Use special meat vats that grow cloned tissue in a special nutrient.
OK, figure out how to do this with less energy input and at comparable cost to growing the meat on the cow. Oh, and figure out how to make the meat taste right while you're at it. And do the same for the milk.
A cow is a very complex machine which turns vegetable matter into meat. Doing the same thing artificially (even using actual bovine cells) is not likely to be easy, and doing it as efficiently as the cow does is going to be even harder.
Sure, but then we just rig up a setup which lights them off, converting the methane to the lesser greenhouse gas CO2. And also giving the cow a useful way to kill annoying insects.
Yeah, but you have to understand that none of the/. editors knows anything about patents, which is why summaries on patent-related stories always cite completely irrelevant information that has nothing at all to do with what is actually patented. This despite nearly a decade of people who DO know something about patents pointing it out.
What people who claim to know something about patents "point out" is contradicted by the actual prosecution of patent violations, where the claims are construed rather more broadly than patent fans would imply.
In any case, that limitation is not significant. You could argue that aggregating multiple access points within the same ESSID covers it. But even if it doesn't, there's nothing patent-worthy about abstracting carrier information to present a higher-level summary to the user. Even if it hasn't been done in exactly this scenario (which is apparently what the patent office thinks is "novel"), similar things have been done often enough that it's certainly not patent-worthy... that is, it's obvious.
This patent is beyond the Patent Office's usual idiocy and right up there with "method for playing with a cat with a laser". I mean really, displaying a list of accessible networks using perfectly standard techniques?
*However*, with a large source of CO2 (that has already been emitted, so we don't have to worry about it "building up") like this, it might well be feasible to create a synthetic, instead of bionic, fuels industry.
All we need to go with the CO2 is a large source of Hydrogen (which can be abstracted from Seawater).
You're missing the biggest prerequisite -- a lot of energy to run the reactions.
if you close the carbon cycle by making all combustion fuels biofuels then then all the carbon our cars emit will have been first taken out of the atmosphere.
And if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs.
Biofuel availability is orders of magnitude less than what is needed to replace fossil sources.
So much ignorance in these comments. People really don't understand how ASCAP works, otherwise you'd realize it's not possible for ASCAP to collect money from people singing around a camp fire.
Which didn't stop them from _trying_. And they actually managed to get a few licenses before the bad PR got them to back down.
Ultimately, I suspect the courts will rule that it is public performance, but that it is public performance by an individual, at which point ASCAP will likely drop the issue.
That wouldn't get AT&T off the hook with ASCAP. The public performance might be by the individual (which individual, BTW -- the caller or the callee?), but AT&T would be selling ringtones specifically for the purpose of being used in a ringing phone, which would open them to a contributory infringement claim. AT&T could then claim "substantial noninfringing uses" such as the phone ringing when the customer is not in public, and at that point (if not long before) it becomes a total farce.
This legend was removed as part of the design changes for the 18th version of the card, issued beginning in 1972. The legend has not been on any new cards issued since 1972.
That's false, or at least imprecise. I have a 1972 issue card with "Not for Identification" on it.
... how somebody making money says it like it is, and instead of reflexive thought about how to get better at doing the work, one gets a tirade about how bad the Indians actually are.
When they article reports that an Indian CEO is complaining that Americans aren't buzzword-compliant, what do you expect? Particularly when one of the common complaints about Indian offshoring is that the offshore developers are _only_ buzzword compliant.
If you really think that money is the only motivation to relocate or outsource, you are sorely deluded.
Nope, it's money.
As long as you decide to follow this path of delusion you will be in no position to address the real problem: the lack of competitivity of US Tech workers.in some tech sectors (it is not like everything is being outsourced BTW)...
See, you know it's money too. That's "competitivity". It's not that US tech workers are not competent, it's that they (we) cost too much.
Am I the only one who thinks the war is already won? You can not put the majority of a country's population in jail.
Yes, you can. You can turn the whole country into a prison and get half the inmates watching the other half. Read _1984_, or for a more convincing example, consider the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
But intermediaries are never going to go away. A model where millions of creators market directly to hundreds of millions of customers just isn't going to work; the good stuff will be buried in the dreck (even worse than it is in the current system).
I'll donate to the EFF when they get a clue about spam. Their official position is that spam is protected free speech, and measures to fight it are far worse than the problem.
