doh,
I'll Patent the LEP Softdrink Cover!!! That'll Show em. Animated advertising, heck we could even integrate it into existing plastic bottles.. wait a minute, someone has that too dont they, evil capatilist monkeys.
Right now the problem is that any bozo with a reasonable idea on how to get something done can patent it. A tiny bit of foresight and you can sit on a simple solution for years. Patenting "Use of matrixed light emiting polymers as Dynamic home wallpaper" doesnt exactly take a rocket scientist to realize that it might take hold in the relatively near future, and that there are no "Prior Art" issues because light emiting polymers are still in their infancy.
So what is the problem with that patent? Why shouldnt some guy make millions off the idea of "dynamic wallpaper"? The reason is that it's too obvious of a solution to patent. But then a reply might be "Well it isnt that obvious to me." The reason is that patents aren't stated in a way that explains what problem they are trying to solve. I'll get to why that's important.
So then what should be Patented? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there should be at least two types of patents. One would be a simple design patents, where the design of a mechanical alarm clock would qualify. The second would be an operational principle patent, covering the uses of objects, for instance patents on the CD-RW, where the cooling speed of glass is used to encode bits, would be an operational principle patent.
So what would be needed for an operational principle patent? I'm inclined to say that it should state a problem that is trying to be solved, within a set of constraints that the pending patent can meet. Then the patent should be validated by having a person with a degree in an aligned field attempt to solve the problem, within the given constraints within a one day timeframe, and given solid research resources to find information to get it solved. The operating principle wouldnt be bogged down with design information, it would just fill the simple niche of stating how something is accomplished in a general sense, for instance Hitachi's new perpendicular recording technology would be an operational patent, whereas their enclosure would fall under the design patent.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ead/pr/
So the big change I would make: State the problem, and test to see if the problem can be solved by a talented clerk in 8 hours, if the problem can be solved within the constraints by the clerk (even if the clerk has a totally different solution) then the patent is bogus.
And yes, this will cost way more cash to check operational principle patents, but that's something for the patent office to work out with fees.
Storm
P.S. Please Feel Free to rip this apart, hey it's only an idea.
Assuming a 100 year lead time.. it not too bad, we do some mild calculations and move the planet to the far side of the sun to eclipse the gamma rays.
Alternates including being in the shadow of gas giants during the phase(way harder timing).. Or evacuating half the planet, With large amounts of teraforming supplies on hand to repair the scorched side of terra firma.
But moving the earth at light speed is tough even at "Star Wars" levels of technology. Heck we'd just raise shields instead of moving the earth that fast.
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Ok, everyone keep it quiet that molecular biologists are doing way too much nanotech already. Enzymes are molecular machines that can build things at nano scales. When the nanotech regulators come around remember to call it biology.
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3200 amps of pull at 110 VAC... pumping out about 1,200,000 BTU/hr.. plus the cost of AC so another 1200 amps (110 VAC) of juice to pump out the heat (assumes 20c outdoor temp).
The total power would average around 4400 amps * 110 VAC/(1000w) = 484 KW draw. assuming a 10c/kw HR. it pulls in about $50/hour to run in power alone, assuming really cheap power.
So yearly power price is going to be running around $400k / year as a conservative estimate.
My guesses are that each rack uses 200 amps. That the national lab can get cheap power at $.10/KWH A wild guess at heat pump efficiency at that scale around 3/1. Around 10% cumulative downtime. And yes there are a ton of other costs for something like this.
This lawyer thought that he was immune to lawsuits, http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-02e.html I bet he wont take it too lightly when the G8 goes after his @$$ for 80 billion in global damages.
Hey, what would be so horrible about a four-year degree being the norm? Sure it devalues it relative to society. Look at what it does for society.. sure you'll still have the dropouts, but if the chick at McDonalds is a microbiologist your burger is gonna be a bit safer. if your hotel clerk was an accountant, your probably gonna get your change back. If your mechanics are engineers.... nevermind that might be dangerous...
I knew about it, but that's just because the maintainers started out trying to build cluster software on an ever-changing redhat platform. Moving from RH 7.3 to 8.0 was too ugly to consider. CentOS is still a little loose for my tastes, but its the best choice for a free thin cluster.
Microsoft has been able to charge a huge amount based on a monopoly. Just the threat that they might need to fight a fair fight will make their price cave in.
I'm not sure that the city of LA really wants open office. Everybody's already trained and comfortable with MS office quirks. I'm betting that the cost of whining alone isnt worth the price break. But the threat is great, I bet that Redmond will cave.
