IMHO there should be some sort of penalty for granting patents like this. That is, the patent office should be liable for the damage they cause with falsely granted patents. I think this would cause them to be much more careful in examining the validity of a patent claim.
I can even imagine what it could look like. A big hammer hammering onto a server, where the shaft of the hammer forms the slash of the slashdot sign (i.e. there's the dot part right of it).
The BBC is probably the only broadcaster I would pay money to (say EUR200 / year ) to watch their programs (note to USA readers: I deliberately didn't use the word shows.) Unfortunately they broadcast free-to-air which means I get the programs for free.
Well, that one's easy: Just pay your TV licensing fee.
Problem is it's not available outside the UK, which is a shame as its mainly brits living outside the UK that would benifit from a broadband service.
I guess it's a legal issue. Just as the ORF (the Austrian public TV) stopped broadcasting their first channel to Southern Germany because they were threatened they wouldn't get the movies any more (the point is, they were often showing the same movies as private German TV stations, at the same time, but without commercials in between). The argument was that the ORF doesn't have a license to send to Germany (the sending itself was of course done all in Austria, but with enough power that you could still see it without problems in Munich).
You are highlighting your textbook? Shame on you! Maybe you are even reading it under different illumination than allowed by the license (must be read in the light of a light bulb of 100W min., due to a contract of the publisher with a power company)!
Well, everyone who does the effort to get as many as 700000 UIDs must obviously be clueless. I mean, I could imagine that there's a value in having two or threee UIDs (although for me personally a single one is clearly enough), but who on earth needs 700000 of them?
Well, Bill Gates has written a keyboard driver which does not only drive the F1 key, but F2 to F12 too, not to mention all the other keys on your keyboard... so if a mere F1 driver is enough to deserve knighthood, then a driver for more than 100 keys deserves it all the more!:-)
And if you can't wait to program a QC, then you might be interested in QCL, the quantum computation language. Yes, you can download a compiler there (which of course only simulates a QC, since current computers don't yet come with quantum processors:-)).
However, once you buy a copy, you're free to make as many copies of that copy as you want. Because the person who sold you the copy doesn't hold the exclusive copyright, you see.
Unless, of course, it is protected with a copy protection mechanism. Then copying per se wouldn't be illegal, but breaking the copy protection (which is necessary in order to copy it) AFAIK still is (IANAL).
120 watts per sqare inch would indeed be 186kW/m^2, much more than the sun delivers.
If we assume they actually meant that the complete panel had 120W, at the size given it would make 9.2W/m^2, which would be an efficiency factor of about 1%. (10W per kW incoming sunlight). I don't know what the typical efficiency factor of other solar cells is, but I'd be surprised if they are all below 1%.
Or maybe it's actually 120 W/m^2 (which would make an efficiency of about 12%)? After all, confusion between metric and imperial units is not unheared of...
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IMHO there should be some sort of penalty for granting patents like this. That is, the patent office should be liable for the damage they cause with falsely granted patents. I think this would cause them to be much more careful in examining the validity of a patent claim.
I thought it was an ECMA standard?
I can even imagine what it could look like. A big hammer hammering onto a server, where the shaft of the hammer forms the slash of the slashdot sign (i.e. there's the dot part right of it).
Well, that one's easy: Just pay your TV licensing fee.
I guess it's a legal issue. Just as the ORF (the Austrian public TV) stopped broadcasting their first channel to Southern Germany because they were threatened they wouldn't get the movies any more (the point is, they were often showing the same movies as private German TV stations, at the same time, but without commercials in between). The argument was that the ORF doesn't have a license to send to Germany (the sending itself was of course done all in Austria, but with enough power that you could still see it without problems in Munich).
You are highlighting your textbook? Shame on you! Maybe you are even reading it under different illumination than allowed by the license (must be read in the light of a light bulb of 100W min., due to a contract of the publisher with a power company)!
Wine?
You missed it. Now that joke has to read:
YYYY=1999, ______=Y2K joke
Well, everyone who does the effort to get as many as 700000 UIDs must obviously be clueless. I mean, I could imagine that there's a value in having two or threee UIDs (although for me personally a single one is clearly enough), but who on earth needs 700000 of them?
:-)
SCNR
Volkswagon? Is that the railway equivalent of a Volkswagen?
Oops, should of course have been "WMDs", not "WMPs" ...
In the software world, the WMPs are called "Software Patent".
I guess MS would be very pleased if the stock "dropped" to 3/2 (=150%) of the current value.
Shouldn't that be APOSTR O PHE?
Well, just wait for the day when Windows changes to the Indigo Screen of Death ...
No, it means they are concerned about the fact that such an environment will be secure. Otherwise they'd have to be concerned about insecurity ...
However, the interesting part is doing the inverse problem.
You get Evolution, of course!
I've just discovered that there's a site which looks just like slashdot at http://nodupes.slashdot.org. Given the name, maybe they don't have dupes.
You mean this article is just stolen from an earlier submission? Thieves! Arrest them! :-)
Well, Bill Gates has written a keyboard driver which does not only drive the F1 key, but F2 to F12 too, not to mention all the other keys on your keyboard ... so if a mere F1 driver is enough to deserve knighthood, then a driver for more than 100 keys deserves it all the more! :-)
Knight Rebooter of the Most Expressed Outlook of the Bluescreen Empire!
Well, just googling for quantum computer gave me as very first hit http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro. html, which looks quite good to me.
l , which also looks quite good to me. (the whole www.qubit.org is interesting, BTW).
. html looks good.
:-)).
Also under the first links is http://www.qubit.org/library/intros/comp/comp.htm
If you want to go a bit more in depth, I think http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~schmuel/comp/comp
And if you can't wait to program a QC, then you might be interested in QCL, the quantum computation language. Yes, you can download a compiler there (which of course only simulates a QC, since current computers don't yet come with quantum processors
Unless, of course, it is protected with a copy protection mechanism. Then copying per se wouldn't be illegal, but breaking the copy protection (which is necessary in order to copy it) AFAIK still is (IANAL).
120 watts per sqare inch would indeed be 186kW/m^2, much more than the sun delivers.
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If we assume they actually meant that the complete panel had 120W, at the size given it would make 9.2W/m^2, which would be an efficiency factor of about 1%. (10W per kW incoming sunlight). I don't know what the typical efficiency factor of other solar cells is, but I'd be surprised if they are all below 1%.
Or maybe it's actually 120 W/m^2 (which would make an efficiency of about 12%)? After all, confusion between metric and imperial units is not unheared of