Thing is: you have the head start. You are pumping out your product and can have it on the shelves...if someone does it better/cheaper than you, well, then one hasn't done ones job very well.
And NDA's can help for disclosure when meeting companies.
As for companies adding value to IP: they buy it cheeap, sell it expensive...the original patent holder sees nothing of that added value, and anyway, it's an enron-y way of adding value...nothing has been added to the idea except that a richer buyer has been found.
Now that really depends. For development of my idea(s), all I need is time. That and about 8000. I just don't have the extra money for the patenting process.
As for shopping my idea around...selling my patent (or production rights) will mean I lose out on a huge percentage...we are talking anything from 50-80% here, most likely towards the high end.
True, if I had a capital intensive product, that would be the way to go...but I don't.
PS: even with a patent, you really want an NDA when talking to someone about it, commercially.
You might like to have a read up on what FDR got up to. And I'm talking a real biography here, not just the one page you google up.
Also, have a look at the enormous budget deficit the reagan years left the US. As for your personal freedoms, take a look around. Read some accounts of how people are being detained (and I'm not even talking gauntanamo bay here, just people in NY restaurants, for example). Read the usa patriot act with a critical mind and imagine how it can be abused (and tremble a bit when you realise all those surveilnace and internet related clauses don't seem to have sunset clauses...as do quite a few others) then read about how, when the US' alphabet agencies have power, they have historically always abused it. Those agencies had their power limited for a reason, remember. Think that's gonna change, just because you want it to, or 911 happened? Just remember that the guys in office now are the guys who you can point to as the ones who escalated the cold war and caused all those dictators to be in power now.
As for american history...well, all I know from the memoirs of the generals of the time is that civilian militia where useless. Real headway was only made when proper military units where used...and that, I'm afraid, was the French. As for France never having won a war...man, your lack of historical knowledge really is amazing: there's a reason Schlesswig-Hollstein constantly changed hands, you know.
Yeah...bet you've never lived in a country like that. Me, I have seen something like it: in Nigeria in the seventies (funny you mentioned that country...being a shell brat does give me much more experience than people tend to credit you for). Was even there during the fighting...saw a tank roll by in the street opposite, mobs of people going round. I have some comparison to make. You...well, you can't even see what's going on in your own country.
Not only that, but can you deny the charges I made? No, 'cos they've been widely publicised. Don't be a nationalist, be a patriot and ask your government wtf they think they're doing in your name.
Thing is, THC (the active ingredient in mariuana) isn't addictive. And it has never killed anyone. Neither is it a gateway drug. The only violence involved with it is the 'criminal' element one encounters when one buys it (in countries where it's prosecuted).
Alcohol is much worse and people tend to abuse it more...at least, in countries where it's terated the wrong way. Decriminisation of alcohol and dope have much less addicts than countries where it's criminilised, and that is basically due to the fact that people are much more responsible about it: they've learned to lifve responsibly with it.
Hehe...many a US city has a higher infant mortality rate than third world countries do...even more damning, USAID (a third world relief program) has actually gopt programs running in the US itself!
Go do some research (historical and psychological). That whole cold war thing was the responsibility of the US and Russia. If the US hadn't been so paranoid, they wouldn't have fed Stalin so many reasons to/be/ paranoid.
So not only is the US half of the reason for that whole mess, but they didn't/win/ anything either...the USSR collapsed under the same thing the US is facing right now: corruption and military overspending (40% of the budget...and that's just for the military, not other defense related spending!).
Anyway, if you're going to dredge up old cows, consider the French who are the sole reason the US is independant now...where is it's gratitide now?
Corrupt, check (enron, Haliburton, etc.); terrorist sponsering, check (israel, IRA); islamic fundamentalist...kinda check (call it christian fundamentalist and we're even); totalitarian dictatorship, check (have you even read the USA PATRIOT act and seen what it does? How about contraventions of the geneva convention? Also have a look at laws now drafted for congress (PATRIOT II should chill your heart).
Me, I'd say the US can't be trusted with WMD's either. And we know the US has them. THings is, if you use them, you automitically become to my mind a rogue nation, disrespecting everything humans holsd dear...so why does the US have them and why have they used them in the past?
Anyway, the US doesn't have any interest in stopping the whole Israel/Palestine thing...it sells too many weapons over there.
Homeworld. Especially the beginning of the 'gardens of Kadesh' level. First time round I just sat back and watched the drones spiral in and let the battle evolve. Coupled with the music and overal atmosphere...damn near Art.
Others I haven't seen: Leasure Suit Larry 8P, Conan (first platformer I'd ever played (apple ][), with others like Montezuma, elevator action and other classics).