M$ should peek and see if LA is really able to do this, letting them fall on their collective behind would be great marketing. But it would suck for the people of California.
Just make all the Doug fir's lysine deficient, and only female mating type. We'll be fine unless we add in the toad DNA.
Actually if the grass was done the RIGHT way, a regulatory signal would be downgraded via a point mutation in a promoter. It would just lower expression of previously existing proteins. The plus side to this is that it could just be screened for out of natural grass, and you could defuse the greenpeacers.
Microsoft will remove the vendors software discount for pulling this little trick. BeOS was actually giving away their OS as a dual boot option to laptop makers. Microsoft had a little chat, and the dual boot never got out the door. I figure that M$ would have an identical stance about linux.
I dont think it'll apply to Microsoft. If a competitor could field a real contender. People would leave microsoft in droves. The problem is that a real contender is going to be a beast to bring to market. The contender would have to gain enough market share fast enough that microsoft couldnt cripple it with "embrace and extend" tactics. So a competitor would need to bring the whole shebang, desktop/server/applications. With the full range of hardware support that windows commands, and a close range of the software support. And a Competitor would also need to bring a killer app to the table, that would give people a reason to change.
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But I want my cash on my patent:
Novel methods for accessing data, Stored memory addressing and indirect methodologies.
And my second one.
Incremented-Decremented Data register methodologies.
Cause Programmers really need new non-incremental/decremental vector step through.
We are just begining to scratch the surface of what's out there in Molecular Biology. We are just beginning to understand the signifigance of glycoproteins in cellular systems. We are still trying to figure out some of the basics of single celled organism's internal signaling. There are a huge amount of genes that we dont have the slightest clue about their function, we know what they build now, but we need to figure out what it's for.
Imagine in 1776 you had a portable gas generator, and a truckload of computer parts from the last 20 years. Could you assemble a computer? sure. But what If you had 18th century knowlege. Your not really going to understand what the generator is for. Your probably going to try and make the peices into some sort of clock arrangement, marveling that you got the PCI card properly inserted into an ISA port.
I'm not ragging on Biological Scientists, but right now were at the stage where we have found the pile of computer parts, and we know how a few of them fit, but It might be a while before we notice that seam on the back of the palm pilot for batteries. Because it doesn't look important.
It might be a while before we really figure out how cellular life works. 10 years seems optomistic for just that. Ageing is a way larger issue. I dont think that immortality is around the bend.
Heres the problem,
We need "code monkey" jobs in the US as a basis to even have "software engineers". Otherwise the Software Engineers are going to be young westerners out of college that have jack for "code monkey" experience, and are going to get schooled by the Indian "code monkey" that has been coding for decades. If we lose the "code monkeys" we lose the "good software engineers".
Storm
Infiniband is designed to be low latency to the extreme. Their driver software is going to be really sensitive to latency. If they can make their nic driver.5 usec faster than their competition it's a huge change in total latency. Thats only 2000 clock ticks, possibly 30-50 memory pulls. But for scientific computing it makes a huge difference in Computational Fluid Dynamics. The more cpu's you scale to, the more important the latency.
So their driver software is something that they are going to protect. It would be negligent to give it to the competition.
Storm
This method will take a little elbow grease, and some computing horsepower. But I think that the flexibility will be worth it.
Use a flatbed scanner set to high resolution, Scan a good map for your purpose. This will make a huge image (i.e. 300 Meg), and may take a while to scan. Make sure your computer has a nice chunk of ram. This should solve your pixelation problems.
Keep an eye on the SVG format, it's scalable vector format. It cant pixelate, because it isnt a use raster graphics. the homepage is here http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
I think your point of view is as backward as it can get. You seem to think that a child doesn't deserve a quality education because she didn't take the time to be born to a caring wel to do couple. That because you cant stand the small price that is paid for education, that we should live in a world of undereducated peers. Dont you get it that these are going to be the people paying whats left of your social security. The people that will either contribute to society, or be contributed to by society. Of all of the things that the government does, Education is the largest bargain we get.
I've paid thousands in property taxes to pay for the education of total strangers. It's not robbery, any more than a pedestrian whose taxes go tward public roads. The benefits of education are more than a handout to parents.
here goes..
IANAAstrophysicist/astronomer/astrological proffessional..
The majority of power from a star is fusion. This process releases some mass in the form of energy. The processes of fusion is exergonic (energy releasing) for "light atoms". The process is endergonic (energy absorbing) for "heavy atoms". Fission is also occuring, breaking heavy elements into lighter elements exergonically.
The balance point is Iron. Iron is endergonic in fusion and fission.
