Understood. Patents are to protect your investment in R&D.
Now, if some kid in Helsinki can replicate your invention in a weekend, precisely how much of an investment could their have been in the protected R&D?
The point is(was) that if you had invested a year of your life developing some product, some bigger company with 100 times the resources wouldn't be allowed to reverse engineer it in 1/100th the time and begin competing against you.
Unfortunately, this scenario has become inverted.
My take - the pantent process should documenting the research that led to the invention more fully. Specifically, the man hours required. Then any challengers would be required to do the same. And there would be a minimum amount of time required for a pantentable invention. In the event that the challenger came up with the same invention independently and in 1/100th the time of the original patent, the patent is preserved for posterity, but its status is changed(modded) to 'unenforcable/now obvious'.
I think this would this would end up protecting medical patents, while opening things like one-click-shopping the moment some marketing b0rk said 'There's too many screens in out ordering process', and the tech replied 'Well, we could tie users' billing and shipping profiles to thier cookie and just create teh orderz when they make the selection'.
Not only would one-click-shopping not meet the minimum requirement for R&D man hours, but any challengers could show through their documentation that it was obvious.
#define EPERM 1/* Operation not permitted */ #define ENOENT 2/* No such file or directory */ #define ESRCH 3/* No such process */ #define EINTR 4/* Interrupted system call */ #define EIO 5/* I/O error */ #define ENXIO 6/* No such device or address */...
It looks like Art Brut to me. Check out the works of Adolph Wolfi - a man 'inflicted with the disease of consciousness'. Really beutiful stuff, but mostly repetitive nonsence resulting from a lifetime of trying to make sense of the surrounding world with a pencil and mental defect.
actually, a team of 5 interesting, friendly people will always sit around and talk about how interesting and friendly they are. THat's what friendly, interesting people do. Although maybe that was your point? - that it would take 5 such people to outperform the lone geek? certainly 4 coulnd't do it?
Could you use these while taking a test - claiming that they don't so much give you the answer like a cheat sheet, rather, subliminal cues that help your recall like a mnemonic device might?
Yeah, right.;-)
You can't possibly think that in the event of an accident a motocycle offers you more protection.
I wouldn't say that driving is a right, but driving with a license in a licensed vehicle is.
An I hear the the complaints of motorcycle riders about assholes in cars all of the time from people at work. Please, car drivers are not going out of their way to swerve into bike riders. If anything other drivers are trying to give them a wide birth. The thing is, motorcycles are harder to see, and its harder to judge their distance.
Think of it this way, motorcycles in traffic are like lions runing in an elephant stampeed. Yeah, they accellerate faster and have more manuverability, but they've chosen to run amongst larger, less responsive traffic.
True, and I'm not an SUV owner ( but I am a truck owner, though I don't think many here make a distinction ).
But you can look at it from many perspectives: SUV owners paid more for their vehicle, paid more taxes on their vehicle, end up buying more gas, and paying proportionatly more tax, pay more for their insurance based upon its cost to replace and based up its alleged propensity to cause damage. And who pays for those tax breaks given to hybrid owners? Haven't SUV owners paid/earned to the right to drive them?
DOn't motorcycles make the road a more dangerous place to drive? They're paying far less into the system.
The size of SUV's can be a nuisance to other drivers, but those other drivers chose to drive small vehicle to less visibility. Not their fault. From an SUV owner's perspective, their increased visibility is a feature.
Every vehicle has trade-offs fuel economy, road handling, and the over-all driving experience, and the mix of vehicle has subtle effects on safetly. Should we just pick a single vehicle and make only that model? Maybe everyone should ride a bike?
Re-phrased with SUV versus econocar replaced with broadband versus dialup:
Of course Broadband users don't get fewer spam than dialup, they're just more likely to spread the worms and viruses while their own machines get compromized.
And the idea that dialup is "slow" is absolutly silly. If anything, they are appropriately fast for the general use case. That's bidding on 1 or 2 auctions ( which is about what you see in 95% of the users, broadband or otherwise )
Frankly in the long run its cheaper and safer for EVERYONE to use non-persistant connection and dialup, and just use the TV when you want high speed video.
I think Phillip-Morris should try this!
"This is an experiment! If afterwards the students bought cigarettes for themselves, so what, they were likely to anyway. "
I've received credit cards for my dog. I don't think they're hard to come across.
If you're not old enough to get a card, get one from the same place you normally get your cash - your parents.
Uless of course you are homeless, browsing the net from the library, in which case - YOU'RE IN A LIBRARY SURROUNDED BY FREE CONTENT.
