language for maximum effect)
If it gets accepted as an RFC standard, I think we all deserve a royalty free patent grant:)
Or even better a patent grant for code under "OSI approved" licenses... (*wishful thinking*)
Seems to be a very nice Public key based system using standard RSA algorithm too . But I still want my ogg streams over DNS... not just Domain public keys:)
> Any of the above tricks will dramatically speed things up, as the CPU is no longer spending large amounts of its time writing text to the screen.
rm needs "-v" , why does del print by itself:)
It's all cmd's fault...
> I'd bet you my ex-girlfriend's right arm that NTFS is suddenly as fast as, if not faster than, EXT3.
I won't take that bet:)
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't want these logs (plus a location chart) to fall into the wrong hands :)
....
Privacy is a concern the second you send it to a server
Oh btw, I would puke everytime I read the malayalam translation of "Retry, Cancel, Abort" :)
As far as I remember, I worked on the Pango module for malayalam.I admit that I was young, foolish and caffiene enhanced sleep deprived when I wrote that , can someone throw that away and rewrite it properly ?.
They don't ignore patents, they just run their countries on their own laws (perfectly normal soverign country behaviour..). I have been reading up on India's patent policy recently and it looks very nicely written. Read an extract from chapter 2.
We might have stations which accept a Used bottle and return a charged one for a fee. Kinda like getting a charged battery from a station every 50-60 miles :)
The fuel source itself is not very newsworthy. It was around in early 2000 as well (named the Millenium Cell. Of course, it does not explode unlike the CNG powered ones. Recently (1-2 month) back we had a blaze up near our office when a Truck rear-ended a gas powered car (it's very common these days) and the gas tank ruptured, exploded and threw the car's rear door about 3 feet into truck's engine (breaking through 1/2 inch metal sheet). Thankfully only the driver was in the car and he was saved by the rear seat from the explosion.
This is not a viable alternative. But, Hey .. it was done because some guy said "We CAN". And that's reason enough :)
When you need symlinks in the repository . When all you have for backup is a solaris machine with a tape drive , When you need a web interface to update password ... It has its Niche .
That said , I just love how easily you can setup a darcs repository (just like cvs)Introduction, Preliminary, Inventions not Patentable clearly mentions something about e-Patents .. so that post can be easily forgotten .
India does offer Process Patents but explicitly prevents patenting naturally occurring substances or extracts there of. However you are free to patent your form of culturing or producing an anti-biotic or vaccine. Patent infringement can be enforced in India as is with any other country in the world. Interestingly , Prior art of Foreign origin are valid in India - unlike the USPTO .
Get an OSS Loving, Nuke Missile Desgning President for your country too :)
Except for the odd mistake the translation is very readable... Time for the "loosely translated from japanese"... cliche to die
It looks as though the shopping is done from bar codes on Real-ads :)
:)
Bar codes are kinda hard to get right on a mobile phone camera (but I think high end only).
This is the beginning of a new cross-shopping trend. Enter a shop, look for a product , enter in amazon , measure urgency vs economy , pick it up or order
I already saw a company in India offer an IR universal remote control for their phones (Nokia 3220 IIRC) . Was a trial version for 15 days after which it asks whether you want to buy the app. You pay for it through your mobile too and the bill comes down to you as part of your monthly phone bill.
M-commerce , eh ?
Get a Mac
Couldn't resist :)
I read my mail in mutt and I like that (*hint* , it lets me use vim to compose) , chat with xchat etc.. Mozilla Suite might have been overshadowed by it's leaner sibling :)
But Gecko improvements are GOOD (TM)Am I the only one who finds it ironic to read about Google's World Domination plans on Yahoo news ? :)
... I won't waste my time explaining what MS has that Google doesn't :)
:)
Google Search - ?
Gmail - Hotmail
Desktop Search - ?
That's how the tally stands for Google
But I gotta love http://www.google.com/firefox
Of course, the grassy knoll gunman had all the advantages ...
. .. NOT !.
Btw, I was reading yesterday about how JFK (and his brother) was exhorting CIA to assasinate Fidel Castro
cross border terrorism
I thought we were going to use the moon to anchor this to , instead of the typical big bulky sattellite.