Perhaps because in many cases, they are. Anti-spammers often end up "destroying the village in order to save it", doing things like blacklisting legitimate mail users and then refusing to talk to them on the grounds that they are spammers. The one actual spam case I recall the EFF getting involved in, was one where sending an e-mail to a company was ruled to be a "tresspass against chattels". That sort of ruling would be far more destructive to communication than spammers; it would mean you'd committed a actionable offense any time someone didn't like an e-mail you sent them.
Take Fishtown, South Street, West Philly by Penn State or any other place that had major Ghetto problems going on.
Umm, Mantua, Kensington, Brewerytown, pretty much anything north of Gerard until you get to Northeast.... still largely disaster areas. Take a ride down 22nd from the Parkway to Gerard, or if you're feeling especially foolish, 13th street from Spring Garden on north..
So you are advocating for an intentionally crippled system and would cheer on wide spread tax evasion. You are not fit to live in a Democracy. Do you know how Democracy will die? Not with bullets and guns. It will die because of people like you who keep granting themselves benefits of Democracy without the willingness to pay for them.
As I recall, the traditional death of democracy is when the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. Or, classicly, when they vote for those who will provide bread and circuses. We've long since passed that point.
It is too late to settle, she now owes them $1,920,000, and it is a legal debt which will be joyfully enforced by "our" courts of "justice" and the rest of "our" government.
Chapter 13 will likely take care of that, if she's eligible.
What those who thought the outcome would be different miss is the authority bias of juries and judges. Most people, and particularly most people who end up on juries, have a bias towards believing and favoring whoever appears to be an authority over an individual who appears to be opposing them. The RIAA looks like authority; thus, they are favored.
Have you lived in economies that tax goods and services at more than 10%?
Doesn't that cover most of Europe and Canada?
How many people you know who evade the simple 5% or 6% local sales tax on the services by the landscaper or the handy man? That is the tax that goes to pay for your own local neighbourhood schools and snow removal.
First of all, the collection and payment of sales tax is up to the landscaper or handyman, not the person paying them, at least in my state. Second, that tax goes to the state and not to the local schools (except indirectly).
Now imagine how willing they will be to pay a 17% or 22% tax to distant Washington DC?
According to TFA: "Several technologies have been proposed to harvest these high altitude winds, including tethered, kite-like turbines that would be floated to the altitude of the jet streams at an altitude of 20,000-50,000 feet and transmit up to 40 megawatts of electricity to the ground via the tether." Sounds like generating at the kite and transmitting to the ground to me.
However, methods of mechanically, rather than electrically, bringing the power to the ground are likely just as, if not more, difficult.
I doubt it. A bankruptcy judge's job is essentially to ensure that SCO's creditors get the maximum amount of money back under the law. From that perspective, liquidation tends to be a fairly lousy solution, particularly for companies deeply in debt.
Right now, realistically, the best the creditors can hope for is liquidation and for someone to buy up "substantially all the assets" of the company. That probably amounts to zero, but at least it allows them to finally write off the bad debt and be finished with the litigation. Zero all they can expect in any case, the only question is whether it is zero now or zero later.
A kite which can support a 30,000 foot electric line? I'm thinking there are some serious engineering challenges there. Probably involving unobtanium and other exotic materials.
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I've long thought that "maturity" was typically used to mean "willingness to knuckle under". Thanks for confirming that.
OK, figure out how to do this with less energy input and at comparable cost to growing the meat on the cow. Oh, and figure out how to make the meat taste right while you're at it. And do the same for the milk.
A cow is a very complex machine which turns vegetable matter into meat. Doing the same thing artificially (even using actual bovine cells) is not likely to be easy, and doing it as efficiently as the cow does is going to be even harder.
Sure, but then we just rig up a setup which lights them off, converting the methane to the lesser greenhouse gas CO2. And also giving the cow a useful way to kill annoying insects.
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(not me, some story I saw on one of those newsmag shows).
What people who claim to know something about patents "point out" is contradicted by the actual prosecution of patent violations, where the claims are construed rather more broadly than patent fans would imply.