And of course there's a whole host of other games which showed off, wowed and changed my thinking about what computers can, could or would do with different aspects of their gameplay.
Uh..afaik, a polygon can't be either. A surface, on th other hand:)
Not only that, but with physics systems invading games, the volume (combine with density to calculate mass) of an irregular object is quite a handy piece of data to have.
I'm damn tempted to get my voice heard. I have three innovative ideas which I feel will make me money.
Now it costs quite a bit of money to implement even one of these ideas. That and about a year of my time. Thing is, that will mean I just don't really have the money to patent my invention!
Not only that, but most innovation is done by younger people (yadayada exceptions, yadayada). These people create new companies, employment and wealth. But patenting (and it's related cost) impedes this process and favours established, already wealthy companies.
And I'll go one further; patenting used to make sence, but for a number of reasons is making less and less sense. Not only do we see the so-called 'submarine' patents, but also a profilation of IP companies which do not even produce the IP (just buy it in...that's how MS-DOS happened, btw). Patenting in this way stiffles innovation, which is what it was supposed to engender to start with!
Then consider the fact of paralel invention. It happens a lot...two people think and/or devellop the printing press, the telephone, the airplane etc etc etc, at roughly the same time, independent of each other. There are just certain ideas who's time has come. Couple that with the fact of population growth and you'll find that that sort of thing will happen (and is happening) more and more often.
If you have an idea, I think you should (help) develop it. If you just sit on it, you should get squat.
Hmmm...I'm gonna think this out a bit more and put it to paper...
Sorry, but the income is closer to 1.2 (1.2something to be more precise:) ).
And you might want to keep in mind that there are quite a few parts of the budget which are placed under other posts but should actually counted towards defense...certain homeland defense items, hidden CIA/FBI/etc. 'discretionary funds' etc; military is just armed forces, not the whole story.
"theoretical and potential criminal liabilities for just about anybody on the planet"
I was going to say that as someone in the EU, it wouldn't criminilise me....but then I rememebered how all those bad laws are slowly trickling down to the rest of the world. DCMA->EUCD etc.
Just goes to show what kind of influence you can excert when you spend 40-50% of your national budget on defence^H^H^Hoffense, even when most of your policies aren't well thought out or even just plain wrong.
The DoCoMo wrist phone doesn't exactly work like you think. It's basically a clip-on phone; it clips to your wrist, and when you get a call you have to clip it off and you hold it like a regular phone (the bit which fold it on your wrist have the speaker and mic in them).
So you don't talk to your wrist, it's just a heavy ass bracelet which turns into a phone.
And you really think a wireless earpeice+mic are better? That way people will really think you're nuts! I know I still do a double take every time I see someone yapping into thin air without holding a piece of tech.
Max Payne was a good game because the gameplay was cool. The story only set up the action and was mediocre at best...but the gameplay transformed that into a great b-movie quality story.
Uh---did you look at the sugar molecule? Or any of the other pics? This thing runs on voxels...it does do solids.
As for your explanation as to how this thing works...it's woefully lacking and even misleading. The thing displays a full slice every degree or so. It creates the illusion of solidness the exact same way moving pictures are faked: the slices change for every angle of rotation and with an rpm of 760, you get multiple slices per angle per minute.
A quick view of the sugar molecule movie shows how this does work for solids.
(btw, I saw the movies a couple of years back [2001 I beleive], so maybe they're not there anymore).
I'll go one further: its damn helpfull for everyone who does 3d modeling. Engineers, gamedevelopers, biologists, whatever; if they've 3d-modeled on a 2d screen, they know that the 2d representation of a 3d object can be pretty distorive. Especially when you're looking at one angle for a while, especially while prototyping.
Nope...the studies are specifically about the fatalities to the people in the car driven. Driving a SUV is just as dangerous as driving sports cars. SUV's being safer is a MYTH.
As for higher momentum being dispersed by higher mass...go read up on crash testing; a human body has a certain momentum in a crash and will hit his/her head just as badly. The fact that the vehicle being driven is heavier only adds to the momentum of the impact. An SUV isn't sturdier...the crumple zone has the exact same retardant time factor as any other vehicle on the road because it isn't required to be longer.
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Vindication.
And a bute rebuff against what the **AA's are trying to do; here is proff that they've been trying to defend an outdated bussines model.
Thing is: you have the head start. You are pumping out your product and can have it on the shelves...if someone does it better/cheaper than you, well, then one hasn't done ones job very well.
And NDA's can help for disclosure when meeting companies.
