Applicants have a duty to disclose to the USPTO relevant prior art of which they are aware. However, applicants are not required to search for prior art. Under the USPTO's accelerated examination procedure, applicants are required to conduct a search of the prior art, to submit all prior art that is closest to their invention, and explain what the prior art teaches and how their invention is different.
So, if you try to patent bubble sort this way, and get caught not disclosing prior art which you as someone "skilled in the art" (by default, you're applying), you're basically guilty of perjury, or whatever the lawyers would call lying to the goverment.
The feds tend to lock you up for that sort of shit.
No, I think the type of bullshit patents we hate are better filed the old way.
I'm talking C64 days, if you played the shitty x86 port, yeah it sucked. IBM machines were not known for gaming at the time.
The NES ports were abysmal.
If you didn't play the games on c64 you didn't play the games at all. They were pretty groundbreaking in their day.. The concept of different events, and different gameplay was pretty new at the time.
Nintendo would put out something Mario Party-ish, with fun minigames and it might be OK.
Sega would try and make it a sports sim, and thus end up quite lame.
It's interesting, and not for the Mario/Sonic in the same game thing (saw that one coming when Sonic Adventure 2 came out for the Gamecube), but nobody has made a decent olympic/track and field themed game since Epyx old Summer/Winter/California/World Games series, and it's a good premise for a party game.
Electric cars do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, an electric motor is instant torque.
It's the top speed, and limited range. The tesla roadster may go 200 miles a charge, but still takes 3-8 hours to "refuel".
This won't change. Battery technology just isn't where it needs to be, and I see no real breakthroughs being made. They'll never take off as a mainstream thing, but I could see the little guys picking up in urban environments (people who live and work in NYC, etc). I can see more electric public transport (trolleys, subways, etc) - but thats not a solution. Plenty of folks dont want to be forced to use public transport, and theres no good reason to force 'em.
For the rest of us? There's nothing the wrong with ICU. We just need to burn less gasoline refined from oil. Ethanol, gasoline refined (recycled) from other sources, and the evolution of hybrid tech is the future. Sorry, it's not as neato and exciting as some of the sci-fi futurist schemes, but the most practical, and something doable right now.
Biodiesel, like all diesel, releases an assload of shit we dont want in the atmosphere (sulphur dioxide - remember when we cared about acid rain?), and I cringe when I see a 12 mpg diesel vehicle dubbed "green".
Within 10 years I hope to see all of these technologies combined into a geek fantasy device: a clear plastic tablet computer about the size of a pad of paper.
Speak for yourself.
My fantasy device allows me to seduce any supermodel of my choosing, has rocket engines so it can fly, and 20 dollar bills come out the exhaust. It is also made of solid space gold (its not heavy) and the horn plays dixie and it sounds AWESOME!
The XBox 360 has an upscaling chip. I use the VGA out on mine, everything displays at 1080p. It is noticably crisper than 1080i on component cables.
It's just a hardware revision, so calm down. You dont have to trade in the 360 you have. I won't, I prefer VGA to HDMI. I'll probably upgrade the HDD though.
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Then its just a recompile, because Windows and all the unixes operate in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY!
Why hasn't it been done, then?
The only thing that's "easy" is for non-programmers to say "well this toolkit is released for multiple OS's so it must be easy to port!"
Let me know when you got that working, k?
And whats to stop anyone from just forkign the kernel, and whatever they want, and keeping it on the v2 license?
What are the odds that Linus and crew get "locked out", if such a fork took place? I'm thinking along the lines of X.org replacing XFree86.
Think lying on a tax return. Anybody been jailed for that?
The applicatant has never been allowed to take responsibility for prior art before.
STAY FOREVER
and don't use all caps it's like yelling
Applicants have a duty to disclose to the USPTO relevant prior art of which they are aware. However, applicants are not required to search for prior art. Under the USPTO's accelerated examination procedure, applicants are required to conduct a search of the prior art, to submit all prior art that is closest to their invention, and explain what the prior art teaches and how their invention is different.
So, if you try to patent bubble sort this way, and get caught not disclosing prior art which you as someone "skilled in the art" (by default, you're applying), you're basically guilty of perjury, or whatever the lawyers would call lying to the goverment.
The feds tend to lock you up for that sort of shit.
No, I think the type of bullshit patents we hate are better filed the old way.
How would two of todays light aircraft colliding take out a whole apartment block?
kinetic energy.. heh, your science teacher getting to physics?