In any case, that limitation is not significant. You could argue that aggregating multiple access points within the same ESSID covers it. But even if it doesn't, there's nothing patent-worthy about abstracting carrier information to present a higher-level summary to the user. Even if it hasn't been done in exactly this scenario (which is apparently what the patent office thinks is "novel"), similar things have been done often enough that it's certainly not patent-worthy... that is, it's obvious.
This patent is beyond the Patent Office's usual idiocy and right up there with "method for playing with a cat with a laser". I mean really, displaying a list of accessible networks using perfectly standard techniques?
You're missing the biggest prerequisite -- a lot of energy to run the reactions.
And if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs.
Biofuel availability is orders of magnitude less than what is needed to replace fossil sources.
Which didn't stop them from _trying_. And they actually managed to get a few licenses before the bad PR got them to back down.
That wouldn't get AT&T off the hook with ASCAP. The public performance might be by the individual (which individual, BTW -- the caller or the callee?), but AT&T would be selling ringtones specifically for the purpose of being used in a ringing phone, which would open them to a contributory infringement claim. AT&T could then claim "substantial noninfringing uses" such as the phone ringing when the customer is not in public, and at that point (if not long before) it becomes a total farce.
That's false, or at least imprecise. I have a 1972 issue card with "Not for Identification" on it.
When they article reports that an Indian CEO is complaining that Americans aren't buzzword-compliant, what do you expect? Particularly when one of the common complaints about Indian offshoring is that the offshore developers are _only_ buzzword compliant.
Nope, it's money.
See, you know it's money too. That's "competitivity". It's not that US tech workers are not competent, it's that they (we) cost too much.
It is preposterous. It's a recipe for the artists to get fleeced by the business people.
Yes, you can. You can turn the whole country into a prison and get half the inmates watching the other half. Read _1984_, or for a more convincing example, consider the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
But intermediaries are never going to go away. A model where millions of creators market directly to hundreds of millions of customers just isn't going to work; the good stuff will be buried in the dreck (even worse than it is in the current system).
Oops, wrong chapter. Chapter 7. IANAL, obviously. The RIAA hasn't yet managed to make copyright judgements nondischargable.
Perhaps because in many cases, they are. Anti-spammers often end up "destroying the village in order to save it", doing things like blacklisting legitimate mail users and then refusing to talk to them on the grounds that they are spammers. The one actual spam case I recall the EFF getting involved in, was one where sending an e-mail to a company was ruled to be a "tresspass against chattels". That sort of ruling would be far more destructive to communication than spammers; it would mean you'd committed a actionable offense any time someone didn't like an e-mail you sent them.
And this is news exactly why?
Umm, Mantua, Kensington, Brewerytown, pretty much anything north of Gerard until you get to Northeast.... still largely disaster areas. Take a ride down 22nd from the Parkway to Gerard, or if you're feeling especially foolish, 13th street from Spring Garden on north..
As I recall, the traditional death of democracy is when the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. Or, classicly, when they vote for those who will provide bread and circuses. We've long since passed that point.
Chapter 13 will likely take care of that, if she's eligible.
What those who thought the outcome would be different miss is the authority bias of juries and judges. Most people, and particularly most people who end up on juries, have a bias towards believing and favoring whoever appears to be an authority over an individual who appears to be opposing them. The RIAA looks like authority; thus, they are favored.
Doesn't that cover most of Europe and Canada?
First of all, the collection and payment of sales tax is up to the landscaper or handyman, not the person paying them, at least in my state. Second, that tax goes to the state and not to the local schools (except indirectly).
That's a feature, not a bug.
According to TFA: "Several technologies have been proposed to harvest these high altitude winds, including tethered, kite-like turbines that would be floated to the altitude of the jet streams at an altitude of 20,000-50,000 feet and transmit up to 40 megawatts of electricity to the ground via the tether." Sounds like generating at the kite and transmitting to the ground to me. However, methods of mechanically, rather than electrically, bringing the power to the ground are likely just as, if not more, difficult.
Right now, realistically, the best the creditors can hope for is liquidation and for someone to buy up "substantially all the assets" of the company. That probably amounts to zero, but at least it allows them to finally write off the bad debt and be finished with the litigation. Zero all they can expect in any case, the only question is whether it is zero now or zero later.
A kite which can support a 30,000 foot electric line? I'm thinking there are some serious engineering challenges there. Probably involving unobtanium and other exotic materials.