There's an episode of the Outer Limits where they try something similar to this, and the guy ends up growing gills and eyes on the back of his head as a result of the robots trying to make him better.
Boy is there some confusion here about the adoption of Linux in Europe! If anything, the US is still the above-and-beyond leader in terms of small- and large-scale Linux implementation. A few well-publicized adoptions by town councils overseas changes that in no way. Hey, I live in Europe!
That's just plain old broadcast digital TV, except that it reqires a decoder; I just don't see what is so revoloutionary... Also, the author cites "idle... frequencies" as if broadcasting on these is without enormous cost...
This is a use of market share to gain market share, which could easily be seen as an antitrust violation. The question is, does it count as hindering a consumer's capability to investigate competitors in this unique situation, where users would be attempting to do so via the infrastructure of the original company. Interesting indeed...
"This sort of practice is what deters would-be great games from making it into the gaming world."
You make this claim as if this is something that has been looming over the gaming industry for years, but frankly, it's not, and chances are there is tons of prior art to boot. Let's all remember that the USPTO's job is to deal with paperwork, not to deal with prior art; that's what the courts are for.
According to the article, 57% of tech shoppers are women, but only 1% of women perceive tech marketing executives as having them in mind. Skillfully using calculation, I've reasoned that if marketers actually start having women in mind, and drive 50% of the female population to think they do, then 50 times as many women will buy tech goodies, and hence they will make up 93% of the market. MoE: +-93%. But more realistically, my point is that which ever ad exec starts really playing with this market some is going to find it extremely profitable, given that it seems to have been ignored and yet still buys tons.
"... features including 42 hidden pockets that can be wired together through the jacket lining."
I don't know, but something tells me this jacket seriously wouldn't go down too well in an airport. In this world where almanacs are the work of the devil, lets just say such a jacket might get some odd looks...
"Although local governments have placed restrictions on riding Segways in crowded city streets, Wang said the same restrictions shouldn't apply to the Electric Chariot. "It's not a Segway," he said. "But we're going to say to the consumer, 'You bought it, you figure it out.'""
This Segway imitiation is a joke; it's playing on the segway image with absolutly none of the same technology. This thing is more related to an senior-citizen mobility soloution, except you stand up. And it even has a name to match!
Anyone have any idea about the validity of the earlier rumor about the IPO taking place with an online auction-type offering? This is what had always intrigued me about this potential IPO - it would seem to open up the possibility of early investment to the average Joe and I bet it would guarantee a pretty penny for Google...
"If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told."
I smell a logical fallacy! It's absurd to think that the mere social acceptability of something indicates that it does not derive from personal inquiry. Many of the beliefs of the many do come from rationalized though processes, and to dispose of them in such a manner is ridiculous.
Is that an orange in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
But on a more serious note, I'd like to see this with a cleverly built-in LCD screen to make it a truly independent unit.
For any of those who think this whole story is offtopic, just rememeber that for many this is basically the only place they get news, and someone had to let them know.
You're honestly of the impression that there is actually a sizable minority of people who would like to invent something with no guarantee to their right of exclusive production? Find me one!
One aspect seems central to many of the patents which are generally accepted to be absurd or insane: they are patents on processes for selling goods or services rather than on the goods and services themselves or their means of production. There doesn't seem to be enough awareness of this discrepancy between these types of patents and ones which we consider to be reasonable. Online retailers such as Amazon, for example, may claim that they have two customer bases, book-buyers and advertisers, and that the website itself is a product for the advertisers, but in truth their real customers would seem to be the former....
Wow, they seem to have managed to jack the price for their cheesy PC's up about $300 by slapping a nice big 64-bit label on one... and oh will consumers bite. Seriously, does no one else see this as simply a marketing gimmick, considering the tech-averted nature of their base market?
"And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. The way we expressed it to them was: You only have to pick one lock to open every door."
I really like this idea, and I think it needs highlighting. The simple truth is that music companies, so stuck to their physical medium, seem to have been, for so long, under the impression that mp3's are much like pieces of physical media; they're copied once, that copy goes somewhere, and then its all over, as if this "copying" thing requires some kind of physical action that each user must complete, much like Xeroxing paper.
Ugh, I'm sorry, but regardless of it being inline with the views of 90% of those who are reading, I find the word "corrects" in the subject line of this story to be more biased than should be occuring on a site where people often rip others for their biases.
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There's an episode of the Outer Limits where they try something similar to this, and the guy ends up growing gills and eyes on the back of his head as a result of the robots trying to make him better.
Incidentally, as a side note, this is not about intellectual property, it's about trade secrets.
Boy is there some confusion here about the adoption of Linux in Europe! If anything, the US is still the above-and-beyond leader in terms of small- and large-scale Linux implementation. A few well-publicized adoptions by town councils overseas changes that in no way. Hey, I live in Europe!