Besides computers do all the flying these days.
Dont you watch mythbusters?
It was the helium. It was not painted with thermite.
And then the whole point of communication in game is moot.
I know fuel cells don't make a whole lot of power, ie; you're unlikely to ever see them power big rigs.
Anyone got any good data on the power they do make?
USA is not the answer to any one of those questions.
That get whipped up? Whats jupiter made of? Cheese? Cuz I like cheese.
16 digit codes are a pain. It still beats hearing every 12 year old kids opinion of me on XBox live, IMO.
What country has landed on the moon?
What country invented the transistor, and later the microchip?
What country harnessed electricity, and set up the first electric lights?
What country set up the first assembly line, and mass produced the automobile?
What country split the atom?
HAHAH
You newbie..
I'm talking C64 days, if you played the shitty x86 port, yeah it sucked. IBM machines were not known for gaming at the time.
The NES ports were abysmal.
If you didn't play the games on c64 you didn't play the games at all. They were pretty groundbreaking in their day.. The concept of different events, and different gameplay was pretty new at the time.
Where are Intel and AMD from? NVidia? (ATI is canadian)
Cisco? Linksys?
Just because it's cheaper to manufacture in malaysia or taiwan doesn't mean it's developed there.
... the extent to which government policy ...
This isn't about technology, it's about politics. This is a damning of Bush, not of the American scientific and tech communities.
Ho-hum, it gets so tiresome. Wah wah America we hate you, you suck..... (can we have some more money?)
I say it depends who develops it.
Nintendo would put out something Mario Party-ish, with fun minigames and it might be OK.
Sega would try and make it a sports sim, and thus end up quite lame.
It's interesting, and not for the Mario/Sonic in the same game thing (saw that one coming when Sonic Adventure 2 came out for the Gamecube), but nobody has made a decent olympic/track and field themed game since Epyx old Summer/Winter/California/World Games series, and it's a good premise for a party game.
Electric cars do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, an electric motor is instant torque.
It's the top speed, and limited range. The tesla roadster may go 200 miles a charge, but still takes 3-8 hours to "refuel".
This won't change. Battery technology just isn't where it needs to be, and I see no real breakthroughs being made. They'll never take off as a mainstream thing, but I could see the little guys picking up in urban environments (people who live and work in NYC, etc). I can see more electric public transport (trolleys, subways, etc) - but thats not a solution. Plenty of folks dont want to be forced to use public transport, and theres no good reason to force 'em.
For the rest of us? There's nothing the wrong with ICU. We just need to burn less gasoline refined from oil. Ethanol, gasoline refined (recycled) from other sources, and the evolution of hybrid tech is the future. Sorry, it's not as neato and exciting as some of the sci-fi futurist schemes, but the most practical, and something doable right now.
Biodiesel, like all diesel, releases an assload of shit we dont want in the atmosphere (sulphur dioxide - remember when we cared about acid rain?), and I cringe when I see a 12 mpg diesel vehicle dubbed "green".
You combined two stories.
:(
I thought the new Civ expansion pack was Ninja Gaiden.
IMAGINE HOW FUCKING COOL THAT WOULD BE.
Instead of one cool game, we're talking about two lame ones.
Sounds like cheap rent.
When Virgin Galactic needs a space port, they can build one. Why is tax money building this?
PURE PORK BARREL BULLSHIT.
Within 10 years I hope to see all of these technologies combined into a geek fantasy device: a clear plastic tablet computer about the size of a pad of paper.
Speak for yourself.
My fantasy device allows me to seduce any supermodel of my choosing, has rocket engines so it can fly, and 20 dollar bills come out the exhaust. It is also made of solid space gold (its not heavy) and the horn plays dixie and it sounds AWESOME!
That or an iPod.
I thought silicon was a half-assed conductor of electricity: hence, semi-conductor. Sometimes it do, sometimes it dont.
Can you dope this plastic and make, say, a plain ole NPN transistor we could use today? I know silicon is environmentally uncool.
Does it react to light the same way? Is this the breakthrough in solar panels we've been waiting for?
I want to know and I want to know now.
The XBox 360 has an upscaling chip. I use the VGA out on mine, everything displays at 1080p. It is noticably crisper than 1080i on component cables.
It's just a hardware revision, so calm down. You dont have to trade in the 360 you have. I won't, I prefer VGA to HDMI. I'll probably upgrade the HDD though.
You aren't a fucking journalist.