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Understood. Patents are to protect your investment in R&D. Now, if some kid in Helsinki can replicate your invention in a weekend, precisely how much of an investment could their have been in the protected R&D? The point is(was) that if you had invested a year of your life developing some product, some bigger company with 100 times the resources wouldn't be allowed to reverse engineer it in 1/100th the time and begin competing against you. Unfortunately, this scenario has become inverted. My take - the pantent process should documenting the research that led to the invention more fully. Specifically, the man hours required. Then any challengers would be required to do the same. And there would be a minimum amount of time required for a pantentable invention. In the event that the challenger came up with the same invention independently and in 1/100th the time of the original patent, the patent is preserved for posterity, but its status is changed(modded) to 'unenforcable/now obvious'. I think this would this would end up protecting medical patents, while opening things like one-click-shopping the moment some marketing b0rk said 'There's too many screens in out ordering process', and the tech replied 'Well, we could tie users' billing and shipping profiles to thier cookie and just create teh orderz when they make the selection'. Not only would one-click-shopping not meet the minimum requirement for R&D man hours, but any challengers could show through their documentation that it was obvious.
Why was the parent modded 'Funny'? It is spot on. Do we really need a cluefulness test for moderators? 'Insightful', people, 'Insightful'.
I'm sure it's more like: /*
/* Operation not permitted */ /* No such file or directory */ /* No such process */ /* Interrupted system call */ /* I/O error */ /* No such device or address */ ...
* errno.h
*
*/
#ifndef _I386_ERRNO_H
#define _I386_ERRNO_H
#define EPERM 1
#define ENOENT 2
#define ESRCH 3
#define EINTR 4
#define EIO 5
#define ENXIO 6
It looks like Art Brut to me. Check out the works of Adolph Wolfi - a man 'inflicted with the disease of consciousness'. Really beutiful stuff, but mostly repetitive nonsence resulting from a lifetime of trying to make sense of the surrounding world with a pencil and mental defect.
actually, a team of 5 interesting, friendly people will always sit around and talk about how interesting and friendly they are. THat's what friendly, interesting people do. Although maybe that was your point? - that it would take 5 such people to outperform the lone geek? certainly 4 coulnd't do it?
Could you use these while taking a test - claiming that they don't so much give you the answer like a cheat sheet, rather, subliminal cues that help your recall like a mnemonic device might? Yeah, right. ;-)
You can't possibly think that in the event of an accident a motocycle offers you more protection. I wouldn't say that driving is a right, but driving with a license in a licensed vehicle is. An I hear the the complaints of motorcycle riders about assholes in cars all of the time from people at work. Please, car drivers are not going out of their way to swerve into bike riders. If anything other drivers are trying to give them a wide birth. The thing is, motorcycles are harder to see, and its harder to judge their distance. Think of it this way, motorcycles in traffic are like lions runing in an elephant stampeed. Yeah, they accellerate faster and have more manuverability, but they've chosen to run amongst larger, less responsive traffic.
But you can look at it from many perspectives: SUV owners paid more for their vehicle, paid more taxes on their vehicle, end up buying more gas, and paying proportionatly more tax, pay more for their insurance based upon its cost to replace and based up its alleged propensity to cause damage. And who pays for those tax breaks given to hybrid owners? Haven't SUV owners paid/earned to the right to drive them?
DOn't motorcycles make the road a more dangerous place to drive? They're paying far less into the system.
The size of SUV's can be a nuisance to other drivers, but those other drivers chose to drive small vehicle to less visibility. Not their fault. From an SUV owner's perspective, their increased visibility is a feature.
Every vehicle has trade-offs fuel economy, road handling, and the over-all driving experience, and the mix of vehicle has subtle effects on safetly. Should we just pick a single vehicle and make only that model? Maybe everyone should ride a bike?
Of course Broadband users don't get fewer spam than dialup, they're just more likely to spread the worms and viruses while their own machines get compromized.
And the idea that dialup is "slow" is absolutly silly. If anything, they are appropriately fast for the general use case. That's bidding on 1 or 2 auctions ( which is about what you see in 95% of the users, broadband or otherwise )
Frankly in the long run its cheaper and safer for EVERYONE to use non-persistant connection and dialup, and just use the TV when you want high speed video.
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you get the idea
I think Phillip-Morris should try this!
"This is an experiment! If afterwards the students bought cigarettes for themselves, so what, they were likely to anyway. "
I've received credit cards for my dog. I don't think they're hard to come across. If you're not old enough to get a card, get one from the same place you normally get your cash - your parents. Uless of course you are homeless, browsing the net from the library, in which case - YOU'RE IN A LIBRARY SURROUNDED BY FREE CONTENT.
that's what bitpass.com is, silly.