I think one can argue that the way patents are supposed to enrich their inventors is through licensing and/or marketing of the invention. When you wait 6 years for everyone to violate it so you can sue them in court and get money that way, it seems unfair. Every time a company puts a feature in their product, it's an investment. So allowing people to keep using this little trick would be an additional and hard to predict risk to businesses. This is just my guess, not a statement of fact.
Now instead of getting a threatening letter in the mail, 14 years downloading music gets to be roasted alive as ATF agents try to put the computer into sleep mode but it bursts in to flames instead.
My father is only fluent in Chinese and the computer back home runs Windows XP in English. He knows better than to pretend to know what he is doing and messing with it...
My sister on the other hand...
They might not be emotionally attached but they are financially attached. Oil rigs, supply channels, etc. all cost capital to buy and set-up. They want to first even out their investment first and then add profit on top of it.
If there was suddenly a new miracle fuel, what do you think would happen to the oil companies? They might not collapse but they will certainly not make as much money as they do now.
Furthermore, IIRC, research into the use of ethanol and other fuel alternatives had their government funding cut because of strong lobbying from the oil companies. (Not too keen on this. Someone please correct me if I am wrong)
He should have known that anyone worth their weight in the tech industry is going to read his strip. Unleashing an idea like that! What was he thinking?
Isn't there a way to transmit your information so that it can still be recovered if a portion of it is loss? I was told once that the orthogonal nature of CDMA makes it more jam resistant. I'm not saying this as a matter of fact so I could be wrong.
It seems to me that the US can cause some serious trouble for Galileo if they don't appease them. I imagine that GPS has precisions comparable to Galileo's but is currently unavailable to civilians. Therefore, in the future, the US can just make those signals available and destroy Galileo's business. Galileo costs money while GPS doesn't. There's already a large number of GPS receivers out there. So if the EU doesn't agree to the US's demands, the US can easily render Galileo unmarketable. I mean, once Galileo is working, the US might as well make those more precise signals available since the enemy will already have the capability from Galileo, unless of course Galileo is jammable at the US's request.
Most people don't know how to operate a sextant. GPS interfaced with a map program makes location find very easy. We used it during our roadtrip (Geeks on roadtrips...) and navigated without any problem. We even used the program to route us around traffic jams.
Not true. According to my professor who's working on sensor networks, the military has already tried them out in Iraq. Iraq is well-suited for such things because it is mostly deserts.
Sensor networks would have a lot of difficulties in an urban setting because of buildings. Buildings present challenges to localization of the sensor network. Two sensors can be right next to each other but still can't communicate because a wall is in the way. Furthermore, GPS is hard to receive in an urban setting. Thus, the network must first localize relative to each other then hope that a few of the nodes can recieve GPS to serve as "beacons" to localize the rest of the network.
In other words, sensor networks are more likely to succeed in an non-urban environment first than an urban environment.
Localization is a major problem for these networks because of the lack of processing power and lower transmission radius. However, localization will inevitably involve graph theory and graphs are not the easiest thing to solve. Thus, you can see the trade-offs as the nodes get smaller and smaller and have less resources available.
I was working on my senior project recently. I had a pair of components who's interaction is best described as master/slave. When I thought about good names for the two modules, I was afraid of using "master" and "slave" because I had signed up to present the project in front of my residential college. Although I knew it was benign I didn't expect my peers to understand when I presented it. So, instead I choose supervisor/subordinate, which was longer than I would I have liked. But I guess times have changed...
Wu-Chun Feng (Los Alamos National Laboratory) doesn't believe so - Green Destiny and its children are Transmeta-based supercomputers that Wu thinks are fast enough, at a fraction of the heat/energy/cost, according to ACM Queue.