.....
Relocating to the Moon won't help the project a bit if the raw materials (whatever) has to be brought from Earth . A mining/harvesting camp on Moon would be at least a few decades away, until then this can wait on the backburner. An orbital platform harvesting asteroids for heavy metals would rock ! (literally) . Would be nearer to earth and it would put solar sails in the domain of practical rather than as Sci Fi book fodder.
Hmm... all the differential equations in Rocket Science confuse the hell out of me . I suppose the space elevator doesn't have the rocket's exponentially growing weight problem ?. (Now I know why they say "It ain't rocket science)
I'd rather vote on the space catapult to launch rockets at Mach 3 (or higher) with something (jet aeroplanes or Maglev rails on mountains) . If the initial acceleration can be supplied by ground based non-moving power equipment, the rocket could go a looong way in reducing weight.
Sadly the word space Catapult brings into mind unnecessary images of North Elbonia and
So Long and Thanks for all the fish
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
What if it blows up ? .. it is a Thermonuclear reactor ... Oh, God what have I done, I've got common sense.
But hell, I want it to be in EU for other reasons.China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America are all involved .
... China and S.Korea has political issues to think about . Right now , nobody in the WORLD will agree about a US based Nuklear reactor . Japan ? .. That whole country has bad memories associated with anything Nuklear (for the whole world too).
I'd have thought "Nobody wants it in their backyard" would be for a Nuklear reactOr ?.
Russia does sound a nice place but everyone has shudders about another Chernobyl
So what's the big deal about EU ?. (ok, if they did it "less-than-internationally" for access , technology and funding it'd be bad...).
After all it's just not one country that can be taken over, too near enemies or has a bad history of using nukes (Hmmm).
It is predicted that humans were throwing these so called tools at some swallows down in the Rift Valley when
I just wanted to emphasize the tourists part with a few Golgafrinchan comments about how us humans came to this planet ... But I don't carry my HHG2G bible (in an Orange cover to boot) around.
Now since the God is in the White House , anything that challenges Biblical Creationism might get the short stick ?. Sadly even education seems to teaching creationism rather than darwinism. I hate how these people try to explain dinosaur fossils with the great flood.
It really sucks when religion clouds Science !!. Even the hard-core Hindutva does not enforce creationism as the entire tantric cycle is based on evolution of a single unit mind into a human yogi. Even Einstein allowed it and said "God does not play dice with the universe" . Stephen Hawking takes the high road by "God did have a choice in the initial state of the universe" (and he set rules too, so science IS GOD).
"Damn American tourists" ... (repeat in whatever native language for maximum effect)
IIRC, Iceland is the only country that charges for overseas downloads ...
But a distributed "distribution" system would be nice (@see Steam's mistake)
If it gets accepted as an RFC standard, I think we all deserve a royalty free patent grant :)
... (*wishful thinking*)
... not just Domain public keys :)
Or even better a patent grant for code under "OSI approved" licenses
Seems to be a very nice Public key based system using standard RSA algorithm too . But I still want my ogg streams over DNS
> WB was all about cheap laughs after the newsreel.
Ah, I guess all those
"it's duck season"
"rabbit season"
"mongoose season"....
"It's baseball season"
All those puns in Looney Tunes was cheap laughs ?
I don't think so !.
> Any of the above tricks will dramatically speed things up, as the CPU is no longer spending large amounts of its time writing text to the screen. rm needs "-v" , why does del print by itself :)
It's all cmd's fault ...
> I'd bet you my ex-girlfriend's right arm that NTFS is suddenly as fast as, if not faster than, EXT3.
I won't take that bet :)
How many programs you know allocates block memory with a raw malloc() ?...
/dev/mouse ?.
/bin /usr /lib
Most of what I do to allocate memory is
int fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY);
ptr = mmap(0, desired_size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
close(fd);
Will that work with a blank file system ?...
Or will my gpm work without access to
The equivalent in Linuxish terms will be rm -rvf
Does that have something to do with the US elections or are just simply going there for the frost bite ? :)