Incorrect. A granted patent is by definition published. A submarine patent is one in which the application is filed in secret and then not granted because of continuations of the original application. This was possible under previous US patent law, but under current law it is no longer possible.
Also, what many people refer (incorrectly) to as Submarine Patents are earlier patents that were not researched by the victim for a variety of reasons. These reasons might be 1) Lack of time or money to perform the search, 2) fear of treble damages from knowingly violating a patent, among others.
Submarine patents are not possible under the European system.
Well, the benefit of not patenting is that you have a trade secret, and until 1) someone creates a similar invention independently, or 2) reverse engineers your invention, you have an effective monopoly on your invention.
If you can control your secret, you have a competitive advantage.
Note that not all trade secrets are inventions, nor would it be easy to keep some inventions a secret, especially if you intend to make it into a product and sell it to the public.
If your job was providing similar solutions (whatever the solution might be), why not suck on the government teat? Is their money different, not as good as money from private enterprise?
I don't think NASA is looking for a simple marketing campaign. I think they're looking for a virtual community. I think they want something that would be a little like MySpace, a little like Wikipedia, with chat and forums and "fun" downloads (wallpaper, NASA ringtones, etc.)
Right now, real science prorgams are being canceled left and right so that this nearly purely masturbatory enterprise of putting humans back on the moon can go forward.
I think you've hit it on the head. Manned space flight is a masturbatory exercise. It fuels space geeks fantasies. If other countries want to do it for their national prestige, fine. Hell, let's help them. Maybe even get one of our astronauts on board in exchange for helping. But we need to spend our money wisely, and that means on missions that give us the most scientific bang for the buck.
If you want to capture the public's imagination, fake some manned missions on a sound stage for 100 million or so. Then spend the real money on real science.
The "capturing the public's imagination" argument is bullshit, because you end up spending all of your budget to achieve this goal, and before you know it, the public's imagination has been captured by something else, like MySpace or American Idol. Any attention that a manned mission to mars will get will be extremely short lived. The costs far exceed the benefits.
Shit, dude. Maybe you coild help me out. All my atoms are doing is flashing 12:00 since I plugged them back in. Is this going to happen every time there is a power failure?
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You don't need to be a developer to fork the CVS Copout. Experience in politics or management should be sufficient.
I'm not even sure that the movie is going to have the aphid scene, though I hope so. The opening of Do Androids Dream About Electric Sheep, where Decker argues with his wife about the settings on the Pennfield Mood Organ is pure gold, but it never made it into Blade Runner.
Fuck! That is just stupid easy! Really amazing. OK, for that alone, the Mac Book designers deserve a trophy or a pizza or a trophy filled with pizza or something.
That was a great video, thanks for pointing it out to us.
To me, it's definitely worth it to pop in a 160 GB drive, even before I max out the memory. Having the ability to easily upgrade is important, and often overlooked on laptops. I've put a larger HD in my (now retired) Tibook twice. It wasn't too hard, but it was a little bit of an effort. I haven't yet done so on my current 12" PB, so I don't know how difficult it will be.
I've known people with this "disease" for almost 20 years. You know what else these people had in common? They were all speed freaks, crystal meth addicts. These people need a visit to the rehab (or puzzle palace, if they're not on drugs), not the dermatologist.
It's also in the opening chapter of A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick.
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.
Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the _Britannica_, try to determine specifically which bugs they were. They now filled his house. He read about many different kinds and finally noticed bugs outdoors, so he concluded they were aphids. After that decision came to his mind it never changed, no matter what other people told him . . . like "Aphids don't bite people."
They said that to him because the endless biting of the bugs kept him in torment. At the 7-11 grocery store, part of a chain spread out over most of California, he bought spray cans of Raid and Black Flag and Yard Guard. First he sprayed the house, then himself. The Yard Guard seemed to work the best.
As to the theoretical side, he perceived three stages in the cycle of the bugs. First, they were carried to him to contaminate him by what he called Carrier-people, which were people who didn't understand their role in distributing the bugs. During that stage the bugs had no jaws or mandibles (he learned that word during his weeks of scholarly research, an unusually bookish occupation for a guy who worked at the Handy Brake and Tire place relining people's brake drums). The Carrier-people therefore felt nothing. He used to sit in the far corner of his living room watching different Carrier-people enter--most of them people he'd known for a while, but some new to him--covered with the aphids in this particular nonbiting stage. He'd sort of smile to himself, because he knew that the person was being used by the bugs and wasn't hip to it.
"What are you grinning about, Jerry?" they'd say.
He'd just smile.
In the next stage the bugs grew wings or something, but they really weren't precisely wings; anyhow, they were appendages of a functional sort permitting them to swarm, which was how they migrated and spread--especially to him. At that point the air was full of them; it made his living room, his whole house, cloudy. During this stage he tried not to inhale them.
