I would guess that "I shot my friend Timmy with daddy's gun" incidents are down, now that daddy's gun spends more time in his waistband and less time in the drawer with his special balloons. I would like to know if there's an increase of "Daddy shot himself in the jimmy, now there won't be any more Timmys."
If you can't afford $50 a month for internet, you don't sound like a very good target for advertising. If you aren't a good target for advertising, why should google care how your experience is?
Maybe you should look at the higher requirements as a way of weeding out undesirables.
You are correct about the 1 year window, but in this case, the application is a chain of continuations and divisionals, so the US filing date is November 2, 1997.
1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform steps comprising: reading a file comprising text representing a sentence comprising a plurality of words, wherein one or more words in the sentence represented by the text are targeted in the file with a defined tag for applying a customizable instructional font included in the file to the text of the one or more words targeted with the defined tag, the file including a tag definition referenced by the defined tag associated with the instructional font and specifying at least one event and at least one action to promote word understanding performed in response to the at least one event; displaying the sentence in a user interface of a program that aids a word understanding of a user and that allows the user to request multiple stages of informational output for interpreting meaning of a displayed word in the sentence that is targeted with the defined tag for the instructional font, wherein each stage of informational output communicates the meaning of the displayed word to the user using a different media effect to promote word understanding in multiple stages; receiving input from the user to interact with at least a portion of the text of a displayed word in the sentence that is targeted with the defined tag, the input corresponding to an event specified by the tag definition; determining whether the input comprises a request for informational output for interpreting the meaning of the displayed word; determining a stage of informational output for the request based on whether the input comprises a subsequent request for informational output; and performing at least one action specified by the tag definition in the file and corresponding to the stage of informational output to render a media effect for communicating the meaning of the displayed word to the user.
I don't remember seeing that on Sesame Street, but it's been a while.
Ignorance is what happens. The concept will be lost over time. Eventually someone will rediscover it, create a new name for it, and be a hero to pedants around the world.
MIT is about $46,350 per year, and many other top tier schools are similar. Some schools require students to live in the dorms at least part of their career. If you can make that much per year working part time, you probably shouldn't worry about being in school at the moment.
Of course, an education from a top tier school may or may not be worth that much more than a decent state school, but there are still plenty of kids fighting to get into the big name schools.
I think the universities in Canada receive considerably more funding from the government than most US (even state) schools.
Actually, the A=B part is the comparison. After the comparison is made, if A and B are equal, then you go to 100.
So really, you haven't corrected anyone. You supported your parent's statement.
Even if that was what claimed, would you be able to prove that you saw an emoticon in 1987 or 1988? In order to be prior art in the legal sense, you have to be able to prove that it was publically available at that date.
I can drive a car but I don't have a black belt. Does that mean my driver's ed course sucked, or that I chould have kept practicing left turns until I can do a proper high kick?
If I've invested $50 in a game, you can be damn sure I'm going to play it for a few months just to get my money's worth, regardless of how much I may be enjoying it.
So do you sit there wasting your time playing a game you don't enjoy just for spite?
Actually, software is considered non-tangible and thus nonstatutitory under 35 USC 101. The only thing that is patentable is the computer readable physical medium that holds the software.
The idea behind the US patent system is, from article I, Section 8, is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". Disclosing inventions benefits people who work in the same field, as it encourages the dissemination of information. The second part "by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" is the reward that inventors get for disclosing their work.
So you were wrong in saying that the grandparent was wrong, but right with the rest of it.
The "first to file" change benefits larger companies that can afford to file provisional applications for any ideas that they have. That gives them a year to decide if the idea is worth patenting.
With the "first to invent" standard, if someone can show that they developed an idea before another application they can get protection for their invention. 35 USC 102(b) makes it difficult for someone to just sit on an invention, as if the invention is published more than a year before an application is filed they are legally barred from patenting the invention. If someone waited for a big company to patent something, then tried to swear behind the big company's filing date, they would have to be sure that the big company's application hadn't been published more than a year prior to their filing.
One of the ways that the post-grant opposition works is that after a patent is allowed, the inventor or their represenatives (the lawyers) can request an interview with the examiner to go over the patent. The idea is that the inventor can get a kind of double-check to make sure that their patent doesn't infringe on other people's work, which increases the odds that the patent would be upheld if there were litigation. I'm not sure why that's necessary, as the inventor is supposed to submit any art that they know about.
Right now, anyone can request that an issued patent be reexamined (inter partes) by the USPTO and can present any art that they know of that they feel should make the patent invalid. Getting a reexamination is expensive, but it can save money if it is done before infringement litigation is begun.
The patent office uses a different payscale then the rest of the government. A GS-7/10 (which is the starting point for someone right out of school with a 3.0 GPA) pays $55633. And the thing is, that's for a 40 hour week. If you work more than that you get paid overtime. The other big thing about the patent office is that you can be a GS-14 in 4-5 years. You can also work pretty much whenever you want.
