I didn't mean to aggrivate you. My appologies. Of course you are all right and I was wrong. Either way, OED seems to say that spelled is more common than spelt (listed as alternate past and past participle).
By the way, you come off as a wanker with phrases like "newsflash for you", and your arrogent and stereotyping proposition that because I was unaware of one spelling difference between our use of english I was unaware of all variations in spelling.
I shouldn't have posted what I did. The simple correction from the other bloke was sufficient.
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This one has me stumped:
A small balloon is inflated in atmospheric pressure until it pops. The resulting fragments are a few large pieces of latex.
A simmilar balloon is inflated by tying it off, placing it in a bell jar, and evacuating the jar. When the balloon pops, the result is a shredded mess of many small pieces of latex.
The guy at the museum who showed this demonstration couldn't explain to me why it did this. He just kept saying, "It pops everywhere at once". Okay, but why?
For the most part, they are talking about industrial robots . These are not C3P0 by a long shot. Even the instalation of car seats is semi-automated already. Fully automating this, while an intersting challenge, does not involve anthropomorphic robots.
Building anthropomorphic robots for an assembly line is (in this engineers opinion) inefficient. The tool should be matched to do the job specifically at had. Hell, Toyota was one of the companies that started the buzz in Lean Manufacturing.
I work with robots. Robots are my friends. You, sir, are no robot. Wait, I mean you, sir, are not thinking of the right robot.
Look at white colar unions to see what it would likely look like. For example SPEEA, or maybe SAG. The point is, in professional unions, pay is often still determined by your manager (+ a garunteed COLA) and layoffs don't necessarily hapen by seniority. In a union, you would be the membership, and the goal would be to collectively bargain what works best for the membership.
It's a truncated taylor series expansion. At home I have a copy of the paper that Einstein published. Anyway, here is the first link that poped up on Google showing this. The point is, if v is a significant fraction of c, then you cannot neglect the higher order terms.
Except for learning to fly. Much better to learn from others mistakes.
The point is (I'm an American, I'm compelled to explain my own point), there are a number of circumstances where it is completely unacceptable to make your own mistakes.
Can I then burn some of the hydrogen to run the car, and the rest to seperate more water into hydrogen, which can run the car and seperate more hydrogen, which can run the car and... Also, I'll capture the exhaust (which is of course oxidized hydrogen in the ratio of 1:2), and cycle it back into the tank so I never have to fill up! Brilliant!
I read the claims. This certainly seems patentable to me. It's not a computer in a collar, it's a computer that is a collar. The independent claims are 1, 11, 20, 22 so focus your attention there. The key bit seems to be the "moveably enclosed longitudinally...", which keys in on the display aspect of it. Nothing mentioned here on/. even comes close to prior art.
Is it novel? Eh. I can't think of anything like what is described, but there are lots of things under the sun.
Is it useful? Probably to someone.
Is it non-obvious? Yeah, in the patent kind of way, because it specifically describes a method of developing a head mounted display that would have been developed by others multiple times over if it were obvious. Lots of people are working on head mounted displays, all of which specifically mount to the head. This mounts to a collar around the neck. I think it's a lame idea, but I also think it's a meaningful patent.
I think most people have an intutive sense that we are, indeed, alone in the universe
I have an intuitive sense that the world is flat and the earth doesn't move. My intuition is dead wrong. Intuition is a lousy judge of the truth. That is why we came up with the scientific method, to try our best not to fool ourselves with our own intuition.
If you can put together a decent drawing package for your parts, local machine shops might also bid the part - and possibly be more competitive. If you can find a small shop that is a bit slow on work, they will often pick up small jobs just to keep the machinists and machines working. It never hurts to get multiple quotes.
The components of the "mango" color will be the pure RGB wavelengths...but (I don't know enough about optics) when you mix these together to form the final color, do you actually get a new wavelength? If so, it would seem that this color would not be reflected.
No. Human color perception is based on the relative intesities of the frequency stimulation of the different cones in the retina. So, if you stimulate the retina with actual mango colored light, then you get a certain response from the cones, which your brain percieves as mango. Or, you can generate the same relative stimulation by using a mixture of red, green, and blue. If you looked at the spectrum, it would still be red, green, and blue, but your eye would have the same response as though it was mango, so your brain says "mango!".
Ummm... It is. Usually about 18 months after filing, the application is published on USPTO's website. The patent isn't issued for about another 18 months. I think (though I don't know) that you can file a comment on a published application.
The internet kicks but on indexing and searching for journals. My Dad spent far too much time looking for relevant journal articles for his thesis when he was in school. I spent about an hour a week with Compendex, IEEExplore, CiteSeer, etc. In that time, I was able to find more research that was directly relevant to what I was researching.
If they have no interest in enforcing the patent, then why not simply defensively publish? Once it's published in a public manor, wouldn't that establish inventorship and bar anyone else from patenting?
Been there, done that. Here is a snippet from a quick search on the Cray II. I'm sure someone else will find a better link, but:
The CRAY 2 was completely flouronics cooled. The cooling fluid, made by 3M, allowed the whole computer to be immersed in the electrically insulated fluid, and yet conduct the heat away by conduction and ebullient vaporization. It looked much like a fish tank.
I've built machine control cabinets with all of the logic done as relay circuits. Many control-reliable circuits (such as "emergency-stop") are still done using relays (albiet solid state ones). Although PLC's have for the most part replaced relay logic, they are still programed by the shop floor electricians using a UI that looks like a relay schematic.
It's kind of a kick to think through a control problem in ladder logic, build it, and then listen to the clicking as it works through.