Gravity itself doesn't create the heat, friction from movement causes some heat, but that gets used as convection to move atoms away from the center of gravity for no net gain.
Iron is the waste product of stars, it is expended in supernovae..
Do a search on "heat death of the universe" it should be infomative on what happens once the stars burn out.
Quote: Whenever someone says, "I understand it, I just can't articulate it," what they really mean is, "I don't understand it."
Here's the example to crush it..
I can solve a rubiks cube in a matter of two minutes. but I dont have the slightest idea on how I would explain the process to another human being to the point where they could do it.. (without a cube, just a text chat)
There are various patterns that crop up that I have a knowlege of, but I have no words that describe the system, because I dont think in that manner.
To say that I dont understand solving cube would mean that I'm just lucky beyond belief.
But to gloss over it and say, well first you solve all of the peices with 2 colors on them, and do three colored peices, wouldnt get it done, because they would screw up the 2 colored peices. And knowing how to move the stuff around without messing up a peice is something that I have in physical memory. I dont even know how to do it without a cube in front of me, and staring at the color setup.
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Slashdot Mirror
The passenger next to you might be ok with it, if he really needs an email fix.. Storm
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So what is the problem with that patent? Why shouldnt some guy make millions off the idea of "dynamic wallpaper"? The reason is that it's too obvious of a solution to patent. But then a reply might be "Well it isnt that obvious to me." The reason is that patents aren't stated in a way that explains what problem they are trying to solve. I'll get to why that's important.
So then what should be Patented? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there should be at least two types of patents. One would be a simple design patents, where the design of a mechanical alarm clock would qualify. The second would be an operational principle patent, covering the uses of objects, for instance patents on the CD-RW, where the cooling speed of glass is used to encode bits, would be an operational principle patent.
So what would be needed for an operational principle patent? I'm inclined to say that it should state a problem that is trying to be solved, within a set of constraints that the pending patent can meet. Then the patent should be validated by having a person with a degree in an aligned field attempt to solve the problem, within the given constraints within a one day timeframe, and given solid research resources to find information to get it solved. The operating principle wouldnt be bogged down with design information, it would just fill the simple niche of stating how something is accomplished in a general sense, for instance Hitachi's new perpendicular recording technology would be an operational patent, whereas their enclosure would fall under the design patent. http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ead/pr/
So the big change I would make: State the problem, and test to see if the problem can be solved by a talented clerk in 8 hours, if the problem can be solved within the constraints by the clerk (even if the clerk has a totally different solution) then the patent is bogus. And yes, this will cost way more cash to check operational principle patents, but that's something for the patent office to work out with fees.
Storm
P.S. Please Feel Free to rip this apart, hey it's only an idea.
Assuming a 100 year lead time.. it not too bad, we do some mild calculations and move the planet to the far side of the sun to eclipse the gamma rays. Alternates including being in the shadow of gas giants during the phase(way harder timing).. Or evacuating half the planet, With large amounts of teraforming supplies on hand to repair the scorched side of terra firma. But moving the earth at light speed is tough even at "Star Wars" levels of technology. Heck we'd just raise shields instead of moving the earth that fast. Storm
Ok, everyone keep it quiet that molecular biologists are doing way too much nanotech already. Enzymes are molecular machines that can build things at nano scales. When the nanotech regulators come around remember to call it biology. Storm
3200 amps of pull at 110 VAC... pumping out about 1,200,000 BTU /hr.. plus the cost of AC so another 1200 amps (110 VAC) of juice to pump out the heat (assumes 20c outdoor temp).
/(1000w) = 484 KW draw. assuming a 10c/kw HR. it pulls in about $50/hour to run in power alone, assuming really cheap power.
The total power would average around 4400 amps * 110 VAC
So yearly power price is going to be running around $400k / year as a conservative estimate.
My guesses are that each rack uses 200 amps.
That the national lab can get cheap power at $.10/KWH
A wild guess at heat pump efficiency at that scale around 3/1.
Around 10% cumulative downtime.
And yes there are a ton of other costs for something like this.
Storm
I bet he wont take it too lightly when the G8 goes after his @$$ for 80 billion in global damages.
Hey, somebody had to mention it.
Storm
Quick someone nominate the inventor for the nobel prize.
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I'm not sure that the city of LA really wants open office. Everybody's already trained and comfortable with MS office quirks. I'm betting that the cost of whining alone isnt worth the price break. But the threat is great, I bet that Redmond will cave.
M$ should peek and see if LA is really able to do this, letting them fall on their collective behind would be great marketing. But it would suck for the people of California.