Most of all he felt sorry for his dog, because he could see the bugs landing on and settling all over him, and probably getting into the dog's lungs, as they were in his own. Probably--at least so his empathic ability told him--the dog was suffering as much as he was. Should he give the dog away for the dog's own comfort? No, he decided: the dog was now, inadvertently, infected, and would carry the bugs with him everywhere.
Sometimes he stood in the shower with the dog, trying to wash the dog clean too. He had no more success with him than he did with himself. It hurt to feel the dog suffer; he never stopped trying to help him. In some respect this was the worst part, the suffering of the animal, who could not complain.
"What the fuck are you doing there all day in the shower with the goddamn dog?" his buddy Charles Freck asked one time, coming in during this.
Jerry said, "I got to get the aphids off him." He brought Max, the dog, out of the sh
For a start, they've successfully prevented much of our reconstruction efforts.
I really think you should give at least partial credit for corrupt and incompetent contractors. If it wasn't for Halliburton, its subsidiaries, and others, the insurgents would be having a much harder time disrupting the reconstruction.
I hope this is a race we win, even if it means we have to eat crow to get the manpower it takes.
Which would mean instituting the draft, which should have been done three years ago. Even two years ago, it might have been possible. Now it's a political impossibility.
Our goals in Iraq were achievable. I no longer think they are, due to the incompetence and corruption of the Administration. The sooner we get out the better, even if it makes us look bad. We're going to look bad no matter what, sooner or later. Might as well bite the bullet.
Feldmayer, a 24-year-old virgin with the smooth cheeks of a teenager, tries to straighten out a smile of excitement and nervous anticipation. He stares into the glowing touchscreen at his left elbow.
Isn't the press releasing sensitive information here? Maybe not sensitive military information, but sensitive personal information? And how did they find out he was a virgin?
Blaming the media is a cop out. Quoting Goebbels to support your point demonstrates that you are willing to engage in mental gymnastics to avoid reality. Avoiding reality is a sign of insanity or a weak mind.
And thus far as you have agreed, we are making progress.
If 10 steps back to every step forward is what you call progress.
One example: Do you know why we are training the Iraqi Army? Because we disbanded the standing army, against the advice of the military. Any progress we've made in this area is making up ground we lost due to really bad decisions made by the civilian leadership.
Frankly, whoever brought up this issue was a great help to whoever doesn't like Bush, or at least could be.
That would be President Bush's arch-enemy, President Bush. Immigration reform has been on the Bush agenda since the 2000 campaign. He repeated his desire for immigration reform during his 2002 meeting with Vicente Fox, and again during the 2004 campaign, as he courted Latino voters. (Pulling Latinos into the GOP has been an explicit piece of Rove's strategy for the GOP for a long time now. A laudable goal, imho.)
But what does immigration have to do with issue specific poll numbers on the situation in Iraq? I think you're just engaging in hand waving, trying to distract us from the uncomfortable truth: The American people disapprove of Bush's handling of Iraq.
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Incorrect. A granted patent is by definition published. A submarine patent is one in which the application is filed in secret and then not granted because of continuations of the original application. This was possible under previous US patent law, but under current law it is no longer possible.
Also, what many people refer (incorrectly) to as Submarine Patents are earlier patents that were not researched by the victim for a variety of reasons. These reasons might be 1) Lack of time or money to perform the search, 2) fear of treble damages from knowingly violating a patent, among others.
Submarine patents are not possible under the European system.
Well, the benefit of not patenting is that you have a trade secret, and until 1) someone creates a similar invention independently, or 2) reverse engineers your invention, you have an effective monopoly on your invention.
If you can control your secret, you have a competitive advantage.
Note that not all trade secrets are inventions, nor would it be easy to keep some inventions a secret, especially if you intend to make it into a product and sell it to the public.
No, you're thinking of the Soviet Russia Patent Office.
The simple truth is that by being there, they make it so that nobody else in private enterprise wants to act.
I don't see what is preventing private enterprises from entering the space business now. How would killing NASA further encourage them?
Your arguments are non-sequitars. You might be right, but until you can actually argue your point, you have no way to convince me.
No, I think what NASA needs is a MySpace page.
Oh, wait. Apparently NASA already does have its own MySpace page.
If your job was providing similar solutions (whatever the solution might be), why not suck on the government teat? Is their money different, not as good as money from private enterprise?
I don't think NASA is looking for a simple marketing campaign. I think they're looking for a virtual community. I think they want something that would be a little like MySpace, a little like Wikipedia, with chat and forums and "fun" downloads (wallpaper, NASA ringtones, etc.)
Right now, real science prorgams are being canceled left and right so that this nearly purely masturbatory enterprise of putting humans back on the moon can go forward.