I suppose Fortran has a lot of momentum, (I think my alma matter just dropped it from the ME requirements in the last five years or so) and thus many non-CS persons who use it out of habbit. However, it seems that once someone learns how to program in Matlab, they never go back. It's just so damn quick to prototype ideas with.
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By the way, you come off as a wanker with phrases like "newsflash for you", and your arrogent and stereotyping proposition that because I was unaware of one spelling difference between our use of english I was unaware of all variations in spelling.
I shouldn't have posted what I did. The simple correction from the other bloke was sufficient.
A small balloon is inflated in atmospheric pressure until it pops. The resulting fragments are a few large pieces of latex.
A simmilar balloon is inflated by tying it off, placing it in a bell jar, and evacuating the jar. When the balloon pops, the result is a shredded mess of many small pieces of latex.
The guy at the museum who showed this demonstration couldn't explain to me why it did this. He just kept saying, "It pops everywhere at once". Okay, but why?
Oh come on, that's too easy. This is a set-up, right?
Building anthropomorphic robots for an assembly line is (in this engineers opinion) inefficient. The tool should be matched to do the job specifically at had. Hell, Toyota was one of the companies that started the buzz in Lean Manufacturing.
I work with robots. Robots are my friends. You, sir, are no robot. Wait, I mean you, sir, are not thinking of the right robot.
How the hell is this not modded off-topic?
Look at white colar unions to see what it would likely look like. For example SPEEA, or maybe SAG. The point is, in professional unions, pay is often still determined by your manager (+ a garunteed COLA) and layoffs don't necessarily hapen by seniority. In a union, you would be the membership, and the goal would be to collectively bargain what works best for the membership.
It's a truncated taylor series expansion. At home I have a copy of the paper that Einstein published. Anyway, here is the first link that poped up on Google showing this. The point is, if v is a significant fraction of c, then you cannot neglect the higher order terms.
The point is (I'm an American, I'm compelled to explain my own point), there are a number of circumstances where it is completely unacceptable to make your own mistakes.
Can I then burn some of the hydrogen to run the car, and the rest to seperate more water into hydrogen, which can run the car and seperate more hydrogen, which can run the car and ... Also, I'll capture the exhaust (which is of course oxidized hydrogen in the ratio of 1:2), and cycle it back into the tank so I never have to fill up! Brilliant!
Wait, that's a perpetual motion machine.
QED.
Is it novel? Eh. I can't think of anything like what is described, but there are lots of things under the sun.
Is it useful? Probably to someone.
Is it non-obvious? Yeah, in the patent kind of way, because it specifically describes a method of developing a head mounted display that would have been developed by others multiple times over if it were obvious. Lots of people are working on head mounted displays, all of which specifically mount to the head. This mounts to a collar around the neck. I think it's a lame idea, but I also think it's a meaningful patent.
RTFP!
So, has anyone compiled BLAS for a video card?
I have an intuitive sense that the world is flat and the earth doesn't move. My intuition is dead wrong. Intuition is a lousy judge of the truth. That is why we came up with the scientific method, to try our best not to fool ourselves with our own intuition.
Catia Doesn't run on Linux, though I think Unigraphics does.
If you can put together a decent drawing package for your parts, local machine shops might also bid the part - and possibly be more competitive. If you can find a small shop that is a bit slow on work, they will often pick up small jobs just to keep the machinists and machines working. It never hurts to get multiple quotes.
"Just place an X on the line between 'Fear' and 'Love'"
No. Human color perception is based on the relative intesities of the frequency stimulation of the different cones in the retina. So, if you stimulate the retina with actual mango colored light, then you get a certain response from the cones, which your brain percieves as mango. Or, you can generate the same relative stimulation by using a mixture of red, green, and blue. If you looked at the spectrum, it would still be red, green, and blue, but your eye would have the same response as though it was mango, so your brain says "mango!".
Ummm... It is. Usually about 18 months after filing, the application is published on USPTO's website. The patent isn't issued for about another 18 months. I think (though I don't know) that you can file a comment on a published application.
The internet kicks but on indexing and searching for journals. My Dad spent far too much time looking for relevant journal articles for his thesis when he was in school. I spent about an hour a week with Compendex, IEEExplore, CiteSeer, etc. In that time, I was able to find more research that was directly relevant to what I was researching.
If they have no interest in enforcing the patent, then why not simply defensively publish? Once it's published in a public manor, wouldn't that establish inventorship and bar anyone else from patenting?
Remind me not to sit near you. I hate strangers thinking it's O.K. to strike up an uninvited conversation.
The CRAY 2 was completely flouronics cooled. The cooling fluid, made by 3M, allowed the whole computer to be immersed in the electrically insulated fluid, and yet conduct the heat away by conduction and ebullient vaporization. It looked much like a fish tank.
Slashdot beat Groklaw to a SCO headline? The end is nigh!
I've built machine control cabinets with all of the logic done as relay circuits. Many control-reliable circuits (such as "emergency-stop") are still done using relays (albiet solid state ones). Although PLC's have for the most part replaced relay logic, they are still programed by the shop floor electricians using a UI that looks like a relay schematic.
It's kind of a kick to think through a control problem in ladder logic, build it, and then listen to the clicking as it works through.
I suppose Fortran has a lot of momentum, (I think my alma matter just dropped it from the ME requirements in the last five years or so) and thus many non-CS persons who use it out of habbit. However, it seems that once someone learns how to program in Matlab, they never go back. It's just so damn quick to prototype ideas with.