> Storm
Actually if the grass was done the RIGHT way, a regulatory signal would be downgraded via a point mutation in a promoter. It would just lower expression of previously existing proteins. The plus side to this is that it could just be screened for out of natural grass, and you could defuse the greenpeacers.
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site: nasa.gov 1 image
google
mars +site:nasa.gov 60,000 images
microsoft might need to play catchup.
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I dont think it'll apply to Microsoft. If a competitor could field a real contender. People would leave microsoft in droves. The problem is that a real contender is going to be a beast to bring to market. The contender would have to gain enough market share fast enough that microsoft couldnt cripple it with "embrace and extend" tactics. So a competitor would need to bring the whole shebang, desktop/server/applications. With the full range of hardware support that windows commands, and a close range of the software support. And a Competitor would also need to bring a killer app to the table, that would give people a reason to change. Storm
But I want my cash on my patent: Novel methods for accessing data, Stored memory addressing and indirect methodologies. And my second one. Incremented-Decremented Data register methodologies. Cause Programmers really need new non-incremental/decremental vector step through.
Imagine in 1776 you had a portable gas generator, and a truckload of computer parts from the last 20 years. Could you assemble a computer? sure. But what If you had 18th century knowlege. Your not really going to understand what the generator is for. Your probably going to try and make the peices into some sort of clock arrangement, marveling that you got the PCI card properly inserted into an ISA port.
I'm not ragging on Biological Scientists, but right now were at the stage where we have found the pile of computer parts, and we know how a few of them fit, but It might be a while before we notice that seam on the back of the palm pilot for batteries. Because it doesn't look important.
It might be a while before we really figure out how cellular life works. 10 years seems optomistic for just that. Ageing is a way larger issue. I dont think that immortality is around the bend.
Either way, I hope Ray keeps up the good fight.
Storm
I was missing the point, I might read more carefully next time. Before I activate auto-fingers.
Storm
Heres the problem, We need "code monkey" jobs in the US as a basis to even have "software engineers". Otherwise the Software Engineers are going to be young westerners out of college that have jack for "code monkey" experience, and are going to get schooled by the Indian "code monkey" that has been coding for decades. If we lose the "code monkeys" we lose the "good software engineers". Storm
Infiniband is designed to be low latency to the extreme. Their driver software is going to be really sensitive to latency. If they can make their nic driver .5 usec faster than their competition it's a huge change in total latency. Thats only 2000 clock ticks, possibly 30-50 memory pulls. But for scientific computing it makes a huge difference in Computational Fluid Dynamics. The more cpu's you scale to, the more important the latency.
So their driver software is something that they are going to protect. It would be negligent to give it to the competition.
Storm
Use a flatbed scanner set to high resolution, Scan a good map for your purpose. This will make a huge image (i.e. 300 Meg), and may take a while to scan. Make sure your computer has a nice chunk of ram. This should solve your pixelation problems.
Keep an eye on the SVG format, it's scalable vector format. It cant pixelate, because it isnt a use raster graphics. the homepage is here http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Best of luck, however you manage it,
Storm
I've paid thousands in property taxes to pay for the education of total strangers. It's not robbery, any more than a pedestrian whose taxes go tward public roads. The benefits of education are more than a handout to parents.
Storm
The majority of power from a star is fusion. This process releases some mass in the form of energy. The processes of fusion is exergonic (energy releasing) for "light atoms". The process is endergonic (energy absorbing) for "heavy atoms". Fission is also occuring, breaking heavy elements into lighter elements exergonically.
The balance point is Iron. Iron is endergonic in fusion and fission.
Gravity itself doesn't create the heat, friction from movement causes some heat, but that gets used as convection to move atoms away from the center of gravity for no net gain.
Iron is the waste product of stars, it is expended in supernovae..
Do a search on "heat death of the universe" it should be infomative on what happens once the stars burn out.
Storm
Quote: Whenever someone says, "I understand it, I just can't articulate it," what they really mean is, "I don't understand it." Here's the example to crush it.. I can solve a rubiks cube in a matter of two minutes. but I dont have the slightest idea on how I would explain the process to another human being to the point where they could do it.. (without a cube, just a text chat) There are various patterns that crop up that I have a knowlege of, but I have no words that describe the system, because I dont think in that manner. To say that I dont understand solving cube would mean that I'm just lucky beyond belief. But to gloss over it and say, well first you solve all of the peices with 2 colors on them, and do three colored peices, wouldnt get it done, because they would screw up the 2 colored peices. And knowing how to move the stuff around without messing up a peice is something that I have in physical memory. I dont even know how to do it without a cube in front of me, and staring at the color setup. Storm