Umm, just dor the sake of it, "Yup, it's what Google did to Yahoo" is absurd; Yahoo was running google technology, not vice versa!
Umm... There were these devices before the iPod you know...
That's just plain old broadcast digital TV, except that it reqires a decoder; I just don't see what is so revoloutionary... Also, the author cites "idle... frequencies" as if broadcasting on these is without enormous cost...
This is a use of market share to gain market share, which could easily be seen as an antitrust violation. The question is, does it count as hindering a consumer's capability to investigate competitors in this unique situation, where users would be attempting to do so via the infrastructure of the original company. Interesting indeed...
Of course, this doesn't prevent congress from creating a bill that does apply to such services...
Umm... So far as I can see, Steve Forbes is not president...
"This sort of practice is what deters would-be great games from making it into the gaming world."
You make this claim as if this is something that has been looming over the gaming industry for years, but frankly, it's not, and chances are there is tons of prior art to boot. Let's all remember that the USPTO's job is to deal with paperwork, not to deal with prior art; that's what the courts are for.
According to the article, 57% of tech shoppers are women, but only 1% of women perceive tech marketing executives as having them in mind. Skillfully using calculation, I've reasoned that if marketers actually start having women in mind, and drive 50% of the female population to think they do, then 50 times as many women will buy tech goodies, and hence they will make up 93% of the market. MoE: +-93%. But more realistically, my point is that which ever ad exec starts really playing with this market some is going to find it extremely profitable, given that it seems to have been ignored and yet still buys tons.
Thank god! Hopefully this will mean bye-bye to quite a bit of annoying legacy software writing.
"... features including 42 hidden pockets that can be wired together through the jacket lining."
I don't know, but something tells me this jacket seriously wouldn't go down too well in an airport. In this world where almanacs are the work of the devil, lets just say such a jacket might get some odd looks...
The best PR quote ever has got to be:
"Although local governments have placed restrictions on riding Segways in crowded city streets, Wang said the same restrictions shouldn't apply to the Electric Chariot. "It's not a Segway," he said. "But we're going to say to the consumer, 'You bought it, you figure it out.'""
This Segway imitiation is a joke; it's playing on the segway image with absolutly none of the same technology. This thing is more related to an senior-citizen mobility soloution, except you stand up. And it even has a name to match!
Obviously, you've never taken a course in economics; the products are still American, and they are sold from America - that's American income!
Anyone have any idea about the validity of the earlier rumor about the IPO taking place with an online auction-type offering? This is what had always intrigued me about this potential IPO - it would seem to open up the possibility of early investment to the average Joe and I bet it would guarantee a pretty penny for Google...
"If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told."
I smell a logical fallacy! It's absurd to think that the mere social acceptability of something indicates that it does not derive from personal inquiry. Many of the beliefs of the many do come from rationalized though processes, and to dispose of them in such a manner is ridiculous.
Is that an orange in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? But on a more serious note, I'd like to see this with a cleverly built-in LCD screen to make it a truly independent unit.
For any of those who think this whole story is offtopic, just rememeber that for many this is basically the only place they get news, and someone had to let them know.
Generic post highlighting the fact that patents are really tested post-issuance by courts and not pre-issuance by the Patent Office...
You're honestly of the impression that there is actually a sizable minority of people who would like to invent something with no guarantee to their right of exclusive production? Find me one!
One aspect seems central to many of the patents which are generally accepted to be absurd or insane: they are patents on processes for selling goods or services rather than on the goods and services themselves or their means of production. There doesn't seem to be enough awareness of this discrepancy between these types of patents and ones which we consider to be reasonable. Online retailers such as Amazon, for example, may claim that they have two customer bases, book-buyers and advertisers, and that the website itself is a product for the advertisers, but in truth their real customers would seem to be the former....
Wow, they seem to have managed to jack the price for their cheesy PC's up about $300 by slapping a nice big 64-bit label on one... and oh will consumers bite. Seriously, does no one else see this as simply a marketing gimmick, considering the tech-averted nature of their base market?
"And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. The way we expressed it to them was: You only have to pick one lock to open every door." I really like this idea, and I think it needs highlighting. The simple truth is that music companies, so stuck to their physical medium, seem to have been, for so long, under the impression that mp3's are much like pieces of physical media; they're copied once, that copy goes somewhere, and then its all over, as if this "copying" thing requires some kind of physical action that each user must complete, much like Xeroxing paper.
Ugh, I'm sorry, but regardless of it being inline with the views of 90% of those who are reading, I find the word "corrects" in the subject line of this story to be more biased than should be occuring on a site where people often rip others for their biases.