He's saying the businesses that can make money with a sound business plan that a typical bank will fund will do fine. It's the blue sky ideas, the Pets.com ideas that will not get funded. Does anyone care if Pets.com doesn't get funding? No. We don't.
So how many jobs lost with Medicare cut? How many with military cut? Who's going to hire them?
Have you factored those numbers in. It's not so simple when you realize that a huge amount of so called private industry is actually funded directly through government spending.
Are you saying those people didn't get compensated? We're not talking about people working in their garage late at night. These are paid employees of a company making very high salaries. Really they don't even get compensated for their ideas as the company owns the rights.
The reality is that you can't do this kind of work without lots of capital, maybe some basic research but what's that worth? You can't do anything with the idea unless you can commercialize it, meaning lots of capital.
So patents might protect someone who comes up with an idea, does a simple proof of concept and then wants to make a deal to commercialize it. That's it's only use case that makes sense. There are NDAs that can take care of that or any number of contracts and escrow services that can be used for this purpose. We don't need a legalized monopoly backed by the fed to support the lone inventor (or small team).
And this is why we don't need patents. Anyone capable of doing all of the above stres should be allowed to try without the additional burden of intellectual property claims being held over them.
The problem with this argument in the modern era is that few if any "inventions" are used in isolation for profit or as an end product.
Sure someone could see a widget part and reproduce it but without a supply chain, marketing campaign and sales force in place they would just sit there with a load of widget parts.
Additionally that widget part probably is useless on its own. More likely that widget part needs lots of other widget parts plus a lot of glue, design, integration engineering and circuitry that will in some way need to be customized. Now lets add in mass production tooling, software or embedded programming to make it all work and various compliance modifications.
The end result is that the invention is useless until someone includes it in a commercially viable product.
Currently if someone does all of the work to make a product they then have to also get favorable terms or negotiate cross licensing deals with someone else who doesn't have a product, hasn't put the time or money into it and never has to because they happened to be the first to file an idea.
The reality is that you can't just take someone's invention/idea and make millions the next day. Just having an idea and writing it down should not allow someone to control that idea for 20 years.
Companies and individuals can and will make new things because there is a profit to be had. Patents only get in the way of this.
My rates are pretty low. Two cars, two drivers, full comprehensive and theft, $500 deductible, 2007 and 2011. $1150 / year. That's after each have had one no fault accident a few years back.
I feel for all the Android fans who have no apps and have had a subpar experience for the last few years. It's good to finally see some competition though. Apple will just have to try harder ( they can btw and have plenty of resources to back it up ).
Elon did make his seed capital first with a CMS for news agencies then via Paypal. Not exactly furthering humanity. Maybe there is hope yet that some of the beneficiaries of Google or Facebook will yet set higher goals. They are actually laying down foundational elements for 1) artificial intelligence and 2) networked consciousness. It's not all bad tech in those companies.
Click on Ohio. Look at the grey regions. You'll see multiple counties that are large populations and have significant leads for Obama. Cuyahoga County is the biggest and is ~68% Obama w/ 220,000 vote lead. That overwhelms the remaining red counties. Add Franklin County and its a lock for Obama.
Mitt's just delaying the inevitable and looking bad in the process.
Ha, just heard he's finally scheduled his concession at 1am EST.
The StuxNet attack vector was probably thought of in the same way - until it was used. When there is a high value target, getting all the ducks in a row is not impossible, it's the reason professionals are called in. You only have to make it work once (though you have to avoid getting caught on all the other attempts).
Problem is that a leak of any PII data for customers of a business is a PR nightmare and potentially a largish lawsuit costing millions. Millions may be more than was saved by virtualizing.
Unfortunately management says "we just want to get drunk, hang over we'll deal with tomorrow and after the first glass it all tastes the same anyways."
That's why the vintage wines stay on the shelf while the younger ones fly out the door.
Wondering if the data collected from this cyborg (yes dude you're now a cyborg), could also be useful as training data for independent robotics.
Have you ever thought of open sourcing your leg data:) Could be a huge contribution to OSS robotics. Maybe get other's with prosthetics to contribute as well; arm, hands, feet.
When the topic is a grown up topic we love to have a discussion.