They can fire people if they don't examine enough patents, but for a non-probationary employee they have to give you a warning and then something like 6 months.
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No, it's an innovation that China implemented sim city in real life.
I would guess that "I shot my friend Timmy with daddy's gun" incidents are down, now that daddy's gun spends more time in his waistband and less time in the drawer with his special balloons. I would like to know if there's an increase of "Daddy shot himself in the jimmy, now there won't be any more Timmys."
I'm pretty sure we have this argument every time someone mentions zero day. If we could have a zero day bricking, we could have the best thread ever.
Maybe you should look at the higher requirements as a way of weeding out undesirables.
Kafhuaw Jaurajhj Juyoyudtb. If you don't understand, perhaps I should have followed the rules that someone made up.
I think the word for this is hubris.
You are correct about the 1 year window, but in this case, the application is a chain of continuations and divisionals, so the US filing date is November 2, 1997.
1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform steps comprising: reading a file comprising text representing a sentence comprising a plurality of words, wherein one or more words in the sentence represented by the text are targeted in the file with a defined tag for applying a customizable instructional font included in the file to the text of the one or more words targeted with the defined tag, the file including a tag definition referenced by the defined tag associated with the instructional font and specifying at least one event and at least one action to promote word understanding performed in response to the at least one event; displaying the sentence in a user interface of a program that aids a word understanding of a user and that allows the user to request multiple stages of informational output for interpreting meaning of a displayed word in the sentence that is targeted with the defined tag for the instructional font, wherein each stage of informational output communicates the meaning of the displayed word to the user using a different media effect to promote word understanding in multiple stages; receiving input from the user to interact with at least a portion of the text of a displayed word in the sentence that is targeted with the defined tag, the input corresponding to an event specified by the tag definition; determining whether the input comprises a request for informational output for interpreting the meaning of the displayed word; determining a stage of informational output for the request based on whether the input comprises a subsequent request for informational output; and performing at least one action specified by the tag definition in the file and corresponding to the stage of informational output to render a media effect for communicating the meaning of the displayed word to the user.
I don't remember seeing that on Sesame Street, but it's been a while.
Ignorance is what happens. The concept will be lost over time. Eventually someone will rediscover it, create a new name for it, and be a hero to pedants around the world.
You aren't being cynical enough now, costing them more money is what makes the situation worse.
If they are using a closed source OS that isn't a derivative of GPL code, wouldn't they be compliant with the GPL?
If you use the road more, you're likely going to use more gas, and therefore pay more for gas. Not on a per gallon basis, but in total.
MIT is about $46,350 per year, and many other top tier schools are similar. Some schools require students to live in the dorms at least part of their career. If you can make that much per year working part time, you probably shouldn't worry about being in school at the moment.
Of course, an education from a top tier school may or may not be worth that much more than a decent state school, but there are still plenty of kids fighting to get into the big name schools.
I think the universities in Canada receive considerably more funding from the government than most US (even state) schools.
Actually, the A=B part is the comparison. After the comparison is made, if A and B are equal, then you go to 100. So really, you haven't corrected anyone. You supported your parent's statement.
Even if that was what claimed, would you be able to prove that you saw an emoticon in 1987 or 1988? In order to be prior art in the legal sense, you have to be able to prove that it was publically available at that date.
Actually, no. The application number is 11/092,511.
The director refused to take out a sex scene, so he just put a big red square over the actors.
I can drive a car but I don't have a black belt. Does that mean my driver's ed course sucked, or that I chould have kept practicing left turns until I can do a proper high kick?
So do you sit there wasting your time playing a game you don't enjoy just for spite?
Actually, software is considered non-tangible and thus nonstatutitory under 35 USC 101. The only thing that is patentable is the computer readable physical medium that holds the software.
So you were wrong in saying that the grandparent was wrong, but right with the rest of it.
With the "first to invent" standard, if someone can show that they developed an idea before another application they can get protection for their invention. 35 USC 102(b) makes it difficult for someone to just sit on an invention, as if the invention is published more than a year before an application is filed they are legally barred from patenting the invention. If someone waited for a big company to patent something, then tried to swear behind the big company's filing date, they would have to be sure that the big company's application hadn't been published more than a year prior to their filing.
Right now, anyone can request that an issued patent be reexamined (inter partes) by the USPTO and can present any art that they know of that they feel should make the patent invalid. Getting a reexamination is expensive, but it can save money if it is done before infringement litigation is begun.
They can fire people if they don't examine enough patents, but for a non-probationary employee they have to give you a warning and then something like 6 months.
There are actually different fees for small and large companies. Small entity fees are typically half of the regular fees.