I've had some daft patents accepted and have had some rejections for dumb reasons too.
This leads me to believe that patent examiners are measured on their performance. I hunch they're measured on both the number of patent applications they crank per week and the number of prior art cases they find.
Come Friday, I expect the heat is on to make numbers and it comes down to which is the fastest way to complete a case (ie. Is there less paper work to reject or accept an application?).
It's nice to see people dream, but is this guy practical enough to pull it off? If you read about his other inventions that went nowhere, they all end "... unfortunately...." and the mean old ugly world cops the blame for why his invention never became the next big thing. My gut instinct is that the rocket will also end with an unfortunately.
That was easy to say once I spat out the chips I was eating. Unfortunately my Winshit PC's voice recognition was running and I got a BSOD. Was it supposed to be a tongue twister or something?
FWIW, many DTV tuners run embedded Linux. This will sure get more Linux into just about every home. Of course those damn SCOX boys will want their $35.
That's what they're hinting at when they use terms like "export control laws". They don't want to say, directly, that IBM is giving all theis technology to America's enemies, but they want people to join the dots.
If you were selling a car, you'd be putting in buzzwords like turbo, overhead cams, airbag.
If you're trying to sell a legal position (to pump up the stock) then you throw in a whole bunch of legal buzzwords. It does not really matter if it makes sense or not.
Pump and dump is correct. Any attempts to apply any logic to this are just a waste of time.
At what stage does the pumping cross any legal boundaries? I guess while they're getting professional legal opinions they're still in the clean legally.
Someone once said that the cheapest and most reliable parts are the ones that are not there.
Apart from the fact that 2 CPUs will be more likely to fail than one, a dual architecture system is also mechanically bigger and thus more likely to suffer physical damage due to being dropped etc. Bigger circuits also use more power (ie. more batteries and heat) and are more succeptable to radiation etc.
If these folks have half a brain they won't be using crappy x86 and will use a lower power (heat wise) ARM, PowerPC or such.
Regular laser printer toner is conductive
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At one place I worked we used conductive tracks inside some access cards we'd designed. The machine to print these was extremely complicated and unreliable.
Some bloke found that you could print the patterns using a laser printer and the tomer was conductive enough for the purpose.
Of course you probably need something a bit more conductive to make useful PCBs. I guess you could do something wierd like electroplating the toner.
it presupposes that they chose it because they really love it, not because that is what was available, or cheapest
First up, what makes a girl "popular". Love does not even make the top ten! Easy, available and one-beer-woman. I don't get your point.
Tron is popular in Japan because: 1)All the universities train up them puppies to use it. 2)All the microprocessor vendors sell/give away a TRON library (try sell a micro in Japan that is not TRON-capable).. 3) A rich library of TRON services. 4) It is a specification, not an OS therefore there are very few IP entanglements.
Because it's a useless showcasing of a useless technology.
Solar car challenegs showcase and advance the state of high efficiency photovoltaic (PV) cells and bugger the price. To be useful as a real-world energy source, PV needs to be looking for better dollars per watt. If I could get PV at a low enough $/W I'd shingle my roof with the stuff.
Some might say that low-cost PV will be a spin-off of this research, but I doubt it. Low cost PV technologies can't effectively use silicon, or gallium etc due tothe high amounts of energy required to make large areas of the stuff.
"I went over to Mrs X's house to help fix a virus. Well one thing led to another and the bedroom. We had the laptop going (recording USB cam) when Mr X walked in...."
In the old pre-Carley [btw: don't correct me and tell me it's actually Carly or Karley or something. I don't care] HP days they had a publication called "HP Journal". Each issue had an article on how a piece of HP kit had survived a serious mechanical incident (car crash, fire etc...). My favourite was the one where this guy took a spectrum analyzer out of the trunk while he (un)loaded something else. He forgot yo put it back and reversed over it. The case got damanged but it worked fine and was only fixed when sent in for recalibration a year or so later.
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Well you could just attempt to patent the idea (using regular methods) and submit it to an open "idea bank" of royalty free patents.