Yes, yes, those numbers are impressive but can it be used to destroy other weapons and conquer the Chinese underworld in the hands of a rebellious Manchurian girl? (Reference: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
When was the last time you saw the bird blow up a tank or strafe a convoy??? Those abilities work off the platform of flying, not inherent in flying itself. Can a bird get up to Mach 1? We have different planes with different capabilities. Furthermore, even different birds have different capabilities. But, just because planes do not flap their planes, are they not flying? That's the point of the post.
Let me rephrase what McDermott said many years ago when people brought up the same argument. If a computer can beat us by calculating all the moves, so what?
Just because an airplane does not flap its wings to fly like a bird does, is it really not flying? On the contrary, airplanes are better fliers than birds.
AI isn't about emulating humans but about matching humans in mental capacity. How it will accomplish that is up to the researchers.
From having worked with BT, the SDP and device inquiry protocol for BT is really nice. Once you've connected, it can be just another socket, which is how I am using it right now it my program. I personally think it has a lot of potentials. It's very different from WiFi in application because WiFi generally require an AP and BT is really meant for Ad Hoc usuage. I think if they can get the software up to a reasonable stanard, BT should do pretty well.
Given how they're doing these days, how can they afford to donate anything at all? That was roughly 1/2 of their entire revenue! I heard Java is on sale on eBay... (Note: Sarcasm)
Maybe in the future games would be free and new games would come out with the frequency of new TV shows. Ads would be places between rounds or something. Bad games don't get renew and good games get improved to keep the audience interested. We all know games like Everquest are way more addictive than TV. Market waiting to be tapped?
I've been attending a cyber law course for half a semester. This recent dispute is similar to issues raised in the past. I think this case:
New York Times v. Tasini, 121 S.Ct. 2381 (2001)
is very similar and the outcome was not in favor of the publishers. It involves Lexis Nexis and publishers who made the individual articles available online. The judge ruled the it cannot be considered a revision (in which case no additional permissions needed) partly because LexisNexis is searchable and therefore takes the original work out of the context in which the rights were originally granted for.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I would say that Gone with the Wind was more like:
Good Russian book (War and Peace) -> Bad American Book (Gone with the Wind) -> Good American Movie (God with the Wind)
I think one can argue that the way patents are supposed to enrich their inventors is through licensing and/or marketing of the invention. When you wait 6 years for everyone to violate it so you can sue them in court and get money that way, it seems unfair. Every time a company puts a feature in their product, it's an investment. So allowing people to keep using this little trick would be an additional and hard to predict risk to businesses. This is just my guess, not a statement of fact.
Know what's better than MS's legal team defending you? IBM's legal behemoth!
Now instead of getting a threatening letter in the mail, 14 years downloading music gets to be roasted alive as ATF agents try to put the computer into sleep mode but it bursts in to flames instead.
My father is only fluent in Chinese and the computer back home runs Windows XP in English. He knows better than to pretend to know what he is doing and messing with it... My sister on the other hand...
"Another twenty years" -The most common answer to the question when we will have a fully conscious AI for the last 50 years
Nerd! ;-)
They might not be emotionally attached but they are financially attached. Oil rigs, supply channels, etc. all cost capital to buy and set-up. They want to first even out their investment first and then add profit on top of it.
If there was suddenly a new miracle fuel, what do you think would happen to the oil companies? They might not collapse but they will certainly not make as much money as they do now.
Furthermore, IIRC, research into the use of ethanol and other fuel alternatives had their government funding cut because of strong lobbying from the oil companies. (Not too keen on this. Someone please correct me if I am wrong)
Now the URL without the space in the middle...
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilb ert-20031129.html
And good God, he's an AOL user!
The reason oil companies do research on non-oil fuel is to get a patent on those things and prevent anyone else from using them.
This just means Linux is hitting the big times... :-)
Isn't there a way to transmit your information so that it can still be recovered if a portion of it is loss? I was told once that the orthogonal nature of CDMA makes it more jam resistant. I'm not saying this as a matter of fact so I could be wrong.
