As someone who works in physics research, and is concerned more with publishing papers than getting patents (although my advisor has quite a few), I'd be curious to see if something like a peer review system could work for patents. As with scientific journals, the editors (in this case, patent office personnel) can't be expected to thoroughly know every subject matter that comes their way, but it's not that difficult to find experts in the field who can point out flaws or know right away if work is fraudulent or unoriginal.
Are there any downsides to this that I'm not seeing, besides the obvious one that it will require researchers and inventors to volunteer time? I know that Physical Review Letters has a policy that the editors will automatically reject a significant percentage of submitted papers deemed obviously inappropriate for publication before sending them on for review, something similar to which would probably have to be implemented here, maybe just in the form of the current system.
THIS is what they're touting as the stand-out feature in their new operating system? You could do this on a Mac since System 7, but pretty much nobody bothered except for image files since a thumbnail of a text document is next to worthless. You could even do it for bitmaps in Windows 95 if you didn't mind your computer grinding to a halt every so often.
It's something that could easily be implemented on a program-by-program basis in OS X. If they think its so great, they could do it in Office X today instead of waiting for Longhorn. Hopefully they'll let you turn it off.
Actually, if you look at the paper, they only measured up to 50 GHz and extrapolated a linear (in dB) decay of the gain, and found a zero crossing at 604 GHz. So they didn't measure anything at all at 600 GHz; they only found device behavior that indicated that there would be a response up to that frequency.
Didn't Douglas Adams predict that American television would eventually devolve into an image of a toilet flushing accompanied by a riotous laugh track? Is this better or worse?
There's a site called PB Parts that has Apple laptop parts. I replaced my iBook HD there and my brother replaced his PowerBook keyboard with a part from there. Some of their prices are a little high, but still cheaper than getting it repaired by Apple or a reseller if you don't have a warranty.
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As someone who works in physics research, and is concerned more with publishing papers than getting patents (although my advisor has quite a few), I'd be curious to see if something like a peer review system could work for patents. As with scientific journals, the editors (in this case, patent office personnel) can't be expected to thoroughly know every subject matter that comes their way, but it's not that difficult to find experts in the field who can point out flaws or know right away if work is fraudulent or unoriginal.
Are there any downsides to this that I'm not seeing, besides the obvious one that it will require researchers and inventors to volunteer time? I know that Physical Review Letters has a policy that the editors will automatically reject a significant percentage of submitted papers deemed obviously inappropriate for publication before sending them on for review, something similar to which would probably have to be implemented here, maybe just in the form of the current system.
THIS is what they're touting as the stand-out feature in their new operating system? You could do this on a Mac since System 7, but pretty much nobody bothered except for image files since a thumbnail of a text document is next to worthless. You could even do it for bitmaps in Windows 95 if you didn't mind your computer grinding to a halt every so often.
It's something that could easily be implemented on a program-by-program basis in OS X. If they think its so great, they could do it in Office X today instead of waiting for Longhorn. Hopefully they'll let you turn it off.
Actually, if you look at the paper, they only measured up to 50 GHz and extrapolated a linear (in dB) decay of the gain, and found a zero crossing at 604 GHz. So they didn't measure anything at all at 600 GHz; they only found device behavior that indicated that there would be a response up to that frequency.
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Didn't Douglas Adams predict that American television would eventually devolve into an image of a toilet flushing accompanied by a riotous laugh track? Is this better or worse?
There's a site called PB Parts that has Apple laptop parts. I replaced my iBook HD there and my brother replaced his PowerBook keyboard with a part from there. Some of their prices are a little high, but still cheaper than getting it repaired by Apple or a reseller if you don't have a warranty.