This leads me to believe that patent examiners are measured on their performance. I hunch they're measured on both the number of patent applications they crank per week and the number of prior art cases they find.
Come Friday, I expect the heat is on to make numbers and it comes down to which is the fastest way to complete a case (ie. Is there less paper work to reject or accept an application?).
Please don't mark this funny, I'm being serious.
It's nice to see people dream, but is this guy practical enough to pull it off? If you read about his other inventions that went nowhere, they all end "... unfortunately...." and the mean old ugly world cops the blame for why his invention never became the next big thing. My gut instinct is that the rocket will also end with an unfortunately.
That was easy to say once I spat out the chips I was eating. Unfortunately my Winshit PC's voice recognition was running and I got a BSOD. Was it supposed to be a tongue twister or something?
FWIW, many DTV tuners run embedded Linux. This will sure get more Linux into just about every home. Of course those damn SCOX boys will want their $35.
The main value in radio is that it is far more democratic than TV. More stations with more points of view, less dominated by big corporate networks.
That's what they're hinting at when they use terms like "export control laws". They don't want to say, directly, that IBM is giving all theis technology to America's enemies, but they want people to join the dots.
If you were selling a car, you'd be putting in buzzwords like turbo, overhead cams, airbag.
If you're trying to sell a legal position (to pump up the stock) then you throw in a whole bunch of legal buzzwords. It does not really matter if it makes sense or not.
At what stage does the pumping cross any legal boundaries? I guess while they're getting professional legal opinions they're still in the clean legally.
Apart from the fact that 2 CPUs will be more likely to fail than one, a dual architecture system is also mechanically bigger and thus more likely to suffer physical damage due to being dropped etc. Bigger circuits also use more power (ie. more batteries and heat) and are more succeptable to radiation etc.
If these folks have half a brain they won't be using crappy x86 and will use a lower power (heat wise) ARM, PowerPC or such.
Some bloke found that you could print the patterns using a laser printer and the tomer was conductive enough for the purpose.
Of course you probably need something a bit more conductive to make useful PCBs. I guess you could do something wierd like electroplating the toner.
When we were kids we'd walk six miles to school through knee-deep snow, now they mom rides them to school in the 4x4.
While building a solid product might even be cheaper than lobbying/bribing, it is a lot more predictable.
Of course it's new! /. says so!
Nor mine, but when we're talking pupularity we have to consider the unwashed masses.
The energy is actually being generated from energy due the pressure applied. The water is just a "working fluid".
First up, what makes a girl "popular". Love does not even make the top ten! Easy, available and one-beer-woman. I don't get your point.
Tron is popular in Japan because: 1)All the universities train up them puppies to use it. 2)All the microprocessor vendors sell/give away a TRON library (try sell a micro in Japan that is not TRON-capable).. 3) A rich library of TRON services. 4) It is a specification, not an OS therefore there are very few IP entanglements.
living with the choice costs!
When someone gets charged for computerslaughter for unplugging a **machine** I'm going to drive off a cliff.
chosen by more engineers, for more products.... wouldn't that count as popular?
we all make mistakes
Solar car challenegs showcase and advance the state of high efficiency photovoltaic (PV) cells and bugger the price. To be useful as a real-world energy source, PV needs to be looking for better dollars per watt. If I could get PV at a low enough $/W I'd shingle my roof with the stuff.
Some might say that low-cost PV will be a spin-off of this research, but I doubt it. Low cost PV technologies can't effectively use silicon, or gallium etc due tothe high amounts of energy required to make large areas of the stuff.
"I went over to Mrs X's house to help fix a virus. Well one thing led to another and the bedroom. We had the laptop going (recording USB cam) when Mr X walked in...."
In the old pre-Carley [btw: don't correct me and tell me it's actually Carly or Karley or something. I don't care] HP days they had a publication called "HP Journal". Each issue had an article on how a piece of HP kit had survived a serious mechanical incident (car crash, fire etc...). My favourite was the one where this guy took a spectrum analyzer out of the trunk while he (un)loaded something else. He forgot yo put it back and reversed over it. The case got damanged but it worked fine and was only fixed when sent in for recalibration a year or so later.