When the topic is about an over-blown registration error on one machine and the question is something other than how to fix the machine and prevent the problem, eg: whether or not there is a conspiracy, well you'll have to excuse us if we roll our eyes and walk away.
$72 for a full set but you can by them individually as well.
Pricey but you get what you pay for. I've had a set since I was 10. Still the best tech pen I've ever tried. Perfect for diagrams, fine line drawings and annotations of such. Not great for general writing.
The parent was talking about competing news sources who don't mind being highlighted on a top news portal. They would get way more traffic as a result allowing them to sell more ads and grow their business.
Start a new Kickstarter. This time it's for setting up a training seminar series.
A book is good but workshops are better.
The Kickstarter is for tickets to the seminar. Your goal is similar to the crowd sourced concert series featured here on/. previously. I believe it was a plan to get enough tickets paid to cover costs (including your time) for a small private show but hoping for enough participants for a larger more profitable show.
Give the book away at the seminar. Give it away on a website - but market the seminar series on the same website.
If you have a good product/service you will get the attention you deserve. If it was my book I'd look at a version that targets businesses and consultants who primarily are "training" adults in addition to "education". Talk to local recruiting agencies, local community colleges, local prisons.
I have the same problem with Google's Chrome App Store, NetFlix, Walmart, the local mall, my closet, the list goes on.
You know what seems to work? Targeted advertising. I give them information about me - in return they tell me about things I might like (at least those items somebody pays to get shown to me).
Recommendation engines also work but often show me unpopular things and I still have to give my info out.
Apple uses "Genius" results. Google uses your profile if you're logged in. Netflix has its famous algorithms. As for my closet... When she cares my wife picks something out though she doesn't always do as good a job as the pros.
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He's saying the businesses that can make money with a sound business plan that a typical bank will fund will do fine. It's the blue sky ideas, the Pets.com ideas that will not get funded. Does anyone care if Pets.com doesn't get funding? No. We don't.
So how many jobs lost with Medicare cut? How many with military cut? Who's going to hire them?
Have you factored those numbers in. It's not so simple when you realize that a huge amount of so called private industry is actually funded directly through government spending.
They followed the old adage "If it looks foreign spell it with a Q".
Are you saying those people didn't get compensated? We're not talking about people working in their garage late at night. These are paid employees of a company making very high salaries. Really they don't even get compensated for their ideas as the company owns the rights.
The reality is that you can't do this kind of work without lots of capital, maybe some basic research but what's that worth? You can't do anything with the idea unless you can commercialize it, meaning lots of capital.
So patents might protect someone who comes up with an idea, does a simple proof of concept and then wants to make a deal to commercialize it. That's it's only use case that makes sense. There are NDAs that can take care of that or any number of contracts and escrow services that can be used for this purpose. We don't need a legalized monopoly backed by the fed to support the lone inventor (or small team).
And this is why we don't need patents. Anyone capable of doing all of the above stres should be allowed to try without the additional burden of intellectual property claims being held over them.
Foxconn has no marketing expertise and no software expertise and no customer support.
The problem with this argument in the modern era is that few if any "inventions" are used in isolation for profit or as an end product.
Sure someone could see a widget part and reproduce it but without a supply chain, marketing campaign and sales force in place they would just sit there with a load of widget parts.
Additionally that widget part probably is useless on its own. More likely that widget part needs lots of other widget parts plus a lot of glue, design, integration engineering and circuitry that will in some way need to be customized. Now lets add in mass production tooling, software or embedded programming to make it all work and various compliance modifications.
The end result is that the invention is useless until someone includes it in a commercially viable product.
Currently if someone does all of the work to make a product they then have to also get favorable terms or negotiate cross licensing deals with someone else who doesn't have a product, hasn't put the time or money into it and never has to because they happened to be the first to file an idea.
The reality is that you can't just take someone's invention/idea and make millions the next day. Just having an idea and writing it down should not allow someone to control that idea for 20 years.
Companies and individuals can and will make new things because there is a profit to be had. Patents only get in the way of this.
WTF?
My rates are pretty low. Two cars, two drivers, full comprehensive and theft, $500 deductible, 2007 and 2011. $1150 / year. That's after each have had one no fault accident a few years back.