I think you've hit it on the head. Manned space flight is a masturbatory exercise. It fuels space geeks fantasies. If other countries want to do it for their national prestige, fine. Hell, let's help them. Maybe even get one of our astronauts on board in exchange for helping. But we need to spend our money wisely, and that means on missions that give us the most scientific bang for the buck.
If you want to capture the public's imagination, fake some manned missions on a sound stage for 100 million or so. Then spend the real money on real science.
The "capturing the public's imagination" argument is bullshit, because you end up spending all of your budget to achieve this goal, and before you know it, the public's imagination has been captured by something else, like MySpace or American Idol. Any attention that a manned mission to mars will get will be extremely short lived. The costs far exceed the benefits.
Are you forgetting the shuttles that were blew? Blew apart, I mean.
No Roland link this time, other than if you click his name.
Shit, dude. Maybe you coild help me out. All my atoms are doing is flashing 12:00 since I plugged them back in. Is this going to happen every time there is a power failure?
You don't need to be a developer to fork the CVS Copout. Experience in politics or management should be sufficient.
I'm not even sure that the movie is going to have the aphid scene, though I hope so. The opening of Do Androids Dream About Electric Sheep, where Decker argues with his wife about the settings on the Pennfield Mood Organ is pure gold, but it never made it into Blade Runner.
Fuck! That is just stupid easy! Really amazing. OK, for that alone, the Mac Book designers deserve a trophy or a pizza or a trophy filled with pizza or something.
That was a great video, thanks for pointing it out to us.
To me, it's definitely worth it to pop in a 160 GB drive, even before I max out the memory. Having the ability to easily upgrade is important, and often overlooked on laptops. I've put a larger HD in my (now retired) Tibook twice. It wasn't too hard, but it was a little bit of an effort. I haven't yet done so on my current 12" PB, so I don't know how difficult it will be.
Doesn't sound like I have a weak mind after all, eh?
So, you plead insanity?
It's also in the opening chapter of A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick.
So maybe they should change it to the 100 euro laptop project?
advocate one was pretty specific:
I was running java apps on my old 486 SX 2 50 with win 3.1 and only 4 Meg of RAM way back in '94
That sounds pretty literal to me.If he didn't want to be literal, he would have used a car analogy. =)
For a start, they've successfully prevented much of our reconstruction efforts.
I really think you should give at least partial credit for corrupt and incompetent contractors. If it wasn't for Halliburton, its subsidiaries, and others, the insurgents would be having a much harder time disrupting the reconstruction.
I hope this is a race we win, even if it means we have to eat crow to get the manpower it takes.
Which would mean instituting the draft, which should have been done three years ago. Even two years ago, it might have been possible. Now it's a political impossibility.
Our goals in Iraq were achievable. I no longer think they are, due to the incompetence and corruption of the Administration. The sooner we get out the better, even if it makes us look bad. We're going to look bad no matter what, sooner or later. Might as well bite the bullet.
When Ken Burns shows up to make a documentary, we'll know beyond a doubt that it's civil war.
From TFA:
Feldmayer, a 24-year-old virgin with the smooth cheeks of a teenager, tries to straighten out a smile of excitement and nervous anticipation. He stares into the glowing touchscreen at his left elbow.
Isn't the press releasing sensitive information here? Maybe not sensitive military information, but sensitive personal information? And how did they find out he was a virgin?
Blaming the media is a cop out. Quoting Goebbels to support your point demonstrates that you are willing to engage in mental gymnastics to avoid reality. Avoiding reality is a sign of insanity or a weak mind.
And thus far as you have agreed, we are making progress.
If 10 steps back to every step forward is what you call progress.
One example: Do you know why we are training the Iraqi Army? Because we disbanded the standing army, against the advice of the military. Any progress we've made in this area is making up ground we lost due to really bad decisions made by the civilian leadership.
Frankly, whoever brought up this issue was a great help to whoever doesn't like Bush, or at least could be.
That would be President Bush's arch-enemy, President Bush. Immigration reform has been on the Bush agenda since the 2000 campaign. He repeated his desire for immigration reform during his 2002 meeting with Vicente Fox, and again during the 2004 campaign, as he courted Latino voters. (Pulling Latinos into the GOP has been an explicit piece of Rove's strategy for the GOP for a long time now. A laudable goal, imho.)
But what does immigration have to do with issue specific poll numbers on the situation in Iraq? I think you're just engaging in hand waving, trying to distract us from the uncomfortable truth: The American people disapprove of Bush's handling of Iraq.
What digishaman originally wrote:
The data states otherwise if your willing to look through all the data here.
He didn't say to accept any data negative to the Administration. You're supposed to cherry pick the good data and ignore the rest.