It seems to me that the US can cause some serious trouble for Galileo if they don't appease them. I imagine that GPS has precisions comparable to Galileo's but is currently unavailable to civilians. Therefore, in the future, the US can just make those signals available and destroy Galileo's business. Galileo costs money while GPS doesn't. There's already a large number of GPS receivers out there. So if the EU doesn't agree to the US's demands, the US can easily render Galileo unmarketable. I mean, once Galileo is working, the US might as well make those more precise signals available since the enemy will already have the capability from Galileo, unless of course Galileo is jammable at the US's request.
Most people don't know how to operate a sextant. GPS interfaced with a map program makes location find very easy. We used it during our roadtrip (Geeks on roadtrips...) and navigated without any problem. We even used the program to route us around traffic jams.
Not true. According to my professor who's working on sensor networks, the military has already tried them out in Iraq. Iraq is well-suited for such things because it is mostly deserts.
Sensor networks would have a lot of difficulties in an urban setting because of buildings. Buildings present challenges to localization of the sensor network. Two sensors can be right next to each other but still can't communicate because a wall is in the way. Furthermore, GPS is hard to receive in an urban setting. Thus, the network must first localize relative to each other then hope that a few of the nodes can recieve GPS to serve as "beacons" to localize the rest of the network.
In other words, sensor networks are more likely to succeed in an non-urban environment first than an urban environment.
Localization is a major problem for these networks because of the lack of processing power and lower transmission radius. However, localization will inevitably involve graph theory and graphs are not the easiest thing to solve. Thus, you can see the trade-offs as the nodes get smaller and smaller and have less resources available.
I was working on my senior project recently. I had a pair of components who's interaction is best described as master/slave. When I thought about good names for the two modules, I was afraid of using "master" and "slave" because I had signed up to present the project in front of my residential college. Although I knew it was benign I didn't expect my peers to understand when I presented it. So, instead I choose supervisor/subordinate, which was longer than I would I have liked. But I guess times have changed...
Yes, yes, those numbers are impressive but can it be used to destroy other weapons and conquer the Chinese underworld in the hands of a rebellious Manchurian girl? (Reference: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
Victory is ours!
How are those things even relevant?
When was the last time you saw the bird blow up a tank or strafe a convoy??? Those abilities work off the platform of flying, not inherent in flying itself. Can a bird get up to Mach 1? We have different planes with different capabilities. Furthermore, even different birds have different capabilities. But, just because planes do not flap their planes, are they not flying? That's the point of the post.
Let me rephrase what McDermott said many years ago when people brought up the same argument. If a computer can beat us by calculating all the moves, so what?
Just because an airplane does not flap its wings to fly like a bird does, is it really not flying? On the contrary, airplanes are better fliers than birds.
AI isn't about emulating humans but about matching humans in mental capacity. How it will accomplish that is up to the researchers.
From having worked with BT, the SDP and device inquiry protocol for BT is really nice. Once you've connected, it can be just another socket, which is how I am using it right now it my program. I personally think it has a lot of potentials. It's very different from WiFi in application because WiFi generally require an AP and BT is really meant for Ad Hoc usuage. I think if they can get the software up to a reasonable stanard, BT should do pretty well.
Given how they're doing these days, how can they afford to donate anything at all? That was roughly 1/2 of their entire revenue! I heard Java is on sale on eBay... (Note: Sarcasm)
Maybe in the future games would be free and new games would come out with the frequency of new TV shows. Ads would be places between rounds or something. Bad games don't get renew and good games get improved to keep the audience interested. We all know games like Everquest are way more addictive than TV. Market waiting to be tapped?
I've been attending a cyber law course for half a semester. This recent dispute is similar to issues raised in the past. I think this case: New York Times v. Tasini, 121 S.Ct. 2381 (2001) is very similar and the outcome was not in favor of the publishers. It involves Lexis Nexis and publishers who made the individual articles available online. The judge ruled the it cannot be considered a revision (in which case no additional permissions needed) partly because LexisNexis is searchable and therefore takes the original work out of the context in which the rights were originally granted for.