As for companies adding value to IP: they buy it cheeap, sell it expensive...the original patent holder sees nothing of that added value, and anyway, it's an enron-y way of adding value...nothing has been added to the idea except that a richer buyer has been found.
Now that really depends. For development of my idea(s), all I need is time. That and about 8000. I just don't have the extra money for the patenting process.
As for shopping my idea around...selling my patent (or production rights) will mean I lose out on a huge percentage...we are talking anything from 50-80% here, most likely towards the high end.
True, if I had a capital intensive product, that would be the way to go...but I don't.
PS: even with a patent, you really want an NDA when talking to someone about it, commercially.
You might like to have a read up on what FDR got up to. And I'm talking a real biography here, not just the one page you google up.
Also, have a look at the enormous budget deficit the reagan years left the US. As for your personal freedoms, take a look around. Read some accounts of how people are being detained (and I'm not even talking gauntanamo bay here, just people in NY restaurants, for example). Read the usa patriot act with a critical mind and imagine how it can be abused (and tremble a bit when you realise all those surveilnace and internet related clauses don't seem to have sunset clauses...as do quite a few others) then read about how, when the US' alphabet agencies have power, they have historically always abused it. Those agencies had their power limited for a reason, remember. Think that's gonna change, just because you want it to, or 911 happened? Just remember that the guys in office now are the guys who you can point to as the ones who escalated the cold war and caused all those dictators to be in power now.
As for american history...well, all I know from the memoirs of the generals of the time is that civilian militia where useless. Real headway was only made when proper military units where used...and that, I'm afraid, was the French. As for France never having won a war...man, your lack of historical knowledge really is amazing: there's a reason Schlesswig-Hollstein constantly changed hands, you know.
Yeah...bet you've never lived in a country like that. Me, I have seen something like it: in Nigeria in the seventies (funny you mentioned that country...being a shell brat does give me much more experience than people tend to credit you for). Was even there during the fighting...saw a tank roll by in the street opposite, mobs of people going round. I have some comparison to make. You...well, you can't even see what's going on in your own country.
Not only that, but can you deny the charges I made? No, 'cos they've been widely publicised. Don't be a nationalist, be a patriot and ask your government wtf they think they're doing in your name.
Thing is, THC (the active ingredient in mariuana) isn't addictive. And it has never killed anyone. Neither is it a gateway drug. The only violence involved with it is the 'criminal' element one encounters when one buys it (in countries where it's prosecuted).
Alcohol is much worse and people tend to abuse it more...at least, in countries where it's terated the wrong way. Decriminisation of alcohol and dope have much less addicts than countries where it's criminilised, and that is basically due to the fact that people are much more responsible about it: they've learned to lifve responsibly with it.
Hehe...many a US city has a higher infant mortality rate than third world countries do...even more damning, USAID (a third world relief program) has actually gopt programs running in the US itself!
Go do some research (historical and psychological). That whole cold war thing was the responsibility of the US and Russia. If the US hadn't been so paranoid, they wouldn't have fed Stalin so many reasons to /be/ paranoid.
/win/ anything either...the USSR collapsed under the same thing the US is facing right now: corruption and military overspending (40% of the budget...and that's just for the military, not other defense related spending!).
So not only is the US half of the reason for that whole mess, but they didn't
Anyway, if you're going to dredge up old cows, consider the French who are the sole reason the US is independant now...where is it's gratitide now?
Corrupt, check (enron, Haliburton, etc.); terrorist sponsering, check (israel, IRA); islamic fundamentalist...kinda check (call it christian fundamentalist and we're even); totalitarian dictatorship, check (have you even read the USA PATRIOT act and seen what it does? How about contraventions of the geneva convention? Also have a look at laws now drafted for congress (PATRIOT II should chill your heart).
Me, I'd say the US can't be trusted with WMD's either. And we know the US has them. THings is, if you use them, you automitically become to my mind a rogue nation, disrespecting everything humans holsd dear...so why does the US have them and why have they used them in the past?
Anyway, the US doesn't have any interest in stopping the whole Israel/Palestine thing...it sells too many weapons over there.
Homeworld. Especially the beginning of the 'gardens of Kadesh' level. First time round I just sat back and watched the drones spiral in and let the battle evolve.
Coupled with the music and overal atmosphere...damn near Art.
Others I haven't seen: Leasure Suit Larry 8P, Conan (first platformer I'd ever played (apple ][), with others like Montezuma, elevator action and other classics).
And of course there's a whole host of other games which showed off, wowed and changed my thinking about what computers can, could or would do with different aspects of their gameplay.