Ha ha hahahahahahaha... Sorry not laughing with you. Oh and your ignorance is showing, might want to put that away before you scare someone.
I feel for all the Android fans who have no apps and have had a subpar experience for the last few years. It's good to finally see some competition though. Apple will just have to try harder ( they can btw and have plenty of resources to back it up ).
Elon did make his seed capital first with a CMS for news agencies then via Paypal. Not exactly furthering humanity. Maybe there is hope yet that some of the beneficiaries of Google or Facebook will yet set higher goals. They are actually laying down foundational elements for 1) artificial intelligence and 2) networked consciousness. It's not all bad tech in those companies.
And my family of five is paying less. Anecdotally I win.
Nope. Look at the details here:
http://www.politico.com/
Click on Ohio. Look at the grey regions. You'll see multiple counties that are large populations and have significant leads for Obama. Cuyahoga County is the biggest and is ~68% Obama w/ 220,000 vote lead. That overwhelms the remaining red counties. Add Franklin County and its a lock for Obama.
Mitt's just delaying the inevitable and looking bad in the process.
Ha, just heard he's finally scheduled his concession at 1am EST.
The StuxNet attack vector was probably thought of in the same way - until it was used. When there is a high value target, getting all the ducks in a row is not impossible, it's the reason professionals are called in. You only have to make it work once (though you have to avoid getting caught on all the other attempts).
Problem is that a leak of any PII data for customers of a business is a PR nightmare and potentially a largish lawsuit costing millions. Millions may be more than was saved by virtualizing.
Unfortunately management says "we just want to get drunk, hang over we'll deal with tomorrow and after the first glass it all tastes the same anyways."
That's why the vintage wines stay on the shelf while the younger ones fly out the door.
Wondering if the data collected from this cyborg (yes dude you're now a cyborg), could also be useful as training data for independent robotics.
Have you ever thought of open sourcing your leg data :) Could be a huge contribution to OSS robotics. Maybe get other's with prosthetics to contribute as well; arm, hands, feet.
When the topic is a grown up topic we love to have a discussion.
When the topic is about an over-blown registration error on one machine and the question is something other than how to fix the machine and prevent the problem, eg: whether or not there is a conspiracy, well you'll have to excuse us if we roll our eyes and walk away.
http://www.dickblick.com/products/alvin-penstix/
I already posted about technical pens but will add these as they are the smoothest drawing pens.
Used them for years to do illustration work.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_pen
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001J5MBKW
$72 for a full set but you can by them individually as well.
Pricey but you get what you pay for. I've had a set since I was 10. Still the best tech pen I've ever tried. Perfect for diagrams, fine line drawings and annotations of such. Not great for general writing.
The parent was talking about competing news sources who don't mind being highlighted on a top news portal. They would get way more traffic as a result allowing them to sell more ads and grow their business.
Start a new Kickstarter. This time it's for setting up a training seminar series.
A book is good but workshops are better.
The Kickstarter is for tickets to the seminar. Your goal is similar to the crowd sourced concert series featured here on /. previously. I believe it was a plan to get enough tickets paid to cover costs (including your time) for a small private show but hoping for enough participants for a larger more profitable show.
Give the book away at the seminar. Give it away on a website - but market the seminar series on the same website.
If you have a good product/service you will get the attention you deserve. If it was my book I'd look at a version that targets businesses and consultants who primarily are "training" adults in addition to "education". Talk to local recruiting agencies, local community colleges, local prisons.
Good luck!
Ah but the growing markets (China, India, Africa, South America) are not buying PCs but ARE buying Smart Phones and Tablets.
The pie is getting bigger every day and PCs are not keeping up.
I have the same problem with Google's Chrome App Store, NetFlix, Walmart, the local mall, my closet, the list goes on.
You know what seems to work? Targeted advertising. I give them information about me - in return they tell me about things I might like (at least those items somebody pays to get shown to me).
Recommendation engines also work but often show me unpopular things and I still have to give my info out.
Apple uses "Genius" results. Google uses your profile if you're logged in. Netflix has its famous algorithms. As for my closet... When she cares my wife picks something out though she doesn't always do as good a job as the pros.