Uh..afaik, a polygon can't be either. A surface, on th other hand :)
Not only that, but with physics systems invading games, the volume (combine with density to calculate mass) of an irregular object is quite a handy piece of data to have.
I'm damn tempted to get my voice heard. I have three innovative ideas which I feel will make me money.
Now it costs quite a bit of money to implement even one of these ideas. That and about a year of my time. Thing is, that will mean I just don't really have the money to patent my invention!
Not only that, but most innovation is done by younger people (yadayada exceptions, yadayada). These people create new companies, employment and wealth. But patenting (and it's related cost) impedes this process and favours established, already wealthy companies.
And I'll go one further; patenting used to make sence, but for a number of reasons is making less and less sense. Not only do we see the so-called 'submarine' patents, but also a profilation of IP companies which do not even produce the IP (just buy it in...that's how MS-DOS happened, btw). Patenting in this way stiffles innovation, which is what it was supposed to engender to start with!
Then consider the fact of paralel invention. It happens a lot...two people think and/or devellop the printing press, the telephone, the airplane etc etc etc, at roughly the same time, independent of each other. There are just certain ideas who's time has come.
Couple that with the fact of population growth and you'll find that that sort of thing will happen (and is happening) more and more often.
If you have an idea, I think you should (help) develop it. If you just sit on it, you should get squat.
Hmmm...I'm gonna think this out a bit more and put it to paper...
Sorry, but the income is closer to 1.2 (1.2something to be more precise :) ).
And you might want to keep in mind that there are quite a few parts of the budget which are placed under other posts but should actually counted towards defense...certain homeland defense items, hidden CIA/FBI/etc. 'discretionary funds' etc; military is just armed forces, not the whole story.
"theoretical and potential criminal liabilities for just about anybody on the planet"
I was going to say that as someone in the EU, it wouldn't criminilise me....but then I rememebered how all those bad laws are slowly trickling down to the rest of the world. DCMA->EUCD etc.
Just goes to show what kind of influence you can excert when you spend 40-50% of your national budget on defence^H^H^Hoffense, even when most of your policies aren't well thought out or even just plain wrong.
Maybe they can report that there's a whole world outside of the US!
Depending on how paranoid you are you could see this as something SCO did themselves to get some sympathy in court ;)
:)
Me, I say it's a linux wannabe who perpetrated the attack from his Windows ME box
I decided a while back that James Joyce just isn't woth it...life is too short and there are many other, better things to read.
The DoCoMo wrist phone doesn't exactly work like you think. It's basically a clip-on phone; it clips to your wrist, and when you get a call you have to clip it off and you hold it like a regular phone (the bit which fold it on your wrist have the speaker and mic in them).
So you don't talk to your wrist, it's just a heavy ass bracelet which turns into a phone.
And you really think a wireless earpeice+mic are better? That way people will really think you're nuts!
I know I still do a double take every time I see someone yapping into thin air without holding a piece of tech.
Max Payne was a good game because the gameplay was cool. The story only set up the action and was mediocre at best...but the gameplay transformed that into a great b-movie quality story.
"Number 1: Porn. Number 2: ...Fuck"
:)
Wow...now even the posts here have dupes
Uh---did you look at the sugar molecule? Or any of the other pics? This thing runs on voxels...it does do solids.
As for your explanation as to how this thing works...it's woefully lacking and even misleading. The thing displays a full slice every degree or so. It creates the illusion of solidness the exact same way moving pictures are faked: the slices change for every angle of rotation and with an rpm of 760, you get multiple slices per angle per minute.
A quick view of the sugar molecule movie shows how this does work for solids.
(btw, I saw the movies a couple of years back [2001 I beleive], so maybe they're not there anymore).
I'll go one further: its damn helpfull for everyone who does 3d modeling. Engineers, gamedevelopers, biologists, whatever; if they've 3d-modeled on a 2d screen, they know that the 2d representation of a 3d object can be pretty distorive. Especially when you're looking at one angle for a while, especially while prototyping.
I know how to keep the next astronauts safe: put 'em in "nine-pound locker[s] located in the mid-deck of the space shuttle"!
Nope...the studies are specifically about the fatalities to the people in the car driven. Driving a SUV is just as dangerous as driving sports cars. SUV's being safer is a MYTH.
As for higher momentum being dispersed by higher mass...go read up on crash testing; a human body has a certain momentum in a crash and will hit his/her head just as badly. The fact that the vehicle being driven is heavier only adds to the momentum of the impact. An SUV isn't sturdier...the crumple zone has the exact same retardant time factor as any other vehicle on the road because it isn't required to be longer.